POWER Corrupts: A Friendly Friday w/ @realSteveFriend | Ep 608

Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Seraphin. Well, hello my friends, welcome to the Kyle Seraphin show. Today's Friday. It is July the 11th and I appreciate you being along for

the ride. Today's going to be a friendly Friday with my friend, Real Steve Friend. He is the real 1. So if you're not following Steve over on social media, make sure you guys check him out. He is at Real Steve Friend. His name is in today's show title. It'll be really easy for you to find him. I hope you do follow him. He's doing a nice job over there. Today we're going to be talking about power and the abuse of power and the nature of it, because nobody's good with it.

There's a very, very small percentage of people that can actually be uncorrupted by power, and that's only for a certain amount of time before it does actually corrupt them. It's it's inevitable. There are very few incorruptibles, maybe none given the right sort of temptation. It reminds me that Jesus is tempted in the desert before his crucifixion. And what was he offered? All the things that we believe power is available and those are

the tools. The devil, it's the it's money, it's influence, it's respect, it's the ability to do good, a chance to do good. That might be the most evil power there is. The devil offers you the thing that you want most and uses it to destroy you.

And so when we talk about this ongoing problem, which is being dismissed by our administration right now and maybe past tense has been dismissed, this weekend they dropped a memo saying that they were no longer going to be investigating any of the the Epstein stuff. How do you walk away from that? I don't know. But it's pretty clear to me that power is problematic and it's problematic no matter who has it, even when quote UN quote, our people are in charge.

I mentioned him already today. We're going to get right into the program. We're not going to do anything wild. We're not going to do anything sideways. The links are in the show description for all of our sponsors that sponsor the program. There's my friend Steve friend. Good morning, buddy. Let's just let's just get into this discussion right now. Looking forward to it. I didn't get my walk out music though. Do you want walk out here? Stand by here? Hold on. Hold on. No. Here.

We got here. We got here. Ready. OK, there's Steve's walk out music. Now we can go back to Steve. OK Steve, now you can feel like you've been properly introduced. How do? You. I feel like I can just fire one off into the left field gap right now. This is great. Let's do it. What do you got? Oh, I'm excited to bring up this this topic here because apparently we're all supposed to move on.

There's there's an unofficial gag order from on high, but I was thinking about the Epstein stuff at large today and it's you can get sucked down into the rabbit hole about Jeffrey Epstein. I know you and I, and you especially were like in this X space for extended period of time yesterday. It was really interesting.

But at the same time, I think people kind of get wrapped around the axle and the best thing you can do is to sort of eject and go down the lines of like another analogy to make sense of why people are so upset about this. So I was contemplating this and I thought all right, let's say as a as a criminal investigator I find out that there is a bank robbery in Liberty Hill, TX and the the subject is described as white male with a stunning beard.

He entered the bank with a Patriot cooler and some silent Faraday cargo pants and then robbed the bank and escaped with a pickup truck with a Kyle Seraphin Show bumper sticker with a QRE code on it and a push bar on the front. Does that mean that Kyle Serafin robbed the bank? No, but there's a lot of smoke there, and you'd expect the local police chief to carry forward an effective investigation. Let's say for a couple of years.

The police chief told everybody that he was on the case, investigating it, not giving too much away. After all, can't compromise an ongoing investigation. Don't want to reveal sources and methods. And then over a July 4th weekend, on the website for the local Liberty Hill Police Department, they issue a statement that they've conducted A lawful and thorough investigation and the bank wasn't robbed.

I think that they could understand why people feel like you've pissed on their leg and told them it's Gatorade. Not even rain. Someone was pouring the Gatorade. I noticed something because I have very intuitive and clever people that follow me over on X. Somebody posted the similarities to Dan Bongino and Cash Patel on their media hit marathon using the word logical and appealing to the authority of you know me, you know the way that I am.

Why would you ever think that I would do something that would damage my credibility or say something that's untrue? Because I never would do that. In the same way that Democrats ask you, don't you care about common sense, gun control? Don't you just care about common sense? The use of the word logical is quite interesting.

Here I'm going to play you a quick clip from the Joe Rogan Show, where I guess our former mutual friend was making an argument and an appeal to authority with that word. Do you think let's play out the logical conclusion of this? Do you think that myself, Bond, Gino and others would participate in hiding information about Epstein's grotesque activities? Or do you think we would also participate in not prosecuting people? We had evidence to prosecute people on.

The problem is, there's been like 15 years of people coming in and creating fictions about this that doesn't exist. Where's the videotape of a nifty island of XY and Z committing these frauds? Why haven't you given it to us? Do you really think I wouldn't give that to you if it existed? I'm working my ass off, along with the leadership at the Bureau and DOJ to get you what we're allowed to give you. And you're going to get the video of the cell and you're

going to see for yourself. And we will never be able to convince everyone. OK, let's let's get into that. So what did you think before you got into office? Did you think that Epstein was murdered? No. No suspicion at all of it. But I have a different background, right? Right. So I was a public defender back in the day. I used to spend a lot of time in jails and a lot of time in segregated housing units, shoes

as we call them, right? And so and I've known people that have committed suicide in these cells and I know how you get in, how you get out who works the system. And so the way based on public information at the time that he ended up put the pictures and him hanging himself. I was like, man, that guy killed himself. Logical appeal. Well, it sort of reminds me. It's reminiscent of Joe Biden saying I give you my word as a Biden and we are all like that doesn't mean.

I forgot that he did that. I mean, that that's what they're doing. And look, it's a little bit of a different age. I mean, Joe Biden came up during the 80s for God's sake. So it wasn't like that He was being accessed constantly on media through podcasts and, and television and. Streaming, yeah. There was a time when you could straight up make a lie in public and people would forget about it because they couldn't go to the tape. Like somebody would remember.

Like, didn't, didn't he once say this thing? It wasn't like you could just go to a machine and go like, this guy said this thing and then it pops up like I typed in this morning. It was like Elon Musk give me power. I find 5 clips of Elon Musk give me power. I found it. It was really easy. I'm going to play you this. This was a compilation I put together the other day. Here's my problem. Let me actually set it up with a question to you, Steve. What is Giglio and why does it

matter to law enforcement? Giglio is a process in the the in criminal justice where you're supposed to hand over derogatory information about the individual that's going to be presenting the case, the officer. So let's say that the officer has provably in their history committed some sort of a lie and testifying or some sort of an infraction that would besmirch their character and their credibility.

This state in prosecuting anybody in our system is required to turn that over to the defense so that the defense when you go up there and the officer is testifying to the facts in this case, they can say, well, officer, in the past we have credibly proven that you have committed perjury. So should the jury believe you now? And that's a question that that's devastating to any sort

of prosecution. And as a result of that, if there is Giglio material, if there's derogatory information, proof that you have lied before, you are effectively cannot do your job in any going forward as a criminal investigator because you can't testify. OK. In the FBI, they have charges for that under OPR. What do they call it? Do you know? Lack of candor. And it can be two ways,

underoath or not underoath. So you can be lack of candor underoath, which is essentially, I think it's it's a terminable offence. That's Andy McCabe. So you lie Underoath, that's a felony when you're lying to people in the FBI. Unless you're Andy McCabe and. Unless you're Andy McCabe. $700,000 settlement, yeah. Sure. The other side of it is it can be lack of candor, not underoath.

I was accused of lack of candor, not underoath, and found to be guilty of it because I told my boss a joke, which he knew was a joke and I knew was a joke. But they decided that. So those those things a little bit more context matter, at least in my experience. I think context matters so people can lie to you when they're not underoath and there is some wiggle room there. Like maybe you went on a podcast and said something and it wasn't true.

The not underoath thing is, would they love to hang their hat on because of the Pearl clutching that they can do where it can be a jovial joking environment and we all know. And then it's the Bill Burr thing where they read the transcript back to you and you know, they go, it's the the woman saying no, don't stop. And it sounds really bad. But then when you're in the moment, she's like, no, don't stop. And the FBI loves to use that as a leverage point. OK, I grabbed this video.

This was a little quick compilation and this was the director of the FBI who kind of shared some thoughts about how the Epstein thing went down. And you can tell right away that the stuff that he said on Joe Rogan was false. I feel like there's a biblical thing at play here. And we've had a second biblical reference in like, you know, 15 minutes. We should have geared on with us. People who can be trusted in small matters are often people you can trust in great matters

and and vice versa is also true. That's kind of why they do the background check. Maybe, maybe I'm mistaken, but is that not the background check sort of indications not not why you do financial disclosures when you work for the government? Integrity's doing the right thing when nobody's around, because you ultimately realize that somebody's always around. Yeah, and sometimes when you're on a on camera, they're actually always there. So here we go. Did Jeffrey Epstein kill

himself? Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? This doesn't look right. It doesn't look like a suicide. And so the way, based on public information at the time that he ended up for the pictures and him hanging himself, I was like, yeah, that guy killed himself. What did you think before you got into office? Did you think that Epstein was murdered? No, no suspicion at all of it. This doesn't look right. It doesn't look like a suicide, but I have a different background, right, Right.

So I was a public defender back in the day. When you're in that kind of confinement, we call it solitary confinement, you're not supposed to have these things that you are able to hang yourself with. That's the whole point of the strict rules in there. You're not supposed to have 6 feet of cloth that you can dangle from the ceiling so you can hang yourself. This is prison 101.

I used to spend a lot of time in jails and a lot of time in segregated housing units, shoes, as we call them, right? So I've spent a lot of time in federal detention facilities as a public defender before talking to my client. So I kind of know how those work and I know how you get in, how you get out who works the system.

He was in isolation. He was in a unit where it's he's in there not just to protect himself, but he's in there to protect the rest of the prison population because he was such a high profile case. And so and I've known people that have committed suicide in these cells in these units. There's supposed to be 24/7 guard duty on him directly. It's there's just no way that you could have run an op.

The guard fell asleep. Now, I don't really buy that, but it's almost impossible to prove otherwise unless you can obtain the videotape. Well, it's hard to surmise that from a video. And usually there isn't video looking into people's cells for a lot of reasons. And had people go into that cell and not have any video of it and not have any people come out and say, hey, yeah, I saw that guy. He shouldn't have been there, the guard or this guy.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but what I was told, what I'd read was that the guards were not paying attention or were sleeping. The guard fell asleep. Now, I don't really buy that. Well, it's hard to surmise that from a video, right? Like where they like, you know, And look, do guards doze off on the night shift? Yeah. What did you think before you got into office? Did you think that Epstein was

murdered? No. I give you my word as a Biden. Look, here I am talking to Joe Rogan on the biggest audience that exists on the planet. And I am willing to 180° flip on my previous statements because now I'm the FBI director. And by the way, I'm working my ass off as I sit down, fly into Austin on a private jet, and go hang out with what might be one of the cooler things you could do in America at this time. I don't know anybody that's like, oh, that would be terrible.

I would hate to sit down with Joe Rogan and talk to a funny, cool dude in the biggest audience in America. I would hate that. That would be the worst for me. Marking my ass off. And you could just notice knickknacks on the desk. And he'll be like, oh, yeah, I'll send 12 over to you. He's like, the most generous guy. I want to quibble about one thing that he keeps talking about. I was in these facilities as a time as a public defender.

Yeah. He was a public defender in the Miami area for a certain amount of time. Every time he talks about the shoe, as we call it, I'm like, are you watching Oz or something? Like what's your subject matter expertise on this? And, and particularly about that particular installation, which was in New York. So you have no familiarity with it at all, he's claimed. He's been in there a bunch.

Actually, there's other video footage of him saying that he's been in that specific one in that Correctional Facility in New York. I mean, I suppose he. And I know he was. I did. As far as I know, he did actually work out of New York for a little while, but was he in a shoe in New York? And if so, why and what clients? I feel like that'd be a real easy question. Underoath, you mentioned you

were in these facilities. Can you name the clients that you defended that brought you into those facilities to give you expertise? Acting like there's not going to be a visitor log that that records all this stuff. I am assuming that's where you're going that this is probably provably false. Yes, yeah. I mean, it just seems like puffery. So again, an appeal to an authority people, because I was a public defender and I at one point went into a jail to talk

to a subject. Now, I am the subject matter expert on all security protocols within the suicide watch wing of this random facility in New York that ultimately we don't know if he's actually been to that specific facility, OK. I think so. Just listening to that, our listeners don't need to be spoon fed.

But lying under not lack of candor, not underoath is a suspendable offense for the FBI, for everyone that works for Cash Patel. That's all I'm establishing that there are standards for the agency that he runs now. Lack of candor, underoath is a terminable offense. It results in you having Giglio material forever. You can no longer testify because you're no longer credible. And I think I accidentally black pilled yet another conservative commentator this week with a off

the record discussion. It essentially came down to Patel was on my show a lot of times double digit numbers. And when presented with questions about things he said on my show, his statement during this exact same hearing that I'm about to show you, he said you're taking all of those things out of context. The commentator told me they

were 100% in context. So if he can lie to the Senate for confirmation, he certainly could come on my show X number of times, XX number of times and lie to me. Maybe he lied to me the whole time. And I think America's waking up to that. This is lack of candor. Underoath, prove me wrong. You familiar with the Stu Peters? Does that name ring a bell? I'm sorry, what? Are you familiar with Mr. Stu Peters?

Not off the top of my head. I haven't dug as far as you have on that one, but I wouldn't be surprised he did and he's causing. It's a war, like you said, it's an actual war between Russia and the Ukraine. Now the question is, well, first of all, Stu, thanks for that mighty generous introduction. Very, very kind of you. I'm excited to be with your program. When I was in the Trump administration, right?

Those people exist and we will cut the check to the lawyer to file your defamation case and get your day. Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? How about that? Let me talk about so I've spent a lot of time in federal detention facilities as a public defender before talking to my client. So I kind. Of. Are you familiar with Mr. Stu Peters? Not off the top of my head. You made eight separate appearances on his podcast.

Clearly Cash Patel is lying. He absolutely does know who I am. Fight with Cash came to the aid of Stu Peters and the Stu Peters Show because of Cash Patel personally. And then we exchanged contact information and we directly text via personal cell phones constantly. He absolutely knows who I am. You claimed you were not familiar with Stu Peters, an

anti-Semitic Holocaust denier. And I don't want to hear this 6,000,000 D chess stuff about how Cash Patel just has to get through this part of it. And then he just has to get in there and infiltrate so that he can root out all of the rats and the Jews. And he's doing what his people do. It's just inherently in them to lie and be deceitful. And he's he also went on to say how they came to his defense that they texted personally.

Same experience that you and I have that you know he sent you money, he was a friendly texted with you when you when he asked you questions etcetera, etcetera. It's it was an unnecessary lie. I mean, it's an easily defensible thing. Like, hey, look, I do a lot of media. I don't personally vet every single minute that the media source is out there. They may have said something that I agree with or disagree

with. They asked me to come on and lend my subject matter expertise to a particular topic. And I do that as a matter of being somebody who's knowledgeable and trying to share information with as wide an audience as possible. So that's what I did. That's perfectly defensible. And you knew you're going to get some sort of pushback from the Democrats because they all hated them. But, you know, amazingly, I don't hear any of the Democrats pushing back on them now.

So it seems to me like they're pretty satisfied with Kesh Patel now at the helm. It's unsettling to me, again, people who can't be trusted in small matters who turn around and stab you. I've had a bunch of people that have been comment, you know, commenting. And of course, there's an influencer OP going on right now trying to make this thing go away.

And they're just saying things like, oh, you know, I trust Dan Bongino, I trust Cash Patel. There seems to be like a concerted effort to not trust Pam Bondi. A lot of people seem to be totally fine with tossing her under the bus. It is notable that you don't normally hear much from an attorney general. You've I've never, I never saw Merrick Garland go out and do

media hits. I didn't see Sessions do it, didn't see Bill Barr go out and do regular, you know, maybe a stand up interview at a press conference when they were releasing something, but never like sit down with Hannity kind of deal. So that's kind of strange. But all these people say, oh, I trust these guys. It's like, well, have you ever met those guys? Because both of them personally lied to me, and both of them have either lied directly or by omission to you.

This is the weird sort of dynamic of some of these people who were content creators in a prior life right there either in the news or had a radio show or a podcast or something like that. That dynamic between the host and the audience is very strange because they spend significant number of hours with you in their life and they listen to you and listening is different than speaking and they feel like they know you as a result of that, but they they really don't. It's, it's truly bizarre.

And I think a lot of people get sucked into that and really feel like they have an actual relationship with the person because hey, I spend 3 hours with Dan every single day. Spoiler Dan doesn't know you. Dan wouldn't lie to me, though. It's like, well, he did. He lied to me and he actually knew me. He looked me in the face and lied to me. But by the way, there's our audience out there. We see you. We know you buy some of your handles.

But at the end of the day, if you were to walk up on the street, and it is a weird dynamic because you've done it, you've given a lot. How many speeches you think you've done in the last two years? Oh, I mean, probably. Yeah, 4050 and and people will come up and they'll and they'll look at you. They'll say something like hi, Steve.

And then they'll introduce themselves and then they'll look at you like, like they know you, which is awkward because you know, we don't, we're not trying to be mean anybody. But if we've never seen your face before or we haven't shared an interaction, it is a strange dynamic. I'm in your home right now. I'm talking to some of you from your phone. And and and we're we're having

this conversation. You're, you're eavesdropping in on me and my buddy having this, this discussion about power and it it's very personal. In fact, even the microphone is geared up to sound like we're just talking in your ear. It is a very unusual dynamic. And it's different than like a Fox News presenter where it's like bong and then the Chiron goes out and there's spinning and the cameras change. It's just a guy sitting here having a conversation, maybe 1

sided with an audience. And that, that guy, if he's not scrupulous, he might lie to you. Why would they lie to you? What kind of things would be at stake? Oh, I mean, maybe a comfortable existence where you get access to a private jet and then you get to go hang out with like the Joe Rogan's of the world and you have esteem in every room you walk into for the rest of your life. It's basically guaranteed you're going to be the most interesting person that's there. That's pretty tempting.

It is, and so there you go. So people want to be relevant. They want to be part of this thing. Whatever this thing is that we're all doing, I'm going to play you. This is the sacrificial piece of it. This woman has gone out and run cover for. Like I said, I've seen a concerted effort to excuse Dan Bongino from this debacle. The weirdest thing for me is the deputy director says, what is that like on the highest level of authorities? It's probably not the director signing off.

It's delegated to the deputy. We've also heard that cash is not even in the building half the time doing party guy stuff. So here's Megyn Kelly make an excuse, and Pam Bondi apparently is the one to blame. I don't think she's wrong because Pam Bondi, we're going to cover a couple stories that tells me they're screwing with us, all of us, the Americans. I think she was thirsty for attention.

I think she was enjoying the hits on Fox, on Hannity, on Waters in the middle of the day with John Roberts and saying like, I've got all the answers on Epstein, I've got all the juicy dish and I'll be the one to give it to you. Until she either found out that wasn't true would and and realize This is why attorneys general don't talk like this ever about their ongoing investigations ever. You almost never hear from Attorney general.

It's the one person in any administration, Republican or Democrat. Who you really? Can't get there's only so much transparency you're supposed to get from an attorney general given the way criminal investigations work. And and then realized like she had an oh shit moment of she's humiliated herself and the administration or again, I don't know something else or it, it was real in the 1st place and now she's doing the lying.

This I don't, I don't know the truth on nobody knows the truth except what's in their own hearts. But we can watch it. We can see it from the outside and we can know that something is not right, that there was a a dramatic pivot. And you can't run away from the tape. The tape was only a couple days ago. What's really interesting is in the actual hierarchy of power in the org chart, it's completely inverted for the popularity and the importance to the movement.

So no question, Dan Bongino, Cash Patel, Pam Bondi. Dan Bongino is the biggest persona, and yes, he is the lowest on the pecking order in the actual power dynamic. Right. Why do you think that is? And you know, you have Pam Bondi at the top, who I mean, unless you're somebody who's like really involved in politics at a state level in Florida, would not have known that Pam Bondi was the estate attorney general in Florida, right?

That's right. She wasn't an outspoken MAGA person that was doing the Stu Peters show 8 times over the last few years and yet she is at the helm now and the movement is going to have to require a scalp. Are you going to go after your big dog or you going to go after the smaller 1? So they actually have to go after the most powerful person because she's the least important to the movement. And also requires Senate confirmation, which is a pain in the ass to get through.

Look, I'm not sad to see something like that happen. And I, I watched a little clip the other day someone sent me of, of Laura Loomer claiming that she's gotten at least 7 calls from the White House over the over the last year or less whatever to six months saying hey, go easy on Bondy. Like stop attacking her, stop calling her Pam Blondie. Stop doing some of the mean things that you say because Laura's pretty mean and it's a hard, it's a hard, I can't

listen to a podcast. She was like, nobody has the same level of political acumen as me. Like they're just all jealous of like how awesome I am. I'm so great. But anyway, she also said nobody called her this time when they're taking shots at Bondi, that this does seem to be the OfferUp. If they're going to give a sacrifice to somebody, it's going to be this. Look, she's terrible on a lot of

the stuff. And I'm going to give you a couple of cases that are evidence of it #1 the current case that me and a bunch of other whistleblowers involved in the FBI and people who experience religious discrimination up to and including termination. We have an ongoing lawsuit. I've referenced it here a couple of times. I know you're aware of it.

They stonewalled us, Steve. They gave us no return on our discovery request, which was basically the same sort of discovery request you were asking for. You wanted training records. I just want my personal records and the comms of people that are shit talking me in the background that are on e-mail because that was part of the official record of what happened in the agency. And we could actually probably with that prove some of the animosity. They won't give us any of it.

None, zero and a quote UN quote friendly administration. You fought and got told that it was going to take you a couple years to be able to get your freaking training records so you can get a job. I mean, it's, it's there's no change when this administration changed over the DOJ still defends DOJ. Correct me if I'm wrong. I know they kind of caved recently for you. So that's actually not bad. I mean, because we had some sort of like insider, here's my situation.

I asked for my training documents. They wind up saying, well, it's 900 documents, it's going to require us 5 1/2 years to send them to you. Then they sent me an update and said, well, actually it's over 17,000 pages, but the pages you need specifically, there's 12 pages in there. I'm like, well, so you've already looked through all 17,000 pages and determined that it's 12 pages that I need. And they said yeah, and this. And then like offline, they, they emailed me those 12 pages.

So it's, it's ridiculous right then? What do they call it, malicious compliance, where it's like, oh, you need everything that might be related to trading. It's too much, Steve. It's 12,017 thousand. It's it's 137,000. It's 10,000 hours, the video documents, right? I mean, it's just like it's malicious compliance. We're going to tell you so much you can't even fathom it. That's why it's going to take you 5 1/2 years to be able to get it sent to you.

By the way, by that point in time, your career is dead, all of your training is useless, everything you have is out of certification, and you can't work in law enforcement ever again. Which? You have you have Ron Johnson right now, senator from Wisconsin, who's having to send subpoenas to a friendly FBI and DOJ to get information about what happened in Butler. Why is he asking them to send him the information?

They say, well, we can't send it to you, give us a subpoena because we have to go through the process. There's a process. We can't just volunteer it to Congress if we want to. I thought we. Would promise to have great cooperation between the FBI and congressional oversight at this point. When that was something else that Cash Patel testified to during his confirmation. Might he have been less than lacked candor in that regard as well.

Oh, I'm sure this is Bondi talking about merging the DEA and the ATF. So we were going to get no ATF. That was the hope. We were going to have a smaller and limited ATF that only did things. That's not been the case. She's actually been fighting on

some gun cases, which are crazy. And then when you hear that the the DEA, which is actually a pretty competent organization, like they're kind of cowboy, but they actually get stuff done and they're going to put them with the worst and they're going to make them the same thing because drugs and guns always go to get. This is one of the worst logic. Again, offering her up.

I'll take it. Like, yeah, let's sacrifice that land, but we're going to need more because you can't have an FBI director that lacks candor that can fire people for lacking candor. Here's here's Pam Blondie as Laura Loomer says. I look. Forward to it for. Asking about the ATF, DEA merger. I'm a career prosecutor. I care about ATF. I went to ATF's memorial service. They are going to be working together and that's what this reorganization does.

And I they're all going to be, it's going to be a great marriage between those two agencies. Our budget includes $1.2 billion and 2444 agents for ATF, and we will reduce unnecessary regulatory efforts, including what I just said about the weaponization. That's how ATF, I believe, was weaponized in the prior administration. ATF has taken thousands of guns off the street since January 20th, working hand in hand with DEA. Drugs and guns go together.

Screw you. Whenever we heard ATF guys getting quote UN quote guns off the streets, I wanted to blast them right in the face. That's. Exactly where I went. That's not a victory. That's not a victory. They'll buy guns from a legal gun seller in a legal gun transaction with no federal laws, and they'll be like, we bought 17 guns and you're like, why? What case did you build? We're like, we got guns off the streets. Claim the stat. What is that like?

What are you going to now? You just took gun now I got to go buy more gun like now you're making you're you're actually a buyer on the street market that is running up the price in the private party sale of guns. You a holes with government funds for no and they overpay for everything. By the way. That's the other crazy thing. They're like, oh. We'll. Give you $1000 for your $500 handgun that's used. That's just what Obama administration did with

ammunition. They were buying thousands and thousands of rounds for agencies that I don't even know if they had people with weapons in them. But they were doing that to drive up the prices of ammunition, to create shortages artificially because we could just print more money. And she's sitting there saying like, we took all these guns off the street, OK, Can we? She's. Also claiming she went to the memorial. She's the doing the same thing. The cash memorial look.

I I'm a good person. I did a good thing. Like I care. I'm a career prosecutor. Like no, you're a career politician. You were a lobbyist. You got paid by the government of a guitar. I got Habitats for Humanity one Saturday. I the hammer and I put nails into a roof for a poor person. The ATF? Are we too dismissive? The ATF. I'm, I'm friends with John Dodson, original Fast and Furious whistleblower, the OG whistleblower. OK, You have to read the book that he wrote on this.

And then the title of it escapes me at the moment because nobody actually understands what happened in Fast and Furious. Everybody's just like Obama and we had a border agent killed and. Gun walking. It was. It was a gun.

It was a by walk situation. It was peak government, peak federal law enforcement, where they essentially were allowing guns to be purchase, knowing that they were illegal, so that they could be used in crime, so that they could take those guns then off the street when the locals encounter them and seize them. And then they could claim a stat and they wound up getting somebody killed.

And then beyond that, they were saying, we have to build up this case so that we can get a wiretap when they knew the people of the next level up who they were, were already under investigation by the DEA. So it was an unnecessary wiretap, but we had to get a wiretap for a stat. So the DEA had the next level up, and that person was answering to somebody who was a confidential human source at the next level up who was being paid by the FBI. So the FBI funded Fast and Furious.

And take all of it to the top where the AG was down with it and what is the end up there was a perjury subpoena that got walked on or a perjury charged and and referral that never went anywhere. Like the best part for me is that the government found the government blameless. Like nobody lost their jobs, people lost their lives. It's like classic why? Like it's the self licking ice cream cone. It's like, why did you do all this stuff? Well, because we needed to show

that we're doing work. I said it the other day to somebody and it blows peoples mind when you explained it. The federal government is the only law enforcement group like, and we'll just lump in all of the DOJ assets and also DHS that actually benefits from bad performance because they can show that they statistically need more money because the problem is bigger. So they're like in the business of perversely incentivized budget versus performance.

Unlike your sheriff, your local. If crime is. Down if crime goes up. If crime goes up, you're going to lose your job. If crime goes down, not only do you get reelected, but you can ask for more budget. We want to do more safety programs. Look at our track record of success.

And people are like, oh, yeah, I did see less speeders when they were putting out those, like, speed cameras or they were putting up the, you know, those those traffic monitors or they had a cop that was stationed right at those places that we don't have a stop sign, but we should or whatever. They're like, yeah, that is useful. Like, I would want to fund another officer.

And they also know that that officer is coming out of their community, unlike the FBI, who makes you come from somewhere else to go do work in a place that you don't know theoretically, so that you can't be corruptible. But why is it? What do you think it is? It's to compromise you. I think that's part of it, but I also think that it's just to pay the moving company that's going to move you that's. Yeah, that's a good, good theory. I mean like.

Do you know what we got billed, Steve, when we moved from from Virginia to New Mexico? The federal because I had to pay taxes on it. You know how that works? Right. Yeah, I had to do the same thing when I moved to Florida. So folks, you don't understand this, but a federal move, a full cost move, they pay for the move at the government's rate which is insane, an amount you would never pay and then you pay the taxes on it because it's a

benefit to you. It was $53,000 allegedly to move me from Virginia to New Mexico and my salary was $120,000. They paid $53,000 and then I paid the tax on it on like 180 something for the year. Unbelievable bullshit. Like I would have moved me for. I've done Diddy moves in the military where like you get the difference and I did it for less than $5000. Like I rented the damn truck, loaded all the boxes, packed them all myself and rolled.

Even if I went if not hired a bunch of illegals, it would have been cheaper than that. Even if I hired a bunch of not illegals, if I hired like two men will move you in a truck, it would have been cheaper to pay them to do a local move across the country than $50,000. This is after of course they gave you $10,000 to sell your house at they gave me. 10,000 on top of. The closing cost for your new house. Correct.

All true. So the entire cost of that move was probably like 6570 thousand dollars of actual dollars on a person who made 120 year. Like it's nobody would run a business, nobody would even think of a business like that. If you went out there, you'd be like, damn, we can't do this.

This is illogical. Kind of like people, I've been doing this, this stream, you've kind of seen it from the outside folks for the last couple hours, probably like the last 12 hours, we've just been streaming this non-stop over on X and over on Rumble. I'm doing it to prove a point and I'm going to make it longer and we're going to do this throughout the weekend. So expect to see more of this and more of these things. This is a suspendable put this together. It wasn't me.

So I'm going to add to this montage, but I'm going to play a couple minutes of this. It's the reason why we're we're harping on this because they can't get away with this stuff. Like you can lie to me about how much money it cost to move. You can lie to me about whether or not, you know, Stu Peters or you know, Kyle Seraphin, his D friend were, you know, what are they? They offered you a job and then they didn't offer you a job. They disappeared on you.

Like you can lie about that. You can't lie about this stuff. It's on tape. DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's client. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm flashback, who has Jeffrey Epstein's black book. Black Book. FBI that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as the new director of the FBI. He was another controversial

choice. That's why you don't have a black book. That Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal. Please do not let that story go. Keep your eye on this. I'm just going to throw this out there because you think that would be valuable to an intelligence apparatus to have blackmail material on people on video doing things with young women they shouldn't be doing in case you need a, let's say, favor later. Hey, be a real shame if this got out when. Yeah. Damn. I think that may be very helpful.

I think. Yeah, maybe we need to keep the heat on this case, folks. There are a lot of people who are knee deep in the Washington swamp who are not telling you the truth about serious allegations out there that Epstein may have had video and audio of people out there doing things they shouldn't have been doing. And you should be asking yourself the question, how is it that all these people, the CIA director, the Obama fixer, Bill Clinton, all intersected past with Jeffrey Epstein?

Jeffrey Epstein isn't with us anymore, and nobody seems to want to talk about it. Yeah, I remember those people. There's about 12 minutes of that. We'll make it longer, and then I'm going to make it run the whole time. Steve, any thoughts on what you just heard? Oh, I mean, you're just hoisted

by your own petard. I mean, the fact that this stuff has been out there for years on end and they've been presenting it to an audience in a way that is, is very intimate for so many people because they spend so many hours with these guys in their ears. I mean, I mean, if you're, if you're somebody like me and you, you are out there running 12 miles a day, like, and you're a Dan Bongino listener, I mean, hey, dance my running partner, right? Like he would never lie to me. I liked it.

I liked your soft flex. No big deal. Steve runs 12 miles a day. People. If you don't know this, that's why he's a stud. He can look any way he wants on. The thumb arms, That's basically. It's possible you don't have arms, but you definitely have to have legs that carry you. How about this one? This was kind of interesting. I didn't re crop this so it may be a bad crop. Plain sight. Epstein was hiding in plain sight. We all knew about him.

We all knew what he was doing, but we had no one. That was no legal aspect that would go after him. They were afraid of him. For whatever reason, they were afraid of him. You know who that is? That's Cindy. That's Cindy McCain. That's John McCain's widow. Yeah. Two of the worst people that have. Been in America. Yeah. So they all knew about him, and they knew that he was hiding in plain sight. But no one, like everyone, was

scared of him for some reason. You know what if you ran for president of the United States and you didn't have the courage to expose someone that you knew was a pedophile and was doing like horrible things to little girls? Like, not only am I glad you're dead, but like, I'm I'm glad that I voted for the other guy even though the other guy like

wrecked this country. This goes back to the comment I made about Bill O'Reilly yesterday and I made about others who are trying to rationalize any sort of decision to to bury this right. There's so much smoke there. Let's use our logical induction abilities here and come to a reasonable common sense solution that this guy was involved in something nefarious and probably was and we know was tied to

intelligence. If the decision was made well, because of intelligence purposes or Foreign Relations purposes or economic purposes, that we just have to shut this thing down. That ends with the following phrase. And that's why we had to let the pedestrian rapists go. I'm not on board for that. Let me show you someone who is on board with it. Listen, I would tell you what's going on because this is not an opinion.

This is a fact, says this man. But you know, there's like some legal issues here in the way and like, I can't find a way to do it. This is Alan Dershowitz. A lot of you guys think that he's a really honorable person. This doesn't sound like an honorable thing to see. This sounds like the other kind of spin up, like, oh, there is information, but it's still anyone who keeps claiming secret bullshit information. If you claim that you have it,

you're a freaking coward. You're 80,000 years old, Alan Dershowitz. You're going to die before a judge can do anything to you. You're, you're not long for this world and this is the way you're going to go out. This is not an opinion. This is a fact I have seen. Remember, I was accused falsely and they have seen. And ultimately I was completely cleared. The woman admitted that she may have mistook me for somebody else who withdrew all of her lawsuits.

And so from day one, from the day I was accused, I said I want every document out because I knew every document would prove I was innocent. So let me tell you, I know for a fact documents are being suppressed and they're being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them. But I'm bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases, and I can't disclose what I know, but

I pan to God, I know. I know the names of people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them, and that's wrong. How's that sit with you there, Steve? I'd give you my word as a Biden, you know me. Just trust me, bro. I'm the guy that five years ago said that it would be perfectly legal for the government to pin you down and plunge a needle into your arm. But I'm saying now what we want to hear. So he's probably a good guy. He's got to be a good guy. That's what it is.

Anyway. There's a picture of Jeffrey Epstein up on the screen right now. I didn't know this. I, I did a little dive into the background just because I, I don't like being ignorant of some stuff and, and you know, it's not, it's not a case at work, so it's not. Like a Brady Bunch haircut is. Look at that, right? Isn't that kind of interesting? So this is Jeffrey Epstein. His, his background, if people don't realize it was that he, his story is wild and and it's

really real. It could be like the Great American success story if he wasn't like a horrible pedophile that did awful things allegedly. So there's a picture of him while he was an instructor in the late 70s. This is like 7576 yearbook photo. While he was teaching at the Dalton School in New York City, he was hired by Bill Barr's dad, Donald Barr, who also is an interesting character. He had no college degree. He was hired to teach math and physics at that school.

This is pretty well established. The question was how he got hired with no degree. That's a possibility that he was hired because he was such a like an interesting guy. Apparently he dressed flamboyantly. He was super loud, outgoing, very confident, like really charismatic and so on. And Donald Barr, who was Bill Barr's father, now the former AG Donald Barr, who was the headmaster of that school, was also an officer in the OSS,

which is quite interesting. And there's some pretty interesting overlaps between the OSS and Israel and the Israeli intelligence community as they were getting set up after World War 2. So it's not like a smoking gun or anything. It's just kind of like interesting little blips. Donald Barr was a academic and in taught at Columbia, so he was an academic in New York. He also was in the OSS at the same time as William Casey, who ended up being the CIA director in 1981 through 1987.

William Casey was also an academic prior to the the most of the OSS, like the senior officers were actually like interesting, crazy academic, like outside the box thinkers that, you know, hated communism and wanted to fight against it and wanted to use interesting tactics. And they didn't have any rules for what they did. And even the half of the people in the OSS. Right, which were actually working to subvert it.

Yeah. So all that's really interesting when you talk to guys like Mike Waller, who spent time as a hip pocket source for that CIA director. But interestingly, 1981 CIA director William Casey takes over and that's when Epstein ended up leaving his job as a instructor at this school. Went to Bear Stearns for like two or three years in the late 70s, early 80s, like right around 80, I don't know, 79 or something like that. He works for Bear Stearns as a, as a floor trader for a couple

years. And apparently the link was he just convinced some girl's dad that he was, He was tutoring or one of the kids dads that he was tutoring. That person ended up being the CEO of Bear Stearns, hired him on as a floor trader. Also no college degree there. And so he goes from being a floor trader at a major, you know, stockbroker, wealth management institution to setting out on his own. And in 1981, he hung out a shingle and he got into asset, international asset recovery,

which is also kind of bizarre. So this is what I was great gathering from that space yesterday as we were doing sort of deep dives into all of the, the different like verified articles of the guy's story. 1981. He's doing international asset recovery, not as an attorney, which is normally what you would do, not as like some kind of specialized investigator. So I don't know what his skill

set was to go find assets. That is like hidden money, hidden properties usually buried through like corporate deals in various places overseas. So what skill did he had to go do that? Nobody knows, but maybe he's hyper competent again. And then he meets a bunch of people doing that and he starts managing money for Les Wexner, who's the one who who bought up and made Victoria's Secret and Limited brands, the Limited, Limited 2 and all those kind of

like retail stores. He started managing that guy's fortune sometime in the early 80s and was getting flat rate fees in the millions of dollars and consistently beat the market both with his own money and with Wexner's money, apparently. Or not was given a $56 million townhouse. That's the one that we hear about in New York. Like all this stuff is really kind of like a wild story.

And again, it would have been like the ultimate American success story, except there's all these illogical leaps in money. He was working on scams. He actually had to leave Bear Stearns because he was implicated insider trading. He lend like a friend like $300,000 or something. No idea how he had that money. He was probably making, you know, either high 5 figures or low 6 figures from what you can tell.

And anyway, so he loans a friend of money to go do an insider trading deal and gets kicked out at the stock trick. And so then he moves into like private wealth management, which was fee based. I mean, all this stuff is just really, really bizarre. And that's why people are so interested. And so it this the question was always like, where did he get his money? And it was apparently that he got paid millions in fees.

But it doesn't logically follow that one of the wealthiest, like the top 100 wealthiest people in the world would give you their money to manage exclusively for no particular reason. And then yet another thing, Les Wexner set up the Wexner Foundation, which is a massive and one of the original United States and Israel partnerships and fellowships. And it's a big, you know, philosophical organization between Israel and the United States.

So it's a big Jewish foundation. So people get real weird about that too. So anyway, like, you know, there's so much smoke, as you said earlier, it's the Kyle Seraphin show banner. It's the bank was robbed. It was a, a stunning and handsome face and beard. It was, you know, all the things that go along with it and, and, and plenty of witnesses of seeing weird stuff. And then it's like, but then what? You got nothing for us. I thought there was 10s of

thousands of hours of video. I thought there were 2 / 200 victims, Bondi said. I mean, and even to just amend the original analogy to the bank robbery, let's say that the police chief for years have been saying, I know Kyle Seraphin robbed this bank and and we're going to get to the bottom of it. We're going to bring a prosecution. And then that same police chief years later comes out and says, no, actually the bank was never robbed. And why are you still talking

about this? We need to focus on the panhandling going on down the Town Center because that's the higher priority. Well, also, we're going to also show you a video of not the bank door. It's another bank door with a couple of missing minutes in it as well. And it's going to show you conclusively and shitty footage that there was in fact no robbery. This was the one of the diagrams that came out of the the DO JS case against Epstein and it was part of the investigation that was released.

This is a DOJOIG schematic drawing depicting the the shoe housing that we heard Kash Patel talk about. And apparently based on the DO JS own drawings, it's possible that the door for Epstein's unit was not actually covered. They're kind of misleading. They're acting like there was a an access to see the Epstein door, but it looks like you could actually walk around the backside and be out of the camera view and walk in to that special housing unit without any

coverage. So forget the 12 hours of it. It doesn't look like you're actually seeing anything of substance. You're seeing doors that are not going to his unit because his unit is actually right next to it. I think I actually even have AI can probably show you the drawing of that too. Here, let me throw that on there. So this is apparently the just bring this on the screen right now, Steve, and do this in real time.

So this is the unit. And if you look on the the side that's closest to me, that's where the camera is. That little green dot is the only camera that was streaming and recording in that unit. And the Red Square is in fact the, the Epstein cell and the, the field of view of that camera actually misses the door that goes into that unit. From everything we can tell. That's the claim. Now I look, I, I haven't been through that unit.

I'm not going to do a cash Patel where I'm like, I've been in a lot of shoes, including that one 'cause I haven't. But that's what the claim was. And it's still goes back to the, the mechanics of what? Well, the, the presupposition of the, the, I guess the conspiracy theory is that somebody could have eluded the cameras and got in there and killed Jeffrey Epstein and gotten out and never been detected.

But we're still never addressing the thing that I've always said is the most likely thing is that he might have killed himself, but he might have been coerced to do that. To me, that's far more believable, right? And those prison. Calls would all be recorded and all those meetings would have to be so the logs of who visited him should they could publish that they're not violating anybody's privacy. It's owned by the government. So they would have access to that.

Those those calls could be published if they wanted to go out there and and and show what kind of conversations he would have. If you wanted to establish that he was feeling trapped like a rat and he was suicidal and all this kind of stuff because he was apparently a very bombastic and confident guy, OK, sure, you could do that. They could make a case if they wanted to. Here's another thing that strikes me really wrong about this. This is Pam Bondi's DOJ.

Do you know the story of this? Yeah, I was getting briefed up on this one last night. So this is the story of a Utah Doctor Who goes by the name of Michael Kirk Moore. He's 58 years old. He's being charged in Salt Lake City, UT in 2023. He was charged with Co defendants in running a COVID vaccine scheme to defraud the government and the CDC. That's not exactly what he did.

What he actually did was he administered shots that were not with the COVID vaccine so that people could get a vaccine card. And the claim is, is that he he wrecked and ruined $28,000 worth of government provided COVID-19 vaccines and distributed at least 19137 doses which were like probably saline and and inert instead of injecting what most of us thought was poison at

the time. So provided a bunch of service to people because we reoriented our entire society and said unless you get the mark of the beast, you can't engage in any sort of commerce. And people had a moral, religious, medical or just personal objection to that because that's fundamentally tyranny. And this guy was like, well, I'm your huckleberry, I'll help you out in that regard. And now be that we're back.

So back we're based now we're going to go after this guy when we still have significant portions of this country who are saying that this vaccine was poison and it was wrong. Just in theory. I mean, even if you took the jab for you to be forced to do it, that was wrong.

But we're going to double down on that as the DOJ, and we're going to punish the person that recognized that and actually stood up. Because the government always protects its own interest by allegedly falsifying vaccine cards and administering saline shots to children instead of COVID-19 vaccines. Not only did this provider endanger the health and well-being of vulnerable populations, but undermine the public's trust and integrity of federal healthcare programs. This is real.

The you cannot actually. Undermine. Embarrass the Bureau. Isn't that interesting? I just wanted to read that to you right there. HHSOIG remains committed to working with our law enforcement partners to hold accountable bad actors who attempt to illegally profit from the pandemic. FU this defendant allegedly used his medical profession to administer bogus vaccines to unsuspecting people. Prove there's a victim because I bet you they didn't, including children falsifying their sense

of security. Did any of those children actually end up sick to a point where it mattered that would you'd have to show me damage in a civil case you would in the in this one. They're going to go after the fact that he quote UN quote defrauded the government of their ability to force people to do something and claim that he profited. Give me a flipping break. This is what HHS did to a Anheim.

Correct. They were unhappy with what he did because he embarrassed them and expose them as an evildoer, so they'll just find a way to charge him with a crime even if it's ridiculous. That's right. Also, there's a lot of speculation about whether or not Donald Trump was involved in the Epstein stuff here. And so this is an interesting video.

I don't know if you've seen this, but I, this was one of the attorneys for Epstein being interviewed when they were trying to set up their defense or something like that. I think this is a defense attorney, but I could be wrong. If you guys have more context on the video, it's a guy talking about subpoenaing records from all these folks, you know, like the Alan Dershowitz types who he actually goes out and says like Trump was really, really forthcoming.

It leads to me that I don't think that Trump is implicated per SE. It doesn't mean his donors are. It doesn't mean that people around him or not because they ran in social circles where they probably knew the same people or some of them. But this does actually, this isn't not a a new video. And I just like if you go back into the history, they separated ways a long, long time ago. And it was pretty clear that there was animosity there.

He got thrown out of the club. It's well documented that he thought that the guy was a creep because he went after somebody's teenage daughter and was like trying to make a pass at her at Mar a Lago, though. Anyway, this is actually a fairly interesting little interview as counterpoint to the Trump is complicit in being part of it. That doesn't mean that they're not trying to play with the ring of power, which is what Alex Jones thinks.

What's this interview? The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people that I was going, that I wanted to talk to them. He is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let's just talk. I'll give you as much time as you want. I'll tell you what you need to

know. And was very helpful in the information that he gave and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information that checked out and that helped us and that we didn't have to take a, a deposition of him. That was in 2009. That was in 2009.

Anyhow, I, I find those kind of things, when you can find historically accurate stuff that goes on somewhat, you know, they're not conclusive, but they are indicative of the kind of person that's not going to be into it. So. For me, I think the system that demonstrated itself willing to burn everything possible down, its entire credibility from the media perspective, just fundamental aspects of our law, like we have a statute of

limitations. Well, it's in New York, so we're just going to ignore that they if they had actual concrete evidence that Donald Trump was involved in some sort of nefarious capacity with Jeffrey Epstein and was raping children, that that would have been selectively leaked. Yeah, I, like I told someone the other day, they would have cut off their nose to spite their face. And that means that we're burned people that they wouldn't have

wanted to burn. They would have burned the Clintons over this in a heartbeat. If they could have to get to get to to Trump because they're no longer useful. Yeah, they would burn all kinds of people that were historically relevant to them. They they tried to to go after Bill Clinton during the Me Too movement. So that was during Donald Trump's first term. They would have. When it was convenient. All right, I'm going to play two

things. Because they've been, they've been memory hold by our media in a weird way. And since we're coming up on an interesting anniversary, let's do 2 of them. How about this guy dead shortly. So I just want to let you know, and I love you guys both and I wish you had gone this way. I don't want to say anything more and implicate you in any way because you you guys don't know anything about this. But I love you guys, and I'm sorry for all the trouble this has caused.

I mean, he was a loving, caring guy, you know, Loved his family. That's our old jump cut, jump cut transition. Wow, huh. That seems like it was six years ago, but it was probably closer to what, 3 weeks ago? I think it was probably about six weeks ago. Yeah, this was exactly a year ago this weekend. And so remember this. Guy, this is my audience for the Persuasion speech. Do you hate having to?

I want to tell you a little bit about myself and my academic goals, my passion for building things, my love of cooking with my family, and today I want to talk to you a little bit about the two main types of 3D printers you'll find on the market today. What kind of are you in the market for a new car? Do you want something stylish, comfortable and outfitted with the latest tech? The tire pair kit should have a couple of tools in it.

The odds of Mr. Crooks having a friend that he encountered just organically online who was only available Monday through Friday, 8:00 to 5:00, encouraging him to do the worst possible ideas is 100%. We're coming up the one year anniversary of July the 13th and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the death of others. This is something we talked about just a little bit ago.

So in true media fashion, CBS News has decided to make it about guns and they have released a story, The Secret Double life of Thomas Crooks. Trump's would be assassin. Now I would have given this a little bit more credibility, but they have 11 people on the byline and it's Graham Kates, Kara Tabachink, Matt Clark, Laura Geller and Scott McFarland who seems like an event minute lying piece of garbage every

time I see him say something. He is a regime water carrier for whatever the hard left has to say. He's probably one of the most biased people that I see in the online social media space. Before Thanksgiving of 2023, Thomas Crooks online life was fairly routine for a 20 year

old. He'd scroll through social media, he'd listen to music on Spotify, he'd visit news sites and peruse Reddit. This is supposedly the result of a months long investigation where they actually got access to to his VPN history and all of his browsing history. Why is this not coming out from our government? Why is this not coming out from our most transparent

organization in history? It's coming from CBS which clearly is going to slant and say the real problem was he was visiting news sites and also checking out gun dealers. He's basically got the same online history as Kyle Seraphin for years. Apparently I would be a problem. I'll let you reflect and then I'm going to show you some stuff on this website here. That's pretty. Wild. I mean, I'm just surprised we haven't heard that there was no assassination attempt.

We did a thorough investigation and. Afterwards. It's just let's just move on and talk about Texas flooding. They actually did call an assassination attempt, so good on them for that. On July the 13th, 2024, Crooks would take aim at a rally for President Trump in a small town of Butler, PA, firing from a rooftop 8 shots that came within inches of dramatically altering the course of American history. At least they understand the

stakes here. He left no manifesto, no explanation for why he tried to kill the former and future president. In the year since the shooting, investigators and those who knew him have been trying to piece together what led to him climbing on that roof and Butler

with frustratingly few answers. Luckily, CBS News Investigations has the most comprehensive portrait yet published of the insular young man, and it draws from interviews with more than two dozen friends, professors, law enforcement, government officials and others, as well as open records request. How difficult would it be for an FBI to get interviews with two dozen friends, professors and law enforcement officers, do you think? Within maybe a week.

It should have been done within hours, and the two dozen number is a little bit hyperbolic because there's no way that that friends constituted a significant portion of that guy's repertoire of contacts. It was probably professors in law enforcement. That's fair. OK, so the young man who died in the assassination attempt attempted to craft a furtive double life in the months leading up to the attack, unbeknownst to the people

closest to him. He actually goes on to say, I don't actually know anybody who could come be an adult audience for this speech. It's my parents. And it could be my sister, but she's busy right now, kind of thing. He was born in 2003. He lived his entire life in a suburban hound town that was purchased by his parents and his older sister. They were tucked into a leafy St. in Bethel Park, PA outside of Pittsburgh. Growing up, he loved Legos and his cat. That's a red flag, by the way.

Buildings creating model airplanes like Tommy Boy. I guess his parents were social workers. They took pride in their family. He loved to cook with them, allegedly, and in 2008 they filled out an online registry for a family coat of arms. I have no idea why any of this stuff is even there. For Thanksgiving, my dad and I will cook Turkey and mashed potatoes together. At Christmas, my mom and I will bake dozens of cookies together, and on New Year's Eve, my mom and I will bake the pork and

sauerkraut together. He said in a video that he recorded for his his college class his. Parents were social workers and didn't recognize that there might have been some antisocial behavior going on. Yeah, there were many things that stayed familiar and consistent through his years. He liked tight jeans, a tidy shirt, a bespeckled smooth face with neatly parted hair.

But there were plenty of things that none of his friends knew about him, even though they couldn't find any of his friends, as far as I can tell, he was a nice boy who kept to himself, said a guy named Tristan Radcliffe. They ate lunch frequently together in elementary school, middle school and high school. But he was 20, so it had been a number of years since they'd had any contact whatsoever. Yeah, they actually interviewed one friend.

He was cool, you know, kind of like he was just Tom to me. They said there's pictures from his yearbook. I mean, he looks like a little kid. Yeah, of course. He was 20. He contacted his professors to make sure that his grades remained high because he didn't have any friends to hang out with. So he just did that. I thought he was a star student. He was headed, he had his head on straight and he was on a path to success, said a former engineering professor, Patricia Thompson.

Star student at a Community College. I mean, it wasn't like he was, you know, at elite academic institution either. No big deal. In the summer of 2023, he bought a gun from his dad for $500 and signed up for a membership at a local range. He became a regular at the Clarendon Sportsman's Club, 9 miles from his house, signing in to use the rifle more than 40 times in the last 11 months of his life, records show.

He started using encrypted services that masked some of his Internet use, mixed up with typical visits to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. So 40 times in 11 months means he probably went shooting once a week, like on Saturdays? That seems like recreational to me. His habits started shifting in the fall.

He appeared he's His focus was still on getting straight A's and preparing for engineering programs at the University of Pittsburgh. But his online activity suggested his attention was elsewhere. He began more frequent use of encrypted e-mail servers called Mail Fence and a virtual private network called Mulvad. Both would shield his online life from anyone who might pry, who would even pry, Who would even care except the person that

was contacting him through. Those he probably gets a government backdoor access to all this encrypted communications. Certainly part of it. They show hundreds of visits to websites ranging from academic e-mail accounts, discussion boards, to his bank, to news sites to gaming platforms to social media to weapons blogs and Steelers fans sites. None of those things seem to be particularly interesting or alarming, at least not in and of

themselves. The fact that he's doing a bunch of stuff in encrypted services is not necessarily an indication of anything else. But on 2 particular days that CBS would like you to know about, December 6th, 2023 and January 24th, 2024, they stand out. Because he checked various news sites, the White House website archives for Mr. Trump's first administration, followed by visits to firearms websites. Dun, Dun, Dun.

I don't know, that's it. And then he also showed a bunch of requests, some sort of like he showed the single largest number of Internet searches on January the 24th. He had 13164 searches using the VPN. And this is this is some of the weird data that they show, which is kind of wild. This is why they had to have 11 people write this piece I guess. I suppose so, yeah, that's most likely, yeah. They wrote this stuff. This is there's timelines on here saying what happened on

December 6th. They basically are nothing. He checked out, he went to the Sportsman Rifle Club, he visited his Gmail account. These like this is a non story. It's a non story, but it's more information than our federal government has provided for a person who's not currently alive and has no expectation of privacy because there's no ongoing investigation. That's right. And that's something. Why is that? I can only surmise that the institution is forever.

They come and they go Hobbes. And I've proffered, you know, my theory about it, speculation. And I alluded to it when we first started showing the videos of that kid. He looks like sort of a playbook nominee. Somebody who looks vulnerable might be emotionally disturbed, somebody who'll be groomed by a confidential human source undercover to do their worst possible idea.

And to me, it is entirely believable because of the hubris of federal law enforcement, particularly the FBI, that they would keep them outside of a lungeable distance and he would not necessarily follow all the bread crumbs because he was a star student. I mean, he had somewhat a

modicum of intelligence. And maybe the plan that they were planning for him to follow through on, where then at the last moment when he bought the RPG that wasn't functional and they could throw the flash bang at his feet and arrest him for terrorism. He just said, I'm going to grab a rifle and I'm going to go take a shot. Because of the myth of competence that exists with the Secret Service, he was able to cut cut through that and actually get a successful assassination attempt.

He got a headshot off and then our government looked at that and said, holy crap, did we screw up. We got to do some mop up duty and let's investigate this as domestic terrorism because we already have a domestic terrorism case with Mr. Crooks as the subject and we can make it classified. I'm sorry, Senator Johnson, we just can't give you that information.

This is the problem with power when you give it to people that shouldn't have it. This goes back to what I started the the program with, showing you that when you have people who lack candor that are running the organizations that don't let that have a lack of character that came in and they didn't even get on the agenda that people like everyone assumed that when you elect Trump, what are we going to get?

We're going to get a pro 2A, a pro 1A, a de weaponized government, not 2400 more ATF officers and and agents going out there that are going to go after guns to get them off the streets. We're not going to see this nonsense. We're going to actually get some transparency on the things that people wanted, which was like MLK, JFK. Transparency is coded word for these people who had no intention of actually being transparent. Said it before. It is like democracy is for the communists.

Democracy is coded language for things I like. If you're a communist, if you don't like what I like, you don't like democracy. And similarly, that word is a cudgel for the the mega movement or people that are now in positions of power where they said we're going to have transparency. Well, it's not being transparent with the things that you want. We'll make sure the word

transparent about other things. And we give you a very rosy colored glasses look at that, because look, the cops are getting murdered at a far less rate right now, even though we're not involved with that at all. And we're selectively pulling the statistics out there. So and we're effectively telling local law enforcement who we're supposed to liaise with to successfully investigate crime in this country. You're welcome for not dying.

Let us know if you get anything interesting that we can just adopt from you and take credit for. For what it's worth, yesterday or the day before I saw Dan Bongino from his deputy director account on the FBI Hawking this, this statistics saying oh, like the like, you know, law enforcement deaths are down 50% this year so far.

And they cited it from something called the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund or something, which I've never heard of. What is the what is the Memorial Fund or page or organization that the FBI actually uses for reference just for. The identification, it's called Officer Down Memorial Page ODMP, and we had to keep as a class in the FBI. We will be punished if we did not keep it a running ticker while we were in the Academy,

updated every single day. If there was a law enforcement officer who was killed and if we did not update it, we'd be in trouble. What year was that? 2014 and that was our class gift. Instead of giving them some sort of plaque because the class has to give a gift back to the Academy for some gay reason, we said we would prefer to give a gift to the ODMP page that looks

out for dead cops. OK, they had the same thing when I was there in 2016. They had the same thing when Garrett Boyle was there in 2019. Because ODMP is the official. They have the best numbers as far as I'm aware of. They're based in Fairfax, VA. I actually know the founder. I actually worked with him 'cause he investigated my neighbor next door. Small world, but the founder of ODMP is actually a really nice guy.

He's no longer running it, but his name is Chris Cosgriff and I have his number and I reached out to him and guess what? Cash Patel knows. They're the group that the FBI actually supports because Cash Patel gave them a $50,000 cash gift from the Cash Foundation. I just wanted to be said that the people that are running the FBI right now don't even know the historical nature of the FBI as much as guys for all the for all the talks, Steve, Fred was only there for eight years.

Carlos Tariff was only there for six years. It's like, yeah, well, that's like 25 times more time than these guys have been there. And we also know you can't be a liar and be in charge of it. Just saying it. Just appears to me that the Kennedy rule #1 is undefeated. Dang it. No matter who you get as the FBI director, you get Jim Comedy. That's right.

And it's a play on a, on another rule, which basically said that no matter who you nominate for, for Republican candidate, you get John McCain. Apparently John McCain knew there were pedophiles running around out there. Now I'm going to end with something about power. And then we'll have a palette cleanse because we have to because we're going into the weekend and then I'm going to stream from this account. I'm going to stream.

If you're watching me anywhere, you will now be able to stream like I'm going to run the computer all weekend and we're going to play clips of these people but clowning themselves and lying to you and gaslighting you about what is and what is not available with this Epstein investigation because I'm not done with it. So the clip is there are some people and the only people that I will ever trust with going up against what it looks like when you have power are people that

have actually sacrificed something that is against their own best inference when they are going up against real power. And for whatever it's worth, Elon Musk, who I don't agree with about like human, I'm not a secular humanist like him and I'm not real crazy about integrating machines into our brains. And I think he's got some, probably has some misses when it comes to religion and some other things. And I don't like the way that he's making babies with randos left and right.

That doesn't seem awesome. But you can look at a man by principle. And when someone's willing to lose 10s of millions, hundreds of millions, maybe a couple of billion dollars in net worth because they are standing on a principle, it does say something about you being able to resist that ring of power which corrupts everybody that holds it. There's not many people that can

wield it for any period of time. And if you can, it's very short and he may have already passed that thing, but he did this little interview on CNBC. You know what I'm about to play. Do you want to set anything to this, that that that is salient to to his statements in this regarding power and people's ability to resist it? Well, I think that as being the world's richest, the richest person in the history of the world, he could easily obtain that level of power and that

level of influence. And good on him for having the humility to recognize that that ring of power exists and to just step back from it. Here is the CNBC clip that and I'm going to give you some Princess Bride because he references something, because I want to play the reference to because I just love it. I just like the idea of Enego Montoya doing what he needs to do, which is what I want to see people do. Do not make peace with evil no

matter what they offer you. I want to see people destroy it. Do your tweets hurt the company? Are there Tesla owners that say I don't agree with his political position because, and I know it because he shares so much of. It. Or are there advertisers on Twitter that Linda Yacarina will come and say, you got to stop, man. Or, you know, I can't get these ads because of some of the

things you tweet. You know, I'm reminded of there's a scene in The Princess Bride, great movie, great movie where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, offer me money, offer me power. I don't care. So you just don't care. You want to share? What you have to say? I'll say what I want to say and if, if, if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it, right? And that it. I mean, he, he understands, I guess probably the ultimate power, which is having a few

money being able to say that. But I, I don't think that that matters to him. I really don't, I don't think well. Here's here's what it doesn't do. It doesn't bring back your your child. It doesn't bring back your parent. It doesn't change a traumatic history of where your your life was destroyed. So you can't get that back. That's what power doesn't offer

you. That's that's the reason why people actually believe as Christians what they believe, I think, because the devil can offer you all those things. The devil can offer you money, power. They control a chance to do good. If you control it, you can do the right thing. No one else could but you. That's an appeal to pride. The devil can offer you all those things, but what the devil cannot offer is time or your life back and you at the end.

No such thing as resurrection. At the end of that offer, you have to end with the phrase And that's why I let the pedophile rapists go free. I prefer to end with it. You can never give me the thing back that happened. This is Inego Montoya. This is the the climax of of Princess Bride, by the way. He got stabbed multiple times and he's basically dead and down and out in the fight. Actually, you know, what should we do the longer version of it?

Steve, I got both versions. Should we do the longer one? Yeah, it's great. OK, this is about a 2 minute clip, but I absolutely love it. You're right. And we're going to do the long 1. So let me just re re grab. Here we go. Kaboom. It's a little bit quiet. You guys will like it. Good heavens, are you still trying to win? You've got to never develop sense of vengeance. It's going to get you into trouble someday. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepared to die.

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. Stop saying that. Oh, hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. No. Offer me money. Yes. Power to promise me that all that I have and more. Please offer me everything I asked for. Anything you want. I want my father back. You son of a bitch,

you think about that? I think that that represents everything that Elon Musk was expressing, everything that I think your show expresses. I mean, you're certainly in a position where you have now, you can have you have stakes, right? I mean, you could essentially say, look, always pom poms. I could do what I need to do to to get the clicks and to get the views. And at the same time, you said what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong.

And I'm not on anybody's team. I don't care about the movement. I just care about what's true. Yeah, you can't buy me. You can't buy. You can't buy Garrett. You can't buy people who have principles. Turns out you can buy some other people. We've seen it. So we're going to run a reel of them talking and not doing what they said they were going to do.

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And also a look at the worst list of the 100 best movies in the 21st century. So join us tomorrow, 10:30 on rubble.com. Am Rad Pot. That's Eastern Time for people who who live in the rest of America that is not on the East Coast. So it's 8:30 here in Texas America, right? Oh no, sorry. 9:30 here in Texas America. Or 10:30 in the land of milk and honey, which is Florida. It's really sweaty there, isn't it? You guys have alligators and stuff.

All right, Speaking of sweaty, hot and summer, we're all experiencing this right now. If you have children, if you have grandchildren, this is what you've forgotten about. But it is still out there in the world. Steve, we're going to leave with an ode to the people that allow us to do this, the thing that we should be protecting children and women who represent the American future, in my estimation, the people who bring the future in and the people who

will live and become the future. Here's a little bit of a smiley and fun take on the summer mom, which is its own species. Steve, thanks for joining me today. You got. It As the scorching sun rises over the suburban plains, the summer mom emerges, coffee in hand. The offspring, no longer tethered by routine, have fully reverted to their natural state. Feral, loud, and perpetually sticky, Their young are restless, their energy boundless, their requests

relentless. But this is not her first migration through summer break. No, this is a seasoned summer survivalist. She does not scroll Pinterest. She does not overcomplicate. From the garage, she tosses out a weathered bucket, 2 pieces of chalk, and a water squirter. The ancient ritual begins. Go paint the driveway. The young are captivated. For now. They begin to draw. Rinse it and repeat. The pavement becomes a fleeting masterpiece.

The mom. She retreats to the shade like a victorious lioness, sipping her lukewarm coffee with pride. She has bought herself 18 whole minutes of peace. She knows the piece is temporary, but for now, she is victorious. That's about the look. If you guys know that is the look of a parent who is overwhelmed with kids running around.

But you know what? You home school every day is like that because you're always involved with your children and it's worth it. I'm going to remind my wife right now who's probably catching the tail end of this.

Appreciate you and what you do with our kids everyday and the fact that they need entertainment and information and love and support and and that's what we're supposed to do with kids, not hang them out to dry and let them be taken on by sex trafficking pedophiles who should be burned. That's the show today, guys. I hope you guys have a fantastic weekend. Again, these, these, if you get notifications during the weekend, that's what's

happening. If you have it turned on, we're going to be streaming a bunch of stuff for a long time because screw them. I don't like being told to say that we have to be quiet now. And I want our people to do what they promised us, which is be transparent, not just things we like. Do the things you said you would do. All right, God bless you.

Have a fantastic weekend. We'll see on the other side of it. Thanks for listening to the Kyle Serafin Show, streamed live weekdays on rubble.com/kyle Serafin. Follow Kyle on Twitter, Truth Social and Instagram at Kyle Serafin.