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Nov. 28, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Will Navy End Persecution Of Michael Cassidy After Trump's Win?
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Happy Friday to everybody out there watching.
This is the Milston Report.
My name is Paul Harrell.
Thank you so much for being with us.
As always, we can't do the show without you watching every single day.
We've got a great show for you, but first we're going to have an update on a story that we brought to you about a month ago.
About a month ago we told you about this story out of the Republic Sentinel.
We're going to throw it up here on the screen.
Exclusive, Navy accuses Christian who beheaded satanic statue of domestic extremism.
We're talking, of course, about Michael Cassidy, the Christian hero.
Almost a year ago, we're approaching the one-year anniversary where he decided to essentially destroy the Baphomet statue that was on display in the Iowa Statehouse.
Of course, those charges essentially have gone away.
First, he was charged with a hate crime.
Then, of course, all that was dropped down to misdemeanors.
Everything is essentially fine, but now the Navy is looking into getting rid of him.
He is a Navy service member.
He is a pilot instructor for the Navy, and now they're targeting him.
The question that I have is, now that this has happened, Now that Donald Trump has won, because when we had him on, that's what we were talking about, right?
If Kamala wins, you know, what's the path forward versus if Trump wins?
Well, now that we know that Donald Trump has won, what is the future of Michael Cassidy?
So for more on that, we're going to turn to his legal counsel.
David Gounce is with us.
David, welcome to the Millsum Report, sir.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Hey, brother.
Enjoy it.
Absolutely.
So what can you tell us?
Can you give us an update on this?
The Navy is targeting Cassidy, I believe, for his Christian faith.
They say extremism.
They're saying he's an extremist.
What can you tell us about all this?
Yeah, just the quick background on that is this is the dangerous place that we're in and this is the dangerous place we were in with this election because what the military has done is they have created a definition of extremism which means that many people who just simply believe in the God of the Bible And follow traditional biblical values and principles when it comes to teaching on abortion and on human sexuality and marriage, you're gonna be labeled an extremist.
So what the DOD attorneys have done, what the leadership did under the Biden administration is he created these policies where they use this wild language like anyone who advocates for the limitation of other people's rights is an extremist.
And then they give examples of those limitations or those rights like reproductive rights.
Meaning abortion.
They use things like people's right to express their gender as they desire, etc.
So what they did is they sort of moved the goalposts, they created these examples of extremism, and now they are using them to go after Christians.
So in Michael's case, our hope is that the election will make a difference, that there will be follow through Throughout the Department of Defense in ending these dangerous extremism policies that are really just a reflection of DEI, and Michael and I see it as a reflection of the idea that the religion of the DOD right now, the religion of the state, is secular humanism, and that's directly opposed to Christianity.
So all of that's in the background.
And what we're looking for now is an opportunity to continue to present his case to members of Congress and for the administration to step in, get rid of these ridiculous anti-Christian, anti-faith policies and do the right thing in Michael's case, which is allow him to go back to being an instructor pilot and a test pilot.
I mean, he is a rare asset to the United States Navy.
They have a pilot shortage and it's just absurd that they're going to try to get rid of him under these circumstances.
So right now, is he essentially suspended at this point?
Is that what's going on?
He's not able to continue his duties?
That's correct.
He's able to do some duties as a reservist, but he cannot fly.
He lost his civilian job flying for a defense contractor as a test pilot when they desperately need them, and they have a lot of problems with the aircraft right now that they're doing training.
So yeah, it's been a huge loss, a huge impact for Navy.
It's had a negative aspect on Navy's pilot training, and yet he is on ice until this is resolved.
So you said something a second ago that I want to kind of unpack.
Secular humanism is the religion of the state.
I completely agree with that.
Although somehow they get away with being able to claim that it's not a worldview that's forced on other people.
Christianity, oh yeah, that's toxic and you're forcing your religion on other people.
But in this case, I mean, you've got members of the armed forces that are standing up for the rights of Satanists to worship the devil.
And in this country, I reject that outright.
I don't think the Founding Fathers were sitting around writing the First Amendment thinking, oh, this will give Satanists the ability to worship Satan and put up Baphomet statues in public spaces.
What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, first of all, evil is evil.
We can call evil evil, and we can recognize that.
And in this case, we're not talking about people who are some sort of proponents of a sincere religious faith, regardless of what it is.
They are a hate group.
They are trolls.
And what they do is wherever Christians have an opportunity to express their faith in a public space, they troll them.
And that's what they did in the Iowa State Capitol.
They put up this horrendous idol mocking Christianity right across from a nativity scene, But the thing that I often talk about and I've been trying to express to people when we look at this is, you know, people talk about free speech and other things, but the issue is every nation throughout history has had some form of anti-blasphemy laws.
In other words, every nation has had some things that were not okay, things that were not okay to say or do or talk about or worship.
And now we're in this time where the question is, who are the anti-blasphemy laws going to persecute?
And right now, it is absolutely.
Atheistic, secular humanism has taken over the state.
There is no room for Christianity in that.
And they want to impose speech on Christians, on people that have traditional American values, to pretend that a man in a dress is a woman, to do all of those things.
So this is a spiritual battle that we're in.
It's not just a legal battle, but you're absolutely right.
Our founders recognized and they still expected there to be anti-blaspheming laws, but none of this was ever anticipated to say a nation founded on God that gave the world the best opportunity we've had for religious freedom and prospering was going to say, but it's okay to ignore God's law and just worship Satan.
We're going to be fine with that.
That's great.
I mean, I completely agree with you about the blasphemy laws.
And every nation, we still have blasphemy laws right now.
It's just, you know, like you said, you know, to the left, I mean, if you say that men can't become women, you've struck at their blasphemy laws.
You know, this is their woke sex religion that they've created, and they adhere to it with dogmatic fervor.
I mean, they do, and if you step out of allowing, they cancel you and everything else.
And to your point, we had blasphemy laws that stood court challenges, I believe, up until the 1930s in this country.
We had anti-sodomy laws.
The anti-sodomy law out of Texas wasn't officially overturned.
Now, in practice, nobody was enforcing it, but it wasn't officially overturned until the 21st century.
I don't know if it was 2001 or 2002. I can't quite remember, but the Supreme Court decision came down when that happened.
So, yeah, to your point, We've gotten things completely out of whack, and I would love for you to talk, if you'd like, about this lie of neutrality.
It's a myth, right?
We've bought into this, and in a lot of ways, and I guess I would call myself a recovering libertarian, You know, live and let live, live and let live.
That's kind of the philosophy there.
But I think people have understood, okay, well, if live and let live means we've just got to tolerate a Baphomet statue on display, you know, putting kids on a path to hell.
You know, kids don't need to see that kind of wickedness.
If that's what live and let live means, then I'm out.
I don't want anything to do with it.
If live and let live means that I have to accept that it's a parent's right to take their kids to a drag show that's really there for kids so that half-naked pedophiles can do whatever it is that they're doing in front of kids, I'm out.
I'm out with live and let live.
Okay?
Do you agree with that?
Is neutrality a myth?
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's one of the biggest lies that the American church has bought into, and it really has led us on a path of destruction in our nation.
Our pastors, our churches have abandoned the public sphere.
They've traded of speaking about truth, about God's law for kindness and winsomeness, and we're not going to address those issues.
But ultimately, we have just allowed ourselves to buy into this concept that somehow We can have a neutral sphere, a neutral culture, and that's not going to lead to chaos or disaster.
And just fundamentally, it ignores the nature of the created world.
People were created in God's image and they were created to worship.
So people are going to worship.
And it's pretty simple in my mind.
We're either going to worship God, the God of the Bible, our Creator, or we're going to worship man.
And when we worship man, it always leads to tyranny.
You can see it throughout history.
You don't have to have a history degree to see it.
You don't even have to be a Christian to open your eyes to what happens.
When you have the tyranny of worshiping man, because ultimately you have to have an all-powerful state that protects people, you know, from anyone who disagrees with what they want to do.
And when that overwhelms culture and the church seeds the public sphere, we see everything we're seeing, the absolute chaos we're seeing from illegal immigration to drag shows to gender, you know, mutilation surgery on young children.
It's all there.
It's all evil and it is absolutely because the church has abandoned the public sphere.
If we truly loved people, if we truly loved our neighbors and communities, we wouldn't hide in churches on Sunday and not bring God's law to them because we know as Christians the incredible blessing that comes from being right with God and being in tune with our Creator and what that means.
And that's what we want.
We want that blessing and sadly we're losing that in America But the flourishing that we've had in America, what made America a free country, allowing there to be a freedom of conscience and freedom of religion and a degree of free speech, again, unheard of in human history, was because our founders looked to the Bible and looked to God's law in establishing this country.
Yeah, 100%.
And it was very much—and they got into this on TimCast the other day with Milo Yiannopoulos.
I saw—it was a fascinating discussion that I did not expect.
But they were saying, look, I mean, the reason you had that level of freedom is because the religious freedom that they were referring to was explicitly Christian.
It was, I think, what Stephen Wolf even calls a pan-Protestant— I don't know, coalition or whatever, where we're going to let people have their convictions and we're not going to bind consciences when it comes to this type of stuff.
I've got your Twitter, and you can respond to that, but I'd like to talk about you, Davis, and I'd like to talk about how you got started in this.
How did you get started in this type of advocacy, this type of law, Because it says your Christian husband, dad, attorney, helping patriots preserve their freedom.
How did you get started in this?
Because, I mean, a lot of people have negative opinions about attorneys.
I'm sure you know.
But after what you just said, I'm like, amen, let's do this.
Yeah, so my story is pretty simple.
I was an undergrad at Liberty University and I was not sure what I was going to do with my life, what God was calling me to, whether it was full-time ministry or something else.
I ended up feeling compelled to go the pre-law path.
I went to law school.
During law school, 9-11 happened.
And at the time, I wasn't a libertarian leaning at all.
I was sort of a true believer in what the military industrial complex was selling at that time.
So I joined the military.
I served on active duty in the Air Force for 11 years as a JAG, as a prosecutor and a defense attorney.
Got out, joined the Guard and then the Reserve.
So I was forced to retire from the Air Force Reserves as a JAG over the COVID vaccine.
I had religious objections to it.
And that really was sort of the final nail in the coffin for me in not playing games anymore when it comes to bringing Christ to culture and just realizing what we had done.
Because I was, especially after I deployed, to be honest, even though I was still in the military, I was very much libertarian in my leanings, was very frustrated by what I was seeing, the corruption I was seeing, and wanted to start pushing back.
So I founded my law firm in 2019, right before COVID. Once COVID happened and I had the opportunity to represent military members and partner with pastors and others to fight this fight, I really doubled down and just realized what God was calling me to do.
So that's what I do.
My law partner Caleb Byrd also is a devout Christian brother and this is what we do.
We look for opportunities to fight back against what's happening culturally and to bring our perspective of God's law and the Bible to everything we do in our practice.
Well, I have to say, I think the Lord is always more merciful to us than we deserve.
But when I woke up and Kamala had conceded and Donald Trump had won again, I thought, wow, that is certainly true today.
Because I have a feeling you would have been a much busier lawyer in a Kamala Harris administration I hope that remains true, but you guys must have been gearing up.
I mean, because I know that's what I felt.
I thought, wow, the Christian persecution is going to go through the roof in a Kamala Harris administration.
Do you agree?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, we just have to look at when she was a senator, one of the most important pieces of legislation that she talked about, she was most proud of, that was a priority for her, Was gutting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, right?
And if you understand anything about freedom of religion in this country, you know, the Freedom Restoration Act was a necessary correction of how far off the Supreme Court had gotten from a true perspective, a healthy perspective of religious freedom, and she wanted to gut it.
And so that would have been an absolute disaster when it comes to churches, Christian businesses, all of us.
So we're going to get a reprieve.
I kind of look at this as an opportunity to have the coach call a timeout and come up, huddle, and come out with a strategy.
To gain as much ground as we possibly can.
However you want to use it, whether you want to call it running up the score or whatever it is, this is not an opportunity to slow down.
We need to take back as much ground as we can.
Honestly, someone like Pete Hegseth being tapped to be Secretary of the Department of Defense is just wild.
I mean, this is someone who is, he's lived life, but he's a combat veteran who's now a reformed Christian brother who is, you know, in a great church, who's married and moved away from the East Coast to get his kids in a Christian school.
So we're seeing someone who believes strongly in the Bible and the impact it can bring.
So they're going to go after him hard, but he is not going to tolerate this persecution of Christians.
And he's going to bring that faith to bear.
And it's going to be a blessing, I think, But it is time we have leaders in the Pentagon that are from outside DC that haven't worked for a defense contractor and that aren't controlled by the military-industrial complex.
Yeah, I mean, this was, you know, just because he's got Christian nationalist tattoos.
The Jerusalem cross, he's got the other one, the Latin there, God wills it.
But yeah, this was from the National Pulse.
Ignorant leftists clutched pearls over Hexeth's white supremacist Christian tattoos.
And so, matter of fact, I mean, he's even come out and said in response to this, these attacks on him, that he's going to be fighting against Christian bigotry.
Well, you know, one of the things—and I asked this of a Christian service member, I don't know, maybe two years ago.
He was at church with me, and I said to him, is there a place for Christians in the military?
Like, today, right?
And, you know, it's an interesting question to ask, because I think there's a lot of Americans that think at this point, no, there's not a place for Christians in the military— Because they don't want Christian ideals.
It's not a friendly place.
You talk about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Fundamentally...
So I covered Arkansas politics back in 2015, and I was down at the Capitol there covering when they were trying to pass a Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
And the Rainbow Mafia, they came out, they flooded it, and so I was doing some man-on-the-street interviews, and I was asking these gay people, or whatever they identify as, Why are you against this?
Essentially, they believed that all of us who are religious, all of us who are Christians, are just making it up.
They don't believe our sincerity.
They actually think we are just Christians for the sole purpose of being able to discriminate against them.
Then I kind of dove down on that.
If you want to have a business, you know, basically you shouldn't have a business if you're a Christian and you're going to actually be a Christian in public life.
If you want to be a doctor, you should be forced to perform abortions.
And if you don't like it, well then you just shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine.
I mean, the totalitarian aspect of this from them is clear.
And that's why I've been saying, you know, if we don't stop, if we don't organize I can see that they want to put Christians in boxcars in the future, and so that's why I'm thrilled that, like you said, we kind of have a timeout, we have a huddle.
Now's where the real work begins.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
And that is the danger.
I mean, but we understand it, right?
We at least understand that sin nature is always going to oppose us.
Satan is going to oppose us.
Satan is going to use people to attack us, but they're convicted by the truth.
And so, you know, ultimately what we need is revival.
We need churches to engage during this time.
But I hope, and I'm encouraged by what's happening.
I'm encouraged by the fact that we have an opportunity to have a president who has people around him Who are solid Christian brothers, who can influence policy, and at least we will see a temporary pause in all of this religious persecution of Christians.
I hope so.
So, I want to apologize because I introduced you as David Yountz instead of Davis.
Sorry, brother.
I had the lower third wrong.
It is corrected, but I do just want to own that.
I apologize for not being able to read.
No problem.
It's unusual.
I should be able to read.
It's all right.
Well, really appreciate it, Davis.
It's great to know you.
I'd love to have you on again soon.
Real quick, what can people do, if anything, for Michael Cassidy as he preps for this hearing that's going to take place sometime next year?
Yeah, there are a couple of different things.
If you're on X, follow him on X. Follow me on X. We'll provide updates as we can.
Stand with Warriors.
So standwithwarriors.org is a non-profit organization.
And there's also Gives and Go that is out there for him.
So Gives and Go, Michael Cassidy.
The only reason we had success in Iowa against the Soros-funded prosecutor, so this was a prosecutor in Iowa that threw the hate crime on him, That had received over $350,000 in campaign donations from Soros PAC. So the only reason we were able to push back is we could bring to bear legal warfare, lawfare, if you will, that just outpaced what they could do.
Most people can't afford to do that.
We don't have the resources to file motion after motion and bring in experts and all the things that we did to get them to finally back down.
So we want to be able to do the same thing.
If the Navy insists on doing this, we want to be able to Have Michael in D.C. talking to congressmen and senators.
So if people want to support that, but obviously just be in prayer for Michael.
You've had him on the show.
He's a great Christian brother.
He's just trying to do the right things, and he showed courage when other people weren't.
But he handled the situation with such grace and just such a powerful testimony in what he did.
So be in prayer for us.
It was a big deal.
I mean, when he did what no one else would do, the state senators, the state representatives of Iowa, they wouldn't do it.
He went in there and did it.
He took the statue down and immediately turned himself in, which I think is the Christian thing to do in that situation.
And look what's happened.
They charge him with a hate crime and they say, no, just kidding.
And now we've got this hurdle.
You've got to think, though, if a Pete Hegseth gets in, it's going to be much more favorable for you guys.
Yeah, absolutely.
Davis, we appreciate it, sir.
Thank you so much, and we'll do it again soon.
All right.
Thanks, brother.
All right.
Yes, sir.
All right, folks.
Again, special thanks to David Shouts, attorney, freedom fighter, doing the right thing.
We've got a great rest of the show for you, though, and a lot to get to.
We do have a segment coming up.
We've got another one.
I'm already against women clergy.
You don't have to convince me, so stay tuned for that.
We've also got what I think is the tweet or the post of the day.
Concerning this transgender congressperson, this man that believes he's a woman.
We've got all of that and more.
But first, we've got to get to this.
This is, okay, so for all of the negativity that I know all of us out there have been feeling because of Matt Gaetz stepping down.
This is the positive news of the day.
We may have some negativity throughout the show, but this is the positive news of the day.
Dan Scavino Jr. tweeting this morning, just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It's not happening.
In his own words, I have never even given it a thought.
Not happening.
So, there was this report last night that they were, you know, thinking about splitting the baby in half, and the mainstream media was saying that Mike Rogers is going to be the FBI director, and Kash Patel is going to be his deputy director, which would just be like oil and water.
I mean, Mike Rogers might as well be Mike Pompeo.
Mike Rogers is an intel oligarch.
He's a lifer.
Look, as we're about to see, there is so much going on behind the scenes, so much potential dirt, so much blackmail.
We have got to assume, everyone in Congress, this is a healthy assumption, it's backed up by the facts.
Everyone in D.C. is being blackmailed.
You have to assume that.
Now, that doesn't mean that everyone is, but a lot of what goes on is about secrets and keeping secrets.
You haven't had the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation running for decades for nothing.
And all that stuff is still there.
And Epstein killed himself.
And what happened to all of his data?
Who has all of the data?
Who has the client list?
All of that stuff is relevant.
Now, I know also now we have the Diddy situation, and that even complicates things even further.
So it's not just D.C. that runs on blackmail.
It seems like the entire world runs on blackmail.
So, Dan Scavino Jr. just spoke.
So this is a good thing.
Moving on to this.
Matt Gaetz yesterday, and this was right after I got off the air, I had excellent meetings with senators yesterday.
I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible support of so many.
While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump-Vance transition.
There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle.
Thus, I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General.
Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on day one, he says.
I remain fully committed to see that President Donald J. Trump is the most successful president in history.
I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice, and I'm certain he will save America.
Now everybody was just like, That was just a gut punch yesterday.
A gut punch, you know, it was like a win for the D.C. Swamp, a win for John Thune, a win for Mitch McConnell, you know, Elisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Kevin McCarthy.
I mean, it just, it's a gut punch, right?
Here's a guy, Matt Gates, who is very much, he's a bomb thrower, but he's not just a bomb thrower for throwing bombs.
I mean, he He has a history of exposing hypocrisy and not buying the traditional line.
There's no way around it.
That's who the guy is.
Everybody was excited about that.
They were excited that the Department of Justice might actually be reformed.
Now Trump has nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
We'll talk about her in a minute.
Certainly, there's no way around it.
I know people are saying, oh, this is still good.
There's no way around it.
It's not as exciting of a pick.
It just isn't.
And there's rumors going around that now Matt Gaetz may get appointed to the Rubio Senate seat.
I don't know.
I don't know about all that.
But I do think there's two ways to look at this.
We can look at it at face value, which we're going to do, and then we can look at it in other ways.
The face value is, Matt Gaetz says, I'm out because I am becoming a distraction.
I'm out because I am becoming a distraction.
What does he mean by that?
Obviously, he means the House Ethics Committee investigation.
Obviously, he means the closed DOJ investigation against him.
He means that.
That's what he means.
I'm becoming a distraction on that.
Well, what exactly was that?
Well, we told you some of that a couple of weeks ago.
But this post right here from the Village Crazy Lady, at Village Crazy Lady, otherwise known as Mel, has gone viral, and it is...
Well, it's not ridiculously viral, but it's very educational and very informative, and we're going to walk through this, okay?
And I can't believe I'm doing this, but this is why I think, if you take it at face value, this is why.
And it starts with a tax collector in the fall of 2019 in Florida, a man who's a tax collector by the name of Joel Greenberg.
At the time, Joel Greenberg was two and a half years into his first term as the tax collector for Seminole County.
Greenberg is a classic rich kid who drinks through life, lighting fires everyone else is forced to put out, never landing hard because daddy's money always catches his fall.
You know the type.
We all do.
And Joel approached his role as tax collector no different than any other.
By the fall of 2019, Seminole County was awash with rumors about the federal investigation into Greenberg's crypto scam with tax collector dollars.
These rumors inspired a local music teacher by the name of Brian Butte to throw his hat in the ring and challenge Greenberg in the Republican primary slated for the following year.
Okay, so this is crazy.
What does this have to do with Matt Gaetz and Iran and the FBI? Just wait.
Despite the many advantages Greenberg held over Butte in the race, incumbency, wealth, name recognition, Greenberg's significant criminal activity as tax collector likely contributed to him becoming obsessed with destroying his challenger in the tax collector race, Butte, both publicly and privately.
So throughout late 2019 and into 2020, this Greenberg fellow, Rolled out a series of ever-escalating smear tactics targeting Butte, starting with typically, you know, labeling Butte, who is from Michigan, a carpetbagger.
But then they grew increasingly vicious.
He created fake Facebook profiles, pretending to be Butte students, leaving comments on public posts, trashing Butte as an awful teacher and a pervert.
Greenberg's antics, which, by the way, is just projection we'll know here in a minute, because Greenberg is actually the Philanderer pervert.
Greenberg's antics finally reached an apex when he mailed handwritten letters to the administrators of the school where Butte taught, accusing him of sexually assaulting his students.
Greenberg probably didn't expect those letters to be taken so seriously, or else he would have been a little more careful, but alas, he was not, and when the letters were turned over to the local sheriff's office, both his fingerprints and DNA were lifted from them, and he was arrested on June 23, 2020 and charged by the DOJ with stalking.
At the time of his arrest, Greenberg's phone was confiscated and searched.
And believe it or not, this is where the real legal troubles began.
On his cell phone and later home computers, police found evidence of Greenberg committing damn near every crime in the book.
Embezzlement, drugs, prostitution, identity theft, wire fraud, crypto market manipulation.
But the silver tuna was a series of messages that occurred in late spring through early fall of 2017 between Greenberg and then a 17-year-old girl discussing, among other things, their many sexcapades around Florida and beyond.
Further investigation revealed that from December 2016 through 2018, Joel Greenberg was a customer on his Sugar Daddy website where he solicited various women for sex and escort services, and that's where he met the aforementioned 17-year-old girl.
All told, Mr. Greenberg spent over $70,000 on hookers.
Moving down.
In August of 2020, the DOJ then charged Joel Greenberg with sex trafficking of a minor, identity theft, and production of false identification documents, among other things.
Turns out, in Florida, the office of the county tax collector doesn't just collect taxes...
But they also issued driver's licenses and IDs.
And Mr. Greenberg had taken full advantage of this privilege during his time in office.
Greenberg had not only created multiple false Florida ID cards for himself, he also created a fake ID for his underage lover after finding out that she had been lying to him about her age.
So she said she was 18, she was really 17, so then Mr. Tax Collector who can make driver's licenses...
Documents that she is actually of age.
And this is where Matt Gaetz comes into the story.
So Mel, Village Crazy Lady, on Twitter says, From what I can tell, Gaetz and Greenberg became acquainted at some point in the first half of 2017.
First public record of them associated on a private level comes from pictures posted on X, then Twitter on July 8, 2017, with none other than Roger Stone.
Okay, I think it's safe to say that the two did become friends.
How good of friends, we don't know.
That's up for debate.
But there was some sort of relationship.
But after getting arrested in June 2020, at some point, Mr. Greenberg's lawyers approached Bill Barr's DOJ with a proposition.
So Greenberg's lawyers, he's got this phone...
And now he's saying, I want a lighter sentence, so I'm going to try to get Matt Gaetz charged with sex acts with a minor.
Bill Bars, DOJ, then proceeds.
I'm assuming, if this is true, if that were true, and something did happen, there's an ID that says that this girl is not 17. Okay.
Bill Barr's DOJ then proceeds to open a secret investigation into these allegations that remain a secret until it is leaked the next spring.
And then you get this.
There's a whole situation with Iran.
Okay?
She writes, Faithful viewers of the Tucker Carlson show were treated to a peak behind-the-scenes DC curtain on a random Tuesday night in late March.
Earlier that day, the New York Times had released a bombshell story alleging that the DOJ had opened an official investigation into Gates over allegations that he engaged in sex with an underage girl.
An underage girl that had a fake ID. An official fake ID. It was a real ID. It wasn't a fake ID. It was a real Florida driver's license.
Following Tucker's opening monologue, he introduced Matt Gaetz and gave him free reign to tell his side of the story.
I actually pulled that up.
Here's part of that interview.
Take a listen.
And I'll get to the investigation in a sec, but you're saying that David McGee was motivated by greed.
He was trying to extort money from your family.
That's his motivation, you're saying?
I know that there was a demand for money in exchange for a commitment that he could make this investigation go away along with his co-conspirators.
They even claimed to have specific connections inside the Biden White House.
Now, I don't know if that's true.
They were promising that Joe Biden would pardon me.
Obviously, I don't need a pardon.
I'm not seeking a pardon.
I've not done anything improper or wrong.
But what I am troubled by is the real motivation for all of this.
You know, just tonight, Ted Lieu, a Democrat, is calling on me to be removed from the House Judiciary Committee.
And I believe we are in an era of our politics now, Tucker, where people are smeared to try to take them out of the conversation.
I'm not the only person on screen right now who's been falsely accused of a terrible sex act.
You were accused of something that you did not do, and so you know what this feels like.
You know the pain it can bring to your family.
Alright, so what he went on to say, you know, you heard him mention, and it goes on, and it's an eight-minute interview.
We were in the middle of it, but basically he's talking about this guy, McGee.
McGee, okay, and he says his name on national television.
That's something that's significant here in a minute.
It involved a $25 million extortion threat against his father to help free an American hostage in Iran that would then be paid back with a presidential pardon for Gates on all of these charges.
So then Gates, after the New York Times drops the story, Gates demands that the FBI release the tapes that they had in their possession of the recordings made by his father in interviews with his extortionist.
He didn't hesitate for a second to name the alleged extortionist, David McGee.
He said he was a former prosecutor for the Northern District of Florida who now worked for the prestigious Biggs and Lane Law Forum out of Pensacola.
So he was resolute, unafraid when talking to Tucker.
Tucker was clearly extremely annoyed and unconvinced by the end.
Bob Levinson was the man in Iran.
The official story about Bob Levinson is that he was a retired FBI agent who was contacted by a semi-off-the-book CIA unit to run a cover-up in Iran.
But he was kidnapped from Kish Island following a meeting with an American fugitive living in Iran that had been arranged by a former NBC producer named Ira Silverman.
This thread is already long enough, she says, so I'm not going to speculate on what I think, but there's plenty out there to go chasing rabbits.
So this guy, Levinson, gets kidnapped in March of 2007. And his disappearance was acknowledged by George Bush in June of 2007 as concerning, but no one from the federal government will admit that Levinson was working for the CIA. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, From 2009 to 2011, the FBI was running its own covert operation to get their retired agent back and they had devised an ingenious plan to keep the whole thing off the books.
They contacted a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska to pay for the rescue mission, $20 million in total, in exchange for a fast-tracked green card for Deripaska and his family.
Enter David McGee.
During his time at the DOJ, McGee worked an organized crime task force That's how he knew Bob Levinson, who specialized in Russian money laundering.
McGee became a liaison between the Levinson family and Deripaska.
And then he talks about Andrew McCabe.
Andrew McCabe was involved as well.
The FBI point man on the Deripaska deal was none other than Andrew McCabe.
Andrew McKay, by the way, who last night endorsed Mike Rogers as the head of the FBI.
If Trump were to pick him, Trump's now, according to Scavino, saying he is not picking Mike Rogers.
Anywho, the FBI team, she goes on, gets a couple of proof of life videos, and they have a soft arrangement in place when the Clinton State Department steps in and shuts the whole thing down.
Something got them spooked.
After 2011, Levinson is never heard from again.
Along with the Iranians, they did not have any involvement in the disappearance.
So eventually the CIA gets desperate, and a handful of classified documents confirming Levinson's contact with the CIA are leaked to the AP in December of 2013.
Still, the Iranians don't budge.
This was surprising because at this point they no longer have any reason to lie.
The Americans weren't lying anymore.
Time to start negotiations, but nope, the news was greeted with radio silence.
Years go by, no more pictures or videos ever arrive, and then comes the Iranian nuclear deal of 2016.
Unbeknownst to most, the Obama team had negotiated the release of four Americans being held in Iran in exchange for the U.S. dropping charges against Iranian nationals for sanctions violations.
Bob Levinson was not one of those Americans.
The American Jewish community was furious.
They already saw the Iranian deal as a stab in the back to Israel.
But when word broke out about the prisoner exchange and Bob Levinson wasn't on the list, many took it as a deliberate betrayal of American Jews.
Flash forward some more.
Trump takes office, cancels the nuclear deal in Iran.
Christine Levinson sues Iran in U.S. courts and is awarded $1.2 billion in a judgment.
And in March 2020, the U.S. government declares Bob Levinson legally dead, case closed.
Right?
Wrong, she says.
At some point in the summer of 2020, getting closer to this whole Gates thing, a former Air Force intelligence officer named Bob Kent claims to have received news from his network in Iraq, alleging that Bob Levinson was still alive.
Kent claims he received pictures to prove it.
So Kent contacts David McGee, who then tells Kent about the last privately funded search and rescue for Levinson, and that's when Kent hatches the plan to rope Don Gates into paying for this one.
Now I know what you're all wondering.
How did these men know about the Matt Gaetz investigation?
To my knowledge, that's never been revealed.
If I had to guess, I'd say someone in the DOJ or FBI leaked that info to McGee who then told Kent about it when he was contacted.
But that's still only half the answer.
This is the part of the story where I start spiraling.
I think this whole thing is a spiral.
I start wondering about how long this plan had been in the works.
Nothing adds up, but for now I'll spare you the suspicions and stick to what I know.
In March of 2016, she says, Naturally, Gates Sr. was incredulous.
What in the world was this man talking about?
Matt wasn't facing any sex trafficking charges.
Don called Matt, who immediately told him to contact the local FBI office.
The FBI suggested that Don meet with David McGee, wearing a wire, and Don agreed.
However, just before the meeting took place, Don requested a written acknowledgement from the FBI on the purpose of this investigation and meeting.
He was worried something he said could be used against Matt in the case they still didn't know anything about.
The FBI was reluctant at first, but they eventually agreed.
And the very next day, after the FBI agreed, To the purpose of the wire and the meeting, then the New York Times got the leak.
And the New York Times ran the story.
Going back and watching the Tucker Gates interview again this week, everything he said finally made sense.
The FBI had planned to use Don Gates' meeting with McGee against his own son.
The quasi-immunity demand from Don quashed that, so they leaked the story to the New York Times and then buried the wiretapes.
McGee and Kent denied everything.
They said there was no extortion.
It was a simple proposition.
They accused Matt of using this to distract from his own charges or allegations that there would be charges forthcoming.
A third man was eventually charged with wire fraud in relation to the case, and then the FBI just drops it all, pretends like none of it happened, but wait, there's more because the story wasn't already weird enough.
There's another twist.
At the same time that Don Gates was getting those messages from Kent and McGee, Scott Adams, you know, the Dilbert guy, receives a message from an acquaintance of his, Jacob Novak, who works as the media director for the Israeli consulate.
The first one arrives the Saturday before the story breaks.
The next two arrive on Wednesday, the 31st, after Gens went on Tucker and revealed David McGee's name to the world.
To his credit, the whole thing was sketchy as hell to Scott Adams, so he took it upon himself to release Novak's messages.
The Israeli consulate immediately distanced themselves from Novak's messages, but he was not fired or disciplined.
And this is the headline, Israeli Consulate Disavows Staffers Matt Gaetz Remarks.
And then they wrap this whole thing up.
So back to Joel Greenberg, the tax collector, making the fake IDs.
Joel Greenberg pled guilty to sex trafficking, identity fraud, wire fraud, and a host of other charges in May of 2021.
He was sentenced to 11 years in prison, with 10 of those coming from the mandatory minimum imposed by the sex trafficking charge.
The DOJ did not close its case against Matt Gaetz until October 2022.
They never publicly acknowledged why he was not charged, although it becomes fairly obvious once you learn that Joel Greenberg had produced fake IDs, official fake IDs, for the underage girl in question.
How can you convict someone of statutory rape when this woman was using a real state of Florida driver's license to present her as being of age?
But of course, because it's the swamp, that's not where Matt's troubles ended.
The snakes in D.C. were going to milk that investigation for all it's worth, and when Gates went for McCarthy during the Speaker fight, McCarthy and his allies plotted carefully to get their revenge.
We saw the culmination of that plotting on Full Splay yesterday.
There are still a lot of unanswered questions.
Who is the we that Jacob Novak referenced in the text to Scott Adams?
Who leaked the info about the Gates case to Bob Kent?
Was Joel Greenberg running a honeypot scheme?
If so, for who?
Sure would be nice to get an Attorney General in office who actually gave a damn about answering any of those questions.
Again, this is the thread, and it is incredible, and I went through it all for a reason, and I know we spent a long time on it.
Matt Gaetz said he dropped out because his confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump-Vance transition.
Now, I think we just proved...
At least on the surface, that is true.
A distraction might be an understatement.
Now, a simpler explanation, especially after what the Village Crazy Lady Mel on Twitter laid out, a simpler explanation could be, As many have pointed out, that if all the members of Congress,
well, there's probably a few, but Matt Gaetz was, from what we can tell, Matt Gaetz was the only guy, only politician who got this nomination that had taken zero dollars from AIPAC. That could also be the simplest explanation of all this as well.
Fascinating stuff.
Again, it's not a day to black pill.
And then that brings you to this.
So J.D. Sharp, so not to black pill, be a black pill bulimic with me.
The voter fraud in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Michigan Senate races cost us Matt Gaetz.
This is true.
This is true.
They stole those Senate races.
Trump won them.
Trump won the race, and then they vote for the Democrat.
It doesn't make any sense.
All of the late-night ballot dumps, all of that.
If we'd had a different makeup, Trump's original picks would have gotten in.
That's for sure.
It's being reported that Matt Gaetz had the support of every Republican except for McConnell, Murkowski, Curtis, Utah.
That's old Mitt Romney's replacement.
Way to go there.
And Susan Collins.
And then we got this news last night.
Trump announces Pam Bondi as his replacement AG pick.
Who is Pam Bondi?
Well, I mean, obviously, Pam Bondi is no Matt Gaetz.
And even though Pam Bondi's not Matt Gaetz, I'm sure they're going to make a huge deal out of this.
Derek Evidence, who's running for Senate in West Virginia, Pam Bondi wants color on the walls of her preschool bathroom if she's fit to serve as AG. Is she fit to serve as AG with this kind of background?
But here's some problems with Pam Bondi.
Jeb Bush, congratulations, Pam Bonney.
Now, Jeb is from Florida, but still, huge red flag.
The Hodge twins are aware of it.
Also, Lindsey Graham is a fan of Pam Bonney.
Another red flag.
Again, don't black pill.
But here's Pam Bonney talking about fentanyl.
Very big mistake.
They wound up in Polk County.
And I'll tell you, it's bad enough in one thing to profit from poisoning others, but it's another when you bring drugs from Mexico into our country, California, Texas, Georgia, and end up in our state and do it with impunity.
So she's got big wins against drugs.
There's a good chance she'll be tough on the border.
But here's the real reason.
This is the real reason Trump picked Pam Bondi, in my opinion.
Well, I was a prosecutor.
I was a homicide prosecutor for 18 years.
I was Florida's first female attorney general.
And I was special...
And I was special advisor to Donald Trump, Office of White House Counsel.
But most importantly, I'm his friend.
That is the reason.
Trump wants people who are loyal to him and are not going to weaponize the justice system against him.
Now, whether or not Pam Bondi will take on the deep state and decimate the deep state in the Justice Department remains to be seen.
MSNBC is freaking out about it.
You've got some positive signs and some bad signs on this.
Mitch McConnell just won't go away.
Mitch McConnell is officially now the new Joe Biden in the government.
He's now going to fill Joe Biden's shoes by basically being...
A puppet.
Now he's going to be the chair of this powerful Senate Rules Committee.
He refuses to go away.
He needs to resign from office.
Let's see.
What time is it?
This whole Nancy Mays thing is really funny.
Um, and we've talked about this at length, that she didn't respect male spaces.
Look, this is Nancy Mays.
Now she's upset that her spaces are being invaded.
Maybe we should have respect, maybe the slippery slope is real, but we should respect male spaces.
R.N. McIntyre, it's like watching a child boast repeatedly about their ability to leap off a roof, but being unable to connect the act to the broken leg they're complaining about.
Right, slippery slope is real.
That's a really good take.
Ah!
Mike Pence, he's irrelevant.
Yet it's weird.
I've got six minutes left.
I woke up...
It's really weird.
I saw...
This is one of the first tweets I saw.
It's one of those things, but for whatever reason, I woke up thinking this morning about Mike Pence for some reason and how he was this man that could have done something heroic, but yet...
He's a shameful man for not standing up for the truth over the 2020 election.
And yet, it was part of the will of God for him to be a coward, for him to not be the man that he should have been in that moment.
And that's got to swear today.
Who's speaking up for the unborn?
Anyway, Mike Pence is irrelevant now.
And we've got another hostage.
Okay, so that brings us to here because I promised you and I promised the online audience that we would do this.
And so it's time.
And let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed.
I believe in the non-binary God.
And now it's time for I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Alright, for this segment of I'm Already Against Women Clergy, you don't have to convince me.
Once again, it comes from Protestia.
Transgender and Pastor Jonah Overton goes on a long spiral about how people are fundamentally good.
Let's take a listen.
We all have a core self.
It doesn't need to be developed in therapy or practice.
It is in us.
It is who we fundamentally are.
The core self, what Jesus would call the heart.
And the core self is fundamentally good and resourced.
There are...
Bear with me here.
Eight C's and five P's that define the core self.
Your core self is fundamentally good, she says.
Your core self is fundamentally good.
Jeremiah 17, 9 through 10 says, The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick.
Who can understand it?
Well, the Lord can.
I, the Lord, search the heart and test the mind to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
But again, our heart is desperately wicked, desperately sick.
There is nothing good.
Save the grace of Jesus Christ, there's nothing good in us from the stand for the heart is deceitful.
Above all things, desperately sick.
Mark 7, 21, For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery.
Psalm 51, 10, Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
So we need a clean heart.
We need God to create the clean heart because it's desperately wicked, deceitful, desperately sick, Ezekiel 36, 26. He hears our prayers.
And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove the heart of stone, which is deceitful above all things, and which brings forth deceit, lust, sin.
And I will remove your heart of stone, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Yes.
Amen to that.
And yet, this transgender impastor, you know, preaching...
By the way, millstone for her as well, because there's children in the audience.
And...
Protesting puts it good, you know.
She says, basically, people are fundamentally good.
That's just not biblical.
People are not fundamentally good.
We're all made in the image of God, but we're fallen and sinful, and we are not fundamentally good.
We are deceptively wicked.
And we deceive ourselves, right?
We have the propensity to deceive ourselves, just like this woman pastor who's dressed up like a boy.
She's deceiving herself as well.
Anyway, sound off in the comments.
Tell me what you think.
This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Alright, so that about wraps things up here for the Milstone Report for the week.
It's been a great five days of broadcasting.
I want to thank everybody.
I want to thank all of you out there watching.
And now is the time in the broadcast where I tell you that You need to go to church.
If you're not going to church, you need to go to church, right?
Being red-pilled does not give you salvation.
And actually, theoretically, neither does going to church either, by the way.
But if you're not going to church, if you've given up on it because you think, I can't handle it, or maybe you've been to some woke churches and your stomach is turned by the whole thing, I want you to redouble your efforts to find a church that preaches the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ, his ability to save sinners, and wants to worship him corporately together once a week.
Go find that church and attend that church, and don't neglect the gathering of the saints.
Have a blessed Lord's Day.
For those of you that do go to church, have a fantastic Lord's Day.
And unless I'm providentially hindered, we will be back here wishing you a happy Monday at the beginning of Thanksgiving week, which is one of my favorite times of year.
God bless everybody out there watching.
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