DOJ Indicts Russians Over Funding Tenet Media Scheme, Tim Pool Listed As Victim

all right everybody uh from the post-millennial doj indicts two RT Affiliated Russians accuses them of laundering 10 million to conservative company tenant media to so division in the US CNN has come out and said that they have confirmed the company is in fact tenant media Heavens you may know that the culture War podcast which is owned by Me was licensed for distribution on the tenant platform uh let me tell you you know people ask me if uh I get worried discouraged how are you feeling and I'm like my friends on Saturday the front runner for the largest political party in the country accused me of calling for the extrajudicial execution of my political opponents and claimed I was a trump operative who worked on a project on Project 2025 for which I have no affiliation at all so I'm like this is is is under that okay this is silly nonsense Russian BS whatever and I'm like it's kind of alarming when people message you being like did you really claim that all democrats should be Trump should start executing Democrats and things like this and I'm like holy crap it's a wild week uh you know in um several years ago they went after you know Paul Watson Milo uh Laura lomer they went after uh Paul Joseph Watson right it's manipulation of prominent voices in media because an election is here and the most important time is going to be the next couple of months two months to be exact with with early voting happening powerful influence flal shows that oppose the the current political structure or oppose a political party they're we know they're dirty individuals who are going to play dirty games they are desperate to make narratives and to disrupt their opponents the purpose of this in my opinion is to uh not this story specifically but what I should clarify is the narrative purposes of Russia disinformation all these things basically hyper so division to an extreme degree so let's let's address this as I already stated um the culture War show existed for a long time now what are we going on it's been uh was it like two years over almost two years and uh we licensed the show for distribution uh but we produce a show it's our content it's our editorial editorial control it's our schedule we do whatever we want and the deal we had with tenant was it would appear the the show would broadcast on their Channel and then all of the media we own and control and still do that's it they pay a li fee that's all timcast uh timcast Corporation is entirely separate from the culture War it's a totally different company with totally independent funding sources that most mostly come from our members and all of that stuff and so you know there you go I guess now I find this all very interesting because the argument from the doj is that uh the the story is basically and then we'll read the responses from I think Dave Rubin Benny and and me and we'll elaborate story is that Meritt Garland he gave a press conference and said uh these RT media people used fake names funneled money through shell corporations to a US entity which is tenant media they allege and then that company deceived several of us uh into licensing or producing content uh we I didn't produce any content for tenet again they only licensed a show we already produced so they like we sold the right to distribute the the broadcast I want to stress that it's very important as for others I can't speak to what their deals were what they did I have no idea and uh you know it's funny because people like it sounds like an arms length deal and I'm like H kind of less than that I don't know there have been a bunch of people have licensed content to a bunch of different platforms it is what it is I suppose so the interesting thing however is the argument is that the content pushed Russian Russian interests by sewing division in the United States it's not that the people who produce content for tenant were advocating for Russian positions or anything like that uh although some of them I think certainly were anti- intervention and more deferential to Russian perspectives I think that's fair to say if you look at their tweets uh I think my position has been rather anti-war neutral Putin shouldn't have invaded Ukraine he's a scumbag I've maintained that position he's an autocratic bad person a lot of people want to defend Russia and say oh they're The Defenders of traditional blah blah blah I'm like no they aren't it's a guy who's forced his way to to maintain power for decades it's an autocrat who wants power and then you've got Western powers that are trying to fight with him I don't see why the United States is going to be involved in any of this as a long long complicated story that I talked for like an hour half an hour about already but I digress uh as for uh these allegations what the doj did massively Amplified what they claim was the Russian operation I want to make sure people understand this if the real issue was that they were trying to build a media channel utilizing prominent personalities to to lend credibility which is the allegation that Benny Johnson and I were deceived using uh fake person fake personas and shell accounts and all these things and a us-based company they wanted our credibility not content that way they could build up their own platform for which they could put whatever narrative they want is the argument uh if that's the case then by coming out with these accusations and indictment two months before an election all that did was create a massive massive Division and hyperpolarization in this country so Meritt Garland works for the Russians like I don't know what to tell you because this story has created a hyperarid once again just like what we saw in uh 2016 with Russia gate but here we go again we're two months out from an election for what purpose are they going after a channel that generates a a a minuscule amount of viewership ow and put and putting this Big Show on and making it a huge deal it's kind of wild if you ask me so uh we have this and I have the statements I can read from Newsweek three prominent podcasters have insisted they had no knowledge of a US Network hosting their content allegedly receiving received nearly $10 million from Russian State media employees seeking to influence a 2024 election let me uh make sure like I I think I think it's important that uh these people clarify what the indictment says the indictment says that Russians used fake names to funnel money to a US Corporation the US Corporation was paying people for Content or licensing Tim P Benny Johnson and Dave rman all strongly denied any wrong doing and described themselves as victims of the reportedly Moscow back scheme the indictment says that according to a doj indictment an unidentified Tennessee based company received nearly 10 million from two employees of RT in media Network owned by the Russian State CNN said it had independently confirmed the company was tenant media a Content platform that hosts shows for p Johnson and Ruben the indictment claimed the scheme was created to recruit unwitting American influencers who would promote Kremlin sympathetic narratives ahead of November's presidential election I don't know what those uh Kremlin sympathetic narratives would be Taylor Hansen filming protesters and asking them why they oppose Israel or something I guess in a statement post on an X formerly Twitter the culture War podcast host wrote should these allegations prove true I as well as other personalities and commentators were deceived and our victims that's literally what the uh indictment says I cannot speak for anyone else at the company as to what they do or what they were instructed the culture War podcast was licensed by tenant media existed well before any license agreement with tenant and it will continue to exist after such any agreement expires indeed it will and shall the only change to the agreement was the location of the live broadcast moved to tenet's YouTube channel I and TCW never produced any content for tenant media never at any point did anyone other than I have full editorial control of the show and the contents of the show are often apolitical indeed last week's episode was about simulation Theory and spirituality where we discussed the nature of artificial intelligence and whether or not we are living in a simulation or Christian is true and correct I don't know how that pursues Russian influence or whatever we actually had a show where uh we had guests on claiming Trump or Elon Musk maybe the Antichrist whatever I guess he added that being said we still don't we we still do not know what is true in these is are only allegations Putin is a scumbag Russia sucks donkey balls I don't know anybody who knows my show uh knows that I love this country I am routinely disdainful of Russia but my problem with Ukraine is um and this is not you to uh uh to me the corporate press has even brought this up that Ukraine's invasion of Russia puts us in in a dangerous political position that the Americans don't want silly huh Johnson wrote a year ago a media startup pitched my company to provide cont content as an independent contractor our lawyers negotiated a standard arms length deal which was later terminated we are disturbed by the allegations in today's indictment which make clear that myself and other influencers were victims of this alleged scheme my lawyers will handle anyone who states or suggests otherwise Dave Rubin said these allegations clearly show that I and other commentators were the victims of this scheme I knew absolutely nothing about any of this fraudulent activity period people of the internet was a silly show covering viral videos and uh there's a little bit more so I'll pull this up viral videos uh which ended four months ago the doj has never contacted me regarding this matter and I have no intention to comment further this screenshot directly from the indictment speaks for itself now look um you know I'm I'm I'm of two minds on this and I can't say too much for obvious legal reasons uh the the the indictment specifically points out how I and others were deceived through a a scheme some have argued that we didn't do our due diligence oh I assure you we did uh if what the doj is saying is true you can read it for yourself it's it was sophisticated like untraceable shell corporations and fake names fake indviduals not to mention the people who are running the running it we knew for a long time and trusted but we certainly did and uh there's a lot more than I could probably add to this later tonight because uh there are some pretty big developments but uh I will stress and this one will be important victim okay I'm a victim uh let's see he added the doj has never contacted me regarding this matter and I have no attention to com comment further Newsweek contact ATT tenant media and RT for comment outside of regular working hours on Wednesday the doj charged con uh Constantine proba it's probably Constantine right kis nikov and Alena aanas yeva both russian-based employees of RT with violating the foreign agents registration act and conspiracy to commit money laundering the pair are accused of dispensing uh dispersing nearly $10 million to help promote online content they deem sympathetic to criminal names speaking of a press conference on Wednesday attorney general Meritt Garland said we allege that as part of the RT its employees including including the defendants implemented a nearly $10 million scheme to fund and direct a Tennessee based company to publish and disseminate content deemed favorable to the Russian government now what's interesting is they're not charging the people at tenant I wonder if it's because its first amendment protected and I wonder if it's because the people who ran tenet either uh didn't do anything wrong or I have no idea though I can certainly say that those of us who were involved were deceived and are quite perturbed to put it mildly but again more to say later referring to far far he later added the law enacted nearly a century ago was enacted to ensure the American people were informed in a foreign power engages with political activities or to seek influence uh to influence public disclosure the American people are entitled to know when a foreign power is attempting to exploit our country's free exchange of ideas in order to send around its own propaganda Garland confirmed that political commentators were not informed they were being backed by Russian State linked funding commenting the company never disclosed to the influencers or their millions of followers it's ties to Russia and the Russian government according to the indictment at one point an RT employee asked a Tennesse based company to create content linking the crocus City Hall terror attack which took place in Moscow in March to Ukraine in the US the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the incident which killed 145 people and I will clar pretty sure if you watch timcast IRL we explicitly call that an ISIS attack I like all all all of our sources are corporate press sources you know we just call them out when it's VI lies like a picture of trump giving a thumbs up and it says Trump gave a thumbs down I'm like uh you know my favorite right now is when the uh the media's claiming that the immigrants the the the Venezuelan gang takeover isn't real despite the fact that the police are literally saying it is and they're giving out warnings but there are still these leftist Outlets being like nope not real it's made up it's fake and I'm like uh local Outlets are saying the police are warning people but I digress a founder of the company said one of their commentators was happy to cover it in reply in August the FBI office the Director of National Intelligence and cyber security infrastructure Security Agency sisa said they believed Iran was behind a hacking attack targeting the Trump presidential campaign they said as a as each of us has indicated in Prior public statements Iran seeks to stoke Discord and undermine confidence in our Democratic institutions so uh you know welcome to what's only going to get absolutely crazier right Tim cast Corporation this show you see what's happening now is for look I can only say mer Garland is an unwitting uh uh uh an unwitting agent of Russian disinformation and I don't mean that a joke this doj indictment may very well be the actual Russian play why think about the outcome now what's happening is division has been Amplified to an extreme degree what was originally a small YouTube channel with relatively low reach uh producing what was Dave what Dave rubin's show was him commenting on viral videos like really Dave ribbon watching a lady at Taco Bell get mad over not having sauce is is his Russian influence Benny Johnson producing the show he already does his political opinions and the culture War podcast which literally existed before tenant media and still does exist and will exist afterwards and uh we control the audio side and all of that stuff like what was what what what was the impact well with Meritt Garland's doj indictment the impact is massive now there is massive division in this country so if the argument is that we're trying to avoid political divisions the United States Meritt Garland is an unwitting Russian asset accidentally that may be the actual play and Russia may be laughing all the way to the bank being like it was 3D chess 4D chess I think actually it's 3D chess because chess is on a 2d board but I suppose no I don't know Knights can jump so I suppose that would make it threedimensional the point is this and time is involved with clocks so it's already 40 fifth dimensional chess multipler you get my point the plan may have been to induce charges so that Meritt garland would create division animosity and and Chaos in the United States and further so division unintentionally unwittingly because I can tell you this the culture War podcast talking about video games uh this Friday we're talking about Hollywood and movie production I this not even political stuff it's culturally political in the sense that it talks about like cultural efforts but now the the the uh it's exploded so now what's happening is you have leftists and liberal commentators taking clips from this show which is funded independently complete with no investors and no outside sources and claiming that this is the show that was receiving funding it's like hold on the culture war is a different company that produces the culture War podcast timcast is a company that produced timcast and the funding sources are separated but they're separate so when they take this this show and try to link it that's the division trying to claim that timcast IRL is being funded or because a show that we had was licensed by another company despite not being produced by that company that's that's how the narrative now is is is being manipulated I'm a couple a couple Minds on this one um perturbed is one way to put it for a variety of reasons uh honestly somewhat grateful to the FBI in in all honesty and uh we'll see where this goes there's a lot I can't say maybe tonight I will be able to but um if the indictment is true and uh I as well as these other individuals were manipulated and deceived and it's been damaging to us I'm beyond livid it's an understatement and uh uh the FBI I got to be honest maybe it's just serves their interests but I kind of feel like hey finally they've done something that actually benefited me in essence and I'll stress this too I I I look the liberals who are lying and the liberal podcasters who are lying what are you going to do about that but the doj indictment makes clear that we were all tricked and manipulated that I what what more can I say about that I don't know it's like if that's true then well holy crap thanks for figuring like I don't know we'll see what happens but you know I have nothing but disdain for these crackpot Looney leftists and liberals who just lying about what's going on that's why I said you can eat my Irish ass I don't know if you get mad me saying that but uh yes I am Irish I am more Irish than I am Korean and I thought it was funny to say Irish I don't know German Irish and Korean and a little bit of British indeed there like a little bits of like French Dutch and other stuff in there but you know for the most part German Irish Korean for the most part I don't know German Irish is like a very common thing I guess but uh you know I don't know there'll be more to come for sure and uh I think things will certainly get interesting with these developments but I also kind of feel like uh you know they a a PR event two months out from an election that has no impact on the content we produce at all in any way I don't know what the point is I don't know you know what man the annoying thing about all this is the uh legal restrictions on speech which should not exist but do exist because there's a there's a whole Dark World beyond the scenes a whole Dark World of these communications um with like the FBI the things they do that they don't talk about and you know example I'll give you is there was this uh um there was this email service that provided encrypted emails uh uh for people and they received a national security letter from the FED saying you cannot talk about this so instead of responding and and giving in they just shut the company down and then stated they did in defiance of what the feds were trying to do there's there's a lot that goes on that uh the a lot of companies they're not going to tell you you know so it makes you wonder indeed it makes you wonder about what we can expect but um I don't know everybody in their grandmother has been trying to uh you know hit me up and uh journalists and all that stuff so it's stupid these journalists are morons it's just it's just so dumb journalists let me let me tell you to do your jobs for you okay the idea that like a journalist is going to call someone who is potentially named as a victim in an indictment let me let me explain something to you totally ancillary just the outside of all of this let's say there's a murderer and um doj releases an indictment on this murderer and it lists Jane and John Do's as victims but there's enough identifying information to figure out who these people are don't you think those victims are going to be working with the the investigators and that you asking for information just flies in the face of an ongoing investigation right don't you think maybe you should say when you can I'll be waiting instead of trying to just call someone's phone not that they know my number this is actually really funny so I don't I don't think they've been able to figure that one out but uh yeah I don't know uh someone says the trial hasn't started uh I will I will I will you know make sure to clarify too like these are allegations I've not spoken to uh the people who run tenant and those that we believe are named no idea so I don't know exactly what is uh uh going on I don't all I know is our show uh existed before it will continue to exist will be live Friday nothing has changed so I hope everyone I hope everyone Revels in that I will continue to say that Ukraine as accused accused of uh by Germany of bombing nordstream pipeline has proven to be an enemy of this country the invasion of the Russian region has pissed off a large portion of Americans even corporate press journalists are upset about it saying the American people don't want to see you invade a foreign country you're supposed to be defending your own territory I have no respect for you oh I'm sorry do I have this uh this tweet here's what I tweeted upon reflection I Now understand that Ukraine is our greatest Ally as the Bread Basket of Europe and peace loving people we cannot allow the fascist Russians to continue their crime against humanity we must redouble our efforts and provide an additional $200 billion at once I don't care about Ukraine I am pissed off that Germany issued a war for the arrest of Ukraine for the bombing of the nordstream pipeline why are we supporting these people you want to come out military-industrial complex Democrats and explain why we should be funding this war in Ukraine do it but you haven't so don't expect me to support any of this shenanigan garbage or the country of Ukraine okay which everyone agrees is massively corrupt if this guy if it's true and it's alleged that his Ukrainian bombed the nordstream pipeline and the invasion of the KK region of Russia using our resources did the American people sign off on that that we would fund your defense which you would get you would then use the resources training to invade Russia don't get me wrong they are allegedly not using Us weapons in their Invasion but they are firing from from their territory into Russia using Us weapons Biden answered about this that is insanity to me I don't see why we should be involved but I know exactly why we are well I I I I believe we know why and that is Russia controls a large amount of the gas flowing into Europe through Gaz prom which has a major pipeline going through Ukraine and the loss of control of that territory would strengthen Russia's ability to export energy at high rates allowing the Russian economy to expand and strangling out the European economy because energy constraints Europe needs more people fertility rates are down that's why they're bringing in Mass migrants to keep their job numbers up this whole Ponzi scheme is struggling to exist oh man the cutter turkey pipeline failed Barack Obama was trying to OU Assad the Deep State wanted to get Assad out so that we could build this pipeline which would compete with Russia and their plans fell apart completely because Donald Trump got elected and they're losing their minds over it guys I I want you to understand something you failed okay to the Deep state to the US intelligence agencies this is your fault you screwed this one up it's not on us the American people who are mad I who am mad podcasters and influencers and commentators who have built influence watching all this happen you made a mistake stop taking it out on us a apologize for your failure be honest about your intentions explain what's actually going on or you deserve to to to lose your power and be gone I got to tell you I'd have infinitely more respect if Joe Biden KL Harris or Barack Obama any one of these people came out and said in uh 2009 we were trying to uh build a pipeline from uh Iraq through Syria turkey into Europe provide clean cheap energy to the European people Bashar al-assad said that he was an ally of Russia and would never allow such a pipeline to exist this is true by the way Obama impression aside the us then made plans one of those plans was to remove Bashar al-assad reported by the guardian we wanted this pipeline from Iraq through Syria turkey into Europe to offset the Gaz prom gas Monopoly they control control about a fifth of gas going into Europe which allows them to set prices very high if we were to run this pipeline we could then compete and it would lower energy costs but that'd be bad for the Russian economy because as we know they're an ice cold gas station that's how people refer to what do they call Russia a gas station um a northern gas station or something like that they sell oil they sell energy Russia didn't want this to happen the Assad regime told the West the United States we won't allow the pipeline to be built because we are allied with Russia and that would upset them Russia has a naval base in Tartus in Syria surprise surprise the Arab Spring happens conflict crisis well let me pause before this the response from Assad and from Russia was to have Iran tap the same gas field run a pipeline additionally through Syria and turkey to compete with the west and strengthen Russia's economic strangle hold with gas prom the end result of of course is that uh assads was to be overthrown Civil War erupts the West Begins supplying weapons the us then has troops in Syria claims that Assad was gassing his own people all of these things some of it may or may not be true a lot of it is false some of it is true the country falls into conflict Isis explodes the West wanted Isis to as as as a destabilizing force because it would help us clean the mess up afterwards and this would expand our economic plans unfortunately for the Deep State Trump won they failed they screwed this up how I have no idea it makes no sense they could have literally just gone on TV and said no Trump won they could have just come out a week later and been like Trump won they could have done literally anything but they screwed up massively that's why it's almost makes me wonder like did they really screwed up or is this the managing decline of the United States what would have stopped them from just having a faithless elector what would have stopped them from just going to any one of these states and being like just say you know wow you found more ballots than Trump won like the Deep State could do any of those things they could r or manipulate or Play Dirty games but nothing happened Trump ended up winning and then Trump said we don't want to do any of this stuff so what happens is Isis gets crushed Syria still has US troops Trump tries getting our troops out this ends the the pipeline plan Joe Biden who had been working on uh on the barisma Energy company where his someone was on the board this was an effort likely to counter gas prom Donald Trump being investigating this quid proquo when Joe Biden said you don't get the billion dollars unless you fire the prosecutor which is illegal so these nefarious actions that are taking place are disrupted When Donald Trump gets in that's why they say Trump was working for Russian interests not that he was actually working for Russian interests but that Trump was like why are we doing any of these things I don't care about Ukraine I don't care about any of this but guess what Trump winning it's their fault all of it's their fault if the Deep state was really in control and was running the show and was trying to do propaganda was trying to manipulate people and claim Trump was bad they failed Royal royally they failed Roy Roy royally and so I just look at this you're losers you lost this is your fault these are your mistakes you never properly explained to the American people was going on and so they voted for Donald Trump and then you claimed it was actually Russia that did it that's BS sure maybe but that just means that our defenses were down and you screwed us so I just see it this way I fear Chinese he hegemonic power a totalitarian Chinese Communist Party spreading like the Soviet Union and and communism spreading across the world is terrifying I do not want that to happen I would prefer and I mean it us hegemonic power at the very least we get luxury I guess not that I'm a fan of intervention or anything the U like the for American foreign policy has done miserably but I but I can say this instead of saying to the American people our European allies are being strangled out with high costs and it's weakening the European block this is going to result in the expansion of China the weakening of the US economy and it's going to make your groceries cost more I mean even if some of this wasn't true that's a better lie than saying price gouging they don't do it I'm just like dude let me let me make the case for you maybe it's because too many special interests want to manufacture in China but the argument is this China is expanding rapidly their military presence in in Southeast Asia is growing and it's destabilizing the region it's going to result in a massive economic depression where your groceries will cost more your rent will cost more your life will get harder the values held by the Chinese Communist Party are not values that we as Americans would ever want to adhere to or support their values of authoritarianism and censorship they oppose our way of life and they do not have the same moral world view We As Americans must do everything we can to make sure that economically we can grow and defend our way of life and support our ideals the European continent is being strangled out as as Russia has aligned itself with China we ask only to create Market competition in energy but they won't stand for it instead what do we get the losers who are currently in the Deep State who don't know how to run this stuff instead run these cockamamy schemes that failed miserably and now we're looking at World War III and they they're just they're just screwing the whole thing up give me a deep SE that functions and I'll say okay sure I guess but this crackpot deep state that can't actually run the show properly come on man it's it's it's it's terrifying because it's like it's a company being run by the in it's it's job from Arrested Development okay the K has no idea how to run the business you know they they burned down the bananan now the money's gone dad's in jail or whatever they don't know what they're doing and they're just messing it all up they're being outplayed why are we going to pay the price for that so I'll tell you what right now you tell me why it is is that Trump is is doing so well in the polls Comm Harris may win sure fine whatever but why is Trump doing so well why does he have so much support why is he winning in the pr space why do so many people believe he's the right choice 76 million people voted for the guy and I I can't imagine the numbers are going to be less than that this time around I have have to imagine it's going to be greater how does K Lis win maybe she does maybe she does but if it really is true that Trump is bad and we should live in this hegemonic system that you failed to control or whatever then I think you'd make a better case for it which you haven't and so I don't know why we should get behind losers who are screwing everything up and fumbling and dropping all of their their limes they can't hold them all anyway I'll wrap it up there long segment I suppose no uh I don't know if there may be a next segment if it is it'll be at four thanks for hanging out follow me on x smash the like button um become a member at timcast.net