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Happy Monday!
And boy, oh boy, do I have a tale for you today. I have no idea why I was ever into fiction books. I used to love mysteries and thrillers, but now I'm realizing that the reality of our political circumstances is more mysterious and action-packed than anything our imaginations could ever come up with. I feel like now it should be "and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under blackmail," because that is where we are at.
I now think there's a blackmail operation running in all 50 states. All right, who am I speaking about? Matt Gates, Florida Congressman—or former Florida Congressman—that Trump nominated to be the AG. He suddenly withdrew his nomination. We were all speaking about that; we weren't quite sure what was going on. Well, the full story there is incredible, and we have it for you. Plus, speaking of nominations, I'm apparently in the running for Anti-Semite of the Year. I'm not kidding! The account Stop Anti-Semitism has selected me, Greta Thunberg, Bassam Yousef, Daner, and many others, and are encouraging people to vote on who should win. This puts me in a weird bind because I am naturally competitive and I like to win. We're going to talk about all of that coming up.
Now, welcome back to [Applause] [Music].
Candace: Blackmail, blackmail everywhere!
Okay, so first and foremost, full credit to a woman named Mel, who uses the handle @VillageCrazyLady on X. She is the one that did this thread and put it onto my radar, so I'm basically just giving you the audio of what she brought to the forefront, in which we were able to fact-check as verifiable.
Okay, so this strange story begins with a man named Joel Greenberg. Okay, Joel Greenberg—this person that I'm showing you on the screen right now—is the son of Andrew Greenberg; he's a dentist. Andrew Greenberg, his father, is a dentist and the founder of Greenberg Dental. They have a chain of over 90 dental clinics throughout Florida, so a very wealthy family.
In 2019, Joel Greenberg, his son, was serving as the tax collector for Seminole County, Florida. Mel, our ex-reporter, describes Joel like this: she wrote, quote, "Greenberg is your classic rich kid who dinks through life lighting fires that everyone else is forced to put out. Never landing hard because Daddy's money always catches his fall." You know the type; we all do.
Joel approached his role as tax collector no different than any other. We all know this type of person: raised with so much money, they got like the fast car—an unbelievably expensive car—when they turn 15 and a half, huge parties all the time. It is true; these people tend to be a prototype.
He gets elected into this position of power, and while he is a tax collector, he gets accused of being involved in this crypto scam. Okay, so it's politics—it's Republican politics, of course. If someone sees that you're in hot water, they're going to go, "Okay, well, primaries are coming up—I'm going to primary you." And that's what happened to our rich kid, Joel Greenberg. A man named Brian But, who had hitherto been a teacher, decided to throw his name in the hat. He was like, "I'm going to run against you, Joel Greenberg, the Republican primaries coming up. What’s up? You've got a little bit of shady stuff going on with your record. What are you doing with that crypto stuff?"
But here's the thing about rich kids: they do not like being told no. They don't play by the same rules as the rest of us. We know this. Joel was used to having his way throughout life, so he decided that he was going to destroy But with smear tactics, publicly and privately.
First, he starts saying to people publicly, "He's a carpetbagger." I had to look up that term; I don't know if you guys are familiar with it. Literally, they used to have these old school bags made out of carpets that people used to travel with. Think about like Mary Poppins when she pulls out that lamp—it's like a carpet bag. You describe somebody as a carpetbagger if they don’t even go here. The reality is that But was from Michigan; he then moved to Florida. So he goes, "Oh, he's a carpetbagger."
But that wasn't enough, so he started upping his smear tactics against But. He did this in a really creepy but very on par with a bratty rich kid kind of way. He created fake Facebook profiles and pretended to be Brian But's past students. He even set up a Facebook page—which has since been removed by Facebook—and he entitled it "Creepy Brian But." He would generate these fake posts.
This is an adult man—I'm not kidding! It's so rich-kid; I can’t stand it. It's like a rich teenage girl more than anything else. He would generate these fake posts trashing But as an awful teacher but also as a pervert.
Okay, so our ex-reporter Mel goes on to write, quote, "Greenberg's antics finally reached an apex when he mailed—because he was going crazy—he got obsessed with trying to take this man down—he mailed handwritten letters to the administrators at the school where But taught, accusing him of sexually assaulting his students." I mean, that’s just insane! This is an election, and he’s sitting here and he’s like, "I’m going to pretend that you sexually assaulted students. You are getting out of this race! I get what I want! Mommy and Daddy never told me no, and you, Mr. But, are not about to tell me no."
What Greenberg didn't expect was that those letters were going to be taken very seriously. I don't know why he didn't expect this, or maybe he just thought his daddy was going to bail him out, or he didn't expect any of these things, or else he would have been more careful. Obviously, he wasn't.
When the letters were turned over to the local sheriff's office, they obviously checked to see if it had fingerprints. The letters did have fingerprints. His DNA and fingerprints were lifted from them, and this rich kid, Joel Greenberg, got arrested on June 23, 2020, and was charged by the Department of Justice with stalking.
Okay, so here we have it: the stalking charges. Again, Greenberg alleged that he used a pseudonym to send letters to the middle school where But was a teacher, falsely claiming that But had a sexual relationship with a student. This is really just incredible—these are just adults, and this, for whatever reason, is going on.
Welcome to American politics! Anyway, in the process of them arresting him, the police also confiscated his phone—uh-oh, uh-oh—and then the heat really got turned up. Because rich kids are always doing the absolute most, the police were able then to collect evidence of embezzlement, drugs, prostitution, identity theft, wire fraud, and yes, the crypto market manipulation that people were already heavily suggesting that he was involved in.
Plus—and here’s the big one—messages between him and a 17-year-old girl discussing their sex capades all around Florida and beyond Florida.
Okay, so per the criminal suit, he had spent $70,000 on hookers that he met on the Sugar Daddy website. If you're not familiar, it's like this website where girls can sign up, and just what it sounds like—they can find themselves a sugar daddy to pay for their lives if they go on dates with them.
They were able to see that he spent $70,000 on hookers that he met on Sugar Daddy, and he was using his government-issued AMEX. So, that was not a great thing.
Now, to be fair, while this young woman was on the website, she obviously was representing herself to be of age, but off the site, Greenberg knew that that was not true, and that she was, in fact, underage. And how do we know that he knew that? Because he used the power of his office to make it so that she was of age.
What am I talking about? Well, in Florida, the office of County Tax Collector doesn't just collect taxes; they also issue driver's licenses and state IDs. So he was making and keeping IDs for himself. If somebody would come in and be like, "Hi, I’m Candace. I moved to Tennessee. Here's my Connecticut ID. I moved from Connecticut. You're supposed to shred my old ID," he was keeping IDs, storing them, giving them out, using them, and he was able to secure fake IDs for his lovers.
So, in August of 2020, the DOJ was able to charge Joel Greenberg with sex trafficking of a minor, identity theft, and the production of false identification documents, among very many other things.
And this is where Matt Gates comes in—you're probably going, "Hey, what does this have to do with Matt Gates?" It does have something to do with Matt Gates.
So, apparently, Greenberg and Matt Gates were friends. Nobody really knows how long or how close they were friends. They were definitely friends. I’d imagine it’s not difficult to run in the same circles, given the fact that Matt was also involved in politics and also grew up as a wealthy kid in Florida. It's a small world; of course, they came across each other.
Here’s a photo of Matt Gates with Joel Greenberg and Roger Stone. Now, realizing how much trouble he was in, Joel Greenberg was trying to figure out how to get out of trouble: "Let me cut a deal. Can I throw somebody else under the bus? I want less time. With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
So, his lawyers contacted Bill Barr’s office, then the Attorney General under President Trump. He said, "Hey, look homies, I've got dirt on a sitting Congressman who also happens to be my friend, Matt Gates. I will literally sell this man down a river to save my own skin. What do I have to do?"
Then he says, "I have proof that he engaged in sex acts with minors."
So, the DOJ opens a secret investigation into Matt Gates. By a secret investigation, I mean they leaked it to the New York Times because that’s what our Department of Justice does. They just leak stuff to the New York Times, because the New York Times really is kind of part of the deep state. They’re not separate from them.
That brings us to the interview. I know we showed you this last week, but I’m going to show it to you again now that we're getting deeper into the story. The interview that Matt Gates did with Tucker Carlson after the New York Times breaks the story—they are alleging that he’s involved in this human trafficking, I mean, the sex trafficking of minors—and he is completely and genuinely shocked by these allegations. He makes a wild claim that the Department of Justice is trying to extort him to make these ridiculous claims go away.
So let’s take a look at what he said and the story that he gave to Tucker once this broke in the news.
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"This is obviously a serious allegation. Tell us what the truth is from your perspective."
"It is a horrible allegation, and it is a lie. The New York Times is running a story that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case. What is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former Department of Justice official.
On March 16th, my father got a text message demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away. Our family was so troubled by that, we went to the local FBI. The FBI and the Department of Justice were so concerned about this attempted extortion of a member of Congress that they asked my dad to wear a wire, which he did with the former Department of Justice