Peter Schweitzer is an investigative journalist and author of the new book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans. This is a must-read book and a must see interview. Peter has the receipts. He will explain why people are not speaking up more vocally about fentanyl, a drug that kills over 100,000 Americans a year. Peter s been at the center of uncovering the corruption inside the Washington swamp, the Biden clan, and how our leaders are putting foreign adversaries above the American people. Today we are joined by Peter Schweitzer, who is the author of Blood Money, why the powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans, and why Joe Biden s trip to the border today is a red flag for all of us. The reason 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed into our country in three years and enough fentanyl comes in every single year to kill each and every American in existence is because of Joe Biden and the Democrats' policies. They are to blame, and they are not the only ones to blame. Meanwhile, my father is actually seeing the real problem. It s not the sanitized drive-by border tour. He s in Eagle Pass, where it s happening, and he s in Brownsville, where the crisis is happening. And I d like to understand from you what Joe Biden wants to do about it. He supports driver's license for illegals, no deportations, convicted of DUI, and an amnesty for tens of millions of illegals because they will be reliable Democratic voters. They bragged about it, right? They are the same policies that got us there. They re the same way AOC and AOC have the most secure border in history and they re to blame the President for the problem we re all the same thing AOC is trying to fix, right here in this episode of Triggered. And they re not even paying attention to the problem, right in front of us? And they don t even get to vote on it? Don t forget to like, share, share and subscribe so that we can grow, and keep spreading the word out there about what s going on in the world. and we can spread the word of the good stuff, and we re not only about the good things, but about the things that matter, and not the bad stuff, right on the other side of the story, right there, right down there, and right here, right across the road from the good vibes.
00:05:29.000He will explain why people are not speaking up more vocally about fentanyl, a drug that kills over 100,000 Americans a year.
00:05:40.000Just for perspective, that's like two Vietnams a year in America to your children, your friends, your loved ones, and your neighbors.
00:05:50.000Okay, Peter's been at the center of uncovering the corruption inside the Washington swamp, the Biden cram finally, and how our leaders are putting foreign adversaries above the American people.
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00:06:46.000And bias is a big thing that we'll be talking about a lot these days.
00:06:51.000And Google's chatbot, Gemini, the insanity that they're feeding, but they've been putting their hand on the scale for a very, very long time.
00:07:03.000But before we get to Peter, there's a lot of big news we gotta cover.
00:07:08.000So, let's get into a rundown of the top headlines of the day.
00:07:12.000Guys, Joe Biden, after three and a half years, is visiting the border today.
00:07:19.000Which... is sort of like a criminal returning to the scene of the crime, right?
00:07:27.000He's in Brownsville, very far away from where anything's really going on for a very orchestrated and well-curated and sanitized border tour.
00:07:37.000The reason 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed into our country in three years and enough fentanyl comes in every single year to kill each and every American in existence is because of Joe Biden and the Democrats' policies.
00:08:08.000And I'd like to understand from you what Trump era immigration policies have been banned, ended, reversed, and if any investigations are underway by you.
00:08:19.000So we have rescinded so many Trump immigration policies.
00:08:25.000it would take so much time to list them.
00:08:28.000Joe Biden wants to come off like your friendly old grandpa, but he's an unhinged radical on immigration.
00:08:36.000He supports driver's license for illegals immigrants, no deportations for illegals convicted of DUI,
00:08:44.000an amnesty for tens of millions of illegals, mostly because they'll be reliable Democrat voters,
00:08:50.000taking your hard earned money and your tax dollars and spending them.
00:08:54.000Not deporting illegals who committed social security fraud is another group that Joe Biden wants to protect.
00:09:01.000Now, if you as an American did that, you would be in jail.
00:09:08.000know nothing. The reality is folks that Joe Biden and AOC have exactly the same stance
00:09:15.000on illegal immigration. Meanwhile, my father is actually seeing the real border crisis firsthand
00:09:22.000today in Eagle Pass, where illegals are flooding our country day after day, bringing more crime and
00:09:29.000more chaos to this already troubled nation because of these same policies.
00:09:34.000It's not the sanitized drive-by border tour.
00:09:37.000Remember like the one that Kamala Harris did like a thousand miles away from the real problem?
00:09:41.000Because, you know, I guess you can't let her actually get near anything that's real because she'll botch that or do one of her, you know, word salad speeches.
00:10:32.000Finally, after three and a half years sitting down for closed-door testimony,
00:10:38.000they asked him about his infamous text message where he wrote to a Chinese business associate.
00:10:43.000I am sitting with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled.
00:10:49.000I'm very concerned that Yi has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and the assurances.
00:11:05.000Guys, that was a shakedown, just so we're clear.
00:11:10.000Literally no other human being on the face of the earth would get the benefit of the doubt on that one other than, obviously, the 50-year-old baby Hunter Biden.
00:11:19.000He's just a child of a president, folks.
00:11:22.000Just a few days after sending that text, a Hunter Biden-linked bank account received the money he was asking for.
00:11:57.000I mean, they throw that around about me quite a bit.
00:12:00.000And yet, when I go in for my testimony, I go in like a man, not a baby, not lying, not making excuses.
00:12:06.000But the DOJ... Controlled by Joe Biden and the Democrats, they're never going to do anything for what's obviously perjury, what's clearly a lie, what's clearly a compromised president and presidential family.
00:12:22.000He was high or drunk when he sent it, that his dad wasn't actually there, and that the text was sent to the wrong recipient.
00:12:32.000Interesting. I mean, does anyone actually believe this crap?
00:12:35.000I mean, it's amazing what they can get away with.
00:12:38.000I always say, in my next life, I want to come back as a Democrat because apparently you can do and say anything and there will be zero consequences.
00:12:46.000Hunter was literally photographed at Joe Biden's house the day he sent those texts.
00:12:52.000He also exchanged multiple texts with the Chinese recipient and received the money he was demanding.
00:13:13.000Let's start asking the real questions like, Hey, are we making decisions all around the world that are detrimental to America's best interests because the Biden family is compromised?
00:13:24.000Because if you look at decisions that are being made, if you look at we're getting closer to war, if you look at how we fold each and every day to China, and what we'll talk about later on, how we're not looking into the fentanyl crisis clearly created by the Chinese government working with the Mexican cartels.
00:13:39.000We'll talk about that with Peter Schweitzer.
00:13:41.000Uh, you gotta start wondering what the hell is going on.
00:15:09.000For example, his page attacks the New York Post's laptop report and said,
00:15:14.000the Post provided no evidence of the authenticity of the device.
00:15:17.000That's strange. Even our DOJ now says that it's real.
00:15:21.000And yet, shockingly, Wikipedia hasn't updated that.
00:15:27.000Wikipedia goes on to say, since early 2019, Hunter and his father Joe Biden have been the subjects of false and baseless claims of corrupt activities in a Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory pushed by then-President Donald Trump and his allies.
00:15:42.000It's apparently false and baseless to point out the fact that Hunter Biden got rich from a Ukrainian energy company while Joe Biden got the prosecutor investing that show fired.
00:15:55.000Huh. I think we saw a video about this.
00:16:26.000Joe Biden is on tape getting the prosecutor fired, who was investigating his son and Burisma, the company of which no one can explain why Hunter Biden was on the board receiving, what, 80-something thousand dollars a month?
00:16:41.000For a business he knows nothing about, a job he didn't show up for, any language he doesn't speak.
00:16:48.000Yeah, he was investigating corruption, all right.
00:16:51.000No, no, no. He was protecting his son and his corruption.
00:16:55.000Meanwhile, folks, if you read my Wikipedia page, it says, I quote,"...cooperated with Russia in their interference in the 2016 United States elections." What?
00:17:46.000For example, the problem with Google isn't just Google's Gemini AI chatbot.
00:17:51.000Because if you were to look up the news yesterday that the Supreme Court will decide the issue of presidential immunity, the two top articles on Google News were Joy Reid and Jennifer Rubin's analysis.
00:18:03.000And the top tweets were from Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
00:18:11.000Yeah, no, there's no bias in there at all.
00:18:14.000Google and others, they use Wikipedia as though it's a credible source to be able to fact check you, to be able to censor you, to suppress what you see, and to make sure they put their hand on the scale of truth.
00:18:28.000They are not talking about truth. They are manipulating the information that we receive on a daily basis
00:18:34.000It's why I created the MXM news app that I mentioned earlier so you can see all sides of a story
00:18:39.000That was the one that was debanked by PNC Bank Because they didn't want people seeing all sides of a story
00:18:45.000because they got to protect the narratives at all costs The folks at Google only want you to see one side
00:19:17.000The mental gymnastics to try to make sense of what they're doing in our country is spectacular.
00:19:24.000It makes Cirque du Soleil seem like their average, talented individuals.
00:19:30.000Meanwhile, our favorite prosecutor, Fannie Willis, continues to have a rough time, folks.
00:19:36.000The lawyer for her lover, Nathan Wade, took the stand again yesterday.
00:19:42.000At one point during his testimony, he literally said, oh dang, under his breath when he was shown texts that reveal that Nathan Wade and Fannie Willis both lied to the court.
00:19:56.000Guys, as someone who's been a professional witness for the last decade or so, if yes, if your lawyer says, oh dang, under oath and under his breath, on the stand, you're in a lot of trouble if we're not living in a banana republic, which we're not all too sure that we don't live in.
00:20:16.000But listen closely and you'll hear him say it for yourself.
00:20:22.000Was two pages of text messages between you and Ms.
00:21:08.000But speaking of courtroom circuses, yesterday a judge in Chicago, Tracy Porter, ruled that my father is ineligible to be president and ordered him kicked off the Illinois primary ballot.
00:21:20.000The judge knows her decision won't stand and put her own order on hold.
00:21:25.000But Judge Porter sided with the plaintiffs, a group called Free Speech for the People.
00:21:29.000You know, it's one of these things where it's not about that at all, but the left is really good at sort of marketing themselves as this.
00:21:35.000This is a deranged left-wing organization that on January 20, 2017, the day my father was inaugurated, President of the United States, launched a website called impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org.
00:22:11.000Seriously. She's a traffic ticket judge.
00:22:16.000Judge Porter's own biography says she presides over minor traffic violations.
00:22:22.000So just so we're clear about this, folks, this is the person the left is relying on to preserve democracy by making sure that you cannot vote for the candidate you want to vote for.
00:22:36.000Just so we're clear, they're saying that out loud.
00:22:39.000So from parking tickets to interfering in our elections, Judge Porter has quite the range of skill sets.
00:23:33.000I didn't forget about Mitch McConnell's announcement.
00:23:37.000Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate, announced yesterday that he will be stepping down as the Republican Senate leader at the end of the year.
00:24:08.000Will he try to create as much trouble for MAGA as possible on his way out?
00:24:12.000Try to do whatever he can to preserve the Uniparty in Washington, D.C. or the Deep State or the RINOs who have no real base other than those in Washington, D.C.? Because it's Mitch McConnell who proclaimed that sending billions of dollars to Ukraine is the number one priority for the Senate.
00:24:32.000Securing our border isn't the priority for Mitch.
00:24:35.000He cares more about Ukraine than America.
00:24:57.000What he'll try to do is pass in his final few months the insanity that he's been all about.
00:25:04.000What the swamp has been all about for the last few months.
00:25:06.000It's like when they try to get Ukraine funding for three years so that they can be well into my father's second term and make it hard for him to stop.
00:25:15.000Make it hard for him to create peace because they want to impeach him if he wants to hold back the money.
00:25:21.000Now we all understand that nothing happens in Ukraine unless we cut off these funds.
00:25:26.000But that's how the swamp is operating.
00:25:29.000How is Mitch McConnell going to stab the America First movement in the back?
00:25:39.000One of the reasons I'm so glad we have Peter Schweitzer on today is that his new book exposes exactly why Mitch McConnell himself has never prioritized fighting Chinese fentanyl.
00:25:50.000It's not just guys like Adam Schiff or Joe Biden who conveniently neglect all of these issues because, turns out, they're kinda conflicted.
00:25:58.000But it also turns out that Mitch McConnell's in-laws have a shipping company that is heavily dependent on the Chinese government.
00:26:09.000We need more people in America whose financial stability and wealth are dependent on China because I want them to be making decisions for us.
00:26:18.000I'm sure they'll all prioritize America, right, folks?
00:26:26.000Were Senator McConnell to take action that angered the Chinese leadership, they could effectively destroy Elaine Chao's family business overnight.
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00:28:20.000Check it out. Well guys, joining me now, author of the new book, Blood Money, Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, investigative journalist Peter Schweitzer.
00:28:39.000In your book, I mean, the evidence of literally Chinese funding of radical elements in the US, such as BLM, Antifa, the transgender movement.
00:28:50.000You know, I think we are starting to make those links, but you've obviously gone much further down the rabbit hole.
00:31:16.000They're picking a cause, and then they are radicalizing the movements.
00:31:19.000And these groups in particular, other people on the left say these groups take their cues from China.
00:31:26.000They certainly travel and intermingle.
00:31:28.000And there's a group in China called the Center for the Study of Foreign Marxist Parties.
00:31:33.000They provide intelligence to the CCP leadership, and they track these groups in the United States.
00:31:38.000And they describe in 2020 how these groups took over BLM. I mean, in other words, I think Initially, there were people that just thought, hey, do we have a problem with policing in America?
00:31:49.000You can have a fair debate about that.
00:31:51.000These are the hardcore radicals that said, no, it's not a problem of policing.
00:31:55.000It's a problem of the police having police to begin with.
00:31:59.000So they wanted to radicalize this movement.
00:32:01.000And now they're doing the same thing with Hamas.
00:32:04.000A lot of people look at the current protests and say these are Palestinian protests.
00:33:08.000You can be a billionaire, but this is your kickback to the government.
00:33:12.000You're going to be funding... What's, you know, very clearly to me a psyop.
00:33:16.000I mean, I want to get down, you know, go further into the details, you know, on the transgender thing, because, you know, that's very clearly something that just sort of appeared out of nowhere, is disproportionately affecting such a large group of people all of a sudden magically out of nowhere.
00:34:26.000And they want Americans at each other's throats.
00:34:28.000And the trans movement is part of that.
00:34:31.000And again, to me, the tell is Roy Singham and Joe Tsai, who are funding these things in the United States to the tunes of tens of millions of dollars, they're not supporting these causes in China itself.
00:34:42.000Which indicates I think they're not really true believers.
00:34:45.000If they were true believers, they would be fighting these issues in China where the conditions are far worse than they are in the United States.
00:34:52.000The other thing that's going on, Don, in conjunction with this is China has these massive social media farms where they have thousands of Chinese military officers that each one controls thousands of social media accounts in the West.
00:35:55.000I saw, you know, a friend of mine, he's an African-American former, you know, pro bowl NFL player, Trent Cole, played for, you know, a long time, you know, in Philadelphia and then the Colts.
00:36:23.000I mean, they removed it instantly because it seemed very clear that you could not have a black man with President Donald Trump that has a following, that has perhaps other people.
00:36:33.000It was gone. I mean, he was like, what just happened?
00:36:37.000So, you know, that divide is being sown.
00:36:40.000And there's also obviously reports about the algorithm in China for these same platforms being very different in an effort to influence, you know, and or coerce American kids.
00:36:51.000I know in China, I've read, you know, the Tic Tac algorithm.
00:36:55.000TikTok algorithm influences kids like, hey, you become an influencer, a superstar, if you're doing physics projects and, like, scientific research, where if you're in America, like, the dumbest human being in the world is the person who's made into a hero so that your children follow.
00:37:12.000Yeah, no, you're exactly right on that account.
00:37:15.000And one of the things I talk about in the book is, while we're having this debate, which we shouldn't be having because the debate's settled, but we're having this debate in this country about, well, is TikTok a threat?
00:37:26.000They're not having this debate in China.
00:37:28.000I mean, I, in the book, quote extensively from internal Chinese documents, from the People's Liberation Army, from the propaganda ministry, they already recognize it and use it as what they call a cognitive weapon.
00:37:44.000So part of it, to your point, is they want to dumb down Americans.
00:37:47.000So yeah, the kids screaming and carrying around with blue hair saying nonsense goes viral in the United States.
00:37:56.000The Chinese equivalent, Doyan, in China, their equivalent to TikTok, same company, ByteDance, it's all about science, it's about music, it's about art, it's about culture.
00:38:06.000That's part of it. The other part of it is manipulating emotionally young people. I mean,
00:38:11.000when you describe the techniques that they use, I quote extensively from them in the book,
00:38:17.000you realize this is what's going on. You appeal to emotion.
00:38:21.000You try to strip people of their understanding and appreciation of historical knowledge of
00:38:26.000their country. They walk you through the steps. And the whole purpose of this platform
00:38:32.000really ultimately is to manipulate young people in this country and to move them in a direction that
00:38:39.000favors the CCP. They're very They're not overt about it, but they have thought it through, and they do it in great, great detail.
00:38:57.000They're actually doing it, and they're quite explicit about it.
00:39:00.000Yeah, and they're using a similar propaganda mechanism over there, but just pushing their children in a way that's ultimately beneficial to China, not detrimental to their country as it would be here in the United States.
00:39:15.000Any messaging that takes place in China leads them to the CCP. Any messaging in the United States, generally, they suppress pro-America content or pro-Western content relating to Israel, for example, and they push the stuff that is very negative and critical of the United States.
00:39:33.000And the other thing is to look at ByteDance, the company itself, which runs TikTok in China.
00:39:39.000You know, I talk in the book, hundreds of the senior management officials in this company
00:39:44.000cut their teeth in the ministry of propaganda in China.
00:39:47.000They work for Chinese state-owned media.
00:39:49.000These are not 20-something tech guys who grew up in Hong Kong who don't like the CCP.
00:40:45.000You can't ban TikTok, the toothpaste is out of the tube.
00:40:49.000But forcing the sale to an American company at least gives us better transparency and
00:40:54.000some better control than we have right now.
00:40:56.000So, I mean, how much has the swamp sold out to China?
00:41:01.000I mean, you know, our system is so different than that.
00:41:02.000You know, every congressman, every two years they're elected, you know, we make stupid decisions tomorrow, you know, to get elected in two weeks that we're going to be beholden to for generations.
00:41:12.000You know, how bad has that gotten where China is actually just influencing and controlling our government?
00:41:18.000I mean, you found, I know in the book, a businessman who funneled money to the Bidens that has direct ties to the fentanyl trade.
00:41:29.000How is that news? That's what I don't understand.
00:41:31.000I mean, I get there's this powerful interest, but, like, is there not someone other than me and you and maybe my father, you know, that will say, like, this is actually a problem?
00:41:42.000Or is it like everything else, like big war, like Ukraine funding?
00:41:44.000It's like, you know what, if the money's coming in, it's worth it for me because it's not my children that are going to go off to die.
00:41:50.000Yeah, no, I mean, there are huge implications for this.
00:41:53.000What I hear sometimes, Don, is people say, well, those guys in D.C. are bought off.
00:42:20.000We're losing that twice every year, and it's barely discussed.
00:42:26.000Everyone knows someone that's been affected by it, and yet the outrage is not even all that palpable right now, which is just absolutely mind-boggling to me.
00:42:34.000It's like we've become numb to the homicide of our children, which is a really sad place to be as a country.
00:42:44.000I mean, it's taking some of the best and brightest.
00:42:46.000And a lot of people don't realize that the vast majority of people dying of fentanyl poisoning don't even know they're taking fentanyl.
00:42:52.000You know, it's a kid in college who's got to study for an exam, and his buddy says, well, hey, you want to borrow, you want to take one of my Adderall?
00:44:06.000So what do they do? They use Chinese apps like WeChat to communicate, the Mexican cartels do, because they know the Chinese won't turn those over to the U.S. federal authorities.
00:44:16.000And then the final step, the money laundering prospect, it used to be these cartels did the money laundering in South American banks.
00:44:24.000They use Chinese state-owned banks now.
00:44:26.000So the entire chain is a Chinese operation.
00:44:30.000And to your point with the Bidens, We have talked about before.
00:44:34.000I first exposed in 2018 the fact that the Bidens were taking millions of dollars from these Chinese entities.
00:44:40.000We now know there is one degree of separation between the cartels in Mexico that are poisoning 100,000 Americans a year and the Biden family, namely...
00:44:52.000A guy named White Wolf, who's a leader of a Chinese criminal gang who is widely recognized.
00:45:38.000They're not stupid. They know exactly what they're doing.
00:45:41.000And let's just say there's no ESG, you know, DEI. Kind of policy in China where they give a billion dollars or five million dollars, depending on which fund Hunter's benefiting from, to a guy that's, you know, never done any real investing and is a crackhead.
00:45:58.000They don't do that unless there's an end goal objective.
00:46:02.000I mean, so you laid out some of the basic links between the Bidens and China.
00:46:41.000Yeah, exactly. Not in China, but elsewhere.
00:46:43.000Yes, exactly. Or you look at a guy like Michael Bloomberg.
00:46:45.000Don't like his politics. He runs a global business, a legitimate business that provides services and products as the Trump organization does.
00:46:56.000There is no business. There is no service.
00:46:58.000There is no product. There is nothing, nothing that they have to offer anybody overseas except access to Joe Biden, vice president, now president of the United States.
00:47:09.000And this is a point I think that Republicans on Capitol Hill have not emphasized enough.
00:47:14.000You've got the Chinese who have given the Biden family some $30 million.
00:47:28.000And it has given, on the issue of fentanyl, Joe Biden to be silent on these issues.
00:47:35.000The ties also include Abby Lowell, who is a Biden family attorney.
00:47:42.000You see him there fighting for Hunter.
00:47:44.000Abby Lowell represented a Chinese businessman named Heng Lapsang.
00:47:49.000And the Department of Justice was actually looking at bringing him up on charges of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
00:47:57.000So he wasn't just functioning as a normal lawyer, but Abilol represented Heng Lapseng, who is a known member of a Chinese organized crime syndicate that is also involved in the drug trade.
00:48:11.000So you have the Biden family getting $5 million.
00:48:15.000You have their lawyer that has this relationship.
00:48:18.000If you look down at other lovers, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has a long association with Chinese organized crime figures.
00:48:28.000going back to when he was mayor of San Francisco.
00:48:30.000The guy he put in charge of economic development for Chinatown was a dragon head, a leader
00:48:35.000of a Chinese organized crime syndicate that was doing what?
00:48:40.000Selling drugs and distributing drugs in the United States.
00:48:43.000He had a guy on his transition team as mayor named Keith Jackson, who was involved with
00:48:47.000Chinese organized crime, drug running, murder for hire plots.
00:48:52.000When he is mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom wanted to bring in Chinese business investors.
00:48:57.000He partnered with a guy named Vincent Lowe, who was known to be tied to Chinese organized
00:49:03.000And as a result of Gavin Newsom's effort called China SF, you have Chinese organized crime investing in the Bay Area openly.
00:49:11.000So this is, I'm convinced, one of the reasons we're not going to get action on fentanyl as long as this stuff is not exposed, because it's too complicating.
00:49:21.000It's too embarrassing. It exposes things that make it hard for these people.
00:49:25.000I mean, and yet, you know, listen, I know we're living in a very, you know, sort of, you know, fractured country and world and politics, but are there no Democrats that would be willing to say some of the...
00:49:36.000I mean, you think, like, hey, man, you're a Democrat in the Midwest somewhere, and you get elected and whatever, like...
00:49:43.000Are none of them, you know, I get they do this game much better than us, right?
00:49:46.000They agree on something 51% and then everyone goes 100% lockstep regardless of what it is.
00:49:51.000Maybe that's how you survive as a Democrat.
00:49:53.000But you would think that this would be something, you know, that would be, you know, bipartisan.
00:49:59.000That someone would be able to say, hey, this is a serious problem.
00:51:26.000You know, I always hear about, you know, the Biden brand.
00:51:30.000It's like, well, We came from a company that did brand.
00:51:32.000We built buildings all over the world with our name on it.
00:51:34.000We understand brand. I don't know that they'd actually ever done anything other than peddle influence in D.C. while pretending to be noble and humble, blue-collar public servants.
00:51:46.000It's the greatest line of shit I've ever heard in my life.
00:51:49.000What do you think we're going to learn about Bobulinski and what he said in there?
00:51:52.000What perhaps do you know about already that you put in the book?
00:51:57.000Well, I think Tony Bobulinski is an excellent witness.
00:52:37.000He's a financier, successful on his own.
00:52:39.000He's independently wealthy, former naval officer.
00:52:42.000He doesn't need anything from the Bidens.
00:52:44.000So he was able to be clear-cut about what the arrangements were.
00:52:48.000He also brought with him, and I've seen some of them, the actual text messages and messaging app communications he had with Hunter, with other business partners.
00:53:30.000So when they say they're selling the Biden brand, they're selling access.
00:53:33.000That's what they're selling. And they got access, and they got it explicitly.
00:53:37.000And I think we all have to remind ourselves, there's this, you know, the Democrats keep saying, well, you can't show that Joe Biden personally benefited financially.
00:53:47.000Of course you can, but let's remember, that's not what the bribery laws say.
00:53:52.000The bribery laws say if I'm a senator from the state of Florida and my son gets paid money from an outside interest and I do that interest favor, that is the same thing as if I took the money myself.
00:54:06.000It does not matter if Joe Biden got a dime.
00:54:09.000We know he got several hundred thousand dollars.
00:54:11.000What matters is his family got tens of millions of dollars And he took actions and policy positions that were beneficial to those people.
00:54:21.000That is the same as if he got every dime himself.
00:54:24.000So we can't let that fool us when we're having this discussion.
00:54:28.000And I hope Republicans on Capitol Hill hammer that point a whole lot more.
00:54:32.000Yeah, and again, it's not like there's a plausible belief that Hunter Biden was this great international businessman, that he had thrown together these sort of complex deal structures, that he was better at this than countless of people on Wall Street or other, like...
00:54:49.000We've seen the photos. We've seen the text messages.
00:54:51.000We've seen the laptops. You can't sell that with a straight face.
00:54:57.00051 intelligence officers are going to bat for you, and there's still doubt because they're like, no way.
00:55:03.000There's no way. No, and you bring up a great point here because the Biden team is really trying to have it both ways.
00:55:10.000On the one hand, they say, well, no, Hunter was a legitimate businessman who was engaged in international commerce, and that's why these deals came about.
00:55:19.000But then when these questions are raised about the financial transactions, they switch to, well, he was a drug addict.
00:55:24.000He didn't really know what he was doing.
00:55:25.000He really didn't have control. He lied.
00:55:29.000You can't say the foreign businessman saw him as this wonderfully educated man who clearly didn't have any of these skills and abilities, and on the other hand, say he was this hopeless drug addict who didn't know what he was doing.
00:55:41.000So it speaks to me of the fact that the Biden family has lied about this from the beginning.
00:55:46.000When I first exposed this in 2018, they said there were no deals.
00:55:51.000Then they switched to saying, well, but there was no money that happened.
00:55:54.000Your father in the 2020 campaign raised that issue.
00:55:58.000We know that it's lied, and they've continued to lie every step along the way to where they've gone from the point of saying, you know, previously, just a few months ago, Joe Biden had no knowledge of this, to now saying he was not financially involved in these deals.
00:56:13.000He may have been involved in these deals.
00:56:19.000And if you look at a lot of the polls, more than 60% of the American people believe that Joe Biden participated in these deals and that he engaged in unethical and or illegal activities to help his family.
00:56:32.000So public opinion has really changed on this, which is very encouraging.
00:56:36.000Yeah, I mean, the other 40% are absolute idiots, or they're just not paying attention.
00:56:41.000But you're right. I mean, they get to have it both ways all the time.
00:57:31.000We see him in the White House. He runs circles around these young Ivy League political kids in the White House.
00:57:38.000Now, no one in three and a half years has yet to witness Joe Biden running circles around anyone publicly.
00:57:47.000You know, apparently he used up all his brilliance, all his energy, In the White House, behind closed doors, because we see him getting lost on stages, falling downstairs, but he gets to have it both ways.
00:57:59.000He can be incompetent to stand trial, but totally competent to be president.
00:58:02.000And you have the entire Democrat apparatus going to bat for him, saying he's got incredible energy, he's incredibly competent.
00:58:09.000Well, fine, but then he should be charged.
00:58:53.000But he will say, you know, for the good of the country, I'm going to focus on that.
00:58:56.000And somebody else is going to replace him.
00:58:58.000I don't think it's going to be Kamala Harris because she polls even worse than Joe Biden does.
00:59:03.000And then it's the cast of characters that are out there, whether it's, you know, Gavin Newsom or Whitmer or, you know, whoever else it might be.
00:59:11.000But their plan, I think, is to wait until the convention in the summer.
00:59:16.000Because what they don't want to have is a lot of scrutiny of who the new replacement is.
00:59:21.000They want it in a compressed period of time.
00:59:31.000Yeah, exactly. And then you're going to have, you know, these media outlets are going to run these sort of glowing stories about these people, these personality profiles.
00:59:39.000They're going to try to avoid debates in the fall and hope that they can just sort of coast through.
00:59:44.000I don't think the mood of the American people is such as that they will get away with all of that, but it'll be interesting to see.
00:59:51.000You write in the book about another of the cast of characters, John Kerry, former vice president, that he also has motives to not call out China for flooding the U.S. with fentanyl.
01:00:04.000What are those reasons? Because you hear about John Kerry, you hear about the obvious...
01:00:12.000It's why our policy there was so poor, why he's, you know, violating all sorts of acts, basically, you know, functioning as a de facto, you know, middleman to Iran, even, you know, things that let's just say you couldn't do if you were in the Trump administration.
01:00:27.000But, you know, I'd never heard about his involvement as it relates to China and fentanyl.
01:00:33.000That seems to be, you know, not surprising, I guess.
01:00:39.000If you look at when Fentanyl arrived on the scene in the Obama administration, and of course, John Kerry served in the Obama administration as Secretary of State, he really did nothing.
01:00:48.000By 2016, it was already starting to reach a crisis.
01:01:20.000And what you find in a lot of cases is these people have financial incentives or reasons for not wanting to talk about fentanyl or not wanting to call out China.
01:01:30.000So with Barack Obama, for example, Barack Obama leaves the White House.
01:01:34.000Within seven months, where does he go?
01:01:36.000He goes to Shanghai, China, where he gives a speech in front of 3,000 Chinese officials.
01:01:42.000We don't know how much money he made, but what we do know is the media reported that If you wanted to shake Barack Obama's hand in China, it cost you $900.
01:01:52.000If you wanted your picture taken with him, it would cost you $40,000.
01:01:56.000And there were 3,000 people lined up to have this done with Barack Obama.
01:03:32.000He doesn't have a lot of investments that seem to be tied to China.
01:03:36.000Well, it turns out he has a lot of personal relationships with people that were involved in money laundering and organized crime relationships.
01:03:44.000There was a company in his district called Allied Wallet run by a guy named Adnan Khawaja
01:03:51.000who donated more than $100,000 to his political campaigns.
01:03:55.000He introduced Adam Schiff to a Saudi prince.
01:04:05.000He's fled. The FBI is trying to arrest him because he was involved in money laundering operations, including those involving Chinese elements that are laundering drug money.
01:05:09.000He does not want to talk about how this fentanyl network works because it comes too close to home and it's too embarrassing.
01:05:17.000So he goes off and chases the Ebola virus or monkeypox, which has killed one American, avoiding the fact that this thing that's killing 100,000 Americans, he just does not even want to talk about it.
01:05:31.000So talk about some of the research that you did for Blood Money.
01:09:17.000I get two years to do this every time, and that really makes it easy and simple for me.
01:09:23.000I'm curious, in all of your time doing this research, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Taiwan.
01:09:28.000We constantly hear about reunification.
01:09:31.000I'm not sure. They don't want it, but it doesn't seem to matter.
01:09:34.000I think the Chinese are looking at us and our weakness, our depletion of our own weapons stockpile so we can We're good to go.
01:09:59.000As an outsider looking in, you know, whatever the timeline was, and I'm sure there was a timeline, it's been greatly accelerated by the Chinese Communist Party simply because America standing in the world is not what it used to be.
01:10:39.000We should worry about it because it's part of the larger strategy, and their main strategy is to go after the United States to divide us and to weaken us.
01:10:49.000One of the most shocking things I discovered in the book is what they're doing to push violence on America's streets with these left-wing groups, but We're good to go.
01:11:14.000Beginning in 2018 when your father was president, what happens?
01:11:18.000China starts mass importing these into the United States, smuggling them to criminal gangs, drug gangs.
01:11:26.000And what happens? The rate of machine gun fire on America's streets skyrockets.
01:11:31.000Mm-hmm. And what does the Biden administration do?
01:12:08.000And it wants our leaders not focused on them, but focused on these internal squabbles.
01:12:13.000You know, yeah, I mean, without question, I think, you know, the other stuff we saw is, you know, during COVID, we saw the dangers of supply chain dependence.
01:12:21.000I mean, our antibiotics all come from China.
01:12:24.000Masks, not that they were useful, but like they all came from China and no one really knew at the time.
01:12:29.000What role will that have moving forward in our security?
01:12:32.000When we talk about Taiwan, obviously, they're producing the vast majority of microchips for the world and for even U.S. consumption.
01:12:43.000We have ceded that to China, to our oligarch class here in America, the billionaire class.
01:12:50.000They say, hey, we can save two cents by sending it off to China and perhaps Taiwan, and Taiwan's thus far been an ally.
01:12:56.000But If they do that, I imagine they could take over Taiwan in minutes.
01:13:01.000And if they do, that's a serious problem for America because we have farmed all that stuff out beyond, again, beyond what's already on mainland China, namely, you know, the vast majority of our medical infrastructure.
01:13:14.000Yeah, I know. It's a huge, huge problem.
01:13:16.000And that's what happened in COVID. And really, they had the Trump administration over a barrel because what they did is they lied to us for several months.
01:14:23.000Because now you're in a situation where what do you tell medical personnel that are trying to treat this virus that we don't know much about at the time?
01:14:30.000So, yes, they have used these as a weapon in the past.
01:14:33.000They will use these as weapons in the future.
01:14:36.000And we have got to onshore manufacturing in the United States.
01:14:45.000Yeah. Yeah, and some of the brands I sort of work with, it's sort of anywhere but China.
01:14:58.000Honestly, it's like anywhere but China.
01:15:00.000That said, again, the risk of Taiwan, while they're a great ally, it's like that could disappear pretty quickly.
01:15:05.000So keep it in North America if you can.
01:15:06.000It's not ideal, but it's certainly better than the options.
01:15:12.000Yeah, I mean, talk a little further about COVID because that one was so clear to me.
01:15:18.000It doesn't feel like it's even remotely a stretch to say that they weaponized COVID, not just to get wealthy.
01:15:24.000But, you know, if they had the ability to try to hurt the Trump administration, if they had the ability, frankly, in their own country, you know, a virus that magically, you know, takes out the elderly in the infirm, of which now China has a very growing population of elderly infirm dependents that have also, you know, finally experienced a little taste of Of the upside?
01:15:48.000You can't just tell those people, now F you, you're on your own anymore.
01:15:51.000So you have this virus that perfectly takes out a problem that they're willing to deal with.
01:15:55.000And again, China, let's not pretend, you know, we're not going to pretend they actually give a crap about their people.
01:16:00.000So, I mean, it seemed like the perfect sort of bioweapon for them.
01:16:03.000And again, you know, people will say I'm a conspiracy theorist for even thinking this, but like...
01:16:08.000To me, it's the most plausible answer in the world.
01:16:11.000Just like the lies about the origin of the Wuhan virus.
01:16:14.000Of course it came from the lab that studies the exact virus in question.
01:16:17.000Of course it did. But then the question is, did it leak or not?
01:17:20.000You're not saying it's out of the realm of possibility.
01:17:22.000It's probably far more likely to be exactly what happened.
01:17:26.000Yeah, I mean, look, this is not like the Prime Minister of Japan or Great Britain or South Korea.
01:17:31.000I mean, this is a hardened guy who also is deeply tied to Chinese organized crime and deeply believes that China is going to surpass the United States, and he's made that the mission of the Chinese state.
01:17:46.000We also know that China's done huge, I talk about this in the book, huge investment in all kinds of biomedical research that can be weaponized.
01:17:54.000So the notion that, oh, this was just kind of an accident, the fact that they lied about it, lied about it repeatedly, tried to manipulate us, they even tried to push their sort of authoritarian response to diseases in the United States.
01:18:10.000I point out in the book, for example, that the Chinese drone company, donated 100 drones.
01:18:17.000Most of them ended up in California and New Jersey.
01:18:20.000And local authorities there started using these drones.
01:18:23.000They were taught by the Chinese how to use them to monitor the population to enforce lockdowns.
01:18:48.000And we need to remind ourselves the next time something like this happens, because it's going to, that their agenda is far more broad-based than just trying to help out another country to deal with a disease.
01:18:59.000That's really at the bottom of their list of priorities.
01:19:02.000That's interesting. Peter, what's the sort of top-line conclusion you want readers to take away from your book?
01:19:09.000You know, when they read Blood Money, you know, how much should any of this really shock the conscience at this point?
01:19:15.000I mean, I think we're all a little bit, let's call it, dejected with our government.
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