0:01

Well, come in is verdict with Center Tech Cruz

0:03

Ben Ferguson with you as well, and Senator,

0:05

You've got a big investigation that

0:09

is looking into big tech

0:11

specifically and how they are silencing

0:14

and deplatforming conservatives,

0:16

and it's something the media really

0:18

isn't covering.

0:20

Well, that's exactly right. In the Senate Commerce

0:22

Committee, I launched an investigation in terms

0:24

of into how big tech is abusing

0:26

its power, and we just released a report

0:28

explaining how big tech is using

0:31

monopoly power over basic infrastructure

0:33

online to deplatform conservatives,

0:36

to target conservatives, and to shut them down.

0:38

I'm going to explain all about what they're doing

0:41

and how they're trying to silence you. We're

0:43

also going to talk about a big story

0:45

that broke this week that the corporate media is

0:47

utterly ignoring, which is testimony

0:50

that occurred in a federal bankruptcy proceeding

0:53

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0:56

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0:58

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1:12

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1:14

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1:17

it is direct ties of

1:19

Biden corruption that is undermining our national

1:21

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1:23

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1:25

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tech is obviously had a massive

3:22

influence over public opinion

3:24

in this country. We saw a recent

3:26

report that came out just on TikTok,

3:29

for example, where they were forty

3:31

five to one stories that were pro

3:33

Palestinian pro Hamas over Israel.

3:36

That's one example of how they've really been

3:39

able to shape public opinion, especially with young

3:41

people, and the riots and the chaos

3:43

we're witnessing on college campuses right now.

3:46

But there's also something else that's happened with

3:48

big tech. I've been a victim of it. I

3:50

spoke out again against big tech a few

3:52

years ago at a CPAC convention,

3:54

and before I landed home, after

3:57

I spoke out about big tech, specifically

3:59

fit Facebook, my accounts were

4:01

shut down. They have never

4:04

worked the same way as

4:06

they did before. The reach has disappeared.

4:09

I've witnessed it, and many

4:11

other conservative leaders out there are

4:13

going through the same things. And it always seems

4:16

to happen center right during

4:18

a big election cycle, where

4:21

the Democrats get a free flow of information

4:23

out and conservatives get hammered

4:25

and silenced.

4:27

Well, that's exactly right. So I started last

4:29

year as the ranking member on the Senate Committee

4:32

of Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and

4:34

from that position as the ranking member, which

4:36

means the senior Republican on that committee, I launched

4:38

an investigation into the abuse of power

4:41

from big tech, and this past week

4:43

we put out a major report. The report is entitled

4:45

Weaponizing Terms of Service. How

4:48

online service providers use broad

4:50

policies to silence conservatives. Now,

4:52

there are a lot of instances that we know

4:55

about that get a lot of publicity. We know,

4:57

for example, that Twitter, before

4:59

Elon Musk purchased them, suspended

5:02

the account of the Babylon Bee for

5:04

making a joke about a Biden administration official.

5:07

We know that both Facebook and Twitter suppressed

5:10

stories about Hudter Biden's laptop before

5:13

the twenty twenty election. We

5:15

know that Facebook removed posts

5:18

suggesting that COVID nineteen originated

5:20

in Wuhan Lab, something

5:22

we talked about at length on this podcast,

5:25

and a theory that has now been confirmed

5:27

both by the Federal Department of Energy and the Federal

5:30

Bureau of Investigation. We

5:32

know that YouTube took

5:34

down a March twenty twenty one video

5:36

of a panel discussion with Florida Governor Ron

5:39

de Santis, during which

5:41

he disputed claims that children needed

5:43

to wear face masks. We know

5:45

that YouTube, also, which is owned by

5:47

Google, blocked access

5:49

to a November twenty twenty three episode

5:52

of this podcast Verdict because

5:54

we were criticizing the corporate media's

5:57

favorable coverage of Hamas, and YouTube

6:00

deemed okay, you must be an adult

6:02

to see what is on the network news.

6:05

We also know in twenty twenty two, DirecTV

6:08

dropped one America news network and

6:10

less than a year after Democrat leaders

6:12

in Congress sent a letter to the CEO calling

6:15

on them to stop carrying the network. We also know

6:17

they did the same thing to Newsmax. Now I

6:20

lit Direct TV up and they ended

6:22

up bringing Newsmax back. We

6:24

also know that into It, at

6:26

the direction of its banking partners, refused

6:29

to provide payment processing and payroll

6:32

services to gun manufacturers

6:35

and sellers. And we know

6:37

that JP Morgan Chase closed

6:40

the account of the National Committee of Religious

6:42

Freedom, which was created by

6:44

former State Department Ambassador at Large

6:47

for International Religious Freedom and former US

6:49

Senator Sam Brownback. We know

6:51

that go fund me block

6:53

the release of ten million dollars

6:55

of donations to the Canadian Trucker's

6:58

Freedom Convoy. We've

7:00

seen that happen over and over and

7:02

over again. Well, what

7:04

this report does is it lays out an entirely

7:07

new area of discrimination,

7:10

and it is using web based

7:12

products and services online service

7:14

providers to ban conservative

7:17

organizations from using their technology.

7:19

And it's going after the infrastructure

7:23

that is needed to communicate and in

7:25

fact this investigation reveals

7:27

that online service providers are

7:30

following a playbook for

7:32

silencing conservatives that leftist

7:34

organizations, including the

7:36

Southern Poverty Law Center, which is wildly

7:39

left wing and hates conservatives, and

7:41

the Anti Defamation League the ADL,

7:44

they together put together this strategy,

7:46

this playbook to quote remove infrastructure

7:49

services that conservative organizations

7:52

need to operate. And so I'm going to describe

7:54

that playbook and what they're doing in

7:56

particular.

7:58

When you look at their playbook and

8:00

this amount of influence, I mean,

8:02

this can change and alter, certainly

8:04

an election cycle. It can certainly,

8:07

I would argue change a presidential

8:09

election as well. And

8:12

that's the reason why they're doing

8:14

this. When you think about, you

8:16

know, you've got millions of people that follow you Facebook.

8:20

I've got you know, over a million. But

8:22

if you turn off and throttle either

8:25

one of us, then the reach that

8:27

we have compared to the left, it

8:29

just disappears. It's the old thing,

8:32

right, if a big tree falls in the forest and no

8:34

one's around and it make a sound. And

8:36

that's exactly what they did. But it wasn't just

8:38

to one or two people. They

8:40

were doing this to hundreds of top

8:43

conservative voices that

8:46

people look to for their

8:48

opinions, specifically

8:50

when it comes to election your issues.

8:53

So that's exactly right. And what this report

8:55

focuses on is it uses a couple of key examples.

8:58

It uses number one slacks removal

9:00

of libs of TikTok's workspace.

9:03

It focuses on event brights, removal

9:05

of event pages for events related to

9:08

Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman documentary

9:10

as well as an event where Riley Gaines was

9:12

scheduled to speak. And it focuses

9:15

on Bontera's termination of its relationship

9:17

with Independent Women's Forum, which

9:20

deprived that organization of major

9:22

nonprofit technology service provider

9:24

services. And all of this

9:27

follows. There was a report that was put

9:29

out by the Anti Defamation

9:31

League and it is called Bad Gateway.

9:34

How deplatforming affects extremist

9:37

websites And here's what the

9:39

ADL recommended. It

9:41

says, quote deplatforming

9:44

websites removing infrastructure services

9:46

they need to operate, such as website

9:48

hosting, can reduce the spread

9:50

and reach of extremism and hate online.

9:53

But when does deplatforming succeed?

9:55

And here's what ADL explained, quote,

9:57

this report shows that deplatforming can decree

10:00

the popularity of extremist websites, especially

10:02

when done without warning

10:05

and they go through We

10:07

learned four important lessons about how

10:10

deplatforming affects extremist websites,

10:12

by which they mean anything right of center. Number

10:15

one, it can cause popularity

10:17

rankings to decrease immediately.

10:21

Number two, it may take

10:23

users a long time to return to the

10:25

website. Sometimes the

10:27

website never regains

10:29

its previous popularity bingo

10:32

number three unexpected

10:34

and unexpected as key. Unexpected deplatforming

10:37

makes it take longer for

10:39

the website to regain its previous popularity

10:42

levels. And number four,

10:44

Replicating deplatform services

10:46

such as discussious discussion forums

10:49

or live streaming video products

10:51

on a standalone website presents

10:54

significant challenges, including

10:56

higher costs and smaller

10:59

audiences. Now I

11:01

want to go into a little bit more. This is what the

11:03

ADL report. It has an entire section that

11:05

says what is deplatforming?

11:07

And by the way, the corporate media insists

11:09

when we talk about deplatforming that we're making

11:12

it up. Well, if you actually

11:14

read the blueprint, they

11:16

are very explicit. The left is explicit.

11:18

They want to silence use. So let me read from this

11:21

ADL report quote. There

11:23

are three main categories of infrastructure

11:26

that keep websites running domain

11:29

registrars, web hosting

11:31

companies, and security protection

11:34

companies. Number one, the

11:36

website must be able to register and keep

11:38

a domain name. A domain name such

11:40

as Google dot com or ADL dot org

11:43

is how visitors find a site. If

11:46

a website is removed from domain

11:48

name services, it becomes

11:50

much more difficult, if not impossible, to

11:52

find. Number two,

11:55

web hosting companies and content distribution

11:57

networks provide digital

11:59

storage space for all the files,

12:02

pictures, videos, and software that

12:04

make up the content of a website. When

12:06

a website loses its hosting provider,

12:09

the site's content disappears.

12:12

Losing a CDN a content distribution

12:15

network can cause slow service

12:17

for high traffic sites. And number three, a

12:20

third category of infrastructure provider

12:23

includes companies that protect websites

12:26

from external security risks

12:28

such as distributed denial of service

12:30

d DOOS attacks. DDoS

12:32

attacks flood a website with

12:35

fake traffic to overwhelm it,

12:37

rendering it unable to answer

12:39

normal user requests. If an infrastructure

12:42

company, such as a network security firm

12:44

cloud Fare, refuses

12:46

to provide DDoS protection to

12:49

a vulnerable website. It

12:51

is vulnerable to being flooded with traffic,

12:54

rendering it inaccessible.

12:56

So you look at this what

12:59

we FINI found out and what you just went

13:01

through. The question is how

13:04

is it that these companies and

13:06

I'm specifically referring to big tech, are

13:09

allowed to get away with this and do

13:11

this to many people that they're

13:15

in business with. I used myself

13:17

as the example again because I've

13:19

experienced this. When you went into

13:21

business and I felt like I was in business with Facebook.

13:24

They said, advertise with us, right, advertise

13:27

your show, advertise your content,

13:29

boost your content, spend money with us,

13:32

and we're going to help you grow an audience and

13:34

it'll be good for everyone. And then all of a sudden

13:36

they just shut you down. And

13:38

they were able to walk away and just say, oh, well,

13:41

you violated our terms of service,

13:43

or you did this, or you posted too

13:45

many things that liberals posted as

13:48

saying they were factually incorrect. The fact checkers

13:50

came out right the liberals on the left. They

13:52

were fact checking and putting things against

13:55

conservatives. So they lose their reach, lose their ability

13:57

to boost posts, lose their ability to advertise,

14:00

and it was all being done to clearly

14:02

influence public opinion, and

14:04

yet they've gotten away with it.

14:06

So what's next.

14:08

Well, what this report focuses

14:10

on many of the deep platforming

14:12

steps by Facebook or Twitter or

14:15

YouTube, they're very public. What this

14:17

report focuses on as the ones that are not

14:19

public, which is the back office infrastructure.

14:22

So let's take for example, Slack, which

14:24

is used for communication for many

14:26

online organizations

14:28

and companies. Slack canceled

14:31

libs of TikTok's workspace for

14:34

violating its terms of service and the

14:36

terms of service for prohibit users from quote

14:39

engaging activity that incites or encourages

14:41

violence or hatred towards

14:44

against individuals or groups. Slack

14:47

determined that Libs of

14:49

TikTok violated this policy based

14:51

on three social media posts concerning

14:53

quote, gender affirming hysterectomies

14:56

and all age drag shows. Now

14:59

here's the interesting thing. Slack shut down

15:01

libs of TikTok's worksplace without any

15:03

warning, without any explanation

15:05

as to how it is violated Slack's policy,

15:08

and Slack's action caused Libs of

15:10

TikTok to effectively lose its

15:13

use of Slax communications and force

15:15

it to rely entirely on cell phones

15:17

to run its business. Now, listen

15:20

to this quote, which is fascinating, Slack

15:23

told the Commerce Committee told my investigation

15:25

quote. What makes

15:27

Libs of TikTok's posts problematic

15:31

is that Libs of TikTok has a specific

15:33

audience, and they are taking

15:35

this information and posting it to that specific

15:38

audience so that everyone in that

15:40

audience sees it at the same time. In other words,

15:42

they didn't even find objections with what Libs

15:44

of TikTok was posting. What they were mad

15:46

at is conservatives were

15:49

reading it and that was enough reason

15:51

to deplatform libs TikTok.

15:53

So when you shut down a business in

15:56

essence the way they did, is there any

15:58

real in relief

16:01

for Libs of TikTok or others

16:03

or is this one of those they're too big to fail?

16:06

Right?

16:06

These companies are too big, they're protected

16:09

and you're the minion and just

16:11

deal with it. And if you're in and who cares

16:13

if your life work is destroyed in thirty seconds

16:16

because they shut it off.

16:17

So right now there is not immediate

16:20

relief. You could presumably file a breach of contract

16:22

case. The biggest relief and the

16:24

reason I did this report is just sunshine.

16:26

They're doing this in the dark. They're doing this

16:28

without scrutiny. There is right

16:30

now no federal law that this

16:33

is prohibited. I'll give you another example. Event Bright, which

16:35

we focus is on. Event Bright

16:37

canceled pages for events hosted

16:39

by college Republican clubs concerning

16:42

Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman? Film?

16:44

And it also canceled pages for

16:46

an event featuring swimmer

16:49

Riley Gaines for violating

16:51

its terms of service. Now, critically,

16:54

no one involved in the decision. This

16:57

is what they told. The committee watched

16:59

the movie v What is a Woman', so they

17:01

never saw it, and

17:04

they couldn't identify anything objectionbal

17:06

in the trailer, So they just didn't like the topic,

17:09

so they decided to take it down. They

17:11

relied instead on Matt Walsh's statements

17:13

about quote gender affirming surgeries,

17:16

pronouns, and is Johnny

17:18

the Walris Children's book to reach the conclusion.

17:20

Likewise, event Bright determined

17:22

that Riley Gains's event violated its policy

17:26

based on her social media post about

17:28

biological men compeding women's sports.

17:31

They shut down the event page without

17:33

any warning, without any explanation

17:35

as to how they violated this policy without

17:37

any way to fix it, and their

17:40

actions ruined advertisements

17:42

that included QR coaches for the event

17:45

pages. So you know, a lot had been done to put

17:47

out the codes to say hey, come to this event, and

17:49

they forced the event organizers to quickly

17:52

pivot to a new method of providing tickets.

17:54

And the committee asked event

17:57

Bright whether gained

18:00

this statement. On October tenth, twenty

18:02

twenty three, she posted on Twitter

18:04

quote real women lack

18:07

a Y chromosome, and

18:09

we asked whether that violates event

18:12

Bright's policy. Event

18:14

Bright responded that quote the post

18:17

speaks for itself, so they needn't

18:19

answer that. How dare you say

18:22

that someone with a Y chromosome is not a woman.

18:24

We don't even need to dispute it. We

18:27

have the power to shut it down.

18:30

So now moving forward, you

18:32

shine light on this and you

18:35

talk about this is really being done

18:38

in darkness and we need to shine

18:40

light on it. Was there any

18:43

nervousness from those that

18:45

you're questioning. I

18:47

want to use the word remorse, but I can't imagine

18:50

they're remorseful. But is it going

18:52

to at least make them pause before

18:54

they do it again?

18:55

Or since I'm ask you, Ben Have you seen this on CNN?

18:58

No?

18:59

Have you seen it on an AB, the NBCCBS, MSNBC

19:02

nowhere, You read it past, you

19:04

read in the New York Times. No, no, the corporate

19:07

media will not cover. I'll give you another example. So

19:09

Bontera, which provides nonprofit

19:12

management services, so it's back office, but it's

19:14

incredibly important and they're

19:17

very few providers of this. They

19:20

denied those services to Independent Women's

19:22

Forum, which is a conservative organization that

19:25

is focused on advancing women's rights, and

19:28

Bontera concluded that it violates

19:30

its policies, which require customers

19:32

to agree to refrain from advocacy denying

19:35

quote LGBTQ rights or

19:38

denying a woman's right to reproductive

19:40

choice, or denying racial justice,

19:43

or denying climate change, and

19:45

their policies also prohibit customers from

19:47

quote promoting, encouraging, or facilitating

19:50

hate speech, violence, discrimination based on

19:52

race, color, sexual orientation, marital

19:55

status, gender, or identity expression.

19:58

Bonterra notified Independent Women's Form

20:00

of its decision not to renew their contract without

20:03

any explanation of how the organization

20:05

violated this policy. As a

20:07

result, Independent Women's Forum had to quickly

20:09

move off Bonterra's platform and obtain a replacement

20:12

services provider. Bontera

20:14

told the committee that Independent

20:17

Women's Forum violated its terms of service

20:19

because the organization quote works

20:21

to restrict the rights of the LGBTQ

20:24

community. Bontera could not

20:26

explain exactly how the

20:28

group was working to restrict LGBTQ

20:31

rights, but generally pointed

20:34

to Independent women forums advocacy

20:36

on issues like protecting women's

20:39

sports and women's spaces.

20:41

So if you actually think that girls should

20:43

compete in girls sports, that

20:46

is of view. That is not acceptable

20:48

and you will be denied online

20:51

basic infrastructure from monopoly

20:53

and near monopoly providers.

20:55

The amount of arrogance that weceive

20:58

now from these companies you've witnessed sit

21:00

now firsthand tells you they

21:02

feel like they are protected by the current regime.

21:04

Am I wrong?

21:06

You are exactly right. And

21:09

if you look at event Bright

21:12

for example, let's go back to Riley Gaines. So

21:16

Riley Gaines, they shut her down because they

21:18

disagreed about

21:20

not her event, but about some posts

21:23

that she had put out.

21:26

What they did not object

21:28

to was an event that we

21:30

identified entitled Gaza

21:33

and the Struggle for Palestine.

21:35

Now, that event was flagged

21:38

by Event Rights algorithm and

21:40

it was reviewed by its Trust and Safety team,

21:42

but it determined that that event did

21:45

not violate its hateful events

21:47

policy in

21:49

an October ninth, twenty twenty

21:51

three statements. So two days off after October

21:53

seventh, here's what the event sponsored

21:56

the Palestinian American organization Networks

21:58

said. It called the October SI attack

22:00

quote self defense

22:02

measures and said that quote

22:05

Israel bears the full responsibility

22:07

for those attacks, and declare

22:09

that quote the Palestinian people have the right to

22:11

defend themselves and to fight the occupation with

22:14

all means available. We salute

22:16

the steadfastness of the Palestinian

22:19

people in its resistance. So understand

22:22

saluting the mass murder of twelve

22:24

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Senator.

25:39

One of the reasons why I just I love doing this

25:41

show with you is we get to talk about issues

25:44

that the media is not covering. The last one's

25:46

a great example, but there's also one

25:49

that needs to have everyone

25:51

listening, share on social media,

25:54

and that is this new report out that it

25:56

wasn't just Hunter Biden that was getting in on the

25:58

action of selling access to daddy. Jim

26:01

Biden was getting in on the action

26:03

and actually may have been a bigger offender

26:07

based on what we're finding out. Jim

26:09

Biden is now being accused of being in business

26:11

with Katari officials, the actual government

26:14

and Hunter Biden. Yeah, he leverages

26:16

ties to his dad. We've seen that. But

26:18

Politico has a new report out that

26:21

says that Joe Biden's brother

26:24

was winning business deals with business

26:26

partners that were directly linked and tied

26:28

to foreign governments, those that

26:30

were actually tied to terrorism. According

26:32

to the outlet, Jim Biden, the President's

26:35

brother, was in business with Katari officials

26:37

to fund his healthcare venture. That

26:39

would be quote some of

26:42

the closest known links between

26:44

a Biden relative and a

26:46

foreign government.

26:48

Well that's exactly right. This was a bombshell

26:51

report that came out three days ago in Politico.

26:53

The title of the report is quote fund manager

26:56

indicates Jim Biden was in business

26:58

with Katari officials, and Politico

27:01

explains quote. New details

27:03

about Jim Biden's foreign fundraising efforts

27:05

are spilling out into a Kentucky bankruptcy

27:08

court, where recent testimony indicates

27:10

that President Joe Biden's brother partnered

27:12

with the Katari government officials

27:14

in his quest to find money for a US

27:16

healthcare venture. The sworn testimony

27:19

by fund manager Michael LeWitt, a

27:21

former business partner of Jim Biden's,

27:24

a test that two companies that facilitated

27:26

the efforts were part owned

27:29

by members of the Katari government. One

27:32

company named in the testimony partnered directly

27:34

with Jim Biden the multi year fundraising

27:36

efforts. The second company provided financial

27:39

backing for a series of loans that

27:41

a hospital chain paid Jim Biden

27:43

to arrange. According to documents

27:45

and testimony Lewet submitted

27:47

in the course of the federal bankruptcy proceedings.

27:51

If substantiated, the alleged

27:53

arrangements would constitute some of

27:55

the closest known financial links

27:58

between a relative of Presidentident Joe

28:00

Biden and a foreign government.

28:02

It's also about following

28:05

the money. Yes, we're hearing

28:07

now that this money that was

28:09

coming in was not

28:11

just going to Jim Biden, but it

28:14

was also going into the pocket

28:17

of the now President of the United States

28:19

of America. This

28:21

testimony that came out in this bankruptcy,

28:25

these documents, and now this

28:27

individual that did business with the Bidens, he

28:30

said, Look, at first there was a bridge loan

28:32

to amer Corps that coincided with a

28:34

payment from Americ Corps directly to

28:37

Jim Biden. The report says Biden

28:40

said in testimony in February that

28:42

the roughly six hundred thousand

28:45

dollars payments that he received from Americrps

28:48

around the time where his role was

28:51

in arranging quote loans and many

28:53

other services quote unquote, and

28:56

then in March of twenty eighteen,

28:59

Jim Biden it's transferred two hundred thousand

29:01

dollars of the payments

29:03

in question to then his brother

29:06

Joe Biden.

29:08

Well, look, that is exactly

29:10

right. And you needn't understand Cutter

29:14

has some of the most problematic foreign

29:16

policy of any country on Earth, and

29:19

so this is you know, it's amazing

29:21

the Biden crime family. In that phrase. I

29:23

got to say a while ago it sounded like hyperbole.

29:25

It no longer sounds like hyperbole because the entire

29:28

Biden family is engaged

29:30

in a business where they only do business

29:33

with our enemies. They somehow never seem to do

29:35

business with Canada, They never do

29:37

business with the United Kingdom. They never do business

29:39

with France or Spain or Japan.

29:42

They only do business with Russia.

29:44

They do business with Ukraine,

29:46

they do business with communist

29:49

China. Let

29:51

me read from this political art

29:53

article because it lays out quote.

29:56

In June of twenty seventeen, Cutter's

29:58

neighbors, led by Saudia Arabia, ganged

30:00

up and cut diplomatic ties with the country,

30:03

citing its alleged support for terrorism.

30:06

The ensuing financial and physical blockade

30:09

through the country, a peninsula that juts out

30:11

from Saudi Arabia into the Persian Gulf, into

30:14

a sustained crisis. In

30:16

response, the country's rulers began showering

30:18

well connected Westerners with gifts and

30:21

financial benefits, sometimes in the form

30:23

of investment funding. The Qatari

30:25

influence offensive strengthened the country's

30:27

ties to the US and Europe, but also led

30:29

to corruption scandals, including

30:32

the European parliament sprawling

30:35

Cuttergate fiasco. Around

30:37

the time of the blockade. Jim Biden was embarking

30:40

into a foray into the healthcare business, in which

30:42

he worked closely with a troubled hospital

30:44

chain AmeriCorps. And

30:47

by the way, when Jim Biden was raising

30:50

money, he pitched himself

30:53

very directly as

30:55

so. For example, here's what Jim Biden

30:57

said in a draft letter to official at

30:59

Cutter's and Wealth fund. He

31:02

said, quote, my family

31:05

could provide a wealth of introductions and business

31:07

opportunities at the highest level that

31:09

I believe would be worthy of the interest of

31:11

his excellency on behalf

31:14

of the Biden family. I

31:17

welcome your interest here.

31:20

That's how he was pitching it, and

31:23

it resulted in payments

31:26

of roughly six hundred thousand dollars

31:28

from AmeriCorps that he received, and

31:30

Jim Biden transferred two hundred

31:33

thousand dollars of those payments directly

31:36

to Joe Biden. Now understand

31:38

who Cutter is. Also, do you know where

31:40

the leaders of a MOSS live? Where's

31:43

that Cutter? There? You go that

31:46

they live as billionaire as they live in incredibly

31:49

lush, opulent apartments,

31:51

they fly private jets. Cutter gives

31:53

them sanctuary. Cutter supports them,

31:55

Cutter protects them. This is the same

31:57

Mas that carried out October seventh. This is the

31:59

same Moss that murders Israelis

32:01

and murders murders Americans.

32:05

And yet the Biden administration consistently

32:07

refuses the sanctioned Cutter, refuses to stand

32:10

up to Cutter, and suddenly we

32:12

discover that the

32:14

Biden family has been bought

32:18

and paid for. By the way,

32:20

can you.

32:20

Go back and read that one line, because I do

32:22

think it's an important one.

32:24

Holy let me read a different line,

32:27

which is Jim Biden presented a presentation

32:31

on behalf of America Corps saying that Americarps

32:33

was seeking thirty million dollars in financing

32:36

to acquire hospitals. Do

32:38

you know how the presentation described

32:40

Jim Biden.

32:42

I'm gonna guess Joe Biden's brother.

32:46

It described him as totally separate person

32:48

with no connection to the vice president

32:50

of the president. No, no, that actually is not correct.

32:53

I'm gonna read you what it said. This is a quote

32:57

Jim Biden quote, brother and

33:00

campaign finance chair of

33:03

former Vice President Joe Biden.

33:06

So it ain't complicated. Why do you want

33:08

to give him money? Because he's

33:11

Joe's brother. And by the way, the

33:13

money you give him, he'll give to Joe.

33:16

Why is this not on the six o'clock

33:18

news.

33:18

Ben, Because it indicts

33:21

the President United States of America in a paid a play

33:23

scheme that would bring down I would argue

33:25

any other presidency, look.

33:29

In any normal sense, that

33:32

would be right. But

33:35

if you look at this

33:39

these documents, these documents are

33:41

being ignored by the media.

33:44

So, for example, Lewett wrote

33:46

to Jim Biden to express confidence

33:48

that his funds would be repaid immediately

33:51

for its loans to AmeriCorps with money

33:53

from Dubai. According to an email that emerged

33:55

in the bankruptcy litigation, quote nothing

33:58

else changes in turn terms of what I will be

34:00

doing re AmeriCorps, since

34:03

I will be just as responsible

34:05

for the Dubai dollar dollar

34:07

dollar three dollar signs with

34:10

the added worry of being

34:14

driven around the desert. L

34:16

Ol.

34:18

Wow.

34:19

I mean I'm sitting here and I say wow,

34:21

and I mean it rarely am I speechless, But

34:24

I go back to that sence I wanted you to read

34:26

again where the pitch

34:28

is to his excellency. I mean they're saying, hey,

34:31

do business with us. You guys need access.

34:34

You're in trouble. This is how

34:36

you get the Biden family on your team.

34:38

Again, It's just going to cost you millions

34:41

of dollars in quote business.

34:44

Yet, let's speak clear the

34:46

entire pitch. It was

34:48

not about Jim Biden's financial

34:51

acumen. It's not about what

34:53

he knew about healthcare. As far as we can tell,

34:55

he didn't know a damn thing about healthcare. Here's

34:58

what he what he wrote. I'm going to read it again. The

35:00

draft letter from Jim Biden read, in part quote

35:03

my family. It's not even me my family

35:05

and who's my family mean? He means his brother. It's

35:08

just like Hunter Biden when he says my father.

35:10

They're all talking about Papa Joe. My

35:13

family could provide a

35:15

wealth of introduction and

35:18

business opportunities at the

35:20

highest level that I believe would be worthy

35:22

of the interest of his excellency

35:25

and his excellency are both capitalized on

35:28

behalf of the Biden

35:31

family. I welcome

35:33

your interest here.

35:34

Yeah, meaning I'm speaking on behalf of my brother.

35:37

Just like Hunter Biden said, I'm sitting here

35:39

next to my father to the Chinese

35:41

Communist. If you do not give me five million dollars

35:44

Right now, my father will retaliate. It

35:46

wasn't just Hunter, it was Jim.

35:48

It was the entire family. And I want

35:50

to underscore why didn't

35:52

they do business with the French, or the British

35:55

or any friends, the Japanese, the Canadians

35:57

know. It was only enemies of America.

36:00

It was only countries that provide comfort

36:03

and shelter to Hamas and terrorists

36:05

to murder Americans. That was their

36:08

business strategy is find people

36:10

who hate America, find countries who

36:12

are enemies of America, but who need favors

36:15

from Joe Biden, and

36:17

go get hundreds

36:20

of thousands or millions of dollars from them.

36:22

Yeah, and this comes, by the way, two weeks

36:24

after James Biden it came out in court

36:26

documents as well, apparently

36:29

secretly negotiate one hundred and forty million dollars

36:31

settlement deal in twenty twelve between a

36:33

US company and the Saudi Arabian government

36:36

quote due to his relationship with then

36:38

Vice President Joe Biden.

36:39

Court documents revealed, and.

36:41

No one talked about that story either on the

36:43

nightly news, as you mentioned a moment ago.

36:46

Look, it reminds me of mel Brooks's movie

36:48

History of the World Part One, where he says

36:50

repeatedly, it's good to be the king.

36:52

It's good to be the king.

36:53

That's how the Biden family

36:56

sadly approaches government.

36:58

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37:00

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