“I Was Wrong” – Team Addressed Kirk TPUSA AI Video Controversy

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
About a week ago, we showed a video where Vinnie reacted to a video that was where Andrew Kolvet and his partner said, we are trolling the trolls, and we thought it was a fake video.
Folks from TPUSA, I won't give names, they reached out to me and they said, hey, that was a real video, that's actually what Charlie Kirk said. And I spoke to the gentleman who set up his estate planning, Doug, who I mentioned him before, and he says, Pat, this is what he wanted. He wanted Erica to run the organization afterwards. And the controversy was over this video, and the video I'm gonna come to because you guys had a 45 minute call. Go ahead, guys.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:41)
The most important relationship in your life is the one that you have with your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

**Vinnie Lingham** (0:50)
I appoint my wife to run Turning Point USA if something happens to me.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:54)
Erica would do a great job. Okay, Vinnie, you had a call with Andrew.

**Vinnie Lingham** (0:59)
Mind you, Pat, I think we met him in passing at one of the TPUSA events. Adam hooked it up where I got back from Washington, DC. I spoke with him for 45 minutes.
You ever just see somebody on TV or on videos, and everybody has their assumptions in their head, but then you speak with them, you're like, oh, okay, now I know exactly who you are as a human being. Pat, 45 minutes, we could have gone for a two-hour conversation. He explained that that video that they put together, it wasn't AI. But on X, somebody put people community note if they're on a certain side. He had to go in and he had to get the community note lifted because it wasn't AI. So explain the whole situation to me, and it was not what I thought it was, and I commented on it because that's what I thought was happening. But the 45-minute conversation, Pat, it's as if he, I don't want to get into the nitty-gritty of the conversation, but if people out there, if you don't think that Andrew Kolvet is genuinely concerned, and Pat, he has so many more questions about everything that happened, with the shooter, with Tyler Robinson, his name. It was such a good conversation, and I never judged him or thought anything of him different, but having spoken with him and clarifying the situation, I was wrong because what I saw that Grok said, boom, AI, they can go on Grok and people can keep community knowing Pat, and even if it's not real, he had to go on and fix it. So I was in the wrong, and yeah, he's actually a really, really good dude.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:34)
Talking to Andrew.

**Vinnie Lingham** (2:34)
Very, very good dude. He's a stand-up dude.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:36)
Yeah, so there you have it with that video. It's interesting because when we were on a flight to UFC White House, we had one of our lawyer friends with us on the flight there, and he says one of the things people are doing now is at the top, you can run audits to see what bots are attacking you from where funded by whom. Imagine that research to have. So let me say it one more time. Imagine if you could run a research to know who is attacking you with fake bots and who is paying for it. How valuable would that be?

**Vinnie Lingham** (3:12)
Big time.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:12)
You know who is the one guy that knows all of those because he owns the company? It's a guy named Elon Musk.
So guess what person knows who is attacking who and destroying who?
Elon Musk and his team. He can literally say, can you run a report why this guy is being attacked by such and such? Oh, follow the money. That's what Elon knows everybody's dirt that applies to Twitter. What is the easiest place to defame somebody?
Out of all the platforms, what is the easiest place to defame somebody?

**Vinnie Lingham** (3:46)
X.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:46)
It's very easy to defame somebody at X. What is the one platform that can confuse the most people and guess like the most people?

**Vinnie Lingham** (3:53)
X.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:54)
X is the place because a lot of people are getting their news from X. So anyways, it's interesting when that happens as you go through it, I'm glad Vinnie, you had a call with him and I'm glad you were manning up with it.
Every once in a while, we're going to get things that are wrong and we're going to man up and talk about it and go from there. You know what's around the corner? What is around the corner? What are we today? Today is the 22nd. Fourth of July is how many days away? Roughly 15, 16 days away from 4th of July, okay? So here's what we did. The guys put a video together. I hope the guys on the back are ready.