On LindellTV, Patrick Byrne criticizes “completely incompetent” Trump for his “very tepid little weak tea” election inteference speech
Byrne: “It's become clear that Trump is a sellout or weak or feeble or incompetent and isn't able to get done what he should” and his administration is “trying to rescue the machines”
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From the August 10, 2026, edition of LindellTV's The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, streamed on Rumble
PATRICK BYRNE (GUEST): And, yeah, you're going to be seeing — we've been holding a lot in because we thought the administration was going to do their job. But now that it's become clear that Trump is a sellout or weak or feeble or incompetent and isn't able to get done what he should — what should've taken him 30 days, we're just going public with it.
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It's because the federal government is all tangled up in its underwear, and we're tired of waiting for them. I think they're corrupt. Well, I think that they're corrupted. I think the Trump administration, maybe they got caught doing something corrupt. Maybe they're being blackmailed themselves.
But you look at the tepid thing Trump did on July 16, which was kicking the ball — you know, it was a first down, but it was very tepid. You know, they came out and said, well, we acknowledge the CIA knew this when we know for a fact that they know this. We know because we gave them the whistleblowers or the Venezuelans. We know what they know, and they're creating a very tepid little weak tea version of it to sell the public.
That's because they're trying to rescue the machines. They're trying to — this could all have been wrapped up by a competent executive in 30 days. If he'd created a task force, put Mike Flynn in charge, and had Stefanie — well, probably with Kurt Olsen as his number two, Stefanie Lambert handling election 2020, Tim Meisburger handling 2026, an intelligence line of effort and a prosecutorial line of effort, we're going to have people in handcuffs in March of last year.
Instead, Trump has appointed a bunch of his friends and Fox News hosts, and then he gets — I hear he gets mad every three months screaming at people, Why isn't anyone indicted? Why isn't anyone in handcuffs? Well, maybe it's because he keeps appointing, you know, Fox News hosts and people to do things that have never actually prosecuted a jaywalker.
So he's completely incompetent. I've decided, and I'm not hiding anymore. He's completely incompetent. I also think his administration is getting their arm twisted and to stifle these machines. Maybe they're promising Trump something. Like, he gets to use the machines. Who knows? He's got a hedge — he's got a private equity group called 1776. He may think that it's going to end up owning Dominion Liberty. I don't know. But he's being neutralized.
And so the fact that these machines, given what we know that they know, the fact that these machines are still in place is an atrocity against the law. We know that they've sat with the Venezuelans who wrote the code. They've sat with the Venezuelans who talked about all the elections they flipped both in Venezuela and abroad, including the U.S. And instead, they come out last July 16 for this very tepid little report. Well, the CIA knew the Venezuelans were trying to develop some technology. We don't know if they ever succeeded or if they ever flipped their own elections or anywhere else. It's a big —
EMERALD ROBINSON (HOST): Yeah.
BYRNE: — cover up.