I got clicky again on YT and found myself watching Tom Cruise's now infamous
Freedom Medal of Valour interview. That medal was mentioned to have been created for Tom, which made me think of Trump's Fifa peace trophy. But I wandered into Scientology waters and found that Attorney General Pam Bondi has been a long time Scientologist member. ...
I'm going to make a little continuation about that post here.
Grant Cardone was mentioned having a slot at the
America Fest 2025 event. Although he doesn't hock a book, the 13:38 speech is basically a very fast "here's how to make money" sales pitch. Now, at that event, Erika basically endorsed J.D Vance for President, which, as
Wolves and Finance in the above video alleges, is illegal to do. Well, Cardone talks about election funding and how the Democrats outspend the Republicans by 4X and might outspend "us" by 10X
next time. He also mentions that he knew Charlie and had spoken with him many times. Remember, as it states in the article, Cardone is an OT VIII level (max level) Scientologist. ("OT", btw, is
Operating Thetan. Apparently, "OT levels" are a variation of some Gnostic myth of clearing past life trauma.)
His wife is interesting too.
Cardone married Elena Rosaia Lyons on July 4, 2004. They have two daughters. The Cardones reside in Golden Beach, Florida and Malibu, California. Cardone is a Scientologist, and according to
The Village Voice he had reached the OT VIII level as of 2011.
Elena is also a Scientologist and the couple are major donors to the Church of Scientology.
Elena fundraised for Kari Lake in 2024 and is active in her husband's businesses. Following the
New York business fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization,
Elena set up a GoFundMe to help Donald Trump pay off his multimillion-dollar legal judgments. Cardone has been a consistent supporter of Donald Trump, and even engaged Trump as the headliner at one of Cardone's 10X conferences in 2022.
An article from 2011 about Cardone in the Scientology world, fyi.
Grant Cardone, NatGeo’s ‘Turnaround King’: Doing Scientology’s Dirty Work?
‘Tom Cruise Told Me to Talk to a Bottle’: Life at Scientology’s Secret Headquarters
While he was at Gold Base, as the compound is known, Headley worked many different jobs that generally had to do with manufacturing audio and video products for Scientologists. He was involved in setting up large stage productions that Miscavige used for celebrating church members but also to shake them down. (“The big events were really about getting people to donate money,” Headley says.) And he also was involved in installing audio and video equipment at various Scientology facilities.
It sounds like the whole purpose of TPUSA now. Give till it hurts.
This little section from the same article made me think about the people who gave a donation to TPUSA and expected to get a hat but instead got a cheap rubber bracelet as reported in the
Wolves and Finance video.
But we noticed something else interesting about Headley’s tales regarding the manufacture of items for Scientologists. On numerous occasions, Headley writes about the fabrication of “e-meters,” the small devices that are supposed to work something like lie detectors. Scientologist auditors use them in counseling sessions, but they’re also used during interrogations — called “sec checks” — during which church workers suspected of wrongdoing are pressured to confess their “crimes.”
Headley mentions that the devices cost the church about $40 to make, but were then sold for about $3,000 each. What really caught our attention was Headley’s assertion that Miscavige demanded that enough of a new line of e-meters be manufactured so that every member in the world could purchase two of them. (Headley says each working Scientologist is supposed to have a backup unit in case the other fails.)
In order to have that many, Miscavige demanded that 30,000 be built, Headley writes.
Then there's the Duggan Family donating $360 million to Scientology and, from the article in my previous post,
Patricia Duggan.
In 2019 she was the top donor to causes associated with the
Church of Scientology.
In 2020 she became one of the top donors to groups associated with the
Republican Party. In 2020 Duggan and an associated
trust gave $4 million to the
Donald Trump-aligned
super PAC America First Action. Prior to 2020 Duggan had not been publicly active in political giving however she attended the
First inauguration of Donald Trump. In the 2020 cycle Duggan also donated to Trump Victory fund and the
Republican National Committee.
In 2023 Duggan donated $5 million to Donald Trump's super PAC
MAGA Inc.
In 2024 she gave $1 million to
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aligned political group, MAHA Alliance.
In 2025 she was appointed to the
board of trustees of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following a purge of Democrats from the board by President Donald Trump. The new board elected Trump as their chairman.
There is a list of donors to Scientology from this 2024 article. There are several Duggan's on there.
www.mikerindersblog.org
TPUSA and Scientology seem to be fairly aligned.
