WarRoom Battleground EP 805: BREAKING: Pope Leo Skeptic LifeSiteNews’s CEO John-Henry Westen FIRED In Pro-Leo Boardroom Coup

Summary

WarRoom Battleground EP 805: BREAKING: Pope Leo Skeptic LifeSiteNews’s CEO John-Henry Westen FIRED In Pro-Leo Boardroom Coup

Release Date: July 9, 2025
Host/Author: WarRoom.org
Title: Bannon's War Room

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Introduction

In Episode 805 of WarRoom Battleground, host Stephen K. Bannon, along with co-host Ben Harnwell and guest contributors Frank Walker, Jane Zirkel, Liz Yorr, and Tim Haslow, delve into a significant upheaval within the conservative Catholic media landscape. The primary focus centers on the ousting of John-Henry Weston, CEO and co-founder of LifeSite News, amidst broader tensions within the Church and its media outlets.

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Breaking News: John-Henry Weston Fired

Timestamp [01:12]: Frank Walker

Frank Walker kicks off the episode by announcing the shocking news that John-Henry Weston, a stalwart in the pro-life movement and co-founder of LifeSite News, was unexpectedly fired by the organization's board in a narrow 5-4 vote. Walker emphasizes Weston's three-decade-long dedication to the cause and his influential role in shaping LifeSite News into a primary voice for traditional Catholic views.

Notable Quote:

Jane Zirkel at [02:30]: "John Henry Weston for 30 years co-founded LifeSite News, was CEO and just ran this organization for life... the battle has begun."

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Reaction and Analysis

Timestamp [05:30] - [14:55]:

Frank Walker scrutinizes the official statement from LifeSite News, which cites "careful consideration and extensive prayer" as reasons for Weston's dismissal, ostensibly to better serve donors and stakeholders. Walker and the panel express skepticism, suggesting that financial pressures and internal conflicts over doctrinal directions—particularly concerning Pope Leo and his alignment with traditionalist versus progressive factions—are the true catalysts behind Weston's removal.

Notable Quotes:

Frank Walker at [05:30]: "The board wants to maximize its fundraising capacity... the editorial positions of John Henry Weston... made the fundraising so much more difficult."

Ben Harnwell at [06:58]: "This is a purge. They're going to start the war by this action."

Stephen K. Bannon elaborates on the implications, highlighting Weston's unwavering stance and the potential for his voice to grow even louder in opposition following his firing.

Stephen K. Bannon at [07:46]: "John Henry Weston... he's going to have even a bigger platform going forward. And it's outrageous how this was handled."

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Donors, Accountability, and Future Actions

Timestamp [14:21] - [25:48]:

The discussion shifts to the influence of donors in LifeSite News' decision-making processes. Ben Harnwell underscores the necessity of identifying and holding these donors accountable, asserting that their financial support is pivotal to the organization's direction and policies.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Harnwell at [14:21]: "We're going to expose the donors of LifeSite News. We're going to go there because we have to go there."

Frank Walker at [16:04]: "Find out who the board members are... Let's find out who the five were who voted out John Henry Weston."

Jane Zirkel and Tim Haslow further analyze the board's composition, suggesting affiliations with influential Catholic entities like the Knights of Columbus and Opus Dei, which may have steered the organization away from Weston's traditionalist viewpoints.

Jane Zirkel at [21:44]: "This purge at LifeSite News is about clearing the landscape for Leo to ruin the church with little or no media pushback."

Tim Haslow shares insights into the broader implications for the Church, emphasizing the resilience of the pro-life movement despite internal purges.

Tim Haslow at [25:48]: "That's a beloved man, John Henry, who was trusted, a moral man who was fearless in a quiet, kind way."

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Synodal Process Delay and Church Turmoil

Timestamp [31:18] - [43:28]:

The conversation transitions to the postponement of the synod on synodality's study groups, originally slated for June but now delayed until December. This delay is perceived as a strategic maneuver by Pope Leo to exert greater control over the synodal process, particularly concerning contentious issues like LGBT inclusion and the ordination of women.

Notable Quotes:

Frank Walker at [31:18]: "Leo church now in full on meltdown?"

Jane Zirkel at [34:30]: "This whole thing is a Marxist synodal bureaucratic strategy to change the church."

Liz Yorr voices strong opposition to the synodal approach, accusing it of introducing "new age mumbo jumbo" into Catholic doctrine and undermining traditional teachings.

Jane Zirkel at [37:53]: "The Holy Spirit is moving us in this direction. They are hijacking the Holy Spirit as the one who is moving the synodal church."

Tim Haslow adds that the synodal process is a façade to implement radical changes covertly.

Tim Haslow at [41:45]: "They're moving... into groups of experts that may have nothing to do with the Church whatsoever."

Frank Walker summarizes the episode by linking the firing of Weston and the synodal process delay as parts of a broader strategy to reshape the Catholic Church's direction under Pope Leo, emphasizing the need for vigilance and proactive resistance.

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Conclusion

In this episode, WarRoom.org presents a critical examination of the internal struggles within the Catholic Church and its affiliated media outlets. The firing of John-Henry Weston from LifeSite News is portrayed as a pivotal event signaling a shift towards more progressive and potentially divisive doctrinal stances under Pope Leo. The panelists advocate for increased accountability among donors and board members, and caution against the gradual erosion of traditional Catholic teachings through orchestrated synodal processes. The episode serves as a clarion call to conservative Catholics and supporters to mobilize in defense of established doctrines and resist what they perceive as orchestrated internal purges aimed at redefining the Church’s core values.

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Additional Resources:

• Canon 212: For in-depth analyses and updates, visit canon212.com.
• Liz Yorr: Follow Liz on social media at yourchildren.com.

Transcript

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[Ben Harnwell]

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[Ben Harnwell]

It's Wednesday the 9th of July in the year of our Lord 2020. Hang on for a second. I'm not supposed to do this on Wednesdays. Somebody's taking the burden off my not that broad shoulders. Ben Harnwell. Where are you dude? Are you taking, Are you taking it? You're taking early? You having dinner in Rome? Where you here working, sir?

[Frank Walker]

Well, I was taking a siesta and I thought I'd be able to upwards delegate the opening of the show to you today. We have a fantastic hour. Right, Steve, some breaking news that one of the great icons in the conservative traditional Catholic sphere, John Henry Weston, excuse me, was fired yesterday by his board of LifeSite News. We're going to be breaking that down shortly. Also on the show we've got some news about the delay, the pushing back to December of the synod on synodalities study groups to do with the most controversial topics that is to do with LGBT inclusion and the women's diaconate. We'll be hitting that later on the show but first and then of course stay tuned folks because at the end of the show we've got Jane Zirkel who's got a superb interview with Tim Haslow, the Island County GOP chairman. But let's go to Liz. Steve, before we unchain you and unleash you on this one because I know you've got some things to say. Let's go to Liz. Your who's got the essentials of what took place over the last 24 hours in Canada.

[Jane Zirkel]

Yeah, this is a shock. A huge setback for the pro life movement. John Henry Weston for 30 years co founded LifeSite News, was CEO and just ran this organization for life and brought the faithful to a real understanding of not only what was going on in the pro life movement in America, and around the world. But he brought an insight and toughness to the issues in the Catholic Church. And, you know, the board, in a vote of 5 to 4, fired him. This is an outrage that. I mean, I was at mass this morning and people are crying, they're so upset about this. He has been an anchor of the pro life movement, And I think LifeSite News is hoping this crisis will blow over. But senior citizens are not going to open up their envelopes for LifeSite News. It's not over. The battle has begun. And, you know, I found the words really from Chris Jackson and his substack very powerful. Here's Chris Jackson said, let this sink in. A man who co founded LifeSite News, one of the most prominent outlets defending Catholic tradition and life, can now be removed by a board not for a scandal, not for doctrinal error, but for questioning the very direction of a papacy that is aggressively advancing the same program as Francis under a more traditional exterior. This is not just an internal personnel shakeup up. It's a signpost. And this is the purge. You know, I have to say that, you know, I worked with John Henry on a podcast for a year, day in and day out. I saw the quality of this man. He is fearless. And he's not just a leader with respect to the big issues. He would have the Life Funder, the Go Fund page for people who were arrested outside of abortion clinics. He would raise money for families that had suffered tremendous tragedy. He was there for the little people. And, you know, with his gentle voice but steely spine, he's going to be lost. But, you know, my dad used to say to all six kids of us, you know, when you fall off the horse, get back on the horse. And that's what I urged him yesterday to get back on the horse. We need his voice in this battle. And I think this is, I think, the dark force of the pro Leo American, you know, neocons are behind this and I think the bishops are. And so I feel very strongly that this is a wake up call, that the battle is on and we have to double down and be a lot stronger and really realize what we're up against.

[Frank Walker]

The battle is on. The party is on. Let me just read this word from the formal statement that's on the presently on the Life site news website. They say that the board's decision was made after careful consideration and extensive prayer and a commitment to best serve our donors, readers and employees. That's a very curious thing, Steve Bannon. That's a very curious Thing right. In a statement such as this to stay so specifically that they've sacked the guy who's been running the show for the last 30 years. As Liz has been saying, taking this website to becoming one of the primary sources, especially in the Catholic liturgy, fights from the conservative traditional point of view that they've sacked him because they've said that, you know, they want to sort of best serve their donors. Tell me something. Do you think this is a confirmation of the thesis that we have been saying on the war room from day one, that the nomination of Leo, of Cardinal Prevost was fundamentally to bring the Catholic, the US Catholic donors back online. And under this current tenor of the debate, where the vein of Grift is in Catholic media, it's really no dissent is tolerated anymore. Tell me what your reading of this situation is, Steve Bannon.

[Ben Harnwell]

It's the reason I jumped on the Wednesday show. I told you earlier in the day I gotta be on and to be honored to be beyond with Liz Yourr, who is our fiercest warrior and of course cannon 212, which is arguably the most important site of all we've got. It's the equivalent for us of the of what Cain does over its citizens. Free press and vitally important now more than ever. Look, they gave it up. The one thing we always have to do is look, when our enemies make mistakes, you have to capitalize on this mistake. This is a massive mistake. They overplayed their hand and they expose themselves. I've never seen I do this for a living now for the last since meeting Andrew. I've done this Since, I guess 2009, 2010. I've never seen anything up in your face, up in your grill. Enough of what they did.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Who was the only person in the.

[Ben Harnwell]

World that said Prevost was going to be the Pope? Stephen K. Bannon. Why did I say he was going to be the Pope? Because they got a massive financial problem over there. Because folks have had enough of it and they're not. The people that used to give money aren't given money anymore. The little guy. They need these big fat cat donors and nobody's easier to get along than the American fat cats they need to give them. They need to give them an American they can rub up against. And enough, you know, enough honors and dinners and special prayer sessions and all this almost like the indulgences problem we had back when the church split with Luther and the crowd. They're going to do the marriage thing. They're going to give you a special blessing it's all crap, but that's what the donors want. And they served up one of the great warriors in this movement. Not just the institution he built, but the fierceness from a federal prison. I was in a nasty federal prison, a dangerous federal prison in the people there that were the best of the best. It wasn't J6 or myself. The best of the best were these men that were in federal prison for praying the rosary outside abortion clinics. These are the holiest people I've ever met, the most spiritual people I've ever met, the most centered people I've ever met. Incredibly inspirational. And John Henry Weston and what he built up at Lifeside News gave a platform for that. That's one of the reasons they were even able to have the grit and determination, just one aspect, right, to go to their spirituality. So this has been amazing. Plus a new voice. Somebody I had not followed this Chris Jackson, who people have to read this piece. He did. This is a purge. They, they started the war by this action. So let's get it on. We have to understand something. This is nothing but the Francis and the deep state of the church, rolling with the happy face of Prevost. I call it beforehand. And now they're going to start a purge. They're going to start a purge. They're going to get a fight. And we have to bring out every tool in our disposal.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

You're fighting for the church.

[Ben Harnwell]

You're fighting for the eternal Church. And so those of us, those of you that want to come into a fight, you're going to have the location here, two 1, 2. All the other media, we're going to figure out something with John Henry Weston. His voice is not going to go away. His voice is going to be 100 times more powerful. You donors. And by the way, we're going to expose the donors of LifeSite News. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We're going to go there because we have to go there. We have a calling to go there. We have a duty to go there. So I just want to get on here today and say you got three of the greatest fighters. Your canon 212, which I love that site, I love the headlines. I click to it. They get so much click bait there for me. And all the stories are very powerful. And the way you lay it out, sir, is so powerful. And of course, the great Ben Harnwell. So guys, I'm in for the fight. We're going to get organized here. But the donors of LifeSite News understand something. You're going to be held personally and individually accountable for this.

[Frank Walker]

Before you, before you bounce, there is something that the war room, I think, is perfectly poised to do, and that's to making people famous. I think we need to find out who the nine board members are. Liz, you also. There was a five, four split. Let's find out who those board members are and make those five that voted out one of the great heroes in the pro life, pro tradition, traditional Catholic liturgy fight and has been at the forefront, as you would say, the cutting edge. There's a spear, the point of the spear of that fight for the last 30 years. Find out who those five people are and make them famous. Steve Bannon, what say you?

[Ben Harnwell]

100%. That's. Hopefully it's clear enough, but I'll be clear. We're going to do that. We're going to make them famous or make them infamous. How about that? And others. If the donors are going to roll in and for all these modern indulgences, and that's what it is. The dinners and the special blessings on your marriage and, you know, the special blessings on you and your kids. That's not what this fight is about. This is about the eternal church, okay? Not the awards and not, you know, sitting there with a big feathered hat and walking around all puffed up. Not going to happen. Not going to let money determine this battle. And I guarantee you, we will back some brothers off. We will back some folks off because they don't want to go there. I see this. How do you think we won so many fights against Big Tech? How do you think we won the AI fight last week? They're cowards. They only want to do it in the dark of night. Once you put the high beams on them, hey, they ain't so brave. They're scrambling. And that's what's going to happen. That's what's going to happen. And lifesite the board, you got to come forward and say, the way they wrote the thing I found offensive, he's going to spend more time with his family. Oh, okay. I think not. I think he's going to have even a bigger platform going forward. And it's outrageous how this was handled, outrageous how it was presented. And the dark specter of what they intend to do, to take money, to put over Prevost in this crowd and to continue down. The schism's coming. It's coming. There's worse things. Trust me. There's worse things. Letting this go to that nest of vipers in the Vatican, that's What? It is a nest of vipers. Do you have a moral duty? Do you have a duty? Do you have a responsibility when you're.

[Frank Walker]

Wait.

[Ben Harnwell]

When you're judged? When you're judged is one of the things you're going to be judged on that you look the other way? What happened to the church, that was just too hard or, you know, it's too awful, it's too terrible that you knew and you did nothing. Hey, the four of us are far from perfect. But the one thing we're going to check mark in the book of life is that we did something. Okay, I may not have a lot of other check marks because I've got some pretty grievous faults, but guess what? I'm gonna have a check mark in the book of life that on this one we threw down Ben Harnwell.

[Frank Walker]

Thanks, Steve. Look, have you ever been asked for your social media on this show before?

[Ben Harnwell]

I don't know. Getter. Just go to Getter. I'm exclusive on Getter. The reason I'm exclusive on Getter, I love Getter, but I've also been banned everywhere else.

[Stephen K. Bannon]

Do you need to be banned everywhere?

[Ben Harnwell]

But.

[Frank Walker]

You'Re constantly stuff out on ghetto. But do you know what your profile actually is?

[Ben Harnwell]

Is it Stephen K. Bannon? I don't know. Am I?

[Frank Walker]

What am I, folks? It's at Steve Bannon on Getter.

[Ben Harnwell]

You know why? Because somebody beat me to getting at Steve. Think about it. I didn't even get to at Steve Bannon. Steve Cortez got at Steve. Guys, thank you so much. Airtime. There's so many important things you got to get to today and three of the best in the world to do it. So thank you guys for having me on.

[Frank Walker]

Thanks, Steve. God bless. Catch up with you later. Frank Walker says a couple of things emerged then out of that discussion, Right. Two things that I think are fruitful for inquiry. Find out who the donors are who've been putting pressure on LifeSite News. And I would say that the donors get a vote because it's their money. Find out above all who the board members are, because they're not all going to be donors. Nine board members. Five. Four vote. Find out. Let's find out who the five were who voted out John Henry Weston. Right. That make them famous. As Steve is saying, you know, sometimes the best disinfectant is sunlight. Frank Walker, what are your general thoughts then on the developments over these last 24 hours?

[Tim Haslow]

Well, I mean, it's a terrible thing because LifeSite News, when the church was gutted back in 2013, LifeSite News was a great source of orthodoxy in their reporting and information, which you can't get from the church anymore. So, you know, right now, it looks like a real problem. But, you know, with faithful Catholic groups and faithful Catholic media, it's not just their faith that's important. It's also important their virtue. And that's where they try to hit us in our virtue. Weston, I think he spent a long time. Because I did a little bit of poking around about this board when I saw it happen, because I thought, this is what. He's been battling these people for a long time. You need these powerful people in order to have the kind of reach he has and not be shut down. And so this wasn't a new thing with him. But when Leo came in there, you could see that Weston was starting to turn, starting to try to hang on to everybody, hold the whole thing together under tremendous pressure. But then, as in the Jackson article here, it says that he. That he was starting to tweet. He was starting to send out tweets that said he was starting to turn. He was starting to feel guilty. He was starting to worry about being honest with his people that he had cultivated and loved for all these years. And that's where he was virtuous. And that's when they hit him when they saw those tweets. I didn't know that until I read this article. He says it's about you people, you readers, not about Weston. And it's true. There's millions of faithful Catholics that need his voice, and they're not going away. They're still there. And he's the guy that was the actual lifesite news, and he can fix that. You know, there are people on the board that represented the Knights of Columbus, Catholic charity. I mean, just poking around, it looks this way. Catholic Charities, Opus dei, lawyers for the bishops out of Chicago. These are the kinds of things that if you snoop around a little, you can see the money that's on the board. He had to be battling them forever. And this is the same kind of money that destroys all Catholic press. So hopefully, he'll come back and there'll be some backers maybe with shows like this that will gather behind him and help him come back and reach those people, because the people really need him.

[Frank Walker]

This, I think, this hot, this story of John Henry Weston's firing really does underline something that the war room has been saying for the last six weeks since Provost Pope Leo the Holy stepped out onto the lodge and that's this under the veneer of traditionalism, the veneer, the kind of the red mozzetta, specifically the velvet Mozetta, the cape, the short shoulder length cape and a bit of a smattering, a bit of very badly pronounced Latin. Most of the Catholic media that was quite openly hostile to Bergogaglio pivoted and said just they're so easy to be swayed. They pivoted from being very hard line against Bergogli for his many heresies, saying, let's give Leo a chance now, something on the War Room. And I say, I said in the beginning we've come and a lot of criticism in social media for the line, the consistent line that we've had. Frank, you've had it yourself on Canon 212. We've basically said, look, wait and see is one thing, but we want to see some substance before we start encouraging our followers to say, to drop their guard, because there's been absolutely no real substantial reason to do so. We've been developing as a movement, as a well informed, faithful laity over the last 12 years. We've been developing as a movement into a position of strength in being able to criticize bishops when they do wrong. And we don't want to see that movement disbanded just because of sentimentalism. And I think, you know, reading between the lines, reading this Chris Jackson piece, reading the statement itself on Life Site News, it's absolutely clear that this line that we have on the War room, Frank, that you have on canon 212 is very difficult to sustain now, because as we had said before, the donors are one thing, but the grift in terms of the general fundraising was very difficult under Bergoglio. You could perhaps, if you were a Catholic organization, you could perhaps rattle the bucket a little bit by going on the attack, but they were sort of poor pickings. The moment you have someone who fits more into the Ratzinger line, if you are a Catholic organization on the right of the spectrum, you can really go for the vein of the fundraising shamelessly. And I think that is the issue that the board of. That's why I say let's separate that out for one moment. The board from the donors. The board wants to maximize its fundraising capacity. And that's, I think, Frank Walker. The difficulty that Lifesite News faced is that the editorial positions and social media profile of John Henry Weston with his uncompromising analysis on the Pope made the fundraising so much more difficult. And fundamentally that's why they got rid of him. And that's the lesson I would suggest that the War Room takes away in Catholic Media, if it has the word Catholic basically in the title, be very, very wary because they're probably not going to be telling you the truth. Liz, your. What's your reading on this? Do you think it's fundamentally an issue of grift and fundraising potential here?

[Ben Harnwell]

Absolutely.

[Jane Zirkel]

What happened? Just like War room said on July 1, out comes Leo asking directly for money for Peter Spence. And from the American donor class. Look, this is. They had scripted this very carefully. That American Pope, quote, unquote, an American Pope who had manners, unlike Bergoglio coming out wearing the rose mozzarella, chanting in Latin, he has a beautiful voice that they had fixed their financial problem. I mean, it's just so superficial that Catholics would only look at the exterior and not look at what was really happening. But this purge at LifeSite News is about clearing the landscape for Leo to ruin the the church with little or no media pushback. And because he is an American and a fan of the Chicago White Sox and likes to play tennis, we're all supposed to fall down and not criticize it. When just yesterday he announced in and performed in a Mass the care of creation based on laudate. See, I mean, they might as well have called this new Mass the mass of Leo DiCaprio or massive Jeffrey Sachs, you know, the one who has scripted all these insects. But, you know, they're not going to intimidate us. They're not going to pull the wool over our eyes just because he is, you know, a lot better than Bergoglio with respect to the optics. And so they're going to take out John Henry's voice for the time being. But I promise you that his voice will be larger that the, the voice of all these Catholics who have been fighting in the trenches against Bergoglio, against the Synodal Church, against the destruction of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They're going to come together because this has been, I think, a moment of reckoning for all of us. This is a beloved man, John Henry, who was trusted, a moral man who was fearless in a quiet, kind way. He led the way. And so people have had it. People are shocked. And I think this is going to renew the battle on behalf of the Church.

[Frank Walker]

So, Liz, you're basically saying you're not going to be bullied on the. We don't have time to cover this story that came out today. We'll do it this next Wednesday. But just to give an indication of what is going on in Leo church right now over in France, an archbishop has appointed a priest who was as chancellor of the diocese. That's, that's basically the number two beneath the, the bishop himself has appointed a priest who was convicted of raping a 16 year old boy. And the bishop has been trying to calm down the, the, the media outrage on this saying, oh, don't worry, the position is, and I quote, is mostly administrative. So that's the reality. And beneath the, beneath the red Mozetta, right, and the beautifully sung but badly pronounced smattering of Latin. This is the reality of what's going on in Leo Church right now. And the loss of lights, life site news, or basically the loss of John Henry Weston means that the bringing to light of these realities, Frank Walker is going to fall on our shoulders even more. Right? He's going to fall on the war room, he's going to fall on canon 212. Are you inclined, Liz? Yours says she's not going to be bullied by this. Are you going to be bullied by the, the firing of, of Henry Weston?

[Tim Haslow]

Well, this kind of thing happened to me before too during the 2016 primaries when they wanted all the Catholic voices to be never Trump. I remember. And I just wasn't never Trump. I was pro Trump because of any Catholic would look at the pro life option of it. And I got moved out of the former site in two months I had another site, a lot of people lined up to contribute to it and recommend it and it was all back together. And I hope that he can do something like that again because in retrospect it just looks like a weak effort to take out, which is something that you can't really cancel. You're not gonna be able to cancel the movement that is there behind LifeSite News. Even Chris Jackson himself, he used to write for a big traditional site and I haven't seen anything there in weeks. But now with his substack, he's back. So I think this same kind of thing can happen in a big way with LifeSite News or whatever they're gonna call it next time. And maybe a different set of backers.

[Frank Walker]

Folks. Done, stand by. We're back in two minutes after this short break. But Liz, your said it. We have a Mass for creation. You might as well have a mass for Leo DiCaprio because it would be more Catholic.

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[Frank Walker]

Welcome back. Well, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, the news came out a couple of days ago that the study group reports from the synod on synodality has been pushed back from their reporting deadline, which had been set for the end of June. It's now been pushed back to December. Frank Walker, you're going to break this down for us and then I'm going to come back to you and ask Liz and your good self for your analysis. But basically my opening question to you before you explain what's happened here, is Leo church now in full on meltdown?

[Tim Haslow]

Well, I don't know about that. Leo has asked them to postpone it, but he still wants them to report on these study groups. See, the synod is moving into this what they call implementation phase now and they're going to start to hound all the dioceses and the parishes to pick up this whole synod torch again. But now that Francis has died, they're delaying a little bit and Leo has told them to delay it until December. But it's a long, long process of these synods. They've released this big document now on implementation and it's completely unreadable. But I think it's because it's legalistic and hidden in there are some orders, some things that are going to happen. I don't think that so much. He's defensive because it's important in the synods to Go very, very, very slow. It's like a big cloud smoke to keep all of the people in the press and all in the Catholic world not to so that they don't pay attention to what's going on. So you know, I think that before when Leo Francis, when he was in the hospital he told them to come up with a new three year process. But I don't think Francis told them to come up with that process of implementation. I think that's probably somebody like Leo because when Francis was sick in the hospital, I think Leo was pulling a lot of strings behind, behind the scenes. So this stretching out process, this people, people are real upset about the synodality. The priestess wrote me said he can't find enough pejoratives about the things. If you actually read the document that it says this is trouble. These synods and that study groups that he delayed just for a few months. They're all about the worst parts about it. That's where things are really happening. I think it's more of the process. I think Leo is firmly in charge of it.

[Frank Walker]

But when it comes to the process in the Vatican, that's one word to strike fear into any faithful Catholic's heart. But just to give one example to the war in posse, the study group on the question of the female diaconate, the ordination minor ordination of women. The members of that study group haven't even been published. Liz Yur do you see this? I mean the idea of, of farming off these most controversial issues like female diaconate, like the LGBT inclusion to the study groups and to take them from the synod floor itself to push them out there to these. Do you see in that some kind of Saul Alinsky type maneuvering of the strategy Beloved of Bergoglio.

[Jane Zirkel]

This whole thing is a Marxist synodal bureaucratic strategy to change the church. Now what have they been saying? He came out on the logia and said he was going to support Leo did the synodal church and they're calling it the new Sonodal Church. This is about changing the Catholic Church. You'll note in the last few years of Bergogliosis papacy he stopped using the word Catholic and he started using the qualifier qualifier synodal Church. People have to wake up. This is and I think the postponement is only a PR media strategy so that Leo can massage these issues. I have absolutely full terror and confidence that they are going full speed ahead. And if you read the documents and I would urge Catholics to read the final sonatal document it reads like Depot Chopra and Marianne Will Williamson Smoking a joint. It is madness. It is jargon, it is absolutely new age mumbo jumbo. The words they use. We're going to be a listening church, we're going to be a dialoguing church. We're going to be an inclusive church. We're going to be a synodal church. Do a word search in the Bible, you will find none of those words. This is a teaching church, an event, evangelizing church that speaks truth to the culture in the words of Jesus Christ. This synodal church has been the gradual but clear absolute removal, eradication of Catholic from the discussion, from the agenda, and replacing it with this word that literally has no meaning. And when I write articles and write so nodal, my, my grammar thing pops up and says it's not a word. Well, of course it's not a word. That's what the Marxists do, don't they? They make up words and they impose new meaning for words. This is, I think this is just, you know, buying time. Leo is full square behind this synodal church. And this has got to be a discussion and a battle that happens now because the plans based on the synodal church, quote, unquote, synodal church, are a radical distraction and a change in teaching dogma and in the entire teaching of the Catholic Church under the name of Sonoto. And what they're doing one more thing, what they're doing is they're saying the Holy Spirit is moving us, us in this direction. They are hijacking the Holy Spirit as the one who is moving the synodal church. And they're doing this because if you object to what's going on in the synodal church, well, the Holy Spirit was moving the synods. So, you know, how are you going to battle the Holy Spirit? It is. And God will not be mocked and the third person of the Trinity will not be mocked. So that's what's going on. He's fully square behind it. He said a number of times he has and, you know, just saw the care of the creation Mass.

[Frank Walker]

That's Francis, you mentioned your spell check objecting to the word synodal. It's long been said in Catholic circles, right. If you, if in Catholic debate you see a word in Latin with a Latin derivation, you're on safe ground. If you see a word in Greek or with Greek derivation, reach for the door. And this would very much be a confirmation of that. Rule of thumb. Frank Walker. Now is probably a good moment to mention, because we didn't have a chance last week, what our friend Diane Montagne has been writing about had a lot of resonance in the media to do with her expose. She's got her hands on the leaked documents here from basically manipulated synodal process, a consultation process, I should say, where Pope Francis claimed in paying back permission for the traditional Latin Mass, the Tridentine Rite claimed that that was the overwhelming request of the bishops who had been involved with the consultation. Of course those papers had never been revealed. And then Diane Montagne was provided with the executive summary of this reports which told a very different story. Now, I don't want to accuse a Pope or an anti pope of telling porcupines, but that very much does seem to be the case here with the suppression of the old Mass. You might want to say a few words about that. Frank, I'll come to you first. You might want to say a few words about this in relation to what is going on here with this synodal process and the study groups and the fact that these controversial issues had been farmed out to the study groups and taken off basically the main floor of the, of the, of the synod itself.

[Tim Haslow]

It's always a shell game is what it is. And we remember that from all the series of synods that happened back when we used to take them seriously. You know, 10 years ago, Diane Montagna noted that the, that they didn't, the bishops didn't want that. Only a small minority of bishops even responded to that survey. And the ones that did didn't want to drop the Latin Mass. They wanted to keep it. The rest we don't know anything about. But Francis doesn't care about that. He didn't care about that at the time. He just wanted to use it as a smokescreen in order to get what he wants. And that's what these study groups are. They're moving what they call a big, wide, hundreds of people synodal process into groups of experts that may have nothing to do with the Church whatsoever. The one that you mentioned about ordaining women, that's secretly in the Doctrine of the Faith office, Cardinal Kissy Fernandez Group is managing that one. So it's all a smokescreen and that's why they go so slow. Yeah. So that Diane Montagne piece, I think it's, I think it was, it was just a, it was just a sign of the way things really are and going forward, they're actually going to swing a hammer on all of us with these synods while we're not paying attention. All of a sudden these things are going to happen. It isn't just, you know, ordaining women or the gay rights movement inside the church. It's also the actual conferences that the bishops are using altogether what kind of formation the priests go into. And if you can't figure it out because it's thousands of words of blather, all you have to do is ask these expert groups and they'll let you know. You know, I think that Greek is if you see German in there too, that language would be a telltale sign because this whole synod process seems very Nazi ish to me. I like to use in my headlines, I like to put it in a Nazi accent because it makes much more sense. You know, the head of the synod says, oh, we have tools and stimuli to use. It all sounds very ominous to me. We're just waiting for the hammer to fall.

[Frank Walker]

Really Superb, Frank Walker, many thanks indeed. Look, can I ask you to put the Chris Jackson article up and the various sources that we've spoken about today on canon 212 and I'll point now the War Room Posse to your website to fish those out and to read those in more detail. So Frank Walker, your social media and your Canon 212, which is basically a Catholic mat drudge website of choice for faithful Catholics, where do people go to.

[Tim Haslow]

Danon212, that's the website. Bookmark it so that it's in your computer and on Canon 212 spelled out on Twitter. Also the daily video update is on Rumble and at Glory TV and also at the Stumbling Block.

[Frank Walker]

And it's worth quickly mentioning now, we still haven't done the deep dive on this folks to go to Canon 212. Do type it out the domain name info because Frank, since he joined as a contributor to the War Room, has been fighting against Google's algorithms that are pointing people far from his site. Liz, your where do people go to catch up with you on your social media?

[Jane Zirkel]

I'm everywhere on social media under Elizabeth your and my website is yourchildren.com thank you.

[Frank Walker]

Many thanks. And I am of course on Getwell. My thanks. We'll be back on Wednesday, six o' clock next week, God willing. Thanks to my guests today, Steve Bannon, Frank Walker, Liz Yorr, to our producer Cameron Wallace and to the crack production team in Denver. We'll be praying for you. You pray for us and we'll see you again this time next week.

[Jim Rickards]

What started as a mask mandate dispute in Island County, Washington has led to GOP Chairman Tim Hazelow to face felony charges. Tim joins us now and he's going to bring us back to what happened during this Past fall's election in Island County. Tim, thank you for joining us.

[Liz Yorr]

Yeah, thanks, Jim, for having me. This is an intimate, to say the least. I got a bunch of friends that watch you guys constantly, so shout out to my folks out there, my watering buddies.

[Jim Rickards]

Yeah. So if you could just run through what happened when you were observing the election at the voting center in Island County.

[Liz Yorr]

Yeah. So I. I showed up. There's been a mask dispute going on there since early 24. The lady tried to put a mask mandate in place. We complained about it. She took it on, made it optional. She put it back up for the general election. We complained again. So I decided I would go see for myself as the chairman of the party, because everybody's come to me, and I guess as the de facto GOP leader of the area, it's kind of my job to go in and figure these things out and help these folks. So I show up, they give me a shoot of paper that has all the rules on it, and nowhere on the sheet of paper does it talk about masks in any way, shape or form. And those are the official rules written by the auditor. So I signed the rules. They tell me that. They give me a bags. They say, okay, go back there and watch the ballot counting. So I went back there, sat down quietly in the tempting area in the ballot room where you're supposed to be, and I just sat there and I sat there for a good five, eight minutes. Made in ten. On the outside. There's a couple older people in there with their last style on their chin counting ballots. There was a lady that would take a mask off to talk to the lady next to her. I guess it's kind of wild. You see the mask, like, profile, Adam. So I felt bad for those people. But I sat there with no mask, and I sat there quietly, didn't disturb anything. The manager comes in, says, hey, Tim. And I know her. Small town, you're right. She says, hey, Tim, you have to have a mask on to be in here. It's a ruler. And I said, well, what authority? What lockdown gives you the ability to require me to wear a mask? And she couldn't tell me. All she could say was, it's a rule. So I said, well, I'd rather just sit here without my mask on and observe the ballot counting. And so that's what I did. About 10 minutes later, she came back in, told me how to wear a mask again. I said, I don't. Don't want to. I'm not going to. And then the sheriff came in and asked me to leave them. And I think you've seen the video, I sent it to you, the body cam video and office against me. Body cam adds 40 pounds to the guy.

[Jim Rickards]

But so, so let me ask you, you were given a citation by the sheriff and what did that citation entail?

[Liz Yorr]

Well, the citation was disorderly conduct. I had told the sheriff I and the has really screwed this one up. I didn't ask for a citation. I said if I'm not breaking a law that I can be cited for, this was my intention. Maybe it didn't come out correctly, but I said if I'm not breaking a law that I can be cited for, I plan on just sitting there and observing my light. And I think it's more of been a right, it's a duty for us as Americans to observe this and participate in this action. So they said well I'll write your citation. I got up and walked out with them. The whole interaction took a minute. You probably saw the body cam and.

[Jim Rickards]

So that citation led to a misdemeanor charge. But then the prosecutor, Greg Banks gets involved and what happens there?

[Liz Yorr]

Yeah, that's when it's really crazy. So first of all, that's the lowest level criminal charge you can get is, is disorderly conduct. That's kind of the default go to for all law enforcement across the country to be able to write a citation just to say that they had did something. There was no disorderly conduct. So when I went to court, it was an amazing thing to me to find out that Gray Banks himself was the actual prosecuting attorney. So it's never prosecutor in our county. The elected guy is down here prosecuting the lowest level crime that you could possibly be charged with. And the rest of his attorneys are off doing other things. Right. That was on itself. So I flew it innocent and I put in the motion for dismissal. So I got a letter, I sent you a copy of that letter and I can provide that to anybody who wants to see it. But I sent, he sent me a letter saying that he was going to add trespassing, which I was not cited for by the way, to the charge. And if I didn't plead guilty and accept his punishment that he was going to raise this up to a felony level, something called unauthorized access to a polling place, which has never been charged against anybody before. And I mean I signed in right. And then I talked to the sheriff and he had to go back up front and sign out when he, when we left. So obviously I was authorized. But it's an Example of show me the man and I'll find a crime.

[Jim Rickards]

So you're facing these felony charges. What are the penalties associated with these?

[Liz Yorr]

Well, the felony was to get me five years. Five to six years. I think the unauthorized access is five years, the trespassing is a year, and disorderly conduct was going to be 90 days. However, the disorderly conduct got dismissed. The court found no disorderly conduct there. There's, there's no substantiation for that. So the one thing that I got cited for, the judge went ahead and dismissed the other two things that Banks just pulled out of this. We'll call hat I'm currently going to court for and I start court on Tuesday. Jury selections Tuesday morning.

[Jim Rickards]

So you're facing five to six years over this initial misdemeanor mass dispute.

[Liz Yorr]

Yeah, yeah, because I wouldn't cat it to the prosecutor. And the reality is I, I can give you a tele screenshot, but this prosecutor, I don't know, I'm not in his head. Maybe Navy honestly thinks he's doing the right thing here, but the reality is his history is just literally anti Trump supporter. This worst death on Trump supporters. He's comparables to KKK and, and me as the default GOP representative. I ran for Congress under a mega ticket. I got more congressional votes in our district than any Republican ever has. It's a blue district. And I, when I've got a148,000 votes first time at my own for office. So I worked hard and I try hard and I try to do the right thing, but I think, I think he's trying to prove a point here. I owe the right to be sure. And I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I, I haven't talked to another prosecutor or another law enforcement agent that thinks the crime has been committed or would have pushed this. So that's where we're at. And now I'm, I'm spending. I'm into it for 20 grand. And, and I don't know about you, but 20 grand's a huge chunk of change for a, a government contract driver. You know, I've been working for the military. I was 21 years Navy. Now I'm a contractor. I've held the highest clearances you can get in the federal government. I still have a secret clearance now. And this could just totally blow up my 35, 38 years of service to our country. Honorable service to our country.

[Jim Rickards]

Well, thank you so much for your service firstly. And where can people follow you to get the latest from this trial.

[Liz Yorr]

Yeah, I mean, you could Google search me. Just Tim Henzelo. H A Z E L O is there on your screen. On my YouTube name is TNT Truth Not Trash with Tim. I'm not much of a YouTuber, but I, I made some videos regarding this and put them up. And of course, on Facebook, if you just look up my name, Tim Hainslaw on there, I don't have the insight. I'm trying to do a fundraiser on Gear Send Go. So if you went to give Sam go and typed in my name, there would be information there for you. The reality isn't just guys like us. If we all stand in that gap, then nobody will. Right? And Stu Bannon knows this just as much as any of us do. The process is the punishment in a lot of cases. And guys like us have to stand up for everybody else who might not be willing to or might not have the ability to, because if we don't challenge the authority, we lost this country, that country is found on challenging authority.

[Jim Rickards]

So, big time. Tim, thank you so much. And best of luck with the upcoming trial.

[Liz Yorr]

I appreciate it. Thank you.

[Jim Rickards]

Thanks.

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