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I just listened to this outstanding podcast on Liberty Lockdown (Clint Russell). I respect him more than any of the libertarian podcasters that I used to listen to obsessively. He's the real deal, he's honest, and doesn't compromise.
Just for some context, in case people don't know - there's a split now, between the large coalition of people who supported Trump in the last US election. The split is between the "Trump can do no wrong" crowd and the "Trump blatantly puts Israel before the US" crowd.
Here's the youtube version of the podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otrq-OhH5ps&t=160s), it's also available on any podcast app.
Clint goes through the evidence that Trump is completely controlled by Israel, either via blackmail or threats. He believes it may date back to the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.
Here's an extract from the podcast, describing how he thinks it happened. But listen to the whole thing, it's fascinating and very dark.
Well, to make it very explicit, it tells me, you can come to your own conclusions. It tells me that Donald Trump is compromised. Why do I say that? Well, let's highlight this incredible investigative work by Tucker Carlson, who after over a year and a half now, I think it's been about a year and a half, has come out with an expose on the attack on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. On the day of the attacks, Thomas Crooks got extremely lucky, miraculously lucky. After he arrived at the Butler County Fairgrounds on the morning of the shooting, Thomas Crooks conducted surveillance by flying his drone over the rally site. He flew that drone for 11 minutes. It just so happened the Secret Service's anti-drone system was down at exactly the same moment. What are the odds?
Later that afternoon, police officers saw Crooks loitering with a backpack and a rangefinder. They identified him as a suspicious person, which he clearly was, but quickly lost track of him. And so Crooks climbed to the top of the American Glass Research Building that happened to be the only building in the area that did not have a video surveillance system. It was also, remarkably, inexplicably outside the Secret Service's security perimeter, despite the fact it was very close to the stage. Two local police officers assigned to the building saw Crooks, but they didn't report him. A third officer who was supposed to be there left early. An attack that came within inches of taking the soon-to-be president-elect's life. Both Kash Patel and Dan Bongino said that it stunk to high hell. Then they got into power, and they said he acted alone. No social media footprint, no communications, blah blah blah. Right? Wrong. They lied.
In response to the same video, Thomas Crooks issued what sounds a lot like a digital manifesto. Quote, "In my opinion, the only way to fight the government is with terrorism style attacks. Sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you. Track down any important people or politicians, military leaders, etc., and try to assassinate them." So, you need to ask yourself, why did they lie? Why would they lie that Thomas Matthew Crooks had no social media imprint when we know for a fact that Thomas Crooks was communicating through encrypted apps to multiple foreign countries?
Now, I'll grant I'm connecting some disparate dots here. And you may be uncomfortable connecting them yourself. And I'm not even saying definitively I know this for a fact. I am connecting dots. I am analyzing, and I am coming to conclusions. But I will add my track record in doing that is really [f*ing] good. I get a lot of things right because I think critically and I analyze from an impartial point of view, and I try and figure out what the [f] is going on, and often times I come to the right conclusion during the entire like over the past 5 years just look at my track record I usually get these things right – war in Ukraine, war in Gaza, etc., etc.
And if you think I'm reaching, I want you to ask yourself this: If you were Donald Trump, and you came within inches of losing your own life, would you be totally disinterested in who took a shot at you? Would you just assume that the FBI or the U.S. Secret Service, which allowed for that sniper to get in that position and take multiple clean shots at you, would you accept their narrative as to how it transpired? Would you accept the FBI's narrative saying that he acted alone? Would you accept that? Or would you dig relentlessly until you found out exactly what happened, who did it, and how?
Are you satisfied with the answers that we've got from the Butler assassination attempt, Thomas Crooks, 20 years old? Why do we know nothing? We know nothing. Yeah. In fact, not only am I unsatisfied, I'm wholly pissed off about it. And I remain pissed off about it. We know nothing. We see a picture of a kid who looks like he's 14 years old. Yeah. And we've seen no other pictures of him. We don't know who he is. We know he has multiple cell phones. Trying to figure out what 20-year-old has multiple cell phones. The kid was cremated in like five days or six days. Like, give me a break. Most family pets take longer to be cremated. I am very far away from being a conspiracy theorist, but nothing about it looks right.
Well, I'll tell you what I think. I think Donald Trump knows. I think he knows exactly who tried to kill him on that day. And whether or not Thomas Crooks was the shooter, not really relevant to me. I think it was an intel operation. That's my honest opinion. And my honest opinion as of now is that that's almost certainly what happened to Charlie Kirk as well. Why do I feel that way? Well, because of his private communications, because of the fact that he said just 48 hours before his life was taken that he had no choice but to abandon the pro-Israel cause. Do I think that that would be a catalyst for them to take him out? Yeah, I do. Does that mean that I know it? No, it doesn't. As I said, I'm connecting dots. But I think there's a distinct possibility that that attack on Charlie Kirk was yet another reminder to Donald Trump that we [fing] own you. That we run your [fing] ass.
And here's a photo from a few months ago. 250 US state legislators in Israel on a paid trip. https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/1967919776774357436.
Those very few (Republican) senators that are NOT on the payroll of Israel-linked groups? Trump is trying to get them out of office, as you can also learn about in the podcast.
I haven't finished the episode yet, but the main point seems beyond obvious. It's shocking that anyone can miss it.
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What's shocking to me is how, still (especially among the older crowd that identify as conservative) Israel is still completely, 100%, the underdog hero.
And any skepticism of Israel is immediately antisemitic.
I had 3 individuals come up to me a couple months back, when allegations were first made that Israel was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk. These were people that I know, conservative, and either Jewish or married to Jewish people. They all said, "isn't it crazy how much antisemitism there is now?".
I thought it was strange at the time, but then I realized - it was probably a letter from the ADL that they all got, telling them to ask people this question.
Because I got a letter not long after that from Prager University, along the same lines. Before the Charlie Kirk assassination, I had no idea that Prager University was mostly funded by, and probably founded by, pro-Israel groups.
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I'm really curious how the Boomers almost all fell for the "Israel is our greatest ally" line.
It's so obviously false and none of them have an answer for what we get out of the arrangement that comes anywhere close to the importance of our relationships with Canada or the UK, say.
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