I'm Jim Fetzer, responding to attacks by heretics and saboteurs who wanted to support the facts about not just the Sandy Hook event, but more importantly, my legal case, to have it reopened and reversed based upon new evidence.
I'll turn to the participants shortly, but let me introduce myself.
I'm a former Marine Corps officer and retired professor of philosophy.
Who offered courses in logic, critical thinking, and scientific reasoning for 35 years.
My early research was devoted to the nature of scientific reasoning, the foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolution and mentality.
Beginning in 1992, however, I began doing collaborative research on JFK, producing three books that shattered the cover-up.
In relation to 9-11, I founded Scholars for 9-11 Truth, brought together hundreds of experts from around the world, engineers of every kind, civil, mechanical, electrical, aeronautical, pilots, physicists, to saw what really happened.
Since, I've devoted myself to exposing the false flag events taking place here across America, which have been fostered by Barack Obama.
Nullifying the Smith-Munn Act of 1948, which precluded the use of the same techniques of disinformation, phony events, paid riots, stage shootings, and the like within the United States that were being broadcast abroad by the Smith Modernization Act of 2012, just in time to bring us Sandy Hook.
I brought 13 experts, including six PhDs.
Where we established that the school had been closed by 2008, that there were no students or teachers there, and that had been a FEMA drill presented as mass murder to promote gun control, where we even had the FEMA manual for the exercise, and where the FBI's consolidated crime report for 2012 shows under the category of murders or non-negligent manslaughter for Newtown, the number zero.
Meaning even the FBI, in a report that remains available on the internet to this day on their website, declares nobody died in Newtown in 2012.
Further confirmation of our conclusion that, in fact, it was a FEMA drill.
One of our contributors, Paul Preston, who's a school administrator in California, supervised active shooter drills.
Even was so disturbed by what he saw broadcast from Newtown that he reached out to his contacts in the Obama Department of Education, all of whom confirmed to him it had been a drill, no students had been harmed, and it was done to promote gun control.
How much better can you do than that?
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State Senator Roland Gutierrez introduced 21 new bills in response to that shooting, one for each life lost.
The latest bills would ban expanding bullets, ensure safe gun storage, and prevent juvenile assailants from becoming eligible for parole.
President Biden is expected to sign a new executive order he hopes will reduce gun violence in the U.S. In essence, making sure that background checks are conducted private-level gun sales.
He's doing it at a time when, as you said, there were people across the country clamoring for more.
The students that gathered here say they want tougher gun laws, not just here in Massachusetts, but across the country.
If one community is not safe, none of our communities are safe.
Dozens of Emerson College students held signs in solidarity demanding more from lawmakers.
If every state had the same gun death rate in Massachusetts, the state with the strongest gun laws in this country.
We could cut gun death by 70%.
From the Parkman van stand, David Hawk rallied the crowd.
The now 22-year-old was a high school student in Parkland, Florida, when a former student shot and killed 17 people at their school.
We need more people to show up with us when we're doing an act, you know, a march before a shooting happens.
Huck says the March for Our Lives rallies bring light to conversations, not just about tougher gun laws, but addressing what's causing gun violence.
We need more funding for research.
We need to fund more programs and address the lack of resources that communities have that result in gun violence.
It's something I think about every single day.
CJ Hokanga was nine years old when a gunman shot and killed 26 people at his Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The now 20 year old Emerson student says he won't stop fighting for safer schools.
We're going to continue to still fight and...
We are unique among nations in tolerating the proliferation of guns on our streets and allowing civilians to routinely purchase high-powered weapons of war.
Nobody else does understand that something fundamental needs to change.
When violence explodes once again.
When violence explodes once again.
once again.
I will also ask the school board.
to make a part of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message.
Every day, every school, at every level.
One thing that I think is clear with young people and with adults as well is that we just have to be repetitive about this.
It's not enough to simply have a catchy ad on a Monday and then only do it every Monday.
We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.
Guns can be made more safe by making them either through fingerprint identification, The gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear.
How guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.
So it's those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights while at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis, you know, where people, kids, and kids especially kids.
Kids especially are struck down.
When the book was issued in 2015, Amazon banned it less than a month after it went on sale.
Even though it had sold nearly 500 copies, I'm convinced they were acting as an agent of the state, since the government couldn't do it directly being inhibited by the First Amendment.
So I released it for free as a PDF.
A friend who follows this says it's been downloaded millions of times.
When the book was banned, Mike Adams, for example, interviewed me, published about it, even titled his interview with me, A Most Dangerous Mind in America.
A Most Dangerous Mind in America.
A Most Dangerous Mind in America.
you you you The book, pulled from shelves, claimed his son's death certificate was faked.
A trial to determine damages is now set for October.
A trial to determine damages is now set for October.
So to staunch the flow, they launched a lawsuit against me in 2018, which turned out to be completely contrived, based on three sentences in a 440-page book and one sentence in another that I co-edited with Robert David Steele, a Sandy Hook memorandum for then-President Donald J. Trump.
I went into court feeling confident because I had the evidence, and by my understanding of the procedure I would encounter, A summary judgment.
The plaintiff had to be asked whether all of the evidence and positions I asserted were ones with which he agreed, which of course couldn't be the case since he was insisting he had a child who died there, was suing me over a scan of a death certificate that was incomplete, had no file number, no town certification that it was accurate, no state certification that it was an authentic copy.
Which, under Connecticut law, not even parents are allowed to possess, which had been provided by the plaintiff, who called himself Lenny Posner, to a research colleague of mine, Kelly Watt.
So they contrived a lawsuit.
They published and attached a complete death certificate with a file number, town and state certification, and claimed there were no material differences between them, which was absurd.
So I had a mass of evidence going in.
But the court, during a pretrial conference, scheduling conference, ruled that my views about Sandy Hook, whether or not there'd been a real shooting or not, were irrelevant to the truth or accuracy of the death certificate.
When the death certificate itself states it's for a decedent who died at Sandy Hook on 12 December, 14 December 2012.
Multiple gunshot rooms.
In other words, it was an absurd ruling from the beginning.
Okay.
Now, I went through a long, tedious process.
I sought to appeal the finding that I was liable, which was in violation of the presupportment.
I was being violated of my right to a trial by jury because a judge falsely declared there were no disputed facts.
He ruled out not only Kelly Watts' affidavit, claiming the published death certificate was the same as the one she'd been given by Leonard Posner in contradiction to the complaint to forensic document experts who confirmed that the death certificate Not only the one published, but the one attached to the complaint and two others, one obtained from the town, one obtained from the state, were all fake.
All fake.
The judges set their evidence aside, even though their credentials were impeccable as irrelevant, not helpful, found me guilty.
There was a trial for damages, which was ludicrous.
Let me just say, there have been some observers on the scene who've done Very good work.
Kevin Barrett, who was there for the trial for damages, published about it.
The legal lynching of a truth seeker, Jim Fetzer's Stalinist-style show trial.
They both got it exactly right.
And because since my trial and abuse under the law, I've been contacted by participants in the event.
Who liked the book.
In fact, they told me everyone in the Sandy Hook community who participated in the event liked the book because it's honest.
They felt I was being abused.
They provided additional information such as that the school actually was closed in 2006.
That wasn't even an elementary school.
It was a special needs school.
Eric Holder, who had become Attorney General under Barack Obama, came to Newtown in 2006 and offered the community $114 million to participate in this scam, which was supposed to illustrate for the American people what could happen if we don't take away their guns.
They had auditions for the rolls.
They have benefits such as paying no taxes, free college that endure to this day, and believe it or not, it turns out the scam being perpetrated through Sandy Hook Promise is still bringing in a million bucks a month.
Well, I have new evidence now.
Brian Davidson, a private attorney from Texas, has done sensational work uncovered by doing an investigation of the Connecticut State Police files.
That they have photographs there from which the metadata has been removed that show no bodies, no blood in locations where there were supposed to be both bodies and blood, and that all the furniture is shoved up against the wall.
You're in classrooms with no teachers' desks, no student desks, no chairs.
Turns out, not only did he find proof that there was no mass murder, but that it wasn't even an operating school.
I have, in the meanwhile, gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protest that summary judgment procedures in Wisconsin differ from those in Texas in violation of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection, because in Wisconsin it's shabby, gives all the control to the plaintiff and the judge, who in essence conducted a non-jury trial, where there's even a book about it now, Ron Avery.
It was a blog of most of the documents in my case.
It published a book, Judicial Plundering of Dr. James Fetzer, which I believe is only the first, more to come, and where I've now, on the basis of new evidence, including an additional affidavit from Bryan Davidson, where I had claimed from the beginning that the party had called himself Leonard Posner.
Noah was a six-year-old boy.
He had just turned six, really just weeks before the shooting.
So it still felt like he was five years old.
He just lost his first tooth.
And he was, you know, full of energy.
Six-year-old boy that was really enjoying his life.
Lenny Posner's son Noah was murdered in the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting.
The youngest child killed that day.
But the massacre was just the start of his family's terrible experience with misinformation, disinformation and so-called hoaxers.
Posner has to keep his present appearance and location secret and you'll soon see why.
It's become a thing, you know, a real theory that people seriously believe that the shooting never happened.
That it was faked by the government, the community, the victims, the families, and that's continued to other tragedies since then.
Those erroneous theories started to appear the day of the shooting.
That was very upsetting to me, but I didn't understand what it was becoming right away.
So I thought that if I could only show them evidence, be transparent, that it would be able to...
Posner says when he spoke out to correct the conspiracy theories about the shooting, he became a target.
There was a lot of hate directed at me.
Harassment, death threats.
A woman was sentenced to prison for making death threats against me.
Posner and his family, including Noah's twin sister and older sister, had to move multiple times to escape harassment.
Their experience with online hate and harassment led him to start a group called the Honor Network.
We have hundreds of volunteers that help in locating this content and helping report the content.
Posner says the work is non-stop and he has a word of advice for people posting things online.
If you're involved in something that could be labeled as a conspiracy theory and it could be harming other people.
You may want to stop and consider, are you the good guy or are you the monster?
Leonard Posner was a fiction.
His real name was Reuben Vabner.
That the child who died, Noah Posner, was also a fiction.
Made out of photographs of his younger son, Michael Vabner, when he was a child.
And that the party who'd come into court to testify under the name of Leonard Posner was not Leonard Posner.
Well, I've now ascertained that, in fact, it's his older son, Benjamin, and I now have documentation, photograph, proof of all of the above.
So I've sought to reopen the case on the basis of extrinsic fraud and fraud upon the court because the whole event external to the courtroom was a FEMA drill.
They also, by the way, my San Diego friend provided me with a FEMA schedule showing this exercise, L366, to take place there on the 13th of December and then be presented as a live event on the 14th, where they even sent along a map, How to get from Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the FEMA headquarters is located, down to Dickinson Drive, where the school is, where they put the word elementary on the school and then allowed years for it to weather, so it could look as though it had always been, but it never was.
And now we have the bizarre situation, where a fellow named Victor Hugo...
A fellow who...
Came to my attention, I don't know, mid-2024.
And I was kind of captivated by his theatrical style that he was focusing on a major issue of concern to us all, namely the influence of the Israeli lobby on the American government.
Government is shown to Israel.
Well, I always thought he was a bit over the top, because he constantly reiterated, it's the Jews, it's the Jews, it's the Jews, as though we're a mantra.
It's the Jews.
Alex Jones, who never names the Jew, there's Black Jews, there's Asian Jews, there's Hispanic Jews.
It wasn't six million Jews.
Because of the importance of the topic, and it had so...
And he seemed like a pretty knowledgeable guy.
He had a distinctive style, without any doubt.
But I thought it was all within the boundaries of civilized discourse, shall we say.
And I plugged him into a show I do called Truth vs.
News, typically recorded on Tuesdays, where I present stories and then And in the beginning, it was a matter of having comments from Joaquin Agobian, who's among the world's leading experts on politics, and Bryan Davidson, who's a sensational private investigator from Houston.
And at a certain point in time, Victor was going on about it's the Jews, it's the Jews, and Bryan believing.
Totally, legitimately, that was an oversimplification because there are other contributors, such as the Pilgrim Society, the Vatican.
We even have Jews Against Genocide who occupied Grand Central Station.
He felt that was too much.
And at the end of the first hour, on 17 December 2024, Brian excused himself from continuing on with Victor Hugo.
Jews are a race.
Did I say that or did I ask that question?
Yes, you did at the moment that I said cover your ears, Brian.
Well, wait a minute.
Let me speak.
I didn't interrupt you.
Okay, so you think that Jews are a race.
I can introduce you to some Asian Jews.
Jewish is a religion, Brian.
Do you understand that?
Do I understand that?
Well, apparently you don't, Brian, and I'm being respectful.
I love them all.
Like I said, I even love you, Brian.
I'm trying to educate you because, like I said, I'm shocked that you're a private investigator and you believe that Jews are a race.
It's not.
It's a religion.
It's a cult.
It's a death cult.
By your definition, Brian, you're more racist than I am, but you're racist against Christians, and I seem to think that you're probably a Christian.
So you're a self-hating Christian now.
I had met Victor because of the death of Scott Bennett.
And Bennett had come back from spending some time over in Russia where he went on Russian television, and then he came back after a long trip, and he confessed to me that He thought he had been poisoned at the airport.
And three weeks later, he was dead.
So we needed to find a new host for that particular two-hour show, which we filmed, I think, on a Sunday night called Truth vs.
News.
It was a rather casual current event analysis show.
And I left that up to Jim since I'm a guest and, you know, co-host.
Bring on whoever you want.
So he brought on Victor Hugo.
I had no reason to protest.
I said, fine.
I did three shows of him, so about a total of six hours.
And he was beginning to press my buttons because, you know, when I prep for a show, I have to spend about an hour prepping all the articles, reading the articles, reading the comments, trying to figure out what's really cross-referencing stuff.
So if I'm going to do a show, I want to sound intelligent and I'm going to do the prep work.
Well, it was obvious to me that Victor didn't do any prep work whatsoever because every time the ball moved into his court to talk, the answer was a very radically simple answer.
It's the Jew.
It's the Jew.
Every problem in the world, every current event, everything that happened, it's the Jew.
It's the Jew.
And what I had realized is that when it was Bennett and I, we had a lighthearted show.
We were able to look at things in a very balanced perspective, and we had what I consider to be a very well-educated audience.
Well, after Victor came on the show, the comments were absolutely toxic with, you know, the anti-semi race guys.
Now, listen, I'm an equal opportunity pisser-offer.
I'll go after the Jesuits.
I'll go after the Jews.
I'll go after the deep state.
I'll go after the banksters.
But not Hugo.
He just kept going after the Jews.
That's all he would do.
And I began to realize he was sort of a one-trick pony.
And I took offense at being insulted by him, which is exactly what it started to be because I was like, this is crazy.
And what was happening was that the show was descending into chaos.
But are you Jewish?
Because some of the people in the comments section say you're a Jew.
So I bowed out, and he took it very personally and decided to go on the offense.
And then what happened was that since I bowed out, Jim left him on, but he didn't make any adjustments.
Well, I respected Brian's right to his opinions and what he had to say about it and continued with Victor Hugo.
For several more shows until I discovered that Victor Hugo is now attacking Brian, calling him to be a coward.
I knew Brian was anything but a coward.
He'd already done brilliant work on Sandy Hook, on Uvalde, on the Buffalo Tops grocery store shooting.
I mean, the guy is among the very best.
He's thorough, he's systematic, he's scientific.
I hold him in the highest regard.
So I told Victor this was unacceptable.
And if he'd cease attacking Brian, we could have a reconciliation and I could bring him back on the show, where I had subsequently created a program called The Fearsome Foursome, including Joaquin, Russ Winter, Victor Hugo, and myself for Wednesdays on Revolution Radio.
And the show was really quite sensational, got tremendous feedback, until we reached a point where Victor was claiming he had the right to attack.
Brian, that he was not going to stop, and I took him off.
In addition, because I had been so favorably impressed early on, I'd encourage Revolution Radio to give him a show, which they had done.
But after this continued, and the matter began to get worse and worse and worse, because now he was attacking me, he was attacking Joaquin, he was attacking Ross, he was attacking Brian.
I told Revolution Radio I could no longer support him, and they conducted their own independent review and decided they agreed and let him go.
I was on Revolution Radio, which is supposed to be listener-supported free speech radio.
I'll tell you what, I found out firsthand live on the radio with my guest, Stephen Kelly, who came on to expose the Getty tunnels during the L.A. fires, which just happened to be across from, of course, you guessed it, a Jewish center.
And as I had him live on the show with me, the radio manager got on and said, hey, listen, this guy is banned from this state.
You can get them off or your show is off.
This was live.
It turns out that there's allegations that both Jim Fetzer and Alex Jones threw the Sandy Hook trials on purpose so that journalists would be afraid of covering the false flag event.
And with that $2.4 trillion settlement...
Yeah, but apparently there's evidence to back it up.
So that's what today's discussion is about.
It's with Wynn.
A young friend of mine, lawyer.
I think she's one of the sharpest lawyers I've met.
So with that said, Wynn, welcome to Truth Be Told.
I'm anxious to hear what it is you've got to say.
I am an artist, a musician, and a 29-year civil litigation attorney from Ohio.
I've lived and worked all over the state, and I'm back in my hometown now, Mansfield.
The gurus.
There are two gurus with respect to the Sandy Hook truth community, and these guys have been around for years, okay?
And I just came into it.
what fall of 23 but I noticed some very interesting things okay these guys are the gurus and they suck up a lot of oxygen and grab a lot of attention and direct the narrative with respect to all the efforts to get the truth out on Sandy because there's a community of people that have been trying to do this for years yes and how big and James Fetzer okay I'll tell you why, because of what we just discussed, Todd.
The plaintiffs never would have sued anyone on this Sandy Hook hoax.
Unless they knew that individual would take a dive on the defense.
And that is exactly what both of these men did.
Well, I didn't realize these guys were involved in the case.
I knew that there was a sag pattern.
Mr. or Dr. Fetzer actually was sued in Wisconsin separately.
And that's why the whole bankruptcy case right now has been stuck.
It was supposed to go into the state courts because of this.
And I had the attorney who was filing this case for the American people, Wynn Young, and I interviewed him, I vetted him, and he's got the goods, man.
It turns out this is the real deal.
Well, Victor, it appears, craves attention.
And you'll do anything to get it.
I'm an artist because I had to survive.
Yeah, I was actually almost put in jail for knowing what I know and for speaking the truth.
Film nearly killed me.
It's exercise and patience.
A simple question that a five-year-old could ask is, am I going to get my social security?
You know?
And he's gone on a binge of attacking me and Brian and Joaquin.
And so again and again, we now have over 200 videos.
Where Victor is attacking us.
All over this incident where Brian withdrew because he had good reason to disagree with Victor.
It's the Jews, it's the Jews, it's the Jews.
So I find all this grossly disreportional.
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Three, two.
Similarly, Victor has gone in an all-on onslaught against me and Brian and Joaquin and Ross.
His conduct has become utterly reprehensible.
Now it turns out this has been his style.
You can go all the way back to 2008 when he was in Miami.
And by the way, I suspect he still resides there.
And this whole idea of him being, you know, the maverick artist from the Republic of Georgia is nonsense.
Turns out he's been pulling these stunts since 2008.
Or even hung some kind of painting of a three-foot-long penis out his window.
It'll attract attention.
And the court and the attorneys have found him over the top.
Already then, just as he's over the top now.
I regard Victor as an extreme narcissist.
He appears to be I don't believe you can trust anything he says.
What's most interesting now, by the way, and this has given it a new twist, is he claims that I and Alex Jones threw our cases over Sandy Hook.
Now, I won't address Alex.
I sought to be an expert witness for him in both his case in Connecticut and other cases in Austin, and I was not welcomed.
I could have, you know, explained.
How much we know that it was indeed a fabrication, a FEMA drill.
During one of his interviews, a video deposition in Connecticut, even denied he'd read the book Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, which raises serious questions.
How can a guy who is taking a stand on this very complex matter not have read the only serious objective scholarly work ever published on the subject?
And now he claims to have two attorneys, one of Arwen Young from Ohio.
And another, Todd Collender, who has offices in Boulder, Colorado, Golden, Colorado, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they support the idea that I threw the case.
And yet it's bizarre, because how can I have thrown the case when I'm still in court, when I'm still fighting the case, when I'm producing evidence, unbelievable evidence, when you have four appeals still standing before the Wisconsin Court of Appeals?
Wynn Young has known this for quite some time because Bill Bonitotti, when he discovered these allegations were being made informed Wynn, where he had assisted me with my motion to open pursuant to extrinsic fraud and fraud upon the court, which means that as they continue to this day, we have a situation where they know better or should have known better.
Ironically, Wynn actually claimed it was a virtue for him not to have read my book.
Reviewed any of my briefs, watched any of my videos, and there are tons.
I mean, there's 600 documents in this case at this point in time plus.
So he's trying to make it a virtue to be ignorant, and yet he's going on in spite of the fact that others have made repeated efforts to bring him aboard with the truth.
And we're now, just recently this past week, Kevin Barrett interviewed Victor Hugo, and when Victor Hugo Sought to promote his proposition that I and Alex Jones had thrown our cases.
Kevin explained he'd been there for the trial for damages, and that it wasn't the case at all, that I'd been denied my rights under the law, and that he documented in that spectacular article of his, which you can still find online, a legal lynching of a truth seeker.
So they know better.
They're acting in reckless disregard of the truth.
They are attempting to smear me, and I believe, and the others.
But no doubt I'm the principal because I've done all this classic research on JFK, four books, 9-11-2, made all the presentations.
For example, when Alex Jones organized his American Scholars Conference in Los Angeles in 2006, he invited me to give the keynote address.
And that, of course, was all revolving around 9-11.
Now, it may very well be that this appearance of Victor Hugo is because, given the appeals I've made and this substance, the very detailed, extensive evidence I've presented, there's concern that my case is going to be reversed, and they're trying to get out in front and contaminate the public with a belief I threw it.
I don't see how that's going to be sustainable once the case is reversed.
Well, obviously, I'm not in a position to guarantee.
I can just say the evidence is monumental and detailed, and I'd like to believe the Court of Appeals will do the right thing.
Victor's had remarkable success in getting his story out.
Aided and abandoned by a host with whom I've had very cordial relations in a past such as Michael Deacon, who seemed to have been enthralled with the idea of featuring Victor, who Expose me when Michael should have known better.
I mean, I've discussed the case before on his shows.
He's even got on with Stu Peters.
I've reached out to his producer, explained to her what's going on, requested that the record be corrected, that the simplest way might just be to feature me as Sandy Hook last man standing.
And he even, many to be interviewed by Mike Adams.
And when Mike's admin somehow didn't have it posted the way Victor lied, he went after Mike Adams for the suppression of freedom of speech.
Now, when you're talking about truthful and accurate reporting, that's, of course, to be commanded.
But in this case, he's spreading spears and libel, and I'm hoping to bring about a reversal.
Now, what we have here, then, is a classic straw man and exaggerated version of a position to make it easier to attack.
If he were accurate and truthful after all, there'd be no way to go after me.
There's even been a book published about it by Ron Avery.
The situation is very clear.
The attorneys involved and Victor didn't even do a literature search.
So far as I can see, they haven't watched any of my videos.
They haven't read my briefs.
And that's utterly irresponsible.
It makes the degree of complicity here, the seriousness of the violation, all that much greater.
I believe that Victor's story, living in the Republic of Georgia, is fantastic.
I suspect he is still residing in Miami, and he simply changed his style to go after the internet platforms that are going to give him Most attention and try to benefit by basically defrauding those who think what he's speaking is true, when what he's issuing is, alas, a barrage of distortions, exaggerations, and lies.
Sad to say.
Special thanks to Dean Ryan for availing this opportunity for me to address this issue, which is causing a lot of distress among me and my colleagues who are doing our best to bring the truth to the American people.
And if any of you share those concerns, Bitshoot.com and just give them your opinion about whether this is fair and just and an appropriate use of that platform, I would be in your debt.
Once again, thanks to Real Deal Media, which I admire beyond.
Words.
I'm here to set the record straight.
Parent is an agitator.
For my free, for my free, John Sandiho.
Veteran American refugee living in the Russian border.
Now, a veteran, as we all know, is a person who has served in the active military Naval Air and Space Service of the United States and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
The definition outlined in Title 38 of the U.S. Code is used to determine eligibility for various benefits and services.
Now look.
Here we have Victor, veteran American refugee speaking truth to power.
My name is Victor Hugo Vaca Jr.
I served as a midshipman officer at the United States Naval Academy and received an honorable discharge after being a whistleblower who exposed toxic leadership at the highest levels of government and military following the attempted cover-up of the sexual assault of a female midshipman officer.
Now just look at that!
You're saying he was a midshipman and he was discharged honorably.
That may all well be true, but a midshipman is not a person on active duty.
A midshipman is not a veteran.
He's displaying stolen valor.
And listen, you go back to this photograph.
That's him as a freshman at the Naval Academy.
No one who's ever served in the military would use their lowest rank in a photograph.
Look at mine, for example, where I was commissioned in the Marine Corps at graduation from Princeton, lower left, you can see.
I served, among other places, at the Rico Depot in San Diego.
Here I am.
When I was promoted to captain, my wife put on my bars.
Now, if Victor actually had served in the military, we'd have something other than this midshipman photograph, which in my opinion is proof, combined with his admission here, that he was discharged after being a midshipman.
A midshipman is not an active duty officer.
I was a midshipman.
I was in ROTC at Princeton, but I would never have parlayed that into claiming I was a veteran.
That's all you got, Jim.
What more does it take?
Apparently, you know, I don't know.
You're telling me.
Burn it out.
Are you going to let me speak now?
So, you know, you say, if that's all I got, you're asking for me to add more.
If you are honorably discharged as a midshipman for Toxic, that's great, but it does not make you a veteran.