This is a must-watch. At least watch the first 48 minutes if you don't have time to watch it all: youtube.com/watch?v=dMBBOawF…
This is a formal request for Susie Wiles and James Blair to stop harassing me with texts and calls.
If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.
If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.
I believe we are in an existential moment for the country, and Americans were owed an honest accounting of the past two years so we identify the problems we need to move on from.
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The “intelligence” that Kennedy is referring to are Israeli talking points pushed by Israeli lobbyists like Dubowitz.
In the lead up to the war Israeli gov officials & lobbyists were pushing this nonsense but there was zero actual intel to support these outlandish claims.
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I actually liked Israel. But the minute I ever said anything critical, I was called a Jew hater, said to be obsessed with “the joos,” and privately sent threats. So they lost me. I am not anti- but overall sick of it all.
What's weird is how "normalized" this was to Americans. I'm a half Egyptian guy who has always been critical of Israel - not nearly to the extent I am now, but I had a critical view - and I don't recall realizing how weird this was. In retrospect this culture of radical, fawning, proud deference, couched in terms of manly patriotism, was completely bizarre.
We're the super power, our leaders shouldn't talk like this about any country, much less a tiny and economically inconsequential one.
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Calley Means: "I spent every day with Bobby Kennedy, who is my hero. I left with more respect for him than ever. Full integrity, never seen him do anything that wasn't in the best interests for the American people... but he is surrounded by demons that want him out and want him destroyed."
And that's really the problem isn't it? When you know what to do, or should do, but there's a certain group of people who keep your hands tied. I think that's why Tulsi Gabbard and Dan Bongino, left as well.
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[Trump meeting with Tucker Carlson in Feb. 2025, a year before the US and Israel attacked Iran:]
"They want you to go to war with Iran," Carlson said.
"We're not doing that," Trump answered.
"Good, because the only thing that can blow up your administration is if you get into a war with Iran," Carlson said. "Your voters don't want any more wars. You ran on that."
[From Haberman and Swan's "Regime Change," page 74]
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If you played a part in destroying it, then you're not the guy to "save" it. Unserious grifters blew that opportunity.
This one is for Brenden Dilley. And all the other cheerleader sycophants who are partly responsible for this catastrophic midterm:
If you tell someone “it’s fine, it’s fine” knowing that something can be done to save their lives, but you don’t do it, you are not placating them. You are killing them!
You are the problem that contributed to this midterm catastrophe.
The greatest contribution you can now make to solving this conundrum is to fade into irrelevance.
Watch and share.
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Susie Wiles is gone but her legacy lives on in her friends and loyalists who she forced into roles to advance her agenda.
They are still there.
Her people set American health back decades with what they did at HHS. They blocked the MAHA agenda at every turn.
And this is just at one agency.....
Calley Means just went on Joe Rogan and blew up at Susie Wiles for destroying MAHA.
“She spent her career taking money from Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“The pharmaceutical industry.”
“The pesticide industry.”
“Trump’s administration has been infiltrated by the very people that he energized voters to say he would get out of DC.”
“Susie Wiles is the most powerful chief of staff in modern American history.”
“She has a couple of deputies.”
“James Blair … long-term political consultant.”
“He’s taken a lot of money from … special interests.”
“The sugar industry.”
“Walker Barrett.”
“Susie’s neighbor in Florida.”
“Junior guy, but extremely powerful.”
“Richard Walters.”
“A kind of mid-level fundraiser.”
“He came from a lobbying firm … that lobbied for pesticides.”
“Lobbied for pharma.”
“These are the most powerful people in the country.”
“Tony Fabrizio.”
“He takes money from Pepsi.”
“He takes money from pharmaceutical companies.”
“He takes money from almost every single industry we’re fighting against right now to this day.”
“Susie’s daughter became a lobbyist.”
“The group Susie’s daughter worked for had almost zero in revenue before the Trump administration.”
“Shot up to $30-ish million a year in revenue.”
“If you’re a special interest and you want to get something done, the secret’s out.”
“You pay Susie’s daughter.”
“And then Susie worked at a firm called Ballard Partners.”
“Ballard Partners has become the highest revenue-generation lobbying firm in history.”
“If you hire Ballard, you get a meeting with Susie.”
“And you can get things done.”
Joe Rogan: “Is this normal?”
Means: “This is how it works for 30 years.”
@calleymeans @joerogan
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In 2003, Stephen Miller told his professor his ideal future job would be working in the White House under Donald Trump.
"I said [in 2003], who would be the president? And he said, 'Donald Trump maybe.' The guy is very smart."
Today, Miller was named White House Chief of Staff.
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lol
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My favorite part of this whole thing is the name of that episode in the first clip: “They are LYING to you about Iran.” Talk about telling on yourself.
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There was no way, and there remains no way, to "finish it" without obliterating the world's oil supply. The harder you bomb them, the harder you bomb your own voters' milk, cheese, potatoes, gas and mortgage prices. Guess what happens when you do that? People vote you out.
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Megyn Kelly: "It was Netanyahu who went into Situation Room and talked Trump into launching this war... His American advisers said, 'Do not trust him.' And President Trump did. And what happened day one after we launched this war? Marco Rubio... said we did it because of Israel."
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The reaction to the results of the midterms reveal that there are two types of people out there:
The “If only people had supported the terrible decisions of this administration, Republicans would have won” people
versus
The “If only the administration hadn’t made terrible decisions, Republicans would have won” people.
Govern who you follow for analysis accordingly.
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Just a reminder that @dbongino glazed Trump over the Iran war and called everyone a Panican while "live from Tel Aviv" is b-rolling on Fox.
Guys like this own the midterms. Hold them responsible.