'Patriot Act 2.0' — Lindsey Graham's DANGEROUS plan after Trump shooting
FBI whistleblower Steve Friend has a warning in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump — and it’s not for former President Trump.
“There was an exchange between deputy director Paul Abbate and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, where to the layperson it seems reasonable the FBI wants to open up all avenues, remove the blindfold, have no blinders on, consider the fact that this could be assassination, this could be domestic terrorism,” Friend tells Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”
However, to the non-layperson — this could mean something more sinister.
“When you designate something as a domestic terrorist investigation, that enables you to make it classified, and when you have a classification code on there, you have to have a need to know in a security clearance,” Friend explains.
Because of that, the FBI can withhold information.
“The American people are not going to have the transparency that we ultimately need for this investigation,” he says.
While the FBI’s actions are concerning, that’s not Savage’s only concern.
“Lindsey Graham had a very concerning solution for the issues with the investigation,” Savage tells Friend.
“We have encrypted apps of an assassin, a murderer, and we can’t get into them all these days after,” Graham said. “That needs to be fixed folks. I’m all for privacy, but to a point.”
“What if, in the future, somebody’s using these apps to communicate with a foreign power. I think we need to know these things. We need to know them in real time,” he added.
Friend says that Graham’s suggestion would effectively render the Fourth Amendment a “dead letter, at that point.”
Graham’s use of the phrase “real time” is also concerning.
“Real time, which means continually monitoring it,” Friend explains.
“This is the government assuming that a tool will be used for ill, when it is just a tool. Because we don’t trust the government in this country. The job of law enforcement is not supposed to be easy. You’re supposed to have reasonable suspicion, probable cause, the burden is supposed to be there,” he adds.
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The REAL reason Democrats think JD Vance is ‘weird’
While phrases like “Keep Austin weird” indicate a certain level of “cool” to the left, Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance, has been ascribed a similar phrase for a totally different reason.
And Glenn Beck knows why.
“JD Vance is from a red state: weirdness number one. JD Vance grew up in white poverty: weirdness number two,” Glenn explains. “He didn’t have white privilege: weirdness number three. And he never gave up or listened to the naysayers: weirdness number four.”
While those on the left often look for handouts over hard work, Vance is the opposite.
“Nobody’s holding you back except you and your choices. That’s one of the biggest things that’s weird about JD Vance because either they totally believe it or they know they’re running an evil scam on people all over the world,” Glenn says.
The reason why this is such an important piece of the “JD Vance is weird” momentum, is because a left-wing government wants you to rely on it. It doesn’t want you to believe the future is in your hands.
“Who says that except an abusive partner?” Glenn asks.
And Vance doesn’t just not rely on the government for handouts, but he’s created his own world. He’s an entrepreneur — and nothing’s weirder to the left than people with the intellectual and emotional fortitude to build their own reality.
“Those are the people with real drive, and they’re different than people that just want a 9 to 5 job, and there’s nothing wrong with either of them,” Glenn says, though he notes that those who don’t believe they have it in them to be like Vance want to take from his wallet.
“Those are the people that the left relates to and counts on because they can use greed and envy to have you look at an entrepreneur, somebody with drive. ‘Look man, I don’t have the drive to do what Elon Musk does, I don’t have the brains to do it either,’” Glenn says. “‘I think I should take some money from Elon Musk.’”
“They think JD Vance is weird because they can’t relate to him on anything. His white poverty instead of his white privilege, his red state over their blue state, his getting back up again over and over again and rejecting the idea ‘stay down, you need the government, reach out for a handout,’” Glenn continues, adding, “They can’t understand that.”
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Is 'white women for Kamala' Zoom call an example of REAL white supremacy?
Kamala Harris’ campaign is attempting to target every group – the youth, the LGBTQ+ crowd (obviously), white men, and now also white women.
In a Zoom call of nearly 170,000 people, including certain celebrities, Kamala Harris hosted a discussion about how white women could best support the vice president in her 2024 presidential campaign.
The call was as cringey as it was glitchy.
Try Not to Cringe! | Liberal "White Women" have 'Pro-Kamala Zoom Call'www.youtube.com
As the online discussion cut in and out, white women checked all the woke boxes: They owned their inherent white privilege, they paid homage to the feminist movement, they pointed to the white men who instilled their privilege, and they thanked women of color for their courage to strive for equality.
“As white women, we are the ones that have the privilege, of course, and we too have had to fight and continue to fight for our equality, our selfhood, our freedom, but we have whatever privileges our male white male counterparts have had the mercy and good sense to bestow on us and then whatever else of it we have managed to take for ourselves, often being led by … our sisters of color, who have fought and fought and continue to fight for their righteous place on God's green earth,” actress Connie Britton said, ticking off every leftist talking point.
An influencer by the name of Arielle Fodor also made sure that the right precedent was set prior to opening the floor for speakers: “If you find yourself talking over or speaking for BIPOC [black, indigenous, and people of color] individuals or, God forbid, correcting them – just take a beat and instead we can put our listening ears on. So do learn from and amplify the voices of those who have been historically marginalized and use the privilege you have in order to push for systemic change. As white people we have a lot to learn and unlearn, so do check your blind spots.”
Are you cringing yet?
Glenn Beck and guest Bridget Phetasy certainly are.
“It is actually white supremacy,” Phetasy says of the white women on Kamala’s call. “You have to believe you are better than everyone else and that it is up to you to lift up all of these people – these poor people who can't help themselves – and speak to everybody like they’re toddlers.”
However contradictory the idea is, Phetasy can’t deny that it’s an effective way to rally the people.
“What is more important than saving the world while also somehow humbling yourself and recognizing your privilege?” she asks.
“Is this going to work?” asks Glenn.
To hear Phetasy’s response, watch the clip above.
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The REAL conspiracy theorists: Crazed leftists CAN’T admit Trump was hit by a bullet!
After the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, leftists are showing their true colors — that they might have been the real conspiracy theorists all along.
To kick off one of these shiny new conspiracies, FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested in his congressional testimony that Trump may have been hit with a glass shard, not a bullet.
“I guess from Kamala’s glass ceiling that she broke or, you know, maybe it was shrapnel,” Glenn Beck says sarcastically, adding, “It was a bullet.”
“It is so insane how these conspiracy theories come from the left, and they just expand and expand and expand on them,” he says.
2024 communications director for Donald Trump, Caroline Sunshine, wholeheartedly agrees.
“We don’t have time to be wasting hearing Christopher Wray go through the semantics of ‘was it shrapnel, was it a bullet.’ It was an assassination attempt on a former U.S. president’s life,” she says.
Not only has Trump been examined by his esteemed physician who concluded that he had a bullet wound, but people like Wray seem to forget Corey Comperatore lost his own life to a bullet that day.
“His wife is left without a husband, his children are left without a father. We had multiple people injured and we’re wasting time on shrapnel versus bullet,” she adds.
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WATCH: FBI whistleblower exposes corruption at shady agency in NEW interview
It’s been over two weeks since Trump’s near assassination, and we still don’t know how a 20-year-old with no military or law enforcement background was able to weasel his way around the Secret Service.
According to Steve Friend, a former FBI agent who’s now come forth as a whistleblower, the FBI won't produce a result in its Trump Assassination Attempt Probe because that's not the goal of the bureau.
“The FBI loves to hide behind ‘we can't reveal sources and methods,’ ‘it's an ongoing investigation,’ ‘we're just going to drag this out as long as we possibly can until people either lose interest or there's something else that we can get our hooks into that's going to do better for us in the headlines,”’ he tells Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel.
FBI Whistleblower EXPOSES Corruption at Shady Agency in NEW Interviewwww.youtube.com
“I don't have any confidence in them to actually carry forward an honest and forthright investigation of any kind because they've demonstrated themselves to be just a politically partisan organization, particularly as it pertains to Donald Trump,” he continues.
“Director Wray's testimony yesterday ... appeared to be more forthright than he's been in any previous congressional hearings,” says investigative journalist and Blaze Media correspondent Steve Baker. “Did you get that impression, or do you see something else?”
Friend speculates that Wray’s increase in candor is likely due to the fact that the Secret Service is under fire this time rather than the FBI.
“I think there's a lot of attention really being thrown at the Secret Service at this point. I think he, at that point, gave a little bit of an exhale,” he explains. “By and large, Christopher Wray has just done the exact same thing all the time, and I think it's derivative of one, he's a politically partisan guy, but secondly, he's not an outcomes guy.”
The American people “want to see an effective investigation actually transpire, where we get all the answers. [Wray] doesn't see that as success; he's about the process — process itself is success.”
“How do you describe Christopher Wray?” asks Jill.
Wray “made $9.2 million a year before he was brought in as the FBI director, and he gave that up for a $200,000 a year job for a 10-year appointment where he'd have to live apart from his family,” Friend says. “That's what his sacrifice was for — ‘the cause’ — and the cause was bringing cultural Marxism to its full fruition within the FBI.”
“You can see it in the hiring standards. ... They're bringing in people, at this point, who are 50 pounds overweight describing themselves as woke, and then most recently, you had somebody hired by the Washington field office who is an actual heroin addict,” he explains.
“Do you think this is a lost cause at this point?” asks Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson.
“Well, the agency itself, I think, is a lost cause because the reforms that are necessary to bring it back from the brink are so drastic,” such as “[reducing] its footprint from a headquarter standpoint,” “[getting] rid of the intelligence branch entirely,” “[getting] back to actually doing criminal investigations” and “not [concerning] themselves with intelligence gathering on the American people,” says Friend.
But there’s one simple thing that the federal government could do to make the FBI effective again: “take the guns away.”
“The origin of the FBI was an unarmed investigative agency,” Friend explains. “It can return to that, and it can do what Christopher Wray says that it is always intending to do and that is aid local law enforcement.”
To hear more of the interview, watch the clip above.
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Alex Jones REVEALS the secret to making shockingly accurate predictions
If you’ve ever delved into conspiracy theories concerning the past, future, and present, you’ve likely heard the phrase — or repeated it yourself: “Alex Jones was right.”
And that’s because Alex Jones has been right. Over and over again.
“You predicted COVID, exactly how the Deep State, the globalist Deep State, was going to use a virus that they engineered to unleash tyranny on us,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” tells Jones.
“You predicted,” she continues, “the fluoride turning frogs gay, and people made so much fun of you, and it turns out the studies actually show that’s true.”
“You also, on a more somber note, predicted 9/11, the 9/11 attacks, almost exactly how they happened. Airliners being hijacked into the World Trade Center,” she adds.
But how exactly does the famous conspiracy theorist get it right so often?
“I set out decades ago to learn who runs things,” Jones explains, noting that those people — the globalist elites — talk about their plans “like we’re children, or they’re speaking another language and we don’t hear it.”
“I’d love to say ‘Oh, I’m so incredibly smart.’ No, in the full report, I’m reading the Rockefeller Operation Lockstep plan,” he explains. “What stops the tyranny is people learning the documents, and it’s been the same basically on every major issue.”
Jones also correctly predicted when Biden was going to step down, but he claims it’s just “learning the rhythms of politics.”
“So a lot of us like sitting at the beach for hours,” he says. “You’re watching the waves come in, and your kids are building sand castles. You just kind of learn, like, ‘Oh, it seems every 20th wave is really big. And they get smaller, and they get bigger.'”
“So 95% of what I do is just their own admissions. You just have to actually believe what they’re saying. And then the rest of it is just picking up the rhythm,” he adds.
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Obamas finally endorse Kamala Harris, and we have a question: 'WHAT did that cost her?'
When Biden finally dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the Obamas – some of the most powerful people in the Democratic party – did not initially follow suit, leading people to speculate that maybe Michelle would run.
However, that conjecture has been put to rest, as the Obamas have now endorsed Harris.
Glenn Beck plays the footage of Harris getting the phone call from Barack and Michelle announcing their official endorsement, which is included in one of her campaign ads.
Did Kamala Harris make a SECRET DEAL with Obama to get the Nomination?www.youtube.com
“It doesn’t ring true to me,” says Glenn, wondering what it “cost her” to get the stamp of approval from Obamas – a very “transactional couple.”
“Not nothing; I think we can be certain of that,” says Stu Burguiere.
“Here’s my guess,” says Glenn. “One of the pieces that it cost was Mark Kelly. Barack and Michelle want Mark Kelly; they do not want Kamala Harris. That's why he hadn't endorsed, and he was hoping that this would all go away after Joe Biden endorsed Kamala. I think Joe Biden [endorsed her] as a slap across Michelle and Barack's face.”
“I don't think [Biden] likes [the Obamas] at all, and I don't think they like him,” he continues. “[Biden] issued that letter and then he came out and said, ‘Oh by the way, I also endorse Kamala.”’
According to Glenn, however, “if [the Obamas] have a chance to turn on [Kamala] and do a coup on her, they will.”
“Why do you think Mark Kelly was such a big favorite of the Obama family?” asks Stu.
"Mark Kelly is the Pacifica," and "[Harris] is the Ferrari," is Glenn's answer.
To hear his explanation of this metaphor, watch the clip above.
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