Speaker 1: Cool media.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to it could happen here a podcast about
Speaker 2: Garrison Davis talking to me. Also the world falling apart?
Speaker 2: How do you feel about that? Gear? How you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm pretty used to it by now, honestly. Yeah, we've
Speaker 3: been doing this whole thing for quite a quite a while.
Speaker 2: You sure have.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed that some of these some of these
Speaker 3: cabinet picks are a little funny, They're a little bit odd.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed that yet? I don't know. I get
Speaker 3: kind of a funny feeling about some of these guys.
Speaker 2: You've heard about this? Are you hearing about this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't love it either. Gear. They don't seem cool
Speaker 2: and good.
Speaker 3: I mean, not all of them are like sticking around.
Speaker 3: I guess you know. Matt Gets is now out of
Speaker 3: the job. Tragic, kind of like Icarus. He flew. He
Speaker 3: flew too close to an elementary school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've already got our Scaramucci. I was gonna make
Speaker 2: a scare Muccie joke, but your joke was much better.
Speaker 3: It was a really fast turnaround for dates two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and now we're all watching Pete to see if he
Speaker 3: if it cures the top job at the Pentagon but
Speaker 3: today we're talking about this other guy named Cash Patel.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about Cash Ptel, Robert.
Speaker 2: Uh, not thrilled, kind of worried, not thrilled. Matt Gates
Speaker 2: really seemed like the kind of guy you used to
Speaker 2: make your sketchy Secret Police and Cash Pattel as, I
Speaker 2: guess you're backup to that.
Speaker 3: Guy totally, yeah, or at least, like I don't know.
Speaker 3: Cash is different in a few ways, Like he does
Speaker 3: a lot more kind of dirty work because he's not
Speaker 3: like important as a person. He just wants to be
Speaker 3: seen by Daddy Trump. And this episode we're going to
Speaker 3: get into a little bit of Cash's backstory, what his
Speaker 3: plans are for the FBI as he is now nominated
Speaker 3: for the position of being director of the FBI, as
Speaker 3: well as kind of what Cash has been up to
Speaker 3: in the four years since Trump's been out of office.
Speaker 3: So let's just start all the way back to the
Speaker 3: beginning for background on mister Patel here. Okay, So, Cash
Speaker 3: Pttel was born in New York, but after graduating law
Speaker 3: school in two thousand and five, he worked as a
Speaker 3: public defender in Florida for nine years before becoming a
Speaker 3: federal prosecutor in the National Security Division of the DOJ.
Speaker 3: He didn't really want to be a public defender. It's
Speaker 3: that he really couldn't get any other jobs because he
Speaker 3: wasn't like that's skilled. So he ended up just working
Speaker 3: as a public defender, even though it wasn't really what
Speaker 3: he wanted to do out of law. But once he
Speaker 3: got to the DOJ, he worked as a terrorism prosecutor.
Speaker 3: According to a DoD profile, Patel quote led investigations spanning
Speaker 3: multiple theaters of conflict and oversaw the successful prosecution of
Speaker 3: criminals aligned with al Qaeda, ISIS and other terroot groups unquote.
Speaker 3: Patel also worked with quote counter terrorism units to conduct
Speaker 3: collaborative global targeting operations against high value terrorism targets unquote.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I'm sure he was good at that job.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he didn't have any really embarrassing failures during
Speaker 2: that period of time.
Speaker 3: No. No, I say that just for kind of his
Speaker 3: like more like surveillance background. But we will certainly get
Speaker 3: to his ability to complete these jobs on a reliable
Speaker 3: basis and like. Although that info is directly from the
Speaker 3: DoD's website, Patel himself has exaggerated his career record claiming
Speaker 3: in a YouTube podcast to have been the quote unquote
Speaker 3: lead prosecutor in the case against the twenty twelve Benghazi attackers.
Speaker 3: Patel actually was not even part of the trial team,
Speaker 3: was only a junior staff member at the DOJ at
Speaker 3: the time, and he was removed from this case for
Speaker 3: clashing with the US Attorney's office. But this incident kind
Speaker 3: of marks the start of a few unfortunate events in
Speaker 3: his career that really started to kind of turn Patel
Speaker 3: against the justice system. According to The New York Times,
Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen, Patel was thrown out of a court
Speaker 3: room for wearing quote, rumpled cash keys, boat shoes and
Speaker 3: a too small borrowed jacket unquote.
Speaker 2: I hate that he's got on my cousin Vinnie in
Speaker 2: his record, because that movie is great and it gets
Speaker 2: me on his side in a way I definitely shouldn't be.
Speaker 2: Did he Did he come in next wearing like a
Speaker 2: funeral director's tuxedo or a fucking band leader's tuxedo or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to describe the tuxedo Viny wares
Speaker 2: in the scene after that, anyway.
Speaker 3: No, he was just kicked out of the courtroom with
Speaker 3: the judge saying, quote, if you want to be a lawyer,
Speaker 3: dressed like a lawyer unquote. Now this judge was also
Speaker 3: like a racist asshole. Not defending the judge here.
Speaker 2: And to be clear, cash Betel was not dating Marisitome.
Speaker 3: He could never pull Marsitome.
Speaker 2: He could never pull I mean, honestly joke, who can
Speaker 2: That's yeah.
Speaker 3: But this incident is like an important part of his
Speaker 3: career trajectory. A profile in The Atlantic details Pattel as
Speaker 3: growing increasingly frustrated and disillusioned by his failure to navigate
Speaker 3: and rise up in the justice system, just collecting more
Speaker 3: and more personal grievances that fuel and animosity towards the
Speaker 3: bureaucracy of the legal system, based on people's apparent unwillingness
Speaker 3: to help him excel in his own career. But in
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, Patel got his really first like big break,
Speaker 3: with Republican Representative Devin and Nunez hiring Patel to be
Speaker 3: the House Intelligence Committee's lead investigator to disrupt the Special
Speaker 3: Council investigation into Russian interference in the twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 3: Trump was impressed enough with Patetel's work under Nunez that
Speaker 3: He gave Patel a job on the National Security Council
Speaker 3: and later served as chief of staff to Acting Secretary
Speaker 3: of Defense Christopher Miller. Trump mused about having Patel as
Speaker 3: deputy director of the FBI or director of the CIA
Speaker 3: in late twenty twenty after the election, but this led
Speaker 3: to harsh resistance from within his own administration, with ag
Speaker 3: Bill Barr saying that Patel would only become FBI director
Speaker 3: over my dead body, unquote. So I don't know if we'll
Speaker 3: have any updates on that, yeah, say. But instead, back
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, Trump just put Patel on the Pentagon
Speaker 3: transition team. Trump basically tasked Patel was doing dirty work
Speaker 3: and awarded him with promotions for following orders. Patel advised
Speaker 3: on the Ukraine impeachment, spread conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia,
Speaker 3: meddled in the twenty sixteen election, created a list of
Speaker 3: intelligence agency officials to fire in February of twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: and helped manage the now dismissed a classified document's case
Speaker 3: against Trump. The former deputy National advisor to Trump, Charles Kopperman,
Speaker 3: said in an interview quote Trump wanted to make cash
Speaker 3: a political executioner to root out and fire individuals on
Speaker 3: the White House staff who weren't being as loyal as
Speaker 3: he thought they should be unquote. So that's kind of
Speaker 3: a good look at him as a person. And like
Speaker 3: what Cash is the rule is like specifically for Trump
Speaker 3: and with the possibility of the justice system becoming just
Speaker 3: more and more of like a tool to target Trump's
Speaker 3: political rivals, Cash is the exact guy that you would pick,
Speaker 3: especially for a job that has like an investigative focus
Speaker 3: like the FBI. But Cash isn't always good at his
Speaker 3: job necessarily.
Speaker 2: Wow, who amongst us?
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about one specific incident here that's one
Speaker 3: of like the wildest stories in like national security that
Speaker 3: I've ever read. In October of twenty twenty four, days
Speaker 3: before the election, the Pentagon was planning in Operation for
Speaker 3: Sale Team six to rescue an American citizen, Philip Walton,
Speaker 3: who was kidnapped in Niger and being held in Nigeria.
Speaker 3: As the State Department was working to communicate with officials
Speaker 3: in Nigeria to clear airspace for the operation. Patel, who
Speaker 3: was not part of this operation, just called the Pentagon
Speaker 3: saying that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had gotten approval
Speaker 3: from Nigeria and the airspace was deconflicted, so as the
Speaker 3: Seals were about to land in Nigeria, defense officials couldn't
Speaker 3: verify that the flight actually had clearance, leaving the aircraft
Speaker 3: to circle over the target for hours as they scrambled
Speaker 3: to get approval from Nigeria. According to former Defense Secretary
Speaker 3: Mark Esper, Patel was never in communication with Mike Pompeo
Speaker 3: about this mission, and Defense officials concluded that Patel quote
Speaker 3: made the approval story up. Unquote. Cool guy, this is wild.
Speaker 3: You almost caught Sealed Team six like shot out of
Speaker 3: the air because you made up a story about having
Speaker 3: flight clearance. It's like, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is exactly the guy you want
Speaker 2: running the FBI, for sure.
Speaker 3: A Pentagon official yelled at Cash, quote, you could have
Speaker 3: gotten those guys killed. What the fuck were you thinking,
Speaker 3: to which Cash replied, if nobody got hurt, who the
Speaker 3: fuck cares?
Speaker 2: Amazing stuff, amazing stuff, Let him cook crazy stuff. Look
Speaker 2: here's the thing, Garrison. If it had gone the worst
Speaker 2: possible way it could have gone, we'd have been saved
Speaker 2: at least four interminable books and at least three podcasts.
Speaker 3: So like people like interviewed in the Atlantic, and I
Speaker 3: think the author of the profile on Cash kind of
Speaker 3: muses that, like maybe Cash just wanted this operation done
Speaker 3: before the election to give Trump like an extra win
Speaker 3: leading up to the polls. I don't know, it's it's
Speaker 3: certainly odd, but like Cash has a very like inflated
Speaker 3: sense of like personal worth. In an interview with Glenn Beck,
Speaker 3: he talked about how like people should should trust his
Speaker 3: expertise because quote, I've read the entire JFK file.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, geez you and Oliver Stone.
Speaker 3: Right, he makes comments like that, It's like no, no, no,
Speaker 3: like trust me. I know everything, Like I've read all
Speaker 3: the classified stuff that you're not allowed to. I'm like
Speaker 3: the smartest guy in the room. I've read everything, right,
Speaker 3: Like he's he uses this as like a as a
Speaker 3: way to like inflate his own personal worth and like
Speaker 3: flex to weird right wing online podcast s grifters.
Speaker 2: People have made this point. But it's guys like this
Speaker 2: that have convinced me that there's no at least no
Speaker 2: like perfectly known to intelligence smoking gun about the Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 2: That shit would have leaked so quickly. No, if not
Speaker 2: before Trump was in office, then certainly a bout the
Speaker 2: time he was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you have guys like Cash Battel reading these files.
Speaker 3: There's nothing in there.
Speaker 2: There's no or at least if there is, it's the
Speaker 2: kind of thing there may be a smoking gun that
Speaker 2: someone who is deeply knowledgeable at the time period, like, oh,
Speaker 2: the fact that this guy was here at this time
Speaker 2: really means that this other thing happened, and like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Cash Hotel doesn't know shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is not smart enough to put any pieces
Speaker 3: together or maybe there's even still redacted and the versions
Speaker 3: that he's reading don't really have any like pertinent info.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: People are just like, let's not give this guy the
Speaker 2: real once.
Speaker 3: No, No, this guy like lied about prosecuting the Bengazi
Speaker 3: and almost got Seal Team six killed.
Speaker 2: Now, oh man, and of all this, out of all
Speaker 2: the Seal teams to get killed too, that's the one
Speaker 2: that would be the biggest news day.
Speaker 3: Do you know who would never kill Seal Team six?
Speaker 2: Robert I'm never gonna say never about killing Seal Team six.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, hopefully allegedly these products and services would
Speaker 3: never wish harm upon Seal Team six. All Right, we
Speaker 3: are back. I'd like to talk a little bit now
Speaker 3: about Patel's actual plans for the FBI. Now, this job
Speaker 3: doesn't require a Senate confirmation, so we will see, you know,
Speaker 3: if he gets past that process or if he's gonna
Speaker 3: get pushed in through recess appointments, which we still don't
Speaker 3: really know if Trump will be able to pull off.
Speaker 3: But in terms of the FBI, we do have some
Speaker 3: idea about what Cash has in mind, because he's spent
Speaker 3: the past two years just talking about it a NonStop
Speaker 3: in books and interviews.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he, like all these guys, cannot shut up.
Speaker 3: Can't stop talking.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: In an appearance on The Sean Ryan Show this past September,
Speaker 3: Patel said, quote, I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building
Speaker 3: on day one and reopen it the next day as
Speaker 3: a museum of the deep state. Unquote Okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: Sure, I do feel like you're underestimating the expense of
Speaker 2: office space and overestimating the availability of it, but sure,
Speaker 2: why not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they can make a whole museum
Speaker 3: turn around in one day.
Speaker 2: But I also think you are really, really underappreciating docents.
Speaker 2: It is not easy to get a docent up to speed,
Speaker 2: like for example, it's a much harder job than you
Speaker 2: currently have.
Speaker 3: No, like Patel does talk about like trying to like
Speaker 3: clear out like the bureaucracy and red tape of the FBI.
Speaker 3: And though he has criticized the wide footprint of the
Speaker 3: FBI and its surveillance operations though really only the ones
Speaker 3: targeted against Trump and his campaign, Cash's ideal FBI would
Speaker 3: not in fact have like a more limited presence out
Speaker 3: in the world, saying that after closing the Hoover Building, quote,
Speaker 3: then I'd take the seven thousand employees that work in
Speaker 3: that building and send them across America to chase down criminals.
Speaker 3: Go be cops, your cops, go be cops unquote. So
Speaker 3: this is what you get, Like a seven year old
Speaker 3: the keys to the FBI, and this is this is
Speaker 3: this is the kind of stuff he's talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like I'm gonna send all these administrative employees out
Speaker 3: into the world to chase down criminals.
Speaker 2: Now you say that, Garrison, I absolutely would put a
Speaker 2: seven year old in charge of the FBI. You know why.
Speaker 2: That's a blockbuster movie Now, to be fair, that's a
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven blockbuster.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it's like that could thirty years ago.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine the cat cat young Mara Wilson running
Speaker 2: the FBI, fucking FBI. Yeah, perfect.
Speaker 3: You know, if we said it a little bit further,
Speaker 3: we could have like Will Wheton as like the villain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like Will Wheton as the evil kid
Speaker 2: heading the CIA. They also put it, but they put
Speaker 2: Will Wheaton charge of the CIA. Yes, damn all right,
Speaker 2: you know what, Garrison, this podcast is done. You and
Speaker 2: I are writing a screenplay tonight.
Speaker 3: With the power of AI, I can just generate this
Speaker 3: whole movie instantly.
Speaker 2: Perfect with a truly ghoulish guest appearance by Robin Williams.
Speaker 2: Just the worst taste imaginable.
Speaker 3: No, sorry, President Williams. God damn oh dear, nightmare nightmare fuel.
Speaker 3: Now it's it's really unclear if like Cash's plans here
Speaker 3: are like rhetoric, right, like you know, more vibes than
Speaker 3: like actual plan, you know, like expressing some kind of
Speaker 3: sentiment rather than like an actual practical like plan. But
Speaker 3: last year, Patel published a book titled Government Gangsters, the
Speaker 3: Deep State, The Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy,
Speaker 3: where he also proposed relocating the FBI headquarters out of Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. To quote prevent institutional capture and curb FBI
Speaker 3: leader from engaging in political gamesmanship unquote. Though the bulk
Speaker 3: of this book also details like why we must root
Speaker 3: out politicians, journalists, big tech, and quote unquote members of
Speaker 3: the unelected bureaucracy that operate the deep state, So you know,
Speaker 3: like the FBI engaging in a little bit of political
Speaker 3: gamesmanship is okay. In the appendix of this book, it
Speaker 3: contains the names of sixty alleged members of the deep state,
Speaker 3: most of them either like former Trump cabinet people who
Speaker 3: like turned on Trump or just like current Biden adamin people.
Speaker 3: It's all pretty silly, But it's not like he actually
Speaker 3: plans to take out political prosecutions away from like the
Speaker 3: FBI's operational structure. Like come on, buddy, this is like
Speaker 3: your entire plan. In an interview with Steve Bannon last year,
Speaker 3: Patel reiterated the goal of targeted prosecutions against political enemies, saying, quote,
Speaker 3: we will go out and find the conspirators, not just
Speaker 3: in the government, but in the media. Yes, we're going
Speaker 3: to come after people in the media who lied about
Speaker 3: American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections were
Speaker 3: going to come after you unquote. So that's cool again,
Speaker 3: It's this is this is the basic stuff that Trump's
Speaker 3: been promising since, like you know, the past four years,
Speaker 3: going after journalists, going after politicians.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: This quote specifically also just like reminded me that like
Speaker 3: there's like a real possibility that like the head of
Speaker 3: the FBI legitimately thinks the twenty twenty election was stolen,
Speaker 3: And like then I got to thinking, like how many
Speaker 3: of like the people operating the highest levels of government
Speaker 3: now genuinely believe the election was stolen in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: which is like kind of kind of threw me for
Speaker 3: a loop. I like didn't really like process that like
Speaker 3: concept of like how just broken the reality structure will
Speaker 3: be with something like so like clear, yep, that's his
Speaker 3: FBI plans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, well, uh seems like it's gonna end well
Speaker 2: for everybody. I don't know, what do you think? Do
Speaker 2: you think he's gonna get confirmed? Because he's one I'm
Speaker 2: saying people are focusing now that Gates is out, focusing
Speaker 2: way more on heg Seth, which is probably the priority
Speaker 2: because my god, that man should not be leading the
Speaker 2: Department of Defense.
Speaker 3: Because he's going to start a war.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to He's going to drunkenly and accidentally
Speaker 2: start a war. I'm not even worried about him like
Speaker 2: launching a conflict with China, right, Like we're going to
Speaker 2: wind up fighting an insurgency against the Portuguese because he
Speaker 2: gets fucking hammered and mixes up a couple letters, Like.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm also like really concerned about Tulci Gabbard.
Speaker 2: Gabbard is top of my list because she is has
Speaker 2: just never met a dictator she doesn't like, and yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a scary person having that job.
Speaker 3: Potello's really bad and we're going to get into some
Speaker 3: more of his like kind of crank beliefs, but there
Speaker 3: is a level of basic competence. The fact that Tulci
Speaker 3: has been able to get into this position despite very
Speaker 3: very clearly having like deep sympathetic ties to a sod
Speaker 3: in Russia is like, yeah, super frightening.
Speaker 2: She's evil but smart and incredibly power hungry. That's all
Speaker 2: that matters to her is getting into power, and she
Speaker 2: has things that she believes and what we know of
Speaker 2: the things that she believes is chilling, Like yeah, but
Speaker 2: that's yeah, and we don't we're talking about someone besides
Speaker 2: Tulci today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes. Now, since twenty twenty, Cash Patel has served
Speaker 3: on the board of directors for the parent company of
Speaker 3: Truth Social called Trump Media Technology Group, so he's been
Speaker 3: part of the team operating you know, Trump's version of Twitter,
Speaker 3: and back in twenty twenty two, Patel was openly talking
Speaker 3: about how, like the truth Social staff, we're trying to
Speaker 3: quote unquote incorporate to QAnon into our overall messaging scheme
Speaker 3: to capture audiences. So this is this, this is the
Speaker 3: section where we're going to really get into Patel's super
Speaker 3: super heavy q ties, which is kind of like a throwback. Right.
Speaker 3: We don't really talk about QAnon as much anymore, And
Speaker 3: I don't think Patel's interest in this is genuine. I
Speaker 3: think it is just to like grow both his own
Speaker 3: brand and help boost the stock of truth Social. It's
Speaker 3: still like the closest that anyone in Trump's has gotten
Speaker 3: to like openly endorsing q and on and like repeatedly
Speaker 3: True Social staff operate an account at q forms to
Speaker 3: piggyback off of q Andon's popularity and draw in popular
Speaker 3: Q and on influencers. In February twenty twenty two, Patel
Speaker 3: posted a photo of a beer pint and the arm
Speaker 3: of someone wearing a flannel shirt, with text saying he
Speaker 3: was quote having a beer with Q right now unquote.
Speaker 3: Ptel continued to frequently interact with the Q account, make
Speaker 3: q and on related posts, and do reoccurring appearances on
Speaker 3: Q and on linked podcasts, most notably the X twenty
Speaker 3: two Report, The Matrix Xxx Grove Show, and Red Pill
Speaker 3: seventy eight. It's been a while since I've listened to
Speaker 3: these types of shows, and it was it was like
Speaker 3: a huge throwback, ah man, and they're like all chugging
Speaker 3: along and now they're like tugging along better than ever,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, not ideal for me. On these shows.
Speaker 3: Cash has praised the Q and on fandom researchers, saying
Speaker 3: both he and the President have been impressed. It's all
Speaker 3: like very pandering, but it really works for these people I've.
Speaker 4: Seen on social media, on Trump, on truth social How
Speaker 4: could these researchers are? And I kind of wish I
Speaker 4: had some of them when I was doing Russia again,
Speaker 4: some of these other things. You know, Devin and I
Speaker 4: talk regularly, and then you know, I talk with the
Speaker 4: President all the time as well, and we're just blown
Speaker 4: away at the amount of acumen some of these people
Speaker 4: have and how quick they are to grab it and
Speaker 4: suss through it and sort of thin it down and
Speaker 4: make it presentable.
Speaker 3: Later in that interview, Patel openly said that he publishes
Speaker 3: government documents on his website Fight with Cash dot Com,
Speaker 3: specifically so that QAnon researchers will dig through them to
Speaker 3: make QAnon content. He openly said that's like why he'd
Speaker 3: like posts these documents.
Speaker 2: You see again, I'm sympathetic. Everything I do is for content, Garrison.
Speaker 2: That's just that's just the way the world works now.
Speaker 2: The content must flow.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Patel also has books just like you. Although he's been
Speaker 3: signing copies of his with the q andon phrase where
Speaker 3: we go one we go all?
Speaker 2: I mean, I do that too, and he.
Speaker 3: Has defended his use of the slogan on these q
Speaker 3: andon podcasts, like in this clip from the Matrix xx
Speaker 3: Groove show where.
Speaker 5: We go on.
Speaker 4: Where we Go All is, as you said, from a
Speaker 4: great movie that I watched a long time ago, and
Speaker 4: people took to it, and so what you know, it
Speaker 4: doesn't mean everyone's a conspiracy theorist. And people keep asking
Speaker 4: me about all this cue stuff. I'm like, what does
Speaker 4: it matter. What I'm telling you is that there is
Speaker 4: truth in a lot of things that many people say,
Speaker 4: and what I'm putting out there is the truth. And
Speaker 4: how about we have some fun along the way. There's
Speaker 4: so many people who subscribe to the where we go on,
Speaker 4: we go on all mantra, and it's what's wrong with it?
Speaker 3: I'm going to quote now from an article in Media
Speaker 3: Matters by Alex Kaplan, who's been reporting on Patel and
Speaker 3: his ties to q Andon since twenty twenty two. Quote
Speaker 3: on yet another show in June twenty twenty two, Patel
Speaker 3: went even further, saying of q and on quote, we
Speaker 3: try to incorporate it to our overall messaging scheme to
Speaker 3: capture audiences, because whoever that person is has certainly captured
Speaker 3: a widespread breadth of the Mega and America First movement.
Speaker 3: And so what I try to do, is what I
Speaker 3: try to do with anything Q or otherwise, is you
Speaker 3: can't ignore that group of people that has such a
Speaker 3: strong dominant following unquote. In that interview, Pattel also said
Speaker 3: of qan on, there's a lot of good to a
Speaker 3: lot of it, and he agreed with the co host
Speaker 3: who said Q has been so right on so many things, saying, quote,
Speaker 3: I agree with you. He shall get credit for all
Speaker 3: the things he has accomplished, because it's hard to establish
Speaker 3: a movement. Let's call it that, because that's what it is. Unquote.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, do you know what's also hard to establish?
Speaker 2: Robert uh an alibi?
Speaker 3: An alibi? And you know, some people's alibis could be
Speaker 3: reading ads like the one that we're about to do
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's always my alibi.
Speaker 3: That really is always your raplify. Yeah, all right, we
Speaker 3: are back now. In these podcast guest appearances, he would
Speaker 3: often plug his book and advocate that listeners just join
Speaker 3: truth social and engagement with these more niche online streaming
Speaker 3: shows and podcasts fortifies the right wing online media ecosystem
Speaker 3: and draws people away from mainstream news like this is
Speaker 3: why he was going on those shows so much back
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two, and Patel basically says as much
Speaker 3: on this episode of the X twenty two Report.
Speaker 4: They will never trust the fake news media again. And
Speaker 4: for us, that's always been the championing cause to get
Speaker 4: our people and mainstream America listening to your show rather
Speaker 4: than CNN and reading the New York Post or excuse me,
Speaker 4: the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: And I think part of why he's doing this, and
Speaker 3: whether he was told to do it or whether he
Speaker 3: just did it on his own volition, is that like
Speaker 3: having someone who's seen as being close to Trump, especially
Speaker 3: with national security experience, it helps keep Trump supporter is
Speaker 3: politically engaged by making them feel like they are getting
Speaker 3: special access to like exclusive information. It's all a part
Speaker 3: of keeping the mega movement alive when their site is
Speaker 3: not in power, while also building up a ground base
Speaker 3: of support in preparation for them to take power back.
Speaker 3: And that's what he did like a lot in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Most of those podcasts were leading up to
Speaker 3: the midterms as well, so it is part of this
Speaker 3: general political strategy to engage with these like much more
Speaker 3: niche kind of smaller QAnon shows, which not only does
Speaker 3: like you know, grow their audience over time as well,
Speaker 3: it does help their audience grow. It also just establishes
Speaker 3: like a completely siloed media ecosystem away from mainstream news.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 3: That is part of what they're doing, right, That's why
Speaker 3: Trump made truth Social is to create more of these
Speaker 3: reality tunnels, more of these like information silos. Now, Patel
Speaker 3: kept busy in between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: with a variety of kind of grifty ventures. I'm going
Speaker 3: to quote from the New York Times here. Quote. Mister
Speaker 3: Patel's company Trical collects consulting fees, including one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty thousand dollars last year from mister Trump's Truth Social site.
Speaker 3: He also made three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: over two years for strategy consulting for the pro Trump
Speaker 3: Save America pack and one hundred and forty five and
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one for fundraising consulting from friends of Matt Gates,
Speaker 3: the campaign committee for the now former House Republican from Florida.
Speaker 3: Quote now. Last year, Patel's nonprofit charity, the Cash Foundation,
Speaker 3: received one point three million dollars in revenue, mostly from donations,
Speaker 3: though its reported expenses totaled six hundred and seventy four
Speaker 3: thousand dollars wow, which is the majority of the money,
Speaker 3: and nearly half of that was spent on promotion and advertising.
Speaker 3: According to The New York Times, the charity spent more
Speaker 3: on ads than they actually gave away, which is fantastic
Speaker 3: charity work.
Speaker 2: Oh fuck good work.
Speaker 3: Through this foundation, he also sells cash merchandise which is
Speaker 3: spelled K money sign h.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that guy's gonna really fbi well.
Speaker 3: Including six packs of wine for two hundred and forty
Speaker 3: bucks and fifty dollars golf polo shirts. Part of these
Speaker 3: polo shirts have this like, you know, like pro America branding.
Speaker 3: I want to read the description of one of them.
Speaker 3: Tired of seeing your money go overseas? Support your fellow
Speaker 3: Americans by purchasing our T shirt. Where do you think
Speaker 3: this T shirt's made?
Speaker 2: Robert China?
Speaker 3: Well it's made in.
Speaker 2: Haiti, oh Haiti. Oh okay, the America of the Ocean.
Speaker 3: And South America. So you know you're still supporting Americans,
Speaker 3: just South Americans. Oh my god. Now this foundation is
Speaker 3: also funded defamation lawsuits for a stop to steal activist
Speaker 3: and his friend and former boss at National Intelligence. But
Speaker 3: Patel's grifting does go beyond his foundation, just Earlier this year,
Speaker 3: Patel was hawking anti vaccine supplement pills from the company
Speaker 3: Warrior Essentials Wow, specifically the pills that claim to reverse
Speaker 3: the effects of the COVID nineteen vaccine. I love that.
Speaker 3: What if these pills just give you covid. There's COVID pills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you just want to get covid.
Speaker 3: Want to reverse the effects of the vaccine.
Speaker 2: It's a performance enhancered. You know, if we could convin well,
Speaker 2: that's say, if we could convince Joe Rogan COVID's a
Speaker 2: performance enhancer. I don't think we could get Joe Rogan's
Speaker 2: fans to spread any more disease than they already do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's impossible.
Speaker 3: So this product that Patel was selling is called no COVIDME,
Speaker 3: and it's allegedly formulated to quote destroy the toxic spike
Speaker 3: unquote caused by the mRNA vaccine.
Speaker 2: Now we should have called the COVID vaccines no covid
Speaker 2: it's a good name. That was just leaving money on
Speaker 2: the table. Or Novid No it's good. Novid would have
Speaker 2: been a great NOE it's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, one's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I According to journalist James Little, these no covidum. Pills
Speaker 3: just contain basic supplement ingredients like tumeric extract, green tea extract,
Speaker 3: and vitamin D.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a subscription for a thirty day supply is for
Speaker 3: forty nine dollars and ninety eight cents Jesus chries, and
Speaker 3: a single order of pills is fifty nine dollars in
Speaker 3: ninety eight cents. They're really pushing the subscription because you
Speaker 3: gotta keep doing more pills every thirty days in order
Speaker 3: to really keep the vacs suppressed. In a post this
Speaker 3: past February on True Social Patel truth Spike the vacs
Speaker 3: order this home run kit to ridge your body of
Speaker 3: the harms of the vacs.
Speaker 2: Unquote, my god, I just.
Speaker 3: Can't believe that a guy like this could be FBI director.
Speaker 3: It's just it. It makes me.
Speaker 2: It's it's I mean, it probably will wind up being
Speaker 2: much more dangerous. But there is a version of this
Speaker 2: where the FBI just pivots to selling supplements right like
Speaker 2: where you get where you get your estrogen and testosterone
Speaker 2: through the MBI. Look, as long as it's market it
Speaker 2: is like a performance enhancement.
Speaker 3: I would love to believe that a guy like this
Speaker 3: will lead to just general and competence. But I just
Speaker 3: can't let myself believe that, Like I think it's just
Speaker 3: going to become more and more targeted against like people
Speaker 3: who are good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to start, yeah with them. I mean
Speaker 2: it looks like just based on his enemy lists, they're
Speaker 2: going to start with Biden administration officials and people in
Speaker 2: the government. But like it won't end there. It's going
Speaker 2: to depend on what happens, Like it'll be a reactive,
Speaker 2: violent organization, which to a degree it always has been,
Speaker 2: but there's always been like more of a sense of
Speaker 2: like predictability that will not be present well.
Speaker 3: And specifically, Like you know, Patel has also been a
Speaker 3: recurring Gray Zone guest and is pretty close with that
Speaker 3: whole crew. That's you know, not great for certain people,
Speaker 3: but he really is the gift that keeps on giving
Speaker 3: in terms of like odd anecdotes, including his trilogy of books,
Speaker 3: which will be kind of the last thing I talk
Speaker 3: about here. So over the course of the past three years,
Speaker 3: Patel has written and published a children's book trilogy titled
Speaker 3: The Plot Against the King, where Patel himself appears as
Speaker 3: a wizard to defend King Donald from enemy plots.
Speaker 2: Oh God, the one thing we all used to be
Speaker 2: able to agree on is that we don't like kings.
Speaker 3: Here no, but now we have the FBI director who
Speaker 3: fancies himself the wizard to protect the king. I am
Speaker 3: going to read the description from the first book here
Speaker 3: quote a fantastical retelling of the terrible true story. Hillary
Speaker 3: Queenton and her shifty Night had spread lies that King
Speaker 3: Donald had cheated to become king. They claimed he was
Speaker 3: working with the Russians. But how could that be Russians?
Speaker 3: Russian Onians. It's it's bad, okay, r U S S
Speaker 3: I O N I A N S.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of thing the FBI should be
Speaker 2: cracking down on. That's all. That's all I'll say about that.
Speaker 3: Cash the distinguished discoverer joined him as he uncovers the
Speaker 3: plot against the king and who was really behind all
Speaker 3: the lies unquote. Now Patel referred to this as quote
Speaker 3: the first ever children's Russia gate book unquote, which I
Speaker 3: gotta give him to him. That's probably true.
Speaker 2: That's almost said, well no, because okay, you know what,
Speaker 2: I don't think it is, but it came from the
Speaker 2: opposite side. Do you remember when the fucking Crassenstein Brothers
Speaker 2: put out that children's book about Robert Muller.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, you're right. This is another log with.
Speaker 2: Weave Bannon because his hair was a weel.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, this was another This was another lie
Speaker 3: from Cash.
Speaker 2: The crass and Steins beat you to this.
Speaker 3: This is truly the tear of man we're operating with.
Speaker 2: I'm going to start pulling every connection I have to
Speaker 2: somebody in Congress so that when he's being confirmed I
Speaker 2: can get up and hit him on this.
Speaker 5: You claim to have written the first children's book about
Speaker 5: them that I bring in the crass and Steed brother No. Oh,
Speaker 5: they're gonna sell MTG on crypto.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be amazing now.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, there's two other books in the series. Part two
Speaker 3: Quote tells the fantastical story of how two inquisitive minds,
Speaker 3: Denesh and Debbie search for the truth to uncover evidence
Speaker 3: of a terrible scheme.
Speaker 2: Denesh, who has been forced by a court to announce
Speaker 2: in public that he did not uncover any scheme.
Speaker 3: Part two is titled Two Thousand Mules. It is no
Speaker 3: longer available on Amazon due to like all the lawsuits
Speaker 3: around this just being fake.
Speaker 2: Because they broke a bunch of laws because it was
Speaker 2: middle and lies.
Speaker 3: Yes, search for the truth to uncover evidence of a
Speaker 3: terrible scheme to elect Sleepy Joe instead of King Donald
Speaker 3: on a choosing day unquote.
Speaker 2: Choosing day just called it election man.
Speaker 3: No, because it's a fun It's when they choose their king.
Speaker 2: There are kings that are elected anyway.
Speaker 3: The back of the book reads, come join Dneshian Debbie
Speaker 3: as they try to answer some troubling questions. Why did
Speaker 3: the counting stop in the middle of the night. Why
Speaker 3: were there more votes than people in the kingdom? What
Speaker 3: is up with all the glowing pooh? Unquote? That is
Speaker 3: what it actually says. Now why I'm not.
Speaker 2: What is the glowing pooh supposed to be?
Speaker 3: I don't know because I can't scam Amazon to buy
Speaker 3: the book and return it because it's no longer available
Speaker 3: on Amazon. I don't know what the glowing pooh is.
Speaker 2: Sorry, listeners, if one of you has a copy.
Speaker 3: Of this book, oh my God. Then Part three is
Speaker 3: titled Return of the King okay quote. It continues the
Speaker 3: silly yet important journey of the Maga King as he
Speaker 3: returns to take down Kamma Lala Law and reclaim his throne. Okay,
Speaker 3: so yeah, that's Cash Patel possible new FBI director. Oh
Speaker 3: who also produced a song titled Justice for All, which
Speaker 3: is a version of the national anthem but sung by
Speaker 3: all J six defendants in prison, with proceeds going to
Speaker 3: the Cash Foundation. So he also released a song which
Speaker 3: was not on my rapp this year.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, that's a shame And I'm just double checking something. Yes,
Speaker 2: and he stole the name of his song from a
Speaker 2: Metallica album, one of the better Metallica albums. This is
Speaker 2: the one that has one on it. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: you son of a bitch.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just just so odd to have the
Speaker 3: FBI director making a song with imprisoned J six defendants.
Speaker 3: You know, it really does just throw my head into
Speaker 3: a little bit of a spin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see the current like FBI
Speaker 2: agents reac to that, But I guess we'll see. We're
Speaker 2: all gonna learn a lot about the FBI one way
Speaker 2: or the other.
Speaker 3: Any closing thoughts here on mister Patel. Now that we've
Speaker 3: done a very brief overview of his life story ending
Speaker 3: with this children's book.
Speaker 2: He seems like he's qualified to do something.
Speaker 3: That's what everyone's saying. That's what everyone's saying. You No,
Speaker 3: Like like every single person who's like announced, you know,
Speaker 3: you get a wave of headlines from people who work
Speaker 3: in government being like this is the most unqualified person
Speaker 3: ever nominated for this position, and like it just keeps
Speaker 3: happening that I don't even feel obligated to like quote
Speaker 3: or say any of these things because like we all
Speaker 3: know what's happening, Like, yeah, we all know why this
Speaker 3: is going on like that, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: No, And I think that's one of the things I
Speaker 2: have no desire in focusing on, Like what Trump is doing.
Speaker 2: That's like he's breaking the law, he's violating a norm.
Speaker 2: Like I want to hear you know, what are you
Speaker 2: going to do to stop it? Right? What is actually
Speaker 2: being done to try to resist this?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Like otherwise it's at least when it comes to stuff
Speaker 2: from elected leaders, you know, I'm just not interested in like, oh,
Speaker 2: he broke an out of the lot, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: he does. What comes next?
Speaker 3: And he hires guys like Fateel to clean up his
Speaker 3: messes and do all his dirty work. And if they
Speaker 3: do it, they can slowly rise to the ranks and
Speaker 3: become director of the FBI. Yeah, and that's the political
Speaker 3: strategy that they are all working with and have a
Speaker 3: run to success yet again in twenty twenty four. Well,
Speaker 3: I guess stay tuned for more happenings here as they
Speaker 3: continue for the rest of this week and for the
Speaker 3: next four years.
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