Tim Pool details the FBI raid on Senator L. Louise Lucas's office, framing it as a corruption probe within a broader civil war between Trump and the deep state. He contrasts this with past DOJ actions against Trump, citing charges against Comey and Letitia James, while noting USAID's shutdown dismantled climate slush funds. Pool hypothesizes Charlie Kirk's death was an attempt to fracture the populist right and dismisses Kash Patel's drinking allegations as character assassination. Ultimately, he argues procedural victories in redistricting will cause geographic hyperpolarization, securing a permanent minority status for Democrats by 2030 despite deep state efforts to malign independent media. [Automatically generated summary]
The FBI has executed a raid on the office of a top Democrat in Virginia.
An individual who led the cause for redistricting has now been accused of corruption.
And you know what?
It doesn't matter what I think.
It doesn't matter what you think.
The big picture is this.
The Republicans will claim this is a justified investigation of corruption.
And the Democrats will claim it is the weaponization of the DOJ against Trump's political enemies.
All that matters, the elites in this country are embroiled in a Civil war.
I said it, but it's true.
This is not the first strike by law enforcement against political elites.
It is one of the first we are seeing where, for apparently political reasons, the investigation is underway.
Now, during the Biden administration, we saw the DOJ go after Donald Trump, arrest his lawyers, arrest him personally, raid his home.
We saw at the state level false accusations of crimes.
Now, with Donald Trump in power, It appears the inverse is all the same.
And now, Trump supporters will argue they're justified in these attempts, and I largely think that will be the case.
But Democrats, of course, will play the victim and say it's all one big manipulation.
The reality is, this is all connected, particularly to the redistricting efforts.
Now, I don't know the exact reason.
As of the filming of this video, we don't have the full details on the corruption raid.
What is the accusation?
We don't know.
But this is the woman in Virginia who proposed, who led the charge on redistricting.
In these midterms, it's not going to be about who is popular and who is correct.
It's going to be about who can win the most seats procedurally by redistricting their states.
The Republicans in Indiana who defied Donald Trump, five of the seven have now lost their primaries.
This is getting particularly serious.
Now, there are questions about the economy, about the war, about whether or not Trump will run for a third term.
And certainly, I think for most people, they don't realize what time it is.
I can only say it this way Tennessee today announced that they would be redrawing their maps as well, eliminating a Democrat seat.
And this means that in red states, there will be no Democrat representation.
In blue states, there will be no Republican representation.
The end result, of course, will be geographic hyperpolarization, the likes of which we've not seen in a long time.
By 2030, due to internal migration, Democrats will be in a permanent minority.
I don't know how they'll recover from this, but it is an existential threat to the Democratic Party and progressives in this country.
They will be boxed out based on the current trends.
And now it appears the Trump administration is willing to exercise force, that is, law enforcement, against people they would deem to be corrupt.
Let me lay it out very simply for you, my friends.
Donald Trump is winning.
It's not perfect, he's not winning everything, but the shuttering of USAID and these fake climate change slush funds.
Has limited the resources the deep state has to create their permanent government, to maintain their permanent government.
Now, these elements of the deep state are trying to shore up Virginia as their last bastion.
And this is why we are seeing the DOJ go after them now, chasing them to their last stronghold.
From the surface, I gotta say, it looks like the Trump administration, Trump and his allies, have secured an advantage on the chessboard so pronounced the deep state, the uniparty machine, will not be able to recover.
This is the point in the chess game where any reasonable player reaches out their hand to their opponent, accepting defeat.
But I can't say for sure.
We only know what's going on surface level.
So let's break down the news, and I'll show you what the Democrats, the liberals, and the progressives are saying about all this.
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Here's the news from the AP FBI searches Virginia Senate leader's office as part of corruption probe, according to a source.
The search at Virginia Senator L. Louise Lucas's district office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state's recent redistricting effort.
The FBI said only that it was conducting a court authorized search warrant in Portsmouth.
The person who confirmed the FBI search was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
A message seeking comment was left on a cell phone for Lucas.
Though the exact nature of the investigation was unclear, the search comes as the FBI and DOJ have opened a spate of politically charged investigation into perceived adversaries of Donald Trump.
Last week, for instance, the DOJ charged former FBI Director James Comey with making a threatening Instagram post against Trump, an accusation that Comey, who for nearly a decade has drawn the president's IRS, denied.
A separate mortgage fraud case, ultimately dismissed by a court, targeted Democratic New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who had brought a major civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and his business.
Now, I got to stress this for you guys.
I'm going to step outside the partisan and go for the unbiased as best as I can.
Now, I think it's fair to point out my own personal biases.
I supported Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.
I'm happy to see him win.
I do not consider him to be a perfect individual.
I think he's done many things that have been wrong.
Now, that being said, The civil fraud charge against Donald Trump claimed he misrepresented the size and the value of his properties to get more favorable loans, to get more money from these banks.
Particularly, they accuse him of claiming that a 13,000 square foot penthouse was actually 30,000 square feet.
However, Deutsche Bank, who offered the loan, claimed this was not correct.
They did their due diligence, corrected it, lowered their terms, and were happy with the terms.
Made money and would like to keep working with the Trump organization, not fraud.
Donald Trump's organization, not Trump personally, submitted paperwork.
Deutsche Bank went through it and said, Hey, looks like you made a mistake.
More importantly, a disclaimer was added to these forms saying, We may have made mistakes.
It is your responsibility to make sure it's all correct.
When Deutsche Bank went through these documents, determined the numbers may have been off, they reduced the total loan amount and they offered Trump money.
They were happy with the results.
For this, they tried seizing Trump's properties, claiming it was fraud.
Insane.
They also charged Trump in New York with falsifying business records in furtherance of another crime.
For the first time in the law's history, there was no unanimous decision as to what that crime even was.
More importantly, in the case, they literally stated Trump never instructed anyone to commit a crime or falsify records.
His lawyer just decided that's what Trump wanted.
This is the degree of lawfare we are dealing with.
In fact, Jenna Ellis, Trump's lawyer, was criminally charged for providing a legal service in drafting a letter.
At Trump's request.
And liberals still to this day claim, but if the lawyer wrote a letter and that letter was in furtherance of a crime, it proves it.
You could never be a lawyer again if you could simply be accused of helping a criminal.
A criminal is accused of a crime and a lawyer drafts a letter on their behalf, so they accuse the lawyer of being part of a conspiracy to commit a crime.
That's insane.
But this is where we are.
Now, here's how the New Republic states it.
FBI raids office of top Democratic leader in redistricting wars.
Virginia's Eloise Lucas has been brash and unafraid to stand up to Trump.
Now she's become a target after a major victory.
I want to stress Virginia's not a victory.
The court struck it down already.
Multiple times they refused to issue an injunction.
We have not yet seen whether or not they will win.
They go on to say she's an 82 year old great grandmother and frequent critic of Republicans and President Trump, an ally to Virginia's Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger.
She's CIA or something?
The Bureau reportedly has multiple search warrants and is also raiding a cannabis dispensary co owned by Lucas Next Door.
Lucas has frequently advocated for marijuana legalization.
And in 2022, her business was found by the Virginia Mercury to be selling Delta 9 THC, a substance illegal to sell in Virginia, although many of the products in her store were found to be mislabeled.
Lucas is combative on social media, posting memes in support of Virginia's redistricting effort, and going toe to toe with Republicans like President Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.
That could be why she's being targeted by the FBI, which under Director Kash Patel has vindictively pursued Trump's critics.
Here's a post.
She said, Next week, we will return to Richmond to convene our 2026 legislative session.
I'm getting ready to work.
And it's her as Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet.
These people don't even understand they're the villains, do they?
Apparently not.
She said, You all started it and we effing finished it.
I'm sorry.
I try to be fair.
I try to be fair, but I have to say this.
So I'll refrain from being more aggressive than I would normally be and just say.
For those that are not familiar, Texas tried redistricting in 2021.
The Biden administration, DOJ, sued them to stop this, claiming these were racist districts.
When the Trump administration got in, they dropped the suit and then said, don't make racist districts.
Same argument, different result.
This triggered a new map mid decade.
Not that Texas was trying to wait this long.
They tried doing it in 2021.
This kicked off a battle where California said, then we're going to do it.
Despite the fact it was the Biden DOJ that forced Texas in this position, Republicans then said, let's roll, baby, and war were declared.
And that's where we are.
You can say y'all started it, but gerrymandering has been a problem for a long time.
Everyone's going to accuse everyone else.
Illinois is horribly gerrymandered, and the Northeast has 40% Republicans in all these states and not a single seat for Republicans in most of these places.
So, argue who you want started, it doesn't matter.
This is a war.
She posted, Virginians, the choice is now up to you on whether we stand up to Donald Trump's abuses or just watch him gerrymander the rest of the country from the sidelines.
You can vote early today or vote on Tuesday at your normal polling place.
We get it.
Here's a quote NPR reported this in April I said in August of 25, the maps will be 10 to 1, and I'm sticking with it today.
Anyone in the congressional delegation who wants a seat needs to campaign for it and not expect a safe seat.
Indeed.
It's not a first running with the law in 2020.
She turned herself in to face charges in connection with the dismantling of a Confederate monument.
Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas is working at the State House in this photo.
Well, again, as the story goes, this money was going to be cycled through various NGOs and foundations to ultimately turn into donations for politicians.
So, they would have access to seemingly unlimited funds to maintain their control of our government.
And now it is being ripped to shreds.
USAID was crushed, and many of these people lived in Fairfax County, Loudoun County.
These individuals in Virginia are intelligence, deep state, they're lawyers, they exist to prop up this machine.
They received free money as part of the permanent government.
It was American nobility, and they're pissed.
With their ousting and the shuttering of USAID, They're trying to form their last bastion in Virginia, and Trump is hunting them down.
Now, here's where it gets real fun.
The FBI is reportedly investigating a leak to an Atlantic writer.
Sarah Fitzpatrick reported on concerns about Kash Patel's drinking and behavior.
You know, I want to explain to you guys the personal involvement I have.
Only a little bit.
In 2024, Merrick Garland came out just before the election and accused me, as well as Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, and others, of inadvertently taking money from the Russians.
Now, there are a few questions there.
What was the money for?
What did the money do?
Did the money have an impact on operations for any of these individuals?
The answer is it didn't.
The money did nothing.
It changed nothing.
No one was directed to do anything.
Well, that's strange.
Turns out, a month after the election, they dropped it.
Now, the case is technically open, but it's been dropped in every conceivable mean.
In fact, Lauren Chen, who ran Tenant Media, said that she was informed only a few months ago that it was officially dead.
Well, the reality is there could be no investigation because the individuals indicted for allegedly funneling money to this Tennessee company, nobody knows who they are, no one has seen them, and no one knows whether they exist or not.
Nor can the United States investigate Eastern European countries like this.
So, what was the real purpose?
This is what the deep state machine does.
Merrick Garland went and gave a press conference accusing us of what?
The Culture War podcast, the channel you are watching now, at the time was largely non political for a reason.
The show was either typically debate format, conversation format.
We covered things like aliens and theology and geocentrism.
Here's the important point the money was minimal relative to the money generated by my company, it was insignificant, didn't change anything.
We've not increased or decreased.
They wanted to make it seem like it was a big number.
We were never instructed to produce any content, nor do I think there's any political value in content related to flat earth and aliens.
And the earth's axis tilting or anything like that.
So none of the arguments make sense.
The only thing that makes sense is that Merrick Garland and the Democrats intended to besmirch the name of independent media personalities, individuals who exist outside that ecosystem who are calling them out.
These people are evil.
I don't work for anybody.
I'm funded by no one but myself.
I built this company through my efforts and then the assisted efforts of those who eventually came to join the company.
And they can't have free speech, they can't have individuals calling out their machine.
So they personally attacked me.
Only one thing was accomplished.
My life has not changed with or without any of the money because it was largely insignificant.
It was a licensing deal to rebroadcast this show.
That's it.
This channel still has a million and a half subscribers.
My morning show still has two point, what is it at?
Two million forty thousand.
Timcast IRL still has two point seven.
Our website membership is still in the tens of thousands and growing.
And none of our other deals were effective.
Affected, our merchandising continues to grow.
So, what was the point?
It was to smear our names.
It was to strip us of our credibility.
It was a psyop by these individuals in the deep state.
Now, the reason I bring this up is because we can now take a look at what happened to Kash Patel.
The Atlantic ran a fake story accusing Kash Patel of being a drunkard.
I know Kash Patel.
I have friends who play on a hockey team with him, he plays on a hockey team in DC.
I have not known Kash Patel to drink.
I'm sure he does.
Pelly at a bar had a few drinks.
Every time he's come on my show or I've been in his presence, he has been reasonable.
In fact, I don't even know if I've ever seen him drink at all.
What is this narrative?
It's shocking to me.
They claimed him to be a drunkard.
This is the game they play character, assassination, and lies.
To sow doubt, to make the American people doubt the efforts of the FBI director.
Ask yourself this about those who are currently attacking Kash Patel right now, who is leading the charge going after deep state cronies.
It's happening.
They say nearly three weeks after The Atlantic reported that some government officials were alarmed by FBI Director Cash Paddle's behavior, including conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences, MS Now reported this morning that the Bureau has launched a criminal leak investigation.
MS Now reported that there is concern among FBI agents assigned to the investigation, citing two people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity.
Leak investigations are typically focused on government officials, not on journalists.
They know they're not supposed to do this, one source told MS Now.
But if they don't go forward, they could lose their jobs.
Supreme Court rejects long shot bid to recall Louisiana mandate.
In the latest ruling from SCOTUS, there was an attempt to stop.
Louisiana, Alabama, and these other states from redistricting.
Wednesday, May 6th, Louisiana v. Calais.
Robinson Press et al. v. Calais, Phillip et al.
The motion of Press Robinson et al. to recall the judgment is denied.
Not even a statement from Katanji Brown Jackson, just straight up shut down.
The NRF on May 1st asked SCOTUS to deny Alabama's attempt to disrupt an ongoing election.
Indeed, it's not just Louisiana.
Democrats are trying to stop.
Every state from redistricting.
Of course they would.
It's all lies.
In Virginia, they are putting five districts in one county, Fairfax, where the deep state operates.
What do I mean by deep state?
These are people who made a living doing nothing but getting money from the government from your pocket, cycled into their pockets to create a permanent government.
That's what deep state means.
Permanent government is the unbiased term.
Individuals whose income was tied to the fact that government was funneling money to NGOs and legal firms.
So, they could make sure that Democrats and Republicans both would win forever.
And they live in Loudoun County and Fairfax County.
And they are pissed.
But here's the thing California redistricted, Virginia redistricted.
You see them fighting to stop Republican states from doing it.
If it was really about the principle, they'd say, go ahead and do it too.
We'll do it the same.
But it's not.
It is them saying, we'll do it whether you do or don't, and we'll try and stop you if you do.
Democrats celebrated when Indiana reps refused to redistrict, and then they moved forward anyway.
That was the deal.
Republicans in Indiana said, no, no, we're not going to do this.
We're not going to redraw the districts.
And Democrats went, thank you so much.
Redraw our districts.
Screw them.
That was the game.
Well, five of the seven who did just lost their primaries because Republicans can see the writing on the wall.
And if you think it's bad now, wait till next year.
Wait till 2028.
It's going to get bad.
It's going to get real bad.
I'm going to tell you what to expect.
I don't know that AI really is the principal issue here.
I was talking to Joe Rogan several years ago, and he asked me what I thought about AI video.
And I said, I didn't think it was a big deal.
I was like, there's already fake videos, people got to sort these things out.
I was wrong.
But I would say this today.
You know, I mentioned this earlier today.
The weirdest thing I don't really understand, I think I have a general idea.
I can throw some theories out there.
There are individual accounts, conspiracy accounts, that have been for a long time now sharing fake videos of me on IRL defending Israel or, you know, just like these weird pro Israel posts or statements that are not real.
They're not AI, they're just edits.
So they'll take a clip from Timcast IRL where someone makes a comment about Israel and then they'll take a different thing unrelated to that and have me respond to it to make it sound like I'm saying things like Israel never did anything wrong or anything like that.
Now, why would they do that?
It's weird.
There's also a fake AI video of Erica Kirk doing weird things.
They took the video of Erica Kirk responding to Candace Owens, they AI edited it so that she's making a weird face and just like looking very odd.
Now, all of these idiots on social media share it thinking it's real.
I'll tell you what I think.
I think this is deep state.
I think this is the last efforts.
I think they're trying.
They need to pull people away from Donald Trump, they need to pull suburban women away from Donald Trump.
And I think Donald Trump sees this and knows he's not going to win a vote, so they're going for procedural victories.
The Democrats counter by redistricting.
The play is this Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, whether deep state or otherwise, are all advocating for people to vote for Democrats.
Strange, whatever you might think.
Trump's not going to win that fight.
Suburban women are not going to back Donald Trump again.
They largely got behind Trump because of Maha, RFK Jr.
Candace Owens runs a female coded show.
Where she has the Stanley mug, she does Blake Lively drama, and then she gets political and attacks Turning Point.
Why?
Turning Point is the most effective means at getting young people to vote Republican.
Someone killed Charlie Kirk.
Let me give you a surface level hypothesis.
Probably wrong, but here's what I assess Donald Trump wins.
Republicans win in 2024.
Nothing the Democrats could have done.
Charlie Kirk, Turning Point, too massive, too powerful, a change was coming.
Charlie Kirk was killed by an individual.
It is believed to be Tyler Robinson.
They say he acted alone.
I don't know that's the case.
There were people who posted online that they had foreknowledge.
It's seemingly that they had foreknowledge of the event.
Vehicles were seen outside his home.
Ask yourself the simple question: key bono.
Who benefits?
I learned that one from Alex Jones.
Does Israel benefit from killing the most pro-Israel guy who was making videos supporting Israel?
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson's claiming 56.8 million views per episode, which is just not possible.
But all these people online are just celebrating as if it's true.
Here's what I think.
Certainly, you're allowed to criticize the war.
I'm not a big fan of it.
But I think I can see what Trump is doing, and I can see what's going on with the deep state.
It's not a guarantee, and we don't know for sure.
It's all surface level, and I'm probably wrong, but it looks like this.
Everything I mentioned with Charlie Kirk, we get that point.
The procedural victories, and then foreign policy.
I think Trump's administration and the military under Trump is trying to keep the straight-of-war moves closed intentionally.
I don't think they're trying to keep it open because it's their fault it's closed.
Certainly, you can argue that Trump is making a bunch of mistakes, and he's floundering.
That was always allowed.
However, taking Venezuela, surrounding Cuba, are intentional acts that occurred before the war with Iran, which shuttered the Strait of Hormuz.
Shuttering the Strait of Hormuz cut off China from 40 to 50% of its oil imports.
We are now looking at countries around the world being desperate for fuel because 20% has been cut off.
The U.S. has just about become a net oil exporter for the first time since World War II.
OPEC is basically destroyed, and the UAE is now leaving.
Trump has crushed the liberal economic order.
And for this, the deep state is trying desperately to counter it.
I don't know exactly what's happening, but I can tell you this.
There are weird fake videos meant to malign me.
There's efforts to claim that those who oppose Donald Trump's efforts and those who oppose the war are doing better in terms of viewership.
Maybe I just think that we're in the offseason and views are generally down.
There are a lot of people that are spam blasting.
Tim Cast's viewership is gone.
Ben Shapiro's viewership is gone.
The Daily Wire laid off half its staff.
None of that is true.
Our viewership is actually up season over season, and we've had a handful of episodes crack a million views.
We typically do 600, 700,000.
A couple of my morning shows have cracked, you know, seven, eight hundred thousand recently, more views than I typically get on these videos, which on average do about two hundred thousand.
Sometimes they do less, depending on what I talk about.
So, what is this weird psyop?
Why is Candace Owens working with pronounced Zionists?
Why are lawyers working in a building in Delaware with federal agents?
Why is she attacking Trump and telling people to vote Democrat?
Why is Nick Fuentes?
I don't think it's organic.
There are certainly organic movements.
Grifters that think they'll get more views by going in the direction, and they do.
What I can tell you is, my friends, we are deep in a civil war among the elites.
My fear is that it goes kinetic, and I hope it does not.
It looks like Trump is winning.
I guess we'll just wait and see.
But the use of the FBI is just another step in the use of law enforcement in this battle.
You tell me what you think, maybe I'm wrong.
I will tell you this.
Let me just give you a through line.
October 7th, on the issue of Israel, said it was bad and it was atrocity.
I don't support Netanyahu.
In fact, I think Netanyahu is bad for Israel and probably should not be prime minister.
However, or I think, is he still the prime minister?
I mean, he bounces back and forth, right?
They always do this.
I think we should cut off funding to Israel.
AIPAC should register these individuals as lobbyists, as foreign agents.
I don't care if they're Americans.
I don't support Russia.
I think Russia is terrible.
I think Vladimir Putin's a despot.
China is certainly awful.
I think America is much, much better.
Morally, we are the number one country.
All of that being said, we have maintained this through line the whole time.
Don't care about Israel, don't care for Israel.
I view it as another country.
And I don't support them.
Ambivalent largely.
I view the problems in the Middle East the same as I view it in China or in Africa.
So, what is this narrative switch?
Who are these people now who say that I support Israel when I don't?
And why is that an issue?
Who are these people to claim that I am arguing we should not question the Charlie Kirk assassination when we literally on this show hosted a debate on the assassination of Charlie Kirk?
It's all fake.
It could just be that there are individuals who are lying for clicks, but I think at least a component of it is an attempt to divide.
Lie, cheat, steal, and smear has been the game they've played.
They're lying about Kash Patel.
They're lying about me.
They're trying to fracture and divide the populist right to stop Trump from winning.
In the end, if Trump wins on the redistricting effort, it won't matter.
Trump will win anyway.
We'll see.
I'm going to leave it there, my friends.
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