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Mark interviews New York Post columnist Miranda Devine. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: In this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the Monk Simone Show on WR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the great columnist Miranda Divine. You should read her
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  Speaker 1: column in The New York Post. Also get her best
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  Speaker 1: sorts of great guests, including Donald Trump. You can listen
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  Speaker 1: to that wherever you get your podcasts. And she's with
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  Speaker 1: us now, Miranda Divine, how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Mark, I'm doing really well. Happy belated Thanksgiving to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I missed our Thanksgiving dinner, but I assume, let
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  Speaker 1: me guess you had turkeys. Look at that. I'm like
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  Speaker 1: esp so hey, your column today quite a column about
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  Speaker 1: Cash Patel. I mean, he's a nice guy. I like him,
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  Speaker 1: but he's obviously not Jack Welch when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: running an organization.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, this is kind of that unfortunate medicine that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes has to be doled out to friends. And this
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  Speaker 2: is from friends, really on people who wanted Cash Battel
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  Speaker 2: to succeed these seasoned FBI people, insiders, people serving, and
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  Speaker 2: also retired high level operational people who you know I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to previously. They've done reports on the FBI and
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  Speaker 2: how it's going, and it's been very unflattering under Christopher Ray.
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  Speaker 2: But they've just done one on the first six months
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  Speaker 2: of Cash Battel's directorship and it's also unflattering. And you
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  Speaker 2: know it's there are various criticisms saying that it's rudderless
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  Speaker 2: and that it's just you know, Cash Battell is in
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  Speaker 2: over his head and ought to listen, I think to
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  Speaker 2: these critics who are on his side. I think he
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  Speaker 2: and Dan Bongino, his deputy, are very thin skinned. They
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  Speaker 2: I know personally they don't take kindly to criticism, but
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  Speaker 2: they ought to listen to it because you know, they
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  Speaker 2: are in several cases going down the wrong track. In
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  Speaker 2: some cases they've done well, like this report from this
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  Speaker 2: alliance of FBI people both serving and forma says praises
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  Speaker 2: them for things like eradicating d or know, certainly getting
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  Speaker 2: rid of a lot of DEI waste of time policies.
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  Speaker 2: But you know they also are pushing against a very
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  Speaker 2: difficult resistance inside the FBI, which has been staffed with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lefkis in recent times. This report actually
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  Speaker 2: reveals that a lot of ex teachers were recruited who
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  Speaker 2: are left leaning, and that the television sets in FBI
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  Speaker 2: field officers are tuned permanently into either ms NBC Now
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  Speaker 2: in this Now, and CNN, but never to Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a good sign. What happened to old fashioned
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  Speaker 1: FBI agent who generally was a conservative type of guy,
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  Speaker 1: a law enforcement guy. I guess there do we blame Comy?
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  Speaker 1: His years really kind of just destroyed and transformed the
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  Speaker 1: FBI in the worst possible way.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm told by these guys that it actually predates
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  Speaker 2: the rot predates Comy even under Muller. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: he decided that he wanted to recruit more university graduates
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  Speaker 2: and that was when the Wokes started creeping in. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, then under Comy things got even worse. And
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  Speaker 2: this obsession with DEI really and woke ifying the place
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  Speaker 2: really gummed up the works, and a lot of good
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  Speaker 2: people who had been honorable and upright people just basically quit,
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  Speaker 2: They took early retirement, or they just retired out and
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I mean, no one would envy Cash
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  Speaker 2: Bettel and Dan Longino for the FBI that they've inherited.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's already difficult enough to affect change
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  Speaker 2: and fix the corruption in that organization without you know,
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  Speaker 2: having a whole lot of unthriced errors. And some of
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  Speaker 2: the criticisms that are made from the inside are actually
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  Speaker 2: evident from the outside. You know, their obsession with social media.
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  Speaker 2: One of one source in this report says they need
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  Speaker 2: to stop talking, stop posing, just be professional. Another said
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  Speaker 2: they are spending too much time on social media and
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  Speaker 2: public relations and are too often concerned with building on
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  Speaker 2: this thread. So you know, it didn't even go into
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  Speaker 2: the stories about cash Battel over using the FBI jet
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  Speaker 2: and other criticisms that have me made in you know,
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  Speaker 2: the New York Times and places that you would expect
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  Speaker 2: to have negativity. This is really just a couple of
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  Speaker 2: necdotes to show that Cashptell in particular is just not
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  Speaker 2: handling this properly and seems to be in over his head.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not about trying to get rid of cash Battel.
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  Speaker 2: It's about saying to him, sort of shaking him and saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: behave a little bit differently. Listen to your people who
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  Speaker 2: are trying to help, who have a lot of experience,
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  Speaker 2: and you might not make these blunders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's interesting stuff. Read the column. It's in
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  Speaker 1: Today's New York Post. It's up on the New York
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  Speaker 1: Post website. Hey, Miranda Devine, we talked about this last time,
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  Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome, and since then a bunch of psychiatrists
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  Speaker 1: psychotherapists have written articles. It's kind of what you said,
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  Speaker 1: this raging hatred for Donald Trump. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't like him, it's fine, but there raging hatred. It's
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  Speaker 1: more about you than about Donald Trump, the person who
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  Speaker 1: has it, and it's revealing something inside, writ some something
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  Speaker 1: that's it says more about the person than about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I agree. In fact, Jonathan Alpert, who's the psychiatrist
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  Speaker 2: who wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal last week,
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  Speaker 2: he's contacted me and we're probably going to do something
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  Speaker 2: together this because he's saying, well, you know, he's seen
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  Speaker 2: so many patients that have brought Donald Trump into therapy
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  Speaker 2: to you know, he says, their distress is real and
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  Speaker 2: it aligns with sort of obsessive compulsive disorders. They have
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  Speaker 2: persistent intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulation, impaired functioning, sleepless nights, compulsive
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  Speaker 2: news checking, physical agitation. They can't stop thinking about Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump even when they try. They interpret is every move
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  Speaker 2: is a threat to democracy and to their own safety
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  Speaker 2: and control like it. I mean, this sounds really sick.
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  Speaker 2: And I wonder, actually, and I'm going to ask him
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  Speaker 2: about this. I wonder if people are not getting this
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  Speaker 2: almost deliberately implanted. I know this sounds crazy, but by
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  Speaker 2: their therapist, because I find in my experience a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people who have therapy it doesn't seem to make
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  Speaker 2: them better or happier or less anxious, because if it
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  Speaker 2: did that, then they would stop going and therapy would
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  Speaker 2: then lose a customer. So I feel like maybe therapists
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  Speaker 2: and a lot that I've seen are Trump deranged or
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  Speaker 2: anti Trump. So maybe you know, they need to heal
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  Speaker 2: themselves before they can heal their customers. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Roseanne Rosie o'donald, she said at one point in one
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  Speaker 2: of her silly social media posts about Trump, she said
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  Speaker 2: that her therapist said, maybe you should just like stop
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  Speaker 2: thinking about him such and Rosie was furious with her therapist.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is a little crazy. Hey, your podcast, Podforce
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  Speaker 1: one is excellent. Everybody should listen to Go listen to
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  Speaker 1: every episode of Podforce one. Love it. Who's on the
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  Speaker 1: next episode.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Mike. On Wednesday, we have Senator Ron Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: who is one of Congress's most ferocious investigators. He is
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  Speaker 2: most fixated on holding government to account. He does oversight,
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  Speaker 2: especially of the FBI. He was the one missed Senator
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Grasley his partner in crime in uncovering abuses of government.
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  Speaker 2: They did the original Hunter Biden corruption investigation that was
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  Speaker 2: then shut down and sabotaged just Russian disinformation back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, before we've even got Punter Biden laptop. So
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  Speaker 2: that was when my eyes open to how honorable those
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  Speaker 2: two are.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of that, get the book The Laptop from Hell.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great bestseller. And her latest book is The
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  Speaker 1: Big Guy. Get these two books, go reader Calum It's
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  Speaker 1: on the New York Post website and listen for Podforst one.
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  Speaker 1: The new episode coming Wednesday, but listen to the old
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  Speaker 1: episodes you'll love them. Miranda Devine great stuff. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. Sure, thanks, Matt, take care. I also
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