EPISODE 335: FBI ASSET JAMES BAKER EXPOSED IN TWITTER FILES FALLOUT
On today’s can't-miss episode of Human Events Daily, Poso is joined by the one and only TPUSA Contributor and digital strategist ALX to break down Elon Musk’s abrupt firing of former FBI Asset and Twitter Attorney Jim Baker, all while Jack Dorsey is calling on Elon to drop ALL the receipts of the Twitter Files! And finally, Jennifer Lawrence claims she is the FIRST female action film star? Did someone miss Aliens or The Terminator? All this and more on today’s MUST SEE episode of Human Events...
FBI asset James Baker has been exposed in the Twitter files fallout.
You've been scrubbing away, Jimmy.
You've been scrubbing away.
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We were looking at what Russia was up to generally and the threat that they pose.
We were looking at what they were trying to do with our election.
And then we were looking at the events, you know, all the interactions that Director Comey had with the President, leading up to the firing, and then the firing.
And I felt confident at that point in time that our investigative activities were lawful and appropriate.
The so-called Steele dossier, when this came into the FBI, did you know it had been gathered As part of essentially an opposition research request, first by a Republican donor and then eventually by the Clinton campaign.
Yeah, my recollection is that it came in with that information.
You did know that going in?
I believe that's correct, yeah.
At some point did you think, what have we... That was alarming to me to read, that an FBI informant was still sort of actively helping your investigation but also pretending to be a Trump ally.
Do you see why, under that circumstance, perhaps why the president is so paranoid?
I understand why people are concerned about the power of the FBI and some of the investigative techniques that we use.
Again, without confirming or denying the specifics of what you're saying here.
And the point is, what were we trying to do?
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But we have to talk about James Baker.
So James Baker, you just heard there.
This is a guy who resigned from the FBI during the Trump administration because of his role in the dirty steel dossier.
Well, as we talked about before, there's a revolving door between the deep state and big tech.
One of the biggest names of all of this was James Baker.
Because James Baker found his golden parachute, his happy landing, was at Twitter as their general counsel.
However, Elon Musk just last night confirmed that James Baker was summarily fired, exited in Elon's word.
But what's interesting is what he was fired for.
Matt Taibbi comes out and says that Baker intercepted the Twitter files that came out on Friday night, got a copy of them before they were sent to Matt Taibbi or to Barry Weiss, who's also doing a write-up of them.
This is a problem.
This is a big, big problem.
And apparently that was not supposed to happen.
Twitter's new management was not supposed to know about it.
And then it also perhaps answers a question for us because we were asking, where's all the evidence of the FBI, the references to the FBI warnings?
We know that Yoel Roth was in there talking about the FBI.
He filed the declaration with the FEC that said the FBI warned us about Hunter Biden.
They said, if you see anything about Hunter Biden, you have to delete it.
It's a hack and leak operation.
You have to take it down.
And yet suddenly all of those references are gone from the Twitter files.
How could that be?
Why could that be?
Was James Baker perhaps involved in scrubbing the Twitter files?
Well, guess what?
Elon Musk just came out and confirmed that data was deleted from the Twitter file.
So, to break this down and go through all of it, we have an incredible digital strategist on here, good friend of mine.
You know him, we all love him.
Former Twitter P.O.W., by the way, and Turning Point USA ambassador, the ALX.
What's going on, man?
What's up?
How are you?
What is your take, and let me see if you agree with my thesis or not.
Poke holes in it if you can.
To me, it looks like James Baker went in and scrubbed references to the FBI in these Twitter files.
It just really looks like that because that was the dog that wasn't barking when we had the Twitter files that came out on Friday night.
Now we hear that Baker was involved.
What's your take on it?
Do you think that's, or something along those lines, is what's going on?
Plus, by the way, if folks don't know, ALX is very plugged in when it comes to Twitter, so let us know what you're hearing.
Yeah, so I think that's fairly accurate.
If you notice the date it was supposed to be released, it was supposed to be released at 5 p.m.
Eastern Time.
And then 5 p.m.
Eastern Time came around, no release.
Elon followed up 40 minutes later saying, yeah, there's some legal stuff.
So clearly, I'm not sure who exactly sent it to Jim Baker, because it appears Elon wasn't aware himself that it was in his hands and how he intercepted it, and that it was just a man named Jim reviewing this, and he didn't know that it was Jim Baker.
And today, you just see that he replied that there was actual deletions happening.
And I'm actually wondering if there's some sort of backup.
I wonder if they're trying to recover any of the evidence that they can.
But yes, it does seem like he was deleting and trying to cover up things, which, you know, that's not too much of a stretch of your imagination.
If you're familiar with his background with You know, everything that he's been doing at the FBI.
And that's got to make you wonder as well, is how was he not purged in the initial purge with all of these activists, with Fahad Gad, with Parag Ergawal, and like everyone else in the initial purge?
How was he not purged with all of them?
Because it was very well known that this is his character and that he would take any opportunity to cover up for his friends, for himself.
And Elon had even replied to a tweet from Cernovich back in April before he bought the, he bought Twitter in the first place, talking about James Baker.
So I'm actually going, I'm not going to go full 40 chest on this and say, oh, it was a setup, et cetera, et cetera.
But clearly this is a guy who was on Elon's radar and he was kept on for a little while and then eventually let go.
And if you notice, that's the same thing that happened with Yole, that Yole was kept around for a little bit and then he was fired as well.
And it looks like for cause.
So I guess, you know, and, and, you know, I'll be fair.
There are people saying, well, maybe it's just a basic legal review.
He's making sure there's no, you know, phone numbers and bank records and things like that, which, which by the way, was something that was a huge issue in the Hunter Biden laptop, because there, there is financial information in there.
Personal banking info, cell phones, text messages, cell phone numbers for the president.
So that is stuff you have to look at, but at the same time, and I want to hold you, After the break, Alex is going to be my co-host for the show today because there's a lot more going on.
And I think, I think the old little Jimmy Baker was a naughty, naughty boy.
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You talk a lot about prioritization.
You know, when you're the CEO of two companies, you really have to focus in on what matters most.
What would you say is your number one priority at Twitter right now?
It sounds like this is one issue you're thinking about, but what would you say is top of the list?
Conversational health.
Incentivizing more healthy contribution to the public conversation.
We've seen abuse, we've seen harassment, we've seen people leave our platform because of it, we've seen voices being silenced because of what's happening on the service, and that is number one.
We can't build a platform of speech, a platform of conversation, and a service that will remain relevant to people if people don't feel safe to speak up in the first place.
So for all those who believe in free expression and all those who believe in free speech, it's critical that we're not utilizing technologies like Twitter to shut down voices and to silence others.
So he's saying we don't want to shut down voices, but he's also talking about harassment and abuse, which leads to moderation.
And then he says healthy conversations, but healthy conversations means someone has to decide what's not a healthy conversation.
And I'm gonna tell you right now, I hate that phrase, healthy conversations.
I remember the Haya using it.
I remember seeing it in some of the Twitter documents.
And let me throw this to you, Alex.
When it comes to Elon versus Jack Dorsey, What do you view as the differences in their guiding philosophy when it comes to running Twitter?
Yeah, so I see in Jack Dorsey, you almost see like him almost contradict himself there is that he doesn't want voices shut down, but he also says, oh, we need healthy conversations.
So it seems like they're trying to be this, you know, babysitter online where you just want everyone to behave all the time.
And they're the ones defining the rules.
Whereas if they actually encourage people to use the tools that they have, say the block button or the mute button, they could actually control for harassment themselves.
Users could.
Whereas Elon Musk says that he'd like free speech.
And that's what's ideal on the platform.
And he's already brought back a bunch of users.
He wants to unsuspend a lot of people that were not banned for illegal content.
And that's what they're working on right now.
Whereas Dorsey, it seemed like he said publicly that he was pro-free speech, but then the enforcement actions where he himself wasn't responsible, he says, but people like Baha'i Gad or Del Harvey or other people who he tasked with the censorship would take control of that and censor people at their own whim.
So I think the guiding philosophies are one of censorship and healthy conversations as Twitter defines it from Jack Dorsey versus free speech for Elon.
One of the one of the interesting debates that's come up through this is Jordan Peterson and I've been very publicly saying that I disagree with Peterson on this because he is stating that he talks about YouTube and he talks about Twitter and all social media.
He says, you should not be allowed to be anonymous on social media.
And I, I couldn't disagree more.
Right.
You know, and it's, I don't know if this is like an American versus Canadian kind of thing, but if you take away
The freedom of anonymity online then you are actually committing extreme censorship because in a time such as we live in really any time when you think about it there are always certain things that you're always going to certain taboos that you're always going to get in trouble for discussing and so the cloak of anonymity is necessary to be able to have those discussions.
Certainly if you have a normie job, if you've got a family, different things, it's only if you want to be a face, if you want to be out there and showing your face.
By the way, like Jordan Peterson and myself, that's when you're out there as a career and deciding to take your career into your own hands by doing that.
So the issue is, and you've seen this before throughout history, people using anonymous writings, Even the United States, silence do good, the federalist papers, et cetera.
It's always been used.
And for me, I'm just going to say it, if there is hope for the Republic, it lies with the Anons.
Alex, what's your take?
You've always been kind of like a quasi-Anon yourself, right?
Yeah.
So for Jordan Peterson, it comes from a place of privilege.
He's a blue checkmark and multi millions of followers.
So number one, he can filter notifications.
Number two, whatever he says online is his public statements where he's putting his face and his name because he wants to be a public figure, because he's trying to build an online profile.
That's not true for most Twitter accounts, which number one, aren't even on Twitter for politics.
They are just on for consumers to read news, to, you know, interact with their friends.
So anonymity actually gives them more power to be themselves online without risking losing their job or having consequences.
So like you said, I kind of started my career as an anon account because At the time, I was a college student.
And as we all know, on college campuses, it's not very popular to be right wing.
So I also had another job at the time.
So while I am in politics now, that's not how it's always been for me.
Um, so especially younger students or, you know, young people in general, we've grown up in a era of cancel culture where if we say the wrong thing online, we can get kicked out of school, lose scholarships, or, you know, lose our jobs at a young age and it could ruin our careers.
So I think anonymity is, yeah, not even that.
But if, if you said something in the past, which was fine at the time that you said it, but then later turned out Yeah, exactly.
or anti-woke or anti-whatever, then people will go and dig that up and say, "Oh, look what this person said five years ago, "six years ago, seven years ago.
"Oh, look, he posted an edgy meme about Hillary Clinton, "you know, in 2016, and now we have to cancel somebody "for the rest of their life because they made a joke "on Twitter." No, I just, I don't buy it.
I don't think so.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's why anonymity is important, especially for younger people.
And yeah, growing up in cancel culture, we've almost had to self-censor in a way when we're putting our public face out there because we're afraid it's going to be used against us in the public eye.
Yeah, I ran an anonymous account, so as a former Anon myself, I ran an anonymous account when I was in the military, and it was all about Game of Thrones, and it was this parody thing, and it was funny, but I never showed my real face, I never used my own picture.
I think I eventually did, you know, towards the end of it, when I kind of you know, quote unquote came out and then eventually changed the account to my current account, which is just my real name.
Um, was, but, but the idea that you should have to, you know, you wouldn't be able to use that.
It wouldn't be able to use anonymity.
It strikes me as, as insane.
It strikes me as crazy.
And that in and of itself is a form of censorship.
And I don't understand how you can say that all of the institutions have become communist and all everyone's cracking down on you.
We live in an age of cancel culture, but also you should have to, you know, put your name up to it.
Look, like you said, you know, there's, there's, there's block buttons, there's mute buttons, there's filters.
There's so many things you can do to curate your online existence.
Just use the tools that are there.
It'll be fine.
Take a deep breath, Jordan.
Everything will be okay.
Go make your bed.
I remember when I was doing hunger games, the Nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work.
We were told.
Girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.
Oh, absolutely.
And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every single one of those beliefs and proves that it is just A lie to keep certain people out of the movies, to keep certain people in the same positions that they've always been in.
And it's just amazing to watch it happen and watch you at the helm.
You guys may not know this, but Jennifer Lawrence was actually the first ever female actress in history.
There's never been a movie that starred a woman before Jennifer Lawrence ever.
Alex, I don't know if you, did you know that, that she's actually the first ever female actress?
This is like a really annoying trend among actresses and people in Hollywood, is that they always have to be the first mover at everything.
No matter which role they're playing, it's like, okay, I'm the first this, the first that, I'm the trendsetter.
It's like I'm not even a movie buff and it's like I've seen Alien with Sigourney Weaver or like Kill Bill with Uma Thurman.
There's just like a whole list of examples.
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Sigourney Weaver, Aliens, Uma Thurman, Kill Bill, Linda Carter, Wonder Woman, Linda Hamilton, Terminator, Lara Croft, Charlie's Angels, both one and two, Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, yeah, fight me on that, Demi Moore, G.I.
Jane, Bridget Fonda, Point of No Return, Elizabeth Shue, yo, Adventures in Babysitting, Natalie Portman, The Professional, and V for Vendetta, The Sound of Music, Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis and Thelma and Louise, Carrie Ann Moss, remember Trinity and The Matrix, and folks, folks, please, Gone With The Wind.
Don't even try and tell me that Gone With The Wind was not an action movie.
Look, here's what's really going on, alright?
Here's what's really going on.
is that this isn't about women in movies.
This is actually about Jennifer Lawrence because, and I'll tell you why, Harvey Weinstein goes behind bars and guess what?
Uncle Harv isn't around and suddenly nobody's picking up the phone when old J-Law comes calling and says, please, please cast me in your movie.
Suddenly everyone's saying they don't want her.
Nobody wants her in.
You know, and they might get they might get some pity parts here, some pity casting here and there.
But at the end of the day, turns out, turns out that people don't look at her as a serious actress.
And that's sad.
That really is sad.
And I'll even I'll even say it.
I'll admit Silver Linings Playbook, I thought was great.
I actually thought that was a great movie.
I don't know if it was Oscar worthy, but I thought it was a pretty good movie.
They actually filmed it pretty close to my hometown.
I thought she was great in that.
But here's the deal.
She her career tanked when Harvey Weinstein tanked.
Yeah, I think that's a fair assessment.
Notice, like, she's trying to reclaim her career after, you know, Harvey Weinstein is no longer in power in Hollywood.
I wonder how many other actresses are in the same position.
But yeah, she's trying to restart her career and reclaim her fame and saying, OK, I'm the first mover in this and trying to kind of uh, orchestrate this own legacy that she never had, um, to make up for lost time, I guess, because I honestly don't know what the last thing she was in was.
Um, so I, yeah, I feel like she's trying to fill a void that like has been missing for a couple of years because of that.
Yeah.
Because at the same time, you know, you go and look at like the, the me too movement and Rose McGowan, who was just a massive champion for that.
Um, Jennifer Lawrence, I mean, if she may have put out a statement here and there, you know, she's denied having sex with Harvey Weinstein a couple of times that when that was, you know, bubbled up to the surface, but she was not front and center as part of this movement whatsoever when it came to, you know, this, this reckoning as, as you might want to call it.
And I remember Gwyneth Paltrow was out there and we just had what Gavin Newsom's wife, right?
Gavin Newsom's wife gave this chilling testimony, though, at the same time, Harvey Weinstein responded and he said, no, no, no.
Not only was it consensual, Harvey Weinstein called it transactional.
Harvey Weinstein called it transactional.
And so when you look at the Hollywood system in general, I think that one of the things that we're pulling apart here is the fact that they've gotten so completely lost from just making good pictures and making good content and that things like the casting couch took over.
All right.
And We should have discussions about that, and that's fine, but at the same time, you're not actually providing anything of value to anyone at that point.
And it seems like everything that you get these days is just cookie-cutter garbage, and then just another CGI, you know, cape-fest of people punching each other, regardless if it's Marvel or DC or whatever.
By the way, one of the ones that made me laugh about that was the You were just saying about all the firsts, right?
Do you remember when that when a bunch of people caught themselves because they were trying to say that Black Panther was the first Marvel movie that starred a black actor?
And then a bunch of us online were like, there was an entire Blade trilogy.
You know, they always try and do that no matter no matter what it is.
I mean, yeah, it was it was what, 1998?
That's just the point.
People back then looked at the movie for what it was.
And I'm actually somebody I liked all three of them.
I like Blade.
And guess what?
Like they were just good movies and nobody cared what what race he was.
They cared that he was the day walker and that he could that he could fight vampires during the day.
Right.
That's all anybody.
And that's just the point.
People.
Yeah.
People back then looked at the movie for what it was.
Now it's just a competition of, you know, who's first.
This is this race.
This is this sex.
And like back then, people just watched the movie for, you know, what it was and enjoyed it for what it was at the time.
Right.
And the issue, the larger issue for all of us, and you see this in companies and, you know, tie it back to Elon, it's there's two competing systems now.
And you can say there's there's the MAGA system and the the, you know, the Alphabet system and the Alphabet system that's woke.
The MAGA system is greatness, right?
We want greatness.
We don't care what the quotient of the demographics of the people that launched the space shuttle or put a man on the moon, right?
We care that the American flag is on the moon.
That's greatness.
That's what that's about.
The fact that we've accomplished that as a country that no other advanced nation has ever been able to replicate.
None.
No one.
And we did that with like 1960s pre-calculator technology.
So to You have two competing and contesting, and I'll give you the final word on this, ideologies.
One is wokeness and the other is greatness.
Yeah, exactly.
And I think that tie-in to Elon is nice because I think free speech is going to show that on Twitter.
It's like there's no wokeness anymore and it's going to be a marketplace of ideas and the best ideas are going to win regardless of race or ideology.
Where can people follow you?
What are your coordinates?
I'm at ALX on Twitter.
That's my main one right now.
It feels nice to be able to say that after a couple years off.
