Speaker 1: Well, come in is verdict with Center Tech Cruz Ben
Speaker 1: Ferguson with you as well, and Senator, You've got a
Speaker 1: big investigation that is looking into big tech specifically and
Speaker 1: how they are silencing and deplatforming conservatives, and it's something
Speaker 1: the media really isn't covering.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. In the Senate Commerce Committee, I
Speaker 2: launched an investigation in terms of into how big tech
Speaker 2: is abusing its power, and we just released a report
Speaker 2: explaining how big tech is using monopoly power over basic
Speaker 2: infrastructure online to deplatform conservatives, to target conservatives, and to
Speaker 2: shut them down. I'm going to explain all about what
Speaker 2: they're doing and how they're trying to silence you. We're
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Speaker 1: is obviously had a massive influence over public opinion in
Speaker 1: this country. We saw a recent report that came out
Speaker 1: just on TikTok, for example, where they were forty five
Speaker 1: to one stories that were pro Palestinian pro Hamas over Israel.
Speaker 1: That's one example of how they've really been able to
Speaker 1: shape public opinion, especially with young people, and the riots
Speaker 1: and the chaos we're witnessing on college campuses right now.
Speaker 1: But there's also something else that's happened with big tech.
Speaker 1: I've been a victim of it. I spoke out again
Speaker 1: against big tech a few years ago at a CPAC convention,
Speaker 1: and before I landed home, after I spoke out about
Speaker 1: big tech, specifically fit Facebook, my accounts were shut down.
Speaker 1: They have never worked the same way as they did before.
Speaker 1: The reach has disappeared. I've witnessed it, and many other
Speaker 1: conservative leaders out there are going through the same things.
Speaker 1: And it always seems to happen center right during a
Speaker 1: big election cycle, where the Democrats get a free flow
Speaker 1: of information out and conservatives get hammered and silenced.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. So I started last year as
Speaker 2: the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science,
Speaker 2: and Transportation, and from that position as the ranking member,
Speaker 2: which means the senior Republican on that committee, I launched
Speaker 2: an investigation into the abuse of power from big tech,
Speaker 2: and this past week we put out a major report.
Speaker 2: The report is entitled Weaponizing Terms of Service. How online
Speaker 2: service providers use broad policies to silence conservatives. Now, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of instances that we know about that
Speaker 2: get a lot of publicity. We know, for example, that Twitter,
Speaker 2: before Elon Musk purchased them, suspended the account of the
Speaker 2: Babylon Bee for making a joke about a Biden administration official.
Speaker 2: We know that both Facebook and Twitter suppressed stories about
Speaker 2: Hudter Biden's laptop before the twenty twenty election. We know
Speaker 2: that Facebook removed posts suggesting that COVID nineteen originated in
Speaker 2: Wuhan Lab, something we talked about at length on this podcast,
Speaker 2: and a theory that has now been confirmed both by
Speaker 2: the Federal Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Speaker 2: We know that YouTube took down a March twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one video of a panel discussion with Florida Governor Ron
Speaker 2: de Santis, during which he disputed claims that children needed
Speaker 2: to wear face masks. We know that YouTube, also, which
Speaker 2: is owned by Google, blocked access to a November twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three episode of this podcast Verdict because we were
Speaker 2: criticizing the corporate media's favorable coverage of Hamas, and YouTube
Speaker 2: deemed okay, you must be an adult to see what
Speaker 2: is on the network news. We also know in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, DirecTV dropped one America news network and less
Speaker 2: than a year after Democrat leaders in Congress sent a
Speaker 2: letter to the CEO calling on them to stop carrying
Speaker 2: the network. We also know they did the same thing
Speaker 2: to Newsmax. Now I lit Direct TV up and they
Speaker 2: ended up bringing Newsmax back. We also know that into It,
Speaker 2: at the direction of its banking partners, refused to provide
Speaker 2: payment processing and payroll services to gun manufacturers and sellers.
Speaker 2: And we know that JP Morgan Chase closed the account
Speaker 2: of the National Committee of Religious Freedom, which was created
Speaker 2: by former State Department Ambassador at Large for International Religious
Speaker 2: Freedom and former US Senator Sam Brownback. We know that
Speaker 2: go fund me block the release of ten million dollars
Speaker 2: of donations to the Canadian Trucker's Freedom Convoy. We've seen
Speaker 2: that happen over and over and over again. Well, what
Speaker 2: this report does is it lays out an entirely new
Speaker 2: area of discrimination, and it is using web based products
Speaker 2: and services online service providers to ban conservative organizations from
Speaker 2: using their technology. And it's going after the infrastructure that
Speaker 2: is needed to communicate and in fact this investigation reveals
Speaker 2: that online service providers are following a playbook for silencing
Speaker 2: conservatives that leftist organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center,
Speaker 2: which is wildly left wing and hates conservatives, and the
Speaker 2: Anti Defamation League the ADL, they together put together this strategy,
Speaker 2: this playbook to quote remove infrastructure services that conservative organizations
Speaker 2: need to operate. And so I'm going to describe that
Speaker 2: playbook and what they're doing in particular.
Speaker 1: When you look at their playbook and this amount of influence,
Speaker 1: I mean, this can change and alter, certainly an election cycle.
Speaker 1: It can certainly, I would argue change a presidential election
Speaker 1: as well. And that's the reason why they're doing this.
Speaker 1: When you think about, you know, you've got millions of
Speaker 1: people that follow you Facebook. I've got you know, over
Speaker 1: a million. But if you turn off and throttle either
Speaker 1: one of us, then the reach that we have compared
Speaker 1: to the left, it just disappears. It's the old thing, right,
Speaker 1: if a big tree falls in the forest and no
Speaker 1: one's around and it make a sound. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what they did. But it wasn't just to one or
Speaker 1: two people. They were doing this to hundreds of top
Speaker 1: conservative voices that people look to for their opinions, specifically
Speaker 1: when it comes to election your issues.
Speaker 2: So that's exactly right. And what this report focuses on
Speaker 2: is it uses a couple of key examples. It uses
Speaker 2: number one slacks removal of libs of TikTok's workspace. It
Speaker 2: focuses on event brights, removal of event pages for events
Speaker 2: related to Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman documentary as
Speaker 2: well as an event where Riley Gaines was scheduled to speak.
Speaker 2: And it focuses on Bontera's termination of its relationship with
Speaker 2: Independent Women's Forum, which deprived that organization of major nonprofit
Speaker 2: technology service provider services. And all of this follows. There
Speaker 2: was a report that was put out by the Anti
Speaker 2: Defamation League and it is called Bad Gateway. How deplatforming
Speaker 2: affects extremist websites And here's what the ADL recommended. It says,
Speaker 2: quote deplatforming websites removing infrastructure services they need to operate,
Speaker 2: such as website hosting, can reduce the spread and reach
Speaker 2: of extremism and hate online. But when does deplatforming succeed?
Speaker 2: And here's what ADL explained, quote, this report shows that
Speaker 2: deplatforming can decree the popularity of extremist websites, especially when
Speaker 2: done without warning and they go through We learned four
Speaker 2: important lessons about how deplatforming affects extremist websites, by which
Speaker 2: they mean anything right of center. Number one, it can
Speaker 2: cause popularity rankings to decrease immediately. Number two, it may
Speaker 2: take users a long time to return to the website.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the website never regains its previous popularity bingo number
Speaker 2: three unexpected and unexpected as key. Unexpected deplatforming makes it
Speaker 2: take longer for the website to regain its previous popularity levels.
Speaker 2: And number four, Replicating deplatform services such as discussious discussion
Speaker 2: forums or live streaming video products on a standalone website
Speaker 2: presents significant challenges, including higher costs and smaller audiences. Now
Speaker 2: I want to go into a little bit more. This
Speaker 2: is what the ADL report. It has an entire section
Speaker 2: that says what is deplatforming? And by the way, the
Speaker 2: corporate media insists when we talk about deplatforming that we're
Speaker 2: making it up. Well, if you actually read the blueprint,
Speaker 2: they are very explicit. The left is explicit. They want
Speaker 2: to silence use. So let me read from this ADL
Speaker 2: report quote. There are three main categories of infrastructure that
Speaker 2: keep websites running domain registrars, web hosting companies, and security
Speaker 2: protection companies. Number one, the website must be able to
Speaker 2: register and keep a domain name. A domain name such
Speaker 2: as Google dot com or ADL dot org is how
Speaker 2: visitors find a site. If a website is removed from
Speaker 2: domain name services, it becomes much more difficult, if not impossible,
Speaker 2: to find. Number two, web hosting companies and content distribution
Speaker 2: networks provide digital storage space for all the files, pictures, videos,
Speaker 2: and software that make up the content of a website.
Speaker 2: When a website loses its hosting provider, the site's content disappears.
Speaker 2: Losing a CDN a content distribution network can cause slow
Speaker 2: service for high traffic sites. And number three, a third
Speaker 2: category of infrastructure provider includes companies that protect websites from
Speaker 2: external security risks such as distributed denial of service d
Speaker 2: DOOS attacks. DDoS attacks flood a website with fake traffic
Speaker 2: to overwhelm it, rendering it unable to answer normal user requests.
Speaker 2: If an infrastructure company, such as a network security firm
Speaker 2: cloud Fare, refuses to provide DDoS protection to a vulnerable website.
Speaker 2: It is vulnerable to being flooded with traffic, rendering it inaccessible.
Speaker 1: So you look at this what we FINI found out
Speaker 1: and what you just went through. The question is how
Speaker 1: is it that these companies and I'm specifically referring to
Speaker 1: big tech, are allowed to get away with this and
Speaker 1: do this to many people that they're in business with.
Speaker 1: I used myself as the example again because I've experienced this.
Speaker 1: When you went into business and I felt like I
Speaker 1: was in business with Facebook. They said, advertise with us, right,
Speaker 1: advertise your show, advertise your content, boost your content, spend
Speaker 1: money with us, and we're going to help you grow
Speaker 1: an audience and it'll be good for everyone. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they just shut you down. And
Speaker 1: they were able to walk away and just say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you violated our terms of service, or you did this,
Speaker 1: or you posted too many things that liberals posted as
Speaker 1: saying they were factually incorrect. The fact checkers came out
Speaker 1: right the liberals on the left. They were fact checking
Speaker 1: and putting things against conservatives. So they lose their reach,
Speaker 1: lose their ability to boost posts, lose their ability to advertise,
Speaker 1: and it was all being done to clearly influence public opinion,
Speaker 1: and yet they've gotten away with it.
Speaker 3: So what's next.
Speaker 2: Well, what this report focuses on many of the deep
Speaker 2: platforming steps by Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, they're very public.
Speaker 2: What this report focuses on as the ones that are
Speaker 2: not public, which is the back office infrastructure. So let's
Speaker 2: take for example, Slack, which is used for communication for
Speaker 2: many online organizations and companies. Slack canceled libs of TikTok's
Speaker 2: workspace for violating its terms of service and the terms
Speaker 2: of service for prohibit users from quote engaging activity that
Speaker 2: incites or encourages violence or hatred towards against individuals or groups.
Speaker 2: Slack determined that Libs of TikTok violated this policy based
Speaker 2: on three social media posts concerning quote, gender affirming hysterectomies
Speaker 2: and all age drag shows. Now here's the interesting thing.
Speaker 2: Slack shut down libs of TikTok's worksplace without any warning,
Speaker 2: without any explanation as to how it is violated Slack's policy,
Speaker 2: and Slack's action caused Libs of TikTok to effectively lose
Speaker 2: its use of Slax communications and force it to rely
Speaker 2: entirely on cell phones to run its business. Now, listen
Speaker 2: to this quote, which is fascinating, Slack told the Commerce
Speaker 2: Committee told my investigation quote. What makes Libs of TikTok's
Speaker 2: posts problematic is that Libs of TikTok has a specific audience,
Speaker 2: and they are taking this information and posting it to
Speaker 2: that specific audience so that everyone in that audience sees
Speaker 2: it at the same time. In other words, they didn't
Speaker 2: even find objections with what Libs of TikTok was posting.
Speaker 2: What they were mad at is conservatives were reading it
Speaker 2: and that was enough reason to deplatform libs TikTok.
Speaker 1: So when you shut down a business in essence the
Speaker 1: way they did, is there any real in relief for
Speaker 1: Libs of TikTok or others or is this one of
Speaker 1: those they're too big to fail?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: These companies are too big, they're protected and you're the
Speaker 1: minion and just deal with it. And if you're in
Speaker 1: and who cares if your life work is destroyed in
Speaker 1: thirty seconds because they shut it off.
Speaker 2: So right now there is not immediate relief. You could
Speaker 2: presumably file a breach of contract case. The biggest relief
Speaker 2: and the reason I did this report is just sunshine.
Speaker 2: They're doing this in the dark. They're doing this without scrutiny.
Speaker 2: There is right now no federal law that this is prohibited.
Speaker 2: I'll give you another example. Event Bright, which we focus
Speaker 2: is on. Event Bright canceled pages for events hosted by
Speaker 2: college Republican clubs concerning Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman? Film?
Speaker 2: And it also canceled pages for an event featuring swimmer
Speaker 2: Riley Gaines for violating its terms of service. Now, critically,
Speaker 2: no one involved in the decision. This is what they told.
Speaker 2: The committee watched the movie v What is a Woman',
Speaker 2: so they never saw it, and they couldn't identify anything
Speaker 2: objectionbal in the trailer, So they just didn't like the topic,
Speaker 2: so they decided to take it down. They relied instead
Speaker 2: on Matt Walsh's statements about quote gender affirming surgeries, pronouns,
Speaker 2: and is Johnny the Walris Children's book to reach the conclusion. Likewise,
Speaker 2: event Bright determined that Riley Gains's event violated its policy
Speaker 2: based on her social media post about biological men compeding
Speaker 2: women's sports. They shut down the event page without any warning,
Speaker 2: without any explanation as to how they violated this policy
Speaker 2: without any way to fix it, and their actions ruined
Speaker 2: advertisements that included QR coaches for the event pages. So
Speaker 2: you know, a lot had been done to put out
Speaker 2: the codes to say hey, come to this event, and
Speaker 2: they forced the event organizers to quickly pivot to a
Speaker 2: new method of providing tickets. And the committee asked event
Speaker 2: Bright whether gained this statement. On October tenth, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: she posted on Twitter quote real women lack a Y chromosome,
Speaker 2: and we asked whether that violates event Bright's policy. Event
Speaker 2: Bright responded that quote the post speaks for itself, so
Speaker 2: they needn't answer that. How dare you say that someone
Speaker 2: with a Y chromosome is not a woman. We don't
Speaker 2: even need to dispute it. We have the power to
Speaker 2: shut it down.
Speaker 1: So now moving forward, you shine light on this and
Speaker 1: you talk about this is really being done in darkness
Speaker 1: and we need to shine light on it. Was there
Speaker 1: any nervousness from those that you're questioning. I want to
Speaker 1: use the word remorse, but I can't imagine they're remorseful.
Speaker 1: But is it going to at least make them pause
Speaker 1: before they do it again?
Speaker 2: Or since I'm ask you, Ben Have you seen this
Speaker 2: on CNN?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Have you seen it on an AB, the NBCCBS, MSNBC nowhere,
Speaker 2: You read it past, you read in the New York Times. No, no,
Speaker 2: the corporate media will not cover. I'll give you another example.
Speaker 2: So Bontera, which provides nonprofit management services, so it's back office,
Speaker 2: but it's incredibly important and they're very few providers of this.
Speaker 2: They denied those services to Independent Women's Forum, which is
Speaker 2: a conservative organization that is focused on advancing women's rights,
Speaker 2: and Bontera concluded that it violates its policies, which require
Speaker 2: customers to agree to refrain from advocacy denying quote LGBTQ
Speaker 2: rights or denying a woman's right to reproductive choice, or
Speaker 2: denying racial justice, or denying climate change, and their policies
Speaker 2: also prohibit customers from quote promoting, encouraging, or facilitating hate speech, violence,
Speaker 2: discrimination based on race, color, sexual orientation, marital status, gender,
Speaker 2: or identity expression. Bonterra notified Independent Women's Form of its
Speaker 2: decision not to renew their contract without any explanation of
Speaker 2: how the organization violated this policy. As a result, Independent
Speaker 2: Women's Forum had to quickly move off Bonterra's platform and
Speaker 2: obtain a replacement services provider. Bontera told the committee that
Speaker 2: Independent Women's Forum violated its terms of service because the
Speaker 2: organization quote works to restrict the rights of the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 2: Bontera could not explain exactly how the group was working
Speaker 2: to restrict LGBTQ rights, but generally pointed to Independent women
Speaker 2: forums advocacy on issues like protecting women's sports and women's spaces.
Speaker 2: So if you actually think that girls should compete in
Speaker 2: girls sports, that is of view. That is not acceptable
Speaker 2: and you will be denied online basic infrastructure from monopoly
Speaker 2: and near monopoly providers.
Speaker 1: The amount of arrogance that weceive now from these companies
Speaker 1: you've witnessed sit now firsthand tells you they feel like
Speaker 1: they are protected by the current regime.
Speaker 3: Am I wrong?
Speaker 2: You are exactly right. And if you look at event
Speaker 2: Bright for example, let's go back to Riley Gaines. So
Speaker 2: Riley Gaines, they shut her down because they disagreed about
Speaker 2: not her event, but about some posts that she had
Speaker 2: put out. What they did not object to was an
Speaker 2: event that we identified entitled Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine. Now,
Speaker 2: that event was flagged by Event Rights algorithm and it
Speaker 2: was reviewed by its Trust and Safety team, but it
Speaker 2: determined that that event did not violate its hateful events
Speaker 2: policy in an October ninth, twenty twenty three statements. So
Speaker 2: two days off after October seventh, here's what the event
Speaker 2: sponsored the Palestinian American organization Networks said. It called the
Speaker 2: October SI attack quote self defense measures and said that
Speaker 2: quote Israel bears the full responsibility for those attacks, and
Speaker 2: declare that quote the Palestinian people have the right to
Speaker 2: defend themselves and to fight the occupation with all means available.
Speaker 2: We salute the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in its resistance.
Speaker 2: So understand saluting the mass murder of twelve hundred people,
Speaker 2: the raping of women and girls that does not violate
Speaker 2: their hateful speech policy. But saying that girls exist that does.
Speaker 2: Saying that men should not compete against women in women's
Speaker 2: sports that does. That is the utter hypocrisy and double
Speaker 2: standards that allows. By the way, event Bright has also
Speaker 2: allowed numerous quote stop Cop City events which support violent
Speaker 2: protesters who oppose the building of a police and firefighter
Speaker 2: training facility. Likewise, event Bright created a map of Black
Speaker 2: Lives Matter protests, many of which turn violent to help
Speaker 2: users find them. So, in other words, actual events that
Speaker 2: produce violence that end up killing people, that burn shops,
Speaker 2: that fire bomb cars, those are not deem hateful and violent.
Speaker 2: But if you say that women exists, you must be deplatformed.
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Speaker 2: Well that's exactly right. This was a bombshell report that
Speaker 2: came out three days ago in Politico. The title of
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Speaker 2: relative of Presidentident Joe Biden and a foreign government.
Speaker 1: It's also about following the money. Yes, we're hearing now
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Speaker 2: Cutter has some of the most problematic foreign policy of
Speaker 2: any country on Earth, and so this is you know,
Speaker 2: it's amazing the Biden crime family. In that phrase. I
Speaker 2: got to say a while ago it sounded like hyperbole.
Speaker 2: It no longer sounds like hyperbole because the entire Biden
Speaker 2: family is engaged in a business where they only do
Speaker 2: business with our enemies. They somehow never seem to do
Speaker 2: business with Canada, They never do business with the United Kingdom.
Speaker 2: They never do business with France or Spain or Japan.
Speaker 2: They only do business with Russia. They do business with Ukraine,
Speaker 2: they do business with communist China. Let me read from
Speaker 2: this political art article because it lays out quote. In
Speaker 2: June of twenty seventeen, Cutter's neighbors, led by Saudia Arabia,
Speaker 2: ganged up and cut diplomatic ties with the country, citing
Speaker 2: its alleged support for terrorism. The ensuing financial and physical
Speaker 2: blockade through the country, a peninsula that juts out from
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia into the Persian Gulf, into a sustained crisis.
Speaker 2: In response, the country's rulers began showering well connected Westerners
Speaker 2: with gifts and financial benefits, sometimes in the form of
Speaker 2: investment funding. The Qatari influence offensive strengthened the country's ties
Speaker 2: to the US and Europe, but also led to corruption scandals,
Speaker 2: including the European parliament sprawling Cuttergate fiasco. Around the time
Speaker 2: of the blockade. Jim Biden was embarking into a foray
Speaker 2: into the healthcare business, in which he worked closely with
Speaker 2: a troubled hospital chain AmeriCorps. And by the way, when
Speaker 2: Jim Biden was raising money, he pitched himself very directly
Speaker 2: as so. For example, here's what Jim Biden said in
Speaker 2: a draft letter to official at Cutter's and Wealth fund.
Speaker 2: He said, quote, my family could provide a wealth of
Speaker 2: introductions and business opportunities at the highest level that I
Speaker 2: believe would be worthy of the interest of his excellency
Speaker 2: on behalf of the Biden family. I welcome your interest here.
Speaker 2: That's how he was pitching it, and it resulted in
Speaker 2: payments of roughly six hundred thousand dollars from AmeriCorps that
Speaker 2: he received, and Jim Biden transferred two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: of those payments directly to Joe Biden. Now understand who
Speaker 2: Cutter is. Also, do you know where the leaders of
Speaker 2: a MOSS live? Where's that Cutter? There? You go that
Speaker 2: they live as billionaire as they live in incredibly lush,
Speaker 2: opulent apartments, they fly private jets. Cutter gives them sanctuary.
Speaker 2: Cutter supports them, Cutter protects them. This is the same
Speaker 2: Mas that carried out October seventh. This is the same
Speaker 2: Moss that murders Israelis and murders murders Americans. And yet
Speaker 2: the Biden administration consistently refuses the sanctioned Cutter, refuses to
Speaker 2: stand up to Cutter, and suddenly we discover that the
Speaker 2: Biden family has been bought and paid for. By the way,
Speaker 2: can you.
Speaker 1: Go back and read that one line, because I do
Speaker 1: think it's an important one.
Speaker 2: Holy let me read a different line, which is Jim
Speaker 2: Biden presented a presentation on behalf of America Corps saying
Speaker 2: that Americarps was seeking thirty million dollars in financing to
Speaker 2: acquire hospitals. Do you know how the presentation described Jim Biden.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess Joe Biden's brother.
Speaker 2: It described him as totally separate person with no connection
Speaker 2: to the vice president of the president. No, no, that
Speaker 2: actually is not correct. I'm gonna read you what it said.
Speaker 2: This is a quote Jim Biden quote, brother and campaign
Speaker 2: finance chair of former Vice President Joe Biden. So it
Speaker 2: ain't complicated. Why do you want to give him money?
Speaker 2: Because he's Joe's brother. And by the way, the money
Speaker 2: you give him, he'll give to Joe. Why is this
Speaker 2: not on the six o'clock news.
Speaker 1: Ben, Because it indicts the President United States of America
Speaker 1: in a paid a play scheme that would bring down
Speaker 1: I would argue any other presidency, look.
Speaker 2: In any normal sense, that would be right. But if
Speaker 2: you look at this these documents, these documents are being
Speaker 2: ignored by the media. So, for example, Lewett wrote to
Speaker 2: Jim Biden to express confidence that his funds would be
Speaker 2: repaid immediately for its loans to AmeriCorps with money from Dubai.
Speaker 2: According to an email that emerged in the bankruptcy litigation,
Speaker 2: quote nothing else changes in turn terms of what I
Speaker 2: will be doing re AmeriCorps, since I will be just
Speaker 2: as responsible for the Dubai dollar dollar dollar three dollar
Speaker 2: signs with the added worry of being driven around the desert.
Speaker 2: L Ol.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sitting here and I say wow, and
Speaker 1: I mean it rarely am I speechless, But I go
Speaker 1: back to that sence I wanted you to read again
Speaker 1: where the pitch is to his excellency. I mean they're saying, hey,
Speaker 1: do business with us. You guys need access. You're in trouble.
Speaker 1: This is how you get the Biden family on your team. Again,
Speaker 1: It's just going to cost you millions of dollars in
Speaker 1: quote business.
Speaker 2: Yet, let's speak clear the entire pitch. It was not
Speaker 2: about Jim Biden's financial acumen. It's not about what he
Speaker 2: knew about healthcare. As far as we can tell, he
Speaker 2: didn't know a damn thing about healthcare. Here's what he
Speaker 2: what he wrote. I'm going to read it again. The
Speaker 2: draft letter from Jim Biden read, in part quote my family.
Speaker 2: It's not even me my family and who's my family mean?
Speaker 2: He means his brother. It's just like Hunter Biden when
Speaker 2: he says my father. They're all talking about Papa Joe.
Speaker 2: My family could provide a wealth of introduction and business
Speaker 2: opportunities at the highest level that I believe would be
Speaker 2: worthy of the interest of his excellency and his excellency
Speaker 2: are both capitalized on behalf of the Biden family. I
Speaker 2: welcome your interest here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, meaning I'm speaking on behalf of my brother.
Speaker 2: Just like Hunter Biden said, I'm sitting here next to
Speaker 2: my father to the Chinese Communist. If you do not
Speaker 2: give me five million dollars Right now, my father will retaliate.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just Hunter, it was Jim. It was the
Speaker 2: entire family. And I want to underscore why didn't they
Speaker 2: do business with the French, or the British or any friends,
Speaker 2: the Japanese, the Canadians know. It was only enemies of America.
Speaker 2: It was only countries that provide comfort and shelter to
Speaker 2: Hamas and terrorists to murder Americans. That was their business
Speaker 2: strategy is find people who hate America, find countries who
Speaker 2: are enemies of America, but who need favors from Joe Biden,
Speaker 2: and go get hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars
Speaker 2: from them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this comes, by the way, two weeks after
Speaker 1: James Biden it came out in court documents as well,
Speaker 1: apparently secretly negotiate one hundred and forty million dollars settlement
Speaker 1: deal in twenty twelve between a US company and the
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabian government quote due to his relationship with then
Speaker 1: Vice President Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Court documents revealed, and.
Speaker 1: No one talked about that story either on the nightly news,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned a moment ago.
Speaker 2: Look, it reminds me of mel Brooks's movie History of
Speaker 2: the World Part One, where he says repeatedly, it's good
Speaker 2: to be the king.
Speaker 3: It's good to be the king.
Speaker 2: That's how the Biden family sadly approaches government.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna keep watching this.
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