Ep. 1694 - Tucker Carlson Reveals SHOCKING Details About Thomas Crooks
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Summary
After a year and a half, we re finally getting some information about the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump. It turns out he s yet another non-binary "they-them killer." Among other revelations, why are we just finding this stuff out now, and what else are they hiding? Also, the House and Senate vote to compel the release of the Epstein files, the Muslim mayor of Dearborn says that he disavows the idea of assimilation, Michelle Obama attacks white people again, and we take a look at the curious case of the woman who apparently slept with every male over the age of 50 in D.C. All that and more on today s episode of The Matt Welch Show.
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It turns out he's yet another non-binary they-them killer among other revelations.
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Why are we just finding this stuff out now, and what else are they hiding, and why?
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Also, the House and Senate vote to compel the release of the Epstein files.
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The Muslim mayor of Dearborn says that he disavows the idea of assimilation.
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and we take a look at the curious case of the female journalist
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who apparently slept with every male over the age of 50 in D.C.
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If you didn't see Tucker Carlson's recent segment on Thomas Crooks,
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the 20-year-old man who nearly assassinated Donald Trump live on national television
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during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year,
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there are a few important revelations that you should know about.
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The first revelation, which is not remotely controversial,
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is that the FBI has clearly been hiding relevant facts about Thomas Crooks from the general public.
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And by itself, that is a national scandal that justifies completely gutting the FBI
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Even if you firmly believe that Thomas Crooks was a lone gunman,
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and even if you believe the Secret Service was merely incompetent as opposed to complicit,
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the fact remains our government has been withholding important details
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about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life without any justification whatsoever.
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Now, we should not have to rely on Tucker Carlson or any podcaster to tell us
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that Thomas Crooks, for example, left a lengthy trail of comments on YouTube
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in which he openly called for political violence for several years.
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These calls were so overt, so disturbing, that one user wrote in response to Crooks,
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You're on YouTube threatening to shoot government officials.
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I sure hope the FBI is monitoring social media for violent nutcases.
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but that comment is still available on YouTube to this day.
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Thomas Crooks' account has been suspended, and all of his comments have been hidden.
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They're only accessible using the Internet Archive website, but the replies are still there.
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And yet, more than a year after the assassination attempt in Butler,
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we have to rely on Tucker to tell us about any of this.
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Which is completely, overwhelmingly, unequivocally unacceptable.
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It should not fall to anyone in the media to tell us what Thomas Crooks was saying online
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We shouldn't have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Thomas Crooks decided sometime during the COVID lockdowns
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to completely reverse his political views and to begin openly attacking Donald Trump
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And we certainly shouldn't have to rely on podcasters to tell us that Crooks was in contact with a mysterious person
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who remains unidentified beyond the online alias Willie Tepes,
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who openly encouraged Crooks to commit acts of violence, which you can see there.
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At one point, Willie Tepes wrote to Crooks, quote,
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Now, in common parlance, this is known as Fed posting.
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Willie Tepes is almost being too obvious about it.
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He understands that Thomas Crooks is a radical who's prone to violence.
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He sees that Crooks is posting about acts of violence against political officials.
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And Crooks wrote at one point that even the White House could be overwhelmed if enough Americans took up arms.
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And instead of expressing concern, he encourages Crooks to go to war.
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Now, is it possible that this is just some random Internet troll?
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It's also possible that Willie Tepes was working with a government agency or a terror cell,
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either in this country or some other country, to groom potential assassins.
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In fact, given how weird Willie's comments were, and to be clear, he replied to Crooks multiple times,
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it seems very likely that he was trying to groom Thomas Crooks.
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So what has the FBI done to investigate this, to investigate Willie Tepes?
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What have they done to figure out his identity?
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Why is Tucker's show the first time, literally the first time,
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that anyone in this country has heard the name Willie Tepes?
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That is inexcusable for about a million different reasons.
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It's not the FBI's job to determine what information is worth sharing to the public
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Now, when it comes to the near assassination of the leading presidential candidate,
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If Thomas Crooks went bowling every week, we should know that.
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If Thomas Crooks loved the film Good Will Hunting, we should know that.
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And certainly, if he was in regular communication with an anonymous person
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who sounded a lot like a Fed, encouraging him to commit acts of violence,
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I mean, at the very least, we should know something about this guy.
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But if the Feds had their way, we wouldn't know anything at all.
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And that's what we knew, nothing, until this week.
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Now, on top of that, beyond the transparency issues,
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it would obviously help the government's investigation to raise awareness about these posts.
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You know, maybe someone somewhere knows who Willie Tepes is.
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And as long as Willie Tepes isn't the alias for a CIA agent or something like that,
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then you'd think your government would want someone to come forward and identify him immediately.
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But that's not possible if they bury his identity and all information about him,
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Then there's the fact that Crooks' PayPal account, for one reason or another,
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uses the name of an ex-FBI agent who worked in Pennsylvania
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and who investigated the Las Vegas mass shooting,
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the one where no motive has ever been established.
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Because again, this is the first time anyone's hearing about any of this.
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Our government, under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration,
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made the conscious decision to hide all of this information from us.
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The only reason we're hearing about it now is that a random source got in contact with Tucker Carlson's team
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And because this information remains uncontested by the FBI several days after Tucker Carlson's broadcast,
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Last summer, Thomas Crooks, supposedly an untrained 20-year-old guy
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with an angry, inconsistent social media history,
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gain access to a roof 500 feet away from Donald Trump.
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I mean, as you can see here in the videos that we've all seen,
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he was clearly visible running across the rooftop as Trump spoke,
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Even though random attendees in the crowd were suspicious,
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Somehow the Secret Service didn't have anyone on the roof
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And somehow the Secret Service counter-snipers couldn't see any of this.
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They only shot Thomas Crooks after he unloaded several shots at Donald Trump,
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And coincidentally enough, the rally in Butler was the first time
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that the Secret Service had deployed counter-snipers to a Trump rally
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So yes, the Secret Service snipers made their debut at the Butler rally
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just in time to neutralize Thomas Crooks after he got his shots off.
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So in a very tidy fashion, Thomas Crooks was quickly erased from the picture.
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No one told us anything about his social media posts,
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beyond the claim that he was a Trump supporter, which was false.
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It took more than a year for us to learn that, in fact,
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Thomas Crooks was openly promising to commit violence on social media
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and that someone was encouraging him to do that.
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But the story gets even more strange from here.
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out of nowhere, the New York Post published this exclusive information.
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Thomas Crooks used they, them pronouns and posted threats of political violence
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and violent art on his secret social media accounts
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before he attempted to assassinate President Trump,
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according to sources who shared the suspected messages with the Post.
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Crooks had two possible accounts on DeviantArt,
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and has become notorious for its community of furries,
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people who identify as anthropomorphized animal characters
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One of the DeviantArt accounts linked to Crooks shared just one post,
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a repost of a towering, muscular female bodybuilder
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Separately, the Post, Miranda Devine reported that Crooks, quote,
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had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters
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sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads.
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yet another psychologically disturbed mass shooter,
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someone who has been indoctrinated into the LGBT cult.
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Which is not a particularly surprising development.
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As I've said repeatedly, the LGBT cult is the single greatest domestic terror threat
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trans-identifying terrorists have shot up multiple Christian churches and schools.
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Quote-unquote non-binary mass shooters have targeted high schools and bars.
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A leftist living with a furry trans person assassinated Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people.
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Put simply, trans-extremism, LGBT extremism, is an epidemic.
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And the pattern of trans and, quote-unquote, non-binary violence,
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you know, is not at all surprising, even though the media tries to cover it up.
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I mean, any man who identifies as a woman or as a they-them
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is mentally unstable and confused by definition.
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It seems nearly certain that all these people are on psychiatric meds.
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So there's connections there that could be drawn.
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which is that all of these violent LGBT shooters
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probably develop their gender identity from consuming hundreds of hours of porn.
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I mean, that's the other commonality that you find with these types of things.
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The gender stuff is the product of extreme nihilism and extreme perversion.
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And a steady, long-term diet of pornography turns anyone into a nihilist pervert.
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And it's not a far leap to get from that to murderer.
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Especially if you have mysterious people in your comments saying,
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hey, maybe you should rise up and go to war against the government.
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That's why it's not exactly shocking to hear that Thomas Crooks was also a member
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of the they-them cult who regularly consumed various degenerate forms of media.
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I mean, at this point, you almost expect the investigation to uncover something like this.
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Thomas Crooks is yet another violent LGBT-linked killer
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to add to a very disturbing and fast-growing list.
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Now, there were some concerns expressed by some commentators
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that perhaps this revelation was an intentional diversion,
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diversion, maybe a targeted leak intended to distract us
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from the investigation that Tucker Carlson just published,
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which does seem like something the FBI might try to do.
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Miranda Devine has made it clear that her source is the same as Tucker's.
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Devine also provided more information on the Willy Tepes character,
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One of the people Crooks interacted with online was Willy Tepes,
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a member of Norwegian neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement,
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which has since been designated a terrorist organization by the State Department.
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In one comment on October 5th, 2025, more than a year after Butler,
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Tepes commented to another user that he'd been contacted by both Russian and American intelligence.
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People who ask you to contact them when they just as easily could contact you are feds.
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Both American and Russian intelligence does this.
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The first possibility is that we're seeing a monumental, unforgivable failure by the FBI,
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a degree of incompetence that's simply staggering.
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So they're left to respond with pathetic, rapid response press releases
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when Tucker Carlson and Miranda Devine published investigative reports a year later.
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That is the absolute best case scenario we're dealing with.
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The worst case scenario is almost too dark to say out loud, but I'll try my best.
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The worst case scenario is that the FBI has been hiding all this information about Thomas Crooks
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for the same reason that the Secret Service, supposedly the most elite protective force in the entire world,
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failed to secure the slightly sloped roof 400 feet away from Donald Trump
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The worst case scenario is that the leadership of our intelligence agencies
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And if that's the case, then there's no reason to think that
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Now, it's not my job or your job to decide between these two scenarios.
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It's the job of our government, out of an abundance of transparency,
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to absolve itself completely of any responsibility in the attempt to murder Donald Trump.
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They should be telling us everything they know,
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even if they don't think their information is relevant.
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And for that reason, it's not insane or paranoid to assume the worst,
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or at least to consider it a very real possibility.
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Once the Senate on Tuesday unanimously voted to release documents related to the late financier
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and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein just hours after the House passed the same bill,
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on X that he received the unanimous consent
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to approve the Senate bill to release the Epstein files.
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Once the House sends the bill to the upper chamber, it will immediately go to President Trump
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for his signature, which he has said he would give it.
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And this is the bill that will compel the release of the files.
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Going back to the opening we just talked about.
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It's probably also the worst way that it could have happened.
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It would have been much better if the DOJ had done what it promised it would do
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and just started releasing the files in an orderly and organized and thoughtful manner
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And if they had done that, then we would have seen everything a long time ago by now.
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And this wouldn't be something that the White House has to talk about anymore.
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But, you know, now they're going to have to dump them all at once.
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You know, I'm very skeptical that there will be anything explosive in these files.
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If I were a betting man, I'd bet on this being a massive disappointment.
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Personally, my strong guess is that anything that actually incriminates a powerful or famous
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person has already been destroyed a long time ago.
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Like if Bill Gates were incriminated in the files, just hypothetically, for example, that
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Politically, what makes this whole saga so incredibly frustrating is that, you know, it's a big win
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But even more so politically, the Democrats could have done this already.
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They could have done it when they were in power.
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Now, some people have said to me, I was talking about this on X yesterday, and there was a
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I guess the leftists have settled on their, finally settled on their answer to that because
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Yeah, I've been saying this the whole time, like, why didn't the Democrats, now they're
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They said, I saw a bunch of comments saying, well, a judge didn't unseal the records until
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Okay, well, even if I buy that excuse, January of 2024, last I checked, that's a year before
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So even by the most generous interpretation, they had a year to do it, and they didn't.
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It wasn't like it was a thing they were trying to do and for some reason couldn't, and I don't
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Even if we want, even if we want to pretend that, oh, records were sealed and they couldn't
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Democrats weren't, Democrats were not discussing it at all, at all.
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The Epstein victims, they were not, as far as I remember, they weren't doing press conferences
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A lot of the Epstein victims put out a PSA to start the week.
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A lot of people say, oh, it's a very powerful PSA.
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Well, but again, why are you just doing this now?
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We didn't, like, we didn't hear from most of these people.
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So I know, you know, one of my questions about the Epstein victims, a lot of people had the
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same question, which is, you know, they're doing press conferences, say, hey, put the
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And many of us, I think it's a logical question, which is, well, why don't, well, just tell us.
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But if you know who the culprits are, just tell us, tell us who they are.
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And the response to that has been, well, if they do that, they're going to get sued into
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But then that goes back to the other question of, well, why weren't, why did this pressure
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campaign not start back in the Biden administration?
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Why was there this, like, dead zone during the Biden administration?
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No one on the left is talking about Epstein at all, at all.
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And then as soon as Biden is out, then they're all like, we got to release the files.
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Well, I mean, this is all a rhetorical question.
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This is all, it's all politics for the Democrats anyway.
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So when Trump says that the Epstein issue is a Democrat hoax, he's correct in the sense
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that the Democrat concern about Epstein is a hoax.
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The hoax is that they care about Epstein when they obviously don't, and they never did.
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The files themselves are not a hoax, obviously.
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I mean, they're going to release a whole bunch of files.
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The fact that Epstein was a global pedophile sex trafficker with a lot of very high profile
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and powerful and famous associates, that's not a hoax.
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But this is a point that Trump never made clearly because he botched this thing.
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And what makes his bungling all the more baffling is that, you know, I don't believe that he's
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I don't think that there's anything in the files about Trump that will incriminate him
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Because if Trump was truly incriminated in the files, we would have seen it by now.
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There's just no way that that would have stayed secret through four years of the Biden administration,
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especially as they were actively trying to destroy Trump and put him in jail.
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So the idea that they had something, they had this in their back pocket the whole time
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and didn't use it is really, really hard to believe.
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So I don't think that Trump reacted the way he did to this Epstein issue for that reason.
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I think it's just he didn't understand how important this issue is to his own base.
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Massively underestimated how important this issue is to the base.
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And not just to the base, but in general, the issue is very important.
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And so now it's all going to come out and we'll see.
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And we've talked a lot about Dearborn, Michigan, which has been turned into an Islamic capital.
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Well, here's the mayor of Dearborn, whose name is, of course, Abdullah Hamoud.
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And here's what he has to say about the concept of assimilation.
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Because what you often hear that's accompanied with that is, well, you must assimilate.
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I shouldn't put out a magazine that's in two languages.
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But to me, it's like I actually disavow the use of the term the melting pot.
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Because in a melting pot, when you're talking about like a soup, everything looks the same.
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And he's disavowing assimilation, disavowing melting the melting pot.
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Not just saying that he doesn't value assimilation, but that he openly disavows it, which is all
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the proof that you should need that illegal immigration is not the only problem, or even
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the biggest problem, because this guy, Mohamed Amoud, whatever his name is, he's a legal citizen.
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And yet he hates this country, wants to undermine our national identity and our national sovereignty.
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And he is in pretty much every way more harmful, a bigger problem than most illegal immigrants.
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So, you know, the, the, the rot goes pretty deep here.
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And, and by the way, I don't like all these food analogies for America, melting pot, salad
00:28:35.740
America is a country and a country just doesn't have enough in common with an entree to make
00:28:41.700
the, or, or, you know, appetizer, doesn't have enough in common with a food item to make
00:28:46.900
the analogy useful, I think, but since he brought it up, let's, let's think about this.
00:28:58.780
America is a salad bowl and each part of the salad exists as its own thing, but it all works
00:29:06.740
Well, what's interesting about that is that, you know, if America is a salad bowl, okay,
00:29:14.160
we still need assimilation, I don't know what kind of salads they're making in the Abdullah
00:29:19.920
household, but salad is not like a, a, a meal where you just take a bowl and throw literally
00:29:32.760
A salad is not just any random items thrown into a bowl and then you eat it.
00:29:37.240
So imagine a salad with lettuce, olives, watermelon, cheese, walnuts, carrots, ham, strawberries,
00:29:56.060
goat cheese, just, you know, now these are all components of salads.
00:30:08.820
Put them in the same, have, you could make like a bunch of different salads with all those
00:30:14.660
different components, but to make one salad with those components is you're like schizophrenic.
00:30:20.240
You end up with something grotesque, something revolting.
00:30:23.900
All these components that could make good salads.
00:30:26.740
If, if you're into salads, which I'm not all together, make a really terrible salad.
00:30:39.660
Um, so you in fact, cannot just put anything in a salad and expect that the salad is going
00:30:50.260
Would you ever go to a restaurant and order a salad that has just anything in it?
00:30:58.360
What if there was a salad on the menu that said, uh, anything salad?
00:31:02.300
And you asked the waiter, he said, what, what's that salad?
00:31:09.120
Like we, they say they take anything that's in the kitchen.
00:31:20.960
Or would you order a salad that's more harmonized, more assimilated, where the flavors make sense
00:31:29.980
I mean, even the best salads have ethnicities, Greek salad, for example.
00:31:38.820
I don't even like salads, but this does tell you something, right?
00:31:41.900
Because the, the anti-assimilation crowd, the people who say that America has no identity.
00:31:50.380
Remember it was, uh, Jenna Welsh last week said, America has no culture except multiculturalism.
00:32:02.920
The people who have that view, they actually can't come up with any analogy to make their
00:32:12.880
That's a pretty good indication that you have a bad argument or a bad position is if there's
00:32:17.580
no analogy that will help to illustrate your point.
00:32:20.720
If you're making a point that has no analogy, no logical analogy.
00:32:28.400
And so that's kind of the significance of the salad.
00:32:31.560
It's like, there is, there is no, there is no context in life anywhere where you would
00:32:39.740
ever say that a thing can be improved by just throwing stuff into it randomly, right?
00:32:57.160
There's nothing, nothing in existence where you would ever recommend that you just add things
00:33:03.240
to it randomly without, without trying to harmonize them with the other components.
00:33:14.880
I disavow assimilation would not be a statement that anyone would utter anywhere about anything
00:33:31.960
There is nothing in existence anywhere where you would ever say that, yeah, well, it doesn't
00:33:37.520
Just throw, just, yeah, whatever, but just put everything in randomly.
00:33:40.360
Similarly, assimilation, harmonizing the components, like, and also having an idea of what this
00:33:49.080
thing is you're trying to do, whatever it is, whether it's a dish, it's a song, it's
00:33:56.060
Here's the identity of what this thing is supposed to be and whatever components we put into it,
00:34:02.500
And that is a fundamental step in making anything work, anything.
00:34:09.060
If you're building an engine or you're making a lasagna, I don't care.
00:34:15.420
It's a fundamental step in making anything work, literally anything.
00:34:20.120
And yet we're supposed to believe that this country, not even like countries, but this
00:34:29.840
country is the one exception in all the universe, amid all that exists or has ever existed, the
00:34:39.440
United States is the one place where assimilation doesn't matter.
00:34:51.600
We exist in some kind of magical, supernatural zone where a strategy that would not work in
00:34:58.020
any other context for anything else ever at all works for us?
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I mean, if that's what you believe, contrary to all evidence, then be honest about it.
00:35:10.320
Don't tell me about salads, whereas we've established, no, you wouldn't do that with a salad.
00:35:25.380
I think America is an exception to everything that has ever existed in the universe.
00:35:34.580
And so America is the one context where it doesn't matter who someone is or what they want
00:35:41.480
to do or what they're all about or anything at all.
00:35:52.480
Or be even more honest and say, no, I know this doesn't work, obviously.
00:36:02.720
I know that you destroy the country when you just throw everybody into it and say, good luck.
00:36:13.560
That's the actual honest position that these people will never say out loud or will only
00:36:20.180
On a similar note, here's the new mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani, and he had some
00:36:30.800
You said you would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu based on the 2024 International Court Arrest
00:36:37.920
Next UN General Assembly, as mayor, would you do that?
00:36:41.940
So I've said time and again that I believe this is a city of international law.
00:36:46.160
And being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.
00:36:49.520
And that means upholding the warrants from the International Criminal Court, whether they're
00:36:54.880
I think that that's critically important to showcase our values.
00:36:57.600
And unlike Donald Trump, I'm someone who looks to exist within the confines of the laws
00:37:02.280
So I will look to exhaust every legal possibility not to create my own laws to do so.
00:37:12.780
Well, I think we are a global city, but I also think what New Yorkers are looking for
00:37:16.600
is consistency in the way in which we talk about our values and follow through on them.
00:37:20.060
And that's why I think these warrants from the International Criminal Court, they are worth
00:37:23.140
fully exploring every legal possibility to actually follow through on.
00:37:26.440
So he says a city of international law, which might be one of the craziest things we've ever
00:37:53.100
There can't be any international law because there's no international lawmaker or lawgiver.
00:37:58.740
There's no legislative body that just makes laws for the world.
00:38:05.400
There's no international police force that can enforce these fake laws.
00:38:11.400
Countries comply with the fiction of international law if they want to.
00:38:18.120
It's like, well, okay, well, yeah, we'll go along with pretending this is a thing or we won't.
00:38:22.140
Which means that the whole thing is, I mean, it's at best a kind of set of standards or expectations, but with no real enforceability and no real jurisdiction.
00:38:32.740
There's no governing body with legal jurisdiction over the planet.
00:38:40.940
It's a thing we make up because we don't want to admit the truth, which is that the only thing governing the world on an international level is force, violence.
00:38:55.100
That's the only law of the world and always has been.
00:38:59.520
A country can do whatever it wants as long as they can overpower whoever tries to stop them from doing it.
00:39:10.860
As a country, you can do whatever you want as long as you're able to overpower anyone who tries to stop you from doing it.
00:39:24.520
Now, there are moral laws that hold for all people in all nations.
00:39:37.000
So, morality is not subjective, but this idea of international law, it's like, it doesn't mean anything.
00:39:46.940
Now, the laws of our nation, on the other hand, those are real.
00:39:49.600
And the only laws that the mayor of New York should be concerned about are the laws of this country and of his state and his city.
00:40:01.480
To say that international law supersedes American law is traitorous.
00:40:13.040
Okay, if we took our own laws seriously as a country, then he would be out of office right now.
00:40:30.900
And if you don't understand that or you're actively plotting to undermine that or destroy that, you should be out of office and in jail right now.
00:40:43.720
Okay, quickly, this is the last Michelle Obama clip that we'll play on the show for a while, I promise.
00:40:56.920
We're not going to play another clip for a while.
00:40:58.500
But here she is, still on her book tour, I think, complaining about white people again.
00:41:12.060
Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern.
00:41:16.380
So, when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.
00:41:29.020
People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all.
00:41:35.740
It is exhausting and it's so expensive and it takes up so much time.
00:41:40.900
Braids are for y'all so we can work harder and focus on the work.
00:41:47.340
So, why do we need an act, an act of law to tell white folks to get out of our hair?
00:42:10.480
Michelle, well, listen, Michelle, I got good news for you.
00:42:16.420
We don't care at all about your hair or really anything else about you.
00:42:28.620
If I could speak for all white people, you know, we just had a meeting.
00:42:32.940
We had a big white person meeting and they appointed me spokesman.
00:42:51.000
This is a consistent theme with these black female race hustlers that they're constantly
00:42:55.420
talking about their hair and all the pressure they face from white people to wear their hair
00:43:01.680
And meanwhile, every white person is looking around like, what?
00:43:10.260
No white person in the history of white people has ever cared about or given a second thought
00:43:16.440
Michelle Obama imagines that we're all just like seething all the time.
00:43:21.580
I mean, you heard the reaction in the audience.
00:43:28.800
Finally, a black woman is talking about her hair and expressing this weird hang-up she has
00:43:47.800
So she imagines that we're all laying in bed at night thinking about black women's hair.
00:44:05.620
And when in reality, we're just going about our day.
00:44:13.140
And then Michelle Obama runs up to us and says, hey, you're thinking about my hair, aren't you?
00:44:35.160
I mean, you're pretty angry, Michelle, like all the time.
00:44:45.960
The real point here, of course, is that Michelle is very bitter towards white people.
00:44:49.420
Which is kind of amazing, but there's a real lesson in that.
00:44:54.560
I mean, white people lined up to support her husband and to put the both of them into the White House twice.
00:45:04.020
The majority of white people, millions of white people lined up excited to put her and her husband in the White House.
00:45:15.760
And she hates white people now even more than she did before that.
00:45:27.840
But none of the lessons have anything to do with Michelle Obama's hair.
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You might think it's difficult to find the single worst post on social media in terms of how poorly it's aged.
00:48:20.200
There have been a lot of posts, probably millions of them, that haven't withstood the test of time very well.
00:48:25.400
You can find posts predicting that Bill Belichick would lead UNC to greatness,
00:48:29.060
since after all, he's a great coach and definitely not rich and famous
00:48:32.220
simply because he had a roster of extremely talented and expensive players.
00:48:35.580
You can also find posts from esteemed experts declaring with absolute confidence
00:48:39.080
the world is going to end in 12 years because of climate change.
00:48:42.960
And a lot of those posts are 12 years old now or more.
00:48:45.740
You can revisit Hillary Clinton's most infamous post,
00:48:47.920
where she wishes herself a happy birthday and declares that she is a future president.
00:48:52.500
All of these posts, to varying degrees, have not held up very well.
00:48:56.600
But there's one that, even given this very stiff competition, clearly stands alone.
00:49:02.340
And I'm talking about the following post from a woman named Olivia Newsy,
00:49:06.560
who currently works as an editor for Vanity Fair.
00:49:11.480
Before taking the job at Vanity Fair, she worked at New York Magazine and also the Daily Beast.
00:49:15.800
But a long time ago, back when she was just getting started in the industry in January of 2015,
00:49:23.540
Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?
00:49:27.200
And this was, she was reacting to, I think, House of Cards at the time, the show House of Cards.
00:49:34.220
Well, at the time, it seemed like a pretty safe question for a New York-born, Fordham-educated,
00:49:38.320
up-and-coming liberal journalist to pose on social media.
00:49:41.900
She was calling out all those lazy, cliche-obsessed writers in Hollywood,
00:49:45.920
the ones who don't understand the obvious fundamental truths of the 20th wave of feminism.
00:49:51.420
It's an absurdity, Olivia stated, to suggest that female journalists sleep with their sources.
00:49:57.200
In reality, we all know that female journalists get ahead through hard work,
00:50:01.360
shoe-leather reporting, clever, legit, logical deductions, and, you know, crisp, highly readable prose.
00:50:10.280
Well, fortunately for her bold proclamation, Olivia went on to become a journalist.
00:50:14.960
And in that capacity, she didn't simply prove the old stereotype true about how women sleep with their sources.
00:50:22.380
She acted like that stereotype was one of the Ten Commandments.
00:50:25.420
She went on a one-woman mission, like a horny Rambo, to prove that female reporters only do one thing all day, apparently,
00:50:37.920
Now, you probably remember the story that broke last year about Olivia Nuzzi's romantic relationship with RFK Jr.
00:50:46.080
Nuzzi had been assigned to cover RFK's campaign.
00:50:49.000
She wrote an article that was highly critical of Joe Biden.
00:50:51.780
And the whole time, she was engaged in some kind of inappropriate relationship with RFK Jr.
00:50:55.680
The details of it are mercifully, have not been disclosed fully, as far as I know.
00:51:01.020
According to Nuzzi, she was involved in a non-physical, personal relationship with RFK Jr.
00:51:05.440
And someone else described the relationship as an emotional and digital in nature, kind of like a Manti Teo situation.
00:51:14.920
Now, whether you find that explanation believable or not, it was obviously a highly embarrassing situation for everybody involved,
00:51:20.640
including Olivia's employer, New York Magazine, which quickly cut her loose.
00:51:25.260
Now, speaking for myself, naively, I assume that, well, after this embarrassing episode, this scandal,
00:51:34.620
she's in some kind of personal relationship with someone she's supposed to be covering in politics.
00:51:42.920
She'll flee into obscurity, and she'll have no choice following the revelation that she was getting intimate with RFK Jr.,
00:51:49.580
someone she was assigned to cover in an objective fashion.
00:51:52.400
But apparently, she did not flee into obscurity, nor did she suffer any consequences at all,
00:52:02.340
And therefore, she now works at Vanity Fair, and she's apparently coming out with a new book,
00:52:07.160
where she makes herself a hero and victim of her own scandal.
00:52:15.060
Now, not to be outdone, her ex-fiancee, Ryan Lizza, just published an expose where he reveals that Olivia
00:52:19.860
also had a sexual relationship with former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann,
00:52:24.920
in addition to, on top of that, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford in 2020,
00:52:30.200
while she was covering his presidential campaign.
00:52:34.080
I don't do many dramatic readings for romance novels or anything like that, so bear with me here.
00:53:11.040
Unfortunately, the lack of a water tower on our Georgetown's home ruled me out as the notes intended recipient.
00:53:19.860
I flipped to another page and saw a name in the first line of an unfinished love letter to him
00:53:24.160
that included enough details to confirm a physical relationship and the hint of some kind of falling out.
00:53:30.760
I looked at the date on her aborted letter to Mark.
00:53:33.700
March 5th, 2020, just a few days ago, I called my agent.
00:53:49.220
Because I think, like, when you're reading it, you're supposed to think that he's talking about RFK Jr.
00:53:54.040
And then it turns out that, no, it's actually a different politician that she was sleeping with.
00:53:59.300
Now, after Ryan Lizza published this article, a lot of people rediscovered this exchange on social media from back in 2019.
00:54:08.300
I spent some time in South Carolina with Mark Sanford for New York Magazine.
00:54:26.020
He also wrote this section about Olivia's relationship with Keith Olbermann,
00:54:34.900
Not that long ago, I had helped her untangle herself from an unusual relationship with Keith Olbermann,
00:54:42.800
We started talking, and soon after, she fled her unhappy home in suburban New Jersey
00:54:58.940
and furnished her apartment in a dormant building in the West Village.
00:55:03.000
While Keith, who was 34 years older, was generous,
00:55:07.640
Olivia had concealed the relationship from me and other friends,
00:55:10.040
but one day she told me everything, too much actually,
00:55:16.440
Now, Keith Olbermann is, of course, a grotesque, angry, bloated blob of a man
00:55:20.680
who lives alone with his cats and spends his days sitting in a rocking chair,
00:55:28.440
What Olivia found appealing about a man who looks and sounds like a giant, half-sentient wart,
00:55:36.160
All I know is that Keith and Olivia together must have combined
00:55:39.020
to create the most insufferable combination of human beings ever assembled on Earth.
00:55:43.100
I actually feel bad for the cats that they had to live through that.
00:55:48.220
So in case it's not obvious, just to summarize,
00:55:54.000
A lot of very terrible people are cheating and lying and getting away with it scot-free.
00:56:00.220
And it gets even worse when you look at the excerpts
00:56:07.520
Again, I'm not a professional audiobook reader for a dime store romance novel,
00:56:12.780
But this is an actual excerpt from this book that just came out,
00:56:19.600
I mean to tell you of the canyon where voices carried,
00:56:29.820
where I found that, as fortune or curse would have it,
00:56:35.460
where, with news on my tongue and tears in my eyes,
00:56:42.540
I ran back over the hill to translate for those who could not stomach the thought
00:56:53.600
as they revealed or converted ever more monsters among men.
00:57:05.920
What I can say for certain is that Olivia Nuzzi's book
00:57:35.300
Have the editors already been put out of business, I guess?
00:57:38.300
How are you an editor and you let that get by you?
00:57:44.480
Not to mention a sentence that uses the word monster like 12 times.
00:57:56.720
Now, I guess if I had to come up with a compliment,
00:58:01.480
because AI, for all its horrors, isn't that bad.
00:58:05.380
Like, even ChatGPT could probably come up with something better.
00:58:20.440
which is to say it's modern journalism in a nutshell.
00:58:26.240
who has not been involved in any kind of relationship
00:58:35.320
Ryan Lizza, everyone else who's remotely involved
00:58:37.480
in this sordid and deeply depressing soap opera