Is a Trump Indictment Inevitable? with Kash Patel and Pedro Gonzalez
Donald Trump is officially running for president again. With yet another special prosecutor conducting yet another investigation, are criminal charges against him inevitable, or matter what the evidence says? Kash Patel joins Charlie to weigh in. Plus, Pedro Gonzalez asks an unpopular but necessary question: Did the Biden Administration free Brittney Griner from Russia because she has the correct skin color, sexual orientation, and political views, while Paul Wehlen remains Putin's prisoner because he has the wrong ones?Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DOJ Corruption and Political Targets00:14:18
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Also, Kash Patel to talk about the Britney Greiner trade and more.
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Joining us now is Kash Patel.
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Cash, welcome back to the program.
Hey, Charlie, how you doing?
Doing terrific.
So, Cash, I want to walk through a couple things with you.
The first of which, Citizen Free Press, love Citizen Free Press.
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They have a headline here that says, just a matter of time before Trump is indicted.
Are you seeing those kind of whispers as well?
I mean, I'm not saying it's fair or it's warranted, but do you think that the MAGA base should brace for a Trump indictment?
I think I'm seeing and reading everything you are.
And I think what the DOJ wants to do here is if they fall short of their goal of getting into an actual indictment, they want to dirty him up so much that he just leaves the presidential race now that he's announced.
And look, being a former federal prosecutor myself at a time when the Department of Justice was, you know, just and fair, comparing it to the DOJ now, they'll indict anyone for anything if it's a political target and they have a justification for it in politics and not necessarily facts in the law.
And that does terrify me as just an American citizen.
So I don't have faith in this DOJ to do the right thing.
That is what the facts and the law demand.
No, and I'm not saying Trump deserves it, but I'm saying it could still happen because this Department of Justice is so out of control.
And not to mention, there is the Fulton County story.
And by the way, so from what I understand, and I want to make sure I get this right, the jury in New York said, okay, well, the Trump organization committed tax fraud, but I think it was they just have to pay a fine, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Well, that's what happens in tax fraud cases.
I mean, it's shocking to me that America is now saying they've forgotten how tax fraud cases actually work.
The big corporations, the fat cat limousine liberals that have all been charged and convicted of tax fraud pay fines.
And so Trump organization will pay a fine for whatever amount the court determines.
It's not a criminal liability on President Trump personally or any member of his family.
They say, oh, convicted of tax fraud.
It's, you know, if you would have asked the Trump people, hey, a couple years ago, pay $2 million and have this go away.
I think they would have took the deal.
I mean, just in legal fees alone.
And what they're being, I mean, you read the indictment, Cash, it's like, oh, well, they had unauthorized use of a company car.
Like, oh, really?
Why don't you go audit the 95,000 businesses in, I don't know, Miami?
I mean, give me a break.
Trying to tell me this is worth New York City while they have murders and rapes and arson happening in record numbers.
I mean, Cash, this is beyond prosecutorial abuse.
No, it's a two-tier system of justice.
I mean, go investigate and prosecute the Clinton Global Initiative for tax fraud.
You know, look at all these other organizations and big banks and committee companies that basically the DOJ goes to and say, hey, pay us a bunch of millions of dollars and the case is over.
And it's how we resolve these meetings.
It shows you that they didn't do that for this case because they wanted a political end result and a headline that could prop up in the fake news media to make it sound like something that it's not because they've created this DOJ has created a two-tier system of justice.
And we are squarely in one lane and the rest of America is in the get-out of jail free lane.
So I want to talk now about the Twitter story, Let's Play Cut 68.
Jean-Pierre on whether Biden campaign acknowledged the Twitter suppressing laptop story, PlayCut 68.
Did anyone from the Biden team communicate to Twitter that this material was from hack or this reporting stemmed from hack materials?
So I can't speak to decisions made by the campaign from here.
That is not, it is a political campaign, so I can't speak from that from here to that from here.
I'm covered by the Hatch Act, and so I'm just not going to comment on the question that you're asking me.
But what I can say more broadly is, of course, it's up to these companies to make their own decision about the content on their platforms and to ensure content follows their own standards and policies.
Yeah, no, so now she's covered by the Hatch Act, but when she wants to attack MAGA Republicans from the dais, it's perfectly fine.
Yeah, the Hatch Act doesn't allow me to comment on this.
By the way, it's MAGA Republicans that are going to which one is it exactly, Jean-Pierre?
So, so Cashi, you're in a unique spot, though, to be able to explain this because the same people, behaviors, attitudes, and treachery that gave us the Russia hoax also gave us the 2020 Twitter hoax.
Explain.
Look, I've been saying forever, all roads lead back to Russia gate.
Now maybe people will start listening.
And I called out Elon Musk before he ever fired or got wind of James Baker.
And I said, how is the guy who's the number one FBI lawyer who orchestrated the Russiagate hoax and lied to a federal court?
How is he allowed to call balls and strikes on your censorship operation or your operation a clean house of censorship?
And I said he was screening the material and people challenged me and I said, lo and behold, look what happened.
You have a long way to go.
This guy partnered up with the Democratic law firm Perkins Cooey, who is still Twitter's outside law partner, by the way, just in case you're wondering.
So they are so embedded with the FBI and for Janine Pierre or whatever her name is to say, oh, I can't comment it on because of the hatch act.
The hatch act has nothing to do with that.
She just didn't want to answer the question, which was, of course, Biden officials communicated with Twitter and the FBI in regards to censoring free speech at Twitter when it came to Hunter Biden's laptop, which is why I'm demanding this Congress coming into Republicans subpoena every FBI communication.
Do you think James Baker didn't communicate with his cronies back at FBI HQ?
Do you think he didn't talk to Michael Sussman and company at Perkins Cooey, who is Twitter's outside counsel?
I mean, really?
Is that the far-fetched story we're supposed to believe?
I've thrown down the gauntlet for Elon Musk.
I said, this is a one-yard rush.
You got 99 to go.
You want a really, really clear free speech?
You need to learn about Russia Gate and the characters involved and then see how many of them were operating in your hornet's nest at Twitter.
Yeah, that's such an important point.
All roads lead back to Russia Gate because the failure to hold those people accountable for the 2016 crimes, 1516 actually started as early as 15, believe it or not, with Struckstroke Smirk and Lisa Page.
They're just going to keep on doing it.
And, you know, the Durham thing was a big swing and a miss.
Is that over with, by the way?
Is it still going on?
Technically, it's still going on because he hasn't submitted a report.
And, you know, maybe he'll do something in January, February.
But you're right, right?
So far, he produced indictments, but he didn't produce convictions.
And we've talked about that.
And, you know, I don't know.
Is he going to cover James Baker?
He should, but we'll see.
I'm glad Elon did fire James Baker after there was a fair amount of alarm, you know, kind of surrounded on that.
But if you, this is one of the reasons why, you know, yesterday went through a whole thing of people that say, I'm no longer voting.
I'm no longer voting.
I think that's wrong.
I think it's incorrect.
But I do understand the sentiment in the sense of no one got held accountable for Russia gate.
No one, Peter Struckstroke Smirk is richer than ever and teaching at Georgetown and goes on television.
Andy McCabe is just, it is an insult to every American that pays their taxes and obeys the law and raises their children.
And they see these treacherous criminals just completely get away with it.
I really sympathize with the anger.
In fact, I share it.
I just think you can't allow that to manifest into non-civic participation.
That's where I have a difference, a strong difference of opinion.
So, Cash, 30 seconds.
This Twitter thing is rather remarkable to just show the extent of the federal government's involvement in suppressing public discourse.
And look, I'm the Russia Gate guy.
I got more in this personally than anyone.
I investigated for Devin Nunes.
We got 17 people fired, including James Baker.
It looks like I got James Baker fired twice.
But you're right, the lack of accountability is so frustrating.
And if people think this one step of firing James Baker is going to save Twitter, Elon Musk has a whole thing coming.
I can't wait to come back on your show and talk to you about the dozens of FBI agents that were probably embedded with personal relationships with Twitter employees and DOJ and whatnot.
Just wait till these emails.
I want to expose that.
I'm going to speak on behalf of some of my audience.
I know they're composing the email right now.
So what?
Nothing ever happens to those people.
And honestly, they're not wrong.
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And that needs to change.
I don't know how it's going to change, but my goodness, that needs to change.
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I also want to talk about Truth Social.
I think that it's not appreciated enough the role that Truth Social is playing in actually making Twitter a more freer platform.
So Elon knows that if he doesn't miss steps at Twitter, there could be a mass movement away from Twitter back to not just back, but increasing the truth social.
So competition is a really healthy and good thing.
So I want to play cut 40, Josh Hawley on Tucker Carlson talking about the collusion of big tech disinformation board.
Very interesting play cut 40.
Well, what we learned, Tucker, is that there's collusion at the highest levels of government and big tech.
We learned that the Disinformation Board was up and running as early as the first part of this year.
They were meeting weekly.
That's not, by the way, what Alexander Alejandro Mayorka said, by the way, he said that, oh no, the board never met.
Not true.
They were meeting on a weekly basis.
They were giving instructions to other components of the U.S. government and they were meeting with big tech.
They wanted to meet with Twitter.
They reached out to Facebook and liberal dark money groups.
We're also in on the act, as it turns out.
And so, Cash, what we found is: I mean, this again, it's so similar to Russia Gate.
It's the same playbook, right?
It's the blueprint.
These people have not changed, and they're going to keep on running this play of interference of synthetic dossiers and fake stories or the interruption of the only difference between RussiaGate and Twittergate, the only difference that I could really pinpoint is that with RussiaGate, they had to create a fake dossier and then distribute fake information.
With Twittergate, there was a legitimate laptop that they had to then suppress.
Your thoughts, Cash?
The Russia Gate Playbook Returns00:16:57
Yeah, look, I haven't heard it put quite that way, but I think you're right.
And the frustration that everybody has is what you would be talking about at the end.
What's going to happen?
What's the accountability?
And look, you know, I'll keep going ahead and doing the work, and my bias is completely out there.
I'm obviously on the board of Truth Social, so I want more people there.
But it's like President Trump said, we're not out there to defeat Twitter.
He's actually called for Elon to do the job of clearing the free speech platform.
I think one major step in combating the disinformation campaign is to defeat the government's ability to cause censorship, is to defeat big tech, Facebook, and Google and Twitter to prevent them from having these individuals come in and run disinformation campaigns for them, like the Hunter Biden laptop, like the 51 intelligence officials, and then rig it and tie it to a presidential election.
I think those are powerful measures the private industry can take.
And I think what Congress can do, and I've talked about this in your show on the path, all budgeting measures start and end in the House of Representatives.
Republicans control the purse.
That's it.
It's their time to act.
If you're telling me the FBI and DOJ don't have contracts with Twitter and Facebook, yeah, let's kill all those contracts yesterday.
Let's stop spending our taxpayer dollars on these heathens who are running these disinformation campaigns.
There is a great movie.
I think it's Jason Born.
I get these all confused.
But no, but there's a really good thing, I think it's the last one of the Born series.
I'm bringing this up for a reason.
Where there is this tech guy that's played in the movie, he's actually an Indian tech guy.
And he's, I don't know if you've seen this movie or not, but he's controlled in the movie by the intelligence agencies, who's actually played by Tommy Lee Jones.
And there is a fair amount of evidence and speculation that Zuckerberg out of the gate from the very beginning made a deal with the intelligence agencies.
And so did Twitter.
That the intelligence agency saw that the era of social media is here and we better be able to control these companies.
That if they are truly unregulated and they're not under our purview, the regime very well might be disrupted and people might actually think for themselves.
I'm going to think, I think it's the Jason Bourne movie.
I could think about it.
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That movie is good because it portrays a hyper-aggressive CIA chief that basically blackmails the head of what was a social media company.
And you look at it, like, wow, I wonder if that could ever happen.
It actually has happened.
It was based on some speculation that Facebook was always, ever since their IPO, an intelligence operation.
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Pedro, welcome back to the program.
Always good to be here, Charlie.
So, Pedro, you have a very interesting piece, No Country for White Men, the Story of Paul Whalen.
Tell us about it.
So you may have heard today that the United States released a Britney Griner.
She plays for what is probably the most irrelevant sports in the United States, women's basketball.
But she's more notorious for the fact that she took a very vocal stance against America, essentially, during the BLM riots.
She protested the playing of the national anthem during games.
This is just someone who's generally unpleasant.
And she happened to end up in Russian prison earlier this year when she was detained for traveling in the country with cannabis products, which are illegal in Russia.
Well, Griner was just released as part of a prisoner exchange with a Russian arms dealer who's known as the merchant of death because of how gruesome and vast his weapons dealing enterprise is.
Now, Paul Whalen, unfortunately, has been in prison since 2018.
He was detained under basically, Whalen believes that he was detained actually as part of a plot by the Russian government to fabricate a reason for holding an American captive and then using that American to release the arms dealer that the United States just released in order to get Brittany Greiner out of prison in Russia.
So Paul Whalen has been in prison since 2018.
He's sentenced to a 16-year prison or prison sentence at a high security facility that's outside of Moscow.
It's a very grim, grim Russian prison, right?
And Russian prisons are all grim, so that says something.
So Paul Whalen has basically been asking for the United States to get him out for a while now.
But Brittany Greiner didn't seem to have to ask all that much.
And something else that you should know about Paul Whalen is the fact that he was a U.S. Marine.
He also worked as a police officer in Michigan.
He, and most, you know, I think this is actually what counts against him the most, or two things really, is that he's a white man on the other hand.
And on the one hand, and on the other hand, he expressed support for Donald Trump before and after he was elected.
So I think that the story of Whalen, when you put it in the context of the fact that the United States just tried really, really hard and successfully freed Brittany Greiner, but continues to ignore Whalen, I mean, that says something about the United States and basically who is rewarded and who is punished in this country.
You say in your piece, or you allude to it, that race has something to do with this.
Tell us why you believe that.
Yeah, I mean, no one cares about, you know, Paul Nicholas Whalen, the white former U.S. Marine, and certainly was a former cop, right?
So that counts against him too, who's just rotting in a Russian prison.
And who is, I mean, it's funny because the CIA, not that their word is worth much, but the fact that Paul Whalen was an outspoken Trump supporter makes me believe the CIA when they said, yeah, he's not one of us.
He wasn't an intelligence asset in Russia.
The allegations against him by the Russians are fake.
We think that this was a plot to basically try to use him as leverage in order to release his name as Victor Bout, the arms dealer that was just released today in exchange for Brittany Griner.
So, I mean, yeah, I think that that's just the kind of sad reality is no one cares about the white American who's rotting in a Russian prison, right?
Like, what's there to care about?
But on the other hand, you have this outspoken, very brave female basketball player who wrote in her memoir that she felt very uncomfortable while at Baylor, where she went to school, because the university asked her, basically, she said the university has anti-gay policies.
And if you actually read the memoir, she doesn't really say what those are.
And as far as I can guess, it's just that the university asks that people who are not gay profess it from mountaintops, which apparently deeply wounded her, right?
Yeah, and look, I can say this.
I know something about Baylor.
She's just wrong.
Okay.
I mean, it's just wrong.
Anyway, continue.
No, it's just, I guess I'm trying to illustrate is the fact that, like, there is no both Whalen and Greiner, they're basically normal people, right?
The difference is, is that I think you could, if you put them on a kind of scale, Whalen has done more for this country.
He gave years of his life to military service, and then he worked a police officer, worked as a police officer, which is a thankless job, right?
So, I mean, two normal people, and when you kind of evaluate what they've done with their lives and what they've dedicated their lives to, it just seems to me that Whalen is kind of the one that we should prioritize, right?
As opposed to the one who says that if you play the national anthem during a basketball game, she's like an overpaid player, too, that she threatened to walk off the court if the national anthem was played.
And so, I mean, all things considered, what is the argument for prioritizing Brittany Griner over Paul Whalen?
And the only thing I can come up with is, well, Griner belongs to two basically sacred groups.
She's a black American and she's a lesbian.
So it makes her kind of unicorn, right?
And I'm not, you know, I'm not happy about this.
This doesn't bring me any joy, but I think it's just illustrative of how kind of stupid and malicious the U.S. empire is that we basically literally prioritize people and their worth based on which victim groups they belong to and how many victim groups they belong to.
Well, this is an important point, right?
Because far too often, I think conservatives get convinced, I'm thinking of the right word, hoodwinked, that these diversity, equity, inclusion games are nothing more than a harmful, annoying, like mental exercise on college campuses that have no real world implications, right?
Okay, so what?
That some kid had white privilege, you know, talked at him from some professor.
What you're getting at, Pedro, is now this is international geopolitical policy is that the regime of anti-whiteness, the pro-LGBT machinery, is no longer just people discussing this in a lecture hall or that crazy black professor the other day we showed where she said, we're going to abolish the plague of whiteness.
I think we still have that clip, Ryan.
Let's get that.
Because that actually plays into this.
What you're saying, Pedro, is no, now these are actions that are based on those bad ideas.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, no, I'm sorry.
I thought you were going to play a clip.
No, that's exactly right.
I think the way that we treat people like Paul Whalen and Brittany Grinder follows logically from that belief.
If you believe in things like affirmative action, if you believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion, then logically you're going to prioritize in something like something that's as high stakes as a prisoner exchange.
You're going to prioritize the person who you believe has more, to put it, I don't think there's another, there's no better way to put it than basically diversity points, which is exactly what happened here.
Because again, all things considered.
Yeah, social currency.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because again, all things considered, these are two like normal people.
Neither of them is, you know, that doesn't take away from, you know, the basic human value here, but really they're both kind of just average Americans.
And yet we very rapidly and aggressively lobbied for Griner to be free.
Because again, Whalen has been behind bars for a few years now.
Everything that happened to Griner happened basically in the last year, and she's already free.
And I'm sure that we can expect another memoir that's going to solve very well.
I'm sure.
So what it's so important for people to recognize, you know, the work we're attempting to do at Turning Point USA and having a lot of success is to push back against this stuff.
DEI runs the entire American government.
So when you have these lunatics like this Rutgers professor saying that white people are committed to being villains, don't be shocked that when we do prisoner swaps, this ideology is factored into the calculus.
Play cut 23.
I think that white people are committed to being villains in the aggregate, right?
The thing I want to say to you is we got to take these motherfuckers out.
There is a world beyond even our sojourn on the earth.
And so whiteness is going to have an end date because it is not, despite what white people think of themselves, they do not defy the laws of eternity, right?
And that's the thing that white people don't trust us to do because they are so corrupt.
You know, their thinking is so morally and spiritually bankrupt about power.
So Pedro, we'll talk about this after the break.
But when you have, that's a Rutgers professor, a PhD, that is spouting that venom.
Don't be shocked when the president of the United States then has a private meeting and prioritizes on the hierarchy of decisions, the black lesbian basketball player above the white male.
And by the way, we want all Americans to come home.
Yes.
But a choice was made.
That's important.
Aristotle talked about the hierarchy of choices.
And you just saw the White House prioritize a basketball player who's also a black lesbian above a Marine who served his country.
Duty versus anti-Americanism.
Pedro, I want to ask you about the RNC race.
I'm not trying to make this personal.
I've known Rana for years.
She's always been very sweet to me, but I'm not going to tolerate losing.
Failure cannot become the new status quo.
I had a conversation with somebody who I really respect, and they said, well, the RNC did all these things right and they knocked on all these doors.
They said, you are conflating activity with results.
If you do not get the intended result, then there needs to be a management change.
Pedro, do you think it's time to shake up things at the top of the RNC?
Yeah, yeah, I do.
And I mean, because otherwise, the message is that failure is, not only are we indifferent to failure, we actually seem to reward it.
People get promoted by falling upwards, in other words.
That seems to be the story of the Republican Party, right?
Because, I mean, everyone knows that the GOP is very good at fundraising, in particular on outrage, on issues that the base really cares about, whether it's immigration or crime or whatever.
But then, and like you said, there's a whole lot of activity, right?
Obnoxious emails and texts all throughout the day that actually make you stop giving in many cases.
I mean, that's the irony of this stuff.
But there's a whole lot of activity, a whole lot of buzzing about it.
But then, in terms of material returns, like what you get for your time and money and your emotional, emotional investment as well, nothing or very little.
And I think that if we're not going to start punishing elements of GOP leadership, then again, the message is either you don't care or you actually reward people who are not good at their jobs.
Who do you think is best equipped to do that?
I'm not sure.
Like you, I'm not really a partisan for anyone.
There's been a lot of talk of someone like Harmit Dylan, I hope I'm pronouncing her first name correctly, filling that gap.
But the consensus more really seems to be that we need to replace Rana with someone to send a message.
And I actually don't think that that's a kind of cob-out because, of course, the criticism is that, well, Rana's bad, but the next person could be worse.
So we should just kind of maintain the status quo.
You hear that for not just Rana, but other elements of GOP leadership.
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And again, I don't really agree with that.
If it does get worse, well, then that reflects even worse on the GOP.
And that sounds like a GOP problem.
And on the other hand, if we don't do anything, then again, we're just basically acquiescing to a party that is not only disconnected from its base, but also doesn't really actually accomplish anything.
And you hear this all the time, right?
Like, well, if we mess with income and geo-leadership, which is bad, things can really get worse a lot faster.
By my count, in the last like two or three months, the Republican Party has been pushing everything from the federal codification on same-sex marriage to amnesty.
You know, so it's like it already seems pretty bad.
Like the GOP is actually already seemingly furious.
We could get Ukrainian statehood soon.
That's right.
We could.
We could get Ukrainian statehood.
We could certainly find some more money.
Which, in a bizarre way, I would actually say that makes more sense than sending $100 billion unaudited.
I mean, if we're going to be an empire, we might as well actually be an empire.
But anyway, I know it's, I'm half kidding when I say that, by the way.
I'm saying, if you're going to send $100 billion into the breadbasket of Europe, wouldn't it make sense if you also have some skin in the game there?
It's like we want none of the benefit and all of the cost.
It's the silliest thing ever.
Okay.
So, and I'm half kidding about that, by the way.
Someone just emailed, someone just said in the chat, no, we do not need another state.
I wonder if Ukraine would be a red state or a blue state.
The eastern part would definitely be more red.
Okay, that's too much speculation.
Pedro, the point is this: one minute remaining, we need to have leader, we need to have a wholesale leadership change in attitude, personnel, and otherwise.
Final thoughts.
Yeah, that's it.
No, it's exactly right.
Because again, the message is that we don't care, that we're fine with the status quo.
And I think what's even worse than that is actually affirming the status quo and strengthening it and continuing to feed it with our dollars and time and attention.
And that to me is worse than being indifferent.
Pedro, excellent commentary as always.
For the record, I was kidding about Ukrainian statehood, just for the record, for all the trackers out there.
Thank you, Pedro.
Good to know.
Thank you.
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