In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and long-time supporter, Alex Castellanos, to talk about his experience as a journalist and how he came to believe in the system. We talk about how the system has been broken for a long time, and how we need to fix it. We also talk about the recent events that have taken place in the past week, and why we should all be worried about what s going on in our own country. I hope you enjoy this episode, and if you do, please share it with a friend who needs to know that they are not alone. Tweet me if you have any thoughts or suggestions on how we can fix the system, and we'll get right to it! Timestamps: 3:00 - What do you believe in? 4:30 - How do you feel about the way the system is run? 5:20 - Why do we have a broken system? 6 - What should we do about it? 7 - What s the next step? 8 - How should we fix it 9 - What is the best thing we can do? 10 - How can we fix the problem? 11 - Is it possible? 12 - What does it matter? 13 - What are we going to do to fix this? 14 - Why are we fighting for change? 15 - Why is it so important? 16 - What can we do now? 17 - What's the best way to fix the problems we're fighting for? 18 - What kind of government? 19 - How much of a system we can we have? 21 - How many of us have a chance to do it better? 22 - Should we be allowed to speak up? 25 - What we should we have in the first place? 26 - Is there a place for us to have a say in the process? 27 - What would you like to see in the next episode? 24 - How will we know what we should do in the future? 29 - Is this a good thing? 30 - What will we learn from it's going to be a better than the past? 32 - How is it's better than what we're going to get? 35 - How does it get better than that? 31 - How are we gonna get there? 36 - Can we be more?
00:06:44.000Again, I don't think there's anything they wouldn't do.
00:06:47.000I mean, you put out something, I think it was on Twitter yesterday, which was sort of that extreme, like, well, if they can't get Trump this way, what's the next level?
00:06:53.000And I think they've proven that they'll do that in the past.
00:07:12.000And, you know, for me, I still even when we started this process, even I'd say it's safe to say I was probably the number two target of Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:07:20.000And I was like, well, there must be something to it.
00:07:23.000I know I didn't obviously collude with Russia, but maybe, you know, maybe I took a selfie with an agent once because I took 10,000 selfies a day.
00:07:50.000I gave the door kickers a pass for far too long, which is like, hey, you know, they can't go against the leadership, but like, When you're watching this kind of bastardization of justice, when you're watching this sort of lopsided level, when they spend more time kicking down the doors of an Amish farmer selling unpasteurized milk than actually going after people committing terror because they're trans or whatever it is that they are.
00:08:16.000You really lose that ability to get that pass that I really wanted them to give, but I wanted to believe that everything I grew up believing was accurate, and it's all bullshit.
00:08:26.000It's just all bullshit, so we have to fix that.
00:08:29.000That's why we fight now, to actually make it so.
00:08:33.000I mean, I know that Joe Scarborough and the rest of the liars presented those people as, like, insurrectionists and dangerous.
00:08:40.000They were actually the most pure-hearted and the most naive about the... I mean, they were literally walking with pocket constitutions saying, no, you can't do this.
00:08:49.000They believed in the system much more than the people who put them in prison who don't believe in it at all.
00:09:19.000But you saw it in them, like, they could hardly believe this was happening.
00:09:23.000And I think you're describing the same thing, like you really believed it in our institutions, in our norms, and democracy.
00:09:31.000I did, and it took, again, I mean, literally threats of, you know, you're going to jail for treason, a crime punishable by death.
00:09:38.000That's like not a great swing thought when you're going through it, you know what I mean?
00:09:41.000I'm like, wait a minute, like... If you're the father of five kids, that's not... And yet I still, at the beginning of it, I was like, and then it just Your eyes start to open and you see the games and you see the people that are on your side and you see the, you know, the Lindsey Grahams of the world, right?
00:09:55.000They get on TV and they're on, you know, Fox or something like that and they're like, well, we must subpoena these people and we must get to the bottom of this.
00:10:02.000I'm like, well, you're like the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:10:05.000Like, you have the authority to do that.
00:10:09.000But you're talking about doing the thing that you have the authority to do, but you're unwilling to actually exercise that power.
00:10:15.000So that was what disgusted me most about the Republicans.
00:10:19.000You're telling your base, the people who are watching, you're fighting.
00:10:24.000But you know damn well that you're not actually fighting.
00:10:37.000There's nothing they won't do to preserve power.
00:10:39.000We'll write a strongly worded memo and do nothing to follow up.
00:10:44.000And I think as long as you have that sort of imbalance in the response.
00:10:49.000Nothing changes, because, you know, the Democrats, they'll take their win, they'll run to the bank, they'll laugh their ass off along the way, and nothing changes until we actually start fighting back.
00:10:58.000I think a lot of people yesterday, when that verdict came down, I'm among them, my first reaction was, wow, they'll actually hurt us.
00:11:05.000Like, they would execute us, me, I'll just speak for myself, and there would be an MSNBC panel of former federal prosecutors telling their audience that I deserved it, and they'd be laughing, and the Lincoln Project would send out a You know, congratulatory tweet, and I was like, wow, there's sort of a lack of humanity, there's a coldness, there's an evil under all of this that I think I underestimate.
00:12:00.000If I'm pissed off at the grocery store, like, you know, I'm not like one of these woke guys on one of these channels where it's like, my three-month-old baby was talking about nuclear proliferation on the Carilion Peninsula, Tucker, and she was crying.
00:12:18.000But like, if I'm sitting there with sticker shock, Like, what's the country feeling?
00:12:22.000You know, if I see what's going on in my interest rates and my mortgage, like, man, how much longer can we do this?
00:12:28.000Then you talk about wars and trillions of dollars of spending, and then the Republicans are telling us that, you know, the Ukraine is the number one most important issue for Republicans across our country.
00:12:36.000I've heard that from Mitch McConnell dozens of times.
00:13:15.000And one of them, it was top ten, but not top three.
00:13:17.000And I said, sir, you know, and I'll ask him, I don't care, you know, I want to hear it out.
00:13:19.000Like, why is, well, I'm from Kiev, Ukraine.
00:13:22.000I was like, I'm going to give you a pass.
00:13:23.000So I'm going to effectively say out of about 65,000 people surveyed in the last, you know, let's call it two years, 18 months, whatever it is since the war started, a little more, I guess, uh, exactly, you know, basically zero people have been in favor of this, but the leader of the Senate will tell us it's the number one issue for Republicans across the country.
00:14:40.000So both of us have sort of skipped ahead past an analysis of the case and sort of taking it as a given that what we saw yesterday was grotesque and really sort of the end of a fair justice system.
00:14:52.000But for people who've just heard that and not...
00:14:55.000gotten some of the details that prove it to be true.
00:14:58.000Can you just run through what the case was?
00:15:01.000I mean, it's literally... You know too much, I know, but to the extent you can... How much time we got?
00:15:06.000But, Luria, it's a books and records thing, right?
00:15:13.000And yet, it's something that was never before tried as a felony, like many of the other cases.
00:15:17.000Like, you know, one of the cases in New York where they literally, they changed New York state law to be able to, for one year, They changed the law for one year to be able to go back and change a statute of limitations so that you could go after my father.
00:15:30.000And then after that year, after that is filed, and they go after my father.
00:15:39.000This was a case that was, you know, at best, misdemeanor type stuff.
00:15:43.000Remember, Hillary Clinton started with a similar thing.
00:15:47.000She got fined $8,000, I believe it was, for starting what was the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax with the Steele dossier leaks and all of this, right?
00:15:56.000They want to put my father in jail for, you know, Upwards of 100 years, depending on how you look at it, and that's never been done before in these things, because basically someone in an accounting department put legal expenses for, you know, paying a lawyer.
00:16:11.000It's unheard of, but you have experts when they say, well, it's a federal election crime.
00:16:17.000They wouldn't let the person who wrote the rules Like, wrote them, is the foremost expert in all of that, actually testify for us.
00:16:25.000The jury didn't have to be unanimous on the things that they charged.
00:16:27.000They just all had to sort of come to a general, okay, four guys agreed on this, and four people agreed on that, and four... That's unanimous.
00:16:33.000The bastardization of all of this thing, and just having been in the courtroom, candidly, was watching, you know, when the prosecution, you know, objected to something that we said.
00:16:44.000They let them, you know, just, we couldn't ask anything.
00:16:47.000When it was us asking the questions, the uncomfortable questions of their witnesses, all of a sudden, you know, we were overruled every time.
00:16:56.000So you've made the case, and others who followed it carefully have made the case, This was a direct hit from the Biden administration, and they point to a man called Matthew Colangelo.
00:17:43.000The IRS could have done these things because it was a tax thing.
00:17:46.000All of them chose to pass, including, again, Alvin Bragg, the guy who's trying it and just tried it right now, passed on this a couple years ago.
00:17:52.000Biden's number three at his DOJ comes up, and all of a sudden, now, they're filing the charges, conveniently right before an election.
00:18:55.000Two, if the judge was literally a Biden donor and donating to, among other things, like the Stop Trump effort, which I think was one of them.
00:19:34.000It's pure and simple political persecution.
00:19:37.000They're going after, there's nothing that they won't do to stop Trump.
00:19:41.000And I understand now, with years of experience in the White House, I think, you know, going in as a novice was great in many ways, but you also don't know who the snakes are, you don't know who the people who are going to actually help you and be sort of loyal to the cause, and that causes, you know, being the duly elected President of the United States, doing the things you said you would do, versus doing what the swamp wants, Well, and also, if you're going to kill the king, you better kill the king.
00:20:57.000He knew the celebrities would go, but he knew that and he did it anyway.
00:21:01.000I think after 2020, he understood that if he just went home, he could go play golf and go back to building buildings and making millions and getting paid to give speeches and stuff like that.
00:21:14.000I gotta think a lot of people are looking back to four years ago and reaching the conclusion, well, if they'll rig a trial, they'll probably rig an election.
00:21:23.000I think, you know, the reality is, you know, what I see, you know, on the ground, the amount of people from the demographics that probably have never voted Republican before, that are just, you know, grabbing me at airports or like even walking down the streets, you know, in New York the other day, it's...
00:21:41.000I mean, I did a, for example, you know, I was one of the most out there people in terms of rallies and campaigns doing my own thing in 16 and 20.
00:21:48.000I think just for example, October of 2020, I think I did 104 rallies in that month.
00:21:54.000So like four a day for a month straight, like I I'm on the ground, you know, the energy in 2020 was better than even 16 amazingly enough, but they, they had that ability to weaponize COVID and all of that stuff.
00:22:06.000Uh, It's so much stronger right now, and we're still six months out.
00:22:10.000That doesn't mean they won't do, you know, again, I don't even pretend to think that, hey, it's gonna be fair, and they're not gonna cheat, and they're not... I used to probably think that, hey, there's only so far they can go.
00:22:20.000Like, how, you know, they're gonna roll this guy over the line in a gurney and, you know, pretend he's... Because I used to think they actually had Maybe a little bit of shame, but that's not actually at all true.
00:24:13.000In 2016, Mike Lee and I almost got in a fistfight on the convention floor.
00:24:18.000We were very different, but he's a guy that I text with Probably daily.
00:24:22.000And so it's interesting that, you know, once you actually have that relationship, you can actually, people come around and it's like, okay, you were actually right.
00:24:28.000Well, people change on the basis of evidence and what they see.
00:25:22.000These days, it's Vladimir Zelensky, the high priest of Ukraine, which is apparently the number one issue for Republicans across the country, but I've not yet seen that anywhere.
00:25:31.000But those are the people they choose to be their deities, and everything follows that path until they burn out, flame out, or get exposed for what they really are.
00:25:40.000How can you run a presidential campaign when you're Fighting multiple legal battles, criminal... Well, I mean, that's by design, right?
00:26:43.000Break through the noise put out there by the mainstream media.
00:26:48.000Break through the noise and sort of the manipulation of big tech.
00:26:53.000Those are trillion-dollar industries that are functioning as the marketing department for today's Democrat Party.
00:27:00.000And, you know, to be able to single-handedly sort of break some of those walls down, you know, I mean, I felt like if I was in charge of that, if I was in charge of the Democrats, we'd be winning elections 99.9 to .01, you know?
00:27:17.000You know, I think our messaging is there, and I think it's really important.
00:27:20.000Perhaps, honestly, the stuff that they've done to my father, our family, perhaps it's the most important thing to happen to America in recent history in that It's exposed just how bad it is.
00:28:48.000So the evolution of that is making it harder.
00:28:53.000In 16, 17, 18, when I was starting to get censored by, let's call it Twitter 1.0, They're like, well, how do you know you're being censored?
00:28:58.000I was like, well, because yesterday, I got 7,500 retweets on a post.
00:29:10.000And it's like, when it goes big for about 30 seconds, and then it's like, you see exactly what they're doing.
00:29:17.000But they're coming up with better ways to make it appear as though they're not censoring while While still, you know, continuing to perpetuate and push, you know, the ideals that they espouse and value.
00:29:29.000No one interfered in the last election more than Mark Zuckerberg.
00:29:36.000But let me ask you, the convictions come down, 34 yesterday, and your father goes out there and just basically raises the middle finger and says, we're going to win anyway.
00:29:46.000And within hours, Benning Thompson of Mississippi, who's a monster Democratic congressman, introduces legislation to pull a Secret Service.
00:29:56.000So basically they're saying, OK, we'll kill you now.
00:30:38.000If we did something similar, we'd be We'd be blocked, we'd be off of every platform, we'd be canceled, and, you know, again, different games.
00:30:48.000We're playing two very, very different games.
00:31:06.000Well, look at what they did with some of the justices, the Supreme Court justices, right?
00:31:10.000You think that they'd be able to do what they've done to even, I mean, Alito even this week, you know, we're gonna make him recuse himself because his wife hung a flag upside down.
00:31:17.000It's like, well, you know, she can't express an opinion.
00:31:20.000What they've tried to do to Clarence Thomas, what they did as it relates to Gorsuch and others.
00:31:27.000If they did that to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if they were picketing in front of their house like they did to Amy Klobuchar, that would be a serious problem.
00:33:07.000You can have mid-double-digit IQ and be like, of course it came from the place that studies the exact virus in question that was at ground zero of where it released and not from four feet outside of that.
00:33:21.000It's insane, and yet, think of the truly intelligent people in positions of power in medicine and otherwise, who went along with this blindly, because, you know, it was easier to do, and, you know, there was a lot of money, and, you know, it's not going to pass up on those things.
00:33:36.000I mean, everything that's happened... This isn't all that long ago, I mean... Right, but at this point, I do think at this point, if you're still telling yourself those lies, you are lying to yourself, you are a liar.
00:33:44.000But it doesn't matter, they correct it years later, but they got what they needed out of The ruse, right?
00:33:55.000And they'll make it the gospel for six months or, you know, they always said, you know, the difference between the truth and the conspiracy theory is six months.
00:34:01.000You know, now it's like six minutes, but they'll still get what they want out of that six minutes.
00:34:05.000Use it to manipulate whatever they need to.
00:34:06.000And, you know, I don't see that stopping.
00:34:08.000I see more people being Awake to it, right?
00:34:11.000That six months moved to six minutes because people are not just blindly buying the BS anymore.
00:34:17.000So how does it play out from here over the next five months?
00:34:19.000I mean, they tried to put him in prison.
00:34:21.000They're still... Do you think he... We've got to overwhelm the margin of fraud.
00:34:24.000So it's... Wait, it's... Just to ask, it's July 11th, the sentencing.
00:34:28.000Yeah, by the way, you think that's a coincidence?
00:34:30.000That's four days before the Republican National Convention.
00:34:33.000You think that's a coincidental timing or do you think that's designed to, you know, throw a wrench I mean, yet another coincidence, right?
00:35:31.000Each one of these things wouldn't stand.
00:35:34.000If we did this to, meaning conservatives, some sort of Republican did this to Obama, It would never end.
00:35:42.000It would be a perpetual story, and rightfully so.
00:35:45.000And yet, like, hey, as long as it's against a conservative, as long as it's against Trump, who's up against that machine, we're gonna allow these things to happen.
00:35:51.000It's not like one of these things doesn't have any serious hair on it, right?
00:35:56.000They're all shady as hell, and yet it doesn't matter.
00:35:58.000And our mainstream media almost refuses to cover it.
00:36:10.000The former president of the United States is not allowed to talk about the facts of the case because, you know, if people actually heard that from him, they'd realize just how much, you know, BS is in all of these things.
00:36:29.000I mean, if they can do it to arguably one of the most, you know, out there, most powerful people in the world, A bank account to be able to fight, a base to push it, venues to be a soapbox to speak from.
00:36:43.000If they can do it to him, who can't they do it to?
00:36:46.000But more importantly, if they will so flagrantly and so corruptly do it to him, Who won't they do it to?
00:36:53.000I mean, that's the question we have to be asking.
00:37:03.000That's what you've got out of this last eight years?
00:37:05.000But if they put the Republican candidate who was leading in the polls, all things equal, he becomes president again in November.
00:37:11.000If they put him in jail right before the Republican convention on fake charges stemming from a rigged trial, They're kind of pushing violence, aren't they?
00:37:25.000How do they expect you to respond to that?
00:37:27.000Nothing like that has ever happened in American history.
00:37:28.000In the reality, you have to be careful even how you talk about that, right?
00:37:34.000But, you know, again, nothing should surprise us, right?
00:37:37.000The star witness of this case is someone who lied before every branch of Congress, was disbarred, lied to banks, lied to wives, lied to the press, but we're expected to believe that he actually told the truth in this one instance, right?
00:37:49.000That's who they hang their hat on because it doesn't matter.
00:37:52.000When it's rigged the way it is, it doesn't matter.
00:37:54.000We're moving toward something ugly and I don't want that.
00:38:25.000That's perhaps the thing that's most important to me.
00:38:27.000Frankly, there's a component of me that I don't want to win the presidency if we don't have Congress in the Senate because I'll probably be up on charges again and we'll get to go through impeachment, you know, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, you know, for the next four years.
00:38:41.000And, you know, I don't think that's a great place to be.
00:38:44.000You know, apathy has caused us a lot of problems, especially on the conservative side, where, hey, we run businesses, and we do these sorts of things, and, you know, we want to spend time with our families, and all noble things are important, but we have to take the initiative to get involved at every level of these things, because the left has taken over every major institution in our country that controls.
00:39:03.000I mean, what they've done in education, manipulating our children, what they've done in entertainment, oftentimes the same thing.
00:39:12.000It can't stand if we actually want to have a future.
00:39:15.000You know, our kids, they graduate, there's high schools with 100 districts, you know, no one can read or do math, but, you know, they know the 4,376 genders.
00:39:21.000And I imagine since this interview started, there's probably another 15 that I haven't included that, so I don't want to be labeled as, you know, whatever, a gender bigot by not including them, but that's the last I've been able to keep track of.
00:39:54.000I mean, there are tech VC guys, respected guys, Hillary donors, and even probably Biden donors that are like, OK, I've seen enough.
00:40:04.000Um, you know, stroking, you know, six and seven figure checks now because, you know, I think people who are watching closely enough truly understand, uh, Just how far we have fallen.
00:40:17.000Just how close we are, perhaps, to that, you know, fulcrum point where there's a point of no return, right?
00:40:23.000And I think if we ever let it get there, you know, there's no question in my mind that the Democrat elite, they'd maintain and seize that power and, you know, it'll happen like all sort of, you know, communist nations.
00:41:43.000Do you think, since you, last question, but it's just, and I may be skipping ahead, but I don't think we're far from, well, we're at war with Russia.
00:41:51.000If we're targeting... That whistleblower talking about the boots on the ground, I mean, like, I've never seen a whistleblower disappear that fast in my life.
00:42:37.000And if you don't believe in those things and you understand that you're going to be vilified, you're gonna be forced to not learn how to shoot, but do diversity training, Why on earth would you do that?
00:42:46.000And that's the problem they're facing.
00:42:48.000And so, you know, the one solution was take illegal aliens and put them in the military.
00:42:54.000Or flood our borders and, you know, put them in the voting roster.
00:42:58.000And that's another way to make a power because you've lost other demographics that were reliable voters.
00:43:02.000But they're also talking about the draft.
00:43:21.000Is it just perpetual death of Ukrainians and Russians until they're all wiped out and Blackrock comes in there and takes over all the farmland?
00:43:53.000Honestly, the metric I use for this is not just the recruitment numbers, but the amount of guys that I know, you know, I shoot a lot and whatever, the circles are tight, that are like fourth generation army.
00:44:05.000They're like, I would beat the crap out of my son if he decided to, like, these are guys that, you know, their entire ethos is around that military background.
00:44:12.000They are great friends and they're like, they wouldn't even think about it.
00:44:16.000They'd disown their children if they joined this military today.