EPISODE 448： KANSAS CITY SHOOTING BREAKDOWN - EVERYTHING WE KNOW
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An 84-year-old white man is now facing two felony charges and, if found guilty, life in prison after a shooting that has grabbed the nation s attention. Next, CCP agents arrested for operating secret police stations inside the United States, and finally, new school textbooks propping up already begun lying about President Trump s administration. All this and more on today's Human Events Daily!
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily powered by
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Turning Point USA. Today is Tuesday, April 18th, 2023. Anno, dominate. Today's top headlines,
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the Kansas City shooting. We're going to do a breakdown of everything we know. Next,
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CCP agents arrested for operating secret police stations inside the United States. And finally,
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new school textbooks propping up already begun lying about President Trump's administration.
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An 84-year-old white Kansas City man is now facing two felony charges and, if found guilty,
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life in prison after a shooting that has grabbed the nation's attention. According to family and
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lawyers for 16-year-old black teenager Ralph Yarl, it happened when he was trying to pick up his
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brothers one night last week. They say he accidentally rang the wrong doorbell and the
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man inside shot him in the head and the arm. He had to run to three different houses before someone
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would help him. That has led to protests over the weekend and a massive outpouring of support on
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social media. A GoFundMe for Yarl's hospital bill has surpassed $2 million. He has been released
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from the hospital, thank goodness, but has a long recovery ahead. All right, the shooting of Ralph
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Yarl, Kansas City, Missouri. Andrew Lester, the homeowner. What do we know and what do we not know?
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Now, when one of these Ben Crump situations gets started, we know what's going to happen.
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Media is going all in on this case. Wall-to-wall coverage, MSN, BC, CNN. Everybody's out there.
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Everybody's talking about it, but you don't have to not talking about the simple facts of the case.
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They want you to just focus on the race narrative. A white homeowner shot black kid. That's it. It's
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all they want. And the kid was this, you know, they're focusing on his personal life. They're
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focusing on the attributes of him. We know nothing about the homeowner whatsoever. And all I'm saying
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is when it comes to these situations and myself, the human events team, producer Angelo and I,
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so many of us have been going over the events of this case all day yesterday, all day today,
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been digging through media narratives, digging through the probable cause statements to try to
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figure out what exactly happened. And so we do have, we do have the actual, here we go.
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I'm going to show you probable cause statements that have been listed by the police, or I should say by
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the prosecutor, well, it's a prosecutor with the police statement. Now notice nobody else in media
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is actually going to give you the probable cause statement. We will, because we're going to go
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through the facts right here, right now. This occurred April 13th, 2023 at approximately 2152
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hours. That's 952 Kansas city, Missouri police officers were dispatched to, and has the address
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here. I'm not going to say that on air upon arrival, they located one male victim. Now they were
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contacted by a party who called 911 and stated, they believed that the person who was, they believe
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the person who was shot was essentially a home invader. The male was later identified as Andrew D
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Lester. They gave him verbal commands to exit the residence. He complied. This is talking about when,
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when he arrived, uh, he consented to a search. They searched officer wrote officer wrote,
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I observed the front storm door glass broken with blood on the front porch. I observed blood on the
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driveway. I observed cameras on the South and East side of the residence. I also observed blood in the
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street in front of, and it has the, the address of the neighbor. A witness who was interviewed stated
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that around 2150 hours, they heard an unknown vehicle pull into the driveway of the address.
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The witness thought it was odd for the elderly neighbor to have a visitor this time of night.
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The witness stated a short time later, they heard two to three gunshots from the address.
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The witness stated afterwards, they heard the, they heard the victim screaming that he'd been shot.
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They observed the victim knock on the neighbor's doors asking for help. Well, it actually just says PY.
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So it says PY. The witness did not see the shooting itself. Okay. Going through. Now I mentioned those
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cameras that are on there because when I first heard there were cameras in this thing, I said,
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Whoa, if this thing's on camera, unfortunately, uh, even as, as tragic, it is that there's something
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like this happened. You'd hope that there's something that would never happen. It seems like
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it was a misunderstanding, but we need to see the video, but it says the system, it was determined.
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The system was no longer functional. The last captured event was dated June 25th, 2022. So
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it was not functional. So no video. What do we have here? We have the actual statement from Lester
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himself. Lester told police, now keep in mind, he went to speak to police without a lawyer. You should
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never ever do this. Never talk to cops without a lawyer. Lester chose to do so. He stated that late at
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night, he had just laid down in bed when he heard the doorbell ring. Lester stated, he picked up his
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gun, a 32 Smith and Wesson, 1888 revolver before responding to answer the door. He stated the front
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door of his residence consisted of an interior main door and exterior glass storm door, both of which
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were locked. Lester stated, he opened the interior door. He saw a black male, approximately six feet tall,
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pulling on the exterior storm door handle. He stated, he believed someone was attempting to break
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into the house and shot twice within a few seconds of opening the door. Keep in mind, this is not the
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actual transcript of what he said. These words are the words of the police officer given to the
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prosecutor. This is not the transcript, the phrasing, or it doesn't include the questions from Lester
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himself. So we don't know exactly what Lester said. We also don't know if Lester said anything that they're
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leaving out because I remember when Kyle Rittenhouse was prosecuted, there was a lot left out of those
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statements too. He stated, he, he stated, he believed someone was attempting to break into the
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house and shot twice within a few seconds of opening the door. Lester stated the mail ran away and he
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immediately used his home phone to call 911. So Lester called 911, the homeowner called 911. He
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observed a car in a driveway. He believed to be the mail's vehicle. It did not see anyone else in or around
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the vehicle. This is, he also said that he was scared to death due to the man's size and his age,
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84, his inability to defend himself. He believed he was protecting himself from a physical confrontation
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and could not take the chance of the mail coming, coming in. Lester was visibly upset and repeatedly
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expressed concern for the man he shot. The only significant difference in that statement and the
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statement again, in the probable cause document from P wise from Ralph Yarl statement is that he did state
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that, uh, he says that when he got up to run away, the man who resided there yelled, don't come around
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here. So that is the main thing. So, um, again, from that statement, kind of a general statement saying
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essentially that he didn't say anything, but Ralph says that he did say, don't come around here, folks.
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This is one of those cases. That's going to get a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. Number one,
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this should not be a national news story. It is the media making it a national news story. This is a
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misunderstanding, a situation where we don't have all the facts. There are no witnesses. There's no video.
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It's going to be a gray issue. It was an altercation. It sounds like something that was very tragic and I wish
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it never happened personally, but at the same time, we have to question ourselves. Does this really warrant
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the entire nation's attention or should it be a local story? We all know why, because the media
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will do anything they can to inflame racial tensions in our nation. We here at human events
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daily are going to follow the facts as we always do. Here in New York city tonight, the FBI busting
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what they say was a secret police station here in New York run by the Chinese government who they
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were monitoring and why. Here's our chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas. Now
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tonight, the FBI accusing the Chinese government of secretly operating a police station out of this
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unassuming building in the heart of New York city. The first ever case of its kind. This case is a
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further example of the audacious activities that the government of China has carried out right here
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on American soil. The FBI arresting these two men in New York city today, Luz Yang Wang and Chen
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Jingping, accusing them of working under the direction of China's ministry of public security.
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Their office near Chinatown claimed to be a nonprofit organization providing assistance to local
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residents of Chinese descent, including to help them get driver's licenses. But the FBI says the
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station was a hub of Chinese counterintelligence operations in New York city used to harass and
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intimidate dissidents who dared to defy China. The secret police station appears to have had a more
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sinister use. Officials say Lou allegedly tracked down and terrorized a pro-democracy activist living in
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California. And one stunning case sources telling ABC news, China is accused of having a secret
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operative inside the zoom company and of hacking zoom sessions. Well, well, well, finally, the FBI found
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out what their actual job is supposed to be. That's right. Going after real Chinese agents that are
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operating within the United States. It only took them, Oh, what a year since human events daily broke
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the story discussing these secret police operations that were going on throughout the United States.
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Isn't the only one by the way, but we're now told that 44 individuals, including 40 officers up at
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human events.com. We have the article this morning. You can go check it out. Make sure you're going to
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human events.com every single day after you subscribe to the human events daily podcast.
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Remember, we also have human events.com where we're posting all the latest news, all the latest
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op-eds of everything that's going on. Just incredible scoops there. We had a scoop on president Trump last
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night. I'm speaking at the summit. We have scoops up about this, so many other things. So the officers
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from Chinese ministry of public security and two officials from the cyberspace administration of China
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have been targeted with various crimes related to transnational repression schemes that targeted
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Chinese nationals residing in the United States. Listen to this. The defendants were accused of
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using fake. The Chinese agents were using fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate Chinese
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dissidents residing abroad and sought to suppress the dissidents free speech on the platform of,
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and it just says a U S telecommunications company. So we don't know if this was now it's a U S telecom
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company. And so we don't know if that means that it had to be Twitter, Facebook, et cetera. It could,
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depending on the way they're looking at this, it could actually be Tik TOK, right? Because we know
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that CCP agents, I mean, Tik TOK is owned by the CCP. They allegedly created and used thousands of fake
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online personas to target the Chinese dissidents, harass them online, disseminate propaganda in favor of the
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CCP. The charges were made by U S trade's office for Eastern district of New York. They believe to
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reside inside China. So that of course means ain't nothing going to happen to them, to the guys that
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are in China, but we are told the elite task force is called the nine one two special project working
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group, whose purpose is to target Chinese dissidents throughout the world, including the United States.
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I'm talking about being a troll farm. It's going after pro-democracy following gong. I'm sure they
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target the Epoch times disputing, right? Disputing and disrupting efforts to commemorate the Tiananmen
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square massacre. Of course, because why wouldn't you, right? If you're the CCP, look, we've talked
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about this a long time, but here's a couple of angles about the CCP. I don't think anyone's talked
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about the CCP longer than me. I've said a million times when I went to China, when I lived in China,
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I learned the truth about the CCP, study Mandarin. I wanted to come back to the United States and use
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my knowledge to do the right thing regarding the rise of China, joined the Navy, and then found that
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the military and the intel community wasn't doing very much about the rise of China. And so kind of
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here to before you to expose this to everybody. Now, why is the FBI going at this? Why is the Biden
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administration doing this? The same Biden administration that did absolutely nothing when
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a Chinese spy balloon flew all the way across the United States and investigated and sucked up data
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on every single one of our nuclear sites. And notice, like we said last week, it seems like the
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Biden administration is pivoting away from Ukraine yet again. Let me explain. The Biden administration,
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even though we know that Biden and his family have had so many dealings with China, they're attempting to
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put pressure on the CCP right now because we're looking at is an oligarch fight at the highest
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levels. What do I mean by that? The system of globalism was erected, and we've gone through
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the story a million times, was erected after the Tiananmen Square massacre. So that was June 4th,
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1989. You notice what happened throughout the 90s. The U.S. investment, the Western capital started
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flowing into China. Then at the end of the 90s, who was instrumental? Bill Clinton and later George W. Bush
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in allowing the CCP and the People's Republic of China to enter into the World Trade Organization.
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This was the deal. We could have isolated them. We could have cut them off like we cut off Russia
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after the Ukraine invasion, but we didn't. We made a deal. Or I should say our leaders and elites made
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a deal. They said, you're going to come in and we're going to create this system called globalism,
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and you are going to be the manufacturers where you're going to have the slave labor. You will provide
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that. We will provide the capital and the IP. So, and we'll cut you, you know, we'll cut you a little
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bit off on the side. Pay for the use of the labor. And so we'll all get rich. And who cares about the
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gutting out of the Midwest, the South, and the Rust Belt of the United States? That's been the true story
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of the last 30 years. That's why everything is made in China now. That's why you see some of these
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people who are tied into this at the elite level, the chamber of commerce level, they're getting
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filthy rich off the backs of this. But here's the problem. The CCP is trying to cut them out.
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So the CCP is now trying to exert their influence and power and be the senior partner. The globalist
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American empire does not want that. And that's why you're seeing actions like this be taken now.
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Well, our main purpose was to push back against some of the lies and myths that are out there in
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And what does he have for us? Huge new story. Make sure you go to gregprice.stubstack.com and check
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this all out. Greg has reviewed five new AP high school U S history textbooks that cover the Trump
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administration. And what does it say? The historians who wrote them put their full liberal bias on display
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in terms of what they included and what they left out. Textbooks covered the minimal influence of
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Russia on social media, but do not mention the steel dossier, the FBI abuses of FISA to spy on
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president Trump and the Trump campaign, the illegal unmasking of general Flynn, the strong page text,
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et cetera. Here's what it says. Listen to this. This is from the American pageant, the history of the
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American people. The campaign maelstrom intensified when WikiLeaks, an international organization
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dedicated to disclosing confidential documents, released thousands of emails illegally filched
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from inside the Clinton campaign. American intelligence services concluded that Russian
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hackers were the source of WikiLeaks information trove and that Russia had interfered in the election
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in a myriad of other ways as well, generating thousands of false social media accounts whose combative
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posts fueled already raging partisan fires, Russia had cleverly manipulated the cacophonous social
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media environment to exploit and amplify political divisions in order to disrupt the American electoral
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conference. The principal beneficiary of the chaos was Donald J. Trump, who ultimately prompted several
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investigations to possible conclusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. The unexpected outcome.
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I'm sorry. I can't even, I can't even go for the unexpected outcome of the 2016 election. So they just,
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they're just writing that in a textbook for kids, that it was an unexpected outcome as if electing a guy
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that the elites didn't want isn't allowed. And, and suddenly the 2016 election itself was called into
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scrutiny. This is how much conservatives have lost. Do you understand the old conservative movement in
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this country is a joke. It's an absolute joke. They're brainwashing your children. They're doing it right in
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front of your faces. Every single time you send them to one of these schools, every single time you allow your
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school board to put this in there, they're going to put them in there and they're going to brainwash
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them to hate you. They're going to brainwash them to change their gender, to come home and have their
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genitals mutilated because mommy and daddy go to church every weekend because mommy and daddy didn't
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vote the right way because mommy and daddy are the wrong skin color. This is what's going on in this
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country. If you people don't think for a second that we are not coming, becoming neo Bolshevik
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insanity, then you have not been paying attention for two seconds. I'm sick and tired of hearing
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conservatives come at us and they clap back at me. They clap back at Charlie Kirk. They clap back at so
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many of us for saying, Oh, you guys are taking it to Matt Walsh. You guys are taking it to you blowing
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it out. You blow it out of proportion. You're blowing it all. They're brainwashing. They're just straight
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up lying to children. They're going in and this is AP. This is an AP textbook. This is now the official
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lexicon. History is written by the victors. That is why when we get back in power, the people who wrote
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this textbook should be arrested and they should be arrested and put on full public display of the
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entire country for corrupting our children and corrupting minors of this country and lying to
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them about what's been going on. They should be put on trial. Absolutely. They should be behind arrest
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every single person who wrote this textbook, arrest all of them. Listen to that. It's all Trump is all
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working for Putin. The whole thing. He was a, what's the next one. He's a sexual predator. He was,
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you know, he was, he was banging interns. He was doing every, basically they taken everything that
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Bill Clinton actually did. And they're applying it to Trump. This is incredible. This is absolutely
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incredible experience history. They're saying that Trump didn't, um, didn't condemn Charlottesville.
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He did many times. Uh, what's next. What's next. What's next. He appealed successfully to nostalgia
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for a time when people of color and women knew they are placed and that it was racist for president
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Trump to tweet that LeBron James lacked intelligence when we already know he does. He can't read past the
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first page of a book. Uh, they cover, they cover Ferguson. They cover Michael Brown. They cover
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officer Darren Wilson. They use hand. They actually include the hands up. Don't shoot lie. They include
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it. And then, Oh, January 6th, January 6th, full-on insurrection, the storming of the cat. Look,
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conservatives need to wake up. You wake up right now. You're sitting back there. You're watching Sean
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Hannity. You're watching all these other shows designed to make you feel good. You lost, you've lost so
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much of the country. Are you going to fight back? Are you actually going to use your voice to get
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this movement and get this country back on track? Or are you just going to sit back and complain and
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say like, Oh, the kids are dumb or the kids are this? Well, guess what? Those same kids in the
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system that you keep supporting that you've been supporting with your tax dollars that you've been
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supporting by sending your kids to these indoctrination centers. Why do you think they come
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home and they don't like you? Why do you think they come home and say, mommy, I don't want to be a
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boy anymore. I want to be a girl. You know who would let them go to that school. You did, you know,
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who sat back and, and allowed the schools to become this way. You did. I'm sick of it. I'm so sick. And
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I'm not talking about the people I'm talking about the conservative leaders in this country that have
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led this movement for so many years. You're a joke. You are a ridiculous joke. You've lost. You've
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completely lost the plot. If you allow any school in this country to be teaching this insanity,
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then you are a loser. Take the L. And if you don't realize how bad you've lost, that just shows how
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dumb you are. That shows how absolutely stupid you are to let them do this to your own children,
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right under your nose in your, and you're paying them to do it. You're even paying them to do
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it. You're on your knees for them. And you don't even know it. You think I'm in a position of
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strength because I'm allowing my kids be exposed to is this nonsense. It's perverted nonsense because
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you are perverting history and you're allowing that perversion to enter into young children.
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And yeah, I do mean the double entendre of that because you know, they're doing it from a
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sexualization standpoint as well. This is sick. This, this whole thing is sick, but you're gonna
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let them do it. You're gonna let them do it because you're weak. You're pathetic. You're a disgrace.
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Actually stand up and fight back. Are you going to conserve this country? Are you going to restore
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the new American Republic? Or are you just going to let them keep marching on and take their kids
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with you? I think we know. You're going to let them take the kids. Then let them take your wife.
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You're going to let them take your girlfriend until you are left with nothing. Ladies and gentlemen,