Viva & Barnes - Thomas Crooks Exposé is a BOMBSHELL! Epstein Drama Continues! Alexis Wilkins Streisand Effect & More

Nov. 18, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Thomas Crooks Exposé is a BOMBSHELL! Epstein Drama Continues! Alexis Wilkins Streisand Effect & More

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	Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs, in what will surely become the next video iteration of the blue dress gold blood dress or the Yanni Laurel audio clip, we will listen to Donald John Trump, the president of these United States of America, to determine whether or not he said quiet piggy or shut up, Meg.
	Dammit, I can't press play on this thing.
	Here.
	Sir, is there something incriminating in the box that is Leilister?
	Quiet, quiet, piggy.
	Sir, is there something incriminating in the box that is Leilister?
	Quiet, quiet, piggy.
	Look, I've got it on good intel that he didn't say quiet piggy.
	But the internet is ablaze with whether or not Donald John Trump, in response to a journalist who was being a bit of a pig in terms of asking for more time than that to which she was entitled, whether or not he said quiet piggy.
	Let's just pick another one here.
	I've been going through this.
	I got to hear it.
	I don't hear piggy, and I'm not sure if it's because I'm blinded by my sicko fancy for President Donald John Trump.
	Let's try this one here.
	Okay, like, I'm, serious question.
	Who is the journalist to which he was talking?
	What did he say?
	Because I don't think he said quiet piggy.
	I hear quiet lady.
	Or Bill Brown says, I assumed her name was Peggy, which is what I thought maybe Peggy, Vicky, quiet Vicky.
	I have asked who the journalist was to whom he was speaking.
	I have asked it of none other than Jake the fake tapper, journalist extraordinaire.
	Has he identified the journalist to whom Donald John Trump was speaking when he said quiet lady?
	Quiet lady?
	Quiet Vicky?
	Let me see here.
	Someone in the chat said, hey, Jake, what was the name of the journalist?
	Her name was Peggy, but I feel better telling myself.
	Hold on, was it?
	Her name is Catherine Lucy.
	Is her nickname Peggy?
	Probably Peggy.
	He knows.
	All right, people.
	It doesn't really matter.
	I just wanted to start with something lighthearted.
	And was I late today?
	I don't know if anyone said I was late because I might have been 30 seconds late because I'm running ragged.
	I have yet to eat breakfast today or eat anything today.
	Where's the thing that I brought in here?
	I brought a coffee.
	Oh, yeah, right here.
	This is not a sponsor.
	It's blackout coffee, not a sponsor.
	And my only gripe with blackout coffee is it's 150 calories for an iced coffee.
	But considering I haven't eaten anything yet today, I think I can deal with the sugar.
	I don't know why things have to be so sweet.
	They don't have to be as sweet as they are.
	We have grown accustomed as a society to sweetness.
	Red Bull could be just as good and they would save a lot of money if it was a third as sweet.
	That's too sweet.
	It's too sweet.
	Good afternoon, everybody.
	How goes the battle?
	Viva Fry, former Montreal litigator turned current Florida Rumbler.
	Already there's a lot of stuff in the chat.
	Viva, what do you think about Candace calling Crowder deep state?
	I was listening to Crowder as I was driving this morning.
	I did an episode with The Unusual Suspects.
	It was a great show.
	It's going to air at six o'clock tonight.
	And we'll go over some of the same material.
	I'm not interested in that type of fighting.
	A lot of people enjoy that type of drama.
	I'm not into that type of internet drama.
	I think a lot of people call each other names on the internet, and it's no more serious than that.
	She calls him Deep State.
	He calls her a see you next Tuesday.
	And it's all fun and games.
	So I don't care.
	What do I think about Candace Owens in general?
	Look, I don't think she was out in left field with the Macon story, the Brigitte Macron.
	I think she has fleshed out her reasons for believing what she believes.
	And I think it's a sincerely held belief.
	And I took the unpopular opinion, or at least the legally controversial opinion, that Macon's lawsuit against Candace Owens will end in success for Candace, even if that success is something of a nominal settlement, a correction, a retraction.
	I just needed to clarify that when I said Brigitte Macon was a man who stole someone's identity and actually had a sex change operation, but was a man when he fell in love.
	It was my opinion.
	If she has to say something along those lines, I think that she will end up being victorious at the end of the day in that lawsuit.
	In law, and I've read all of the allegations and I appreciate it's a salacious conspiracy theory and accusing people of identity theft and partaking in a cabal of murder is terrible.
	When you're the president of a country or the president's wife, especially when you've engaged in underage, alleged sexual activity, A, you're judgment proof, and B, I can think whatever the hell I want based on those agreed statement of facts.
	So I think Candace is going to get out of it on the one hand saying, I believe it.
	I think I've got a legitimate basis to believe it.
	There's no actual malice in the sense of I know it to be wrong.
	And the malice might be, I want to take down that government.
	That's not the actual malice.
	And it's sufficiently clearly her opinion that anybody watching it knows that they are listening to someone provide their conspiracy theory as to how Brigitte Macron, in fact, had a shamalama ding dong between her legs for the longest of times.
	So there's that.
	All right.
	Now, on that note, everybody, how goes the battle?
	The drama that I'm interested in.
	And before we even get started, by the way, the links to how you can support the channel are all in the description in the bottom.
	If I made a bit of a mistake when I was setting this up, I tried to set up the stream for my iPhone at a, when I tried to pull over, not to break any traffic laws, to create the Rumble stream from the iPhone app, Rumble Studio app.
	It's amazing, except I accidentally set it up only on Rumble Studio and not on locals and Rumble.
	So I deleted it and set it up again.
	But I got here in time with 30 seconds to spare.
	All right.
	The drama that I'm more interested in because it's politically relevant and not just pure entertainment is the drama between Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, and Donald John Trump.
	Before I get into it, and I'm going to say it, and I'll say it maybe more than once in the upcoming weeks, I was right.
	I am vindicated.
	Everybody who sat out there saying, no, no, we've got to forget about the Epstein files because Trump now told us to, everyone pulling 180 degrees on their prior publicly stated positions to release the Epstein files.
	You can go suck a lemon.
	I was right.
	And not a question of being right, haha.
	I was right to be principled.
	I was right to be intellectually coherent.
	And I was right to be consistent with six years of legitimate interest in a story and not wanting this story to be brushed aside.
	Called a panikin.
	Anybody using the word panikin unironically to defame or insult people who have been the most vocal Trump supporters on earth, you're idiots.
	Like there's no other, you're idiots.
	You probably know who I'm talking about.
	I'm not going to name names because I'm not into that type of drama.
	People saying, Viva, just, what are you, you're actually anti-Trump now because you're pushing this story and he wants you to forget about it.
	No.
	And anybody who does something just because the person they're supporting tells them to do it, even though it defies over a half decade of their life, has no principles to themselves.
	To thine own self be true.
	So vindication.
	Because over the weekend, Trump came out and said, it's time to release the Epstein files, whatever that materializes itself as.
	Some people are saying, there's no Epstein list.
	There's Epstein files.
	We can't trust it.
	Whatever.
	All that I know is that everything that has been revealed over the last week, and this is six months of taking shit from certain people on the internet for continuing to say this is the biggest unforced blunder of the Trump second term and possibly of either of the two terms, taking flack for that, suck a lemon, vindication.
	I was right.
	And then some people are saying, well, Thomas Mashie has never said anything about it for the last five years and all of a sudden he's, I'd rather have someone do a 180 to rightness than do a 180 to wrongness.
	And nobody was talking about the Epstein files during the Biden presidency.
	There are probably damn good reasons for that.
	I say good reasons as in politically explicable reasons, which is they didn't want to release it.
	In fact, they never wanted to release it.
	And I still don't think the Democrats wanted to release it because we see what happens when they release anything trickle, trickle, drip, drip based on disclosures.
	It makes every Democrat look like a freaking criminal.
	Do you appreciate American Virgin Island House Representative Stacey Plaskett is live texting a convicted pedophile sex offender, alleged human trafficker, while in congressional hearings taking advice from this man in order to get intel and information to ask a coherent question of Michael Cohen?
	Can you appreciate that Michael Wolf, so-called journalist propagandist, was attempting to suborn blackmail extortion from Epstein against Trump, which blackmail he could not suborn from Epstein because Epstein did not even have blackmail material on Trump.
	Do you appreciate that we have now caught the Democrats maliciously redacting names to make it look like Trump was guilty of something that he wasn't?
	Do we appreciate that we now have Epstein disclosing to, I believe it was Michael Wolf, his knowledge of Hillary Clinton's alleged affair with the alleged suicide victim, Vince Foster?
	And you people who turned a 180 overnight to saying the Epstein's is a distraction, it's a hoke, yada, yada, and then give me shit on the internet, only to have now Trump at the end of the day say, yes, let's see it.
	Vindication.
	Now, does that mean that the fighting with Marjorie Taylor Greene makes any sense?
	No.
	Does it make sense that people are continuing to defame Marjorie Taylor Greene or at least attack her?
	Given the way things are going, you might want to stop.
	I would love, I would love for Trump.
	I would love it.
	I don't know that it can happen to say, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said what I said about Massey.
	I should not have said what I said about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	These are patriots and we should make up.
	That would be amazing.
	Some of you are going to say he's got nothing to apologize for.
	It's all's fair in love and war and especially in politics.
	He was fighting back, yada, yada.
	You don't always have to apologize just because you've actually made a mistake, though when you actually have made a mistake, it's typically mature to apologize.
	I appreciate in today's day and age, nobody accepts an apology.
	They just use it as a cudgel with which to beat you afterwards.
	But you're not apologizing for them.
	You're apologizing for yourself.
	Politically, it would be amazing for Trump to come out and just say, all right, let's lay down our arms.
	I'm sorry.
	We said some things we shouldn't have said.
	Let us get back to our coalition, to our alliance, if we want to actually kick ass in 2026.
	But getting to the demonization of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	And I like to say I actually accomplished something today.
	So earlier today, an account, I'm not putting you on blast.
	I appreciate that he deleted and reposted with a more accurate post.
	Johnny MAGA, who if you support MAGA and if you support Trump, maybe you want to stop this type of shit.
	Just throwing that out there.
	If you support Trump and you want to be respected and reputable, maybe not lie about what people say in a manner that is easily verifiable simply by going to watch the video that is attached to the misrepresentation of what was said in order to discredit the statement.
	In the prior post from Johnny MAGA, 264,000 followers.
	I don't know if he's, I don't think I'm blocked yet because I can still access the account.
	In the prior original post, Johnny MAGA, let me just take this out, said, Marjorie Taylor Greene just called Trump a quote traitor.
	That's a serious thing to say, especially, you know, given all of the hyperbole about what goes on with the word traitor.
	And I replied to the original post, which is unavailable now, quote, let me tell you what a traitor is.
	A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
	She, Marjorie Taylor Greene, absolutely never anywhere in this clip called Trump a traitor, nor was that even what she was inferring.
	She was quite literally describing what a traitor is.
	This is terrible smear and misrepresentation of what Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
	And now I know your account is one that I absolutely cannot rely on for accuracy and integrity.
	And then the post was deleted.
	So I had to go back and see what Johnny MAGA did with the original post.
	And this is what Johnny MAGA reposted as.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene, who owes her fan base to President Trump.
	I think that's factually incorrect, but set that aside.
	Says she, quote, never owed him anything.
	I think I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	I don't know when Trump overtly supported her.
	I'm not sure that he endorsed her during her first run.
	Quote, a traitor is an American who serves foreign countries and themselves.
	She's now using the less language to attack our president, who she's obviously referring to.
	Oh, he fixed it.
	Do you want to hear what Marjorie Taylor Greene said?
	And then you'll tell me what you think she is or is not saying in this video?
	And by the way, I said this from day one.
	Also vindication.
	If I were Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey, I would be very angry at the way my movement, my push to release the Epstein files has been co-opted by a bunch of Trump derangement syndrome lunatics.
	It doesn't help their cause that they're giving a press conference and in the backdrop, you have Trump as a pedophile banners or whatever they think, pincarte.
	It doesn't help.
	Now, are you morally and ideologically aligned because protesters come and fly banners at a press conference that you're holding?
	No.
	Does it look bad that you're aligned with Democrats and that is the line of attack from the Democrats?
	Yes, it looks bad.
	And that's why, if I were them, I would be angry at how my legit push to release the Epstein files has been co-opted by the Lisa Blooms of the world, the Gloria Allreds of the world, the people who have Trump derangement syndrome, don't give a sweet bugger all about women's rights or women victims and only want to use this as a bullshit pretext to go after Trump.
	With that said, let's hear what Marjorie Taylor Greene actually said.
	I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five, no, actually six years for.
	And I gave him my loyalty for free.
	I won my first election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary.
	And I've never owed him anything, but I fought for him for the policies and for America first.
	And he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.
	Let me tell you what a traitor is: a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
	A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me.
	And I want to tell you.
	Okay, so here's the real question.
	The first thing first: did Trump call Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor?
	We know it.
	I'm taking it from People Magazine, but we saw the post.
	So even on the premise, and this is where you're such a MAGA sycophant, you don't understand that you're actually doing harm to your own cause.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene using the language of the left.
	Well, by your rationale, Trump was the one using the language of the left.
	Traitor.
	Trump is the one who called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor.
	So by Johnny MAGA's own corrected post, she's now using the left's language to attack our president.
	Following your flawed, sycophantic logic, Johnny MAGA, Trump is using the left's language to go after Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	It was a mistake.
	It would be nice if people would make up, apologize, and move forward to a better political future.
	Did she call Trump a traitor?
	I was called for the policies called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.
	Let me tell you what a traitor is.
	A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.
	I forget whether or not her definition is accurate.
	What she is basically saying is, this is what a traitor is, and I am no traitor.
	She's not saying, and Trump is a traitor.
	I know there's a lot of people out there who think Trump might be serving foreign interests or foreign nations, prioritizing their interests above American interests.
	I know there's a bunch of people who say that.
	I don't know if that makes for an accusation of being a traitor.
	That makes for political critique that needs to be factored into the equation.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene was not implying by that statement that Trump was the traitor.
	She's simply saying, this is what a traitor is, and I am no traitor.
	And lo and behold, Trump has now reversed course yet again.
	I suspect because he's seeing that with every drip of document that comes out of these leaks, it makes the Democrats look like the criminals that they are.
	Now, it should come to an end, this type of infighting, especially with Marjorie Taylor Greene, especially with Thomas Massey.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been criticized as being a brainless, and I'm not trying to, I'm not making fun of her.
	I'm just saying, she's been accused as being a mindless drone Trump supporter.
	She's been accused of being a blind follower of Donald Trump.
	And you know who loves seeing this type of infighting?
	Forget the terminology and the language.
	Who loves seeing it is the left.
	Who loves seeing this is the political party that can't win on their own ideas.
	And so they have to just hope, cross their fingers, and pray to the powers that be that there's going to be sufficient infighting that the base that Marjorie Taylor Greene has, that Thomas Massey has, don't join the Democrats because they won't if they have half an iota of brain power, but they'll just pull themselves out of the political system and not show up to vote in 2026.
	But I'm telling you, I am vindicated.
	I am not going to get intellectually browbeated into being disingenuous to myself and dishonest to myself.
	The Epstein files, whether or not you think it was a political campaign promise, it was a political issue.
	And I don't know who the hell Trump is getting advice from on this.
	And I can only imagine who.
	It was bad advice.
	And his cheerleaders on the internet did him no favors by saying, yay, yay, yay, Trump, reverse course, Trump, fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey Trump.
	Make yourself look guilty, Trump, by now not wanting to disclose the Epstein documents.
	Whoever thought that was good advice is an idiot.
	And the yes men who egged him on are idiots and they should not be giving advice in this administration.
	With that said, people.
	Good afternoon.
	I've already said that.
	Let me bring up some of the chats over here.
	People should focus on the number of lost and missing children that have been saved from child trafficking during this administration instead of focusing on Epstein, who was already dead.
	Just saying, thank you for that terrible opinion.
	That is a terrible opinion.
	First of all, two things can be true at once, and you should give credit where credit is due.
	And that doesn't mean like you, you have a brain that can only do one thing at one time.
	Well, if I give credit for having taken down trafficking rings now, well, that means I have to forget about Epstein because I'm Homer Simpson.
	Whenever I learn something new, it pushes something else out of my brain.
	It's a terrible opinion.
	You want to talk about how you tackle trafficking rings.
	You go after the rich and powerful politically connected people who are operating human trafficking rings.
	Not by giving them a pass and forgetting about it because you've got two brain cells and they can't focus on two things at one time.
	So terrible advice.
	I don't know if you meant it as a joke.
	Terrible advice.
	Well, you should thank us for having foiled that Michigan terror plot and not give us any grief for not disclosing the Thomas Cook's videos and lying and gaslighting about the video evidence that was available in his social media footprint.
	We did good up there, right?
	So just give us a pass on everything else.
	Bull crap.
	You want to treat people like children.
	They'll produce childlike work.
	So they get credit, the FBI, law enforcement, for breaking up trafficking rings, for allegedly, we'll see how it pans out, interrupting the fentanyl crisis.
	That's not a pass where they're making objective and unforced mistakes.
	Ginger Ninja says, I just switched to blackout coffee because Twin Engine is no longer a sponsor of Alison Morrow.
	Just finished one pound of Charlie Kirk's roast, trying the Crowders.
	They made it Charlie Kirk's roast, or maybe that was what he had before.
	Trying out Crowder's stream.
	It's not a comment on the coffee.
	I cannot, it's too sweet for me.
	I can't drink that.
	150 calories is as much as a can of Coke, and it's just too sweet for me.
	Ginger Ninja says she's 100% defending herself.
	I need to stall Carling Trump the gravedigger because he can't help but bury every opportunity to complete anything he campaigned on.
	No, the thing is this, and I mean, you know, I'll defend people where I think they're honest.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene never said Jewish space lasers.
	If you think that she said Jewish space lasers, you're an idiot.
	And you have to appreciate you look in a mirror and you say, how was it that I was so stupid that I thought she said words that she never said?
	Now people are going to say Viva, but she said she talked about whatever they call them, high-energy weapons, and she named a bunch of Jewish people.
	All right.
	Who's the anti-Semite?
	Now if I name someone who's Jewish, I'm referring to them by their religious ethnic identity, even though that's not even in any manner the way in which we were referring to them.
	Holy shit.
	That's amazing.
	It's anti-Semitic to talk about Harvey Weinstein.
	Oh, you're talking about Jewish pedophiles.
	No, I was just talking about Harvey Weinstein.
	Why do you hear Weinstein and then see Jew?
	All right.
	So she talks about Harvey Weinstein.
	She's talking about a Jewish pedophile ring in Hollywood.
	All right.
	Anthony Weiner, Jewish pedophile.
	He happens to be Jewish.
	The people that she was talking about who happened to be invested in companies that were dealing with directed energies.
	Some of them happen to be Jewish.
	Not even all of them, by the way.
	The governor of California, whoever it was, wasn't Jewish.
	So if you thought she said Jewish space lasers, you're an idiot.
	And you're gullible.
	And you have to look in the mirror and figure that out and learn and correct for the future.
	You could go after Marjorie Taylor Greene for a number of things, but this infighting is absolutely useless and incidentally only looks worse on Trump than Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	She doesn't have as much as Trump does to lose.
	He's the president of the United States of America.
	Midterms are coming around.
	This shit needs to write and people need to coalesce, not under duress, but under cooperation.
	Coalescing under duress is extortion.
	And the sycophants, yes, men, Twitter accounts who go out there and call everybody pannikins, called Thomas Massey a traitor, you're not doing Trump any favors.
	And when Trump comes out and calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor and you say, yay, Trump, go ahead.
	You're a barking seal.
	That's pushing someone off a cliff to mix analogies.
	Now, speaking of giving the FBI credit when they do good things and not giving them a pass when they do bad things.
	Let me bring, I actually have to bring this tweet up.
	It's going to be from the FBI Rapid Response.
	An account that was created.
	FBI, did they take it?
	They didn't take it down.
	FBI rapid response.
	Ooh, I just had a good one.
	I'm going to keep it to myself, actually.
	No, I won't do it.
	Someone else will do it.
	I'll create a, someone should create a parody account called the FBI Rabid Response.
	And whatever something, whatever someone puts out there, you should put out a rabid FBI rabid response.
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	Okay, I got it.
	So you'll recall Tucker Carlson put out a 35-minute expose on Thomas Crooks, the virtual assassin.
	I want to say, you know, attempted assassin.
	He killed somebody.
	He's a murderer.
	He's dead.
	He was a murderer.
	He's burning in hell.
	Hopefully there is a hell.
	People say the attempted assassination is though Corey Camparatori was not murdered that day, as though two other Americans were not grievously injured that day.
	People who have their stupid psychotic conspiracy theories that Trump was never shot, even so much as being floated by the prior FBI, that it might have been a piece of shrapnel or a piece of glass from the teleprompter.
	Jail.
	So Tucker Carlson puts out that expose last week, and it contains some information that I had not seen, which was video footage and evidence of a social media footprint by, what's his first name now?
	Thomas Crooks.
	And the day that Tucker Carlson puts out the video, that puts out the post, he says, the FBI told us Thomas Crooks tried to kill Trump last summer, but somehow had no online footprint.
	The FBI lied, and we can prove it because we have his posts.
	The question is, why?
	Story tomorrow.
	I'm not good at doing Tucker Carlson's voice.
	That post was on November 13, 2025.
	Within a matter of minutes afterwards, November 13, 2025, the FBI rapid response puts out a tweet.
	And do you want to talk about like, I know Dan Bongino.
	I like Dan Bongino.
	I respect Dan Bongino.
	And I actually trust Dan Bongino.
	Kash Patel, I didn't know him.
	I had no prior existing relationship with him that I could attest to his bona fides as a human.
	And I'm questioning his competence.
	I'm not saying he's been honeypotted by a massage agent because I don't believe that.
	I'm not saying it's deliberate sabotage.
	He might just not be up for the position and might be bungling things left, right, and center.
	Whoever the hell at the FBI thought this was a good idea, you need to smack yourself in the face to use Robert Barnes' expression.
	You need to smack yourself in the face and say, what the hell was I thinking?
	The FBI rabid response, when does it started?
	Joined November 2025.
	The date of Tucker Carlson's post.
	And they come out and they say, this FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint ever.
	Read it again, people, and you know where I'm going with this.
	Maybe you don't.
	This FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint ever.
	To which they got footnoted or community noted, sorry.
	In a July 30, 2024 Senate hearing, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abate disclosed a social media account, quote, believed to be associated with the shooter.
	Abate went on to describe, quote, a general absence.
	Sorry, let me rephrase this an Odi.
	Went on to describe a quote, general absence of other information to date from social media, end quote.
	So, as you all know, I used to be a lawyer.
	I believe I'm still a lawyer, but I know I voluntarily relinquished my license in Quebec in good standing without ever having had any issues because I no longer needed that license.
	I was paying $3,000 a year, Canadian, so that jackasses on the internet could file ethics, anonymous ethics complaints against me because they didn't like me tweets.
	Fucking sissies.
	I had to actually defend against this in a phone call.
	I was like, you're getting an anonymous complaint.
	I've been in Florida for two years because you don't like my tweets.
	So I used to be a lawyer for over 13 years.
	I can think like a scoundrel.
	And now the wording is very important.
	This FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint.
	They could argue, the FBI, to say, no, this community notes is not needed.
	The FBI deputy director Abate is not this FBI.
	It was that FBI.
	It's not Trump's FBI.
	It was Biden's FBI.
	So when we said this FBI, us, Patel, never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint, it's true.
	And this footnote is, this community note is unnecessary.
	And the other way they can do it is they'll say, okay, look, this FBI, because the entity, the FBI exists prior to Trump, and it's the FBI.
	They could say, this FBI, excuse me, has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint.
	We said he had minimal online footprint.
	We said he had surprisingly little, but we never said he had no online footprint.
	Semantics, wordsmiths of the devil, that obfuscate the truth.
	The fact of the matter is, and anybody who at the FBI thought this was a good idea, I think I'm not within this pay grade.
	I would not take this job.
	You need someone to give you a little bit of PR advice and strategic advice.
	This was dumb.
	This was silly.
	And I don't know, the FBI rapid response is typically for the shape of, for the purposes of crafting narratives and responding to online commentary, which is not necessarily what the FBI should be doing.
	And it might be one of Kash Patel's mistakes, is being a little bit too eager to offer social media posts, online commentary of ongoing investigations and coming out with information that an hour and a half later proves to be untrue.
	So this FBI, not theirs, whatever.
	Bottom line, everybody knows what they meant when Abate came out and said he has a minimal social media footprint, a bunch of encrypted accounts, yada, yada, but nothing online.
	Bullshit.
	To such a degree that even Bongino at the time said bullshit.
	Here, this is Owen Schroyer's posting.
	And by the way, this is not to say, you know, so Bongino's Bongino, therefore don't trust Bongino.
	No, Bongino was, he was right then one way or the other, because he was commentating or commenting on the implausibility of that FBI telling us this kid, 20 years old, had no social media footprint.
	I think we've seen it already.
	Bear with me.
	Bongino saying, we're being told by this FBI that he had no social media footprint.
	It's patently implausible.
	People who have credibly threatened our protectees.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	If you would have told me it was a 60-year-old guy who lived most of his life without a computer and for the last 10 years had been planning this, hard to believe, but digestible.
	You're telling me a 20-year-old kid who's grown up in the digital era figured this out when he was, what, 13 to never get an online presence?
	We've seen nothing.
	Nothing.
	We're now six weeks in.
	There's not a Facebook photo.
	You know, it's incredible.
	We know every single thing about these shooting incidents when there's a political narrative to be had by the media and the other side.
	We do.
	You know who the girlfriend was.
	Sadly, you know everything about these people.
	We know nothing about this guy.
	And sophisticated explosives, we have this massive law enforcement bureaucracy.
	No one's got him with an online search history in a library saying, how do I build this?
	He's 20 years old.
	It just, again, it just defies logic.
	It defies logic.
	This is the current deputy director of the FBI eight months ago, or maybe a year, is it a year ago?
	A year ago, saying it defies logic.
	And now you have the FBI rapid response team thinking it makes sense to basically say that, you know, throw Dan Bongino under the bus.
	I'm telling you, I sincerely believe there are forces within this Trump administration who are bad faith actors who are trying to discredit who were the most the most promising men to bring institutionalized reform to what I believe to be a fundamentally and incorrigibly corrupt institution, the FBI.
	But that's, I believe that this is whoever's doing this is making these men look bad.
	What the hell is the point of all of that?
	Oh, that's right.
	They're lying and gaslighting.
	The expose that came out the other day is mind-blowing.
	The connections that you're going to draw, if you've heard this, I'm say not late.
	Yesterday I had Chris Martinson on.
	We talked about Charlie Kirk, his theory about the assassination.
	And by now, you might have heard this too many times to be interested in, but hopefully I'll add some insights.
	Oh, yeah, no, this is, I thought I pulled up the Miranda Devine article.
	This is from Fox News.
	Trump would-be assassin in Butler had massive digital footprint, alleges columnist.
	Brianna Morello has now claimed, allegedly got access to this file, and it was the same one Tucker Carlson looked at.
	Miranda Devine, and if I can get her on, I'm going to try to get her on at some point this week if we can make our schedules work.
	Miranda Devine says source provided information from 17 online accounts belonging to Thomas Crook by Stephanie Samsel.
	So Stephanie is reporting on what Miranda Devine broke.
	It was a Newsweek article.
	The Trump, the digital, sorry, the digital trail of President Donald Trump's would-be assassin and murder and murder.
	Thomas Crook tells quite a different story than FBI's congressional statements about the 20-year-old New York Post columnist Miranda Devine told America Reports.
	We were sort of led to believe that Thomas Crookes was really a ghost, that there was no motive that could be ascertained from his online accounts.
	And yet, a source has provided us with a lot of information from 17 different online accounts that Thomas Crookes had.
	Can you believe this?
	And the one thing that we're going to have to let stew in all of this is why the hell is this FBI administration making such big mistakes that they could otherwise exploit to make the prior FBI look like a corrupt hack of a weaponized institution?
	I can think of only two reasonable explanations.
	And by the way, those are either they themselves are fundamentally incompetent or being sabotaged, or they've still got active players within the administration that they may or may not have actually given raises to,
	which sort of still goes back to Them being duped, or they're just being outright sabotaged by bad faith actors within the FBI who are the loyalists to Biden or the loyalists to Trump derangement syndrome and are doing everything within their deep state powers to emasculate and delegitimize Patel and Bongino.
	And that's not to poo-poo all of the other good work that they've done as a law enforcement agency to the extent the FBI is that, which should have never been under the Constitution, but set that aside.
	They're doing good work.
	But on the big stuff, Thomas Crooks, January 6th, Epstein, they are getting absolutely humiliated to the point where their most vocal, prominent supporters and people who had faith in them are now saying, what the fuck is going on?
	And not in any way that is like, ah, I told you so.
	Like, what is going on?
	We were promised answers on Jan 6 pipe bomb.
	It took Steve Baker to break that story.
	And we've gotten Bubkiss of a response from the FBI.
	We were promised Butler full disclosures, full transparency.
	What the hell happened?
	How did this guy get there?
	With a rangefinder, with a drone, in a Pac-Man perimeter, onto the roof.
	Person of interest got lost in the crowd, and they still let Trump take the stage.
	How the hell did that happen?
	Answers nothing.
	Epstein disclosures debacle.
	In an op-ed Monday, Devine demanded a better explanation from FBI and Secret Service about what Crooks to about what led Crooks to attempt to assassinate Trump over a year ago.
	Wait until you hear this.
	July 24th, Crooks fired eight shots.
	Okay, we know this.
	He killed Corey Comparatory.
	He also injured two others.
	The columnist described a commonality between Crooks and Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, who is charged with the murder of the lady.
	Crooks' accounts range from Google Play to that site called Deviant Art.
	I'm either ignorant enough or proud enough to say I had no idea what the hell DeviantArt is.
	And it's not because I'm in this.
	I have no idea because from what I'm told, it's just not something you want on your browser history.
	Which is probably the biggest or one of the biggest hubs online for this sexual fetish called furries, where people dress up and fantasize about animal characters, cartoon characters, and this sort of cartoon characters that are sort of humanized.
	I think the word is anthropomorphicized.
	She also continued, it's very bizarre, but we also saw that with Charlie Kirk's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, who was involved in this bizarre furry culture.
	Now, let me just take this out for one second.
	I've said it before, I said it again.
	I'm just going to remind everybody.
	According to the text messages in the Charlie Kirk murder, whether you're not you believe them, you think that they're falsified by the FBI, whatever, from the evidence or the allegation of evidence that we have to date, Tyler Robinson began to get radicalized about a year ago.
	This is according to his family as well.
	About a year ago, about a year ago, this dude who got radicalized off furry perversion, drugs, and anti- or trans activism got radicalized about a year ago at the exact same time, this guy allegedly got radicalized as well, because he wasn't always anti-Trump.
	He used to be pro-Trump back in the day.
	Coincidence.
	Same time of year, same types of assassinations.
	There was a murder in Corey Comperator.
	Same type of MO, same type of access to a roof to let it happen.
	Utah University has got some explaining to do.
	And you can either say it's just a coincidence or maybe it's not just a coincidence.
	And why the hell is the FBI not showing full transparency?
	I was having a discussion with someone about, you know, I can understand in the Charlie Kirk murder case, they're bringing Tyler Robinson to trial.
	There might be other conspirators who are under investigation.
	And so there might be good reason for which there's not more transparency, or at least the transparency that people are demanding as relates to the evidence, the bullets, the videos, and all this other stuff.
	The autopsy report, the coroner's report, all this other stuff.
	There's better reasons in the Charlie Kirk assassination.
	You've got an upcoming trial.
	You don't necessarily want to divulge your plan of action strategy so that the defense or others can strategize around it.
	You don't necessarily want to be accused of tainting the jury pool like the dateline did with the Kohlberger guy when they had this massive expose.
	So in that case, there's at least a plausible argument for not disclosing all of the information.
	Like Tucker Carlson noted in this expose, there's no reason not to in this case.
	Crooks is dead.
	There's no trial coming up.
	There's no jury pool to be tainted.
	And there are questions that remain, the most fundamental questions remain unanswered a year later.
	Look at that.
	Crooks allegedly used they them pronouns on the platform, Devine added.
	Some people were saying it's the default pronouns, but whatever, it's still not a good excuse.
	Columnist also sounded the alarm on Crooks appearing to flip 180 in his political ideology in January 2020.
	His online comments from he was very young, 15, 16, 17.
	Exactly what Bongino was saying.
	Nobody that age doesn't have an online presence.
	Bongino was right.
	Show us how he became increasingly violent and sort of radicalized against Democrats.
	He was pro-Trump.
	Something happened to make him become rapidly anti-Trump.
	And again, the rhetoric took more and more of a violent turn.
	He started brushing up against, there was a neo-Nazi by the name, fake name, William Teppers, who started encouraging Crooks in more and more violent rhetoric.
	Are they looking at William Teppers?
	I'm not saying this to assert it as a matter of fact.
	Past his prologue, we've seen cases where feds were entrapping and encouraging the behavior that they could then either go and foil and make themselves the heroes or let happen.
	And you have the unfortunate assassination of the leading candidate for the Republican Party, Donald John Trump.
	Who the hell was William Teppers?
	Have they investigated this guy?
	Why would the FBI not disclose this?
	Maybe they're investigating it still.
	Who knows?
	And then suddenly something happened in August 2020 and he just disappeared online.
	Although former FBI director Paula Bates told Congress, yada yada, appears to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant themes to espouse political violence.
	And they used it as a gun control argument back after Butler.
	They're described as extreme in nature.
	We see now from the exposure, a lot of online information that the FBI either chose not to look at or something keeping it under wraps, Devine asserted.
	Okay, well, I don't know if that we got any more in there.
	And by the way, some of the stuff, posting comments online, on Twitter, on Twitter, on YouTube about political violence against politicians and political parties, violent, egregious black and white threats, calls to violence that would get flagged ordinarily.
	When they went and arrested and then, you know, they went to arrest and executed the 70-someone-year-old blind guy who was putting up these threats against Biden on Facebook.
	They saw those posts.
	They went and they killed.
	Unnecessarily so, according to many.
	They didn't have to do what they did to this guy in order to arrest him or try to arrest him that led to him being killed.
	Those posts that Thomas Crook was making, and there were a lot of them, a lot of death to Democrats at first and then death to Republicans and Trump later on.
	Did those get flagged?
	Was he known to FBI?
	Was he recruited?
	Was he brainwashed?
	Was he manipulated?
	Were others?
	Do we find out that this is something of, you know, the FBI creating the terror to resolve the terror like they were alleged to have done in the Texas Muhammad drawing case, where they were literally on the tail of the terrorist who opened fire in Texas?
	Look it up.
	So this guy had an online footprint.
	It was pretty extensive.
	It was pretty violent.
	It was pretty radicalized.
	If there are red flag, you know, indications or evidence, this was red flag and were lied to at the time, told that it doesn't exist.
	Dan Bongino doesn't believe it.
	And a year later, this current FBI is not lifting the veil and showing us what the hell is going on.
	Now, what else was there with respect to this?
	I had another part of this story.
	Ah, crape, I forget it.
	And that's that.
	We're going to come back to something in a second.
	Let me see what's going on over in viva barnslaw.locals.com with our above-average community.
	My default pronouns are, I don't know what that is.
	Viva mentioned that Trump flipped his stance against Marjorie Taylor Greene and Massey.
	What did Trump do?
	C the L.
	No, what I said is that Trump flipped now on the Epstein documents and said, release them after having, you know, railed hard against people to not release them.
	We've got a couple of tipped questions over here.
	F. Chartrand says Dan Bongino should step out of the line right now and speak up.
	I have little to no faith left in him.
	I appreciate the sentiment.
	The question is, you know, he doesn't, he wants, he, I sincerely, I know that he wants to save America and protect children and lock up criminals and bad guys.
	I know it.
	And then the question is, if he, if he walks, storms off in protest now, like, you know, Kyle Seraphin, when I asked him a question, suggested another deputy director of the FBI did.
	If that actually takes down the Trump administration, well, then, you know, he's made a point, but not accomplished what he wants.
	So there's politics even in how you voice your opposition, voice your objection.
	But we're getting there.
	Pasha Mori says, well, Viva, it's not a parody account, but at least it's a meme.
	FBI rabid response team.
	I thought that was cocaine on the mouth.
	That's not bad.
	Not bad, Pasha.
	And then what we're going to do is just check out some of the Hrumble rants over on Hrumble.
	Barry N. McGrowan says, you'll never have a future if you live in the past.
	And now I believe that you're doing this out of humor.
	That's true.
	But you'll never, you'll always repeat the mistakes in the future if you don't learn from the errors of the past.
	Ginger Ninja says, 100% defending yourself.
	Okay, good.
	What else was there that we wanted to talk about?
	Talk a boot.
	Hold on, I had something on the backdrop here.
	Oh, yeah, that's all this was.
	Okay, sorry.
	It's not funny.
	We might have to, you know, Barbara Streisand, the Streisand effect.
	It's become a term.
	Everybody knows what it is.
	We might have discovered the more recent iteration of the Streisand effect, and we might have to start calling it the Wilkins effect.
	Shadows of Ezra, who I think is tongue-in-cheek.
	I love it when people are following zero.
	That's awesome.
	I don't know how you get there.
	828,000 followers.
	They put out good stuff.
	Put out a tweet.
	And at first, you're not sure.
	Is this humor?
	Is it parody?
	Is it serious?
	Country music sensation, Alexis Wilkins, has reportedly been assigned her own FBI SWAT team, a protection detail funded by U.S. taxpayers and arranged by her boyfriend, FBI director Kash Patel.
	At this point, I might think the music sensation is a bit tongue-in-cheek.
	The agents protecting Wilkins are drawn from the Bureau's Nashville SWAT unit, trained to handle major incidents like mass shootings and terrorist attacks.
	Wilkins is neither Patel's spouse nor living with him.
	She does not even reside in the same city.
	Now, what's the video?
	People are proud of the USA.
	American drive, American May.
	Things and steel played on and fail.
	Man, I just want that again.
	When the American dreams are.
	I'm going to put her hair.
	I like it.
	I'm sick of this.
	This is, I made the joke.
	This is all one massive guerrilla marketing campaign to promote her music.
	That's good music.
	And I don't know if I'm getting older or I'm getting like, you know, more calm or I'm getting more American.
	I like country music.
	I also like the blues and they have the very same format and subject matter, typically speaking of their songs.
	I like it.
	And I like this.
	I don't like the video.
	I'd like to see some like horses running through fields.
	Children playing with kites.
	Broncos, doors off, top down, rolling over rocks.
	but let's just play this come on that's objectively good
	I had never heard that song before, but I admittedly don't listen to too much country music, but I like it.
	I'm going to give everybody that link.
	So people are now rightly, you know, not, I say rightly, people are now predictably scrutinizing Alexis Wilkins given the spate of lawsuits that she, with apparently with Kash Patel's personal lawyer, has been filing against prominent or, you know, podcasters, Kyle Serafin, Sam Parker, Elijah Wood.
	I said people, I've said this to everybody.
	Like everybody's like, go sue, go sue.
	You could have the best lawsuit on earth.
	In your mind, a slam dunk, cut and dry, black and white.
	You know, someone calling Trump a rapist.
	You can have like, oh yeah, Sue, Sue, Sue.
	Even in the best of circumstances, it's 50-50.
	And if anybody thinks that lawsuits are fun, you're, what's the word of people who like pain?
	You're a masochist.
	Yeah, that's right.
	A saddest likes to inflict pain on others and a masochist likes to endure pain.
	You're a masochist.
	And if you like the pain of litigation, you're a sadomasochist.
	But the other part of it is when you sue people and you make yourself part of the public discourse, the news cycle, you get scrutinized.
	And now people are saying, why the hell is Alexis Wilkins?
	Forget the fact that she's younger and that he's older and whatever.
	The girlfriend of the FBI director, why is she getting SWAT protection and all presuming it's true?
	I am fairly certain it is.
	Let's just hear Alexis Wilkins SWAT FBI protection.
	I'm fairly certain it's it's it is in fact true and it is now some people are gonna say oh she's facing backlash and threats from the lawsuits um i'm not i'm not sure i don't think that's even the reason let's Just see what New York Post has to say.
	Kash Patel's girlfriend gets protective detail from elite FBI SWAT team.
	FBI director, she's receiving special is receiving protection from some of the Bureau's most elite agents because of an uptick in death threats against her, a rep said on Monday.
	Alexis Wilkins, the 20.
	First of all, I don't believe that this might be like the no true Scotsman, and it might be my own personal bias.
	I don't believe that true bona fide conservatives would threaten Alexis, would it would make bona fide threats because Alexis did what I think is legally and strategically stupid of suing people for their words.
	I don't believe any true conservative would do that.
	And whether or not it's false flag, lefties making death threats now so they can say, look at how mean the right is, yada.
	Don't do death threats.
	Don't do harassment.
	It's not hard.
	It's counterproductive and it makes everybody look bad and it's illegal.
	So they're going to say now, yeah, well, she needs it because the rabble can't stand being sued.
	And so look at how they're lashing out.
	And I'm not sure, whatever.
	The internet is what it is.
	People get, you get threats, which could be construed as, or are in fact tough talks, lunatic loner idiots on the internet just saying mean, threatening things because they can and think it's anonymous.
	If they do, fine them, arrest them.
	Alexis Wilkins, 20-year-old country singer, didn't kid is being watched by federal agents who are typically on a SWAT team.
	The rep said, Ms. Wilkins is receiving protective detail because she has faced hundreds of credible death threats related to her relationship with Director Patel, whom she began dating three years ago.
	Out of respect for the safety, we won't provide additional details.
	I can appreciate that some people out there are going to say this is one of two things: you know, lefties, false flag, throwing a brick through your own window, yada yada.
	Also, to say, look at how bad these people are.
	She sues and then she starts getting threatened.
	Agents assigned to Wilkins include one who typically works SWAT, yada yada.
	Wilkins and Patel first met in Nashville, where the country star works.
	While it's unclear if girlfriends of former FBI directors ever received similar protection, former FBI director Christopher's wife had security detail.
	Yeah, but they're going to say it's not a question of wife anymore.
	a question of threats that she's getting online um well okay all right Rep Eric Swalwell, who is rumored to be eyeing a run for governor in California, grumbled over the revelations, complaining that the FBI hasn't given him adequate protection.
	Didn't we have strong reason to believe that Eric Swalwell drafted his own threat that he showed a picture of and it had the cursor in it?
	And people suggested that he might have, you know, thrown the brick through his own window and then cried foul.
	But you sue.
	A, you amplify the message of the suit itself, and now you have literally honeypot meme music going around the internet.
	You put yourself in the spotlight where people are now going to start scrutinizing you and rightly or wrongly, justifiedly or unjustifiedly, bringing up things like this.
	Why the hell is she getting special protective detail?
	Well, some people are going to say it's preferential treatment.
	Others are going to say she's getting threats because of whatever the politics.
	But if you thought it was a good idea to sue over something as stupid and innocuous as that stupid theory that she's a mossad honeypot, this is what goes hand in hand in litigation.
	Discovery is a two-way street.
	Public scrutiny is a two-way street.
	And the public perception of the FBI's director, the FBI director's girlfriend, using the FBI director's lawyer to sue FBI whistleblower Kyle Serafin, Sam Parker, I don't know him, and prominent right-wing commentator Elijah Schaefer.
	anybody thought that was a good idea that would go over well with the overall community congrats you played yourself now the amount of pee that i came home to today i'm tangled let's see here get this oh okay here winston wants to say hi what do you have to say for yourself Victory shall be mine.
	All right, thank you.
	Go down, you go, and that's all I have to say about that.
	There was something else about Alexis and the.
	Ah whatever, we'll get to in a second.
	Uh, let me go over to VIVA Barneslaw.locals.com.
	Roostang in the house says VIVA, did you see the short video Ben And Johnson posted on X?
	He was at the UFC fight chatting and joking with Alina Haba.
	Think of it, while you were collecting and sorting UFC cards, Benny is at the UFC fights mingling with potential great guests for his show.
	Looking to 2026, are you going to finally go to UFC fight?
	Dawn Jr and Tulsi Gabbat are fans to learn how to meet and mingle with future guests from Benny?
	Um, i'm kind of happy not this is I, would people.
	I'm kind of happy uh being uh no, the bottle you.
	You start I. I've never been invited to a UFC fight.
	I've never gone to a UFC fight.
	I did an amateur.
	I documented an amateur fight in Montreal.
	It was on the?
	Um, not the Kanawa.
	I think it was on the Mohawk reserve, Aquasaste.
	No, the I, for it was on one of the the, the native reserves, because that's where they had the fighting.
	I don't know.
	People start looking at you and saying oh look, he's.
	You know the connected, going to fights and mingling in in a lifestyle that most people don't have.
	I don't know, i've never been invited to even have uh, the offer to refuse now.
	Would I go see Ilya Tapuria Tatsuri Otaria?
	Yes, I would love to go see.
	Oh, I think uh, Tatsuro Taira is fighting soon.
	Tatsuro Tatsuro Taira next fight.
	Uh, but I do like the fact I oh, he's fighting december 6th.
	Where are they fighting?
	Oh yeah dude, i'm okay uh, where is it?
	So he's fighting Brandon Moreno?
	Uh, that i'm easily betting on Tatsuro Taira.
	Where is it?
	UFC 323 wait a minute, what's going on here?
	Is that a different fight whatever?
	Um, so yeah, long story short.
	Benny definitely does networking better than me, Benny definitely does present himself better and um, he gets some good guests.
	But whatever, all in due course.
	And I am neither jealous nor envious uh, nor disappointed.
	And Ginger Ninja says, whoever made that music video, did they put it through that filter that makes your eye?
	Come on ginger, she's objectively uh, not hard to look at, as my grandmother would say.
	All right now, with that said uh, because i'm going to cut it a little bit early, It's bowling night.
	Oh, yeah, we're going to do.
	I'm going to save this.
	I'm going to save the flag story for viva barnslaw.locals.com.
	What was this?
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry, this, I should have brought this up.
	Whatever.
	Como news.
	White House Press Secretary Levitt says Americans deserve answers on Thomas Crooks.
	White House Press Secretary Carolin Levitt said Americans deserve answers on Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump.
	Levitt's remarks come after reports that hint Crooks used, they then pronounce.
	Well, you have noticed, and this was my final thought on the other story, which I forgot to mention, is that there have been instances where Trump has nudged the FBI, nudged players within his administration saying, I wish they'd be a little more proactive, in one of those Fox interviews.
	This is the Trump admin saying, yeah, guys, quit sitting on your hands.
	So here, let's see here.
	Okay, let's get this here.
	According to the New York Post, some unanswered questions, yada, yada, yada.
	Anyway, whatever.
	So Caroline Levitt's like, yeah, we should get some more answers.
	And if Trump does another interview, he might say, yeah, they're doing great work, but I wish, you know, they would do X, Y, and Z.
	Yeah, Pam Bonte, I really very much like her.
	She's doing great work, but we need some freaking arrests out of the Eastern District of Alexandria.
	We need some arrests of Comey, of Leticia James.
	So you're doing great work, but do more and faster because we're running out of time.
	All right.
	And then we're going to entertain the chat for a few seconds before we head over for a brief after party at viva barnslaw.locals.com.
	Crooks, can you say cover-up?
	Oh, yeah, well, we'll see.
	And then Groipers blame Israel for the last of the Mohicans because they love it.
	Okay, this is funny.
	Okay, so let me see here.
	If it's your bowling night, may you have a bunch of turkeys.
	Thank you very much.
	My shoulder bursitis is acting up a little bit.
	And it makes it a little bit tough for me to bowl a ball.
	Anyhow, that's it.
	So let's go see who is now going to be going live next.
	I think it's going to be redacted.
	What day is it today?
	Monday, it's Tuesday.
	We'll see who's live in a couple of minutes.
	And we'll go raid them.
	All right, you know, we're going to do the flag story here, and then we'll have a little bit of more fun afterwards.
	The other news, like, I have to, I have to debunk.
	I was once upon a time in community notes until I realized it's a political cesspool that is absolutely useless beyond the politics outside community notes of which posts get community noted.
	There's politics inside community notes.
	I finally got approved.
	I put out a couple of good community notes and then they get downvoted by other community notes people.
	And then you have to get social credit back in order to be able to add community notes in community.
	It's political bullshit.
	It's like a Reddit.
	It's like a subreddit.
	Community notes is run by Reddit moderators.
	So I've given up trying to fact check on via community notes.
	So I just do it viva voce.
	Pun intended.
	This story broke.
	And I'm like, I did make one mistake.
	This is like Grok is so useless, it can't even be trusted to do a reverse image search.
	This image is circulating.
	Trump.
	I mean, people say he looks tart.
	He looks fucking awesome to me here.
	He looks chiseled.
	He looks dignified.
	He looks nicely tan.
	He looks like he's lost weight, but he's wearing black.
	So, you know, it's always tough to tell.
	So you see the image.
	And we got Adam Cochrane, Cochran, Corin?
	How do you pronounce it?
	Is it Coran?
	I'll say Cochran.
	Adam Cochran, who is he?
	Investor prof Pauly consulted independent investigative journalist and father trying to make the world suck less.
	Well, as I said to him, maybe stop by being a lying SOB.
	This should win a Pulitzer, a visibly defeated and worn Trump.
	It's funny, I guess we see what we want to see or we see what we, you know, maybe we project onto this photo what we feel of ourselves.
	I see a determined man who's actually looking quite good, working hard after sundown, something that, you know, Biden supporters are probably not used to.
	A visibly defeated and worn Trump with the American flag lying on the ground in the background, a symbol of his downfall.
	It's one word, dumbass, and the disgrace he has brought to the American people.
	He has brought no disgrace to the American people.
	You know who's brought disgrace to the American people?
	Stacey Plaskett, Michael Wolf, Obama, Joe Biden, everyone in his administration, Anthony Fauci, Albert Burla.
	These are men who have brought disgrace to the American people.
	But anyways, I had to go check because the flag in the back, you know, there were arguments that it was violating code.
	And the first, you know, I asked Rock, say, when is this image and when and where is this image from?
	And it says Arlington National Cemetery, November 16th.
	Well, it got one thing right.
	It was from November 16.
	I had to delete my tweet and correct because it wasn't from correct.
	I had to delete and, you know, I do a Google image reverse search.
	And it turns out it's from November 16.
	And let me see something out here.
	Where was it?
	And even Snopes had to look at it.
	And even Snopes, you know, when Snopes doesn't want to admit a conclusion, they don't even say inconclusive.
	They just, you know, don't conclude.
	Investigates.
	This is what they say.
	It violated the code of the flag rules and it touched the ground.
	And what did Trump say?
	I don't know that this was from the Trump, the explanation in Snopes.
	The White House was, so here we go.
	The White House response, this was from an article that says, after hours of confusion and competing social media theories, the White House issued a clarification in a statement.
	Officials wrote, quote, the beautiful American flag that was installed by President Trump never touched the ground.
	It was lowered into a special container out of an abundance of caution during the Marine One landing due to high winds.
	So I'm like, okay, I want to go see if they're making up bullshit.
	I go check the weather.
	November 16, 2025, wind conditions at the White House were likely calm, but some local weather reports from the day noted a wind advisory for the greater Washington, D.C. area.
	I was actually blown away how windy D.C. is when we landed there with speeds around 15 to 20 miles per hour and gusts up to 30 miles per hour.
	The wind was considered a factor in making the day feel colder.
	And then I looked up, does the White House take down the flag in windy conditions, lower it?
	And they do.
	And so the idea, I mean, the thing is like, when you want to believe something so stupid, you'll just abandon critical thought.
	Why would they lower the flag and have it touch the ground?
	Oh, it's because they were symbolizing.
	Oh, because they're so incompetent.
	They don't know the rules about how to treat the flag and they don't know how to put it in a case.
	Anyhow, so that's it.
	I fact check it and it looked like it was a legit reason given by the White House that matches up with local weather conditions that day.
	Jinjin, hold on, I saw another post.
	I'll have to read in a second.
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	Try the tip.
	I'm not that I'm asking for donations or tips.
	Other people, try the tipping with crypto where it gives you an option to tip with another crypto wallet.
	And there's ways when you hit the tip button, this is what Rumble has unveiled.
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	Crowder moved to Canada at a young age, but he was born in Detroit.
	Seeing the leftist ways are just like watching leftist news.
	You get to see it and learn what the leftists are reading.
	CIA trained Antifa in Russia in 1952 and Austria, like 1948.
	There's a good, there's a distinct part of me that believes that the assassination attempt, murder of Corey Comparatory, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk by two furry, demented individuals who seem to have been radicalized at the same time,
	that they are in fact connected and that there might be an FBI reluctance to reveal this information because it might be that, you know, the people that Kash Patel has said are great, just let them do their jobs that they've given promotions to might have had a hand in it.
	And we might find out deep, dirty, dark secrets about how intelligence has been doing investigations, doing law enforcement, doing coups that might make it very embarrassing to get all that stuff out.
	So that's it.
	We're going to get ready to raid.
	F. Charton, want to mention your girlfriend and Dean Blundell?
	They are still way off the rails.
	And see the veil says, hey, Viva, emailed you just now the information regarding the water case to point you to the contact.
	All right, we're going to talk about this over on locals.
	Thank you very much.
	So what we're going to do now, I got to start making tracks and start thinking about eating breakfast.
	Rumble, who is on?
	We got house votes.
	Oh, we got what's your face?
	Ann Coulter's on.
	Or they're playing a video of Anne Coulter.
	House votes to release Epstein files.
	Epstein Brothers speaks about cover-up on Redacted.
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	That should be the standard thing for the rest of the week.
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