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The Noem Reckoning: $220M Ad Scandals, Corey Lewandowski, and the Fall of the DHS Secretary · Surviving-ISH Podcast

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Surviving Politics Ish.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I've released a couple episodes already.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm brand new at all this.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: I've explained in the other two episodes about how I'm new and why I'm doing this.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And episode two, I think, was about Eric Swalwell.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I actually got some feedback on that.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently, I laughed at a certain point or made a smirk.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: And people were asking questions.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: People were asking if I had inside info and has there been some kind of leak.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: And let's be totally transparent and real for a second.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a nobody.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just a guy that has a$30 microphone, right?
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: By the time that I've actually read the news, get up the confidence, I guess, to push record and done my digging to learn a little bit of facts and written out some bullet pointed notes.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: Everything in this administration and this world is moving so fast that by the time that I do all that, the world's moved on.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: That laugh wasn't um quote unquote inside info.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: It was the sound of my soul, I think, kind of leaving my body because I listened to what I just said.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: I started that sentence out actually feeling hopeful.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: I thought, finally, an investigation.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe someone's going to be held accountable.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: And then I looked at who's actually running the Department of Homeland Security.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we've all seen the news.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Christy Nome's out.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: She's shipped off to some special job, like a shield of the Americans thing.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, um, I feel like they gave her a fancy title, moved her to a different office just so she could stop embarrassing Donald Trump.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: And who do they put in her place?
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Mark Wayne Mullen.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I don't know a lot about him.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: I've not heard a lot of good things about him, so I've got to do some digging on that.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, maybe that'll be an upcoming episode.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: But what I do know is that we're not watching justice happen.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: We're watching a transition into a whole new level of political theater.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: We traded a governor who couldn't keep her story straight from a guy whose only real qualification is that he's the administration's favorite hammer.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: And trust me, when all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, especially if that nail isn't Democrat.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's get into the facts here.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Eric Swalwell is a Democrat, he's also allegedly a predator.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be 100% clear on this.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: I want justice for victims, period.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: If what these victims, like Lana Derez, is saying is true, and the details are gut-wrenching, he needs to be under the jail, in my opinion.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: No excuses.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: But we have to be honest about the people running the show right now.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Mark Wayne Mullen didn't get picked for DHS because he's some fair, neutral guy who cares about the truth.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: He's there to be a hitman, in my opinion.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: While the actual criminal stuff, like the rape and assault allegations, is being handled by the DAs in Manhattan and LA, Mullen is using the DHS for a side quest.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: The fact-ish of it is the DHS is officially investigating Swalwell for immigration violations.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: They're digging into claims that he and his wife hired a nanny from Brazil who didn't have the right paperwork to work here.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Just think about the irony for a second.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: This country has a massive backlog of sexual violence cases that nobody touches.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: But they do for Swalwell.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: The DHS is treating a hiring mistake, quote unquote, like a national security crisis.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's the perfect PR win.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: They don't just want him for what he allegedly did to those women.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: They want a headline that says they caught a corrupt Democrat breaking immigration laws.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's a political hit wrapped in a batch.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: When the guy you're chasing is on the other team, suddenly the government finds its moral compass and the bottomless budget.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't trust a single thing that comes out of this office because they aren't looking for the truth.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: They're looking for leverage.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: So Swabell resigned.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: He stepped down on April 13th, and now the MAGA crowd is doing a victory lap, just like they won the lottery, but we need to look at why he's actually gone.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: He's gone because, contrary to what people scream on Twitter, the parties are not the same.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: One side still has what I call a floor of shame.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: When a Democrat gets caught in a scandal, this disgusting, the party eventually pushes him out because they care about how it looks.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: They know they can't preach morality if they are protecting a guy like this.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: But look at the other side.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: The real tragedy is here that these victims, these trauma victims, is being used as a distraction while the administration resets its own scandals.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: They'll talk about Swabell all day long to make you forget the mess in their own house.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's the ultimate joke.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: Watching Mullen leaned the charge on integrity when he answers to a man who has his own long dark shadow of accusations.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: They're using Swabell's victims as human chills to protect their own people from the same look.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like selective memory.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, it's exhausting to keep it up with it.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: They want you to focus on the nanny and the bad Democrat, right?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Horrible Democrat.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't look at the cabinet members with their own skeletons.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: This brings me to the ish part, and it's going to be the accountability-ish.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: If you only give a damn about sexual assault, when a Democrat does it, you don't actually care about sexual assault.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: You definitely don't care about the victims.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: You care about what team is winning.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here to say to hell with rapists.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if there's a D or an R next to your name.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: But the difference is, and I actually mean it, if you're still wearing a red hat while defending people with 30 years of credible accusations against them just because they're your guy, you can't tell me you care about victims.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're not fighting for justice.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: You're fighting for a scoreboard.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: And that is my biggest gripe.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: People who treat trauma like a political point system.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: Mullins DHS isn't out to protect women.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're out to protect a narrative.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: If they really care about the victims, they'd be cleaning up their own house with the same energy they're using to dig through this congressman's trash.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: We've got to start holding people accountable for the gap between what they say in public and what they do in private.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's Noam being tucked away in some special envoy role to hide her baggage or Mullen acting like a private eye for the president, the game hasn't changed.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's fake, it's tactical, and a slap in the face to anyone who's actually survived an assault.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: The DHS is supposed to protect the country, not act as a revenge squad for the GOP's enemies.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for sticking with me.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: Be real, be kind, and for the love of God, stop letting politicians tell you which victims matter and which ones don't.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: They all matter.