Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Breaking News on Latest Cabinet Picks, Plus Behind the Scenes at SpaceX & Darren Beattie Joins | TRIGGERED Ep.193

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:05:29.000 I hope that you are all doing well.

00:05:32.000 You know, Naively, I thought my life may slow down a little bit after the election, but I've gotten a lot busier.

00:05:40.000 It's all worth it, though, because it's such an incredible opportunity to fix our country.

00:05:47.000 So, as brutal as it can be, I'm really looking forward to the ride.

00:05:52.000 I had a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity just this week at SpaceX.

00:05:58.000 They were launching One of their rockets got to be there and see firsthand what true genius and ingenuity is all about.

00:06:09.000 So we'll be showing you the videos of that shortly.

00:06:12.000 We are truly though in a MAGA cultural renaissance.

00:06:16.000 And just like that SpaceX rocket, we are going to launch this economy and this country into prosperity.

00:06:24.000 Tonight we're going to be joined by Revolver News founder Darren Beattie.

00:06:28.000 That's always a crowd favorite, a lot to talk about.

00:06:31.000 He's been on a leading edge of a lot of this stuff.

00:06:33.000 Definitely want to talk about the U.S. now in the last days of a dying administration trying to arm the Ukraine with missiles capable of hitting Moscow.

00:06:42.000 What could possibly go wrong?

00:06:43.000 So as we sit here on the brink of World War III, While also on the verge of prosperity and peace, we got to make sure we get this right.

00:06:54.000 We got to make sure people are paying attention and they call out this insanity.

00:06:59.000 The mandate of November 5th clearly has not resonated in Washington DC, so we got to make sure that happens.

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00:08:58.000 And with that, guys, and before we get to Darren, Let's get into some of the top headlines of the day.

00:09:04.000 Obviously, a lot of big and breaking news inside of the DC swamp.

00:09:09.000 So I want to start off by giving credit to Matt Gates for always being a fighter for the MAGA movement and for being unafraid.

00:09:17.000 Him being unafraid is what made the swamp very afraid.

00:09:22.000 Matt isn't afraid to step into the arena.

00:09:24.000 And like I said, we need loyalty and competence.

00:09:28.000 Loyalty without competence doesn't work.

00:09:30.000 Competence, when they think they know better, that doesn't work either.

00:09:33.000 And toughness and Matt And everything that he showed, I'd be willing to step up and have his number called is a huge part of that.

00:09:43.000 We all have to become unafraid and call out the nonsense.

00:09:46.000 And that's going to be a guiding principle for whoever the next Attorney General pick is.

00:09:53.000 Because the mission for America First Cabinet is not slowing down, regardless of what the swamp wants.

00:09:58.000 Like I said, Monday.

00:09:59.000 We have a MAGA mandate.

00:10:02.000 And the Senate is only in power because of my father.

00:10:06.000 So we need to keep that at the top of our minds, okay?

00:10:09.000 Each and every day.

00:10:11.000 Make sure they know it.

00:10:12.000 Make sure you're calling them.

00:10:13.000 Make sure you drive that home every day.

00:10:17.000 The most important thing happening right now is ensuring that the administration is staffed with patriots.

00:10:23.000 That are dedicated to the values that you actually voted for and who are ready to get going on minute one.

00:10:32.000 Mandates, guys, they aren't suggestions or ideas.

00:10:37.000 They are mandates.

00:10:38.000 They're demands that we get the job done.

00:10:42.000 So use all of that as motivation to demand action from your lawmakers and to stand up against any of the hysteria, the smokescreen, the lies, the propaganda, and the scare tactics.

00:10:55.000 You know they're going to throw a lot of them at us.

00:10:57.000 Make sure we're fighting back.

00:10:59.000 Because what this is really about is the swamp's panic.

00:11:03.000 It's absolute panic about losing their corrupt grip on power.

00:11:08.000 Just look at what they're doing to Pete Hegseth.

00:11:11.000 For example, the regime media mob has been smearing Pete for literally having Christian tattoos.

00:11:19.000 I know, guys, it's a terrible thing.

00:11:21.000 It's a disaster.

00:11:22.000 The Associated Press even suggested he was some sort of terrorist for having a tattoo that said, God wills it.

00:11:30.000 That shouldn't surprise anyone who's been watching for a while.

00:11:34.000 was even attacked for having a tattoo that says 1775 on it, which was the year the Army was founded.

00:11:43.000 Pete is an Army veteran.

00:11:45.000 He's a combat soldier, a well-decorated one at that.

00:11:48.000 He also went to Harvard and Princeton.

00:11:50.000 But they're trying to tell you that he's not capable or competent.

00:11:54.000 And guess what, folks?

00:11:55.000 If you've been watching, whether it's Lloyd Austin, Whether it's Admiral Rachel Levine, let's just say if what they've been giving us is competent, I'd like to see the opposite of that because we haven't seen competence.

00:12:10.000 We haven't seen that in the way that we're fighting our wars.

00:12:12.000 We haven't seen that in the way the Pentagon is running their budgetary process.

00:12:17.000 And they're trying to do just what they did to Justice Kavanaugh.

00:12:21.000 Which is where the narrative comes before the facts.

00:12:25.000 And the regime media runs with it gleefully.

00:12:29.000 The real reason they hate Pete?

00:12:31.000 He's not taking the job for a future board seat at Raytheon.

00:12:36.000 He's not doing the bidding of the swamp or the military-industrial complex.

00:12:40.000 I mean, honestly, just compare the coverage of Pete Hegseth to the coverage of Lakin Riley's illegal immigrant murderer, the killer.

00:12:51.000 The killer that was found guilty of murder yesterday.

00:12:54.000 And this is how the Washington Post covered it.

00:12:58.000 And I quote, man guilty of murder that becomes a GOP focus.

00:13:04.000 Think about that.

00:13:06.000 It becomes a GOP focus.

00:13:09.000 Why?

00:13:09.000 Because he had no business being in the country.

00:13:12.000 The Washington Post thinks the problem is that the Republican Party spotlighted the tragedy about an illegal immigrant murdering an innocent girl.

00:13:25.000 We should make sure to protect murderers.

00:13:27.000 I saw a statistic a few minutes ago, right before I went live, that said 78% of Americans think that illegal immigrant criminals should be deported.

00:13:39.000 Or 72%, I guess.

00:13:42.000 What about the other 28? 0.91

00:13:43.000 I think they belong in an insane asylum. 0.94

00:13:46.000 What nation, what civilization would actually want to keep illegal immigrant criminals In their boundaries. 1.00

00:13:55.000 It makes no sense to me.

00:13:57.000 When it's Biden who let in the illegal immigrant criminals and then flew him to Georgia on your dollar, on your dime, on your taxpayer-funded generosity, Think of how insane that is.

00:14:09.000 Lake and Riley's death was completely avoidable.

00:14:12.000 Jose Ibero was released into the country by the Biden administration and was then free to kill.

00:14:20.000 Biden is now trying to allow as many illegal immigrants to come in during his final few weeks in office by rolling out a new app.

00:14:29.000 That allows migrants to skip ICE in-person check-ins.

00:14:33.000 What could possibly go wrong, folks?

00:14:35.000 What could go wrong?

00:14:35.000 I mean, we're just going to let them in.

00:14:37.000 Who cares? 0.82

00:14:38.000 They could be murderers.

00:14:39.000 They could be drug dealers. 0.56

00:14:41.000 They could be gang members. 0.87

00:14:42.000 They could be terrorists.

00:14:43.000 Who cares?

00:14:44.000 Let's let them in with reckless abandon.

00:14:46.000 This seems like a great idea.

00:14:50.000 The Biden administration is quietly loosening immigration policies before Trump takes office, this according to the New York Post.

00:14:57.000 It reports the administration is testing a new app that will allow illegal migrants to bypass in-person check-ins at their local ICE office.

00:15:08.000 Jeff Paul is live with more.

00:15:10.000 It sounds like they're just giving Donald Trump one more thing to undo.

00:15:15.000 Well, John, we do know the Biden administration has been testing this new Immigration and Customs app, and the idea is to streamline the check-in process for migrants.

00:15:24.000 Allow them to use their phones or computers to touch base with immigration officials while they wait for their date in court instead of appearing for those check-ins in person.

00:15:34.000 Now, a source tells Fox News, ICE has been using the app already in a couple of cities, but according to the New York Post, it's going to be launched officially next month in New York City.

00:15:44.000 The field office there reportedly has been overwhelmed, fully booked with appointments for a year.

00:15:49.000 Think about that, guys.

00:15:51.000 They're actually loosening policies that make it easier for illegals to flee authorities, to get into our country, perpetrate murder. 0.92

00:16:01.000 It's insane.

00:16:02.000 And it's ending on minute one.

00:16:04.000 But that's not going to stop them from trying to flood the country with these people. 0.91

00:16:09.000 I think anyone complicit in allowing this to continue, if one of those people commits a crime, a murder, an assault, they should be guilty of aiding and abetting it.

00:16:22.000 They are part of that crime because they understand what the American people voted for.

00:16:28.000 They're doing the opposite of that.

00:16:30.000 And that's not all, guys.

00:16:31.000 Because in Denver, the mayor, the mayor of the city of Denver is announcing that the city will use police officers to try and block ICE from deporting illegals.

00:16:43.000 They're going to try to stop them from doing it.

00:16:46.000 That's insane.

00:16:47.000 This is the same mayor, by the way, that cut city services.

00:16:51.000 They cut city services designed for the citizens of that city, the taxpayers who fund it, to allocate money instead to illegals. 0.98

00:17:01.000 You can't make it up.

00:17:02.000 You'd think it's a bad joke, but it's happening.

00:17:05.000 The mayor in Boston also made similar comments.

00:17:08.000 A much-needed reality check is coming, folks.

00:17:13.000 Common sense will be back in the White House on January 20th.

00:17:18.000 And if Democrats or rhino Republicans are trying to stop that, we have to be aware of it, and we have to vote them out of office. 1.00

00:17:27.000 And Democrats have even put illegals above our own veterans.

00:17:31.000 Just listen to this clip, because this is truly...

00:17:34.000 I mean, it's all insane, but this is particularly bad, about how VA funds are being used.

00:17:43.000 Has the Biden administration been helpful for you?

00:17:45.000 Have we seen numbers go up or down?

00:17:47.000 And what about under Trump?

00:17:48.000 Well, it was interesting.

00:17:49.000 Trump's first term, it was way down, you know, veteran homelessness, because they were really heavily leaned into the veteran community.

00:17:55.000 And then when we had this migrant crisis, a lot of the VA HUD-VASH funds that are supposed to house homeless veterans ended up getting reallocated to migrants.

00:18:03.000 So it went up by 12 percent.

00:18:05.000 And I think it will go back down under this new administration.

00:18:07.000 Wow, so that money that was supposed to go to veterans went to the migrants, and that's why some of these veterans are on the street. 0.61

00:18:13.000 They didn't tell that first guy why he wasn't allowed to stay in the shelter.

00:18:17.000 Well, they're not allowed to stay in the shelter because there's not enough shelters is the problem, and if you went to prison, Most of these people have gone to prison for domestic violence and things, drugs, and then they can't get in the shelter.

00:18:31.000 They won't put them in these military shelters.

00:18:32.000 So they continue to not get rehabilitated.

00:18:35.000 They just retain their trauma for their whole life.

00:18:38.000 Well, I know you're going to be working with Washington.

00:18:40.000 You're a lobbyist as well.

00:18:41.000 You'll be working with Doug Collins and whoever, some of these appointments, if these appointments go through, Pete Hegseth possibly.

00:18:45.000 So thank you so much.

00:18:47.000 God bless you.

00:18:47.000 Thank you so much.

00:18:47.000 You're awesome.

00:18:50.000 Folks, this madness ends on January 20th, but it's not going to stop them from doing whatever they can, again, to flood our country with unknown people, allowing again criminals and gang members and drug dealers and rapists and murderers to come into our country.

00:19:10.000 Stephen Miller, someone who's going to be a big part of the pushback against this insanity, Just explained exactly what to expect.

00:19:20.000 Check this out.

00:19:20.000 I think you'll like it.

00:19:21.000 President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office.

00:19:25.000 As he has said, the occupation ends.

00:19:28.000 Liberation day begins.

00:19:29.000 He will immediately sign executive orders, sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history, finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home.

00:19:44.000 No one will be allowed to enter the country illegally and ICE will be empowered in partnership with FBI, DEA, ATF, the National Guard to fully seal and secure the border with CBP and to find and identify the criminal threats that are inside this country and send them back home.

00:20:01.000 We saw that heartbreaking testimony, Sean.

00:20:04.000 Lakin Riley, that precious, beautiful young woman, fought for her life against an illegal alien imported by Biden-Harris for 18 harrowing minutes.

00:20:14.000 She fought for her life.

00:20:15.000 And we are going to honor that extraordinary woman.

00:20:19.000 And we're going to honor every victim who has suffered.

00:20:22.000 Under President Trump's leadership, we are going to honor that suffering by unleashing a righteous wave of justice and sending these criminal migrants back home. 1.00

00:20:33.000 Guys, the deportations are coming.

00:20:36.000 It's time that we restore law and order and that we restore peace and strength and prosperity to our nation.

00:20:45.000 While the Biden cabal tries to undermine the incoming administration by enabling illegals, illegal immigrants, and also trying to simultaneously start World War III. They are not going to get away with it.

00:20:59.000 We're going to protect the American people.

00:21:02.000 And remember, guys, there's so much to be excited about.

00:21:05.000 For example, I was in Texas this week, as I mentioned earlier, for the SpaceX launch.

00:21:11.000 It was honestly a moment that reminded me of America's greatness, of American exceptionalism.

00:21:20.000 We're doing that.

00:21:21.000 We're no longer doing that in government, guys.

00:21:23.000 We're doing that with great minds in the private sector because the government has been taken over by insanity.

00:21:31.000 No other country accomplishes the feats that we do here in the United States.

00:21:36.000 Here, a little bit of behind the scenes footage of me walking amongst the incredible rockets Built in America, engineered by Americans, doing things that the agencies funded by government for decades couldn't even fathom.

00:21:52.000 Check this out because it was truly an incredible experience for me.

00:21:57.000 We're actually inside a Falcon Heavy rocket right now.

00:22:03.000 Does not get cooler than this.

00:22:06.000 Each one of these engines has the equivalent of four 747 engines.

00:22:11.000 Each one.

00:22:12.000 And there's dozens of them in these rockets.

00:22:14.000 But each one of these guys Four 747 engines.

00:22:21.000 It's like the skydive is on some legs because it's falling down like this.

00:22:26.000 And then right at the end it goes around a bit.

00:22:29.000 How hot is it?

00:22:32.000 Like 2,000 degrees.

00:22:35.000 Very hot.

00:22:37.000 We did the same thing after the hour.

00:22:41.000 We're looking at the leeward side of the rockets.

00:22:48.000 So the other side, the windward side, has those black tiles.

00:22:53.000 Yeah, it's a little hard to see.

00:22:56.000 So we're looking at the leeward side, the cold side essentially.

00:23:00.000 So you can see the tiles are on the nose.

00:23:03.000 Guys, we need to celebrate greatness like this.

00:23:06.000 It's in very short supply. 0.98

00:23:09.000 Instead, we get garbage just like this nonsense from Jaguar, which used to sell cars, but is now apparently just selling woke nonsense and insanity. . but is now apparently just selling woke nonsense and insanity. 0.99

00:23:48.000 I don't know about you guys, but that makes me definitely never want to buy a Jaguar.

00:23:54.000 I'm reading in one of the comments.

00:23:56.000 They took Jaguar and they replaced maybe the first letter with a letter like F. I'm not allowed to condone that or laugh at it, but it's...

00:24:08.000 I'm going to get in trouble, but not going to lie, that's pretty funny, folks.

00:24:13.000 If you replace the J with an F, that's what they did. 0.99

00:24:16.000 Not me.

00:24:17.000 Not me.

00:24:18.000 I am not.

00:24:19.000 But I can laugh at this.

00:24:23.000 And someone took some of it and just went jag off.

00:24:27.000 I mean, it seems like a great way to kill your brand.

00:24:30.000 I guess they're going the way of Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney.

00:24:35.000 But I'm sure it'll work out well for them.

00:24:39.000 You know, the people that used to buy Jaguars are probably never doing that again.

00:24:44.000 So luckily, there's a lot of other options, but that's still what's going on.

00:24:49.000 It's why it's not just important enough to reform the insanity in government.

00:24:54.000 We also have to make sure we do it in corporate America and corporations around the world.

00:25:00.000 Finally, do you remember Jesse Smollett?

00:25:03.000 He's the actor.

00:25:04.000 Remember?

00:25:05.000 This is MAGA country. 0.61

00:25:06.000 I'm like, I don't know, man.

00:25:07.000 I don't think anyone could live for more than five seconds.

00:25:09.000 I almost got canceled for this one because I was one of the first, like, let's call it big or verified or accounts on X at the time that, you know, maybe had something to lose by calling out the nonsense.

00:25:19.000 But I said, I don't know.

00:25:20.000 I have a feeling two guys in MAGA hats in downtown Chicago at like two in the morning probably wouldn't live very long.

00:25:25.000 But minor details.

00:25:27.000 He's the actor who made up being attacked by Trump supporters in downtown Chicago.

00:25:32.000 That Democrats rallied around as a victim of a hate crime.

00:25:36.000 He said they yelled, this is MAGA country.

00:25:40.000 I don't know.

00:25:41.000 Never really felt all that plausible, but when you're up against that machine, they created a narrative, and that became the gospel, even though it was always BS. It was, of course, all a lie.

00:25:53.000 He had that fake noose and everything.

00:25:56.000 But today, For some reason, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned Jussie Smollett's conviction for lying to Belize, saying that he was unjustly prosecuted.

00:26:06.000 Because remember, this was when a prosecutor said, okay, if you pay a fine and do a little community service, we'll just let it go.

00:26:12.000 What do you think would happen to me or you if you did that?

00:26:17.000 You created a citywide manhunt.

00:26:19.000 You used resources looking for something that never happened.

00:26:22.000 And we're just kidding.

00:26:23.000 We just wanted to go woke.

00:26:25.000 We wanted to vilify cops. 0.64

00:26:27.000 We want to vilify half the country.

00:26:30.000 It could be a problem.

00:26:31.000 They were saying that he was unjustly prosecuted, claiming that a due process violation based on a convoluted legal theory.

00:26:38.000 Don't bother trying to make any sense of it, because it makes no sense.

00:26:42.000 But Jussie Smollett is no longer guilty of that conviction.

00:26:50.000 This is why we fight, guys.

00:26:52.000 Because if we don't, this insanity will go on forever.

00:26:56.000 But again, On minute one, on January 20th, you're going to see us take this country back.

00:27:03.000 From the legal system, to the border, to overseas, we're going to deliver on the MAGA mission, and we're going to make America great again.

00:27:13.000 So, Derrick Beattie is coming up in just moments, but also...

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00:28:09.000 Guys, one thing before we get to Darren, I keep saying, why is Matt no longer in there?

00:28:14.000 Why did he pull up?

00:28:15.000 Because for Republican.

00:28:17.000 Or Republican senators.

00:28:20.000 Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Curtis from Utah, and...

00:28:27.000 Where conservatism goes to die, Mitch McConnell said they were going to be hard-nosed.

00:28:32.000 And when you have a 53-person majority and you lose four votes, he was never going to be able to get confirmed.

00:28:40.000 So remember that.

00:28:41.000 That's why we have to win all of these battles.

00:28:43.000 That's why we have to win these downstream races.

00:28:46.000 We have to have bigger majorities because there's always going to be weak Republicans who are going to go against the mandate of the American people, who are going to join with the left to try to stop Donald Trump from doing what America wants and bringing common sense back.

00:29:01.000 That's why it is.

00:29:03.000 It's not because of Democrats.

00:29:04.000 It's because of weak Republicans, Republicans who Americans, frankly, revolted against on November 5th. 0.99

00:29:12.000 But because they're still in power, this is the crap that we're going to still be dealing with. 0.99

00:29:16.000 And with that, folks, joining me now, Revolver News founder, Darren Beatty. 0.93

00:29:23.000 Darren, what's happening, man?

00:29:24.000 How are you?

00:29:25.000 Great to be with you.

00:29:27.000 Likewise, man.

00:29:28.000 So, Darren, first off, I just want to get a quick reaction of yours to the state of the transition, how you see the cabinet shaping up and ultimately how we stick it to the swamp, who definitely needs some sticking.

00:29:42.000 Absolutely.

00:29:43.000 Well, overall, it's tremendously encouraging.

00:29:45.000 I have to confess, I'm deeply disappointed by the developments with Matt Gaetz.

00:29:51.000 I've always maintained the Attorney General position is the most important position for a variety of reasons.

00:29:59.000 Donald Trump learned the hard way what it means when you don't have someone who's 100% loyal to the agenda in that position the first time around.

00:30:12.000 Having somebody in that seat who didn't make the right decision, not just in terms of how it compromises leadership and justice, but how it introduces problems that suck up bandwidth and energy that compromise the ability to implement the agenda writ large.

00:30:28.000 And so I've maintained very strongly from the beginning that AG is the most important position.

00:30:33.000 I thought Matt Gaetz was the man in the country to do it.

00:30:42.000 Matt Gaetz in this role will be effective and will be good and that Matt Gaetz himself will find another perch to release his talents upon the world.

00:30:54.000 Yeah.

00:30:55.000 So that was unfortunate, but we'll see what happens there.

00:30:59.000 I think a lot of the other appointments are excellent.

00:31:02.000 Tom Holman, home run.

00:31:04.000 Yeah.

00:31:05.000 Absolutely.

00:31:05.000 with the border and what you're talking about with Biden and letting the illegals in.

00:31:10.000 The mass deportation is the number one agenda item here on the mandate.

00:31:17.000 President Trump has not been squeamish about that.

00:31:21.000 He was very vocal about the importance of this throughout the campaign.

00:31:25.000 And so I fully anticipate that this will happen.

00:31:29.000 And given the appointments that I've seen so far, it's entirely consistent with 100% conviction in that regard, especially Homan.

00:31:38.000 Hexeth, obviously a great pick. 0.93

00:31:41.000 I'm a big fan of his.

00:31:43.000 You know, one story that we did a while back at Revolver News exposing an individual called Bishop Garrison, who was running the so-called counter-extremism workforce at the Pentagon, basically the ideological veteran chief at the Pentagon.

00:31:59.000 And I was very encouraged by the fact that Pete Hegseth was so incensed by this.

00:32:04.000 He had me on his show.

00:32:05.000 We talked about it, did an extended segment on it.

00:32:08.000 Absolute faith that in the position at the Pentagon, he will clean out that poison in these institutions.

00:32:16.000 And just something to say about the general imperative, the general mandate here.

00:32:21.000 It's going to be disruptive for sure, but I think it's also important to understand that it's not disruption for its own sake.

00:32:30.000 It's not willy nilly just going in and breaking stuff.

00:32:33.000 It's disruption that's necessary for the ultimate purpose of restoring legitimacy to our institutions and our country.

00:32:42.000 Yeah.

00:32:43.000 The second term is conducted correctly.

00:32:46.000 It's not simply a matter of a politically successful second term.

00:32:51.000 It's a matter of setting the preconditions in our country for America to be free and prosperous and the global superpower into the end of the century and beyond.

00:33:02.000 That's the time span in which someone like Elon Musk is thinking.

00:33:07.000 That's the time span in which President Trump is thinking.

00:33:09.000 This is about securing America's role and success.

00:33:15.000 Yeah, no, I think it's important to note.

00:33:17.000 I imagine that those four Republicans that said they were hard-nosed, because they're disappointed in Matt.

00:33:23.000 I'm reading it in the feed right now that he did that.

00:33:25.000 No, I'm actually not.

00:33:26.000 If he had four hard-nosed that he wasn't ever going to get, don't waste the time, the political capital, trying to make something happen that's not going to happen.

00:33:33.000 You still have to deal with the realities of the swamp.

00:33:35.000 I imagine those four I guess they're Republicans.

00:33:40.000 I mean, they got an R next to their name.

00:33:41.000 They don't act very Republican.

00:33:42.000 I guarantee you they probably all voted for Mayorkas if they were in office at the time, which started the mass migration, the criminal migration into our country. 0.98

00:33:51.000 I guarantee you they affirmed all of Biden's cabinet picks and probably never voted against a single one of them that created the last four years of tumultuous disaster.

00:34:00.000 So it's a shame, but that's the reality.

00:34:02.000 The swamp does have teeth.

00:34:04.000 What do you see as the roadmap for ultimately defeating the corruption and that bureaucratic blob stuck in Washington right now?

00:34:14.000 Well, you know, it's a great question, and it's very complicated because ordinarily some, you know, you look at the situation and see, think of all the slings and arrows that President Trump has endured.

00:34:25.000 Spending all the way back to 2016, every single powerful institution in the world actuated against him.

00:34:31.000 Still one.

00:34:32.000 The entire bureaucracies got together, tried to subvert his presidency.

00:34:36.000 He managed to survive that.

00:34:38.000 Then they marshaled in just an avalanche of lawfare and corruption in the justice system.

00:34:44.000 And then even an assassination attempt that very, very narrowly failed.

00:34:49.000 And he goes from that to winning decisively a popular vote victory.

00:34:56.000 Both houses You would think at the very least, after all of that, he's entitled to pick the people he needs to deliver the mandate that the American people said.

00:35:09.000 But there's still some impediments in the way.

00:35:12.000 And whether it's a matter of getting more senators in there, and that's always good, or it's a matter of maybe, you know, punishing or at least not forgetting Not forgetting there needs to be a cost in this regard as well for these senators who just step in the mandate like this at this moment.

00:35:32.000 So I don't think we've heard the last of it.

00:35:35.000 I don't think, you know, to a degree you have to play ball with senators.

00:35:38.000 That's just the nature of governance.

00:35:40.000 Unfortunately, it's more complicated than just like, you know, punishing, punishing.

00:35:46.000 But ultimately, I don't think We will forget.

00:35:49.000 I don't think we'll forgive.

00:35:51.000 There will be a time to, you know, to settle that score.

00:35:56.000 But it's very unfortunate.

00:35:58.000 And just for the context, like you said, these are people who had no compunction about improving people like Mayorkas, people like Merrick Garland, who is just corrupt to the point of criminality.

00:36:12.000 It's it.

00:36:13.000 And so if those people are within the scope of acceptability, you would think someone like Matt Gay's room, whatever these ridiculous allegations, nothing's been proven. 0.54

00:36:25.000 And the aggressive and corrupt Garland didn't even bring any charges.

00:36:29.000 Yeah.

00:36:30.000 Yeah.

00:36:30.000 People have to understand the alleged Wrongdoing was investigated, I think, three times by Joe Biden's DOJ, not like a conservative DOJ that was like three times and they found no wrongdoing.

00:36:43.000 So they tried doing it with salacious stories.

00:36:45.000 They tried leaking components of it.

00:36:47.000 But the reality is this was investigated by an already weaponized Department of Justice and they didn't find anything.

00:36:54.000 So, you know, that's how insane all of this actually is.

00:36:58.000 I think what I'd love to do is appoint Matt Gaetz to be a special counsel where he doesn't need Senate confirmation, appoint him to be a special counsel on the weaponization Of the government.

00:37:10.000 Let him go in there. 0.96

00:37:12.000 Let him figure out everything that's going on.

00:37:14.000 Let him shed light to the American public to see just how badly these institutions have behaved, just how corrupt they have become, and let the American people see that.

00:37:24.000 I think maybe that's the ultimate payback and maybe the more important role, because once you have some clarity to just how corrupted these agencies have been, I think it's a lot harder for them to ever rear their ugly heads again.

00:37:38.000 Yes, a role like that could be good.

00:37:40.000 I think there are a variety of good roles.

00:37:42.000 Again, we haven't heard the last of him.

00:37:44.000 I think it's just the beginning and his talents will be put to good use.

00:37:49.000 I have absolute confidence in that.

00:37:51.000 And if there's any silver lining to what happened, it's a reminder that despite this decisive victory and despite this mandate, there are still Very important hurdles to overcome.

00:38:04.000 Still very important opposition to deal with.

00:38:07.000 And unfortunately, that opposition is in the House, so to speak, or at least in the party.

00:38:13.000 And this is not a new thing.

00:38:15.000 I mean, from the very beginning, 2015, from the time he went down the escalator, Trump's big battles We're against the corrupt swamp establishment within the GOP. And to some degree, the most vigorous opposition in the beginning and throughout came from those segments and those quarters.

00:38:37.000 So there's a lot of unfinished business there, and we have time to finish that business in due course.

00:38:45.000 So, you know, I said, you know, Matt Gaetz as a special counsel, what are some of the other things you'd like to see him perhaps do if it's not for that, you know, to expose some of these things?

00:38:54.000 Where would you think, you know, someone of his, you know, just frankly willingness to get in there and not be swayed by the nonsense, where else would you see him effective?

00:39:05.000 Well, I think he could be effective in a variety of positions.

00:39:09.000 This is just speculation, which is probably not my place to do, but I think a role in the Senate could be very interesting.

00:39:17.000 I think a role in transition, which is not mutually exclusive, but something like DOJ transition is very important.

00:39:25.000 Having a major voice in terms of staffing of that organization, I think he has the capability and the acuity to do so.

00:39:33.000 I think there are a lot of interesting things, even if we start to get more creative than that, of special roles for someone like him.

00:39:42.000 Like you were saying earlier, and I think this is another lesson from the first time around, is that it's a very special thing, that Venn diagram intersection between loyalty to the agenda and competence.

00:39:59.000 That's a very precious intersection.

00:40:02.000 Well, there's a third intersection of also having the stomach to be able to take it.

00:40:06.000 You can have loyal and competent.

00:40:07.000 It's rare.

00:40:08.000 But then what's even more rare are the people who are willing to take those slings and arrows, who are willing to keep fighting rather than just to succumb to a bad story from a journalist or from a paper or TV show that would gladly put them in the gulag simply for having the views that they have.

00:40:29.000 Absolutely.

00:40:30.000 No, that's a great point.

00:40:31.000 The combination of loyalty, intelligence capability, and courage.

00:40:38.000 Vanishingly rare.

00:40:40.000 Vanishingly rare in our country, in particular in Washington.

00:40:44.000 In the country, maybe not rare, but in Washington, it's very rare.

00:40:49.000 and you have that in somebody like Matt Gaetz and that cannot be wasted and I don't think it will be wasted.

00:40:56.000 So let's see what happens.

00:40:58.000 I don't think it's the end of the story what we heard today.

00:41:01.000 I think the ending will be far more favorable.

00:41:05.000 You know, so Darren, you know, so many of these DC scandals are really also media scandals.

00:41:11.000 We've seen this playbook time and time again.

00:41:15.000 Are some D.C. Republicans just too weak?

00:41:19.000 I mean, we sort of touched on the last one, but you've uncovered some of the things that the media won't talk about it.

00:41:25.000 Conservative media won't even talk about it.

00:41:28.000 How do we put an end to that nonsense once and for all?

00:41:32.000 How do you create that?

00:41:33.000 Obviously, the Senate, it's harder because they have six-year terms.

00:41:36.000 So I think that incoming freshman class of senators, I think they are America first.

00:41:39.000 I think they're MAGA. All those new ones coming in, they're going to be great.

00:41:43.000 But it takes a while to turn over that rhino machine, the Senate, where basically conservatism has gone to die or we're taking on the left, just doesn't stand a chance because it's an easy existence in Washington if you're a milquetoast Republican.

00:41:58.000 Yeah, no, that's a great point.

00:42:00.000 I mean, the unfortunate thing is, as much as I'd love to say there's some magic, you know, fixed solution, you snap your fingers and it's done, it takes time, because the entrenched interests represented by people like, you know, the McConnells and these kinds of things, these people are so deeply embedded.

00:42:19.000 And an ecology within Washington, a dirty, corrupt ecology that's been growing its tentacles, connecting with other things for decades and decades.

00:42:29.000 And this is a whole ecosystem built out from a patronage network of favors upon favors.

00:42:36.000 And it's like it's a whole economy, a whole world.

00:42:40.000 But it's unseen because it's all of, you know, I do a favor for you, you do a favor for me, and all these networks build out, and especially in the position of Senate, over time, that's a very entrenched situation to be in with, unfortunately, a lot of power.

00:42:56.000 And so it takes time to get rid of the old guard And to replicate, not the corruption, but replicate some of the bases and preconditions for that entrenched power so we can repurpose it for good and for the MAGA agenda.

00:43:14.000 The young people are for Trump.

00:43:17.000 That's one of the great lessons that we learned in this election.

00:43:20.000 Young people came out.

00:43:21.000 Young people are into Trump. 0.53

00:43:24.000 And this is a talent pool that can and should be cultivated, probably should be cultivated more systematically.

00:43:31.000 Because again, if we're thinking, you know, Elon's thinking in civilizational terms, in terms of Mars, we should at least be thinking in terms of centuries.

00:43:40.000 And part of that game is identifying and cultivating talent.

00:43:45.000 People who start out as a page in Congress and end up as a chief of staff in the White House, that kind of trajectory, the bad guys, the scum, the swamp, they have a whole infrastructure that is very effective at managing that kind of pipeline. they have a whole infrastructure that is very effective at And the pipeline is not just within government.

00:44:07.000 It's within lobbying organizations.

00:44:09.000 It's within civil society organizations.

00:44:12.000 It's within the constellation of NGO networks.

00:44:16.000 It's within a variety of industries.

00:44:19.000 And all of these things cross-pollinate and work in tandem and in synchronicity to create a very powerful system such that they take care of their own and they're able to exert pressure on those who deviate.

00:44:33.000 And we need an equivalent kind of system to exert pressure because when you're able to put more pressure than the other guy, the cowards aren't a big problem because the cowards are more scared of you.

00:44:45.000 Yeah, well, I mean, I think that was frankly evidenced in, you know, sort of independent media, whether it's the Joe Rogans of the world, perhaps guys like you and me, and a bunch of others who were able to actually take control of some of that narrative and call out the nonsense.

00:44:58.000 But Darren, we have some breaking news, you know, right now.

00:45:02.000 Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has just been nominated to be Attorney General of the United States of America.

00:45:10.000 Pam, obviously, you know, a friend of ours, someone from there from day one, I don't know if you know, Pam, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

00:45:16.000 But this is just breaking news right now.

00:45:19.000 Well, I'm encouraged by the Florida part.

00:45:21.000 I don't have any special insight, but I'll have to look into it.

00:45:25.000 But if you say she's a day one, then I trust that and I have every expectation she'll do a good job.

00:45:34.000 So I think, you know, I hope so.

00:45:36.000 I mean, you know, she's great.

00:45:38.000 She's a good friend.

00:45:39.000 But you're up against some seriously sick people up there. 0.71

00:45:43.000 So you need an absolute animal.

00:45:45.000 So I hope she could rise to that because, you know, that's unfortunately what it's going to take to get anything done. 0.65

00:45:50.000 But Derek, let's talk a little bit about, you know, Revolver News' investigations into the pipe bomb and all of the things that, again, just Totally ignored by the media.

00:46:03.000 What would be the revolver news stories that you want action on from the incoming administration?

00:46:10.000 Obviously the pipe bomb scandal, the insanity around that, how that was allowed to happen, how it magically disappeared, how the evidence of the cover-up, Got erased just by coincidence, just magic, just like, you know, the Mueller text messages between the team.

00:46:25.000 All of these things just magically disappeared, like the January 6th investigation hoax stuff, all just gone.

00:46:32.000 Seems a little suspect.

00:46:34.000 What are some of the revolver news stories that you'd want to see, you know, actionable items from this investigation, from this administration to really figure out and get to the bottom of what's going on?

00:46:46.000 Absolutely.

00:46:46.000 That's a great question.

00:46:48.000 And the thing is, it's so tantalizing because we're so close.

00:46:52.000 We're basically at the state of the investigation now, where we're in the very endgame.

00:46:59.000 I don't know if you saw or the audience knows, but for the benefit of the audience, basically, The FBI was caught in a lie.

00:47:08.000 They told Stephen D'Antuono, who was the former head of the Washington Field Office, he told the Judiciary Committee, and this alone is kind of ridiculous, but he was asked by Thomas Massey, who's done a great job at Basically taking our reporting and using his position in Congress.

00:47:25.000 Basically, Massey and Matt Gaetz have been the two who have really taken our research to the next level through their purchase in Congress.

00:47:33.000 And Massey asked DeAntuono, he said, did you guys use geofencing capabilities in order to identify this pipe bomber?

00:47:43.000 And D'Antuono's answer was, we attempted to do so, but the information we got from the telecom company was corrupted, and so we were not able to use it.

00:47:55.000 Now, first of all, that's totally disingenuous because You don't just go to telecom companies for geofencing data.

00:48:04.000 There are multiple sources.

00:48:06.000 In fact, the documented cases of the DOJ and its aggressive sort of dragnet efforts to imprison anyone who was within a 10-yard radius of the Capitol They did use geofencing aggressively, but they used it from Google.

00:48:22.000 Google actually has the most reliable and easy geofencing that was preferred by law enforcement.

00:48:29.000 And so he wasn't even asked about, did you even bother to use Google like anyone else?

00:48:35.000 No question, no answer about that.

00:48:37.000 There are third party data vendors that also supply that and would absolutely supply that To law enforcement.

00:48:45.000 Evidently, they didn't try that either.

00:48:47.000 But the third domino to fall is it turns out they lied about the telecom data being corrupt.

00:48:55.000 And actually, there is fully intact telecom data.

00:48:58.000 And so that's something that is sitting within the FBI at this very moment that a cooperative attorney general or cooperative head of the FBI would absolutely be in a position to reveal.

00:49:11.000 We know that there are two Agents on this case who are without question part of the cover-up of this case, their identities are being covered up, but it would be the easiest thing in the world if somebody running the FBI or running the DOJ were willing to cooperate.

00:49:32.000 There are certain other aspects of the investigation such that we're at the very end stage.

00:49:38.000 We know it was a cover-up.

00:49:39.000 We know the FBI found out who it was probably in mid-2022.

00:49:46.000 Whoever it was was something that would be very embarrassing to the government, and they initiated a cover-up.

00:49:53.000 They deleted all of their surveillance footage.

00:49:55.000 We know that because another agency was attempting to investigate this, and they couldn't even go to the FBI to watch the footage.

00:50:03.000 They had to go somewhere else.

00:50:06.000 Because the FBI had deleted this footage in an ostensibly active investigation, which was to the public, they said, one of the highest priorities.

00:50:16.000 So the general position here is We're at the very end stages.

00:50:22.000 There are a few things like what I just mentioned that are absolutely concrete, very specific things, information that we know is housed within these departments, that a cooperative attorney general and FBI director would be in a position to provide and reveal.

00:50:41.000 And the implications of this, it's important because, you know, I don't want people to think this isn't a down in the weeds sort of pet project thing.

00:50:49.000 This is a scandal of monumental proportions.

00:50:52.000 It's a cover-up that implicates the FBI, the ATF, the Capitol Police, the Secret Service, and God knows where else that would lead.

00:51:03.000 Remember the video that was exposed of the Secret Service standing around totally lackadaisical when the bomb was discovered?

00:51:12.000 They clearly knew it was fake in advance.

00:51:15.000 That was none other than President-elect Kamala Harris' detail, by the way.

00:51:21.000 And Kamala Harris has not said a word about this issue, despite, as we've pointed out before, all political advantage she'd have from milking the issue by saying, I was almost killed by the MAGA pipe bomb.

00:51:34.000 Not a word about it.

00:51:35.000 And there's no way she wouldn't take advantage of it, even if it was a hoax.

00:51:39.000 So that's how bad it has to actually be if you dug a little bit below the surface.

00:51:44.000 We've got FBI, ATF, Secret Service, DOJ, so many different organizations, possibly all the way up to Kamala Harris.

00:51:55.000 And the importance of this is not just exonerating the people in prison falsely on the base of this insurrection narrative.

00:52:02.000 It's not just knocking out a major pillar of attack that the left has used all the way up through this election to go after Trump, not just knocking down a major pretext the government used to weaponize its resources against Trump supporters, but it's also, again, a necessary part of that Airing of crimes that needs to take place before we can restore legitimacy in institutions.

00:52:29.000 We cannot be a successful country unless people have faith in our law enforcement institutions, have faith in the FBI, have faith in a variety of our bureaucracies.

00:52:42.000 As long as people now with We cannot be a successful country.

00:52:53.000 We cannot be a free country.

00:52:55.000 So, related to all of that, what needs to happen at FBI, ATF, Secret Service, DOJ, are the answers to all of this, Sandy, are they in FBI HQ and we just need the right people in there?

00:53:09.000 Did they burn the books totally?

00:53:13.000 What should the future of the FBI look like to you?

00:53:17.000 Well, I mean, more specifically in relation to this investigation, I'm sure they deleted and burned and threw away a lot of stuff.

00:53:23.000 But given the nature of what the situation is, there's enough of a trail that we can find out what we need to find out if we have someone cooperative.

00:53:32.000 As for the more bird's eye I mean, that's a more difficult question.

00:53:38.000 We had a major piece at Revolver News laying out the things that then prospective Attorney General Matt Gaetz can do, but this new person can absolutely do this with the creativity and the same amount of energy.

00:53:52.000 All of these things are a great example.

00:53:54.000 I'll just give you a couple examples so people can understand just the full capacities of a department like that.

00:54:00.000 You could set up a First Amendment task force Within the DOJ to coordinate all activity related to the First Amendment and crimes against the First Amendment, such that were released in the Twitter files.

00:54:13.000 Another, just to give you a sample, one creative little idea.

00:54:17.000 You can, I don't want to say weaponized, but you can expand the scope of the False Claims Act.

00:54:23.000 This is a little known act that dates back to the Civil War, but basically it gives potential whistleblowers standing to basically expose fraudulent activity against the government.

00:54:37.000 And if money is recovered on the basis of that exposure, the whistleblower gets a cut of the money.

00:54:43.000 I love that because I could see that being useful not just at the FBI. I could see the door kickers, the actual patriots doing a lot with that.

00:54:49.000 But I could also see huge gains in the military, you know, going after the brass that have destroyed our military, that have killed recruitment, that have wasted money on countless insane things.

00:55:02.000 I mean, I think this is something that we could blow up and expand at great lengths and give those people a platform to talk about just how ridiculous it's gotten. 0.53

00:55:11.000 One hundred percent.

00:55:12.000 And you could even apply it to, for instance, universities.

00:55:15.000 Universities claim they're following the law and not engaging in racial discrimination.

00:55:20.000 And on that basis, they're receiving federal grants.

00:55:22.000 We can give whistleblowers this so-called key TAM authority.

00:55:28.000 They can claim a bounty.

00:55:29.000 There are things like this down the board.

00:55:32.000 FERRA, for instance.

00:55:34.000 A lot of these censorship organizations are working in connection with and conjunction with European-based think tanks.

00:55:43.000 And we learned this recently.

00:55:45.000 A lot of the censorship organizations are coming out of the UK, including the ones going after Elon.

00:55:51.000 So why not use FERRA To go after the people who are working on behalf of these foreign countries. 0.89

00:55:59.000 Why does it always have to be about Russia?

00:56:01.000 If the UK government is affiliated with organizations interfering in our politics and promoting censorship in our country, why not go after them similarly?

00:56:14.000 And in fact, just one last important point on that.

00:56:18.000 There are probably six to ten absolutely critical positions that are not prominent, and everyone knows them, but there are six to ten critical positions that pertain to free speech and geopolitics and diplomacy.

00:56:33.000 And unless we fill those appropriately in a way that they can all be synchronized and coordinated, We're not going to be in good shape.

00:56:41.000 If we have good people in those positions, what we can do is really go after Europe, the UK, Germany, because this is going to be the new locus of censorship now that there's a new sheriff in town in the United States.

00:56:57.000 So I would strongly recommend that as well.

00:57:00.000 Who are the chief villains, whether it be in the pipe bomb story or otherwise?

00:57:04.000 Who are the names that people need to know that need to be looked at?

00:57:08.000 Who are the ones that perhaps aren't as well known?

00:57:11.000 Well, that's a great question.

00:57:13.000 There are some names, unfortunately, I can't say right now, but we have publicly identified with extreme confidence one person that I'm 100% convinced is a key player in the cover-up, and he happens to be none other than the Head of Dignitary Protection at the Capitol Police.

00:57:31.000 His name is Ashen Benedict.

00:57:34.000 He is currently in charge of protection at the Capitol Police.

00:57:39.000 We have a long piece on him and There's unfinished business there, but there are others that have yet to be exposed.

00:57:49.000 But, you know, we don't throw around names recklessly.

00:57:53.000 Yeah.

00:57:54.000 I say Ash and Benedict, there is a long receipt behind that, which we've published.

00:58:00.000 He is a person that I'm absolutely confident has played a critical role in the pipe bomb cover-up, and he's not wallowing in obscurity.

00:58:10.000 He's the current head of Dignitary Protection at the Capitol Police.

00:58:14.000 That's a little scary.

00:58:15.000 Darren, talk to me a little bit about, you know, what we saw this week.

00:58:19.000 The Biden administration and Democrats giving Ukraine weapons that can't just fight back against, you know, the oncoming Russians, but could actually strike very long range, very far away into the heart of Russia, as in Moscow.

00:58:38.000 What do you think, given the mandate of November 5th, That that level of escalation could possibly mean.

00:58:46.000 I mean, I can't think of a possible good outcome when the American public clearly wants peace, that you would create this level of escalation, that you'd give this corrupted regime that kind of capability against, you know, the world's largest holder of nuclear warheads.

00:59:04.000 I think it's extremely dangerous and concerning.

00:59:07.000 As you see, Putin has done his part in matching that escalatory action on his side as well.

00:59:16.000 These things are very delicate once you kind of catalyze this escalatory spiral.

00:59:23.000 The only potential silver lining, which I think, again, is maybe not worth it when weighed against the danger and uncertainty of an escalatory spiral, is that by doing this approval, that potentially is a leverage point that could be utilized in peace negotiations because Russia is doing very well.

00:59:45.000 They don't want to give up any territory.

00:59:47.000 So you could say, you know, what's in it for them to come to the table?

00:59:53.000 Taking away these long-term missiles that Biden foolishly and recklessly put on the table, that could actually be an instrument of leverage in the negotiations to come.

01:00:05.000 I don't think that value outweighs the volatility that's been introduced by this action, but it's something that perhaps Could be used to advantage in the negotiations to come.

01:00:19.000 I was very encouraged.

01:00:21.000 I think one of the great debate moments, not as great as the Rosie O'Donnell moment, but it's up there, is when Trump was asked, do you want Ukraine to win the war?

01:00:31.000 And his answer was, I want the war to end.

01:00:35.000 And I think that was such a perfect answer.

01:00:38.000 Well, he actually said, I want to stop the death, which would kind of be a nice one, too.

01:00:43.000 I mean, I guess, Jared, you know, I've said this a lot, and it seems, you know, even more clear.

01:00:49.000 I've said that the Ukraine funding looks like the biggest money laundering operation perhaps in history.

01:00:55.000 You know, kick back to big war, the military industrial complex, however you want to look at it.

01:00:59.000 Do we need a special task force or a special counsel to audit that alone?

01:01:05.000 I mean, if the Pentagon keeps failing their audits, if they're losing $250 billion, you know, casually every time, do we need a special task force to look into that insanity?

01:01:14.000 Because I don't know how that continues.

01:01:16.000 And it's clear to me that this has never been on the up and up.

01:01:19.000 Well, they're literally like trillions of dollars unaccounted for in the Pentagon.

01:01:24.000 And I was encouraged to see Vivek and Elon sort of publicly acknowledge this, especially given their new sort of imprimatur within Doge.

01:01:35.000 And I fully expect, you know, Secretary Hegseth to be very interested in getting to the bottom of this as well.

01:01:45.000 So whatever the mechanism, I mean, people We simply cannot fathom the amount of waste going on through our, not just the military industrial complex writ large, but just the Pentagon itself is an insane amount of waste.

01:02:00.000 And that's the other side of the story of all this funding is, you know, Only a percentage of funny is actually going to Ukraine.

01:02:08.000 A huge chunk of it is going to Raytheon and Boeing.

01:02:15.000 I've had Republicans call me, hey, Don, stop criticizing that.

01:02:18.000 It's going back to America and they're building missiles. 0.84

01:02:21.000 I'm like, now I get that.

01:02:23.000 Why don't we build cars instead of missiles? 0.96

01:02:25.000 Right.

01:02:26.000 You know, our only manufactured product built in America shouldn't be missiles.

01:02:30.000 You know, we need it for protection, but we need it for peace through strength, not so that we can keep lobbing them in there and having a never ending cycle of spend, you know, killing people who have no idea what victory even looks like in a war that no one can understand.

01:02:46.000 You know, one of my more cynical observations is, okay, if the swamp is going to get the money, why don't we just have Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed just have their accountants Calculate how much money they would make from a war.

01:03:05.000 Yeah, write them a check.

01:03:06.000 Give them the money and not have the war.

01:03:08.000 Yeah, that'd be nice.

01:03:10.000 I guess it was on Monday, I had a former speaker that has Newt Gingrich on, and we learned that Boeing was upcharging the Air Force 8,000%.

01:03:20.000 8,000% for things like soap dispensers and coffee makers.

01:03:25.000 And that's exactly why we need Doge.

01:03:29.000 The Department of Government Efficiency.

01:03:31.000 I have a feeling if Elon can do what he's doing in space and with cars and with Neuralink and with the Boring Company, he's a guy that could figure out the trillions of dollars that we're wasting on absolute insanity.

01:03:45.000 No.

01:03:45.000 The thing is, with Elon, he has demonstrated follow through.

01:03:49.000 He's not someone who's just going to take it superficially and go with something else.

01:03:54.000 Nobody runs that many successful companies.

01:03:58.000 He is an absolute master when it comes to the efficient allocation of capital.

01:04:04.000 And so if anyone can do this doge dot, and it wasn't just like a consolation job given to him. 0.92

01:04:10.000 It was a job that he specifically requested.

01:04:13.000 Yeah.

01:04:13.000 So I have a lot of confidence and optimism in relation to his ability.

01:04:19.000 I mean, even if he cuts two trillion as opposed to four trillion, two trillion is still a huge number and well worth it.

01:04:26.000 So I'm very encouraged by what he's doing.

01:04:30.000 Yeah, honestly, of all of the things that we have, of all of the opportunities, just shedding light on some of that, to me, you know, maybe, you know, the number one thing that we could possibly do for our country, because once people realize how ridiculous it is, I think there'll be a lot more pushback, there'll be forced, you know, accountability, there'll be an actual reckoning, and hopefully we won't ever get back to that point again.

01:04:52.000 But I guess, you know, the big picture is here is that All of these departments, whether it's the DOJ, the Pentagon, the VA, or whatever, it's all been one big scam.

01:05:01.000 It's pervasive.

01:05:03.000 It's maddening.

01:05:04.000 And once Americans get some exposure in full view of what exactly is going on, they are going to be absolutely enraged.

01:05:13.000 100%.

01:05:13.000 It's important to understand.

01:05:15.000 So there's areas of government that are simply poisonous and pernicious, like the counter-extremism working group, stuff that's really actively poisonous.

01:05:25.000 Then there's a huge category of things that's just wasteful, that we need to get our economy correct, get our budget in order, set ourselves on the course to actually be a successful country throughout the century.

01:05:40.000 But there's another element, which is Cutting all of these things, you're also cutting out, gets to something we brought up early in our conversation, you're cutting out the left's patronage networks.

01:05:52.000 Like, people don't understand, like, all of these fake work jobs, the utility of the fake work job is you have A constituency that reliably votes for the party of government because they have a fake job given to them by the government.

01:06:07.000 And the significance of this sort of demographic is far greater than I think people really imagine.

01:06:16.000 And you're going to start to see what that really means once there's significant cuts that people will start complaining about it and people are going to say, oh my God, I had no idea that There's millions of people who simply make their living, make their middle class living off of fake government jobs to the detriment of the American taxpayer.

01:06:40.000 Yeah, it's just it's one big kickback after another.

01:06:43.000 So, yeah, it has to stop.

01:06:45.000 It has to stop.

01:06:46.000 I mean, they don't even want to go into work anymore.

01:06:48.000 They take office space and they show up.

01:06:51.000 They have to be there one day a month in some of these organizations.

01:06:53.000 One day a month.

01:06:53.000 They show up for the last day.

01:06:55.000 Of the first month and the first day of the next month, and then they basically have a two-month vacation.

01:07:00.000 I imagine they're working other jobs.

01:07:02.000 I imagine they are billing.

01:07:05.000 They are taking advantage.

01:07:06.000 And you're right, it's just a patronage network.

01:07:08.000 It's kickback after kickback, so it's got to stop.

01:07:12.000 But Darren, thank you for all that you're doing.

01:07:15.000 Guys, make sure you're checking out Revolver News.

01:07:18.000 They're covering a lot of things that no one else is going to touch.

01:07:21.000 The mainstream media isn't going to cover.

01:07:23.000 Follow Darren.

01:07:24.000 He's got great insight into these things.

01:07:25.000 So Darren, thank you so much for being here.

01:07:28.000 As always, always great to have you.

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