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Democratic Mega Donor gets Off Easy After Stealing 8Billion · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about what corruption looks
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  Speaker 1: like when you are a Democrat and you give an
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  Speaker 1: insane amount of money to the Democratic Party, but you
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  Speaker 1: get busted doing something illegal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go back in time and remind you about.
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  Speaker 1: The disgraced FTX CEO. Who is Sam Bateman Freed. He
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  Speaker 1: is a Democrat mega donor. Now, when I say mega donor,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand that he was the second
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  Speaker 1: biggest donor to the Democratic Party during the last election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: During the final days when he was getting busted. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was paying money to Democratic campaigns like you wouldn't believe. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he ran a Ponzi scheme, one of the biggest financial
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  Speaker 1: frauds in the history of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: and he has now been sentenced to just twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years in prison for fraud after facing up to.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred years in jail.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's younger, meaning he is going to get out
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  Speaker 1: of jail if he doesn't die in jail at a
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  Speaker 1: pretty young age.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: His sentence also pales in comparison to Bernie Madoff. Bernie Madoff,
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  Speaker 1: for example, received a sentence of one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: years for his financial crimes. The judge Lewis Kaplan that
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  Speaker 1: Senace Bankman Freed, said that Sam Bateman Freed, also known
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  Speaker 1: as SBF, committed witness tampering before he was remanded into
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  Speaker 1: Cussey when he communicated with a former FTX general counsel.
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  Speaker 1: Kaplan also found that he committed perjury during his trial testimony.
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  Speaker 1: He reportedly falsely testified that he had no knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: Alameda Research, ftx's sister company and Hedge Fund had spent
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  Speaker 1: ftx's customer deposits before the fall of twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy's an eibitual liar. He lied to the court.
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  Speaker 1: He also talked to witnesses that he wasn't supposed to
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  Speaker 1: talk to. Kaplan also said, this is the judge that
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  Speaker 1: Bankman Freed wanted to be a hugely politically influential person
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  Speaker 1: in this country and that led to his quote financial crimes.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty five year sentence pales in comparison to the
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  Speaker 1: potential one hundred years, meaning he got twenty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of what he should have gotten that he was facing
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  Speaker 1: based on his crimes, based on perjury, and based on
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  Speaker 1: witness tampering. Prosecutor Nicholas Ruse said Sam Bateman Free stole
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  Speaker 1: more than eight billion dollars and all you get is
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years for stealing eight billion dollars if you
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  Speaker 1: are a Democrat mega donor. Yeah, he stole over eight
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  Speaker 1: billion customer money. And I emphasized stole because it was
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  Speaker 1: not a liquidity crisis or an active mismanagement or poor
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  Speaker 1: oversight from the top.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a bloodless financial loss.
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  Speaker 1: On paper, for example, Bankman Freed's attorneys told the court
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday that Sam was not a ruthless financial serial
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  Speaker 1: killer who set out every morning to quote hurt people.
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  Speaker 1: His real motivations, they say, were misapprehended and misunderstood.
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  Speaker 2: Really, he's an awkward math nerd.
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  Speaker 1: He loves video games and veganism, and he's compassionate to animals,
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  Speaker 1: They added, quote a lot of people feel really let down,
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  Speaker 1: and they were very let down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: I am sorry about what happened at every stage, and
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  Speaker 1: there are things I should have done and things I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have Bankman Freed told the court.
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  Speaker 2: But in early November, Bateman Freed, who.
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  Speaker 1: Was convicted of five counts of conspiracy and two counts
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  Speaker 1: of wire fraud, well he knew he was going to
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  Speaker 1: probably be taken care of because the Democrats that cast
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  Speaker 1: his checks, well they knew that he helped them get elected.
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  Speaker 1: Bankman Freed sentencing. The current FTX CEO, John Ray, issued
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  Speaker 1: a scathing rebuke of Bateman Freed, saying that the former
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  Speaker 1: FTXEO made callously and demonstrably false claims in Bankman Freed's
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  Speaker 1: efforts to secure a lighter prison term. Ray said that
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  Speaker 1: the harm caused by Bankman Freed is vast and his
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  Speaker 1: remorse is quote non existent. Although one court convicted Bankman
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  Speaker 1: Free of frauding andspiracy, the Department of Justice, known as
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ, guess what they declined to prosecute Bankman Freed
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  Speaker 1: for his alleged unlawful political donations using customer funds, for
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  Speaker 1: his alleged bribery of foreign officials.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice said, and we are not going
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  Speaker 1: to prosecute Bankman Freed for unlawful political donations. Why because
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  Speaker 1: the donations were going to Democrats, and Democrats looked the
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  Speaker 1: other way instead of regulating what was going on with
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  Speaker 1: cryptocurrency and FTX, and they knew that there may be
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  Speaker 1: something going on there they didn't want to know about,
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  Speaker 1: and so therefore they said, hey, we'll just look the
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  Speaker 1: other way and hope the money keeps rolling in.
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  Speaker 2: And Bankman Freed knew that.
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  Speaker 1: Bright Bart News reported this way, saying, quote Indeed, during
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  Speaker 1: the height of his influence, Bankman Freed sought to outpace
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  Speaker 1: Democratic mega donor George Soros as the largest donor to
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. He reportedly spent one hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in stolen customer funds to donate mostly to Democrats, and
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  Speaker 1: he was the second largest to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Only former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave more money
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  Speaker 1: to Joe Biden. To put it in perspective, now, that's
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  Speaker 1: not the only thing Bankman Freed understood. He understood that
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  Speaker 1: buying influence also meant working with the Democratic Party. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why was Bankman Freed wanting influence. It wasn't because he
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to be powerful. It was because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want oversight for a business that he knew was basically
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  Speaker 1: corrupt as hell. That's what it really boiled down to.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as he was giving money basically ten
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  Speaker 1: percent to the big guy, which was the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 1: in this case, he knew that they weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: regulate him. And therefore, if you're stealing money, why not
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  Speaker 1: give basically a mini bribe to the Democratic Party so
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  Speaker 1: you can keep your Ponzi scheme alive.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what Bankman Freed was doing.
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  Speaker 1: One Puck News report found that Bankman Freed wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: giving donations, becoming one of the biggest, if not trying
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  Speaker 1: to become the biggest Democratic donor to the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: That's not all he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: They also found out that Bateman Freed sought advisors as
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  Speaker 1: well as conducted data experiments to help Democrats before the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four elections. Banateman Freed's mother, Barbara Freed, helped
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  Speaker 1: craft these quote strategic memo that guided the democrats twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty election strategy. As a leader of the Democratic super
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  Speaker 1: pac Mind the Gap, Freed, a Stanford University professor, argued
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  Speaker 1: that Democrats should move to get nonpartisan Americans registered to vote,
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  Speaker 1: as it is our quote four to ten more times
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  Speaker 1: cost effective at netting additional Democratic voters. So if you
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  Speaker 1: think that Bankman Freed's this guy that didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing, you're wrong. And his mom, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: knew it was going on as well, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: she was writing that memo and was a top mine
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  Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party about how Democrats can win.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's go back to the trial.
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  Speaker 1: The trial against Bankman Freed yielded many startling revelations about
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  Speaker 1: him and how he operated the cryptocurrency exchange. And what
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  Speaker 1: this included was well SBF claimed to be soulless when
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  Speaker 1: writing a list of pros and cons about being in
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  Speaker 1: a relationship with Caroline Ellison, his on and off girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: at the head of Alameda that was at sister company.
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  Speaker 1: Lawyers for Bankman Freeing claimed he was simply a math
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  Speaker 1: nerd who didn't steal from anyone that was a lie.
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  Speaker 1: FTX co founder Gary Wang spilled his guts on the
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  Speaker 1: company's fraud and bribery, and tai prostitutes were used as
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  Speaker 1: bargaining chips to unlock one billion of frozen funds on
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  Speaker 1: other digital currency exchanges.
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  Speaker 2: Is part of what we found out at trial.
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  Speaker 1: Also know that Bankman Freed needed Adderall to meaningfully participate
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  Speaker 1: in the trial, and Banateman Freed ignored employee concerns aboutact
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  Speaker 1: extravagant spending, including a thirty million dollar penthouse in the
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  Speaker 1: Bahamas that served as the company's headquarters. This isn't all
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  Speaker 1: that we found out at his trial, we also found
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  Speaker 1: out that Banateman Freed skimmed the company's terms.
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  Speaker 2: Of services, didn't even read it.
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  Speaker 1: Bateman Freed was quote foolish to stand as a witness
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  Speaker 1: during the trial, but he's a narcissist and didn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Lawyers for Bankman Freed to cried his conditions in jail,
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  Speaker 1: including lack of quote vegan meals, saying because he's following
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  Speaker 1: his principles that Bateman Freed is only now subsisting on
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  Speaker 1: a diet of bread and water. Really, another infamous fraudster,
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  Speaker 1: to put it in perspective, Birdie made off with sentence
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifty years in prison for his
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  Speaker 1: multi billion dollar fraud scheme. Now you look at how
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  Speaker 1: much money this guy had and how much money he
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  Speaker 1: stole from people. He stole billions and billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: from a lot of people that had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money in FTX. In fact, he stole over eight billion
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  Speaker 1: in customer money. And then he was paying the big guy,
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, so they would look the other way
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  Speaker 1: and not regulate him. So that is how, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you get sentenced only twenty five years in prison for fraud.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you get the DOJ to not come after
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  Speaker 1: you the way They should have prosecuted him for stealing
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  Speaker 1: funds and then using it for political influence and donations.
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  Speaker 1: They could have done that, but they didn't. Why because
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  Speaker 1: he was supporting Democrats. This is supposed to be the
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  Speaker 1: land of the free, the home of the brave, where
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  Speaker 1: you can actually, you know, believe in a system that's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be fair and just right.
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  Speaker 2: That's dead, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Those days are over when you can do what he
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  Speaker 1: did and all because you're a top Democrat mega donor,
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  Speaker 1: they will help basically cover up your crimes.
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  Speaker 2: And then you only get since twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Five years in prison, which I'm sure he'll get out
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  Speaker 1: before the twenty five years. And Bateman freed just so
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  Speaker 1: you know, is going to live a real life outside
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  Speaker 1: of jail. Why do I know this because the dude's
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  Speaker 1: thirty two years old. If you do thirty two and
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  Speaker 1: you add twenty five to and let's say that he's there,
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  Speaker 1: let's just call it fifteen. This guy's gonna get out
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  Speaker 1: in his late forties. Okay, if he does all twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years, he's still just fifty what fifty seven when
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  Speaker 1: he gets out Sam Bateman freed is going to be
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  Speaker 1: out of jail if he doesn't die in jail, someone
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  Speaker 1: doesn't kill him in jail. The FTX founder who stole
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  Speaker 1: eight billion dollars because he was a Democratic mega donor
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  Speaker 1: will live outside of jail and probably live for a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 2: Now. What I don't understand is.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that the media isn't more telling you this
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  Speaker 1: story because when this story broke. Let me let you
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  Speaker 1: hear what they said on MSNBC about this when the
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  Speaker 1: story broke. Listen carefully as they describe it to their audience,
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  Speaker 1: not talking about how little of a sentence that says no, no, No.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to tell you that because he's one of.
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  Speaker 2: Their seeing what's the latest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, much more than his team had been asking for
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  Speaker 3: six and a half years is what they wanted to know.
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  Speaker 3: More than it looks like it's twenty five years is
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  Speaker 3: what a judge has sent in Sam bak beIN free
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  Speaker 3: to in prison here for those seven counts that he
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  Speaker 3: was found guilty on of defrauding investors. Remember these were
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  Speaker 3: main street investors, many of them who were enticed into
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  Speaker 3: joining the FTX exchange as a way to get into
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  Speaker 3: the crypto craze. In fact, he was using that money
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  Speaker 3: to invest in risky hedge funds that he was also
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  Speaker 3: affiliated with. He was spending the money, he was donating
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  Speaker 3: the money to political campaigns, and so in a pretty
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  Speaker 3: quick sentencing here, more than two decades in prison for him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he had faced Jose up to one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and ten if you looked at look at the statutes there.
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  Speaker 3: But in fact, twenty five years is what this judge
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  Speaker 3: has decided on here. And I will say the Sam
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  Speaker 3: Bigmanfrey on the stand in his beage prison guard just
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  Speaker 3: an hour or so ago, he was a little more
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  Speaker 3: apologetic than we have seen in appearances past where he
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  Speaker 3: had been defiant. He said, I was responsible for FDx
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  Speaker 3: and its collapse is on me. A judge sensing him
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  Speaker 3: to twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Years Jose, I love how they spend that. You notice
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  Speaker 1: the beginning NBC News, they're like breaking news. Well it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than what they wanted. His team wanted
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  Speaker 1: only six and a half years and he got twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So they're selling you on like this is some grand
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  Speaker 1: massive at one hell of a time in prison.
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  Speaker 2: You notice what they didn't tell you there, right, What
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  Speaker 2: did they not tell you?
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  Speaker 1: They didn't tell you that he was facing up to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years in prison and he only got a
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  Speaker 1: fourth of that.
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  Speaker 2: Right like that, that would have been honest reporting, like in.
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  Speaker 1: A shocking move, right in a shocking moment here, that
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  Speaker 1: would be normal for them to report it that way,
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  Speaker 1: sid Bakeman Free walks out and more than likely instead
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  Speaker 1: of having a life sentence in essence dying in prison
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  Speaker 1: with one hundred year sentence, he will get out in
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  Speaker 1: his fifties, if not sooner. That should have been what
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  Speaker 1: was actually said, But instead they compared it to the
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  Speaker 1: six and a half years, as attorneys were fighting for,
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  Speaker 1: saying he should only get six and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: Should only be six and a half years, folks, that's it,
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  Speaker 1: just six and a half years. That's all just six
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  Speaker 1: and a half years. When you compare it to six
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  Speaker 1: and a half, I think we can all agree twenty
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  Speaker 1: five seems pretty extreme when you look at the people's
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  Speaker 1: lives that said Bagman Free ruined in the eight billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars that he stole and then lied and then was
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  Speaker 1: witness tampering and then talking to others and doing and
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  Speaker 1: committing all of these other crimes while he was in
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  Speaker 1: custody and while out on bail.
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  Speaker 2: You look at all of this.
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  Speaker 1: And you put it all together and you're like, are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me? This is justice in America today. You
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  Speaker 1: can you can take eight billion dollars people's entire life's work,
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  Speaker 1: and you can steal and then there's no accountability. Because
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  Speaker 1: I would argue, this is no accountability twenty five years,
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  Speaker 1: that's nothing for what this man did to people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is when I say this is nothing,
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  Speaker 1: This is nothing like this is this is nothing. People
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  Speaker 1: should be really really angry over this and this level
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  Speaker 1: of corruption. They should be angry that you can buy
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  Speaker 1: your way to some sort of lack of accountability and
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  Speaker 1: freedom because he did.
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  Speaker 2: He bought freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's the other part of this that people need to,
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  Speaker 1: I think, really get their head around, is he bought
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  Speaker 1: his freedom.
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  Speaker 2: He was able to buy.
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  Speaker 1: You would you could argue seventy five years off of
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  Speaker 1: his sentence. Seventy five years off his sentence, folks, that's
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a long time. Okay, that's not like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of time. That's a really long time,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five years. And he did it because he was
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  Speaker 1: a massive donor of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party always takes care of their own and they knew
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  Speaker 1: that his money helped them in the elections, and this
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  Speaker 1: was their way of repaying, like, hey, you got busted. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you did right, like you got busted. However, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take care of you. We're not gonna prosecute you for
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  Speaker 1: stealing those money and then giving political donations because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to highlight that.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to highlight how much money you were
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  Speaker 2: giving to us.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so we're gonna we're gonna whitewash that one and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of move on past that as fast as
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  Speaker 1: we can.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with that, and then look, we're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna we're gonna make sure that you don't get a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of charges against you, will kind of limit those
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  Speaker 1: and even though things are going to be very bad
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: for you, they're not going to be that bad for
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: you because we're gonna kind of we're gonna give you
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: like twenty five percent. You'll get out early from that
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and that's going to help you as well. And so
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: you're gonna probably yet, you're gonna be there a while,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: but you're not going.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: To die there. That's the deal.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: That's the deal that he received all because he was,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: in essence, buying off.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: This is bribery. How is it not bribery?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He was bribing Democratic officials with donations to not monitor him,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to not regulate his industry. It was an unregulated industry.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: There were no checks and balances here. And he got
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: away with all of it because he was willing to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: write a check with funds that were stolen.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And now he's going to be.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Back out on the streets in America living a life
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: of freedom.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And I don't know what the minimums are.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen that yet, but I'm sure he'll get
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: off for good behavior. I'm sure they'll get the parolan
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: because he's non violent criminal.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: At some point, this dude.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what the minimums are, but I mean,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I could see him getting out in seven years, five years.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Who knows what the real number is. I don't know
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: what that number is, Okay, I want to be clear.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I promise you it's not going
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to be.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Twenty five years, mark my word.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: They'll figure a way to get him out even sooner
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: than that. Because he was a good soldier for the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party. I want to get to another major issue
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: as well that we need to talk about, and that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: deals with Mexico and the Mexican president flexing their muscles
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and blackmailing America and our president that if you don't
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: give us twenty billion dollars every year, we're going to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: keep flooding your country with fetanyl and we're going to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: keep flooding your country with illegal immigrants. He is now
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: basically holding this country hostage, and he knows it, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that's giving him leverage because we have a president that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is now clearly saying that the flow of migrants will
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: continue unless.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The US meets his blackmail demands.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Now sixty minutes to an interview with the President of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Mexico talking about what's happening, and he made it clear, Look,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you want something good to happen in your country, it's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: going to cost you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And how much is it going to cost you?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Billions of dollars every single year. And if you don't
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: go with our demands, which is twenty billion dollar demand
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: per year, then we'll keep killing American citizens with fentanyl
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and we'll keep flooding your country with illegals. What's even
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: more shocking and is in his demands for America for
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the twenty billion, he's also standing up for Venezuela and Cuba,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: which should tell you about the value set of Mexico's president. Yes,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the president there standing with the socialists and the communists,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: some of the words people in the world, and he
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: wants us to pay them off.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a narco terrorist to me. Take a listen.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: He thinks you have the power in this moment to
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: slow down migration.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Do you plan to We'll just say we do and
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: want to continue doing it, but we do want for
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: the root causes to be attended to, for them to
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: be seriously looked at.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Obrador
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: proposed his fix that the United States commit twenty billion
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: dollars a year to poor countries in Latin America and
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: the Caribbean, lift.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Sanctions on Venezuela.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: And the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law abiding
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Mexicans living in the US.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: If they don't do the things that you've said need
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: to be done, then.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: What bomb the flow of migrants?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: And if you will continue, your critics have said what you're
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: doing and what you're asking for to help secure border
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: is diplomatic blackmail.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: What do you say. I'm speaking frankly. We have to
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: say things as they are. We have to say things
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: as they are. It's diplomatic blackmail, That's what it is.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: He's saying, you're going to give me what I want.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: You're going to make all the people that we sent
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: across the border American citizens, and if you don't do this,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: then we will keep flooding your border on purpose with fetanyl.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: He also criticized the United States of America when it
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: comes to the issue of fetanyl, making it very clear.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: That he says it's your fault. You guys are doing
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: so much drugs.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: The head of the DEA says cartels are mass producing
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: fetanyl and the US State Department has said that most
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: of it is coming out of Mexico. Are they wrong.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: See yes, no, or rather they don't have all the
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: information because fentanyls is also produced in the.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: United States and says most of it's coming from Mexico.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada and
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: in Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia. Do
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: you know why we don't have the drug consumption that
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: you have in the United States because we have customs,
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: traditions and we don't have the problem of the disintegration
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: of the family.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, but there is drug consumption in Mexico.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But only put very little.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: So why the violence then in Mexico.
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: Burke, Because drug trafficking exists, but not the consumption.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: This is an evil man, and we, I think are
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: too kind to Mexico, especially when we're being blackmailed this way.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: This is why this upcoming election is so important, and
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: this is why it's so important that we get somebody that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Actually secures the border.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: This is the reason why you cannot negotiate with these individuals.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I would say, it's very clear this man is controlled
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: by some of the worst people in the world, including
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: dictators in Cuba and Venezuela. Why would he be negotiating
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: on their behalf? Is it because of the narcos and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the drug trade. You got to understand, he loves the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: drugs pouring out of his country into America, killing American
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: citizens because it makes there more There's more money in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: his ecosystem, there's more money in his economy. He loves
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a number of illegals that have come across the border.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: You want know why, Because the number one stimulus of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Mexico's of Mexico's economy was illegal immigrant sending money back
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: home to Mexico. In fact, it outpaced oil production in Mexico.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So the illegal immigrants, he's demanding, Hey, I'll give you
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a secure border, but you got to give all those
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: people amnesty, right that are in America. It's because he
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: knows they're sending money back to Mexico. That's number one,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that's the most important thing to him. He doesn't want
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to cut down on the fedanyl coming across because it's
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: helping his economy, the fetnyl coming across our border, and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: him demanding also blackmailing us. It is blackmail, demanding this
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: type of cash, demanding that we spend not one time,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: but every year billions of billions of dollars that we
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: give to these countries that hate us. And he's gonna
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: sit there and put that money, I'm sure part of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it in his pocket and laugh every single day. I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: want you to think about and I mean this, I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: want you to think about this president. Does that sound
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: like a friend of the United States of America? Does
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that sound like somebody that is an ally of the United.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: States of America.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: If a country is holding you hostage and blackmailing you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and helping kill your citizens and invading your country and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: helping others invade your country and not stopping it and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: saying they can, how can you say that Mexico is
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: our ally. They're clearly not our ally. They're not our
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: ally in any capacity. They're not our ally in any
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: form of the word. These are corrupt individuals and they
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: are compromised by the narco terrorists down there.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I believe we should that they should be treated like terrorists.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I believe those that are shipping in fetanol into this
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: country they should be treated like they are terrorists. They're
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: killing American citizens. How many Americans are dying? The number
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: one killer in this country forty nine and under, is
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: overdoses from fetnyl which is coming across our southern border.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And he's telling us I can fix the problem, but
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I'm putting a gun to.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Your head and I'm blackmailing you.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You've got to give me billions every year and lift
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the trade issues with embargoes on Cuba, and lift the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: sanctions on Venezuela. And if and only if you do
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: that then and only.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Then will I help you. That is not an ally.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: That is no different than what I would expect, literally
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: from the narcos in Mexico. It's no different than what
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I would expect from some of the worst people in
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the world. And he knows that Americans are dying, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: he knows how the drugs are flowing across.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: He knows who they are.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: He knows who's in charge of the of the money
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that's coming across the southern border and the drugs that
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: are coming with it, and the human trafficking.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: He knows it all, folks. He wasn't lying when he said, yes,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I can stop all this. I can.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: He can flip a switch tomorrow if he wanted to.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: But you have to understand the Narcos. They love this guy,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: by the way. The Venezuelans love this guy, by the way.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: The Cubans love this guy. I'm sure the Russia love
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: this guy. They all love him. And the reason why
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: is because he's not a friend of America's. He is
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: not an ally to America. He should never be treated
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: like he is a friend of America. He is an
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: individual that is clearly hostile towards America. Advocating and supporting
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the destruction of America.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: That's what he is doing.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: And anyone that thinks that he's not, then you didn't
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: listen to his words, and you didn't listen to what
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he said. He's also criticizing America's way of life. I mean,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's one arrogant sob if you ask me,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: he's sitting there mocking America and telling America, well, these
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: are your problems in America, and we're a better country
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: than you are, and we don't have that problem of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: consumption of alcohol that you guys have, or I say,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: drugs in America that you guys have.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure we make it, Sure we kill you guys
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Yes we have tons of money that come into our
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: economy because of it, but we're not consuming it like
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you guys are. He's mocking us to our faces. And
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be an ally. That interview with sixty
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: minutes did not sound in any way like an ally
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of the United States of America. It did not sound
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: like someone that was concerned about American children, about America's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: young people who are dying from accidental overdoses each and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: every day. It didn't sound like it was someone that
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: was concerned about quote, US Americans when we are killed
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and murdered by those that are coming across the southern
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: border and raped by those coming across the southern border
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: like it doesn't seem like this guy cares about any
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: American who's dying or being raped or abused, or sex
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: traffic or human traffic as long as he's making some
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: money off of it. You want to know what domestic
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: terrorism looks like. You want to know what terrorism is.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: It's basically what this president of Mexico's allowing to come
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: across our southern border right now, and then he's saying,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: if you pay me, I'll make it stuff that is
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: black mail. He is blackmailing the United States of America.
• 31:07
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• 31:13
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