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Sept. 16, 2021 - Firebrand - Matt Gaetz
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Episode 7: TALIBIDEN – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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The embattled Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
You are in the right place!
This is the movement for you!
You ever watch this guy on television?
It's like a machine.
Matt Gaetz.
I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
They aren't really coming for me.
They're coming for you.
I'm just in the way.
We have a loaded episode today.
My exclusive reaction to the indictment of Stephen Alford, the fraud feeser who targeted my family.
That's coming up.
Also, Firebrand Nation knew what was going to happen in Afghanistan before it happened.
In moments, I'll be sharing the latest in Afghanistan and my predictions for the upcoming civil war.
But first, during the collapsing Biden presidency, Democrats have been forced into a corner.
How can they take the standard that they applied to Trump and hold it up against Biden's blunders and failures?
Democrats believe that a president asking someone to lie should trigger impeachment.
At least if it's President Trump.
Just listen to House Judiciary Democrat David Cicilline.
If McGahn does not show up tomorrow before your committee, you say it is time for Democrats to begin an impeachment proceeding.
An impeachment increase?
Absolutely.
We are really left with no other choice.
This is a president who, according to the Mueller report, engaged in 10 acts of obstruction of justice, who tried to get witnesses on his staff to lie.
Cicilline should apply that same standard to Biden.
Joe Biden tried to get the president of Afghanistan to lie.
It cost the lives of 13 Marines.
Biden lied to the world.
He lied to us.
He expressly pressured a foreign leader to push his self-serving lie for domestic political gain.
Biden knew that the Ghani government was going to fall.
Ghani told him as much.
But Biden lied.
And on a phone call with Ghani, he pressed Ghani to advance that lie for political advantage here in this country for Joe Biden.
And 13 American Marines are dead today because Joe Biden couldn't face the truth and he couldn't tell the truth.
Biden stood in the way of the truth with deadly consequences.
Here is exactly what Joe Biden said to Afghanistan's faux president, Ghani.
Quote, There is a need to project a different picture.
This was the time to get our people out.
Not after Kabul fell.
Ghani told Biden, quote, Mr. President, we are facing a full-scale invasion composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10,000 to 15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this.
That's what Ghani told him.
And had Joe Biden been honest with America, our troops, and the world about the uselessness of the Ghani government, we would have gotten our people out before we lost force protection.
Instead, we pulled out our military on this big lie that Joe Biden knew to be false.
That there would be an Afghan government left that was worth a damn.
There never was going to be.
Following Secretary of State Blinken's advice not to delegitimize the Afghan government, Biden delegitimized the truth.
The Taliban are barbarians.
Bad hombres, one might say, but like it or not, they were always more legitimate with the people of Afghanistan than the corrupt government we propped up for way too long.
Biden was so politically committed to the big lie, he pressed Ghani to tell it.
To falsify reality in the face of the obvious, the Taliban were taking Kabul.
Going forward, we must have realistic foreign policy based on the truth.
We must put the interests of Americans first.
That means being honest, clear-eyed, focused and smart.
We must dispense with the fictitious poetry of democracy promotion delivered by counterinsurgency blood-soaked night raids.
And what if the shoe were on the other foot?
What if Donald Trump asked a foreign leader to knowingly lie?
And then that lie resulted in the death of 13 Americans, Marines.
If that were Trump, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and Jamie Raskin and Eric Swalwell would be clawing each other's eyes out to be first in line to file impeachment articles.
They literally impeached Trump for asking Zelensky to investigate corruption.
But listening to Adam Schiff's opening statement to the Senate?
You'd think he was the sentinel of honesty itself.
Impeach the dishonest, according to Schiff.
When he was investigated, he did everything he could to obstruct justice, going so far as to fire the FBI director and try to fire the special counsel, and ask the White House counsel to lie on his behalf.
During the same campaign, while telling the country he had no business dealings with Russia, he was continuing to actively pursue the most lucrative deal of his life.
Now, they defend Biden for pushing a foreign leader to lie, but they impeach Trump for pushing a foreign leader for the truth.
And they have the nerve to call us the insurrectionists.
Many global war on terror veterans in my district are asking how we got it so wrong in Afghanistan.
How did our national security elite sell a lie for 20 years that we were building something resilient in Afghanistan?
The truth?
The generals knew they were lying the whole time.
They knew Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires.
And they were laughing at us as they got crazy rich.
They still are.
The Washington Post's Isaac Stanley Becker recently published extensive research on how generals who never won anything against the Taliban are the big winners at universities and in corporate America.
Many of the generals who lied through their teeth about progress and capability in the Afghan military are now totally cashing in.
The LeBron James of optimizing this revolving door between military failure and personal wealth is four-star General Stanley McChrystal.
McChrystal had netted tens of millions of dollars serving on corporate boards and consulting after his retirement.
He even charged the University of Nebraska $70,000 for a speech.
Shocking?
Not hardly.
This is a feature of the military-industrial complex, not a bug.
And the message is clear to this day.
If you're a big-time general, just keep making the case that fighting and losing is really winning.
And by the time the country catches up, you'll already be cashing in, teaching classes on leadership, like former General Stanley McChrystal.
Now McChrystal isn't doing anything out of the ordinary.
The military brass to corporate board pipeline is strong.
He's just doing it more frequently and to a higher degree than the rest of them.
But our own Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, retired from the military and promptly joined...
Raytheon's board of directors.
And the door revolved again, and now Austin's back approving contracts to Raytheon.
Don't you just love when a plan comes together like that?
For the sake of career advancement, it seems these generals need a war to fight.
And for the sake of their future stock options, it seems these wars can't end soon enough.
It only costs the lives of our best.
And the only thing more alarming than this corrupt, self-reinforcing system is the fact that anyone wants to employ these generals at all.
These generals presided over one of the worst military failures in American history, 20 years of fighting, and nothing to show for it, but an enemy more capable and wealthier than ever before.
The Taliban wasn't an expeditionary force in the 90s, but Biden and the woke generals?
They may very well turn them into one.
In any serious country, these generals would barely rate as game show contestants exemplifying failure.
They should have E! True Hollywood stories, not spots on corporate boards bought with the blood of our bravest patriots.
It's no wonder these generals lied, not only to the American people, but to President Trump and their own soldiers.
They had no choice but to perpetuate an endless losing war for 20 years.
Who wants to be the whistleblower?
Who wants to be the last guy holding onto the potato at the end, exposing the war and the big lie?
Not good for your future career serving on boards for defense contracting companies.
Hell, not good for your liberty either.
Look at what happened to General Michael Flynn after he questioned the machine and suggested a leaner, more efficient deployment of our intelligence resources.
They ruined his life, prosecuted him.
You see, a key common trait for all these woke, failing generals is their sheer determination to praise themselves when directly confronted with failure.
Here's our most recent example.
We have just concluded the largest air evacuation of civilians in American history.
It was heroic.
It was historic.
I'm sure you'll see Lloyd Austin leading a major corporation sometime soon.
Hopefully he leads them better than he's led our military as Secretary of Defense.
Maybe he'll have a stand-down for white supremacy in his first corporate setting as well.
And General Mark Milley?
He will likely be lauded by some institution of higher learning, maybe even a professor, on his favorite subject, critical race theory.
I want to understand white rage, and I'm white, and I want to understand it.
So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?
What caused that?
I want to find that out.
I want to maintain an open mind here, and I do want to analyze it.
It's important that we understand that.
Because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and guardians, they come from the American people.
So it is important that the leaders, now and in the future, do understand it.
I've read Mao Zedong.
I've read Karl Marx.
I've read Lenin.
That doesn't make me a communist.
So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?
Taliban v.
ISIS. The civil war is coming.
The Taliban has secured victory now.
We told you this would happen before it did.
But what's next?
The Taliban is holding Americans functionally hostage as our own military admits that we are working with the Taliban to fight ISIS-K. Now, the other thing we do is we share versions of this information with the Taliban so that they can actually Do some searching out there for us, and we believe that some attacks have been thwarted by them.
Again, we've been doing this for a long.
We've been doing this since the 14th.
This is an attack that's been carried out.
We believe it's possible that others have been thwarted.
We cut down the information we give the Taliban.
They don't get the full range of information we have, but we give them enough to act in time and space to try to prevent these attacks.
Remember, we resourced ISIS by funding any Arab militia that showed up in Syria willing to fight Assad.
American defense contractors do best when Uncle Sam funds and arms all sides of the conflicts in the Middle East.
So the Taliban is here, and we are actually cooperating with them.
So what do they want?
Where are we going to go from here?
Well, first, they have no shortage of military equipment.
The U.S. and the Afghan government, if you could call it that, left them plenty of vehicles, weapons, and gear.
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth, no doubt.
Safe to say the Taliban are more well-armed, well-equipped, and well-prepared than any terrorist regime in history.
And they're going to need it.
The Taliban has enemies too.
ISIS-K, who we believe is responsible for the attack at the airport that killed Americans, they're already in the country.
And in a strange twist of fate, the Taliban may now be the ones faced with an insurgency.
They'll need support and money in one way or another.
You can bet they're going to get it.
Right now, the U.S. and the international community has frozen Afghanistan's government funds in international banks.
The Taliban wants access to this money.
They're claiming they are the legitimate successor to the Afghan government.
Now, that's, of course, a lot of money from U.S. taxpayers.
I bet the Taliban will probably get a hold on a good amount of that money.
I mean, what leverage do we have?
There are reports the Taliban are preventing planes with American citizens from leaving the tarmac.
Wonder why?
It's because they want that money.
Now, Lindsey Graham said America should reconstitute resistance to the Taliban and fund the Northern Alliance in Panjshir.
First thing we need to do is not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
This is a coup d'etat.
Boris Johnson said, don't recognize the Taliban.
You don't want to recognize a terrorist group who takes land by force.
So we have the vice president under the constitution of Afghanistan in Panjshir province.
He has a resistance force.
We can provide humanitarian aid.
We can provide military assistance.
This theory of post-loss U.S.-Afghanistan policy was debunked by events within days.
Ahmad Massoud, the son of the great Lion of Panjshir and the leader of the National Resistance Front, heir to the Northern Alliance, he fled to France?
It was a matter of time anyway.
With the support of the Pakistani ISI, the Taliban are stronger than they've ever been.
Some are indicating that drones were even being used to bomb Masoud's militia.
Those might have come from Pakistan.
Now, Pakistan has denied this, but Pakistan also may have chosen to side with the winning team.
After all, they have made that decision before, to side with the terrorists.
Remember, bin Laden lived in Pakistan for years, without incident and likely with permission.
Regardless of these speed bumps, money won't be a problem for the Taliban for too long.
To make things more interesting, the Taliban and the Chinese are getting pretty cozy.
The Taliban are sitting on masses of mineral deposits, and the Chinese are resource-strapped.
So I'm pretty sure the Chinese are going to be making use of all that lithium in Afghanistan.
Minerals in exchange for money, protection, and military training?
I'd imagine that is the contour of the deal.
Every budding totalitarian regime needs a generous benefactor.
We know that from history.
The Chinese had the Soviets, and it looks like the Taliban will indeed have the Chinese.
How nice for China.
Play the long game.
Sit back and watch the globalist American empire destroy itself.
Spread ourselves out too thin.
And then China just jumps in and takes control.
You almost have to admire them.
The Chinese, unlike our weak leadership, they play to win.
And with Chinese support and devotion to their cause, my bet is the Taliban will win too.
Our inaugural episode is called Open Gates.
You can find it on our Rumble channel, and I hope you subscribe.
In it, I directly addressed the allegations against me that have been endlessly repeated by the true enemy of the people, the America Last Media.
Here's what I said then.
A man of mystery connected to the intelligence community named Bob Kent texted my father.
He told my dad there were pictures of me with child prostitutes, and for 25 million dollars he could make all my problems go away, as he admits here.
Mr. Gates, text message from you.
I would like to talk with you immediately about the current federal investigation and the indictment that is about to be filed against your son.
I have a plan that can make his future legal and political problems go away.
You sent that text message?
I did, yes.
Why did you put it that way, that there was an indictment about to be filed against his son, and why did you tee up the legal problems?
Matt Gaetz was in need of, or if the allegations are true, he's in need of some goodwill from the government.
I'm in need of a sponsor to fund the rescue project.
He needed money.
Tens of millions.
And he was pitching hard to my dad that I needed help.
The kind of help only he could provide.
Some of you might call it an offer you can't refuse.
Who is Bob Kent?
Where's he even getting this stuff?
And who is he working with to shake down my dad on a pile of lies?
This man, David McGee, is a former DOJ official.
That's interesting.
And this man, Stephen Alford, is a con man who's actually been convicted of felonies and served time in federal penitentiary.
An intel officer, Kent, a felon, Alford, and a former DOJ official, McGee, team up to shake down a congressman and my family.
Five months ago, I laid out the extortion attempt against my family on Tucker Carlson's show.
What is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former Department of Justice official.
On March 16th, my father got a text message demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away.
Our family was so troubled by that, we went to the local FBI. And the FBI and the Department of Justice were so concerned about this attempted extortion of a member of Congress that they asked my dad to wear a wire, which he did with the former Department of Justice official.
Tonight I am demanding that the Department of Justice and the FBI release the audio recordings that were made under their supervision and at their direction, which will prove my innocence and that will show that these allegations aren't true.
They're merely intended to try to bleed my family out of money.
And this former Department of Justice official tomorrow was supposed to be contacted by my father so that specific instructions could be given regarding the wiring of $4.5 million as a down payment on this bribe.
I don't think it's a coincidence that tonight, somehow, the New York Times is leaking this information, smearing me.
I don't blame you if you thought this all sounded wild, weird, maybe even unbelievable.
My friend Tucker Carlson may have even felt the same way.
But it's true.
Every word I said.
Since that episode, Stephen Alford, the con man, has been indicted by the DOJ. That's a good start.
I'm glad he was indicted.
It destroys the media's narrative that I was the criminal, not the victim.
It proves my family wasn't making up a crazy story to distract from scandal.
We didn't do that.
We wouldn't do that.
Our story checks out.
But what is clear now is that the DOJ views Project Homecoming, which falsely accuses me and seeks $25 million to make all my problems go away, as the criminal fraud it was.
If not, they wouldn't have charged Stephen Alford under criminal fraud statutes for pushing Project Homecoming on my father.
But serious questions remain.
Statements and documents prove that Alford wasn't acting alone.
But he was indicted alone.
Bob Kent, the intel guy who is a prior State Department contractor, is the man who literally handed the document that spelled out Project Homecoming to my father.
He put it in his hands.
Emily Brooks at the Washington Examiner reported it at the time.
Here are the documents.
So the con man who talked about Project Homecoming gets indicted.
That's good.
But the intel guy with State Department connections who delivered the actual extortion demand doesn't?
Why would they spare the intel guy?
Is his indictment forthcoming?
It should be.
If not, why not?
Who or what is being protected?
Next week I'm going to cover Kent's foreign government connections.
Make sure you have your notifications turned on.
So then there's the DOJ guy, David McGee.
Kent admitted on national television that he is connected to Alford through McGee.
And Kent must really trust McGee because Dave McGee vouching for now indicted Alford was good enough for Kent.
That one of the guys who you are working with on this and approaching the gates has a criminal record for being a fraudster.
Why would you be associating with somebody like that?
So, I was contacted by David McGee in October, and he asked me to meet with somebody, with Stephen Alford, because Alford wanted to help with Levinson and believe that he can get him out.
Now, after the rescue attempt fell apart in July, I had no contact with Dave after that.
I said, sorry, it didn't work out.
We went forward.
He wished me, you know, best of luck in my future endeavors.
And then when he contacted me in October, he asked me, is it possible to rescue?
Is Levinson still alive and is it possible to rescue him?
So I went back to the network and I asked a question.
And they said, yes, we think he may be alive, but you can't do it the way you did it last time.
You have to go from the top down this time.
So, and when Dave vouched for Stephen, that was good enough for me.
Remember what Alford was indicted for, wire fraud.
Here's the news.
Alford wasn't going to be accepting the wire for the down payment on the $25 million, not directly at least.
That was McGee, the former DOJ official.
His Pensacola-based Beggs& Lane Law Firm account was where the money was supposed to go in this project homecoming fraud.
Alford wanted cash, actually.
Seven figures in a bag.
You can't make this stuff up.
Not a wire.
So how can the guy who was planning to accept the wire in a wire fraud case not be implicated?
This does not require imagination or any novel application of the law.
David McGee constructed the team.
We got that from Kent's admission on Cuomo Primetime.
David McGee constructed the fraud.
A ruse to make it look like this extortion payoff was actually for legal services of some kind.
And David McGee was the one planning to accept the wire.
But the wire didn't happen.
The New York Times reporter assigned to the Department of Justice reported leaks and lies about me the night of March 30. And that's the night before the planned wire transfer on March 31. What a coincidence!
Clearly it wasn't.
The leakers to the New York Times knew if their former colleague, David McGee, took that wire on March 31st, the entire orchestrated campaign to destroy me would be seen for what it was, a deep state operation to take out an effective political adversary.
And the leaks haven't stopped.
Always anonymous, usually citing law enforcement sources.
It's a political hit job.
We've seen it before.
A media operation, and CNN dutifully played their part.
The Project Veritas secret recordings caught one of CNN's directors saying they purposefully kept running stories about me to take me out because I'm a problem for the Democrats.
You know, this is a big story.
A con man getting indicted for trying to extort my family on a pile of lies?
But it's a bigger story that two people with strong ties to the federal government are directly linked to the exact same extortion scheme.
Kent admitted it on television.
He implicated McGee.
And McGee admitted it on tapes in possession of the FBI. I look forward to the day when all of America hears the Alford and the McGee tapes.
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