The Trio Breaks Down the Trad Right’s Freakiest Scandal Yet
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller, Sam Stein, and Will Sommer give their takes on the chaotic scandal surrounding far-right influencer Elijah Schaefer. After disappearing from his online show, Schaefer reemerged with a black eye, paranoid Rumble rants, and a series of increasingly bizarre videos, including wandering through a flooded hotel. The fallout has pulled in secret audio recordings, trad Catholic influencer drama, Milo Yiannopoulos, online feuds, and renewed scrutiny of Schaefer’s self-styled role as a “family values” enforcer on the right as he faces a sex scandal.
Read more from Will's reporting: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-sex-scandal-rocks-trad-right-elijah-schaffer-sarah-stock
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. The Potato Boys are back. I'm Tim Miller of the Bullwork. That's Sam Cite. He's a managing editor. Will Summer writes the false flag newsletter. And the recent false flag newsletter is the best one in a minute. They're all good. But it is titillating. It is exactly the type of newsletter that this video trio is meant for. The title is a shocking sex scandal rocks the trad right. |
| 0:21.1 | Before the article even dropped, |
| 0:22.6 | I'd already received a text for a prominent MAGA influencer saying, |
| 0:26.5 | when is the trio going to comment on the Elijah Schaefer scandal? |
| 0:29.9 | So the MAGA influencers are watching and waiting for our commentary. |
| 0:34.3 | I do believe one of the characters in this story was also a character in the original |
| 0:42.0 | fingering story that was the impetus for this very show. So there's a lot here. It should be a |
| 0:52.0 | fan favorite. That is that's my intro. That's my tease for everybody. I hope you're ready. I hope you're, you know, go get your popcorn, you know, get a little glass of white wine, whatever it is you like to do when you watch the trio. And let's get going. Will, tell us about the shocking sex scandal. All right, this is a good players. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's start with the key players. |
| 1:13.7 | Okay, here are our key players. |
| 1:18.3 | We've got Elijah Schaefer, who's sort of a dissolute far-right commentator. |
| 1:21.8 | He used to be Glenn Beck's protege sort of. |
| 1:26.5 | He got famous for like going to the riots around George Floyd and, you know, people would scuffle with him. |
| 2:02.3 | And then he had sort of a fall from grace. And so now he reinvented himself as this Christian family man. He's always saying, you know, you losers on the right, you got to get married, you know, whatever. Here's my beautiful family. Oh, I love God so much. And then, you know, let's see how that goes. And then our other character is Sarah Stock, who works for Elijah at his new operation, which is called Rift TV. People may remember her, number one, because she was in the Sam Cedar Jubilee video. She's in a lot of these Jubilee YouTube debate videos. And she's kind of like, you know, there's like the mag of people. And then they're like, oh, they're like, Like they're really like, she's just like, well, it should be only white people in America. |
| 2:02.9 | And you go, oh. |
| 2:06.5 | And so that is kind of over the past year propelled her. She became like a trad, traditional sort of Catholic influencer. She was really doubting her marriage. And then also I would say, as you said, she's famous in our world, in the trio world because or after she got engaged she posted a |
| 2:19.1 | picture of the wedding ring and a lot of other right wing women found the diamond almost |
| 2:23.2 | comically small uh and then this sort of provoked a lot of i guess i'll just say catty knows |
| 2:29.2 | about it yeah wait and then remind me how did that relate to the fingering again and not refresh me on that? |
| 2:36.7 | Yes. |
| 2:37.3 | Because because various, these women started fighting with each other and one, one who was defending the ring accused another woman. |
| 2:45.0 | She said, you know, well, you don't fucking know about trad values and getting married because you got you know this sex act happened to you |
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