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All right, you guys, happy Wednesday. I am trying so hard to be on maternity leave, and I am failing. I am failing in that endeavor. I had to come back today because I received an irresistible scoop regarding the Taylor Swift Blake Lively saga. The scoop that nobody has, absolutely nobody has, and it is going to shake you. I'm asking people in the chat, who do you think it is that got Taylor Swift to turn on Blake Lively? And there's a lot of guesses right now, and I'm not seeing the right guests so far, so we're going to cover that. Plus, a lot of you guys were very concerned on Monday when I kind of briefly mentioned way too casually probably that someone did indeed try to kill me or was plotting to kill me while I was on break, and I was not joking at all. I'm going to tell you guys about that. Person who has pled guilty, has not yet been sentenced, and it is indeed a federal case. So a lot discussed today. Let's jump right in. Welcome back to Candace. Look, I know there are a lot of people who do not understand my. Your everybody's obsession with this particular case. But I want you guys to know those of you that do not understand that the problem is definitely you guys, okay? It is like coming across people who don't understand the fandom of Harry Potter. That's how I feel right now. And we're like seven books in right now on this Blake Lively saga. And people are like, I don't understand why you like this. And I'm like, this is a story about a baby who an evil dark wizard tried to murder an innocent baby that Lord Voldemort just tried to murder while it was sitting in the crib. Okay? That's what happened here. Justin Baldoni was an innocent baby sitting in the crib, and a dark lord tried to murder him for absolutely no reason. And luckily, he had this wonderful spell for those of you that follow Harry Potter, of love. Love from his cousin that seems to be protecting him. Love from people that have been following the saga. Like I said, we're seven. We're seven books in. We're not going away. Okay? Now, I tried to go away on maternity leave. I did. I said, I'm stepping away. And I have to assume here that Brian Friedman absolutely despises me because it seems like he waited until I was vulnerable, until I was postpartum to serve the mother of all subpoenas. A subpoena to Taylor Swift. Right? Or so we thought because there were tons of news. It's all the headlines I was like, the subpoena has gone out regarding this subpoena. But then when I went to go look for it, I couldn't find it. It's like, reportedly a subpoena was served with Taylor Swift. I want you to think about that. You've seen a ton of headlines about the subpoena. You've seen her team react to the subpoena, but you haven't actually read the. The subpoena. Has that subpoena even been filed? Remember that. Now, first, let's back up. I have been saying since day one that if Wayfarer Studios and all the other parties want this lawsuit to end, Brian Fe Friedman has got to just serve Taylor Swift. Now, why was I saying that? Because obviously she was involved here, okay? It was just obvious from day one. Things were looking a little funny. Taylor Swift had some involvement. Now, it wasn't just her song. It was also she came out of a relationship. She was with Blake a lot. Being photographed with Blake and Ryan all throughout New York City, kind of in her, like, I'm back to single Taylor Swift era, looking for something to do. Then we read the text messages. They're dropping Taylor Swift's name. We learn from both Blake and Justin Baldoni and the actress Isabella Ferrer that also Taylor Swift had a hand in picking her for the role. Must supposed to believe that all of those three are liars, including with each other. Taylor Swift was involved. We also learned, allegedly, I'm saying all this, allegedly, allegedly, that Taylor Swift got Brian Tyler, the composer, fired, didn't like him. She had some old beef with him. They brought in a new composer at the last minute. It was just a lot of like, Taylor Swift stuff going on. And then she did kind of the disappearing act, which is Taylor Swift's move when she's flying a little too close to the sun. It's her thing. That's what she does. Tree, Tree pain. Her savage PR person from forever always knows when Taylor Swift is too close and Icarus has got to go away. Okay? And I said, you gotta subpoena her because a, she's involved. And also because they are never going to allow Taylor Swift to go down. Who am I saying when I say they, but Taylor Swift Enterprise, the team, okay? They will do literally anything to prevent Taylor Swift's text messages from being seen by the public that she would meet. Why is that? Because Taylor Swift is worth $1.6 billion, my friends. Try it. Why don't you try being worth $1.6 billion? You understand how many people live and eat off of Taylor Swift. How many livelihoods depend upon her squeaky clean image? You know, the perpetual 13 year old image suite, friendship bracelets. They're going to protect that with everything that they have. And I suspect, I don't know. Again, I'm saying allegedly, a Taylor Swift might not be that nice if you were friends with her, if you knew her. Actually, the real Taylor, you might get to know a different side of her. She might not be 13 years old is all I'm saying. Okay, so finally I go on maternity leave and Brian Friedman does the thing. He seeks to subpoena her, allegedly, and her team. Immediately, Taylor Swift team comes out and they issue a scathing response and a statement to the press. I'm going to read it here. A rep for Taylor Swift told the media, Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie. She was not involved in any casting or creative decisions. I don't believe that she did not score the film. Okay? We didn't accuse her of that. She never saw an edit or made any notes on the film. She did not even see it ends with us until weeks after its public release. We didn't ask that, by the way. We never said she scored the film or made notes on the film. We actually said that she read the script. So this is all like saying stuff that is not being said. It goes on. And she was traveling around the globe during 2023, 2024, headlining the biggest tour in history. Super humble here. The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, My Tears Ricochet, given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did. This document subpoena is designed to use Taylor S.W. swift's name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case. End quote. So that's a lot of words to say that you are terrified. Okay? This is not a normal response to a subpoena if you don't have what they are seeking, right? If someone subpoenas me and says, candace, I want the text messages between you and Blake Lively, I don't need to issue a response to the media because I don't have text messages between me and Blake Lively retaining Justin Baldoni, I don't have them. So I just have to tell the court I don't have that. It doesn't exist. I literally had nothing to do with this. And so it's very easy. And this happens, by the way. I get dragged in, subpoenaed a million times in different Lawsuits, they think I'm involved. And I just say, I'm sorry, Your honor. I have not even one message to that effect and that's it. But they are signaling hard body that there's something here. And they're kind of freaking out here because their plan didn't work to send her away and say she bought a puppy with Travis Kelce. Leave her alone. She's off tour, she's tired. Didn't work. Like I said, not a normal response, way too emotional. And what happened next, really, in the media was kind of a flash in the pan. Most people didn't realize that we never actually saw that subpoena to Taylor Swift. What we saw, and I'm going to pull you up, I put together this little timeline for you guys, was a subpoena to Venable llp. Okay, I'm going to walk you guys through this. So on April 28th, Wayfarer Studios sends an email, heads up to Venable LLP. That is Taylor Swift's law firm. Okay. They're specifically requesting between communications between Taylor Swift's attorney at that law firm, whose name is J. Douglas Baldrige, and Blake Lively's attorney, whose name is Michael Gottlieb. I'm going to show you J. Douglas Baldrige here in a photo. He has represented Swift forever, dating back to her sexual assault case, which she won against the radio host. He's been with her for a long time. So he is getting this subpoena via the firm that he works for, Venable llp. And they're asking him for messages between him and Michael Gottlieb. And this is a photo of Michael Gottlieb, who is Blake Lively's attorney. So that happened on April 28th. On 29th, that subpoena officially went out through the courtroom. And what happens next on May 2, you can see in this timeline is that Venable responds, Taylor's law firm responds. They confirm they have received the email, received the subpoena, and they say that they're evaluating whether they're going to object to the subpoena, but they want further clarification on what is being sought. So not exactly a strong what are you talking about, you crazy person? But, like, what's. What do you. What do you know? I guess would be the question. Then on May 12th, ten days later, Taylor Swift's law firm files to have the subpoena quash. They're like, we don't want to be involved in this. Please get us. We shouldn't have to abide by this subpoena. And then the day after, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds consolidate as, you know, co defendants, and they similarly file a motion to have the Venable LLP subpoena quash. So they're all teaming up, going, this subpoena, this cannot happen. You cannot see these messages. I'm going, but wait, why are Blake Lively's lawyer and Taylor Swift's lawyer messaging at all? What does Brian Friedman know? What do the Wayfarer parties know? That's interesting. Right? So what happens next is their excuse. By the way, when they filed on May 13, they basically said, and I'll read you that the law firm Venable LLP does not represent any party to this action. So they don't represent Wayfair, they don't represent Blake. Why? Why are you pureeing anything via a subpoena to them? And we want this dropped. Okay, so then what happens is Brian Friedman writes a letter to Judge Lehman, and this is what you guys saw in the media, because we went, whoa, what is going on here? He is saying a lot. He drops a major bomb on his May 14 letter to Judge Lewis Lehman. And I'm going to read this in its entirety. We can pull it up here. The Wayfarer parties anticipate that Venable's motion to quash will be mooted in short order as their counsel and Venable are conferring in good faith. So he's saying we're. The subpoena is moot anyways because in the background, I'm communicating. The Wayfarer parties are communicating with Taylor Swift's law firm in good faith. So we don't really need to do this through the legal system. Then he says, however, the Lively defendant's insistence that the subpoena seeks irrelevant information is wrong. The subpoena aims to obtain discovery relating to witness tampering and evidence spoliation. Specifically, the Wayfarer party's counsel are informed and believed, based on information from a source who is highly likely to have reliable information, that Blake requested that Taylor Swift delete their text messages. And two, that Michael Gottlieb, who is Blake's lawyer, counsel for Lively defendants, contacted a Venable attorney, that is Taylor Swift's attorney, who represents Ms. Swift, and demanded that Ms. Swift release a statement of support to Ms. Lively, intimating that if Ms. Swift refused to do so, then private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively's possession would be released. Okay, so essentially he's saying they tried to extort Taylor Swift to come out and make a statement in support of Justin Baldoni major bomb. Tons of tiktokers have covered this. This is not new information. I'm just going over this slowly because there's some dogs that aren't barking here that I have to point out to you. Okay. By the way, I just want to say, Michael Gottlieb, if these allegations are true, and I believe that they are, that there was some extortion, given the nature of the subpoena, which is very specific, the only excuse for trying to extort Taylor Swift and thinking that you're going to get away with it is crack cocaine. Right? It's like crystal meth. You got to be on a very specific strand of crystal meth to believe that this is going to be a good play. To call up Taylor Swift attorney and be like, well, we've got these messages about, you know, this long friendship between these two girls, and she knows the real Taylor, and if she doesn't come out right now and support her in this suit against Justin Baldoni, she's going down. That, to me, just sounds like maybe crystal meth that they kept referencing in that weird skits, that weird promo skit that Ryan Reynolds did. It feels to me like a Ryan Reynolds job. Like, he called up Michael, got leave, and said, like, this is what we should do to force her to support Blake. Something he would do, something he would come up with. Very bad idea. Okay, now I'm going to read, because he then signed off on an affidavit, a sworn statement that this actually happened, that he had this information. It was legit. And this is exactly how Brian Friedman is saying that he received this information. He says, I'm a partner at Friedman, Tatelman and Cooley. And then we're going to go down. Number three. On February 14, 2025, Valentine's Day, no less, I received a voicemail from a person very closely linked to Taylor Swift, whom I subsequently called back the same day. Out of respect for the individual in question. I am not identifying them at this point. However, should the court direct me to do so, I will comply with the court's order. So right there, we know Brian's telling the truth. He's signing a sworn affidavit, and he's also saying he got a voicemail. You can't really fake a voicemail. He's a lawyer. He's in the middle of a lawsuit. He obviously recorded the voicemail. He has it. He has it. He's waiting to drop it. He's signaling he wants to drop it. Right. He's saying, unless the court compels me to do it. I got. I got to comply with the court order, but right now I'm going to protect this person. Okay, goes on. He says during the February 14 phone call which lasted approximately one hour, the speaker told me that they had been informed that J. Douglas Baldridge, that's Taylor Swift's lawyer, counsel for Taylor Swift and a partner at Venable, had received a phone call from Michael Gottlieb, counsel for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, during which Mr. Gottlieb requested on Ms. Lively's behalf that Taylor Swift make a social media statement in support of Ms. Lively given her absence from the super bowl that year, and stated that if Ms. Swift failed to do so, Ms. Lively would release 10 years. He puts that in quotation marks of private text messages with Ms. Swift. The individual also told me that they had been informed that Mr. Baldrige had accused Mr. Gottlieb of extortion and ended the call. Okay, I believe all of this. And if you read the subpoenaed amenable, it's very clear that he's specifically asking for a text message which took place after this call, which would confirm that was the nature of the call. So maybe they got off the call and Douglas Baldridge was like, I can't believe you would try to extort my client. Are you crazy, out of your mind? Michael Gottlieb replies, there's something here. And like I said, this is the truth. There'd be no reason for Brian Friedman to sign a sworn affidavit and lie, be willing to lie under oath. He'd have to be an totally crazed person. He always brings the receipts. I buy this. So in response to this, by the way, we get a statement from Michael Gottlieb who is strongly denying that this took place. When I want to pull up his statement, give me one second. Which is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous that you want us to believe that Brian Friedman completely went for broke and lied to all of us. He responds and he says, we unequivocally deny all of these so called allegations which are cowardly sourced to suppose anonymous sources and completely untethered from reality. This is what we have come to expect from the Wayfarer party's lawyers who appear to love nothing more than shooting first without any evidence and with no care for the people they are harming in the process. We will imminently file motions with the court to hold these attorneys accountable for their misconduct here. So he's just hoping that the judge says, you know what, I don't like this. And I'M not going to grant this subpoena. And so you're not. We're not going to get those messages because he's lying. I mean, I'm just saying it's right here. I feel. I sense very strongly that Michael Gottlieb. This phone call went. Went down. And I know it went down, okay? Because like I said, Brian Freeman has a very strong record of the truth. He loves to drop the receipts. That's why the public is on Justin Baldoni's side in the first place. But. And here's. Here's the big drum roll, you guys. You're not gonna believe this. You're not gonna believe this. Who was this person? Who was this unexpected dragon that has now served Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on a silver platter? Right? Because this. This is the exact message that you have the subpoena. And why is that relevant? Because if there is proof that Blake Lively told Taylor Swift to delete text messages back in December when she first filed this lawsuit. Well, you only tell somebody to delete text messages that prove that the person in the other side of this case is telling the truth, Right? So she's telling her to delete text. Text messages that would disprove her narrative. So that person delivered that to Brian Friedman on a silver platter. Who would have access to that? Those messages could have only come into Taylor Swift's phone. So this person does indeed have to be very close to Taylor Swift. And then you got the second element of this, which is going to make the court upset, that you're telling me that they not only, like, witness tampered, but also then tried to extort. And I love the fact that this is over the super bowl because it just shows you how vain Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are. Like, it's February, and Taylor so pazza made a statement, and they're like, oh, my gosh, we were with her last year at the super bowl, and we're not with her this year, and that looks really bad. So, like, oh, we should we, like, extort her? I don't know. Like, should we just, like, extort her to make a statement in support of us? People don't realize that we're not there and we're not friends with her. Yeah, that's a really good idea. Have our lawyer call her lawyer and extort her? Allegedly. Allegedly. So who was the person who was unexpected dragon, who was the person that very clearly, after this super bowl thing, got upset? Drum roll, please, you guys. Allegedly. Allegedly Taylor Swift's father, Scott Swift. I love this so much. You guys. You guys, this means the mother of dragons, Khaleesi, forgot that there could be a father to the dragon. A father to her dragon. Taylor Swift, this savage man, Scott Swift, is going to turn me into a Swifty. When I say a Swifty, I don't mean a Taylor Swift fan, okay? I mean a Scott Swift fan. Because this was a savage move. And by the way, I want to be clear, the reason why I respect this move is because it's his daughter, okay? I'm always going to respect a parent that is willing to burn it all down to the ground to protect their kid, okay? There's an element of that that as a parent, Real going to recognize Real. And Scott Swift played me. He saw me. Scott Swift saw me. Fisherman, always. He's another fisherman. He saw me. Saliv. For these text messages. He saw it being like, we're going to see the real Taylor Swift. And he was like, no, no, Candace, the world will never meet the real Taylor Swift. But what clearly set him off, given the timeline of you seeing. You see a phone call allegedly coming in on February 14, it would have been this extortion attempt. And I wouldn't try it. I keep trying to tell people, Taylor Swift's parents are not from nowhere. They're not nobodies. Scott Swift, what's his background? Scott, Stock broker. Okay. Her family was so financially successful that when their little girl said, I want to be a singer, they up and moved her to Nashville. Okay. Got her in touch with all the right people. And Scott took a percentage of the company that signed his daughter, 5% of the company that signed his daughter. Like, he's a financially savvy. You don't come around and try to play any game with a person that is financially savvy. He's so financially savvy that he established the financial advisor group at Merrill lynch, where he's worked forever. At Merrill Lynch. That is called the Swift Group. It's called the Swift Group. It's his. The whole group is his. And he's giving people a financial advice. And I'm sure that if he could have given Blake and Ryan any financial advice, it would have been, don't. Don't do any of this, okay? And so you're Daddy Swift, and you receive word that someone is in possession of 10 years of text messages in a relationship that she thought was a friendship, and they're threatening to just release stuff, you know, implying having your lawyer say, remind your client that Blake has 10 years of text messages. They were friends for 10 years. And it would probably be best if she just issued a statement of support. You didn't threaten Taylor Swift, my friend. You. You kind of threatened an entire empire. The eras tour alone, according to Bloomberg, generated more than $4.3 billion for the United States GDP. Okay? $4.3 billion just for the United States. It was a global tour. Okay? So you're going to come around. You're going to threaten everybody that eats off of Taylor Swift by saying, we're going to show you the real Taylor Swift. And you don't think that daddy or mommy dragon is going to wake up and be like, it's not going down like this. And he fired a shot straight at them. He wants them to know, even in following the subpoena, that, yeah, we're working with them because nobody else should have this message. Okay? So Blake and Ryan are reading this. They're freaking out. They understand now that Taylor Swift is not their friend. Okay? That Taylor Swift's dad is saying, you want to go to war, let's go to war. And what does this mean for Ryan and Blake? They probably should back down immediately because you are not winning a war with somebody that can inspire $4.3 billion for the United States GDP by going on tour. Okay? You're not. You're just not going to win that war at all. What are they going to do? I don't know. We know their personalities are extremely vain. Ryan has some tendencies. I would say he's definitely crazy. My. That's my perspective. Ryan is definitely crazy. And the last thing, the last card they have to play is to release Taylor Swift's text messages. They could just release to the public. It's irrelevant for this case. Case, as far as I'm concerned, is unofficially over. It's over right now. They have let you know it's over because they're gonna. They've served her up on a platter. Okay, we didn't delete the messages. We still have the messages. Also, you're an idiot, Blake, for thinking that texting someone and saying delete the messages means that no one can ever find these messages. Like, that's like, come on, Blake. Come on, girl. It's not how it works. It's not how it works in Techland. You can't just delete the message and then it's over forever. And now people are going to wonder what that message was that you wanted deleted. And they're playing ball with Justin's camp. So you gotta fold. You gotta fold, and you better fold real quick. But I love this because I love me a mommy sleuth, a daddy sleuth, a mom and a dad backing up. I respect that. I got beat here. And I gotta tell you guys, honestly, we're never seeing these messages. I told you forever we were going to see them. I felt confident, but I got taken down by this dragon. Even me. My hopes, my dreams taken down. We're never reading T. We're going to believe, we're going to have to believe that Taylor Swift is a sweet 13 year old girl for the rest of our lives. Okay? So roll up your sleeves. We're all Swifties now. You must respect game when you see it. And I completely respect this move. 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And many of you guys are always so concerned about my health and my safety because we go in and we talk about these deep topics. And when you really get into history and you start looking backward, you start to upset powerful structures, people that have had power for a very long time and are willing to kind of be deranged. And when it comes to defending that power, obviously covering the Brigitte Macron series, I mean, there's been a lot of concern all around and I just try to keep a healthy perspective about all that stuff. But it is true that the FBI opened a case and I'm going to tell you about that. I was not happy with the way that this went down. And I hope that I can get more information, particularly from those of you who live in New Jersey, because it seems that a lot of the assaults on my life have been coming from that area. So I will kind of give a lead up to this. Obviously, you know, I've had a very long years, long back forth with Rabbi Shmuli. He's a totally deranged rabbi who is insane. And when anybody stands up to him, he calls them anti Semitic. He is rabid. He's being sued right now for trying to extort a Jewish family that owns the Fontainebleau hotel, that owns the Fontain Blue Hotel in Miami. So he's kind of an equal opportunity offender, accuses everybody of anti Semitism, including Jews, including, you know, Jews that run hotels in Miami. And I think everybody agrees he's insane. But what happened on September 4th of last year in a series of events was I went on Piers Morgan to debate Rabbi Shmuley after he was calling me Anti Semitic. It went very badly for Rabbi Shmuley as Piers Morgan pulled clips like he was lying live about things that I had said I had never said. And then Piers Morgan was able to debunk that. On September 4th, in particular, this particular part of the debate, I was making an argument that we have to recognize that there are radicals, like holding the title Rabbi doesn't mean anything. And there are radicals amongst every religion or and there are radical sex that break out. And here is exactly what I said that warranted according to this person who was running this group chat him to try to kill me. So here is what I said to Rabbi Shmuley on September 4th of last year.