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Dec. 9, 2024 - Blood Money
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Setting up the Deep State with Patrick Byrne (Blood Money Episode 271)
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all right guys we got a new section to the america happens website called the whistleblowers forum where you could go on there and anonymously or using your name post anything that you want and contact other whistleblowers to talk about
what's really going on out there Alright, so welcome to the latest episode of Blood Money.
Today we have a very special guest, Patrick Byrne.
How you doing, sir?
Vem, good to see you out and a free man.
Right on.
Good to have you on the Blood Money Podcast, man.
So, you know, let's start, you know, dive right into it.
You know, Enemy Within kind of really blew me away because you're kind of, I mean, we've been hanging out, you know, for the last few years, but I didn't know you had this insane, almost James Bond-born ultimatum type of past.
I mean, do you want to just dive right into it and tell us a little bit about the movie?
Well, where do you want to start?
You've seen the movie.
Yes.
General Flynn spent most of this year making that movie.
He called me the day after the Durham report was delivered, which was a cover-up, and he called me at 7.01 a.m., which he does when his wife, Lori, is telling him, you can't call until 7.00.
So he called at 7.01, and he said, Patrick, Our republic's hanging by a thread.
It may already be lost, but if it isn't, we're going to get your story out there.
And this information world we're in, this is our one and only hypersonic missile.
We've got to get this out there.
So that turned into some magazine interview, which turned into a book, which he made into this movie this year.
Wow.
I mean, essentially, it seems like the government finds people like you that they could utilize for their own benefit.
I mean, what do you think?
What are the talents that they saw in you where you were targeted for this kind of role?
Well, let me be clear.
I've never been a spy.
I've never worked for the CIA, but I've worked for lots of other parts of government.
It started when I was 20. I was a college student in China, and as the movie explains...
Something odd happened, and a foreigner came up to me, and we became friends, and he ended up, after a few meetings, asking me to get a letter to Uncle Sam, which I did.
One thing led to another.
So in the background of my life, and I thought this was going to die with me.
I've lived all these 40 years where no one was to know anything, and I maintained a very high level, the highest level security clearance.
So, my involvement was basically on matters of peace.
They understood that was the thing that I would...
And I don't mean to overstate it.
It's the kind of thing that every couple years, someone might tap at me on the shoulder and ask me to do something.
And it generally had to do with matters of peace.
A lot of it was academic.
We hear you've been talking about such and such publicly.
We'd like you to come to such and such a facility one month from now, present a PowerPoint with your thoughts, answer questions, and then we'll escort you out.
Sometimes it had to do with international travel and always with peace.
It also had to do with fighting crime on Wall Street.
That's when I started working for the FBI. But most of the things really were from the National Security Council after 9-11.
And then And in 2010 or so, Obama sort of appointed me a national, he called it, it was called a national intelligence asset, of which I understood there's only a handful.
And it was for real ace in the hole situation, as I was described, I was told.
But again, I emphasize I'm not a spook.
It wasn't intelligence and the work that people understand.
I'm not out there stealing secrets or something.
I was out there on matters that had to do with peace.
And then in 2015, I got pulled into what was in fact the origins of the Russia collusion story.
And I set up the Russian...
I set up...
I can say, the Russian collusion hoax.
I thought I was doing something good for them, but it turned out they were using me to set up to create this phony scandal.
Wow.
Wow.
I mean, that is pretty insane.
Like, so you're in it, you think, you know, this whole time you've been dealing with matters of peace, and then you start getting used for nefarious reasons.
I mean, how does that feel?
How does that go?
When is it that you're like, wait a minute, I'm being used here for evil reasons?
This is not what they sold me on.
When that happened was the first week of February 2016. Because, as you know from the movie, I was used to set up the Russian collusion hoax, then I was used to bribe Hillary Clinton for what I thought was legitimate law enforcement, but turned out to be a scheme of Barack Obama and John Brennan and James Comey to put Hillary Clinton in a snow globe.
They wanted her to accept a bribe so that then when she became president, which in January 2016 seemed ordained, That they would owner, and there'd be a Bunsen burner at the heart of the DOJ, and the information, Patrick, is going to be on the Bunsen burner.
The hand on the Bunsen burner is going to be one of Barack Obama's people.
If Hillary was a good girl, defends Obamacare.
The flame stays low.
Wow, wow.
He's a bad girl.
That way Barack Obama is going to manage Hillary Clinton for eight years.
Then she steps down and Michelle is going to run.
And Patrick, that's the plan.
And so that's what was explained to me.
So my bribe was just bait to lure Hillary into a snow globe.
Wow, wow.
And it's like a control mechanism by essentially Obama.
If Hillary were to come to power, then basically she's controlled for the next eight years or four years.
Exactly.
And then they threatened my life.
And then they said, if you, so now you understand when we tell you you need to scrub every moment of this from that memory of yours, it's really a matter of life or death.
Yeah, I remember that.
I mean, it's a fascinating documentary.
It's actually kind of mind-blowing.
And what I found myself is, the whole time I'm trying to categorize you.
I'm trying to be like, okay, what would your title be in this situation?
You know what I mean?
It's like, is he like a James Bond type?
That's why, you know, I guess a little bit of confusion in terms of, is this spy type stuff?
But it seems very different than that, I guess.
Yeah.
No, most of it has been overseas.
I think there's one or two.
The book that it's based on is called Danger Close, and I give a couple examples in the book.
One had to do with reestablishing diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1988. The other was in 2006. There were a lot of Iranians who seemed to be crossing my paths and bumping me and trying to get me to go to Iran.
I was eventually instructed the next time one of them does that, accept this invitation and go into Iran and see how far up into Iranian society you can schmooze.
I happen to be in Qatar right now.
I'm about 40 miles from looking across the water in Iran.
But in 2006, I was asked to do that.
And so next time I was in the Middle East, some Iranians found a reason to meet me and asked me to go.
And I went into Iran.
And I came out a week later, 10 days later, I guess, best friends forever with Hassam Soleimani and the Quds Forces.
The Quds Forces were my boys.
And when I came back and reported this, of course, people's heads exploded and said, Haasem Soleimani is the number one on our terrorist list.
He's the number one.
I said, Wallace, you told me to go to Iran and see how far into society I could schmooze, or I went to Iran and I saw how far into society I could schmooze.
There's been a number of situations like that where they give me an instruction And then I went and did something.
And when I came back, their heads would explode.
And I'd say, look, you're the guys who told me to do this.
So I did that.
You would exceed expectations in many ways.
They say, yeah, but we didn't mean to become friends with the number one terrorist in the world.
We didn't mean that.
I said, well, you didn't say that.
You just said, go see how high into society you can go.
Wow, wow.
I mean, it seems like, I guess, like your people skills, your ability to befriend people.
I mean, world-class level, Olympic-level skills there, I would say, right?
As I say in my book, I think that I come across as mentally handicapped.
There's a funny movie called Jeremiah Johnson where...
There's an old woman whose kids are butchered and Robert Redford saves her.
And as he's leaving, he says, old woman, the engines will leave you alone now, woman, because you are a touch.
I think for some reason I've been used, and the book gives you a few more examples.
But for example, the ISIS, you know, the ISIS media team, the people who do the pilots burned alive in cages.
Mm-hmm.
They have a selfie taken on Christmas Day in a slum in the south of Giza, Egypt.
And it's four guys from the ISIS media team with this tall American guy in a jean jacket.
That was me.
Oh, wow.
So they've always kind of thought it was funny I could move in and out of these circles.
Wow.
I mean, what do you attribute that to?
I think I come across as mentally Touched.
I don't know.
You'll have to tell me.
I would say, like, from my estimation, I found you always to be really approachable and, like, just easy, easygoing and stuff.
That's what I would say.
I mean, that's my assessment, you know?
I would think so.
My mom brought me up with manners.
I'm respectful to people.
I don't know.
They've always been treated me.
It's funny.
I've been with some of the craziest people on earth, and everyone's always treated me with great Just in an honorable way, I would say, even though we knew we were each other's enemies.
I never run down the USA. I'm never one of those kind of guys.
But they always understood what they were dealing with, but they always just sort of treat me honorably, even really bad guys.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, for people that don't understand the life you've lived, the worlds you've seen, is there a fictional character, an iconic fictional character?
You're like, you know what?
It's mostly like, it's kind of like, that's kind of what I was doing.
Is there any way that comes to mind?
It could be Voltaire's Candide.
It could be Candide.
Why?
Well, he just sort of moved around the world, this character.
He moved around the world and just sort of had all these adventures and everybody...
I don't know.
It could be Voltaire's candy.
I don't know how to...
They always wondered the same thing.
And it's funny because I'm one of these guys who tries to ingratiate himself with foreigners running down the U.S. If anything...
I defend the U.S. And for a lot of these kind of people, they hate the U.S. and they want to argue.
But they find a guy, they found a guy that's willing to sit with them We'll do a goat grab, we'll call it, with Hezbollah in the Baqa Valley where they slaughter a goat and I'll sit with Hezbollah.
I once had a picnic with some guy.
They didn't tell me his name, but we talked politics in a very respectful way, ate goat together, lamb actually, this and that.
And when I left, the people walked me away and said, you just shook the hand of the man who skinned William Buckley, your CIA station chief.
There was a CIA station chief.
Oh, wow.
And that was the man who skinned him.
Wow.
But, you know, you go where you told your goal.
Well, what I eventually realized, I've never said this, but I eventually realized that in 2017, 2018, I think they were trying to get me killed.
And I think they were trying to get me killed because the assignments got really dangerous.
In fact, in the movie...
Oh, the person was trying to have you killed?
Like, they were trying to send you off on difficult assignments to make sure you got offed?
I believe that may be the case because I knew too many secrets.
And that's why you see in the movie there's some pictures of me...
In a government facility in Venezuela in 2018. And I started realizing that I think someone up there might want to be getting me killed because I knew too many secrets.
Wow.
And a lot of those secrets are in this movie.
I know a lot more secrets, which is why I'm kind of one of the reasons I'm laying low in Qatar right now.
You also have a bounty on your head, I've heard, from like Venezuela, 25 million.
Is that true?
Yeah, I was in West Africa a few months ago.
Wow.
Someone tried to kidnap me.
And the police, they did not know that I was actually in league with the secret police working on something for them in Ghana.
And that we were cooperating on something together.
And the They told me that under questioning they were discovering, Patrick, these thugs in Ghana, there's a bounty out on you and all the different criminal networks in Ghana are under orders to try to kidnap you, not kill you, but kidnap you and you're going to be taken to a third country.
And then that same night I got a phone call from America There was an agency of the U.S. government telling me, you got a $25 million bounty on your head.
They picked out the hole in Burkini Faso.
They're going to hold you.
A hole in the ground.
And this is all being managed by a Nigerian, a big Nigerian gangster.
And it's on the orders of Venezuela.
They were trying to kidnap you and there's just a $25 million bounty on your head.
And what do you have to do to have such an honor?
Well, on July 28th, Sunday, Venezuela had their election.
And in their election, the regime got 2 million votes and the opposition got 7 million votes.
But the Venezuelan regime planned on doing what they do every election, and that was they were going to stuff 5.5 million votes.
They have a software tool that lets them stuff 5.5 million votes.
And that software tool was working Through July 27th, right up until midnight, but at 12.01, our software tool stopped working, started spinning out random nine-digit numbers instead of what they needed to enter each ballot of the system with.
And so that's why the Venezuelan regime canceled all their normal fake transparency about their election.
And just all through that Sunday, they didn't report anything because they weren't able to stuff.
They went nuts trying to stuff.
And their system for stuffing ballast didn't work.
And then they came out the next morning and said, look, we won 51-49.
Get used to it.
They just announced it with no backup.
And then 10 days later, they...
We've reverse engineered that tool that they normally use, and they discover it had been hacked.
Now, for some reason, the Venezuelan government thinks I know something about this, and they've put a $25 million bounty on my head.
Are you serious?
Wow, wow.
I mean, did you think, when you were growing up, did you ever have a semblance of, like, this is the life you're going to be leading?
Oy!
Oy!
Well, I can tell you, I think it's a line in the movie.
It's in the book, but it's a line in the movie that the funniest part was that nobody knew about was that in 2005 and 2006, the Senate Judiciary Committee got their hooks in me.
And they had become aware that I had this very unique, I was told many times, this kind of a unique relationship that you have with the U.S. government.
I know this sounds kind of crazy, but it's almost like I've been married to the U.S. government, at least in my mind.
I've never been married.
I don't have children or family.
I had my entrepreneurial life and then this other life, which often made my entrepreneurial life feel like a footnote.
Yeah.
There were some years I put more into this other life than I was putting into building a $2 billion company.
And it felt kind of like I was just entwined, like I was married to Uncle Sam.
I don't know how to describe it.
So he knows everything about me, where he knows everything and my whole life was taken over.
But in 2006, the Senate Judiciary Committee Became aware of this.
And they brought me in and got to know me for a year.
And they explained to me that our Mandate is to stop corruption.
And our power to investigate corruption transcends every power within government.
And so that makes us the ultimate bulwark protecting the Constitution, because we have the right to investigate corruption.
And if we get word that the manufacture of nuclear weapons We look into it and no one, but no one gets to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee, oh, you don't have the right clearance.
Every part, and corruption is anything, is defined as anything that could be touched by a civil or criminal penalty.
That means everything in America, the Senate Judiciary Committee can look into, Patrick.
So they had me, they put me to work spying on different, the only time I've been a spy, I've never been a spy for the CIA or anyone like that.
The only time I've been a spy is a spy against the U.S. government for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where they had me holding meetings and meeting with different parts of the government and reporting back to them, which was an emotionally kind of conflicting thing to do.
And then eventually they did this crazy thing, which is depicted in the movie.
Do you want to explain what's shown in the movie?
That's a word-for-word conversation, that scene in the movie.
Do you know the scene I'm talking about?
Can you refresh my memory real quick?
Well, there's a point in September 2006, they asked me to come in, maybe been working for them for a year, having these other relationships across the government by taking nudges from them and trying to find things they were looking for, things that we're trying to figure out.
And they called me in and they said, they gave me this speech again, how their power transcends every power in government.
Said that it's our job to stop.
We think you're right.
It's our job.
There was some kind of corrupt It shouldn't take over the United States government.
It's our job to stop it, but we can't stop it.
And I said, no, I know.
This is what I've been saying.
What are you going to do?
And they said, well, I said, how are you going to stop something like this?
Because they said, look, it's everywhere.
And it's like it's a foreign nation some days, but maybe it's not.
We don't know.
And I finally interrupted the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
I said, I know.
This is what I've been saying.
How do you stop something like this?
The guy said, we're going to stop it because we have you and you're going to stop it.
I remember that.
He pulls out a letter and there were seven senators from both parties around the table.
They said, this hasn't been done since World War II. But in World War II in America, we were concerned about German sympathizers within the government.
An American businessman from Wall Street was asked to become a German sympathizer and help flush them out.
And Patrick, we're seeing the president tomorrow night.
This is going to be sitting, we're going to show him this, it's going to be sitting in a safe the rest of your life.
And I couldn't even touch it.
They held it, and I stood with my hands behind my back and read it.
And the first, it was a page and a half, and the first paragraph said something about their concerns about systemic corruption infiltrating the federal institutions of our nation's government.
The second paragraph says, Something very action-oriented, not like investigate and report, but like, we're going to stop this.
And they said, now, we may not be senators.
This is what you're going to do with your life, Patrick.
We may not be senators when you finish.
We may not be alive when you finish, but the country needs you to do this.
So this is what you're doing with your life.
And no one asked me.
It was just like they were telling me this is what you were going to do.
What year was this again?
That was September 06. 06. Wow.
Okay.
So now flash forward 10 years.
I'd set up the Russian collusion hoax.
I had bribed Hillary Clinton for what this...
You remember that part of the movie?
Yeah.
Totally.
Yeah.
No.
And they gave me this, and I was told I'd be killed if I opened my mouth about any of it.
That to me satisfied the conditions of this letter, systemic corruption infiltrating the federal institutions of our nation's government.
So that's when I decided, this started, you asked me the question, how did you know, or when did you decide that you were, that they were, this was early February 2016. And I decided from that spot I was going to Disrupt my chain of command.
I didn't know how, but they were involved in a coup to take over the government through soft espionage, and I was going to disrupt it.
And they gave me my chance five months later when they asked me to get back with Maria Butina.
A couple of staffers confirmed to the movie makers, yes, this letter exists.
I can tell you the senators, when reached for comment, I wish they had put this in the movie.
The senators all said, They all made the same statement.
We will neither confirm nor deny that we've ever met with Patrick Byrne or whether there ever was such a meeting or whether or not we ever signed such a letter.
We will neither confirm nor deny.
Which I think they should have put in the movie.
Because to me, I mean, obviously if I'm lying, they would say I'm lying.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
It sounds like some covert stuff when you're talking about confirm or deny, you know?
Yeah.
So I think that's funny.
And to me, I mean, there's staffers who've confirmed its existence.
So to me, it's like...
Buffett says you're never going to fight with somebody about who won the 1937 World Series.
It's on a piece of paper somewhere.
Just go look it up.
Don't fight with people about it.
They have confirmed that there is this letter.
Staffers confirmed it.
One of the senators confirmed it to somebody else I know.
There's no point in us arguing about what's on the letter.
We don't have to argue.
Just release the letter.
I've been told that this drives Judge Garland crazy.
They've been wanting to prosecute me for three years.
Were you at the Reawaken America where I stood up and dared them?
I said, if you want to get Trump or you want to get Flynn, come through me.
Were you at that Reawaken America?
I think I've heard it.
I don't know if I was there personally, but I've heard about that, yeah.
I said, you come through me.
You indict me first.
I take responsibility for everything, for J6, for December 18th, for everything.
You indict me first.
In fact, I offered, I'll do a military tribunal tomorrow.
You guys can hang me by dusk tomorrow if you want.
I'll sign any paperwork that relinquishes my right.
I'll take a military tribunal.
There's one thing.
I defend myself in one hour.
And in one hour, I'm going to call about six witnesses.
I'm going to interview them for about 10 minutes each, ask them a few questions.
And they're not going to hang me.
They're going to hang you.
Wow, wow.
Because of all the stuff you know, obviously.
Like, that's wow.
That's what I'm telling you.
Wow, wow.
And so, like, the only way they could really...
Because I totally get why you're worried for your life.
Because the only way they could really stop the release of information that you know, if it ever becomes threatening to you or them, is by basically getting rid of you.
So, I mean, you're constantly dealing with...
I made a video and put it on a thumb drive and put it under a dead man's switch.
I put it under a dead man's switch.
In addition, General Flynn told me, when we split up in January of 2021, and we knew our country had just been conquered by a communist overthrow, a Bolshevik overthrow, I said, I guess I'm going to have to leave the country.
And he said, Patrick, there's nowhere you can run.
Anywhere you go, they can...
He's really a very funny guy, you know.
Anywhere you go, you know how it works.
If you go to some place in South America, somebody from the U.S. is just going to go to some cartel or some gangster group and say, look, there's an American living over in such and such a hut.
You, you know...
Here's $10,000 in an envelope.
You kill him, we'll give you another $10,000, and you get one suitcase you can bring into America, and something like that.
And I said, well, if I stay, can't they kill me?
And he said, well, they can, but there's a lot more paperwork involved.
And then when he called me in March of 2021, he said, your best bet is getting as big as possible.
Yeah.
Getting as big as possible.
Come join me in Florida and we'll get you on the circuit.
Get you as big.
Because once you're big, it's assassinating you is counterproductive for them.
Hmm.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
Like just be out there and be noisy.
I mean, where are you at right now?
Where does it stand right now?
I mean, you just dropped this huge bomb on the world.
And I got to tell you, with the enemy within, it's...
It's almost like there's so much in there to unpack because it's just so unbelievable for anybody that's living a normal life.
Now that you've showed this to the world, what's that done for your life?
How have things changed?
I'm in Doha, Qatar.
And I'm in Doha, Qatar.
And I'm actually kind of stuck here because, ironically enough, I'm having some heart issues.
I'm not able to fly.
But it's okay.
I'm stuck here.
Even Israel cannot...
They assassinate people here.
A month or two ago, they assassinated the leader of Hamas.
They had to wait till he left.
He left and went to Tehran.
And when he got to 12 hours after he left and was in Tehran, they assassinated him.
But even Israel couldn't assassinate him when he was in Qatar.
So that's kind of the situation.
But I'm going to come back.
I'm going to come back as soon as they have to do a heart thing for me.
And then after they do the heart thing, I'll get on a plane and come back.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I got to ask you this.
You know, you've been so integral with this movement when it comes to elections.
And I mean, obviously, there's the work we did on elections, which I'll get to in a second.
But, you know, with, you know, the lawsuits with, you know, the J6s and the Tina Peters of the world, I mean, you went all in on, you know, Trying to save this country from the worst.
I mean, it seems like that became part of your fabric as of 2016. I mean, is it pretty much at that point you felt your program, this was, you know, live or die, this is what you're going to do?
That's exactly it.
2020, not 2016. Yeah, I went pot.
What do they call it in poker?
Pot limit, pot committed.
I went pot committed because I knew when 2020 happened that what we were seeing was the tail end of a coup that started around Thanksgiving of 2015, and I was part of it.
Yeah.
Setting up the Russian collusion hoax and setting up the...
The Hillary Clinton thing, I knew that there was a coup going on to take over the United States from within.
And then when all the irregularities of our 2020 popped up, I knew that we were looking at the completion of a soft coup.
So I knew there was no point in keeping...
I'll tell you a funny story about Flynn.
Flynn's a very funny guy.
The two hardest times I've ever seen him laugh.
Can I tell you the two hardest times I've ever seen him laugh?
Please, yeah.
The first was when the January 6th committee got started, the opening, there was a hearing from Liz Cheney, gave a speech, and somebody else gave a speech, the opening of the J6 committee.
And they said, and she said, and on the night of December 18th, 2020, the Oval Office was penetrated by General Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, and someone else.
And Flynn came in the next morning, General Flynn, laughing, bending over at the waist, laughing and saying, this is so weird.
Why can't they mention your name?
They're afraid to mention your name, aren't they?
I said, yeah, I'm kryptonite.
I'm kryptonite.
Let me explain.
And I sat and I walked him through this story in greater detail than I ever had.
That was the first time you told him this whole story?
I told him in a 15-minute version when we first got to know each other.
But I told him this thing.
And he said, and then he stood on it for several months.
And then he said, that's when he said, we're going to get this out.
But you want me to tell you the other funny, hilarious time I had him bent over double laughing?
I would love to hear, yeah.
It's a little bit yellow.
I hope your viewers are old enough to take it.
Okay.
He said, is this like a Christian podcast?
No, no, no.
I mean, we're Christian.
I mean, we are believers in Christ, but we do drop F-bombs and that sort of thing, so feel free, you know?
Well, he said to me, after 2022, and the election went right, I was ready to drop out.
I was exhausted.
I'd exhausted most of my fortune, much of my fortune.
And I was just tired.
I wanted to crawl in a hole and let it overseas and play out.
And he said, you know, he would never try to talk me out of that.
But he said, I got to ask you one question, Pat, what are you saving it for?
And I thought about it.
You know, I'm not married.
I don't have any children.
You know, I finally said, well, sir, I guess what every dot-com CEO who you work 20 years, 100-hour weeks, What you're thinking of the whole time is someday I'm going to be on some 300-foot Russian oligarch-style trawl helicopter, and I'm going to be wherever the snow is good, off Chile, off Greenland, off Aleutian Islands.
I'm going to be helicopter skiing all day, and I'll be coming down at night.
It's going to be wall-to-wall, hot and cold, running blondes and brunettes and anything you can think of to take care of any of my needs.
And he said, Pat, that sounds terrible.
Don't you think that'd get boring after a couple days?
And I said, no, sir, it stays interesting for four or five.
Wow.
So, yeah, you're right.
Well, I can give that up and I'll just spend my fortune doing this.
So this is what I did with my fortune.
Wow, wow, man.
Just the fact that you're having that conversation with a general is just absolutely hilarious, you know?
So, I mean, what drives you is really just saving the country.
You have a moral characteristic about you, obviously.
Well, you know, when I was sick with cancer, which the movie also discusses, I did a PhD at Stanford, and it started off actually in computation theory and mathematical logic, which was my love.
But I ran into what I can only describe as early woke.
And early woke, it bothered me so much.
What year was that, by the way, again?
86 to 90. Oh, wow.
Okay, so you saw wokeism creeping in back then, huh?
Yeah, in 86, really in 91 or 94 is when I finished my PhD.
But it was nine quarters over nine years.
And I mean, I did a bunch of other things, but nine quarters over spaced over nine years.
I did other things.
I had cancer three times.
I went to England a couple years later.
Anyway, I worked, went to Wall Street.
So I was really bothered by early woke life.
And then I also, having lived in communist China, I guess I would say I put two and two together really quickly.
When I saw what was happening in 2020, this was a coup to take down the United States.
The American Republic would be no more.
And I knew, I mean, I think people have no idea.
Well, we're not out of it yet, but we dodged a bullet.
If Trump becomes president, we dodged a bullet.
I'm not sure he's going to be president yet because they have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves.
But fortunately, they seem to be in disarray.
But we almost lost the American Republic, and we're going to have one more chance to save it in four years.
But I became...
I switched my field of study to basically what's the intellectual history of the U.S. Constitution.
And I found in woke people, I think they're ignoramuses.
They're absolutely ignoramuses.
They have no idea why our Constitution is structured as it is and why the principles are.
You know, they just learn this shit you can learn in five minutes.
Oh, it was a bunch of slave owners, you know, NPCs.
They don't know anything.
And the true history of all these ideas, we've been in a 2500-year battle against slavery, one form or another of slavery.
There were 10,000 generations of human slavery, and then Abraham went forth.
And these ideas developed, and you can, I know the whole history from Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, The UK, the Netherlands, and then it all reaches its apotheosis in the US Constitution.
So to me, that's my religion.
That's my religion.
And I can understand the people who say that uniquely Christianity is woven through this Judeo-Christianity, or especially Christianity I see now, is woven through that tradition.
It could have emerged without it.
It could have emerged conceivably in a Buddhist environment, but Christianity is woven through this and natural philosophy and such, natural rights theory and things that really come out of the Catholic tradition originally, but then Protestantism brought its own thing.
In fact, there's a wonderful book by a UCLA historian called The 2500-Year Battle.
And it's about the struggle between worldviews, the worldview of slavery and the worldview of liberty.
And the ancient Greeks, when they first encountered those to the east, be they Herodotus, when they first encountered the Persians and even the Hebrews, the Persians in particular, they said, but really everyone to the east had this mentality That our leaders are not humans like us.
They're something else entirely.
And to the Greeks, the Greeks had their kings, but they understood the king was just the best fighter, the strongest man.
They didn't see them as a different super species.
It's been really this contest between these worldviews.
And it's a 2,500-year battle.
And I have to say, we almost lost it in the last four years.
So to me, it was kind of small potatoes to say, I'm going to go pot limit or pot committed.
It's a 2,500-year battle.
It seemed like the least I could do.
Wow, wow, wow.
I gave up those years on a Russian trawler with all the hot and cold running Yeah.
So crazy, man.
It's just so crazy the way life works out.
Just listening to that story, it's very fascinating.
I mean, what do you think, you know, in terms of the title Enemy Within, how do you describe it?
What's the personal meaning in it for you?
Well, General Flynn came up with that title.
And it's kind of a...
Not a pun, but it's...
I'm the enemy within in the sense of the DHS literally in 2022, August, I got word from police officers and sheriffs who were sending people for DHS training that when people in DHS trainees were being asked Who do you fear more, Russia or China?
They were being told, and the higher-ups from DHS were insisting that the trainers tell people, we fear Russia, we fear China, but above all, we're afraid of this guy.
Our number one enemy is a domestic enemy named Patrick Byrne and this movement he has going.
They literally named me as the greatest threat to the United States.
So that's why my book is called Danger Close, Domestic Extremist Threat Number One Comes Clean.
And that's what the movie was based on.
But I literally, the domestic extremist threat number one, according to the DHS, I can recite the Constitution backwards.
I mean, I'm the guy who can tell.
It's hilarious to me that I'm muted.
But it's also, as the Senator Spector told me when he put me on this mission, he told me, he had previously met me, and when we got to know each other, he said, The toughest cases to investigate when I was a federal prosecutor, Patrick, were the cases that involved corruption because you start to feel like an enemy of your own country as you investigate corruption.
And how ironic that 16 years after he said those words to me, I was DHS domestic extremist threat number one.
I'm enemy number one.
Wow.
So it's almost like you were the...
They were the enemy within, and I'm talking about what they were trying to do with the Russia collusion hoax.
They tried to make you the enemy within, but then you decided you're going to flip it on them, basically.
That would be in a nutshell.
They thought I was one of them.
Yeah, yeah.
They thought I was one of them.
But they're the enemy within.
I mean, the double entendre of the movie is, I'm allegedly the enemy within, but if you really want to know who the enemy within is, it's the people I worked for, and I kicked them into the whole rape and murder thing.
And to prove that, I mean, to prove it, I did the rape and murder thing in the movie.
And I took Barack Obama into signing off on rape and murder.
I'm told this is the biggest secret in the U.S. government, is how they're going to handle this when it gets public, that Barack Obama put his signature on a presidential order.
Instructing three federal agents to ignore their belief that I had drugged, raped, and was going to murder a girl so that we could continue setting up this fake Russian hoax and doing the stuff we were doing.
Once I figured out what, once those things happened and they threatened my life, I got on this totally different program of setting them up.
And the FBI trained me on how a sting works.
And so that's the climax of the movie that I've just given away.
But I self-reported that I had drugged Maria Butina so I could question her.
Comey and Brennan accepted that.
So when they accepted it, I self-reported that.
But when she was inebriated and spaced out and everything, I not only questioned her, I had sex with her.
Comey and Brennan...
Did nothing about it.
So then I reported, I waited a couple weeks, and I offered to murder Maria.
And the agents, God bless them, who were fine, honest men, they literally jumped in my face.
One guy, I heard a weapon click out, and he said, let's be perfectly clear, Byron, we don't care what order comes down from D.C. If you touch, harm the hair on Maria's head, we're going to kill you ourselves.
But that went to Comey and Brennan and Obama and they signed off so we could continue.
So I set up a sting on my own chain of command.
Wow, wow.
Do you think, I mean, part of your gifts in all of this is that you're unassumingly brilliant, probably, is probably the way I would say it.
Like, extremely.
It's almost like, you know, I've known a lot of individuals that have been in, you know, powerful positions and business leaders and all that, but you're probably one of the more approachable ones.
But if I could also say, you also are just quietly brilliant in a way.
It's very fascinating the way your mind works, I've got to tell you, just hearing all of this.
Well, it's funny.
The senator said to me when they recruited me, They said, both Hatch and Spector said to me that your reputation, they knew about my work with different agencies of the government and the National Security Council, and they said, you know, your reputation, Patrick, is that you're a man who does extreme things to accomplish whatever he's supposed to accomplish.
And so that's funny because 10 years later, when all this stuff played out, I then went into the Senate Judiciary Committee and reported it.
And, of course, they lost their marbles, the staffers.
It was three generations of staffers later than the ones I had known.
And first they said, well, there's no such thing as a letter as you're describing.
I said, yeah, there is.
Go check your 2006 files.
They came back and they said, There's a letter in there and it says exactly what you say it says.
We've never seen anything like this.
Don't you think you took this a little far?
And I said, no, they told me that I was...
Doesn't the letter say I get extraordinary latitude under the laws of the United States?
And they said, yeah, but you set up the directors of the CIA and FBI and the president in a rape and murder sting all on your own.
Don't you think that's, like, pretty extreme?
I said, well, you know, you can check.
Hatch inspector told me that I was known for doing extreme things to accomplish whatever I'm supposed to accomplish.
It's a little bit like they tell you to go to Iran and smooth up in society.
You go to Iran, you come back friends with Hasem Soleimani, and they lose their shit.
And it's like, what is that?
You told me that I... It's like you did your job too good.
They weren't expecting such a thorough...
It's funny because they would say, do you have any rules you broke?
How many laws you broke?
But when they made the request, they would always say, look, we have to do this thing, but we can't do it because of the handicap of the law, but if you'll do it, we'll look the other way.
So then they go do it, and they come back, and they're like, what?!
So many laws.
Are you kidding me?
Oh, my God.
Are you on your mind?
Wow.
Wow.
So fascinating, Patrick.
So fascinating.
One last question I had, and then the mic's yours, if there's any websites or whatever you want to put out there.
You're actually really helpful when I went through some crazy stuff with this third assassin thing, and on October 18th, You actually sent out an article and a tweet to talk about how you felt that the whole thing was nonsense.
Do you want to talk about that at all?
Sure.
When I heard that you were picked up as an assassin against Trump, I knew it was Looney Tunes for two reasons.
One, I know where your heart lies.
And two, I mean, I knew that you're not an assassin.
I didn't know.
I wanted to know what the details were, but I knew immediately something was wrong about all this.
You're not going to go kill somebody.
You're actually one of the most thoughtful people in our movement.
And it's always been a pleasure to run into you, everyone.
Every reawaken America and others that we did.
So I knew that the official story had to have nonsense.
Now, when I heard that you had driven to a parking lot with some weapons in your car that the president was going to be at, I thought, well, that's kind of maybe not the best judgment.
But I understand you got caught because you told the police.
As you came in, look, you did the honest thing and said, just so you know, there's some weapons in my car.
And that set off.
Is that about right?
Yeah, yeah, totally.
Yeah, I actually even recorded it crazy enough.
Because I don't know, it's like this journalistic instinct I get.
You know, I was just like, I feel like I need to record this before I even drove up.
And luckily so, because that kind of showed that, you know, I wasn't there doing anything bad, you know?
I've learned that I would, yes, I've learned that even police, even law enforcement of good intent, if you give them a statement about something, and they're taking notes, and then you look later at the notes they took, If it's 60% accurate to what you said, it's still my old star.
It's just the nature of things.
When I'm in those situations, I write my own notes.
I'll write my own statement and give it to them, but I never let law enforcement take Dictate to them and they're taking notes because what gets written is kind of more what they want to hear rather than whatever you said.
Yeah, totally.
To be cautious.
You know, one last question that actually came to mind.
You've put in so much time.
I mean, like you said, this became your family.
You sacrificed a lot.
It was like your business and really saving this country.
Obviously, very dramatic things have happened with this Trump being now, you know, president.
We're talking about a pretty stellar group of people supporting him as well.
You know, somebody like Kash Patel being the head of the FBI. I mean, where do you think this is all going?
Do you think we're going to actually clear this up for...
Did you just do a cross, by the way?
Yeah, like...
Kash.
I'm like, facetiously, like, I love Kash.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And this is great if he gets the FBI. Anybody that says that the minute we start, we're going to 24-7 disclosure, that's probably the hottest thing I've heard in my life.
I've known more than my share of FBI agents, and everyone I've known has been what I would call a red meat eater.
They love the country.
A lot of them, starting around 2010, started raising questions about what was going on in headquarters, what was going on in their management.
But the actual field agents are red meat eaters.
They love our country.
They're patriotic.
And so I think that between them and Cash, it's not going to take long for the country to get, for the FBI to get aligned, realigned, Have we saved, I mean, have we saved the Republic?
Or are we saving the Republic?
Are we looking at, and sorry, you know, for the multiple layers of this question, but like, are we looking at temporary fix?
Or are we looking at we're setting the groundwork now for generations to come, you know, to really fix this mess?
I mean, a mess that some would argue we've been in for a sec, you know, like we've been in a few decades, you know?
I think it remains to be seen.
Remember, we'll be celebrating our 250th anniversary during Trump's term.
We'll be celebrating that.
And if we do play our cards right, we'll buy ourselves another 250 years.
But we have to understand what we experienced in the last four years was the fruition of a 100-year plan.
That this is a communist tyranny.
The communist, which has been rebranded as progressivism, is all about, they detest us, they detest our constitution.
They have grand ambitions for what the country should be, and this pesky constitution manacles them, and they don't really like it.
And they didn't hide it from us for four years.
The mass, they didn't even bother feeling like they needed to...
You know, mask it anymore.
So I pray to God Trump understands this is not something we want.
We'll be going through this again in four years unless he takes the right steps now.
This has to be the end of the progressive movement.
This is the end of the progressive movement.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, are there...
Sorry, go ahead.
No, please, go ahead.
Are there tangible things you feel like need to be done?
And by the way, I know we're running a little over, but just last question.
Is there tangible things that you think he could do to ensure...
Because that's my big concern, right?
Right now, it feels like we're in this kind of better version of America coming, but it not being a temporary fix.
What do we have to do in order to make sure that this is actually generational, that we don't have to keep going through this nonsense every election cycle?
Fortunately, There's an agreement in place.
We just have to go back to that contract.
It's called the United States Constitution.
We have over the last hundred years drifted farther and farther, and we need to go back to it.
Okay.
Okay.
Back to our Constitution.
Okay.
Awesome.
And these judges, these terrible judges, I mean, they're jokesters, these progressive activist judges who think they're super senators.
They think that they should be, you know, all of that has to come to an end.
And, I mean, we can have truth and reconciliation with nobody getting hung, but the quid pro quo is all of that is over.
The progressive movement crested and it's done.
Yeah.
For nobody getting hung.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, definitely the courts are a big concern here at America Happens.
I mean, we talk about it all the time.
You have all these judges with way too much power, way too much immunity.
You can't hold them accountable for doing unconstitutional things.
All things that need to fix themselves.
Patrick, this is awesome, man.
I really love having you on the show.
And this movie was mind-blowing.
I mean, it's almost like...
It's almost like there's so much in there, you know?
It's like you could probably make, if it was like a feature film, you could probably make a three-part piece out of this thing.
I mean, it's on a different level, even on something like a Bourne type of story that I guess Robert Ludlam was the author to, you know?
So amazing work, you know?
And if there's anything you want to say in closing...
Go to, if you can't remember the title, just go to patrickburnmovie.com and it will redirect you to enemywithindocuseries.com.
And do you have a code that you can give your viewers?
Yes, right down below in the description, we're going to have the code that your assistants actually just sent a little earlier.
Yes.
And it's up for $5 right now on Rumble.
But it's going to pop up in a matter of days.
It's going to be up on Amazon.
And once it's up on Amazon, it's going to be more like $12.
So save yourself a few shekels and get on right now.
And it's a lot of entertainment for $5.
It's a lot of entertainment.
It's really a lot of entertainment.
And the dialogue is actually word for word.
In many of the scenes, the dialogue is word for word.
It was a little eerie watching it.
Because I wrote the book and then I didn't have anything to do with it.
But then they made the movie from the book.
So the dialogue is word for word.
Wow.
So amazing.
So amazing that these kind of stories are finally coming out.
I feel like we're...
I don't know, Patrick.
I'm hopeful, man.
I think we're going to go into a renaissance.
I'm hoping this is an American renaissance and we actually improve a lot of the things that we didn't even know were wrong for the 1.0 version.
I mean, I don't know.
Your thoughts?
Well, inshallah.
Inshallah.
Awesome.
Viewers, thank you so much for joining us for this Blood Money episode.
Make sure you go to AmericaHappens.com, check out all of our past episodes, and make sure you check out the link below for The Enemy Within.
An amazing movie.
It's going to blow your mind, I'm telling you, the second...
I mean, I haven't stopped thinking about this thing for the last week and a half.
I was lucky enough to see a screener.
And so thank you so much for joining us for this episode.
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