The Biden crime family is the most corrupt political family in the history of... America, and perhaps even in politics. The FBI has a document that details an alleged bribery scheme involving then-VICE President Joe Biden and a foreign national, in other words, there is evidence that Biden took a bribe in order to help a foreign nation while serving as Vice President. Where is the outrage? And why is the media not talking about this even a little bit? Why is the Deep State not covering this? And what does China have to do with all of it? All of which leads us to the conclusion that Joe Biden is a crook, and that he sold out the United States to a foreign power. And China is stepping in and taking advantage of the situation because of course they are. Because when you have a clown like Joe Biden making decisions, who can barely walk up a flight of stairs, you can t make up for it. And China and our other enemies are going to capitalize on that weakness. This week on Triggered, we re reporting on Bloomberg's new partnership with Afghanistan to bring billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects into the country. We're good to go! Subscribe on Rumble so you never miss an episode of TRAPPED again! and again, we gotta get this information out there somewhere. So your support means absolutely everything. -Jon Solomon, founder of Just The News Jon is the founder of JUST THE NATIONS and has broken several major news stories in recent years on the kind of stuff that the mainstream media would refuse to touch on. The mainstream media won t even touch on, whether it's Russia, Russia, Iran, Ukraine, the Ukraine, or the Ukraine scandals, and much more. And now we re going to be talking about it. We re gonna talk about it on TROTED! -Trapped. Subscribe to TROTIVATED! Subscribe on your favorite streaming platform so you don t miss it! And again, you re gonna get a whole lot more TROTION! . Subscribe and share it on your social media platforms so you can be part of the TROTY community! TALK TOGETHER! Thank you for listening and sharing it on Insta: -JONATHAN MCCARTO -RUN TO OUR INSTAGRAM: -TALK TO US AND OTHER LINKED TO OUR PODCAST
00:00:28.000good evening and welcome to another major episode of triggered
00:00:54.000Thank you guys for tuning in as always.
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00:01:03.000We're going to talk with investigative journalist John Solomon.
00:01:07.000John is the founder of Just The News and has broken several major news stories in recent years, the kind of stuff that the mainstream journalists would refuse to touch, whether it was stuff on Russia, Russia, Russia, the Ukraine scandals.
00:01:22.000But now we're going to be talking about the Biden crime family and all of the hidden nonsense.
00:01:59.000So your guys' support means absolutely everything.
00:02:03.000So one of the topics we're gonna go into is obviously the Biden crime family.
00:02:07.000And it seems like every single day we learn something new about the Biden's corruption.
00:02:13.000At this point, they must be the most corrupt political family in the history of...
00:02:19.000America, and perhaps even in the history of politics, and that is saying something.
00:02:25.000We learned last week from Congressman James Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley that the FBI has a document, apparently, that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national Relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
00:02:44.000In other words, there's evidence that Biden took a bribe in order to help a foreign nation while vice president.
00:03:01.000I was told that this is treasonous, that this is grounds for the death penalty, that this is corruption at the highest level, or was that only when they thought that Trump was doing it?
00:03:15.000I guess it doesn't count if it's Joe Biden, right?
00:03:18.000Replace the Biden name with Trump, and how exactly do you think this stuff would be covered?
00:03:23.000John Solomon, our guest who will be joining us shortly, is reporting that the DOJ has known about this apparent bribery scheme for five years.
00:03:33.000Just so we're clear, folks, five years goes back to about 2018.
00:03:39.000Like, before the Democratic primary, they knew about this and they still allowed Joe Biden to run through it.
00:03:47.000You think the deep state doesn't exactly exist?
00:03:49.000You still think that this wasn't all one big setup?
00:03:53.000You still believe the nonsense that they're telling you?
00:03:57.000No, they knew about it and did nothing.
00:03:59.000They allowed this clown to become the President of the United States.
00:04:04.000According to the report, in 2018 the DOJ was approached by an attorney on behalf of a foreign witness with evidence that Joe Biden has exercised influence to protect his son's employer in the Ukraine.
00:04:23.000I am flabbergasted that this would happen.
00:04:27.000I mean, obviously the people in Ukraine gave Hunter Biden a no-show job because of his expertise in the energy sector, even if he had no prior experience in the energy sector.
00:04:41.000He's one of the great learners of all time.
00:04:45.000Of course there was no quid pro quo to any of this stuff, right?
00:04:49.000The Ukraine put him on the payroll, just like the Russian oligarchs and just like the Chinese state-run firms.
00:04:56.000They put him on the payroll because they wanted to diversify their investors.
00:05:03.000Namely, there was a deep shortage of crackheads investing in these state-run agencies, and they wanted to make sure to cover all of their bases.
00:05:14.000So we'll get into this shortly with John.
00:05:17.000Biden himself can't help but sell out the United States and peddle influence while our own country suffers at home.
00:05:24.000Not only did Joe Biden leave billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Taliban, but now...
00:05:31.000China is stepping in and taking advantage of the situation because of course they are.
00:05:37.000Because when you have a clown like Joe Biden making decisions, who can barely walk up a flight of stairs, can barely get through a sentence, of course China and our other enemies are going to capitalize on that incompetence and that weakness.
00:05:52.000Bloomberg this week is reporting that China entered into a partnership with Afghanistan.
00:06:01.000To bring billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects into the country.
00:06:06.000I'm sure they'll be using our Humvees and tanks to help with said infrastructure, and China's not going to thank us for leaving $87 billion of the stuff there for the Taliban to now turn to our largest rival and bend over and give them whatever it is that they want.
00:06:28.000At every turn, Biden's policies are America last and China first.
00:06:33.000There's no arguing that at this point, right?
00:06:35.000Every decision that he makes seems to put America last, China and or any other corrupt regime in the world first and foremost and ahead of us.
00:06:46.000And instead of focusing on the corruption, the media would rather claim that career criminal Jordan Neely is simply a beloved subway performer.
00:07:21.00042 arrests over the past decade, including punching a 67-year-old in a subway station, punching a 64-year-old man also in a subway station, and for the attempting...
00:07:37.000And a kidnap of a seven-year-old girl.
00:07:40.000No, no, no, guys. He's a beloved Subway performer.
00:09:36.000These protests happened because the media whipped the left into false fury over racism that doesn't exist, over controversies that aren't real.
00:09:44.000They're literally manufacturing it all Out of thin air.
00:09:49.000And to keep the lies going, they don't tell you the little details like the extensive rap sheet, like punching old men and women on a subway, like trying to kidnap a seven-year-old child.
00:10:00.000No, no, no. This guy is beyond reproach.
00:10:04.000He's great. Now, no one's saying that someone should die, but when people have to act like this, bad things are going to happen.
00:10:13.000But to talk about the media and the stoking of racism that's going on there, just look at this chart.
00:10:20.000Between 2011 and 2019, the New York Times and the Washington Post increased their usage of the word racist, racists, and racism by over 700% and nearly 1,000% respectively.
00:10:37.000Pfft. Meanwhile, they're totally clueless about the crisis that's going on at the southern border.
00:10:43.000For example, Joe Biden's border chief says he has no clue, no clue why there's a surge at the border.
00:10:51.000Check out this clip of Secretary Mayorkas.
00:10:53.000Can you explain why you've seen this big surge in the last couple weeks?
00:10:57.000And if you're seeing this big of a surge ahead of May 11th or May 12th, what are you expecting come May 12th?
00:11:04.000So the surge over the past couple weeks is really focused on one particular demographic.
00:11:12.000We've seen an increase in the number of Venezuelan nationals coming to our border.
00:11:17.000It's very difficult to identify the cause.
00:11:22.000I just can't say why everyone's flooding the border, because the reason would implicate Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:11:29.000The open border is engineered by Joe Biden.
00:11:33.000He's now trying to make it even worse by ending the use of Title 42 this week.
00:11:44.000We're promising to take care of everything.
00:11:47.000And you, the American taxpayer, have the privilege of doing that.
00:11:50.000When inflation is going through the roof, when gas prices are through the roof, when food prices are through the roof, when interest rates are going through the roof, when everything seems to be heading towards total collapse, you now have the privilege of taking in millions of new people.
00:12:05.000And with the ending of Title 42, A policy put in place by my father, President Donald Trump, in 2020 that allowed the Border Patrol to swiftly deport illegal immigrants.
00:12:17.000Millions are rushing to the border for a chance to cross with no obvious consequence other than, again, you get to take care of them for life in many cases.
00:12:27.000Check it out. The numbers are already starting to explode.
00:12:31.000Listen to this. Border Patrol reporting last week alone, they made about 55,000 migrant apprehensions.
00:12:38.000That's almost 8,000 every single day, with a huge surge continuing right here in Brownsville.
00:12:44.000Take a look at this stunning drone footage our team shot right here in Brownsville late yesterday afternoon.
00:12:51.000Biggest single groups of migrants crossing illegally we have ever seen during our Fox News coverage of the border.
00:12:57.000A line almost as far as the eye can see, predominantly single adults.
00:13:02.000You'll see... Say goodbye to your country, folks.
00:13:05.000The Democrats would rather have millions of new voters than enforce the laws.
00:13:11.000The crime associated therewith, the drug trafficking, the human trafficking, the sex trafficking.
00:13:18.000It doesn't really matter as long as they get to retain power.
00:13:23.000And that's what this has all been about.
00:13:25.000But for a little bit of lighter news, this next one Sounds even too woke that it actually sounds like a joke.
00:13:34.000Although I guess we could say that about a lot of the things that are coming out of the news these days, a lot of the hills to die on for the radical left.
00:13:41.000The next story shows how far our country is gone.
00:13:45.000It's maybe the funniest headline I've read in the while.
00:13:48.000The Daily Mail headline reads, quote, Trans woman is cleared of flashing her penis.
00:13:56.000At three young women using the Ohio YMCA after a judge ruled that she's too fat for her genitals to be visible.
00:14:54.000I don't understand it, but I don't understand a lot of the insanity that's coming out these days.
00:15:01.000So I'm not going to end on the happy note, unfortunately.
00:15:04.000Because Chelsea Clinton is apparently teaming up with Bill Gates for the largest vaccination program in history.
00:15:12.000Check it out for yourself. Effort that we're a part of is the new initiative launched by the World Health Organization last week to try to catch kids up on their routine immunizations.
00:15:23.000In 2021 alone, more than 25 million kids under the age of one missed at least one routine immunization.
00:15:31.000And so we're working with WHO and the Gates Foundation and others to hopefully have the largest kind of childhood immunization effort ever over the next 18 months to catch as many kids up as possible.
00:15:45.000Well, folks, what could possibly go wrong?
00:15:47.000Chelsea Clinton teaming up with Bill Gates and the World Health Organization.
00:15:57.000Man, it's actually hard to believe anyone would even listen to these people anymore, given everything we now know to be the truth, everything we were lied to about.
00:16:23.000And let's stop listening to non-doctors and or doctors who have been corrupted by non-doctors money.
00:16:30.000And or Chinese money and or all of the other links that we've seen because this doesn't end well.
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00:18:38.000And now, John, you're out on your own doing your thing because you've seen and probably have been censored at some of the more, let's call them, mainstream locations.
00:18:50.000Now, it doesn't matter that you end up being right.
00:18:53.000You're just not allowed to go against the narrative.
00:18:56.000You know, Tucker Carlson as an example.
00:18:58.000If you go against the Uni Party, you can be a super conservative guy, but even if you threaten that establishment, you call them out on their nonsense and it's going to be a problem.
00:19:09.000Tell us about just the news and how you got away from, I mean, I was shocked to see it, the Washington Post and some of these kinds of places.
00:19:17.000I can't imagine that ever happening now, but maybe there was a time when they were slightly less biased against conservatives, though I doubt it.
00:19:24.000Yeah. Yeah, listen, in the 80s and 90s journalism, when I started, you know, you didn't walk into a newsroom with a bias.
00:19:30.000You didn't walk into a preconceived narrative.
00:19:33.000You follow the facts wherever they are, and you try to do your best job giving people facts and let the American people make up their mind.
00:19:39.000Today, news media want to make up the mind of Americans by feeding opinions, masquerading as facts, and they have hijacked the truth so many times.
00:19:48.000Don, you went through this all four years of your dad.
00:19:51.000How many stories almost every day were wrong in the media, but they had a preconceived narrative.
00:19:57.000Donald Trump's a bad guy, and we're just going to keep proving it time and time again.
00:20:22.000We're three years old. We have millions of readers a month.
00:20:25.000And now the mainstream media covers us.
00:20:28.000We actually go out and break stories and they follow it a day later.
00:20:30.000And that's a good thing. I'm happy about that.
00:20:32.000No, I think that's great. I mean, it's part of why I did this, right?
00:20:35.000Again, it was a lot easier to be a real estate developer from New York, but then, you know, when they started attacking myself, they were attacking my family, they were, you know, going crazy with the nonsense, and I just said, well, listen, like, someone's got to actually talk about these things.
00:20:50.000I know that, you know, in the, let's call it the 2017, during the Russia, Russia, Russia outrage, I was one of the I was three of the five big bombshells, literally involved.
00:21:02.000None of them end up being true, but only one of them, they even changed the stuff.
00:21:07.000They leave it up there. It was great for clicks.
00:21:09.000I'm like, it's demonstrably false, and here's the proof.
00:21:12.000I had gotten something from WikiLeaks, because I think it was Adam Schiff in the documents that he leaked changed the date.
00:21:19.000He took out the And the date, they took out the 1 and the 14, so it looked like it was the 4th instead of the 14th, because some guy sent me the WikiLeaks doc dump.
00:21:31.000The problem is, it was 4 days after it was public to the world, but you get rid of the 1, the 14 becomes the 4, and it looks like I had it 6 days before the rest of the world.
00:21:40.0006 days before... And that was the bombshell.
00:22:05.000That's right. You see that in the cover-up of the Hunter Biden stuff.
00:22:09.000And we're going to get to that a lot, obviously.
00:22:12.000Perhaps I take this one a little bit more personally, given what they spent the better half of a decade trying to do to me and to my family.
00:22:26.000Why would people ever believe anyone in the mainstream media these days?
00:22:30.000Yeah, listen, it's the reason why the mainstream media is bleeding so much viewership, whether it's CNN or the New York Times, and why you look at the polls and people don't trust it anymore.
00:22:39.000Why new sites get a look now, why new shows like yours get a look, because people have figured out.
00:22:44.000There's three things that American people think.
00:22:46.000The latest media think Americans are dumb.
00:22:49.000You can't pull them all over the American eyes.
00:22:51.000They're way smarter. Two, they think that people can't discern fact from opinion.
00:22:56.000They're wrong. People can see an opinion a mile away, and they've been watching news sites deliver opinion for an entire decade, and they're like, we're done with it.
00:23:03.000And I think the third is there's a desire for Americans to just get facts and make up their own mind, and the current media won't let you do that.
00:23:10.000They won't let it happen. So that's why what you're doing, what I'm doing, is so important.
00:23:13.000Yeah, and others get in the way of that too, right?
00:23:16.000It's not just the media. I know, you know, I started MXM News with a partner of mine, a political guy that just understands what's there.
00:23:22.000And that's just a news aggregator, right?
00:23:23.000We've taken your stories and we'll take the New York Times and we'll put them, you know, up next to each other so you can read and formulate your own opinion.
00:23:31.000And, you know, at Major Bank, PNC Bank, we're just like...
00:23:34.000We thought someone hacked our account and stole all the money because our operating account was at zero.
00:23:37.000We called, they go, oh yeah, sorry, we forgot to call.
00:24:37.000What's new? We've heard the stuff coming out of Oversight.
00:24:40.000What's new beyond what we've already known?
00:24:44.000So there are two moments in the last 10 days that I think are really significant.
00:24:49.000In the summer of 2020, June 2020, a series of FBI agents are meeting with their confidential human source, an informant, and that informant tells them, hey, I have compelling evidence, detailed evidence, of how Joe Biden ran a pay-to-play bribery scheme in Ukraine.
00:25:03.000That gets put into circular, not pursued.
00:25:07.000Now, wind back two years earlier, the exact same thing happens.
00:25:11.000A former federal prosecutor, a U.S. attorney in Little Rock, by the way, one of the Justice Department's own, he approaches the U.S. Attorney in New York saying, hey, I've been approached.
00:25:20.000The Attorney General of Ukraine has evidence, including John 1, John 2.
00:25:24.000So two witnesses, eyewitnesses to this, as well as a paper evidence.
00:25:29.000He'd like to come over and tell you that Joe Biden May have engaged in a pay-per-play bribery scheme.
00:25:37.000But in this case, they go a step further.
00:25:39.000They investigate their own guy, their own former U.S. attorney, and grab his phone records as a penalty to see who he was talking to.
00:25:46.000Rather than look at the allegations of Joe Biden, They stuck him in a circular and they attacked the person who actually, as a good citizen, comes forward trying to alert the Justice Department.
00:25:55.000Not only is the media losing confidence from the American people, the criminal justice system is these sort of episodes where politics are treated.
00:26:03.000Listen, if Half the things Hunter Biden did, you did, you and I'd be doing this interview, and you'd be in prison.
00:26:09.000We'd have to do a prison connection to do this.
00:26:11.000John, I'd be at Gitmo, and I don't imagine they'd let me make a phone call to you.
00:27:07.000You know, a billion-dollar investment from the sovereign wealth fund to a crackhead.
00:27:11.000Like, you know... Hey, you can say what you want about the Chinese.
00:27:15.000There are many things. They're not nice, but they're also not stupid.
00:27:18.000They're not stupid. They don't just do that unless there's an endgame.
00:27:21.000So, like, what else would it possibly be?
00:27:24.000Listen, Hunter Biden wrote it himself.
00:27:26.000He wrote it himself in 2015, which is the bookend between Burisma and China, right in the middle of those two deals.
00:27:32.000He writes one of his business partners when the Chinese are about to come in with that Three-carat diamond and that $5 million forgivable loan that we've now documented, irrefutably done.
00:27:41.000And he says, listen, they're not interested in my skill set.
00:27:45.000He knew exactly what these foreign powers wanted, and he played the game.
00:27:49.000He traded influence for money, and he knew it.
00:27:51.000He said it himself. He wrote it himself in an email.
00:27:54.000Yeah, and I see the stuff they continue to try to throw at me, my family, and I'm like, man, it feels like there's actually glaring evidence.
00:28:26.000We gave you what you wanted, but we're not going to look into the real corruption, which looks, to me, like actual treason.
00:28:34.000Not like the stuff they accused Trump of, that after seven years there's literally nothing.
00:28:39.000But there's actual money, there's actual documentation, there's actual evidence and photographs, and it never ends.
00:28:48.000But it does seem like there's this, hey, they're going to get them now, but they're going to get them on the minor stuff that has nothing to do with it, to put a pause on everything else that they're looking at.
00:28:56.000What are your thoughts on that? Well, that's exactly what drove a very decorated career senior IRS agent, a supervisory agent, to go be a whistleblower in the last few weeks.
00:29:07.000He comes forward and said, listen, I'm watching this case, I'm seeing the evidence, and they're treating Hunter Biden differently than any other tax scale that I've ever pursued.
00:29:16.000He goes to Congress to say that exact thing.
00:29:18.000There's been political interference to narrow this case down to Mickey Mouse charges when there was a lot more evidence that could have been there.
00:29:25.000That's a career IRS agent saying that.
00:29:27.000Oh, the guy at the FBI says the same thing about the allegation about Donald Trump.
00:29:31.000And let me go to the story I broke this morning.
00:29:35.000Here's the amazing thing. Do you know who Bud Cummins was trying to bring to the U.S. Attorney in New York?
00:29:39.000He was bringing the Ukraine prosecutor that Joe Biden personally handpicked to replace the one Joe Biden fired because that guy was investigating his son.
00:29:48.000Think about that. The guy that was dealing with Joe Biden on this very issue thought Joe Biden was corrupt enough and he wanted to come to the U.S. Attorney and prove that.
00:29:55.000If that doesn't set off alarm bells, If that doesn't tell you, hey, the Justice Department probably shouldn't have looked at this, maybe it's not true, but at least look at it.
00:30:03.000They didn't. There's been a political protection racket.
00:30:06.000Impeachment, the FBI circular, the 2018 approach by the Ukraine prosecutor, every time something comes up about Joe Biden, there's someone in the government protecting him.
00:30:16.000Mike Morrell's out there writing a letter The evidence is now sitting out in plain open.
00:30:40.000I mean, they're testifying, presumably, truthfully, in front of Congress that, yeah, you know, there's no real evidence of it, but it sounded good and we wanted to make sure Joe Biden won.
00:30:50.000I mean, why do these people still have security clearances?
00:30:53.000I mean, they literally, you know, we've heard a lot about election interference over the last, you know, insurrection and all this nonsense.
00:31:00.000It's all soundbites. But here's, you know, some of the highest...
00:31:04.000Ranking people in intelligence just basically flagrantly lying about what was there to be able to sway the American public.
00:31:24.000I got to interview your dad in the middle of the Russia collusion thing, and he said something that still stays in my ears these days.
00:31:31.000He said, I'm fighting Russia collusion because I don't want a future president to go through what I've done.
00:31:36.000I don't want a dirty trick to turn out to hamper a presidency like it has hampered my presidency.
00:31:41.000You know what? There was no consequence for Russia collusion.
00:31:43.000It got laughed off. A couple people got a slap on the wrist.
00:31:46.000No real consequence. That's why people felt more emboldened in 2020 to do it again.
00:31:51.000And I fear, even right now, as you and I are speaking, the permanent administrative state, the deep state, as your dad likes to call them, they have no fear that they're going to get caught.
00:32:00.000And if they are caught, they'll get punished.
00:32:02.000And until we create some consequences, this system is going to continue to play politics instead of justice.
00:32:07.000And this country is going to go down a very dark Yeah, I mean, again, I think that's right, right?
00:32:28.000You know, they're unelected officials that are the de facto rulers of our government.
00:32:34.000They're making decisions that our children will be holden to for, you know, generations.
00:32:38.000We can't afford to take care of ourselves, but we want millions more coming in across the border illegally.
00:32:43.000We're gonna fund not just a proxy war anymore, but we learned two weeks ago a boots-on-the-ground war in Ukraine without congressional approval or without that of the citizens.
00:32:52.000You see even the Republicans, you know, whispering to their friendly leftist reporters Hey, we're thrilled that Tucker Carlson's off the air because it's going to make supporting the war in Ukraine so much easier, even though our constituency has no interest in this sham disgrace, and yet it's going to keep going.
00:33:13.000How do we open people's eyes to exactly what's going on and just how badly they're being manipulated and used?
00:33:20.000Yeah, listen, I think there is a moment right now where we have a couple characters in Jim Jordan and James Comer that are not going to play the traditional Republican game and only do a half an investigation like we got with Benghazi.
00:33:32.000They're going to go all the way. The fact that James Comer is going to drop some big evidence on Wednesday, that's a big thing.
00:33:37.000If James Comer secures the cooperation of Devin Archer, the right-hand business partner of Hunter Biden, the man who often met with President Biden to talk about Hunter Biden's gigs, if he gets that sort of cooperation, If he gets Eric Schwerwin, the guy who did both President Biden and Hunter Biden's taxes, if they secure that cooperation, this presidency has seen very significant peril to it, political peril, even the mainstream media at that moment.
00:34:02.000And they're working very hard to do that right now.
00:34:04.000But that's the sort of thing that Republicans in earlier investigations would back off of.
00:34:22.000I think there's a different mindset with this congressional investigation than any others that I've seen in the last 10 years run by Republicans.
00:34:36.000Here's the punishment. If in the September budget that gets passed for October 1st, Republicans insert there that all these 51 people who signed the letter may never have another dollar spent on them giving them a security clearance, a federal contract, or a federal job, they will have enacted the sort of punishment on those 51.
00:34:55.000The Justice Department's not going to do anything, but they can do it with the power of the purse.
00:34:58.000That's it. I think if you hit people in their wallet, it hurts, and I think that's where Republicans are headed right now.
00:35:04.000Let's see if they have the will to stick to it.
00:35:06.000Yeah, so you mentioned sort of, yeah, House oversight.
00:35:08.000It's chairman James Comer, I guess, previewing new evidence on Wednesday in the investigation into the Biden family and the foreign dealing.
00:35:16.000So do you have any idea what we can expect of that?
00:35:18.000Again, it seems like he's out there sort of being like, don't charge him right now because we actually have a big one.
00:35:23.000And it's like, you know, the DOJ is going to rush in there to try to, you know...
00:35:27.000I mean, I guess they'll indict him to save him from further, much bigger, much more significant indictments that probably takes down Joe Biden and everyone else.
00:35:36.000But do you have any idea, any insight into what more there is, other than perhaps filling in the details of what we peripherally understand right now?
00:35:45.000I think most people have been focused only on China and Ukraine and a few million dollars in a couple of sensational episodes.
00:35:50.000I think what James Comer is going to deliver on Wednesday is that this foreign influence peddling scheme was global.
00:35:57.000Tens of millions of dollars, 9, 10, 11, 12 Biden family members, dozens of LLCs.
00:36:23.000And I think he will overlay Joe Biden's official acts.
00:36:27.000With the business interests that were actually being met by Hunter Biden and James Biden and say, listen, there's no chance this is a coincidence.
00:36:33.000There are no coincidences in Washington.
00:36:36.000Joe Biden kept taking actions that were favorable to the very people paying his family.
00:36:40.000I think that's what that report will look like on Wednesday.
00:36:43.000Yeah, I mean, and that seems interesting.
00:36:46.000We saw that a couple weeks ago, you know.
00:36:48.000Joe Biden's deceased son's, you know, widow, I guess also Hunter's mistress, she was making hundreds of thousands of dollars from some of these.
00:37:01.000Like, what does she have to do with China?
00:37:03.000Like, okay, if we're going to still pretend that Hunter Biden's the business mind, What does she do?
00:37:09.000It doesn't seem like she's even in business at all.
00:37:11.000And yet, it's clearly taking, I think it was hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Chinese and probably others.
00:37:20.000And I think that's what a lot of people don't understand.
00:37:22.000You have Joe Biden's brother, clearly one of the people out there wielding his brother's influence for You know, major contracts.
00:37:32.000Again, no real experience, but he gets these big jobs and millions of dollars that follows, and that's then spread out throughout the family.
00:37:39.000I mean, it really does seem like it's running like a mafia-style racketeering-type operation in there, and that's just the little details that we know, but it's still shocking to me, and I guess I shouldn't be shocked, but that...
00:37:50.000Again, you're one of the few voices in the media that's even willing to ask the question, to be like, hey, wait a minute, because it feels like that's a really big story, like, you know, like beyond Watergate level type story, and yet it's just like, ah, it's okay, it's Biden.
00:38:07.000Yeah. Listen, the political protection racket we talked about before, which often involves the bureaucrats, it also involves the media.
00:38:14.000There hasn't been a major media organization that picked up that letter and ran interference from October to November.
00:38:20.000The debate moderator who cut off your dad and wouldn't let him continue to pursue the Hunter Biden thing, citing the letter, letting Joe Biden cite the letter.
00:38:27.000Not a single one of them have come up in the last week and said, you know what?
00:38:30.000I'm sorry. I was part of a political ruse.
00:38:37.000So the media, the deep administrative state that we have here, and the Democratic elites, they've been in lockstep since the day your dad came down that elevator in 2015, and they're not stopping.
00:38:48.000And so we have to find ways to get around that blockade.
00:38:51.000And with the changes at Twitter, with the rise of Truth Social, with the rise of your new show, my new news site, other sites, we're now getting people around it.
00:38:59.000How do I know that? Even though the blockade in the mainstream media remains as strong today as it did in 2016, 17, 18, 19, 80% of Americans say they're now aware of what Hunter Biden was up to and they're very concerned about it.
00:39:11.000We're getting around the original gatekeepers.
00:39:14.000And every time you do your show, every time Rumble runs something that gets censored somewhere else, every time a tweet or a truth comes out that doesn't get censored by the FBI or Democrat elitists, we are getting the American people what they always want.
00:39:27.000They just wanted the facts. They'll make up their own mind That's why Joe Biden's in the toilet right now, 36%.
00:39:32.000People are starting to realize they got sold a bad bill of goods.
00:39:37.000The facts show that. Yeah, and I think I saw a report, something about 17% of Americans that voted for Joe Biden would not have had they actually known that the laptop was real.
00:39:48.000I mean, and again, that's sort of the point about, you know, they get their win.
00:39:52.000You find out later, but they got their win.
00:39:54.000I mean, they got this clown show presidency going on that's destroyed an American economy, that's kowtowed to our enemies.
00:40:01.000Our enemies are laughing their asses off.
00:40:15.000We're now talking about getting away from the petrodollar and the U.S. dollar as a standard currency.
00:40:20.000I mean, How do you fund the $31.5 trillion of nonsense and waste that the US government has if you can't really borrow like we used to because of this?
00:40:30.000So that may actually be a good thing, despite what it does to America in the short run, because it stops funding tens of millions of dollars for drag queen story hour in Pakistan, which I imagine they're not taking all that seriously in the third world because they've got other things to worry about, but it's happening anyway.
00:40:48.000But, you know, this has been an objective disaster for our country.
00:40:51.000There's no metric where we're doing better.
00:40:54.000There's no metric where we're doing good, frankly.
00:40:57.000And yet, that could have been prevented very easily if people actually had the real information.
00:41:05.000Yeah, listen, the decision, the most political decisions are not very personal to Americans, but the decision of president is the most personal political decision people seem to make.
00:41:16.000And I think right now the American people are in a rebound date.
00:41:20.000They really feel like they got sold a bad bill of goods with Joe Biden.
00:41:24.000And I think the swiftness of their rejection of him is going to accelerate.
00:41:28.000I think 36% may not be as low as Joe Biden goes, because he lied to the American people.
00:41:52.000Today, we have the ability with Truth Social and other places to get around, and Americans are getting the information they've been deprived.
00:41:59.000And when they find out that their spouse, their presidential candidate was cheating on them, they really don't like it.
00:42:05.000I think 2024 is going to be a disciplinary election, meaning Democrats and the media who held up are going to get shellacked because people are just tired of being lied to.
00:42:17.000You know, what's going to be the Democrat tactic for the next, you know, 18 months?
00:42:21.000What are they going to bribe the American people with, their own money, obviously, and the future of their and well-being of their children future, to be able to paint that image?
00:42:30.000How much damage will they do further to the American economy?
00:42:34.000To try to create or to artificially bolster stuff just to be able to try to get through that election and, again, manipulate the facts, manipulate the statistics, because, I mean, what I see out there in the job numbers, I mean, it's like they're changing the rules of the way things are done to be able to say that, no, no, no, we're not really in a recession, even if this is the way we would have measured that for the last 50 years, you know, it was never really locked in stone, so we're going to change it a little bit to pretend.
00:43:04.000Yeah, they do it so many times, people don't even know what the ingredients of the soup are anymore.
00:43:09.000They're so confused. I think there's two things to watch for.
00:43:12.000I think the first thing is they will continue to create division with women with the abortion argument.
00:43:16.000They will lie about the actual stance of Republicans on abortion and try to play that.
00:43:20.000Here is the thing that when I talk to Democrats, they mostly awaken at the thing they fear more than anything else.
00:43:26.000And your father, the 45th president, started it.
00:43:29.000When he said, I'm going to become the harvester in chief, we're going all in on early voting.
00:43:33.000That scares the living Dickens out of the Democrats.
00:43:36.000Why? That's been their margin the last few years.
00:43:38.000If Republicans nearly won, even though they started almost every race, two, three, four hundred thousand votes behind, if Republicans run a credible ballot counting, ballot collection operation, legal and lawful, with the current popularity of Election Day, will Republicans win by 40, 50 percent?
00:43:56.000There is going to be a real problem for Democrats.
00:43:59.000They can't make up many more votes by collecting more ballots.
00:44:02.000That's going to be the game changer, the rise of Republican early voting and being successful at it.
00:44:07.000Democrats don't have an answer for that.
00:44:09.000They certainly don't have an answer to their candidate as president, right?
00:44:11.000Look at the polls. Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis.
00:44:15.000Basically, anybody can beat Joe Biden in this state, and people want the policies of Donald Trump back.
00:44:20.000They want him back. And that longing is I think going to be a really significant dynamic in the 2024 race.
00:44:27.000Yeah, listen, I think Donald Trump is a lame duck candidate, you know, president, who doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected, doesn't have to be someone's friend.
00:44:36.000He's scarier. He can just go there and torch the place.
00:44:39.000I mean, I think that's amazing, and that's what we need.
00:44:42.000But you're 100% right. I've been saying this on the show a lot.
00:44:46.000Well, let's just hope for nice weather on Election Day, because that means people will turn out like, no, man, we've got to be playing the game.
00:44:52.000The amount of people in Philadelphia that had no idea who they were voting for in John Fetterman,
00:44:57.000but you know, maybe still cast a legal ballot, even if it was collected by someone else or
00:45:02.000filled in by someone else. You know, we have to be playing that same game because I mean,
00:45:06.000if we don't, you get John Fetterman, you get Joe Biden. So we, you know, I'd love to have
00:45:12.000same day voting with paper ballots with, you know, IDs. The reality is this, when they're winning,
00:45:33.000This summer, there'll be the landmark North Carolina Republican Party case.
00:45:37.000If the United States Supreme Court rules that the legislature's ability to set the rules of election is supreme, meaning they can't be vetoed by a governor, they can't be overruled by a court, which I think could possibly happen that it means the Pennsylvania legislature with the Republican legislature can dictate the rules of election and the Democratic governor in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or Arizona can't veto it.
00:45:58.000The legislature can do it just through resolution.
00:46:02.000A lot of people aren't focused on that case brought by Michael Watley, the Republican Party chair.
00:46:06.000If that comes down, even though that's about reapportionment and redistricting, the principle is the same.
00:46:11.000If a legislature's authority to set the rules are absolute and courts and governors can't get involved, Republicans in some of these states that keep getting vetoed with common sense reforms suddenly have the upper hand.
00:46:22.000It looks a lot different in Arizona and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin if that Supreme Court ruling comes down the way people think it will.
00:46:47.000Kavanaugh. When they do it to Roberts, now I assume he votes with the left because he's too weak to do it any other way, but they'll do it to the conservative justices and there'll be no consequence, again, because we don't live in a place that actually has equal justice under the law.
00:47:03.000So I imagine there'll be a lot of intimidation taking place to make sure that that doesn't happen.
00:47:07.000So again, we have to play the game that they're playing.
00:47:32.000The map is more favorable in the Senate.
00:47:35.000And here's something that I think is also going to happen.
00:47:37.000I think you're going to see Republicans have their own abortion issue.
00:47:40.000No, not an abortion, but something that gets the masses out to the polls beyond just the candidates.
00:47:45.000They're going to put parental rights in the Constitution and have constitutional amendments in many of these states.
00:47:50.000And that's going to get young parents that normally might not vote out and say, you know what, I'm going to pull the lever yes for that and for Donald Trump and for whoever else is on the ballot.
00:47:58.000And I think that that is a different tactic that Republicans haven't tried in a while.
00:48:02.000That could be very powerful going into 2024.
00:48:04.000Yeah, like, you won't want your teacher talking to your three-year-old about mutilating their genitals and becoming in opposite sex just because they want you to.
00:48:35.000So, yeah, I think we do have to do that.
00:48:38.000I think we have to fight that battle hard.
00:48:41.000Yeah, no, those are the things that, in the reporting I'm doing now, those are the tactics that people say change the game in favor of Republicans.
00:48:47.000The map is also more favorable in 2024, and Joe Biden's drag on the Democratic ticket nationwide will also be very, and I think there's another element here.
00:48:56.000A lot of the economists I'm talking to now, despite all the spin from the Biden administration, they see a recession, and a recessionary economy always penalizes the incumbent party, and that doesn't bode well for Joe Biden either.
00:49:08.000So talk, John, a little bit about sort of how you became a, you know, top investigative reporter.
00:49:14.000I mean, you worked at some of the big papers, even some of the big leftist papers in the past.
00:49:18.000I mean, you're breaking real stories, most notably, you know, the Russia hoax stuff and the Christopher Steele stuff.
00:49:23.000But again, today, I don't think you could actually, even if you're the guy breaking, you know, some of the biggest stories of the era or the lies about the biggest stories of the era, I don't think you'd be able to work at those places.
00:50:32.000I was working with people like Woodward and trying to break stories.
00:50:35.000And the Scooter Libby trial came down.
00:50:38.000The verdict came down. He was the former chief of staff to Dick Cheney.
00:50:41.000And half the Washington Post newsroom, in front of my eyes, stood up and cheered the verdict.
00:50:46.000I had never seen an expression of politics in a newsroom like that before.
00:50:50.000And I said to myself, something's changing.
00:50:52.000And by 2010, 2011, during the Obama years, you just started to see reporters picking sides.
00:50:57.000Picking narratives and then fitting the facts to the narrative, not following where the truth was.
00:51:02.000Neutrality died a slow death in the media, and today we look more partisan in the media than what the British and Europeans have.
00:51:09.000I think that Obama era, the rise of social media, which gave reporters an opinion place to opine outside of their newsroom, it broke the system along with the economic model changing, and it's never going back.
00:51:22.000Anyone who thinks we're going to reform the mainstream media, they're peddling up a hill that never ends.
00:51:27.000The way to fix it is through competition, like what you're doing, what I'm doing, what other people are doing.
00:51:32.000Competition has fixed almost every major problem America's ever had in the free marketplace.
00:51:37.000And as long as we have a free marketplace, we're free from censorship, and we defeat that, I think competition will solve the media.
00:51:43.000What'll happen is old brands will die, and new trusted brands will step into theirs.
00:51:47.000And I think that's the only solution here today.
00:51:50.000I spent 20 years at the AP, a year at the Washington Post, a couple years at the Hill, where I did most of my epic Joe Biden reporting.
00:51:56.000And the unraveling of the Russia collusion.
00:51:58.000And it became obvious to me that I couldn't practice honest journalism in the mainstream media.
00:52:03.000So I decided to talk to my wife and said, hey, I hope you don't mind.
00:52:06.000I'm going to take our retirement, put it at risk, and go start a company.
00:52:09.000But she was all in. And today, we have a site that millions of people read.
00:52:13.000And we're very grateful. Well, no, I think that's amazing.
00:52:16.000And I mean, I love seeing the success stories.
00:52:18.000And again, that's why I sort of started MXM to help boost guys like you to make sure that, hey, they just see it.
00:52:24.000And again, even that, even an aggregation site like I have is still a threat to them.
00:52:31.000But it feels like when they talk about getting out the truth and democracy and yada, yada, yada, like...
00:52:39.000I mean, it seems like, you know, the biggest sayers of those, you know, let's call it cliches in the media are some of the biggest propagandists of the regime.
00:52:49.000I mean, these are the people literally doing the bidding of the man, and yet, you know, on paper, they're looking, you know, democracy dies in darkness, to, you know, quote your former, I guess, alma mater at the Washington Post.
00:53:03.000I mean... You mean you're doing like the Amazon Jeff Bezos bidding and you think you're doing great work?
00:53:13.000They rewarded themselves again today with more Pulitzers.
00:53:15.000It's kind of funny to watch the media keep rewarding the same bad actors who've really been wrong most of the last decade, but they keep doing it.
00:54:28.000The media just ignoring, though, some of these big stories.
00:54:32.000You know, what is it that they're missing?
00:54:34.000What is it that they're actually trying to accomplish?
00:54:36.000Because I would think, regardless of sort of their politics, which we know has sort of, you know, gone by the wayside, I mean, I feel like even breaking some of these things would be like big career opportunities, or does that not work?
00:54:47.000Meaning, if you break a big story that's against the narrative, even if it's a big story, You're penalized.
00:54:53.000Like, you know, my father has that lawsuit out there against the New York Times and the Pulitzer Organization because it's like, well, you gave people a Pulitzer Prize about their reporting on, you know, the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
00:55:17.000It is shocking to me and it's sort of anathema to my own instincts of how I was trained as a journalist in the 80s.
00:55:24.000And I think we have a new generation of leaders.
00:55:27.000Two things have happened. A weak generation of journalism leaders and a young generation who came indoctrinated out of schools.
00:55:33.000These young people are dominating the newsroom.
00:55:35.000Those revolts you've seen recently in the New York Times about transgender coverage and other things, you see young people without the experience or the ethos to do good journalism basically taking over and running the asylum from people who are much more experienced but too weak to say, you know what?
00:56:03.000I think, you know, what Glenn Greenwald's done, what Matt Taibbi's done, they're actually getting as many readers as many local newspapers have in a whole month.
00:56:11.000They're showing that you can go out and break the system and recreate it in the way we used to do it.
00:56:16.000And I think that what you're doing, I'm doing, there's a lot of hope in that competition.
00:56:20.000There really is. Yeah, I think the insanity has sort of created, you know, guys like us.
00:56:33.000But yeah, now those guys are actually catching on.
00:56:35.000And you're looking at, again, the Washington Post, I guess, you know, they were laying off a bunch of people and they're looking for financing because they're losing money.
00:56:42.000Of But of course they're losing money.
00:56:48.000There's no argument to be made that they're not just essentially pandering regime propaganda and or Amazon-Bezos propaganda of the radical left.
00:56:59.000It's clear. You know, I could say the same about some of the right, even, at this point.
00:57:05.000So, you know, the independent journalist, I think, is perhaps the last hope of actual truth that we have out there.
00:57:15.000And you said something that reminded me of my very first mentor at the AP, when I finally got bumped out of Milwaukee to Washington.
00:57:22.000And I thought, oh my God, it's the greatest thing.
00:57:23.000And I got to meet with one of the great AP reporters of all time, Walter Mears.
00:57:27.000He just recently died. But he was a guy that everybody trusted.
00:57:30.000You never knew his politics because he wrote down the middle with neutrality every day.
00:57:34.000And he said something to me in one of the first times I interacted with him in the AP newsroom in Washington.
00:57:38.000He said, I'm going to tell you one thing, John, I hope if you don't remember anything else from me, you remember this.
00:57:43.000If you lose your trust, You lose everything with your readers, and if you lose your readers, you lose your money.
00:57:49.000And that direct line between trust, readers, and money is what's disaggregating the mainstream organizations who blew that trust a few years ago and what's empowering a new generation of journalists to step into that void.
00:58:18.000People are waking up saying, boy, did they sell us a bill of crap.
00:58:21.000And I think now that moment to change the dynamic is upon us and what you're doing, I'm doing, other people, Matt Taibbi, we're beginning to have a difference.
00:58:39.000You sort of said it was the Obama era where they sort of pulled their mask off and were just happy to be partisan hacks.
00:58:47.000It was the Trump era that made the hysteria come to light.
00:58:55.000What was it about those two men that allowed...
00:58:59.000So much of that unmasking to occur, both the opposite, I guess, had the opposite effect.
00:59:06.000You had the hysteria under Trump and the undeserved adoration of Obama.
00:59:12.000What happened under those two presidents that caused that sort of extreme shift?
00:59:18.000And then again, shifting from one to the other, I guess, led to the TDS, the Trump derangement syndrome, perhaps, that you're referring to, that just bastardized everything that they'd ever believed in.
00:59:32.000I'm going to take an event that just occurred in Washington.
00:59:34.000It's an annual right here, the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:59:37.000In the 90s and early 2000s, reporters like myself, when we'd go to that dinner, it was to identify sources and to commit journalism while having a dinner, but it wasn't to get inside a clique and be the cool kids' clique.
00:59:50.000Somewhere in the Obama era, the reporting establishment decided being in the Cool Kids Club was more important than being true to the facts.
00:59:59.000And so you started to see this sort of silly coverage of Barack Obama.
01:00:02.000People go, that's not true. I remember when I broke with God, CBS News.
01:00:07.000I'm drawing a blank. I don't even have a good friend of mine.
01:00:09.000I broke some of the early Fast and Furious stories.
01:00:11.000And my God, people were screaming at me like, you can't write that.
01:00:14.000Yes, I can. The facts show what happened.
01:00:16.000You can't write that. That's not what we can.
01:00:18.000We can't empower gun owners in America.
01:00:20.000Wait a second. I don't have a stake in this.
01:00:22.000I just want to tell the truth that some guns ran across the border and killed some people.
01:00:25.000So I started to notice agenda journalism go in.
01:00:28.000When your dad came down the escalator, he threatened to disrupt that entire marriage between media, elitists, and government power brokers.
01:00:36.000He was the ultimate threat to that nexus of three people that started going to White House Correspondents dinners and book parties and salons saying, we're all together.
01:00:46.000You reporters, we elitists, we government, we're all working together.
01:00:49.000Donald Trump came and said, I'm smashing that system.
01:00:52.000And that's when the media realized out of self-preservation to that system, they decided to go after Donald Trump.
01:00:57.000And they lost their heads going after.
01:00:59.000I mean, some of the stories I read now, I go back in 16, I go, oh my God, that's hysterical.
01:01:06.000Wait a second. They lost their heads because they wanted, there was a generation of journalists who thought being in the clique was more important than being in the right, being truthful.
01:01:15.000And once that happened, the last seven years were written in stone.
01:01:19.000I really believe that. Listen, I think that actually makes total sense.
01:01:22.000Maybe that's a good segue to talk about, you know, just, hey guys, if you're watching this and you want to see this stuff, like it right now, subscribe, share it with your friends.
01:01:31.000It's really simple. I know there's like 10,000 people watching live right now, so just hit the like button.
01:01:36.000I'm watching you guys to see if you actually do it, but that's the kind of stuff that then gets things further up in the algorithm.
01:01:42.000That's how we compete against those guys who have these sort of artificially created platforms, right?
01:01:48.000Everyone then, they're major companies with billions of dollars behind them, and they're aggregating and pushing this stuff out on you.
01:01:54.000Big tech is going to help them get their message out, even if it's total nonsense.
01:01:58.000And I think you're going to see a lot of that with what you have going on at the border right now, John.
01:02:03.000I'd love to have your take on, you know, the border crisis, what's going on with the sort of, you know, Joe Biden talking about eliminating Title 42, what that's designed to do, and how they're going to cover the objective insanity.
01:02:16.000You know, if this was going on in a third world country right now, we'd be calling for regime change and starting a new war.
01:02:22.000It's going on on our border and we're too busy spending $130 billion to Ukraine to actually build a wall and complete a wall for $3 billion.
01:02:49.000You know, they don't let us do that here.
01:02:51.000And he said, yeah, no, that's why I mentioned it to you.
01:02:52.000I thought it was kind of funny to see that foreign leaders have an Alice in Wonderland looking glass effect when they look at America like now.
01:03:00.000Like, those people have lost their marbles.
01:03:01.000What's going on? Of course you need a border wall.
01:03:04.000Even Poland, who's right alongside of us in the Ukraine war, realizes we're kind of insane on our own borders right now.
01:03:11.000The number of people crossing the border will grow from 7,000 to 8,000 a day right now, which, by the way, is already historicized to somewhere between 11,000 and 16,000.
01:03:21.000There will be more people like the Texas shooter who executed that poor family because he didn't like the fact that they asked him to stop shooting his rifle, an illegal alien.
01:03:31.000And that story gets to one of the things you and I were just talking about.
01:03:34.000No mainstream media could come to the honest realization.
01:03:37.000I have to mention it's important that he's been illegally in the country and five times important.
01:03:42.000They couldn't write that. Yeah, I covered it last week when it happened, and yet, you know, the people who should be writing about it, it's like, oh, crickets.
01:03:50.000I mean, and like I said, I'm not a trained journalist, but I have a brain if I can find something, and if I'm blessed to have a platform to put it out there, like, we have to do this, because people are making, you know, informed decisions, but the informed decision that they're making is based on a total lie.
01:04:07.000It's based on a fabrication, and that's why, again, why, you know, this sort of independent notion is so critical and so important.
01:04:16.000I was talking to one of my colleagues in the mainstream media when that came out, and I was kind of goading him a little bit, like, hey, you've got to mention the guy who was thrown out of the country five times.
01:04:23.000He came back. Oh, no, that's not relevant.
01:04:27.000If the guy's deported and doesn't come back in, he doesn't kill the family, isn't that kind of relevant?
01:04:31.000And he just had no answer for it because he's drank the Kool-Aid.
01:04:35.000And it scares me sometimes to think that people are so indoctrinated that they want the outcome more than they want the facts.
01:04:41.000And that's why we just got to keep fighting for the truth.
01:04:44.000Russia collusion and all the things that all of us did to get that story out proved that even when the entire establishment against you, when the power of the CIA, the FBI, the Democratic media, the Democratic Congress and Adam Schiff, the new reincarnation of Joe McCarthy, all of those people were against a small number of people like you and your dad and Devin Nunes and myself and Sarah Carter.
01:05:08.000Five, six, seven people took on thousands, and the facts prevailed.
01:05:13.000And I think that that gives me great hope that if Americans, and we can find a way to get facts, Americans will always choose facts over BS. And I think if we could do it against the CIA and the FBI, I think we could do it on all the big stories of today.
01:05:25.000Well, yeah, and I think that's what we're doing.
01:05:27.000I mean, slowly but surely chipping away, right?
01:05:30.000Based on the facts, based on what's out there, it should be so easy, John, right?
01:05:33.000It should be like, oh, this is a no-brainer.
01:05:35.000But, you know, people have to understand and remember.
01:05:37.000That's why I say, like, hey, like and share this stuff because, you know, we are competing against a trillion dollar, trillion dollar.
01:05:43.000You know, big tech enterprise that is functioning simply as the marketing arm of the other side.
01:05:50.000And not just to boost the good things that they supposedly do, I'm not aware of much of that, but to also subvert and hide the things that we're doing, the truth, the details of all of this.
01:06:02.000You know, I can't help but, you know, just think about like the Tennessee shooter.
01:07:12.000That's right. They're really trying to do this.
01:07:15.000Effort to hijack the story that way. They literally were trying to hijack the narrative.
01:07:17.000Fortunately, the American people were smarter.
01:07:19.000They didn't let that to burble too long.
01:07:20.000There's a story on our site today, Don, that when you talk about how much the cards are stacked against us, it's a little story, but I think it speaks tons of weight to the American people.
01:07:29.000The Homeland Security Department, the epicenter of censorship in America right now, they have decided that protecting America's infrastructure includes Erasing conservatives' opinions.
01:07:40.000That's basically what their doctrine is right now.
01:07:43.000They basically say that. By the way, they have China envy.
01:07:45.000If you look at some of the early homelands, they were like, man, I wish we could censor like the Chinese.
01:07:50.000That's a great deal. That's the people that are in government.
01:07:52.000They did a training manual, which we got a hold of through FOIA with the America First Legal Foundation and the Foundation for Freedom Online, two organizations that are really exposing censorship in a big way.
01:08:03.000And their whole thing was, can we create a game so that neighbors start ratting out their neighbors if they're anti-abortion?
01:08:11.000If someone says abortion is baby killing, oh my God, you need to run to the police and tell them that person might kill someone.
01:08:18.000That was taxpayer dollars being created that game.
01:08:21.000That's how sophisticated the effort to divide this country and to silence half of the country is.
01:08:26.000That's your tax dollars, our federal government working on that right now.
01:08:29.000At this moment. And perhaps that's what's so scary about sort of the advent of AI and what's going on with that, right?
01:08:35.000Because, you know, you can't have sort of an organic, you know, I don't want to say uprising, right?
01:08:41.000Because then they'll turn it into an insurrection.
01:08:43.000But just calling this stuff out, if AI is able to find and target the people who are the leaders of that thought movement and just...
01:08:50.000Discredit and eliminate them and lie about them and make sure they have no presence on social.
01:08:54.000Again, that truth never gets out there.
01:08:57.000And that's perhaps one of the biggest fears I have of what's going on in this sort of technology-driven side, especially when you think about What it can do to that next generation.
01:09:07.000I know you have also a new book out for kids called Hidden Headlines.
01:10:17.000The next day, my co-host on television, Amanda, told the whole world what happened.
01:10:21.000My wife found out. So I had to do something good for the hamster.
01:10:24.000So in this book, my son's hamster, Chunk, is the newspaper editor who can't get his newspaper out because someone is clogging the hamster tubes in the community and the newspaper can't get out, i.e.
01:10:35.000big tech, right? And so we tell the story.
01:10:37.000There's fun animals in it. Brave books came to me.
01:10:40.000And said, hey, we'd like you to do the new Scholastica.
01:10:43.000If you're pro-America, you want pro-American kids, but books are the people to go to.
01:10:47.000They're doing amazing stuff. And they said to me, what topic would you pick?
01:10:50.000And I said, you know what? I was bewildered in 2019 and 2020 when my own profession was sanctioning Censorship.
01:10:58.000And I was like, wait a second. We depend on the First Amendment.
01:11:28.000They came up with Seymour Clues and the others.
01:11:30.000And with animals and a fictional story, we tell the story of what you and I just lived through and everyone else lived through.
01:11:36.000But we do it in a way, and hopefully kids will get a lesson from their parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles that they're not getting in their schools.
01:11:43.000Well, yeah, I think that's so critical.
01:11:45.000And it's not even, you know, get a lesson from their aunts and uncles that they're not getting in schools.
01:11:48.000They're getting the opposite in schools, right?
01:11:52.000I've seen what, you know, either kids or my friend's kids or whatever it is, what they're coming home.
01:11:57.000And it's, you know, no wonder these kids are 18, 20 years old and hate their country, right?
01:12:01.000I mean, because they're being fed one big lie.
01:12:04.000I'd pay good money to see them go live in the communist country of their choice or the socialist country of their choice and watch them survive for a year.
01:12:11.000They couldn't handle five minutes. Yeah, it would make the apprentice's ratings look dismal.
01:12:15.000It would be amazing, but they still don't get it.
01:12:18.000You know, you spoke a little bit about that in the fall of the wall.
01:12:22.000But, you know, my mother escaped from communism.
01:12:24.000My grandparents brought me over there to communist Czechoslovakia as a kid in my summers.
01:12:29.000For the simple reason that they wanted me to see how lucky we were in America.
01:12:34.000I mean, think about how different that is.
01:12:36.000You had this kid from the 67th floor of Trump Tower going to communist Czechoslovakia, and I got it really quickly.
01:12:43.000I didn't realize that was sort of the beginnings of my political leanings, but I got it.
01:12:48.000And yet these kids, while they're on their iPhone and drinking their Starbucks and this, like...