MAGA Mondays: Alina Habba’s New Husband is a Very Strange Guy

All right, everybody, it's me, Sam Stein, live from a hotel, and I believe I'm still in Charlotte. Will, you're back. Will was with us in Columbia, South Carolina. We're on this fault. We're on the tour for my behavior. Yeah. Yeah, Will literally trashed his hotel room and was just up all night doing drugs. And so we had to send them home, although I will say, I don't want to inflate your party, oversized ego, but a lot of people came up to us last night in Charlotte, they're like, man, where's Will? Really want a trio tonight? And we're like, well, you know, we had one in Columbia, and that's all we could really stomach. Well, you know what? I had a great time in Columbia meeting so many trio, Maga Monday fans. Someone made a will shirt that I meant to have out for show people, I'll do it for next week. It's still in my luggage. But it was great when the people wearing the will shirts walked over to you, I could see your face just like, how far has this gone? We got to put this back in the bottle, yeah, this has gone way too far. Okay, we got a lot to get to and I got to hit the road in about 45 minutes. So this is going to be a bit of a tighter, Maga Monday than usual, but we're going to get through the topics, folks. We're going to start. So there's a lot of unrest in Europe and I'm assuming I'm talking about France, but that's not the only country that's seeing civil strife, buildings burning. And I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention, I guess, Albania, okay? I guess it just kind of popped up on my radar a couple days ago, but the Supreme Court building in Albania, the Supreme Court building was up in flames in the last couple days. And as I understand it, but it's very hard to understand, well, there you have an environment there. I mean, that's crazy. That's real fire, not AI. As I understand it, this is related to discussed in popular anger over the Jared Kushner Ivanka Trump Island deal among other things, but I couldn't fully get my head around what was happening. So you're our Albania correspondent, what's going on? So this is a story we've been following for a while. The brief backstory here is there I believe two islands that the Jared and Ivanka have been trying to build a resort on and they had some deal with the Albanian government that was basically just going to let them do what they wanted, despite the fact that this is a flamingo preserve or one of the islands is. They were all like, you know, many countless shady characters involved that we've talked about in the past, but people started protesting this so much so that this has now become known as the flamingo revolution in Albania, not a joke. And this is this protest movement has grown and grown and grown and now it's come to encompass other grievances with the Albanian government, like issues with education, so on. But as you said, I mean, really, the spark here was the flamingo issue and now you can see that they even set the Supreme Court on fire. I don't understand why this land project is not just dead, like clearly no one wants to. I think it's fair to say it's pretty dead. I mean, the, you know, some of the payments have been frozen because of various corruption questions. I mean, this is this now they're calling for the president to resign. And so I think at that point, maybe he can hang on to his job, but I think if he does that, I don't think he's going to say now back to building the resort. Yeah, this resort was cursed. This was the cursed resort. What did I want to say, beautiful hectares of land that she walked on here? That's beautiful 400 hectares. My hectares and she just walked on and it was pristine and beautiful, like, I have it in cold war submarine base with a bunch of flamingos that had ended up there. We had to have it. It's going to be this eco-friendly resort. And now we have a Supreme Court building burning down because this dumb, dumb idea, let it rest. They should come out and they should say we're not doing this. Um, burning anymore buildings is one of those situations where, you know, they started the fire. They should put it out. All right. We don't need to belabor that. I just haven't seen any coverage of it. And it's kind of wild that we've had the sequence of events and obviously a lot of attention happening on France, but Albania is also burning. The main story today that we talked about on Friday is what's going on with Lena Haba and her Turkish billionaire, boy, toy husband, who may or may not be 25, he claims to be 29, but documents he signed with the US and gate, he's actually 25, she's 42, so she would be 17 years as elder. It's hard to unravel this controversy, but it involves money from the Democratic Republic of Congo. You're our Democratic Republic of Congo, of course, Juan. Oh, yeah. Albania and Congo, um, can you explain what's going on? Yeah. So this is involved. A guy named Terhan Maldon, uh, who are you sure you will call you 100% confident in that pronunciation? I, I think so. I actually, I, I, I do have a Turkish friend whose name it turned out. I had been nailing, uh, mangling for several years and he said, by the way, it's Jeanate, not cool. So look, I, I'm not the expert here, uh, but with that said, I do, um, this guy, I wanted to bring him up because he's like a classic false flag character. He's, he's a guy who is a, look, I'm just looking out for Alina's heart ultimately. I want to make sure he's there for the right reasons. And there's a lot of reporting starting on through their love or not. I need to. Yeah. I mean, look, what are your intentions with our former US attorney, uh, so essentially what's going on here is this guy is such like a wacky character. He emerges from, I think like a pretty like, I guess like middle class background in random part of Turkey, he marries this construction billionaire construction magnate's daughter. So he gets in tight with Erdogan, who's tight, who's tight with this, this family, he's already married. He's already been married. Yeah. And he had another fiance too. And he's 25. Yeah. Is that possible? Hey, hey, hey. Well, he looks like, um, or maybe 29, we don't know what this guy looks like. He looks like Tony Hinchcliffe from Kill Tony. Yeah. He looks just like him. He looks like the guy who attacked Puerto Ricans at that Trump campaign rally. He does. Where a garden. Yeah. That's why when I, because folks may remember, this is also the wedding where cash was hanging out with the guy who's a suspected for, for an agent. That's right. I was like, this wedding is cursed. Yeah. I was looking at the pictures and I was going to tweet, Oh, and Tony Hinchcliffe's there. And importantly, I fold back. He doesn't so much in that picture. But in some way, you think, uh, you think the mustache is fake and he's doing that to age himself? Or that? Well, you know, what? Well, he looks very, he looks a lot older in that picture than he does as some of the others. Or he looked kind of like at a Turk or something, you know, he looks much more Turkish there. Yeah. But so yeah, he's got, you know, well, I think he probably peals the mustache off when he does a different deal, you know, oh, so basically this guy. So he was married to this billionaire's daughter. Then from there, he got in with the Democratic Republic of the Congo somehow. And then he, he kind of like seems to his deal was like, I'm going to kind of get in with these like troubled or somewhat outcast regimes. And then he got a lot of business interests in Venezuela under Maduro, then he's engaged. So I guess that mirror Gens he's engaged to the daughter of a general or an admiral in Maduro's government. How is this possible in this short life span? It's unbelievable. It's like, is he doing this like every two weeks? Like how is he doing? I'm done with you. You know, it's kind of one of these things where like as, you know, as you get older and you see people younger than you kind of succeeding more than you and you start saying yeah, right, that guy should be like 40 or whatever, you know, and then that's how I feel about this guy. I'm like, I've done barely any schemes, you know, I have it. I've done barely any like corrupt, you know, or yeah, corrupt governments. So he's, he's engaged to that lady. And then Maduro's out of power. And so suddenly it seems like Delce Rodriguez was like, well, you aren't tight with my group of cronies. So we're going to toss you out. And then he goes, hold up. Now I'm engaged to Alina Haba. This is like talented Mr. Ripley shit written all over it. This guy is just absolutely moving up the ranks. We're going to find out at some point that he's like totally, he's actually not Turkish. Like, you know, yeah, there's like something is off about this story. I should apologize because in the middle of it, how's keeping almost burst into our, the live stream. And so I was the other distracted. As she said, can I come in and I'm like, do you have any thoughts on the Turkish feeling? So then how does the, how does the Congo get into this? Like, I don't know. So the reason this is, this is really relevant is because he trans, he had some kind of deal going on with Rick Grinnell, who was at the time, the head of the Kennedy Center. And so we post for a second and talk about Rick because Rick, such a rich character. Rick is one of the most nauseous people online ever, like ever. I say that actually in like a pseudo complimentary way, like he took Twitter, he invented like toxic Twitter trolling, I think, or maybe he's like one of the founding fathers of it. But Rick was just a really nasty, horrible person to a lot of people online. And one of those classic, I'm going to be nasty to you online, but if I see you in person, I'm going to be really nice to you type people. I had more than one interaction with Rick in person where he was incredibly nice. And he has a lot of people, he has a lot of people praying on his downfall. I mean, I think a lot of, even, he is so, even by the standards of like a Trump world personality. He's like a rude guy. And he also managed to get pretty high up in Trump one, right? Like he ended up being DNI, I think at some point in time, like he, he like, he's sort of as a survivor. And he like, oh, he never goes away and he's always a little bit off center. He's never like the central character, but he's around. And he's been around somewhat in Trump too, but not to the heights. of Trump 1.0. So, and this is how I'm going to get to this, but he was given these kind of cryptic side projects are a little bit like on seemingly side projects, even for the Trump world. So, one of them was like, he's going to be our guy down, and then as well, and another one of us, he's going to run the Kennedy Center. And he really shat that up, like he absolutely fucked up the Kennedy Center in demonstraways. And I'm sure if you were watching this, he'd yell at me and curse me out, but like the Kennedy Center failed on his watch, plain simple. Now, that brings us to the trick. Yeah, so he's up to his neck in like something going on in Venezuela. And basically, he had promised, according to this New York Times reporting, he had promised Maldon, you know, sent me some money, $17.6 million, I think, and I'll make you the face of the US in Venezuela. So presumably, you'll get some kind of racket going. And from there, some of that money, I think $5 million, $6 million was allegedly for the Kennedy Center. And this is where it all starts happening. It's basically Alina Haba, I don't know, after while they're on their honeymoon, she's like, hey, why didn't they put your plaque up at the Kennedy Center? And he says, and he's like, yeah, that's a good question. And basically, the accusation is that there was this $17.6 million that got to Grinnell, and then he did not break off the money for the Kennedy Center that was supposed to go to the Kennedy Center. And now Trump, you know, as we were talking about at the show in Colombia, I mean, he's Trump is like Warren Iran affordability, who cares? I will devote all of my day to getting to the buy. I'm a forensic accountant. And he's like, well, Alina's like providing the receipt to the text messages. And he's like pouring over it all. But the money wasn't this dude. It was from the Congo, like the Congo parents. It was from the Congolese government. And it went to like a company that is associated with Grinnell. A lot of these guys have companies that are like, it's reported, you know, I ran into this with Brad Parscale and the South America stuff where he was like, that guy's not my business partner. And I'd be like, well, it's been reported in the New York Times and the economist that he is your business partner. And he said, oh, I'll sue you if you say that. And then I said, so you know, make of that what you will. Sure. Yeah. Is this is the question is the Kennedy Center just becoming a slush fund for foreign governments to carry favor with Trump. Well, in this case, you think Felix, you know, the president of the Congo was like, Hey, I was expecting a nice note from Trump. You know, where's my credit set it off being like, yo, I cut that check. That's like a serious amount of money. And why is Donald not getting back to me? And then they had to trace the money. Yeah, that could be it. I want to get to the fact that Trump's spending his time on this, which seems utterly nonsensical. And then you realize that actually, this is not the dumbest shit he's spending his time. And he's also designing golf courses. Yeah, he put out the final. And I know people don't give a shit about golf on this stream because when we did a whole thing about Trump and the golf courses in DC, I believe it was our worst performing mega Monday. But he, this is the president of the United States. And he did put out a map, an on map, a rendering of the new golf course at Washington, DC, done, and Haynes Point. Do we have it? Can we put it up? Throw that up. Do we have it? No, we don't have it. Well, whatever. I'll just describe it. Basically, they decided to create a 18 whole course on the 36 whole course. They cut down all the bike paths. They cut down all the walkways. There's no dry, there's no kids stuff. There's no mini golf anymore. There's no bike lanes, like I mentioned. So they're basically going to go down. We'd be, yeah, according to this, at least. And then on top of this, these Potomac golf links, one of three public courses in DC, on top of it, they're started just like blowing past this judge who said, you can't cut down trees. You have to get clearance. You have to clear this stuff through me. Trump's like, no, we're going to just do this on November 15th. This thing's going to be closed for 15 months. We're putting this 18 whole course together. It's going to be great. PGA tour quality. And it's just an unbelievable use of his time that he's doing this literally two weeks before the midterms. It's crazy. I mean, it is the classic summer isn't right there. It's crazy. One of my favorite, one of my favorite subplots of this whole administration has been Trump. Like, I'm going to give the horses that the memorial bridge and all this stuff. And then meanwhile, like the country's falling apart all this. Well, you know, I just really, I need to remake this city in my image. Look, people may not care about golf, but I'm sure they're very passionate about biking. So yeah, so as you said, these are important bike lanes, bike paths, running paths, the Marine Corps marathon. This is crazy, folks. This is the part of the Marine Corps marathon, where they put the pictures of fallen Marines. So people can run by and salute them. Not me more. I mean, there's been this kind of Twitter discourse where all these Republicans after this came out yesterday, or maybe two days ago, they were saying, well, look, DC just, you know, it's the nation's capital. It needs a top flight golf course. Does it? Does it? I mean, I understand this land is great for a golf course or for recreation because it floods. And so we don't want to like build, you know, skyscrapers there. But on the other hand, like this demand for like, well, you simply just have to have like, you know, a gust of national there is not really believable to me. It's not believable. I'll just say DC has tons of incredible golf courses just slightly outside of DC. The idea that you have a tournament there too is hilarious. Getting to the Haynes point, like you imagine a Russia crowd's going on that one street under the underpass. It'll be a total disaster. But that's not the point. The point is that Trump is the fixated on this nonsense. You were so right about his love of just getting DC up to snuff. Like, who the fuck cares that the fucking time? Who cares that the water fountains at Meridian Hill Park are functional? Like, is that going to help Joe truck driver and Ohio who's got to pay $8 for diesel? No, it's crazy to me that he's just continuously is focused on this nonsense. Why did he love DC so much? I mean, he doesn't even use DC. When's the last time this guy was out and about in DC? Well, I mean, this golf one does strike me as like very obvious. Like, he's just like, I want to be able to play a day of golf without, you know, having to fly to one of my clubs or something. But I agree. I mean, it's a monster pit. He has to get in his helicopter. I mean, it is a lot of this stuff really. Of course, you want to even be ready by the time you leave. I'm sorry. I'm getting passionate about this, but it's so. No, I know you're fired up. No, I mean, it really is. It's who knows what what what what he'll claim next because I mean, this really is just taking away from the public. I mean, this this area was designated for public recreation. And now it's going to be, you know, this no doubt very expensive golf club. All right. A couple more we got to get there made a lot more. Jesus Christ. Okay, here we go. Scott Pressler, the persistence, great character of magma de lore. Is he actually leaving politics? Because he said this on Twitter. Yeah. So Scott Pressler folks may remember with with longer hair than most women have. And so he said, it may be time for me to step away from politics. I hope that enough Americans want to save our country. I hope that enough of us are going to vote this November. So Scott Pressler is famous. I call bullshit. I call bullshit. Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, but basically people are taking this as Scott is quitting politics. Scott is famous for his voter registration drives particularly among the homage. And he goes out and registers voters. And then if Democrats, excuse me, if Republicans win the state, he's like, it was me, the persistence folks may remember him getting banned from, I think, the South Dakota GOP convention that one time. And he said, oh, oh, my God. All right. Oh, oh, oh, oh. He already took it. He's changed his tune. Oh, my gosh. I decided I'm not going anywhere. We need to elect Republicans everywhere. Wow. So it was, it was a stunt, folks. That's thank you, Matt. I didn't realize he'd already gone back on it. Yeah. Why do you like to play out a few more days? This is going to turn the polls around through Republicans. People are going to say, you know, the persistence set. So I should note that our boy Brendan Hartman had a piece on how Scott Pressler's Pennsylvania operation has hired a dude accused of strangulation, which is not someone who you want showing up at your door. I don't know if this guy's actually involved in a door knocking, but not great because the irony here was that Scott Pressler had been attacking some Democratic candidate for supposedly having a canvasser, I think, was in a legal immigrant and was like maybe the crime. Yeah. And then, you know, Scott Pressler has this guy on on the team. Hi. Um, the idea that he was quitting filed, you know, obviously, and I mean, he was, he was trying to get like people to say, no, don't go, Scott. I'll go, although I love you. I promise you, do out all knock on ten doors if you just don't leave. All right. I can't leave. Now, that's how you do bottom day, G-I-T-B. You just got to tell you I'm the hard strings of those poor Amish voters who need you. Actually, they're not online. They're not looking for it. All right. We got to take a quick break. When we come back, we are going to be talking about a lot of stuff, including whether Lord Lover will make a good press victory and scandal. 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Back story here is that, Abuela said it's Holden Town Hall. This guy named Tommy comes, asks him to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. And Abuela said, basically turns it on Tommy. He says, "Yeah, I absolutely disavow the Muslim Brother." It literally says it within like 30 seconds, less maybe. And this is, but why are you asking me that question? Then he turns into some sort of dissertation about how, you know, Tommy is asking this because he's Muslim. And that actually his filties to the Constitution, not to religion. And then he talks about JFK being a Catholic running for the presidency now. This happened with him back then. Anyways, outside I did a good job turning it into a viral moment that he used. And it turned out that Tommy was the son of a prominent Republican operative in Louisiana, who now works for organization title Bobby Jindal. And they're a state of purpose to go out and create moments that are uncomfortable for Democrats, and to literally heckle them and ask them questions that are designed to trip them up. All right, that's the back side. So Jind Crawford, like at 12.30 a.m., that's the time of this tweet you're looking at right now, writes this. Tommy, thank you. I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abuela Sayed's nanosecond. Yeah, absolutely response. His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diet ride, proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular cell phone most people only dream about triggering congrats. Well, this is clearly a DM gone astray, right? That's a good question. I'm not sure. It kind of strikes me as like a real tweet. I think maybe a, you know, one conspeculate about what's going on at 12.30 a.m. But you know, I mean, I don't know that she was able to look up, you know, Tommy underscore GOP operative underscore bad faith. And you know, that's a good point. That's a good point. That's a good point. He didn't tag him. You're right. I'll say I didn't tag him. It read like a DM to me. And it was just a little bit a little bit. It's definitely totally off. I mean, for a CBS correspondence, it's congratulated GOP operative for triggering a candidate, right? So then Jind Crawford, after many hours, deletes the tweet and says, hey, this was an up to our editorial standard. So I've deleted a tweet. There you go. Earlier, I treated a video from an Abdul El Say at 10 Hall. I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS news standards. I apologize. All right. So what'd you make of this whole thing? And then we'll get to Barry. Yeah. I mean, it strikes me as a sort of thing that number one, you know, if any correspondent had done, you know, hey, at, you know, Tommy, thanks for triggering Ken Paxton or whatever, you know, if any Republican, I think they'd be packing their bags now and they'd be out. Clearly, I think there's a, you know, Barry's going to give you a little more, a little more rope, you know, if you're criticizing a Muslim or someone over Israel. But yeah, I mean, I, I, I think clearly, you know, breaking the editorial rules. But yeah, it reminded me of Terrible. It reminded me of Ter Maran. And, and, and well, got him a five from ABC when he went after Steve Emiller for, you know, being a wife, forget what it was, like an incubator of hate or something like that. All right. So then our buddy, Max Tonny had a piece on Semaphore that I thought was interesting where he said, you know, CB, and this was unrelated to, I mean, belated, but not directly related to Crawford in her tweet, which was, he said that at CBS News, the sort of inclination from Barry Weiss and others, from Barry Weiss predominately is to go down these internet rabbit holes where they want to establish some sort of connection between Abdullah said in the Muslim Brotherhood. They actually were investigating whether or not James Talleriko was in a mental hospital in Ohio for, you know, two weeks or whatever, was nine days. And that it's more or less the for you page on Twitter that's guiding editorial principles for Weiss, which I found to, I find to be extraordinary. Yeah. I mean, I apparently they're going to bring Ryan Amaker in as a CB as a 60 minutes correspondent, the guy who called this, the guy who called the mental treatment center and was like, Hey, I'm Talleriko. I'm just kidding folks. Um, the, yeah, I mean, I wish, I wish Ryan, I wish he was worthwhile though. And so I could have gotten that joke. I think I already forgot about him. You should have gone with Nick Sorner. So basically, um, yeah, I mean, look, this is also, you know, speaking of other media reporting, Jeremy Barrett, the Guardian, status newsletter, they've all been doing this reporting. This is coming out of time of like already high drama over like Israel and Muslim issues at CBS. There was this internal meeting with the foreign team where there was a lot of fighting over like the death toll and Gaza. Uh, so yeah, I mean, there was like a huge audio file leaked of that. It was, it was insane. Yeah. No, it definitely. I mean, I, I think it's a, uh, in terms of the idea that the for you page is kind of the assignment editor, I think you can see that. I mean, they did a, a CBS news segment about like fraud that was very like Nick Shirley-esque. Uh, so I, I think, you know, look, I mean, I think Barry Weiss and Nick built in their idea for, I mean, I mean, obviously 60 minutes, but also CBS news more broadly. I think they're trying to like kind of engage, engage more in the discourse, uh, and kind of, you know, let's slaughter some sacred cows of the lab. Yeah. Can you imagine if someone leaks my call to you? That would be humiliating. That's, yeah, I'm from, I'm standing up for journalistic standards, like CBS news. Yeah. And I'm just like demanding slop. Um, yeah. Here's the thing. And I, I want to, I want to, uh, Marinette and this for a little bit. It's like, I get, you can make the case, right? That like, okay, from a, from an editorial standpoint, we need to make sure that we are, you know, being critical or critically examining candidates regardless of where they are in the spectrum and that, you know, there's no reason we shouldn't investigate and look into, you know, L. Syed and his background or whether James Telerico actually was in a mental health institute, like we need to just critically report everywhere and then everything. And if it, we find a story great, we find a story. I get that. I'm not going to like, quibble too much with that. I guess where my quibble comes is that it doesn't take like much history or knowledge of history to understand that a lot of these, um, you know, a lot of these stories, a lot of these accusations that fly from the right wing internet, from the next orders are inherently bunk. Like you shouldn't treat, you should start by treating them skeptically, right? Like, like, like the James Telerico thing, it felt almost like a little foolish when, you know, instinctual is like, oh, man, like, should we like really look into this? Like, is it real? Because I think at this point in time, you know, time and again, they put up this stuff and then you just closely investigate it, you're like, no, that's just not true. And so it does create this tension where it's like, well, how much oxygen do you need to give these people or should you just approach it naturally from a point of skepticism? Yeah, I mean, I think it's challenging, obviously, like, sometimes these people, no matter how discredited they are, sometimes they come up with a real one. Yeah, like, you would know better than most. It's like, because your job is basically to almost run all this stuff down. Yeah, I mean, you think about when they would say, oh, look at these videos abide and looking so out of it, you know, and then, you know, as it turns out, there was really something to do that. So on the other hand, I do think that's like that's visual evidence. Like, it's different than being like, yeah, you know, I have some like woman telling me that Abdul Sayed, like, yeah, I got, I got, I got, I got tickle on the line. Yeah, she says that, you know, you can see this jet went from Austin to Ohio. Yeah, I mean, in terms of, yeah, Abdul Al Sayed thing, I do think that 704 piece was interesting in terms of the idea that like so much fire power is being focused on a tweet, Abdul Al Sayed's half-sister sent from 2012. 2012, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I do think there's something to be said about, you know, perspective. Okay. Well, I, it does, I guess, segue nicely into your other story, which is there's a journalism ball in Mar-a-Lago for all these cats. Yeah, yeah. So this is the citizen journalist ball James O'Keefe is throwing it in Mar-a-Lago. November 12th, I believe, tickets are a mere $3,000. Now we talked about this on the trip, but just briefly, we're going down. We got all the, we got Nick Sartor, who was just embroiled in the, The Talleriko. thing. So look, there's going to be, yeah, and the reason I wanted to flag here, we didn't get to talk about it. The graphic here. So we've got Nick Shirley, Maria Bartoromo, Rich Valdez, Roger Stone, Cam Hixie, John Solomon, of course, one of our legends. Now, this, I'm not still with the government. No, he's very much still with the government. Okay. And so then we have a guy named Jonathan Cho. Now people watching on YouTube, they noticed there's something a bit different about Jonathan Cho. Everyone else is like formal headshots, shirt, suit and tie for the most part. Jonathan Cho, who's who's kind of like an anti-holeless activist in Seattle, is shown wakeboarding. He's like, he's like, he's wanky, he's clearly wakeboarding. And like, is that the only picture they could get of him? Like, the organizers must have been like, hey, can you send me headshot? He sends in the wake portion. No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm wakeboarding right now. I'm going with the wakeboarding shot. You're going to put that up. I'm not sending you a normal shot. I'm going with a wakeboard. What a ridiculous decision. I can't believe this cast of characters. This is a professional operation, you know, who is Savannah Hernandez? She's kind of one of these women who goes to like a riot and sometimes gets attacked again. There's one of these reporters who goes to a riot. But this is, you know, this did come up in Columbia, which is that Elijah Schaeffer was originally on this bill. And then he had to get dropped because a woman he allegedly assaulted and got fired from the blaze over is going to be attending. And he's currently feuding with Savannah Hernandez as well. Oh, no. Oh, no. He basically said like she's she's not the the tradwife. You know, she wants to play with us. He ought to have a bar to room on there. There's another bar to room a pick that surfaces weekend that I'm not sure I want to touch. Good idea. People can look, people can look it up. It was with our guy Nick Adams, the cultural ambassador who knows where who's the big hooters officianata. He posted a picture with Marie. We're not going to put it up because I'm not surely sure it's not AI generated or enhanced. People can look for themselves. It was at some Italian heritage thing. And yeah, we can leave it at that. All right. What else do we have to talk about? Oh, Nick Frankase. Yeah. And great. I know. I know we've all been looking for the Zola registry. We were excited for Nick's wedding. But it looks like Nick Fuentes is he has missed his chance at love. Now this is a story featuring a woman named Faith Merrill, who is I believe like 22 or maybe younger. And she was kind of like the lead great Pat. Now she initially was like a hardcore TPSA person. And that's when I started following her career because I was like, what is it like to be a CD tier aspiring TPSA influencer? But after the Charlie Kirk assassination and as she saw kind of the the winds on the right blowing against Israel, she said, I'm a gripper now. And so she has been kind of obsessed with Nick Fuentes. She showed up. People may remember the ill-fated event where it was kind of like a rival America first thing hosted by the Australian woman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's her name. And it's unfortunately I'm blank. But basically she showed up and she had like a Nick Fuentes doppelganger with her. It was like a guy who just looked just like him to carry her bags. And then she went to Chicago where what the fuck? How does she? People were like, Oh, is that Nick Fuentes there? Oh, he's there with Faith Merrill. And then no, it wasn't. It was just a guy who looked just like him was dressed. How do you know she hired him? Well, I don't know that she hired him. I think she showed it like she he was in her entourage. And then she went to Chicago where Fuentes lives and was posting in ways that suggested she was hanging out with Fuentes. And then she had like a picture in front of the bean taken bot with the Fuentes doppelganger in the reflection. So it kind of looked like oh, Nick Fuentes is taking my picture. But and so Fuentes had been like, you know, I'm interested. There's a couple I'm interested as opposed to serious red flags. Okay. I'm interested in this great pet because obviously, you know, he's had longstanding gay allegations. He's trying to, you know, he's trying to settle down. And so however, it's all gone off the rails because she seems to have kind of gotten hired in the great pet. She said she did this thing. She was like eating like hot Cheetos and Takis. And she was like, I want to marry a rapper and the groipers, you know, they, hey, I thought this was my tradwife, you know, what she's talking about marrying a rapper. And so they got very upset with this. And now, you know, we can throw up. She said, you know, leave the America first cult. So basically, there's this Instagram. So the one on the right is AI generated the thing. So basically, you know, she got it. There's a clean. And basically this, this other woman, you know, was in her Instagram comments saying like, you know, you're a loser. You should never stop being a great pet. And Finn Merrill said, get out of the cult. ASAP girl praying for you. So, you know, looks like she's not a grouper anymore. I asked her to get in touch share her thoughts on the great pet lifestyle. She did not so far. Wait, wait, how far did her relationship with Fuente's actually get? I mean, I think were they were they dating or they weren't dating. They weren't dating. But it was a sort of online courtship, I would say. Did he he was courting her because it looks like she was courting him. Well, he would say, oh, I might be interested in marrying this young lady someday. So then, so this this breakup as it were, or this, this kind of sour relationship, this situation ship, as they say now. Okay. You know, this is fire some more discourse on the right wing internet. Let's play J.F. Garepi, reactant, Quava Qua commentator. And so yes, it is difficult for people like Nick frontess to get a wife because you have all these false signals. Basically, you have you could have a hundred thousand woman saying, I'm in love with Nick frontess. They could feed it. They could say it. But they're not going to stay. It's tough. It's tough. Now, people may remember J.F. Garepi. So I can't even understand this. What is his. I think basically he's saying there's just too many women throwing themselves at Nick. Yeah, that's hard to know what's really. Do they want you for the fame? Do they want you for the racism? Whatever. Now, J.F. Garepi, obviously his wife disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Oh, yeah. That's that guy. Yeah. And you know, he's been, you know, I think suspected of having a hand in that. That's the guy who was just speaking. Yeah. But he's never been tried. I should say I had different. I had a different conception of that guy. Also in the Epstein files, he got money from Epstein. So this is the kind of guy is giving Nick frontess relationship advice. Oh, man, this is tough. I don't know how I feel about all this. I'm glad this. What is your 22 year old? Yeah, I'm glad she's getting out of it as well. Yeah. But also like showing up with like a frontess look like at the bean is just, you know, some serious judgment calls there. Okay. What else do we have? Oh, we don't really need to spend too much time on loomers being or wanted to be press secretary. Do you want to talk about that? Just briefly just to plan it in the false flag. You are a MAGA Monday universe. Loomers. Not happy. She's floated herself for press secretary. I think she'd be pretty good. I you know, way you think she'd be good. I think she'd be better than most. I think she would be better than Katie's. I thought you posted a picture of herself in a blood wig. Come on. I'm ready. So I do think it would for me, it would be kind of like a satisfying conclusion to the loomers arc because you know, she's had this kind of like Sardakar like devotion to Nick Fuentetay or excuse me to Donald Trump. This is like undying devotion. Loops Friday and slip. Yeah. She definitely has, but she would be the absolute, I mean, maybe she wouldn't be the worst back secretary, but she'd be the most toxic possible addition to this white house you could possibly imagine. Yeah, the scheming would go into overdrive. You know, Susie Wiles would have to get a couple new burner phones that maybe they bring back Kristi Noom, you know, since we talked last week about her leaking the loomers. Yeah, you want to talk people about that? Who didn't see your story? Yeah, we haven't talked about it. So it ran on Thursday, basically back in the doge era, Noam and Corey Lewandowski wanted to act some FEMA employee and they according to court records, now into Judge's opinion leaked kind of an unfair smear on this employee to Laura Loomer. The employee sued over it. And so now it ended all ended up in court records. And what's interesting to me is that that literally like Lewandowski and Noam, so according to this judge, we're like personally telling Loomer, hey, tweet this. I know that's the crazy part, right? It's like we talked about Loomer's influence since she obviously has influence, but she's like literally talking to a cabinet secretary. Yeah, from a cabinet secretary, that's not normal. At that point, it makes me feel like probably other cabinet secretaries are, you know, you know, why not if you're embroiled? Well, I mean, did you see the Kimberly Guilfoy, the latest on the Kimberly Guilfoyle story where the Daily Mail was like, well, it's a Guilfoyle's whole world is falling apart. She's getting exposed by Deeders, her ambassadorships at risk. And what does she do? She calls Pete Hegseth to like help save her among other people. And I'm thinking myself, Pete Hegseth is supposed to be running a war. Like, yeah, no, what the fuck? Like why is this happening? And then Gifford tried to get in touch with Trump himself. Obviously, he did not, Trump at least, thank God. It's probably too busy dealing with the golf course design. Did not answer the call, but according to that story. So the amount of shit that these people spend their time on is shocking. Yeah, it's crazy. They love, they love like little factional disputes. And I love following them. Yeah, it's like bravo in the White House for will to cover and enjoy. You have the best job. I have to hit the road in about two minutes. So we're going to leave on this note. Back when he was running for Governor of Florida, James Fishback, who did not do very well in the primary. He responded to allegations that he may or may not be closeted by. He married, he got himself a wife. And they got engaged, and they got married. And do they have a kid coming? I think she's pregnant. So we kind of skeptical about it. Because it seemed a little bit well-timed for Fishback and his political aspirations. Fishback is now in this weird place where he's trying to connect the horseshoe. And he went to Raleigh in Florida with Angie Nixon, who is the very liberal candidate running for Senate there. And he showed up. And I just want to say, love is real. He showed up with his wife. There she is. So there was another kid with a lot of fun. There were rumors that she had unfollowed him on Instagram or something. And I texted him. And he said, LOL, she's sitting right next to me. And I could have asked for proof. But I figured, fair enough, I guess he would know better than I. So it is interesting. He's doing this pivot to support Angie Nixon. Obviously, I don't think James Fishback's word exactly resonates with Floridians at the moment. But he clearly-- I think he wants to, obviously, destroy Byron Donald. He has this kind of blood feud with him. And also, I think he sees, well, maybe if there's not a Republican in office, that's an easier path back for me. Yeah, but Nixon's not running against Donalds. Nixon's running against Moody. So it's kind of interesting. And then-- I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Well, stick to your fucking line. But it is kind of like Frentess going all in for an act in, you know, how. I mean, that's obvious because the Vec Ramaswami is Indian. And Frentess does not want that. But in this case, Angie Nixon is black. And so it's kind of-- it's just an interesting thing. I wasn't here to talk about the politics of it. I was here to just acknowledge that love is real. Love is real. It's beautiful. Between that and Alina Habba, you know? Yeah. Yeah. We're going to keep an eye on that guy. That Terhan Maldon, you know? I suspect there's more to come from him. Terhan, if you are watching, this worked with Dieter. So who knows? Terhan, if you're watching, I would love to have you on the program just to talk about what's going on in Venezuela, what's going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and whether you think the Kennedy Center should shut down or should get your money and reopen quickly. So if you're watching, just hit us up. We would welcome that. All right, well, I got to go catch a bus to Atlanta folks. There is one last show in a fall tour. It is Tuesday night in Atlanta, if you are in the area. Try to get tickets. We have a few left, bullock.com/events. That's the bullock.com/events. As always, subscribe to our feed. Got YouTube, substack subscriptions. It's great. Fantastic. We only got two more weeks for the elections. It's fantastic to have this as your source of news as we head down the home stretch. All right, buddy, thanks for doing this. Really appreciate it for everyone else. We'll see you next Monday. Thanks, everyone.