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June 29, 2023 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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How Corrupt Are The Bidens?

More information released by the House Oversight Committee demonstrates even more influence-peddling and possible felonies committed by Hunter Biden and the entire family. Millions coming in from foreign governments to Hunter while his father was Vice President? And the Justice Department blocked a proper investigation? Also today, RFK's big townhall - did he nail it?

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Joe Biden's Surprising Call 00:11:01
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you today.
How are you this morning, Dr. Paul?
Good.
Are you all set to go?
Let's see what happens.
A lot of good stuff, huh?
There's a lot out there.
Well, there's always a lot of good stuff out there.
If we're trying to sort out truth from fiction, we have a big job.
So it's always available out there because there's always a leak or two, and we'll point out today a little bit of frustration people have because there's people ganging up on our poor president.
Don't have any empathy at all.
Hate America.
This guy maybe has a problem.
But anyway, there's people talking about him.
And even our good friend, who's usually very, very cautious and modest, Jonathan Turley, he wrote a pretty strong article.
And it was on Zero Hedge.
And it says, Biden picks up after journalists calls secret burner phone revealed in Hunter scandal.
There was some exposure there of what was going on that I found very fascinating.
I'm going to call up that in a little bit.
But Jonathan's whole pitch was that, interestingly enough, Jonathan, as a professor and all that, has been around a while, and we sort of knew him early on when he was still very much involved in the university.
But he was saying that when it comes to influence peddling, nobody's superior to this guy.
But Jonathan was mentioning that he's been watching them years ago.
I wrote about the family.
And it shouldn't shock us at all that these people are corrupt because the system is corrupt.
And it's not hard for them to leap from a corrupt system over to personal corruption.
And then all of a sudden, they have difficulty figuring out or even having a desire.
Truth sometimes is a hindrance to what they want to do.
And they're on a noble course.
So they don't want any interference.
If there's a war to be fought, we don't want to have any interference.
So they keep it going and they will come down on anybody that wants to talk about truth.
And I think, and we'll bring this up in a little bit, that's sort of what the kind of problem that Robert Kennedy has, you know, because he's a credible person and he's doing his best.
But I don't think the Biden team, the family, the rest, in their world, they're probably doing pretty good because it isn't like they've only done this for a week and got caught.
Have they just done it since Joe has been president?
No, it's longer than that.
It looks like it goes back decades where they were involved.
And, you know, it's sort of like once they get ingrained, they have an attitude that their superior never will be caught.
And I think that whole attitude was shared with Hillary.
But Hillary, so far, nobody even talks about her anymore.
And, you know, she did stuff that was equally as bad.
Maybe you can make a comparison as the Biden.
But certainly there has been a big discrepancy, a difference between the disobedience to law and order and truth by Hillary compared to Trump.
Trump is no angel, but I would say that, you know, the Department of Department of Justice and the FBI, which the Bidens and certainly this president has allowed to pursue.
And fortunately, in a way, the stuff is so bad, people are waking up and they do want to hear more about what is it, what's going on, and are the Republicans going to really clean up the act.
Yeah, it's interesting.
You know, the question we've had before is what's driving this.
Maybe the Democrats themselves are driving it.
It's starting to creep into the mainstream media, although they're not talking about it yet on MSNBC.
But as you point out, it's funny because I had the same thought as I was reading the Turley piece, because he's generally very careful not to sound, and I don't think he is partisan at all.
But in this, he was a little more pointed than we're used to.
He was a little more, these guys are corrupt, and not only that, but they're the kings of corruption, which is pretty strong.
And this is a tweet that came out a couple days ago from Turley.
He's had some very spicy tweets lately.
And in this one, he said, the Oversight Committee has released another WhatsApp message.
Now, that is from Hunter Biden's laptop, all of his messages.
So the message said, the Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership.
End quote.
Turley says, this may be the most accurate statement ever uttered by Hunter Biden.
And if you go to the next one, this is a piece that came out that you're referring to, Dr. Paul.
The Beltway Goats.
Of course, that means greatest of all time.
Why Hunter is right.
The Bidens are the best when it comes to influence peddling.
And if you go to the next one, this is what this is from the article.
The Bidens are best at doing exactly what the chairman wants.
That's the quote that I read earlier, and he starts his column with that.
The latest WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to a Chinese businessman may be the perfect epitaph for the entire Biden corruption scandal.
Indeed, it may be the most accurate statement ever made by Hunter Biden.
This is precisely what the Bidens are best at, selling access and influence.
Pretty strong statements from Jonathan Turley on this, but he backs it up, as we'll show later.
There is a recent episode and a clip on Zero Hedge today that I found entertaining.
And that is what journalist John Solomon has done, who does a good job in trying to sort some of this stuff out.
He had heard that Biden had, they discovered that Biden had a special phone.
Oh, yeah.
300 bucks a month.
Top secret.
He could call anybody.
You know what I was thinking when I heard about this?
You know, rights are supposed to be equal.
If he has one, why can't we have one?
But we can't have one because the government has to watch it.
But if the government has one, who's going to watch the government?
Well, John Solomon wants him.
He's going to contribute to it because he heard about this.
And John writes, one of those documents got leaked to me and it had a cell phone number that Hunter Biden was paying for.
So I figured this was my chance.
I've been trying to get fair comment from Hunter Biden, so I'm going to call the cell phone.
Solomon told real American news.
So I called the number, and guess who picked up the phone?
Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, Joe Biden, boy, was he shocked when he picked up the phone and found out who it was.
And Solomon continued adding, he hung up very quickly.
But that is something.
I mean, he's probably had that phone all through his Senate career.
I wonder if there's been any inflation.
They said he paid $300 a month for this.
And then they keep a record on it.
See, that's where Solomon messed up.
He should have put on a fake Chinese accent and started talking about business because he would have had something really coming out of that.
I had a couple clips I wanted to play, Dr. Paul.
And I'll play him in a row, these first three.
Now, the first one is the chairman of the House, I believe, Oversight Committee or Ways and Means Committee, who's looking into this.
And he's talking about what they have found in their probe.
And it's pretty remarkable.
Let's have a listen to this.
And I think the first 27 seconds, what did I say?
In those years, those IRS whistleblower investigators claimed Hunter Biden owed more than $300,000 in federal taxes for money that he received from countries like China, Romania, Ukraine.
I mean, some of the gifts and payments that Hunter Biden received included an $80,000 diamond, 140,000 plus Porsche.
It's absolutely absurd.
It's crazy.
It's unacceptable.
It shows how the wealthy and those politically connected to the diamonds, Porsches.
Man, it's too bad you didn't win, Dr. Paul.
We'd be in the money.
That sounds pretty good.
I had no time to hold my garden.
Well, here's the second one.
Now, here's his spokesperson who really is a piece of work.
But here's her talking about, because the one WhatsApp, I'll just set it before we start it.
The one WhatsApp was Hunter Biden calling this Chinese businessman saying, hey, my dad's in the room and he's mad.
Where's the money?
Show me the money.
Well, they asked her, Well, is it still true what Joe Biden says?
That he was never in the room, never knew anything about his son's business.
Let's hear what she has to say.
You've stated that the president stands by his comment from the 2020 campaign that he never once discussed his son's overseas business dealings with his son.
And you stood at that podium and you reaffirmed that.
Do you stand by your reality?
What I will say is, nothing has changed.
Nothing has changed.
Have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
There it is.
Yeah, I mean, it seems like they're getting nervous because here's Joe Biden yesterday.
First of all, he did claim that Putin is losing the war in Iraq, which is slightly interesting.
But then he went on after being questioned about his business dealings, he was asked about him being in the room with his son.
And he seems to me to be a little bit nervous, a little bit irritable.
Why don't you put that back in, Dr. Paul, and listen to the president for a second?
because it's a very quick clip, but you'll get a lot out of it, I think.
President Biden, how involved were you in your Chinese shakedown text message?
Were you sitting there?
Were you involved?
Were you involved?
Were you?
No.
Yeah, that final no, he looked really mad.
I would agree with that.
He was angry and didn't know how to handle it, so you just have to yell.
Yeah, he didn't.
So he didn't, that didn't strike me as a very confident way of responding to these questions.
And the questions are growing about the dealings, the millions of dollars that apparently have gone to all these shell companies, all of these different accounts, millions and millions, as the chairman of the committee said.
I don't know if the walls are closing in on Biden.
They kept saying that about Trump for years, but it does make you wonder what's going on next with Biden.
Yes.
Swiss Facilitation and Sanctions 00:15:29
And, you know, there's so much it's corruption.
They live in a different world because I don't think they lie awake at night and say, boy, I sure wish I could get out of this dealing, all this corruption.
How can I hide it better and get more?
You know, it goes on and on.
But as bad as what Biden has done, you know, with his personal finance and personal benefits, you know, I see the biggest corruption is the interference in the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
That's when you have a crooked cop.
And that is supposed to be the worst type of system because that will destroy a nation or a city or a town or a state if the police are crooked.
And I think, you know, the police forces at the border going south aren't thought to be run by honorable people.
And look at the chaos there.
So if you can't trust the legal authorities, they're worse than having none.
Because if there were absolutely none, I think there would be people, and if it were legal to have privatized discipline and policing activity, it would work out.
But when it's official and it's there and it's the FBI and they're respected and people want to be patriotic and they don't want to criticize, it's so important that this to me, when that is corrupted, it's a downhill slide and people who want to speak the truth are the enemy.
They're the ones who get the worst of the blame.
So I think that's the biggest thing.
But the other thing in combination with this is a real problem is the people that do it lack some natural instincts to have a conscience about it.
They have no conscience.
I don't believe they have a feeling.
Can anybody imagine that Hillary has a lot of trouble and seeing a psychiatrist, how am I going to handle my guilt?
Yeah, no.
It doesn't happen.
They don't show, they are embarrassed, you know, like Hunter.
He showed it.
He was still in charge.
He goes to the state dinner and appears.
I'm still in.
I haven't lost any knowledge at all.
And they seem to have just no conscience at all.
And it to me is a reflection of a society that has accepted dialism where they just give up.
Truth is too difficult.
It's hard to follow the truth and it's hard to agree on it.
And there is a certain amount of that, that truth is not an absolute.
Everybody could say ABC and that's the truth and just shut up and don't talk.
Truth is something you seek and you pursue and you're either pursuing it or you're destroying it.
And I think for 100 years, but more likely in the last 20 or so, that the systematic approach to destroying the whole principles of truth is our number one problem in the country applied socially, economically, religiously, the whole way, internationally too.
That is what would have to be addressed if we want to see some improvement.
So I like to see articles like this that are trying to point out the nonsense, even though this is a personal thing that we're talking about right now.
I still think that it fits the pattern, and we should pay attention.
And as we were talking about before the show, I mean, there's a lot of this partisanship.
Oh, we want to attack the Bidens because we want to get back in and all this nonsense.
But the problem really is the system itself.
The system has, the D.C. has become so huge and so enormous, and the amount of money going through, not just this, dealing with the Chinese, what have you, but the whole military-industrial complex.
We talked about it a couple of weeks ago when this gentleman was on 60 Minutes saying, you wouldn't believe how corrupt the system is.
The whole system is corrupt, and that's the point of it.
So it's not about a gotcha against Biden, although they seem particularly good at it, among other things that Hunter Biden seems to be good at, which we will not discuss.
But it's the system.
But, you know, I think the half-decent politicians recognize this.
It's a system and a problem, and they want to address it.
But I don't think they address it right because I don't think they fully understand it.
You make a strong point.
It's the system itself.
It's not the tinkering around on the edges and see who can run it.
And sometimes they justify it.
Well, there is a lot of chaos and a lot of dumb things done, but we have to play ball and get in there and play by their rules.
And that's why, if you go to Congress, most of the ones that rise to the top are the ones who are most likely to take the money from this military-industrial complex and the whole works.
But they come up with legislation, and it's notorious.
It's been around because it sounds so wonderful.
We're going to wipe out waste, fraud, and abuse.
Now, who could vote against that?
Well, I don't know if I voted against it, but I sure always would make a point.
This is not the issue.
It's the issue you bring up.
You know, it's the whole system that is going bad.
So it's sort of like the Fed, the Fed creates problems, and it's massive.
So they come along and they say, oh, yes, we did.
That's true.
We have a lot of problems.
We need better regulations by the Congress.
So they want more regulations to cover up the mistakes instead of saying, oh, maybe the problem is that the deficits are being monetized by a secret group of men and women that we're not allowed to know about.
And that's where the problem is.
So I think your point is well taken.
That you've got to go back to the source of this and what is the system doing.
Because I think the founders understood that principle, and that's why they devised and talked about a system that they thought would be better than anything else.
And as far as the theoretical part of the Constitution, but they were also aware very much at that time that men had shortcomings and they would probably abuse the system.
And I'm afraid that's where we are.
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying.
Yeah.
Well, I get to kind of get the sense that Jonathan Turley was thinking on the same lines when he wrote this in the column.
Now let's skip ahead a couple to the one where I have a shaded, the one that's this is why many people, if we can, and put that clip up, we'll skip those couple.
Here we go.
Thank you.
So, and this is what he wrote in his column.
I think it's kind of take off on what we were saying.
This is why many people miss the point of Hunter Biden showing up after his criminal plea to a state dinner.
That's what you pointed out.
And Turley continues, it was shocking for many to see Hunter whining and dining with the Washington elite.
However, that is precisely the point.
It was a collective celebration for a city where influence peddling is a cottage industry.
Despite overwhelming evidence of corruption, Hunter was back in circulation.
I think he was thinking on our lines.
No wonder we respect John.
I think he gets it.
So no, that is something.
And I think it's important.
You say, well, that's just the detail.
If you do get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse, everything's going to be better.
But my debate went that, yes, you can try, and we should do it, and we shouldn't be against getting rid of it, but it won't solve the whole problem.
And I think Jonathan understands that very clearly.
Yeah.
Well, I think our next story for Ready is kind of a you actually captured it perfectly when we were talking about kind of a mixed bag.
And this is the Swiss, and we've been pretty disappointed in the Swiss for many things.
And it didn't start with the Russia issue.
It started with some currency stuff years ago that you were concerned about, getting rid of gold.
But put this next one on.
This is something we noticed this morning.
On one hand, it's positive because if we can put that Swiss one up, here we go.
Switzerland cites neutrality, pardon me, in blocking nearly 100 German tanks for Ukraine.
So the initial plan, they got a bunch of junky tanks that they're storing in Italy.
God knows what they're like.
They're out of commission.
They were going to spruce them up a bit, send them over to Germany, and Germany was going to go ahead and send them to Ukraine.
Well, the Swiss parliament said no, because of our stance on neutrality, they said this would be inconsistent with applicable law concerning arms deliveries in an active conflict zone.
So they nixed those 100 tanks to Ukraine.
Yeah, and the policy is mixed too, because they are giving up in their tradition, and yet they thought, well, we can't do this.
So we'll get them refurbished in Germany.
Yeah, probably with American money.
It's not going to be done without our conceding it all.
But you know, this little thing about conceding it.
Reagan, Reagan and I knew each other, and I knew him better than any of the presidents, but it didn't have any really close conversation.
But I had a few.
I was at the Gold Commission at the Treasury, and we were both going to be with him and other congressmen flying to Houston for a political event.
So staff said, well, maybe you should ask the president to take you out on the Hillcommer.
And the staff said that I'm surprised.
But it's interesting.
Reagan knew, I was at the Gold Commission and came out, and he was sort of philosophic.
He says, you know, any great country or decent country that goes off the gold standard no longer remains great.
And he was referring to great nations.
But you could use that.
Switzerland was great because it had a policy that was different.
I can remember, I know at least as a teenager, I could hear my parents talking about it.
Talking about, well, there's two countries in the world that are neutral.
They don't get involved in these wars.
At least appearance of that.
But then they went back and now the system has changed and it gets worse.
Now they support all the sanctions.
They're not hesitating about sanctions because some of the progressives, they say, well, we won't send troops, but we're going to put a lot of sanctions on them and not being willing to see the point that sanctions in a way is an act of war.
It's like a blockade.
You're trying to punish some country.
And that, I think, is missed because that is not an excuse.
It's not a nice, safe in-between, because I would be willing to wager that if you took all the sanctions, that the sanctions led to worse troubles and more likely hostilities than no sanctions.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you make that point, and it's an important point, that this is why it's a mixed bag.
And if we can skip ahead to the one that starts, but Switzerland certainly, it's a shorter clip.
Let me just skip ahead one if we can.
Here we go.
So this shows that this is what we're talking about.
This is why it's a mixed bag.
And you're absolutely right, Dr. Paul.
But Switzerland certainly has a clear stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, given it has joined and expanded European sanctions against Russian entities.
Reuters confirmed Wednesday, Switzerland has expanded financial and travel sanctions against Russian entities and persons in step with the most recent sanctions imposed by the EU on Moscow.
Now reading that, the first thing I thought about, Dr. Paul, was how disappointing and sad that is, because by doing this, by joining in on the side, it doesn't matter how you feel about the war, Switzerland has brought itself out of the running of being an honest broker for peace because they're seen as being in on one side.
If they could have maintained their historic neutrality, we could be talking now about a Swiss-brokered peace deal.
Hey, everyone come to Zurich.
Everyone come to Geneva.
We've got some people here.
We're neutral.
We haven't been part of this.
And we can talk it out.
Now they have nixed themselves from that important role.
And it reminds me, many years ago, I was a Swiss American Foundation young fellow.
And so I went to the Swiss Embassy every year as a reunion of the young leaders group there.
And I remember walking by the Iran interest section, the Cuban interest section, because we don't have relations with those two countries.
They put themselves inside the Swiss embassy because the Swiss were neutral.
And I thought how great this was that even though we, through, I think, a faulty policy, refused to have relations back then with these countries, at least the Swiss can facilitate talks if need be.
And now they can't do this because of their stance.
Well, you know, I mentioned that story about Reagan saying, you know, without sound money, greatness disappears.
And that's happening to Swiss like all the other countries.
But it was confirmed just recently, there was a recent article out that due to the conditions of the world and in Switzerland, watch sales have been way down.
And so there's a recession hitting there.
But that's a little more complex than the other.
But I think the whole world is suffering from the fact that there's not sound money.
One of the reasons why I think we have a sort of artificial support for our dollar because everybody else is just that much worse.
And that's why this lingers and lasts longer.
But the way we run up the deficits, and they're starting to write articles now, that the biggest thing, we know that it'll never cut militarism.
But the one that is going to be where they can't mess around with, because if they don't pay interest on the debt, and even though the Fed owns a lot of the debt, a lot of people around the world own it, and a lot of countries own it.
So if we don't pay the interest, and they say it is going to skyrocket in the next several years, and there's no way we'll be able to pay for that other than resorting to inflating the currency even more.
That'll be a wake-up call.
Yeah, well, let's move on to our last story.
And we'll just do a short one on this.
But it was interesting because RFK Jr. held his first televised town hall.
If we can put that next clip up, this is just, it was from the American Thinker via Zero Hedge.
And this is what caught both of our attention.
I didn't send it to you because I thought you probably would already have read it and thought this is interesting.
But the great quote from this town hall was, quote, our country will start healing when the government tells the truth.
And that's a great line.
Yeah, and it's so inclusive because about what?
Just the principle all the time.
And telling the truth is probably something that is abused more by governments than anybody, any other entity, because they think that they are privileged to do that.
They don't think, and not only that, they think it's shrewd.
You know, well, you can't let everybody know.
And the bigger the empire, of course, the more lying you have to do because to get your empire, you have to lie and use force and violence.
Empire's Lie 00:03:37
To maintain it has to be where if anybody says anything about it to interfere with the empire, it's called treason.
And that's why we have, you know, so many times of being charged with treasonous acts by just merely demonstrating or saying things.
And I know it's happened off and on throughout our history, but it's getting worse right now.
And of course, it's very sophisticated in punishing people who are speaking out.
And that's this wokeism and the punishment with the combination of social media and the government.
It's that combination of big business and big government, and it's moving quickly.
I thought maybe because it fails all the time, they'd back off.
But right now, I guess it's still up for grabs on what Budweiser is going to happen and Bud Beer is going to do.
But, you know, there is a market out there, but I think it's information, and that's the biggest job.
And that's one of our biggest challenges is try to get our information out.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, News Nation Network held this 90-minute town hall.
And Elizabeth Vargas, I remember her from a long time on there, she was the host. of this.
And she tried to do the usual mainstream journalist gotchas.
But what struck me with the few clips, I did not watch the whole thing, but the few clips that I watched, and she did it with vaccines, and we don't have a clip of this, but RFK, I think, handled it very well.
But she also did it with Trump.
And I think because a lot of people who are tempted to like RFK, they're being trashed by people saying, oh, you know, he's just like Trump.
Trump likes him.
He must be evil.
And so she was setting the whole thing up for him to be able to trash Trump.
And he had a different response.
I wouldn't mind playing the 44 seconds of that last clip if you want to put your earpiece in, Dr. Paul, and listen to what Robert F. Kennedy said when they're trying to get him to trash talk Trump.
You say that you're a Democrat, but you're getting a lot of support from a lot of leading voices on the right, like Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, former President Donald Trump.
Many Democrats fear that you're a spoiler in the race, that you will damage President Biden in the primary and grease the skids for former President Trump to return to the Oval Office.
This week, former President Trump said about you, Kennedy is smart and he's a common sense guy.
What kind of man do you think Donald Trump is?
Well, you know, here's what I'm not going to do in this race.
I'm not going to attack other people personally.
I don't think it's good for our country.
And I think, you know, what I'm trying to do in this race is bring people together, is to try to bridge the divide between Americans.
And guess what?
There we go.
I'm not going to trash talk people.
My goal here is to bring people together.
And later on, she asked him about Biden, and he said, you won't hear me saying bad things about President Biden.
I'm not going to attack him as a man.
The article went on to say.
Instead, Kennedy said he's focused on policy disagreements, such as his differing views on war, censorship, and COVID lockdown.
Reminds me of somebody else that I remember as a politician who said, I don't want to get involved with this name-calling.
Yeah, but unfortunately, that's where you get the attention.
You say, well, they're just bad people saying those things.
No, it's the audience out there that sort of likes to hear those battles.
And I've talked to you just to talk about it.
And I said, you know, I like to talk about this issue, this versus this issue, rather than saying this person against this person.
And you say, well, you want more attention.
You have to name these people.
Cracks In The Opposition 00:07:13
Of course, I will name people at times, but I still don't enjoy doing it that way.
Because in the end, you have to boil it down to good policy and bad policy.
Good liberty, bad liberty.
Good money, bad money.
All these things have to be it.
And just, you know, how can you say Biden and Trump?
Oh, yeah, well, that's very easy to be objective about that because it's so crystal clear, you know, but it's so emotional.
And that's why I don't like that at all.
And I hate all this yelling and screaming.
And I've never liked the interview where they don't do, and that was when you're a candidate.
If you're doing well, it's more so.
Like that.
They would say, they interrupt and they don't give you time.
Every once in a while, I do interviews now, which will be long.
And the person doing it is doing a job, and I'm enjoying the interview.
And the people who saw it right in and said, you know, at least they allow you to talk and give your story.
Can challenge it without, remember the great Larry King.
I mean, he could challenge you gently without being rude.
That's right.
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Dr. Paul, I'm going to close out with a kind of an announcement-ish thing.
Now, if we can move ahead to that picture of Biden and Zelensky, our two favorite people, I just want to say one thing.
Now, this is an interesting article that I'm going to recommend to our viewers if we can search that up.
I know it takes a while to get off of the other one.
Here we go.
So, this is an article from the Gray Zone.
All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of U.S. funding for Ukraine.
Now, we're not going to necessarily talk about this article today, but I do want to point out that the Gray Zone, in my opinion, is the go-to for investigative reporting.
They are really the goldstander.
They dig deep.
And this article was written by Heather Kaiser, Anya Parrampil, and Max Blumenthal.
Now, I don't know Heather, but I do know Anya.
I've known her for years, and I know Max, and we met him again at the January peace rally.
But Anya and Max are going to be at our conference on June 2nd giving a talk.
And I'm looking forward to it because I think they are so dogged and they're so ferocious.
If you could put that next clip up, this is what they did.
They looked into U.S. money to Ukraine.
They did a serious deep dive, and it's a long article.
I recommend reading it, but I'm just going to read one thing to show the kind of work they do.
U.S. taxpayers may be shocked to learn that as their families grappled with fears of Social Security's looming insolvency, the Social Security Administration in Washington sent $4.48 million to the Kiev government in 22 and 23 alone.
And another example of bizarre spending, USAID paid off $4.5 billion worth of Ukraine's sovereign debt through payments made to the World Bank, all while Congress went to loggerheads over America's ballooning national debt.
And I highlighted this part.
Western financial interests, including BlackRock, are among the largest holders of Ukrainian government bonds.
So that is the information we need to know.
Where's your money going?
Yeah, it's going to weapons.
It's also going to BlackRock.
And that's why, if you do the next one, I recommend getting your ticket right now to our September 2nd conference, Which Way America.
I have a link in the description.
You're going to see Anya and Max.
You're going to see Colonel Doug McGregor.
You're going to see Ron Paul and other great speakers.
We're really, it's a cliche, but we're at a crossroads and we need to make some serious decisions about where we're going as a country.
And that's what we're hoping to facilitate a discussion.
So go to the description in here, get your tickets, and join us in D.C., Dr. Paul.
Very good.
I want to talk a little bit about the opposition that we have to contend with because I think they see what they're doing in terms of and equal to a religious goal.
They become very excited, not so much that they're religious themselves, but it becomes their religion.
And I think there's a substitute for it.
They have to have something to substitute nihilism for.
And most of the time, it's sort of this wokeism.
And in doing that, they have to cancel out truth.
They have to cancel out the whole idea that there is natural law.
Just look at what they did with COVID and natural immunity.
And they cannot sit idly by and let people who have religious beliefs and moral beliefs and non-violent beliefs where they reject all sense of initiation of violence, that won't work because everything government does is the use of violence, essentially.
It's very rarely, you know, the principles of the Department of Justice, pretty good principles, like I said in the opening, it's been undermined.
They've destroyed that because they can't exist when people are taking over these basic principles.
And this is the reason why I think we have to understand exactly what the enemy is all about.
It's philosophic and it is something that has to remove the system that has taught things about morality and limited government.
And that is the reason that so many people are looking for other sources.
And unfortunately, power has been gravitating to the opposition, to the principles of liberty.
But I think there are a lot of cracks there.
They talk about cracks with the Russians.
But I see there's a lot of cracks in the opposition to what we're saying.
Yes, we have a long way to go.
And we don't have to measure it by the number of people we have in the U.S. Congress.
We have to just measure the sentiment of the people who are getting sick and tired of the overreach of our government and abusing our personal liberties.
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