Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio)
Oct 16, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
**Lev Parnas says Zampolli’s firing is a house-clearing before the Democrats take the House. Olga Lautman says Republika Srpska is a Kremlin proxy and anyone doing business there works for Moscow. On…
Olga LautmanGuestUm, let me, um, just bring people up to date about what happened yesterday with Paolo Zampolli, um, who everybody who's been watching this show and your shows would know is the now former special envoy for global partnerships for the State Department, for Donald Trump, essentially.
On the way out the door, I don't know if you caught this, but he, uh, he put out a statement on, uh, on...
And he said basically in that, in that, uh, note, and I'll show it to everyone later on 'cause I can't put it up right now.
Years ago, he told me I was too good for modeling." Basically, he-- what he's suggesting in this, uh, comment and in another comment where he said, "Why do you want to..." This is what he says the President told him.
He says, "Why do you want to work in government when you can close all these deals?" Essentially, what Donald Trump has said to Zampolli, if you take Zampolli's word for it, and we may not want to do that, but if we do, he's basically told Zampolli to keep going working his deals outside the government because that's where he can really close those deals and, you know, just accept the fact that the State Department has taken away his diplomatic immunity and his diplomatic status, um, and just done with him.
But of course, no one is investigating what he's done in the last eleven months, um, which has been unbelievable.
There has been a record now of him going around the Balkans selling energy deals to various countries, which is not in his purview.
He basically doing Vladimir Putin's bidding in that region, helping Vladimir Putin's interests in that region, not working for the United States, and even sometimes defying the orders from his bosses.
We'll go through some of the emails in a bit, but, um, Olga, your sense of this is, as blatant as it is, nothing is getting investigated.

No, and he is, I mean, one of a [chuckles] handful starting from the top, right in the White House, in the Oval Office of everyone who is grifting, not only assisting Russia, um, around the globe, but also grifting for their own pockets.

And I'm, you know, shocked that Trump pushed him out because we still have Witkoff and his son, and we have the whole Trump family, um, and the Kushners who are, um, you know, uh, making more money, um, being-- uh, putting the US in a more dangerous position, um, and also assisting Russia.

Um, literally, probably even the person who cleans the floors in the Oval Office has to kind of-
Well, someone must be uncompromised in the State Department because I don't think this was Trump's decision.
Um, let me, um, just bring people up to date about what happened yesterday with Paolo Zampolli, um, who everybody who's been watching this show and your shows would know is the now former special envoy for global partnerships for the State Department, for Donald Trump, essentially.
On the way out the door, I don't know if you caught this, but he, uh, he put out a statement on, uh, on...
And he said basically in that, in that, uh, note, and I'll show it to everyone later on 'cause I can't put it up right now.
Years ago, he told me I was too good for modeling." Basically, he-- what he's suggesting in this, uh, comment and in another comment where he said, "Why do you want to..." This is what he says the President told him.
He says, "Why do you want to work in government when you can close all these deals?" Essentially, what Donald Trump has said to Zampolli, if you take Zampolli's word for it, and we may not want to do that, but if we do, he's basically told Zampolli to keep going working his deals outside the government because that's where he can really close those deals and, you know, just accept the fact that the State Department has taken away his diplomatic immunity and his diplomatic status, um, and just done with him.
But of course, no one is investigating what he's done in the last eleven months, um, which has been unbelievable.
There has been a record now of him going around the Balkans selling energy deals to various countries, which is not in his purview.
He basically doing Vladimir Putin's bidding in that region, helping Vladimir Putin's interests in that region, not working for the United States, and even sometimes defying the orders from his bosses.
We'll go through some of the emails in a bit, but, um, Olga, your sense of this is, as blatant as it is, nothing is getting investigated.

No, and he is, I mean, one of a [chuckles] handful starting from the top, right in the White House, in the Oval Office of everyone who is grifting, not only assisting Russia, um, around the globe, but also grifting for their own pockets.

And I'm, you know, shocked that Trump pushed him out because we still have Witkoff and his son, and we have the whole Trump family, um, and the Kushners who are, um, you know, uh, making more money, um, being-- uh, putting the US in a more dangerous position, um, and also assisting Russia.

Um, literally, probably even the person who cleans the floors in the Oval Office has to kind of-
Well, someone must be uncompromised in the State Department because I don't think this was Trump's decision.
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