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Breaking News on Latest Cabinet Picks, Plus Behind the Scenes at SpaceX & Darren Beattie Joins | TRIGGERED Ep.193
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Thank you.
I hope that you are all doing well.
You know, Naively, I thought my life may slow down a little bit after the election, but I've gotten a lot busier.
It's all worth it, though, because it's such an incredible opportunity to fix our country.
So, as brutal as it can be, I'm really looking forward to the ride.
I had a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity just this week at SpaceX.
They were launching One of their rockets got to be there and see firsthand what true genius and ingenuity is all about.
So we'll be showing you the videos of that shortly.
We are truly though in a MAGA cultural renaissance.
And just like that SpaceX rocket, we are going to launch this economy and this country into prosperity.
Tonight we're going to be joined by Revolver News founder Darren Beattie.
That's always a crowd favorite, a lot to talk about.
He's been on a leading edge of a lot of this stuff.
Definitely want to talk about the U.S. now in the last days of a dying administration trying to arm the Ukraine with missiles capable of hitting Moscow.
What could possibly go wrong?
So as we sit here on the brink of World War III, While also on the verge of prosperity and peace, we got to make sure we get this right.
We got to make sure people are paying attention and they call out this insanity.
The mandate of November 5th clearly has not resonated in Washington DC, so we got to make sure that happens.
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And with that, guys, and before we get to Darren, Let's get into some of the top headlines of the day.
Obviously, a lot of big and breaking news inside of the DC swamp.
So I want to start off by giving credit to Matt Gates for always being a fighter for the MAGA movement and for being unafraid.
Him being unafraid is what made the swamp very afraid.
Matt isn't afraid to step into the arena.
And like I said, we need loyalty and competence.
Loyalty without competence doesn't work.
Competence, when they think they know better, that doesn't work either.
And toughness and Matt And everything that he showed, I'd be willing to step up and have his number called is a huge part of that.
We all have to become unafraid and call out the nonsense.
And that's going to be a guiding principle for whoever the next Attorney General pick is.
Because the mission for America First Cabinet is not slowing down, regardless of what the swamp wants.
Like I said, Monday.
We have a MAGA mandate.
And the Senate is only in power because of my father.
So we need to keep that at the top of our minds, okay?
Each and every day.
Make sure they know it.
Make sure you're calling them.
Make sure you drive that home every day.
The most important thing happening right now is ensuring that the administration is staffed with patriots.
That are dedicated to the values that you actually voted for and who are ready to get going on minute one.
Mandates, guys, they aren't suggestions or ideas.
They are mandates.
They're demands that we get the job done.
So use all of that as motivation to demand action from your lawmakers and to stand up against any of the hysteria, the smokescreen, the lies, the propaganda, and the scare tactics.
You know they're going to throw a lot of them at us.
Make sure we're fighting back.
Because what this is really about is the swamp's panic.
It's absolute panic about losing their corrupt grip on power.
Just look at what they're doing to Pete Hegseth.
For example, the regime media mob has been smearing Pete for literally having Christian tattoos.
I know, guys, it's a terrible thing.
It's a disaster.
The Associated Press even suggested he was some sort of terrorist for having a tattoo that said, God wills it.
That shouldn't surprise anyone who's been watching for a while.
was even attacked for having a tattoo that says 1775 on it, which was the year the Army was founded.
Pete is an Army veteran.
He's a combat soldier, a well-decorated one at that.
He also went to Harvard and Princeton.
But they're trying to tell you that he's not capable or competent.
And guess what, folks?
If you've been watching, whether it's Lloyd Austin, Whether it's Admiral Rachel Levine, let's just say if what they've been giving us is competent, I'd like to see the opposite of that because we haven't seen competence.
We haven't seen that in the way that we're fighting our wars.
We haven't seen that in the way the Pentagon is running their budgetary process.
And they're trying to do just what they did to Justice Kavanaugh.
Which is where the narrative comes before the facts.
And the regime media runs with it gleefully.
The real reason they hate Pete?
He's not taking the job for a future board seat at Raytheon.
He's not doing the bidding of the swamp or the military-industrial complex.
I mean, honestly, just compare the coverage of Pete Hegseth to the coverage of Lakin Riley's illegal immigrant murderer, the killer.
The killer that was found guilty of murder yesterday.
And this is how the Washington Post covered it.
And I quote, man guilty of murder that becomes a GOP focus.
Think about that.
It becomes a GOP focus.
Why?
Because he had no business being in the country.
The Washington Post thinks the problem is that the Republican Party spotlighted the tragedy about an illegal immigrant murdering an innocent girl.
We should make sure to protect murderers.
I saw a statistic a few minutes ago, right before I went live, that said 78% of Americans think that illegal immigrant criminals should be deported.
Or 72%, I guess.
What about the other 28?
I think they belong in an insane asylum.
What nation, what civilization would actually want to keep illegal immigrant criminals In their boundaries.
It makes no sense to me.
When it's Biden who let in the illegal immigrant criminals and then flew him to Georgia on your dollar, on your dime, on your taxpayer-funded generosity, Think of how insane that is.
Lake and Riley's death was completely avoidable.
Jose Ibero was released into the country by the Biden administration and was then free to kill.
Biden is now trying to allow as many illegal immigrants to come in during his final few weeks in office by rolling out a new app.
That allows migrants to skip ICE in-person check-ins.
What could possibly go wrong, folks?
What could go wrong?
I mean, we're just going to let them in.
Who cares?
They could be murderers.
They could be drug dealers.
They could be gang members.
They could be terrorists.
Who cares?
Let's let them in with reckless abandon.
This seems like a great idea.
The Biden administration is quietly loosening immigration policies before Trump takes office, this according to the New York Post.
It reports the administration is testing a new app that will allow illegal migrants to bypass in-person check-ins at their local ICE office.
Jeff Paul is live with more.
It sounds like they're just giving Donald Trump one more thing to undo.
Well, John, we do know the Biden administration has been testing this new Immigration and Customs app, and the idea is to streamline the check-in process for migrants.
Allow them to use their phones or computers to touch base with immigration officials while they wait for their date in court instead of appearing for those check-ins in person.
Now, a source tells Fox News, ICE has been using the app already in a couple of cities, but according to the New York Post, it's going to be launched officially next month in New York City.
The field office there reportedly has been overwhelmed, fully booked with appointments for a year.
Think about that, guys.
They're actually loosening policies that make it easier for illegals to flee authorities, to get into our country, perpetrate murder.
It's insane.
And it's ending on minute one.
But that's not going to stop them from trying to flood the country with these people.
I think anyone complicit in allowing this to continue, if one of those people commits a crime, a murder, an assault, they should be guilty of aiding and abetting it.
They are part of that crime because they understand what the American people voted for.
They're doing the opposite of that.
And that's not all, guys.
Because in Denver, the mayor, the mayor of the city of Denver is announcing that the city will use police officers to try and block ICE from deporting illegals.
They're going to try to stop them from doing it.
That's insane.
This is the same mayor, by the way, that cut city services.
They cut city services designed for the citizens of that city, the taxpayers who fund it, to allocate money instead to illegals.
You can't make it up.
You'd think it's a bad joke, but it's happening.
The mayor in Boston also made similar comments.
A much-needed reality check is coming, folks.
Common sense will be back in the White House on January 20th.
And if Democrats or rhino Republicans are trying to stop that, we have to be aware of it, and we have to vote them out of office.
And Democrats have even put illegals above our own veterans.
Just listen to this clip, because this is truly...
I mean, it's all insane, but this is particularly bad, about how VA funds are being used.
Has the Biden administration been helpful for you?
Have we seen numbers go up or down?
And what about under Trump?
Well, it was interesting.
Trump's first term, it was way down, you know, veteran homelessness, because they were really heavily leaned into the veteran community.
And then when we had this migrant crisis, a lot of the VA HUD-VASH funds that are supposed to house homeless veterans ended up getting reallocated to migrants.
So it went up by 12 percent.
And I think it will go back down under this new administration.
Wow, so that money that was supposed to go to veterans went to the migrants, and that's why some of these veterans are on the street.
They didn't tell that first guy why he wasn't allowed to stay in the shelter.
Well, they're not allowed to stay in the shelter because there's not enough shelters is the problem, and if you went to prison, Most of these people have gone to prison for domestic violence and things, drugs, and then they can't get in the shelter.
They won't put them in these military shelters.
So they continue to not get rehabilitated.
They just retain their trauma for their whole life.
Well, I know you're going to be working with Washington.
You're a lobbyist as well.
You'll be working with Doug Collins and whoever, some of these appointments, if these appointments go through, Pete Hegseth possibly.
So thank you so much.
God bless you.
Thank you so much.
You're awesome.
Folks, this madness ends on January 20th, but it's not going to stop them from doing whatever they can, again, to flood our country with unknown people, allowing again criminals and gang members and drug dealers and rapists and murderers to come into our country.
Stephen Miller, someone who's going to be a big part of the pushback against this insanity, Just explained exactly what to expect.
Check this out.
I think you'll like it.
President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office.
As he has said, the occupation ends.
Liberation day begins.
He will immediately sign executive orders, sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history, finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home.
No one will be allowed to enter the country illegally and ICE will be empowered in partnership with FBI, DEA, ATF, the National Guard to fully seal and secure the border with CBP and to find and identify the criminal threats that are inside this country and send them back home.
We saw that heartbreaking testimony, Sean.
Lakin Riley, that precious, beautiful young woman, fought for her life against an illegal alien imported by Biden-Harris for 18 harrowing minutes.
She fought for her life.
And we are going to honor that extraordinary woman.
And we're going to honor every victim who has suffered.
Under President Trump's leadership, we are going to honor that suffering by unleashing a righteous wave of justice and sending these criminal migrants back home.
Guys, the deportations are coming.
It's time that we restore law and order and that we restore peace and strength and prosperity to our nation.
While the Biden cabal tries to undermine the incoming administration by enabling illegals, illegal immigrants, and also trying to simultaneously start World War III. They are not going to get away with it.
We're going to protect the American people.
And remember, guys, there's so much to be excited about.
For example, I was in Texas this week, as I mentioned earlier, for the SpaceX launch.
It was honestly a moment that reminded me of America's greatness, of American exceptionalism.
We're doing that.
We're no longer doing that in government, guys.
We're doing that with great minds in the private sector because the government has been taken over by insanity.
No other country accomplishes the feats that we do here in the United States.
Here, a little bit of behind the scenes footage of me walking amongst the incredible rockets Built in America, engineered by Americans, doing things that the agencies funded by government for decades couldn't even fathom.
Check this out because it was truly an incredible experience for me.
We're actually inside a Falcon Heavy rocket right now.
Does not get cooler than this.
Each one of these engines has the equivalent of four 747 engines.
Each one.
And there's dozens of them in these rockets.
But each one of these guys Four 747 engines.
It's like the skydive is on some legs because it's falling down like this.
And then right at the end it goes around a bit.
How hot is it?
Like 2,000 degrees.
Very hot.
We did the same thing after the hour.
We're looking at the leeward side of the rockets.
So the other side, the windward side, has those black tiles.
Yeah, it's a little hard to see.
So we're looking at the leeward side, the cold side essentially.
So you can see the tiles are on the nose.
Guys, we need to celebrate greatness like this.
It's in very short supply.
Instead, we get garbage just like this nonsense from Jaguar, which used to sell cars, but is now apparently just selling woke nonsense and insanity. . but is now apparently just selling woke nonsense and insanity.
I don't know about you guys, but that makes me definitely never want to buy a Jaguar.
I'm reading in one of the comments.
They took Jaguar and they replaced maybe the first letter with a letter like F. I'm not allowed to condone that or laugh at it, but it's...
I'm going to get in trouble, but not going to lie, that's pretty funny, folks.
If you replace the J with an F, that's what they did.
Not me.
Not me.
I am not.
But I can laugh at this.
And someone took some of it and just went jag off.
I mean, it seems like a great way to kill your brand.
I guess they're going the way of Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney.
But I'm sure it'll work out well for them.
You know, the people that used to buy Jaguars are probably never doing that again.
So luckily, there's a lot of other options, but that's still what's going on.
It's why it's not just important enough to reform the insanity in government.
We also have to make sure we do it in corporate America and corporations around the world.
Finally, do you remember Jesse Smollett?
He's the actor.
Remember?
This is MAGA country.
I'm like, I don't know, man.
I don't think anyone could live for more than five seconds.
I almost got canceled for this one because I was one of the first, like, let's call it big or verified or accounts on X at the time that, you know, maybe had something to lose by calling out the nonsense.
But I said, I don't know.
I have a feeling two guys in MAGA hats in downtown Chicago at like two in the morning probably wouldn't live very long.
But minor details.
He's the actor who made up being attacked by Trump supporters in downtown Chicago.
That Democrats rallied around as a victim of a hate crime.
He said they yelled, this is MAGA country.
I don't know.
Never really felt all that plausible, but when you're up against that machine, they created a narrative, and that became the gospel, even though it was always BS. It was, of course, all a lie.
He had that fake noose and everything.
But today, For some reason, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned Jussie Smollett's conviction for lying to Belize, saying that he was unjustly prosecuted.
Because remember, this was when a prosecutor said, okay, if you pay a fine and do a little community service, we'll just let it go.
What do you think would happen to me or you if you did that?
You created a citywide manhunt.
You used resources looking for something that never happened.
And we're just kidding.
We just wanted to go woke.
We wanted to vilify cops.
We want to vilify half the country.
It could be a problem.
They were saying that he was unjustly prosecuted, claiming that a due process violation based on a convoluted legal theory.
Don't bother trying to make any sense of it, because it makes no sense.
But Jussie Smollett is no longer guilty of that conviction.
This is why we fight, guys.
Because if we don't, this insanity will go on forever.
But again, On minute one, on January 20th, you're going to see us take this country back.
From the legal system, to the border, to overseas, we're going to deliver on the MAGA mission, and we're going to make America great again.
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Guys, one thing before we get to Darren, I keep saying, why is Matt no longer in there?
Why did he pull up?
Because for Republican.
Or Republican senators.
Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Curtis from Utah, and...
Where conservatism goes to die, Mitch McConnell said they were going to be hard-nosed.
And when you have a 53-person majority and you lose four votes, he was never going to be able to get confirmed.
So remember that.
That's why we have to win all of these battles.
That's why we have to win these downstream races.
We have to have bigger majorities because there's always going to be weak Republicans who are going to go against the mandate of the American people, who are going to join with the left to try to stop Donald Trump from doing what America wants and bringing common sense back.
That's why it is.
It's not because of Democrats.
It's because of weak Republicans, Republicans who Americans, frankly, revolted against on November 5th.
But because they're still in power, this is the crap that we're going to still be dealing with.
And with that, folks, joining me now, Revolver News founder, Darren Beatty.
Darren, what's happening, man?
How are you?
Great to be with you.
Likewise, man.
So, Darren, first off, I just want to get a quick reaction of yours to the state of the transition, how you see the cabinet shaping up and ultimately how we stick it to the swamp, who definitely needs some sticking.
Absolutely.
Well, overall, it's tremendously encouraging.
I have to confess, I'm deeply disappointed by the developments with Matt Gaetz.
I've always maintained the Attorney General position is the most important position for a variety of reasons.
Donald Trump learned the hard way what it means when you don't have someone who's 100% loyal to the agenda in that position the first time around.
Having somebody in that seat who didn't make the right decision, not just in terms of how it compromises leadership and justice, but how it introduces problems that suck up bandwidth and energy that compromise the ability to implement the agenda writ large.
And so I've maintained very strongly from the beginning that AG is the most important position.
I thought Matt Gaetz was the man in the country to do it.
Matt Gaetz in this role will be effective and will be good and that Matt Gaetz himself will find another perch to release his talents upon the world.
Yeah.
So that was unfortunate, but we'll see what happens there.
I think a lot of the other appointments are excellent.
Tom Holman, home run.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
with the border and what you're talking about with Biden and letting the illegals in.
The mass deportation is the number one agenda item here on the mandate.
President Trump has not been squeamish about that.
He was very vocal about the importance of this throughout the campaign.
And so I fully anticipate that this will happen.
And given the appointments that I've seen so far, it's entirely consistent with 100% conviction in that regard, especially Homan.
Hexeth, obviously a great pick.
I'm a big fan of his.
You know, one story that we did a while back at Revolver News exposing an individual called Bishop Garrison, who was running the so-called counter-extremism workforce at the Pentagon, basically the ideological veteran chief at the Pentagon.
And I was very encouraged by the fact that Pete Hegseth was so incensed by this.
He had me on his show.
We talked about it, did an extended segment on it.
Absolute faith that in the position at the Pentagon, he will clean out that poison in these institutions.
And just something to say about the general imperative, the general mandate here.
It's going to be disruptive for sure, but I think it's also important to understand that it's not disruption for its own sake.
It's not willy nilly just going in and breaking stuff.
It's disruption that's necessary for the ultimate purpose of restoring legitimacy to our institutions and our country.
Yeah.
The second term is conducted correctly.
It's not simply a matter of a politically successful second term.
It's a matter of setting the preconditions in our country for America to be free and prosperous and the global superpower into the end of the century and beyond.
That's the time span in which someone like Elon Musk is thinking.
That's the time span in which President Trump is thinking.
This is about securing America's role and success.
Yeah, no, I think it's important to note.
I imagine that those four Republicans that said they were hard-nosed, because they're disappointed in Matt.
I'm reading it in the feed right now that he did that.
No, I'm actually not.
If he had four hard-nosed that he wasn't ever going to get, don't waste the time, the political capital, trying to make something happen that's not going to happen.
You still have to deal with the realities of the swamp.
I imagine those four I guess they're Republicans.
I mean, they got an R next to their name.
They don't act very Republican.
I guarantee you they probably all voted for Mayorkas if they were in office at the time, which started the mass migration, the criminal migration into our country.
I guarantee you they affirmed all of Biden's cabinet picks and probably never voted against a single one of them that created the last four years of tumultuous disaster.
So it's a shame, but that's the reality.
The swamp does have teeth.
What do you see as the roadmap for ultimately defeating the corruption and that bureaucratic blob stuck in Washington right now?
Well, you know, it's a great question, and it's very complicated because ordinarily some, you know, you look at the situation and see, think of all the slings and arrows that President Trump has endured.
Spending all the way back to 2016, every single powerful institution in the world actuated against him.
Still one.
The entire bureaucracies got together, tried to subvert his presidency.
He managed to survive that.
Then they marshaled in just an avalanche of lawfare and corruption in the justice system.
And then even an assassination attempt that very, very narrowly failed.
And he goes from that to winning decisively a popular vote victory.
Both houses You would think at the very least, after all of that, he's entitled to pick the people he needs to deliver the mandate that the American people said.
But there's still some impediments in the way.
And whether it's a matter of getting more senators in there, and that's always good, or it's a matter of maybe, you know, punishing or at least not forgetting Not forgetting there needs to be a cost in this regard as well for these senators who just step in the mandate like this at this moment.
So I don't think we've heard the last of it.
I don't think, you know, to a degree you have to play ball with senators.
That's just the nature of governance.
Unfortunately, it's more complicated than just like, you know, punishing, punishing.
But ultimately, I don't think We will forget.
I don't think we'll forgive.
There will be a time to, you know, to settle that score.
But it's very unfortunate.
And just for the context, like you said, these are people who had no compunction about improving people like Mayorkas, people like Merrick Garland, who is just corrupt to the point of criminality.
It's it.
And so if those people are within the scope of acceptability, you would think someone like Matt Gay's room, whatever these ridiculous allegations, nothing's been proven.
And the aggressive and corrupt Garland didn't even bring any charges.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People have to understand the alleged Wrongdoing was investigated, I think, three times by Joe Biden's DOJ, not like a conservative DOJ that was like three times and they found no wrongdoing.
So they tried doing it with salacious stories.
They tried leaking components of it.
But the reality is this was investigated by an already weaponized Department of Justice and they didn't find anything.
So, you know, that's how insane all of this actually is.
I think what I'd love to do is appoint Matt Gaetz to be a special counsel where he doesn't need Senate confirmation, appoint him to be a special counsel on the weaponization Of the government.
Let him go in there.
Let him figure out everything that's going on.
Let him shed light to the American public to see just how badly these institutions have behaved, just how corrupt they have become, and let the American people see that.
I think maybe that's the ultimate payback and maybe the more important role, because once you have some clarity to just how corrupted these agencies have been, I think it's a lot harder for them to ever rear their ugly heads again.
Yes, a role like that could be good.
I think there are a variety of good roles.
Again, we haven't heard the last of him.
I think it's just the beginning and his talents will be put to good use.
I have absolute confidence in that.
And if there's any silver lining to what happened, it's a reminder that despite this decisive victory and despite this mandate, there are still Very important hurdles to overcome.
Still very important opposition to deal with.
And unfortunately, that opposition is in the House, so to speak, or at least in the party.
And this is not a new thing.
I mean, from the very beginning, 2015, from the time he went down the escalator, Trump's big battles We're against the corrupt swamp establishment within the GOP. And to some degree, the most vigorous opposition in the beginning and throughout came from those segments and those quarters.
So there's a lot of unfinished business there, and we have time to finish that business in due course.
So, you know, I said, you know, Matt Gaetz as a special counsel, what are some of the other things you'd like to see him perhaps do if it's not for that, you know, to expose some of these things?
Where would you think, you know, someone of his, you know, just frankly willingness to get in there and not be swayed by the nonsense, where else would you see him effective?
Well, I think he could be effective in a variety of positions.
This is just speculation, which is probably not my place to do, but I think a role in the Senate could be very interesting.
I think a role in transition, which is not mutually exclusive, but something like DOJ transition is very important.
Having a major voice in terms of staffing of that organization, I think he has the capability and the acuity to do so.
I think there are a lot of interesting things, even if we start to get more creative than that, of special roles for someone like him.
Like you were saying earlier, and I think this is another lesson from the first time around, is that it's a very special thing, that Venn diagram intersection between loyalty to the agenda and competence.
That's a very precious intersection.
Well, there's a third intersection of also having the stomach to be able to take it.
You can have loyal and competent.
It's rare.
But then what's even more rare are the people who are willing to take those slings and arrows, who are willing to keep fighting rather than just to succumb to a bad story from a journalist or from a paper or TV show that would gladly put them in the gulag simply for having the views that they have.
Absolutely.
No, that's a great point.
The combination of loyalty, intelligence capability, and courage.
Vanishingly rare.
Vanishingly rare in our country, in particular in Washington.
In the country, maybe not rare, but in Washington, it's very rare.
and you have that in somebody like Matt Gaetz and that cannot be wasted and I don't think it will be wasted.
So let's see what happens.
I don't think it's the end of the story what we heard today.
I think the ending will be far more favorable.
You know, so Darren, you know, so many of these DC scandals are really also media scandals.
We've seen this playbook time and time again.
Are some D.C. Republicans just too weak?
I mean, we sort of touched on the last one, but you've uncovered some of the things that the media won't talk about it.
Conservative media won't even talk about it.
How do we put an end to that nonsense once and for all?
How do you create that?
Obviously, the Senate, it's harder because they have six-year terms.
So I think that incoming freshman class of senators, I think they are America first.
I think they're MAGA. All those new ones coming in, they're going to be great.
But it takes a while to turn over that rhino machine, the Senate, where basically conservatism has gone to die or we're taking on the left, just doesn't stand a chance because it's an easy existence in Washington if you're a milquetoast Republican.
Yeah, no, that's a great point.
I mean, the unfortunate thing is, as much as I'd love to say there's some magic, you know, fixed solution, you snap your fingers and it's done, it takes time, because the entrenched interests represented by people like, you know, the McConnells and these kinds of things, these people are so deeply embedded.
And an ecology within Washington, a dirty, corrupt ecology that's been growing its tentacles, connecting with other things for decades and decades.
And this is a whole ecosystem built out from a patronage network of favors upon favors.
And it's like it's a whole economy, a whole world.
But it's unseen because it's all of, you know, I do a favor for you, you do a favor for me, and all these networks build out, and especially in the position of Senate, over time, that's a very entrenched situation to be in with, unfortunately, a lot of power.
And so it takes time to get rid of the old guard And to replicate, not the corruption, but replicate some of the bases and preconditions for that entrenched power so we can repurpose it for good and for the MAGA agenda.
The young people are for Trump.
That's one of the great lessons that we learned in this election.
Young people came out.
Young people are into Trump.
And this is a talent pool that can and should be cultivated, probably should be cultivated more systematically.
Because again, if we're thinking, you know, Elon's thinking in civilizational terms, in terms of Mars, we should at least be thinking in terms of centuries.
And part of that game is identifying and cultivating talent.
People who start out as a page in Congress and end up as a chief of staff in the White House, that kind of trajectory, the bad guys, the scum, the swamp, they have a whole infrastructure that is very effective at managing that kind of pipeline. they have a whole infrastructure that is very effective at And the pipeline is not just within government.
It's within lobbying organizations.
It's within civil society organizations.
It's within the constellation of NGO networks.
It's within a variety of industries.
And all of these things cross-pollinate and work in tandem and in synchronicity to create a very powerful system such that they take care of their own and they're able to exert pressure on those who deviate.
And we need an equivalent kind of system to exert pressure because when you're able to put more pressure than the other guy, the cowards aren't a big problem because the cowards are more scared of you.
Yeah, well, I mean, I think that was frankly evidenced in, you know, sort of independent media, whether it's the Joe Rogans of the world, perhaps guys like you and me, and a bunch of others who were able to actually take control of some of that narrative and call out the nonsense.
But Darren, we have some breaking news, you know, right now.
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has just been nominated to be Attorney General of the United States of America.
Pam, obviously, you know, a friend of ours, someone from there from day one, I don't know if you know, Pam, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
But this is just breaking news right now.
Well, I'm encouraged by the Florida part.
I don't have any special insight, but I'll have to look into it.
But if you say she's a day one, then I trust that and I have every expectation she'll do a good job.
So I think, you know, I hope so.
I mean, you know, she's great.
She's a good friend.
But you're up against some seriously sick people up there.
So you need an absolute animal.
So I hope she could rise to that because, you know, that's unfortunately what it's going to take to get anything done.
But Derek, let's talk a little bit about, you know, Revolver News' investigations into the pipe bomb and all of the things that, again, just Totally ignored by the media.
What would be the revolver news stories that you want action on from the incoming administration?
Obviously the pipe bomb scandal, the insanity around that, how that was allowed to happen, how it magically disappeared, how the evidence of the cover-up, Got erased just by coincidence, just magic, just like, you know, the Mueller text messages between the team.
All of these things just magically disappeared, like the January 6th investigation hoax stuff, all just gone.
Seems a little suspect.
What are some of the revolver news stories that you'd want to see, you know, actionable items from this investigation, from this administration to really figure out and get to the bottom of what's going on?
Absolutely.
That's a great question.
And the thing is, it's so tantalizing because we're so close.
We're basically at the state of the investigation now, where we're in the very endgame.
I don't know if you saw or the audience knows, but for the benefit of the audience, basically, The FBI was caught in a lie.
They told Stephen D'Antuono, who was the former head of the Washington Field Office, he told the Judiciary Committee, and this alone is kind of ridiculous, but he was asked by Thomas Massey, who's done a great job at Basically taking our reporting and using his position in Congress.
Basically, Massey and Matt Gaetz have been the two who have really taken our research to the next level through their purchase in Congress.
And Massey asked DeAntuono, he said, did you guys use geofencing capabilities in order to identify this pipe bomber?
And D'Antuono's answer was, we attempted to do so, but the information we got from the telecom company was corrupted, and so we were not able to use it.
Now, first of all, that's totally disingenuous because You don't just go to telecom companies for geofencing data.
There are multiple sources.
In fact, the documented cases of the DOJ and its aggressive sort of dragnet efforts to imprison anyone who was within a 10-yard radius of the Capitol They did use geofencing aggressively, but they used it from Google.
Google actually has the most reliable and easy geofencing that was preferred by law enforcement.
And so he wasn't even asked about, did you even bother to use Google like anyone else?
No question, no answer about that.
There are third party data vendors that also supply that and would absolutely supply that To law enforcement.
Evidently, they didn't try that either.
But the third domino to fall is it turns out they lied about the telecom data being corrupt.
And actually, there is fully intact telecom data.
And so that's something that is sitting within the FBI at this very moment that a cooperative attorney general or cooperative head of the FBI would absolutely be in a position to reveal.
We know that there are two Agents on this case who are without question part of the cover-up of this case, their identities are being covered up, but it would be the easiest thing in the world if somebody running the FBI or running the DOJ were willing to cooperate.
There are certain other aspects of the investigation such that we're at the very end stage.
We know it was a cover-up.
We know the FBI found out who it was probably in mid-2022.
Whoever it was was something that would be very embarrassing to the government, and they initiated a cover-up.
They deleted all of their surveillance footage.
We know that because another agency was attempting to investigate this, and they couldn't even go to the FBI to watch the footage.
They had to go somewhere else.
Because the FBI had deleted this footage in an ostensibly active investigation, which was to the public, they said, one of the highest priorities.
So the general position here is We're at the very end stages.
There are a few things like what I just mentioned that are absolutely concrete, very specific things, information that we know is housed within these departments, that a cooperative attorney general and FBI director would be in a position to provide and reveal.
And the implications of this, it's important because, you know, I don't want people to think this isn't a down in the weeds sort of pet project thing.
This is a scandal of monumental proportions.
It's a cover-up that implicates the FBI, the ATF, the Capitol Police, the Secret Service, and God knows where else that would lead.
Remember the video that was exposed of the Secret Service standing around totally lackadaisical when the bomb was discovered?
They clearly knew it was fake in advance.
That was none other than President-elect Kamala Harris' detail, by the way.
And Kamala Harris has not said a word about this issue, despite, as we've pointed out before, all political advantage she'd have from milking the issue by saying, I was almost killed by the MAGA pipe bomb.
Not a word about it.
And there's no way she wouldn't take advantage of it, even if it was a hoax.
So that's how bad it has to actually be if you dug a little bit below the surface.
We've got FBI, ATF, Secret Service, DOJ, so many different organizations, possibly all the way up to Kamala Harris.
And the importance of this is not just exonerating the people in prison falsely on the base of this insurrection narrative.
It's not just knocking out a major pillar of attack that the left has used all the way up through this election to go after Trump, not just knocking down a major pretext the government used to weaponize its resources against Trump supporters, but it's also, again, a necessary part of that Airing of crimes that needs to take place before we can restore legitimacy in institutions.
We cannot be a successful country unless people have faith in our law enforcement institutions, have faith in the FBI, have faith in a variety of our bureaucracies.
As long as people now with We cannot be a successful country.
We cannot be a free country.
So, related to all of that, what needs to happen at FBI, ATF, Secret Service, DOJ, are the answers to all of this, Sandy, are they in FBI HQ and we just need the right people in there?
Did they burn the books totally?
What should the future of the FBI look like to you?
Well, I mean, more specifically in relation to this investigation, I'm sure they deleted and burned and threw away a lot of stuff.
But given the nature of what the situation is, there's enough of a trail that we can find out what we need to find out if we have someone cooperative.
As for the more bird's eye I mean, that's a more difficult question.
We had a major piece at Revolver News laying out the things that then prospective Attorney General Matt Gaetz can do, but this new person can absolutely do this with the creativity and the same amount of energy.
All of these things are a great example.
I'll just give you a couple examples so people can understand just the full capacities of a department like that.
You could set up a First Amendment task force Within the DOJ to coordinate all activity related to the First Amendment and crimes against the First Amendment, such that were released in the Twitter files.
Another, just to give you a sample, one creative little idea.
You can, I don't want to say weaponized, but you can expand the scope of the False Claims Act.
This is a little known act that dates back to the Civil War, but basically it gives potential whistleblowers standing to basically expose fraudulent activity against the government.
And if money is recovered on the basis of that exposure, the whistleblower gets a cut of the money.
I love that because I could see that being useful not just at the FBI. I could see the door kickers, the actual patriots doing a lot with that.
But I could also see huge gains in the military, you know, going after the brass that have destroyed our military, that have killed recruitment, that have wasted money on countless insane things.
I mean, I think this is something that we could blow up and expand at great lengths and give those people a platform to talk about just how ridiculous it's gotten.
One hundred percent.
And you could even apply it to, for instance, universities.
Universities claim they're following the law and not engaging in racial discrimination.
And on that basis, they're receiving federal grants.
We can give whistleblowers this so-called key TAM authority.
They can claim a bounty.
There are things like this down the board.
FERRA, for instance.
A lot of these censorship organizations are working in connection with and conjunction with European-based think tanks.
And we learned this recently.
A lot of the censorship organizations are coming out of the UK, including the ones going after Elon.
So why not use FERRA To go after the people who are working on behalf of these foreign countries.
Why does it always have to be about Russia?
If the UK government is affiliated with organizations interfering in our politics and promoting censorship in our country, why not go after them similarly?
And in fact, just one last important point on that.
There are probably six to ten absolutely critical positions that are not prominent, and everyone knows them, but there are six to ten critical positions that pertain to free speech and geopolitics and diplomacy.
And unless we fill those appropriately in a way that they can all be synchronized and coordinated, We're not going to be in good shape.
If we have good people in those positions, what we can do is really go after Europe, the UK, Germany, because this is going to be the new locus of censorship now that there's a new sheriff in town in the United States.
So I would strongly recommend that as well.
Who are the chief villains, whether it be in the pipe bomb story or otherwise?
Who are the names that people need to know that need to be looked at?
Who are the ones that perhaps aren't as well known?
Well, that's a great question.
There are some names, unfortunately, I can't say right now, but we have publicly identified with extreme confidence one person that I'm 100% convinced is a key player in the cover-up, and he happens to be none other than the Head of Dignitary Protection at the Capitol Police.
His name is Ashen Benedict.
He is currently in charge of protection at the Capitol Police.
We have a long piece on him and There's unfinished business there, but there are others that have yet to be exposed.
But, you know, we don't throw around names recklessly.
Yeah.
I say Ash and Benedict, there is a long receipt behind that, which we've published.
He is a person that I'm absolutely confident has played a critical role in the pipe bomb cover-up, and he's not wallowing in obscurity.
He's the current head of Dignitary Protection at the Capitol Police.
That's a little scary.
Darren, talk to me a little bit about, you know, what we saw this week.
The Biden administration and Democrats giving Ukraine weapons that can't just fight back against, you know, the oncoming Russians, but could actually strike very long range, very far away into the heart of Russia, as in Moscow.
What do you think, given the mandate of November 5th, That that level of escalation could possibly mean.
I mean, I can't think of a possible good outcome when the American public clearly wants peace, that you would create this level of escalation, that you'd give this corrupted regime that kind of capability against, you know, the world's largest holder of nuclear warheads.
I think it's extremely dangerous and concerning.
As you see, Putin has done his part in matching that escalatory action on his side as well.
These things are very delicate once you kind of catalyze this escalatory spiral.
The only potential silver lining, which I think, again, is maybe not worth it when weighed against the danger and uncertainty of an escalatory spiral, is that by doing this approval, that potentially is a leverage point that could be utilized in peace negotiations because Russia is doing very well.
They don't want to give up any territory.
So you could say, you know, what's in it for them to come to the table?
Taking away these long-term missiles that Biden foolishly and recklessly put on the table, that could actually be an instrument of leverage in the negotiations to come.
I don't think that value outweighs the volatility that's been introduced by this action, but it's something that perhaps Could be used to advantage in the negotiations to come.
I was very encouraged.
I think one of the great debate moments, not as great as the Rosie O'Donnell moment, but it's up there, is when Trump was asked, do you want Ukraine to win the war?
And his answer was, I want the war to end.
And I think that was such a perfect answer.
Well, he actually said, I want to stop the death, which would kind of be a nice one, too.
I mean, I guess, Jared, you know, I've said this a lot, and it seems, you know, even more clear.
I've said that the Ukraine funding looks like the biggest money laundering operation perhaps in history.
You know, kick back to big war, the military industrial complex, however you want to look at it.
Do we need a special task force or a special counsel to audit that alone?
I mean, if the Pentagon keeps failing their audits, if they're losing $250 billion, you know, casually every time, do we need a special task force to look into that insanity?
Because I don't know how that continues.
And it's clear to me that this has never been on the up and up.
Well, they're literally like trillions of dollars unaccounted for in the Pentagon.
And I was encouraged to see Vivek and Elon sort of publicly acknowledge this, especially given their new sort of imprimatur within Doge.
And I fully expect, you know, Secretary Hegseth to be very interested in getting to the bottom of this as well.
So whatever the mechanism, I mean, people We simply cannot fathom the amount of waste going on through our, not just the military industrial complex writ large, but just the Pentagon itself is an insane amount of waste.
And that's the other side of the story of all this funding is, you know, Only a percentage of funny is actually going to Ukraine.
A huge chunk of it is going to Raytheon and Boeing.
I've had Republicans call me, hey, Don, stop criticizing that.
It's going back to America and they're building missiles.
I'm like, now I get that.
Why don't we build cars instead of missiles?
Right.
You know, our only manufactured product built in America shouldn't be missiles.
You know, we need it for protection, but we need it for peace through strength, not so that we can keep lobbing them in there and having a never ending cycle of spend, you know, killing people who have no idea what victory even looks like in a war that no one can understand.
You know, one of my more cynical observations is, okay, if the swamp is going to get the money, why don't we just have Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed just have their accountants Calculate how much money they would make from a war.
Yeah, write them a check.
Give them the money and not have the war.
Yeah, that'd be nice.
I guess it was on Monday, I had a former speaker that has Newt Gingrich on, and we learned that Boeing was upcharging the Air Force 8,000%.
8,000% for things like soap dispensers and coffee makers.
And that's exactly why we need Doge.
The Department of Government Efficiency.
I have a feeling if Elon can do what he's doing in space and with cars and with Neuralink and with the Boring Company, he's a guy that could figure out the trillions of dollars that we're wasting on absolute insanity.
No.
The thing is, with Elon, he has demonstrated follow through.
He's not someone who's just going to take it superficially and go with something else.
Nobody runs that many successful companies.
He is an absolute master when it comes to the efficient allocation of capital.
And so if anyone can do this doge dot, and it wasn't just like a consolation job given to him.
It was a job that he specifically requested.
Yeah.
So I have a lot of confidence and optimism in relation to his ability.
I mean, even if he cuts two trillion as opposed to four trillion, two trillion is still a huge number and well worth it.
So I'm very encouraged by what he's doing.
Yeah, honestly, of all of the things that we have, of all of the opportunities, just shedding light on some of that, to me, you know, maybe, you know, the number one thing that we could possibly do for our country, because once people realize how ridiculous it is, I think there'll be a lot more pushback, there'll be forced, you know, accountability, there'll be an actual reckoning, and hopefully we won't ever get back to that point again.
But I guess, you know, the big picture is here is that All of these departments, whether it's the DOJ, the Pentagon, the VA, or whatever, it's all been one big scam.
It's pervasive.
It's maddening.
And once Americans get some exposure in full view of what exactly is going on, they are going to be absolutely enraged.
100%.
It's important to understand.
So there's areas of government that are simply poisonous and pernicious, like the counter-extremism working group, stuff that's really actively poisonous.
Then there's a huge category of things that's just wasteful, that we need to get our economy correct, get our budget in order, set ourselves on the course to actually be a successful country throughout the century.
But there's another element, which is Cutting all of these things, you're also cutting out, gets to something we brought up early in our conversation, you're cutting out the left's patronage networks.
Like, people don't understand, like, all of these fake work jobs, the utility of the fake work job is you have A constituency that reliably votes for the party of government because they have a fake job given to them by the government.
And the significance of this sort of demographic is far greater than I think people really imagine.
And you're going to start to see what that really means once there's significant cuts that people will start complaining about it and people are going to say, oh my God, I had no idea that There's millions of people who simply make their living, make their middle class living off of fake government jobs to the detriment of the American taxpayer.
Yeah, it's just it's one big kickback after another.
So, yeah, it has to stop.
It has to stop.
I mean, they don't even want to go into work anymore.
They take office space and they show up.
They have to be there one day a month in some of these organizations.
One day a month.
They show up for the last day.
Of the first month and the first day of the next month, and then they basically have a two-month vacation.
I imagine they're working other jobs.
I imagine they are billing.
They are taking advantage.
And you're right, it's just a patronage network.
It's kickback after kickback, so it's got to stop.
But Darren, thank you for all that you're doing.
Guys, make sure you're checking out Revolver News.
They're covering a lot of things that no one else is going to touch.
The mainstream media isn't going to cover.
Follow Darren.
He's got great insight into these things.
So Darren, thank you so much for being here.
As always, always great to have you.
And I'm sure we'll be talking again soon as more of this stuff emerges.
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