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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, come in is verdict with Center Tech Cruz Ben
Ferguson with you as well, and Senator, You've got a
big investigation that is looking into big tech specifically and
how they are silencing and deplatforming conservatives, and it's something
the media really isn't covering.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, that's exactly right. In the Senate Commerce Committee, I
launched an investigation in terms of into how big tech
is abusing its power, and we just released a report
explaining how big tech is using monopoly power over basic
infrastructure online to deplatform conservatives, to target conservatives, and to
shut them down. I'm going to explain all about what
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they're doing and how they're trying to silence you. We're
also going to talk about a big story that broke
this week that the corporate media is utterly ignoring, which
is testimony that occurred in a federal bankruptcy proceeding that
Joe Biden's brother Jim Biden, was in business with Cutter
and was making vast sums of money from the nation
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Joe Biden. Now, Cutter is a country that also has
been a leading player supporting hamas sheltering Hamas, and the
Biden administration has been incredibly soft on Cutter and so
it is direct ties of Biden corruption that is undermining
our national security. We're gonna explain all about it, and
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to be honest, you can hear about it here and
very few other places.
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is obviously had a massive influence over public opinion in
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this country. We saw a recent report that came out
just on TikTok, for example, where they were forty five
to one stories that were pro Palestinian pro Hamas over Israel.
That's one example of how they've really been able to
shape public opinion, especially with young people, and the riots
and the chaos we're witnessing on college campuses right now.
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But there's also something else that's happened with big tech.
I've been a victim of it. I spoke out again
against big tech a few years ago at a CPAC convention,
and before I landed home, after I spoke out about
big tech, specifically fit Facebook, my accounts were shut down.
They have never worked the same way as they did before.
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The reach has disappeared. I've witnessed it, and many other
conservative leaders out there are going through the same things.
And it always seems to happen center right during a
big election cycle, where the Democrats get a free flow
of information out and conservatives get hammered and silenced.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, that's exactly right. So I started last year as
the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science,
and Transportation, and from that position as the ranking member,
which means the senior Republican on that committee, I launched
an investigation into the abuse of power from big tech,
and this past week we put out a major report.
The report is entitled Weaponizing Terms of Service. How online
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service providers use broad policies to silence conservatives. Now, there
are a lot of instances that we know about that
get a lot of publicity. We know, for example, that Twitter,
before Elon Musk purchased them, suspended the account of the
Babylon Bee for making a joke about a Biden administration official.
We know that both Facebook and Twitter suppressed stories about
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Hudter Biden's laptop before the twenty twenty election. We know
that Facebook removed posts suggesting that COVID nineteen originated in
Wuhan Lab, something we talked about at length on this podcast,
and a theory that has now been confirmed both by
the Federal Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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We know that YouTube took down a March twenty twenty
one video of a panel discussion with Florida Governor Ron
de Santis, during which he disputed claims that children needed
to wear face masks. We know that YouTube, also, which
is owned by Google, blocked access to a November twenty
twenty three episode of this podcast Verdict because we were
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criticizing the corporate media's favorable coverage of Hamas, and YouTube
deemed okay, you must be an adult to see what
is on the network news. We also know in twenty
twenty two, DirecTV dropped one America news network and less
than a year after Democrat leaders in Congress sent a
letter to the CEO calling on them to stop carrying
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the network. We also know they did the same thing
to Newsmax. Now I lit Direct TV up and they
ended up bringing Newsmax back. We also know that into It,
at the direction of its banking partners, refused to provide
payment processing and payroll services to gun manufacturers and sellers.
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And we know that JP Morgan Chase closed the account
of the National Committee of Religious Freedom, which was created
by former State Department Ambassador at Large for International Religious
Freedom and former US Senator Sam Brownback. We know that
go fund me block the release of ten million dollars
of donations to the Canadian Trucker's Freedom Convoy. We've seen
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that happen over and over and over again. Well, what
this report does is it lays out an entirely new
area of discrimination, and it is using web based products
and services online service providers to ban conservative organizations from
using their technology. And it's going after the infrastructure that
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is needed to communicate and in fact this investigation reveals
that online service providers are following a playbook for silencing
conservatives that leftist organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center,
which is wildly left wing and hates conservatives, and the
Anti Defamation League the ADL, they together put together this strategy,
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this playbook to quote remove infrastructure services that conservative organizations
need to operate. And so I'm going to describe that
playbook and what they're doing in particular.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
When you look at their playbook and this amount of influence,
I mean, this can change and alter, certainly an election cycle.
It can certainly, I would argue change a presidential election
as well. And that's the reason why they're doing this.
When you think about, you know, you've got millions of
people that follow you Facebook. I've got you know, over
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a million. But if you turn off and throttle either
one of us, then the reach that we have compared
to the left, it just disappears. It's the old thing, right,
if a big tree falls in the forest and no
one's around and it make a sound. And that's exactly
what they did. But it wasn't just to one or
two people. They were doing this to hundreds of top
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conservative voices that people look to for their opinions, specifically
when it comes to election your issues.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So that's exactly right. And what this report focuses on
is it uses a couple of key examples. It uses
number one slacks removal of libs of TikTok's workspace. It
focuses on event brights, removal of event pages for events
related to Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman documentary as
well as an event where Riley Gaines was scheduled to speak.
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And it focuses on Bontera's termination of its relationship with
Independent Women's Forum, which deprived that organization of major nonprofit
technology service provider services. And all of this follows. There
was a report that was put out by the Anti
Defamation League and it is called Bad Gateway. How deplatforming
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affects extremist websites And here's what the ADL recommended. It says,
quote deplatforming websites removing infrastructure services they need to operate,
such as website hosting, can reduce the spread and reach
of extremism and hate online. But when does deplatforming succeed?
And here's what ADL explained, quote, this report shows that
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deplatforming can decree the popularity of extremist websites, especially when
done without warning and they go through We learned four
important lessons about how deplatforming affects extremist websites, by which
they mean anything right of center. Number one, it can
cause popularity rankings to decrease immediately. Number two, it may
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take users a long time to return to the website.
Sometimes the website never regains its previous popularity bingo number
three unexpected and unexpected as key. Unexpected deplatforming makes it
take longer for the website to regain its previous popularity levels.
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And number four, Replicating deplatform services such as discussious discussion
forums or live streaming video products on a standalone website
presents significant challenges, including higher costs and smaller audiences. Now
I want to go into a little bit more. This
is what the ADL report. It has an entire section
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that says what is deplatforming? And by the way, the
corporate media insists when we talk about deplatforming that we're
making it up. Well, if you actually read the blueprint,
they are very explicit. The left is explicit. They want
to silence use. So let me read from this ADL
report quote. There are three main categories of infrastructure that
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keep websites running domain registrars, web hosting companies, and security
protection companies. Number one, the website must be able to
register and keep a domain name. A domain name such
as Google dot com or ADL dot org is how
visitors find a site. If a website is removed from
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domain name services, it becomes much more difficult, if not impossible,
to find. Number two, web hosting companies and content distribution
networks provide digital storage space for all the files, pictures, videos,
and software that make up the content of a website.
When a website loses its hosting provider, the site's content disappears.
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Losing a CDN a content distribution network can cause slow
service for high traffic sites. And number three, a third
category of infrastructure provider includes companies that protect websites from
external security risks such as distributed denial of service d
DOOS attacks. DDoS attacks flood a website with fake traffic
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to overwhelm it, rendering it unable to answer normal user requests.
If an infrastructure company, such as a network security firm
cloud Fare, refuses to provide DDoS protection to a vulnerable website.
It is vulnerable to being flooded with traffic, rendering it inaccessible.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So you look at this what we FINI found out
and what you just went through. The question is how
is it that these companies and I'm specifically referring to
big tech, are allowed to get away with this and
do this to many people that they're in business with.
I used myself as the example again because I've experienced this.
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When you went into business and I felt like I
was in business with Facebook. They said, advertise with us, right,
advertise your show, advertise your content, boost your content, spend
money with us, and we're going to help you grow
an audience and it'll be good for everyone. And then
all of a sudden they just shut you down. And
they were able to walk away and just say, oh, well,
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you violated our terms of service, or you did this,
or you posted too many things that liberals posted as
saying they were factually incorrect. The fact checkers came out
right the liberals on the left. They were fact checking
and putting things against conservatives. So they lose their reach,
lose their ability to boost posts, lose their ability to advertise,
and it was all being done to clearly influence public opinion,
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and yet they've gotten away with it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So what's next.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, what this report focuses on many of the deep
platforming steps by Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, they're very public.
What this report focuses on as the ones that are
not public, which is the back office infrastructure. So let's
take for example, Slack, which is used for communication for
many online organizations and companies. Slack canceled libs of TikTok's
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workspace for violating its terms of service and the terms
of service for prohibit users from quote engaging activity that
incites or encourages violence or hatred towards against individuals or groups.
Slack determined that Libs of TikTok violated this policy based
on three social media posts concerning quote, gender affirming hysterectomies
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and all age drag shows. Now here's the interesting thing.
Slack shut down libs of TikTok's worksplace without any warning,
without any explanation as to how it is violated Slack's policy,
and Slack's action caused Libs of TikTok to effectively lose
its use of Slax communications and force it to rely
entirely on cell phones to run its business. Now, listen
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to this quote, which is fascinating, Slack told the Commerce
Committee told my investigation quote. What makes Libs of TikTok's
posts problematic is that Libs of TikTok has a specific audience,
and they are taking this information and posting it to
that specific audience so that everyone in that audience sees
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it at the same time. In other words, they didn't
even find objections with what Libs of TikTok was posting.
What they were mad at is conservatives were reading it
and that was enough reason to deplatform libs TikTok.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So when you shut down a business in essence the
way they did, is there any real in relief for
Libs of TikTok or others or is this one of
those they're too big to fail?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
These companies are too big, they're protected and you're the
minion and just deal with it. And if you're in
and who cares if your life work is destroyed in
thirty seconds because they shut it off.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So right now there is not immediate relief. You could
presumably file a breach of contract case. The biggest relief
and the reason I did this report is just sunshine.
They're doing this in the dark. They're doing this without scrutiny.
There is right now no federal law that this is prohibited.
I'll give you another example. Event Bright, which we focus
is on. Event Bright canceled pages for events hosted by
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college Republican clubs concerning Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman? Film?
And it also canceled pages for an event featuring swimmer
Riley Gaines for violating its terms of service. Now, critically,
no one involved in the decision. This is what they told.
The committee watched the movie v What is a Woman',
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so they never saw it, and they couldn't identify anything
objectionbal in the trailer, So they just didn't like the topic,
so they decided to take it down. They relied instead
on Matt Walsh's statements about quote gender affirming surgeries, pronouns,
and is Johnny the Walris Children's book to reach the conclusion. Likewise,
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event Bright determined that Riley Gains's event violated its policy
based on her social media post about biological men compeding
women's sports. They shut down the event page without any warning,
without any explanation as to how they violated this policy
without any way to fix it, and their actions ruined
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advertisements that included QR coaches for the event pages. So
you know, a lot had been done to put out
the codes to say hey, come to this event, and
they forced the event organizers to quickly pivot to a
new method of providing tickets. And the committee asked event
Bright whether gained this statement. On October tenth, twenty twenty three,
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she posted on Twitter quote real women lack a Y chromosome,
and we asked whether that violates event Bright's policy. Event
Bright responded that quote the post speaks for itself, so
they needn't answer that. How dare you say that someone
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with a Y chromosome is not a woman. We don't
even need to dispute it. We have the power to
shut it down.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So now moving forward, you shine light on this and
you talk about this is really being done in darkness
and we need to shine light on it. Was there
any nervousness from those that you're questioning. I want to
use the word remorse, but I can't imagine they're remorseful.
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But is it going to at least make them pause
before they do it again?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Or since I'm ask you, Ben Have you seen this
on CNN?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Have you seen it on an AB, the NBCCBS, MSNBC nowhere,
You read it past, you read in the New York Times. No, no,
the corporate media will not cover. I'll give you another example.
So Bontera, which provides nonprofit management services, so it's back office,
but it's incredibly important and they're very few providers of this.
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They denied those services to Independent Women's Forum, which is
a conservative organization that is focused on advancing women's rights,
and Bontera concluded that it violates its policies, which require
customers to agree to refrain from advocacy denying quote LGBTQ
rights or denying a woman's right to reproductive choice, or
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denying racial justice, or denying climate change, and their policies
also prohibit customers from quote promoting, encouraging, or facilitating hate speech, violence,
discrimination based on race, color, sexual orientation, marital status, gender,
or identity expression. Bonterra notified Independent Women's Form of its
decision not to renew their contract without any explanation of
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how the organization violated this policy. As a result, Independent
Women's Forum had to quickly move off Bonterra's platform and
obtain a replacement services provider. Bontera told the committee that
Independent Women's Forum violated its terms of service because the
organization quote works to restrict the rights of the LGBTQ community.
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Bontera could not explain exactly how the group was working
to restrict LGBTQ rights, but generally pointed to Independent women
forums advocacy on issues like protecting women's sports and women's spaces.
So if you actually think that girls should compete in
girls sports, that is of view. That is not acceptable
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and you will be denied online basic infrastructure from monopoly
and near monopoly providers.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
The amount of arrogance that weceive now from these companies
you've witnessed sit now firsthand tells you they feel like
they are protected by the current regime.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You are exactly right. And if you look at event
Bright for example, let's go back to Riley Gaines. So
Riley Gaines, they shut her down because they disagreed about
not her event, but about some posts that she had
put out. What they did not object to was an
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event that we identified entitled Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine. Now,
that event was flagged by Event Rights algorithm and it
was reviewed by its Trust and Safety team, but it
determined that that event did not violate its hateful events
policy in an October ninth, twenty twenty three statements. So
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two days off after October seventh, here's what the event
sponsored the Palestinian American organization Networks said. It called the
October SI attack quote self defense measures and said that
quote Israel bears the full responsibility for those attacks, and
declare that quote the Palestinian people have the right to
defend themselves and to fight the occupation with all means available.
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We salute the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in its resistance.
So understand saluting the mass murder of twelve hundred people,
the raping of women and girls that does not violate
their hateful speech policy. But saying that girls exist that does.
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Saying that men should not compete against women in women's
sports that does. That is the utter hypocrisy and double
standards that allows. By the way, event Bright has also
allowed numerous quote stop Cop City events which support violent
protesters who oppose the building of a police and firefighter
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training facility. Likewise, event Bright created a map of Black
Lives Matter protests, many of which turn violent to help
users find them. So, in other words, actual events that
produce violence that end up killing people, that burn shops,
that fire bomb cars, those are not deem hateful and violent.
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But if you say that women exists, you must be deplatformed.
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Senator.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
One of the reasons why I just I love doing
this show with you is we get to talk about
issues that the media is not covering. The last one's
a great example, but there's also one that needs to
have everyone listening, share on social media, and that is
this new report out that it wasn't just Hunter Biden
that was getting in on the action of selling access
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to daddy. Jim Biden was getting in on the action
and actually may have been a bigger offender based on
what we're finding out. Jim Biden is now being accused
of being in business with Katari officials, the actual government
and Hunter Biden. Yeah, he leverages ties to his dad.
We've seen that. But Politico has a new report out
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that says that Joe Biden's brother was winning business deals
with business partners that were directly linked and tied to
foreign governments, those that were actually tied to terrorism. According
to the outlet, Jim Biden, the President's brother, was in
business with Katari officials to fund his healthcare venture. That
would be quote some of the closest known links between
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a Biden relative and a foreign government.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well that's exactly right. This was a bombshell report that
came out three days ago in Politico. The title of
the report is quote fund manager indicates Jim Biden was
in business with Katari officials, and Politico explains quote. New
details about Jim Biden's foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out
into a Kentucky bankruptcy court, where recent testimony indicates that
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President Joe Biden's brother partnered with the Katari government officials
in his quest to find money for a US healthcare venture.
The sworn testimony by fund manager Michael LeWitt, a former
business partner of Jim Biden's, a test that two companies
that facilitated the efforts were part owned by members of
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the Katari government. One company named in the testimony partnered
directly with Jim Biden the multi year fundraising efforts. The
second company provided financial backing for a series of loans
that a hospital chain paid Jim Biden to arrange. According
to documents and testimony Lewet submitted in the course of
the federal bankruptcy proceedings. If substantiated, the alleged arrangements would
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constitute some of the closest known financial links between a
relative of Presidentident Joe Biden and a foreign government.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's also about following the money. Yes, we're hearing now
that this money that was coming in was not just
going to Jim Biden, but it was also going into
the pocket of the now President of the United States
of America. This testimony that came out in this bankruptcy,
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these documents, and now this individual that did business with
the Bidens, he said, Look, at first there was a
bridge loan to amer Corps that coincided with a payment
from Americ Corps directly to Jim Biden. The report says
Biden said in testimony in February that the roughly six
hundred thousand dollars payments that he received from Americrps around
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the time where his role was in arranging quote loans
and many other services quote unquote, and then in March
of twenty eighteen, Jim Biden it's transferred two hundred thousand
dollars of the payments in question to then his brother
Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, look, that is exactly right. And you needn't understand
Cutter has some of the most problematic foreign policy of
any country on Earth, and so this is you know,
it's amazing the Biden crime family. In that phrase. I
got to say a while ago it sounded like hyperbole.
It no longer sounds like hyperbole because the entire Biden
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family is engaged in a business where they only do
business with our enemies. They somehow never seem to do
business with Canada, They never do business with the United Kingdom.
They never do business with France or Spain or Japan.
They only do business with Russia. They do business with Ukraine,
they do business with communist China. Let me read from
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this political art article because it lays out quote. In
June of twenty seventeen, Cutter's neighbors, led by Saudia Arabia,
ganged up and cut diplomatic ties with the country, citing
its alleged support for terrorism. The ensuing financial and physical
blockade through the country, a peninsula that juts out from
Saudi Arabia into the Persian Gulf, into a sustained crisis.
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In response, the country's rulers began showering well connected Westerners
with gifts and financial benefits, sometimes in the form of
investment funding. The Qatari influence offensive strengthened the country's ties
to the US and Europe, but also led to corruption scandals,
including the European parliament sprawling Cuttergate fiasco. Around the time
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of the blockade. Jim Biden was embarking into a foray
into the healthcare business, in which he worked closely with
a troubled hospital chain AmeriCorps. And by the way, when
Jim Biden was raising money, he pitched himself very directly
as so. For example, here's what Jim Biden said in
a draft letter to official at Cutter's and Wealth fund.
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He said, quote, my family could provide a wealth of
introductions and business opportunities at the highest level that I
believe would be worthy of the interest of his excellency
on behalf of the Biden family. I welcome your interest here.
That's how he was pitching it, and it resulted in
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payments of roughly six hundred thousand dollars from AmeriCorps that
he received, and Jim Biden transferred two hundred thousand dollars
of those payments directly to Joe Biden. Now understand who
Cutter is. Also, do you know where the leaders of
a MOSS live? Where's that Cutter? There? You go that
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they live as billionaire as they live in incredibly lush,
opulent apartments, they fly private jets. Cutter gives them sanctuary.
Cutter supports them, Cutter protects them. This is the same
Mas that carried out October seventh. This is the same
Moss that murders Israelis and murders murders Americans. And yet
the Biden administration consistently refuses the sanctioned Cutter, refuses to
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stand up to Cutter, and suddenly we discover that the
Biden family has been bought and paid for. By the way,
can you.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Go back and read that one line, because I do
think it's an important one.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Holy let me read a different line, which is Jim
Biden presented a presentation on behalf of America Corps saying
that Americarps was seeking thirty million dollars in financing to
acquire hospitals. Do you know how the presentation described Jim Biden.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I'm gonna guess Joe Biden's brother.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It described him as totally separate person with no connection
to the vice president of the president. No, no, that
actually is not correct. I'm gonna read you what it said.
This is a quote Jim Biden quote, brother and campaign
finance chair of former Vice President Joe Biden. So it
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ain't complicated. Why do you want to give him money?
Because he's Joe's brother. And by the way, the money
you give him, he'll give to Joe. Why is this
not on the six o'clock news.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Ben, Because it indicts the President United States of America
in a paid a play scheme that would bring down
I would argue any other presidency, look.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In any normal sense, that would be right. But if
you look at this these documents, these documents are being
ignored by the media. So, for example, Lewett wrote to
Jim Biden to express confidence that his funds would be
(33:49):
repaid immediately for its loans to AmeriCorps with money from Dubai.
According to an email that emerged in the bankruptcy litigation,
quote nothing else changes in turn terms of what I
will be doing re AmeriCorps, since I will be just
as responsible for the Dubai dollar dollar dollar three dollar
signs with the added worry of being driven around the desert.
(34:16):
L Ol.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I mean I'm sitting here and I say wow, and
I mean it rarely am I speechless, But I go
back to that sence I wanted you to read again
where the pitch is to his excellency. I mean they're saying, hey,
do business with us. You guys need access. You're in trouble.
This is how you get the Biden family on your team. Again,
It's just going to cost you millions of dollars in
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quote business.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yet, let's speak clear the entire pitch. It was not
about Jim Biden's financial acumen. It's not about what he
knew about healthcare. As far as we can tell, he
didn't know a damn thing about healthcare. Here's what he
what he wrote. I'm going to read it again. The
draft letter from Jim Biden read, in part quote my family.
(35:04):
It's not even me my family and who's my family mean?
He means his brother. It's just like Hunter Biden when
he says my father. They're all talking about Papa Joe.
My family could provide a wealth of introduction and business
opportunities at the highest level that I believe would be
worthy of the interest of his excellency and his excellency
(35:26):
are both capitalized on behalf of the Biden family. I
welcome your interest here.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, meaning I'm speaking on behalf of my brother.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Just like Hunter Biden said, I'm sitting here next to
my father to the Chinese Communist. If you do not
give me five million dollars Right now, my father will retaliate.
It wasn't just Hunter, it was Jim. It was the
entire family. And I want to underscore why didn't they
do business with the French, or the British or any friends,
the Japanese, the Canadians know. It was only enemies of America.
(36:00):
It was only countries that provide comfort and shelter to
Hamas and terrorists to murder Americans. That was their business
strategy is find people who hate America, find countries who
are enemies of America, but who need favors from Joe Biden,
and go get hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars
(36:21):
from them.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, and this comes, by the way, two weeks after
James Biden it came out in court documents as well,
apparently secretly negotiate one hundred and forty million dollars settlement
deal in twenty twelve between a US company and the
Saudi Arabian government quote due to his relationship with then
Vice President Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Court documents revealed, and.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
No one talked about that story either on the nightly news,
as you mentioned a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Look, it reminds me of mel Brooks's movie History of
the World Part One, where he says repeatedly, it's good
to be the king.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
It's good to be the king.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
That's how the Biden family sadly approaches government.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, we're gonna keep watching this.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
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Share this podcast wherever you are on social media and
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to date on the latest breaking news as well, and
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Well, come in is verdict with Center Tech Cruz Ben
Ferguson with you as well, and Senator, You've got a
big investigation that is looking into big tech specifically and
how they are silencing and deplatforming conservatives, and it's something
the media really isn't covering.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, that's exactly right. In the Senate Commerce Committee, I
launched an investigation in terms of into how big tech
is abusing its power, and we just released a report
explaining how big tech is using monopoly power over basic
infrastructure online to deplatform conservatives, to target conservatives, and to
shut them down. I'm going to explain all about what
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is testimony that occurred in a federal bankruptcy proceeding that
Joe Biden's brother Jim Biden, was in business with Cutter
and was making vast sums of money from the nation
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been a leading player supporting hamas sheltering Hamas, and the
Biden administration has been incredibly soft on Cutter and so
it is direct ties of Biden corruption that is undermining
our national security. We're gonna explain all about it, and
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to be honest, you can hear about it here and
very few other places.
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is obviously had a massive influence over public opinion in
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this country. We saw a recent report that came out
just on TikTok, for example, where they were forty five
to one stories that were pro Palestinian pro Hamas over Israel.
That's one example of how they've really been able to
shape public opinion, especially with young people, and the riots
and the chaos we're witnessing on college campuses right now.
(03:46):
But there's also something else that's happened with big tech.
I've been a victim of it. I spoke out again
against big tech a few years ago at a CPAC convention,
and before I landed home, after I spoke out about
big tech, specifically fit Facebook, my accounts were shut down.
They have never worked the same way as they did before.
(04:07):
The reach has disappeared. I've witnessed it, and many other
conservative leaders out there are going through the same things.
And it always seems to happen center right during a
big election cycle, where the Democrats get a free flow
of information out and conservatives get hammered and silenced.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, that's exactly right. So I started last year as
the ranking member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science,
and Transportation, and from that position as the ranking member,
which means the senior Republican on that committee, I launched
an investigation into the abuse of power from big tech,
and this past week we put out a major report.
The report is entitled Weaponizing Terms of Service. How online
(04:48):
service providers use broad policies to silence conservatives. Now, there
are a lot of instances that we know about that
get a lot of publicity. We know, for example, that Twitter,
before Elon Musk purchased them, suspended the account of the
Babylon Bee for making a joke about a Biden administration official.
We know that both Facebook and Twitter suppressed stories about
(05:11):
Hudter Biden's laptop before the twenty twenty election. We know
that Facebook removed posts suggesting that COVID nineteen originated in
Wuhan Lab, something we talked about at length on this podcast,
and a theory that has now been confirmed both by
the Federal Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(05:32):
We know that YouTube took down a March twenty twenty
one video of a panel discussion with Florida Governor Ron
de Santis, during which he disputed claims that children needed
to wear face masks. We know that YouTube, also, which
is owned by Google, blocked access to a November twenty
twenty three episode of this podcast Verdict because we were
(05:54):
criticizing the corporate media's favorable coverage of Hamas, and YouTube
deemed okay, you must be an adult to see what
is on the network news. We also know in twenty
twenty two, DirecTV dropped one America news network and less
than a year after Democrat leaders in Congress sent a
letter to the CEO calling on them to stop carrying
(06:16):
the network. We also know they did the same thing
to Newsmax. Now I lit Direct TV up and they
ended up bringing Newsmax back. We also know that into It,
at the direction of its banking partners, refused to provide
payment processing and payroll services to gun manufacturers and sellers.
(06:37):
And we know that JP Morgan Chase closed the account
of the National Committee of Religious Freedom, which was created
by former State Department Ambassador at Large for International Religious
Freedom and former US Senator Sam Brownback. We know that
go fund me block the release of ten million dollars
of donations to the Canadian Trucker's Freedom Convoy. We've seen
(07:00):
that happen over and over and over again. Well, what
this report does is it lays out an entirely new
area of discrimination, and it is using web based products
and services online service providers to ban conservative organizations from
using their technology. And it's going after the infrastructure that
(07:23):
is needed to communicate and in fact this investigation reveals
that online service providers are following a playbook for silencing
conservatives that leftist organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center,
which is wildly left wing and hates conservatives, and the
Anti Defamation League the ADL, they together put together this strategy,
(07:46):
this playbook to quote remove infrastructure services that conservative organizations
need to operate. And so I'm going to describe that
playbook and what they're doing in particular.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
When you look at their playbook and this amount of influence,
I mean, this can change and alter, certainly an election cycle.
It can certainly, I would argue change a presidential election
as well. And that's the reason why they're doing this.
When you think about, you know, you've got millions of
people that follow you Facebook. I've got you know, over
(08:21):
a million. But if you turn off and throttle either
one of us, then the reach that we have compared
to the left, it just disappears. It's the old thing, right,
if a big tree falls in the forest and no
one's around and it make a sound. And that's exactly
what they did. But it wasn't just to one or
two people. They were doing this to hundreds of top
(08:43):
conservative voices that people look to for their opinions, specifically
when it comes to election your issues.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So that's exactly right. And what this report focuses on
is it uses a couple of key examples. It uses
number one slacks removal of libs of TikTok's workspace. It
focuses on event brights, removal of event pages for events
related to Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman documentary as
well as an event where Riley Gaines was scheduled to speak.
(09:14):
And it focuses on Bontera's termination of its relationship with
Independent Women's Forum, which deprived that organization of major nonprofit
technology service provider services. And all of this follows. There
was a report that was put out by the Anti
Defamation League and it is called Bad Gateway. How deplatforming
(09:36):
affects extremist websites And here's what the ADL recommended. It says,
quote deplatforming websites removing infrastructure services they need to operate,
such as website hosting, can reduce the spread and reach
of extremism and hate online. But when does deplatforming succeed?
And here's what ADL explained, quote, this report shows that
(09:58):
deplatforming can decree the popularity of extremist websites, especially when
done without warning and they go through We learned four
important lessons about how deplatforming affects extremist websites, by which
they mean anything right of center. Number one, it can
cause popularity rankings to decrease immediately. Number two, it may
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take users a long time to return to the website.
Sometimes the website never regains its previous popularity bingo number
three unexpected and unexpected as key. Unexpected deplatforming makes it
take longer for the website to regain its previous popularity levels.
(10:43):
And number four, Replicating deplatform services such as discussious discussion
forums or live streaming video products on a standalone website
presents significant challenges, including higher costs and smaller audiences. Now
I want to go into a little bit more. This
is what the ADL report. It has an entire section
(11:05):
that says what is deplatforming? And by the way, the
corporate media insists when we talk about deplatforming that we're
making it up. Well, if you actually read the blueprint,
they are very explicit. The left is explicit. They want
to silence use. So let me read from this ADL
report quote. There are three main categories of infrastructure that
(11:26):
keep websites running domain registrars, web hosting companies, and security
protection companies. Number one, the website must be able to
register and keep a domain name. A domain name such
as Google dot com or ADL dot org is how
visitors find a site. If a website is removed from
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domain name services, it becomes much more difficult, if not impossible,
to find. Number two, web hosting companies and content distribution
networks provide digital storage space for all the files, pictures, videos,
and software that make up the content of a website.
When a website loses its hosting provider, the site's content disappears.
(12:12):
Losing a CDN a content distribution network can cause slow
service for high traffic sites. And number three, a third
category of infrastructure provider includes companies that protect websites from
external security risks such as distributed denial of service d
DOOS attacks. DDoS attacks flood a website with fake traffic
(12:35):
to overwhelm it, rendering it unable to answer normal user requests.
If an infrastructure company, such as a network security firm
cloud Fare, refuses to provide DDoS protection to a vulnerable website.
It is vulnerable to being flooded with traffic, rendering it inaccessible.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So you look at this what we FINI found out
and what you just went through. The question is how
is it that these companies and I'm specifically referring to
big tech, are allowed to get away with this and
do this to many people that they're in business with.
I used myself as the example again because I've experienced this.
(13:20):
When you went into business and I felt like I
was in business with Facebook. They said, advertise with us, right,
advertise your show, advertise your content, boost your content, spend
money with us, and we're going to help you grow
an audience and it'll be good for everyone. And then
all of a sudden they just shut you down. And
they were able to walk away and just say, oh, well,
(13:41):
you violated our terms of service, or you did this,
or you posted too many things that liberals posted as
saying they were factually incorrect. The fact checkers came out
right the liberals on the left. They were fact checking
and putting things against conservatives. So they lose their reach,
lose their ability to boost posts, lose their ability to advertise,
and it was all being done to clearly influence public opinion,
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and yet they've gotten away with it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So what's next.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, what this report focuses on many of the deep
platforming steps by Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, they're very public.
What this report focuses on as the ones that are
not public, which is the back office infrastructure. So let's
take for example, Slack, which is used for communication for
many online organizations and companies. Slack canceled libs of TikTok's
(14:32):
workspace for violating its terms of service and the terms
of service for prohibit users from quote engaging activity that
incites or encourages violence or hatred towards against individuals or groups.
Slack determined that Libs of TikTok violated this policy based
on three social media posts concerning quote, gender affirming hysterectomies
(14:56):
and all age drag shows. Now here's the interesting thing.
Slack shut down libs of TikTok's worksplace without any warning,
without any explanation as to how it is violated Slack's policy,
and Slack's action caused Libs of TikTok to effectively lose
its use of Slax communications and force it to rely
entirely on cell phones to run its business. Now, listen
(15:20):
to this quote, which is fascinating, Slack told the Commerce
Committee told my investigation quote. What makes Libs of TikTok's
posts problematic is that Libs of TikTok has a specific audience,
and they are taking this information and posting it to
that specific audience so that everyone in that audience sees
(15:40):
it at the same time. In other words, they didn't
even find objections with what Libs of TikTok was posting.
What they were mad at is conservatives were reading it
and that was enough reason to deplatform libs TikTok.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So when you shut down a business in essence the
way they did, is there any real in relief for
Libs of TikTok or others or is this one of
those they're too big to fail?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
These companies are too big, they're protected and you're the
minion and just deal with it. And if you're in
and who cares if your life work is destroyed in
thirty seconds because they shut it off.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So right now there is not immediate relief. You could
presumably file a breach of contract case. The biggest relief
and the reason I did this report is just sunshine.
They're doing this in the dark. They're doing this without scrutiny.
There is right now no federal law that this is prohibited.
I'll give you another example. Event Bright, which we focus
is on. Event Bright canceled pages for events hosted by
(16:39):
college Republican clubs concerning Matt Walsh's What Is a Woman? Film?
And it also canceled pages for an event featuring swimmer
Riley Gaines for violating its terms of service. Now, critically,
no one involved in the decision. This is what they told.
The committee watched the movie v What is a Woman',
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so they never saw it, and they couldn't identify anything
objectionbal in the trailer, So they just didn't like the topic,
so they decided to take it down. They relied instead
on Matt Walsh's statements about quote gender affirming surgeries, pronouns,
and is Johnny the Walris Children's book to reach the conclusion. Likewise,
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event Bright determined that Riley Gains's event violated its policy
based on her social media post about biological men compeding
women's sports. They shut down the event page without any warning,
without any explanation as to how they violated this policy
without any way to fix it, and their actions ruined
(17:41):
advertisements that included QR coaches for the event pages. So
you know, a lot had been done to put out
the codes to say hey, come to this event, and
they forced the event organizers to quickly pivot to a
new method of providing tickets. And the committee asked event
Bright whether gained this statement. On October tenth, twenty twenty three,
(18:02):
she posted on Twitter quote real women lack a Y chromosome,
and we asked whether that violates event Bright's policy. Event
Bright responded that quote the post speaks for itself, so
they needn't answer that. How dare you say that someone
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with a Y chromosome is not a woman. We don't
even need to dispute it. We have the power to
shut it down.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So now moving forward, you shine light on this and
you talk about this is really being done in darkness
and we need to shine light on it. Was there
any nervousness from those that you're questioning. I want to
use the word remorse, but I can't imagine they're remorseful.
(18:51):
But is it going to at least make them pause
before they do it again?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Or since I'm ask you, Ben Have you seen this
on CNN?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Have you seen it on an AB, the NBCCBS, MSNBC nowhere,
You read it past, you read in the New York Times. No, no,
the corporate media will not cover. I'll give you another example.
So Bontera, which provides nonprofit management services, so it's back office,
but it's incredibly important and they're very few providers of this.
(19:19):
They denied those services to Independent Women's Forum, which is
a conservative organization that is focused on advancing women's rights,
and Bontera concluded that it violates its policies, which require
customers to agree to refrain from advocacy denying quote LGBTQ
rights or denying a woman's right to reproductive choice, or
(19:41):
denying racial justice, or denying climate change, and their policies
also prohibit customers from quote promoting, encouraging, or facilitating hate speech, violence,
discrimination based on race, color, sexual orientation, marital status, gender,
or identity expression. Bonterra notified Independent Women's Form of its
decision not to renew their contract without any explanation of
(20:04):
how the organization violated this policy. As a result, Independent
Women's Forum had to quickly move off Bonterra's platform and
obtain a replacement services provider. Bontera told the committee that
Independent Women's Forum violated its terms of service because the
organization quote works to restrict the rights of the LGBTQ community.
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Bontera could not explain exactly how the group was working
to restrict LGBTQ rights, but generally pointed to Independent women
forums advocacy on issues like protecting women's sports and women's spaces.
So if you actually think that girls should compete in
girls sports, that is of view. That is not acceptable
(20:48):
and you will be denied online basic infrastructure from monopoly
and near monopoly providers.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
The amount of arrogance that weceive now from these companies
you've witnessed sit now firsthand tells you they feel like
they are protected by the current regime.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You are exactly right. And if you look at event
Bright for example, let's go back to Riley Gaines. So
Riley Gaines, they shut her down because they disagreed about
not her event, but about some posts that she had
put out. What they did not object to was an
(21:29):
event that we identified entitled Gaza and the Struggle for Palestine. Now,
that event was flagged by Event Rights algorithm and it
was reviewed by its Trust and Safety team, but it
determined that that event did not violate its hateful events
policy in an October ninth, twenty twenty three statements. So
(21:52):
two days off after October seventh, here's what the event
sponsored the Palestinian American organization Networks said. It called the
October SI attack quote self defense measures and said that
quote Israel bears the full responsibility for those attacks, and
declare that quote the Palestinian people have the right to
defend themselves and to fight the occupation with all means available.
(22:15):
We salute the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in its resistance.
So understand saluting the mass murder of twelve hundred people,
the raping of women and girls that does not violate
their hateful speech policy. But saying that girls exist that does.
(22:38):
Saying that men should not compete against women in women's
sports that does. That is the utter hypocrisy and double
standards that allows. By the way, event Bright has also
allowed numerous quote stop Cop City events which support violent
protesters who oppose the building of a police and firefighter
(23:02):
training facility. Likewise, event Bright created a map of Black
Lives Matter protests, many of which turn violent to help
users find them. So, in other words, actual events that
produce violence that end up killing people, that burn shops,
that fire bomb cars, those are not deem hateful and violent.
(23:26):
But if you say that women exists, you must be deplatformed.
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Senator.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
One of the reasons why I just I love doing
this show with you is we get to talk about
issues that the media is not covering. The last one's
a great example, but there's also one that needs to
have everyone listening, share on social media, and that is
this new report out that it wasn't just Hunter Biden
that was getting in on the action of selling access
(25:59):
to daddy. Jim Biden was getting in on the action
and actually may have been a bigger offender based on
what we're finding out. Jim Biden is now being accused
of being in business with Katari officials, the actual government
and Hunter Biden. Yeah, he leverages ties to his dad.
We've seen that. But Politico has a new report out
(26:21):
that says that Joe Biden's brother was winning business deals
with business partners that were directly linked and tied to
foreign governments, those that were actually tied to terrorism. According
to the outlet, Jim Biden, the President's brother, was in
business with Katari officials to fund his healthcare venture. That
would be quote some of the closest known links between
(26:44):
a Biden relative and a foreign government.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well that's exactly right. This was a bombshell report that
came out three days ago in Politico. The title of
the report is quote fund manager indicates Jim Biden was
in business with Katari officials, and Politico explains quote. New
details about Jim Biden's foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out
into a Kentucky bankruptcy court, where recent testimony indicates that
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President Joe Biden's brother partnered with the Katari government officials
in his quest to find money for a US healthcare venture.
The sworn testimony by fund manager Michael LeWitt, a former
business partner of Jim Biden's, a test that two companies
that facilitated the efforts were part owned by members of
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directly with Jim Biden the multi year fundraising efforts. The
second company provided financial backing for a series of loans
that a hospital chain paid Jim Biden to arrange. According
to documents and testimony Lewet submitted in the course of
the federal bankruptcy proceedings. If substantiated, the alleged arrangements would
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constitute some of the closest known financial links between a
relative of Presidentident Joe Biden and a foreign government.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's also about following the money. Yes, we're hearing now
that this money that was coming in was not just
going to Jim Biden, but it was also going into
the pocket of the now President of the United States
of America. This testimony that came out in this bankruptcy,
(28:25):
these documents, and now this individual that did business with
the Bidens, he said, Look, at first there was a
bridge loan to amer Corps that coincided with a payment
from Americ Corps directly to Jim Biden. The report says
Biden said in testimony in February that the roughly six
hundred thousand dollars payments that he received from Americrps around
(28:48):
the time where his role was in arranging quote loans
and many other services quote unquote, and then in March
of twenty eighteen, Jim Biden it's transferred two hundred thousand
dollars of the payments in question to then his brother
Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, look, that is exactly right. And you needn't understand
Cutter has some of the most problematic foreign policy of
any country on Earth, and so this is you know,
it's amazing the Biden crime family. In that phrase. I
got to say a while ago it sounded like hyperbole.
It no longer sounds like hyperbole because the entire Biden
(29:28):
family is engaged in a business where they only do
business with our enemies. They somehow never seem to do
business with Canada, They never do business with the United Kingdom.
They never do business with France or Spain or Japan.
They only do business with Russia. They do business with Ukraine,
they do business with communist China. Let me read from
(29:52):
this political art article because it lays out quote. In
June of twenty seventeen, Cutter's neighbors, led by Saudia Arabia,
ganged up and cut diplomatic ties with the country, citing
its alleged support for terrorism. The ensuing financial and physical
blockade through the country, a peninsula that juts out from
Saudi Arabia into the Persian Gulf, into a sustained crisis.
(30:16):
In response, the country's rulers began showering well connected Westerners
with gifts and financial benefits, sometimes in the form of
investment funding. The Qatari influence offensive strengthened the country's ties
to the US and Europe, but also led to corruption scandals,
including the European parliament sprawling Cuttergate fiasco. Around the time
(30:38):
of the blockade. Jim Biden was embarking into a foray
into the healthcare business, in which he worked closely with
a troubled hospital chain AmeriCorps. And by the way, when
Jim Biden was raising money, he pitched himself very directly
as so. For example, here's what Jim Biden said in
a draft letter to official at Cutter's and Wealth fund.
(31:01):
He said, quote, my family could provide a wealth of
introductions and business opportunities at the highest level that I
believe would be worthy of the interest of his excellency
on behalf of the Biden family. I welcome your interest here.
That's how he was pitching it, and it resulted in
(31:25):
payments of roughly six hundred thousand dollars from AmeriCorps that
he received, and Jim Biden transferred two hundred thousand dollars
of those payments directly to Joe Biden. Now understand who
Cutter is. Also, do you know where the leaders of
a MOSS live? Where's that Cutter? There? You go that
(31:46):
they live as billionaire as they live in incredibly lush,
opulent apartments, they fly private jets. Cutter gives them sanctuary.
Cutter supports them, Cutter protects them. This is the same
Mas that carried out October seventh. This is the same
Moss that murders Israelis and murders murders Americans. And yet
the Biden administration consistently refuses the sanctioned Cutter, refuses to
(32:09):
stand up to Cutter, and suddenly we discover that the
Biden family has been bought and paid for. By the way,
can you.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Go back and read that one line, because I do
think it's an important one.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Holy let me read a different line, which is Jim
Biden presented a presentation on behalf of America Corps saying
that Americarps was seeking thirty million dollars in financing to
acquire hospitals. Do you know how the presentation described Jim Biden.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I'm gonna guess Joe Biden's brother.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
It described him as totally separate person with no connection
to the vice president of the president. No, no, that
actually is not correct. I'm gonna read you what it said.
This is a quote Jim Biden quote, brother and campaign
finance chair of former Vice President Joe Biden. So it
(33:06):
ain't complicated. Why do you want to give him money?
Because he's Joe's brother. And by the way, the money
you give him, he'll give to Joe. Why is this
not on the six o'clock news.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Ben, Because it indicts the President United States of America
in a paid a play scheme that would bring down
I would argue any other presidency, look.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In any normal sense, that would be right. But if
you look at this these documents, these documents are being
ignored by the media. So, for example, Lewett wrote to
Jim Biden to express confidence that his funds would be
(33:49):
repaid immediately for its loans to AmeriCorps with money from Dubai.
According to an email that emerged in the bankruptcy litigation,
quote nothing else changes in turn terms of what I
will be doing re AmeriCorps, since I will be just
as responsible for the Dubai dollar dollar dollar three dollar
signs with the added worry of being driven around the desert.
(34:16):
L Ol.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I mean I'm sitting here and I say wow, and
I mean it rarely am I speechless, But I go
back to that sence I wanted you to read again
where the pitch is to his excellency. I mean they're saying, hey,
do business with us. You guys need access. You're in trouble.
This is how you get the Biden family on your team. Again,
It's just going to cost you millions of dollars in
(34:42):
quote business.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yet, let's speak clear the entire pitch. It was not
about Jim Biden's financial acumen. It's not about what he
knew about healthcare. As far as we can tell, he
didn't know a damn thing about healthcare. Here's what he
what he wrote. I'm going to read it again. The
draft letter from Jim Biden read, in part quote my family.
(35:04):
It's not even me my family and who's my family mean?
He means his brother. It's just like Hunter Biden when
he says my father. They're all talking about Papa Joe.
My family could provide a wealth of introduction and business
opportunities at the highest level that I believe would be
worthy of the interest of his excellency and his excellency
(35:26):
are both capitalized on behalf of the Biden family. I
welcome your interest here.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, meaning I'm speaking on behalf of my brother.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Just like Hunter Biden said, I'm sitting here next to
my father to the Chinese Communist. If you do not
give me five million dollars Right now, my father will retaliate.
It wasn't just Hunter, it was Jim. It was the
entire family. And I want to underscore why didn't they
do business with the French, or the British or any friends,
the Japanese, the Canadians know. It was only enemies of America.
(36:00):
It was only countries that provide comfort and shelter to
Hamas and terrorists to murder Americans. That was their business
strategy is find people who hate America, find countries who
are enemies of America, but who need favors from Joe Biden,
and go get hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars
(36:21):
from them.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, and this comes, by the way, two weeks after
James Biden it came out in court documents as well,
apparently secretly negotiate one hundred and forty million dollars settlement
deal in twenty twelve between a US company and the
Saudi Arabian government quote due to his relationship with then
Vice President Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Court documents revealed, and.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
No one talked about that story either on the nightly news,
as you mentioned a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Look, it reminds me of mel Brooks's movie History of
the World Part One, where he says repeatedly, it's good
to be the king.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
It's good to be the king.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
That's how the Biden family sadly approaches government.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, we're gonna keep watching this.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
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(37:22):
to date on the latest breaking news as well, and
the Senator and I will see you back here on
Friday morning.
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