<p>Political commentator Tim Pool told Ben Shapiro on Friday that he was unaware that the founders of a media company that licensed one of his talk shows were being paid by Russians, and was blindsided by the allegations from the Department of Justice earlier this week.</p>
<p>In his first interview since the DOJ indictment, Pool, the host of the popular Timcast show, reiterated on &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2042-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show</a>&#8221; that he had very limited contact with Tenet Media, which is accused by federal prosecutors of secretly taking money from Russians and licensed one of his spin-off shows called the &#8220;Culture War&#8221; podcast. He also explained that Tenet, which was founded by conservative commentator Lauren Chen, didn&#8217;t even have exclusive rights to his show, much less editorial input on it.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the crazy thing, it&#8217;s not even an exclusive show, it&#8217;s not exclusive, we published it other places, we own all the rights for it,&#8221; Pool said. &#8220;And so now we get entrenched in whatever this is, and I&#8217;m just like, nah, I don&#8217;t have anything to do with this. I don&#8217;t know what it is Lauren Chen was doing. I&#8217;m quite perturbed by the allegations. I don&#8217;t know what will turn out to be true, but I&#8217;m pissed.&#8221;</p>
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Pool said that despite clips circulating on social media this week that show him harshly criticizing Ukraine, he has always hated Russia.</p>
<p>&#8220;Russia sucks. I&#8217;m not a fan of Russia,&#8221; Pool said. &#8220;I think Vladimir Putin is a dictator who&#8217;s used unethical and dictatorial means to maintain power for decades. And I&#8217;ve long said that.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Pool said his comments criticizing Ukraine are rooted in his anger that the United States is spending resources abroad when it should be spending them on domestic problems.</p>
<p>Chen, a Canadian-born YouTuber and <a href="https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1831433336293880183" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former RT employee</a>, and her husband, Liam Donovan, are not named but referenced in the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366266/dl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> as founders of Tenet Media.</p>
<p>The Russian defendants allegedly worked with Chen and Donovan to “mask” the “true source of funding” for the company, which the indictment revealed to be RT — a Russian state broadcaster.</p>
<p>Chen and Donovan were accused of “falsely portraying” to commentators such as Pool that their company was sponsored by a private investor named “Eduard Grigoriann” — a persona that turned out to be fake.</p>
<p>The Blaze has cut ties with Chen over the Russia allegations. Pool says he&#8217;s been contacted by the FBI, which is treating him as a victim of the scheme.</p>

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