Forty-five minute interview:
https://rumble.com/v4acbpt-russell-brand-responds-to-coordinated-smear-campaign-against-him.html
Précis:
Russell Brand makes his defence-line explicit here: the allegations against him (skimmed over very quickly: says the public don't buy them) form just one part of the direct and indirect attempts to 'deamplify' his voice and those of the 'independent media' that resist the narratives of national governments, BigPhrarma and powerful corporations. He says his 'media organisation' has been tracked and monitored by the state, but at one step removed, via government-funded industrial groups that employ former intelligence operatives.
He regrets his promiscuous lifestyle, and it is this that has made him and easy target, but his young son's heart condition has taught him the importance of his family and brought God into his life, yet he feels there is no choice but to fight on against the psyops operations that are arrayed against him, such as:
2023 letter to Rumble
On 20 September 2023, after allegations of sexual misconduct had been made against
Russell Brand Dinenage wrote to the social media platform
Rumble on a House of Commons letterhead, expressing her committee's concern that "he [Brand] may be able to profit from his content on the platform", and enquiring "whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr Brand's ability to earn money on the platform".
Rumble issued a response on
X, expressing their support for "a free internet" and rejecting what they saw as "the UK Parliament's demands", adding that it was "deeply inappropriate and dangerous that the UK Parliament would attempt to control who is allowed to speak on our platform or to earn a living from doing so".
Source:
Tucker doesn't say anything of note; just an ocassional awkward attempt to crowbar British conflicts he doesn't understand into an American template.
Brand says David Icke and Alex Jones, unprovable speculative hypotheses notwithstanding, have turned out to be 'ahead of the curve' in terms of identifying the attacks on the individual and spiritual human nature by the state.