You're Next: The Rise of the Democratic Gulag

Ladies and gentlemen, you're next. The rise of the Democrat Gulag. Please welcome former Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense, Kash Patel. From Arizona, Congressman Andy Biggs, founder of the Walk Away campaign, Brandon Strzok, and your moderator, former Associate White House Political Director to President Reagan, Jeffrey Lord. Welcome CPAC. My pronouns are Reagan and Trump. Well, I'd like to get right to it. We have a little less than 20 minutes here. I just want to start by reading a couple of headlines to get the flavor of what we're going to be talking about. This is from The Atlantic. The DOJ must prosecute Trump. This is from CNN. New York's AG's investigation against Trump can continue federal judge rules. From Fox, Tucker Carlson, why are January 6th protesters still in jail while murderers walk free? Forbes, Facebook banned over 1.3 billion accounts over three months to combat fake and harmful content. And from RT, Facebook bans pro-Trump Walk Away group as social media turns up censorship crackdown. So, with that, let me turn to Congressman Biggs and just get this rolling and get your thoughts. Well, when we start talking about a gulag, I think of a couple of things. First of all, it's political prisoners. And I also think of Soviet-style justice, where there is no justice, where everything is baked in already, where you've got prosecution colluding with the defense attorneys, colluding with the judges. They know what they want to accomplish. The police apparatus of the United States, whether it's DOJ-based, they know what they want to do. And for political purposes, all of the institutions of the United States have been weaponized, not unlike the former Soviet Union. That's what I think of when I think of gulag, an American gulag. I agree. Kash? Well, as a former federal public defender and Justice Department national security prosecutor, it's insane to me and unconstitutional to see January 6th defendants, who have little or no criminal history, nonviolent backgrounds, north of 60 years old, being detained for over a year on offenses that would never seek pretrial detention. And that's what Congressman Biggs is talking about. It's not just the Department of Justice. It's not just the attorney generals. They've weaponized the intelligence community and the law enforcement community, but they've also got the judges. There is no federal judge in this country that could possibly detain the majority of these people, yet they're letting illegal immigrants who commit murder and rape walk out on bond, American citizens charged with misdemeanor offenses or low-level felonies. That is the definition of a third-world gulag, and it's happening in Washington, D.C. Right. Brandon, let's hear a little bit about your experiences here. So I guess what I could say is that I was present on January 6th, as I think most people know. I was scheduled to be a speaker at the Capitol on that day. I was approaching my scheduled speaking engagement when I began getting text messages from people who were watching at home, saying that they were hearing that people were going inside of the building, which made me very curious, because that sounded like an unusual circumstance. I was on the east side of the building, which is the opposite side of the building, where later we found out people had broken windows and committed acts of violence. When I arrived, the doors on the east side of the building were open. I walked up to the top of the steps, and I shot a video for eight minutes, which I put on Twitter. I never entered the Capitol. I stood on the east side steps for eight minutes. Two and a half weeks later, an FBI SWAT raided my apartment, put me in handcuffs, and took me to jail. I sat in jail for days, and when I got out, I found out I was facing multiple felony charges and a misdemeanor, and this began what became a—well, it hasn't ended. It's actually—in the last couple of weeks, they're coming after me again on new things related to my case, which I thought was over. Because I stood on the east side steps for eight minutes, I have been permanently banned by PayPal, Venmo, Stripe, Patreon, email services. I've been put on a terrorism watch list so that when I go to the airport, I have to go through hours of screening. But what I want to say and make really clear while I have this stage is what's been most horrifying of all is not the behavior of the left. It's been the silence of the right. And I'd like to finish my point. Between the years of 2018 and 2020, nobody worked harder for President Trump than I did. I'll go toe-to-toe with any person in this room if they think they did more for President Trump than I did. Nobody worked harder for the Republican Party. Nobody got more people to walk away from the Democratic Party and become a Republican. And for me to go through what I went through and not have a single person stand up and say, we've got your back and this is wrong, is disgraceful. It's a disgrace. And I think it's time to stop it. So while we have a congressman on stage, I want to ask, what are you guys going to do about it? Because you can come out here and repeat the talking points all you want, but that doesn't change a thing. And if you can even name the names of five people sitting in the D.C. prison right now, I'll write you a check for $10,000. I'm happy to answer. You done? Brandon? Hang on. Congressman, go ahead. Yeah. So I appreciate it and I appreciate the frustration. But I want you to know that it wasn't nobody that stood up and declaimed and criticized what was happening to you and other January 6th prisoners. It is still happening. But I will tell you this. Come on. Because we don't have a lot of time. There are probably a dozen of us who have attempted to get in, who have attempted to get into jail. Okay? Very good. Yeah. Who have attempted to raise this and elevate this to where I think it needs to be. And that is to attack what's going on on the other side. We didn't get the support from a majority of Republicans. Let's just, I'm just going to be frank with you. But we continue to push. And we continue, I've worked with lawyers who have represented members, individuals in jail. Do you think it's odd that I haven't heard from a single sitting member of Congress with what I've gone through on the Republican side? Do you think that's odd? Yes. I think so. And I have contacted people who have taken my phone calls. I have not been approached by anyone. And you sat on my stage in 2019 at a walkaway event. You know me. I do know you. You probably have my phone number. I don't know if I do or not, but I do know this. That I have worked with lawyers who have represented J6 defendants. I have met with them. We have tried to come up with ways to devise, to protect as much as possible. What you went through is not just inappropriate, it's inhumane, it's unjust, and it's un-American. And it's not over. And I realize there are things we can do, and there are probably 10 or 12 of us in Congress that are trying to do something. I am one of those. And Wait. Hang on a second. Hang on. Come on. Hold on. That doesn't help anyone. And I know Congressman Andy Biggs and a couple other guys that have been fighting in Congress. Just because they get drowned out by other people who fail to act on January 6th defendant's behalf doesn't mean that people aren't fighting for them, quietly, or getting drowned out in the media. I've seen what he's done. People have stood up foundations. They've tried to get in the jails. And there's a former federal prosecutor and public defender who actually defended rapists and murderers and narco-traffickers and got them bond. Nobody cared. But there is a group that cares. These people are funneling money through foundations to help J6 defendants. I know I'm doing it. We don't do it for the notoriety. And this Congressman, along with a few others that I can name, isn't out there trying to claim the media grab for it. And whether or not you personally hear from someone doing something, I think it is dismissive of the people that are doing the work on the front lines. And there are a lot of people doing that work. So I won't stand for anybody who thinks everybody's doing nothing. A lot of people are doing too much of nothing. But there's a few people doing a whole ton of stuff to support the January 6th movement. I was the first one subpoenaed by the January 6th committee. It cost me $200,000. I didn't complain about it. I went there, testified, and have demanded my transcript be public so the world knows what the truth about January 6th. Those are efforts people can also get behind to support January 6th and the truth and all of the J6 defendants. I just want to add to that. There is a reason that five of us have been attacked by this January 6th committee. There is a reason that we have been threatened with prosecution. There's a reason that five of us have been attacked. And I'm one of those. And it isn't because I've sat silent. And it isn't because I haven't been fighting. You happen to be the congressman who's sitting across from me right now. So just to be clear, yeah, you're taking the brunt of a lot of my heat right now. But that's because you happen to be here. I wish I could talk to every single one of you right now, today. I wish I had all of you here. But let me also say, if you want to be out there fighting for J6 defendants and you want to be out there fighting for the truth and for justice for people, the first logical step to take would be contact people and ask them what they've been through. You guys have no idea what's going on. You don't. You might think that you do, but you don't. It's not normal for people facing misdemeanor charges to be committing suicide. That's not normal. Three January 6th defendants have committed suicide. Two of them were facing misdemeanor charges. It's not normal for people on first offense misdemeanors to be spending months in federal prison. That's not normal. And I do talk to J6 defendants, people that I've gotten to know since I was arrested, and we all share the exact same torment, which is we expect the left to be terrible. The left doing what the left does. They're being evil. They're being duplicitous. They're being horrible. But where the hell is our team? Where are our people? So, because, hold on, because we teach them by how we respond and how we react to things. When they see me getting the hell kicked out of me for a year and a half, and you guys doing nothing, it teaches them that they can do it to them, and them, and them, and them, and them. They're next. Right. Because who's going to stand up for you? What? Come on, let him speak. We got a little over seven minutes left. And I want to encourage everyone here to come to CPAC Central and come to my booth, because we are specifically, we've designed a performance art piece where you can hear the actual stories of real January 6th defendants and what they have been through. We have headsets that you can put on and listen to them tell their stories, because nobody's listening to these people. Come to the walk-away booth at CPAC Central so you can hear, for the first time, from these people who are suffering. 345, come down to the booth. We'll be down there. Come down there and experience this. I'd like to ask, what can be done to punish the people who are doing this? Great. Yeah, so, first of all, I appreciate that I'm your piñata today. That's fine. But the reality is, there are a dozen of us who have met with families of survivors, of those who have killed themselves, and we have done it sometimes overtly and sometimes quietly. But I appreciate, to some extent, the anger that you're manifesting today. I don't think anybody can understand it because I haven't lived it. I've lived my own deal, which is nothing compared to you. And I appreciate you sharing your feelings today. Now, having said that, how you punish these people is you get control back of the government. And we don't have control of the government right now. We sit there, I'm a minority of the minority. We have to get the House back. We have to get the Senate back. And then we have to bring them in. And we have to, there are things you can do. You can do the Holman Rule. And that's what you do, is you start defunding some of these bad agencies. The FBI. Yeah. The DOJ. You use the Holman Rule to defund people who have abused their power. You bring impeachment articles against the judges who have violated due process rights in the federal statutes, for instance, on pretrial detention. I'm like Cash. I've gone through a lot of these files. I don't see any basis for pretrial detention. You violated international law by keeping people in solitary confinement for more than four weeks. That's torture. And our country has devolved to that. The way you do it is you have to get control of the government. And we don't have control of the government. But what you also have to do, if I could piggyback here, is yes, you have to get control of the government and run righteous oversight investigations like we did, Russiagate, to expose the biggest criminal conspiracy in U.S. history. It's possible. But what Congressman Biggs is saying, and a few of his colleagues are right, you have to have more than just 10. More than just 20. But the other piece that you have to do that we've been working on is educate Americans on what actually happened on January 6th, because just analogize it to the Russiagate situation. Half of America still thinks President Trump is a Russian asset because they watched the fake news media for five straight years. January 6th is the next iteration of that from the radical left. What happened was clear as day. Chief of Staff to the United States Department of Defense sitting in the Oval Office where President Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard two days before January 6th to secure the Capitol perimeter. Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Bowser shut that request down. In writing, if you don't believe it, the documents are online for you guys to go see. Why is that critical? Liz Cheney comes out on national TV last week to try her latest pinata effect and it's working because everyone is talking about more disinformation from January 6th. She says President Donald Trump, he didn't call you on January 6th and he didn't order the deployment of the National Guard. That's because it's unconstitutional for the military to be ordered by a president domestically. She knows that because her father was Secretary of Defense during the 92 LA riots. That Secretary of Defense authorized the National Guard to go to California from a governor's request and that is how it lawfully works. Too much of America is focused on the fact that they said Donald Trump failed or other leaders failed. We acted for the no-fail national security mission like we always did, whether it was killing Al-Qaeda, bringing home hostages, or securing our border. Our border within is just as important and on that day and the days before, we acted righteously. So, that information has to get out to the American public just as much as the information we're talking about with Congressman Biggs and Brandon. I'd like to ask the Congressman one last question and then I want each of you to take a little time to wrap up your thoughts. Congressman, when if Republicans take the House, will there be an investigation of the January 6th Committee? Yeah, I believe so. And here's where it takes place. It takes either in the Oversight Committee or the Judiciary Committee. And I've requested the two gentlemen who will most likely be the chairman of that committee that they do that. Brandon, start closing us out. I have one last question and it's not a mean one. I'm okay with him. When we take back control of Congress in November and we have this investigation, will you promise me in front of all of these people that I will have the opportunity to testify before Congress about what I went through? If the chairman don't let you testify, I will find a way to arrange it so you can come testify somehow. Excellent. Okay? All right? Yeah. Hold on. We've got 40 seconds left. 3.45 p.m. I want to see each and every one of you down at the walkway booth so you can see what we're doing to bring to life the stories of January 6th. I want to shake all of your hands and take pictures with each and every one of you. Thank you. Congressman, close us out and then cash. Well, I mean, Brandon has lived the American gulag he has. But there are others still in there. And until we solve that problem and where we're going, we're not going to get this thing solved altogether. And that's the problem. I agree. And so there's a lot more work to be done and we're going to be fighting endlessly. I'll be out there, too, with my team, fight with cash and the plot against the king. If you want to learn and teach Americans and our children what happened on January 6th, what happened in Russiagate, come see us outside. I'll be talking to each and every one of you and taking all the photographs you want. Thank you very much. Thank you.