On today's show, we have a special Tuesday edition of Triggered, a show where we cover all the latest news breaking in the world of politics and current events. The FBI has released documents that have been classified for years, and now it's being declassified. Plus, we'll do a news rundown of all of the top headlines from the past 24 hours.
00:06:49.000I had to come back and I had to last night I had my daughter's 11th birthday.
00:06:53.000Chloe turned 11. So it was a little bit of a zoo and rather than try to cram it all in and try to figure it out, we just said, you know what, let's just do a special Tuesday edition.
00:07:03.000Keep it a little simple, not have me stressed and most importantly, not have me in trouble with a very aggressive 11 year old.
00:07:12.000So a plot to create fake mail-in ballots in the 2020 election.
00:07:35.000This probably shouldn't surprise any of us, given their actions, given how strong Trump was on China, given what they did during COVID, etc., etc.
00:13:13.000You know, for you guys of that one as well, from behind the scenes, we had my daughter's birthday, Father's Day, it was a wild one.
00:13:21.000But it was also 10 years ago yesterday that my father came down that gilded escalator and upended American politics forever.
00:13:30.000He did it by trusting his instincts, upending the status quo, saying what need to be said, and exerting pure political strength and perseverance.
00:13:41.000Look, I don't think anyone wants it, even the Democrats, shockingly.
00:14:05.000I mean, I guess they'd be happy for it if it upended a Trump coalition.
00:14:10.000So they'd probably risk it just for that because they're sick masters.
00:14:13.000But we have to let people know, and our enemies need to know, that they are going to be held accountable.
00:14:21.000We saw that in the first Trump term, and in November, the American people voted the way they did for a reason.
00:14:28.000And one thing I can assure you of, our U.S. service members and personnel will be protected and not be needlessly put in harm's way.
00:14:37.000And it's why we need strong leadership to ensure that our adversaries don't get away with what they got away with under Biden, which was appeasement and empty rhetoric.
00:14:48.000And in many cases, for far too long, the swamp was just outright fleecing the American taxpayer through groups like USAID.
00:14:56.000Because now we're learning that three contractors, three of them, have admitted to a decades-long bribery scheme.
00:15:03.000Involving contracts worth over $550 million from USAID.
00:15:17.000Imagine how many over-budgeted agencies are doing exactly the same thing.
00:15:22.000Remember, we had Luke Rosiak at The Daily Wire on the show not too long ago who broke the story and uncovered how contracting officers were steering...
00:15:41.000There are ongoing investigations into just how many different examples of this same criminal behavior there are that have yet to be prosecuted.
00:15:51.000But, like all things, it takes time, and I'm looking forward to seeing the prosecutions on all of them.
00:16:02.000And instead, I don't know, let's go out on a limb here, actually prosecute violent rioters in their own city.
00:16:10.000I keep hearing about peaceful protests and all of that nonsense every day, day in and day out, and then I'm watching cars and stores being lit on fire, Molotov cocktails being thrown.
00:16:23.000This has been going on for over a week.
00:16:26.000And Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are more interested in attacking Trump than they are keeping their city safe, which is frankly par for the course for basically all of the Democrats at this point.
00:16:37.000And of course, the regime media is still pushing their claims that the protests were, quote, mostly peaceful.
00:17:46.000That they are intended to be nationwide.
00:17:48.000And they're intended to go after the rule of law.
00:17:50.000You know, you have people saying they want to not enforce border protections and security.
00:17:55.000And you see so much about how these riots are going, very similar to how the BLM riots went in 2020.
00:18:00.000And I noticed you talked about what was happening happening in Portland with the ICE facility.
00:18:04.000It's worth remembering that those same people seized a federal courthouse in Portland for months in the summer of 2020.
00:18:12.000And Americans are really sick and tired of seeing this kind of violence go unchecked.
00:18:17.000Political violence can happen from any place, but there really is a problem on the left with sustained political violence, like going back for decades.
00:18:45.000But today, we have an explosive story destroying yet another fake news narrative.
00:18:52.000Because according to a massive story from John Solomon, FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday evening turned over to Congress an intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced Fake U.S. driver's licenses to carry out a scheme to hijack the 2020 election with fake mail-in ballots for Joe Biden.
00:19:36.000I wonder if this had anything to do with it.
00:19:40.000Specifically, guys, these included substantiated allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses, ship them to the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots, but under Ray's FBI, under Christopher Ray, remember the guy who swore before Congress about these things, the reports were abruptly recalled.
00:20:06.000Could it be because he knew about it and he swore before Congress that these things weren't happening, so, you know, if they never find out, it's not a lie, right?
00:20:15.000This may just be the tip of the iceberg.
00:20:19.000We'll get into all of it with John Solomon in just moments.
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00:21:47.000So the same country that sent those scientists in with the pathogens a few weeks ago that could wipe out our crops, the same scientists that hid the origins of COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:22:18.000This source told the FBI in August of 2020 that China was mass-producing fake U.S. driver's licenses, shipping them to Chinese students and residents, both here illegally and legally in America, so that they could go get fake mail-in ballots and hijack the election.
00:22:34.000The report specifically stated that the goal was to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
00:22:41.000Now, it goes out for a few days to the intelligence community like a normal intelligence warning would go out, and then it's suddenly recalled, which is such an odd thing.
00:22:59.000We now know, last night for the reporting I did, that about a month after this report came out, the Customs and Border Protection Agency, a separate federal agency, intercepted about 20,000 of those fake Chinese driver's licenses coming in the mail into the United States.
00:23:14.000In other words, the source was corroborated.
00:23:17.000What they had said actually came true, but that didn't stop the deep state from turning a blind eye, not further investigating this.
00:23:25.000Kash Patel, late last night, turned these documents over.
00:23:28.000To Senator Charles Grassley, who first heard about this episode from a whistleblower, it is now corroborated.
00:23:35.000And just a few minutes ago, I got the actual Intel report language.
00:23:40.000Okay, well, yeah, listen, just so we're clear, so they found 20,000 driver's licenses coming in.
00:23:46.000That doesn't mean they didn't find lots of others.
00:23:48.000And I think if I look at the margin of error in some of these states, I mean, you know, whether it's 2016, last election, I mean, this last one was a little bit more of a blowout.
00:23:58.000But in 16 and 20, I mean, entire states were decided on 8,000 votes, 15,000 votes.
00:24:06.000So 20 being just one shipment, and presumably they didn't put all their eggs in one basket and just get unlucky that they were caught.
00:24:15.000The entire election was decided on 45,000 votes in 2020.
00:24:19.000If they got a couple of these shipments in, that could have been the margin of error by itself.
00:24:29.000Instead of continuing down the path of investigating, corroborating, when they hear from the CPB reopening it, all right, maybe you pulled it back, reopened it when the CPB finds the licenses.
00:24:40.000And then after the election, remember that famous 60 Minutes story where the guy from the Homeland Security Department said this was a perfect election.
00:24:49.000He looked in the camera and said that.
00:24:50.000We now know there were two foreign interferences, this China plot and an earlier plot by Iran to hack a database, steal the identities of tens of thousands of American voters, and use it to try to influence the election.
00:26:00.000We don't know if Chris Wray knew, but people inside the FBI absolutely knew and would have known.
00:26:06.000That the testimony Chris Ray was giving was inaccurate based on what they had just gotten from this Chinese source?
00:26:12.000So, you know, I assume now with Kash Patel in there, they're going to go after these things and try to figure that out.
00:26:18.000You know, again, these people have no honor or shame.
00:26:21.000I'm sure they'll lie through the teeth just to cover themselves up.
00:26:23.000If this would have been, you know, any kind of country helping Trump the entire agency of anyone that was in, you know, in the chain of command or.
00:26:36.000But, you know, I'm sure that'll be different anyway.
00:26:39.000Well, listen, I think this is a moment where we might get a little bit of accountability.
00:26:43.000I don't think there's going to be nearly as much because the deep state's good at protecting itself.
00:26:47.000But there are going to be some arrests down the road.
00:26:50.000I think in the COVID cover-up particularly, we're going to see some people who are arrested in the COVID cover-up in the next few months, I think, is possible.
00:27:14.000The licenses that CPB got, fingerprints and see who actually may have used them.
00:27:19.000It's why we need in-person voting with real IDs.
00:27:27.000Backgrounds, checks, you know, it's why, you know, of course, I mean, I sort of said it in my intro, I'm not sure if you heard that, but in my intro I said, you know, it was sort of amazing watching, you know, November 6th, 7th, and 8th of last year after my father won in this landslide, and all these Democrats are on TV saying, huh?
00:27:47.000Like, where were the 82 million people that showed up for Joe Biden?
00:27:50.000Why didn't they show up for, like, and I was like, because even they were coming to the conclusion, like, hey, maybe we did steal this thing.
00:27:56.000You know, I guess they're okay with it as long as they get what they want.
00:28:00.000Once those same, you know, 8 million people magically disappeared, and it's not like, you know, they shouldn't have gone anywhere theoretically.
00:28:18.000Well, listen, this is the most scary thing.
00:28:20.000If you're a Republican Democrat, Secretary of State, Election Commissioner, County Commissioner, China saw our mail-in voting system as a extreme vulnerable option to go attack America.
00:28:32.000That's one thing that you can draw from these documents.
00:28:35.000They saw how easy it would be to change the outcome or attempt to change the outcome of an election by using mail-in ballots, not machines, not other things.
00:28:43.000They saw the weakness in the system right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:28:54.000Read all of the paragraphs that are relevant.
00:28:56.000It's the first time I'm seeing the text of this.
00:28:59.000This is breaking news, guys, so I think it's important.
00:29:01.000I think this is the kind of stuff we've got to make sure that other people share because the mainstream media will pretend this thing never happened.
00:29:12.000The report says that this source was a collaborative source.
00:29:15.000It had been in the system for less than a year.
00:29:18.000He obtained the information from an identified subsource who claimed they obtained the information directly from communist government officials inside China.
00:29:28.000In late August 2020, the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent United States driver's licenses that were secretly exported to the United States.
00:29:37.000The fraudulent driver's licenses would allow tens Of thousands.
00:29:42.000more than 20,000, tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for US presidential candidate, Joe Biden, despite, let me get here, Despite not being able to vote in the United States, China had collected private U.S. user ID from millions of TikTok accounts to include name, ID, and address, which would allow the Chinese government to use real U.S. persons' information to create the fraudulent driver's licenses.
00:30:11.000The fraudulent driver's licenses were to include true ID numbers and true addresses of U.S. citizens, making them difficult to detect.
00:30:21.000Yeah, and that's because China's been stealing all that data from Americans forever, so they probably have a perfectly good database of people who were probably going to be no-shows but had real ID.
00:30:37.000No, I mean, it's a, you know, listen, when you're on our side, everyone with a brain said, hey, like, of course, like, you know, the mail-in ballots are the most easy to manipulate.
00:30:46.000And then we got the, no, no, no, it was the most safe and secure.
00:31:28.000They are incredibly hostile to America.
00:31:32.000They're looking for anything to break our democracy and our constitutional republic down.
00:31:36.000And they saw mail-in ballots as that backdoor.
00:31:39.000That's what makes this intelligence report so really significant.
00:31:42.000Now, I want to go back to that famous moment, like perfect election, no foreign intrusions.
00:31:47.000A lot of people didn't see this because it happened a year later.
00:31:51.000The night before Thanksgiving 2021, so a year after the election, federal prosecutors indicted two Iranian nationals for hacking into a voter database, stealing the identities of thousands of American voters, and then using it in a malign operation to influence the outcome of the election.
00:32:09.000That's so significant because prosecutors now laid it out in an indictment.
00:32:14.000I think one of the men has now even pleaded guilty.
00:32:35.000They didn't unseal it to a year later when Joe Biden's well into his presidency.
00:32:39.000We knew, even before the China plot, let's even suppose the China plot wasn't on the table, there was already another.
00:32:45.000Foreign intrusion into our system, and it's Iran, the very people now that Israel is attacking and trying to end their nuclear ambitions.
00:32:54.000This is really important to understand how much the deep state—they can look in the camera, put on a little bit of makeup, and tell you something, and it's just completely false.
00:33:02.000Well, I mean, the number one thing is, I mean, I think, you know, we need some accountability on that.
00:33:07.000You know, they're always fine fessing up to these things once they get the result that they want.
00:33:11.000You know, then they, oh, my bad, you know, mea culpa, I had no idea.
00:33:14.000You know, they did the same with Wuhan and they did the same thing with China.
00:33:16.000Like, you know, I remember, you know, when I got canceled one of the first times, you know, about COVID, where I was like, of course it came from the virus, from the Wuhan lab.
00:33:54.000And, you know, so, you know, for people who are perhaps tuning in a little bit late, you know, literally there's been a plot discovered where China was basically exporting fake U.S. driver's licenses to Chinese students and other Chinese national sympathetic to their cause all over the United States as part of a plot to create voter identities for Chinese residents living in the United States so they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.
00:35:45.000There's some things, but it's still a vulnerability, particularly in states like California and New York that hand out ballots like they were candy at a Halloween party.
00:35:53.000We have to get a grip on the system because our enemies are going to continue to try to exploit it until we tighten it up.
00:35:59.000Yeah, and again, for those just tuning in, just to confirm, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had intercepted nearly 20,000 fake licenses around the same time that all of this intelligence came in.
00:36:13.000And that seems like about as solid of a corroboration of the initial report as we can imagine, right?
00:36:20.000One just sounds like, oh, here's the evidence.
00:36:55.000I mean, that feels like that has to go all the way up to the top.
00:36:58.000I just don't believe that Christopher Wray didn't find out about this and have any knowledge whatsoever that these guys were doing this to protect the CCP.
00:37:07.000I've been scratching at this, and the normal way would be after CPB made the intercept, they would alert the FBI and say, hey, let's open a criminal case on this.
00:37:14.000It's called an electronic communication.
00:37:16.000But it's clear to me that CPB didn't think the FBI was doing the job right, because you know what they did?
00:37:20.000They actually put out an announcement in San Diego saying they had intercepted these.
00:37:24.000I actually found the announcement now.
00:37:26.000So CPB was trying to shame the FBI into acting when they clearly had swept it under the rug.
00:37:33.000Yeah, and I'm sure at the time, social media was covering it and censoring it and whatever.
00:37:36.000Like I said, I kind of do this at this point.
00:37:39.000This is what I do every day, and I didn't even know about that.
00:37:41.000So that's how effective the censors can be.
00:37:44.000It's why we ask everyone to like, to share, to subscribe, so that we can actually get this stuff out there, force them to cover it, make it a big enough story that you almost shame them into doing their jobs because they won't do it otherwise.
00:38:00.000Media, big tech, big bureaucracy, we're all together, in this case, protecting big communism in China.
00:38:07.000Yeah, I mean, you've discovered a lot of these, John, and it seems like, wow, it's amazing.
00:38:11.000The percentage of big stories like this that you and two or three other individuals seem to be the only ones that ever come up with is both shocking and also very telling in terms of the mindset of the mainstream media.
00:38:37.000If it was a political cruddle against their enemies, if it was something against Trump, they would chase this down to the ends of the earth.
00:38:58.000But fixing it for the long-term good of this country is still a really big challenge for all of us.
00:39:02.000That's why things like Truth Social are so important.
00:39:05.000All the alternatives that are popping up now, we're starting to create an irrelevance to the legacy media and a relevance to the new media.
00:39:12.000And all the things your dad has done in the White House press room to give access to new reporters, that competition is starting to have a very big effect in the American marketplace.
00:39:23.000So John, more broadly, I believe there was another one discovered a week later.
00:39:34.000It was something actually probably perhaps worse.
00:39:37.000I don't know how much worse it is than taking out your food supply.
00:39:41.000Is this all part of the same mosaic with respect to the different ways China is trying to infiltrate and destroy America?
00:39:48.000Yes, they have a 200-year plan, and they stick to it relentlessly.
00:39:52.000And they always admire the opportunity to take American tax dollars and use it against us.
00:39:57.000So in this case, those two first scientists who were bringing in that fungus, which was a pathogen that could have been unleashed, could eventually wipe out American crops, create a famine in America, they were on an NIH grant program.
00:40:20.000And then they're using that access, that goodwill that we've given China to come in and develop things that could then be weaponized against us in the future.
00:40:28.000We are funding our own demise through the extraordinary weakness and blindness of our bureaucracy.
00:40:35.000And I'll tell you, for the last four or five days, Don, I've been trying to do just something simple as a reporter.
00:40:39.000Ask every federal agency, how many visas have you given to scientists in China?
00:40:59.000And you know they're not vetting them.
00:41:00.000They're just waving them in, just like they waved them across the border.
00:41:03.000And we are literally setting up, if it isn't for your dad's administration who's out there creating the counterbalance and the counterweight and the countermeasures to this.
00:41:12.000We are literally riding our own check to our own demise.
00:41:40.000It is hard to believe, but it's gone on, and it's that alliance between the big bureaucracy, the big media, the big tech, and the big left that has created this, and China knows it.
00:41:49.000You look at the people on the streets in LA, all the work we did to track their funding, where does it go back to?
00:42:08.000We have to counter it quickly and faster and smarter than we've done in a long time.
00:42:12.000Yeah, I mean, I guess going back to sort of the University of Michigan, the agro-terrorist example isn't even just at the University of Michigan.
00:42:22.000In the summer of 2023, National Guard soldiers discovered five Chinese University of Michigan students near a military base, and they were letter charged for concealing their activities.
00:42:32.000In fact, the University of Michigan, other colleges, and even major corporations have a joint research program with Shanghai Jatong University, which is where these students all came from.
00:42:42.000The obvious question, I guess, John, is why?
00:42:46.000Yeah, listen, they are using every opportunity they can to come up with every potential weapon to, if we ever got into a kinetic or non-conventional war with China, to have the upper hand, unleash a virus, unleash a famine, unleash genetically altered seeds that would change our production yields.
00:43:05.000A decade ago, and it's interesting, all these episodes have occurred just before or after the Democratic administration.
00:43:15.000A decade ago in Iowa, genetically altered seeds that had really serious implications for our farming communities were discovered on Chinese nationals in Iowa, I believe it was.
00:43:25.000It keeps happening, usually when Democrats turn a blind eye to China.
00:43:30.000Remember, very early on in the Joe Biden presidency, the FBI director was ordered by the president to stand down the China initiative, which was the FBI's premier counterintelligence.
00:43:41.000By the way, the very thing that this memo was probably flowing from, stop Chinese spies in academia.
00:43:54.000I mean, you read the reports, you know, about, you know, the islands that China, you know, the coral reef that China turned into islands to create military bases all over the South China Sea.
00:44:03.000Like, they weren't allowed to do that, but they saw Obama as weak and feckless and said they just did it.
00:44:12.000The tariffs that my father had in place on his first term.
00:44:16.000China recently even said, yeah, we knew they were there, but we knew Joe Biden wouldn't enforce it, so we just ignored it and went about our business.
00:44:23.000They understand that Democrat leadership is either weak, sympathetic, on the take, all of the above, and even if you have these laws in place, they're just going to ignore them.
00:44:47.000Now, the world is substantially And I think your father will leave a far more peaceful and stable world behind than the one he got on the 20th.
00:45:44.000But, John, I do want to ask you, you know, talk about just what a change in leadership at the FBI can do under Kash Patel, under, you know, Deputy Director, you know, Dan Bongina.
00:45:57.000How do you assess it and what else might we learn in the coming weeks and months?
00:46:03.000I think we're going to learn a lot more about the weaponization of Jack Smith.
00:46:08.000I think there's a grand jury in Florida investigating The misbehavior of the Justice Department in the pursuit of your father.
00:46:15.000We know recently that there was a declaration of a government investigation in the Colorado investigation of Tina Peters.
00:46:22.000So I think we're going to learn that there are other tentacles of this weaponization machine that now are under criminal investigation, under Pam Bondi, under Kash Patel, under Dan Bongino, under the new weaponization department at the Justice Department.
00:46:38.000It is far more reaching than I knew when I started on the very first stories debunking Russia collusion.
00:47:36.000Justice and Congress are in the process of making them public to the American people.
00:47:39.000We're going to get a sense of the size and scope of the network that weaponized the United States government against its people.
00:47:47.000John, you know, before we wrap, what can you tell us about this sentinel system inside the FBI where the Mueller team was apparently, you know, just making documents unsearchable so that an agent was pursuing something that led to their dead end.
00:48:02.000There's nothing here, but it's clearly out there.
00:48:05.000It has been known for years, two decades, that there was a drive that the most sensitive stuff in the country could be buried on.
00:48:23.000As a young reporter at the Associated Press, I caused a delay in the execution of Timothy McVeigh, not because he was a good guy, he was a bad guy, but the FBI had hid Tens of thousands of pages of documents in Discovery that were really important to not only the defense, but to the American public.
00:48:39.000It's been going on for 20 or 30 years.
00:48:42.000Everybody in the FBI knew what they were doing when they buried those documents.
00:48:46.000Ash Patel has sent all those over to the Justice Department.
00:48:49.000They're currently being reviewed to make sure they're not responsive to subpoenas, because the first thing you want to do is comply, not violate the law of subpoenas, and then they're going to be made to the public.
00:48:58.000This summer is going to be a fascinating summer.
00:49:00.000We're going to learn things we could only have imagined existed two years ago, and that process is underway.