Sept. 25, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies. | |
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot on 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 try 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. Bound. | |
| But overall with the CR, as our leader just noted, we have broken the Christmas omni. | ||
| And I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition. | ||
| So there won't be a Christmas Omni bus. | ||
| Somebody asked me in the hallway a little while ago, will there be many buses? | ||
| We don't want any buses. | ||
| We're not going to do any buses, okay? | ||
| We'll deal with that in the lame duck. | ||
| And I'm going to hope, I'm going to plead, I'm going to urge the Senate to do their job. | ||
| As Leader Scalise noted, they have not done that. | ||
| This is Chuck Schumer's fault. | ||
| It is not the House Republicans that we're in the position where we have to have a resolution to continue funding the government at the end of the fiscal year. | ||
| We did our work. | ||
| We passed 12 appropriations bills through the committee process in record time. | ||
| We put them on the floor. | ||
| Almost 73% of federal funding has been passed through the House. | ||
| We sent it all over to the Senate, and they've done nothing. | ||
| They did not one bill, and they would not negotiate with us on the top line. | ||
| So here we are. | ||
| We loathe CRs as much as anyone, but this is the situation that the Senate Democrat leadership put us in. | ||
| It would be political malpractice to shut the government down. | ||
| I think everyone understands that, and so we hope that this will get done quickly and we get everybody back home to their districts to work and to the campaign trail. | ||
| Here in the War Room, it's Tuesday, September 24th, in the year of our Lord, 2024. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters holding the fort down. | ||
| That's, of course, Republican leadership holding their press conference today. | ||
| Although maybe we should actually call them the Welcome Committee for the largest state-sponsored invasion that this country's ever seen. | ||
| Or should we call them the guarantors of the largest taxpayer-subsidized money laundering operation—that is, Ukraine foreign aid—that we have even less insight into than our elections here in the United States? | ||
| Or maybe we should call them the worst investigators ever. | ||
| And I'm not just talking about weaponization, oversight, COVID or China, those committees. | ||
| No, I'm talking about their sham task force on the Trump assassination attempt. | ||
| So much so that I have to qualify it's the first assassination because they've done so little to uncover anything on that front. | ||
| That the question really isn't even how President Trump is doing it in the polls. | ||
| It's if he's actually going to make it to election day, because House Republicans have continually failed to deliver any accountability, frankly, on any front, but most offensively, when it comes to the assassination attempt against President Trump. | ||
| I'm so sick and tired—or maybe I should use the word that Speaker Johnson—I loathe the battered woman syndrome mindset, the white flag waving surrender caucus that plagues Washington, D.C., and people like Speaker Mike Johnson and all those people who flanked him on stage, who are so unwilling to throw down and fight for the American people. | ||
| Oh, the Senate, they didn't do anything. | ||
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Oh, we're just going to give up. | |
| You guys have more of a chance of holding the line, whether it's single-subject spending bills or messaging on a government shutdown, than Ukraine ever had a chance of winning against Russia, yet I see you guys picking the latter and wasting hundreds of to fund that fight and to continue to fund that fight. | ||
| So much so that we're busy flying Zelensky in on US aircraft | ||
| into swing states like Pennsylvania to campaign for Kamala Harris. | ||
| But I'm so glad, Speaker Mike Johnson, that you picked the fight to make sure | ||
| that we give as much taxpayer funding as we can to Zelensky | ||
| so we can hit the campaign trail for Kamala. | ||
| That's what leadership looks like, right? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, I don't think you're on our team, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| And by the way, in that clip, right, he says, oh, we're not going to have an omnibus. | ||
| We're not going to have a minibus. | ||
| Yeah, I don't trust anything Washington says, but there's also reporting—and, Denver, let's throw that tweet up on the screen right now from Melanie Zenona, who's now with Punchbowl, where it's interesting, because we're already seeing the cracks emerge. | ||
| Speaker Johnson saying that, well, he, quote, hopes there won't be any minibuses. | ||
| Yeah, where does hope get you in Washington, D.C., let alone when it's Speaker Johnson, who has no backbone, no spine, and no willingness to stand up to the special interests, the donors, the lobbyists, the rhinos, and the Democratic Party who bailed him out and have kept him as Speaker? | ||
| You know, for all these people who want to sit there and lecture us and say that this show and Stephen K. Bannon and the MAGA movement have done a disservice to democracy, It's you, Speaker Johnson. | ||
| It's America's last Republicans who have turned democracy—and I know we're a constitutional republic—into a disgrace that means all you do is serve your paymasters, donors, and lobbyists, and you screw over the American people who worked so damn hard and donated to you to get you elected. | ||
| That's what democracy is, right? | ||
| Yeah, democracy dies in darkness. | ||
| I think that's the Washington Post strapline. | ||
| It's not a warning. | ||
| It's the playbook. | ||
| And I'm sure they're going to hold a vote on Wednesday in darkness, probably. | ||
| To put, ram through, jam through this three-month CR, because that's business as usual in Washington, D.C. | ||
| And it's why you want to shut this show down. | ||
| It's why you wanted Stephen K. Bannon in prison. | ||
| It's why you want to fund the salaries of the people who want him there and locked him up. | ||
| And it's why we are not going to let you get away with it. | ||
| You are going to own this vote, Speaker Johnson, if you have to beg for the Democrats to get them. | ||
| And that's why I hope this audience is going to do what they always do best. | ||
| Like I say, we've got a reputation. | ||
| We're going to uphold it. | ||
| We're going to call 202-225-3121, download the Bill Blaster app, and you're going to call your congressmen, your senators, Republican and Democrat, and especially the office of Speaker Mike Johnson. | ||
| Say, hell no. | ||
| I'm honored now to bring in the one and only Russ Vogt from CRA. | ||
| Russ, before we get into the nitty-gritty on all this, I'd love to just sort of get your theory of the case when it comes to this CR in particular and why opposition is so, so critical. | ||
| No, this needs to be a hard and easy no for all Republicans, that you're going to put us into a lame duck session where we're most likely going | ||
| to get some version of an omnibus bill. | ||
| And they are parsing their comments very carefully. But that's what happens when you're in a lame duck | ||
| omnibus after an election where there is a rush. They always talk about clearing the decks into | ||
| the next year. They're in the midst of their leadership elections and organizing with their | ||
| new members. That's what lame ducks produce. | ||
| It produces bad policy and bad bills, one of which is an omnibus bill. | ||
| So this needs to be a hard and easy no. | ||
| Every Republican should be voting no on this. | ||
| Senators need to be pulling out all the stops to slow it down so that even if we can't stop it, It becomes such a plague on the majority that they can't do anything other than try to get out of that lame duck with something other than an omnibus bill that I'm worried about does two things, Natalie. | ||
| I'm worried that it funds the federal government at woke and weaponized, high levels of bureaucracy, all of the things you mentioned in your open, for a quarter of what I hope to be President Trump's second term. | ||
| The funding for his first year is happening now. | ||
| Secondly, I'm very worried that we have a big bill like this. | ||
| They put in things that tie his hands, and no one reads these bills. | ||
| Even the people who write them read these bills. | ||
| So we find out about this after the fact because they passed it in the dark of night and we | ||
| don't have an ability to make sure that Speaker Johnson and others are even aware, because | ||
| the appropriators writes these bills, of what's in the bill. | ||
| So we're in a very dangerous place right now and it's incumbent on all Republicans to make | ||
| sure Hakeem Jeffries carries this bill with as little Republican support as possible. | ||
| Speaker Johnson stands up there saying that he wants to ensure a victory for Trump and | ||
| that he thinks his agenda is so important to roll out, but the omnibus would essentially | ||
| So can you just walk the audience through, just historically, why you think the omnibus will happen, despite Speaker Johnson's protestations otherwise? | ||
| And just walk us one more time through, when they're making the phone calls, why any congressman who claims to be a supporter of President Trump, if they vote for this bill, they are actively undermining his agenda. | ||
| You know, after an election you have limited time, and so they're going to put these bills together, and historically that has been to put them into one bill, and ever since President Trump started to be opposed to omnibus bills and saying, I hate these things, stop doing that, then they started doing them in minibuses. | ||
| Where they would put, there's still massive bills. | ||
| There's still thousand page bills. | ||
| And so I think when I heard some of the comments coming from the Hill, they are entertaining minibuses. | ||
| And I know Speaker Johnson said that that's not his intent. | ||
| But the institutional pressures will be to still have the very, very big bills without a lot of time. | ||
| And they feel like they need to get those things done. | ||
| That is a recipe for disaster because you don't have enough time to be able to scrub these bills, know what's in them. | ||
| You're reading them at the dark of night before members are voting. | ||
| And it's just it is not a great way at all to do business friskly for the country. | ||
| I'm just curious what your thoughts are on the politics of a shutdown this close to the election or what you think the alternate strategy would be given that, what is it, about 75% of the government is more or less funded through these single-subject spending bills despite the Senate not really moving on them. | ||
| Well, I think this has been one of the main handicaps in D.C. | ||
| that has frustrated this audience and the grassroots at large, which is that Washington, D.C., and you saw it in Speaker Johnson's comments, is afraid of shutdowns. | ||
| They view them as the terrors in the night, and that there is no way to be able to argue on the basis of whatever you're fighting for. | ||
| And it's just not true. | ||
| In fact, most of the times when you've had government shutdowns, the American people reward the Republican Party for fighting and doing everything they possibly can to get their policy objectives across the finish line. | ||
| Because if one side says, look, I'm going to say no and no and no, and the other side says, I can't have a shutdown, who's going to win the negotiation? | ||
| So this notion that we could not have had a brinksmanship fight with a potential government shutdown right now on the basis of spending and the SAVE Act is just not true. | ||
| And as a result, we had a complete compitulation because of a disagreement as to whether you do a CR, you finish the bills. | ||
| Both of those camps want to have a fight. | ||
| With Washington DC, the cartel, the unit party comes along and says, oh, all right, we're not going to go and get our work done. | ||
| We're in fact going to kick us in the lame duck, which we know is in our favor. | ||
| And so that is something that is. | ||
| There's no explanation for that in the real world. | ||
| Much of the federal government will continue. | ||
| And by the way, we saw in COVID, COVID shut down most of the country and we still had the federal government working behind the scenes. | ||
| So look, everything is basically on autopilot. | ||
| Social Security checks, the Postal Service, Medicare payments. | ||
| We're talking about unessential employees that wouldn't show up and be able to do some | ||
| of the discretionary activities of the federal government. | ||
| This has long been a boogeyman that politicians in D.C. | ||
| have. | ||
| And President Trump had laid the predicate to have this fight multiple times on the basis | ||
| of the SAVE Act. | ||
| And it's unfortunate that the Republican majority couldn't get there and be able to pick this | ||
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fight with the Democrats. | |
| We've got to jump to break shortly. | ||
| But do you think then the issue is Speaker Johnson? | ||
| Do you think we need to be having a discussion about the fate of his speakership? | ||
| Or what do we need to be focusing on right now? | ||
| I've clearly been a critic of Speaker Johnson. | ||
| I think that in this case that he wanted for a moment to be able to have the fight with the Senate, but he wasn't able to do that because there wasn't enough trust for very good reasons that he would actually stick to the fight and not prevent a shutdown if a CR with SAVE Act went to the Senate. | ||
| And that's why I haven't weighed in too strongly because my belief has been that the critics were like, you know what? | ||
| He hasn't He hasn't shown enough trust and built enough trust to be able to say, if we're going to pick this fight, we're going to push the boulder down the field, down the hill. | ||
| We're going to allow this fight to develop and actually go into a shutdown. | ||
| And so that has been the challenge. | ||
| And this leadership team has to get to the point where they can unite both sides. | ||
| And we haven't seen that, where they could say, look, we're going to fight, and we're going to allow you, the conservatives, to trust when you make difficult calls. | ||
| And Russ, we've got to bounce to a break. | ||
| I want to hold you through, because we need to keep drilling down on this Warren posse. | ||
| We'll be right back after this short break. | ||
| Russ Vogt, Mike Benz, so much more. | ||
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Let's take down the CCP! | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to The War Room, where you've got to be checking out birchgold.com slash | ||
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| It's how you keep this show going, which in times like these, I know that's usually the Birch Gold script you guys are used to hearing, but in CR fights like these, we need The War Room more than ever, and we of course need Russ Vought more than ever. | ||
| Russ, I know you gotta bounce, but real quick. | ||
| Just give the audience the sort of 30-second sound bite that if they're calling tonight, what they should be saying when they're making those phone calls to 202-225-3121. | ||
| Really quick, vote against the CR. | ||
| You cannot be a part of creating a lame duck session after an election with people that have already been voted, in some cases, out of office with a potential cavalry of President Trump coming, an omnibus bill that would originate and hurt the first year of a Trump presidency. | ||
| Vote no, vote against a lame duck, and vote against an omnibus bill that would come out of that lame duck session. | ||
| Has a nice je ne sais quoi to that. | ||
| Russ, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| If people want to follow the CRA, support what you guys are doing, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| AmericaRenewing.com is our website. | ||
| It's updated constantly. | ||
| AtRustVote is my social handle and AtAmRenewCenter is for the organization's Twitter and Getter and all the above. | ||
| Russ, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| You guys also have that great new documentary on Jeff Clark that the audience should definitely check out. | ||
| War Room Posse, get ready. | ||
| We've got some more news we've got to run through. | ||
| We're going to be joined by Ed Dowd, of course, on the heels of Biden-Harris Fed cutting rates by the largest amount since the 2008 crash. | ||
| I think a lot of people are wondering if it's either Sort of a precursor to potentially another crash, or if it's just, you know, election interference. | ||
| I guess we're used to both here in the war room. | ||
| But there's so many economic indicators that I could cherry pick and do a whole show on. | ||
| One today showing that unrealized losses on investment securities for U.S. | ||
| banks are seven times higher than at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis. | ||
| You can see that chart on screen. | ||
| Absolutely wild. | ||
| We're joined now by Ed Dowd. | ||
| If you could just sort of walk us through, you always give us wonderful clinical no-spin analysis. | ||
| I'm sure Janet Yellen is envious. | ||
| You could just walk us through your kind of assessment of all these numbers. | ||
| Yeah, so like the Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates 50 basis points. | ||
| 115 economists were calling for a 25 basis point rate cut. | ||
| The T-bill market had already led the Fed and was indicating a 50 basis point. | ||
| Okay, and why are we here? | ||
| Well, because the interest rates have been held too high for too long. | ||
| It's causing money contraction, and there's a lag to monetary policy. | ||
| And M2, when negative year-over-year growth in November 22, it's usually 18 months for policies to take effect. | ||
| 18 months was May of this year. | ||
| Our economic cycle indicators started rolling over in March. | ||
| The real economy, by any measurement, is in the dumps and going into recession. | ||
| It's just a question of when the financial markets figure this out. | ||
| There's a lot of speculation still, and sometimes after an interest rate cut like this, it takes a while for the financial markets to react negatively, but they will. | ||
| In the 2007 top going into 08, stocks peaked six months after the first interest rate cut. | ||
| In 2000, stocks actually peaked a couple months before the first interest rate cut. | ||
| And in 2020, we had a two-month lag after interest rate cuts. | ||
| So we're on watch. | ||
| This is an indication the Fed sees something ugly going on behind the curtain. | ||
| What is ugly? | ||
| The bank losses you just called out because of the rapid rise in interest rates has caused unrealized losses in their held maturity portfolios. | ||
| That caused a run in some banks last year. | ||
| As you remember Silicon Valley Bank and others it was the fastest bank run we've ever seen. | ||
| The Fed came in with a bank term funding program to plug the hole. | ||
| That program ended in March of this year. | ||
| And the problem is as we roll through the economic cycle there's bad credit now. | ||
| They were filling a hole for bad interest rate risk. | ||
| On pretty safe securities, treasuries mostly, but they're not going to bail out credit risk. | ||
| And there's a commercial real estate crisis going on. | ||
| We're now in the credit cycle of this. | ||
| And it's just a question of time when this all starts to unravel. | ||
| And of course, the government juiced the economy last year to keep it from going into recession with unprecedented spending, government hiring. | ||
| And then the illegals have added to the economy. | ||
| But that juice has run out and we're rolling over. | ||
| Can we make it past the election before the stock markets figure this out? | ||
| That's their hope. | ||
| And any kind of correction favors Trump immensely. | ||
| There are so many buried leads in all of these reports. | ||
| Another number I saw was that the U.S. | ||
| home price to median household income is also now at an all-time high. | ||
| I guess it's 7.2. | ||
| I guess in 2008 it was 6.8. | ||
| Eight, which is just wild. | ||
| Again, this stunning comparison and juxtaposition there. | ||
| But I want to drill down on this. | ||
| There's another interesting, I think it's the chart we have up on screen now, showing how under the Harris regime, it really has been investors that are gobbling up most low-price housing. | ||
| I know we like to focus on illegals buying up all these houses, but I think it's an important part of the conversation. | ||
| Two, especially when you see Kamala Harris saying that the way she's going to combat this issue is by what, building, you know, three million new homes and giving out tax credits. | ||
| I'd love your take on sort of the housing market as a broader indicator of just how dire things are. | ||
| Well, clearly home prices are extended above fair value, which is around 5, 5.3 times median house income. | ||
| So the housing market is 40 to 30 percent overvalued right now. | ||
| And there's a lot of policy Pronouncements to try to fix that. | ||
| The easiest way to do this is to build more supply. | ||
| Let let the economic forces of nature take control. | ||
| The problem is there's so much red tape that 30 percent of a home price is red tape and getting getting getting the permit permitting just to get the stuff built. | ||
| If we could reduce the red tape Home prices would come down 30 percent. | ||
| And I think Trump mentioned something about this. | ||
| He knows he's a real estate guy. | ||
| So we need we need more homes built and we need regulations and red tape to just disappear because that is built into the cost. | ||
| And that would go a long way to alleviating the housing crisis. | ||
| Interest rates will be coming down. | ||
| That will help. | ||
| But that's going to be a lag and take a long time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The other unfortunate problem is of all these illegal aliens and putting pressure on home prices. | ||
| And then we have the institutional investors buying up homes and turning them into rental units. | ||
| And that that that that has to be looked at carefully. | ||
| Obviously they have a lot of capital put to work and they feel that buying up single family homes that are cheap and turning people into a class of renters is the way to go. | ||
| And until We figure out how to address that without doing illegal things and preventing capital from going where it's going. | ||
| It's something that is definitely being incentivized by the current administration, and I'm sure we could fix that with some policies. | ||
| Ed Dowd, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with all of your analysis. | ||
| It's certainly where I go to get any of my numbers, because I trust you implicitly. | ||
| Where can people go to do that? | ||
| You can go to humanityprojects.info for all our vaccine information. | ||
| You can also go to Financetechnologies.com, our financial page. | ||
| That's with a PH. | ||
| And I'm on Twitter, or X, I should say, at DoubtEdward and Getter at EdwardDoubt. | ||
| And Natalie, I saw your opening statement, so remind me to never get on your bad side. | ||
| That was a good opening statement. | ||
| I won't, I won't. | ||
| Well, don't ever vote for a CR. | ||
| That's the surefire way. | ||
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Thank you so much for joining. | |
| I will. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
| Denver, I want to play. | ||
| I'm going to tease it first. | ||
| But you guys know election fraud always seems to cut one way in favor one candidate. | ||
| This time, Iowa Democrats were caught mailing out multiple forms for mail-in ballots to their voters. | ||
| Let's play the clip. | ||
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A viewer this morning saying she had been a little confused after receiving a duplicate absentee ballot request form after already turning one in. | |
| So we'll show you what she had gotten in the mail. | ||
| You can see it right here. | ||
| It says at the top explains a previous absentee form had been sent but due to new postal regulations the Iowa Democratic Party had to send out a new form to voters I was told by several county auditors today that the form in question, it was too small so it wasn't able to be processed correctly at post offices and then sent off to county auditors. | ||
| Iowa Democrats say that it's an issue with the vendor. | ||
| That is an issue for us that we are confident that we are resolving. | ||
| There was a change in postal regulations that took our vendor off by surprise. | ||
| And so those absentee ballot requests have been sent out again, and we have worked with our county auditors across the state to resolve that issue. | ||
| All those ums. | ||
| I think someone's a little bit nervous because we caught you. | ||
| They didn't ever admit to that mistake happening. | ||
| It took a voter actually sort of blowing the whistle, raising the red flag on that. | ||
| Certainly an interesting development. | ||
| I'd also link this, the through line with the Washington Post today putting out a glowing thousand word profile piece. | ||
| About how, here's the title, latest strategy in fighting election skepticism, radical transparency, and they go through all the ways that these, you know, bipartisan, nonpartisan election officials are working to secure and safeguard elections, but then it's against MAGA. | ||
| You know, I think the strap line of this country, or at least the conservative movement, used to be trust but verify. | ||
| And if we want to cross-apply that to elections, I'm all down for that. | ||
| But the issue is when you try to verify, they throw you in jail and they say you're an election denier. | ||
| So they make it a little hard to verify. | ||
| I think they need to earn our trust when it comes to elections. | ||
| And this, of course, on the heels of Politico reporting just two days ago that the Democrats are now courting the overseas vote. | ||
| Not to be confused with the illegals that are residing here, but these are actual overseas United States citizens who are living conveniently in swing states. | ||
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I think we call this predictive programming for election fraud. | |
| We're rejoined after this short break by Mike Benz, the latest The Trump Assassin. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. | |
| In doing all my research for that last segment, I also found out that gold prices are up 28% | ||
| in 2024, putting it on track for their best annual return since 1979. | ||
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| Now, to what I was talking about in my opening, how we have effectively forced the discussion. | ||
| It's not really even about whether or not President Trump is up in the polls, it's if he will make it to election day. | ||
| And the DOJ is certainly working overtime to make sure that the question—the answer to that question is no. | ||
| I'm sure you guys know by now they infamously released—it's not even a letter. | ||
| It's a call to arms by the second—of course, we have to clarify that—the second would-be Trump assassin, Ryan Ruth. | ||
| I was going to say of Hawaii, but maybe we should say of Ukraine. | ||
| But we're joined now by Mike Benz, because there's a lot of developments on that front. | ||
| I know we sort of started getting into it yesterday. | ||
| This guy who apparently has a $150,000 bounty, and he's on air talking to Newsweek Romania, groveling for $5 from his family. | ||
| If there's anyone who can make it make sense, as Stephen K. Bannon would say, it would probably be you, Mike Benz. | ||
| So walk us through the latest on this dude. | ||
| Well, the latest is that the Justice Department, as you noted, Posted one page of the letter in his own handwriting, calling for an $150,000 bounty on Donald Trump's head if he failed in his mission to kill Trump. | ||
| Of course, this comes on the heels of multiple cases just in this past term where the FBI has deliberately blocked the disclosure of manifestos. | ||
| transgender school shooter who everyone knew the manifesto would reveal a sort of radical left-wing motivation that would sort of turn her murder streak into a similar one that was done on the right-wing side over things like the Christchurch shooting. | ||
| Because everyone knew that manifesto would be so damning politically to the regime in power, the FBI blocked disclosure of it, intervened on a local case, Threatened the journalist Michael P Leahy at the Tennessee Star with repercussions if they proceeded to publish it the judge in the case actually threatened the journalist with jail time and the FBI's official the Justice Department's official statement on it was that | ||
| One of the reasons they did not want to disclose it is because misinformation online could circulate about the motives if people were allowed to read the person's direct firsthand testimony in the form of that manifesto. | ||
| So given that that is the new rule at the Justice Department, nobody can know anything about what the actual suspect in the case thinks or what was driving them or what they wrote in their own writings. | ||
| The selective disclosure of this and only this data point is frankly astounding. | ||
| It's a scandal. | ||
| It almost reads like it's the Justice Department wanting to publicize that $150,000 will float magically into the bank account. | ||
| of anyone who carries out the deed that Ryan indeed did fail to get done. | ||
| Then you have the strange question of, well, where does that $150,000 come from? | ||
| This is a guy who said when he was taken into custody that he basically had no assets to his name. | ||
| All he owned were a couple of trucks with Biden-Harris bumper stickers on them, each worth about $1,000. | ||
| But then you have the fact that this guy was jet-setting around the world, from Taiwan to Turkey to Ukraine to Poland. | ||
| Every one of those plane tickets cost more than $1,000. | ||
| And you have this strange fact that this guy had been protected his entire life. | ||
| He had 74 arrests or criminal charges just in the past two decades. | ||
| Some of those are very serious felonies, including possession of weapons of mass destruction, hit and run, grand larceny, and yet never spent a day in jail. | ||
| You have the fact that a former CIA targeting analyst ended up putting out a bolo on him, maybe on the lookout for all the strange activities he was doing, recruiting terrorists to come to help the CIA's war in Ukraine. | ||
| Then you had the Customs and Border Patrol incident in June of last year, where when Ralph was returning home from this world tour of terrorist recruitment operations, the Customs and Border Patrol flagged him. | ||
| And for suspicious activity, they directed him to HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, the very peculiar, disturbing branch of the Department of Homeland Security, that played a major role in the events of the Fed's erection on January 6, as well as in the first assassination attempt. | ||
| HSI was recruiting people from the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and the Three Percenters, deep in the informants and in the group chats of January 6 people. | ||
| It was, DHS was training at the very shooting range that Thomas Crooks was practicing his gunshots at, which raises the question of whether HSI had informants in the network around Thomas Crooks, given that they went to the same gun shooting range. | ||
| And then you had the strange fact on the FEDS nation attempt number one, where Secret Service magically had a had a reduced presence at the Butler rally because of what we were told was the NATO summit going on, even though that had ended three days earlier and the Joe Biden trip abroad requiring Secret Service. | ||
| And so who topped up the Secret Service that day in order to provide that protection? | ||
| Well, it was HSI. | ||
| The very same branch that's responsible for recruiting informants. | ||
| So it's been very easy for a rogue cell within HSI to have run the whole thing top to bottom and basically kept either Secret Service out of the loop or the very select handful of people in Secret Service on a need to know so that someone in their informant network could go and kill Donald Trump or someone that the informants may have had knowledge of. | ||
| And then you have This case in Customs and Border Patrol, once again with HSI, in Ryan Routh, where when he was returning to Hawaii from his international travels, he was flagged by Customs and Border Patrol. | ||
| They flagged him as a suspicious individual to HSI, and in their own memo, they wrote, HSI refused to investigate, which is also a very interesting choice of words. | ||
| They didn't say declined to investigate. | ||
| Or they neglected to investigate. | ||
| They said he, they refused, would not take the case. | ||
| So what was Ralph doing that he was protected from the justice department, protected from a, you know, a bolo on him, protected from CB, uh, customs and border patrol and, uh, protected from, from HSI itself. | ||
| But what's very curious in that memo is he, uh, they asked Ralph the same question. | ||
| How did you get the money to, to, to do all this? | ||
| And he said that he was funded by his wife. | ||
| Now, what's very curious about that is Matt Gaetz actually just put out something a few days ago, which I think has not gotten enough attention. | ||
| And this is on Matt Gaetz's website. | ||
| I'm not making this allegation about Ralph's wife. | ||
| I'm simply passing on what Matt Gaetz has provided. | ||
| And it's titled, The Coincidences Continue. | ||
| New details about would-be assassin Ryan Ralph's wife, Kathleen Schaffer. | ||
| And I'm just going to read this. | ||
| It says, other citizens have connected Schaffer to a LinkedIn page of someone who shares her name, fits her profile and lives in Hawaii. | ||
| If Schaffer is the same woman in the LinkedIn account, she's employed by a huge international publicly traded company called Maximus Corporation, which claims to have trained CDC workers in administering COVID shots and also brags about helping the U.S. | ||
| Department of Defense modernize its technology systems. | ||
| According to CHAT-GBT, Maximus Corporation has significant connections to the U.S. | ||
| security state. | ||
| It also is headquartered just a few miles away from the CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters. | ||
| So if he's saying, if he's telling officials, Customs and Border Patrol, that the wife is effectively the bag man because the wife Allegedly also set up the Slick website and edited Ralph's book, ran the GoFundMe financial fundraising for the Ukraine recruitment crusade. | ||
| So if the wife is bankrolling this whole thing and the wife is working for a U.S. | ||
| Department of Defense contractor located right next to CIA headquarters or in close proximity, the question is, well, How loaded is this wife? | ||
| Where did she get the money from? | ||
| I think deep dive research needs to be done on just how connected the family is to the U.S. | ||
| Defense Department, given that it's these very defense officials and generals who have been behind every part of the coup against Trump since day one, primarily because of his opposition to their war agenda. | ||
| Of course, most notoriously, the 51 Intel officials who said the Hunter Biden hard drive was Russian disinformation. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it started, what was it, four anonymous sources trying to smear President Trump as a Russian asset. | ||
| Then it became the 51 Intel officers, and now it's the, what, 741 national security officials. | ||
| It shows you how truly desperate they are. | ||
| But obviously, they're going to try to crack down and censor this story. | ||
| I want to play a clip, but just for the audience, I just want to tease this for you. | ||
| PBS last week put out what has to be some of the most mind-boggling, concerning programming that I have seen as of late. | ||
| And it's a 2024 election day kind of game plan scenario, where of course they're melting down about MAGA. | ||
| But they have a very interesting moment where they admit to wanting to reduce the rate of content that shows election fraud. | ||
| And even bringing in fact checkers again, it's the old director of public policy for | ||
| Facebook that they have working in the simulation. | ||
| And the simulation should not just be mocked. | ||
| The final kind of episode of it actually talks about people, you know, going and engaging | ||
| an armed revolution to take back election results. | ||
| It's truly insane. | ||
| I want to roll this clip, and on the other side, Mike, we'll get your reaction to it, | ||
| especially with interesting news regarding Soros and the FCC today. | ||
| Denver, let's roll it. | ||
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Katie, you are the head of trust and safety at Look Quick, the nation's premier social | |
| media company. | ||
| Your job is to monitor disinformation that may be circulating on your platform. | ||
| So you're aware of this video. | ||
| It's now one o'clock. | ||
| 700,000 views. | ||
| What are you doing about it? | ||
| So there's a couple of steps we have already taken, even before we get a phone call from anybody. | ||
| We have folks from our operations teams, our policy teams, product teams, who are monitoring the platform for this type of content. | ||
| And in fact, you have a phone call. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And maybe you should talk to Miss Biddecoffer about this. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| I wonder if you've seen this AI enhanced video where people are manipulating a poll. | ||
| It looks like poll workers manipulating a voter to vote for the incumbent party. | ||
| And given the way that information was spread, we're deeply concerned that this is going to cause election violence. | ||
| Yeah, thanks for flagging it for us. | ||
| So we've already flagged it for fact checkers. | ||
| They're currently looking into it. | ||
| And then we also have our product teams currently running it through our tools to determine if it's AI. | ||
| We haven't been able to have a conclusive answer on that yet to put a label on it. | ||
| Well, do you wait until the shooter is done shooting up a church to snap the Facebook Live off? | ||
| No, in fact we've actually reduced the reach so that less people are seeing it in their feed while we're waiting for the fact checkers in order to determine whether this is true or not. | ||
| We're also reaching out to the Secretary of State's office and local law enforcement to see if we can get confirmation about what might be happening. | ||
| Ms. | ||
| Arbath, you mentioned your tools that you have, your AI tools for detecting whether videos have been manipulated. | ||
| AI? | ||
| Says it's very likely that the enhanced audio is fake. | ||
| But the video itself is real. | ||
| We have to be careful because we have two things happening here at once in the same piece of content. | ||
| We have real video and fake audio. | ||
| A fact checker will mark it as false or partially false and then we would be able to put a label on it saying it's been marked as partially false. | ||
| So that way we are not trampling on A, the speech of the person who posted it. | ||
| We are not misleading voters about the fact that parts of it are true, even though parts of it are false. | ||
| So we're trying to do our best to give them context, while making sure less people see it, so that it's less confusion. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's not one of the most unsettling things you've ever seen. | ||
| I don't know about you, it gives me like purge vibes. | ||
| But instead of killing people, they're talking about fact-checking. | ||
| Although I'm sure we're not too far from an actual purge with our radical sociopathic overlord elite class. | ||
| Mike Benz is going to walk us through that and so much more after this short break. | ||
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Welcome back to The War Room. | |
| It's slnt.com slash Bannon to get your Faraday bags, which I think you're definitely going to want to get after that clip that we just played. | ||
| My only regret is that we should have had the camera come back to Mike Benz, too, because I would have loved to see your jaw drop in reaction to that clip. | ||
| But Mike, why don't you walk us through your thoughts? | ||
| My jaw didn't drop at all, actually, because I'm glad that everyone else's did, because this is the reaction. | ||
| This is the appropriate reaction, especially if you're seeing this for the first time. | ||
| The speaker there was Katie Harbath, who is an extremely senior player in censorship industry, policy coordination, and a major actor who runs through all these censorship networks. | ||
| I've written about Katie Harbath many, many times before. | ||
| I just tagged you on X. | ||
| If anyone wants to go to at Mike Ben Cyber, I just re-upped this thread to the top of my feed so everyone can see it immediately. | ||
| It's about 20 tweets in this thread that goes through the backstory on all this. | ||
| So Katie Harbath is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab, which is the top censorship coordinating conduit that connects NATO censorship priorities to the censorship laws and censorship Uh, regulations and censorship policies, both at the government and the tech, uh, the tech platform level. | ||
| So the Atlanta council is seven. | ||
| Number one, former heads of the CIA on its board of directors. | ||
| Those are Michael Hayden, general Michael V Hayden, former head of the CIA NSA and four-star general James Woolsey, Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, Michael Morrell, William Webster, and Robert Gates. | ||
| So seven CIA directors, all on the board of directors of the place where she works. | ||
| One of the places where she's a senior fellow. | ||
| The Atlantic Council also gets annual funding every year from the State Department. | ||
| They get a million dollars a year from the State Department, so we are paying for this. | ||
| It gets annual funding from all four branches of the US military, as well as CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy, which happens to be another CIA cutout and CIA conduit that Katie Harbath She is an advisor to the International Republican Institute, which is the GOP branch of the CIA. | ||
| The National Endowment for Democracy, which houses the International Republican Institute, was created in a letter from the CIA Director William Casey in 1983 when the Reagan administration was complaining that the CIA had lost too much power under the Jimmy Carter administration and wanted a backdoor way to get it back. | ||
| By outsourcing it and giving direction to a cutout known as the National Endowment for Democracy, which has two spindle branches. | ||
| One of them is the NDI, National Democratic Institute. | ||
| Magically Hunter Biden was on the chairman's advisory board of that one. | ||
| Let you fill in the blanks of what that means. | ||
| And then Katie Harbath is on the, is an advisor to the International Republican Institute, the CI. | ||
| So, so, so she, she, you know, the, the introduction of her being the public policy, former public policy director at Facebook, public policy is where censorship policies are folded under at YouTube, at Facebook, on X, because censorship policies are part of the collective set of policies that the public policy director is in charge of. | ||
| So after leaving Facebook, she's now in the so-called civil society space, where she effectively serves as a back channel for the intelligence state and for the State Department and for the foreign policy establishment in order to crush the political rise of any domestic populist candidate, Donald Trump here in the U.S., Bolsonaro in Brazil, Nigel Farage in the U.K., Matteo Salvini in Italy, Marine Le Pen in France. | ||
| You can spin the globe and predict exactly Well, Katie Harbath and her colleagues will disproportionately censor in the name of saving democracy and stamping out domestic populism. | ||
| Now, Katie Harbath also held many of these simulations before, including one directly with Yole Roth. | ||
| My foundation, Foundation for Freedom Online, anyone can look up this article on our foundation's website. | ||
| The title of it is Panic Responsibly. | ||
| Yulroth's censorship panel laments loss of control over 2024 elections. | ||
| And you will see many clips of Katie Harbath and Yulroth together. | ||
| This is last year, complaining about Elon Musk's acquisition of X and how it undermines the years of relationships it took them to carefully and meticulously build up within X and within Facebook, because they were concerned that Mark Zuckerberg was Actually doing a sort of covert mini version of what Elon was doing, which is why it was no surprise to me when Mark Zuckerberg came out with that letter, because I saw Katie Harbath and her friends, Yul Roth and many others, complaining about Mark Zuckerberg reversing the censorship tentacles that they had put into the platforms. | ||
| But they've been hosting these seminars everywhere. | ||
| They've been doing this virtually every month for the past 18 months. | ||
| So I'm glad that some of these are now getting viral attention. | ||
| Mike Benz, as always, coming in hot. | ||
| If people want to follow you, support the foundation and everything you're doing there, where can people go to do all that? | ||
| Follow me on X and if you want extra, I do subscriber lectures for my X subscribers every week. | ||
| Sure, a lot of misinformation gets passed around there, right? | ||
| Mike Benz, we'll have you back on soon. | ||
| Now, another Mike that we love in the War Room, Mike Lindell joins us now. | ||
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A win, win, win, win. | |
| Win-win! | ||
| There we go. | ||
| We're in sync. | ||
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| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
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| They say we're a threat to democracy. | ||
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