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July 10, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Secret Service Agents SUSPENDED! Epstein Fallout Continues! Meme Troll EXONERATED! & MORE!

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	Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs.
	What you are looking at is plan B of the introduction video, for reasons which I shall elucidate further on in this stream.
	You will understand why I chose to start with Marco Rubio and not someone who I had to look up to discover her name was Leila Halpern, giving advice on the Epstein files.
	That video is going to require some clarification when we play it.
	For now, enjoy Marco Rubio explaining why arms shall continue to be shipped to Ukraine for defensive purposes.
	No, no, I said it was a review.
	It was a pause-pending review.
	And so we were constantly, the Pentagon is constantly reviewing stockpiles, especially after an engagement such as the one we had in the Middle East.
	So my point is that there wasn't a policy decision not to give weapons to Ukraine.
	It was a review in which certain munitions were temporarily paused for that review and for that purpose.
	And this reporting out there that there was no awareness of it is not true.
	Now, but no policy decision was made.
	In essence, no one ever said we're not sending weapons to Ukraine.
	That's been appropriated by Congress and that's continued.
	And that continues to this very day.
	But when you're doing a review, there's some period of time in which during that review, it's possible that some shipping is slowed down, not stopped.
	But because it's being reviewed, someone would say, okay, well, let's not send it today.
	Let's wait a couple of days because we're conducting the review of that particular munition.
	So that's what happened here.
	And I think it was not appropriately reported initially.
	But nonetheless, you know, it's pretty clear now that review has occurred.
	And as the I'm going to just pause it here because this might be a theme that is going to recur through the show.
	If something is not being accurately or appropriately reported, some might suggest that it would be the not the obligation, but rather incumbent on the administration to correct that reporting so there are no misapprehensions that lead people to think somebody is doing their very best to walk things back or do a 180.
	And I say this with the utmost of respect for Marco Rubio because he's certainly upped his, he's upped his level in the gaming industry.
	What do they call that?
	He's upped his boss level in recent months.
	And, you know, it is constantly moving targets in the government and it's constantly evolving situations.
	So one does not just now turn on Marco Rubio because it seems that arms are going to be continued, resumed to be shipped to Ukraine for defensive purposes.
	But if the media reports things inaccurately, it's better to get ahead of the curve than chasing a misunderstanding.
	Mr. Rubio, carry on.
	Presence made clear.
	There's been no change to our posture with regards to providing what we have available.
	Now, I would remind everybody, again, I go back to the point I made, and that is that there are certain things that Ukraine needs, like Patriot batteries.
	Those are available.
	There are multiple countries in Europe that possess Patriot batteries that they could share with Ukraine.
	And we're actively talking to countries about doing that.
	Anyone specifically?
	Well, the Spaniards have one.
	They're really far from Ukraine, and they have one.
	The Germans have.
	Others have.
	I'm not signaling them out, but I'm just telling you, those are two that I know.
	There are other Patriot batteries.
	And there are other opportunities.
	Countries that have ordered Patriot batteries that are...
	For those who don't know what a Patriot battery is, it's the key component in Patriot missile defense system functioning as a self-contained firing unit.
	Patriot batteries.
	About to receive shipments of them.
	It'd be great if one of them volunteered to defer that shipment and send it to Ukraine instead.
	So we're looking for creative ways to provide them these defensive weapons that they would need.
	Now, that's not going to help them with the drone attacks.
	That's a very different technique that you use in order to bring those down.
	But it would help them with some of these missile attacks that we're seeing.
	Again, these are defensive weapons.
	Defensive weapons.
	It's the this is the thing.
	When you have a brain that can think critically and build up these steelman arguments for positions that you may not espouse, it doesn't mean that you are lending credibility, affirming, positively affirming the theory.
	One does not need to be a rocket scientist to appreciate that there's going to be a substantial portion of Trump's base who voted for Trump on the no new foreign wars promise, the declassify, release the Epstein list promise, the ending the Ukraine war.
	I'm not going to fault Trump for not having done it on day one.
	I think that's a figure of speech, but ending and getting out of the Ukraine war, no more funds for Ukraine.
	These were core campaign promises that rally together, I would dare say left and right.
	When you get the Tulsi Gabbards in the Trump campaign or joining with the Trump campaign, you're dealing with a populist unification of no more foreign wars, truth, and get the heck out of Russia and Ukraine because we have nothing to do with that.
	It's been pilfering hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers where resolving the homeless crisis in America could be solved allegedly if you threw another $45 billion at it.
	One thing that's certain, veterans could get better treatment if you kept that hundreds of billions of dollars in America.
	The homeless could get some help.
	School systems could get some help.
	So these were core promises.
	And you don't have to think that now Marco Rubio is pulling a full 180, 360, 720, whatever you want to call it.
	And after months of saying, we're going to get out of Ukraine, we're going to stop funding, we're going to stop arming, and we're going to solve that dispute on day one.
	And now, six, seven months in, what are we, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, six months in, there has been a new war in the Middle East.
	It was short, 12-day war.
	That's what they're calling it.
	There has been no peace in Ukraine.
	And it seems that America, Trump's administration, is getting further bogged down in that war and now trying to resume defensive missiles.
	Now, I do read a little bit of a second three-dimensional layer into that statement by Marco Rubio, because I think he has earned a whole hell of a lot of credibility for what he's done in the Trump administration.
	It seems like it might be a passive-aggressive way of nudging, coercing, shaming Europe into supporting their European NATO-aspiring counterpart, Ukraine, into providing the defensive weapons.
	But you can't blame people for thinking that after a series of big fat W's, it hasn't been the best week for the Trump administration from a PR perspective.
	And now Trump's promise to solve the Ukrainian war on day one when he was on with Rogan.
	He says, I'm not going to tell you the strategy because then it won't work.
	I don't think anybody with an emotic, what is it, an ounce of intellectual honesty believed when Trump said on day one, it needed to be on day one, otherwise he would be a liar.
	But it needed to be.
	And thus far, we are six months into this presidency.
	And not only is there no peace resolution settlement, whatever in Ukraine, it seems that to many people's chagrin, they can't get out.
	And the harder they try to get out, the more they, put it in quotes, try to pull them back in.
	Who is the they?
	Military industrial complex, globalists, deep state, CIA, whoever you want to call it.
	Seems like they're doing everything they can to make it so that Trump can't negotiate that settlement and get a ceasefire and peace in Ukraine.
	And, you know, interestingly enough and not for nothing, the Russia seems to be going a little bit stronger now.
	And interestingly enough and not for nothing, that mineral deal that Trump purportedly negotiated with Zelensky might not be worth the paper it's written on if those minerals get taken over by an incursion or Russian aggression.
	And then if that happens, is now America brought into a war defending Ukraine and its mineral interests?
	And then Americans who voted for no new wars in the Middle East, no new wars, period, peace in Russia, now lo and behold, more of the same plus achange, plus arrays le Mime.
	That is French.
	For the more things change, the more they stay the same.
	People, good afternoon.
	How goes the battle?
	It is Monday, Tuesday, it is Thursday.
	There is never a slow news day, despite what people say.
	And we're going to talk about a few W. Well, there's one W, there is one L, and then there is one TBD.
	And we're going to get into all of that.
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	And I'm not doing this as a segue.
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	Now let's get to the video that I was going to start this stream with.
	And you'll understand why it required a little bit of advanced warning.
	Children, earmuffs or eye muffs.
	It's a joke, people.
	This is a woman who I didn't know who she was when I saw the original video.
	And I made the obvious, humorous, glib joke as to, you know, when you're putting out a video trying to give political and health advice.
	I mean, I guess maybe for health advice, it makes sense.
	I wanted to bring this up to highlight the fact that whatever good advice is in this video, there's a bit of a black pill, doom pill in this video that I refuse to accept.
	But if I started off the show with this, I either would have gotten, you know, a massive increase of audience.
	I don't know.
	Excuse me.
	Listen to the words of wisdom.
	Buta, bing, buta.
	No one is so funny to me.
	The fact that you have people online crying about the extra fires.
	Meanwhile, these very people are completely broke.
	Parents aren't retired, living a shitty life, yet they're online worrying about something that they literally have no control over.
	Like, what do you think?
	The judgmental aspect of this shaming into silence while doom pilling into inaction, I vehemently disagree with.
	That's what everyone is thinking right now watching this video, and she knows it too.
	Even if we do ever find out about the action files, we'll never find out the truth.
	Politicians won't go to jail.
	And the fact is, we have always been doom pill, doom pill, doom pill.
	What does the doom pill doom you into doing?
	Nothing.
	It could doom you into doing something worse than nothing, which is something destructive, self-destructive or other destructive.
	But hey, you're never going to change anything.
	Give up on this and, you know, follow her advice on wealth and health and other stuff.
	In a great system, politicians are corrupt.
	And if you don't know that by now, then I'm sorry, you're just not going to make it.
	Like, if you don't realize that nothing is going to change, then you're, like, You're not going to change the world by sitting there on Twitter all day.
	Can you imagine someone telling someone you're not going to change the world?
	Politicians are corrupt.
	You're not going to change them.
	Be a deer and tell us about some social media influencers.
	Well, I don't know who finances this person, but whatever.
	Yeah, you're not going to change anything.
	Shut up, sit down.
	But the rest of it is mildly decent advice.
	A la the serenity prayer.
	And if you don't realize that by now, then you're just completely lost.
	The fact is, if you want change and you want justice and you want to help the children and all these wonderful things, you need power.
	And how do you get power?
	Money.
	You need to save yourself before you can start trying to save the world.
	How do you get power?
	Money?
	It's so crazy.
	This is a fundamentally flawed perspective of the world.
	Yeah, money is the only way to get power.
	Not influence, not intellect, not reputation, not family, not community.
	Money.
	Because let me tell you one thing.
	You will never ever find out the truth.
	And even if we did, you will never ever take down the powers that be, the people that are in charge.
	And if you do, and you become big enough and well-known enough, then you just end up in jail.
	They'll take you down anyway.
	So you want to help the kids?
	You want to save yourself?
	Make money.
	Money is power.
	All right, people.
	I'm sure everybody was listening to her words and I had to find out who it was.
	And I don't want to be too mean because there is some element of truth in it.
	The person's name is Layla Halepern, who seems to offer this type of advice.
	You know what is so funny?
	Regularly.
	The fact that you still don't realize that the system desperately wants to keep you broke, obedient, and distracted.
	But didn't you just two seconds ago tell us to not fight the system?
	Because we can't fight the system because they're going to put us in jail anyhow if we successfully fight the system?
	Holy crab apples.
	Terrible advice to some extent.
	Decent advice to another.
	Yes, self-empowerment.
	If you're not healthy, you're not going to do anything to make the world better.
	If you're not here, you're not going to do anything to make the world better.
	When you're on a plane, that the oxygen masks come down.
	It might look selfish, but you put your mask on first because you're not going to be helping anybody if you lose consciousness.
	You know what the other thing is?
	Individuals have changed the world simply by speaking up and speaking out loud.
	You know, there's that old, for anybody who's ever had a breakthrough in their career, a viral video, whatever, and you say, what would have happened if I had just stopped right here, right before that spike, that moment, that opportunity?
	You do nothing, nothing's going to happen.
	The old expression, God helps those who help themselves, I've understood what it means now.
	I don't even know if it's an expression.
	I'm told it's not from the Bible.
	If you do nothing, nothing's going to happen.
	If you work hard, things happen.
	And then when you work hard and things happen, you say, thank God.
	God helps those who helps themselves.
	My kid tells me this joke.
	I don't know how many times he's going to tell me before he realizes he's told me this joke.
	A dozen times.
	It's a good one, though, because it's a joke and a moral.
	Somebody fell off a boat, drowning at sea, and he says, God will surely save me.
	And a boat comes along, says, do you need help?
	And he says, no, no, no, don't worry.
	God's going to save me.
	Another boat comes along.
	You need help?
	No, God will save me.
	Third boat comes along and says, nope, God's going to save me.
	And he drowns and dies.
	He goes to heaven.
	He says, God, you said you were going to save me.
	And he's like, idiot, I sent you three boats.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	So you listen to advice from someone telling you, you're not going to change the world.
	Don't bother trying to fight the system because the system will crush you.
	It might be true, but when you lose hope, what is it that Barnes says?
	You know, that the greatest trick the devil played was convincing you he doesn't exist.
	And the greatest trick the system played was teaching you that you cannot resist.
	Terrible advice to some extent and also terrible advice to think that the only way to attain power, influence, and whatever is through money.
	By the way, money means nothing when they can lock you up.
	Money means nothing when they can shut you down and destroy your life.
	There is no amount of FU money on earth when they can jail you or kill you.
	And the recent events with Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shown us that.
	You can have all the FU money in the world.
	They can take it from you, or they can just take your life and your freedom.
	And all of that in relation to the debacle of the week that only seems to be getting worse and not better just yet.
	And I'm not going to shut up about it because I'm not speaking about it to take down an administration.
	I'm speaking about it to make sure that the administration doesn't compromise itself and listens to the bona fide, legitimate, sincere, and I dare say correct critique from the people who put them in there in the first place.
	So the debacle of the Epstein rollout, the Epstein rollout, the Epstein denial doesn't seem to be getting any better.
	And I was going to also start with a video from Haley.
	Last name is Coronia.
	Haley Coronia, whose name now I realize is Corona.
	On the Bongino report itself, this is from an episode on June 8th.
	I'm not going to play the entire thing.
	In fact, I can start after Trump's question, where Haley says out loud what everybody's thinking.
	And the fact that this is on the Bongino Report Rumble Channel, there's a little bit of an irony in that, given that we're basically told from an unsigned, undated memo, for which we have yet to receive not an adequate explanation, any explanation.
	A memo that was leaked to Axios on Sunday and then uploaded to the DOJ website on Monday.
	No explanation for that.
	We have Haley saying what pretty much anybody with half a brain is thinking.
	It doesn't make sense.
	And as much as we want to trust this administration, it doesn't make sense.
	And we're going to ask questions when things don't make sense.
	Here's what Haley had to say about this.
	When I saw this, this was insane.
	My friend sent this clip to me earlier this morning and I thought, well, that's sketchy.
	That's my first thought because many things can be true at once.
	There can be more important pressing emergencies happening right now in the country.
	Of course, the catastrophic and deadly floods in Texas, certainly reporters have important questions about that.
	But that doesn't mean that the bombshell memo that the FBI dropped yesterday is undated, unsigned.
	And the reason why it makes even less sense is I don't think Pam Bondi could ever sign that memo and assert its truthfulness given what she said prior on multiple occasions, not just once to Fox News.
	We'll get there.
	Let me play a little bit more of this out.
	It's old news and nobody can ask about it.
	That's insane.
	That was yesterday's biggest story.
	So when he, The president cuts in front of Attorney General Pam Bondi and asks this reporter and kind of shames this reporter for asking this question.
	I will call out the mainstream media at any turn.
	If they ask a dumb question, I will say that's a dumb question.
	That reporter had every right to answer that question.
	That was valid.
	So, to answer President Trump's questions about why ask about Epstein, because yesterday the DOJ said the case is closed and Pam Bonnie didn't say anything about it.
	Caroline Levitt was the one answering questions.
	So why wouldn't this all prompt questions?
	Why wouldn't there been a press conference releasing that memo and explaining its findings while showing the supporting documentation?
	The amazing thing is, you know, it makes no sense.
	And when I listened to Trump interrupt the reporter, and I agree with Haley, borderline shame the reporter for having asked that question.
	You know, it almost desecrates this press conference, which I don't know if it was designed to deal exclusively with the tragedy in Texas.
	Accused me of being blindly pro-Trump and coping, as the internet says.
	Some people look at Trump interrupting the reporter and they say, he's on the list.
	That's why they're covering it up.
	You got Elon Musk joking about it.
	People say Elon knows more than everybody else.
	Trump's on the list.
	That's why he's doing it.
	Netanyahu is dog walking, blackmailing Trump for foreign policy, et cetera, et cetera.
	Trump's on the list.
	That's why.
	Okay.
	Anybody who thinks Trump is on the list, I won't call them an idiot.
	I will just call them an idiot on that particular point.
	Trump is not on the list, period.
	If he were, it would have been leaked a decade ago.
	It would have been leaked nine years ago.
	It would have been leaked eight years ago, seven years.
	It would have been leaked yesterday.
	Whether or not someone within Trump's orbit is on the proverbial list, that would be more likely.
	When I look at Trump interrupting the reporter and almost trying to shame him into silence, call me biased and call me a Trump sycophant.
	I don't care.
	My reading of that is Trump does try to appropriate situations and make them his own so that it doesn't look like things beyond his control are happening to make him look bad.
	One example of that, I said it before, I'll say it again, was getting involved in Iran after Israel strikes.
	And I genuinely believe with no better information than my own intellect and surmising what's publicly available, that Trump would not have gotten involved in that conflict then, maybe ever, and certainly not in the way in which he did had Israel not struck first.
	But Trump doesn't want to come out and say, holy crap, Israel just embarrassed me publicly and I'm not in control.
	So he takes ownership of it, for good and for bad.
	I genuinely think someone's trying to sabotage the Trump campaign with this memo.
	And Trump is saying, A, I'm not going to look like I'm not in control of my administration.
	So I'm going to try to own this for good or in this case, for bad.
	And I also think he's defending the people that he knows are loyal to him within his administration, that being Patel and Bongino.
	And now when I keep saying the word clientless, and everyone's like, we sort of all know there is no clientless, Viva.
	Nobody believes that, first of all, and nor should they.
	You know, I was on with Benny Johnson this morning, and we were talking about Bindergate, that failed rollout of a debacle.
	I won't play the whole thing, just to play this as the interlude.
	And we started talking about the Bindergate and the cover sheet to the binder that was in that binder that everyone was holding up, smiling.
	And I said, look, if you wanted to embarrass the so-called influencers of the Trump campaign, undermine their credibility and make them look like almost evil for smiling under such serious circumstances, what would you have done differently?
	I don't attribute any ill will to any of those so-called influencers.
	I call them alternative media analysts.
	I interviewed Liz Wheeler and she explained what happened.
	None of them really knew what was going on.
	They got caught off guard by this, you know, the photographers who were there for the, whatever, I think it was England or the king.
	And they all got horribly embarrassed by A, the fact that they not only had no new information in those binders, they had less information than was already publicly available.
	They didn't know that the binders had nothing in it because very few of them, except for ALX from Benny Johnson's show, read the cover sheet and didn't get caught smiling, holding up the binders.
	But if your goal was to discredit them, compromise their influence and humiliate them, what would you do differently?
	That cover letter came up in my discussion with Benny today.
	Check this out.
	And like, does that even stand any type of precedent?
	Like, if it's unsigned and undated and nobody knows who wrote it, well, can you just write it off?
	I mean, like, at what point does it stop being real?
	I know that they've copped to it and said, yeah, it is our memo.
	What the hell is going on here?
	Yeah, what the hell is going on?
	Good question.
	Let's see if we get to the part.
	I forget it.
	We don't need to hear that part.
	It got us into the discussion of the binder gates.
	And I think something we all, you know, history only makes sense backwards.
	Kierkegaard, life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
	And you go back and you almost pick up on the things that you didn't pick up on at the time because they weren't the relevant elements at the time.
	Do we remember that binder gate and the cover sheet?
	I saw that cover sheet.
	Oh, crap.
	I just closed the tweet that I needed.
	I had seen that cover sheet.
	And, you know, I say I'm an idiot.
	I'm not a journalist because I don't break stories.
	I don't want people feeling like I violated their trust by, you know, communicating things to me in confidence and then me using it for clout.
	And then sometimes I, not sometimes, I, unless get explicit permission, don't do that, even if it's to my own detriment or clout.
	Could have gotten, you know, can easy to get clicks by throwing people under the bus.
	And I'm a little nervous even for the perception of doing that.
	But this was the cover sheet that accompanied that binder in Bindergate.
	And I remember seeing it at the time, but it makes a lot more sense right now.
	Who signed this?
	Pamela Bondi signed this document.
	So she's capable of signing AG, Office of the Attorney General letters.
	She's capable of signing things that emanate from Trump's White House in official capacity.
	Do you remember what this thing said?
	This was the cover sheet that accompanied all of the binders that pretty much nobody saw or hadn't really fully digested by the time they were escorted out of whatever room it was at the White House and caught off guard by journalists.
	And then they held up the binders like they have the discovery to cancer.
	Dear Director Patel, before you came into office, I requested the full and complete Files related to Jeffrey Epstein before Patel came into office.
	In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts.
	Remember now, by the way, when she made her public statements, this predicate predated it.
	Epstein's lists of contacts, which we all knew, they're available online unredacted.
	What they got in those binders were redacted, and lists of victims' names and phone numbers.
	I repeatedly questioned whether it was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents.
	Late yesterday, February 26, 2025, late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.
	Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files.
	When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information.
	Appreciate all of this now in light of the developments of that unsigned, undated memo that was uploaded to the DOJ's website and for which we do not yet have any explanation.
	By 8 o'clock tomorrow, February 28th, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein file to my office, including all records, documents, audio, and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.
	Let me, just in case it's not clear enough, by the way, I just had to highlight in the next one.
	Jeffrey Epstein and his clients.
	Regardless of how such information was obtained, there will be no withholding or limitations to my or your access.
	The Department of Justice will ensure that any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of the victims and in accordance with the law, as I have done my entire career as a prosecutor.
	I am also directing you to conduct an immediate investigation into why the FBI, why my order to the FBI was not followed.
	You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your findings and proposed personnel action within 14 days.
	Did we ever see any follow-up on that?
	Did we ever see that report?
	Actually, now that I'm going to screenshot that and just make sure I look into that after the show, I appreciate your immediate attention to this matter.
	We're both committed to transparency for the American people.
	I look forward to working with you and to serve our president in our country.
	That was February.
	So you're not going to blame Haley.
	You're not going to blame that reporter.
	You're not going to blame me.
	You're not going to blame anybody who says none of this makes any sense.
	And then the only question is, why doesn't it make sense?
	And is there a reason for which it doesn't make sense?
	We're going to find all this out later.
	Now, on the channel, and for those of you who watch Viva and Barnes Law for the People on Sunday night, you know that Robert Barnes has been going hard, as we say in Canada when we go curling.
	It's going a little hard and some might say too hard, potentially against the people who either are not responsible or don't have the ultimate power to be responsible.
	And during last night's Bourbon with Barnes, which are not every night, but well worth the subscription to the the BarnesLaw.locals.com, this is what Barnes said last night.
	I just cut the little, a little section here.
	There's one interpretation.
	Viva has a generous interpretation of Bongino, which I respect.
	I respect anybody who's loyal to friends or others.
	I think loyalty is an underrated virtue and overstated as a vice.
	But I come from East Tennessee.
	Never forgive.
	Never forget.
	Hold the line.
	There's one interpretation.
	Viva has a generous interpretation.
	My generous interpretation.
	I just think it's the one that makes a little bit of, you know, the most sense given what we know.
	And yeah, all you bastards out there can accuse me of being partial to Rumble, partial to locals, whatever.
	That's the cop out to not address the substance of my generous interpretation.
	This is my sincere, and I believe I'm right.
	And I believe in due course I will be proven right.
	I've known Bongino for a while, was super stoked when he was tapped for deputy director.
	I was going through my tweets earlier, looking for one in particular, and I came, dude, I was stoked.
	I was stoked, and I'm on the verge, not getting blackpilled, but getting cynically pilled.
	And not out of disappointment to Bongino as an individual.
	The system better have good reasons for doing what it's doing to the people who have been the most vocal supporting it.
	You know, I wasn't up there with Bindergate.
	I have been, I think, among the most vocal to say that Trump becoming president was not just an important thing.
	It was existentially critical for the future of America.
	I believe it's an absolute bona fide according to Hoyle miracle that he's alive.
	They believe there's a reason for that.
	And I don't believe that it means that I have to shut my mouth when things don't make a lick of sense.
	But that being said, I've known Barnes.
	I appreciate Barnes' insights, and he appreciates mine.
	At this point, the developments of the last week, I'm doubling down on my theory.
	Bongino is the Mark Wahlberg from the other guys, a peacock that is not being allowed to fly.
	And everybody, enough with the judge.
	Peacocks can fly.
	They just can't fly for very long.
	They can fly and they're also borderline vicious, but set that aside.
	Bongino doesn't have the luxury or the authority of being the ultimate decision maker in this.
	He's deputy director.
	And I'm not sure that Patel has the ultimate sign off on a lot of responsibilities that people want to fault Patel for not doing.
	So the only question is, you know, I believe it's Bondi.
	And the only question is whether or not it's incompetence or malice on her part.
	Trump's response to the question, yada, yada.
	Bookmark this tweet.
	Bookmark it.
	We'll see if this pans out in reality.
	You know, Bongino, deputy director, he's got a job.
	And by all accounts, they're succeeding at that job.
	Locking up criminals, predators, busting drugs.
	And Patel and Bongino are doing that.
	People want to fault the FBI for not taking down the Epstein ring.
	Not clear that they can.
	And based on what just happened with the Butler, Pennsylvania failed assassination attempt, you know, the FBI didn't do anything there.
	The Secret Service did.
	What did the Secret Service do?
	We'll get there in a bit.
	Slap on the wrist.
	So it's the head of the DOJ.
	It's the attorney general who basically calls the shots.
	And everybody made jokes about the body language of Patel and Bongina when they were doing the Bartiromo interview.
	People were making virtually unanimous body language observations of people who looked uncomfortable and looked like they were being held hostage.
	I mean, that was the joke that many people made, proverbially speaking.
	It's not clear they have the decision-making power to do it.
	And to the extent that I'm not sure and convinced that they do, in fact, I'm relatively convinced that they don't, it's on Pambonte.
	Now, the question is: this: Is Pambonte just incompetent, blowing strategic decision-making here, or is she maliciously compromised?
	That I don't know.
	I didn't know much about Bonte before.
	Matt Gates, as far as I'm concerned, would have been the choice.
	But it's an abject disaster.
	It's an abject disaster following an abject disaster.
	And shaming the people into silence is not going to work either.
	It's a manipulative tactic that is just not going to work to silence people on this.
	So the question is going to be at the end of the day, is there a good reason for which they're doing this?
	Some people suggest Trump is being blackmailed by BB.
	Others are saying Trump is using it to force foreign leaders into settlements.
	But with what's going on in Ukraine, with what's going on in the Middle East, some people will not be accused of suspending disbelief for not buying it.
	But that's where we're at with this.
	Now, there was one other thing that I wanted to bring up.
	Yeah, this.
	I mean, it's like we've almost forgotten.
	FBI, get these ads out here.
	FBI, SDNY withholding Jeffrey Epstein files.
	New claims surface.
	This is from February 28, 2025.
	Claims emerge that the FBI and SDNY, that's Southern District of New York, the most corrupt district in the country, right up there with the District of Corruption, D.C., are delaying the Jeffrey Epstein files release.
	A letter alleged from Matt Banjo.
	What we got is like, we haven't forgotten about all of this.
	Tim Poole tweeting at the time, breaking FBI New York appears to have gone rogue.
	AG letter says FBI New York withholding critical Epstein documents.
	How do we know what we got of a file that we're being told to accept as did I just kick myself from the stream?
	No, you're good.
	Where did my window go?
	I thought I kicked myself.
	No, I'm right there.
	Okay.
	Now I lost my train of thought.
	That's because I opened a second window here.
	It was right here.
	Tim Poole.
	Sorry.
	Reports that the FBI is secretly destroying the Epstein documents.
	And now, February, March, April, May, June, July.
	Five months later, we're being told we've looked at the file and it's all good.
	And you can understand that people are not just skeptical, simply not believing.
	Maybe they have to push this lie to their own detriment for the short term to get to the truth, the ultimate strategy in the long term.
	Maybe, we'll see.
	But as far as it goes, as far as culpability goes for action or inaction, I think that falls on Bondi.
	And the only question is whether or not it's incompetence or malice, given action or inaction and other pending Supreme Court decisions, other pending federal prosecutions, Douglas Mackey, which we're going to get to in a second.
	Some would say incompetence.
	Some would say there's no room for incompetence at this level of the game and that Barnes, Trump should fire Bondi or bring in Matt Gates, bring in someone who's maybe A, going to listen to what might be behind the doors screamings from the FBI or someone who's just competent enough, even from a PR perspective, to know you can't shovel shit on people and expect them to smile about it.
	Serenity now.
	We will do what we can that does not consist of shutting up and shriveling away.
	But speaking of pan Bondi incompetence and or corruption, the news, a big W and we can all feel very happy about this.
	The prosecution of Douglas Mackey, TJ Vaughn Frankie, Ricky Vaughn, Ricky Vaughn on Twitter.
	The term is known as shit posting.
	Yeah, I'm going to say shit posting anyhow.
	I think I called it poop posting on Twitter.
	Do you remember the prosecution of Ricky Vaughn?
	Douglas Mackey?
	Douglas with two S's Mackey.
	He's been on the channel.
	I'm going to get him back on as soon as he's available to talk about this total vindication of his unjust prosecution.
	But like I always say, you know, in the land of injustice, justice merely means a cessation of the abuse.
	An appellate court unanimously tossed his conviction for election interference resulting from shitposting means back in however many years ago.
	But you got to, you know, appreciate the ACLU, who always seems to get things wildly wrong.
	They chimed in on this a while back.
	Where is my ACLU case?
	Here we go.
	Oh, no, that's the Douglas Mackey.
	Here we go.
	The ACL.
	Oh, no, that's the S, it's the SPLC.
	Sorry, sorry.
	The four-letter shit agencies deserve to be lumped together.
	The Southern Poverty Law Center.
	This is Douglas Mackey, a much younger picture of him.
	This article is from April 4, 2023.
	Douglas Mackey verdict sinks, quote, shit posting defense.
	They were so flipping happy when they got someone literally convicted for words.
	The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, they are a criminal organization, in my humble opinion.
	The American Criminal Liberties Union.
	That doesn't even make any sense.
	They were so effing happy that a Republican who tweeted out exactly the same joke as another female comedian, Justine Wong, I think, who said, stay home and text in your vote.
	This guy got convicted of this and the ACLU rejoiced.
	Following four days of deliberation, a jury handed radical right activist Douglas Mackey a guilty verdict on Friday, March 31st, asserting that he interfered with the 2016 elections through his infamous Ricky Vaughan pseudonym.
	Jury verdicts carries potentially profound implications for the hard-right anti-democracy movement that arose around the political career.
	Yada, yada.
	Not only does it set more clearly visible boundaries around what is legal when sowing disinformation online, prosecutors may also create, prosecutors may have also created inroads to bring about charges similar to those filed against other radical right activists, right-wing activists, whatever they call it, radical right activists who engage in coordinated efforts to shape the outcome of the election.
	His tweet, do they have it here?
	Listen to this.
	His tweet consisted of skip the lines, text in Hillary to 8686.
	And yeah, and they accused him of election interference despite the fact that they had zero evidence that anyone actually failed to vote because of that meme, which was posted on Twitter on a known Shitposting account.
	This is where logic goes out the door.
	He's a known shit poster, and yet somehow people are going to take his shit posting for accurate.
	Women are children with the right to vote.
	Let me see this.
	The prosecution showed that Ricky Von Mackey made numerous racist and misogynistic comments that identified his motive in sharing the false information about how to vote that day.
	When Mackey took the stand on March 23, he at times seemed visibly uncomfortable while explaining his beliefs in 2016.
	During his cross-examination, prosecutor Eric Paulson carefully parsed out his statements he made about women and people of color voting around the time he committed his crime.
	Paulson, Mr. Mackey, did you write immigrants, the children of immigrants, et cetera, cannot be trusted to vote in the interests of their new country?
	What does that have to do with election interference?
	Yes, I did say that.
	Why did you say that?
	Because I believed it at the time.
	Paulson, is that the time when you were sending around memes that I followed, that if followed literally, would trick people out of voting?
	I would have objected to that question, but that's a loaded question.
	Yes, including the one in Spanish.
	Yes, one in Spanish.
	Mr. Mackey, we mentioned this moments ago, but you actually didn't think women should vote.
	Is this right?
	At the time, that's what I believed.
	Mackey said on a podcast that he didn't believe women should be allowed to vote.
	Oh, well, congratulations, ACLU.
	You have successfully exploited a malicious weaponized prosecution of an individual for speech, protected speech, satire speech, but you successfully defamed the guy into the point where a jury in, this was in New York as well or New Jersey, convicted him for a tweet.
	And we rejoice.
	Oh, it could have profound consequences because it could suppress legitimate commentary, it could suppress parody, and it could allow a Ford prosecutors vast leeway to just go after whoever the hell they want, if they're ideological political adversaries, for things that are obviously intended to be and ought to be received as clear jokes and parody.
	Well, people, Court of Appeal just threw that out.
	Now, the question you might be asking is, why in the name of sweet holy hell would Pan Bondi's federal prosecution DOJ even be pursuing this to the appellate level?
	I don't know.
	I'll steel man it for the sake of Bondi and say they were doing a half-assed, borderline, unserious defense of this or continued prosecution of this so that it could be overturned by the courts and not by the DOJ who would be accused of partisan corruption.
	Okay, I mean, that's a plausible explanation.
	The other plausible explanation is she's just incompetent, doesn't know what the hell is going on and what cases are currently pending that are federal prosecutions for speech.
	I'll go with the former and say this outcome where it's overturned unanimously by Democrat and Republican judges of the Court of Appeal is far better than the Trump administration appointee Pam Bondi dropping the charges against Mackie.
	And it's also better than a pardon.
	This is what happened.
	Let's read the title.
	A failed prosecution of election memes from National Review.
	Dan McLaughlin, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed the conviction of alt-rights.
	Radical right to some, alt-right to others.
	How about just a person without your stupid, subjective, demonic, not demonic, defamatory qualifications?
	Okay, the alt-right pro-Trump Twitter personality, Douglas Mackey, known as Ricky Vaughn.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	Okay.
	By the way, a pseudonym chosen in honor of Charlie Sheen's Wild Things character in the movie Mage League.
	I'm going to watch this movie tonight and my kid is going to love it.
	Yeah, we're watching Major League tonight.
	Okay, the opinion, which was unanimous, two George Bush appointees who don't always get things right and a Biden appointee did not deal with the issue of how far the law can go to criminal misleading speech about elections, nor did it address the issues of selective prosecution, both legitimate issues.
	And some would say it's a little bit cowardice of the Court of Appeals to not address those, because all it means is this is going to happen to somebody else, and that person is going to have to fight on those very issues, which could have been resolved here.
	That said, the case against Mackey fell down on more prosaic grounds that the prosecution suffered from a failure of evidence.
	Yep, you know, like a case so absurd no reasonable jury could convict.
	Those types of dismissals by judges exist, not when there's political motivation.
	In 2016, okay, we don't need to read this.
	He says, oh yeah, well, I'll reread it.
	In 2016, Mackey and his Twitter ally circulated memes urging Hillary Clinton supporters to vote by text as if this was a legal voting method.
	Or it was an effing joke.
	I mean, there were DMs within his account saying, let's do this.
	It was obvious trolling, but trolling of a malicious nature.
	Mackey argued that it's not a crime to use memes to mock and make fools of political opponents.
	The Justice Department, which investigated Mackey and indicted him two days later after Joe Biden's inauguration in a feverish post-Jan 6 atmosphere, took the position that it's a crime to lie to people about the time, place, and manner of voting elections, which can mislead voters into not casting legal ballots and not having their vote counted.
	Except there was none of that evidence was even adduced, but set that aside.
	It indicted a Mackie for conspiring to, quote, injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate persons in the free exercise of enjoyment of the right to vote.
	This was a Klan era law.
	This was a Ku Klux Klan era law where you had people burning crosses to intimidate people not to vote, not memes from shit poster parody accounts on Twitter.
	Set that aside.
	At the level of constitutional theory, DOJ had a point.
	There shouldn't be and likely isn't a First Amendment problem with criminalizing the very narrow species of lies about how I'm not to vote.
	But charging people over misleading election memes would also lead to a Pandora's box because that theory can get very elastic very quickly if not strictly limited by statutory text, which Section 241 does not do.
	In the end, none of it mattered.
	The Court of Appeals points it notably, instead of limiting the nature of the crimes, Congress explicitly limited the Section 241's reaches to conspiracies.
	There are several reasons why Congress may have done so, but the critical point is that Congress made the choice.
	One, it has declined to deviate from in the more than 150 years since 240 with Section 241's enactment.
	Second Circuit found that the government simply hadn't provided evidence that Mackie conspired with other members of a Twitter mob, absent any proof of him reading and responding to their private messages.
	That's all we need.
	We don't need to go into that because they were DMing back and forth and talking about how they're going to do this.
	Yeah.
	That just, okay, well, whatever.
	Unanimous.
	Sometimes criminal cases collapse for reasons that really are that simple.
	The opinion leaves plenty of room for the possibility that Mackie was guilty.
	It just found that the prosecution hadn't proven that with evidence.
	So, a big fat W for Mackie.
	He didn't have to take a pardon, which would have left a lingering taint of guilt.
	And the question really is: was this another level of strategy by Pan Bondi's Justice Department to continue with the defense of the Biden prosecution at the appellate level instead of just dropping it entirely, only to get a judgment from the Court of Appeal so that no one could accuse the DOJ of partisanship?
	Maybe.
	Bottom line, I have no doubt that Douglas Mackey went out and had either a beautiful pint of Guinness or a nice snifter of Beaumore 16.
	That's the good news of the day.
	Now let's get to the annoying news, which is the Secret Service slap on the wrist.
	After we thank Cubs 1959, Matt, we're seeing a lot of baseball references today.
	You see where my kid just had some baseball cards here.
	We got, oh yeah, here.
	Look at this.
	Boy.
	We've gotten into baseball cards.
	Well, he's gotten into baseball cards.
	I'm into UFC cards.
	So now we penny sleeve all of these.
	I'm going to go see if these are worth anything, which I doubt they are.
	But total side note, I think I'm going to convert the Viva Clips channel into Viva Breaks channel.
	And I'm going to get back into the UFC and do live streams where we open cards and discover the current generation of UFC fighters.
	I'm thinking of doing it.
	I was discussing with Encryptus behind stage earlier.
	I might feel stupid engaging in an endeavor that is not inherently intellectual, but I've got to get over my own ego.
	And I love it.
	And it's fun.
	And my kid and I do it and we go through these cards.
	And one day, let me just get a rookie card here.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I don't have a rookie card here.
	One day, this card might be worth thousands upon thousands of dollars.
	Adley Ruchman.
	I don't know who he is.
	Consider this.
	24 hours had passed.
	A.G. Bondi had done nothing to refute the memo.
	Trump asked reporter, why are you asking about Epstein?
	Pam, is there something you need to tell me?
	Duck fat.
	I don't get that.
	And I'm not trying to be dense.
	I'm going to read that again in a second.
	You know what?
	Maybe I need to invigorate my mind with a little Bill Tong, which is the next one in here.
	King of Bill Tong says, savor our premium Angus and Waggy U Biltong.
	We use U.S. sourced beef exclusively.
	High protein, carnivore, keto-friendly, no additives or chemicals.
	Bill TongUSA.com.
	Use code VIVA for 10% off.
	Not an official sponsor, but a man on a mission who makes delicious, delicious products.
	Let me just show you, speaking of meat.
	I'm the Tony Montana of meat.
	Let me see this.
	Let me bring this out.
	Last night we went to Easy Meats on Glades and we loaded up on meat.
	There you go.
	Look at that.
	That's the Tony Montana of meat, people.
	I'm told red meat is the best meat and on top is some flipping delicious bacon as well.
	But the rest of it is red meat.
	All right, King of Biltong, thank you.
	Duck fat, thank you.
	And let's go over to our locals chat for a second.
	Salty Corn Pop says, Viva, have you used What Not?
	They have people on there doing card breaks.
	It's really fun.
	I keep getting ads for whatnot, but I have not actually ever used it.
	I'm going to check it out, actually.
	I had a discussion with the guy from the card shop.
	It's called Boca Sports Cards.
	And I'm trying to understand what these breaks are.
	And there's a whole community, like a whole market where people buy into breaks.
	They buy into these boxes that cost a buttload of money.
	And depending on what cards they pull, it's all crazy.
	But I love the UFC and I want to get back into the UFC.
	And so this might be my excuse.
	There's a fight this weekend.
	There's a fight next weekend.
	Dustin Poirier versus Max Holloway on August 2nd.
	Tatsuro Taida is fighting and I want him to win for selfish reasons, people.
	And then let's get one more in locals here.
	I got a TOPS 2025 Marvel Chrome Relic card.
	There's a website where you can go put in the Bill Brown.
	So Bill Brown in the house, in our locals community.
	What the heck are these?
	Bill Brown, if I don't want to share his life story, but there's a reason why he has so many of these cards.
	Very cool.
	Anyhow, I think I'm going to do it.
	I'm going to rebrand the entire channel, Viva Cliffs.
	I'm using it for nothing now.
	And it's a good excuse to get into this.
	Some maybe de-stressor, lesser intellectual, lesser political content on what formerly known as Viva Cliffs.
	Okay.
	What have we done?
	We've done Douglas Mackey.
	We've done Epstein.
	Let's take a deep breath, cleanse the palate before we get into the next segment, which is going to drive you crazy.
	The slap on the wrist that five members of the Secret Service got on what is now approaching the one-year anniversary of the failed assassination attempt on Donald John Trump, the successful murder of Corey Comparatori, and the successful grievous wounding of two other Americans at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, a damn near year later.
	And I put up a tweet.
	Actually, let me pull this tweet up because it sort of brings back everything together from way back in the day.
	And it's going to take me a second to get to because I got to go here.
	And, you know, it was a sincere explaining.
	It's actually the perfect circle back to the beginning of this episode where Trump, Barnes puts out a tweet, Bongino replies to it.
	And here I am, you know, stuck navigating a world in which people whose intellect and courage I admire are having it out.
	And I said, nobody likes watching two people they respect and admire.
	Nobody likes watching two people they respect and admire.
	I meant to say fight.
	But alas, these are not ordinary times.
	Obviously, a certain amount of speculation in a Barnes tweet from the time, Pam Bondi said the Epstein files were on her desk in February, then Bindergate.
	Bondi said privately and publicly this video, Cash Matel and Rogan downplays that video, saying it's not what we want, doesn't implicate anybody except for Epstein.
	We're told Epstein killed himself, something people simply do not believe.
	There's not video of the act, but video of the circumstances.
	That video has been released and it's not satisfactory.
	Even if Truet begs the greater conspiracy, how is he left alone?
	Yada, yada, yada.
	Still no Epstein files.
	Instead, the administration is on the cusp of war with Iran, triggered by apparent premature action by Israel.
	We are nearing one year since the failed assassination attempt, murder in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	There's been no visible action taken by Secret Service against any level of protection that had a hand in that debacle of a security failure.
	We still know nothing about Thomas Crookes, nothing of his encrypted, reported encrypted accounts.
	We don't even know if that investigation is still ongoing.
	Now we have Ted Cruz appealing to the Iranian Trump assassination angle, a theory which we can go on for the rest of that.
	A year has now lapsed since it's tough to refer to that moment as a miracle because Corey Comparatori died.
	And I still say you cannot utterly eliminate all the consequences of evil.
	You can only thank God when those consequences are minimized or at least kept to the bare minimum of human loss of life and devastation.
	A year.
	And for those of us who watched Bongino regularly in that time and for those of us who followed the freaking committee hearings or whatever the congressional hearings, the oversight hearings, I said at the time, Secret Service was, and the FBI at the time were basically announcing to the world that they are utterly incompetent at their jobs and Trump is a sitting duck.
	And I said, they're basically telling the world, we can't do our freaking jobs properly.
	The perimeter, the security perimeter that they carved out for Trump, which looked like the Pac-Man perimeter, because the only place carved out of that perimeter was the perfect place for a sniper to line up a shot at 115 or 150 yards from the president.
	And by the grace of God, him moving his head, a gust of wind, a butterfly flapping its wings in Indonesia, Trump didn't get killed that day.
	And it was abject, egregious, layered incompetence, which according to some means intent.
	Perimeter, defective.
	Communications, defective.
	Drone in the sky, non-existent.
	And this kid, weird kid, shows up to firing ranges where other professionals show up to train.
	Nobody thought anything about this kid.
	Encrypted accounts, which may or may not amount to anything.
	It's a year later.
	And what happens?
	It's not a quite, it could be not just a slap on the wrist, but a slap on the face.
	Listen to this.
	Reporting from The Guardian, but the facts are accurate.
	Six Secret Service agents suspended over 2024 Trump assassination attempt.
	You know, bear in mind, whenever they say over the Trump assassination attempt, there's a murder in there.
	There's a man, a father, Corey Comperatore, who was murdered.
	So it's not just a failed assassination attempt.
	It's a successful murder.
	What happens as a result of this environment being created?
	Grotesque incompetence, minutes of that lunatic climbing on a roof with a gun, people shouting.
	No communication between law enforcement and Secret Service who let Trump come on stage, despite the fact that there was a known threat out there.
	Corey Comperatori gets murdered.
	Two others get shot.
	What do you think the punishment was?
	I mean, you know it right now.
	Between 10 and 42 days of unpaid leave.
	Agency vows to fix deficiencies after Pennsylvania incident in which Sniper fired several shots, killing one man.
	Way to whitewash it, Guardian.
	A year later, they still vow to fix deficiencies.
	The deficiencies should have been fixed the day before any of this happened.
	Six Secret Service agents have been suspended without pay after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at Pencil at Pennsylvania last July.
	Suspensions range from 10 to 42 days with the loss of both salary and benefits during the absence.
	I hate to be an asshole, and I'm not trying to undermine, or it's not a question of saying like, that's not a lot of money.
	Let's just assume for easy math, they get paid $100,000 a year.
	Let's just make it $200,000.
	Maybe it's more.
	$100,000 a year.
	Damn it, let's say $120,000 a year.
	That's $10,000 a month.
	Let's just assume that the 10 days are going to be 10 weekdays.
	So that's two weeks.
	So they just lost $5,000 plus benefits.
	The 42 days is going to be two, four, six, eight weeks.
	That's going to be $20,000 some odd thousand dollars.
	That's a lot of money.
	That's a freaking, not just a slap on the wrist.
	That's a slap across the face.
	Then they come back to work, but don't worry, they're going to be in demoted positions.
	The disciplinary action comes at nearly a year after the July 13th shooting at the Butler Farmgrounds where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Cooks fired multiple rounds, yada, yada, yada.
	Quinn defended the agency's decision not to dismiss the agents outright, telling CBS News the service would not, quote, fire our way out of crisis.
	But you may not fire, first of all, whether or not that's true, you may not be able to fire your way out of crisis because you have to explain how you hired incompetence or allowed incompetence to rise to the top, but you sure as shit can fire your way out of incompetence.
	No, no, we can't fire the losers.
	I mean, we're not going to be able to fire our way out of this.
	I mean, we have to keep the incompetent losers who made poor decisions to the point where they need to be sanctioned because they almost got the president killed.
	We've got to keep them on because we can't fire our way out of crisis.
	No, you can fire your way out of incompetence and you chose not to.
	Much like, you know, they could have fired Kevin Kleinsmith, the FBI lawyer who falsified evidence and then got a little slap on the wrist, a little 12-month probation, 400 hours community service, one year suspended license, bar license.
	Quote, we're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in this situation, he said, adding that suspended personnel would return to reduced operational roles.
	You know what the root causes were?
	One of them at least?
	You hired incompetence, or at least you had staff that committed incompetence, egregious incompetence.
	The shooting exposed serious security failures as Crooks was able to position himself on a building with a clear sight to Trump, then a president, then presidential candidate.
	Secret Service Thamper eventually killed Crooks, though not before he killed Comperatori and wounded two other attendees.
	Two months later, a second apparent assassination against Trump was thwarted at his Florida golf course.
	The suspect, Brian Ruth, who Authorities said staked out a spot in the trees with a gun for 12 hours before he was apprehended, has pleaded not guilty.
	The first attack, which happened live on television, triggered the eventual resignation of Kimberly Cheadle, the former Secret Service director.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	The report highlighted coordination, the report highlighted coordination breakdowns between the Secret Service and local law enforcement, as well as the placement of inexperienced personnel in critical advance planning roles.
	Well, whoever did that should be fired.
	Are those the ones who got 42 days unpaid leave during the summer?
	They just basically got unpaid two-month vacation.
	Separate Senate investigation in September concluded multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures enabled the shooting, citing unclear responsibilities, poor coordination, and faulty communication equipment among the systemic problems.
	That results in people going to jail normally, especially when people do in fact die.
	Quinn told CBS News that the Secret Service bore full responsibility for the Pennsylvania debacle.
	Yep.
	What does that full responsibility look like?
	42 days of administrative leave unpaid with no benefits.
	Whoopty freaking do.
	He said the agency has since introduced military-grade drones and mobile command posts to improve communication with local police, technology that was absent during the Butler rally.
	Yeah, absent in their hands.
	I've got a freaking drone.
	You don't need military drones.
	You could use a freaking DJI spark and you could have prevented that.
	You could have just had a proper perimeter.
	Does everybody remember this?
	Hold on a second.
	I got to get the picture of the Trump Butler perimeter.
	You got to refresh collective memories.
	Let me see.
	I think if I put in Pac-Man, we'll get the picture.
	Yeah, here it is.
	Let's just refresh our memories.
	42 days at most, because you're not going to fire your way out of crisis.
	Can you fire your way out of a deep state assassination plot?
	This was the perimeter.
	Yeah, this is good.
	Let's just keep going here.
	Let's just make a nice big circle.
	We want Trump to be.
	Where is Trump here?
	Yeah, Trump is here.
	Stage where Trump was speaking right here.
	Let's just go.
	Yeah, that's good.
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	Cover the water.
	You know, you could have had the Pac-Man here and maybe that would have made a little more sense because anybody in the water would be drawing it.
	Okay, keep going, keep going.
	Yep, that's what I was saying.
	Cut it.
	Move in.
	Move out.
	There you go.
	We got our perimeter.
	Oh, what's this little thing right here?
	Oh, yeah.
	That's it.
	You know what they did?
	The five, six agents who they slapped on the wrist with these 10 to 42 days demotion, as I talk out loud, I say, you know, maybe on the one hand, they demoted them, humiliated them.
	They won't come back to the service.
	This is how you weed out the incompetence, the corruption.
	Flip side, maybe these are just, I say this is probably the most likely.
	They're just the fall guys.
	Hey, man, sorry, we're really, we're really sorry to do this to you, but we can't admit that this was something of a deep state operation.
	We can't admit that this was something of a let it happen on purpose.
	We can't actually fire the people who are actually responsible for the Pac-Man perimeter.
	Bring it back up just to refresh your memories.
	The clearest shot on the playground, on the playground, the farmground.
	We can't actually go after the people who are actually responsible for this.
	So you guys are going to have to go fishing with the family.
	It's the summer.
	Don't go to Florida.
	It's too hot.
	And when you come back, we'll put you in a lower position.
	No one's going to remember your name in a year and you'll be back in full force in no time at all.
	That's what's going on.
	That's the outcome.
	We waited a year.
	They did their investigation.
	They've concluded.
	They're not going to fire their way out of this crisis.
	So they're just going to give a little slappy-slappy, minor, minor sanction.
	And in a year's time, everyone's going to have forgotten and moved on.
	Corey B540 says, well, it's federal government really hard to fire anyone regardless of bad action.
	Something tells me if they really wanted to, they really could have quite easily.
	All right, people.
	Let me see what's going on in the chat over here.
	There's some more stuff, I think.
	In vivabarneslaw.locals.com, we've got R.P. McMurphy says, I thought the two head people were fired or three head people.
	Kimberly Cheadle resigned, and I forget what else happened.
	Little Rooster says, prove the Pac-Man perimeter wasn't on purpose.
	I think there should be a presumption it was on purpose and prove that it was an accident.
	Prove that that was incompetence.
	Where are the communications about how they determined that perimeter?
	Show me the communication.
	They had to have decided this.
	Show me who decided this, what the thought process was, and how they went specifically with this pattern, because I would dare say the operating basis should be that it was deliberate so that it would happen and prove to me that this was not actually just a stupid decision.
	Let's see what's going on.
	In Rumble, we've got it acts like a gatekeeper controlling what substances from the bloodstream can enter the brain.
	Okay, I'm not sure what that's about.
	Let me see what's going on up here.
	Okay, there's a fight going on here.
	I can tell you exactly what happened.
	The director of Secret Service went to Trump and said nice things and made sweet promises.
	And because Trump thinks he's the sole arbiter of justice in America, this is from Ruthie75.
	This is where it's Sean Kieran is the new head of Secret Service.
	And this is one, I don't regret tweets, but this is one of the ones where you say, all right, it's much easier to judge than it is to do.
	You know, the people who pick on my typos and I say, look, those who don't write, those who don't do the work, they can easily find the typos.
	My father always said this, you know, the person who drafts the memo spends the hours doing the research, putting together the memo.
	That's the work.
	The people who didn't do that, they can sit there and say, he forgot to type in them.
	It is easy for commentators, analysts to say, how on earth could that have happened?
	Sean Curan is the guy in the back of the photo when Trump is being ushered off the stage, blood dripping from his head.
	By the grace of God, the bullet didn't patch its mark because if it did, Sean Curan is lying over a dead man.
	And I said, how the heck did he appoint Sean Kieran as the head of secret service when, as far as I'm concerned, everyone in that photo failed to adequately protect the president?
	It's not because he survived that they did their job.
	Yes, they threw their bodies on him after the incident occurred.
	In the tangential universe that, by the grace of God, we're not living through, They're protecting a corpse at that point in time.
	And so, you know, maybe a little critical.
	Maybe Sean Curran has no part in blame of any of this.
	And he's appointed to the head of secret service.
	It's Trump's life.
	And Trump made that decision.
	The flip side argument to that is America is relying on Trump.
	And so it's not just his life.
	Right now, his life is the life of America to some extent.
	77 million people, and I should dare say all of America, despite them not even knowing it, are relying on Trump to live, survive, thrive, and put America back on the course to greatness.
	So, but anyhow, all that says, you know, that may be true.
	Maybe Sean Kern.
	Anyhow, it's a little depressing.
	We'll call it that.
	Boopsy over in our vivabarnslaw.locals.com.
	Did they give us the names?
	I want names and pics of the agents they suspended so I can see if it's the right people.
	I have not seen the names.
	Let me just see if there's any names.
	Did they release the names of the suspended secret service members from Trump Butler?
	Let's see.
	I don't think they did.
	I'm certainly the Secret Service has not publicly released the names of the six agents suspended in connection with the failed assassination.
	Okay.
	Trust me, bro.
	That's basically what it's coming to.
	All right.
	And now, what am I looking at here?
	There's a baby.
	This is Bill Brown's baby pig.
	And I keep making the joke, it looks delicious, but that is a cute little pig.
	Look at that little pig, Bill.
	Bill, it looks like a beautiful pig.
	All right, peeps.
	Let me see if I had another story on the backdrop, or we're going to take this party.
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	I freaking love this.
	And we did a poll in our local, I think it was in our locals community, or maybe it was in Rumble.
	And I said, some people were looking at this one, which I happen to like better, saying, that looks like you're insulting Trump.
	And I said, no, no, first of all, I love that silhouette profile.
	I love the sort of the office tone it has to thank you for your attention to this matter, which is how Trump is signing off on most of his truths.
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	Whatever.
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	That is it, people.
	Who do we raid?
	I think we're going to go raid Redacted.
	Check out yesterday's stream if you missed it with Reverend Tim Christopher.
	It was amazing.
	And Benny Johnson was on afterwards.
	Oh, we've got Kimberly Guilfoyle.
	Redactive is awful week.
	Kim Guilfoyle was in the front.
	Kim Guilfoyle, it shall be the Foreign Relations Committee hearings.
	Okay, go watch Kimberly Guilfoyle.
	We're going to raid her.
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	Peeps, let me go see if we have raided the guild foil.
	We have.
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	Viva raid and do it.
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