Glenn Greenwald

The reason that happens, though, is because of the inability or refusal of people in power and in authorities to answer the most basic questions, to give us the most basic information about a crime that, of course, is a great concern to huge numbers of people and ought to be.

And it's in that vacuum of like this evasive kind of answer, this refusal to give any kind of, to be accountable in any way that citizens start thinking, we can't trust the police.

We can't trust investigators.

They lied to us.

They're incompetent.

They cover things up.

And this is why you see so much of this kind of doubting, like with the Charlie Kirk shooting or with any kind of crime, any kind of major event where people no longer trust institutions of authority.

And I think in that exchange,

You see the reason, like if that's the reason they turned off the cameras, say so.

Were the cameras turned off?

Like why can't you just give straight answers on that?

And when we don't get those, that's when people start thinking we have to figure out on our own and we can't trust the information we're being given.

And although it can be a problem because it leads to false speculation that spreads like wildfire, it's also the fault of the people who are supposed to be exercising this power responsibly when they do things that make other people lose trust in what they're saying.

I don't know if people realize, Dan Bongino had his podcast on Rumble, where he's also a major investor.

And that podcast was, I mean, to call it a success is to wildly understate the case.

He was making enormous amounts of money.

He had a massive audience of people unbelievably loyal to him.

and loyal to him because of how much trust they had in him.

And one of the reasons they had so much trust in him was because he was such an emphatic critic of the deep state, of these organizations, and among the things he was telling them was that the US government was concealing the Epstein files because it was trying to protect

the world's most powerful people from being exposed as child predators because they know that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.