Jim Banks and Indiana GOP Leaders Face Backlash Over Sudden Shift Away From Diego Morales

Todd Rokita and Jim Banks have withdrawn their endorsement from Diego Morales. Okay, guys, look, we said today my issue is not that people are teaming up against Diego Morales. All for it all day, every day. Great, love to see it. People are like, why are you so mad? Because these people are the biggest bunch of hypocrites. They treated me. They treated you like complete crap for four years. When we pointed out all this obvious stuff about Diego and now in a couple days time. Oh, yeah, he’s got to go. Never an apology. They let it go on. They let it happen. They knew exactly what he was.

Indiana Republican Leaders Suddenly Turn Against Diego Morales After Years of Defending Him

People were begging Rokita to investigate Diego. You know what he told him? No, it’s out of my purview. I can’t do it. I don’t remember, I don’t have investigative. Now, some guy from Rokita’s office will go to some guy’s house and threaten to indict him. Remember that? Now he’s getting, the guy’s getting sued because of that. He’ll do that. But when it comes to looking into the totally corrupt, unethical secretary of state, nothing. But now, once the election’s about to be lost, all the stuff we said, remember that. You guys remember I went to the Statehouse and passed out information to all the statewide, literally in person, begging them, begging them to do something to help. You guys remember that? We filmed it. I was the only person who was speaking out on this. Conversation I had with Micah Beckwith. I don’t know if I told this on air or not, when the Diego to India stuff surfaced, I called Micah and I said, Micah, you have to look at this. This is before all the stuff on Micah came out very early on. I said, Micah, you have to look into this. You have to do something about this. This is totally corrupt. This is horrible. Like thinking Micah was a good guy and was on our team. And he goes, okay, I’ll get back to you. And then finally, Micah, what did you find out? He goes, I talked to so and so and so and so in the Senate. What did they say? And I’m not going to name them because Micah lies so much. He may have been lying about it. So I won’t even name the senators because maybe they didn’t say it. He goes, I talked to so and so and so and so. What did they say? They said, there’s no there there. I said, what do you mean there’s no there there? The guy went to India. He was there. What do you mean there’s no there there? I got the pictures. No, no. They said there’s no there there. They looked into it. So either Beckwith lied or high ranking, like as in people in charge, swept that one under the rug. Rokita was asked about me begging him to investigate Diego and that trip to India. Nope, not in my purview, but he certainly knew about it. Even if we give Rokita the benefit of the doubt that it wasn’t in his purview. Now, I guess it’s in his purview to have some guy from his office go to a guy’s house and threaten to indict him, which he can’t do. I guess that’s in his purview. But that wasn’t in Rokita’s purview. But they endorsed him. They stood behind him. They gave him money. Rokita gave him five grand while we were begging, do something about this guy. And what did they do? They vilified us. Another example. Up until last week, the column in the Indy Star. These. Oh, I want to say it so bad, Jason said. I’m not allowed to cuss these motherfuckers. You said to say it. They knew and they knew exactly. You told me I could do it. Not ever again. See, you need that guy. And I asked that guy, and he said, hit send. No, that’s what I think of him. They knew exactly what Diego was, and they knew when I was begging them for help. They knew it wasn’t ridiculous. They knew it wasn’t a shock jock. I took it to the inspector general. They knew. And what did they do? They attacked me, knowing what he was.

Critics Accuse GOP Leaders of Protecting Morales Until Election Risks Became Too Serious

And now, today, the hypocrisy of Todd Rokita and Jim Banks for all these years to ignore it. Why? Because it was about the money. And it was about the party. It wasn’t about doing what’s right. It wasn’t about standing up for you, which is what I was begging them to do. The lone voice for all these years, begging people to help us. Me being your voice, ignored. And now today, they didn’t rescind this endorsement because they want him brought to justice, because they want the truth. Let me read you the endorsements. They sent out a joint statement. What a couple of cowards. Couldn’t even do it on their own. They had to do it together. God, these guys are pathetic. Pathetic. Can’t fire me twice. Guys can’t get me fired twice. Unless you guys know the guy who runs YouTube. Then I’ll just go to Rumble like the Michael Scott Paper Company. I’ll start another one. And another one. Here are the statements. I’ll just read it. I don’t want to ever be accused of. Well, Rob manipulated our words. I’ll just read it to you. With Max Engling officially qualifying to serve as Indiana’s next Secretary of State, U.S. Senator Jim Banks and Attorney General Todd Rokita have withdrawn their endorsements of Diego Morales and issued statements on the secretary of state. Both Banks and Rokita are thankful to Diego Morales for his service, but believe Republicans should unite behind the strongest possible nominee to defeat the Democrats this fall. Stop. The strongest possible nominee is a guy who has run for public office once and got his ass kicked. That’s your strongest possible nominee? Oh, and he did run for delegate just a couple of weeks ago. And he lost there, too. So his neighbors don’t like him either. These guys are, it never ends. It never ends with these people. They don’t want the truth about Diego to come out. Why? And I’ve said this for years. The money that touches Diego touches all of them. Don’t quit, Diego. Don’t quit. Don’t wimp out. Don’t let them throw you out like garbage, like they do everyone else. You fight to the end, man. They don’t want the truth to come out about Diego, because the truth may very well implicate many of the people that have been behind Diego. To what extent? I don’t know, but look at the money. Just follow the money. You don’t have to take my word for it. These campaign finance forms are public. And by the way, we all know Engling wasn’t their first choice. I know I talked to delegates and who they were recruiting. What do you think of? I told you the other day, what do you think about this person? I kept saying, broken record, I don’t like any of these people. Well, what? But I thought, no, I said I’m not. No, no no more. Don’t ask me who I like. I don’t like any of them because they all stab everybody in the back. Engling wasn’t even their first choice and they know it, I know it.

Jim Banks and Todd Rokita Face Backlash Over Contradictory Statements on Morales

God, even when they’re forced to kick him off the ballot or try. God, that’d be the funniest thing ever. If he runs and wins, that would be. He might as well just anoint himself Governor Diego. You could be the governor. Don’t give up. They’re admitting what he is. And then they won’t. That’s how little they care about you. That’s how little they care about your money and the caretaking of the government that they’re responsible for. We thank him for his service. Well, why isn’t he the best nominee? Here’s what Banks said. Max Engling is a key member of my team and will make a great secretary of state. Max is a strong conservative who will keep our elections safe and secure, support for small businesses and farmers, and he will win in November. He has my full support. Oh wait wait wait wait wait. Up up up up up up up. Let’s go back in the time machine. I believe this was just a few months ago, in fact. Here’s what Jim said about Diego then. Diego Morales has been focused for four years on making our elections in Indiana safe and secure. Here’s what he said about Max. Max is a strong conservative who will keep our elections safe and secure. He’s literally hitting copy and paste. Can’t you just see Jim copying and pasting? You are so pathetic, Jim Banks. You are an embarrassing joke. And that pains me to say because I used to really like you, and I used to believe in you when you used to come on when I was the fill in guy on WIBC and I’d interview you. I said, that’s a guy, man. That’s a guy. What a pathetic, pathetic, embarrassing joke you are. He’s literally hitting copy and paste. He understands that protecting our elections by stopping illegal immigrants from voting is fundamental to our country. This is what he said about Diego Morales not all that long ago. He is a conservative, supports President Trump, and is a tireless advocate for Hoosiers. He has my full support and endorsement. He even ended it the same. He has my full and total support. So I guess Jim Banks’ full and total support lasts what, Jim, a month, two months? Man, if Jim Banks owes you money, I’d be really worried because his idea of full and total is like a month. God, what a pathetic joke. Let’s see what Todd had to say. Rokita. I have spoken with Diego. The Secretary of State’s office is too important to be lost to out of touch left wing Democrats who put Hoosiers last. To that end, I have asked Diego to suspend his campaign. Or at least with Rokita, he called him out and said, quit. At least it wasn’t some mealy mouthed copy and paste bullcrap. You can always count on Rokita to bring some smoke. With so many self-inflicted wounds and issues, I now do not believe he can win in November. What self-inflicted issues, Todd? I thought there was no there there with the India story. I thought there was no there there when Casey Hendrickson asked you about it, you just pushed that aside. Well, what are the self-inflicted wounds, Todd? Because you had four years to talk about the self-inflicted wounds. In fact, remember I dropped that letter off to your office. What was that? Has that been a year and a half ago now? A year and a half ago. I think we filmed us talking to your guy. Proof. You got it right. I think that’s on the video. And you know what your guy did. And we think we told this story at the time. He basically nodded along with us because everybody in that Statehouse knew what a complete joke it was. I went over to Elliott’s office that day. They laughed about it, too, the guys, the lunch club that used to work with Elliott. They know what he is and thought it was a big joke. Everybody thought it was fun and games that Rob Kendall was out trying to get the truth. Ha ha ha. Yeah, Diego is a piece of shit. Hope it works out for you. No one would help. No one. I was so desperate to get the truth and get to the bottom of it and stop it. Remember, I was willing to broadcast. We were going to broadcast outside Diego’s office. No one helped. What are the issues, Todd? What are the self-inflicted wounds? I have put an enormous amount of work into successfully implementing a Hoosier first agenda as attorney general and as Secretary of State. Republican delegates successfully faced this scenario in 2020, when I was elected with the largest number of votes in Indiana candidate history. After taking on a flawed incumbent. Oh, he’s going after Curtis Hill. Todd. Todd turned a flip flop on a Diego endorsement into how great he is. And he’s going after Curtis Hill. Yes, yes, this is great. This is awesome. You guys are the worst. You guys are the most just pathetic, shameless, cowardly people walking the face of the earth. Notice none of them. None of them will tell you what Diego did. None of them will tell you what the self-inflicted wounds are. None of them will demand an open criminal investigation. None of them will demand an investigation from the inspector general. None of them, because they don’t want the truth to come out. They want him to go away because that’s how they do it in the Statehouse. I know. I was there when Dwayne Sawyer got thrown out by Pence. I know how they operate. They bully, they intimidate. They make you think nobody’s there with you, Diego. You already got all these people. Half the state has no idea the crap you’ve pulled. Don’t quit. Don’t give these people the win. Don’t give it to them. You’ve worked too hard with many of these people, fully aware of the scheming and scheming you’ve done, to just give up. And what about your donors? What about your felon friend, Diego? You know, your felon friend, the guy you went to the ball game with. You think he’s gonna just accept you going away? My God, these people. This is the Republican Party. And again, the crazy thing about all of this, their new golden boy is a guy. Let me read you the vote total for the time Max ran for public office. Let me read you guys this vote total. This is their golden boy. This was 2024 Republican congressional primary. Victoria Spartz, first place, 31,674 votes. 39% of the vote. Second. Third place, Max Engling, 7,841 votes, 9.7% of the vote. She got four times the votes he did. And people hate Victoria Spartz. She’s hated by a huge portion of that district. She got four times the votes he did. Engling barely beat Raju. Now, in fairness, Raju appeared to turn his loss in the congressional primary into a very handsome state contract with Diego. Raju was not going to take anything lying down. Raju. Raju with the red, white and blue. Hey, who paid for India, Diego? This is their golden boy. This is the most qualified man in the state to be the Secretary of State. Some guy who his own neighbors were like. No, thanks. By the way, Rob Kendall, full disclosure. Rob Kendall has run for delegate once and was easily elected. Undefeated my first and only delegate venture. Undefeated. This is like we are just in the, remember the Jon Lovitz character on Saturday Night Live, the pathological liar, where he would just say the ridiculous things and then he was like, yeah, that’s the ticket. Yeah, that’s who these people are. That’s Rokita. Rokita and Banks should have had to end those statements with yeah, that’s the ticket. Yeah. Or there used to be a, was it Tim Wilson used to do a character, the comedian Tim Wilson on Bob and Tom, Uncle BS. Or Uncle BS where he would make up stories about places he was, famous events in history. Like he would put himself in, you know, working at the School Book Depository in Dallas, 1963. Just hilarious stories. That’s who these guys are. They’re the pathological liar Jon Lovitz character or Uncle BS or like some sort of hybrid. God, you guys are just pathetic. And they’re going to get away with it because Diego’s not nearly strong enough to stay in, because Diego’s always been a fraud. Diego has always been a fraud, and everyone’s known it. Look, I’m not telling anybody how to run their campaigns, but if Ballard and By let the Republicans get away with this, we all know the Bys know the truth about Diego. Just unleash it. Don’t let him get away with it. Don’t let him go away. Make Diego the issue. God, these people. Man, I got into politics, and I guess I never saw myself getting into politics. I saw myself into government because I believed the good that government can do. I believed in the difference you can make as a part of the system. I believed that there would be people in there with me who had those same beliefs and that above all else, we would do what was right over what was easy, and that you enter in because you want to make a difference. You will give of yourself. You will give of yourself to make everybody else’s life better. And yet here we sit today for four years. Name them. All of them. Nieshalla. Elliott. Braun. Micah. Rokita. Banks. Andrew Ireland. Pick your favorite rep or senator or your least favorite rep or senator. The only people that tried to hold Diego accountable were the Democrats. People like Ed Delaney, state rep from Indianapolis. These people are Diego. Everything they claim to be worried or upset about. They caused. They have known what he was since before he was elected. You guys remember I was screaming about Diego before he was ever elected. And they know deep down we haven’t even scratched the surface on Diego. If you’re Boe By, you have an obligation not to let the story go away. Don’t let him get away with it. They’re not trying to fix the government. They’re not trying to stop Diego. They’re trying to save themselves. They’re trying to stop Greg Ballard from getting 10% of the vote. That’s what this is about. Everything I wrote in that Star article, every word of it is true. And they knew it when I wrote it. And they’re playing it out right now. Everything I wrote was true. Everything I’ve said about Diego has been true. Diego Morales disappeared to a foreign country for ten days as the Secretary of State. He will not tell people what he did there. He will not tell people specifically who he met with, what they discussed. What we know has come from people who stooged on him, Indians who stooged on him and posted photos. He will not tell you who paid for the trip. What we do know is that his friend Raju has a mysterious 80 or had. And his mysterious $80,000 contract with the state. I won’t tell you what he did. When I asked Diego when he had his meltdown in Clay County, he started shouting that he checked on the businesses, and I asked what that meant and I couldn’t get an answer. We know Raju went on that trip with him to India and was bragging about selling visa access in the same city we know Diego met with the mayor. We also know that a venture capitalist went with them. And everybody knows about the venture capitalist and all the red flags there. And yet, for a year and a half, every person I went to, every person in a position of authority who had the ability to do something about this, to get to the bottom of it, to find out exactly. I mean, they know, right? I know they know. They know a lot more than I know. I’m sure. They did nothing. They did nothing.

Growing Questions About India Trip, State Contracts, and Hiring Practices Continue to Shadow Indiana GOP

And now we have a secretary of state who travels all over the world doing who knows what, because there’s a lot more than just the India trip. There’s what, a trip to Germany, trip to, is it Hungary, that were previous to India. And now we find out that this guy, it appears, had a non-citizen as his deputy chief of staff, who. We don’t know how she got the job or what she did. And her work record appears to include work for the Pacers, Fever and Miami Dolphins. And now it appears this person has disappeared. And we’re just going to brush it off and go, ah, Diego’s a fine guy, but he’s got some issues. Ah, you know, he’s got some. He’s got no, he’s got scandals because he’s corrupt. He’s corrupt. If you vote for Max Engling at that convention, you are voting for the people who have hid Diego’s corruption. That’s who you’re supporting. If you’re a delegate and you vote for Max Engling, you are voting for the people who covered up Diego’s corruption and his unethical behavior, at the very least by their silence, and they allowed it to happen. We deserve the truth about Diego. We deserve the truth, and we’re not going to get it. They’re going to sweep it under the rug. All the stuff these Republicans bitch about, like the Biden crime syndicate and the Clintons and all this, they’re the same. Both parties are exactly the same. They do the same stuff. It’s all about them and their power. It’s not about us. It’s about you. It’s not about our country. It’s not about our state. It’s not about the betterment of the people. I look back on when I got into this, I think how stupid I was to think that you could make a difference. I think that one person could change all this. This is. Every time I think these guys can’t get any worse, they’re like, oh, no, no, we totally can get worse. Just watch us. Give us a moment. We’ll show you. So, there you are. Rokita and Banks.