Glenn Greenwald

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.

And because Jeffrey Epstein had blackmail power over all these people and were therefore forcing them to keep these files concealed.

This was not an ancillary issue for Dan Bongino.

This was something he talked about over and over and over.

And then also other things as well, like the guy who killed Trump and all the stuff that supposedly was being covered up about that, none of which has been released under the FBI's leadership.

And so when you then, months into Dan Bongino's stint, watch him go on Fox and obviously in a very uncomfortable way say, we found no evidence of blackmail.

We don't think it's appropriate to release these files.

Please trust us when we tell you that he absolutely killed himself.

Obviously, the people who have been listening to Dan Bongino for all these years and believing that this was like one of the very few people who they could trust turn around and in an instant, as soon as they're inside, abandon so many of the core beliefs

beliefs that they had been insisting were true is obviously gonna erode the confidence and trust that people have in you.