To be fair, I highly doubt they're friends. They're more like "friends". I would've done exactly what Crowder did. At that the level of play, with the amount of money involved, with the insane contract he was offered, and with Daily Wire's and Ben Shapiro's reputation, if it were me, I absolutely would've recorded all of the conversations with them. A genuine person records a conversation when they feel that the other side might lie about what was said. There've been lots of stories the last few years of right wingers who've done interviews with the MSM, who release a ridiculously edited version of the interview to paint the right winger in the worst light, and the right winger saves themselves only because they had the wherewithal to recorded it, and released it to reveal the whole truth. This is also exactly what Project Veritas does to get their content. They get people comfortable, and record what they say.

Our side has been burned far too many times to rely on trust. We've known for a while now that many on our side are fake, and are Uniparty/ConInc./RINO/globalist pieces of shit, who are intentionally setting themselves up as traps for normie right wingers, who would otherwise move much further right, if not for the false choice and half truth they're presented with.

Predatory people deserve to be outed. Predatory practices deserve to be criticized. All of it should be shared openly, so everyone knows who those people are and what they do.

The one fair criticism of Crowder that I've heard is that this is all PR by him, because Daily Wire didn't agree to his counter offer, and so Crowder is only releasing this all now, after the fact, because he probably wants to set up his own independent company. However, contrary to this criticism, and to be fair to Crowder, he didn't tell anyone who this predatory company was. The Daily Wire were stupid and outed themselves.