WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.240 Okay, welcome back to the Operaman Report. I'm your host, 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.080 private investigator at Opperaman, and we are lucky to get 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.240 a hold of Daniel Hopsicker from Medcowprode dot com. That's 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:14.439 his website, and he's got a brand new book coming 5 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:16.920 out called Gangster Planet. We're looking forward to that. In fact, 6 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:18.359 I think we're the first ones to hear about it. 7 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:18.920 Uh. 8 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.719 Daniel Hopsicker is a legend in this field. With the 9 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:28.359 Mad Cow Morning News and the Muhammad Ata's Flying Circus 10 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:30.679 and all the great work is done Barry and the boys. 11 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:32.799 This guy's been there and done it from the start. 12 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.320 And when we're lucky to have him on the show, 13 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:35.719 Daniel Hopsicker, are you there? 14 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.240 I am, and thank you for that nice introduction. Yeah. Well, 15 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:42.679 you know, by the way, I think what this field 16 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:49.399 needs is more private investigators like you, because there are 17 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:51.960 sometimes when I want to find something out when you know, 18 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.280 I realized that the guys that do what you did, 19 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:58.200 or do I I'm not quite sure what are able 20 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.759 to put right to the heart of it immediately. Yeah. 21 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:02.920 More so, I'm good. 22 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.400 Yeah, I'm doing good. 23 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:04.680 You know me. 24 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.079 I'm chugging away here. I'm not giving up. 25 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:09.040 You know, what do you want? What do you want 26 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:09.640 to talk about? 27 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:11.920 Well, let's start first with the new books Gangster Planet. 28 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:12.879 What are we going to look forward to? 29 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.159 Well, it's a gangster planet. I mean, there's just no 30 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:23.560 way around, you know. I think it's a pithy, pithy title. 31 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.359 But I have, I guess, been lucky enough to have 32 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:34.480 kind of a front row seat on criminal activity, high 33 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:39.280 level criminal activity. Not street buggings. O they you know, 34 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:43.599 guys are bringing one hundred million dollars of of of 35 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:50.239 Coca a tala first, first in Louisiana where I went to. 36 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.159 I went to Louisian. I'm from California. I don't know 37 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:58.000 if you know that about southern California. And uh, I 38 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.519 went to Louisiana to write a book about Barry Sea. 39 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.239 And when I saw there, coupled with what I've seen 40 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.280 in the last dozen years living in Florida, makes me 41 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:14.479 realize that there's a whole criminal enterprises in America that's 42 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:20.319 like located like it's like it's like they're offshore here. Okay, 43 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.240 I mean this is a part of the United States 44 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.080 of America, but like stuff goes on here that doesn't 45 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:29.719 go on in Illinois. Are you with me? 46 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.919 Yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent. And now that 47 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.319 but it's not just the cooke stuff and the drugs. 48 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:36.840 If you look at the Trump administration, all these guys 49 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.879 are pulling scams and cons. How come they can get 50 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:41.840 away with this with impunity? And if you or me 51 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:44.000 try to do any of these things, even low level 52 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.919 bank scams would be under the prison. 53 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.039 I can explain it to you very quickly as it 54 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.719 was explained to me, okay by a guy who I 55 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.159 who I who is a very smart man, who who 56 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.120 I actually kind of likes quite a bit, who I 57 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:05.319 thought was running the CIA's aviation station in Miami. And 58 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.439 you know, he was pretty much as Frank with music 59 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.199 could be. And then he said, but you know, he said, 60 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.240 what it is is it's a never ending scandal. I mean, 61 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.879 it's one scandal. It just keeps going on and on 62 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.639 and on. Okay. In other words, the same people that 63 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.639 were involved in Iran contra, you know, you know, are 64 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:27.400 doing other things when when Bush was president and and 65 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.919 and they're doing stuff now and and they have their counterparts. 66 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:38.400 Well that's why they call it organized crime. Okay. And 67 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:42.840 the basic message, if I could tell you in one line, 68 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.560 what I think I've learned is that the forces of 69 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:52.000 transnational organized crime are stronger than the forces of any 70 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:57.120 nation state on earth, including including our own. 71 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.120 Yeah with you? And and then what is it? You 72 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.000 get involved in the two party systems and you make donations, 73 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.159 you raise money, and you pay your dues, and and 74 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:09.400 that's how you get away with it? 75 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.120 Well, there is no two party system, right, I'll I'll 76 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.000 sorry to tell you an anecdote from a movie by 77 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.800 Preston Sturgis and I Sullivant. Sullivant's travels and he's pretending 78 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:28.959 to be a bumb and there's an election and and 79 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:33.560 and the Boston town promises, uh, you know, five bucks 80 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.879 for a body that votes. And this guy goes out 81 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:38.519 and what's not sixty nine times? And the boss is 82 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:41.759 impressed with them and says he's going to give him 83 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.240 a job. And the guy's going great. And the boss says, 84 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.199 you're going to be in charge of the Reform Party 85 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.600 the next election. And the guy goes the Reform Party. 86 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.879 But Boss, you know you're not the reform He says, 87 00:04:53.319 --> 00:05:02.240 I'm all the parties. Hell, Hell's son, I'm all the parties. Okay, 88 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:04.199 and you know, and isn't that the truth? 89 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.199 We're gonna put you in charge of investigating voter front. 90 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.879 It's such a good job out there. Oh my god. 91 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:19.079 I once asked a guy, I'm not the sharpest, why 92 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:22.480 am I doing this? I mean, there's no there's there's 93 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:27.600 not very few. There's not a lot of people poking 94 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:35.040 around where I poke around, and and you know, probably 95 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.120 because because they fix it though it's not wildly remunerative 96 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:44.040 and you're discouraged. You know, you say I'm going to 97 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.600 write a science You know, you can do what I'm 98 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:52.040 doing right now if you fictionalize it. Okay, fictionalized, fictionalize 99 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:57.120 it enough. But my tendency has just been to pursue 100 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.040 what I'm interested in without getting to the point. But 101 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.439 maybe that's the point I'm finally reaching at any rate. 102 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:10.839 I mean, I'm here to tell you that that I 103 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:15.800 know stuff about Russiagate that that nobody else knows. And 104 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.120 the reason I know stuff about about it, and you know, 105 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.839 believe me, I am not pretending to know the whole 106 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:26.519 story of Russiagate, you know, by any means. But what 107 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:30.680 I saw beginning in two thousand and eight was was 108 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.160 was stuff being done by guys who had continuity with 109 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:45.240 stuff I'd seen before. Okay, For example, Verry Steals murdered. 110 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:50.319 Well do you have is your audience? Do they do 111 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.480 they know by Barry Zeal they know about this? Yeah? 112 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.079 Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. 113 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.560 Yeah, Okay. Very Seal gets assassinated in nineteen eighty six 114 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:05.040 or seven, and the next year his lawyer, his his 115 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.560 in house lawyer who sued me for emotional distress, and 116 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.839 so I cannot disclose his name. He incorporated the company 117 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:21.680 in Florida called Nationwide Vans for a guy, a Saudi 118 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.120 by the name of romy Olbatrawi, who it turns out 119 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:30.879 was the chief lieutenant of Van then Koshoki. So Barry 120 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:36.600 sales guys incorporating something for Koshoki then in ninety one 121 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.639 ninety two doesn't come out to ninety six, but the 122 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:45.279 Defense Intelligence Agency does a big report on I'm called 123 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:49.759 thean drug traffickers supporting the government down there, and Koshoki's 124 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.879 prominent on the list at the inn Kyoshoki. Okay, And 125 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:03.480 then it turns out out, okay, I'm here in Florida 126 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:07.800 and and two big two big drug drug rug drug 127 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.920 trafficking things happened, and two thousand and six, two thousand 128 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.199 and seven, that just reared their heads like you know, 129 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:18.920 like like like King Kong, you know, getting out of 130 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:23.199 the ground. A DC nine from Saint Petersburg was busted 131 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.959 with five and a half tons of cocaine. And that's 132 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.160 actually a really interesting story what they both are. But 133 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:34.679 then the following year, a Gulf Stream was busted near 134 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.000 the same place in Mexico with four more than four 135 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:42.240 tons of cocaine. And the ownership of the two planes 136 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:47.039 is interlinked, okay, I mean if you look at it, 137 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:50.799 I mean some of the people that owned one plane 138 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.679 owned on one owned the other, okay at one time. 139 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 And and if you're and I had realized a long 140 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.720 time ago that the CIA just it it's aviation assets 141 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.720 around it doesn't matter, if you know. And then and 142 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.240 they move them, move them around regularly every every couple 143 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.919 of years, but they never sell them. But they never 144 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:14.679 I have never found a plane that I have Well, 145 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:19.559 first of all, both both these planes had government government connections. Okay, 146 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.480 the DC nine, which was flying out of the same 147 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:32.039 airport in Florida that the Coast Guard and Customs and 148 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.960 Border Patrol their main aviation assets right there, right and 149 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.600 there's DC nine is flying out of there, and it's 150 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:42.759 it's taxing up and down the apron, looking like a 151 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.759 government plane. It's got a big seal on the side. 152 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.519 You know that it's the sky but you know, and 153 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:51.679 you don't. You don't see what it says. It's a 154 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.600 sky with aircraft. It does it's a US government. But 155 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.039 I mean it's got the ego. It looks exactly like 156 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:00.360 a government seal, and it's painted exactly like a government plane. 157 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.480 And it's taken for a government plane down there. Okay, 158 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:05.399 it's taken for a government plane. 159 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:08.200 The air traffic people and the people who run the airport, 160 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.000 they think it's a government playing with them. Don't they 161 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:11.279 have paperwork, wouldn't they know? 162 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:19.759 Well, it's just another level of of of First of all, 163 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:23.320 First of all, I mean it doesn't matter. I mean, 164 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.200 if you're an air traffic controller in Mexico, you do 165 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:30.440 what you're told, you know, so you don't go boss, 166 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:35.399 there's a strange plane here. Somebody somebody just took off 167 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:37.960 from a dirt runway and it's like trying to evade 168 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:42.039 us on the radar. You know, that doesn't happen like 169 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.840 you know, that's the whole story. That's the whole story 170 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:49.480 against planet. Okay. You know who controls the distribution of 171 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.360 the pipeline up to hear Is is guys who own 172 00:10:53.399 --> 00:11:00.200 airports down there, you know, the richest Mexicans, Carlos slim them, 173 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:05.399 God love him. Okay comes close to looking like the 174 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.559 prototype of what you'd think like a major drug trafficker 175 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.919 would look like. It's not some, it's not some, it's 176 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.440 not uh Elchpo Guzman, you know, hanging out in the 177 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:23.960 mountains of Sineloa, you know, with bandoliers strapped across his chest. 178 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.639 Doesn't work that way. You got to be able to 179 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.399 You've got to be able to have lunch with Jamie's 180 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:37.639 Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan Chase. You can't look like, you. 181 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.399 Know, like you just dug a tunnel, right, you can't 182 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:41.879 look like he just came from underground. 183 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.600 That's right, That's right. That's what again, that's what you're 184 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.440 paying for, that's what that's what you're paying some rich 185 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:52.240 industrialists in Mexico to deal with somebody here that that's 186 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:55.720 what this guy's are. You know, he's got plausible deniability, 187 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:59.240 which is which is what you or I would want 188 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.000 if we were in the same musician, am I right? 189 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:06.799 Well, how does this connect those to the Russian mob 190 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.679 and what Mueller found in his report? The cliff Notes 191 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:10.840 version of what Mueller found. 192 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:16.080 Well, okay, so I'm interested in everything to do with 193 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.919 the people that had anything to do with just these 194 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.960 two planes, all right, and an Kashoki going back on 195 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.879 both of them. And Ashoki the Russian I mean or 196 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.080 the Saudi, you know. I mean, he's an American asset. 197 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:35.799 He's the CIA guy. He's he's the Jude you know, 198 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:44.639 going back, he's actually been involved in every American major 199 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:51.279 American scandal since the seventies. Okay, He's he's the actually, 200 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:55.039 you know, six degrees of Kevin Bacon, right, this is 201 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:59.240 six degrees of is you know he is somehow involved. 202 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.159 He was, He's the he was on around Contra. He 203 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.440 was in and you don't remember this because you probably 204 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.240 weren't born yet, the Lockheed bribery scandal in the mid seventies. 205 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:15.679 I mean, he's been there, he was that, and he 206 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:19.039 owned both explaints. He and his you know, through his 207 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:24.919 lieutenant romy Albatrowie Okay, who is himself a piece of work. 208 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:29.919 Rommiy Albatrowie. Actually I think he showok his lieutenant Okay, 209 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:37.480 is the perfect sample of transnational organized because he's Saudi, 210 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.159 but he's not Saudi. And the reasoning he's not Saudi 211 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:45.039 is because he was born in Geneva. So he's the 212 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:49.080 son of a Saudi rich Saudi Okay, general. I thought 213 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.840 he was a general or a diplomat. I was born 214 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:56.120 in Geneva. So he's he's he's transnational from the get go. 215 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:01.480 The guy that owns the the big hot the big 216 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.200 department store there, right, who's the guy. 217 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:11.480 Mohammed? Yeah, he would at Naka Shogi's son in law or. 218 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.919 Something, right, And what's his connection to to this guy Kashogi, 219 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.000 the one that was chopped up over there? What's his 220 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:19.799 relationship was his nephew nephew for nephew? 221 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.120 Yeah, I mean, I I am. I don't pretend to 222 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:30.039 know anything about Saudi politics and wouldn't know who he? 223 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:34.519 You know? And and he you know, what do you 224 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:36.840 what do you make? He go ahead, go ahead, starts in. 225 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:38.840 But what do you make of this? You know, the 226 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:40.799 all the reporters are sitting around, they're talking about this 227 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.000 guy Kashog gets chopped up. No one mentions he's related 228 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.759 to and says, hey, mister Trump, that's the guy related 229 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:49.480 to the guy you bought the big ship from, you 230 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:51.960 bought the big yacht from. No one says that. 231 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.720 No, that's look, that's my position. That's just bizarre, Okay. 232 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.639 I mean I'm the only I see it. But I'm 233 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:06.120 the only one that sees it, Okay. And I was 234 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:10.039 here a year after nine to eleven, like when I 235 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:12.360 knew the story wasn't in New York City because I 236 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:16.039 was like rubble, Okay, the story was like, you know, 237 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:19.799 track down what these guys were doing in the in 238 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.840 the twelve months before the attack because they were here. Okay, 239 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.759 but you didn't read any major books about them here. 240 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.440 You read books about them in Hamburg and about this 241 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.120 and that and the other, but none of those big 242 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:35.200 books focused on them here. And even though even though 243 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:37.559 one of the major books, one of the major writers 244 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.720 came down and spent all told a month with me here, 245 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.720 and and uh it was it was a footnote in 246 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.639 the book. He just he just was scared off completely. 247 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.759 And and and he's a guy whose name you know, 248 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.240 was well respected, I mean on the left, you know, 249 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.279 among people. Oh yeah, he wrote, he wrote a big 250 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:05.799 book about the Kennedy assassination. But by the time he 251 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:10.679 got here, he was he was well placed. You know, 252 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:18.080 we're okay, so to finish Okay, yeah, I see this stuff, 253 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.080 all right? And I went. I went to a friend 254 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.840 of mine back in Newport Beach, where I lived when 255 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:28.960 I was in California most recently, who uh spent a 256 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.279 career as I thought it was the NSA, but maybe 257 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:35.080 it was c I ah, because I've heard now both. 258 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.240 And I went to him and I said, I said, Dick, 259 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:44.600 I said, how come I it was some major revelation 260 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.279 about Barry Seal it would have been back then, I said, Dick, 261 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.200 how come this is so easy, you know, for me 262 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:52.759 to see. I said, I'm you know, I can't be 263 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.480 the smartest guy in the world. I'm pretty smart, but 264 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.159 you know, and and he he just looked at me 265 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.600 and he said, he said, I said, how come welcome, 266 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.720 I can see this, And he said, because they don't, 267 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:10.519 they don't bother to hide it, which was pretty deflating. 268 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.599 I thought he was going to go, hey, you're a 269 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:17.839 pretty sharp investigator, you know. Here hav An Apple now 270 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:23.799 it's because they don't bother trying to hide it, which 271 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.000 is because because no one know, they know, no one's 272 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:32.599 going to go after it or you know, not all 273 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:39.359 the time, but much of the time. So a half 274 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:42.599 dozen guys important in Russia Gate had crossed my radar 275 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.440 long before Russia Gate because they were involved with guys 276 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:50.559 I knew were involved in drug trafficking. Okay, long story short, 277 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.759 there is I knew who o Legg Derek Pasca was 278 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.480 in two thousand and seven, in two thousand and eight, 279 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.440 I mean, you know, I didn't know, you know, and 280 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:07.519 Olig Deripaska is the Oliver North of Russia Gate. Okay, 281 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:12.160 he was. He's the guy running around, you know, looking 282 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.519 self important. That was Olig Derepaska, and I was. I 283 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.440 was following him. And because I was following him, I 284 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:20.200 was following him by about two thousand and five, two 285 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:23.279 thousand and six. And because I was following him, when 286 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:29.279 Trump sold a mansion to another Russian oligarchy that I 287 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:35.200 knew was connected to Ola Deripaska, I went hmm, and 288 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:37.559 I looked into it a little more, and then I 289 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:39.920 went hmm, and I wrote about it. And that was 290 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.880 like two thousand and eight. Okay, and that guy ribola 291 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:49.559 lives name hard to say, but but but the trump 292 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.920 one undred fifty million dollars for him, I mean, Ribololev 293 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:59.400 is no idiot. He's not going to be twice what 294 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:01.319 uh what a manch and is appraised at. And that's 295 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:04.920 what he did, more than twice. So fifty million dollars 296 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:11.839 went went, you know, was off the books. And that's 297 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:14.200 what you want, is operations that are off the books. 298 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:21.559 You want to own hotels, uh and in places where 299 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:27.279 you can. We're small notts of Kashkamn, right, you want 300 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:29.039 to want to run it. You want to run hotels 301 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:32.720 because because you can, you can. You can own a hotel. 302 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:37.000 That's that's you know, that's got like you know, notebookings 303 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.519 at all, like like and you can show it on 304 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:42.480 the books as if it's like, you know, on the 305 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.880 hottest hotel in Las Vegas. 306 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:46.599 Who's going to know someone's staying in the room in 307 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:48.119 that and. 308 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:49.759 And and this is the end of the This is 309 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:51.759 the end of the business. That's those interesting. And this 310 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.039 is the end of the business that's most important. It's 311 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.039 the money end. Okay, it's the money laundering because what's 312 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.799 the point of being involved in organized crime? Let's face it, 313 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.160 what's the point of being involved the trans you know, 314 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:04.119 the power thing, for the for the guys that are 315 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:09.039 running it. But but if you can't spend the money, 316 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:10.480 you want to be able to spend the money. And 317 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.200 that's why that's why, that's why Russia is so pissed 318 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:16.440 at the US. That's why, that's why they're so pissed. 319 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:20.079 That's why Putin is so pissed because it's his Oligeraposket 320 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:25.720 that can't spend his money here, okay. And and the 321 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:31.920 question is, I mean, from everything I've seen, and believe me, 322 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:36.039 I'm not like a world a world traveler, but they've 323 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:41.720 got the slickest organized crime operation in the world. I mean, 324 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.680 it's an integrated you know, it's the general motors of 325 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.319 organized crime, because the government and the mob is the 326 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:53.079 same thing, and the too, well that's what I mean. 327 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.759 It's one thing. And do you want I don't want. 328 00:20:55.799 --> 00:21:03.880 Do you want uh that group having having having access 329 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.839 to American capital markets? I mean, no fucking way. I mean, 330 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:10.799 that's that's ips I just said a bad word. I 331 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:15.680 don't know, you can't say that's you know, that's that's 332 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:20.880 I's so fact though. Corruption Do you think do you. 333 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:22.920 Think there's enough of that money floating around that they 334 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:25.880 could pay off both sides of the aisle and cover 335 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:27.200 up this mute report. 336 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.720 Well, I think we're gonna see. I'm not I'm not 337 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:38.680 a political insider. I mean, you know, certainly, I'm hoping 338 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:46.119 for the best. But you know what I've I've always 339 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:50.000 said that I don't I don't have much good to 340 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.480 say about Republicans, okay, but but I haven't even less 341 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:56.880 good to say about Democrats, because like, Democrats will break 342 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:02.720 your heart every time you'll you'll try really hard, and 343 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:05.039 you know, I mean Bernie was an example of that, 344 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:07.200 just the most recent I mean, you know, going back 345 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:12.720 to the fucking sixties, the Democratic Democratic Party is you know, 346 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:17.119 when when push comes to show, you know. So, I 347 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:22.599 don't know what's going to happen. I'm certainly I think 348 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:25.200 it's it's gonna take it's going to take billions of 349 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:29.039 people in the streets to make it happen. I think 350 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:30.880 that's that's what it's going to come down to. 351 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:34.319 What do you make a bar bar In his history 352 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:37.960 and his connections to iran conscient all that is this 353 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.000 guy safe to be a judge investigation. 354 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:50.519 Well, let's consider him. On the one hand, he's uh 355 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.880 uh nearing retirement, okay, and and he doesn't want to 356 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:59.920 be seen as the villain and like the biggest organized 357 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:05.160 cover up in history. Okay, But then look at who 358 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:10.839 he is on this On the other side. He plays ball. Okay, 359 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:13.680 he plays ball. That's that's what you can say about 360 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:18.640 all of these guys here. They play ball. So, hey, 361 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:21.440 you know, this is this is going to be an 362 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:25.240 interesting time in American history because if you know, if 363 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:27.440 they released the Mule Report and it turns out I've 364 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.599 been wrong, I'm cool with that. I mean, if you know, hey, 365 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:35.279 you know, it was just but that's not that's that's 366 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:41.640 not what it is. So what it is is going 367 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:43.319 to be the subject in the next two years of 368 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:44.200 American history. 369 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:46.680 Hey, real quick, because because we're running out of time, 370 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:49.319 what can it tell usbout connections between Trump, Koshogi, and 371 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:50.200 Deutsche Bank. 372 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:59.400 They're obviously part of Well let's just look at it 373 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:04.200 from the out side. Okay. There was a time when 374 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:10.960 Donald Trump couldn't couldn't, couldn't borrow any money at all. Okay, 375 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:14.079 A guy down here. At the same time, the guy 376 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:17.119 down here here in Venice, you know, couldn't buy aviation 377 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:22.240 fuel for cash. Somebody told me Trump couldn't couldn't raise 378 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.359 cash in America at all, and Deutsche Bank was running 379 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:30.359 to him. And during the same time period, adding the 380 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:37.319 Koshogi was running a scam with financial scam with Deutsche 381 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:42.640 Bank's willing involvement that netted three hundred to five hundred 382 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:48.200 million dollars and for which Doutsch Deutsche Bank was forced 383 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.119 to pay a two hundred and seventy eight million dollar fine. Okay, 384 00:24:52.400 --> 00:25:00.119 do those two events implicate Deutsche Bank in some larger conspiracy. 385 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:03.839 I don't know. I bet I suspect so. 386 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.400 And you mentioned here also too, there's a connection between 387 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.160 one of the Russian hackers in Koshoge. 388 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:14.079 Oh yeah, well, I mean that's a dude. There's a 389 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:16.359 ton of things they found here. Okay, just because I 390 00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:21.440 would just pipe Okay, us cups customs agent in Louisiana 391 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:25.200 retired and told me something that's turned on to be 392 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:28.400 like with the most interesting advice I ever got, which 393 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:31.240 was easy. There's not a lot of players out there, right, 394 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:35.160 they all know. So if you see somebody that was involved. Okay, 395 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:44.200 Asa Hutchinson was a prosecutor in Western Arkansas, US prosecutor 396 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:47.319 when they were moving tons of drugs through Mina, Arkansas 397 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:51.599 and never saw a thing. Okay, twenty years later or 398 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.720 twenty five years later, George Buship points, he'sa Hutchinson to 399 00:25:55.759 --> 00:26:02.039 head the DEA. Okay, it happened. I mean it's it's 400 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:08.200 his area of expertise, right that. That's that's so there's 401 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:13.480