Indiana GOP Leaders Accused of Hiding Diego Morales Scandals Until Election Threat Became Too Dangerous

This is like one of those days where there’s so many big stories. I don’t even know what the lead story actually is. I mean, I know what the lead topic is, like, I know what the big topic is, but there’s so many stories inside the lead story, the lead topic, it’s like, which one do I even pick first? And of course, all of this is about, I mean, it’s about the Indiana Secretary of State. And this is a massive story because next to the governor, the Indiana Secretary of State is probably the second most important office in the state of Indiana. When you think about all of the things that the Indiana Secretary of State oversees, all of the things that he has or she has had before, Diego, immense power over, it’s a huge deal. Everything from businesses to elections serves or is housed under the Secretary of State’s office. And for four years we have had an unethical, corrupt sleaze bucket in that office. And everyone in that Statehouse has known what he is. Everyone in the Republican Party has known what he is, and everyone in the Republican Party in that Statehouse has turned a blind eye to it. That’s the story, that everyone has known what he is, and it was all fun and games until the other day, and all of a sudden, in a unified voice, the party structure, the power brokers and then their minions, their hangers on started talking about how we gotta ditch Diego.

Indiana Republican Leadership Suddenly Moves Against Diego Morales After Years of Silence

All the damage that this guy has done for the past four years. Look, for me, stopping Diego wasn’t about politics. It was about our state. It was about this guy who is in charge of all of these things, who has access to all of this stuff, should not be in this position. Here’s the things he’s doing. You guys remember a year ago, a year and a half ago now on video, I went to the Statehouse and turned in essentially a one page to every statewide office holder, begging them to do something about Diego. Not that they didn’t already know it, but to try to draw publicity to it and say, here’s the stuff, guys. Can someone please help me? Primarily, it’s centered around the India trip. Will someone please look into this? Will someone please hold a press conference? Will someone please draw some attention to this? You know how many people did something about it? No one. None of them. None of them. That day, the next week, the entire next year and a half. And now, in a unified voice, they’re calling for Diego to step down. They’re going after Diego. They’re gaslighting you. Everything they’re doing now or all the stuff they’re talking about now, they knew about a year ago. They knew about two years ago. They knew about four years ago. Now, some of the stuff he’s done since then. But the general premise of who he is and what he spent his time doing, they’ve known about it. They’re not after the truth. They’re not after accountability. They’re not after justice. You know, it’s not one of them is demanding Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears launch an investigation into fill in the blank. They don’t want accountability for us. They want Diego to go away. Including the scandals that he’s been involved in to go away. And they want to go about their business. And their business is money and power. Their business is money and power and control. If they were serious about accountability, if they were serious about you, about me, they would have been demanding this two years ago, three years ago, a year ago. They didn’t because they don’t care. He’s just a headache now. And they’ve recognized. These people have recognized, oh, crap. Rob was right. We are going to lose this office if this guy is the nominee. We are going to lose the office. We are going to have Ballard blow past that 10%, and now we’ll have a new political party to have to deal with who will pull votes from us.

Critics Say GOP Officials Ignored Morales Controversies Until Election Risks Became Serious

So I really struggled because there were so many things that happened yesterday. And I think over all of it, each the individual things that we’ll talk about today, the gaslighting is the story. The same people who I, who you begged to do something about Diego and did nothing. Now stand on some phony fake moral high horse. The same people who not only did nothing, they endorsed Diego. The same people who, when they were asked to do something about Diego, not only did nothing, they scoffed at it. Todd Rokita, now they’re very concerned and they believe. And it really is putting a magnifying glass on how stupid they think you are. They think you’re so stupid that you won’t notice how they did nothing for years. They think you’re so stupid that you won’t notice how just a couple months ago, some of these same people endorsed Diego. They think you’re so stupid that you’ll just forget about it. Hey, we’ll throw our next guy in there and you’ll just eat whatever crap sandwich we serve you and we can go back to business as usual. Micah told me a year and a half ago. Oh, I talked to the senators, some of the top senators. They said there’s no there, there. I said, what do you mean there’s no there there? There’s clearly there there. The guy’s in a foreign country for ten days. He won’t tell you who paid for it. I know his buddy with the state contract is there bragging about selling visa access with him. That’s there. No, no, no, there’s no there there. Someone should ask Micah Beckwith if now he thinks there’s a there there. Daniel Elliot. That day that I dropped off those letters, he was the one statewide who was there. He thought it was funny. He laughed about it. Him and his little lunch club workers. Him and his lunch club buddies who I still don’t know what a lot of those guys ever did for the state other than follow him around. One of the last times on WIBC when Elliot came to do an interview, I told him, I said, if you bring the lunch club guys, we’re not doing the interview. Leave them there. At least let me in my mind pretend they may be working on our behalf. I call them the lunch club guys because some of them are very well fed fellas. They thought it was funny. Oh, now, Daniel Elliot, we’ll talk about what he said yesterday. He’s a real Billy Badass. Diego must resign. By the way, Elliot alluded yesterday that this woman, this Elina Kupce, not just a noncitizen, but here illegally. I’ll read you his quote later. Daniel Elliot laughed at me or laughed at the situation when I brought it to him a year and a half ago, to my face. Him and his lunch club workers. Now, oh, now he’s very concerned. And I’ve had many fine conversations with Daniel Elliott, and I think he’s done some nice things as treasurer. But the audacity of Daniel Elliott to now come out and act like he’s concerned when it was a big joke. Hey, look, Rob will go get him. I told everyone these people like, I don’t have any power over this. I can shine a light on it. And naively I was like, hey, can you guys do something about this? Nobody did anything. Nothing, nothing, nothing. I filed a formal complaint with the inspector general last year. I don’t know what ever happened to that. This was not a game to me, guys. I used my platform to try to draw attention to it, which it worked. But it wasn’t a game to me. The end result wasn’t a game to me that I believed for the past four years there potentially was an office for sale scheme going on in the Secretary of State’s office. It wasn’t funny to me. It wasn’t funny to me that Diego Morales goes to the NBA finals and pals around with a high profile, known felon, along with our lieutenant governor who went down for federal bribery charges. Not funny to me. Not funny, not a game. Not funny to me that the Secretary of State, who has personal information on millions of Hoosiers and Hoosier businesses, disappears to a foreign country for ten days, India, and won’t tell us what he did there, won’t tell us who paid for the trip. What we do know is his buddy Raju, who had an $80,000 taxpayer contract, taxpayer funded contract, who they won’t tell you what he did was there with him bragging about selling visa access in the same city Diego met with the mayor. When there is zero reason, based on the job of Secretary of State, that Diego Morales would be in India or Germany or any of these other countries that he went to. Oh, and yeah, a guy with tons of red flags, a venture capitalist who everybody knows about, was there as well. Not funny to me, but it was funny to Daniel Elliott and Rokita and Banksy and Braun and Micah and the rest of these people who had an ability to do something about it, did nothing. So no, I’m not letting them get away with. They may get away with it everywhere else, but not here. And that’s why you come here for the truth you’re not going to get anywhere else with these guys. Some outrage now, a few weeks before their convention about the behavior of Diego. Because they own him. They are him. You hold the mirror up. They’re all standing right next to each other because they let him get away with it. Everyone in that Statehouse let Diego get away with it. They all knew what he was. Jim Banks let him get away with it. He knew what he was. So yesterday, Banks came out because, of course, he’s the most hypocritical of them all. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the most hypocritical of them all? It’s Jim Banks. Now we all know what this is about. The dark money, the Banks affiliated dark money group, getting those senators elected in the primary. And this move now is about Jim Banks taking over the Republican Party. Look, well, let’s read some of the quotes. Let’s start with this. So Banks yesterday, according to Nikki Kelly, claimed that officially, I guess in an official voice, that Elina Kupce was indeed not a citizen of this country. Of course, for those of you who are new, welcome, by the way, if you’re new, welcome. Thank you for being here with us. We hope you stay. We hope you’ll tell your friends. Elina Kupce is this mysterious woman who has seemingly been scrubbed off the internet for the most part, who somehow rose to being Diego Morales’ deputy chief of staff, who was making $160,000 a year, according to Abdul’s reporting, who had no seeming qualification whatsoever for that position. Her track record, including working for the Miami Dolphins, Indiana Fever and the Pacers, according to Abdul and driver’s license records, appeared to show allegedly she was a noncitizen. I guess I can drop the allegedly now, according to what Jim Banks said yesterday. And if she’s got a problem with that, take it up with Banks. And it’s been radio silence since this reporting came out from Abdul that she was also registered to vote, by the way. The woman has seemingly disappeared and Diego won’t comment on it. Here’s what Jim Banks said yesterday, according to Nicky Kelly, quote, Diego worked hard. So Banks. See, Banks is trying to explain away the fact that he gave the glowing endorsement of Diego a couple months ago. This wasn’t a year, two years ago. It wasn’t even a year ago. It was not that long ago. Even if it was a year ago, it wouldn’t make it any better. All the stuff was already out on Diego, and Banks endorsed him anyway. Why? Because he’s a big joke to these people. It was about the office and the power and the money. And when you look at all the money that came into Diego, the amount of money that comes in from Diego, and in some cases, some of the people that are giving to Diego, a lot of that money flows back to other politicians. That’s why they wouldn’t take on Diego, the money. So Banks now has to explain away the fact that not that long ago he gave the glowing endorsement to Diego. But now he’s not only flip flopped and unendorsed Diego and is endorsing his minion Engling, who works for him, he’s got to, like, explain why that would happen, right? And he can’t just do, I mean, overall, he can’t do the me so stupid routine because everybody has known for years what human trash Diego is. So he had to come up with something to hang his hat on. Here’s what he decided. Quote, Diego worked hard and did many good things, but he lied to me about hiring a noncitizen as his chief of staff who illegally registered to vote. So I withdrew my endorsement and recruited a stronger candidate who can win in November. Okay, so here’s, well, first of all, let’s start with this because there’s a ton of problems with this. And see, the issue with guys like Banksy, Jimbo. He doesn’t know what people have told me, right. I said this for years on a radio show. It’s like, how does Kendall get all this stuff right? How does he get it? First, because the people who work around these politicians hate them. They know what frauds they are. These people need checks and I don’t blame them, right? They got to feed their family, but it doesn’t mean they have to tolerate the hypocrisy, the lies, the gaslighting. So they tell me stuff. See, the problem with a guy like Jim Banks is he is so used. See, Biden did this for years. Biden lied so much and got away with it. You know, the stories about the Amtrak. Like this is just ridiculous stories. Nobody ever held him to account. That’s why he couldn’t. I mean, he was also a mental vegetable in 24, but he couldn’t respond when people started holding him accountable for his lies because nobody had ever held him to account before. He just got away with it. The problem with Banks is he has no idea what people have told me, so he just lies and assumes he’s going to get away with the lie, which he does most places. Not here, because I don’t want to be friends with these people. I don’t want anything from these people. I don’t like these people. Accountability for you is all that matters to me. The problem, first of all, let’s just start from what everyone would know, right? So Jim Banks is trying to say the noncitizen who had illegally registered to vote was what did it in for him. It wasn’t the ten day trip to India or the guy blew off his budget hearing. It wasn’t refusing to say who paid for the trip. It wasn’t the mysterious $80,000 contract to his buddy Raju who is in India selling the visa access. It wasn’t Diego palling around with the high profile known felon who went down for federal bribery charges. It wasn’t the $90,000 car. It wasn’t using state resources to film a campaign commercial and refusing to take it down. It wasn’t the massive no bid contracts to huge donors to his campaign. No, no, no, that didn’t faze Jim Banks in the least, because all of that stuff was known, for the most part when Banks made his endorsement of Diego. No, no. That didn’t. And it wasn’t even like Banks is one of these guys like Elliott, who just turned a blind eye to it. Guys like Elliott piss me off because they’re hypocrites because they play this government watchdog tough guy routine, but then laughed at me when I brought him the stuff on Diego. Well, good luck, Rob. Hope it works out for you. No, no, no, I’m here because I need you to help me. I don’t have any power. I don’t have any power over anyone. That’s why I’m here, begging you. You think it was fun for me to waste hours out of my day to type the thing up, to walk it over to be laughed at? You think that’s funny? No. Not funny. Guys like Elliott piss me off because they’re hypocrites. Because they play the tough guy routine and then don’t do anything. And then after everyone else has already piled on, we’ll get to Elliott later. They’re like, oh yeah, he should resign. He should resign. But at least Elliott didn’t endorse the guy. He was smart enough to keep his, not even arm’s length, right. Football field’s length between himself and the guy. Banks endorsed him. Banks knew all this stuff and endorsed him. And now we’re led to believe that of all the crap Diego pulled, it was the noncitizen working for him that did it in. BS. The other problem, and this is where see these guys lie and they don’t know what I know, and recruited a stronger candidate who can win in November. Here’s the problem with all of this. The Elina Kupce story didn’t break until the first of this week. The Elina Kupce story didn’t come out until early this week from Abdul. By the way, Abdul got it all right. For all these people who want to crap all over Abdul, he got it all right. According to what Banks just said, Abdul was 100% right. He wasn’t first. He just was the first to put it out, but the Elina Kupce story in full detail didn’t come out until the first of this week. As soon as convention, as soon as delegates were elected to the convention, multiple people started calling me, asking about who I thought should run. And of course, I told you guys, I was like, nope. The one person I was like, call Tony Katz. He’s always kind of said he wanted to be a politician. Maybe he might take it. Maybe he does wish he did now. But that was a joke. I mean, not a joke. I think Katz would run for secretary of state if he thought he could win. But I told these people, and I told all of them the same thing. No, no, no, no, no, don’t call me anymore. I’m not taking any blame for any of these people. And I hate all of them. After Micah and Braun were done here. But all of these delegates, all of them, the multiple ones who called me, who are very connected in the party, who are asking about this, floated the name Max Engling. Well, the Elina Kupce story didn’t break until two weeks after the election, right? The election was on, what was it? Was it May the 5th was our election day. The Kupce story broke the 17th or 18th, 18th or 19th. So that’s two weeks. Max Engling’s name was floated by multiple people. This is important, guys. Time matters. In these conversations I was having by multiple people, Max Engling is a nobody. Or at least he was until he became the anointed one. He’s just some guy who got smoked running for Congress a couple of years ago, and some guy who lost his delegate race. And yet, from multiple mouths, the name Max Engling came out. And I thought it was very odd because they were like, what do you think about Max Engling? I was like, you mean the dude that got smoked running for Congress? That was my thing back to some of these people. That’s what I knew him as. You mean the guy who works for Banks who got smoked running for Congress? Yeah, yeah. What do you think about him? And I gave the same answer that I’ve given for years. Well, an aged potato skin would be better than Diego. But why him? So the problem becomes Banks is claiming that Kupce was the reason that he withdrew his endorsement. That Diego lied to him about her being a noncitizen, so not. And by the way, I guess that’s news that not only do we, is there now affirmation that Abdul’s reporting was 100% correct, but that Diego was lying to people about it because to the public, Diego hasn’t said anything. See, all these stories all start to fall apart. See how these guys always just get away with it? Because who else would be able to give this information to you guys? And by the way, please, guys, help me. Tell all your friends about this. We grow organically every day. This stuff’s important. Nobody else is telling you what we’re telling you right now. Nobody else is telling you what we’re telling you right now. Because nobody else has the information that I have. So the problem with Banks’ story is, well, I withdrew the endorsement because of Kupce. Diego lied to me about Elina Kupce, which means he asked and Diego lied. Which would mean Diego told him, I guess the lie would be she was a citizen. We don’t know. We’re not privileged to that. Diego hasn’t said anything publicly. His office hasn’t responded at all to Abdul, other than the basic personnel information confirmations where they were required to give it. But let’s take Banks at his word that he had the conversation with Diego. That would mean Diego lied to him and said she was a citizen. The problem is Max Engling, who is a complete nobody to the general public, who’s only run for office, was a joke and an embarrassment against Victoria Spartz, who’s a horrible candidate. Victoria Spartz lost 40% of the vote this most recent election in the primary against a guy with no name and no money. It had Banks behind him, the Banks name, and got smoked by Spartz and got smoked by Chuck Goodrich. He got smoked by multiple people in that primary. So you’ve got Banks claiming he recruited Engling, okay. And that it was Elina Kupce that did it for him. Diego lying about Elina Kupce, his citizen status. By the way, you think Jim Banks didn’t know when whatever conversation he had with Diego, what her citizen status was? He’s a senator. He’s a U.S. senator. Get out of here. I don’t believe that happened for a second. I believe he knew immediately what her citizenship status was. And the problem is that Banks claims he recruited Engling, but the Elina Kupce story didn’t break until this week. And two weeks ago, people were telling me about Engling running potentially for secretary of state. So these two things can’t both be true. Which leads me to, I think these guys knew about Elina Kupce for a long time. Elina Kupce been on that payroll for two years. Elina Kupce been on that payroll for two years. She rose to, according to Abdul’s reporting, I think it was May of 24. She was hired in October of 23, I think was the timeline. She rose to deputy chief of staff in May of 24. Nobody said anything for two years. I think Banks, and I think Rokita and some of these other guys have known about Elina Kupce for a long time. And they said, we’re going to hold on to this because nobody knows what this woman did. And I’m going to now. And by the way, I’m going to bring you to, I didn’t intend to do this as fast because I want to crap all over Daniel Elliott later. I’ll come back to this. Here’s what Elliott said yesterday. The treasurer, by the way, Elliott has called not only on Diego to drop out of the race, but also resign the office. Well, why Dan? It was all jokes a year and a half ago. Why, Dan? Why does he need to resign the office? It was all funny when I went to a year and a half ago begging you and your lunch club buddies, your well fed lunch club friends that did, who knows what for you, I don’t know. I don’t know, nobody knows what they did other than eat a lot and follow you around. Here’s what Elliott said. This is part of his quote. We’ve watched the Secretary of State’s office struggle through corruption and scandals. Really? Oh, now we’re admitting India is corruption and scandal. Dan, it was a joke a year and a half ago. Funny, isn’t it? Now it’s a corruption and scandal. Or were there others? Or is that part of the corruption and scandal? I don’t know. Then his own chief of staff was here illegally. Now, wait a second. Whoa whoa whoa, whoa. Someone not being a citizen is not here illegally. There’s lots of people. The Republicans love them. They bring people in on these HB one visas, these other visas that get these temporary status. You know, Dan, the Republicans and the IEDC, they give money to corporations to bring these people in all the time who aren’t citizens. Maybe Dan needs a reminder. Being a noncitizen doesn’t mean you’re here illegally. Republicans pay in this state or Republicans forced taxpayers in this state to pay for them to come in all the time through the IEDC. There’s a huge difference between being a noncitizen and being here illegally. But Elliott has insinuated that she’s here illegally. Those are his words. We’ve watched the SOS office struggle through corruption and scandals. Then his own chief of staff was here illegally. Which comes back to what we had mentioned the other day. There is a massive rumor that this woman overstayed her visa, that she wasn’t just a noncitizen, that she had overstayed her visa and was in the country illegally, which Daniel Elliott appears to confirm right here. No news outlet has confirmed this, but Elliott alludes to it right here. So, Dan, what do you know? And if Elliott knows it, I don’t think for a second Banks and Rokita didn’t know it. You think a U.S. senator if the state treasurer knew it? Oh, right. But you got to really have background information that most people don’t that I do. So see, when these guys. This is why I’ve said this for years. Guys, let them talk. That’s the key. That was what our show was always about, making these guys talk. And my dad said, this is all credit to my dad. My dad, when I was a kid, I used to like, my dad was a federal law enforcement officer. And he dealt with some of the worst, most rotten people imaginable. And he always used to tell me he would say stuff, and I’d say, do you think they were lying to you? He said, oh, yes. And I said, well, how did you know? He said, because they were talking, because people lie all the time. He said, the key was you always had to keep these people talking because the more they talked, they didn’t know what information he had as an investigator, and the more they would talk, the more he would be able to catch them in lies because they didn’t know what information he had. And that’s what our show has always been about. That’s why they hate us. They never know what we have, and the more we keep them talking, the more we catch them in these, well, if not outright lies, just discrepancies. Right? So, Daniel Elliot, did you mean to say that Elina Kupce was in this country illegally? And if that’s accurate, how did you get that information? And if the state treasurer has that information, then are we led to believe that we don’t think that the U.S. senator and the Attorney General also had that information? Someone needs to ask Daniel Elliot, would you like to clarify, was that just a slip of the tongue or I guess a slip of the keyboard because it was on social media. I mean, he typed it out. He thought enough to type it out and hit send. So we’ll operate until we’re told otherwise by Dan Elliott that he has information that this woman was here illegally, which has anyone, has anyone foundElina Kupce? Has she commented again? Very hard to find on the internet if you look her up. Which is also kind of weird, right? If someone has been in this country for 20 years, which she has, just a, whether citizen or not, if you’re, you know, operating in a legal status, isn’t it weird that there’s really no record? And by the way, what did Elina Kupce do for Diego Morales? Like, this is the thing that I’ve always laughed at with these, with someone that rises to a level of deputy chief of staff. I’ve worked in the state auditor’s office. I was not a deputy chief of staff. But you tend to know with the other state agencies who the people are that have sort of the same title as you. Like you get to know them. You would know from the auditor’s office the same. Like I knew the people in the Treasurer’s office who did the same things as me. I knew the people in the Attorney General’s office who did the same things as me. I knew the people in the Secretary of State’s office who did the same things as me. I was not a chief of staff. But you get to know these people. You mean to tell me someone who was the deputy chief of staff and the other deputy chiefs of staff or chiefs of staff for, like Rokita, weren’t like, who the hell is this woman? What does she do? How did you get this job? And you mean to tell me that Rokita, who lives on dirt on other people, those people weren’t looking into who is this woman around Diego? They’re going to let Todd endorse this guy. And they didn’t know who this woman was. What did she do for two years? How did she elevate from working for the Miami Dolphins and the Pacers and the Fever to the deputy chief of staff for the Secretary of State? I think, and I’m going on the timeline of what people, the life experience that I have lived, because I knew about Elina Kupce weeks ago and was going through my process, what I was trying to prove and why I waited to report the story. I had all the evidence Abdul did, all the documents Abdul did. I had them too. And by the way, I got mine from very high ranking people in state government. Very high. Which means they knew about it, too. It was known in the Statehouse. The documents Abdul used to run the story, and I don’t mind telling you guys I was waiting to do mine until I could prove if she was a legal U.S. citizen or not, whether she was still legally in the country, which I still don’t know. I mean, Elliott appears right here to say she was illegal. That’s the story, media. Not only was she a noncitizen, according to our treasurer, she was illegally in the country. I’m not saying she was, because I wasn’t able to prove it. Before Abdul ran the story, Abdul was at Statehouse Happenings or his interview said he was still looking into that. You think a U.S. senator wouldn’t know? You think a U.S. senator wouldn’t be able to figure out whether some woman. The immigration status of someone like that, guys like that. You think Rokita, the Attorney General, who even if, even if the Attorney General couldn’t do it, which he could, he would be able to. But even if the Attorney General wouldn’t do, a former U.S. congressman who has all sorts of connections in Washington and with the Trump administration, couldn’t figure out whether this woman was in the country legally, not just whether she was a noncitizen? We appear to know that now. That’s bad enough. Whether this woman was in the country legally or not. So you’ve got the Elina Kupce story somehow surfacing two weeks ago, two-ish weeks ago at the same time, but not to the public, right? Behind the scenes. This is how these things work, guys. When you see a story of this magnitude, it doesn’t. It is not overnight. It is pushed out the way these things work. And look, I think about this now and I’m not convinced they weren’t floating Engling out there with this Elina Kupce thing to say, what will Kendall say if this is the guy we go with? Will this get him off our ass? And my issue with Engling is not whether he would be better than Diego. A broom would be better than Diego. It’s that these guys are trying to sweep Diego under the rug. You know, like in the movie where the plot, like the thing gets revealed. Like, remember in Sixth Sense where he finally figures out that he’s dead and then he starts reviewing everything that happened? I was talking with someone who’s digging into this last night and we were working through this. And by the way, this is how this works, guys. This is one of the cool things about this story. It gives me an opportunity without, you know, burning sources, revealing sources to tell you how these things work. And so what happens is these stories get pushed out to what they think will be friendly media. Hey, not even whether they’re friends with you, they’re not friends with me. But it’s like, would Kendall run with this? Who hates Diego enough to run on this? Let’s push it out to those people. And then if they get their response, then they’re done with it. But they also then start pushing it out to other people, which they did. I talked to multiple people before the Elina Kupce story broke through Abdul, who were looking into it. I told you guys that when the story came out, the story was being pushed. At the same time, the name Max Engling started surfacing from delegates. One delegate asked me very directly, what do you think about Max Engling? Like what a random name. They were also pushing the bigger names, right? Andrew Ireland was pushed. Hell, they were talking about Guy Relford at one point. That’s one of the other names that got thrown out there. But there were all these names and then Max Engling, and they asked me very specifically, what do you think about Max Engling? And so like in the movie, if it’s in the movie now and you’re starting to see like Sixth Sense where he’s like, oh my gosh, all these things happen. You’ve got the name Max Engling surfacing behind the scenes at the same time, the Elina Kupce story surfaces behind the scenes. And you’ve got Jim Banks on the record, according to Nicky Kelly saying, yeah, it was the Elina Kupce story and Diego lying to me about her citizenship status that did it in. And so I recruited another candidate.

Questions Grow About Elina Kupce, Jim Banks, and What Party Leaders Knew Behind the Scenes

Guys, I think Rokita and Banks, I think they’ve known about this woman for a long time. I think they’ve known Diego Morales at best, at best, had a noncitizen working in a very high position in his office for a long time. Remember how I’ve told you guys this for years, right? Everything these people do is about leverage. Everything. It’s why once you give in, once you make a mistake, they own you. It’s what happened to Micah. Micah went in. Now Micah is a piece of trash. But Micah went in and got roped into the temptations of the office. The first sin. He bought the car. I’ll never forget Micah calling me, going, hey, would it be a big deal if I spent $87,000 on a car long before the media knew about it? And my direct response to him as my mouth hit the floor was, you mean you spent $87,000 on a car, or you’re considering spending $87,000 on a car? No, I spent $87,000 on a car. And I said, yes. And you better come up with an answer for it, because it’s going to be a huge deal when the media figures it out.

Political Pressure Campaign Against Morales Reveals Deeper Indiana Statehouse Power Structure

These people leverage, and once they have something on you, they own you because if they think you need the position or you need the power, you’ll do whatever they say to hang on to it. It’s all they do. It’s the mafia. And so I think now, based on my own experience, that Rokita and Banks and probably others knew about Elina Kupce for a long time. And I think they held that in their back pocket, that we will tolerate this guy for as long as we can until we believe he is such a liability, because they don’t want to burn Diego. And we’re going to talk about Diego’s response to them coming up here in just a little bit, which was awesome. Hey, I’m going to say something nice about Diego. The Diego response was great. The reason they had to treat Diego with kid gloves was the money. The amount of money that flows into Diego that touches all of these other politicians, and they couldn’t risk it. And they were hoping against hope that either these stories wouldn’t surface or that the media would move on, or that Diego would get his act together or whatever, I don’t know. I don’t know, but they finally reached a point where they were like, he gots to go because we’re going to lose the office. And these politicians are used to when there becomes a fever pitch and they say, you got to go, and they convince you that we’re going to overwhelm you, we’re going to shock and awe you if you don’t do what we say. And we’re going to reveal all your dirt that people just give in. I saw it firsthand. I worked for a guy that happened to, Dwayne Sawyer, state auditor. I watched it happen in real time. I’ve seen how they operate. I’ve seen what they do. Remember, for all the years I’ve told you guys that I went through all of these life experiences, and I always said as I was watching all of these things, someday I will use these things for good. Some day I will use all of these horrible things that I saw and the two miserable years that I spent in state government for good. I’m using one of them right now. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen how it operates. I watched a guy get bullied out of office. I watched.