Ace from American Fire has been doing a great job tracking this incredible operation underway that’s using grifter influencers, with millions of followers to destroy Trump’s movement on behalf of the Globalists.
Many of these grifters, like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly were fired from their high-profile mainstream media jobs and were then embraced by MAGA and charted new heights of success in the alternative media.
For years, they rode the MAGA wave but suddenly, over the past three months, they’ve done a complete 180º, with the diabolical intent of imploding MAGA.
Ace doesn’t always agree with Glenn Beck but he credits him for nailing the modus operandi of this PSYOP:
VIDEO: Excerpt from “Candace, Tucker, Hasan, Massie...Libertarians and Communists... ALL Agree Completely?” - Pub Jun 5, 2026 by American Fire w/ Ace
Glenn Beck: This is an operation to get you and your faith and your country to split up.
And it is a genius, genius operation. And the payload doesn’t arrive in an enemy uniform. It arrives waving our flag.
It quotes our scripture. It hates the same thing you hate and are passionate about. Dugin said it himself, “The delivery vehicle is the American Right.”
You are the target and not because you’re foolish, but because you’re faithful.
It is interesting that Candace Owens was or is still in Russia, where she reportedly had a tête-à-tête with Alexandr Dugin, as did Tucker Carlson previously and also that Dugin has made numerous appearances on The Alex Jones Show over the years.
Ace and others suspect that these influencer operators are literally being coached by Dugin or at least by his teachings. I haven’t confirmed that.
I always assumed that Dugin was a total Russian patriot but Tom Luongo recently opined that:
“Dugin was never ‘Putin's Brain’ he was always the London snake in the Russian Garden.
”And now his entire coterie of Podcast Bros from Tucker to the Judge to Bannon to the ‘Pro Russian’ alt-geopolitics crowd are exposing themselves.
”It was always just Dugin.”
A cursory look at Alexander Dugin’s background reveals that his father was a general of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, who left the family when Alexander was three years old.
During the 1980s, when Dugin was in his 20s, he was an anti-Communist dissident and a member of an avant-garde dissident group that dabbled in Satanism, esoteric Nazism and the occult. It’s not hard to imagine that he may have become an MI6 asset during that time, especially as, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, he turned around and co-founded of the National Bolshevik Party. Make that make sense.
In 2025, Dugin published ‘The Trump Revolution: A New Order of Great Powers’ praising MAGA’s role in dismantling the Liberal Globalist order.
If it’s true that the Fake MAGA (“FAGA”) grifters are under Dugin’s tutelage, then his actions clearly favor the Globalists, which I guess means his entire life is an op.
Another FAGA grifter to strike out at Trump and the most effective members of his administration is Shawn Ryan, who popped up out of nowhere in 2019 with his Shawn Ryan Show, which now has over 6 million subscribers on YouTube.
In August 2024, Shawn hosted presidential candidate Donald Trump on his show. Last week, he told Megyn Kelly that he “Never even wanted Trump to win” and he carried on like Rachel Maddow, the way he denigrated President Trump, JD Vance and Marco Rubio:
VIDEO: Excerpt from “Shawn Ryan and Megyn Kelly Just Showed Us Exactly Who They Are... They Were NEVER On Your Side” - Pub Jun 4, 2026 by American Fire w/ Ace
Shawn Ryan Palmisano (aka Shawn Ryan) was arrested on May 27th, 2012 in Cape Coral Florida by the Cape Coral Police Department. The arrest occurred while Sean Ryan was serving in the CIA Global Response Staff, a unit tasked with the protection of American spies.
Florida arrest records are publicly available and Lee County booking information is normally maintained through county systems, however, it appears that this record was sealed or expunged.
A Grok query confirms that Shawn Ryan “has publicly admitted to running drug trafficking networks in South America after his Navy SEAL and CIA contractor days, as part of his personal story of addiction, arrest (including the 2012 Cape Coral mugshot), and later redemption through faith. He’s discussed it on his show and in interviews.”
This is a clip of Shawn describing his arrest in a podcast published on the Shawn Ryan Show TikTok account in 2025.
VIDEO: “Shawn Gets Arrested” - Pub Apr 9, 2025 by shawnryanshow on TikTok.com
As Ace says:
“These people are filthy. They’re disgusting. They’ll sell their souls for a buck. And then, they just do horrible things behind the scenes. It’s all closing in. It’s all coming out.
“And it’s just a proof we’re in a shift. Things are starting to change, as all these people are starting to get outed and we’re better off for it.”
Ace then breaks down a recent segment of The Alex Jones Show, in which Alex claims that the predictions he made last year about a war with Iran had all come true – except that none of them had!
Ace finishes by saying:
“We had a lot of people who could be doing a lot of good stuff for you. You know, we could have people actually reporting truth with, with massive viewership and actually helping Americans move forward.
“I got to tell you one of the most amazing things about MAGA is that it’s withstood this. Because, we don’t get our news from mainstream media.
“MAGA is past that. And MAGA now is the biggest political force in the country. We own the Republican party and we’re taking it over, even more. We’re growing and we don’t get our news from mainstream media.
“We got a lot of our news from people like him. And yet, Trump has kept his base, with all these people lying, with all these people turning on him.
“It’s incredible. And it tells you that what Trump has built is one of the most amazing movements in history, because these people are crashing-out right now, right in front of our eyes, exposing who they are, more and more. It’s getting more and more obvious by the day. And it’s honestly, at this point, it’s just pathetic.
“And I don’t know what even to say to somebody still watching these people, because what I just showed you guys, like Alex touting himself as being right on everything. When he just watched a clip of himself being wrong on almost everything!
“It’s like Alex, like, if I was wrong on something, I would not show a clip of me being wrong and then say I was right. That’s just not something you do. That’s stupid! And honestly, it’s bad for you. It’s going to wake up more people.
“But that’s what he just did. This is how bad it’s getting for them guys. They are just trying to grasp at anything to keep their audiences, to keep their influence, but it’s falling away, quick.
“And so, one of the great things Trump’s done is expose. In term one, he exposed the Fake News, mainstream media, pretty much killed it. In term two, he’s exposing the podcast influencer circuit.
“And it’s just proving A), that the mainstream media handlers just moved on to most of these people. And B) it’s proving that the MAGA, you guys, people noting this stuff, people still supporting the President despite all this, we are the smartest, most well-versed and best critical-thinking movement that’s maybe ever existed in our country, at least, in the last a hundred years. It’s pretty incredible.
“And you guys all deserve to give yourselves a pat on the back for surviving the greatest 10 years of PSYOPS we’ve ever seen.
“And on this side of it, like they’re the ones losing. So that’s a beautiful thing.
“Congratulations, Guys. You did it.”
TRANSCRIPT
Ace: Well, Candace is still in Russia, and as of last week, Candace told us she was going to Russia for her family to go sightseeing, and her husband wants to go fishing. Sounds so nice.
And instead, she’s doing media tours. She’s going around, she’s talking on RT, she’s doing panels with people like pedophile Scott Ritter, and meeting-up with Alexander Dugin.
Well, this is like one of the biggest exposures of her ever, and somebody found little Dugin in the Epstein files. Look at this. This is to Jeffrey Epstein from redacted. It says,
(Reads email to Jeffrey Epstein)
“I just came back to the island. I had such an amazing day. Crazy skydiving, scuba diving, sky ride with the girls. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I wish you were here and this great day could be shared with you.
“Lots of hugs.“P.S. I research movies we can watch.
“P.S. 2, have you ever heard of Alexandr Dugin, one of Putin’s advisors - “
(Stops reading email)
Ace: which is actually not true. He never was a Putin advisor, even though that keeps getting ascribed to him.
(Continues reading email)
“If not, reading about him and his views might be interesting and perhaps quite useful...”
Ace: Isn’t that interesting? Talking to Epstein about Dugin and how he could be “useful”, and now all of a sudden, we have all these influencers being called out by Dugin, meeting with Dugin.
So far, ones that have had connections with Dugin that are direct, at some point are: Candace, Tucker – and we’ve got people like Glenn Greenwald out there, defending him, because they interviewed him.
Yeah, very interesting, that all these people were kind of in the Magasphere leading up to the election and now they’re all turning and they all have these connections to this mastermind-type behind the scenes. And his past gets shadier and shadier.
So good choice there, Candace. That doesn’t look weird, at all. I thought you were part of the anti-”Epstein Class”.
I’d love to hear what Dave Smith and Thomas Massie would have to say about this, because these are, you know, their favorite people are all hanging out. The people on their side are all hanging out with Dugin, who is “Epstein Class”, for sure, with real connections, there.
Now, Candace getting interviewed on RT had some interesting things to say. Listen to – again, they’re parroting one of our favorite PSYOPs going on right now. Here’s Candace bringing it up, all over again.
(Roll video)
Rick Sanchez: Let me ask you a very important question, because you may have heard this, you may not have heard this, but there’s a buzz out there, in America that you would make a great next President of the United States. I apologize for asking.
Candace Owens: No, you’re fine. I always tell my listeners I’d never run for President. I’d only run for Dictator, because I’m not dealing with Congress. I’m not dealing with lobbying. I’m not dealing with any of this.
I’m not dealing with Lindsey Graham calling for another war. I’m just going to be like, “Here’s what we’re doing and here’s what we’re not doing.”
So I tell them, “Vote for me, if the terms are acceptable, that I will be Dictator of the United States,” and that is it.
But in the short run, I really don’t have an interest in running for office, because there is just too much inauthenticity.
Also, the, you know, the great letdown of Trump. I would be interested in strongly getting behind someone like Tucker Carlson.
Ace: There it is! “I’d be interested in getting behind someone like Tucker Carlson.” We just heard this from Dave Smith. We’ve heard it from Thomas Massie. We can keep hearing this “Tucker for President, Megyn Kelly.
I mean, what are the odds they’re all saying it at the same time? Just saying. What are the odds? You know, are any of these people free thinkers? That’s, that’s a little suspect, don’t you think?
(Roll video)
Candace: I would. And so I would love for him to run. And recreate the dynamic that me and Charlie had and run all over to help him to –
Ace: The dynamic me and Charlie had! Where he kicked you to the curb and said, “Stay away from her. She’s not invited anymore. We don’t want anything to do with Candace anymore here, at TPUSA”? That dynamic?
Yeah, you know, that might work.
(Roll video)
Candace Owens: – get elected, because he –
Rick Sanchez: And Tucker was also very fond and friendly with, with, with Charlie Kirk. Both of you were
Candace Owens: He was. And to see him be one of the lone voices – I would also say Megyn Kelly – who told the truth.
Ace: You guys see that circle jerk? They’re all together all the time. “Oh, and Megyn Kelly,” she’s just name-dropping all the same people. That is so – it’s so obvious! It’s, it’s pathetic. I mean, these people, it’s crazy.
(Roll video)
Candace Owens: About Charlie shifting perspectives toward the end. Just only further committed me to the, and he’s also at a great place in his life. His children are older. Um, I, I would gratefully, um, get behind someone like Tucker Carls –
Ace: They really, really are trying to push this to happen. They, they want it. They want it.
Don’t be surprised if they try it to, just see if they can get any traction, at all and throw off things, but they’re going to try, at some point – they’re going to keep testing the waters, here – but they might actually try it, a Tucker-Massie ticket. Do not be shocked if they go for it.
Because this is crazy. They keep pushing it, even though it’s becomes more and more obvious by the day Tucker’s losing popularity. They have no home on the Left. The Left will never embrace them again.
And they’re burning every bridge with MAGA. So, it has no chance, but the fact they keep pushing it like this, it’s very clear, they’re testing the waters and seeing if they can get anything built up on that.
Now, speaking of Massie, well, he’s coming out now and, and letting us know he’s about to drop some names.
Epstein? No.
(Reads Thomas Massie’s tweet)
“So on June 8th, I’ll speak on the floor of the house to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the US Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by Israel on 1967.”
Ace: The Jooz! Thanks, Massie. That’s what we need right now. Let’s focus on attacks that happened 60 years ago!
And meanwhile, he’s saying, “Oh, get ready. I’m about to drop some names on Epstein. I will rough it up in my last year, here. I only got a few more months. Watch out! Now, I don’t have anything to worry about!”
And, instead, now he’s just going to talk about what The Jooz did 60 years ago. Yep. That’s the principled guy that everybody is like, “This is our man! He’s America first!”
And the fraud keeps coming. He went to Costa Rica. He had two weeks with Marjorie Taylor Greene. They did whatever they do together. And now he’s back. He’s ready.
And he’s like, “Let’s go after The Jooz!” again, because they’ve really got nothing else. Keep the grift. Keep on grifting, Buddy. Keep the grift going.
Now, speaking of a grifter, Hasan Piker, it’s, it’s really getting bad for him. You know, he just went to Cuba not that long ago. It was announced they’re looking into him. He’s freaking out about it.
And now, we’re getting the exposure. They’ve decided Hasan must go. And now, all this is starting to come out. We got Hasan Piker: “Hasan Piker’s seedy, sex-obsessed life: Soliciting nudes, list of best breasts, and a separate laptop for porn”. German brothel situation, confirmed. Got nudes from fans. He didn’t know the ages of sent nudes to friends without consent, went to a Diddy party at Coachella. Diddy ties confirmed. At college, snuck lax in the ladies' drinks so he could record them crapping and had a second laptop for all this stuff. Disgusting.
This man is a total pervert. Far Left. And the reason I bring them up is because yeah, he’s not MAGA. He didn’t grift our side, right?
No, he’s only the biggest person on the Left, as far as the young people for what they’re pushing; the Communism, but he’s also the nephew of one Cenk Uygur, who Cenk Uygur is buddy-buddies now with? Dave Smith.
He was supporting Thomas Massie. He just keeps making this podcast circuit. Gets along with Tucker gets along with Megyn Kelly. They’re all buddy-buddies. Now, the Commies and the Libertarians, as I showed the other day. This is his nephew.
And so you just see these, these people are filthy. They’re disgusting. They’ll sell their souls for a buck. And then, they just do horrible things behind the scenes. It’s all closing in. It’s all coming out.
And it’s just a proof we’re in a shift. Things are starting to change, as all these people are starting to get outed and we’re better off for it.
Now, one of my favorite people to out, because he’s, he’d been kind of a joke of himself is one Alex Jones. Now, Alex today has a new prediction.
Alex came out yesterday and in this interview with Mark – let’s see – there’s a lot of people – none of us like Lindsey Graham. Can we we agree? Nobody likes Lindsey Graham. The guy’s kind of a sicko.
He’s Neocon. He’s establishment. And yet, Lindsey Graham has proven to be useful for Trump, because he votes with them and everything. He defends them, always in public. He’s become useful, because Lindsey Graham is the kind of guy who just, he’s going to do what it takes to stay in power. And when you’re need to win, you can use somebody like that.
Well, the “MAGA, America First” candidate that everybody is saying should take down Lindsey Graham is this Mark Lynch.
A lot of people get mad at Trump. “Why don’t you endorse Mark Lynch? Let’s get Lindsey out of there!”
Well, I think it’s becoming more and more obvious why. Mark Lynch is a favorite of this whole grifter crew. He probably would be like a Joe Kent, get in there and then betray President Trump, like a Massie, Joe Kent-type, because look at his buddies. It’s the Alex Jones Crew. It’s the Tucker Carlson Crew. You can’t trust these people.
Now Alex is predicting now:
(Reads Alex Jones tweet)
“Polls indicate Lindsey Graham’s in serious danger of losing his Senate primary race next Tuesday to hardcore America First Patriot, Mark Lynch. And this must watch interview with Lynch destroys Graham, using the Israel Firster’s own record clean to document.
“In fact, Lady Lindsey, Bob, a lot of crabs, the number one funder of Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, and ISIS.”
Lindsey Graham is the number one funder of all these? How can one Senator be the number one funder of that? That’s a ridiculous thing to say.
(Reading from Alex Jones tweet again)
“Surging Republican candidates, successful Christian businessman joins Alex Jones to bring the light.”
I mean, listen, when you say this kind of stuff, it’s nonsense, but here’s the funny part: “Polls indicate Lindsey Graham’s in serious danger is the lead here. What poll?
Latest polls have [Mark Lynch] down 10!
So Alex is always, usually – it’s being proven more and more – not as accurate at predictions as he wants you to believe. In fact, Alex hilariously posted this clip of him making predictions about Iran last year. And the whole clip is about how Alex nailed it. How he predicted everything right.
Well, I watched this clip and I just got to show you, I found it very funny.
Alex has done a great job of proving he’s right in his predictions and he’s got this, “Alex Jones Was Right”. It’s his whole spiel about Alex and why people have fallen for him for so long. And including myself. I enjoyed Alex for several years and now, it’s all falling apart for him.
But here’s a great example of Alex outing himself. Watch this. Let’s skip ahead a little bit, ‘cause it’s a long clip, but I want to get to where he’s predicting what would happen if we went into Iran. This is from last summer and predicting what would happen if Trump went into war:
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: But just the issue of the Strait of Hormuz getting blocked, which the Iranians can easily do and said they will, that will send oil to 110, 130, 140, 110, 130, 140.
Ace: 110, 130, 140, 110, 130, 140. Alex says it right here. One years ago, Alex predicted word for word, how a conflict with Iran would skyrocket oil prices. Well, oil prices did go up, but, uh, Alex, we have a problem, here with your prediction, uh, that it would go up to 140. Let’s, let’s look at oil right now. Oh, Oh, Oh, Alex.
(Shows the oil price at $90.02)
Oh, Alex, I’m so sorry. Where, where’s the, where’s the 110, 130, 140, Alex? But again, you know, I guess you could say kind of, he said they’d go up.
OK, OK. Well, that was an easy one, but let’s, let’s listen a little more.
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: That will then double the CPI inflation. Then that will get interest rates –
Ace: Double the CPI? Uh, that hasn’t happened, either. Uh, interest rates?
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: It’s raised, undoubtedly
Ace: Interest rates raised, “undoubtedly”. We haven’t had a single interest rate, yet. And Kevin Warsh just came in and Kevin Warsh wants to lower interest rates. Alright, Alex, you’re 0 for 3 so far.
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: Do the equations. The economists have all done it. It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s a fact. And that would derail Trump’s economic recovery plan that’s already going so well.
Ace: It would derail it? We just got record job numbers and we got, uh, manufacturing is up. Wages are up. Hmm. Jones, what’s going on here?
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: On the trade deals on getting our independence back on ending our long surrender. You mentioned, uh, the sanctuary cities being the real fight to go in and expose the election fraud, the Ninth Circuit saying, “No, the President has control of the National Guard.
Ace: So those are his predictions about going into Iran. And then he’s going to tout himself, here. I like watching Alex be wrong about so much.
Alex Jones: Now, Iran says they can build a nuke anytime or have a nuke – as I predicted. The Strait happened. The oil prices happened. The derailing of the dollar happened.
Ace: The world derailing of the dollar happened? That doesn’t happened. The dollar’s just fine. This is revisionist history here, Alex!
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: They can build a nuke anytime or have a nuke – as I predicted. The Strait happened. The oil prices happened. The derailing of the dollar –
Ace: The oil prices didn’t happen. You guys see how they just lied to you in your face?!
It’s, you know, narrative. It’s spinning a narrative. And he’s got hundreds of thousands of people watching him saying, “Alex was right! This guy, he just, he just named, he nails it every time. He’s right.
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: The world’s unifying against us and Israel –
Ace: The world unifying against us and Israel? That didn’t happen. The Middle East is more at peace and on our side than ever, before. This is insane! Trump is making peace with China. He’s making peace with Putin. Are you kidding me, Alex? He just lies! Just outright lies.!This is crazy stuff.
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: Approval ratings, plunging. Democrats up.
Ace: OK. His approval ratings are down. OK, OK Alex, you got one. You’re 1 for 7 but the Democrats are not up. So now you’re 1 for 8.
(Roll video)
Alex Jones: All of this, so –
Ace: So this is the genius that people have been saying for so long, “Alex is right about everything.” And then, Alex comes out and this is today. Look. Noon, actually yesterday, June 5th, “Friday bombshell podcast. CIA insiders confirm Iran has nuclear weapons.”
Wait a second! Doesn’t that mean Trump did the right thing? Doesn’t that mean Trump was right, Alex? What are you trying to do here? I mean, doesn’t this go against your own thing, your own grift? I thought we weren’t supposed to go into Iran because there’s no proof they have nukes. And now, you got people on your show and your headline is they confirm they have nuclear weapons!
This is just unbelievable nonsense. And you know, I laugh at it, because you have to laugh. Otherwise, it’s sad.
We had a lot of people who could be doing a lot of good stuff for you. You know, we could have people actually reporting truth with, with massive viewership and actually helping Americans move forward.
I got to tell you one of the most amazing things about MAGA is that it’s withstood this. Because, we don’t get our news from mainstream media.
MAGA is past that. And MAGA now is the biggest political force in the country. We own the Republican party and we’re taking it over, even more. We’re growing and we don’t get our news from mainstream media.
We got a lot of our news from people like him. And yet, Trump has kept his base, with all these people lying, with all these people turning on him.
It’s incredible. And it tells you that what Trump has built is one of the most amazing movements in history, because these people are crashing-out right now, right in front of our eyes, exposing who they are, more and more. It’s getting more and more obvious by the day. And it’s honestly, at this point, it’s just pathetic.
And I don’t know what even to say to somebody still watching these people, because what I just showed you guys, like Alex touting himself as being right on everything. When he just watched a clip of himself being wrong on almost everything!
It’s like Alex, like, if I was wrong on something, I would not show a clip of me being wrong and then say I was right. That’s just not something you do. That’s stupid.
And honestly, it’s bad for you. It’s going to wake up more people. But that’s what he just did.
This is how bad it’s getting for them guys. They are just trying to grasp at anything to keep their audiences, to keep their influence, but it’s falling away quick.
And so, one of the great things Trump’s done is expose. In term one, he exposed the fake news, mainstream media pretty much killed it.
In term two, he’s exposing the podcast influencer circuit. And it’s just proving A), that the mainstream media handlers just moved on to most of these people. And B) it’s proving that the MAGA, you guys, people like noting this stuff, people still supporting the President, despite all this, we are the smartest, most well-versed and best critical-thinking movement that’s maybe ever existed in our country, at least, in the last a hundred years, it’s pretty incredible.
And you guys all deserve to give yourselves a pat on the back for surviving the greatest 10 years of psyops we’ve ever seen.
And on this side of it, like they’re the ones losing. So that’s a beautiful thing.
Congratulations, Guys. You did it.