May 16, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| Mr. Costello, in your opening statement, you said that in the over 50 years serving as a lawyer, you, quote, have never seen the types of politically motivated cases that have been brought in this presidential election season. | ||
| These political cases are being used as a weapon of war to damage, defeat, or impede political adversaries and their allies. | ||
| Instead of political warfare, it is lawfare, a cancer upon our collective judicial system. | ||
| I want to begin with Alvin Bragg's weaponized sham trial in New York. | ||
| Isn't it true that in Alvin Bragg's campaign for Manhattan D.A., Bragg specifically ran on going after President Donald Trump? | ||
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That is true. | |
| Isn't it true that Bragg's predecessor, Cy Vance, declined to prosecute President Trump? | ||
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That is true. | |
| And the FEC also did not prosecute President Trump? | ||
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That is true. | |
| And the DOJ did not prosecute President Trump in this case? | ||
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The DOJ referring to the U.S. | |
| Attorney for the Southern District? | ||
| Correct. | ||
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Absolutely true. | |
| And one of the reasons the Southern District of New York turned down this case was because the supposed star witness, according to Alvin Bragg, Michael Cohen, was totally, quote, unworthy of belief. | ||
| Isn't that true? | ||
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Without a doubt. | |
| This is the same Michael Cohen who pled guilty to seven counts in an indictment that had absolutely nothing to do with President Trump and actually predated the first time he met President Trump. | ||
| Correct? | ||
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Absolutely true. | |
| And in fact, this is the same Michael Cohen who perjured himself to Congress. | ||
| Isn't that true? | ||
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Yes. | |
| In fact, when called as a witness in this sham trial, Cohen was asked directly if he was honest during his testimony to Congress. | ||
| He said no, admitting perjury. | ||
| But it's not just Bragg's case that is a total sham and illegal political lawfare going after Joe Biden's top political opponent, Donald Trump. | ||
| This rot goes deep all the way up to the top in the Oval Office. | ||
| Because when Congress referred this admission of Cohen's perjury to Joe Biden's DOJ, isn't it true that the DOJ has refused to prosecute? | ||
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That is true. | |
| Michael Cohen, so obviously an over-the-top, is consumed by hatred for Donald Trump and wants him in prison and celebrating and is selling t-shirts, is outrageous. | ||
| We sort of take it for granted because this has just been Michael Cohen's public persona for the last five, six years. | ||
| But this should be a bonanza For cross-examination. | ||
| With three former federal prosecutors here, what would you do if you found out the eve of a big trial that your star witness was selling t-shirts showing the defendant in prison? | ||
| You'd have to think hard about dismissing the case. | ||
| That is a major flaw in the defense. | ||
| Especially if he's Cheeto-dusted. | ||
| That would be the worst. | ||
| Look, Michael Cohen has a sort of way with words that can get funny. | ||
| But, you know, laughing about a defendant going to jail is, I think, it's offensive to the jury. | ||
| That's not for Michael Cohen to say and fantasize about. | ||
| That's the worst part of all the things that Cohen has said. | ||
| It's one thing to say he's terrible, I don't like him, you know, use all sorts of swear words. | ||
| But if you are talking about the results of this case, I mean, that's what this case is about, whether Donald Trump is eligible to go to prison or not. | ||
| And you have Cohen campaigning for that. | ||
| That's a very negative, negative thing about him. | ||
| He should have spent the first hour on that. | ||
| Well, I don't think the jury's going to forget it. | ||
| He spent some time on it. | ||
| Through further cross-examination, Cohen told me that he knew there was money missing from the Trump inauguration. | ||
| I see where you are now. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And then on the next page, end of that first paragraph, Cohen decided that while he didn't believe the allegation of the Stormy Daniels story, Absolutely. | ||
| That he thought the story would be embarrassing for Trump and especially for Melania, so he decided he would take | ||
| care of it himself Absolutely, and that is contrary to what this guy testified | ||
| to in court in New York yesterday Well, what's not being talked about is your next paragraph | ||
| like the reason in his motivation for that So if you could just kind of walk through that for the | ||
| committee Yeah, obviously | ||
| When we started to talk about the NDA's and this is the very first meeting at the Regency Hotel when by the way | ||
| Rudy Giuliani was not involved in representing Donald Trump at that time. | ||
| Cohen testified that it was a conspiracy between Giuliani and Costello as of this date. | ||
| Totally false. | ||
| In any event, he also said that he didn't discuss the Stormy Daniels matter with us, and he certainly did. | ||
| I specifically asked him because he kept on going back saying, I can't believe they're trying to put me in jail for these NDAs. | ||
| So I said, Michael, tell me about the NDA. | ||
| Tell me about Stormy Daniels. | ||
| What did you do? | ||
| He said, I got a call from a lawyer representing Stormy Daniels who represented that she was going to testify that Donald Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| President Trump got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Wednesday, 15 May in the year of our Lord 2024, an explosive day on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. | ||
| We're going to get To it all, including breaking news about Peter Daszak, Natalie Winters will be with us, and of course an assassination attempt in Slovakia. | ||
| We'll get to that too. | ||
| I want to start with this weaponization committee on Capitol Hill. | ||
| You saw in the cold open right there, Elise Stefanik. | ||
| Coming in hot on this, Bob Castello, the lawyer. | ||
| I want to bring in Boris Epstein. | ||
| Boris, finally, and you know, the War Room took a starring role in this today because the Democrat head of the committee, the co-head of the committee, at least today, from the Virgin Islands, played part of the War Room, the video of the War Room, to say this is just a cult of Trump. | ||
| Demanding revenge your thoughts about this weaponization committee. | ||
| I know it's just a start It's just a lawyer subpoenas are not flying yet, but just give me your your overview on this Steve honor be with you honor me with a posse My thought is that this was a strong step and necessary step in order to continue to make clear that weaponization of law enforcement the degradation of our system of justice the absolute annihilation of of any sense of legality in this country at the hands of the Radical Democrats will not stand. | ||
| And today did again show that this witch hunt in New York is nothing but a complete and total political hoax, and that extends to all of the attacks against President Trump, the attacks which are absolutely boomeranging on the desperate Democrats. | ||
| You're seeing that in everything from Joe Biden's pathetic 15-second video where he had to do, what, six cuts? | ||
| And he couldn't even get through it. | ||
| 15 seconds, five or six cuts. | ||
| Absolute embarrassment for the illegitimate president of the United States. | ||
| They're going to create an excuse for the president of the United States. | ||
| So today, another strong day for the president. | ||
| Yesterday, a powerful day for President Trump with so much support for him, both in the courthouse and around the country. | ||
| Full spectrum dominance for President Trump, for MAGA, the War Room Party, and the American people. | ||
| Boris, you're going to have to help us out here. | ||
| I know you were in the courtroom for the last couple of days. | ||
| I know you're kind of the overall coordinator of all this, but I'm confused and I know the audience is confused. | ||
| We had Costello today and it was quite brilliant walking through with Elise Stefanik and Gates and Jim Jordan about his interactions and what What he said, what Cohen said. | ||
| You then got all the stuff from back in the impeachment hearing, right, when he was there. | ||
| He then went, he perjured himself, he's been a felon, he's been in prison. | ||
| Then you got all this coming out. | ||
| You even had, was it Honig on CNN, just sitting there with Jeffrey Toobin saying, hey, in any other case this would be thrown out if you had any witness for the prosecution. | ||
| That was the night before, every night, selling t-shirts, selling merchandise. | ||
| This Cohen thing is so confusing because it's so over the top. | ||
| I mean, where do you think this is going? | ||
| I don't want you to give a strategy, but there's so much there. | ||
| I mean, you could keep this guy on cross for two weeks if you wanted to get it all out, sir. | ||
| Let's go back out 10,000 feet, right? | ||
| What is this case all about? | ||
| This case is about a document, a record issue. | ||
| That's all it's about. | ||
| It's about business records. | ||
| It's not about anything else. | ||
| It's about business records. | ||
| And it's about legal expenses being notated as dot, dot, dot legal expenses. | ||
| And after President Trump has been confined and stuck in that disgusting courtroom, in | ||
| that freezing icebox now for over a month, what does the prosecution come up with? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| And you've got CNN saying that. | ||
| You've got MSNBC saying that. | ||
| That it's absolutely universally accepted now that there's no case. | ||
| This whole thing is just a charade. | ||
| And now there's some time left in it. | ||
| President Trump's lawyers are doing a great job. | ||
| They're continuing to be on the offense. | ||
| And the president is delivering those powerhouse statements from the courthouse, which are dominating. | ||
| And again, absolutely smacking these radical Democrats in the face. | ||
| I mean, look, even at the New York Times, the president is up 13 in Nevada. | ||
| President Trump is taking these attacks and throwing them in the face of crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats, and that's absolutely dominating. | ||
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It is dominating America today. | |
| Tomorrow, I think there's going to be a markup in another committee about Merrick Garland. | ||
| Can you walk us through your thoughts on this? | ||
| That they're going to basically hold Merrick Garland accountable for, I guess, holding back the videotapes or the audiotapes about the bogus classified documents, the audiotapes of Biden to the Ghostwriter. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| There's going to be a markup tomorrow on that? | ||
| Well, the dual system of justice in this country has never been more visible than now. | ||
| Look at how the January 6th hostages are being treated versus how those who are looting and setting campuses on fire and those who set police headquarters and courthouses on fire in 2020. | ||
| We need to have a real system of justice. | ||
| And for why Merrick Garland is choosing to hold those back, we all know why. | ||
| Because Rob Herz Report was so devastating, so devastating to Joe Biden. | ||
| They can't take even an iota more because Robert stated loud and clear that effectively they didn't charge Biden because he couldn't make it through a trial because he's not mentally equipped. | ||
| And so we're going to have a markup tomorrow. | ||
| Last thing I want to get from you is that today, the president did a challenge to debate Biden a couple of times. | ||
| I think Biden's kind of stumbled through a response, but now they're backing off. | ||
| I think his spokesman, I don't know if we have the CNN clip ready, but his spokesman said, hey, oh no, we never agreed to an audience, a live audience. | ||
| They've sent a letter. | ||
| What the hell's going on? | ||
| What's going on is that President Trump has been very specific. | ||
| He will debate Crooker Joe Biden anytime, anyplace, anywhere. | ||
| He's ready to take him on and show the American people again the stark contrast between the | ||
| strength, the power, and the love for America of President Donald J. Trump versus the absolute | ||
| decrepit nature, the lack of knowledge, lack of intelligence, and lack of any sort of relationship | ||
| to the American people of Joe Biden. | ||
| And it appears that that's going to be happening. | ||
| That's big news. | ||
| And the more the merrier of these debates, President Trump has accepted CNN, he's accepted | ||
| ABC, and he's also accepted Fox News. | ||
| For some reason, Joe Biden thinks he can also only get away with two debates. | ||
| That's a major mistake because the American people will see right through that. | ||
| They know that Joe Biden is hiding. | ||
| And again, he couldn't even get to a 15-second video without taking five or six or 10 or | ||
| whatever it was takes. | ||
| How is he going to get through a debate? | ||
| This is somebody who has no idea what day it is, wasn't so smart to begin with, and | ||
| it's going to be annihilated by the powerhouse that's President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Boris, I think we had a pretty good day, don't you? | ||
| We had a big day, we had a big week, we had a big year, and more wins are on the horizon. | ||
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| Now more than ever we need to be on top of what Boris Epstein is putting out. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| Steve, thank you so much. | ||
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| Stay strong, God bless, and all the best. | ||
| By the way, Boris, thank you so much. | ||
| So a big day. | ||
| So a markup tomorrow. | ||
| By the way, I don't know if they're going to get through the markup or they can do it. | ||
| I think there's some Republicans maybe going up to New York to show support for President Trump. | ||
| We love seeing that every day. | ||
| We're going to have, I think we're trying to have Jeff Clark on tomorrow morning with Andrew Giuliani. | ||
| Mike Davis is gonna join us to walk through this very second important day of the cross | ||
| of Michael Cohen. | ||
| I believe that that cross will take more than they said they're gonna try to wrap it up | ||
| Thursday. | ||
| I'm not so sure. | ||
| I think they've got a lot to dive down on. | ||
| Then on also on Thursday, they're gonna do a markup on a contempt of Merrick Garland | ||
| for holding back the audio tape of this of this interview, I think, between the ghost | ||
| writer and Joe Biden. | ||
| We're in his own words, you can see exactly what he had to say. | ||
| The Justice Department holding that back from everybody in Congress. | ||
| OK, we're gonna take a short break. | ||
| Julie Kelly's gonna join us on the other side. | ||
| We also have Brad Devlin from the American Conservative. | ||
| Natalie Winters. | ||
| Natalie got a big scalp today. | ||
| They officially I think it was HHS officially cut off all money to Peter Daszak. | ||
| And hey, that was on the investigation of Natalie Winters. | ||
| So big day here in the war room. | ||
| They started for the Weaponization Committee with you, the posse on fire saying, hey, these | ||
| Trump cultists, all they want is scalps. | ||
| Well, hey, yeah. | ||
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Use your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Okay, honored to have Julie Kelly on. | ||
| Julie, I know you've been running around like a madman, but I've got two questions. | ||
| Number one, I know you caught some of the weaponization today. | ||
| Give us your assessment. | ||
| I mean, it's rewarding, gratifying, especially, you know, kudos to you and your team for continuing relentlessly to hammerhouse Republicans For some accountability and moving the ball forward on all of this lawfare. | ||
| So it was great to, you know, to see the expose, more exposure about what's happening in New York and Alvin Bragg's prosecution, Lise Planick and others calling out Dan Goldman for working with Lauren Merchant, the daughter of the judge, being a consultant for him, while at the same time then | ||
| advising Michael Cohen and his testimony. | ||
| So these are the things that really only congressional hearings can achieve in a way, | ||
| or some sort of news coverage, and really revealing and disclosing to the American people | ||
| what is happening behind the scenes as they're trying to catch up and keep up with everything | ||
| that's happening. No, I think Costello's opening statement and then his being questioned by Gates | ||
| and by Stefanik and others was pretty shocking. | ||
| It really adds to the complexity and more layering onto this Michael Cohen situation. | ||
| I mean, it is, since they haven't identified a crime, I don't see how they can take Michael Cohen seriously as a witness. | ||
| I mean, after this, it's just absolutely shocking. | ||
| You put out, because we follow you and everybody does very closely, you put out Something that upset us the other day, we actually had it in the cold open, and that was Lisa Monaco, Merrick Garland, and Chris Wray coming out with this election security, and all the election officials are being bothered, and they're basically saying, buy MAGA, and this is gonna be huge. | ||
| We're gonna be on top of this. | ||
| It's the day after The weekend where all the bad polls came out that shows Biden is absolutely getting blown out everywhere. | ||
| And then you said yesterday, you said you sent it out and said the three thugs and nothing below these people. | ||
| What did you mean by that? | ||
| Well, when you see Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, the deputy attorney general, longtime Obama loyalist, one of the chief architects of Russia by the gate, and Chris Wray in the same room together, you know something sinister is afoot. | ||
| And that certainly is what came out of that press briefing that was basically a warning to the American people that, Steve, they are going to use federal law enforcement authority to go after whatever the FBI and law enforcement and DOJ deems is a quote-unquote threat to election workers or election officials. | ||
| Now we know what this means, and Steve, this is what I also posted. | ||
| I have seen memes, posts, social media posts, critical of Democrats, critical of, you know, election voting fraud, making fun of the 2020 election, talking about how illegitimate it was. | ||
| I have seen those sort of memes and posts used as incriminating evidence against January 6th defendants in sentencing memos. | ||
| So this is another acceleration of the quote-unquote, you know, going after domestic terrorists, meaning MAGA supporters. | ||
| Whatever they interpret as a threat, whether it's a text to someone, | ||
| whether you're posting on social media, whether you make a video that's critical | ||
| of your local election clerk or your secretary of state who's in charge of elections, | ||
| DOJ can then declare that that is some sort of a threat, investigate you, possibly charge you and prosecute you. | ||
| This is through silence, criticism of the 2024 election just as we tried to do after 2020. | ||
| Yeah, this is, because it dovetails perfectly over the weekend. | ||
| Mainstream media just hammering every Republican. | ||
| Will you accept right now the results of the 2024 election? | ||
| People say, hey, let's have it first. | ||
| Make sure it's free, fair, certifiable, chain of custody, only American citizens voting, all of those things that didn't happen in 2020. | ||
| And then right after that, two days later, they come out. | ||
| Are they trying to intimidate MAGA? | ||
| By saying, if you guys try to, you know, watch these bogus ballot drop boxes, if you guys are on top of the mail-in ballots, if you guys are sitting there questioning people as election officials and election workers, that they're going to come after you criminally. | ||
| Was that the shot across the bow by these three thugs? | ||
| Absolutely what it was. | ||
| And they're not even trying to conceal it, Steve. | ||
| They're very brazen and flagrant about it. | ||
| Because they understand that despite all their best efforts, think of the tens of millions of dollars of resources and manpower that went into January 6th, trying to criminalize a four-hour protest against a rigged election. | ||
| Now you still have as many Republicans, if not more. | ||
| I believe to this day that the 2020 election was not legitimate. | ||
| They really thought that everything, all the lawfare, all the armed raids, all of the incarcerating, imprisoning of Trump supporters, late January 6th, could somehow change our mind about the 2020 election. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| And now we actually have some court wins and some wins in state legislatures and state governors who are securing elections. | ||
| He did not foresee this, so now they have to pivot to the next element of alleged, you know, MAGA terrorism, which is, to your point, if you show up at a polling place, you show up where they're counting ballots, and you want to observe what's going on, DOJ and FBI can fly in there, swoop in with local law enforcement, declare that you are somehow threatening or intimidating these election workers, and charge you with whatever made-up crime that they want. | ||
| That used to be under the purview of local, county, state authorities. | ||
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The feds have no business in this whatsoever. | |
| This is the continuation of federalizing these crimes that Lisa Monaco and Chris Gray and Merrick Garland, Matthew Grace, whoever it is, make up in their heads to grab any statute that they can, turn it into a federal offense, and then Americans are charged accordingly. | ||
| That's exactly what that is. | ||
| And this is also a signal that all 56 FBI field offices and all 96 U.S. | ||
| Attorney's offices are on notice. | ||
| This is your priority until the end of this year. | ||
| They can't beat Trump. | ||
| They only use lawfare or try to steal it by using the Justice Department. | ||
| Julie, how do people get you? | ||
| How do they follow you on social media, ma'am? | ||
| Julie underscore Kelly two at X Twitter Julie underscore Kelly at truth social and at declassified with Julie Kelly on sub stack and real clear investigation. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| Thanks for stepping out today of your meeting and doing this for us. | ||
| Appreciate Julie Kelly. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Thanks so much. | ||
| When Julie Kelly says there are three thugs, she's not kidding. | ||
| Keep a close eye on this. | ||
| There are no coincidences. | ||
| It was shot across the bow. | ||
| Also, Phillip Patrick. | ||
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| The next day, Scott Besant. | ||
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| Brad Devlin joins us, American conservative. Brad, first off, your thoughts on the | ||
| Weaponization Committee hearing today, sir? Well, it's all your fault, Steve. I can't | ||
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I can't believe you'd do this to America. | |
| And you know, Stacey Plaskett better be careful for going after Ms. | ||
| Winters. | ||
| You know, she's one tough cookie. | ||
| I wouldn't choose that matchup if I was her. | ||
| She's going to lose that one. | ||
| Just ask Jim Jordan. | ||
| No, it's all your fault. | ||
| I can't believe you'd do this. | ||
| I can't believe that we, you know, Matt Gaetz was on his game today in all seriousness. | ||
| I thought he did a phenomenal job at outlining exactly what's going on with lawfare. | ||
| You know, we get caught up in kind of the glitz and glamour sometimes, Steve, of these trials, right? | ||
| We've got four different Trump trials and 95 different, you know, different charges and all this stuff. | ||
| No, sometimes it happens in back rooms, like that old, you know, kind of Just gritty, cringy politics of back rooms filled with smoke. | ||
| And that's where this happens a lot of the times, right? | ||
| Dangling different pardons or dangling judgeships over certain lawyers who are supposed to represent, you know, the American people and are supposed to represent people who are facing the full crackdown of the American government. | ||
| I think Gates did a wonderful job today. | ||
| And, you know, congratulations on being entered into the congressional record once again. | ||
| Not too shabby. | ||
| Tragedy today. | ||
| We're going to discuss this more at 6 o'clock. | ||
| Ben Harnwell is going to actually join us. | ||
| He's near the Vatican. | ||
| He's going to call in. | ||
| We're going to talk to him. | ||
| But Slovakia talked as an attempted assassination attempt on an anti-Ukraine war prime minister, president. | ||
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Yeah, you prepared it quite well. | |
| This is Fico out in Slovakia, and he's kind of this, like, Orban-type figure, right? | ||
| We all know Viktor Orban at this point, a mainstay in Hungarian politics. | ||
| Fico's that way for Slovakia. | ||
| He's been prime minister three different times. | ||
| Assassination attempt today, we still don't know all the details. | ||
| We do know he's in critical condition, that the gunman was probably politically motivated and fired five shots at the prime minister. | ||
| From my perspective, Steve, you know, he's had a very interesting past. | ||
| He was once a member of the Communist Party, but that was only the only party at the time, right? | ||
| If the Communist Party takes over and we're all doomed to be communists, then you bet I'm going to become a communist. | ||
| I'm going to communist the communists. | ||
| That was kind of Fico's point of view. | ||
| He's also had some run-ins. | ||
| I mean, this is an Eastern European country, right? | ||
| He's gonna have his run-ins with corruption and the like. | ||
| But this happens now, right? | ||
| This didn't happen in 2018 when a lot of hay was being made over Fico's alleged corruption. | ||
| This didn't happen back in the in the late 90s. | ||
| This is happening today when Slovakia is one of the most outspoken members of the region, a border state of Ukraine, saying that this war needs to come to an end and that the West is continuing to escalate It's not only the United States, it's central western powers too, right, like France, that are continuing to escalate, and that's not good for anyone in the region, much less the Ukrainian people, whose entire youth, entire generations of Ukrainians have now perished in this war. | ||
| Brad, if you can hang on for one second, I want to, something else happened in Ukraine, I want your take on that. | ||
| We're going to hold Brad Devlin through the break. | ||
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Fighting, not just for Ukraine, but for the free world. | |
| And the free world is with you, too. | ||
| So maybe we can try something? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Keep on rockin' to the river. | ||
| Keep on rockin' to the river. | ||
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| Embarrassment, Secretary of State Brad Devlin. | ||
| In Kharkiv, it looks like the spring offensive of the Russians, it has nothing to do with when money arrives, it's all lies. | ||
| It's about the 500,000 troops they could not raise from their own young people because the parents got them out of the country, paid for them to get out of the country. | ||
| And you've got a Secretary of State, supposedly in a war zone, I don't know, at a nightclub? | ||
| What are your thoughts? | ||
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Yeah, well, Tony Blinken can play the guitar all he wants in the middle of Kiev. | |
| I mean, he's never going to become president. | ||
| Sorry, Tony, you're not Bill Clinton. | ||
| Listen, I was in Hungary in 2022, just after the war started. | ||
| I went to the border of Hungary and Ukraine. | ||
| There I talked to people working the border, saying, people are coming through with Rolls-Royces, Maybachs, luxury, luxury vehicles, top of the line. | ||
| And they had suitcases and trunks filled with cash and paraphernalia. | ||
| And who was in the driver's seat? | ||
| A young man trying to get out of the country. | ||
| Those men aren't there anymore. | ||
| Ukraine doesn't have any men, especially after they threw people against the Russian line time and time and time again. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Not only did the private capital fly out of the country, it's the public capital too. | ||
| Where did all that public capital go? | ||
| Oh, Well, we don't know. | ||
| Sorry, we were supposed to defend Kharkiv with it. | ||
| Sorry, America. | ||
| Sorry, U.S. | ||
| benefactors. | ||
| Because, you know, obviously the Ukrainian government has no money of its own right now. | ||
| So sorry, we don't know where all that went. | ||
| Oh, wait, sorry, it's in my garage. | ||
| It's a new Porsche 911. | ||
| You know, this is just another example of the U.S. | ||
| military-industrial complex getting its way And lawmakers in Washington being too stupid to realize what's going on here because they're trying to retrofit everything into this broken Cold War paradigm that's been dead since the 90s. | ||
| And they can't possibly wrap their brain around the fact that Ukraine is potentially just as corrupt as Russia. | ||
| Or worse. | ||
| Far worse. | ||
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Or worse. | |
| Brad, where do people get you on social media over the American conservative? | ||
| You guys are on fire. | ||
| We want everybody to go to the site. | ||
|
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Yeah, thanks. | |
| Check out TheAmericanConservative.com. | ||
| We have a podcast called TAC right now as well, where I play host there. | ||
| And also make sure to check out my social media, at Bradley Devlin on Twitter, or I guess we're calling it X now. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Brad, thank you very much. | ||
| Do we have a cold open for Natalie, or just bring her in? | ||
| Cold open? | ||
| Oh, just bring her in. | ||
| Okay, Natalie, you had a big scalp today, ma'am. | ||
| First off, you got two. | ||
| You got a major shout-out in a congressional hearing. | ||
| They're blaming it all on you, not on me, on you. | ||
| And then you got a scalp with Peter Daszak. | ||
| Give me both. | ||
| What did it feel like having your, what they said, the pushing of the executive producer of The War Room caused them to have the weaponization? | ||
| Then I want to ask about the scalp you got on Peter Daszak. | ||
| Well, it was news to me that I'm the executive producer of The War Room. | ||
| I think that's Cameron's job, so I think the Democrats should do a little better research. | ||
| But frankly, Steve, I think today what we saw with, of course, the wonderful clip of War Room being played, and I guess my tweet that was meant to troll that committee being read aloud to them by the Democrat-ranking member, that's pretty good comedy. | ||
| I couldn't even write that myself. | ||
| But I think it shows that all of this talk about how we need to embrace unity and how we can't embrace the chaos, that that narrative is totally dead, right? | ||
| In a world which War Room didn't exist, in a world that you didn't exist, in a world that the War Room posse didn't exist, that hearing would not have happened today. | ||
| So when all these people, the Speaker Mike Johnson's of the world, we need to continue | ||
| to call their bluff. | ||
| Now what will come of this hearing, who necessarily knows, but I think it shows you the powerful | ||
| raw political force that this movement is. | ||
| And honestly, it got me thinking when we hear these people say, you know, unity, unity, | ||
| bipartisanship, that's what we need. | ||
| It's like when they say Islam means peace. | ||
| It doesn't mean peace. | ||
| It means submission. | ||
| And that's what these people mean, too, when they say they want unity. | ||
| They want complete and utter submission. | ||
| And I think Republicans have gotten way too used to losing because we have way too many people among the kind of controlled opposition style in our ranks. | ||
| And frankly, Steve, when I was listening to today's hearing, I got throwbacks. | ||
| I had deja vu to the 2020 election cycle, where it seemed like every other witness, every other day, there was evidence, there was reports coming out. | ||
| Showing that there was smoking gun evidence, that there was fraud, that there was corruption. | ||
| But nothing ever happened because lawmakers didn't ever actually do anything. | ||
| So I think we need to turn the tide. | ||
| We need to continue pushing and forcing these members to actually do something. | ||
| So I'll say it again, like I said in my tweet, wouldn't it be great if a House Judiciary GOP actually does something? | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Talk about dastard. | ||
| If it had not been for your investigative reporting over years, this would not happen today. | ||
| Tell us what happened. | ||
| Yeah, today was a big day. | ||
| EcoHealth Alliance can no longer receive taxpayer funds after a ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services. | ||
| They sided pretty extensively from the COVID Select Committee, but I would caution against this too. | ||
| You know, don't miss the forest for the trees, twofold. | ||
| One being that EcoHealth Alliance is just one entity that has received You know, tens of millions, if not probably a hundred million in your taxpayer dollars to, you know, fight pandemics while conveniently benefiting when they fail at their job. | ||
| But there's institutional rot at the National Institutes of Health, right? | ||
| EcoHealth Alliance is not the only grant recipient that was collaborating quite openly with the Chinese Communist Party and their military proxies. | ||
| And more broadly, when you take a step back, it's great that the COVID Select Committee | ||
| is focusing on the origins of COVID, going after Peter Doshak, going after EcoHealth Alliance, | ||
| but the COVID story doesn't just start, and frankly, doesn't end with Peter Doshak. | ||
| They need to dive into the vaccines. | ||
| They need to dive into how US intelligence agencies played such a critical role in the coverup of it. | ||
| Again, we will give them credit when credit is due, but this should be an opening salvo, not the last stand. | ||
| opening salvo. Uh, Natalie. | ||
| Natalie, where do they go now that we know that you're not executive producer, right? | ||
| Where do people go to follow you? | ||
| You are on fire, young woman. | ||
| It's pretty cool. | ||
| Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Great work as usual, Natalie. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's a great thing about the RAV Palm Beach Studios. | ||
| You never know who's going to drop in. | ||
| Eduardo Vesga, one of my oldest, dearest colleagues. | ||
| Now, I got a question. | ||
| You're in Palm Beach. | ||
| I thought after the massive success of Sound of Freedom, right? | ||
| And you were the producer of it. | ||
| You know, you're always one of the big stars. | ||
| You're one of the biggest stars in Mexico. | ||
| We were going to launch. | ||
| And right now you'd be in the driving force, driving home to be president of Mexico. | ||
| You had so much support. | ||
| Tell me what happened. | ||
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Well, Steve, because of the success of Son of Freedom, of course, I was inspired knowing that this is a global problem, child trafficking, knowing that in Mexico more than 21,000 disappear every year. | |
| I was inspired to register and to run for president of Mexico as an independent. | ||
| But what I needed to do because I don't have a party, I don't have an infrastructure, you know, I have the name recognition and I have the, you know, the love for Mexico. | ||
| I was willing to give my life. | ||
| I'm willing to give my life. | ||
| I'm willing to sacrifice for my country because I love my people. | ||
| So I needed to raise one million signatures through an app that is controlled by them. | ||
| So, good luck with that one, right? | ||
| I needed one million signatures. | ||
| But you're also, from Sound of Freedom, you were running against the cartels. | ||
| You're running, as you said, we have a demand problem here in the United States. | ||
| There's demand of this heinous crime, right? | ||
| But you have a supply. | ||
| You're the first guy that said, hey, we've got a supply problem on my side. | ||
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Number one provider. | |
| Number one provider, and we must stop that. | ||
| This is going to destroy Mexico. | ||
| But in doing that, the people making the money, besides people in the government, the people | ||
| that make it work are the cartels. | ||
| You were running against the cartels. | ||
| That's what shut it down. | ||
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They blocked me from every angle, from every angle, including Instagram. | |
| You know, if you wanted to follow me on Instagram, those 120 days when I needed to raise 1 million | ||
| signatures, it says, are you sure you want to follow Eduardo Verastegui on this, who | ||
| puts false information? | ||
| Come on! | ||
| You know how much that courting lasted? | ||
| 120 days. | ||
| Exactly the time that I needed to, that they gave me to raise the 1 million signatures. | ||
| So they blocked me from every angle. | ||
| Who? | ||
| The same people. | ||
| We have a narco estado. | ||
| Narco estado. | ||
| Narco state. | ||
| You know, they control everything. | ||
| We have seven political parties in Mexico. | ||
| They're all the same. | ||
| These guys, they have kidnapped our country, raped our country for decades. | ||
| And as I always say, Mexico is a very rich country where a lot of poor people are living. | ||
| And it's not fair. | ||
| There's a lot of corruption. | ||
| Tell our audience what you mean by that. | ||
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Well, it means that we have a very rich country where there's a lot of corruption. | |
| We don't have democracy. | ||
| You have natural resources, beautiful land, great agriculture. | ||
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Everything. | |
| And the people, the people are being raped for decades, for decades, for decades. | ||
| Good Catholic people working hard. | ||
| You know, they work hard. | ||
| They love their country. | ||
| They love God. | ||
| You know, we're all Catholics. | ||
| We pray the rosary every day. | ||
| But then we have this government. | ||
| Mexico is a Catholic country, Christian country, governed by anti-Christian, anti-Catholic government. | ||
| This is from the Civil War, right? | ||
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This is for the last 100 years. | |
| 100 years, because the secularists took over and said, we got to get the church out of here. | ||
| And they hate the church. | ||
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They hate the church. | |
| They hate God. | ||
| They hate the church. | ||
| They hate everything. | ||
| And they still, you know, they're professional thieves. | ||
| They say that we have democracy, like INE for example. | ||
| INE is the referee of the elections, right? | ||
| They play with them. | ||
| I'm suing them right now. | ||
| I'm suing them right now because, you know, they play this false democracy. | ||
| And I wanted to raise, because I knew that my advisors, they told me, Eduardo, but You don't have a political party. | ||
| You're against these criminals. | ||
| Why are you doing this? | ||
| I mean, you stopped your entire Sound of Freedom tour worldwide to do this. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because I want to prove to my people that there is no democracy and there's a lot of corruption. | ||
| And we proved that. | ||
| We won. | ||
| Now, what's the next step? | ||
| Because we have elections on June 2nd. | ||
| You're going to have a socialist. | ||
| Here in three weeks, we're going to have a socialist. | ||
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Two women. | |
| Imagine. | ||
| It's like having Hillary Clinton on one side against Kamala Harris on the other side. | ||
| Can you imagine what a joke? | ||
| A conservative country. | ||
| Don't go there. | ||
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Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton. | |
| And guess what's going to happen? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| They're bringing electronic machines to Mexico for the first time. | ||
| Do you think that's a coincidence? | ||
| I mean, these guys are professionals. | ||
| This is the biggest voting election in history, right? | ||
| Worldwide, more than 50 countries are going to elections. | ||
| Yes, all at the same time, yes. | ||
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And guess what? | |
| It's going to be the biggest stealing election ever in history as well, if we don't wake up and we don't do something about it. | ||
| What's going to be the interaction with the United States, particularly when President Trump comes back? | ||
| We have a socialist A female socialist president in Mexico. | ||
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You know, I think our next step, Steve, is we need to build a political party in Mexico. | |
| A real, conservative, political, right-wing political party in Mexico. | ||
| And I'm doing that. | ||
| This is going to be next year in January. | ||
| We're going to build, there is a momentum, there is a movement, growing and growing and growing because now there are people in Mexico that are waking. | ||
| Are people seeing it? | ||
| Every day. | ||
| But now we don't have options. | ||
| We don't have alternatives. | ||
| We have between a globalist and a lefty. | ||
| It's like, again, Michael Obama, Michelle Obama, I'm sorry, and Hillary Clinton on the other hand. | ||
| Imagine, we don't have an alternative and they stole my signatures. | ||
| But the cartels control it all. | ||
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They're going to elect the next president of Mexico. | |
| Imagine that. | ||
| So what do we need to do? | ||
| I always say this, Steve. | ||
| We are not just neighbors. | ||
| We're brothers and sisters. | ||
| And when freedom fighters from Mexico, they meet with freedom fighters of America and they work together, what's the result? | ||
| Sound of freedom. | ||
| Now, what happened with the bad people of Mexico meets with the bad people of the United States? | ||
| They shake hands. | ||
| What's the result? | ||
| Sentinel. | ||
| Drugs, child trafficking, human trafficking. | ||
| So what do we need to do? | ||
| We need to work together to eradicate as much as we can all the bad stuff that we do to each other so we can focus on the good stuff that we do to each other and capitalize that and then let's make Mexico and America great again. | ||
| We're going to hold you through the break. | ||
| How do you go up against the cartels? | ||
| Because you see every day in the Daily Mail they have another story about cartels going to kill local politicians, intimidate people. | ||
| How is it that people can actually stand up against them? | ||
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Well, they've been doing that for decades. | |
| I think the only way is working through a bilateral effort. | ||
| working together. | ||
| But see, what's the response of Mexico when Donald Trump offered to help? | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You need to respect the sovereignty of our country, right? | ||
| Which sovereignty? | ||
| They're the first ones who raped the sovereignty of our countries because they're involved with the cartels. | ||
| So we need to work together, but we need to first elect good people in government in Mexico. | ||
| And right now we have, I mean, I don't want to say that everyone is corrupt there because there are good people working in government, but the ones who control, the ones who, you know, move the needles, They're corrupt. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| Eduardo's gonna be on the other side. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bass. | |
| Two things I want to talk about. | ||
| Jack Pasovic and I today did a special couple of segments about Vox's conference. | ||
| They're somebody that inspires me. | ||
| When I see what they've done in Spain, I know you're very involved with them. | ||
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You're going to go over and see them. | |
| They're like my best friends. | ||
| Santiago Pascal, he is the president of Vox. | ||
| I'm going to be in Spain with him next week. | ||
| We're going to show some freedom there. | ||
| We're going to sign an agreement with Santiago where we commit to end all types of child trafficking in Spain. | ||
| Same agreement that we just signed with Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni in Italy a few weeks ago. | ||
| Tell me about Meloni. | ||
| Giorgio saw the movie. | ||
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She saw the movie, and she was inspired, and she told me, what else we can do? | |
| Well, I was not prepared, but I have this document here. | ||
| I have this agreement in Italian, and her staff, you know, revised the entire thing. | ||
| And a few days later, she signed the agreement because she said, you know, Italian children and GATS children are not for sale. | ||
| We need to put children first. | ||
| And because of what she did, she's leading by example. | ||
| Now, of course, Spain, Croatia, we're going to go to the European Parliament. | ||
| Italy and Spain have a problem because of the North Africa and come from the Middle East. | ||
|
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Sometimes these immigrant children are coming but with fake passports and they're putting, you know, that they're like 20 years old and they're 10 years old. | |
| So it's very difficult for them to filter, you know, who is who. | ||
| But this is a global problem, brother. | ||
| It's happening everywhere, everywhere, not just here in Mexico. | ||
| Why is it right wing? | ||
| Why is it people like Vox? | ||
| Why is it Georgia Maloney? | ||
| Why is it people like Trump? | ||
| Why is it people on the center right that understand what this problem is and the left continues to look the other way? | ||
|
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It's very simple, hermano. | |
| Very simple. | ||
| Because these guys, they are... | ||
| Trying very hard to legalize pedophilia, minor attraction. | ||
| That's what the agenda is. | ||
| Tell our audience about that. | ||
| Tell me about the process. | ||
|
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What is gender ideology? | |
| It's equal sexual children abuse. | ||
| That's what it is, bottom line. | ||
| So, of course, Georgia Meloni, Santiago Pascal, President Trump, Bukele, Millet, many more. | ||
| Exactly, we are protecting children because God's children are not for sale. | ||
| They're the present, they're the future, they're the future decision makers. | ||
| What kind of decisions are they going to make if we adults don't take care of them now? | ||
| Now! You know, we follow this principle that says your children are my children and I will give my life for their | ||
| protection. | ||
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That's why we're freedom fighters, you know? | |
| I know you want to be president of Mexico now, but I think that's in your future. | ||
| Isn't the movie, isn't it causing a movement that you're reaching Giorgi Moloney in Italy, that you're reaching the Vox team in Spain, that you're reaching Nigel and Trump, that people now see this as a global movement? | ||
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It's a global movement. | |
| It's worldwide. | ||
| It's growing and growing. | ||
| This is just the beginning, you know? | ||
| That's why I say this in the last time you interviewed me. | ||
| You know, they can take me. | ||
| They can take, you know, Alejandro Monteverde, all the producers. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| They cannot take millions of people that are now ambassadors of freedom. | ||
| And that's why I want to tell every Latino that is watching right now, it's very important. | ||
| This is the most important elections in history, in November. | ||
| These elections are more important than the United States. | ||
| In the United States. | ||
|
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In Mexico, yes. | |
| I'm talking about the United States. | ||
| You think for Hispanics, this is more important what happens here than even in Mexico? | ||
|
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This is the most, in the United States, this is the most important elections in history. | |
| For the United States, for Mexico, and for the world. | ||
| This is very important. | ||
| So everything is at stake right now. | ||
| So every Latino that is watching me, I am Eduardo Verasti, and I want to invite you to vote for Donald Trump in November. | ||
| Donald Trump 2024, baby. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| If you want to You've dedicated your life to eradicating this problem of child sex trafficking. | ||
| Do you actually believe in your heart of hearts it can be done? | ||
|
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Yes. | |
| Why? | ||
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If Donald Trump wins? | |
| It seems like such a huge mountain to climb. | ||
|
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Yes, but there's nothing impossible for God, you know? | |
| If we give ourselves to God and we pray... How do we break the demand side of the equation? | ||
| What's so humiliating and embarrassing that the United States of America is such a magnet for this because of the demand? | ||
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How do we do that? | |
| Many fronts. | ||
| Many fronts. | ||
| It's not just one front. | ||
| Of course, prayer is the most important thing. | ||
| Catholics pray the rosary every day for the end of child trafficking, right? | ||
| When Donald Trump saw the movie, the first thing he told me, you know, we need to work together. | ||
| We will end this. | ||
| We will end this. | ||
| It's in his heart. | ||
| I saw it in his eyes. | ||
| He told me we will end this together. | ||
| Trump at Bedminster. | ||
| He was so moved by the movie. | ||
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He was so moved. | |
| And he was, you know, I'm so grateful to him because he didn't have to do that. | ||
| And he became ambassador of the movie. | ||
| He endorsed the movie. | ||
| Stayed for the whole time. | ||
| He stayed for the whole time, had a huge audience in Bedminster, then did a podcast with you afterwards, then had a private meeting. | ||
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Then he did a video, talking about the movie and everything, and he keeps talking about the movie. | |
| Because he saw not a movie, he saw a movement that is growing and growing and growing, and that movement is growing in Mexico, because parents, they care about children, and they didn't know this from what's happening every day. | ||
| 21,000 children disappear in Mexico every year. | ||
| This is the official numbers. | ||
| I think this is much higher, much higher, much higher. | ||
| So parents, they need to open their eyes, you know, be careful what they're watching in the, in the, in the, uh, you know, in social media, you know, you can be in a bulletproof house thinking the sun is okay. | ||
| And he's demons right there. | ||
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He's talking to another kid, but the other kids is kidnapped by adults. | |
| And then they started exchanging pictures and it's very dangerous, you know, schools. | ||
| I mean, The books that the kids are reading in schools right now, | ||
| it's pornography. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because again, Democrats are trying to legalize pedophilia. | ||
| Be careful with these perverts. | ||
| Democrats, they don't care about your children. | ||
| They want to rape your children. | ||
| Where do people go to find you? | ||
| How do they follow you? | ||
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Eduardo Verastegui. | |
| On Instagram, Facebook, and on Twitter. | ||
| E. Verastegui. | ||
| E. Verastegui. | ||
| I'm going to have you back on and talk about it. | ||
| You've got a lot of movies you're working on, too. | ||
| Mike Lindell. | ||
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