As many of you discussed in yesterday’s comments, 60 Minutes Australia posted their entire interview/segment with Jason Knauf on YouTube. It was definitely interesting, although I think the idea behind it was less about the Sussexes and more about embiggening Prince William and trying to hype Peggy to an Aussie audience. Their internal popularity numbers in Australia must be quite brutal if they’re sending Knauf out. Now, that being said, the monarchy has learned that the best way for them to get attention is to talk about Harry and Meghan. 60 Minutes Australia even used Harry’s name in their teaser for this segment, and about half of the segment dealt with Knauf and some other guy talking about Harry and William’s relationship and Knauf’s sleaziness around the bullying accusations against Meghan. Here’s the full piece:
The audacity of Knauf to describe the Sussexes’ wedding as magical when he was mismanaging the Thomas Markle situation in an attempt to stop the wedding. The overarching message is the same as it has been for five-plus years though: William’s poor leadership, his pettiness, his childishness, his immaturity with regards to his brother and sister-in-law. THAT is one of the major takeaways from this, that no one can embiggen William without spending half the time trying to justify his despicable and abusive behavior towards Harry and Meghan. While Knauf doesn’t directly address the bullying BS (he just says that it was hard having that attention), 60 Minutes did include the leaked memo he wrote to Simon Case, a memo which was leaked just days before the Oprah interview aired.
There was also some confusion about Knauf’s comments regarding William learning that Kate and King Charles were both diagnosed with cancer around the same time last year. Knauf didn’t say that William learned about it over the phone, Knauf said that he and William spoke on the phone about it. Just FYI.
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Such a slimy asshole. I hope, he gets what he deserves for lying on a pregnant woman. He doesn’t want to lie on the record, because he knows H&M can sue him. I am sure he is gonna continue to be an unnamed source to lie about Meghan to the tabloids.
This bastard is responsible for at least the folowing:
1. Meghan’s wedding drama to shame her on a world stage. He probably orchestrated the PR photo stunt with Thomas Markle and for paying him (on behalf of Willy) to cancel her wedding;
2. That Meghan’s relationship with her father is ruined;
3. Setting KP staff up against Meghan; in the almost two years that she was part of the royal household, a constant stream of false stories and lies about Meghan were planted and leaked to the UK tabloids and media;
4. Meghan’s private and work emails were leaked to the Daily Mail, the tabloid she was suing for privacy and copyright infringement, for publishing a private letter to her father.
5. In that lawsuit against Daily Fail, he gave an unsolicited false ‘witness statement’ against Meghan, (amongst other things claiming that he was a cowriter of that letter), so that she would lose the case. The stress of this two-year lawsuit cost Meghan her baby by miscarriage;
6. The day before Oprah’s interview with H&M aired, he dropped the false bullying claim (which was never proved) against Meghan to further undermine her credibility.
And for all this (and probably more) he was rewarded by William with a promotion as his charity boss and a royal title.
Yeah, it’s very obvious, this as*hole deserves a quick visit from Karma.
@Advisor…🙏🏾for listing this which meant I didn’t HAVE too…I wish that MENACE NO PEACE for the 😱 he orchestrated and unleashed on Meghan…a 😱 that has ONLY GROWN 🤬
@Advisor2U, he also tried to convince people that he tried to help Meghan by giving evidence against her 🙄 That was the statement he gave to the people making the H&M doc that he was helping H&M’s case. He doesn’t even have balls to tell the truth about what he did. No wonder he is besties with Kate & Will.
Personally, I’ll go to my grave believing that Jason Knauf and Prince William are secret lovers. That’s a hill I’m willing to die on a million times.
He has a royal title!? Please tell us more.
@Advisor, Thank you for this bone-chilling list of Knauf’s damning and downright criminal actions. If this isn’t a conspiracy to sabotage and destroy, then I don’t know what to call it. He should be in hiding, not flaunting his face on tv. He only wishes the Sussexes well because he missed the target and failed at his execution-style maneuvers.
Jason Knauf acted as a handler, fixer, conniving enabler, crisis manager, PR braintruster targeting a mixed couple: organized crime, much? He’s an unredeemably evil man who has devoted his career to drawing innocent blood for his own power gratification.
He’s a black hole of bad karma. He’s gonna get his, one way or the other.
I mean the top picture of the three of them dressed up together is a massive black hole of bad karma. The three of them plotted and f-cked around together and they’ve been finding out ever since.
LAWRENCEVILLE, I’m on that hill right beside you.
This sorry excuse for a man is the perfect illustration of a two-faced snake. He is despicable.
That lying bastard … hope he gets what he deserves.
Couldn’t agree more..
Karma’s coming…….
The knife be stuck in Harry and Meghan’s back is out but only because they got away from those hyenas. What a scumbag.
It’s like he’s slithering back out of the swamp. His name is mud. Anytime he speaks up for William it’s just going to bring back up receipts and memories of everything Knauf and William did to Meghan. In that way he’s more of a liability than an asset to William.
Will looks ghastly in that picture more sinister with the beard
Interestingly enough no one ever mentions the 25 page rebuttal to the accusations sent by the Sussexes which Harry mentioned in Spare. I believe this is what stopped this nonsense in it’s track.
That and the fact that Harry and Meghan both have lawyers, and their lawyers don’t joke.
Re-writing history to try to make himself look better but it’s to late the lies came out and he was the biggest liar for KP!! He should crawl back under his rock but Peg has bought and paid for this asshole so he will come out and make more of theses lying interviews.
Fawcett was the fall guy for prince charles. I wonder if knauf will become fall guy for william.
Probably but he will be paid off very well for it.
They should be known as the “Royal squeezers” for their toothpaste skills😉
Don’t know if you follow the Ministry of Hack on TT but he is convinced that the HM coverage and graph has to do with something coming that’s bad from RF.
I *love* the Ministry of Hacks! And he’s right: something huge and hugely negative about the RF is about to break. The nastier the H&M coverage, the worse it’s going to be. I’m guessing W&K divorce.
Royal KP Permission given for Knauf to embiggen William as King. Hey King Charles is still around. Very unseemly to say the least.
Of course Knauf has no regret in leaking his email and bullying claims to Times. He was amply rewarded and was honored for his services and even has a seat in Earthshot
C and c will resent it. Camilla may have something up her sleeve for knauf embiggening huevo.
Surely he leaves a slime trail behind when he walks? Ugh. And is Will trying to copy Jason with the same sleazy beard?
I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of it because I already know that 60 Minutes Australia is a trashy tabloid that has used liars like the Tom Sr. and his two evil older spawn. Tom Sr. told us that he was used “TO STOP THE WEDDING” and that KNAUF was his contact person, which tells us that Knauf was part of the group that was trying to stop the wedding. Him having a close enough relationship with William that he received an honor and a promotion to work at Earthshot also tells us that it was William who was orchestrating all of this to prevent his brother from marrying the woman he loves. There are no coincidences to any of this. I remember in Spare how Harry was trying to get William to have dinner with him the night before the wedding and William was pouting and cold about it. We now know why. He was too angry and upset that his plan didn’t work to stop the wedding. That explains why their relationship is so destroyed.
And that definitely was one of the things Willy was scared of Harry to wright in his memoir (imagine this chapter: How my brother stopped at nothing to prevent me marrying the Love of My Life). It was reported that he couldn’t eat for a whole week before the Oprah interview was aired.
That bullying coward has no backbone whatsoever.
Publish the rest of the 400 pages of your memoir Harry.
* write.
All that interview did for me was to confirm how incompetent these people really are. How on earth can a trusted advisor manage to lose a piece of paper with important information? Yes, he got away with it but, it makes me wonder how many other important files/information has gone missing and is now (probably) in the “wrong” hands.
I didn’t watch. What piece of paper went missing?
It was Charlotte’s birth info before they announced it. He had it all written on a piece of paper and lost the piece of paper outside the hospital.
Yeah, he told that like it was a funny story in hindsight, and their fans are lapping it up but truly, it shows how flippant he was with news that was worth A LOT at the time. Very irresponsible.
It”s fascinating how a f-ck-up can be such a cute and funny story for one person but can be used to tear another person apart. The privilege.
Exactly, there was that poor nurse who committed suicide after she was tricked into giving information for one of Kate’s pregnancies, but Knauf is just laughing off his identical mistake? He is so horrible.
I’m sorry but I don’t think this is the way to get Pegs favorability numbers up.. if anything they are probably worse after this. Time for peg and his people to move on, the Sussex’s certainly have and Harry and Meghan have left them all behind years ago. We get new, positive and refreshing content and ideas from the Sussex’s while the BRF offers nothing except a decade long hate campaign and excuses for laziness. This hate campaign has permanently damaged the BRF and there is no coming back from that for any of them..
See, the Aussie’s not only remember how Peg, Khate and Slimy K treated Megs and Harry, they also remember Peg (president of The Football Association) refusing to fly out to Australia in August 2023 to watch the English women’s soccer team play the Spanish. For England this was a first Women’s World Cup final and only its second senior World Cup final ever, the first since the men’s 1966 triumph over West Germany in London. Kind of a big deal. We remember Queen Letizia and Infanta Sofía flying in and out in less that 48 hours and endearing themselves to us with their pure joy in the game and the win. No 60 Mins interview will erase that.
If William watched this he’s probably angry that the show even mentioned Harry and Meghan. He’ll have to accept that it was his actions that caused Harry and Meghan to leave in the first place. I saw Charlotte Griffiths on GB News trying to make something out of Knauf saying he wouldn’t change a thing and alluding to bullying allegations. I’m not sure I believe that. Anyway he’s a slimeball and I won’t be surprised if at some point he gets rehired by William and Kate.
I think he will work for them again too. As much as this was about embiggening William, it also seemed like Jason trying to reframe himself as someone who wishes the Sussex family well and covering up the fact that he was one of the ones actively trying to hurt them. And causing them hurt. Unfortunately for “poor Jason” ain’t nobody forgetting. His name is all over the court documents.
Can you imagine the dirt Harry and Meghan must have on Knauf? If and when William or Jason make some big tactical error in their continuing attacks on the Sussexes they will have an arsenal of kompromat on them and a team of whip-smart lawyers to fight back. Jason’s playing the long game thinking what he can accomplish as an aide to the soon-to-be King but I think his reach exceeds his grasp. There are too many skeletons in his closet.
Listen, I’m all for releasing the kraken of info on this guy.
See, I don’t think Knauf ever stopped working for William and Kate, despite the subterfuges they put forward. Just as Christian Jones appears to have “resumed” working for William after all the hoopla about him leaving, without any fanfare whatsoever. Those two men and Simon Case (and Dan Wootten) know a LOT about William (and Kate) that Piers Moron WISHES he knew.
Christian Jones is still working for him? I don’t think that’s been confirmed. If CJ was smart he’d stay far away.
I’d like to think that H&M getting out more and showing that they have influential friends and winning against tabloids has caused some of these people and outlets to exercise more caution in what they say. He didn’t mention bullying because it was a lie and he knows that H&M have their attorneys on top of this situation.
Honestly the unmitigated gall and hypocrisy of JK wishing Meg and Harry well when this low life has never stopped being poisonous towards them! He was working against them through out and showed his unclean hands when MoS were appealing the Summary Judgement in favour of Meghan. He had been the viper in the office running back and forth to the Fail about THAT letter. The contusions they went through to explain his second thoughts and decision to come forward and give evidence on behalf of the MoS by proferring confidential work documents to them! Anybody else working for RF would have been suspended and then sacked and exiled. Instead JK is rewarded and is clearly still doing PR for FK. This guy has sunk lower than frog poop in a swamp. Will is too stupid to realise how he has opened himself up to blackmail by the treacherous JK. Just think of all the compromat he has got on Will and his wandering septre! JK and Will deserve each other!!
The gall to claim he cowrote that letter to Meghan’s dad! All so he could what? claim that he allowed the DM to publish it without Meghan’s permission. Help the tabloid win its case when the tabloid was clearly in the wrong. Come on. It’s so effed up.
I don’t think I could stand to watch the interview, but some rag did a “report” on the interview and Jason slithered around the bullying investigation. He knows he can’t tell the truth. Also, I think he realizes that Meghan and Harry have receipts, and also after Meghan’s successful lawsuit, that he has to watch what he says from now on. This is his pathetic buttering up the Sussexes in order to buy a bit of insurance for himself. Seems he’s thrown in his lot with William; otherwise why doesn’t he have a comms job outside the palace. He must be less competent than he even seems. Wasn’t he hired by KP from a position with the Royal Bank of Scotland or some such?
Knauf was also behind a few burner accounts on Twitter attacking Meghan. I know that Heidi Moore called him out on it a few times.
Knauf probably wasn’t the only staffer doing this.
Learned from this site yesterday that Knauf is American from Texas!! Look how he treated a fellow American. It makes him even worse in my eyes if that is possible.
At the end of the day, he is a (American) white man and Meghan is a black woman. So, it is not surprising how he treated her.
Good point. Never considered the race angle.
Mo S were desperate to win the appeal against Summary Judgement and so JK had to put himself as their insider. The ridiculous pretense that they’d approached him after mysteriously being made aware that JK had had second thoughts about giving evidence?! Clearly JK was their mole prepared to rat all along. He was clearly collaborating with MoS to serve FK’s best interests but both parties had to pretend JK was acting alone without approval from his master. Meghan said, It’s your brother on camera because she knew who was pulling the strings behind the scene. I am glad MoS lost the appeal but if it had gone to court JK would have been roasted on cross examination! Very embarrassing for RF if JK blurted out he’d been hugger mugger with the tabs to keep Will’s tacky affairs under wrap.
Him wishing H&M well is all about him not wanting to be sued by them, because he knows he did them dirty — and he knows that both Harry and Meghan keep receipts.
(Side question: Were he and William twinning by wearing velvet tuxes? Birds of a feather and all that.)
I wonder whether Knauf is speaking to the tabloids now (of which 60 Minutes Australia is one) because he (feels he) may be on the way out (e.g. of Earthshot, his position as William’s influencer/enforcer, etc.) and is sending a veiled threat to William?
Because the programme does not appear to have done a bang up job of embiggening lazy, unaccomplished William and has only reminded people of what a snake Jason Knauf is and the fact that after all the harm he caused, he was rewarded by William.
All these courtiers have strict NDA’s, especially after what happened during Diana’s times. They can’t just speak about their former employers on record. The royal reporters said, Jason must have got permission from Will when he gave evidence against Meghan to help the DM. I am sure, this interview was something Will approved, both to make himself look good and clean up Jason’s image after H&M doc showed that he was working against H&M.
5News has just shown excerpts from JK’s interview: what a shameless creep posing as a loyal courtier to both brothers and their wives. He has NO regrets?! Well he believes that he is sitting pretty giving interviews on camera: stating that Will “likes to keep his private thoughts private” after talking about a private phone call?? And we who know both brothers are sad about the estrangement?? JK did FK’s biding and damaged and undermined Meghan by planting nasty stones about her in the press. He was willing to give evidence against her in court to help MoS win their appeal. JK is a peddler of lies, a snake and a sneak who was an uncover agent for the Fail at the behest of Will. But he has no regrets and is okay about speaking on camera, pretending to be a discreet and thoroughly loyal courtier. Okay Will has approved his disclosures and JK thinks that he’s being clever with his best wishes to Meg and Harry. He and Will are both vulnerable to blackmail via the Fail who are facing Harry in court next year. JK will over reach himself and karma is a bitch!
Karma will reach to Knauf and the Waleses. I still think Trump and Musk will want to take control of the UK, and Knauf is an entry point to the Waleses. How hard would it be for Trump to use DOJ, FBI and CIA resources to find out the truth about the bullying investigation? How hard would it be for Trump to sic the FBI on the Markles or Knauf himself to get dirt on them to force them to talk? Better yet, Musk throws a couple of million at these losers to entice them? Trump would have the leverage and the Waleses will do anything to protect their images and Charles will do anything to protect the monarchy. Selling out the UK would not be a problem for the Windsors