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WarRoom Battleground EP 655: Investigating The Crimes Of The Left
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jeffrey clark
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julie kelly
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steve bannon
This is what you're fighting for.
I mean, every day you're out there.
What they're doing is blowing people off.
If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians get total control and total power.
Because this is just like in Arizona.
This is just like in Georgia.
It's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
unidentified
This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
steve bannon
As we've told you, this is the fight.
unidentified
All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
War Room.
Battleground.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon
It's Monday, 18 November, Year of the Lord, 2024.
Welcome back for the second hour of our late afternoon, early evening show.
Julie Kelly's with us.
She has to bounce.
Julie, when we were attacked so viciously, many of us went to prison, some were bankrupted.
People ran up massive bills, had their lives disrupted.
There's a thousand of the J6ers in jail, I think.
They got the right to lifers.
They're in prison.
The school moms at the school boards, just across the board.
When they had control of state power, they were as arrogant as you can get.
I never heard one time any member of the MAGA movement, President Trump or anybody, ever said, well, I'm going to leave the country.
We are Americans.
We believe in this republic.
We will fight for this republic even if it means going to jail or going to prison or being bankrupt.
We will never stop.
These whining libs, all they're talking about is getting passports, go bags.
I mean, to see them up on these shows every night, whining, whining, whining.
Hey, if you didn't do anything wrong, not to worry.
The reason they're sweating, they know the crimes they have committed, and they're going to be held accountable and brought to justice.
Julie Kelly, you're working on this nonstop.
Your work over the last four years, quite frankly, lays the predicate For many of these investigations, can you tell us what you're working on and when do you think you're going to publish it and come back on The War Room as you've done for the last, I don't know, four years?
julie kelly
Yes.
Well, Steve, again, thank you for covering my work when very few outlets would do that.
But I want to tell you, Tia, what you just talked about.
I sat in those courtrooms for the last few years and I watched these smug prosecutors These asympathetic, I've called them sadistic line prosecutors.
You don't know their names, but I do.
And I've watched how they were gratified by destroying the lives of people who they know committed no crime, who had no criminal record, and more importantly, Steve, who had no means to fight this DOJ and government.
And they would sit there smugly, knowing That these people, whether it was a veteran, whether it was a police officer, whether it was a grandma from Florida, they knew they were sending that American to the wolves before D.C. juries or these reckless lawless D.C. judges.
And I would walk out of those courtrooms and I would say to myself, those degenerates are not going to win.
They are not going to prevail.
This is not the country and the system my ancestors fought for.
And I'll be damned if these prosecutors, I'm not going to name names now, but I will.
And I already am to other people.
They are not going to do this to this country and to these Americans.
So I feel gratified.
I feel satisfied that now they're on the other side of this.
And more importantly, The J6 defendants know that their tormentors aren't the ones now being tormented.
To pick up on your hunted are the hunters.
The tormentors are being tormented.
They're finding lawyers.
They're losing sleep.
They're worried their livelihoods will be destroyed.
They're worried about their wives leaving them or their children abandoning them because they will be exposed for what they've done.
Now they are the ones on the other side.
And that is something we can all be happy about.
steve bannon
Yes, like we say to all the folks that committed these crimes against American citizens and American patriots, tough break for some swell guys and gals as we come after you for justice, not for vengeance.
Julie, where do people go to get your reporting?
Look forward to have you back on here.
You are a War Room Posse favorite.
julie kelly
Well, I'm happy to come on anytime.
Declassified with Julie Kelly is my sub-stack.
I've got a piece up today about this and also Real Clear Investigations, and I spend a lot of time on xJulie underscore Kelly, too.
steve bannon
Julie, thank you so much for having me on.
Tremendous.
unidentified
You too, Steve.
Thanks.
steve bannon
Brother Clark, it'd be very easy to say, oh, we gotta get vengeance.
It's not about that because we have more important things to do.
This has to be done to keep the American system, right?
The lawlessness of DOJ and the FBI, the lawlessness of some of even the state actors like Tish James and the folks down in Georgia.
We have to investigate this, correct?
If you're going to keep the system This has to be totally transparent.
It can't be vindictive.
But is there any doubt in your mind that we have to do this?
jeffrey clark
No.
Steve, I'll use another homely analogy.
This is like the bully in the schoolyard.
If the bully in the schoolyard spends four years trashing people, beating them up, as Julie Kelly was describing, just awful treatment of the January 6th defendants, I think in many ways their due process rights were violated.
I think Scooping them up in many cases violated their Fourth Amendment rights because there was the equivalent of a general warrant, which is what the framers didn't want to have done by using these electronic dragnets for cell phones that were in the area.
I think all of their criminal constitutional rights In one case or another or in one respect or another have been violated as a result of this process.
So, you know, you can't not push back on the schoolyard bully.
Otherwise, the bully gets worse and worse and worse.
And the next time the Democrats are back in office, they're going to think that they really can do absolutely anything they want.
They're not going to have any governing chains.
And that's not the system we want.
We want people to exercise power responsibly.
We want people to observe constitutional rights.
And we've gotten into, as my colleague, my boss, Russ Vogt, describes a post-constitutional world where we have DOJ cooperating with big tech to censor Americans, as came out from the hashtag Twitter files.
We have them censoring speech about the important COVID issue, which has damaged people's public health, either We have parents who just want to have input into what happens in their schools,
their children in their schools, and they're being treated as if they're national security criminals by the National Security Division of the DOJ. These are legendary violations of As an advisor to President Trump...
steve bannon
And to the soon-to-be Attorney General Matt Gaetz, do you recommend you do that within the confines of Maine justice?
Do you farm it out to a local U.S. attorney?
Or do you appoint a special counsel and get on with it that way?
Somebody can just focus on this investigation.
jeffrey clark
So given the arguments, Steve, that have been made in President Trump's case down in Florida, the Mar-a-Lago case, that Judge Cannon dismissed under two constitutional provisions, the appointments clause as to Jack Smith not holding a valid constitutional appointment, and as to the appropriations clause, right?
I think that we're going to want to evaluate the The existing special counsel regulations and there may be changes or there may be, you know, sort of scrapping those regulations.
So for starters, I would do it at Maine Justice.
And then I would also say that just as I believe that the Liz Cheney's and Benny Thompson's of the world and Jamie Raskin's were cooperating with the Garland Justice Department, and I think the data on that's going to come out eventually, There's nothing wrong with talking to Republicans in the House and the Senate about any investigations that they set up and then taking any information from that and then using that for further executive branch investigations.
steve bannon
Do I have Pat McSweeney?
He's not up yet?
Pat is?
We have Tina Peters, a lawyer.
A couple things.
Number one, you're seeing the Trump proofing of these departments right now.
You have the Trump proofing in states.
Where the resistance is going to be, Trump-proving departments, particularly over in the Pentagon, they're pulling out manuals about lawful orders, etc.
Clearly, the resistance is going to come from the administrative state and the deep state.
What is your recommendation to President Trump, to his Attorney General Matt Gaetz, and to the department heads of how they handle this?
jeffrey clark
So I think, look, there needs to be a firm hand to tell the career people that when they're given instructions, they're expected to carry them out.
And that, you know, if you're going to try nonsense of you're receiving unconstitutional orders, right, not every order that is being issued is unconstitutional just because they disagree with it as a policy matter.
And, you know, to General Milley, I'd say, you know, and those like him, you know, that includes you.
Then I would also say, look, one of the techniques that the deep state uses as Democrat administrations go out is they try to burrow in their political appointees into the career civil service, Steve.
And I think there need to be immediate steps taken to review all of those decisions to see whether the law was actually fully complied with there.
And those officials then need to be carefully monitored to see if they're just trying to continue the policies of the Biden and Harris administration.
And the last thing I would say is, look, you can't tolerate.
Can I tell a quick anecdote about a colleague?
steve bannon
You got Jeff Clark's in the house, baby.
jeffrey clark
All right.
Well, I think I have told this story once on your show, but I think it was before Steve You're like the Bob Newhart of war room.
steve bannon
You never get too emotionally.
Very, very low key.
But go ahead.
jeffrey clark
So here's the story.
I had a colleague who was a political appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency.
And she supervised several career employees, several career managers.
One of them asked her to meet him on the weekend in DuPont Circle.
And this is a woman who was either pregnant at the time, I forget, or had just had her first child.
Very clearly a Christian, devout woman.
And he insisted on taking her, unbeknownst to her, she just sort of showed up at the address, where he was wearing prominently a big shirt that said resistance.
You know, he's meeting with his boss at a gay bar, and he clearly was trying to send a message that obviously he was going to resist, and that she wasn't really welcome, and that he specifically said That, look, you're going to have problems when you tell us what to do because we're really the ones who hold the levers of power.
And, you know, I've told that story before because I just think it's remarkable and brazen.
I mean, you know, I had some problems with some people in the career ranks at the Justice Department.
But no, they never tried anything like that.
And it shows like just how out of control, like the farther you get actually from the professionalization of the Justice Department into some other agencies, you can really get off the charts crazy wokeism and resistance type behavior, Steve.
steve bannon
Jack Posobiec up on Twitter, and by the way, Pat McSween is going to join us in a minute, and Brian Costello.
Jack Posobiec has just tweeted out, and I'd like your thoughts on this.
He's hearing that NSA officials, Wendy Noble, she's deputy director, and that's the Fort Meade NSA, And Melissa Smith, Chief of Staff, planning to lead resistance against 47, Noam and Gabbard, and have also reached out to others around the intelligence community to discuss sanitizing the President's daily briefing per a White House official.
Your thoughts?
jeffrey clark
Steve, look, I don't want to prejudge, especially if I might get back to the Justice Department, any particular person's case, but I would say, what is the theory of having a civil service?
The theory is that they neutrally serve whatever president sits in the chair, okay?
And that means that that president sets the policy direction for officials to announce that they are going to resist the policy direction of a new incoming president who is the only official in the executive branch who is elected by the people, albeit, you know, through the electoral college mechanism.
They are not elected.
The president holds all of the legitimacy and a civil service holds no legitimacy whatsoever.
And I believe it breaks the law if it says that it if it does disobey the president and the political appointees that serve the president and carry out his agenda because the government's so large, the president can't possibly do it all.
And if they're not, you know, and if they're saying that in advance that they're not going to obey that.
it's even worse.
steve bannon
Would that be grounds for an investigation if you were over at Maine Justice?
jeffrey clark
Absolutely.
I mean, you can be dismissed for insubordination, right?
But if you say, like, across the board for entire categories of cases, I intend to be insubordinate, I mean, that to my mind is, you know, prima facie evidence.
steve bannon
Sanitizing the president's daily briefing is fairly serious.
Would you agree with that?
jeffrey clark
Yes.
You're keeping information from the president that he needs to have.
So that he can do his job effectively.
They're pretending as if they are the keepers of the nation's intelligence and it's not the president.
And that's the reverse.
The president controls the entire classification scheme.
He can classify or declassify whatever he wants.
While it's classified, if he asks for a briefing to evaluate what he wants to do about it, that is for him to decide.
It's not for them to decide for him and say, we can't trust you with this information.
steve bannon
Is there any doubt in your mind we're going to have a massive constitutional clash about this?
Coming in the first or second quarter about the president as chief executive of the government, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the chief magistrate as laid out by the Constitution, sir?
jeffrey clark
Look, I think they're going to try some shenanigans like Russiagate again, probably, and then we're going to have to have forcible pushback on that.
But in terms of isolated incidences of insubordination, you have to deal with it rapidly and harshly.
steve bannon
You don't see a mass resistance.
jeffrey clark
Well, I see them trying a mass resistance, but I think mass resistance tends to collapse when some people get fired and they lose their pensions.
steve bannon
The French Army had a solution for that.
Maybe it's too harsh here.
Every tenth guy out, shoot him, and it instills the spirit of the guys that are remaining to get out of the trench.
You remember the Kubrick film, Paths of Glory?
That's a metaphor, by the way, when they try to pull this down.
Pat McSweeney joins us.
Pat goes all the way back to the Nixon administration as a Republican lawyer.
Pat, thank you.
You're Tina Peters' lawyer.
Now, you guys have just put out a big document about her bail, or is it a bond?
I thought Tina Peters is in prison, so how are you trying to get her out?
I thought she was starting her nine-year sentence, sir.
unidentified
She requested bond or bail while her appeal is pending, and the judge turned it down.
So we have applied to the Court of Appeals in Colorado for an independent decision on that bond issue.
We just filed it yesterday.
steve bannon
Is she being treated rather harshly?
She's a gold star mother.
She's in her 70s.
I think Jenna Griswold had these problems with these codes.
She got nine years in prison and they shackled her in the courtroom and dragged her off.
Is Tina Peters being treated more harshly than you would think for what she's alleged to have done, sir?
unidentified
Well, let me just rattle off a few things.
She's 69 years old.
She has no criminal record.
She was not convicted of any violent crime.
She has no risk of flight.
She had no, rather the district court had no basis for denying her motion.
He posited his decision on the fact that she spoke out about election integrity.
And she was supported not only by three certified experts, cyber experts, who reviewed the material that she obtained from her own system.
She was the Mesa County clerk and recorder.
And she was operating under a federal duty, a statutory duty, a criminal statute that required her to preserve all election records.
The Secretary of State ordered that those records be deleted.
Now, she denies that, but it's That's a flimsy argument.
She ordered that they override all of the election records after the election.
Knowing that was going to happen, Tina got a qualified expert to make forensic images.
It's ironic that what they called a security breach is exactly what the Secretary of State has been guilty of just before the election.
Passwords to the system, which Tina was never accused of releasing, but were released after she made those forensic images.
The Secretary of State did the same thing, and nothing, of course, happened.
steve bannon
Pat, is it extraordinary that she's in jail, given that she's not a flight risk?
She's a Gold Star mother.
She's 69 years old, and there's some dispute about the Secretary of State might have had the same problem, that she's not out on appeal just as a normal course of business here, and the fact it was a nonviolent crime?
unidentified
I can't find a single criminal practitioner who has ever faced anything like this before, particularly because of her age.
After 55, there's a consensus among corrections people and physicians that people who are incarcerated after age 55 see their aging accelerate.
So she is 69, and if she stays in for nine years, there's no question she will not attend her mother who's 96.
Her mother's demise won't even be able to visit her mother.
This is outrageous.
steve bannon
Where do you stand right now with going to the appeals court for the bail-pending appeal?
When do you argue that?
unidentified
Well, there won't be a hearing on that.
They will rule on the papers on that.
It's my understanding.
We have an emergency appeal that we'll file later this month on merits.
We do it now, but we have to have the transcript and that's not going to be available for another 20-some days.
So we'll have an argument on that in the Court of Appeals in Colorado.
In the meantime, though, unless the Court of Appeals grants her a motion to release her, she's going to still be incarcerated.
steve bannon
So, Pat, how do people – where do people go to find out more about this and how do people help us?
I think the Tina Peters situation has people throughout the country outraged the whole thing.
What happened, how she tried to make sure the elections out there were fair and equitable, how she was rounded up like a common criminal, how she's been treated.
The way she, you know, they came back, gave her a nine-year sentence.
She was shackled in the courtroom and taken away.
And she's done some, I guess, some videos from prison.
People get more outraged on this every day.
So where do people, where can people go to find more information and if they can help?
unidentified
Let me send you something, Steve.
I hesitate to give you information on the broadcast because of the bar rules.
Let me, let me scope that out and send you a contact.
Where people, they certainly can follow her on her website, and I don't have that right in front of me.
She is able to communicate from prison.
She's in jail, she's going to be transferred to the corrections, state corrections facility, if we don't get her released.
steve bannon
Well, we've got to get her released, so the war room and the war and posse is there to assist you guys.
Pat, are you on social media?
Have you entered the 21st century yet?
Are you on social media?
unidentified
I was.
Ten years ago, before I left the firm, I started in the 70s.
I made everybody get on social.
No.
And I'm sure any connection.
In fact, we dropped Skype.
Had to use my wife's computer.
I do answer the telephone.
That's about it.
But at my age, we're allowed some indulgences.
steve bannon
Pat McSweeney, you're a good man and a brilliant lawyer.
You've been fighting the good cause on so many great causes for many, many decades.
People appreciate you and love you.
So thank you so much for joining us tonight.
Thanks for having me on.
unidentified
I'll save you.
steve bannon
Thanks, brother.
Full disclosure, Pat McSweeney is one of my oldest friends, and his mom was my mom's, I think her best friend, or close to being her best friend.
Pat lived right down the street from me, and an absolutely brilliant lawyer and a great role model for everybody, coming in the Catholic community in Richmond, Virginia.
Jeff Clark, you've been under the gun for a long time.
The Tina Peters, President Trump's been under the gun for a long time.
Others.
Tina Peters is a unique situation, I think, in all of this.
A gold star mother, Who gave the greatest sacrifice.
Her son died in the line of duty for his country, right?
They're the equivalent or looked at as almost like the Vestal Virgins in Republican Rome, right?
Beyond reproach.
She's never had a crime, I mean, nothing.
And because she tried to stand up for what she thought as a professional, Was untoward activity about these machines in Mesa County.
She now has nine years in a state prison, sir.
jeffrey clark
I think it's unconscionable, and I think probably many of your viewers and listeners, Steve, watched the judge sentence her and give her a tongue lashing, which that judge strikes me as a disgrace.
That was totally unnecessary.
He seemed to have no respect for the fact that she had raised a war hero as a Gold Star mom.
I think it was disgusting.
And look, I don't understand how this case even got off the ground, Steve, because there is a federal statute that says you have to preserve election records under penalty of criminal law, federal criminal prosecution.
So why wasn't what she did entirely privileged under that?
I don't get it.
Only in a very blue jurisdiction in Colorado would you get a result as whacked out as saying that for trying to preserve the records, she's the one who committed the crime.
steve bannon
Before I let you go, your idea here on the recess appointments, on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being metaphysical certitude, it's going to be used.
1 means we toss it out.
Where do you think we stand with your idea about it actually being used for some of these nominees?
jeffrey clark
I think it absolutely should be used.
It's a power the president has used since the dawn of the republic, Steve.
And so why should Donald Trump be denied a power that all prior presidents possessed?
steve bannon
Has any president ever forced...
jeffrey clark
No, not yet.
steve bannon
That's the Clark...
That's the Clark method here.
You have come up with something, or you went back and researched, it's available, but it would be, has never been used in the history of the Republic, correct?
jeffrey clark
That's correct, but the Constitution says the power exists, so it exists, and what's the Supreme Court going to do if the power exists?
unidentified
All you got to do is tell Trump, it's never been used, but it's in the Constitution.
steve bannon
I think we lighten a rocket that way.
Clark, CRA, where do people get you?
Doing amazing work.
Russ Vogt and the team over there.
Russ did a huge podcast day with Tucker Carlson.
That is going to be must-watch.
Russ Vogt, of course, our beloved head of OMB. CRA, where do people get you?
jeffrey clark
Sure, I can't wait to watch that myself, Steve.
I'm at JeffClarkUS on Getter and X and at RealJeffClark on Truth Social, and we're at AmericaRenewing.com.
steve bannon
That is like a Jeff Clark.
I can't wait to watch it.
I mean, that's like a Jeff Clark.
unidentified
The Bob Newhart of War Room.
steve bannon
Jeff Clark.
Love you, brother.
Thank you for coming by and dropping by.
Clark's always up to some.
Always thinking.
Always thinking.
He's always thinking.
That's why President Trump loves him.
In the team.
Short commercial break.
Brian Costello.
The folks at Sequoia and the folks around them may be a little bit nervous with the new Justice Department.
Short break.
Back in a moment.
unidentified
All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
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And something tells me, sir, there's been a sea change, one in Silicon Valley, but number two in the Imperial Capital.
You have been after Sequoia Capital forever as a kind of a rat's nest of Chinese Communist Party influence peddling operation.
Tell us what's going on, sir.
unidentified
Yes, Steve.
One, it's good to see you.
To, I think, what McSweeney laid out about aging and when you're incarcerated.
I think they might want to study you on that.
You look younger to me.
steve bannon
I know it.
I reversed age.
They empowered me.
What did he say?
At that age, you're supposed to age five years for every year in?
unidentified
9x for every year.
steve bannon
Over 55.
unidentified
Come on, man.
We might have to find something at the NIH studying you on that.
steve bannon
Check this package out.
Come on.
Come on, dude.
Came up more in power than ever.
Prison ripped.
Costello, are guys at Sequoia and people associated with it, are they going to prison, sir?
unidentified
Let's hit it, Steve.
I just got word that there is an agency, and we don't know which one yet.
There's only a few it could be, is looking into how venture capitalists, the Chinese Communist Party, has been using venture capitalists to steal intellectual property.
There was a moment here while...
While you were incarcerated, where Tim Waltz stood up in front of the world trying to make fun of JD Vance.
And he said he didn't even know what venture capital is.
And I'm thinking to myself, he should have been watching The War Room for the last two years.
But so venture capitalists who invest in companies are very important to our ecosystem, our innovation.
The Chinese government has used this.
And now apparently the U.S. government, after gross negligence, malfeasance, call it whatever you want, protecting their donors, We're deciding within agencies to actually look at this.
You know, my theory is knowing that, you know, Tulsi Gabbard's coming into DHS, Gates is the Attorney General, Radcliffe into the CIA. No, no, no, no, no.
steve bannon
She's coming into D&I to control all the – D&I will control all the things.
Hang on for a second.
I want to – since you're talking about venture capital – Correct me if I'm wrong.
I think there was a study, and I believe it was done even by the government, that the Chinese Communist Party, on average, roughly, steals or is given it in these joint ventures, which is, they force companies to do it, they extort it, either through extortion or stealing.
$600 billion a year in intellectual property generated by American companies and or American universities.
Am I close?
Have you heard that number before?
Because I heard the total number comes to almost $4 or $5 trillion of intellectual property has been stolen by the Chinese Communist Party or extorted in these joint ventures where they have to turn it over.
Have you heard that number before, sir?
unidentified
I've heard that exact number, and you can't even quantify it, Steve.
It's, you know, our innovation engine is our economy.
So let's take an example.
If you're an entrepreneur and you want to start, let's take a drone company, right?
You want to build a particular drone company, whether it's for commercial use or private use.
You go and you pitch venture capitalists, right?
And some of those venture capitalists, like McConnell's brother-in-law's old company, IDG, Sequoia, some of the other ones have or had separate China subsidiaries.
So what they do is they get all your ideas, they get all your intellectual property, and then they say, oh, guess what?
We're never going to be able to launch this company in China.
So they hand it over to guys like Neil Shen, who then builds that company in China and uses all the intelligence from the US firm.
So you can't even quantify that, right?
brian costello
China's locked us out in many of these sensitive areas into their market, and they've wired themselves into the financial success Of the US market and they've wired the US venture capitalists into the financial success of China and the private equity firms.
unidentified
So 600 million is probably a safe number.
The damage has been substantial that's been done to the US economy through this important vehicle.
steve bannon
Walk through the venture capital.
Remember, venture, you kind of have angel round or somehow you got to scrape it together.
Then you have venture capital, which is very early stage.
Then private equity.
And then you actually do maybe a last round top off before you go public IPO. And then the money managers get in and own the stock.
Institutions own the stock.
The venture capitalists are absolutely central to the entire innovation economy.
You're saying that Sequoia – because Neil Shen – tell us about Neil Shen.
You're saying Sequoia – and Sequoia, folks, you should understand, is considered – if Goldman Sachs is the premier investment bank in America, maybe the world, Sequoia is considered the premier venture capital firm, correct?
This is not some bucket shop, you know, doing schlock deals.
They deal at the highest level.
They manage money for the biggest California, you know, CalPERS, Oregon teachers, all the premier retirement funds that have great returns have used these guys for years.
Have they not?
So how can you accuse...
Something that is a platinum level in quality of actually being with a guy like Neil Shen, who supposedly has degrees from everywhere and is a fine, upstanding citizen, of being in cahoots with our biggest enemy, sir.
unidentified
Yeah, let's just look at Sequoia.
So they funded NVIDIA, which is the largest company in the world.
They funded Google, which is one of the largest companies in the world.
They funded Apple, which is one of the largest companies in the world.
So those next companies are being created now.
So from 2005 to...
You know, in large part, and thanks to this show and some others that worked closely with us, until 2023, they're employing a member of the Chinese government, Sequoia was, and he was bringing these ideas and creating these companies in China, right?
So he funded Alibaba, he funded DGI, the drone company.
There's many companies on the military side, like Unitree, which makes military robotic dogs, DGI, the drone company, that have all been funded with U.S. pension money.
Right?
And even as late as 2022, guys like Gavin Newsom through CalPERS were continuing to fund Sequoia's China funds.
So what happens is they fund these China funds.
The profits then flow back to not only the partners at Sequoia, but their investors.
And they all run cover that like, hey, everything's copacetic with China.
So Moritz, you know, Moritz, Michael Moritz, one of the partners at Sequoia, has a $5 billion nonprofit And you can go look at his forms.
And what is he funding?
brian costello
He's funding, you know, the ACLU, the American Civil Liberty Union to shut down the DOJ China program, which the Biden administration did, you know, several months into it.
unidentified
He's funding a bunch of immigration NGOs that are taking illegal immigrants to the registration voting party.
This is all being done with China profit.
steve bannon
Why do you say now you're hearing in the community that there is an agency That's actually starting to investigate.
Because it's done in broad daylight.
I mean, this is not people in Silicon Valley know this.
People in the military industrial industry know this.
People that know China and the CCP know this.
This is hidden in broad daylight.
People know Capitol Hill and how the money's washing back in here to Capitol Hill.
Finally, you're saying an agency is...
Investigating this, why would they do it now?
Is this because Trump's now coming?
You have Tulsi Gabbard oversee all the intelligence agency, or a guy like Ratcliffe will be at CIA, or Pete Hegseth, a disruptor, will be at DOD, or a guy like Matt Gaetz will be?
I know your frustration is FBI and DOJ with Lisa Monaco and the people at the FBI. Now that you're going to have, you know, Todd, President Trump's lawyer over there as DAG, and you're going to have maybe, I don't know, potentially Cash Patel as either the deputy or the head of the FBI. Is that what you think this, you know, Todd Blanche coming in, is this why you're having this new energy looking at Sequoia, where for so many years it's been dormant?
unidentified
Yeah, it's people, it's, listen, it's, you know, almost cabinet-level people that would need to open these investigations, right?
Yeah.
What I believe is happening is they've turned the other way on this stuff for so long.
Now they want to open an investigation.
So when these new people come in and they say, what were you doing here?
I mean, I have an anecdotal example just like Jeff Clark did when I was in the FBI, giving them billions in capital market crimes by Neil Shen and his cohorts.
I was interviewed by two FBI agents who were working with the DOJ, and literally they were out of the Washington field office.
And when I went in and looked up their backgrounds, what did you find?
They were focused on putting people from January 6th in jail.
So you had literally a national security issue, billions in capital market crimes, and the agents that should have been on this full-time were putting grandma and tail for using the bathroom.
And I can give you the actual names.
This was what the priority was that was set.
steve bannon
Yeah.
So Sequoia Capital and all the flunkies that have sold our country out for money, for cash money, understand that one of the first guys through the door...
On the afternoon of 20 January of 2025 will be Brian Costello to tell his tale to a new reformulated, reformed, slightly, Justice Department with new people and also over at the FBI. This is going to be a high action item because we're tired of having our country sold out by venture capitalists and people in capital markets.
Brian Costello, your thoughts?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, this rolls right up to two people that were very conflicted in this process, Lisa Monaco and Jake Sullivan, right?
Jake Sullivan and the National Security Council and Kurt Campbell were the ones that eventually went in and broke up Sequoia.
So they knew there was a problem there.
And instead of using the apparatus and the instruments that they're supposed to use, they went in and warned them and broke off the China arms.
So Cujo's for doing it, but it's not the way you and I wouldn't have been treated like that.
And this all rolled right up to Lisa Monaco.
And her former chief of staff is the head legal person for Sequoia.
And, you know, thankfully he hasn't landed.
We had Kevin McCarthy could have done something about this.
And what did he do?
He fired all the people investigating it in House Intel with Mike Turner.
steve bannon
Yeah, Derek Harvey and Mike Turner, the, what is it, from Dayton, Ohio, the vestryman who suppressed this.
Lisa Monaco, you're dirty.
Lawyer up, baby.
Because somebody may be coming to investigate you on so many different fronts, but put Sequoia Capital on your bingo card.
Because we're coming for you for Sequoia Capital and all the partners of Sequoia Capital.
You guys are dirty.
You sold this country out to the Chinese Communist Party.
And Judgment Day is coming.
Costello, I strongly recommend you up your security, brother.
Where do people find you on your, particularly on Twitter, formerly known as X? Yeah, on X it's just BP Costello.
unidentified
I still try to keep some parts of my life simple, Steve.
steve bannon
Yeah.
Up your security.
We can make some recommendations.
Brian Costello, you're a patriot and a hero.
unidentified
Thank you, Steve.
steve bannon
The selling out of this country By these financiers, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers.
Charlie Gasparino put out that President Trump has now reached out and looking for advice from Larry Fink.
For who should be, I don't know, National Economic Council, NEC, and also Secretary of Treasury.
You know, we're the biggest supporters of President Trump.
The show has had his back.
We'll have his back through all these confirmations.
But yo, Larry Fink may be the railhead for everything that's wrong with Wall Street.
From DEI to climate to everything he tried to force the companies to do.
I mean, Mr.
President, please, please, you're killing us.
Try anybody but Larry Fink.
But listen, the oligarchs on Wall Street, the oligarchs in Silicon Valley, if we're to sort this country out, and this is why Gates is so important, this is why the people around Gates, I mean, if you look at the other nominees of President Trump, Like Todd Blanche and others,
the team over at Justice, some of the other teams have not been filled out yet enough, like in defense, at DNI, at CIA, at DHS, to name a couple threes.
Obviously, agriculture.
We started the show tonight with Nicole Shanahan.
We'll have her back on.
I love the fact...
That is kind of the wingman for Bobby Kennedy, or Kennedy's at Health and Human Services, taking on Big Pharma, taking on the big medical companies to get our arms around this fiasco that is medicine and the medical industry in the United States and Big Pharma.
She's coming at it through USDA. We love that.
The process for getting these people approved is going to be brutal.
And that's why we need, we have Jeff, Jeff Clark, and this is one of the smartest guys in town, they're coming up with innovative ideas all the time.
I'm a big believer that President Trump should not have to rely upon the recess appointments, and the reason is the Republican Party, and particularly the Senate, would not have the majority unless it was for the broad shoulders of President Trump.
President, let me repeat, President Trump took a bullet to the head And four months later, one in a landslide.
The American people had four years.
We were bombarded that we're, you know, we hate democracy, we're fascists, we're Nazis, we're deplorables, we're garbage.
All of it.
Relentless.
And they had every tool of state power to crush us.
And we prevailed.
We prevailed.
In prevailing...
And particularly for you in the Senate that just weren't in the fight.
And most of you were not in the fight.
A couple of three were.
Tuberville and some others.
Hawley and some others.
Most of you were not in the fight.
To deny President Trump the government he wants is outrageous.
And we just cannot allow it to happen.
I'm a big believer that the Republicans have to Give him advice, and advice and consent, and then give their consent.
And we move on to deconstruct the administrative state and take on the deep state.
But Jeff Clark and others are coming up with innovative constitutional ways that if he has to, he uses recess appointments.
So we're going to be deep into this tomorrow.
We're also going to talk about the war over the judges.
There are 47 slots.
For judges that the Democrats have not filled yet, Elizabeth Warren is all over that.
She wants to jam as many through.
They've kind of forgotten how important this is.
She has not.
Very smart and very tough.
And we're going to combat that one because, remember, if President Trump can walk in on day one and have like 45 judges to fill out, come on, man.
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