Anti-War Activist Scott Ritter’s Passport Confiscated As He’s Pulled Off Plane By State Dept.
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Hey, I'll see you in Rutherford, New Jersey, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ontario, California, Davenport, Iowa, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for tickets. This is Jimmy. Who's this? Hola, senor. Yo soy el presidente Joe Biden. Hey, Mr. President. How are you?

I'm great, Jimmy. Jimmy, I want to wish you and everyone there a happy Pride Month. Thank you. At this point, it seems like some version of this is happening at any given time, and I couldn't be more thrilled. Are you feeling pride, Jimmy? Yes.

Yes, Mr. President, I'm very proud, feeling pride. I'm not sure for what, but I am. Are you going to have a big pride event at the White House again like last year?

Oh, no, not after last year, no. Oh, why? Remind me, what happened last year, Mr. President? Oh, man, you love making me tell this story, don't you? Oh, yeah, we had this big pride event on the White House lawn. Big rainbow decorations, whole nine yards. We invited people from that community, the LGBTQIA plus community. And we tried to hit all the letters, too. I'm not sure if we had an asexual or not. Right. Right.

They don't come to parties anyway. Yeah. Right. And Q is queer. I'm pretty sure that's a straight guy who paints his fingernails. Who knows if we got a plus. Right. Right. You never can tell if a plus shows up. Yeah. For sure. Anyway, one of them was a trans TikTok influencer. Right. And

And she filmed herself flopping her fake breasts out of her dress and juggling them around right there on the White House lawn. And it went viral on TikTok. Of course, Fox News had a field day with it, and we had to quietly ban her for life from the White House for flopping her fake tits out. Yeah. Not a lot of winners in that situation, Jim. Yeah, not really.

Yeah, so this year for Pride, we're doing something different. What's that? Shutting down the border. What?

Oh, you heard me, Senor Jimmy. Bit of a curveball, isn't it? Fox News expecting more White House titty bingo, but instead fascism. Boom. Nobody saw that coming. Wow.

We did in this really fancy pants way too. If you recall, we had a bipartisan legislation on the border ready to go, but Trump told his GOP to abandon it for let's go Brandon reasons. But nowadays we have the executive order

which allows a president to just do anything, apparently. And it keeps expanding in power, too, over time. It'll be interesting to see where that trend leads in the future. Anyway, point is, we use an executive order to get this done. And what does it do exactly?

Jimmy, I'm glad you asked. So here's the plan. Once daily asylum seekers average 2,500 per day over a week's average, which it already has, we shut down the border. And we don't open the border again until that number dips to 1,500 per day. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah. I mean, wait.

So if you just shut the border down, obviously fewer people will show up and seek asylum. So I assume it would drop to 1,500 pretty quickly, at which point you reopen the border? Right. And the result of that would be you would be flooded again with asylum seekers shooting the number quickly back up to 2,500? Yes.

At which point we would shut the border again. You're creating this weird cycle of shutting and opening the border just constantly. What is this going to accomplish? Absolutely nothing. I know. But it looks great on paper because most people will not think it through. This is insane kind of.

Thank you. But luckily, we have a new partner on the other side of the border. Mexico has elected a new president. Her name is Claudia Scheinbaum.

Now, Jimmy, if I were to meet a woman named Claudia Scheinbaum, I would guess that she were either A, a yoga instructor on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, or B, the president of Mexico. And only if she's not carrying a mat would I guess B. Right.

I look forward to meeting Claudia and working with her to further tackle these problems. And if nothing else, it would be my honor to meet the first female president elected in North America.

This has just got to be killing Hillary. Oh, you know it is. Oh, you know it, man. We're fucking dying here over this shit. And right after the Trump conviction, too, just perfect timing. She's got to switch from gloating mode to moping mode so fast she'll need a neck brace. It's

As Lord knows, he only has those two modes. Yep. And a socialist, too. A woman to the left of Hillary. That's the best part. Yeah. Jimmy, I love that part so much. Sorry, Hill. You should have been a Jewish socialist in Mexico if you wanted to win. That's pretty great. You may think I'm a terrible president, but we can both have a laugh about that. I'm pretty sure. I do. And we can, sir.

All right, well, I got to go. I still have a long day of being a terrible president. Now that I've fixed the border problem by style, maybe I can tackle something else today before dinner. Who knows? Maybe infrastructure. The world's your oyster when you got a can of Band-Aids jangling around.

Anyway, happy Pride Month, everybody, and keep your goddamn cans in their holster, for Christ's sake.

Medium speeds and jumps to medium and hits them head on. It's the Jimmy Dore Show. Folks, guess what? U.S. authorities took Scott Ritter off a plane to Russia and they seized his passport.

Now, also Judge Napolitano, same stuff happened with him. So guess who we have with us? We have Scott Ritter. He's a one-time Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control agreements. And from 1991 to 1998, he served as chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraq's prescribed weapons of mass destruction. He was later a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war in Iraq.

he is also the author of nine books including his latest disarmament in the time of perestroika arms control and the end of the soviet union please welcome to the show scott ritter hey scott hey how you doing jimmy good so tell us what happened what happened i was getting ready to board an airplane um jfk yesterday um still hard to believe it was just yesterday i

Just so the audience knows, this wasn't just any trip I was going on. This was to go to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where I was to participate on two panels, hold meetings with officials, and then go on a 40-day tour.

tour of Russia to make a documentary film designed to help promote better relations between our two countries and avoid a nuclear war. So this isn't just getting kicked off a flight. This is terminating a project that was eight months in the making and cost thousands of dollars. So, you know, this is a big time, you know, jab at me by the U.S. government. But I was getting on the airplane and

This is traveling with a passport that I've been traveling with for the past several years, going to a destination that I've been to several times in the last year. Um, and this time the U.S. government decided that I wasn't going to go. They, um, pulled me aside three armed, uh, customs and border, uh, uh, patrol, uh, protection, I guess they call it officers, um, took my passport and told me that, um,

They were doing so under the orders of the United States State Department. They didn't give me a receipt. They wouldn't give me a receipt. They didn't tell me anything other than it was my duty to call somebody at the State Department to figure out what's going on. And then they took my bags off the airplane and escorted me out of the secure zone back into the check-in lobby and told me I was free to go. And so tell me again, what was the conference you were going to go to? You were supposed to speak at?

Most of your audience might be familiar with Davos. When you say Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum, they go, oh, that's the most elite global forum. 2,700 attendees went to go to Davos. That was last year.

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, 25,000 attendees from around the world go. It is the most important meeting taking place in the world. President Putin, the Russian president, will be delivering the opening address tomorrow. And then you have the movers and shakers from around the world gathering to talk about

You know, this year, big thing is BRICS. Russia's hosting the BRICS forum in October. They're talking about BRICS. They're talking about multilateralism. They're talking about the new world, a world that, you know, is in opposition to the policies of the United States. This is a huge, huge deal. It was a huge honor to be invited. And I continue to be somewhat depressed that I'm not that I'm not going. Were you going to give a speech?

I was going to participate on two panels, and then I was going to do a lot of different presentations. So my role at this conference was not a minor role. It was, you know, for an American attending a global conference with 25,000 attendees, it was a pretty significant role. And...

So if people don't know, BRICS, so what's happening is that the world is now rejecting the United States dollar as being the reserve currency of the world, which is going to be catastrophic for our economy. They're now, the petrol dollar, which is another thing that props up our economy and our dollar, they're now starting to sell

Saudi Arabia is selling oil in other denominations besides the U.S. dollar. And so there is these power centers, these economic power centers that are sprouting up to oppose the United States' Western hegemony. And the only thing that the United States knows to do back is do more war and

and do more sanctions, which is the exact reason why people want to get rid of the dollar, because when you do sanctions on another country's economy, what you're actually doing is you're weaponizing the dollar. And so you're making people not want to. And that's the worst thing you could do. But of course, that's what they do all the time.

And do you think the people who is it my theory is they don't care, but or is it that they're dumb? Right. Because this is what they said would happen with Trump, that he was going to scare away everybody in this world, wouldn't respect us. And it would be. But that's what's happening under the neocons that are in the White House right now. Right.

Yes. You know, again, I go back to when I say Davos, everybody goes, oh, yeah, that's where all the guys flying with their planes and it's really a big deal. And Davos is nothing. Davos thinks it's the center of the world.

This week, St. Petersburg is the center of the world. 25,000 people from around the world gathering. And these people are serious about dumping the dollar. These people are serious about opposing the rules-based international order. They're coming up with an alternative to the G7 that's led by Russia, by China, by India, by anybody other than the United States.

The West doesn't want to acknowledge this. We are like ostriches with our head in the sand. We are pretending that this isn't happening. We continue to have our club gather and we tell each other how important we are and how wonderful we are and how powerful the dollar is. Meanwhile, after we put pressure on India all year long to stop buying Russian oil,

India just signed a one-year contract with Rosneft to buy 3 million barrels of oil a month, paying rubles, paying rubles, not dollars. So if you don't know what that means, that's bad news for the United States. That means the rest of the world is starting to trade in different currency besides the U.S. dollar. And so why is that so important? I'll try to make it as free. Well, maybe you could explain it better.

Well, what it means is right now the

First of all, we use the dollars, the world's reserve currency, because of the impact of the petrodollar. That means that we keep dollars in banks around the world. It gives us leverage, first of all. It means that, and you talked about sanctions early on. If we're the reserve currency, everything that happens transactional in the world is dollar-based, which means if you touch the dollar, we say we can sanction you. And we do sanction you. Marco Rubio, who I despise,

said one of the most honest things when speaking about the Brazilian economy, when the Brazilians said that they may join, you know, work to de-dollarize. He said, if they do that, we will no longer be able to control their economy and their policies through sanctions. The most honest thing a senator has said in a long time from Marco Rubio. The other thing is, all these dollars out there, has anybody traveled, you know, back in the good old days when you had to go to Europe and everybody had their own currency. You

you remember what it was like to go to London and buy at the airport, the British pound, and you paid that outrageous fee. And then you had to go to France and buy the Frank and you did it. So half of your budget went on currency exchange costs. America has zero currency exchange costs because the world is the petrodollar. The rest of the world has to buy the dollar. The rest of the world, there's friction there. We are frictionless. It amounts to literally hundreds of billions of dollars a year in free, uh,

you know, in free monetary economic activity. We're going to lose that when they dump the dollar. And then what do you do with all the dollars? The inflation rate is just, I mean, all these dollars are out there attached to oil.

What happens when they stop using the dollars and all these dollars have to come home? Our economy can't handle that adjustment. This is a disaster for the United States of America, and it didn't have to be. The dollar is a currency of convenience. And a lot of the people today that have their heads in the sand, they've always said it's too inconvenient for China to dump the dollar. It's too inconvenient for Russia to dump the dollar. But you know what's more inconvenient, Jimmy?

sanctions. And when we sanction the living hell out of everybody, they finally went, that's far more inconvenient than dumping the dollar. And now the world is on the dump the dollar bandwagon and America doesn't realize it yet. They are talking about a BRICS currency coming into fruition when the Russians host the BRICS summit in October. There's serious talk about that something

The analysts in the West said will never happen. They continue to say it will never happen. Too hard to do, too inconvenient. You know what's hard to do?

Keep with the dollar when America uses it to punish you. That's what's hard to do. And that's what we've been doing to Russia like crazy. And, you know, that was a big impetus for our invasion of or bombing of Libya was Muammar Gaddafi was going to create his own currency and it was going to compete with the euro and the dollar. And it was going to be a currency for Africa. And they couldn't have that because then we couldn't control them.

And so that's why that was the bit. So that's why, you know, this whole idea of what were democracy and freedom and Omar is going to he's going to kill his own people and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's all about it's all about money and and hegemony and control. And which is exactly what the Ukraine war is all about. So why do you think they the State Department had such a hard on for you? Why did they want to stop you from going there?

I mean, ultimately, they have to answer that question. And I don't want to sound like a narcissist. I have had a very big impact on U.S.-Russian relations over the course of the last couple of years. My message of peace has resonated inside Russia. And my opposition to American policies are popular in Russia. And that's OK. The U.S. can ignore that.

But I'm starting to have success in taking this message out of Russia and bringing it back to a broader audience in the United States. The impact of my work in Russia is starting to resonate here in the United States. And I think to have me in a high profile manner participating in panels at St. Petersburg and then going on this tour that was going to produce

you know, a high level documentary about the reality of Russia. This was just too much. And they saw an easy target and they they shut it down. So it's just again, it's just part of more narrative control. That's it. Right. Because once that's it, there's no other explanation. As I said before, I've been traveling to Russia. I mean, why didn't they why didn't they pull my passport the first time I went?

That was in May of last year. Why didn't they pull my passport when I traveled again in January? I came back from Russia, having traveled to Crimea and the new territories, Donetsk and all that, as a journalist. Very controversial thing to do. The Ukrainians want to kill me. I'm on the same death list that you are. Yay. At that point in time, they took my passport and held it for hours.

And then they returned it to me and let me come home. So this trip, I'm doing the exact same thing I did before. And they said, no, we're going to pull your passport now. Why now? And the only reason why I can think of is they didn't want me to go on this trip.

And do you have any insight into the judge, Judge Napolitano?

The tour that I was going to take with this documentary film crew is sponsored by a Russian who I consider to be a very close friend, Alexander Zyryanov. And he's the director of what's known as the Investment Development Agency of Novosibirsk. Yesterday morning, I got a notification that he was arrested and charged with corruption. Now, he denies the charges. This is an internal Russian thing, none of my business. But all I know is that my passport said on

on the visa sponsored by the investment development agency of novosibirsk and the head of the investment development agency of novosibirsk just got arrested and i was sitting there saying you know i have enough experience in russia where i can go there on my own and and gut it out judge napolitano is a friend of mine he's somebody who i respect he's a colleague

And there was no way in hell that I was going to let Judge Napolitano get on an airplane and fly into an unknown situation. So I called the judge up and I said, Your Honor, don't get on the plane because I can't guarantee the outcome. I'm not saying it's going to be bad. What I'm saying is I can't guarantee what's going to happen when you land. And if I can't guarantee that,

then I can't be responsible for being the guy that invited you to Russia on that. So I'm the one that told judge Napolitano not to get on the airplane. And it turned out to be a good thing because had he got on the airplane, he'd be in first class watching me get pulled off the plane and he'd have taken off without me. And it would have been interesting for him. They would have treated him very well. I've been told by all the Russians and all the other Americans that there was no way the judge was going to be left floundering. But, um,

I didn't know that at the time. And so I made the only decision a friend does. And I took care of my friend, looked out for my friend, and I advised my friend not to get on the airplane. Okay. So what do you think? So you think you'll ever be allowed to go back to Russia?

Absolutely. I mean, I've done nothing wrong. I've broken no laws that I'm aware of. I think I know what's going on here. And look, I'll say it to you. As you know, I was arrested and charged and convicted as a sex offender. I disagree with those charges. I've disputed them. It doesn't matter. As far as the U.S. government's concerned, I am a registered sex offender.

They passed laws recently that require registered sex offenders to have a stamp in their passports, the stamp of shame. The idea is to shame you into not traveling. I don't care. The government can put any label on me. I don't accept the label. I reject the label. But my passport was issued to me in 2021 without the stamp of shame.

And I'm thinking that the U.S. government decided that this was the time to revoke the passport unilaterally because that's the only condition under which they can revoke the passport unilaterally. So I think they did that, but they're not telling me. They're not communicating with me. I'm left to speculate wildly. But when I run through the range of options as to why they would do this, the only one that has any plausibility is that

that my passport didn't have the stamp of shame. And so they revoked it and now they're going to make me wait for a period of time before they allow me to get a passport with the stamp of shame. But once I get it, as I do with everybody, I communicate freely.

I let every country I know go know that I was arrested. These were the charges. This is a conviction. I oppose it. It's up to you to decide whether or not you believe my side of the version. I don't care if you believe my side of the version. You want me to come and participate in activities? I'll do that. If you are like the British and say, no, you'll never be allowed back in.

I've been to London many times. I don't need to go to London again. I don't care what other people think. I know what the truth is, but that's what I think is going on right here. So I do believe that eventually I'll get my passport back. But until I overturn this conviction on appeal, they're going to put a stamp of shame in my passport. That's what I believe is happening. Is it your version of your conviction? Is it something you can share with this? Is it a long story? Is it...

My version of the conviction is I committed no crime. And the prosecutor wanted to take activity that maybe a married man wouldn't want to admit to to his wife, but not a crime, consenting activity among adults and twist it into something that was a crime. It's a 100 percent manufactured case. It's a computer driven case, Jimmy, where they wouldn't allow the computer to be introduced as evidence in trial.

Think about it. Think about a murder trial where they say, we won't let the gun be introduced. I went to prison for three years as a sex offender. You know what they do to sex offenders in prison, Jimmy?

It ain't an easy ride. Guess what happened to me? I went, the guards told me when I came in, don't talk about your case. Well, hell, it was all over TV. So I went straight to the gangs. I went to the Crips, the Bloods, and the Latin Kings, the big three that kill sex offenders. And I went up to them and I put my, all my paperwork on the table and I said, read it.

If you guys think I'm a sex offender, we'll go out right now and I'll kill about 50 of you before you get me. But if that's what you want to do, let's do it. They read it and they came back and they said, you're screwed. You got screwed. There's no crime here.

In order to get out of prison, you have to take sex offender therapy. But in order to do this, you have to plead guilty. I went to the head and I said, I'm not pleading guilty. I didn't commit a crime. I'm guilty of nothing. He said, well, then you'll never get out on parole. I said, that's too bad. What I did say is I put the file in front of him. I said, everything in there I'm guilty of, but none of it is a crime. Guess what happened, Jimmy?

I'm the only sex offender ever to be paroled from Pennsylvania State Prison without ever confessing his crime. Because even they said, you committed no crime. The warden said, you committed no crime. The guard said, you committed no crime. The judge and the prosecutor who wanted to make a name off of putting me in jail, they said I did. That's the result. But square it.

I was supposed to be in jail for five and a half years. I got paroled after three and I never pled guilty. The parole documents, the parole officers say, why are we paroling him? He won't plead guilty to this crime. Well, they, they, the warden released me because she knew that I wasn't guilty. That's it. I committed no crime, not a single, there is no victim. There is no victim. It's a cop who registered as an adult,

And then later said that he was a 15 year old girl. There's no victim. There was no contact. There was nothing. This would have been thrown out of every court in the world, except the one that I was in because they had a hard on for putting Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector in jail. They made it a capital case and they had a judge who, like I said, wouldn't allow, I'll give you another one just so you know,

We hired an expert, a former federal officer who wrote the book on child exploitation crimes. He literally, he is an expert witness that every prosecutor brings in with 100% conviction rate. And we said, go through my computer, the one we wanted admitted at trial.

And he said, you don't want me to go through your computer. I said, I absolutely do. He said, no, because where there's smoke, there's fire and I will find it. And once I find it, I have to declare it to the prosecutor and you're going to jail. I said, take my computer. He did.

He wrote a letter to the judge, said for the first time in his entire career, he went through the computer and found not only no evidence of a crime, but no indication of intent to commit a crime. There was nothing on this computer. He exonerated me. We submitted that letter, the computer, everything to the judge. And the prosecutor said, I don't want it admitted at trial. And the judge said, OK, it's Pennsylvania, Jimmy.

Go to Pennsylvania on vacation, leave on probation, baby. You don't want to mess with Pennsylvania courts. I was railroaded. That's my version of events. I'll stick with it because it's all fact-based. I have documents to back everything. Someday I may even write a book about it. But until that happens, unfortunately, I'm a convicted sex offender and I have to register for

Again, Pennsylvania made me what they call a sexually violent predator. I came to New York and they made me a level one offender because they looked at everything. They said, you're not guilty of anything, but we can't overturn a Pennsylvania conviction. But they made me a level one offender, which means no notifications, no restrictions, no nothing. But I do have to register. And because of that registration requirement, the United States government can insist that I put the stamp of shame in my passport. And so, and...

is this, this, this prosecution of you, is it because you are a thorn in the side of the establishment and the, the, uh, the war machine? Let's put it this way. The, the police officer, uh,

who did the so-called sting knew that there no crime had been committed and that paperwork was in his safe. But he had told me at the time, you better get a lawyer because we're going to come after you. We're going to seize all your computers. And so I got a lawyer. He said that they'd come in eight days. That's when I said, well, rather than come to my house and raid it, why don't we

get our computer looked at and turn, I said, why don't we turn my computer over to the prosecutor so they understand no crime was committed. My lawyer said, we can't turn the computers over without them being checked first. As a lawyer, I can't allow you to do that. So that's when we had them check, nothing was found.

Then my, we waited two months and nothing came from Pennsylvania. So my lawyer went and met with the prosecutor and said, I understand you guys are looking at it. And the prosecutor went, uh, what? I don't know what you're talking about. And they went back and finally the prosecutor said, we got to give me a name. And he said, well, Scott Ritter. And the prosecutor went, ah, as soon as my lawyer left, he called the cop and said, there's something in your safe. Yeah. Scott Ritter. Yeah. Bring it. And that's when they started manufacturing the case.

Yeah, it's only because of who I am. If I was anybody else, this never would have been brought to trial because no crime was committed. Okay. Well, I appreciate you coming on, telling your story. It's wild that you got pulled off that plane, but such is life. And well, good luck on doing that documentary.

Well, thank you very much. We look forward to getting it done once I get my passport back. Okay. All right, buddy. Good to talk to you. Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks for coming on. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week, and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to JimmyDoreComedy.com, clicking on Join Premium.

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So I've showed you this video. You know Fauci's a big liar. He's constantly contradicting himself and getting caught in, but there's never a consequence. And I'll just show you this again. Here he is lying about recommending lockdowns and lockdowns of schools. Here he is. Well, you know, again, first of all, I didn't recommend locking anything down. You're asking me questions. You're talking about the CDC is the public health agency.

I recommended to the president that we shut the country down. And that was a very difficult decision because I knew it would have serious economic consequences. So he's not used to dealing in a crisis like this with social media. So now people get... And here's a little bit more. The reason I'm showing you this is because a congressman read him the Riot Act and listed all his crimes. Do you regret...

particularly the last one, the shutdown, the sweeping shutdown that some said made things worse. No, I don't, Neil. And in fact, I think we need to make sure that your listeners understand I didn't shut down anything. I recommended to the president that we shut the country down. And the only way to do that is by draconian means of essentially shutting down the country. We know that we can do that.

If we shut down. Well, I think one of the things you really need to do to the extent that you can shut down temporarily the country, I think is important. Well, if I knew at the time that shutting down would have such a dramatic effect.

on controlling the spread, obviously we would have shut down earlier. There were those who say you shut down destructive things by disrupting the economy. And others say, well, if you save so many infections by shutting down, why didn't you shut down two weeks earlier? But I don't regret saying that the only way we could have really stopped the explosion of infection was by essentially ameliorating

I want to say shutting down. I mean, essentially having the physical separation and the kinds of recommendations that we've made. You've been a big fan of Cuomo and the shutdown in New York. You've lauded New York for their policy. New York had the highest death rate in the world. How can we possibly be jumping up and down and saying, oh, Governor Cuomo did a great job. He had the worst death rate in the world. No, you misconstrued that, Senator. Okay.

So I just want, the reason why I want to show you that is because this happened. This is, Kim Dotcom's calling it the fall of Fauci. COVID-19 is officially exposed as a U.S. government project, a virus engineered by U.S. scientists using a bio lab in China for cover. The biggest crime against humanity killed more victims than the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews demand justice. So

Here we go.

Dr. Fauci, I have to say, I, as so many Americans, am deeply disappointed in your actions during a critical time in our nation's history while you were in key leadership roles as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and as the chief medical advisor to President Biden. Put quite simply, you failed miserably, in my opinion.

based on all we have learned during the pandemic and all that we have since learned through this committee's work, I believe your failures stem from both an effort of self-preservation manifested by a series of lies and cover-up and by a total failure of leadership. It was obvious to everyone that you and your organization, NIH, had a lot to lose if the American people were to discover that COVID-19 was most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China,

and that you via EcoHealth Alliance and Peter Daszak actually funded this research and that this lab was actively and recklessly conducting gain-of-function research. As such, you did everything in your power to deflect and cover up this possibility. You even recruited others to help you in this effort. Unfortunately, this cost our country and the world valuable time, time that may have led to answers regarding the origin, may have blunted the spread, and would have almost certainly saved lives.

Well, I think most of us have known all along what I just described. What I have been appalled to discover through sworn testimony to this committee is the level at which you and those that worked for you went to cover up the obvious. Just a few examples, and I know these have been touched on, but they're important for everyone to hear.

Dr. Lawrence Tabak, former acting director of NIH, testified that under the generic definition that NIH did in fact fund gain-of-function research. This was based on a definition that was initially used by NIH and a definition that was abandoned and removed from the website in October of 2021 and replaced by a new, much more detailed definition with a much higher bar that you have since conveniently used to define

Gain-of-function testing and to deny what Dr. Tabak has since confirmed. So what he's saying is that I've showed you that Rand Paul asked him twice if he funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, which we now know probably led to the virus.

He said he didn't twice. And he just outlined how they changed the definition of what gain of function was. They took down the real definition of the NIH website and they put up a bogus one.

And so now he could deny it to Congress like, no, well, if you look at this definition, we didn't do that. But then the head of the NIH just testified a week or two ago and said, yes, we funded gain of function. So completely contradicting him.

So he's been caught a million different ways, and he's just recounting it. He knows he's been caught, but he also knows there's not going to be a price to pay. Well, we're not going to go all the way to where the top, which would be the Pentagon, right? The Pentagon. Dr. Jackson here ain't going to go against them. That's right. They're going to go against a fall guy who's not going to take a fall. He also said that EcoHealth Alliance failed to properly and promptly report that their research violated the terms of the grant, something that went completely unaddressed under your watch.

Dr. Moran's, your senior advisor, who you have tried today to distance yourself from, but whose large volume of emails clearly demonstrate that you had a very close and personal relationship with, and who reported to you directly, has openly bragged about how he subverted FOIA requests. I remind you that the law requires you and your former organization to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests. It is not optional.

If you or your employees or your organization that you oversaw were systemically avoiding transparency and illegally hiding or destroying documents that rightfully belong to the American people, then you should be criminally charged and they should as well. In addition, Dr. Gregory Folkers, your chief of staff, also engaged in illegal practices in which he crafted messages using symbols instead of letters to avoid FOIA exposure.

In an email, April 2020, from Dr. Moran's to Peter Daszak, he says, quote, there are things I can't say. Well, I wonder what he couldn't say. I wonder. He also went on to say, quote, except Tony is aware and I have learned there are ongoing efforts within NIH to steer through this with minimal damage to you, Peter, and colleagues and to NIH and NAID, end quote.

And then a few days later, he said, quote, I have reason to believe that there are already efforts going on to protect you, end quote.

In February of 2021, Dr. Moran wrote to Boston University scientist Gerald Kirsch saying, quote, I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I'm FOIAed but before the search starts. So I think we are all safe, end quote. Dr. Fauci, I want to know what you're being protected from and what you needed to be safe from. I'm going to go on because I have a little time here. You're doing a great job. He went on to say, quote, plus I deleted most of the earlier emails after sending to Gmail.

Once again, illegal and an actual crime. Dr. Moran's noted in another email to Dr. Kirsch saying, quote, I learned the tricks of the I learned the tricks last year from an old friend, Marge Moore, who heads our FOIA office and also hates FOIAs, end quote. It is absolutely amazing to me that Dr. Moran's and Marge Moore still have jobs and her taxpayers are still paying their salaries. Dr. Moran's wrote to what he's describing is what top Fauci's top assistant is.

And the person in charge of the FOIA requests at the agency he's the head of talking about subverting the law. Are FOIA ladies that make FOIAs? That's right. And hiding stuff. And why would you have to hide stuff? Because you're so stupid and cattle. Because you're doing illegal stuff and you're creating viruses.

that, according to them, killed millions and millions of people. Wait, who's powerful enough to protect a guy that powerful, I wonder? Dr. Daszak, in April of 2021, quote, P.S. I forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private email or hand it to him to work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble. End quote. Apparently, you neglected to surround yourself with equally smart individuals.

Dr. Moran's wrote to another collaborator, Peter Hotitz, in June 2021.

at Baylor College of Medicine that he had deleted all his emails related to COVID origin when, quote, the shit hit the fan, end quote. He said, quote, I feel pretty sure Tony were too. The best way to avoid FOIA hassles is to delete all emails when you learn the subject is pretty sensitive. In October 2021, Dr. Moran's wrote to Peter Daszak, quote, Peter, from Tony's numerous recent comments to me and from what Francis has been vocal about over the past five years, we are trying to protect you and they are protecting their own reputations as well, end quote.

I'll just jump ahead. The American people can rest assured that we are going to continue to pursue answers and we continue to push for full accountability from you and your colleagues, despite continuing efforts to try to cover this up. Dr. Fauci, history will not be kind to you and you will be known as the man who put his personal interests before the interests of the American people. I can only hope that's true. I can only hope that history is not kind to Dr. Fauci. And that and that. But you're going to need CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Fox News to report this.

And they're not. They're not reporting. Well, Fox News is actually, well, they're showing the hearing. Jimmy, I'm shocked that Peter Hotez, it turns out, was in on it. Dr. Hotez? Very people that you were supposed to be protecting. Your actions, along with several others we have had before this committee, have completely eroded America's trust in our public health system and the agency that you represented for half a century. With that, I yield back. Gentlemen's time has expired.

And just so you know, he's been talking about this gain of function. So that's just some of the lies. That's just some of the lies in the legal activity that everyone now knows that Dr. Fauci committed, that anyone who wants to know knows, put it that way. But there are still people out there like that Harry Nissen kid who did an idiot test where he tweeted out, anybody think that Dr. Fauci, how many people here think that Dr. Fauci is a hero?

And he got over 30,000 likes. You think those are real likes? I didn't think about that. Yeah, those are artificially made. I thought I would bring that perspective to the topic today is the issue of pandemic preparedness. And if there's one message that I want to leave with you today based on my experience, and you'll see that in a moment, is

is that there is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases, both chronic infectious diseases in the sense of already ongoing disease, and we have certainly a large burden of that,

but also there will be a surprise outbreak. And I hope by the end of my relative... How do you know there's going to be a surprise outbreak? That's why it's called a surprise. Do aliens run our thing? So that's this guy saying... What is going on? For him to be able to say that, if you were any kind of investigator, you'd go, oh, that guy's planning to do something. How else would he know there's going to be a surprise outbreak? Then it's not a surprise if you can predict it.

And of course. There's going to be an outbreak in the future, you mean? No, a surprise outbreak. And so the theory is that some people are saying that they released the virus so they could get their mRNA thing through because we've got other videotape of him saying that. Just because it's the flu, we have to make people afraid of it. I wish I had that video to show you that. And I wish I had that video, but I don't have it loaded today, but I do have it.

it. And he said, well, it doesn't matter if they're not afraid. We have to make them afraid and we have to make them take this new. And so a lot of people are saying they did this. They were funding this gain of function research, creating this virus, releasing it. And then the dual purpose was that they can then just make up out of thin air that you had to lock down and social distance, which is what they did. They made it up out of thin air. There was no science behind that ever. Fauci himself admitted in front of Congress that that just appeared.

And that there was no science behind it. Why would they do that? So then you have to do mail-in ballots. So there's all kinds of that. That's what they, so there's all kinds of control stuff happening. And it all stems from him saying, there's definitely going to be a surprise outbreak. What the fuck? Is this on his Disney documentary? So I don't know where this is from. And so when he was actually deposed, he didn't answer any questions. And here's the guy who actually deposed him. Listen to what he says.

BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU DEPOSED DR. FAUCI, HOW MANY TIMES DID HE HAPPEN TO SAY HE DIDN'T KNOW OR COULDN'T REMEMBER? HE SAID I DO NOT RECALL VARIATIONS THERE OF 174 TIMES AND ADDING IN VARIATIONS IF I DON'T REMEMBER AT LEAST 212 TIMES.

Wow. Smartest man on the planet couldn't remember 212 times? He couldn't remember things, including things that he had told the national media, quote, I remember it very well. Then he would say 16 times, I don't recall details of that meeting. Now, you were near the top of your class at Harvard Law School, Rhodes Scholar, is that right, Mr. Sauer?

I've submitted a biographical statement. Well, I looked at your biography. It's pretty impressive. Is that pretty high? You've done a lot of depositions. You've done a lot of legal work. You've deposed a lot of people. Is 212 times pretty high? I've taken dozens of depositions. I've never seen anything like it, including in this case where other federal government witnesses frequently profess inability to recall. So the guy who told us all these things, who's, you know, the smartest man on the planet, he set a record. Highest you've ever seen and couldn't recall, didn't remember?

I've never seen anything like it. Okay, page four of your testimony. And I have very small glasses. That's who he is. That's who Anthony Fauci is. And I just hope that Kim.com is correct when he says this is the fall of Fauci. And now, if you want to know, you know that he's a criminal and a psychopath. If you want to know, I have to remind people that there's a movie called The Dallas Buyers Club.

Matthew McConaughey won an Academy Award for that. Do you remember what that movie was about? It was about the government suppressing treatments for AIDS that were effective and cheap. And so people were dying when they didn't have to. And who was the guy doing that? Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci was the bad guy in the Dallas Buyers Club. He's been there that long. And wouldn't it be nice if Matthew McConaughey came out and reminded people of that?

Yeah, he's been there. Oh, yeah. If he was here. He was a psychopath. The whole time. He's been here. He's been since the 80s. He's been the head of the N.A.I.D. So he was the one who oversaw AIDS. He made people afraid of it. You could get it from casual contact. Yes. He really wants everybody six feet apart. The gay community broke into his office building and they had his head on a stick.

They literally had it set on a stick. People, and that's all been memory holds. You never see that on TV news. I never talked about in the Washington Post or the New York Times or my other cowardly comedians who host shows that pretend they're new shows. And they never talk about any of it. They never talk about any of it. The biggest scandal in the history of their life. People who do shows about exposing government secrets never once fucking mentioned any of this.

So I hope Kim.com is right. I hope Kim.com is right that this is the fall of Fauci. Because as Neil Oliver said, he's not going to stop talking about it. He's not going to let people forget. I'm not going to let people forget. Those people who got COVID wrong and were for mandating people with experimental treatments and slandered my name as an anti-vaxxer.

Those people want to memory hole what they did during COVID. I'm not going to allow that to happen. I wish I never got any shots so much. I wish so bad that I didn't get it. I'm so angry that I got it. I didn't understand the level of... I didn't either. And there were a lot of people who knew. I wasn't one of them. It wasn't until I looked into it after I got vaccine injured that I found out they were lying about everything and that this guy was at the head of everything and he's a psychopath criminal. I talked to friends in New York who got...

Boosters! Boosters this year! New York is one of the dumbest places on earth now. My old roommate got his booster. He's proud of it. We were at his Christmas party. You're so dumb. Guess what? This is the headline in the Telegraph newspaper.

COVID vaccines may have helped fuel the rise in excess deaths. Whoops-a-daisy. Experts call for more research into side effects and possible links to mortality rates. Really? Or just release the numbers you do have from the research you did when you experimented on all of us. How about that? More research. Researchers from the Netherlands, eh, analyzed data from 47 Western countries and discovered there had been more than 3 million excess deaths since 2020.

So this it's starting to creep into that starting. But they're still downplaying it. It's starting to creep into mainstream news. And I, you know, I tell whenever I talk with Joe Rogan or text him, I'm like, no one's taught. No one will bring up excess steps. Dr. John Campbell brings it up and go look at his Wikipedia page and look what they've done to him.

Dr. John Campbell, who still pretends that he doesn't... Well, he doesn't pretend. He just doesn't talk to me. He won't come on the show. Won't have me... He goes on Russell Brand's show. He won't come on this show. You were violent to AOC. Oh, maybe that's what it was. If I had to pick a reason. Is that it? You were cursing. That's violence. Stochastic. Yeah, because I swear too much. You stochastically sweared at her.

So there has been 3 million excess deaths since 2020 with the trend continuing despite the rollout of vaccines and containment measures. What? They said the unprecedented figures raised serious concerns and called on governments to fully investigate the underlying causes and

including possible vaccine harms. Wait, do you think rushing it might have had something to do with it? I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. Operation Warp Speed, where you take way less time than you normally would, might have had a connection. Imagine if they did Warp Speed on any other thing. Hey, we built this new airplane in Warp Speed. Go fly on it. I think they did do that. Also, gender affirming care. Actually, everything now. Writing in the BMJ Public Health, the authors from...

This university in Amsterdam said, although COVID-19 vaccines were provided to guard civilians from suffering morbidity and mortality by the COVID-19 virus, suspected adverse events have been documented as well. Both medical professionals and citizens have reported serious injuries and deaths.

following vaccination to various official databases in the Western world. They added during the pandemic, it was emphasized by politicians and the media on a daily basis that every COVID-19 death mattered and every life deserved protection through containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines. In the aftermath of the pandemic, the same moral should apply. Well, why isn't it?

Why don't they care about excess deaths? Why are no one talking about it? This is the first mainstream publication I've seen talk about it. The study found that across Europe, the US and Australia, there had been more than 1 million excess deaths in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, but also 1.2 million in 2021 and 800,000 in 2022 after measures were implemented and everybody had the vax.

Researchers said the figure included deaths from COVID-19, but also the indirect effects of the health strategies to address the virus spread and infection. I think those are direct effects. If it causes it, that's a direct effect. That's a direct effect. They warned that side effects linked to the COVID vaccine had included ischemic stroke,

acute coronary syndrome, and brain hemorrhage, cardiovascular diseases, pericarditis, myocarditis, coagulation, I don't even know what the hemorrhage is, gastrointestinal events, and blood clotting. Well, we know about the blood clotting. One person who worked for this company took the one that they pulled, that Johnson & Johnson, because of the blood clots. They pulled it. Well, I guess you have to get the MRNA one now.

German researchers have pointed out that the onset of excess mortality in early 2021 in the country coincided with the rollout of vaccines. Is Crystal Ball going to be on this one, on Breaking Points? She's going to cover this story, you think? I'm going to bet she doesn't. Which the team said warranted further investigation. I'm going to guess all my comedian friends who

who were pro-mandating the vaccine aren't going to cover this either. They're not even going to know about it. They don't even know. You tell them news from the news and they're going to say it's a conspiracy. Yes. However, more recent data regarding side effects has not been made available. Really? Why?

has not been made available to the public with which countries with countries keeping their own individual databases of harms which rely on self-reporting by the public and doctors the experts warned and there was one guy the head of slovakia who ordered an investigation into all this

And then he got shot in the head. Hey, that's weird. What do you suppose the goal was of this now, seeing as how they've all got information from it? They're holding on to it. They're not going to tell you. So look at this chart that's in this article. It says, how risky was AstraZeneca vaccine? This is not Pfizer or Moderna. This is AstraZeneca. Well, if you give birth, one in 12,500, there are deaths from giving birth. Did you know that? I didn't know that.

That's high. The chance of, if you're under 50, getting blood clots with low platelets from the AstraZeneca vaccine, one in 50,000. That's not good. That's better than the lotto. So let's remember there was an adverse event of 1 in 100 back in 1977 with the swine flu. They pulled that vaccine.

Death from receiving general anesthesia, 1 in 100,000. I didn't know it was that high, did you? No. I kind of did, but I put it in my head. Death from hang gliding, 1 in 125,000. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. Death from going in a scuba dive, 1 in 200,000. So scuba diving is much safer than hang gliding. Yeah.

By the way, they're both safer than getting the AstraZeneca. You should have hang glided for COVID. Drowning in a bathtub, one in 685,000. Death from drinking a half a liter of wine, one in a million.

I want to put that up against like crack and stuff. I bet it's not even, I bet crack's not even near as dangerous. So researchers said that it was likely that the impact of containment measures, I mean the stuff they had you to do to try to fight COVID, restricted healthcare and socioeconomic upheaval during the pandemic had contributed to deaths, although accepted that was difficult to prove. Hey, every little bit helps.

Gordon Wishart, a chief medical officer at Check for Cancer and visiting professor of cancer surgery at this Ruskin University, he warned repeatedly that delaying cancer diagnosis would lead to deaths. But people were getting their their regular checkups like they should have. And it led to more cancer deaths is what they're saying. No one said, hey, that might be a problem. And they just went on. It seems like they wanted that to happen.

The authors are correct to point out that many vaccine-related serious adverse events may have been unreported and point to the fact that the simultaneous onset of excess mortality and COVID vaccination in Germany is worthy of further investigation on its own. I'm glad they came to that conclusion finally.

That's great. The paper provides more questions than answers, but it is hard to disagree with their conclusion that further analysis is required to understand the underlying causes of excess mortality to better prepare for the future management of pandemic crisis. Oh, my God. I can't. So I also just have to let you know that the vaccine, the FDA and the CDC still recommending it. And it is it is safe and effective.

So don't be worried. It's fantastic. Wear a mask. And wear a mask. And it doesn't stop the spread, but it certainly slows it and it'll keep you from getting seriously ill, hospitalized or dead. So this is just what these people are saying in this newspaper and at these universities and at the cancer centers. I would listen to the FDA and the CDC and Dr. Fauci and those types of people. And they say it's just fantastic. Get your booster. I think you'd be up to number nine or 10 by now.

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