The Daily Signal - ‘I Told You So’ Starts Here: Criminal Investigations Into High School-Assisted Abortions, Jan. 6 Truth, and More

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Starting point is 00:01:14 We'd love to talk, business. The only reason we get to have days like this is because of people like John Solomon or our next guest, Walter Kurt, going out finding stories, digging them up and then getting them out into the area where we can look at them and share them with you here on the East. air and Walter Kurt is on with us investigative reporter out of Northern Virginia, which just must be a target-rich environment, Walter. Thanks for taking a little time out with us. How are you doing this morning? Thanks for having me on. Not at all. So you've unearthed a couple of stories. One is related to yesterday's program, and we're going to get into that in a moment, and these crybabies that used to be at the FBI. But the first one that caught my attention was this story out of Fairfax, Virginia, which is one of those school districts that just can't seem to not shoot itself in the foot. I don't know how long it takes for some of these blue counties to get the message, but maybe density is their problem. The school division, as I read your reporting, have paid for a couple of teenage girls to have abortions using school budget money. Am I correct in this? Holy cow, how do they get?

Starting point is 00:02:33 off doing this. Well, that's the deal, right? I mean, now, to be clear with this story, as up right now, I don't have the direct proof that they're paying to the proportions, but that's what all of the witnesses are telling me in alleging. So, you know, I want to see the documents, and this is why I'm really focused on this story, because I think that there's more to it. And I think that, you know, the problem, like you said, to open here, the Fairfax County School has had nothing but problems. I mean, there are, you know, now that I've been digging into this, I was just on the phone yesterday with another reporter, there's been scandal after scandal after scandal. And this one is just so egregious, though. I mean, you know, you've got two girls coerced into abortions. I mean, this is,

Starting point is 00:03:12 this is an horrible stuff. Now, I read the letters that the girls sent you. Now, they're written in Spanish, and then you translate them in your publication of it. So I presume that these girls are not bilingual. And I'm not sure, you know, and your story doesn't go into it, nor do I necessarily think it's relevant outside of the sexual attitudes of countries that people might be a citizen of. But it reads, you know, like these girls got themselves in trouble and then the school said, we'll fix it for you without ever telling the parents. That's exactly right. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:51 I mean, and that's the biggest part of this, right? Because, you know, Virginia does have a parental consent law. But, you know, if you're pressured into this stuff, they got themselves in trouble and they're pressured into it. I mean, that's what's really horrifying about this to me, is if they, you know, even if they were immigrants or not, but, you know, does that mean that people are convincing them that, well, you have to go get an abortion if you get pregnant? Right. Right. Well, and or how did they get pregnant in the first place? I mean, you know, because sometimes these cover-ups are not necessarily involving, you know, why would it be important for the school to do this for them there unless somebody at the school might have been complicit?

Starting point is 00:04:27 And, you know, Fairfax County is only saved because they're next to Loudoun County, which seems to be the hold my beer of badly operated school divisions in the United States. You know, Kurt, this does actually tie a little bit into a story we had yesterday about this California bill AB 495, which if you download a form and sign it and show some ID to the California government, you can take possession of other people's children with, with, even, without even getting their consent. And the concern in California is that this will be used by school divisions and activists, you know, social workers to take girls like this from their parents over issues like getting a teen pregnancy aborted or, you know, transgenderism. Is there a concern in your community there in Fairfax of this kind of overreach of the government? Well, I mean, this is kind of the purpose of a lot of this reporting, what I'm going to the steps, because this is the overall intention of liberal-dominated groups.

Starting point is 00:05:35 They want to make sure that the schools have full control over your kids because they consider themselves the ones that are better and no better for you. That's what they want. I mean, you go look up into these other, you know, ultra-liberal states. That's exactly what they're doing. And they're going to do it with that telling you, and they're going to bring in what they call school-based, health care centers in the school-based health care centers are essentially full clinics and everything, but they don't tell you that. You know, then they refer you out for other things. I mean, this, in this article, the one that I did the initial reporting on this, one of the girls who was in this was

Starting point is 00:06:07 five months pregnant and they told her she had to get an abortion. So, and they never told her parents. Now, a five-month abortion is not just like a, you know, quick procedure. That is in an anesthesia. She's on an operating table. Okay. So, I mean, that's, you could have been in a, you could have been on the operating table without ever telling your parents. That's what the real, the real scary things here. Now, what is the reaction? I know that Fairfax has at least one Republican on its board of supervisors because he was running for lieutenant governor for a little bit there. So obviously there are some. It's not as bad as, say, you know, parts of California where there are no Republicans anywhere to be seen or Massachusetts or Charlottesville, Virginia, where you couldn't find a Republican to throw a rock at it.

Starting point is 00:06:53 unless it's a riot, and then you can throw rocks at everyone. But are there community members who are up in arms and going after the school administrators over this? I mean, there should be. I have yet to see what's really, you know, the schools already come out and try to say that they're opening to some, you know, independent investigation, which is hysterical because that's what they say every time they start covering something out, which is why I waited for them to do this this time. So I intentionally waited for them to say they were going to open an investigation. And then I released the recording of them saying that they knew about this back in May.

Starting point is 00:07:31 So, you know, they dug themselves into a hole and I intend to keep burying them into it. Now, I sent this on, and I'm sure you have as well. And I spoke to somebody with the Attorney General's office. They are aware of this case. Have you heard of anything coming from the Attorney General's office regarding what's going on here in Fairfax? No, I haven't spoken in the Attorney General's Office directly yet, but I am aware that a lot of the people at the top level of Virginia leadership are taking a look. So hopefully we do see something out of them. Well, I'm not holding my breath, but I'd like to think since, A, he's running for re-election, and B, he espouses that zeal for protecting life that it would be because this comes down to an essential difference. And one of the things that has happened in the four years since Glenn Yonkin was elected governor is this run-out-the-clock attitude, whether it's Charlottesville City or Fairfax County.

Starting point is 00:08:28 You know, they were shocked to not get their boy elected governor. So when Glenn Yon enacted policies that put parents first, the schools ignored them. And when they were caught ignoring them, they lawyered up and they challenged and they got the NAACP to March. And this just seems like, I mean, the most horrifying version of this, Walter, is that what you're sensing as well? I think that's exactly what's going on. I think when the Democrats retook the Senate back in the previous late in the midterm election there, I think that's what they started doing. They started saying, okay, you know, we can wait out the clock and then we'll be able to flip Virginia because Trump will be unpopular. So they're going to play, they're going to play it out like, yeah, they're going to hire lawyers, are going to fight every step of the way.

Starting point is 00:09:16 And they're going to fight for your kids the whole way that they can go through because they want to take your children. You're going to take your rights away from you. So that's exactly what I couldn't agree to be more. And these cases, and I'm afraid to see, and we're coming up on a break here, and I want to hold on to you and pick up on this case of the secure state people. But what really scares me is that there are true believers, zealots amongst these people that truly believe that parents should have no say in. And Walter, where do people find you online? Is it substack?

Starting point is 00:09:49 Where do people read your reporting? You can read it both on X and on substacks. On X, it's at WC Dispatch. And the website is www.witbushetepatch.com. We're celebrating the whistleblowers and those who dig up their dirt. Walter, Kurt, is on with us, and he's uncovered a bunch of great stuff. Walter, thank you again for taking your time not to bury the lead. So this time, let's put it up front.

Starting point is 00:10:13 How do people find your reporting again online? You can go to the WCdispatch.com or you can just find me on X. Walter Kurt and the app is at WC Dispatch as well. So your most recent piece ties into a story we had yesterday, a bunch of whiny crybaby ex-official FBI officers and intelligence community officers, a kind of generic term, penned a letter complaining that Cash Patel and Dan Begino had a loyalty test that they failed and that's how they wound up losing their job. But you take it a step further and she said, no, this is an organized group that goes back

Starting point is 00:10:51 even before this letter was fault. So what do they call themselves the steady state? That's right. The steady state, which is such a perfect term for bureaucrats who believe they're more important than you. Like, isn't that, like, it's not just a perfect name for them. They're keeping every steady. You know, it's not changing anything.

Starting point is 00:11:10 They're going to make sure that they keep everything steady and move. moving in one direction. And the direction is their direction, and you don't matter. That's really with that trend. Well, and if you want somebody to invest large sums of money into your life, you want it to be predictable, right? You know, that's what Wall Street people tell me. Predictability is where the money is. And so if you can predict how the government is going to rule on things, there's some big money in it for you to manipulate that stuff. And I love, and it's so Orwellian. And we make the case that, you know, back in the old days, you're a younger guy.

Starting point is 00:11:43 But there was a TV show called Get Smart that was sort of sending up the intelligence community. It was done by Mel Brooks. And I know Get Smart is great. And I love Mel Brooks. But the good guys were control and the bad guys were chaos. And I guess the gag was control was very seldom in control. But the message of control versus chaos. is Trump administration.

Starting point is 00:12:08 Everything Trump does is causing chaos. So these people must be imagining themselves to be this great group that's going to bring steadiness to the chaos? I assume so. I mean, that's really what they seem like. These people are furious that Trump is actually doing things and firing people. I know what people may be shocking to people, but the president does have the right to hire loyalists

Starting point is 00:12:33 because then they're loyal to the agenda that the American people voted for. You know, it's actually part, it's not like a vice or anything. That's like part of the job description. Like, it's amazing. I know it's very difficult for the liberals to understand that. But that is actually how this is supposed to work.

Starting point is 00:12:49 So it's, you know, it's very funny when you hear them. Oh, my goodness, you've got loyalists in there. Like, well, yeah, I hope so. Like, that's what I voted for. You know, it was one of those lines that Aaron Sorkin used to lean on all the time in the West Wing. I serve at the pleasure of the president. You know, it was okay when it was Jed Bartlett. but if it's Donald Trump, it's no good.

Starting point is 00:13:08 So these steady staters apparently have a favorite in the Virginia gubernatorial race, not a surprise, but I think it's important to note that these apparatchiks of the deep state want their former sister, Abigail Spanberger, for governor. That's exactly right. They formally endorsed her, which is just, isn't it just the weirdest thing? Like, you know, what's going on right now? We've got, you know, Abigail Spanberger is, you know, former CIA officer. The entire deep state from D.C. is, you know, endorsing her.

Starting point is 00:13:45 You know, to me, the reason I'm so focused on Virginia is because it seems to me this is like their last line of defense for the state. And what they won't do, what they really want to do is they want to transplant all of their deep state apparatchiks. They want to transplant them from D.C. because they're being excised there. they want to transplant them and stick them in Richmond. That's what the plan is. And I think that's their intention. And, you know, if they get Spanberger in there, what they'll do is she'll repeal right to work. And then she'll make it immediately, she'll make it immediate so that all of these groups up there are part of the state union.

Starting point is 00:14:19 Oh, yeah. And then they won't be able to get them inside of the agencies. That's what she wants to do. They want to keep the bureaucracy up in D.C. intact. And that's the plan. Well, in protecting them, and I guess that's always the argument is that, oh, well, once you're hired, you're protected, that kind of thing. You know, we see how this has functioned. These are the same people metaphorically that signed all the documents, the 51 intelligence agents that said that the steel dossier was righteous or that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. All of these, these are all the same people. And nobody has bothered. And she's not doing kind of town hall meetings. She's going to rallies where, you know, a handpicked crowd of Democrats are cheering for her.

Starting point is 00:15:06 She's like a slightly more animated Joe Biden to that, it seems. She's not going to debate winsome seers, a Marine. So your choice is a Marine who came up through the ranks or a CIA case officer, who was part of this whole apparatus to gaslight the American people into believing things that are wholeheartedly not true. And when you wind up with somebody like President Trump out there, are visibly eventually we wind up seeing it borne out to be untrue like this Adam Schiff revelation at just the news that I alluded to at the onset is you know this was stuff what we knew and that Donald Trump said happened but now we actually are getting proof of it yeah I mean that's

Starting point is 00:15:51 we've got lots of proof of this now I mean the deal is that you know I love that you mentioned that she's kind of like a more animated Joe Biden because you know if you go look at her crowds it looks like the exact same people. She, you know, she had this great image the other day. She said, you know, a new Kent, the energy here is unmatched. And it's, you know, you pan at the crowd and the crowd's like all 65 or older. And it's like, wow, I've seen more, I've seen more energy on bingo night at AARP, but, you know, it's amazing to me. This is the same group of people. They believe that they're still going to be able to run through and do the exact same thing as before. And they're going to say, well, she's a moderate. Well, you know, nothing about this woman's moderate. You know, she's

Starting point is 00:16:30 She's on, she's got all sorts of pictures and videos and everything else of her saying that she knows. She supports transgenderism in schools and in schools and in the military. Like as far as I can tell, that's as radical as it gets. But this is typical of the deep staters. Right. They don't care what they have to say to get your boat. They'll say whatever it takes and then they're going to do whatever they want because they're going to keep things steady underneath their leadership because they know better. And if it ever does come out, it'll be so far into the future.

Starting point is 00:16:59 it's not going to make, you know, what did Hillary say? What difference at this point does it make? Walter Kurt is on with us. What are you working on? What's your next piece or is it just more of digging into these stories? Well, the next one I've got coming up now is actually directly on Abigail Spanberger. So, you know, that'll be coming up here very shortly. So I'll make sure I keep you a prize on that, Joe, because you're going to like this one.

Starting point is 00:17:21 All right. Well, you make sure you let us know. What's the website again? Wcdispatch.com. Wcdispatch.com. God bless you. Keep doing what you're doing. We appreciate it. Thanks, Joe. Thanks for having me on, buddy. That'll do it for today's show. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button, so you never miss out on new episodes from The Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - ‘I Told You So’ Starts Here: Criminal Investigations Into High School-Assisted Abortions, Jan. 6 Truth, and More

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