Badlands Media - The Daily Herold: 9/1/26 - The USPS Whistleblower "Op" and Dominion Machine Preservation Update

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

Jon Herold digs into a new USPS whistleblower report claiming the mail ballot verification system is rushed and vulnerable, then traces the whistleblower's legal support back to the same nonprofit involved in the 2019 Ukraine impeachment complaint, arguing the parallel structure gives away the operation. He also covers an update on the effort to secure Fulton County's Dominion voting machines for review, DHS launching a coordinated voter fraud investigation surge across nine states, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation amid tension with Hegseth, and the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 ruling allowing White House ballroom construction to proceed. There's also a look at a new grand jury subpoena tied to James Comey's leak investigation and a General Dan Caine letter addressing concerns about military involvement in the midterms. Sponsor reads, Vegas conference promo, and a viral clip of a father confronting lawmakers over an immigration related tragedy round out a dense Taco Tuesday show.

The Badlands, what are the Badlands? Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. Well, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Daily Herald here on Badlands Media. I am your host, John Harold. And we have quite a few election-ish-related topics to discuss. We have whistleblowers. We have United States Postal Service stuff.

We have rumors that Todd Blanche has gotten access to a voting machine to suss out. the foreign interference. I want to talk about it all. We didn't get new declassified documents, but we did get a new angle on old declassified documents. So we'll dig into that. How are you guys doing? It is Taco Tuesday. I hope I get to eat tacos today. Let's talk to Cece about that. What's up, everybody? Flying on into the chat, don't forget why you're here to hit that thumbs up both here and on YouTube rumble and on YouTube. I don't know if Twitter has a thumbs up feature, but if they do give us a thumbs up over there as well. Let's get a quick word from our sponsors and we're going to start plugging away.

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fantasy football thing do we need more people do we need do i need to like open that up yet because so we have our regular badlands fantasy football for those who care and then we last year we did a Badlanders group, which like I was in there and then people who are normally in the chats. I think I was the only host. But it's a great time. Unfortunately, I think the guy who, the guy who was our commissioner, Spetzel, he's mad at me. He may never see him again. And so he's like ghosted us.

So we're trying to round out a full 12-man league. We need people who, whether they agree or disagree, won't get mad and rage quick. badlands. You have to like basically take a blood oath that you can't quit. So Ty you got to let me know what you need for me. We can get that sort of. Maybe I'll we haven't scheduled the draft yet but maybe we'll I'll post a link for those to join tomorrow. Um okay let's uh let's start plugging away. And first up we got gold and silver. gold 4392 silver at 6594 bitcoin is at 775 the national gas price average has gone up to $4 and 9 cents up over a cent from yesterday and i think the story i want to start with and man there are

so many options let's start with this because when i see this story i'm very much remind like the first thing I thought of was the impeachment whistleblower and the impeachment hoax from Ukraine in 2019 and all that jazz but this is the headline USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public so scary the Postal Service and their effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials with some describing the process internally as as a crap show.

He actually swore, but I'm trying to limit my swearing here. According to New Whistleblower Report released Tuesday by Democrat Senator, and I think it was... Who was it? Was it Rick Blumenthal? Yes, it was. Yeah, oh, no. Yeah, well, it was Richard Blumenthal.

Ranking Member on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The guy who lied about his military service. Anyway, the unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning under mandates put forward by President Trump have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says. The new report, which was assembled by the whistleblower's lawyers and released by Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require the states to submit USPS list. of their mail-in voters, the agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what's picked up by the agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots. And then this is a quote from the whistleblower report.

USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1st implementation, which is today, by the way. Reasing questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug, said the report. Trump signed executive order in March. We knew all that. Internally, according to the whistleblower, USPS IT teams were going to be given less than a week to test the system once it was finished

due to the time crunch of the electoral calendar. I could just go through the actual... I wonder how long this report is. Might be worth it. Man, that is really long. But I feel like getting actual details from the whistleblower, even though it's probably a made-up person or a political operative there to sabotage Trump,

I feel like getting their statements without the spin on it might be the route. So we're going to do it. Senator Blumenthal, and the fact that they're going through Richard Blumenthal, like that right there is all you need to know to know it's an op. This is the exact same thing Adam Schiff did with the Ukraine impeachment. And actually my Twitter post today, I post about this. I did a little comparison for you guys. White House tried to lock down Ukraine call records,

whistleblower says. The whistleblowers complain accused President Trump of trying to compel Ukraine's leader to help investigate a 2020 rival in the White House of trying to lock down records of the call September 26th, 2019. We have almost a full seven-year delta. It says, whistleblower says Trump officials

are defying court orders on voting by mail. A report detailed grave concerns that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots. ahead of the midterms. So if they do, this is a big if,

but maybe not that big. That's what she said. If they do use some sort of fraud, steal the midterms, get a majority, Democrats, I'm saying, or the Uniparties,

establishment, whatever. And they go to impeach Trump. I wonder if this is one of the reasons they're going to go with. Would not surprise me. They're laying the table for it right now. Polymathen on basis, conspiracies was interesting.

being a resident ether guy i naturally had to ask Zach to email that otis car patent to pick it apart yeah i'm curious what you think of that it was a fun episode but i always get super skeptical when it's like 1950s guy built a spaceship but there's no video evidence of it and also even though the patents are out we haven't been able to replicate the results with modern technology but it totally happened back then you know what i mean like it's just a little weird but yeah polly history is rhyming again when you look at this let's go through the through just some of the report. We won't do the whole thing. It's super long. Senator Blumenthal, whistleblower aid represents an anonymous federal official here and named the client

talking about concerns about the secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems. Who is simpler aid? Let's look into this group a little bit first. Whistleblower aid. 501c3. They are a non-profit legal organization that helps people report alleged government and corporate wrongdoing lawfully and safely.

When did these guys start about? They were founded in 2017. Interesting. I wonder if whistleblower aid had anything to do with the first whistleblower. Did the group whistleblower aid?

bear with me, I'll do some live digs here. Because if it's the same group that helped bring forward both whistleblower stories, that'd be pretty interesting. Here we go. This is according to the machine that gave me a source, upending President Trump's pressure campaign against Vladimir Zelensky. Anonymous intelligence officers disclose about Trump's attempt to extort Ukraine Zelensky

led to Trump's first impeachment. whistleblower aid was critical in providing funding physical security, technological support, and encrypted communications for the legal team who represented the unnamed whistleblower. We continue to protect their identity. So they're using literally the same playbook and using the same nonprofit organization that did the first one. I wonder if we could also get their financial records.

Let's do that real quick. Form 990 for whistle. whistleblower aid. The form 990s are required for 501c3s to fill out. And it discloses, there we go. It discloses like where they get their money and who they're paying. But I need to figure out first if this is an actual,

like what their 501c3 group is here. Hold on. They're on blue sky too. Jeez, these people are just ridiculous. Okay, it's just whistleblower aid. here we go tax ID 2647 here we go values united tax filings

it's view their full filing for fiscal year ending December 2024 some decent money here flown around and see if I can figure out who's giving them money and then I'll keep going with the stories

just hold for processing guys sometimes they don't list them which I'm assuming based on how far I've had to scroll so far. That is exactly what's going to happen here. It gave services to Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. That's dumb. Okay, and they paid, did a fundraiser for,

abundant strategies did a fundraiser for them where they got almost $1.3 million. Okay, well, Valise United took on loans from early 2017 through late 2019 to fund startup operations, or were they funding the first impeachment hoax? foundations and financial institutions had denied requests for funding to the organization, so the organization had to pursue alternative financing to advance its exempt activities.

To fund this work, the CBO and VP and his family agreed to provide a substantial line of credit to Values United, which was reviewed and approved by Values United Board. The loans accrue interest at a fixed rate approved by the board. The loans may only be paid back if and when the organization earns a large contingency fee as part of a whistleblower award from the SEC or similar organization. John Ty, I started it, received no payments for crude interest in 2024. Okay, let's come back to the report here. So apologies for the little distraction, but I think that is interesting.

The same group that is bringing forth, this was a blower, also helped bring forth the Ukraine impeachment one. That is something you guys all need to keep in the back of your mind. They're going after Trump for this election stuff. There's multiple lawsuits trying to stop it. If they are successful in gaining the majority of the midterms, they are going to impeach him. and they are looking for reasons. They're setting multiple avenues, probably something to do with the Iran war,

something to do with some sort of corruption allegation, and this might be another one here with a whistleblower. The whistleblower also raises great concerns that the administration has hidden the high likelihood that the new ballot mail verification processes will result in major disruptions in mail ballots ever getting delivered to voters. As presently designed,

if even one barcode on one single ballot in a bulk mailing of 10,000 ballots fails to properly scan during the verification process, the entire batch is rejected and sent back to the state, effectively stopping the ballots from being mailed to voters. Even under ordinary circumstances, this would be problematic because of predictable errors in any barcode scanning process. The whistleblower is particularly concerned that the portal,

where the barcodes are stored, will almost certainly have significant operating problems when released to the public due to the rushed IT development. Maybe this is like the feature, not the bug, of doing the system this way, is the people on the left are kind of freaking out, whistleblower coming forward, the system isn't going to be ready to go.

But if Trump has deemed that he's legally allowed to use a system like this, maybe everybody will be ready to just be like, okay, well, let's not rush these elections. Let's put a pause on this. Maybe this is how we can cancel the midterms or suspend them. But it goes on,

the whistleblower believes honor about June 26th, Work began in earnest on the USPS election ballot mail IT project, just three months, which reportedly includes a one month period when work was paused. Before the date, USPS is currently working toward to launch that system. Given though we are keeping the whistleblowers identity anonymous, our objective is to provide as much information as possible for investigators to locate and gather evidence in order to initiate a formal investigation while balancing our client's concerns and need for anonymity. Accordingly, if there are any questions, whatever.

election ballot mail system development marked by rushed implementation unclear requirements and no meaningful testing is poised to derail the midterm elections cannot wait uh 12 iny boy for five dollars says for the live digging fantasy football league in the works with new league ID to join in sleepers chat once we have everyone joined it can be shared okay ash 1776 says it's almost like we shouldn't be using mail ballots or doing mail ballots I would agree with that. 100%. John was just going to ask that on barcodes. Hammer Guy 35, postal workers will call in sick until after the elections.

Mark Elias is in full-blum panic. The real problem is giving people extra $600 a week not to go back to work. What are we talking about now? That is nothing to do with what I'm talking about. Stay focused, guys. Prior to this rule, as in past elections, election ballot mail was essentially handled

like other bulk first-class mail mailings. Nothing close to the extent and severity of this new USPS system and the Tendon processes seems to have existed before. In the past for these mailings of ballot mail that were brought to a BMEU, which is a business mail entry unit, the mailer would enter the information into a digital system like Postal 1, which would generate a manifest like document. While the Postal Service has rejected large mailings to validation processes

before they were accepted, those processes appeared generally to be focused on collecting proper postage rates. Such processes appear designed not to stop mailing, but instead allow the Postal Service to properly build a mailer at the appropriate rate. And see, where I think this is, what I think the real issue is

for these people, it's the United States Postal Service controlling the actual lists of people who get ballots. The states don't want that. The states want to be able to send out ballots to anybody and everybody and that way they can get as many people as possible, even people who went

go and vote in person. They can maybe replace it. They can make up names. They use illegals, all sorts of these different methods that they use to commit fraud. If the United States Postal Service brings them their list, like, and this is your list that you have to go off of, these are the only people that can receive mail and ballots, that is what's going to significantly hinder one of their methods of cheating. It's not going to take care of it all.

There's still the machine aspect. And I think a lot of the mail and ballot stuff is meant to serve as a backfill. for whatever the machine algorithm puts forth. But it's not, I don't think they care about mismail things or whatever. They want to maintain control over who they say gets to receive a ballot. So specifically, in its rulemaking, the USPS details how state election officials will now be required to enter information into this newly created federal mail ballot portal for each of the state's registered voters are receiving a mail-in ballot to create a statewide mail-in and absentee participation list. Statewide list.

Separately, election officials will need to upload a manifest into a parallel. system, a legacy bulk mailing system, for each batch of ballots as state submits to be mailed. At this stage, USPS will perform its first verification to confirm that the intelligent mail barcodes, IMBS or barcords in the batch manifest match the ones in the statewide list. And the first verification succeeds, then the election officials will be permitted to bring the batch of ballots to the USPS facility for acceptance. When they get there, they'll be subject to a second verification. Postal service employees will manually scan a sampling of barcodes within the batch to confirm

that the barcodes being scanned, match those on the staywide list as uploaded into the portal. Verification will be accomplished by sampling a portion of each ballot and of each of the ballots brought to the USPS. If this second verification succeeds, the USPS will accept the batch of ballots and mail them. The whistleblower paints a dire picture of a slap dash software development process as the USPS attempted to create this complex IT system. What's funny is, in the age of AI, you could literally have a Grockbot create a system like this for you that would be functioned. and works. It's almost so weird how they approach this topic when it comes to elections because

they cannot help but getting themselves into like a catch-22 or speaking out of both sides of the mouth. Like we need machines. We need the machines to make the process of elections that much easier and counting and all this stuff. We would never be able to do it in one night. Hand-counting is a problem. But then also like, but our technology isn't that good where we can create a system to

verify the ballots we're sending out, that's too much to ask, but we need the machines to count, but we can't use the machines to verify. I mean, all of it's stupid. This whole process is stupid, but you understand what I'm saying. Like, their argument puts them in their own little catch-22. Country Red 24-7 scares me that there are foreigners working in the U.S. Post Office. I've experienced in Wisconsin and Minnesota, both instances, the worker had to point to things because they didn't speak English. That is ridiculous. Chad Forrest, printing too many ballots, kind of the same as printing too much money. The more you print, the less value it has. Ty, I don't know if you saw this in the chat, but Edgar Friendly says, if you need another for the league, just send me a message to my email.

Jay Schoven, C-H-A-U-V-I-N-23 at Elwick.com. Are you related to Derek Chauvin by chance? Hammer Guy 35, will never forget when the voting worker said she had to scan in thousands of mail-on ballots that were perfectly stacked and never folded. They've done that a few times now. Anyway, I'm going to give you guys this whistleblower letter. This is where they're going. Let me see if I can find a conclusion in this article. When the election officials bring ballots to the USPS site,

this is back from CNN now, for delivery, either the entire batch of ballot envelopes or a sampling will be physically scanned depending on where the ballots are being dropped. If just a single ballot envelope scan does not align with the information in the portal. USPS will refuse to deliver out the entire batch ballots while the discrepancy is being sorted out.

And like, where's the problem with that? We're supposed to be super serious about how much we care about our elections. If they catch an issue, don't we want it fixed? Because what they're advocating for is, well, I mean, there might be issues. People that shouldn't get ballots might get the ballots, but at least some of the people who are supposed to get them, we'll get them on time. Such a stupid argument. as designed this final quote from the report the process is entirely unforgiving it could delay ballots by the thousands in repeated verification cycles and thus prevent states from mailing an enormous number of ballots the report says maybe those people just might have to show up in person to cast their fake vote that was me not the report but know what my election system that i want i want one where the process is entirely unforgiving we shouldn't have to forgive people for

mistakes when it comes to our election process the thing that they worship that protects our democracy or maybe our democracy is threatened everywhere by people asking like hey we have a legitimate election process i don't even know what what their talking point is anymore when it comes to democracy but whatever it is it's retarded but the process should be entirely unforgiving the fact that they're asking for anything but that is just ridiculous um another story on elections that i saw circulating yesterday is this one from the Gateway Pundit. And I'm kind of going to talk some smack about the Gateway Pundit because based on the quotes they gave in the title of the article, I don't know, little misleading in my opinion. Update, Attorney General Todd Blanche

endeavors to secure Dominion voting machines from the 2020 election that allegedly showed proof of foreign involvement. And you know what? I'm almost positive that they changed the headline of this. I'm going to see if I can prove it. Hold for processing. Yes, they did change it. Come on. Once this loads, I'll show you guys. Oh, come on. Why is this not loading? You see it here? The original headline said report. Attorney General Todd Blanche secured Dominion voting machines from 2020 election that allegedly showed proof of foreign involvement. Oh, now it's loading. Here we go. There you see it? attorney general Todd Blanche secured dominion voting machines from 2020 election that allegedly

showed proof for an involvement. That was the original headline. They've now softened it because as they probably found out in their own article, what the title said and what they quoted, do not match. Now they change it to say that Attorney General Todd Blanche endeavors to secure dominion voting machines. But I'm going to skip down to the relevant quote. It comes from Peter Tickton. An amended complaint filed in October 2023 is dismissed with prejudice on August on August 22nd, 24. The court held at the board, blah, blah, blah. Here we go. Recently, Attorney Peter Tickton gave the Gateway Pundit an update on the Fulton County case.

Peter told the Gateway Pundant that I am learning to respect and appreciate Todd Blanche. I never had a personal problem with him. I just wanted to see things get done. I'm happy to report that Attorney General Blanche now has his feet on the ground and they seem to be running. He said, Tickton added, I believe that he is getting the fact that our whole nation is at risk due to the election rigging, which occurred in 2020 and is still occurring. You know what? I would hope so, considering this is who Trump put as his attorney general. Not that that means anything because Trump has put people who turned out to be

ridiculously terrible at many important positions. He's done that multiple times for whatever reason. We can game through that out some other day. But yeah, I would hope that he would put somebody in a position that does believe and knows because he has a brain and two eyes that the 2020 election is stolen. Groundbreaking stuff from Tickton here. Attorney Tickton told the Gateway Pundant, I alerted Todd Blanche, and he stepped in to make sure that the machines that prove foreign involvement are secured.

This is the kind of quick action we need. Of course, there are many other issues that we need to be addressed, such as bringing Colorado Secretary of State General Griswold to justice, and going after AUSA's assistant U.S. attorneys, judges, police, and others who are fighting to harm Donald Trump's success in fighting the true insurrectionists. I don't think he uses the word endeavors anywhere in here. Does he? Okay, here we go. The DOJ's position at this time is that it endeavors.

Okay, hold on. Here's the update. We'll read this. Sorry, I'm all over the place. Ever since they updated this article, let's move some things around. Attorney Stephanie Lambert and Tom Carroll spoke with the Gateway Pundit on Monday. I think this is the what Stephanie Lambert Ash always talks about.

We were told the DOJ and FBI have been working quietly for months, reviewing evidence related to Dominion and foreign communications to the Fulton County Dominion BORAND. election equipment. The FBI obtained obtained the image of the Fulton machines months ago, and the Department of Justice has familiarized. Familiarized. I said that right the second time. Itself with the litigation files. Many people contacted the DOJ and feared that Dominion brand machines would be destroyed, but the DOJ had already opened a file months ago. The DOJ's position at this time is that it endeavors the preservation of the equipment stored at the pro v&V facility. We are

hopeful that the government can find a resolution to remove the financial penalty to Fulton County. Fulton County was sanctioned approximately $1 million for exposing national security concerns. Fulton County commissioners are heroes. There we go. John, did you see this? I miss part of your show, so sorry if it's redundant, but this guy is fire. Let's take a peek. I did not see this.

We'll watch right now. Thank you for sending it in Ash. This is a father of a girl who is disabled in an accident from a truck driven by an undocumented immigrant, tells lawmakers, I reject your guys. sympathy to be honest with you. There's no way you guys are sorry. Let's listen. How is that okay? How are you guys not fighting for this? Right here. How are you guys not fighting for this? I reject your guys of sympathy to be honest with you. There's no way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys have ever called me. Not one of you guys have ever reached out to me.

Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, hey, sorry about your daughter. You guys do it right here while you guys are grand standing on top of your soapbox. This is what you guys care. Right here inside this room is the only time you guys care. I've never received anything from anybody over here at all regarding my daughter or my family or anything. Hey, Mr. Coleman, your guys is Delilah Law. I want to help you revise this so that we were interested inside of it. Nothing.

You guys have no pathway to anything. You guys want to sit there and talk about the pathway to citizenship. There is a pathway. It's not jump the fence and apply. That's not the way it goes. There's a process to get it done. You don't just do that. I can't just go over there and go sit down inside one of those seats and become a Democrat.

Oh, you know what? I probably could. I honestly probably could. So I'm not even going to say that. But I can't go inside a hospital and become a doctor just because I want to and go put on a coat and come to work. It's getting ridiculous the way things are going now. It honestly is. It makes no sense at all. Sanctuary cities allow so much to be done that it's almost like the parents not there to take care of the household. and everybody's running around and doing what they want to do. And it sucks. It honestly does. You guys sit there and you guys talk about ice invading cities

and doing this and doing that. I agree with Mr. Gordon, Jordan, sorry. If you guys, if the state sat there and told them come pick up the person, it would take one or two people to go do it. Instead, they got to send an army out there because now they have to look for them. And then since it's a sanctuary state,

you got people sitting there abusing the ice, the ice officers that are out there. I have a whole statement right here that I was going to read to you guys, but just listening to you guys, none of this is relevant anymore because you guys just changed so much. It makes no sense at all. My daughter doesn't deserve this. She didn't ask for any of this. The people that jumped the fence did, though.

They knew exactly what they were doing. They still chose to move forward in that direction. And every day something's happening to somebody. And it is your guys' fault. I hold each and every one of you responsible for it. And I always will. Amen. That is awesome. This is how we need to be talking to and viewing our elected representatives.

This is the appropriate manner in which you communicate with these people. He's spot on their influencers. The only time they even feign any sort of like caring about anything other than themselves in their own pockets is when they do these hearings. Remember back when I think it was. Gosh, was it 20, 25? Maybe even before that when there was a time. I think I was still in my parents' basement when we started doing it. So it must have been back then.

Must have been after the 2022 midterms. But we got Congress and we covered the, we covered Congress and when they were electing their new leader. And I think that was the one that went like a ton of rounds. Was that maybe the one we got Mike Johnson? But anyway, like we were going to go and start covering Congress in earnest like every day. have somebody doing live coverage of whatever Congress is doing, whatever hearing they're doing, because we got Congress now and it's going to be so entertaining. And after like three sessions, we're like, oh, my God, this is the worst idea we've ever had.

And not because people wouldn't maybe tune in to watch it. We probably could have got some views from it. But it was so boring. And all they ever did was stuff for clips. They were Instagram politicians. It was the worst. So I absolutely love this. That was, you guys got to share this right.

and I'll post this in the chat again for you. Absolute fire. That's anyway. Okay, let's keep going here. So in line with that election whistleblower story, we have this. DHS to surge voter fraud investigations in nine states starting on Tuesday. DHS is launching a coordinated criminal voter fraud surge Tuesday, according to internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN.

Homeland Security investigations will pursue leads, conduct field interviews, and move cases to prosecutors from early September through mid-October, in Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, and Connecticut. I would have loved to see Arizona on that list. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen has ordered states to share voter roles for audit and threatened to withhold grant money from states that refuse election changes. HSI already assigned a large number of agents to voter cases, including suspected non-citizens who registered or voted and naturalized citizens who may have registered before becoming citizens.

Agents were also directed to work with USCIS on removal proceedings when the non-citizen is tied to suspected voter fraud. Mullen said this summer an audit found more than 250,000 registered non-citizens in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nevada, and warn officials who failed to secure the midterms could face fines or jail. You know, I wonder to them, do they care? Like the fines in jail time because of them, it's, one, it's protecting the fraud system, and two, it's just outlasting Trump. If they can get a majority through a whole bunch of fraud and work to impeach him, de-legitimize him, and they get their people back in there, the people that are facing crimes, I mean, they'll fundraise for him,

look at them out of jail level army of legal teams there to help and then they have rogue judges all over the country that will probably rule in their favor see this is the aspect the side of things where it's like oh we're going to send a whole bunch of people in to investigate this stuff like we're actually going to get and i'm not trying to like doom here i'm just trying to be realistic because how often do we talk about the rogue judges all over the country that are stopping trump at every opportunity You don't think there's going to be rogue judges out there that rule against prosecuting people who commit election fraud? I just do not believe that the current system that we have in any form or fashion can be relied upon to solve the problems that the current system has created.

But anyway, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned amid tension with Hague Seth. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation to President Trump after months of tension with Warwick. Pete Higseth. The fight was over the direction of the Army and Hicketts' ouster of numerous senior army officers, according to the journal. Driscoll is expected to leave the Pentagon in the coming days. Oh, so sad.

Driscoll's gone. I want to get more of the backstories on some of this stuff. Like I'm waiting for, as you know, the people that are actually anti-Trump that are within all these, you know, whether the agencies of the military or whatever, remember what they did the first term. All of them after getting ousted,

maybe not all of them, but most of them, a lot of them. They would run to the mainstream media, do a whole bunch of hit pieces on Trump. Then they'd come out with a book about my time with Trump or defending national security in a time of Trump, whatever. Get a huge book advance to do it, and all of them get paid off for turning on Trump. We haven't really seen that pattern from the second Trump administration yet. I'm curious if at any point we do start to see it. The Supreme Court yesterday blocked a pause on Trump's White House baller

room five to four the Supreme Court on Monday kept construction of President Trump's White House ballroom moving wiping out lower court orders that would have paused the project the vote was five to four the unsigned opinion said the National Trust for historic preservation the group that sued to stop the work did not have the legal right to sue Chief Justice John Roberts actually dissented with the three liberal retards that we have on the bench shocker but this is what Trump posted after hearing that ruling. I am pleased to report

that the United States Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of the ballroom military complex being built without any further contingency doubt or threat. I do like that he's talking about the ballroom and military complex while saying contingency in the same sentence because it is a continuity of government facility, which is a contingency operation.

We are living in the golden age of America and this building will be one of the greatest ever constructed in Washington, D.C. When completed in the summer of 2028, a magnificent ballroom and military complex will be something that the entire country is very proud of. The project, despite the baseless lawsuit brought by the so-called National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States,

which is not in any way affiliated with the United States government, is under budget and ahead of schedule. I wish you could have, you would have said something about, oh, and they also do their, all their investing, or a lot of their investing, over $250 million worth of their investment, investing is done overseas. And it's either investing or, like actual giving money to projects over there doesn't clarify on the tax forms but anyway

the ballroom is totally funded by great patrons and therefore is a gift at no cost of the american taxpayer thank you for intention of this matter i don't think that part is entirely true maybe the ballroom above below there's tax dollars going to that infrastructure 100% for sure um let's see what else trump talked about chicago violence this weekend people were shot three dead. So if you add 41, reverse the numbers, it's 14. You add the three. It's 17.

Hugh, confirmed. These numbers are becoming normalized. It is out of control. The city will die if the federal government, a fine-tuned crime-fighting machine is not invited in by the mayor or governor. Nobody should be forced to live under these conditions. And I do agree with that. I think that's the only true social post I wanted to cover.

Oh, here we go. This is, I thought this was pretty interesting. We talked about this a little bit last night on basis conspiracies. I also posed about this yesterday, but I want to talk about it again. So maybe you don't watch basis conspiracies, even though you should watch all the shows I do. I'll forgive you if you don't. Grand jury subpoena's Comey advisor, Daniel Richmond in new classified leak probe. Frederick Grand Jury on Monday issued a subpoena to Daniel Richmond, James Comey's longtime friend and former advisor. Fox News reported first, citing multiple law enforcement sources.

prosecutors are running a new Justice Department investigation in Tacomi allegedly leaking classified information to the New York Times. The same leak matter was probed in Trump's first term and then shut down after Joe Biden took office. That is not true. This case sits on top of a separate investigation in Tacomi's alleged threats against Trump. And the part that's not true is that this case was shut down after Joe Biden took office.

I will prove to you guys here in a minute. Richmond is a law professor and former Comey attorney. He was a central figure in the first leak investigation in 2018. Section 2017. He later sued saying prosecutors violated his Fourth Amendment rights by seizing material from his electronic devices in 2019 and 2020. Federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled for him in that case. In December of 2025, the new subpoena means prosecutors are again pulling Richmond

into a grand jury over the Tacomi Times classified leak file. And let me show you. I don't know why everybody, was there a third separate investigation? Is that what I'm gathering? Or is everybody wrong but me? I don't know, but this is like literally from documents we got in August of 2025, like over a year ago. On or about March 22nd, 2017, Department of Justice, acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Bonette Bonte, however you say that, directed U.S. Attorney's Office District of Connecticut, assistant attorney John Durham, on a criminal referral from redacted regarding an unauthorized public something of classified information.

in general, such investigations are conducted by the FBI's counterintelligence division with oversight from the DOJ's National Security Division. However, at least one of the subjects of the investigation is a former senior FBI official who previously worked in the National Security Department. To avoid a potential conflict of interest or an appearance thereof, they assigned the investigation to Durham and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service instead of NSD and the FBI. That was March. March of 2017. On or about December 22nd, 2017, Durham and the USPIS completed their investigation and provided a memorandum with their conclusions and recommendations to Jeff Sessions. The recommendation, the memorandum is classified, available for review. USA Durham memo recommended no prosecution of Baker or anyone else for the U.S. for the UPD. Crazy, huh?

Yeah, the dates there, March to 12. 27 March, sorry, March to December of 2017. Why is Robert still being protected with his Epstein Island ties? I don't think, I think it's a different John Roberts. Yeah, I could be wrong. I don't know. Wasn't Richmond cloaked by attorney-clim privilege so he could be an intermediate for evidence? I don't know. I'm curious to see where this goes, though.

And as I said last night, like, I think Comey should be in prison for this, leaking to the, leaking the news, working with the news, I think there's people from the media that need to be in prison for this stuff too. I absolutely hate the leaks. The 8647 Instagram thing, I am not as high on. I think that one's kind of ridiculous. I don't think he,

maybe he was actually, I don't know. It's hard for me to believe that they're going to actually prove. And I think it takes away from like the actual treason and stuff that he did outside of this leak. The actual collusion against Trump, the weaponized intelligence community going after Trump, that is what I want to see him going to for said that multiple times.

I think you guys understand my point on that. Cancun says, reminder to raid my stream, Judge might be done with his media ruling by then, been freaking reading this ruling for 45 minutes. You guys, don't let me forget to raid Cancon after this. I'll get you pulled up over there too.

And let me keep going on some other stories real quick. If I can find the ones I wanted to talk about. No, did that. Actually, I might be out of. I might be out of stories. We cruise through that. Oh my gosh. Hunter Biden says Harris was not loyal to a fault to his father. That's funny.

U.S. strikes IRGC targets in Iran in response to it attacks on American forces. Let's go through the rest of my tabs here, quick guys. And then we'll rage you over to Kankan. Actually, while I'm doing this, I'm going to play you guys our little soft disclosure ad. I'm going to do the Vegas promo and then the soft disclosure right back to back. So stay tuned. Patriots, the fight for truth doesn't stop at the screen. It's hitting the road again.

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So I think it was Alyssa B. Slotkin. and sent in a letter to Dan Kane. And they've done this like multiple times. Now, they've also talked about it a lot on all the mainstream media, about how they're worried Trump is going to use the armed forces to interfere in the election, to interdict in the election. I know it's all kind of a wet dream of a lot of us in the truth community. But this is what Dan Kane said in response to Alyssa Slotkin.

I'm going to read the whole thing. And then we can parse his words very carefully and see if we can find any hidden meeting. Thank you for your letter dated August 18, 26. bummer it wasn't August 17th otherwise we would know this is part of the plan regarding the upcoming November 26 midterm elections and the role of the U.S. forces armed forces and I did find while I was reading that I got distracted by the obvious QCOM up here 2051 if you add the five and the two together that's a seven and then you put the one in front of that seven that's a 17 plan confirmed You're welcome. I appreciate the opportunity to respond and to reaffirm our steadfast commitment to the constitutional principles.

The American military is a nonpartisan armed force. As the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I provide my best military advice to the president, Secretary of War National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. And keep that in mind, like his role is not in the chain of command. His role is only advice of the president. So interesting to trying to get commentary from him, much like they did Millie back in the day. Every member of the U.S. armed forces takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the joint force has acted and will continue to act in accordance with the Constitution and the law.

Election Administration and Security remain the fundamental responsibility of state and local officials. The Joint Force has no plans to send federal military personnel or federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 26th election. Likewise, the Joint Force has no plans to use such personnel to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election-related material. I have neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the joint force in the upcoming November 26 midterms. I stand ready to discuss this further. Everything he said in there could also be true,

and they could still end up doing the thing that she's worried about. Because right now, it has no plans to send federal military troops. That might be true. They might not have plans yet. And maybe they won't do this at all. I just think it's interesting the way he responded because it's political speak. Likewise, they have no plans to use such personnel to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election-related material. I have neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the joint force in the upcoming November 2026 midterm elections.

Kind of leaves it open to, but if we get the order from the guy who's in charge of making those orders, President Trump, Commander-in-Chief, you may have heard of him. Then maybe they would do it. Who's to determine whether something's lawful? I don't know. I've never been in the chain of command like that. But anyway, I'm going to get you guys over to Cancone.

He's covering the closing arguments of the preliminary hearing for the Tyler Robinson case, for those who are interested in that. And I'll be back on tomorrow. 1 p.m. Eastern right here on the Daily Herald. Make sure you guys do me a favor. Hit that thumbs up wherever you're watching. And I'll come back tomorrow. with updates on whether or not we're going to invite you to the fantasy football league

John's really taken off in the comms no wonder he's the leading Q adjacent influencer here here's the plans don't read them until after you respond this Lutkin John should you should start a competing Q show with the decode facts call it bad decodes I could do that and I can be just as ridiculous and maybe their audience would all come back to us and start ooing and eyeing at my ability to find 17s and everything. And therefore, so like now because of this, not only is Dan Kane part of the Q plan,

less than 10, so is Alyssa Slotkin. This is K-favor or something. All right, guys. You guys have a great rest of your day. I will see you tomorrow. 1 p.m. Eastern radio here on Badlands Media. Be sure to follow the channel. Be sure to like the videos. And we'll catch you later. You guys have a good rest of your Taco Tuesday. You better all go eat tacos.