“Controlling The Narrative”- The Atlantic’s Signal Chat EXPOSES Trump’s War Strategy Against Houthis
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Trump officials text war plans to a group chat on a secure app that includes a journalist, which is kind of weird right? This is a story that comes out yesterday, and they were all over the place talking about this.
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This is the Trump officials text war plans to a group chat on a secure app that includes a
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journalist, which is kind of weird, right? This is a story that comes out yesterday
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and they were all over the place talking about this. I'll read this to you in a wrap. Let's
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play a couple of clips. Top Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hexet,
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Vice President J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and National Security Advisor Mike Walls texted
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war plans for Yemen strikes to a signal group that accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg,
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editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Goldberg reported contained operational details of
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forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthis rebel in Yemen, including information about targets,
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weapons the U.S. would be deploying. The attack sequencing, the National Security Council
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confirmed, appears to be authentic. And Trump initially said, I don't know anything about it.
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You're telling me about it for the first time before joking via Elon Musk post 4D chess genius
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Trump leaks war plans to The Atlantic where no one will ever see them. The leak revealed by The
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Atlantic on Monday sparked outrage. The Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer calling it
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one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I've ever read about in a very
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long time. Okay, Rob, let's go through a couple of these clips. So here's a president in the
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The story of The Atlantic that said that some of your top accounting officials and aides have been
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discussing very sensitive material through Signal and included an Atlantic report for that. What is
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your response to that? I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me,
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it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine, but I know
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nothing about it. You're saying that they had what? They were using Signal to coordinate on sensitive
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materials and... Having to do with what? Having to do with what? What were they talking about?
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With the Houthis. The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn't have been very
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effective because the attack was very effective. I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it.
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You're telling me about it for the first time. Anybody else?
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What else you got? You got one response from Hexeth as well? I do. This is Pete Hexeth getting off a
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plane where he's asked about the Signal leak. Go for it. Exactly what we're doing as we speak
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from the beginning overwhelmingly. Why were those details shared on Signal and how did you learn
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that a journalist was privy to the targets, the types of weapons used? I've heard I've heard I was
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characterized. Nobody was texting war plans and that's all I have to say about that. Thank you.
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That's it. Tom, thoughts? Well, I think number one, it appears that everybody's pointing to Mike
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Waltz and that Mike Waltz apparently sent a text out and it included a journalist. And the journalists
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are doing what they're doing. They don't go through back channels to say, hey, is this secret? Should
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we protect the United States? Should we protect what's going on? That's not what the journalist
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does. The journalist does, hey, let's attack the administration. And there is a newsworthy
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item. If somebody kind of blew it and included a journalist on here, that's not good. But let's
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face it, it was a signal communication. It wasn't like 22 megabytes of, you know, documents, documents,
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documents, documents. And I guess, you know, the Houthis didn't get it in time to duck. So because
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the attack happened and by most accounts that we're hearing, it was fairly effective on its
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targets. But it is, you know, that's a careless thing. And I don't think there's a person out
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there that's not sent a business email where you go to type a name in Outlook and it finishes the
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name for you. No one's ever done that here. No, never. And it's like the wrong Mike. Mike Jones,
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Mike Jeffries instead of Mike Jones. Mike Jones with the Porsche, right? Isn't the Mike Jones?
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No, no. You know what I mean? Mike Lowry. I'm sorry. Mike Lowry. Exactly. You know,
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a lot of pop culture references. Mike Jones, I don't know, you can't clone. That's kind
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of careless. But, you know, Mike Waltz is a good man. He's a strong guy. He's a right
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guy. Can I read you something that may upset you a little bit? Because this story, Daily
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Mail, says National Security Advisor Mike Waltz firing after inviting the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief
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Jeffrey Goldberg to a signal chat. Okay. Hootis, PC, small group. Discussing Yemen strikes
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with Defense Secretary Pete Hex said and J.D. Vance, a White House insider, told Politico,
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everyone in the White House can agree on one thing. Mike Waltz is an effing idiot. Okay.
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This is what Politico, this is the story. Well, this is also Daily Mail and there's
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no name on that. I totally get it. So I'm just reading this to you on what's being said.
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While a senior official said half of them saying he's never going to survive or shouldn't,
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noting it was reckless not to check who was on the threat. It was reckless to having a
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conversation on Signal, et cetera, et cetera. And then at the same time, there's another
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one from Daily Mail that comes out saying J.D. Vance says, team, I'm out of the day doing
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economic events in Michigan, but I think we are making a terrible mistake. We're making
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a mistake to a Trump team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. And then it continues,
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he warned, there's real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it is necessary.
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I'm not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with the message on Europe right now,
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et cetera, et cetera. And Vance expresses reluctance, but compliance saying, I'm willing to support
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the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there's strong argument for delaying
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this for a month, doing this messaging, work on why this matters, seeing where the economy
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is, et cetera, et cetera. And in hex and urge action, replying, we are prepared to execute.
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And if I have a final go or no vote, I believe we should. Mike Waltz noted, per the president's
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request, we are working with DOD in state of, to determine how to compile the costs associated
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and levy them on Europeans. All right. So that's what Daily Mail is saying, what happened to you.
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Can I ask you a quick question? Yeah. So if somebody on your staff was to say, hey, Pat,
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I'm not sure about this. I've got a little bit different point of view here, but whatever
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you decide, I'm with you. Yeah. Do you want that or do you want silence?
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No, I love that. That was a point. It's so funny you're saying this. You see, a businessman
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would think that way. I love that. I actually love the fact that there's an exchange. I love
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the fact there's like, hey, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? It's
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very normal for us. Nothing about the threat I'm reading says to me that this shows to me
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that they're willing to have discourse, debate, exchange. So maybe it was on, because think
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about it, devil's advocate. Maybe it was on purpose. This is, it doesn't make sense.
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Why is Mike Walls. Doesn't sound like they work for a dictator. That's, yeah, we, but
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see, and that's what me and Jake were talking about. Maybe that was the whole ploy is to
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have something like this league. By the way, why is Mike Walls messaging anybody from the
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Atlantic? Why is he even in your, the Goldberg guy? Why is he even in your chat? And why would
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you add him in there? There's no other Goldberg, whatever that's in the White House that would
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be involved in this situation anyway. So maybe it was a way to show like, hey, listen, look
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what we're doing behind closed doors. Yeah. We messed up and it could be, maybe they want
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to get rid. What's this guy's name, Tom? The Mike, Mike Walls. Yeah. It looks to me like
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if you wanted to fire somebody, guess what's a good way to get his ass fired? Have something
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like this happen and then leak it. There's a wrong guy to be aiming at. I think this guy's
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really capable. He was an early, you know, um, confirmation and he's really strong in
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position. Gorka's on his team. So yeah, that's what I think there. The, the other thing is
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it's not unusual. How many media people do you have your phone? I am in my phone. Yeah,
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true. But I mean, in a, in a signal like this though, this is serious. That's bad. Well,
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but there's also another angle to it. If I'm, if I'm a cabinet member, I only want to communicate
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with the media on a secure channel. I don't want to risk that it gets sniffed them on a
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Gmail or anything like that. Let's see what our foreign affairs expert has to say. Adam,
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your thoughts on this? Well, yeah, you know, I was actually also on that text chat and I
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saw this coming a mile away. So, you know, one of your major, uh, words that you're using
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these days is signal over noise, right? This happened on signal. Ironically to me, this is
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a lot of noise. The signal is we know who the enemy is. We're going after the Houthis part
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of the Iran, uh, proxies, proxies out there. And this was an accident by apparently a capable
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guy and, uh, he screwed up. Let's, let's call a spade a spade here. If this were the Biden
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administration and they accidentally texted Fox news, you don't think the right would be
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having a field day with the morons in the DEI woke administration. You guys can't even
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do this. The reality is what Trump said is correct. Well, we carried out the attack.
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We know who the enemy is. These Islamic extremists, Houthis that are basically, there's been a war
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in Yemen for over a decade, proxy war between Iran backed Houthis and Saudi backed Yemen government.
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And, uh, we know who at least we're, we're solving for, but you know, what's funny. Another one of your
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words is your pet, correct me if I'm wrong is speed. So you wrote in your book, here's a little,
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uh, uh, preview preview to the, if you're going to buy your, your, uh, next five moves, you said
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when you trust someone, you can go faster speed. So this is going to be a roadblock in the
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administration. I don't think anybody should be fired over this, but when you go fast,
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things are going to break. Yep. So this was a break in the administration. It's so funny.
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There's a comedian out there, this guy, Ralph Barbosa. Have you seen this guy? Hilarious.
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Great basketball player for the sons. That's Leandro Barbosa. So this guy's out there just
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killing it. This guy's killing it. Him and Marcelo, I think he's really funny. He goes,
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yo, you know, you know, typically Trump, he came in and this guy is like doing like a hundred
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different things in like the first hundred days. It's crazy. You know, people say, you know,
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you got a list of things to do. You know, they don't actually do them. You know, you say you
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got to go home, you got to do laundry, you got to do dishes. Well, you, maybe you'll watch Netflix.
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He goes, Trump didn't watch Netflix or nothing. He just went, he just went for it. So Trump is just
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basically fulfilling so many things in his first hundred days. Things are going to break when you
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go that fast. So when it comes on to Atlantic, Rob, I got a couple of things I want people to know
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about the Atlantic. The owner of the Atlantic is Steve Jobs' widow. I think it's a Laura Powell
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Jobs. Wait, widow? Widow? She's dead? No, he's dead, Vinny. Steve Jobs died. Oh, my bad,
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my bad, my bad. So she buys the Atlantic, okay? And in an interview, she's being asked,
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and I'm going to show you an article that the Atlantic wrote in a minute, but Rob, can you pull
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up the clip of what she said in an interview of why they bought it? This is Kamala Harris sitting
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next to her, and then watch when she gets asked about the New York Times at the end.
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Can you see when this was, Rob? Can you go back to the date? This is a while back. This
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is 2024. This is two weeks before election. This is when they're thinking Kamala's going
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to win, okay? Most people haven't seen this. Rob, go back and play this clip, please. So
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watch this, folks. This is the owner of the Atlantic. Go for it.
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It was pretty obvious to me that we could build, you know, we build out in a very cross-disciplinary
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way our work, you know, capital investing and policy and philanthropy, and we could do this
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work forever and ever, and we could have the narrative overtaken by someone who has a lot
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of power, who's completely contrary to us, and we could never get to the place where we
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think we're part of a more just and equal society. And so it was obvious that if we could be part
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of the creation of cultural narrative, that would enhance and amplify all the work that
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we're doing. Which Hillary Clinton talked about today is telling the story, getting the content
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out there. Yeah, she was. Yes. Yeah. Look at Kamala. So these are early days for us, but that's
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the idea behind it. We want to inspire the kind of stories that we'd like to see told. Do you ever
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see you buying something bigger, like the New York Times, for example? Are they for sale? Is it for
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sale? It could be for you. Bingo. So controlling the narrative. So now let me show you one thing
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that's a little bit strange. Here's a story they wrote three years ago, four years ago,
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I think in 2021. Rob, if you want to pull up this picture, the one I sent you, you know
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which one I'm talking about? Did you get it or no? I only have the video. Okay. So when
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you see this, folks, you tell me what kind of narrative she wants to control. Okay. Maybe
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I'm wrong. Maybe it's just speculation, but this is what happens. This is a woman that gave
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away, pledged to give three and a half billion dollars to a combat climate change over the
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next decade. This is to Waverly Street Foundation. Okay. She's worth around $14 billion. She's
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given away billions of dollars to different folks. Okay. Different donations. But watch
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this one here. The Atlantic. Here's a story to the right. This is an article called the
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Great Fake Child Sex Trafficking Epidemic. Rob, can you do me a favor? Exit that real
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quick and go search that title to make sure that is not, because I did that this morning
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just to make sure the great fake. Yeah, exactly. Child trafficking. Let's see what comes up.
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Okay. So is there such a story? Bingo. Click on it. So they did write that. Okay. Weird.
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So the great fake child sex trafficking epidemic. All right. So that's from four years ago. And
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then go back to that picture. And who was she seen sitting next to by? Oh, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Okay. Cozying up next to Ghislaine Maxwell. Sex trafficking. So look, the point is, you know,
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when you look at a paper and you wonder, are they really winning? Are they really advancing?
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Are they really pushing an agenda? Or are people really done with this? So this is the credibility
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of a paper like the Atlantic. But the narrative of being controlled is happening by buying magazines
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like this and getting everybody realized this child sex trafficking stuff is just fake. That
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doesn't happen. We don't have hundreds of thousands of missing children every year. That movie Sound of
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Freedom was just a movie, Vinny. That island with that Epstein eye. They just love giving massages.
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They just play Jin Rami. Yeah. Yeah. It's what they do. It was a QAnon conspiracy thing. Yeah.
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That didn't exist. Freaking demons. But anyway, so they just got to make sure they can't be,
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they got to be a little bit more like if that happened on our team, we would have a very serious
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meeting and it would be like, guys, you can only make this mistake one time. You can't do it second
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time. You do it second time, you're right. We can't do nothing about this here. You cannot be leaking
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information at this level to others and make sure when you're sending a group, my job is to check who else is in
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this group. Your job is to check who you're adding in the group. Yeah. And make sure the names are the
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right name. So we're literally more intentional about it. How many group texts? Yeah. You put me
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one in this week. Like we're trying to see who's in it. You know which one I'm talking about. Yeah,
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of course. WhatsApp. Yeah. But you always have to give a title for the group. Yeah. You ever send so
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many groups? You ever send the wrong text and you immediately know? This guy sends me the wrong
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pictures. I'm like, listen, stop texting me all these weird pictures. Are you serious? Yeah. It's like, dude.
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But anyways, I'm dating a girl named Patricia. You got to get your group straight. You got to be
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careful. It's got, you know, my friends, Miami's herpes cure, you know, all the groups that you
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got in there. Let me go to the next story. I get a lot of my next, a lot of questions about people
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