
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show David Rutherford Show: The Lobbying Firm That Controls Trump's White House
π°You've heard "follow the money" your whole life. Today, I'm going to show you exactly where it leads. There's a K Street lobbying firm most people have never heard of β Ballard Partners β that now controls more access to the Trump White House than just about any other outside entity.
Before Trump's first election, they had zero federal clients. Today they're billing $88.1 million a year and representing foreign governments from Qatar to Saudi Arabia to Libya. And the firm's former employees? They're the White House Chief of Staff, the Attorney General, and β through connected networks β the Secretary of State.
This isn't a partisan attack on Trump. Some of what this administration is doing I think is exactly right. This is a SEAL and a former CIA officer showing you how the game is actually played β so you can stop being a pawn in it.
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π Timestamps:
00:00 β The war inside the Republican Party no one is naming
03:11 β What is the "deep state" β and where does it actually live?
11:13 β Ballard Partners: $88.1M, 300 clients, 3 continents
19:39 β The pipeline: Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi came from the same firm
26:25 β Foreign clients: Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Libya
27:35 β The client roster: Amazon, TikTok, Nippon Steel, UnitedHealth
34:04 β Why David supports some of what Trump is doing β and what worries him
36:21 β Susie Wiles: foreign agent, Netanyahu's campaign, and the DC expansion
43:20 β Pam Bondi: lobbied for Uber and Geo Group before becoming AG
46:40 β The Rubio 2028 setup: donor class picks the next candidate
53:31 β The bipartisan machine: Democrats running the "Republican" firm's DC office
57:21 β What this means for you in 2026 and 2028
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