Michael Pack
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Michael Pack, head of Voice of America under President Trump, has thoughts on his tenure at VOA, as well as where the organization will go under the Biden administration.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, folks, it's our two. Oh, where has the time gone? I'm continuing my conversation, |
| 0:18.7 | at least for this segment, with our new friend Andy No, |
| 0:22.8 | spelled N-G-O. The new book is coming out very soon. It's called Unmasked Inside Antifa's Radical |
| 0:29.4 | Plan to Destroy Democracy. Andy, you reached out to me right after the final day of the Republican convention. |
| 0:39.3 | I happened to be at the White House with my wife and some friends. We were leaving. |
| 0:43.3 | And there were very, very frightening Antifa crowds outside the White House, screaming tremendous profanities. |
| 0:56.0 | And there was one young man on a bicycle who ultimately tried to run me over. |
| 1:05.0 | And I tried to defend myself and have been attacked amazingly in the media as assaulting this guy. |
| 1:17.2 | I mean, I don't think I barely touched him. |
| 1:20.0 | But it's astounding to me to have lived through that moment where in an instant of, as I say, reaction in self-defense, |
| 1:33.3 | you just act. And then to watch what happened after that, to see the way that I was treated |
| 1:39.3 | in the in the press and stuff. And then just an infinity of, you know, Twitter attacks and things |
| 1:45.3 | like that. You know who this young man was, and I think you'd reached out to us saying that he |
| 1:53.7 | was in Washington, D.C., violating parole. Can you tell us anything more about this guy, why he went from Portland all the way to |
| 2:04.7 | the nation's capital to intimidate and, I guess, attack in some way the supporters of the president? |
| 2:15.9 | Portland, T.C. is a pretty far away, and flying is not cheap, but there was a whole group |
| 2:20.9 | of people, many of them who had been arrested and released and have the charges drop at |
| 2:26.5 | riots in Portland, raised money through cash shop and Venmo to fund their trips to go to D.C., |
| 2:32.7 | which included also their accommodation food, etc. |
| 2:36.0 | And so this individual who, when he was accosting you and others, I recognized him and identified him. |
| 2:45.0 | He was, after he returned to Portland sometime shortly after he was arrested at another violent protest. So this is what I mean |
| 2:53.6 | when I say like the threat is not just localized only to Portland. They travel from area to area, |
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