August 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Why is the media afraid of free speech? We continue our journey down the Twitter rabbit hole by telling the story of how a laptop exposed collusion between the government, the media and Big Tech. Along the way we hear from Miranda Devine, author of Laptop from Hell.
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Previously unread Pilled America.
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What Milo uncovered was a smoking gun.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Gamergate is essentially about corrupt journalism.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Feminism went slightly out of control.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Gamers do not hate women.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Gamagate won, and it has ignoitted so many fires in
so many places, with so many unexpected consequences.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I retweet, you know, I retweet for a reason.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Right another day, another Twitter tirade from Donald Trump, and.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The media did everything they could to keep control of
the narrative.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it
wasn't for Twitter.
Speaker 9 (01:49):
I believe without the Cally letter, I would have won.
Speaker 10 (01:51):
I think Rudy Giuliani played a role.
Speaker 11 (01:52):
We needed people to actually enforce their own terms of
service and shut down bad actors. Twitter should have kicked
Donald Trump off Twitter a long time ago.
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Red Pilled America. We're at part four of our series
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of episodes entitled Unfiltered. You've probably heard part one through three,
but if you haven't, stop and go back and listen
from the beginning. We're looking for the answer to the
question why is the media afraid of free speech? By
telling the story of Twitter and how it drifted away
from being the free speech platform.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So in part three, we told the story of how
Milo Ganapolis rose to prominence through Gamergate, a controversy that
gained steam on Twitter and pit gamers against the video
game media that had been infected by wokeness. Milo found
the smoking gun that proved the central argument of the
Gamergate movement that joystick journalism was corrupt. He uncovered a
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secret group of gaming media that colluded to build a
consensus on stories involving two feminists that had infiltrated the
gaming industry. Those women being Anita Sarkissian and Zoe Quinn.
The journalist worked to censor and attack gamers while propping
up the feminists on their media platforms, and Milo found
the emails proving it all. His discovery made him a
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hot commodity on the topic, first on public radio, then
an independent media. Milo saw Gamergate as a pivotal moment
in the culture war. It was a remarkable time where
a group finally pushed back against the woke army and won,
and they did all using Twitter. The affair provided a
template for how to beat the cultural Marxist and it
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was a lesson that Donald Trump would use in his
twenty sixteen run for the White House.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
When he entered the race, Trump was no novice on Twitter.
He'd been using the platform effectively years before his presidential run.
At every turn, he used Jack Dorsey's creation to bypass
the media and get his message to the public. As
election day twenty sixteen approached, Twitter played a central role
in the outcome. First, Wiki Weeks used the platform to
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promote emails that were allegedly hacked from Hillary Clinton's top aide,
John Podesta. Then, less than two weeks before voting day,
FBI director James Comy announced he was reopening an investigation
into Hillary's use of a private server when she was
Secretary of State. The case was reopened because of a
chain of events that could be traced back to a
scandal known as Wienergate, where Andrew Breitbart and his rebel
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journalists took down Democrat Congressman Anthony Wiener using Twitter. Director
Comy would ultimately exonerate Hillary before election day, but the
news halted her momentum. In the end, Hillary effectively blamed
three key elements for her loss, John Podesta's hacked e mails,
the FBI investigations stemming from a Twitter controversy, and oddly,
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Rudy Giuliani. While Trump was in the process of this
historic twenty sixteen win, Twitter was undergoing a radical change.
The CEO that dubbed Twitter as the Free Speech Platform
was ousted and replaced by Jack Dorsey. Twitter also created
a Trust and Safety Council whose mission was to ensure
people could quote continue to express themselves freely and safely
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on Twitter, and they named Anita Sarkisian, the central figure
of Gamergate, to this new censorship council. Milo was eventually
banned from the site, and when Donald Trump took the
White House just a few months later, the media began
to apply pressure to Jack Dorsey to deal with their
Trump problem so that two thousand six sixteen could never
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happen again.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It was a Friday night in early October twenty twenty,
and history was on the verge of repeating itself. Miranda Divine,
an Australian columnist from the New York Post, was at
home winding down her week when her cell phone buzzed and.
Speaker 12 (06:28):
I got a text message from Bob Costello, who is
Rudy Giuliani's lawyer.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
At the time, Rudy Giuliani was working as President Donald
Trump's lawyer, so getting a message from Costello just three
weeks before election Day twenty twenty was a big deal.
Bob's text included several pictures of someone that looked familiar.
Miranda thumb threw them, and as her eyes adjusted to
one picture, she noticed what looked like a fresh tattoo
of claw marks. It was bizarre. She looked at another photo,
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and as the image came into focus, Miranda recognized the person.
Speaker 12 (07:03):
It was Hunter Biden, you know, sleeping with a crackpop
in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Holy sh She quickly thumbed to the text portion of
Bob Costello's message.
Speaker 12 (07:16):
He just said, you know, we've got something that we
think that you will be interested in Jim Talk, and
I was like, are you kidding.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Apparently Bob Costello and Rudy Giuliani had gotten their hands
on the contents of a laptop, or what Miranda Devine
would call later the Laptop from Hell, the title of
her book about breaking the biggest story of the twenty
twenty election. Computers are rarely the central character of a
history altering event, but this was no typical computer. The
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tale behind its relevance goes a long way into explaining
why the media is so afraid of free speech. The
laptop made its first public appearance on an early Friday
evening in mid April twenty nineteen. John Paul mcguy's was
getting ready to close his Wilmington, Delaware, Apple computer repair
shop when a man walked in. He was carrying a
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trio of Apple laptops.
Speaker 13 (08:12):
All three were suffering from liquid damage.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's John Paul MCSAAC in a March twenty twenty two
interview with the Friends of Zeus.
Speaker 13 (08:18):
One was a write off. I couldn't do anything with it.
The other one just had a faulty keyboard, so I
gave him a keyboard so he could get around his
password and then recover his own data. The thirty unit
did require a.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Check in, a check in, meaning that John Paul would
have to take possession of the laptop for a few
days to recover its data. Like any other time when
you have to leave property behind to be repaired, think
auto mechanic, John Paul needed the customer's name to fill
out the necessary paperwork. It's a pretty standard process, but
in this instance, when John Paul asked for the customer's name,
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the customer seemed a bit annoyed by the question.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Hunter Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He responded, hmm, that name meant something to John Paul.
Most locals wouldn't have needed to ask. The bidens are
legendary in the area. But John Paul isn't your normal Delawarean.
He is an albino, which severely impairs his vision. Basically,
he's legally blind, but he can't see things that are
about six to eight inches away from his face. So
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as he sat there facing the customer, he couldn't see
him clearly. However, when he looked at the laptop that
was being checked in, John Paul got a second confirmation.
Speaker 13 (09:25):
The third unit had a bo Biden Foundation sticker.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Joe Biden's son Bo Biden passed away tragically a few
years earlier from brain cancer.
Speaker 13 (09:34):
I assumed that it was his dead brother's computer and
he just wanted his memories off of it. So I
kind of felt bad for the guy because he was wasted.
Speaker 14 (09:41):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
In April twenty nineteen, Hunter's father was just the former
vice president. He held no public office.
Speaker 13 (09:48):
His dad had an announce as candidacy. So this was
just some drunk guy with mccorn and a bunch of
crap on his computer.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So John Paul decided to take on the job at
a reduced price. He quoted him eighty five dollars to
recover the data. It worked for Hunter and he checked
in the laptop.
Speaker 15 (10:06):
He agreed to the terms and conditions and signed the
authorization and then went away.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Now, the data recovery process can at times be a
bit meticulous. The technician has to carefully transfer files off
of the damaged computer onto another hard drive. It's a
process that sometimes forces the technician to get intimate with
the files. And it was on this close review that
gave John Paul his third confirmation on the laptop's owner.
Speaker 15 (10:36):
Within thirty minutes of performing the data transfer, I had
been able to verify that the person that was in
the shop was in the the person that was on
the computer.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He saw drivers' licenses, pictures, documents. By the time John
Paul Mack finished the process, he concluded with one hundred
percent certainty that the man that checked in the computer
was in fact Hunter Biden.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
I recovered the data and the process of verifying the data,
that's when I was made aware of a lot of
the a lot of his hobbies.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It was a kind of personal material you wouldn't want
a stranger to see. Films of sex acts, nude selfies,
drug use, and the kind of documents that could get
you in real hot water.
Speaker 13 (11:21):
And then ended up also seeing some other financial documents
that just kind of like, oh, this is a lot
of money, this is there's this thing's just a big
hot mess. So I was nervous. But his dad had
an announced his candidacy, So this was just some drunk
guy with woodcorn and a bunch of crap on his computer.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So John Paul didn't think much about what he'd seen
on the laptop. He just did his job and focused
on saving the.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
Files several attempts because it was a power issue and
I kept going down. Once I got all this data combined,
I saved it and then I was able to clone
that to an external drive, and then from that I
made my clone.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
When he was done, John Paul says he gave Hunter
a call and asked him to drop off a poor
ardable hard drive so that he could put all of
the laptop files on that.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
He came back in, dropped off the drive, called him
up on a Monday, sent him a square Secure payment
request for the eighty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The Hunter didn't respond. John Paul called him again over
the coming days, then weeks, still no response.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And this is when things started to get a little
precarious for the Apple repairman.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
You see.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Shortly after John Paul successfully recovered the data, Hunter's father
made an announcement.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Former Vice President Joe Biden is officially throwing his hat
into the ring for the race for president.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
Joe Biden just released that video announcing his twenty twenty
bid on his social media accounts. He is framing his
campaign as a battle for the soul of a country,
a message that he's really carried over the past year.
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to red Pilled America. So in April twenty nineteen, Hunter
Biden entered John Paul mcaac's Apple repair shop and checked
in the laptop to be repaired. In the process of
recovering the data, John Paul saw some pretty personal files,
films of sex acts, nude selfies, drug use, and even
some eye popping financial documents. He eventually was able to
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recover the data, but when he reached out to Hunter
to pay for and pick up the laptop, Hunter didn't respond.
If it were any other customer, it would have been
no big deal. But as the laptop sat in the
Apple repair shop waiting to be retrieved, Joe Biden announced
his twenty twenty run for the White House. John Paul
didn't fully grasp the magnitude of the moment, but it
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did since that he could be in for some serious trouble.
Within a few weeks of Joe Biden's announcement, a controversial
story re emerged in the mainstream media.
Speaker 16 (15:20):
Mister Vice President Tommy Almos with ABC News, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
I've got a quick question for you.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
It's a question we tried to ask repeatedly, can we
ask you about Ukraine and China.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But kept getting blocked.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
At issue was Hunter Biden profiting off his dad's work
as vice president and did Joe Biden allow it? We're
talking about millions of dollars in at least two countries.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The story was not a new one. It dated back
to twenty fourteen, when the Eastern European country of Ukraine
erupted into civil unrest.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Ukraine is in a state of crisis two days after
the country's democratically elected president was ousted following months of
street protests that left at least eighty two people dead.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
The unrest would come to be known as the Maiden Uprising.
The Ukrainian government is famously corrupt, but in twenty fourteen,
the situation apparently reached a tipping point, and the media
consensus was that the Ukrainians had had enough.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
On Saturday, Ukraine's parliament voted to remove President Victor Yanikovich.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Joe Biden was vice president at the time and was
tasked with overseeing usaid to Ukraine. He made a trip
to the area to speak to officials of the newly
formed government.
Speaker 17 (16:31):
The opportunity to generate a united Ukraine getting it right
is within your grasp, and we want to be your partner,
your friend and the project we want to and we're
ready to assist. We can help in stabilizing and strengthening
Ukraine's economy by helping you withstand the unfair economic pressure
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being thrust upon you. We stand ready to do that.
And I say, the American people stand ready. And this
is a delicate thing to say to a group of
leaders in their House of Parliament, but you have to
fight the cancer of corruption that is endemic in your
system right now.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was a laudable message, but almost immediately his words
rang hollow. Just a few weeks later, a local energy
company made an announcement that even made the mainstream media
raise an eyebrow. Bisma, Ukraine's largest private oil and gas
holding company, announced the addition of Hunter Biden to their
board of directors. Hunter was going to be in charge
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of the company's legal unit. To Washington, DC insiders, it
was a stunning development. Hunter had no experience in the
energy sector, and just a few months earlier, Hunter had
been discharged from the Navy for testing positive for cocaine.
But that wasn't the half of it. Barisma was owned
by Mikola Slozevsky, Ukraine's former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.
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Slojevsky had been under investigation for years by Ukraine's Prosecutor
General for alleged money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption during
his twenty ten to twenty twelve tenure. After corruption became
the focal point of the Ukrainian Revolution, Slajevsky's Barisma was
sure to be in legal jeopardy again, so Hunter Biden
heading their legal unit at the precise time his father
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became the point man for the corrupt country. This setup
was too much for even the mainstream media to overlook.
The Washington Post, ABC News, The Guardian, USA Today, The
Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Yahoo News, Politico, NBC News, and
the BBC, among others, all ran with stories on the
unseemly situation. In a May twenty fourteen briefing, Obama's press
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secretary was even questioned on the development.
Speaker 18 (18:47):
On another subject, Hunter Biden has not taken a position
with the largest oil and gas company holding company in Ukraine,
is already concerned about at least the appearance of a
conflict there see the Vice President.
Speaker 19 (19:03):
Thank you to the Vice President's office. I saw those reports.
Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are
obviously private citizens, and where they work is not does
not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the
Vice president or president. But I would refer to the
Vice President's office.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
By the end of the year, the owner of Barisma
reportedly fled the country. After his escape, Ukrainian prosecutors instituted
criminal proceedings against Slojevsky on suspicion of illegal enrichment and
money laundering of criminally obtained funds. In twenty fifteen, a
new Ukrainian prosecutor general was appointed. His name was Victor Schoken.
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Political news outlet The Hill would later report that from
twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen, while Hunter Biden led Borisma's
legal unit, Ukrainian Prosecutor Shoken was leading a wide ranging
corruption probe into the company. The whole thing oozed of crooked.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Once Joe Biden left the White House in twenty sixteen,
the story of Hunter Biden's Ukrainian employment faded out of
the news, that is until January twenty eighteen, when the
former VP began publicly reminiscing about being assigned by Obama
to oversee financial aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 17 (20:21):
But it just happened to be that was the assignment
I got. I got all the good ones, and so
I got Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
In a stunning moment of candor, Joe Biden began bragging
about getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Victor Shogun fired in twenty sixteen,
the same prosecutor that was investigating Hunter Biden's employer Beisma.
Speaker 17 (20:44):
I remember going over convincing our team or too convincing,
that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I
went over, I guess the twelfth thirteenth time, to Kiev,
and I was supposed to announce that there was another
billion dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a comitment
from Poroshenko and from yachtsan Yuk that they would take
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action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Proshenko was the president of Ukraine at the time, Yachtsanyuk
was the Prime Minister.
Speaker 17 (21:14):
So they said they were walking out to prescomt and
said Noah. I said, I'm not going to or we're
not going to give you.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
The billion dollars.
Speaker 17 (21:21):
They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.
The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm
telling you're not getting a billion dollars. I said, you're
not getting the billion, and I'm gonna be leaving here.
I think it was what six hours. I look, I
said'm leaving the six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired,
you're not getting the money.
Speaker 20 (21:37):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Son of them.
Speaker 17 (21:40):
Got fired and they put in place someone who was solid.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The shocking admission may have withered away into the dustbend
of history, but that all changed in April twenty nineteen,
when Joe Biden announced his campaign for the White House.
Within weeks of his announcement, President Trump's lawyer Rudy Juliani
hit the media pushing for an investigation into the Biden
family's corrupt business dealings in Ukraine.
Speaker 14 (22:11):
I found out this incredible story about Joe Biden.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
The President's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani claims without proof that
Joe Biden tried to bribe the Ukrainian government to get
his son out of legal trouble.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It looked bad, and the media knew it. They'd covered
the whole ugly affair when it first broke, but now
that Joe Biden was a potential Democrat front runner, the
media went into protect mode.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
It needed to.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Change the narrative, so they ruled out Congressman Adam Schiff
to reframe the issue.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
There's no public evidence that the vice president former vice
president took any inappropriate action to help his son. But
was it right for Hunter Biden to take a job
like that in Ukraine while his father was engaged in
diplomacy there.
Speaker 21 (22:54):
I don't know the circumstances in which he took the job,
but I can say this visa the Joe Biden, There's
no evidence, nor has there ever been any evidence that
he was doing anything but trying to get the Ukraine
government to crack down on corruption. We're providing generous support
to Ukraine. We're providing defensive weapons to Ukraine. We want
Ukraine to be successful in its conflict with Russia. But
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part of that is having a government that the people
of Ukraine are willing to fight for and protect, and
they've had an endemic corruption problem. That's what Joe Biden
was trying to address. So going after his son is
just a method of going after someone the president believes
is his most formidable opponent. So yes, let the President
go after him, but don't seek the help of a
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foreign government in your election.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The media's narrative machine was cranking. By the summer of
twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden began as Mia Kolbatur.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
The troubling portrait of Joe Biden's younger son, Hunter Biden
opening up to The New Yorker magazine about his foreign
business dealings and his tumultuous personal life, including struggles with addiction,
all of it likely fodder for attacks in his father's
battle for the White House.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
There's multiple harrowing experiences, from trying to smoke crack by
stuffing it into a cigarette to getting discharged from the
Naval reserves after testing positive for cocaine, to having a
gun pointed at his head while trying to buy drugs
in a homeless encampment. And he says he relapsed after
the twenty fifteen death of his older brother Bea soon after.
He also struck up a brief romantic relationship with Bo's widow.
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And then there's the matter of Hunter Biden's business dealings,
questions about whether he leveraged his father's name to win
business in Ukraine and China, where Hunter accompanied his father
on an official trip in twenty thirteen. President Trump is
calling for an investigation hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
It's a disgrace.
Speaker 14 (24:42):
There has been no evidence Joe Biden used his influence
to help his son. Hunter says he and his dad
only spoke once about Ukraine. Dad said, I hope you
know what you're doing, and I said I do.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The medium machine was doing its thing, getting the dirt
out early on the Democrat front runner and distancing him
from his troubled son. It was a tough needle to thread,
but the media was about to pull out one of
its boldest jiu jitsu moves of all time. In mid
September twenty nineteen, news began to swirl about a July
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twenty nineteen call between President Trump and Ukraine's new president,
Vladimir Zelenski.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
New developments now in a story with many twists and turns,
and it started with a whistleblower's complain about President Trump's
contact with a foreign leader. We now know Ukraine was involved.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
It doesn't matter what I discussed.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
President Trump says he did nothing wrong during a phone
call with the President of Ukraine.
Speaker 16 (25:40):
But I can say that it was a totally appropriate conversation.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It was actually a beautiful conversation.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Reports claimed that President Trump pressured the Ukrainian president into
investigating his political rival.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
CBS News has learned the President's dealings with Ukraine are
part of a federal whistleblower complaint the Intelligence Community Inspector
General determined to be an urgent concern. The exact allegation
is unknown because the administration is refusing to turn the
complaint over to Congress.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
In reality, the Justice Department had reviewed the complaint and
then Attorney General barr unequivocally ruled out the possibility of
criminal conduct on the part of the president. Therefore, the
complaint was not passed on to Congress.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
It's a partisan whistle blow. We do know.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
The two leaders talked in July twenty fifth, about two
weeks before the complaint was filed. The Ukrainian government says
they discussed completing investigation of corruption cases. The Wall Street
Journal reports during the call, mister Trump pressured the Ukrainian
president eight times to investigate former Vice president Joe Biden's
son Hunter Hunter Biden worked for Ukrainian gas company during
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the Obama administration.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The media claimed that President Trump withheld financial aid and
during a phone call, pressured the Ukrainian president to take
action that benefited Trump personally. It was a stunning claim
given the context. Biden publicly admitted to withholding one billion
dollars in loan guarantees to pressure Ukraine into firing a prosecutor,
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a prosecutor that claimed he was investigating Hunter Biden's employer.
After Biden's pressure, Ukraine in fact fired the prosecutor. Biden
bragged about it. The whole affair reeked of corruption. But
when Trump asked the president of Ukraine to look into
this potential corruption, the media branded Trump the criminal. Trump
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was being accused of the exact same thing that Joe
Biden provably did. As the media's narrative about Trump began
to form, Trump hit back.
Speaker 16 (27:46):
It's a very dishonest thing that Joe Biden did. And
then he said he never spoke to his son. Does
anybody believe that one? But what he said is that
he wouldn't give I think it was billions of dollars
to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor who was looking
at his son and his son company, the company that
has done.
Speaker 19 (28:04):
Worked with And that's a.
Speaker 16 (28:06):
Very dishonest thing. And I'm not looking to hurt Biden.
I'm not even looking to hold him to it, to
be honest, But he said a very bad thing. Now. Me,
on the other hand, my conversation with the president, the
new president of Ukraine was perfect. They put out us
safeman last night they said the same thing. It was
a warm, friendly conversation. There was no quid pro quo,
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there was nothing. It was a perfect conversation.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
To put the controversy to rest, The President announced he
was releasing the transcript of the call.
Speaker 22 (28:38):
President Trump just tweeted that he is going to authorize
the release of the transcript of his conversation with the
president of the Ukraine. That's at the center of this
burgeoning scandal that now has Democrats talking about the possibility
of impeaching the president. And the question here at the
heart of all of this is did the president threaten
to withhold military aid from the Ukrainian government in exchange
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for an investigation by the Ukrainians into Joe Bi and
his son. The idea that he's releasing this transcript tomorrow.
Is interesting here, Melissa, because Nancy Pelosi's staff has said
she's going to make an announcement in the wake of
their impeachment meeting on Capitol Hill at five pm today.
So she's going to make that announcement, possibly without having
seen this full.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Transcript, before the transcript could even be released to the public.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made that announcement.
Speaker 20 (29:28):
And this week the President has admitted to asking the
President of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically.
The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of
the president's betrayal of his oath of office. Therefore, today
I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an
official impeachment inquiry. The president must be helped accountable. No
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one is above the law.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
When the transcript of the Ukraine phone call was released
the following day, at no time did the President link
USAID to a corruption investigation. Biden to drive home this point,
President Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Zelensky to the White House
on the same day the phone call transcript was released,
and the press grilled the Ukrainian president on the subject.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
As you felt any pressure when President come to investigate Joe.
Speaker 23 (30:19):
Biden has to Biden, I think you read everything. I'm sorry,
but I don't want to be involved elections of USA. No,
you're sure that we had I think good phone call.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
It was normal.
Speaker 23 (30:36):
We spoke about many things, and so I think and
you read it that nobody pushed it pushed me.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Yes, there's no pressure. You know there was no pressure.
All you have to do is see it what went
on on the call. But you know that. But you
could ask the questions and I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The answer when by President Zelenski to do more on
Joe Biden and investigator Oh, I.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Want him to do whatever he can.
Speaker 13 (31:03):
This was not his fault.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
He wasn't there. He's just been here recently. But whatever
he can do in terms of corruption, because the corruption's massive.
Speaker 15 (31:10):
Now.
Speaker 16 (31:11):
When Biden's son walks away with millions of dollars from
Ukraine and he knows nothing and they're paying him millions
of dollars, that's corruption.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
In the weeks that followed, Trump went on offense against
the Bidens.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
By the way, whatever happened to Hunter?
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Where the hell is he?
Speaker 24 (31:33):
Hunter? Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden
has found himself at the center of a political firestorm.
Speaker 16 (31:39):
Where's Hunter Biden and his son are stone called crooked.
Speaker 24 (31:46):
The President has been on the rampage accusing forty nine
year old Biden of improperly profiting on business interest in
Ukraine while his father was Vice President and the point
person on Ukraine, taking a seat on the board at
fifty thousand a month with a gas company called Barisma,
which had been accused of eruption leading to that now
infamous phone call in July.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
The Bidens were feeling the heat, so in mid October
twenty nineteen, they offered up Hunter Biden for an exclusive
interview with ABC News.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Did you and your father ever discuss Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Now, as I said, the only time was after a
news account. It wasn't a discussion in any way. There's
no butt to this. No, we never did.
Speaker 25 (32:25):
Your dad said I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I hope you know what you're doing?
Speaker 25 (32:28):
Is I do?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And I said I do? And that was literally the
end of our discussion.
Speaker 24 (32:32):
Do you regret being on the board to begin with.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
No, I don't regret being on the board. What I
regret is not taking into account that there would be
a Rudy Giuliani and a President of the United States
that would be listening to this ridiculous conspiracy idea which
has again been completely deplinked by everyone.
Speaker 25 (32:54):
And Hunter Biden reiterated time and time again that he
did not ever discuss in any detail whatsoever any of
his business dealings in Ukraine and China with his father
period that he wanted that to be crystal clear.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
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Speaker 1 (33:25):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. As the impeachment in
Query began to completely monopolize the news cycle, an Apple
computer repairman from Joe Biden's hometown began to get nervous.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
I'm starting to get concerned that there's going to be
a secret service guy that's going to come into the shop, because,
for all I know, Hunter was still in possession of
the document that said I was allowed to look on
his hard draw you see.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
By late September, twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden still hadn't returned
to John Paul mciaac's shop to pick up his laptop.
The computer had been sitting there for over one hundred
and fifty days, and that was significant because the check
in agreement that Hunter apparently signed, if a customer didn't
pay for his services within ninety days, ownership of the
property transfers to John Paul's repair shop. In other words,
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Hunter Biden's laptop was now the property of John Paul mcgeaac,
and that scared the repair man.
Speaker 13 (34:19):
For all I know, Hunter was still in possession of
the document that said I was allowed to look on
his hard drive. So somebody saw that document, I was
in trouble because they would know that I had witnessed.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
The data, and he was scared because the data potentially
contradicted Hunter Biden's public statements about his father's knowledge of
his Bearisma dealings.
Speaker 13 (34:38):
I was starting to get more and more concerned that
there might be criminal activity that's relevant to an existing case.
So I ended up reaching out to my father and said, hey, look,
can you help me out.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
His father was a retired Air Force colonel, John Paul
wanted to enlist his father's help because he could lend
gravitas to the story of how the laptop got into
his possession. He also didn't trust the FBI enough to
walk into their local Wilmington, Delaware office, so he asked
his dad to reach out to the FBI office in Albuquerque,
New Mexico to let them know what he had.
Speaker 13 (35:10):
I just wanted out of my shop, and I want
some level of protection should somebody come looking for me.
At least this is on the record, this is on
the books.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
His dad agreed to do it. John Paul made a
copy of the laptop hard drive and sent it to
his dad, and his father then marched it over to
the FBI's Albuquerque branch.
Speaker 13 (35:30):
Well, the FBI initially kicked him out. I told him
a lawyer up and don't come back. They refused to
take a copy of the drive.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
As the impeachment inquiry progressed in October twenty nineteen, John
Paul became more and more concerned this scandal would land
on his front door. He could see the data on
the laptop contradicted Hunter Biden's claims, but.
Speaker 13 (35:50):
I can definitely see a private Ukrainian citizen asking for
somebody's dad to step in to put pressure on the
Ukrainian government so that they don't have to give back
that five point five billion dollars. At the time, I
was getting more and more concerned that the reason for
Zelenski's phone call was justified because of what I had seen.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Just as he started to lose hope in the FBI,
John Paul said, an FBI agent named Joshua called his
father on November one, twenty nineteen. John Paul asked his
father to pass along his number to the agent. They
spoke and then scheduled the time to meet. Around the
end of November twenty nineteen.
Speaker 15 (36:27):
Two agents showed up to my house, Joshua and Agent Mike,
and we sat to down. First time they asked me
was if I had seen any child porn arch.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
There was porn on the laptop, but John Paul said
he didn't know the age or identity of the participants.
He was more concerned with the Ukraine data.
Speaker 15 (36:50):
So they never brought up money laundering at all, which
that seems kind of odd, but they wanted to hear
my concerns. I explained to him that there's powers foreign
and domestics that are involved. There's a lot of money
involved some days going to look for this and when
they find out that at the end of the trail
is my name, I won some level of protection.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
According to John Paul, the agent said that they couldn't
take the laptop at that time. They had to discuss
it internally with legal at the FBI. It looked like
John Paul was going to be left to his own
devices again, but then something happened.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
What of the Ukraine charges about you have been debunked
and were unfair.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
On December eighth, twenty nineteen, Axios aired an interview with
Joe Biden where they asked him about his son's involvement
with the Ukrainian energy from BISMA.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
There's one thing that a lot of Democrats even do
wonder about, and that is Hunter Biden, your son was
getting paid a lot of money to serve on the
board of a Ukrainian energy company facing series corruption charges.
You were the vice president running point on Ukraine. The
average Joe hears that and says that sounds fishy. What's
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your understanding of what your son was doing for an
extraordinary amount of money.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
I don't know what he was.
Speaker 17 (38:03):
I know he was on the board. I found out
he was on the board, after he was on the board,
and that was it. And there's nobody Well, there.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Was a lot of time. Isn't this something you want
to get to the bottom of.
Speaker 17 (38:12):
No, because I trust my son.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
So you think that everything that happened was kosher.
Speaker 17 (38:18):
You know, there's not one single bit of evidence, not
one little tiny bit to anything then was wrong.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
You know that, but you keep asking me these questions.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
The next day, the FBI was at John Paul's front door.
Speaker 13 (38:41):
And then they eventually came to the shop in December ninth,
twenty nineteen to collect the laptop and the drive and
Leny related paperwork.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
He felt relieved John Paul finally had the laptop in
the hands of the authorities. His life could now get
back to normal. But then as the agents were leaving,
one of them turned around and said something that spooked
John Paul. The agent claimed that in their experience, nothing
happens to those that don't talk. Next time on red
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Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
President Trump remains a clear and present danger to our
national security.
Speaker 13 (39:18):
Donald John Trump be and he is hereby acquitted of
the charges and said articles Now I know I'm in
trouble because the FBI knows that I had this, and
if the FBI is protecting the Bidens then used to say,
somebody's going to say, hey, Joe, this kid that's trying
to get rid of your son thirty laundry.
Speaker 12 (39:36):
The first story we ran was this email from Hunter
Biden's Ukrainian paymaster, and in this email he thanks Hunter
for the meeting with his father in Washington, DC.
Speaker 26 (39:50):
Hunter Biden's laptop, that whole thing has been fizzling.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
It looks like it's tied to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
and Twitter is actively blocking right now.
Speaker 13 (40:00):
This instance stories from the New York Post.
Speaker 26 (40:03):
We were called here today because of an enforcement decision
we made against the New York Posts based on a
policy we created in twenty eighteen to prevent Twitter from
being used to spread hacked materials.
Speaker 23 (40:13):
We knew that he knew who we were, and then
he liked our content.
Speaker 11 (40:16):
You know, he had tweeted at one point he said,
the Babylon bie is savage?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Why does a free speech Twitter scare the media?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
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Previously unread Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What Milo uncovered was a smoking gun.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Gamergate is essentially about corrupt journalism.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Feminism went slightly out of control.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Gamers do not hate women.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Gamagate won, and it has ignoitted so many fires in
so many places, with so many unexpected consequences.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I retweet, you know, I retweet for a reason.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Right another day, another Twitter tirade from Donald Trump, and.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The media did everything they could to keep control of
the narrative.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it
wasn't for Twitter.
Speaker 9 (01:49):
I believe without the Cally letter, I would have won.
Speaker 10 (01:51):
I think Rudy Giuliani played a role.
Speaker 11 (01:52):
We needed people to actually enforce their own terms of
service and shut down bad actors. Twitter should have kicked
Donald Trump off Twitter a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm Patrick Carelci and I'm Adriana Cortez.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
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Speaker 1 (02:25):
You could think of red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part four of our series
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of episodes entitled Unfiltered. You've probably heard part one through three,
but if you haven't, stop and go back and listen
from the beginning. We're looking for the answer to the
question why is the media afraid of free speech? By
telling the story of Twitter and how it drifted away
from being the free speech platform.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So in part three, we told the story of how
Milo Ganapolis rose to prominence through Gamergate, a controversy that
gained steam on Twitter and pit gamers against the video
game media that had been infected by wokeness. Milo found
the smoking gun that proved the central argument of the
Gamergate movement that joystick journalism was corrupt. He uncovered a
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secret group of gaming media that colluded to build a
consensus on stories involving two feminists that had infiltrated the
gaming industry. Those women being Anita Sarkissian and Zoe Quinn.
The journalist worked to censor and attack gamers while propping
up the feminists on their media platforms, and Milo found
the emails proving it all. His discovery made him a
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hot commodity on the topic, first on public radio, then
an independent media. Milo saw Gamergate as a pivotal moment
in the culture war. It was a remarkable time where
a group finally pushed back against the woke army and won,
and they did all using Twitter. The affair provided a
template for how to beat the cultural Marxist and it
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was a lesson that Donald Trump would use in his
twenty sixteen run for the White House.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
When he entered the race, Trump was no novice on Twitter.
He'd been using the platform effectively years before his presidential run.
At every turn, he used Jack Dorsey's creation to bypass
the media and get his message to the public. As
election day twenty sixteen approached, Twitter played a central role
in the outcome. First, Wiki Weeks used the platform to
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promote emails that were allegedly hacked from Hillary Clinton's top aide,
John Podesta. Then, less than two weeks before voting day,
FBI director James Comy announced he was reopening an investigation
into Hillary's use of a private server when she was
Secretary of State. The case was reopened because of a
chain of events that could be traced back to a
scandal known as Wienergate, where Andrew Breitbart and his rebel
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journalists took down Democrat Congressman Anthony Wiener using Twitter. Director
Comy would ultimately exonerate Hillary before election day, but the
news halted her momentum. In the end, Hillary effectively blamed
three key elements for her loss, John Podesta's hacked e mails,
the FBI investigations stemming from a Twitter controversy, and oddly,
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Rudy Giuliani. While Trump was in the process of this
historic twenty sixteen win, Twitter was undergoing a radical change.
The CEO that dubbed Twitter as the Free Speech Platform
was ousted and replaced by Jack Dorsey. Twitter also created
a Trust and Safety Council whose mission was to ensure
people could quote continue to express themselves freely and safely
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on Twitter, and they named Anita Sarkisian, the central figure
of Gamergate, to this new censorship council. Milo was eventually
banned from the site, and when Donald Trump took the
White House just a few months later, the media began
to apply pressure to Jack Dorsey to deal with their
Trump problem so that two thousand six sixteen could never
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happen again.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It was a Friday night in early October twenty twenty,
and history was on the verge of repeating itself. Miranda Divine,
an Australian columnist from the New York Post, was at
home winding down her week when her cell phone buzzed and.
Speaker 12 (06:28):
I got a text message from Bob Costello, who is
Rudy Giuliani's lawyer.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
At the time, Rudy Giuliani was working as President Donald
Trump's lawyer, so getting a message from Costello just three
weeks before election Day twenty twenty was a big deal.
Bob's text included several pictures of someone that looked familiar.
Miranda thumb threw them, and as her eyes adjusted to
one picture, she noticed what looked like a fresh tattoo
of claw marks. It was bizarre. She looked at another photo,
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and as the image came into focus, Miranda recognized the person.
Speaker 12 (07:03):
It was Hunter Biden, you know, sleeping with a crackpop
in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Holy sh She quickly thumbed to the text portion of
Bob Costello's message.
Speaker 12 (07:16):
He just said, you know, we've got something that we
think that you will be interested in Jim Talk, and
I was like, are you kidding.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Apparently Bob Costello and Rudy Giuliani had gotten their hands
on the contents of a laptop, or what Miranda Devine
would call later the Laptop from Hell, the title of
her book about breaking the biggest story of the twenty
twenty election. Computers are rarely the central character of a
history altering event, but this was no typical computer. The
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tale behind its relevance goes a long way into explaining
why the media is so afraid of free speech. The
laptop made its first public appearance on an early Friday
evening in mid April twenty nineteen. John Paul mcguy's was
getting ready to close his Wilmington, Delaware, Apple computer repair
shop when a man walked in. He was carrying a
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trio of Apple laptops.
Speaker 13 (08:12):
All three were suffering from liquid damage.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's John Paul MCSAAC in a March twenty twenty two
interview with the Friends of Zeus.
Speaker 13 (08:18):
One was a write off. I couldn't do anything with it.
The other one just had a faulty keyboard, so I
gave him a keyboard so he could get around his
password and then recover his own data. The thirty unit
did require a.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Check in, a check in, meaning that John Paul would
have to take possession of the laptop for a few
days to recover its data. Like any other time when
you have to leave property behind to be repaired, think
auto mechanic, John Paul needed the customer's name to fill
out the necessary paperwork. It's a pretty standard process, but
in this instance, when John Paul asked for the customer's name,
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the customer seemed a bit annoyed by the question.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Hunter Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He responded, hmm, that name meant something to John Paul.
Most locals wouldn't have needed to ask. The bidens are
legendary in the area. But John Paul isn't your normal Delawarean.
He is an albino, which severely impairs his vision. Basically,
he's legally blind, but he can't see things that are
about six to eight inches away from his face. So
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as he sat there facing the customer, he couldn't see
him clearly. However, when he looked at the laptop that
was being checked in, John Paul got a second confirmation.
Speaker 13 (09:25):
The third unit had a bo Biden Foundation sticker.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Joe Biden's son Bo Biden passed away tragically a few
years earlier from brain cancer.
Speaker 13 (09:34):
I assumed that it was his dead brother's computer and
he just wanted his memories off of it. So I
kind of felt bad for the guy because he was wasted.
Speaker 14 (09:41):
At the time.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
In April twenty nineteen, Hunter's father was just the former
vice president. He held no public office.
Speaker 13 (09:48):
His dad had an announce as candidacy. So this was
just some drunk guy with mccorn and a bunch of
crap on his computer.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So John Paul decided to take on the job at
a reduced price. He quoted him eighty five dollars to
recover the data. It worked for Hunter and he checked
in the laptop.
Speaker 15 (10:06):
He agreed to the terms and conditions and signed the
authorization and then went away.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Now, the data recovery process can at times be a
bit meticulous. The technician has to carefully transfer files off
of the damaged computer onto another hard drive. It's a
process that sometimes forces the technician to get intimate with
the files. And it was on this close review that
gave John Paul his third confirmation on the laptop's owner.
Speaker 15 (10:36):
Within thirty minutes of performing the data transfer, I had
been able to verify that the person that was in
the shop was in the the person that was on
the computer.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He saw drivers' licenses, pictures, documents. By the time John
Paul Mack finished the process, he concluded with one hundred
percent certainty that the man that checked in the computer
was in fact Hunter Biden.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
I recovered the data and the process of verifying the data,
that's when I was made aware of a lot of
the a lot of his hobbies.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It was a kind of personal material you wouldn't want
a stranger to see. Films of sex acts, nude selfies,
drug use, and the kind of documents that could get
you in real hot water.
Speaker 13 (11:21):
And then ended up also seeing some other financial documents
that just kind of like, oh, this is a lot
of money, this is there's this thing's just a big
hot mess. So I was nervous. But his dad had
an announced his candidacy, So this was just some drunk
guy with woodcorn and a bunch of crap on his computer.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So John Paul didn't think much about what he'd seen
on the laptop. He just did his job and focused
on saving the.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
Files several attempts because it was a power issue and
I kept going down. Once I got all this data combined,
I saved it and then I was able to clone
that to an external drive, and then from that I
made my clone.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
When he was done, John Paul says he gave Hunter
a call and asked him to drop off a poor
ardable hard drive so that he could put all of
the laptop files on that.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
He came back in, dropped off the drive, called him
up on a Monday, sent him a square Secure payment
request for the eighty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The Hunter didn't respond. John Paul called him again over
the coming days, then weeks, still no response.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And this is when things started to get a little
precarious for the Apple repairman.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
You see.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Shortly after John Paul successfully recovered the data, Hunter's father
made an announcement.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Former Vice President Joe Biden is officially throwing his hat
into the ring for the race for president.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
Joe Biden just released that video announcing his twenty twenty
bid on his social media accounts. He is framing his
campaign as a battle for the soul of a country,
a message that he's really carried over the past year.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
John Paul mciaac didn't fully grasp the magnitude of the moment,
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to red Pilled America. So in April twenty nineteen, Hunter
Biden entered John Paul mcaac's Apple repair shop and checked
in the laptop to be repaired. In the process of
recovering the data, John Paul saw some pretty personal files,
films of sex acts, nude selfies, drug use, and even
some eye popping financial documents. He eventually was able to
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recover the data, but when he reached out to Hunter
to pay for and pick up the laptop, Hunter didn't respond.
If it were any other customer, it would have been
no big deal. But as the laptop sat in the
Apple repair shop waiting to be retrieved, Joe Biden announced
his twenty twenty run for the White House. John Paul
didn't fully grasp the magnitude of the moment, but it
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did since that he could be in for some serious trouble.
Within a few weeks of Joe Biden's announcement, a controversial
story re emerged in the mainstream media.
Speaker 16 (15:20):
Mister Vice President Tommy Almos with ABC News, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
I've got a quick question for you.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
It's a question we tried to ask repeatedly, can we
ask you about Ukraine and China.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But kept getting blocked.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
At issue was Hunter Biden profiting off his dad's work
as vice president and did Joe Biden allow it? We're
talking about millions of dollars in at least two countries.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The story was not a new one. It dated back
to twenty fourteen, when the Eastern European country of Ukraine
erupted into civil unrest.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Ukraine is in a state of crisis two days after
the country's democratically elected president was ousted following months of
street protests that left at least eighty two people dead.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
The unrest would come to be known as the Maiden Uprising.
The Ukrainian government is famously corrupt, but in twenty fourteen,
the situation apparently reached a tipping point, and the media
consensus was that the Ukrainians had had enough.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
On Saturday, Ukraine's parliament voted to remove President Victor Yanikovich.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Joe Biden was vice president at the time and was
tasked with overseeing usaid to Ukraine. He made a trip
to the area to speak to officials of the newly
formed government.
Speaker 17 (16:31):
The opportunity to generate a united Ukraine getting it right
is within your grasp, and we want to be your partner,
your friend and the project we want to and we're
ready to assist. We can help in stabilizing and strengthening
Ukraine's economy by helping you withstand the unfair economic pressure
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being thrust upon you. We stand ready to do that.
And I say, the American people stand ready. And this
is a delicate thing to say to a group of
leaders in their House of Parliament, but you have to
fight the cancer of corruption that is endemic in your
system right now.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was a laudable message, but almost immediately his words
rang hollow. Just a few weeks later, a local energy
company made an announcement that even made the mainstream media
raise an eyebrow. Bisma, Ukraine's largest private oil and gas
holding company, announced the addition of Hunter Biden to their
board of directors. Hunter was going to be in charge
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of the company's legal unit. To Washington, DC insiders, it
was a stunning development. Hunter had no experience in the
energy sector, and just a few months earlier, Hunter had
been discharged from the Navy for testing positive for cocaine.
But that wasn't the half of it. Barisma was owned
by Mikola Slozevsky, Ukraine's former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.
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Slojevsky had been under investigation for years by Ukraine's Prosecutor
General for alleged money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption during
his twenty ten to twenty twelve tenure. After corruption became
the focal point of the Ukrainian Revolution, Slajevsky's Barisma was
sure to be in legal jeopardy again, so Hunter Biden
heading their legal unit at the precise time his father
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became the point man for the corrupt country. This setup
was too much for even the mainstream media to overlook.
The Washington Post, ABC News, The Guardian, USA Today, The
Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Yahoo News, Politico, NBC News, and
the BBC, among others, all ran with stories on the
unseemly situation. In a May twenty fourteen briefing, Obama's press
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secretary was even questioned on the development.
Speaker 18 (18:47):
On another subject, Hunter Biden has not taken a position
with the largest oil and gas company holding company in Ukraine,
is already concerned about at least the appearance of a
conflict there see the Vice President.
Speaker 19 (19:03):
Thank you to the Vice President's office. I saw those reports.
Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are
obviously private citizens, and where they work is not does
not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the
Vice president or president. But I would refer to the
Vice President's office.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
By the end of the year, the owner of Barisma
reportedly fled the country. After his escape, Ukrainian prosecutors instituted
criminal proceedings against Slojevsky on suspicion of illegal enrichment and
money laundering of criminally obtained funds. In twenty fifteen, a
new Ukrainian prosecutor general was appointed. His name was Victor Schoken.
(19:47):
Political news outlet The Hill would later report that from
twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen, while Hunter Biden led Borisma's
legal unit, Ukrainian Prosecutor Shoken was leading a wide ranging
corruption probe into the company. The whole thing oozed of crooked.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Once Joe Biden left the White House in twenty sixteen,
the story of Hunter Biden's Ukrainian employment faded out of
the news, that is until January twenty eighteen, when the
former VP began publicly reminiscing about being assigned by Obama
to oversee financial aid to Ukraine.
Speaker 17 (20:21):
But it just happened to be that was the assignment
I got. I got all the good ones, and so
I got Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
In a stunning moment of candor, Joe Biden began bragging
about getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Victor Shogun fired in twenty sixteen,
the same prosecutor that was investigating Hunter Biden's employer Beisma.
Speaker 17 (20:44):
I remember going over convincing our team or too convincing,
that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I
went over, I guess the twelfth thirteenth time, to Kiev,
and I was supposed to announce that there was another
billion dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a comitment
from Poroshenko and from yachtsan Yuk that they would take
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action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Proshenko was the president of Ukraine at the time, Yachtsanyuk
was the Prime Minister.
Speaker 17 (21:14):
So they said they were walking out to prescomt and
said Noah. I said, I'm not going to or we're
not going to give you.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
The billion dollars.
Speaker 17 (21:21):
They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.
The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm
telling you're not getting a billion dollars. I said, you're
not getting the billion, and I'm gonna be leaving here.
I think it was what six hours. I look, I
said'm leaving the six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired,
you're not getting the money.
Speaker 20 (21:37):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Son of them.
Speaker 17 (21:40):
Got fired and they put in place someone who was solid.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
The shocking admission may have withered away into the dustbend
of history, but that all changed in April twenty nineteen,
when Joe Biden announced his campaign for the White House.
Within weeks of his announcement, President Trump's lawyer Rudy Juliani
hit the media pushing for an investigation into the Biden
family's corrupt business dealings in Ukraine.
Speaker 14 (22:11):
I found out this incredible story about Joe Biden.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
The President's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani claims without proof that
Joe Biden tried to bribe the Ukrainian government to get
his son out of legal trouble.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It looked bad, and the media knew it. They'd covered
the whole ugly affair when it first broke, but now
that Joe Biden was a potential Democrat front runner, the
media went into protect mode.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
It needed to.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Change the narrative, so they ruled out Congressman Adam Schiff
to reframe the issue.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
There's no public evidence that the vice president former vice
president took any inappropriate action to help his son. But
was it right for Hunter Biden to take a job
like that in Ukraine while his father was engaged in
diplomacy there.
Speaker 21 (22:54):
I don't know the circumstances in which he took the job,
but I can say this visa the Joe Biden, There's
no evidence, nor has there ever been any evidence that
he was doing anything but trying to get the Ukraine
government to crack down on corruption. We're providing generous support
to Ukraine. We're providing defensive weapons to Ukraine. We want
Ukraine to be successful in its conflict with Russia. But
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part of that is having a government that the people
of Ukraine are willing to fight for and protect, and
they've had an endemic corruption problem. That's what Joe Biden
was trying to address. So going after his son is
just a method of going after someone the president believes
is his most formidable opponent. So yes, let the President
go after him, but don't seek the help of a
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foreign government in your election.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The media's narrative machine was cranking. By the summer of
twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden began as Mia Kolbatur.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
The troubling portrait of Joe Biden's younger son, Hunter Biden
opening up to The New Yorker magazine about his foreign
business dealings and his tumultuous personal life, including struggles with addiction,
all of it likely fodder for attacks in his father's
battle for the White House.
Speaker 14 (24:03):
There's multiple harrowing experiences, from trying to smoke crack by
stuffing it into a cigarette to getting discharged from the
Naval reserves after testing positive for cocaine, to having a
gun pointed at his head while trying to buy drugs
in a homeless encampment. And he says he relapsed after
the twenty fifteen death of his older brother Bea soon after.
He also struck up a brief romantic relationship with Bo's widow.
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And then there's the matter of Hunter Biden's business dealings,
questions about whether he leveraged his father's name to win
business in Ukraine and China, where Hunter accompanied his father
on an official trip in twenty thirteen. President Trump is
calling for an investigation hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
It's a disgrace.
Speaker 14 (24:42):
There has been no evidence Joe Biden used his influence
to help his son. Hunter says he and his dad
only spoke once about Ukraine. Dad said, I hope you
know what you're doing, and I said I do.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The medium machine was doing its thing, getting the dirt
out early on the Democrat front runner and distancing him
from his troubled son. It was a tough needle to thread,
but the media was about to pull out one of
its boldest jiu jitsu moves of all time. In mid
September twenty nineteen, news began to swirl about a July
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twenty nineteen call between President Trump and Ukraine's new president,
Vladimir Zelenski.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
New developments now in a story with many twists and turns,
and it started with a whistleblower's complain about President Trump's
contact with a foreign leader. We now know Ukraine was involved.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
It doesn't matter what I discussed.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
President Trump says he did nothing wrong during a phone
call with the President of Ukraine.
Speaker 16 (25:40):
But I can say that it was a totally appropriate conversation.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It was actually a beautiful conversation.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Reports claimed that President Trump pressured the Ukrainian president into
investigating his political rival.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
CBS News has learned the President's dealings with Ukraine are
part of a federal whistleblower complaint the Intelligence Community Inspector
General determined to be an urgent concern. The exact allegation
is unknown because the administration is refusing to turn the
complaint over to Congress.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
In reality, the Justice Department had reviewed the complaint and
then Attorney General barr unequivocally ruled out the possibility of
criminal conduct on the part of the president. Therefore, the
complaint was not passed on to Congress.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
It's a partisan whistle blow. We do know.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
The two leaders talked in July twenty fifth, about two
weeks before the complaint was filed. The Ukrainian government says
they discussed completing investigation of corruption cases. The Wall Street
Journal reports during the call, mister Trump pressured the Ukrainian
president eight times to investigate former Vice president Joe Biden's
son Hunter Hunter Biden worked for Ukrainian gas company during
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the Obama administration.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The media claimed that President Trump withheld financial aid and
during a phone call, pressured the Ukrainian president to take
action that benefited Trump personally. It was a stunning claim
given the context. Biden publicly admitted to withholding one billion
dollars in loan guarantees to pressure Ukraine into firing a prosecutor,
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a prosecutor that claimed he was investigating Hunter Biden's employer.
After Biden's pressure, Ukraine in fact fired the prosecutor. Biden
bragged about it. The whole affair reeked of corruption. But
when Trump asked the president of Ukraine to look into
this potential corruption, the media branded Trump the criminal. Trump
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was being accused of the exact same thing that Joe
Biden provably did. As the media's narrative about Trump began
to form, Trump hit back.
Speaker 16 (27:46):
It's a very dishonest thing that Joe Biden did. And
then he said he never spoke to his son. Does
anybody believe that one? But what he said is that
he wouldn't give I think it was billions of dollars
to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor who was looking
at his son and his son company, the company that
has done.
Speaker 19 (28:04):
Worked with And that's a.
Speaker 16 (28:06):
Very dishonest thing. And I'm not looking to hurt Biden.
I'm not even looking to hold him to it, to
be honest, But he said a very bad thing. Now. Me,
on the other hand, my conversation with the president, the
new president of Ukraine was perfect. They put out us
safeman last night they said the same thing. It was
a warm, friendly conversation. There was no quid pro quo,
(28:30):
there was nothing. It was a perfect conversation.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
To put the controversy to rest, The President announced he
was releasing the transcript of the call.
Speaker 22 (28:38):
President Trump just tweeted that he is going to authorize
the release of the transcript of his conversation with the
president of the Ukraine. That's at the center of this
burgeoning scandal that now has Democrats talking about the possibility
of impeaching the president. And the question here at the
heart of all of this is did the president threaten
to withhold military aid from the Ukrainian government in exchange
(29:00):
for an investigation by the Ukrainians into Joe Bi and
his son. The idea that he's releasing this transcript tomorrow.
Is interesting here, Melissa, because Nancy Pelosi's staff has said
she's going to make an announcement in the wake of
their impeachment meeting on Capitol Hill at five pm today.
So she's going to make that announcement, possibly without having
seen this full.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Transcript, before the transcript could even be released to the public.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made that announcement.
Speaker 20 (29:28):
And this week the President has admitted to asking the
President of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically.
The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of
the president's betrayal of his oath of office. Therefore, today
I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an
official impeachment inquiry. The president must be helped accountable. No
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one is above the law.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
When the transcript of the Ukraine phone call was released
the following day, at no time did the President link
USAID to a corruption investigation. Biden to drive home this point,
President Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Zelensky to the White House
on the same day the phone call transcript was released,
and the press grilled the Ukrainian president on the subject.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
As you felt any pressure when President come to investigate Joe.
Speaker 23 (30:19):
Biden has to Biden, I think you read everything. I'm sorry,
but I don't want to be involved elections of USA. No,
you're sure that we had I think good phone call.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
It was normal.
Speaker 23 (30:36):
We spoke about many things, and so I think and
you read it that nobody pushed it pushed me.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Yes, there's no pressure. You know there was no pressure.
All you have to do is see it what went
on on the call. But you know that. But you
could ask the questions and I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The answer when by President Zelenski to do more on
Joe Biden and investigator Oh, I.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Want him to do whatever he can.
Speaker 13 (31:03):
This was not his fault.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
He wasn't there. He's just been here recently. But whatever
he can do in terms of corruption, because the corruption's massive.
Speaker 15 (31:10):
Now.
Speaker 16 (31:11):
When Biden's son walks away with millions of dollars from
Ukraine and he knows nothing and they're paying him millions
of dollars, that's corruption.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
In the weeks that followed, Trump went on offense against
the Bidens.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
By the way, whatever happened to Hunter?
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Where the hell is he?
Speaker 24 (31:33):
Hunter? Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden
has found himself at the center of a political firestorm.
Speaker 16 (31:39):
Where's Hunter Biden and his son are stone called crooked.
Speaker 24 (31:46):
The President has been on the rampage accusing forty nine
year old Biden of improperly profiting on business interest in
Ukraine while his father was Vice President and the point
person on Ukraine, taking a seat on the board at
fifty thousand a month with a gas company called Barisma,
which had been accused of eruption leading to that now
infamous phone call in July.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
The Bidens were feeling the heat, so in mid October
twenty nineteen, they offered up Hunter Biden for an exclusive
interview with ABC News.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Did you and your father ever discuss Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Now, as I said, the only time was after a
news account. It wasn't a discussion in any way. There's
no butt to this. No, we never did.
Speaker 25 (32:25):
Your dad said I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I hope you know what you're doing?
Speaker 25 (32:28):
Is I do?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And I said I do? And that was literally the
end of our discussion.
Speaker 24 (32:32):
Do you regret being on the board to begin with.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
No, I don't regret being on the board. What I
regret is not taking into account that there would be
a Rudy Giuliani and a President of the United States
that would be listening to this ridiculous conspiracy idea which
has again been completely deplinked by everyone.
Speaker 25 (32:54):
And Hunter Biden reiterated time and time again that he
did not ever discuss in any detail whatsoever any of
his business dealings in Ukraine and China with his father
period that he wanted that to be crystal clear.
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Speaker 1 (33:25):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. As the impeachment in
Query began to completely monopolize the news cycle, an Apple
computer repairman from Joe Biden's hometown began to get nervous.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
I'm starting to get concerned that there's going to be
a secret service guy that's going to come into the shop, because,
for all I know, Hunter was still in possession of
the document that said I was allowed to look on
his hard draw you see.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
By late September, twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden still hadn't returned
to John Paul mciaac's shop to pick up his laptop.
The computer had been sitting there for over one hundred
and fifty days, and that was significant because the check
in agreement that Hunter apparently signed, if a customer didn't
pay for his services within ninety days, ownership of the
property transfers to John Paul's repair shop. In other words,
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Hunter Biden's laptop was now the property of John Paul mcgeaac,
and that scared the repair man.
Speaker 13 (34:19):
For all I know, Hunter was still in possession of
the document that said I was allowed to look on
his hard drive. So somebody saw that document, I was
in trouble because they would know that I had witnessed.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
The data, and he was scared because the data potentially
contradicted Hunter Biden's public statements about his father's knowledge of
his Bearisma dealings.
Speaker 13 (34:38):
I was starting to get more and more concerned that
there might be criminal activity that's relevant to an existing case.
So I ended up reaching out to my father and said, hey, look,
can you help me out.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
His father was a retired Air Force colonel, John Paul
wanted to enlist his father's help because he could lend
gravitas to the story of how the laptop got into
his possession. He also didn't trust the FBI enough to
walk into their local Wilmington, Delaware office, so he asked
his dad to reach out to the FBI office in Albuquerque,
New Mexico to let them know what he had.
Speaker 13 (35:10):
I just wanted out of my shop, and I want
some level of protection should somebody come looking for me.
At least this is on the record, this is on
the books.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
His dad agreed to do it. John Paul made a
copy of the laptop hard drive and sent it to
his dad, and his father then marched it over to
the FBI's Albuquerque branch.
Speaker 13 (35:30):
Well, the FBI initially kicked him out. I told him
a lawyer up and don't come back. They refused to
take a copy of the drive.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
As the impeachment inquiry progressed in October twenty nineteen, John
Paul became more and more concerned this scandal would land
on his front door. He could see the data on
the laptop contradicted Hunter Biden's claims, but.
Speaker 13 (35:50):
I can definitely see a private Ukrainian citizen asking for
somebody's dad to step in to put pressure on the
Ukrainian government so that they don't have to give back
that five point five billion dollars. At the time, I
was getting more and more concerned that the reason for
Zelenski's phone call was justified because of what I had seen.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Just as he started to lose hope in the FBI,
John Paul said, an FBI agent named Joshua called his
father on November one, twenty nineteen. John Paul asked his
father to pass along his number to the agent. They
spoke and then scheduled the time to meet. Around the
end of November twenty nineteen.
Speaker 15 (36:27):
Two agents showed up to my house, Joshua and Agent Mike,
and we sat to down. First time they asked me
was if I had seen any child porn arch.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
There was porn on the laptop, but John Paul said
he didn't know the age or identity of the participants.
He was more concerned with the Ukraine data.
Speaker 15 (36:50):
So they never brought up money laundering at all, which
that seems kind of odd, but they wanted to hear
my concerns. I explained to him that there's powers foreign
and domestics that are involved. There's a lot of money
involved some days going to look for this and when
they find out that at the end of the trail
is my name, I won some level of protection.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
According to John Paul, the agent said that they couldn't
take the laptop at that time. They had to discuss
it internally with legal at the FBI. It looked like
John Paul was going to be left to his own
devices again, but then something happened.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
What of the Ukraine charges about you have been debunked
and were unfair.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
On December eighth, twenty nineteen, Axios aired an interview with
Joe Biden where they asked him about his son's involvement
with the Ukrainian energy from BISMA.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
There's one thing that a lot of Democrats even do
wonder about, and that is Hunter Biden, your son was
getting paid a lot of money to serve on the
board of a Ukrainian energy company facing series corruption charges.
You were the vice president running point on Ukraine. The
average Joe hears that and says that sounds fishy. What's
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your understanding of what your son was doing for an
extraordinary amount of money.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
I don't know what he was.
Speaker 17 (38:03):
I know he was on the board. I found out
he was on the board, after he was on the board,
and that was it. And there's nobody Well, there.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Was a lot of time. Isn't this something you want
to get to the bottom of.
Speaker 17 (38:12):
No, because I trust my son.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
So you think that everything that happened was kosher.
Speaker 17 (38:18):
You know, there's not one single bit of evidence, not
one little tiny bit to anything then was wrong.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
You know that, but you keep asking me these questions.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
The next day, the FBI was at John Paul's front door.
Speaker 13 (38:41):
And then they eventually came to the shop in December ninth,
twenty nineteen to collect the laptop and the drive and
Leny related paperwork.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
He felt relieved John Paul finally had the laptop in
the hands of the authorities. His life could now get
back to normal. But then as the agents were leaving,
one of them turned around and said something that spooked
John Paul. The agent claimed that in their experience, nothing
happens to those that don't talk. Next time on red
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Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
President Trump remains a clear and present danger to our
national security.
Speaker 13 (39:18):
Donald John Trump be and he is hereby acquitted of
the charges and said articles Now I know I'm in
trouble because the FBI knows that I had this, and
if the FBI is protecting the Bidens then used to say,
somebody's going to say, hey, Joe, this kid that's trying
to get rid of your son thirty laundry.
Speaker 12 (39:36):
The first story we ran was this email from Hunter
Biden's Ukrainian paymaster, and in this email he thanks Hunter
for the meeting with his father in Washington, DC.
Speaker 26 (39:50):
Hunter Biden's laptop, that whole thing has been fizzling.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
It looks like it's tied to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
and Twitter is actively blocking right now.
Speaker 13 (40:00):
This instance stories from the New York Post.
Speaker 26 (40:03):
We were called here today because of an enforcement decision
we made against the New York Posts based on a
policy we created in twenty eighteen to prevent Twitter from
being used to spread hacked materials.
Speaker 23 (40:13):
We knew that he knew who we were, and then
he liked our content.
Speaker 11 (40:16):
You know, he had tweeted at one point he said,
the Babylon bie is savage?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Why does a free speech Twitter scare the media?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
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