WEBVTT - Fishing and Fednapping and Fabrication, Oh My! 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.200 Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the FBI's raid 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:09.600 on Mara Lago, we discussed on this show the potential corruption, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.480 the potential abuses that could have taken place at the 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.840 DOJ and the FBI and the White House and all 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.880 over the political culture that called this raid. Now, with 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.720 the hindsight of one week, we can say with certainty 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:29.120 that the corruption and abuse was much much worse. This 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:38.320 is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This episode of Verdict with 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.440 Ted Cruz is sponsored by American Hartford Gold. 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You can 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.800 subscribe Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast, YouTube, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:35.120 and of course over at Verdict plus on locals. Senator. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.840 Last week we were shooting from the hip. The information 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.080 was constantly changing about the Marlago raid. We were told 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.760 initially it was over classified documents, then we were told 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.160 it might be over nuclear secrets. Then that kind of 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.760 seemed to fall apart. Given the timing of the warrants 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.799 and the raid, and the fact that we're already eighteen 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.280 nineteen months into the Biden administration. Now we've got the 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.399 hindsight of one week. Is there any justification for the raid? 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.040 No good one. What is really distressing looking now at 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.880 the warrant and what they were searching for. This was 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.160 a phishing expedition. It was an old fashioned fishing expedition. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.000 I actually think it had little to nothing to do 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.960 with classified documents. What this was about was January sixth. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.880 What this was about was the FBI and DOJ wanting 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.640 to send in a team to say, let's grab every 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.240 piece of paper we can find and maybe we'll get 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.640 something incriminating. And look, that's not a new thing for 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.720 law enforcement to do. Sometimes you know, if you're going 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.240 after al Capone, you try to go after him on 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.600 income tax evasion. It's not new for law enforcement to 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.840 try to find a hook. And so the classified documents, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.760 the presidential records, they had a hook to say, Well, 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.960 he may have brought a piece of paper or maybe 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.160 multiple pieces of paper that we've asked for back, and 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.680 so we've got a claim to send in the troops. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.200 I got to say, though, look, we have a long 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:07.600 tradition in this country of a peaceful transfer of power. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.240 By the way, we said that in the last pod, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.400 and it was very funny. Lefties on Twitter lost their mind. No, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.080 no, no no, you're not allowed to say that. No no, 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.480 we say peaceful transfer a power. Don't you say that? No, no, 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:21.360 no, no no no. Let me explain. In Banana republics, tinpot 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.160 dictators send their troops in to the home of the 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.360 prior guyras they like to call Trump the former guy, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.360 When you send your troops in to raid the home 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.760 of your predecessor looking for evidence because your plan is 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.240 to try to lock him up, what I could tell 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.760 you is, in two hundred plus years of our nation's history, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.240 no president has ever done that to his predecessor, not once. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:51.560 None of them look each of our presidents when the 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:57.040 party shifted. They didn't necessarily love their predecessors. Jefferson and 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.680 Adams despised each other. But it's not like Efferson said, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.400 all right, let's bust down the door of Adams's house 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.800 and see what we can find that doesn't happen. Listen, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.400 it is certainly true that the laws apply to everyone, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:18.160 including former presidents, and if they violate criminal laws, they 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.000 should be held accountable. That being said, when there's a 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.440 specter of using the law enforcement machinery to target your enemies, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.560 the threshold should be much much higher. It shouldn't be 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.960 a tikie tack crime. It shouldn't be a little threshold. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.640 It should be something that is exercised only when there 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.760 is no alternative. Crossfire hurricane. They sent in the wire taps, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.680 they sent in the investigations on the Flimsiest predicate, and 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.080 then they created fraudulent documents to back up that predicate. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:50.920 And all of it, of course, was funded by the 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.440 Hillary Clinton campaign, which multiple members of DJ and FBI 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.520 knew and didn't care about. Fast forward and now what 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.640 happened here. I think they're frustrated because they're January six 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.040 investigations not getting anywhere, and so they said, well, look 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.160 we got an excuse to go raid Trump. Let's go 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.680 do it, and maybe we'll find some documents, maybe we'll 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.120 go on a fishing exercise. That is an absolute abuse 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.240 of power. If they're going to say that Trump is Hitler, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.240 as they've been saying for years now, then they have 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.320 to do absolutely anything they can to stop Hitler. He's Hitler, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.120 after all. And if that involves breaking some laws, or 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.400 if that involves abusing government power, well who cares. That's 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.880 a small price to pay. I think as they see it, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.400 the FBI does an enormous amount of good work. The 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:44.480 FBI catches targets terrorists, radical Islamic terrorists trying to murder people. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.680 It catches bank robbers, It catches people who engage in 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.719 in child kidnapping, it it catches mafia bosses like The 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:57.520 FBI is a hugely important law enforcement agency. And I 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:01.440 got to tell you, within the FBI, there are thousands 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.360 and thousands of good and honorable law enforcement officers, people 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.640 who signed up to be cops, people who signed up 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.040 to catch bad guys because they wanted to protect America 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.120 and keep us safe. And what is so infuriating is 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:21.360 is those FBI agents, their entire career and life is 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.840 being cheapened, is being undermined by these political hacks who 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.640 are leading the Department of Justice and who are at 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.200 the senior levels of the FBI. I cannot think of 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.480 anybody in modern times who's done more to damage the 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.800 credibility of the FBI and the Department of Justice than 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.120 Merrick Garland, because when he turns them into a nakedly 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:51.480 political group of stormtroopers, it's not the agent's fault, it's 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:56.160 the politicized leadership's fault. And he is hurting the FBI 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.320 and hurting the Department of Justice, and it ought scared 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.600 the hell out of them. Instead of lecturing people, how 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.960 dare you say abolished the FBI? Look, they're saying it 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:11.160 because you're a partisan hack. Why are they saying it, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.840 of course is the question. And as you mentioned, they 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.880 went in there with the charge to take pretty much 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:21.000 everything they could. They're searching Melania Trump's wardrobe. They went in, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.800 they took Donald Trump's passports, for goodness sakes, two expired 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.120 passports and his current diplomatic passport and then of course 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.960 immediately CBS News denies this, ays that Trump is lying 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.840 about his passports. And then five minutes later the DOJ 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:36.839 was caught with egg on its face. They had to 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.959 admit they did in fact take Trump's passports and then 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.920 they returned them to him. So now, of course the 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.360 line is the DJ the FBI never took Trump's passports, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.880 and don't worry, they gave them back. All of this 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.360 really really reducing the credibility of the FBI and the DJ. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.080 And as you suggest, this isn't about classified documents. This 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.240 isn't about the Presidential Records Act, this isn't about the 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:04.640 Nuclear Code. This is about January sixth and the failure 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.679 of the January sixth Committee, the Republican face, the nominally 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.160 Republican face of the January sixth Committee, Liz Cheney is 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.320 almost certainly going to go down in flames tonight. We're 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 recording this on Tuesday night. All of the polls say 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.680 she's going to be ousted from office, so it's that's 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.559 just not working. There was also Senator I don't know 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:28.880 if you saw really interesting article and Revolver News about 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.440 the pipe bombs on January sixth. We've heard so much 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.559 about the grannies that went into the Capitol. We've heard 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.640 so much about the horn hat guy. We've heard so 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.000 much from the j sixth committee. We haven't heard a 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.200 whole lot about those pipe bombs. And we don't really 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.079 know who planted the pipe bombs, and it seems like 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.720 that would be pretty important when we're talking about that day. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.720 This would be the nearest that you got to serious 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.240 political violence on January sixth, and yet we've heard nothing. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.160 So there's a Revolver News report out that suggests that 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.840 there are really more questions than answers when it comes 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.559 to these pipe bombs. Why they were allegedly planted when 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.360 they were, Why the FBI isn't releasing footage of the 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.360 people planting it to try to figure out who actually 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.200 did it. Just a whole I'll just leave it at that. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.760 A whole lot of really strange aspects to this story. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.080 And then the strangest one of all you called out 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.120 when you were grilling the FBI director Christopher Ray, which 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.160 is that the former head of the Detroit office for 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:29.280 the FBI, This guy Stephen Done. I've got Dan Twono 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.520 is his name. He was in charge of the operation 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.640 to entrap people into trying to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.240 Democrat governor of Michigan. And this was a complete cluster, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.120 didn't work. The trials going on right now. It's just 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.000 a complete mess for the FBI. Shortly after that all 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.360 fell apart, Stephen dan Twono got a promotion. He was 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.240 brought over, this would be in the months before January sixth, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.240 to head up the Washington Field office for the FBI. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.360 This is one of the most prestigious posts you can 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.120 have in the bureau, and so therefore he's the guy 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.960 that's overseeing the investigation into January sixth. All of this 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.280 has me scratching my head, Senator, I know it had 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.440 you scratching yours, which is why you grilled Christopher Ray. Well, Michael, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.960 that's exactly right, and you've got a lot of substance 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:17.520 in that question. So let me try to take it 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.400 one piece at a time, and let me say at 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.280 the outset, it is interesting. Literally every single topic we 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.959 are discussing in this podcast, every single topic that is 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.079 leading the news right now, is in my new book, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.120 Justice Corrupted, which you can pre order right now on Amazon. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.360 It's coming out in just a few weeks. In Justice Corrupted, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.960 I go into depth about Crossfire, Hurricane, and the partisan 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.240 animus that led to that bogus investigation. I go into 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.439 depth into January sixth and the pipe bomber and the 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.960 investigation and the politicization of the investigation. I go into 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.600 depth on the Gretchen Whitmer absolute debacle and explain how 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.280 all of this is interconnected. Let's start with a pipe bomb. Look, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.920 the FBI and the Department of Justice should be focused 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.000 on criminals. It should be focused on people who commit 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.480 crimes of violence. We saw all during Antifa and Black 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:14.040 Lives Matter riots where the federal government essentially turned a 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:19.439 blind eye because many of the hyperpartisans senior leaders at 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.720 the Department of Justice and the FBI, even under Donald Trump, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:28.000 the burrowed in career leaders who remained hard leftists agreed 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.400 with the politics of the rioters and the violent criminals, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.000 and so gave them slaps on the wrist over and 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.920 over again as they engaged in in violent acts of 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:46.160 terror fire bombing police cars, looting stores, murdering officers. Because 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.360 of the politics they disregarded violence. On January sixth, Merritt 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.400 Garland has claimed it is the largest and most significant 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.240 investigation in the history of the FBI. Like, holy crap, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.079 like really like in the hist the FBI. So more 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.400 than nine to eleven planes flying into the World Trade Center, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.680 flying into the Pentagon, three thousand people murdered. This was 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.280 more serious. And the reason it's more serious is because 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.960 for them, it's all about politics. Who are they targeting. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.360 They're targeting the little old ladies who were on the 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.640 mall waiving American flags, singing God Bless America. They're targeting 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:26.040 ultimately every American who voted for Donald Trump, who spoke 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.280 out in favor of Donald Trump. This is a political persecution. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.000 The White House sees it that way, just like the raid. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.560 The raid was a political persecution. It's not about violence. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.680 Now you look at January sixth one action that on 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.280 the face of it certainly appears to be a crime 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.360 of violence and was an attempt at a serious terrorist attack. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.280 Are the two pipe bombs. If pipe bombs had dedicated 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:56.200 detonated on Capitol Hill, potentially killing dozens or more, that 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.560 would have been a horrific act of violence. Now, thankfully 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.000 neither bomb detonated. If you look at everything that transpired 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.320 that day, you would think a multiple attempted bombing in 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.120 the nation's capital would be really high on the priority 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.720 list of let's get someone that's trying to blow people 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.000 up and murder people like that. You know, between blow 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.160 people up and murder people a little old lady waving 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.520 a flag, maybe blow people up and murder people would 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.280 be a higher priority in any sane world. We're now, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.880 you know, almost two years after the fact, and we 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.360 know nothing about the pipe bomber. Apparently there's video of it. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.240 Apparently the pipe bomber dropped the bombs off at eight 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.880 pm the night before. They have video of it. If 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.160 they've ever caught the guy, They've never told anyone. There's 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.640 no case, there's no prosecution. Apparently the guy with the 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:49.440 horns is a massive threat to the cosmos, but a 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.440 ostensibly homicidal bomber no concern. Nothing to see here. It 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.360 is weird when the DOJ or the fbis before the 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.280 Udiciary Committee. I asked them about it, and they consistently 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.600 refuse to answer. Nothing to see here. Note, never mind 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.400 the bomber. We don't care, not our focus. Nope. Their 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.520 attitude is, we don't have to answer your questions. Yea. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.520 And it's not just we don't answer to Congress, it's 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.080 we don't answer the American people. We decide what we 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.960 want to do, and no one dares question us. And 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.440 look this Revolver article. I don't know how accurate or 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.480 not it is. It raises questions. The implication is that 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.200 the pipe bombs were not actually planted by real criminals, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:41.560 but were part of a fraud, some court of entrapment 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.920 or hoax. I don't know. I want to be cautious 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.680 about suggesting that, but I will say this, when law 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.840 enforcement a doesn't make it a priority to target actual 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:57.240 violent criminals and b answers no questions, has no transparency, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.320 and behaves as if they have no accountability, they shouldn't 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.120 be surprised when they have no credibility and people don't 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.000 trust them well, and especially on this issue, Senator of 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.480 Stephen Dan Twino, I mean to me, that's the craziest 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.160 part of all. Forget the fact that the timers on 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.600 the bombs apparently were not functioning. The timing wouldn't have 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:18.920 made a whole lot of sense if we had any 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.280 of the questions that were raised by that. The very 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.960 fact that a guy who we know led an entrapment campaign, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.600 a poorly orchestrated entrapment campaign, by the way, in Michigan, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.400 then becomes the head of the Washington Field office. I 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.920 think we have the clip of your grilling Ray, because 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.800 initially Ray tries to deny it, and then you've laid 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.520 out the facts and he can't help but admit that 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:47.160 You're right. There was the case against individual's charged with 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.240 kidnapping and murdering Governor Gretchen Whittmer in Michigan. Well, the 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.160 special agent in charge of that case has now been 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.440 sent to DC, to the Washington d C Office, and 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.480 now leads the investigation regarding January sixth. Is that correct? 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.280 That doesn't sound right to me. That does not sound right. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:10.359 That the name of the individual is Stephen di'antuono. He 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.280 was run out of the FBI Detroit Field office. And 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.960 by the way, I will point out that the lead investigator, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.600 special Agent Track. Are you aware that he was apparently 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.800 fired for allegedly beating his wife after coming home from 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.520 a swingers party, and he'd made multiple derogatory political post 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.719 about President Trump showing political bias. Are you aware of that? 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.280 I am aware of. I think the incident, you're describing 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.159 an action that was taken about it. To clarify on 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.359 the first part of your question, mister d'antoino was the 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.639 special agent in charge of the office the Detroit Field 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.199 Office is now the assistant director in charge of the 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.399 Washington Field Office. I thought you were asking about the 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.600 agent who was responsible for these So the guy in 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.520 charge got promoted and is now in charge of the 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.880 January sixth investigation. The guy in charge of the whole 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.200 Detroit Field office is now in charge of the whole 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.480 Washington Field office. That is astonishing. He tries to get 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.200 out of it. Senator, He says, I don't know, I'm 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.400 not really familiar. What are you talking. I'm talking about 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.639 this guy. I'm naming this name, this date, this office. 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.640 Oh yeah, yeah, I guess he got the promotion. So so, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.200 and it's worth unpacking that for a little bit. And 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.359 let's start out with what happened in Michigan. So, if 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.320 you remember, in the fall of twenty twenty, right before 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:27.840 a big election, the FBI breathlessly announces that they've uncovered 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.000 a plot to kidnap and murder the governor of Michigan. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.679 Gretchen Whitmer. Now that's a big damn deal. You're like, 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.359 holy cow, all right, if you've got a plot to 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.560 do that, like, go prosecute those guys, throw them in 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.400 jail a long time. Thank you FBI for like stopping criminals. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.440 That's your job. Now. I'll point out at the same 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:50.359 time that that prosecution happened to perfectly align with the 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.080 political narrative of Joe Biden and the Democrats because these 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.240 alleged criminals, We're doing it because they were mad about 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.680 Gretchen Whitmer's COVID lockdown policies, and because Trump had criticized Whitmer. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.359 The whole narrative was, you know what, it's Trump's fault. See, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.600 any Trump's supporter is a violent criminal. Look, those guys 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.760 are literally trying to kidnap and murder a Democratic governor. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.080 So it fit the political narrative beautifully, which, by the way, 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:21.880 the krupt corporate media got ran with dance, celebrated said see, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.520 unless you are a violent murderer too, you better vote 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.200 for Joe Biden. That was what it was all about, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.399 all right. Fast forward to the actual trial. Four guys 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.600 go on trial. They're charged with various crimes, all related 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:39.080 to an alleged plot to kidnap and murder Wretched Whitmer. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:44.119 The end of the trial in federal court, the defendants 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.919 are convicted of zero counts nothing. Two of them are 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.280 quitted across the board. The jury comes back and says 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.879 not guilty, not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. Two of 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.560 them have hung juries. So the juries can't agree and 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.240 so they have mistrials declared. So in the course of 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:08.800 the trial, the prosecution gets zero convictions on anything. Now, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.920 in any prosecution, that's a big deal. That's a big, 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.800 serious problem. Prosecution wins almost every case they bring. Typically, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.200 the prosecutors don't bring a case unless they can get you. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.480 They got the evidence. So it's unusual for the prosecution 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.520 to lose. But it's even worse than that. Why did 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:33.480 they lose, Well, the principal defense from the defendants was entrapment. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.320 It was that the FBI informants, people who are on 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.560 the payroll of the FBI, who were working for the 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.560 federal government, that they were the ones that suggested the 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.000 damn thing, They were the ones that kept urging him 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.640 to do that. In fact, the defendants pressed back, said hey, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.000 Let's not do this. This is a bad idea. Let's 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.000 not kidnap and murder. The governor gosh, your idea is interesting, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.560 but no, thank you. And the FBI agents are the 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.520 undercover informants, kept saying no, no, no, no, no no, 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.720 we gotta do this really important, really important. We kidnapper, 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:09.880 really importantly murderer. And that was the defend defenses arguments, 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.000 and apparently the jury agreed that was the principal defense 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:17.119 put forward. Now for any law enforcement, look that there's 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:22.040 a general line, what are the rules governing undercover officers? 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:25.880 Law enforcement all the time has undercover officers. You go in, 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.520 you go into the mob, you go into a drug cartel, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:30.920 you have someone undercover who pretends to be part of it, 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.120 and you can gather evidence and that can be used 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:37.679 in a prosecution. That's legitimate. What is not legitimate. The 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.040 line is you can engage in entrapment. You can't be 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:46.320 the one who is the source the genesis of the 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.080 illegal conduct. That it is an abuse of government power 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.359 when they send an agent to is say, hey, Michael, 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:58.440 don't you really want to steal that that fancy watch 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.480 from behind the like. They can't go suggest to citizens, 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:07.239 they break the law. The guy in charge, So this 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.159 was all run out of the Detroit Field office, the 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.920 guy in charge of its Stephen d'antoino. This is one 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.440 of the biggest scandals in the history of the FBI 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.760 to lose a marquee front page, top of the fold 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:28.320 banner headline case because of misconduct by your office. In 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:33.240 any sane and ordinary and responsible law enforcement office, everyone 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.360 involved would have been fired. That's just the like, like 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.119 the level of scandal. You didn't just screw it up. 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:43.800 It was your misconduct that messed it all up. The 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.679 fact that in this FBI the guy eight doesn't get fired, 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:55.199 b gets promoted, but C gets put in charge of 0:22:55.240 --> 0:23:01.760 the January sixth prosecution. Are you freaking kidding me? I 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.840 mean that is as I said at the end of 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.960 that cross examination. It is astonishing. And what it is, Michael, 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.919 is it's a manifestation of that hubris. He's like, well, 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.520 it was the line line agents that did that. You know, 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.520 whatever happened to Harry S. Truman, the buckstops here. Apparently 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:22.439 no one has accountability for anything. No one's fired, no 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:25.439 one's reprimanded, nothing happens. Well, I guess the line agents, 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.959 the guy in charge who allegedly beat his wife and 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:31.679 was running around at Swinger's convention, so, you know, really 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.800 speaks to the caliber of folks. You know, he lost 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:42.560 his job, but his boss got promoted. That there is, 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:47.399 unfortunately a culture, and I trace it back to the 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.480 Obama years where the Obama years they viewed DJ and 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:56.320 the FBI as their political stormtroopers. And what they did 0:23:56.400 --> 0:24:01.800 they promoted from within hard part sens into senior positions 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:04.840