On Friday morning's episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” host Glenn Beck spoke with Kali Lake about the bombshell. audio clip This is an attempt by former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWitt to bribe Kyrsten Sinema to prevent her from running for the Arizona Senate seat currently occupied by Democratic-leaning independent Kyrsten Sinema. It seems to indicate that there is.
“Do you have that number?” [you] According to the video, DeWitt asked Lake, “Are you going to take a few years off and go right back to your current job?”
She flatly refused. “Ten million dollars? Twenty million dollars? … No, a billion? No,” she replied. “This is not about money. This is about our country.”
DeWitt resigned after audio clips secretly recorded by Lake at his home about 11 months ago were made public earlier this week.in him resignation letterDeWitt argued that the clip was “selectively edited” and that he merely offered Lake a friendly and “helpful perspective” about his potential candidacy, not a bribe.
Beck has doubts. The only way Lake could have understood the conversation “out of context,” Beck said, would have been if DeWitt had left out saying things like, “What I'm about to say. The whole thing is a complete fabrication, Cali,” or if he was simply describing the movie instead of giving her a legitimate offer on behalf of an unnamed Republican bigwig from “Back East.”
“This was not taken out of context,” Lake insisted to Beck. “This is not a creative edit. A creative edit would be a 30-second clip of him. This is a conversation where he bribes me. There are no ifs, ands, or buts. ”
Still, Beck pressed Lake on some important issues related to the audio clip. First, she wondered why she secretly recorded it in the first place. Ms. Lake said that when Ms. DeWitt called her that afternoon last year and asked if she could stop by because what she wanted to say had to be said “in person” rather than “over the phone,” she said, ” He claimed to have had a “bad feeling.” ”
“I thought there might be a threat. Why would he have to come to my door and talk to me?” Lake recalled to Beck.
“That's why I recorded it. I thought if he was going to threaten me, he needed to record this.”
Under the circumstances, “I would have recorded that conversation,” Beck acknowledged, but wanted to know why she waited nearly a year to release the tape.
Lake responded, “I recorded it because I was afraid of a physical threat.'' “When I didn't have a file, I put it away somewhere.”
Lake later pointed out that he did mention the bribery allegations in a speech at CPAC days after they occurred. “Someone showed up at my door this week.'' she said At the popular annual maintenance convention. “…They came to my door and tried to bribe me to get out of politics….This is the horror of politics.”
Despite the startling allegations, no one asked her further questions and she forgot about the tapes until recently, Lake said. Then she, her husband, and her daughter sat down to listen to the song again and were “shocked” by what they heard.
“Our jaws dropped to the floor. We were shocked,” she told Beck. “I thought, 'Oh my God, this is so much worse than I remember.'”
At that point, she said, she decided to expose bribery and the dirty politics that came with it. “Glenn, there seems to be a lot of corruption in the Republican Party right now,” Lake said. “And I think a lot of that is resistance to Trump. They don't want him to run…because he's going to expose a lot of corruption.”
Mr. Beck could not agree more with exposing corruption, no matter which political party is involved. “It all has to be exposed,” he said. “If you don't denounce corruption on this side, you can't denounce corruption on the other side.”
Finally, Beck asked Lake about some of the allegations DeWitt made in his resignation letter. Not only did DeWitt claim that he was “framed” in that conversation, but that if Lake's team did not immediately resign as Arizona Republican Party chairman, he would release another, even more damning tape. He claimed he had threatened her. “I'm really worried. [the other recording’s] “Given the many candid conversations we have had as friends, we decided not to take any risks,” DeWitt said in a statement, “with the hope that Lake would keep his promise to stop the attacks.” I have decided to resign.” Business sector — I prefer this field as it is much more logical than politics. ”
Lake denied “further tapes” or any recent contact with DeWitt. ”Lake told Beck that she “hasn't talked to him in a long time, hasn't returned his calls, hasn't sent him any emails,” and later revealed that DeWitt had recorded the conversation and that DeWitt had recorded the conversation. He said he could not have “blackmailed” DeWitt because he had no idea the conversation was being recorded. She was going to release it.
“Usually when you get into an extortion situation, you say, 'If you do that, you're out.' “He didn't know until the media asked him for comment. He didn't know it was going to be reported,” Lake said. he explained.
“This is a bunch of BS.”
Mr. Lake also alluded to a possibly more incriminating recording of what Mr. DeWitt was saying to himself. “It's like, 'What could be more harmful than a bribe?'” Lake said jokingly. “I mean, what the hell is going on with this guy?”
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