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They Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud | Episode 213
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Trump’s team makes moves in Minnesota; Democrats show their asses; and retired Green Beret Eric Schwalm joins the show.
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Vince
Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Wednesday. Great to have you with us. We're going to take a close look at new information that we just found out about Alex Preddy. What he was really up to in the week leading up to his death in Minnesota. The details on that, they matter. And of course the media has basically allied them for the most part. We'll also get a look at what has changed in the Trump administration's relationship with Minnesota tampon. Tim Walls, Jacob Fry, finally meeting with Tom Homan. We'll get the aftermath of, of that meeting. And also the left is, well, psychopathic. We've got details on that. And Ilhan Omar, sprayed with a mystery substance at a town hall in Minnesota this week. What the hell was that about? And what should we be talking about as it relates to Ilhan Omar? Man, I've got it all. We're gonna try to cover all of it. And then finally, the big guest today that I need you to know about is a retired Green Beret who's gonna be joining us. He went mega viral this week for his assessment of what is happening in Minnesota. He said, I've seen this before. I've seen this in enemy territory. This is an insurgency and it has arrived in the United States of America. Eric Schwam will join us. We'll talk to him about everything that he's seeing and what he thinks comes next. That's ahead on this edition of. Vince, great to have you with us this morning. The best audience anywhere, truly. Thank you for our great sponsors. A big medical hack of 2025 a big medical hack of 2025 with several peer reviewed studies that identified possible direct connections between antiparasitic medications having off label benefits, fighting a wide variety of cancers. And this actually makes sense because the connection between tumor growth and parasites has actually been studied for years. It's been reported that millions of Americans suffer from parasitic infections that often go undetected or undiagnosed. This is why Dr. Peter McCullough, the Chief Scientific officer at the Wellness Company and one of the world's most published cardiologists, says that these studies make a clear case to do at least one medical grade parasite cleanse annually. The Wellness Company USA's compounded Ivermectin and Mebendazole is a doctor prescribed gold standard combination dose designed to help the body eliminate parasites plus other incredible benefits. Each bottle contains 90 capsules, enough to complete four 21 day cleanses. Fill out a quick intake form, a doctor will review it and then they'll issue a Prescription right for you and your medical grade parasite cleanse arrives in a week. It's time for a new year and a new you. Reset and own your health. Head to TWC Health, Vince. Use the code, Vince. Save $60 off plus free shipping. That's TWC Health, Vince. Promo code, Vince. USA residents only. Well, let's begin with Alex Preddy. We get a bunch of brand new information on what the hell that guy was up to. Remember, everybody was describing him as a simple ICU nurse who was directing traffic. He was an observer. He was just capturing video. He was at a peaceful protest and he brought his gun to it. And of course, all of that amounted to a series of endless lies about what he was up to. We would later find out that this guy was a routine left wing rioter. In fact, he was out during the 2020 George Floyd riots, participating in them. His family would later disclose. His ex wife said he was the kind of guy who would definitely shout in the faces of law enforcement, but she didn't imagine that he would get physical with them. But the record on this now demonstrates that actually he did get physical multiple times with law enforcement, and that includes a week before his death in Minnesota. Now this report comes to us yesterday by way of cnn. So the clip I'm about to play for you is going to give this man, Alex Preddy, the most charitable possible interpretation. They're gonna describe him as merely driving along in his car. He saw Ice chasing someone, and then he decided to get out of his car to be a Good Samaritan, to intervene to help the person that Ice was chasing. You understand why all of this is so ridiculous? Obviously, if law enforcement is in pursuit of a suspect, the last thing you want to be doing is diving in front of them to try and prevent that from happening. So things according to cnn, got physical. So physical that Alex Preddy had his rib broken in the scuffle. I'm sorry, just because he was standing there, I don't think so. Listen to CNN describe this yesterday.
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CNN Reporter
What exactly transpired a week before Alex Preddy was shot in Minneapolis and died this past weekend? Now, in this earlier incident, he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot and began shouting and blowing his whistle. Predator Freddie later told one of these sources that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his pat on his back, appearing to leave him with a broken rib. According to this source, and I'm quoting here, that sort said, quote, that day he thought he was going to die. Now Freddy was later given medication that is consistent with treating a broken rib, according to records reviewed by cnn. Sources also say that he was known to federal law enforcement, though it's unclear whether it was this incident or another with federal agents that they knew him. They knew of him.
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Vince
So. Wait a second, I'm sorry, pause. Wasn't it just a few days ago that we were told his only interaction with law enforcement is that he had received parking tickets? Wasn't that the media narrative on this guy? Just parking tickets? There's nothing serious in his background. He just. He just stayed past the limit on the meter a couple of times, but that's it. Hold on. This guy was known to federal law enforcement. He was getting into physical scuffles with them. He broke his ribs wrestling with cops. That's the story on this. Now, there are elements to this that sound very suspicious if you're in a position where you're wrestling with cops. Why wasn't he then arrested? He wrestled with cops and then broke a rib. The whole thing sounds so bizarre. But the story, apparently from cnn, their charitable interpretation of events is, yeah, this happened all the time. Okay, so this dude is an insurrectionist, as has been established by a never ending public record. And that led to his untimely death this past weekend, where he decided to interfere with law enforcement. And in the process, in that chaos, he lost his life. Obviously, the President Trump is looking into, he's got an administration investigation going into the details of how that occurred. But there's no question that Preddy would still be alive today were it not for his insurgency. And the rest now is becoming history. That insurgency will be the subject of my, my conversation coming up with a retired Green Beret who's, who's detected all of this. He goes, man, I've seen this happen before in war zones. I know what this is. I know how these command and control operations work. I know how they try to make it diffuse. I know how they gather intelligence. I know how they mobilize the radicals in order to sow chaos and cause trouble. This looks very familiar. This is an insurgency here in the United States of America. We'll talk about that. But one of the guys they mobilized clearly was Alex Preddy. Alex Preddy only out on that street because he was mobilized by that very insurgency, by that very command and control. They've been admitted inside of that ridiculous signal chat that's now under investigation by Cash Patel and the FBI that, yes, Alex Preddy was one of theirs. That's why he was there. Otherwise, how would he have known how would Alex Preddy have known to stand outside of that donut shop on that street corner, menacing those officers at that time? It's because he was mobilized by the radical left, and now he lost his life as a result of it. That event, of course, was a turning point in what's going on in Minneapolis because it led President Trump to get personally involved. So President Trump then decides, you know what, get these guys on the horn. I have to talk to them now. He gets Tampon Tim Walls on the phone, he gets Mayor Jacob Fry on the phone. He starts to develop these conversations and these relationships. And he goes, guys, I need you to work with me. We've gotta resolve this. I can't have more people dying. This is your fault. And the guys now claim that they're working with him. Okay, we'll work with him. So Tom Holman jets off to Minnesota now, two nights ago, and yesterday morning, nine o' clock sharp, he shows up at the governor's office to meet with Tampon Tim Walls. Because Tom Oman's on a mission. Tom Holman's not a flashy guy. Tom Holman's not looking for publicity. Tom Holman's not looking to prove himself or strut around or anything. He's just looking to win. To win. And I talked a bit yesterday with you about how Greg Bevino, who I think has been wonderful with the Border Patrol, he's leaving the state of Minnesota. Tom Holman is coming in to run the operations. There are some people who are interpreting this as somehow like, oh, that's a setback, or this is like this is some sort of retreat or surrender. I'm not even sure how you can arrive at that conclusion if that's what you're thinking, because Tom Holman is tough as frigging nails. Sending in Tom Holman is not the way you give up the immigration mission. It's the way you say, I want to see this done correctly. I want to win. So you send in Homan. So Homan, who reports directly to the President of the United States, goes in yesterday and he meets with Tampon Tim and he meets with Jacob Fry. And here's what Homan had to say about the meetings. I'm going to start with him because I fully believe that the Democrats are lying as they give their readouts. Here's what Homan said today. I met with Governor Walz, Mayor Fry, and top law enforcement officials to discuss the issues on the ground in Minnesota. We all agree that we need to support our law enforcement officers and get criminals off the streets. While we don't agree on everything, these meetings were a productive starting point. And I look forward to more conversations with key stakeholders in the days ahead. President Trump has been clear he wants American cities to be safe and secure for law abiding residents. And they will be, said Tom Holman. Well, that's a promise and I expect Homan will keep it. American cities will be safe and secure for law abiding residents. They will be, he promises. That's good news. But you hear Homan say something in that there's some disagreements. We don't agree on everything. Well, what's the holdup? Well, the holdup by Jacob Fry's own disclosure appears to be that they don't intend to turn over bad guys. So, yes. Did we see local law enforcement finally intervene this week for the first time after Donald Trump made that phone call? Yes, we did. When President Trump got on the horn with these guys, suddenly they're snapping to, they're making arrests. They realize that peril lies ahead if they don't play ball, including criminal prosecution. To be very clear, these guys are under federal investigation right now for obstructing federal law enforcement. So the president's got that hanging over their heads. Good. Use it as leverage, force them to clean up our states. And that's what's happening right now in Minnesota. But Jacob Fry said this about his Tom Holman conversation yesterday. Here's how he described it. He said today, Chief o', Hara, Minneapolis Police Department. He's been terrible. Chief o' Hara and I met with border czar Homan and, and had a productive conversation. I reiterated that my main ask is for Operation Metro Surge to end as quickly as possible, meaning they want immigration enforcement out. You know how that happens. You clean up the city, you cooperate with the Trump administration. Jacob Fry says, quote, public safety works best when it's built on community trust, not tactics that create fear or division, which is, of course, what Minneapolis is guilty of. What Jacob Fry is guilty of. Creating fear and division. Fear of constitutional, lawful, decent law enforcement. That's what he's doing. He's creating fear and division. Fry goes on. I shared with Mr. Homan the serious negative impacts this operation has had on Minneapolis jackass, as well as the strain it has placed on our local police officers. The strain? Yeah. I'll tell you what the strain is. The strain is local cops who want to do their jobs being told to stand down rather than bring peace to their communities. That's the strain, you colossal jackass. Jacob Fry. And then he finishes this way, I Also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe. City leaders will continue to stay in conversation with Mr. Holman and his team. So let me. First of all, somebody's raising a point in our chat I wanted to address real quick. Ida Ray says, no, Vince, it was not Minneapolis police. It was a near suburbs police department. Yeah, you're right about that. About how this was a nearby suburban police department, Ida, who were involved. But additionally, the Minneapolis State Patrol, that's the state police in Minnesota. Excuse me. The Minnesota State Patrol was also involved. In other words, the state cops who work ultimately for Tampon Tim Walls were making arrests to two nights ago. That's a sea change. It's not merely a suburban police department. It's also the state police who are finally having the handcuffs taken off of them because President Trump got involved. That's an important detail. Now, what you just heard Jacob Fry say is we're not gonna enforce federal immigration law. First of all, nobody's asking you to enforce federal immigration law. It's not your job, you jackass. It's not your job. Your job is to be a good partner to the feds. Your job is to hand over the bad guys to the feds. Your job is not to obstruct federal immigration law. You have nothing to do with enforcing federal immigration law. All you have to do is hand off the people who are causing so much calamity in your community to the Trump administration and they'll take it from there. So stop at this. Oh, we don't enforce federal immigration laws. No kidding. You're not supposed to. You're not even involved in it. Just hand the guys over. And that's really the problem. These guys to this very day are trying to protect illegals who are in their community for whatever their intent is, whether to exploit them as underpaid labor or to use them for votes or to use them to pad their Electoral College advantages or use them to pad their congressional seats. Whatever they want to use them for is not for you. It's not to benefit you. It's merely a cruel piece of power calculus the Democrats are doing not just in Minnesota, but all across our country. So as Tom Holman goes in there, this is the crap that he has to deal with. And President Trump, we haven't heard a lot from Tom Holman about this, cuz Holman just gave us a basic readout. But President Trump has weighed in on this and here's what he said this morning on all of this, he said that Jacob Fry is playing with fire. He said, surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Fry just stated that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws. This is after having a very good conversation with him, says the President. Could somebody in his inner sanctum. Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the law and that he is playing with fire. Look, Jacob Fry is already under investigation for obstructing federal law enforcement. If you need more evidence that that's his interest, look no further than this tweet, this X post that Frye put out yesterday. It's more evidence of that, and he should live with the consequences of his actions. Prosecute him, then. Would you prosecute him, Mr. President? Additionally, leave on the table the possibility that this is all gonna collapse because you're dealing with dishonest people. On the other side of the table, Tom Holman may be an intimidating figure to put in the room with them, and no doubt he is. You know that Tampon Tim Walls is quaking in his boots when he's sitting across from Tom Holman. Hollman is the alpha when he walks into that room. Walls is the beta, and Jacob Fry, he's the whatever comes after beta. I mean, these guys are ridiculous. Tom Holman's clearly in charge. But you cannot underestimate how dishonest these goons are. So at some point, if and when some aspect of this meaningfully fails, the president should continue to have on the table. And he does. He hasn't taken it off the table. The Insurrection Act. If local law enforcement, if local laws are not being enforced, you have to do something, and that something is use the powers that are given to you by the founders of our country in our constitution and in law, from the very beginning of our country, the Insurrection act, that continues to be available. Yeah, Fry is a cuck. So it goes. Yeah. Alpha, beta, cuck. I think that's the way it goes. Is it the Greek Alphabet? Is that it? I don't remember that. But I guess cuck is now the proper order of things. Yeah. So we get Hulman's, the alpha, Walls is the beta. Fry is the cuck. Oh, that's funny. Thank you, chap. I knew you'd come through for me. Thank you very much. Oh, man. So what is Tampon Tim saying? Tampon Tim's doing the circuit. So despite the fact that he's claiming, oh, we have a very productive relationship going on, he just did some lefty podcast yesterday, and on the Lefty podcast. You ready for this? Speaking of beta, Tim Walls, he says he could beat the shit out of Vice President J.D. vance. You ready for this? Prepare yourselves, please. Don't have a drink in your mouth. You might do a spit take. Here we go. Tampon Tim cut. To beat the shit out of him.
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Caller or Guest Commentator
Now, if I could, and I would call that out. I mean, that's just different. In verbally going at it, my argument is much better. Making the case that housing prices are up because of immigration and that we should build on federal lands. It was such a crazy thing. But then when I watched him, I got sucked into that. And if you remember, this was right in that moment of eating dogs and cats. I took that bait and thought that that was the argument of how outrageous it was. That was not the argument.
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Vince
He's apologetic. I love that. If you've heard Tim Wallace talk about that debate with JD Vance where he got his ass handed to him by JD he's been apologetic ever since because he realized that he was being too respectful and too in awe of JD he was marveling at JD he was gaga about JD Vance at that debate. He was stammering because he was just, I think so honored to be in the room with the now Vice President of the United States. And the left has never let him live that down. They've smacked him upside the head over and over and over for that. And he's always apologizing to them, always, always sucking up to the left, always letting the radicals dictate his judgment, including by letting cities in Minnesota get utterly destroyed. He's a coward. The guy is a beta coward who keeps letting that happen. And that was on display yesterday. I love that, though. Oh, I could kick his ass. Tim Walls could not fight his way out of a paper bag. The idea that he's gonna kick J.D. vance's ass just. I'd love to see that. J.D. vance should offer him an exhibition match just to see. Aren't they having a UFC fight at the White House? They are, right? President Trump's arranged that with Dana White, right? A UFC fight. Maybe one of the undercards can be JD Vance and Tim Walls. Wouldn't that be good? We could do that. I think that'd be fun. At the very least, bring back Celebrity Deathmatch. I want to watch that fight in Claymation. I want to see how that goes. Damn. Punta might kick his ass. Oh, that's right. The chat reminds me. He couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Yeah, it could be an undercard fight. I think it'd be great. I think it'd be really great. Besides, when Tim Walls leaves the the governor's mansion, what else is he gonna do? He's gotta come up with some way to cover for the fraud that he'll be engaged in. Need some pretext for the money that he's taking in? You might as well make it a UFC fight. That could be fun. Hilarious. Okay, coming up, what the hell just happened in Minnesota yesterday? As Ilhan Omar, whose entire career has been defined by fraud, seems to be attacked by a dude who sprays her with some unknown substance. We'll show you the video and then we'll talk about why people immediately began assuming that this was yet another Jussie Smollett style hoax. That's ahead on this edition of Vince. You know, a new year means new financial goals, like making sure your savings are secure and diversified. Will this be the year you finally listen to me and talk to somebody from Birch Gold Group? Honestly, great people. I appreciate their educational approach and their understanding of macroeconomics. Now, there are forces that are pushing the dollar lower and gold higher, which is why they believe every American should own physical gold. So until January 30th, if you're a first time gold buyer, Birch Gold is offering a rebate of up to $10,000 on qualifying purchases. 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She glances back down at her paper and then this dude who looks like a complete psychopath rushes the lectern and then sprays her he empties out one of these plastic syringes that is full of some sort of unknown liquid. And it freaks everybody in the room out. But then watch Elhan's reaction. Just listen to this. Watch the video if you're watching us. Rumble.com Vince and then we'll assess on the other side. Watch this. Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment. He sprays her, hits her right in the shirt. She rushes in his direction. Isn't that kind of a weird reaction? She starts running towards him like she's going to hit him. Am I understanding that correctly? She raises security, tackles the guy. I need a napkin to know nothing. And she's insisting we will continue. These are not going to get away with. She's insisting that she keeps speaking and everyone around her. Correct. Correctly. Is assessing. Hold on a second. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Pause. When I first watched this, I had the same reaction. Hold. Dude, that dude just sprayed you with something. You have no idea what that is. Is it a chemical? Is it an acid? Is it meant to be some sort of, like, you know, whatever. It doesn't matter. The point is, I'd be rushing off if I was her. I'd get out of that room as quickly as possible. I'd shed that sweater. The last thing I want to do is keep the sweater on that's got that unknown substance all over it. I definitely would wash my skin off anywhere it made contact. I'd be very attentive to quickly trying to resolve whatever this unknown substance was. Wouldn't you? Like, what the hell is this? And instead she's just like, no, no. She rushes at him to try and strike him. And then she goes back to the lectern and refuses all of the good advice she's getting around her to go get this taken care of. And she's like, no, I'm going to keep speaking. I'm not going to let this asshole stop me. And so immediately, the whole Internet was saying, this is fraud. This is fake. This isn't a real attack. This is a hoax. Everybody's assassin. We were watching this last night. I mean, the huge numbers of people looking at this guy. I don't believe you. And if you don't believe Ilhan Omar, and who knows, perhaps we'll find out what happened here. Look, let me just say something really quick about this. Hennepin county arrested that guy and booked him in jail last night. Like that. That's Minneapolis. Hennepin county booked him in seconds last night. They're charging him with third Degree assault. Okay, so are you telling me that Hennepin County, Minneapolis, can rapidly arrest and book into jail criminals? Yes, they can. They can do it in no time if they're doing it on behalf of Democrats, apparently. But if it comes to defending the population from crimes by illegal aliens or defending immigration enforcement from lunatics who are harassing them and assaulting them, then they're gonna drag ass and perhaps never enforce the law. That's the different justice systems going on in Hennepin county right now. But this idea that maybe this was a hoax, there's a reason people believe that. There's a reason that that's a thought process that's running through your mind. And it's because, one, the left broadly tells these kinds of lies on a regular basis. But two, and more specifically, Ilhan Omar's career has been defined by fraud, including the 2019 marriage to her own brother that was clearly designed to get him into the country under the false pretense of being married to her. So the woman is a fraudster. That's been the pattern. When she's caught being anti Semitic, she pretends like that's not actually what she meant. She describes 911 as nothing more than some people did something. She's a scam artist. And then additionally, this stuff about her finances is very interesting to me. And there's something in the timeline that I think you need to know about that I haven't really seen it all receiving the attention that I definitely think it deserves. And here's what that is. By now you know, either because you saw it through Benny Johnson or the Washington Free Beacon or the Daily Caller, there's been some really good reporting on this subject, that her wealth has been skyrocketing. Her financial disclosures have demonstrated that she's got a lot of money in that household. We're talking a net worth of in the vicinity of at least $30 million. Now that's a massive change in fortune for her. In the year 2023, she was worth approximately or less $51,000 on net. $51,000 net worth. By the next year, her net worth was somewhere beneath $30 million. Now these are according to her official congressional disclosures. How do you go from being worth $50,000 one year to being worth $30 million the next year? Now here's where the timeline gets Super Interesting. The 2023 net worth disclosure, $51,000 that was reported in May of 2024. That's customary. Each May members of Congress, they report their net worth. And she said this in May of 2024, that last year, in 23, I was worth 50,000 bucks. Okay. In June of 2024, the next month, the Biden Justice Department. You heard me correctly. The Biden Justice Department launched an investigation into her finances, the Biden doj. That information was just revealed to us this past week by the New York Times. Fellows, if we can pull this up on screen, look at this. Under the Biden administration, Justice Department began examining Ilhan Omar's finances. And at the top of the piece, the New York Times says that the Justice Department under the Biden administration, opened an investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota.
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Eric Schwam
He.
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Vince
In 2024. When? In 2024. And what were they scrutinizing? First of all, they say they were scrutinizing her finances, her campaign spending, and interactions with a foreign citizen. According to people with knowledge of the matter, the inquiry was initiated by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the Department's Public Integrity Unit in June of that year. And it appears to have stalled for lack of evidence, the New York Times claims. According to one of the people who requested anonymity to discuss internal department matters. Okay, so here's what we know. May of 24th, she reveals that she was worth 50,000 bucks the prior year. June of 24, the Biden administration launches an investigation into her finances. In other words, something stinks to high heaven. They've detected she's got a lot more income that she's not disclosing. Something strange is going on with the money that that lady's receiving. So strange, the Biden DOJ launches an investigation into it. By the next year, she reports that she's worth upwards of $30 million. Suddenly, all of this income that clearly caught the attention of the Biden DOJ is now being disclosed publicly. But where does she claim the income comes from? She says it comes from a winery. A winery what? A winery that sells no wine that anybody's aware of, doesn't have a functioning website, doesn't have a functioning number, is not open on weekends. A winery? What is she even talking about? So what does this look like? To me, it looks like a front to me. It looks like she put a winery on her financial disclosures to pretend that some kind of ill gotten income was actually from a legitimate business enterprise. But then when you go check it out, nobody's ever heard of the winery, nobody's ever bought it, and yet it's worth millions and millions and millions of dollars. Something's not adding up here. And given her history of Fraud. It's no wonder we suspect her of committing fraud. Again, finally on this point about the Biden doj, the Justice Department ended the investigation. Apparently, they tabled it, according to the New York Times. Why would the Biden DOJ table an investigation into one of their allies? Because they did a lot. Remember the IRS investigation that was being done into the Biden family was tabled. The whistleblowers say it was tabled. As they got closer and closer to Joe Biden, impediments were thrown in their way to stop that investigation. That's the pattern. Talk about corruption in the Justice Department. That's exactly the way it was under Joe Biden. All right, we'll keep revisiting that story, but that's interesting. Very interesting. As it looks like. Yeah, that's right. She had a quality leering winery. It was like, it's not a real winery. It's a fake winery. Where's the wine at? It's like with quality leering center. Where are the kids at? What? This isn't real. It's just fraud. Everything is just an endless string of fraud. 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Okay, let's, let's talk now about what the heck is going on in Minnesota. Earlier this week, a mega viral post with nearly 40 million views by a retired Green Beret. His name is Eric Schwam. He's been looking at what's going on in Minnesota and he joins us now for his first interview. Eric, it is good to have you with us on the program today. Sir, thank you so much for joining me.
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Eric Schwam
Oh, good morning, Vince. How are you doing?
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Vince
I'm doing very well. And you know, it's not every day that a reply to somebody else's tweet becomes the most viral thing on the whole Internet. Did you expect this when you replied to Cam Higbee? You know, Cam Higby's writing about all these insurgents, as you so aptly describe. Them communicating with each other over signal. You saw this and you go, whoa, I recognize that.
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Eric Schwam
Yeah, that's, that's the key to the whole thing is like recognizing like. As a Special Forces warrant officer, we're trained to conduct unconventional warfare. So we, we recognize it for what it is and we can actually appreciate it for what it is. So when I saw what Cam Higme Higby put out there, and all credit to Cam Cam going out there and putting himself, you know, out front like that, the information he's providing just made the hair on the back of my neck go up simply because I recognize it for what it is. You know, I could really appreciate what they're doing, how they're running their operations over there in Minnesota with the communications, the level of networking, the responses, their ability to, to move around up there in Minnesota and be where they need to be, when they need to be there.
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Vince
So if you would just so to help people understand as we begin with your base of knowledge, what is it like overseas? What do these insurgencies look like in these war zones? How do they operate?
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Eric Schwam
So what you'll see is the average foot soldier out there and they'll be conducting operations against you, but they are sponsored by somebody and they have senior leadership out there that is guiding them into certain areas and where they need to be and what they need to do to bring their the best effect on the battlefield possible. So whenever you run into an insurgent, it's because they are where they need to be when they need to be there. Because there's usually a much smaller force. They've got to conserve everything and just apply pressure wherever it is can produce the most effect. Otherwise they're just going to disappear.
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Vince
It seems like one of the features of insurgent warfare in the Middle east overseas was often the use of things like improvised weapons, improvised explosive devices, coming up with sort of novel ways to inflict damage on American troops. And I've noticed that that is sort of the feature here too, maybe sometimes not with the same effects, although there's a lot of effort to try and perpetuate that coming up. I may even get into this, but there was a nurse from Virginia Commonwealth University who is advising some of these radicals that they, they should figure out ways to put laxatives or poison onto the ice agents. Would that be a feature that, that.
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Eric Schwam
You recognize anything you got to look at what, what effects you're looking to produce. It can, you can use an actual weapon. And that's mostly when they get to the higher order insurgencies the later stages is when you'll see them get to weaponry. Initially, it's just going to be sabotage. And if you can look at, you know, poisoning something as a, poisoning a person or mixing up their food or giving them a laxative or something like that as a, as a weapon, if you use it correctly, the same thing for a protest, a protest applied at the right place at the right time as a weapon. But it's got to be well coordinated and that and produce the effect that you're looking to do. And if you think about one of the effects that we're seeing right now is in Congress, they're talking about defunding ice and it comes from pressure like these protests. So, so a weapon is what in insurgencies can be anything which produces the effect that you're looking for.
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Vince
So what would you call when people use terror to try and affect a political outcome? How would we describe that?
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Eric Schwam
That is the definition of terrorism, at least according to, I believe, the State Department. Because you have to go over whose definition of terror that you're using. Because there's multiple definitions out there of terrorism and the ability to say that something is terror or, or a terrorist is power all by itself. Like I, right here, Eric Schwam, I can't call you a terrorist and have it stick. It takes somebody with enough power, enough capability and enough legitimacy to actually call you a terrorist. And they've got to have the definition that goes along with it.
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Vince
So let's talk about the command and control elements, the communication elements that are involved in the domestic insurgency. You were obviously responding to Cam Higbee's excellent reporting on the subject. And yeah, what's really stuck out to me is that you basically have thousands of left wing radicals who are in Minnesota. They're documenting license plates of vehicles. They are very often getting their targets completely incorrect. They don't even know who's actually law enforcement, but they still sic the mob on people regardless. And then they're in this constant stream of communication with one another about it. And then they're dispatching each other to go to these scenes to make menace people that they suspect are with federal law enforcement. When you hear all of this and see this, I mean, what are you detecting?
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Eric Schwam
I think first off, I gotta give credit where credit is due. That's an incredible capability to set up. I've been doing this for a long time. I've got a lot of my peers that have been doing this for a long time. And that's not something we're setting up in a weekend, you know, when you. We sit there and say, this is like, you know, it's instantaneous and people are doing this. That level of sophistication to get a thousand people to show up, I don't have, I don't know if you have that capability to sit there and say, hey, we're going to show up here at 8:00 clock tomorrow morning. We're going to have a thousand people on a chat line. We're going to be rotating in two hour sequences. I will have certain people that you'll call into, call out that level of sophistication. You have to give credit where credit is due. They have some capabilities going on there. And like I said, like respects, like it would be if I was overseas and I could get that kind of an op running, I would be pretty happy.
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Vince
So what you just described sounds like this has much more central control than people realize. Because in order to coordinate at a level that involves that many people and to be able to mobilize them that quickly, this can't merely be some sort of crowdsourced, diffuse event. Anybody who's been involved in any organization at all in their life knows that if it's everybody's responsibility, it's nobody's responsibility. So therefore there are people who are in charge, aren't there you?
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Eric Schwam
I would assume so. I would very much assume so. And that's probably the one of the reasons that I wrote. What I wrote is you can't. We like. If you look at what ICE and CBP are out there doing right now, they are our foot soldiers out there. Their job has nothing to do with dealing with crowd control. They are, they're not prepared operationally to deal with protesters. I'm not taking anything away from their capabilities. But them trying to do that right now is the same problem we experienced back in 2003 is where everybody had a specific job. But when you look at if it actually is a hierarchical organization that you're dealing with, we're all dealing down here with the bottom, but there's no pressure being put on the people up above. And you have to sit there and say, is there a network? Is there a hierarchy out there? And that's where this become. My letter becomes important is because you have to bring in this. You can't just keep sending more ICE there and more CBP there. You have to have an organization to deal with an organization and you have to have leadership, you have to have authorities, you got to have funding, you've got to have command and Control and all of it has to be organized to go against the network that you're dealing with, wherever the network is showing up. I think probably one of the key things that really started to make me pay more attention is like what happened when they got Maduro within. So roughly what, around midnight, 2 o' clock in the morning is when the first reports started coming out of Venezuela, roughly around 8, 9, 10 o' clock in the morning stateside, we had people out there, you know, having a protest. They got signs, the signs all look alike. They managed to get the sticks to put the signs on. That kind of turnaround I can't. Like again, if you think about what normal people capability is to run off signs to produce the. So the signs all look like to go down to your local print shop and print all those off and then, you know, run down to Home Depot and get a whole bunch of sticks. If I was to sit there and call up, you know, even my SF brethren out there to sit there and try and run something like this, you know, we would start on Sunday, maybe by Wednesday we might be able to get this going. They did it in a matter of hours. And that level of sophistication, you need an organization to deal with an organization. Right now we just got the same thing we had out in 2003. Everybody was dealing with the baseline, but nobody was dealing with the upper echelon.
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Vince
Yeah, no, that's right. And this is why, as you aptly point out, talking about Venezuela, there's a lot of concern by people who are paying attention that this isn't merely some sort of in the country phenomenon, that there are outside adversaries who are funding this chaos to include the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, a lot of people keep pointing in the direction of a billionaire called Neville Roy Singham, who is very connected to the ChiComs and is believed to be very much one of the important sort of funding factors for this insurgency in Minnesota. So your suspicion is that it takes kind of immense resources to be able to do this?
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Eric Schwam
Yes, I mean the resources is time, money, effort, equipment, the knowledge to use the systems that they're using to create the communications that they've got going over there. I've seen a couple different reports this morning just about the different systems that they're using, just as you talked about getting the license plates. And that's another key element I'm going to talk about real quick is they're exploiting a seam there. So in the United States, our intel organizations are essentially handcuffed. Like I can't as an intel person, I can't start collecting on Americans, start putting in a database. I can't keep a screenshot. If I'm actually working for the government, I can't keep a screenshot of your Facebook page on my computer. We just said that's, it's what Edward Snowden went to, all the problems that he went through when he tried expose how much information they were collecting. So, but if I'm a civilian and I'm, I have knowledge and I have capabilities, I can produce an intel database about the, the police that, you know, I can take your picture, put together a profile on you, I can go online into some of these other websites and download your family, get a background on you. I would not surprise me to find that they've got a database out there for probably, you know, maybe 50% of the policemen that they're encountering out there just so they can Prof. File them. And that level of intel that they are capable of doing because they're not being controlled by a government, that level of, that level of intel has to cut. Like again, your average person on the street doesn't know how to do this stuff, that you have to have somebody, some sort of cadre in there who is teaching them. And we've seen the book they promoted a, a training manual for the Minnesota protest. So we've, yeah, 20 page manual that they made. Magnificent again, you know, like, I wish I could circulate that on my battlefields to the people I was working, you know, okay, here's a digital one for you.
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Vince
So in other words, this is very professional. So here's something that I keep thinking about and I asked Azra Nomani is a great reporter for Fox News. She just wrote about this Signal chat the other day. And when I interviewed her, I asked her a question, Eric, I said, hey, any evidence that there are government officials who are a part of this Signal operation who are helping out the insurrectionists? And I know just having read about it, talked to people who've been involved in counter insurgency like yourself, that sometimes what you get in overseas among our enemies is not only sort of civilian insurgents on the battlefield, but you also get compromised government officials who are working with them, like, you know, like corrupt cops who really should be enforcing the law, but instead are on the side of the insurgents because they're making money or whatever. I mean, to what extent are you suspicious that that may be at play too? Is there, you know, as local law enforcement is standing down or has been, has been not helping the feds at all. They've shown some of the cops have shown some open antipathy towards the federal operations that are going on in the state. I begin to wonder, are any of those guys compromised? Are they sending data to the insurgents to let them know about either law enforcement operations, license plate data or anything like that?
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Eric Schwam
I would be remiss in saying that I don't suspect that I have to keep an open mind and always be looking around to see who might be involved. But you have to also understand that not everybody's involved. You know, maybe by ideology. There's a lot of different ways that you can co op somebody to, to work for you. You can use money, you can use their ideology, you can use, you can compromise them in some sort of way or even their ego. You know, we refer to that as the mice concept of trying to get somebody to work for you. And for like I'm, I'm 100% going to back the blue. I support them. My neighbor is an officer. I always support the police officers. I have a degree in criminal justice myself. And again overseas I worked a lot of very similar type operations to what police do. So the reasons, and even overseas when you're working with the police officers like Iraq that we worked with, inwardly they may have supported us, but their families have to live in the community and it would take nothing for. If you have a strong enough effort for me to go talk to their family, if I was an insurgent, go talk to their family and say, look, if your husband, whatever, doesn't start dancing the way we want him to dance, we're going to make life really, really difficult for you.
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Vince
Or we'll keep our people away from him if you guys help us out, that kind of thing.
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Eric Schwam
Yep. New York type Gambino type things where you get people to do what you want them to do through ulterior.
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Vince
Yeah, no, it's a big deal. And I'm with you too. I support law enforcement because I think they're the ball work against chaos and we definitely need them right now. But then I see things like the Minneapolis police chief standing there and nodding his head as all of this ridiculous anti law enforcement activity is happening. And I feel I'm so. It's like awful. I'm just thinking like you should be supporting law enforcement like the rest of us because that's your job and that's what you signed up for is restoring order to your community.
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Eric Schwam
Yes, absolutely. With law enforcement officers, with soldiers and everything. It's no man left behind. You always support the brother because last Thing you want to do is be some police officer who's out there, who's compromised, and when you call for help, nobody comes to you. You always want that feeling that somebody's going to come for you, and it's going to be a brother, it's going to be a sister who wears a badge or wears the US army tape or whatever. So I can't say, you know, I see what he's doing and I watch it, and I can't say to what end. He's compromised, but I'm not comfortable with his actions. Right, but I don't know the reasons why you'd have the.
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Caller or Guest Commentator
He.
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Eric Schwam
He knows the reasons why he is the way he is. And. And maybe someday, you know, people look a little bit deeper into it, maybe they'll discover why.
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Vince
So, Eric, last for you, and thank you for doing this today. Really appreciate this conversation. I'm really getting a lot out of it. We're talking to Eric Schwam, former U.S. army Green Beret, who detects an insurgency here in the United States. As he looks at all this, we heard from Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, a few days ago. He now says that the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into these signal chats. They're looking into these groups. The result of that I saw Cam Higby posting, is now the signal chat is going a bit haywire. They now know that they're definitely being watched by the FBI. What would you counsel the FBI to do here and to look for, given your experience with counterinsurgency overseas? Is there anything that. That you think that they should be concentrating on movement?
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Eric Schwam
Essentially, as, as you start going after these type of organizations and you start picking them apart, there's going to be actions like, I believe it was last night where they were talking about. There's a little, like, within the communications, people are starting to question each other. You know, like, apparently somebody's talking to Cam Higby, and so they're looking for that person right now. And so you're going to see movement on the net. Every time you poke into something like that, you want to watch where the movement goes, where people step out to. And those are all clues like we used to do if we hit a target overseas like we did on target, remove somebody from the target. The things we would do is continue to watch the target afterward to see what happens. You always want, if it's just like disturbing an anthill, once you disturb that ant hill, look for what happens next. Don't just get caught up in. In in the hoo yas and everything of slapping yourself on the back when you, yes. You make something happen out there and there's, there's a lot of ways that, that, that Cash could do that. There's a lot of people out there doing so much good stuff.
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Vince
Yeah.
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Eric Schwam
As far as, as picking stuff apart, you look at what like Data Republican is doing out there with looking at the, crunching the numbers. Mike Ben's, Sam Shumate, Mike Shelby, all those guys are out there, really good intel people and they're picking at the surfaces of stuff and pulling things out there that can, if you look at it, you know, just piece by piece by piece, you're going to see the networks start to appear and it really takes a lot of time. Like everybody's going to be. One thing we had in intelligence is everybody always demanded what does the picture look like? What does the picture look like?
- [53:21]
Vince
Right.
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Eric Schwam
And I will tell you this, intelligence is like working with a puzzle where you've got three different puzzles mixed into the box. There's no picture on the COVID of the box of what you're trying to make. You're missing about 50 pieces of each different puzzle. And you could go down any lane if you want, start making one puzzle and it could be the wrong puzzle that you're building. So you, no picture, no idea. You're just trying to figure stuff out. And it's all about looking at all the puzzle pieces with an open mind. And actually, and the other thing is appreciate the level of sophistication of the people that you're going after. You have to give them credit. You can't sit there and think that they're, you know, they don't know what they're doing. The sophistication is out there.
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Vince
Yes. Not everybody has a room temperature iq, dyeing their hair blue and attacking cops. Some of them, some of them know what they're doing and they're very sinister. Eric Schwam former US Army Green Beret Go ahead, sir. One more thing, go ahead.
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Eric Schwam
Oh yeah, one more thing. I just want to talk about one of the things that's going out there at least Hmong for the SF brethren, for the veterans and stuff like there, Please look at Matt Larson who ran the U.S. army combatives program, and Sergeant Major Mike Vining. They're talking about moral injury right now and they are kind of on the forefront of the PTSD moral injury things. And as veterans, we need to take care of each other. 22 a day is just way too many.
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Vince
It is way too many. And when. I'm sorry I haven't heard this expression before. Moral injury. What does moral injury mean?
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Eric Schwam
Moral injury, if you look at it, my understanding of it, Matt, can probably explain a lot better. But I was raised a certain way. I came from a blue collar family, very, very religious. What I grew up with, what I understand to be mor are we're framed. And when you go overseas into combat, even law enforcement officers can face moral injury as well, is your morals, the morals inside a combat zone, the morals in policing and stuff like that change. And so you have a clash of ideologies between the morals that you had to develop in combat and the morals that you grew up with, were raised with and everything else like that. And so we call the moral injury is that difference of I'm not the good person my mom and dad raised me to be. And that you. You live with that. And it's a personal injury that you gotta reconcile that you are. You are no longer that good boy that your mom and dad raised.
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Vince
I see what you're saying. You're testing the limits of your moral boundaries because you're making literal life and death decisions. It's a very tough job. And I'm so grateful for every person who raises their hand and does it for us.
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Eric Schwam
I am too.
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Vince
Eric, thank you. Thank you so much for all of this information. I instantly have inferred that we're going to hear a lot more from you because everybody's going to want to talk to Eric Schwab. Thank you very much. I'm so grateful you came on with us today.
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Eric Schwam
Thank you, sir.
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Vince
All right, good to talk to you. There's Eric Schwam, US Army, Green Beret. A guy who knows his stuff. He knows his stuff. And I'm very grateful that he came on with us today. Great conversation. And he sees it, guys. He sees what's going on in Minnesota. He goes, I've seen this before, I've seen this overseas. This is what our adversaries do. This is what they do, these insurgencies. And I know how to break them up. And so let me just offer just a piece of unsolicited advice to the government, as our government, as they dig through all of this, rely on guys like Eric Schwab. The guys who have all of this experience, real life experience, hard earned experience, going after insurgencies, rely on them to give you good guidance on how we do this in the United States. Yes, of course, we're dealing with US Citizens, some of whom have been radicalized, who are involved in all of this, every aspect of a pursuit of them should be constitutional because we're trying to restore the Constitution and the rule of law in the face of a left that's trying to tear us down. But rely on the guys who know how to break through these criminal enterprises because that guy's got it together, man. He's good. Isn't he good, everybody? I appreciate him. Yeah, I am glad he's on our side. He's, he's, he's good. He's good stuff. If you enjoyed that interview or anything else on the program, please share the show. We gotta have lots of people watching it because I figure if we're gonna have the best audience anywhere, it may as well be the biggest best audience anywhere. Wouldn't that be great? Let's keep doing that. Let's keep growing the program. You can check out the. Here's the programming note. On Monday, we start this program at 8am this program goes live at 8am on the Bongino Report Rumble Channel. I'm gonna make it real easy for you, rumble.comVince Go there. Subscribe. And then the fabulous Haley Caranilla is on at noon on the Bongino Report Channel. In between all of it, the mighty Dan Bongino. 10am Eastern time on rumble. Rumble.com Bongino. He starts Monday. I'm telling you right now, the guy is so ready to go. He's ready, baby. The team is working hard right now to get all these shows up and run and ready to go. It's crazy around here and it's wonderful. It's wonderful. It is wonderful chaos as we get ready for the launch of all three of these programs at these brand new times starting next week, Monday, February 2nd. I can't wait for it. I'm super excited about it. I hope you are too. Rumble.com Vince subscribe there. I appreciate you. We got another big show for you tomorrow, of course. And then today I've got the big national radio show. We'll cover all of the breaking news. News that's 12 to 3 Eastern time. You can watch that rumble. Com, Vince, or just go to your affiliates across the country. Thevincehow. Com. Find your local radio affiliate. I'll be back with you on the radio show and back with you tomorrow here on Vince. Great to talk to you today.