On today's show, we're joined by Peter Schweitzer, who's been investigating the Biden's for years, and the corruption they're trying to get away with, and why you don't want to miss it. Plus, the media is finally admitting what we've been right about for the last four years: Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
00:05:38.000I'm super excited about getting 2024 past us and just getting to work in 2025, fixing our country.
00:05:46.000Obviously, there's been a lot happening, and I guess what I like most about our MAGA movement is that we don't shy away from debate or actually avoid serious policy conversations.
00:05:58.000We actually embrace tough questions and listening to different viewpoints.
00:06:03.000It's one of the reasons I like doing this show because I get to hear real feedback from all of you.
00:06:09.000I'm actually usually reading the comments in the meantime.
00:06:11.000Sometimes even after a show, I'll scroll back and see what people are thinking.
00:06:14.000Gets me sort of in tune with what's going on.
00:06:17.000Even like listening to some of the trolls sometimes.
00:06:23.000We will be ready on day one to deliver for you, the American people, and revive the American dream.
00:06:29.000That American dream that has been so lost for so many.
00:06:32.000That's been our biggest export, your American dream, for far too long.
00:06:37.000Tonight, We'll also be joined by author Peter Schweitzer, who has so many major investigations on the Bidens, on China, on corruption, and what they're trying to get away with.
00:06:53.000Again, this is all about getting it out there, making it transparent, making sure that people understand what not just the Bidens, but so many leaders in America are doing, selling us out so that we can fix it.
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00:08:03.000Now remember, guys, we've been talking all about making America healthy again.
00:08:08.000We've been doing that for months with RFK Jr. I love that this has become part of the conservative ethos.
00:08:14.000But did you know that 45% of the coffee you drink could be loaded with mold toxins?
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00:09:32.000And now the Washington Post of all places just admitted that we've been right all along about how team Biden was openly supportive of using the justice system to attack my father.
00:09:46.000The paper reported, and I quote, in private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as Attorney General, complaining about the Justice Department's slowness, slowness under Garland.
00:10:00.000I mean, you know, they make up a bunch of stuff.
00:10:02.000They go after my father across the board.
00:10:26.000In other words, Joe Biden is upset that his efforts to weaponize the Justice Department failed.
00:10:33.000It's literally hard to imagine a more aggressive weaponization than the one conducted by Merrick Garland.
00:10:40.000If you got any more aggressive we'd have a serious problem beyond the already serious problems that we had to deal with but a problem that is perhaps unrecoverable.
00:10:50.000After all, they raided Mar-a-Lago just a year and a half after my father left office.
00:10:57.000Biden wishes that the DOJ imprisoned my father on January 21st, 2017. The good news is we won bigger than ever.
00:11:07.000And now we can stop this madness from ever happening again.
00:11:12.000Also, that same Washington Post piece quoted Jake Sullivan, Biden's failed national security advisor.
00:11:20.000For a quick refresher, Jake Sullivan is the guy who said the Middle East was quieter than ever just a week before the October 7th attack in Israel.
00:12:26.000This is what Jake told the Washington Post, and I quote, the president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years.
00:12:40.000Yes, Joe Biden, the same guy that can't remember what day it is, falls up and down stairs of Air Force One almost weekly, is making strategic moves, thinking decades in advance, guys.
00:13:29.000You mean the migrants that they're bringing in, randomly screening the 13,000 murderers and 16,000 rapists and 600,000 criminals, according to Biden's own ICE department.
00:13:41.000You know, they're not bringing all that much to the table.
00:13:49.000All of this chaos was controlled and caused by Democrats from a local level to the center of the swamp in Washington, D.C. And meanwhile, we just found out just how extensively China has hacked into our phone system.
00:14:06.000China has hacked into nine different U.S. telecom firms.
00:14:10.000I can't even name nine, so it's probably almost all of them, and has access to private texts and phone conversations in recent years.
00:14:18.000And it's just one of the many examples of China taking aim at our national security.
00:14:24.000We'll get into more of this with Peter Schweitzer shortly.
00:14:28.000But instead of China, Democrats are more worried about sending more of your hard-earned money to Ukraine.
00:14:39.000I wonder how much it's getting kicked back to the big guy and the thousands of other big guys in the Washington DC swamp, in the military industrial complex, in big war.
00:14:54.000Today, the Biden administration announced it's sending an additional $2.5 billion to Ukraine.
00:15:01.000I don't know where we're at total, but it's got to be pushing like $300 billion, and that doesn't include the $250 billion that the Pentagon lost.
00:15:08.000That probably also went there, whatever wasn't given to their cronies.
00:15:13.000Like I told you before, these Biden bureaucrats are trying to create as many headaches as possible on the way out.
00:15:21.000They want to waste as much of your money as possible so that America doesn't recover under Trump.
00:15:31.000For the common sense policies of my father's incoming administration to work, that they can talk about these failures, even if they're ones demonstrably doing it themselves, to you, with your money, for no reason other than taking care of themselves and their cronies.
00:15:49.000While Democrats are dishing out money to Zelensky, here's what parts of North Carolina still look like after the hurricanes back in October.
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00:19:36.000Joining me now, the author of Blood Money, Secret Empires, and many more, host of Drill Down Podcast, author, investigative journalist, Peter Schweitzer.
00:19:50.000I hope you had a great Christmas, and hopefully we'll all have a better 2025. Yeah, I think we're going to have a great 2025, and thank you.
00:19:59.000Had a great Christmas, and I hope you had the same.
00:20:28.000And so, you know, I get to be around a thousand drunk people giving me their political opinions that I don't necessarily want to hear.
00:20:36.000While I love Mar-a-Lago, it's sort of like, you know, by about midnight when everyone's like, you know, 12 beers deep or, you know, whatever it is they're drinking, you know, the close talking opinions.
00:21:05.000Yeah, and I imagine being at Mar-a-Lago is a little bit like being at Woodstock, you know, and you're in a band or you're a singer and everybody's telling you, giving you musical advice, and you're like, you know, I'm good.
00:22:37.000You can always hope the 50 is the new 30. Exactly.
00:22:39.000Yeah, so far I've been hoping that sort of medical technology, you know, advances faster than my early onset arthritis from a misspent youth.
00:22:47.000And that has not actually worked out in my favor yet.
00:23:21.000Maybe that's a place to start, but even for me, cycling off a campaign, as brutal as it is, as crazy as it is, 24-hour days, all-nighters, there's something about the action.
00:24:39.000You'd think being president of the United States would give you the dopamine rush.
00:24:42.000What happens to Joe Biden after January 20th?
00:24:45.000Because if he's riding the dopamine high, what's it like for him when he's not?
00:24:51.000And when you kind of compare, you know, my father's a couple of years younger, but, you know, my dad's 78 and he's pulling all-nighters and going, you know, Joe Biden can't make it to, you know, make it to lunch without, you know, taking a nap.
00:25:03.000You know, maybe that is like a perfect example of like age is just a number depending on the person.
00:25:10.000And again, I know people that are in their 90s, their mid 90s, they're alert, they're mentally fit, certainly more capable of making decisions and showing more stamina than Joe Biden does.
00:25:27.000And that is that during that period when Joe Biden had that, you know, that first debate performance, which was absolutely disastrous.
00:25:35.000And the time from from that debate to when he actually pulled out and dropped out and Kamala Harris took his place, you know, there was a seven to eight week period there.
00:25:58.000And my theory is, in typical Joe Biden fashion and Biden family fashion, they negotiated a golden parachute or an exit strategy, an exit payment strategy.
00:26:10.000What form that takes, I don't know, but I'm sure there are a lot of people in Hollywood, a lot of people tied up in the Democratic Party establishment that were prepared to throw millions of dollars at the Biden family under consulting arrangements or whatever to get him to go away.
00:27:07.000But, you know, when everyone starts writing the tell all books about just how bad it was, you know, I think the Democrats would usually be Pretty good about hiding that kind of stuff.
00:27:17.000Certainly much better than our side ever would.
00:27:19.000But I imagine now that, you know, that dynasty is clearly over.
00:27:23.000You know, there's a lot of clickbait that's going to happen with all of this.
00:27:26.000How bad do you think that's going to be?
00:27:28.000And do you think it's actually worse than we saw, even if what we saw was atrocious?
00:27:33.000Yeah, I think it's going to be worse than we thought.
00:27:36.000I think it's going to get pretty ugly because I'm not sure that the center of gravity in the Democratic Party realized what happened in this last election.
00:27:46.000They're still sort of making excuses that it's something else.
00:27:50.000You know, it was messaging rather than the substance of what they did, or it was, you know, certain tactical decisions they made.
00:27:57.000The fact of the matter is they lost terribly and they lost bad on substance, right?
00:28:26.000She got on The View and basically committed political suicide on The View.
00:28:31.000You know, she was asked, you know, three or four basic questions, flubbed them horribly the first time, was given chance after, I don't want to say a lot of chances, only because she barely did any media or any press that wasn't sort of teleprompted and scripted stuff.
00:28:45.000But if she can't answer those things after having a disaster and still can't answer them the next time, let alone five or six times later, you know, was there ever going to be a change?
00:28:55.000No, a bingo, and I think what you're saying absolutely proves the point that I'm trying to make, which is these are all excuses they're trying to manufacture.
00:29:04.000They don't want to look at the fundamental issue, which is the center of gravity of the Democratic Party is too progressive, they have terrible policies, and they were rejected by the American people because you had a Republican candidate who came forward and had a more appealing message, and it was a substantive message.
00:29:23.000They don't want to confront that, because to confront that for some of them is the equivalent of kind of having a religious view and realizing that that religious view does not conform at all to reality.
00:29:38.000Leftism is their religion, and so you're You're right.
00:29:41.000They don't believe in a deity or a god.
00:29:47.000Do you think there's anything to this whole notion, Joe Biden out there apparently complaining to his aides that he would have done better than Kamala Harris?
00:29:57.000You know, there could be something to it.
00:30:00.000I mean, there's sort of this component of, like, Kamala Harris, it's like she made Hillary Clinton seem likable once you got to know her a little bit.
00:30:07.000And I'm not saying anyone liked the policies.
00:30:11.000And, you know, I don't actually believe that Joe Biden, you know, thinks that, you know, gender affirming care for three year olds is, you know, the sociopolitical issue of our day or whatever it is that the Democrat Party said.
00:30:26.000But do you think that Joe Biden could have actually done better than her?
00:30:42.000You don't have a visceral reaction to it, like I think a lot of people had towards Kamala Harris.
00:30:46.000So maybe there's some truth to that, as shocking as that, maybe given his overall level of competence.
00:30:52.000Yeah, I mean, in a weird way, Kamala Harris takes herself more seriously than Joe Biden does.
00:31:00.000I'm not saying that Joe Biden doesn't take himself seriously, but Kamala Harris, there's this, like, earnestness that if you reject me, you are rejecting all that is good and virtuous in America, and, you know, you may be a misogynist or racist or whatever else to go along with it.
00:31:14.000With Joe Biden, there is kind of, because he's been in retail politics so long, there is slightly a sense.
00:31:21.000So in that respect, maybe he was more appealing.
00:31:23.000Also, I think it was kind of a debate.
00:31:25.000People were looking at Kamala Harris and they're saying, this is not a steady hand.
00:31:35.000And you contrast that with Joe Biden where, okay, you don't agree with him, he'd been in the arena for a long time, and he has diminished capabilities, but he still might have been.
00:31:47.000The fact that we're even having this conversation of like, which ones, like, it's like, yeah, the leader of the free world can have dementia, and it's still better possibly than the Democrats' frontrunner, as well as, you know, according to the polls, their frontrunner for 2028, which I hope actually continues to be Kamala Harris.
00:32:08.000I do think it's going to be interesting in 2020. I do think the Democrats are going to try to, at least some of them, are going to try to bring back the sort of Clinton brand, the so-called triangulation or the more supposedly centrist version.
00:32:23.000So I think there's going to be a faction that's going to get behind, like Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
00:32:28.000But you still have the Gavin Newsom, the California left wing of the party, which I think is ascended.
00:32:35.000So they may make that effort, but it's getting really hard for them to go with a more centrist candidate just because of where the base of primary voters are for Democrats today.
00:32:46.000The money in the Democratic Party is being funded by the most radical people of that party.
00:32:51.000There's a reason we won so much of that blue-collar vote.
00:32:53.000I mean, the radicals still really believe that these, you know, the hills to die on for them are not things that resonate with the American public at all, and yet, you know, these are their priorities, and, you know, you don't get that money if you don't buy into that, you know, sort of ethos.
00:33:09.000I mean, it's big tech, it's Hollywood, and a certain, you know, function of people that are trust fund kids, right?
00:33:17.000Their parents made a bunch of money, and they're now, you know, liberal Democrats.
00:33:21.000That is the center of gravity of the finance for the Democratic Party, and that is not going to change.
00:33:26.000They're just going to have to decide whether they are prepared to reduce their religious affection for progressive causes in the hope they have a better chance of winning.
00:33:37.000That's the balancing choice they have to make.
00:33:40.000What's interesting about the Republican Party is you don't really have that debate.
00:33:43.000You don't really have that debate because the center of gravity of the party is now the sort of Trump MAGA movement.
00:33:51.000That is the center of gravity of the party, and there's no reason to try to triangulate or do something wrong.
00:33:58.000And that's what I think is so extraordinary about this time, because coalitions for the Republican Party are far less important than the Democrats trying to form coalitions with elements on Wall Street or people in the Midwest or wherever, because they can't be true to what they actually believe, because it's too radical.
00:34:16.000Yeah, I mean, you know, let's talk a little bit further about Joe Biden.
00:34:19.000You've obviously, I mean, you've written entire books about sort of the corruption in not just the Democrat Party, but in the Biden crime family.
00:34:27.000And now, after years of guys like you and, you know, to a lesser extent, me, but, you know, I wrote a book triggered about, you know, just these kinds of things.
00:34:35.000Biden is literally seen in newly uncovered photos meeting with Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates while he was vice president.
00:34:46.000I mean, how is it possible that the second most powerful man in the world Can cover that up for that long?
00:34:53.000Again, guys like you, guys like me, we know about it.
00:35:59.000My point is you wouldn't think it was, but it is.
00:36:02.000And it shows the penetration of the deep state and how even something like an archives agency has been weaponized.
00:36:10.000And what they did in the case of those letters is they weaponized the archives office.
00:36:15.000In this case, they dragged their feet for years about these photos when the photos were not hard to find.
00:36:21.000They were part of an official vice presidential visit on Air Force Two to China.
00:36:26.000You know, I had reported in 2018, you talked about it in your book, that Hunter flew with his dad on Air Force Two to China, that Hunter met with his Chinese partners, and Joe Biden insisted for years that, yeah, he might have been there, his son might have been there, he might have met with his business partners, but he, Joe Biden himself, never actually met with Hunter's business partners, which just, you know, strained credulity beyond the breaking point.
00:36:55.000And now, of course, the photos show what I'd reported, what you'd reported, what others have covered, is that, in fact, they did meet.
00:37:02.000And this was the main reason that Hunter Biden was actually able to get business deals, to get Chinese, you know, businessmen to send him millions of dollars when he brought nothing to the table.
00:37:13.000It was because his dad was vice president and was slated to eventually become president of the United States in the eyes of Democrats.
00:37:28.000But the larger issue, it's a further example of what has happened to our federal bureaucracy, even in these sleepy corners of the archives departments.
00:37:38.000It's being used to prevent the American people from getting access to legitimate information.
00:37:43.000You know, we know if this had been a photo involving Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush or somebody else, they would have dropped these photos right away.
00:37:54.000And it goes to, I think, what we should look forward to in 2025, which is going to be real trench warfare of cleaning out government agencies and getting government to function the way that it's supposed to function, which is serving the American people and being transparent, not these hidden games which is serving the American people and being transparent, not these hidden games to protect I mean, you've uncovered so much of this story already.
00:38:37.000Do we get to the bottom of it so that at least the American public has a final understanding?
00:38:43.000Now that he gets a pardon, does a Republican Congress call him up to talk about all of these things?
00:38:52.000I mean, most of the stuff they let wash away anyway, right?
00:38:55.000We all understand that the stuff that was actually serious, the Farrah violations, the millions of dollars from foreign entities, was sort of hidden under the guise of a gun charge.
00:39:30.000He ought to have Hunter Biden come and testify.
00:39:32.000He doesn't need to invoke the Fifth Amendment anymore because he can't be charged on any of these issues.
00:39:38.000So, yeah, I think Congress needs to pursue it because, as I've talked about, we talked about this before, Don.
00:39:43.000This is a story about Joe Biden, but it's a bigger story than that.
00:39:48.000Because what you find with people that are creatures of Washington that stay there for decades, they look around and they see, okay, the Clintons got away with this stuff.
00:40:31.000It runs from January of 2014, which, by the way, that is right before the Ukrainian deal start.
00:40:39.000That's right as the Chinese deals are signed.
00:40:42.000So it's clearly designed to cover those deals at the front end.
00:40:44.000But it goes from January of 2014 to December 1st of this year.
00:40:51.000Why do they feel the need to cover 2024?
00:40:55.000I think it's because, again, I don't have evidence for this, but I think it is because there were deals cut for the family so that Joe Biden would step aside.
00:41:05.000And this is a way of protecting them, because let's remember, Rod Goyevich went to jail on charges, on charges allegations that he got something in return for arranging for somebody to clearing the way for somebody to be a candidate for office to appoint them to the US Senate there is the possibility that there may have been deals made that brushed up against or were either even illegal for Joe Biden to step out of the office.
00:41:35.000And I think the pardon is designed to cover those as well.
00:41:38.000Because what else is Hunter Biden doing in 2020-14 that would warrant this kind of blanket pardon up until December of this year?
00:41:53.000Do they get to keep the ill-gotten gains if there are some?
00:41:57.000I mean, it's one thing to say, hey, I can't be charged criminally, but I made hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the American people, committing crimes, leveraging the office of the vice presidency when he was there.
00:42:11.000Do they just get to keep that, or can there be Some sort of, you know, a clawback provision on those ill-gotten gains if they're done illegally.
00:42:19.000I get that he's not going to jail for it, but does he just get to keep the money?
00:42:23.000Can you steal a couple billion dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars or whatever it may be?
00:42:27.000And it's like, oh, all going, you can't actually touch it because you can't do this stuff criminally?
00:42:32.000Yeah, I mean, I'm not a lawyer, so maybe there's a way to claw it back.
00:42:37.000But from the standpoint of how they made the money and you're now saying with these blanket pardons, you cannot be criminally charged for the thirty one million dollars that we know of that they got from the Chinese.
00:43:20.000And let's remember, by the way, that Yelena Baturina, who is the Russian, the wife of the mayor that you're talking about, we know of at least $3.5 million, probably more, but at least $3.5 million that we saw the wire transfer for.
00:43:33.000She wired to Hunter Biden in 2014 when the Biden-Obama administration was deciding who Of Putin's oligarch buddies were going to be restricted from doing business in the United States.
00:43:47.000And she's basically the only pro-Putin oligarch that was not on that list.
00:43:58.000I don't believe in those coincidences.
00:44:00.000But to your point, yeah, I mean, that is the problem here and why we need to get to the bottom of this and why I think we need to look at legal recourse, we need to look at public accountability, because, again, there's a lot of shameless people in Washington, D.C., that if they can get away with this stuff, they're going to do it.
00:44:17.000And I think one of the reasons the Bidens got into this business...
00:44:20.000Of what I call globalized corruption, right?
00:44:22.000You're not taking payments from some businessman back in your congressional district.
00:44:27.000You're taking money from foreign governments.
00:44:29.000The Bidens learned it from the Clintons.
00:44:31.000The Clintons did it through their foundation, through the speaking fees.
00:44:40.000And there are other people I can guarantee you right now in Washington, D.C., unfortunately, from both political parties.
00:44:46.000You know, they're sitting in Congress.
00:44:47.000They're sitting in the Senate saying, hmm.
00:44:50.000This is a way to cash in and I'm not going to end up in jail.
00:44:54.000Yeah, no, because I mean, the reality is, you know, the Biden-China story has layers that go just beyond, you know, simply the Bidens, right?
00:45:02.000For example, we've covered on this show how, you know, Chinese entities are buying up massive amounts of American farmland and even, you know, single-family homes.
00:45:11.000Again, I have a feeling we wouldn't be allowed to do that in China.
00:45:23.000Yeah, I think it's a huge problem and I think it's an underreported problem.
00:45:27.000So, you know, think about the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is supposed to track foreign ownership of our farmland.
00:45:33.000And what they will say is, well, you know, about one third of one percent of the farmland owned in the United States is owned by the Chinese.
00:45:42.000Well, because if a Chinese businessman using a Chinese-based LLC buys a property, they're supposed to check in the box that they're buying this land.
00:45:53.000The problem is, and we know this in the state of Maine and in other states, what the Chinese do is they set up LLCs in Delaware, they set up LLCs in Canada, and they buy large portions of land in the United States.
00:46:05.000So it doesn't show up as Chinese-owned.
00:46:07.000It shows up as Canadian-owned or American-owned.
00:46:10.000So we don't even know the scale of the problem.
00:46:13.000So this is, I think, another area of transparency.
00:46:17.000You know, I think we've got an incoming, hopefully, Ag Secretary that will be interested on these issues.
00:46:25.000The problem is much larger than it appears right now because of the way they're hiding it.
00:46:29.000So we need to get to the bottom of it, but we need transparency and we need to pass laws.
00:46:34.000There's nothing unreasonable about saying you cannot be a foreign national from a hostile country.
00:46:41.000I'm not talking about a Chinese-American immigrant who came here.
00:46:44.000They don't like the CCP. I'm talking about a guy who still lives in mainland China, who's a member of the Chinese Communist Party, who's made all of his money with the help of the Chinese Communist Party, buying huge acreage in the United States.
00:47:00.000The only people that benefits are the Chinese.
00:47:03.000Yeah, and it's not just buying up the Agland.
00:47:05.000I mean, you could make a very strong case of that in and of itself is dangerous, right?
00:47:09.000If you lose control of your food supply, like, you know, we've given them control of, you know, a big part of our, let's call it, antibiotics production stuff.
00:47:16.000You have, you know, a big part of our industrial, you know, capabilities being there.
00:47:20.000You know, all the batteries and rare earth minerals, that's all China.
00:47:24.000You know, microchips, Also China, but, you know, certainly Taiwan, and that's clearly at risk.
00:47:29.000But it also seems beyond that, so many of these things are strategically positioned near our military bases.
00:47:36.000They're not just buying this because it happens to be, you know, good, productive ag land.
00:47:42.000There's a more nefarious component to this as well.
00:47:46.000I mean, they want leverage, and they're looking for ways of leverage.
00:47:49.000And I mean, think of when COVID hit in 2020. um you know um president trump was talking about china's involvement with you know the pandemic and what happened and what they tried to do it didn't ultimately work what they tried to do was say well maybe we're going to stop sending you guys penicillin maybe we're going to start sending stop sending you guys antibiotics so they look for mechanisms by which they can form leverage On American leaders.
00:49:11.000Of course, they're going to bring their lobbyists in.
00:49:13.000They're going to try to get Wall Street and corporate America to fight it.
00:49:16.000But I just think the center of gravity of this has shifted to this side.
00:49:20.000So on that ground, I'm cautiously optimistic.
00:49:23.000Yeah, because it wasn't just even antibiotics.
00:49:24.000Didn't they turn around a ship that was like a PPE ship, like masks and gloves?
00:49:30.000You know, again, I was never a big believer in the mask.
00:49:33.000I'm saying, you know, I don't know if I can still smell someone's food.
00:49:36.000There's a chance this virus is probably also going through the ridiculous of the mask.
00:49:40.000But if they'll get that petty and sort of threaten these kinds of things in the midst of a global pandemic where people are actually dying, and it doesn't seem like there's a lot that they won't do to be able to exert that sort of leverage.
00:50:41.000And, you know, the good news is the incoming president-elect has talked about it as such and has said, we want this to stop and you, China, have the ability and the means to stop it because we know you're in control of it.
00:50:55.000part of the problem with a lot of these issues is just understanding what's going on and then being prepared to call out the chinese for it and whether that is masks or ppe supplies or threats over penicillin or fentanyl it's acknowledging the fact that china is control in control this is a a totalitarian state so if there is widespread organized crime in china That is operating in China but gearing its activities towards the United States.
00:51:23.000It's going on and the Chinese government is allowing it to go on.
00:51:27.000They could shut it down, but they choose not to.
00:51:32.000It's clearly, I mean, it's more than a psyop, right?
00:51:35.000I mean, it's designed to demoralize, you know, a nation.
00:51:38.000You create, you know, it's a sort of indiscriminate killer, goes after every demographic, every of this, destroys families, destroys cities, destroys livelihoods, and, you know, frankly, boosts China.
00:51:49.000I mean, I'm sure they're not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts with the Mexican drug cartels.
00:51:55.000I mean, it's full on warfare, I mean, at this point, isn't it?
00:52:01.000And the thing is that it not only weakens the United States, think about it, fentanyl is now the leading cause of death.
00:52:08.000For people under the age of 45 in the United States.
00:52:11.000And our media, by the way, kind of does us a disservice when they report on this, because usually what they say, Don, is, you know, there were 100,000 fentanyl deaths last year, and the photos they show on TV are kind of the real, you know, the massive drug addicts that are kind of shaking or laying on the sidewalk.
00:52:28.000That's not who's dying of fentanyl overdoses.
00:52:31.000The vast majority of young kids at college taking, you know, Popping some sort of pill they think is going to have a good time for a couple hours for the first time ever, and they're dropping dead.
00:52:40.000I don't think there's a single person watching that doesn't know someone directly who's either died from it or a close relative of someone you know and love.
00:52:53.000So, yeah, it's done this indiscriminately and it could clearly be stopped.
00:52:57.000In China, they don't have a drug problem because if you actually get caught doing anything like that, they just kill you.
00:53:23.000And yeah, the bottom line is that the vast majority of people dying of fentanyl in the United States, like you said, it's this college kid.
00:53:30.000They don't even know they're taking fentanyl.
00:53:32.000They weren't planning to take fentanyl.
00:53:33.000They thought they were taking an Adderall because they're trying to study for an exam or something.
00:53:38.000So it's this massive weapon that kills young people, the sort of best and brightest in the United States, and they make money off of it.
00:53:46.000Because they are in league with the Mexican drug cartels.
00:53:49.000The Sinaloa cartel works with these Chinese organized gangs that provide them the precursors, that provide them the pill presses from China to make these pills, that provide them with the chemists to create these.
00:54:02.000And by the way, they also help the Mexican drug cartels launder their profits through Chinese state-owned banks.
00:54:09.000So they're involved in every step of the level here.
00:54:13.000And the problem, of course, like with so many other things, is the Biden administration had no clue what was going on, or they did, and they looked the other way.
00:54:20.000Because Joe Biden kept saying, oh, this is just a drug addiction problem.
00:54:28.000And it's China that is poisoning Americans.
00:54:31.000I think the new administration coming in, everybody that is around the president-elect, those decision makers and the president-elect himself understand what is going on.
00:54:43.000I mean, Xi's not going to do this just because he's a good guy.
00:54:46.000Xi's going to be forced to do this because the administration is going to exert the right leverage on them.
00:54:52.000And that's what I think is going to happen.
00:54:54.000And I think it's going to be pretty dramatic within the next six to eight months.
00:54:58.000Yeah, I mean, I'm sure you saw the story the other day, you know, a Chinese national in jail for having 40,000, 47,000 images of child pornography, you know, just, you know, pardoned or commuted, whatever, you know, but same thing, essentially, like...
00:55:15.000You don't just commute the sentence of a pedophile or pardon a pedophile who happens to be a Chinese national if China doesn't want this guy out there, doesn't have something on you otherwise.
00:55:28.000I mean, do you think that all ties in?
00:55:30.000Because when I look at some of these pardons, I'm like, why on earth would you do this?
00:55:35.000Unless, of course, someone has more stuff on you, has more leverage, and is ready, willing, and able to exert it on you.
00:55:46.000I mean, part of this, some of these pardons were supposedly linked to a prisoner swap, right?
00:55:51.000The Chinese, you know, grab a legitimate American businessman, say he's a spy, and then we charge people in the United States like this guy that was caught with all the child porn.
00:56:30.000But number two, corruption has consequences.
00:56:34.000It's not just that the Bidens got rich by selling to the Chinese.
00:56:38.000They did things in exchange for that money, things for the Chinese that hurt us.
00:56:45.000So corruption is not a victimless crime.
00:56:48.000And this, I think, prisoner swap is another example of that.
00:56:52.000The willingness to kind of go along and send these horrible people back to freedom and probably celebration in China by commuting their sentences or pardoning them or whatever is ridiculous and is just another blotch on this president and his administration.
00:57:10.000Yeah, I mean, a big part of ultimately securing our border is also really securing the country from adversaries controlling us through their investments, right?
00:57:18.000That's the same with the land, everything.
00:57:21.000There's so many machinations of this, and your work really shows That perhaps more than ever.
00:57:28.000It seems to me that there's so much more, though, that we could do to actually hold these bad actors accountable rather than just giving them complete access to American markets with no strings attached.
00:57:38.000You know, I understand, you know, that bites both ways.
00:57:45.000Yeah, I mean, I think the number one thing we need to do is we need to have transparency, right?
00:57:50.000So, like, if a Russian oligarch or a Chinese CCP official is buying commercial real estate in New York or Los Angeles or wherever, They need to be transparent.
00:58:01.000They shouldn't be able to set up an LLC in Delaware under some lawyer's name.
00:58:06.000We need to know who the ultimate ownership is.
00:58:08.000So you've got to begin with transparency, and you've got to be vigorous about enforcing it.
00:58:13.000You mentioned earlier about the Farrah violations with the Bidens.
00:59:02.000If we're going to allow Chinese CCP officials to invest in the United States, it needs to be transparent.
00:59:07.000And by the way, American investors should be able to invest in an equal way in Chinese real estate, which they can't do right now, by the way.
00:59:17.000I don't think there's ever been a foreign national who's ever invested in China, got in a lawsuit with someone who's Chinese and or the government and actually won, right?
00:59:25.000I mean, it's just very different, right?
00:59:27.000And then, you know, they talk, you know, free trade, they run around, like, you know, I've been to China a couple times.
00:59:32.000Like, I've never seen, I don't think I've ever seen a Ford or a Chevy in China.
00:59:39.000You just can't even get these things there and they're going to make sure of it.
00:59:42.000So, now, you know, at At the World Economic Forum and at the UN, they'll scream to holy hell about American abuses, but the reality, there is no free trade.
01:00:02.000And that's, I think, another really healthy thing that's happening in the country.
01:00:07.000The American people are aware of that.
01:00:09.000They realize that sort of the official line on these issues, because the official line has been, China doesn't really have a lot of tariffs.
01:00:27.000And the American people are waking up to that.
01:00:29.000And I think a lot of that has been, there have been consistent voices like the incoming president and others who have said, look, this is what's going on.
01:00:38.000And it's forced there to be reluctantly the media to kind of say, okay, well, maybe there are things the Chinese have started doing.
01:00:49.000When the new administration comes in and starts trying to address these issues...
01:00:53.000The first thing they're going to do, they did the same thing in 2017, by the way, in the previous Trump administration, when they had come in and said, we're going to start looking at tariffs and restrictions on Chinese conduct in the United States because they restrict what we do in China.
01:01:24.000But I think this time, there's been a lot of lessons learned from the last administration.
01:01:29.000Part of that is who you select around you, right?
01:01:32.000And you've got people that are loyal, that share your mission.
01:01:35.000I think there's going to be a huge pushback, but I'm very optimistic that things are going to go even better this time than they did the first time in terms of this hand-to-hand combat, diplomatic combat that we're engaged in with China.
01:01:49.000Yeah, I mean, you're discussing missions.
01:01:55.000What are the other sort of big stories that you want to uncover?
01:01:59.000What questions are you sort of eager to answer next?
01:02:03.000Yeah, so corruption is a huge part of it.
01:02:06.000I think one of the problems we have, the size and growth in Washington, you know, things just getting out of control with spending is not just because liberals love big government.
01:02:17.000It's because a lot of people find big government profitable.
01:02:20.000So we're going to continue to explore that stuff.
01:02:23.000I'm doing a lot of work on the immigration issue and looking at the corruption and the cronyism involved there.
01:02:30.000I think when we think of immigration, people oftentimes think of it in terms of, well, it's just a function of, you know, poor people don't want to live in their country.
01:02:40.000That's part of it, but it's a lot more complicated than that.
01:02:43.000So I'm going to be delving into that issue, and I'm hopeful that that's going to be useful in the next administration in sort of uncovering who some of these people are, what their motives are, and what they're actually doing in the United States and why they try to enable this mass illegal migration.
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01:03:09.000I think as the mainstream media sort of continues to just embarrass themselves, I think it's creating a great opening for guys like yourself and even myself to actually make sure that people understand what's going on.
01:03:21.000And I think with that transparency, we can actually effectuate real change, Peter.
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