The FBI is investigating the incident at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida as a second assassination attempt against Donald Trump. But is the FBI trustworthy to lead this investigation? FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who exposed what really happened in the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid, joins Glenn Beck to expose how the SAME FBI office is handling this investigation! And even worse, the Special Agent in charge was previously in charge of an anti-whistleblower division. To top it all off, he also reportedly had to cleanse his Facebook page of all his anti-Trump posts! So, why is he the agent now in charge of investigating an alleged attempt on Trump's life?! And should we even trust the FBI as a whole after it helped concoct the Russian collusion hoax and suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story?
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GLENN: All right. Let me talk to Steve Friend. Steve is a whistle-blower with the FBI. He has -- they have made his life miserable.
But he doesn't care. He's doing the right thing. He's one of the -- he's one of the good guys that used to see, and you used to believe that existed in places like the FBI. He really is that guy.
True blue. Cares about the country and the Constitution. He blew the whistle on the -- on the FBI in Florida.
When they went full S.W.A.T. on Mar-a-Lago. Which we know now, was absolutely unnecessary.
And way out of protocol.
Steve is with us now. Because I wanted to get him on. Because the guy who authorized that, and then dummied evidence up, is the guy in charge now, of the FBI's investigation of this shooter.
How good does that make you feel, Steve?
STEVE: Oh, well. I mean, it actually goes a little bit deeper than that, Glenn. With the media, you need the old chalkboard out here, to explain to the audience.
This is for Jeffrey Veltri. And for your audience's edification, before he assumed his post in FBI Miami, as a special agent in charge.
He was the deputy assistant director of the security division of the FBI. That's the branch that's going after the whistle-blowers. And from that post, he actually said that, whistle-blowers, that they were looking to perch on the ranks, were people that were military veterans. Because he thought they were disloyal.
As well as people who attended regular religious worship ceremonies, as opposed to the coronavirus vaccine.
And then when the word came down, he was going to go to the FBI Miami office.
Christopher Wray and deputy director Paula Bait, and executive assistant director Jen Moore, also another person who -- was involved in getting rid of all the whistle-blowers.
Said that he had to cleanse his Facebook account of all the anti-Trump vitriol that he publicly put out there.
And how he was in a position of authority on the FBI Miami office.
And that's just the office that has the responsibility for investigating the latest assassination attempt.
GLENN: So you think the guy who wanted to purge the FBI of military people, religious people, and Trump supporters, might not do an honest investigation? Is that what I'm hearing Steve?
STEVE: Well, I mean, throw out a little sarcasm here, Glenn. But at the same time, this is the agency that looked at the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, where a Bernie Sanders supporter showed up, as for other Republicans, then proceeded to try to kill 10 percent of the Republican caucus. And the FBI investigated and said, it was not an assassination attempt. That was suicide by cop.
GLENN: Steve, what has to happen to the FBI?
I -- I was unfortunately, I -- made a statement. Right after my wife called me. And she said, have you heard the news?
And I said, oh, dear God, what?
And she said, they tried to kill the president again.
And then I had people ask me for comments and everything else. So I rushed to X. I shouldn't have.
And made a -- made a statement that was just raw, and then Spaces asked me to come on and make another statement. And that was even more raw.
I shouldn't have done it. I was really, really upset about this. But at some point, I calmed down in the interview. I said, we have to -- we have to fumigate all of the federal government. I mean, if you really wanted to do this right, to return it to factory settings, you have to shut it down, and restart again.
You know, turn it on and turn it back -- turn it off, and turn it back on again. And restore the factory settings to the Constitution.
These things have to be fumigated. They just have to be out. All of these people need to be fired.
Even the good ones. Because we don't know who is good and bad. And we have to start from scratch.
Is that what it's going to take, Steve?
STEVE: 100 percent.
And this goes back to when we were first introduced a couple years ago, and I told you, one of my greatest concerns was that the FBI was going to be one of the major contributors to the boiling pot.
They continued to raise the temperature, and have what's happened within the country.
And the FBI had convinced half of one side, that the other half wants to kill them because they're Nazi terrorists and extremists. And the FBI has just followed suit. They have become more and more politicized.
And if you did not know anything else, and I'm done talking about the good men and women of the FBI. If you don't know anything else about the FBI, and I told you, as an American taxpayer, are you willing to give $12 billion to an organization, which in 2016, took a fake dossier, to a fake counterintelligence investigation of a candidate, and then eventual President Trump.
People opened an illegal Pfizer wiretaps.
Then used those illegal Pfizer wiretaps to find out in 2020, about the ne'er-do-well son of then candidate Joe Biden, having a laptop that was already in the FBI's investigation.
And they stood idly by, at 51 intelligence officials, saying it was Russian disinformation. And then went to social media companies, that told them it was sensitive information.
Essentially to generate a talking point for a presidential debate. You would say, that's a secret police force. Of the republic. We have to control, alt, delete it.
GLENN: Let me ask you, did you see Merrick Garland's speech last week?
STEVE: I did unfortunately. But I was grateful that Tulsi Gabbard reached out to me, and highlight the fact that this is a completely broken and weaponized Department of Justice.
That should also be on the chopping block.
GLENN: Tulsi Gabbard has just been so great.
I just love her.
You know, I saw her say, it was hard not to laugh, if it wasn't so true.
But had he -- this speech that he gave last week, that they are on the up and up. That there's no -- no corruption.
And he won't hear of the good men and women of the Justice Department.
This is -- you have to be insane, Steve.
You have to be insane.
To believe what this government is telling you now, about all of these things.
STEVE: Well, I mean, you have half of the country, that's convinced that the other half is radical, and rabid. And they've been told that for the last eight years.
And because they had preferred the Republican candidate for president in the last two presidential elections. And the Department of Justice is the key on the attack dog. And they are sending out their forces.
Their storm troopers in force, to go after the perceived political enemies of the current administration.
And that includes 89-year-old women who are concentration camp survivors that were praying outside of abortion clinics. And it includes guys like my friend Garrett O'Boyle, who came forward for the right reason at the right time, and made a nonpartisan whistle-blower disclosure.
And he was recommended for perjury charges. When in fact, there's actual evidence, that that was not true.
I was grateful also, that TheBlaze, Joe Hanneman and Steve Baker contributed to his story, highlighting that last week.
GLENN: Did you see, what Robert F. Kennedy said on Saturday?
He's now being investigated for something that happened 20 years ago.
He said, I received a letter from the national March even fisherman's newt. Saying they were investigating me. For collect a whale specimen man, 20 years ago. Now, how does that happen, I mean, at this time, if it isn't the weaponization of government?
STEVE: He doesn't. This is just more evidence, that I don't know what is going to require us to incentivize our elected officials, to actually come to the conclusion, that going after RFK, going after an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor. For them to say, that we have to avert a government shutdown.
Is effectively saying, it is a better outcome for the government to go after individuals like RFK. Rather than have us go through a temporary partial government shutdown.
That looked a lot like Labor Day weekend. And I think the American people -- I don't know how that weekends you to the government being shut down partially, but I think it's more of an optimal solution, that it just hasn't been put forward by the people that we elected. And they pledged to us, that they would end weaponization, and it hasn't happened, in the two years that it's been upheld.
GLENN: Can you tell me, Steve, last question.
What are the questions that have to be answered on this shooting?
STEVE: I want to know, how an individual was posted up at a golf course. Because there's no reason, that he would be out there inspecting it, unless he was out there every single take.
So there's either some sort of operational security issue, or there was some sort of coordination. I was willing. And actually, took the belief, that Butler, Pennsylvania, was due to the myth of competence of the Secret Service.
It just hasn't been tested for four decades. It had lots of failures that always was on. But the fact that this guy was able to be there, at a time when Donald Trump -- who doesn't play golf there, every single day.
GLENN: No. No, no, no.
And it was not on his schedule. It was not on his schedule, that he would be at Mar-a-Lago. Although. You could make, it would be a reasonable -- he has a day off from the campaign. It's a reasonable sumptuous.
Him playing golf. CNN has now verified, that was a last-minute edition. So how did this guy know that?
STEVE: That's a huge question. And it's also the fact that that's a regular location for him to go.
And since he's been in public office, the last almost decade now. You would think there would be additional security measures now. That is just regular threat assessment to harden that place.
And it was not like he was at a Dustin National (phonetic), or he saw -- no, they're entirely different golf courses.
No, that's his regular place. And they did not do that. That's a security failure. The fact that he was able to be there, at that time and at that place.
What people don't understand is three to 500 yards. If you're playing golf, that's far. If you're shooting a rifle, that's barely reaching out, and touching someone by the nose.
GLENN: Thank you very much, Steve.
I appreciate it. Thank you for everything you've done. A man who has been dragged through the mud. And his life made a living hell, just because he tried -- stood up, at the FBI and said, no.
This is wrong. I won't do that. A whistle-blower extraordinaire, Steve Friend.