The Michael Fanone Show

Michael Fanone

This Machine Kills Fascists / Author of NYT Bestseller “Hold The Line - The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America's Soul” michaelfanone.substack.com

  1. 13 HRS AGO

    WATCH: Officer EXPOSED for VIOLATING ICE PROTOCOL🚨

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Picture a federal agent leaning into a citizen and saying: “You raise your voice… I erase your voice.” That happened in Minnesota. On camera. And when Congress asked the ICE Director about it, he said he hadn’t seen the clip. That’s not accountability. That’s denial. I wore a badge. Protocol isn’t a suggestion; it’s the guardrail that keeps power from turning into punishment. Threats like that aren’t “tough talk.” They’re red flags. In any real agency, you’d see Internal Affairs pulling files, command asking hard questions, training rolling tape, evidence units preserving every frame. You don’t “erase” someone’s voice because enforcement feels uncomfortable — you de-escalate and you follow the Constitution. Zoom out. This isn’t one bad interaction or one bad apple. Minneapolis has seen fatal federal shootings, street protests over aggressive tactics, citizens alleging unconstitutional detentions — and leadership doubling down while pretending the evidence doesn’t exist. When a director shrugs off a viral clip in an oversight hearing, that’s not ignorance; that’s an institution protecting itself. Command responsibility starts with awareness. If a video is public, if Congress is citing it, if communities are living with the fallout, “I’m not aware” isn’t an answer — it’s the problem. Because once you normalize threats from the badge and denial from the top, you don’t just bend protocol; you break public trust. And when trust breaks, everything gets more dangerous, for civilians and for officers who actually want to do the job right. You’ll hear the words in the episode — the threat, the dodge, the pattern. Watch it clean, then ask yourself the only question that matters: are we looking at a rogue agent, or an agency that’s lost its compass? If ICE wants authority, honor the protocol. If it wants legitimacy, stop pretending the camera didn’t catch what it caught. If it wants trust, tell the truth and fix it. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    3 min
  2. 15 HRS AGO

    The REAL REASON Trump Is HIDING THE EPSTEIN FILES

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Everybody in Washington says “transparency.” Almost nobody means it when the light swings toward their own side. Here’s what’s actually happening: the loudest movement in American politics — the one built on drain the swamp / expose the elites — is suddenly flinching at full Epstein disclosure. Not rumor. Not Reddit. Files. Names, dates, wires, flight logs, call sheets. The kind of paperwork that doesn’t care about team colors. That flinch is the tell. This isn’t because the files are partisan. They never were. Epstein’s world wasn’t left-only or right-only — it was elite-only. Donors. Fixers. Power-sitters. The kind of people who buy tables and write laws. If that reality lands without redactions, it doesn’t just bruise MAGA’s brand; it fractures it. Movements survive policy fights. They don’t survive exposed hypocrisy. You can see the crack opening already: public chest-thumping for “release everything,” private hesitation, deflection, delay. Message control instead of clean disclosure. And here’s the part that should make you sit up — the “inside the room” reactions from Republican members who were allowed to see more than the public. They didn’t come out saying “nothingburger.” They came out looking rattled. In tonight’s video, you’ll watch their faces and hear their words. That’s not partisan spin. That’s body language when reality hits. Why does this matter? Because if your identity is “we’re the anti-corruption crew,” you don’t get to turn transparency into a weapon when it hurts enemies and a shield when it threatens friends. If you start managing the release to protect the coalition, you’re not anti-swamp — you’re running one. I’ve said it a thousand times: follow the behavior, not the press releases. Behavior says the unredacted truth would blow holes in the myth that one tribe owns all the monsters. It never did. The monsters rented from everyone. So here’s the standard, and it’s simple: Not selective outrage. Not filtered summaries. Not choreographed leaks. Everything. Names, motions, exhibits, correspondence — whatever is legally releasable, released. If the truth burns your friends, you let it burn. That’s how you know you’re serious. The rest — the reactions, the timelines, who’s whispering “go slow” while tweeting “release it all” — is in the episode. Watch it. Judge with your own eyes. If you want me chasing the full record — pulling filings, calling staff, and putting the receipts on screen without a corporate leash — become a paid subscriber. That funds the boring stuff that breaks real stories: travel, records, legal review. If this landed, share it with one person who still gives a damn, and drop your take in the comments. Truth doesn’t care which party it burns. Neither do I. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    2 min
  3. 1D AGO

    The TRUTH About WHO Trump Is EMPLOYING In ICE

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com How many times can the same circle brush up against sexual exploitation before we stop calling it coincidence? If you hold federal clearance, if your job touches immigration enforcement, if you’re trusted with background checks and security screening, you’re supposed to be the firewall. You’re the one who keeps predators out. You’re not the guy getting cuffed in a sting. I wore the badge. Background investigators aren’t bit players; they are gatekeepers. They decide who gets the keys. That’s why the arrest we dig into in today’s live matters. Not because it’s lurid. Because it’s inside the system that keeps telling you it’s the moral authority. Zoom out. We’re still living with the fallout of the Epstein network — elite-only rot that crossed every party line — while the same crowd sells you a “protect the children” brand. Meanwhile, look at the edges of the enforcement machine around U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: multiple stings, multiple employees, the same category of crime. Not rumor. Arrest reports. Patterns. Here’s what elevates this one beyond hypocrisy. This wasn’t just an ICE-adjacent employee. It was a contractor tasked with running background checks for ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — the very person who helps decide who is safe to trust. The gatekeeper. And, according to police, the conduct alleged in the sting was the most disturbing they’ve handled. You’ll hear that description in their words in the episode. Let it land before you make excuses. If you’re still telling yourself the problem lives only at the border — never inside the machine — watch the clip. Ask yourself what it means when the people who green-light power are the ones abusing it. That’s not a bad apple. That’s institutional sickness. This is the part where defenders pivot to process. “Tough job.” “Heat of the moment.” “A few rogues.” No. The warrant rules, the ID rules, the mask rules, the sensitive location rules — those exist so culture doesn’t replace law. When leadership treats oversight like an obstacle, you get exactly this: a system that protects itself first and the public last. Two things can be true. We need enforcement. And we need it bound by the Constitution, not by whatever a contractor thinks they can get away with. If you’ve got documents or were part of recent Minnesota operations, reply here and my team will reach out. If you were harmed, you’re not alone. We’ll help you get your story on the record — clean, safe, and documented. If this work matters to you, help me keep the pressure on. Become a paid subscriber so I can keep traveling to the scenes, pulling the records, and putting names and policies on camera. If you’re already in, pass this to one person who still gives a damn. The only way these systems change is when sunlight gets louder than the spin. This isn’t about one arrest. It’s about who’s been handed the keys — and who they answer to. Not the press release. Not the brand. The law. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    4 min
  4. 1D AGO

    What Trump Doesn’t Want You To Know About ICE

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com Let me put it plain. While everyone argues over headlines, there’s a quieter fight about how far federal power can go when it comes to your front door. Democrats asked for basic guardrails in the DHS funding talks: show ID, don’t mask up like a cartel, avoid schools and hospitals, and — most important — get a real warrant from a judge before stepping onto private property. The White House’s answer on that last one: absolutely not. That’s not a policy quirk. That’s a choice about power. There are two kinds of “warrants” in this world: * Judicial warrants: signed by a judge, based on probable cause, independently reviewed. * Administrative warrants: paperwork approved inside the same agency that wants to come in. If you let the executive branch authorize its own entries, you didn’t speed up justice—you skipped it. And once that becomes normal for one category of people, it spreads. It always spreads. You’ll hear: “A judge slows us down. We can’t do our jobs. Agents will get doxxed. Mass removals are impossible if we need warrants.” Here’s the law-enforcement truth from someone who’s written affidavits at 2 a.m.: you move fast with the judge. Emergency warrants, telephonic warrants, night-duty judges—this is standard practice all over the country. Oversight isn’t “red tape.” It’s the Constitution doing its job. After fatal DHS enforcement incidents and a pile of civil-rights complaints, pressure built for guardrails—especially around private homes and “sensitive locations” like schools, churches, hospitals, polling places, and courts. The administration is betting shutdown politics will make those demands fold. Critics are betting Americans still care who gets to cross a threshold—and who signs off when they do. This isn’t left/right. It’s a structural question: Do you want independent judicial review before agents enter private property—or are you okay with the same people who break the door also being the ones who approve breaking the door? Because once you normalize self-authorizing enforcement, accountability becomes a press release. Public safety and civil liberty are always in tension. The way you keep both is simple: keep a judge in the loop. If the government calls that “unacceptable,” ask what they need to do that can’t survive a judge’s eyes. That’s the tell. If you want me digging into the fine print—pulling warrants, memos, and after-action reports—and putting a camera where this power gets used, become a paid subscriber. That funds travel, records, and the legal backstop that keeps this work un-muzzled. If this hits you, share it with one person who still gives a damn. And if you’ve got documents or firsthand accounts from recent enforcement actions, reply to this post—my team will reach out. Power expands quietly long before it expands loudly. Let’s pay attention now. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    3 min
  5. 2D AGO

    🚨Epstein's BANK ACCOUNT Just Got EXPOSED...It's NOT GOOD

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com When you’re chasing truth, you don’t start with speeches. You start with money — because money leaves records. Time stamps. Approvals. Signatures. And the newest federal document dumps just put a stack of those records on the table tied to Ghislaine Maxwell — after Jeffrey Epstein had already lit up every risk system on Earth. No mythology. No rumor mill. Just paperwork. What the new files show (at a glance) * Internal emails, account notes, transfer instructions, and “risk” labels spanning years. * A big U.S. bank that flagged the relationship as high-risk and exited. * Another global bank that stepped in shortly after — opening personal, entity, and investment accounts, assigning relationship managers, and moving real money. * Activity that continued even after Epstein’s 2019 arrest — the kind of timing investigators always circle. I’m not here to accuse a bank of a crime the records don’t prove. Compliance memos exist in this pile, too. But the timeline and the decisions are the story. In financial investigations, three questions come first: * Did you know? * Did you flag the risk? * Did you keep going anyway? If the answers are yes, yes, and yes, you’ve got institutional judgment on the hook — not just the client’s. Critical cases don’t crack because someone confesses on camera. They crack because documents line up: risk classifications, approvals, transfers, emails where people stop speaking in euphemisms. Money doesn’t forget. And when money keeps moving after the sirens are blaring, that’s not confusion — that’s a choice. In tonight’s video, I walk the timeline cleanly — who flagged, who exited, who stepped in, and what moved after July 2019. You’ll also see how many entities sat under one name, and why that structure matters when you’re trying to understand who knew what and when. Watch it, then tell me where you land. Back the work This show doesn’t have a corporate leash. It has you. If you want more reporting like this — records pulled, timelines built, receipts on screen — become a paid subscriber. It funds filings, travel, and the legal backstop that lets us publish without flinching. Have documents or first-hand knowledge of the relationships covered here? Reply to this post and my team will reach out. Tips stay with us. Follow the behavior, not the press releases. In this case, follow the money. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    2 min
  6. 3D AGO

    Trump's Super Bowl NIGHTMARE We ALL MISSED🚨

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com The Super Bowl is the last truly shared screen in America. When you reach that many people at once, protest doesn’t need a march—it can live inside the moment: a lyric change here, a visual there, a message timed to hit while the country’s looking the same direction. That’s exactly what happened this year, and it’s the kind of thing that makes Trump’s inner circle sweat. This wasn’t “politics.” It was culture doing what culture does best—sneaking past defenses and speaking plainly. Speeches get sorted by team. Culture doesn’t ask your permission. When artists, survivors, and activists choose Super Bowl weekend to press a point, it tells you the fight has moved out of hearing rooms and into the biggest stage we’ve got. That’s where reputations shift. That’s where pressure sticks. If this hits you, pass it to someone who still gives a damn. And if you want me tracking these cultural pressure points—then chasing the receipts behind them—become a paid subscriber so we can keep this work independent: travel, records, legal backup, no corporate leash. Drop your take in the comments; I read them, and they shape where we push next. Protest isn’t just signs anymore. It’s music. It’s broadcast. It’s survivors speaking into the loudest room in America—while the game plays on. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    2 min
  7. 6D AGO

    What You’re About to See Is Not a “Tough Call”

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com This isn’t a misunderstanding. It isn’t “a hard job.” It’s what happens when an agency stops seeing people as human and starts treating pain like paperwork. We’ve been tracking this pattern for weeks — not one-off screwups, a culture. When there’s no real accountability, cruelty turns casual. * People detained with no charges and no explanations. * ID waved off. Rights ignored. Cameras out only when it helps the agency, never the citizen. * Agents moving like there will be no consequences for getting it wrong. That confidence comes from the top. When leadership signals “ends justify means,” the rank and file will test how far “means” can go. The person at the center of this video Her name is Aliyah Rahman. She’s a U.S. citizen. She’s autistic. She has a traumatic brain injury. She uses a wheelchair. On January 13th, in Minneapolis, she was headed to a doctor’s appointment. She didn’t make it. What happened next is laid out in sworn testimony — not rumor, not a rumor-laced tweet. You’ll hear her describe a stop with no charges, threats to smash her window, a seatbelt cut, and being yanked from her car while she screamed that she was disabled. You’ll hear what she says she heard inside detention: people called “bodies.” Not names. Not patients. Bodies. You’ll also hear what happened when she asked for a wheelchair. And why she says she passed out without medical care. I’ve worn the badge. I know the difference between necessary control and humiliation-as-process. What you’re about to watch isn’t policing. It’s the costume of authority. Why this matters beyond one case If a citizen in medical distress can be treated like cargo and written off as a “body,” the line between public safety and state-sponsored harm has already been crossed. That line is supposed to be guarded by training, supervision, and — when those fail — outside scrutiny. That’s us. Help me keep pressure on * Become a paid subscriber to fund travel, records requests, and the legal backstop that lets us publish without a corporate leash. * Share this post with one person who still gives a damn. Sunlight only works if more people see it. * If you witnessed this incident or have documents/video from Minnesota operations this month, reply to this post and my team will follow up. I was trained to protect people, not degrade them. Hold that standard with me. Your support keeps this show growing, keeps us on the road, and keeps these stories from getting buried. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. 👉 Become a paid subscriber today. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

    3 min

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This Machine Kills Fascists / Author of NYT Bestseller “Hold The Line - The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America's Soul” michaelfanone.substack.com

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