NEW VIDEO FROM OMG: “Trump Was Right, Biden doesn’t care about trade.” states Trevar Kolodny, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Official in the Department of Homeland Security for chemical security. Kolodny, who declares “I don’t think I can vote for Donald Trump after January 6th,” worked in the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for the U.S. Treasury Department prior to CISA and despite not being a Trump fan observes Trump “was deeply interested in trade,”
Kolodny also confirms CISA’s collusion with Big Tech: “And they, they’ve had conversation with Facebook, Google about these things that aren’t true. There’s been a whole lot.” – collusion which was detailed in a House Judiciary report released last year about CISA using infrastructure to combat so-called misinformation. (This is the same CISA that actively worked to censor information related to our reporting on voter fraud during its election integrity project.) Kolodny relates that Senator Rand Paul is trying to “gum up” “the broader cyber security agency” for CISA’s efforts to combat internet misinformation.
In OMG’s latest exposé, James O’Keefe met Trevar Kolodny, a Senior Policy Analyst for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). As the name implies, CISA is responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government including securing elections and the census. CISA also managed the U.S. response to COVID-19. It began as a division under the Department of Homeland Security before the Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 ballooned CISA’s footprint into a $3B annually budgeted sub-bureaucracy with 6,500 employees (50% of the budget growth has been within the past 5 years).
Kolodny’s statements caught by OMG on undercover footage about trade are revealing. He openly disliked Trump, saying Trump’s supporters: “His people…are delusional, whatever” and declaring “I don’t think I can vote for Donald Trump after January 6th.” Yet despite his aversion to Trump and Trump’s supporters, Kolodny still recognized “Trump was right” when discussing Trump’s trade policies. Kolodny, who prior to CISA had worked in the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for the U.S. Treasury Department, referenced a series of tweets Trump made during his presidency on November 13, 2018 about European countries like France putting higher tariffs on their products and causing unfair trade imbalances with the United States. With a background working on issues related to international beverages and wine, Kolodny praised Trump as “deeply interested in trade” and “good at renegotiating trade agreements” while “the current president [Biden] doesn’t really care about trade” and “is not interested in international relations.” Again, while he disliked Trump so much that he refuses to vote for him, Kolodny conceded Trump was right essentially in fighting for policies that put Americans first even when it meant confronting America’s allies who had become complacent in taking advantage of America.
Kolodny acknowledging CISA’s collusion with Big Tech companies: “Yeah. I mean that’s part of it. And they, they’ve had conversation with Facebook, Google about these things that aren’t true. There’s been a whole lot,” is telling of a federal bureaucracy where censorship of Americans is considered the new norm. A June 26, 2023 House Judiciary report titled The Weaponization of CISA: How a “Cybersecurity” Agency Colluded With Big Tech and “Disinformation” Partners To Censor Americans dealt with the collusion referenced by Kolodny. The report described how CISA had a formal “Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation” (MDM) team and submitted censorship directives through online portals to Big Tech companies for official corporate action before moving its censorship operation to a CISA-funded non-profit after CISA and the Biden Administration were sued in federal court. (Similar use of non-profit partnerships to do questionable work has been highlighted by OMG with the illegal immigrant compound Casa Alitas and the illegal immigrant camps of No Mas Muertas.) Kolodny highlighting CISA’s collusion with Big Tech is particularly interesting as CISA formerly worked with the Election Integrity Project to censor information related to OMG’s report on voter fraud.
As he did with Trump’s stance on trade policy, Kolodny concede that despite Kentucky Senator Rand Paul “really trying to gum up the works” of CISA’s agenda, “A lot of the time I get where he’s coming from.” Senator Paul has been a vocal critic of how CISA “blatantly violated the First Amendment and colluded with big tech to censor the speech of ordinary Americans” and has demanded a full accounting to avoid repeat offenses. An accounting would be especially significant given CISA Director Jen Easterly, who was previously Global Head of Cybersecurity for banking giant Morgan Stanley, is currently spearheading CISA’s #Protect2024 campaign purportedly to protect election security resources despite sending text messages leaked by The Intercept in October 2022 where she told a Microsoft executive who formerly worked at CISA how she wanted CISA to be able “to prebunk/debunk as useful.” If the federal government is determining what information Americans may consume, are our elections actually secure? In times like these, we need leaders who are not only skilled in exposing corruption, but also in renegotiating agreements.
