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00:06:11.000A great guy, someone who understands what's going on, someone who's actually served in the military, didn't do the whole stolen valor thing like Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walz.
00:06:32.000You've seen his compatriots and his subordinates as well as his superior officers calling out the insanity and We'll talk about the shame and vetting record of Kamala Harris.
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00:11:54.000So, just so we're clear, after years of saying that if you cross the border illegally, you're not a criminal, Kamala now wants voters to believe that she's actually for border security.
00:12:09.000I mean, I don't get it, but again, people are gonna run with that as though it's real.
00:12:15.000There's nothing real, nothing real about any of this.
00:12:27.000And the media gladly tells you that she's incredible, and she's moderate, and she's not at all radical, and she wasn't the Borders Are, and she had nothing to do with all of the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration.
00:13:40.000Earlier this year, Kamala bragged on Twitter, X, that she was proud to cast the time-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act.
00:13:51.000Not only did that $2 trillion legislation increase inflation, but it allowed the IRS to track down workers' tips so that they could be taxed.
00:14:53.000She is part of the administration that has given us this disastrous economy, this disastrous inflation, all your food prices, your gas prices, the shutdown of pipelines.
00:15:05.000Everything we are facing as a country right now is on her administration.
00:15:46.000I mean, it's hard to believe that they can get away with this in 2024.
00:15:52.000George Orwell would be incredibly proud.
00:15:56.000Now, Democrats think that they can get away with this right now because we're facing two opponents in the president election.
00:16:04.000We're facing Kamala Harris and we're facing the fake news media.
00:16:09.000They've been fawning over Kamala Harris and are doing their best they possibly can to try to get her elected and ultimately destroy America, destroy our freedoms, destroy everything we believe in.
00:16:21.000The media is doing the same with Tim Walz.
00:16:24.000Look at CNN blame technical difficulties.
00:16:27.000Yeah, it's technical difficulties to get out of an interview from a soldier talking about how Tim Waltz bailed on his troops.
00:16:38.000They're cutting out someone they asked to go on their show to talk about it because they didn't like the narrative and magically they got technical difficulties.
00:16:53.000Now there's another step out there is what's called stop-loss.
00:16:57.00090 days prior to the actual deployment, we received our orders.
00:17:01.000And at that time is what's called stop-loss, where if you're in a position, you're going forward irregardless unless there's some really major or process.
00:17:12.000It gets you out from not going on the deployment itself.
00:17:15.000So there's that window of opportunity and people say we never knew he was going forward.
00:17:25.000As far as being a command sergeant major, he, as soon as he retired, or I'm going to go with the term retired, which he did, and he was eligible after 20 years to get a full retirement.
00:17:37.000He was taken out of the academy at that time.
00:17:41.000Here's another thing about... Well, Sgt.
00:17:43.000Major, I do want to hear what you have to say, Sgt.
00:17:48.000I know I want to be sensitive of your time and your audio is beginning to break up just a little bit, but I do want to thank you because I think you've clarified a lot for people and given more information.
00:17:57.000The question now is how the voters will evaluate it.
00:19:22.000And I think that what we want to do here is build the kind of international order where we can check China.
00:19:29.000We don't want to go to war with China, but certainly they're an adversary.
00:19:32.000I mean, they know, for example, the Chinese know that they're manufacturing tons of fentanyl.
00:19:36.000They're letting it come into our country.
00:19:39.000Kamala Harris has done nothing about this.
00:19:41.000She should apply diplomatic and economic leverage over the Chinese to stop manufacturing this fentanyl, which then comes into the Mexican drug cartels, which they then shift into our country.
00:19:52.000The United States has designated some of these groups and trusted the Chinese government.
00:19:57.000Fentanyl is not easy to manufacture, Margaret.
00:19:59.000And if Harris was applying proper leverage to the Chinese and to the Mexican drug cartels, we would not have so many people buying fentanyl overdoses.
00:20:06.000What's your vision of how you do that?
00:20:08.000Well, I think you walk into Beijing, you talk to Xi Jinping, and you say, your entire economy is going to collapse unless you get access to American markets.
00:20:16.000You need to take this fentanyl seriously or we are going to impose serious tariffs and economic penalties for not following our laws and not helping us stem the flow of this deadly poison.
00:20:28.000He also exposed Kamala Harris for being a phony, which is 100% true.
00:20:33.000And if the media were honest, and if the media actually functioned as journalists, they would do the same.
00:21:01.000She doesn't have her policy positions out there.
00:21:03.000She hasn't answered why she wanted to ban fracking, but now she doesn't.
00:21:06.000She wanted to fund police, but now she doesn't.
00:21:08.000She wanted to open the border, but now she doesn't.
00:21:11.000She should have to answer for why she presents a different set of policies to one audience and a different set of policies to another audience.
00:21:18.000And I think that's what President Trump is getting at.
00:23:51.000Have you seen in your political career perhaps the press act as dishonestly as they are right now with their sort of, you know, the artificial boosting of Kamala Harris?
00:24:04.000Will she ever have to answer for her support of defunding the police, open borders, giving Medicare to illegal immigrants, or are they just going to let her hide in a basement like they did Joe Biden in 2020?
00:24:17.000Well, Don, I mean, given how dishonest and liberal the press has always been, but especially since your dad first came down the escalator nine years ago, it's hard to pick a single moment in which they've done the worst.
00:24:31.000I mean, the press is acting like a force field around Kamala Harris or a phalanx of bodyguards again.
00:24:39.000What we know about her and how she's a San Francisco liberal is not from, you know, anonymous leaks or white papers that got leaked to the media.
00:24:48.000It's things that she said in her own voice on camera just five years ago when she was running for president in her own right.
00:24:54.000And they're pretending like it never happened.
00:24:56.000And even though they are the press, the media, their job is to ask questions and to demand that leaders speak to them and answer those questions for the American people.
00:25:04.000We're now going on three weeks in which Kamala Harris has barely answered a single question at all.
00:25:09.000I guess they think in the high command of her campaign, if they can just get her through 12 more weeks without answering questions, maybe she can win.
00:25:16.000Because we all know the kind of incomprehensible word salads for which she's become rightly famous.
00:25:22.000Or the other scenario when she opens her mouth, In an unscripted fashion.
00:25:26.000She just reminds everyone of what a dangerous San Francisco liberal she is.
00:25:29.000But there you have, today, the press putting out there a glossy magazine cover of her on Time Magazine about the reintroduction of Kamala Harris.
00:25:37.000Which is, I don't know, like the seventh or eighth reintroduction of her.
00:25:40.000Because she always wants to say whatever she thinks at the moment will get her elected.
00:25:46.000Unless she's speaking to what she knows to be a friendly audience, like the Democratic electorate in 2019.
00:25:52.000And then the mask slips and she reveals herself, as always, to be a dangerous San Francisco liberal.
00:25:57.000Well, I mean, just today, Corinne Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said from the White House podium that there is no quote-unquote daylight between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:26:10.000I mean, she seems to be going against all of the policies that literally her administration was part of, the things that created the economic disaster that we're seeing, that encouraged, as far as I'm concerned, all these wars abroad.
00:26:22.000Why would anyone want Four more years of this mess if there's no daylight between the campaigns.
00:27:03.000The reason we have war in Europe and war in the Middle East is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have projected weakness from the very beginning.
00:27:11.000Look at the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which emboldened Vladimir Putin.
00:28:12.000He could have gone with them, but he didn't.
00:28:14.000He let his troops go to war without him instead.
00:28:17.000Can you talk a little bit about what you think about Tim Waltz leaving before his troops got deployed?
00:28:23.000I mean, when it first started, it was a stolen valor thing.
00:28:25.000I thought it was bad, but every day it gets worse.
00:28:28.000Like, he lies about his rank, and he goes back to his weapons of war, and every day it's like, you know, this guy was Rambo in his own mind and what he told his constituency, and yet that's clearly not the case.
00:28:46.000Vance put it well yesterday on Sunday shows when he said this isn't about Tim Walz's service, which we respect and honor the service of all veterans.
00:28:53.000This is about Tim Walz and now the campaign's multiple inconsistent and inaccurate statements.
00:29:01.000As you said at first, I was simply putting two and two together about things that were not explicit, but now it's clear again from the command sergeant major you showed earlier, the chaplain, the battalion commander in his unit, multiple public records that Tim Waltz misrepresented his service about the rank at which he retired.
00:29:21.000Or about his service in Afghanistan versus Europe, or about when he knew that his unit was going to be deploying to Iraq and when he submitted his retirement papers.
00:29:30.000I think the American people deserve answers from Tim Walz about these statements characterizing his military service, but Tim Walz is apparently Thinks that he can skate by without answering any questions, just like Kamala Harris does.
00:29:42.000And you know, for that matter, while we're on the questions that Tim Walsh should be answering, he needs to answer for his very strange and longstanding relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:29:52.000Talk about that a little bit, because I mean, it seems like this guy, this guy's links to the CCP make Joe Biden's actually look kind of minor by any other standard.
00:30:03.000And frankly, those were ridiculous already, considering the circumstances.
00:30:09.000I think Tim Wallace has taken around 30 trips to China.
00:30:13.000Almost all of those have been sponsored and funded in part or in whole by the Chinese government, which is to say the Chinese Communist Party.
00:30:23.000In some cases, he was taking students there, no doubt to be exposed to communist propaganda and indoctrinated.
00:30:30.000He apparently honeymooned in China and even got married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
00:30:37.000In 1989, in Congress, he had a consistently soft record on China as well, downplaying the threat that China posed to this country.
00:30:46.000And I can just tell you, as a member of the Intelligence Committee who has studied the Chinese Communist and their practices in trying to infiltrate American society and American government, this is a classic example of long-term cultivation that the Chinese Communists do.
00:31:02.000They start early, They start with young politicians or young civic leaders and teachers.
00:31:08.000They cultivate them over years or decades, at a minimum, to generate sympathetic voices in American society who might be advocating on behalf of the Chinese to their local congressman or their senator.
00:31:21.000But when their chip really comes in, those people might become, like, say, Eric Swalwell, a congressman, or Tim Walz, a congressman and a governor and now vice presidential nominee.
00:31:31.000So, because this is such a common pattern in practice by the Chinese Communist Party to cultivate American leaders for the long term, Tim Walz really owes the American people answers for this relationship that he had going back decades, financially back to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:31:47.000For that matter, Kamala Harris owes the American people answers as well on this question.
00:31:52.000Yeah, I mean, did they even vet him, or do they just not care?
00:31:55.000Because it seems like those connections, you know, are sort of obvious.
00:31:59.000It took, you know, guys like me, you know, about two minutes to figure that this is a connection that would probably, you know, set up a lot of red flags for the American public, and yet it doesn't seem to matter for Democrats.
00:32:10.000Are they just all in on it at this point?
00:32:15.000Well, Donna, I think on most of these things, it's simply a blind spot for liberals in the Democratic Party like Kamala Harris and the people she had vetting these nominees.
00:32:23.000I mean, Tim Walz served in the military.
00:32:27.000They don't dig in deep to his actual statements.
00:32:30.000as a politician about his service record.
00:32:33.000They think it's a great thing to be going on so-called cultural exchanges or sensitivity and understanding tours of China with, in many cases, their fellow communists.
00:33:12.000I mean, I'm sitting here, I'm talking with the United States Senator.
00:33:15.000I literally can't even believe we're having this conversation, right?
00:33:19.000It should be scary, but obviously, I know it's something you care a lot about, but talk in further detail how the CCP has done Those things how they're how they do try to latch on to those young, you know Americans I mean, I think you can see it in a lot of things.
00:33:34.000There's clearly They're running a lot of not just the fentanyl issue that they're clearly doing nothing about and probably encouraging But it seems like they run a lot of sort of psyops into the United States, you know through media through their funding of various programs what are the other things Americans have to understand about what the Chinese Communist Party is actually doing in America to manipulate things into their favor and Don, for decades, the Chinese communists have tried to infiltrate American society and government and influence American opinion about China.
00:34:06.000Look at the so-called Confucius Institutes at college campuses, which your dad cracked down on when he was in office.
00:34:12.000Again, nothing more than influence operations using college students, college professors, to try to cultivate pro-Chinese communist sentiments in America.
00:34:24.000When was the last time you saw a Hollywood movie with a Chinese villain?
00:34:28.000I bet you can't name it because... Yeah, because they won't let you go into China if you have it, so... And this goes back to the mid-1990s, for instance, with Seven Years in Tibet and Brad King and the blowback that the movie studios got from that and that the actors in that movie got.
00:34:43.000And ever since then, China didn't have to object to Hollywood studios making movies with Chinese villains or that portrayed the Tibetans, for instance, in a friendly light, because every movie studio and every A-list actor knew not to make such movies, not to star in such movies.
00:35:00.000Consider what happened with Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets.
00:35:20.000China came down like a ton of bricks on the NBA and the Houston Rockets.
00:35:23.000They cut off access to their games in China, which is one of their biggest overseas markets.
00:35:27.000Surprise, surprise, within just a few weeks, Daryl Morey was out of a job.
00:35:31.000You had the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, who is a Chinese communist sympathizer, objecting that that should have never happened.
00:35:37.000Steve Kerr and LeBron James, who benefit greatly from their financial ties with China, saying that, well, there's free speech, but you have to be responsible with your speech, especially if it hits you in your pocketbook, I guess.
00:35:50.000Again, and Chinese communists are cultivating at every level local leaders, too, to become Chinese communist mouthpieces and maybe ultimately leaders.
00:35:58.000This has happened in Arkansas, I can tell you, is that politicians who are in one way or the other trying to win favor with China, trying to recruit investment into Arkansas that want me or other of our elected leaders in Congress to go soft on China.
00:36:12.000Now, that stopped a long time ago with me because I think they knew that they were barking up the wrong tree.
00:36:15.000After all, I got sanctioned by China years ago.
00:36:19.000I mean, you know, I guess under the Harris-Biden, we've also seen a record for the most embassy evacuations of any administration in our history.
00:36:34.000What message does that send to the rest of the world?
00:36:37.000I think you believe obviously with us that, you know, a strong America is good for the rest of the world, but that feels like we're just exuding weakness.
00:36:47.000Yeah, I mean, for three-plus years now, thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Uncle Sam's had a kick-me sign on our back.
00:36:55.000It started most notoriously with the failed evacuation out of Afghanistan, which would have never happened under President Trump.
00:37:01.000You have all these embassy closures and a refusal to stand up For Americans.
00:37:08.000I mean, just consider that last week there were a couple more attacks on our troops in Iraq, and there's been no response.
00:37:14.000There have been dozens and dozens of such attacks around the world on American forces, and you can probably count the number of responses on a single hand, maybe both hands.
00:37:26.000Again, that wasn't the case with Donald Trump.
00:37:27.000You saw for four years what happened when America has strength and confidence, when we stand alongside our allies, and we're willing to apply the discriminant use of military force.
00:37:39.000President Trump had to bomb Syria twice.
00:37:41.000He had to kill Qasem Soleimani in Iran.
00:37:47.000You didn't get an invasion of a country and trying to occupy it and turning into a western democracy like the Netherlands or Denmark.
00:37:54.000You got peace and stability because people like the Ayatollahs in Iran got the picture that America would defend our interests and our people.
00:38:03.000With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they think they can get away literally with murder.
00:38:08.000So I guess with respect to sort of our biggest adversaries, whether it's China or Iran, what are the differences in policy and approach between Trump and the Harris-Biden administration, and specifically as it relates to, say, Taiwan and the so-called reunification?
00:38:28.000Well, with Iran, I mean, I think that's the simplest example since both of them face the same set of leaders and similar circumstances.
00:38:36.000Again, President Trump, after a series of attacks on Americans in 2019, struck back.
00:38:59.000He tweeted out some friendly health advice to the Ayatollahs, that if a single hair on an American head was harmed, then they were going to have hell to pay.
00:39:20.000They keep targeting our friends in places like Israel.
00:39:23.000Now, on China, what you've seen is Joe Biden trying not to reverse and name Donald Trump's policies because he knows that those are popular across a broad, bipartisan spectrum of Americans.
00:39:35.000But in practice, they've done everything they can to reverse those policies, not enforcing sanctions seriously, not updating those sanctions, not cracking down on nations that are transshipping.
00:39:45.000Chinese steel or solar panels or other products that are being dumped in America and killing American jobs, and most notably, again, with Taiwan.
00:39:53.000I mean, four times Joe Biden has said we would defend Taiwan if China attacked it, only to have it walked back by anonymous White House aides.
00:40:01.000President Trump made it clear from the very beginning that people like Xi Jinping and the Ayatollahs and Kim Jong-un should not take any kind of aggressive action.
00:40:21.000We had peace and stability around the world.
00:40:24.000So I guess another point you mentioned, Israel, in that, you know, when pro-Hamas demonstrators interrupted Kamala, she had to speak from a script and really appease them.
00:40:35.000What does that say to anyone watching right now exactly what her policies are going to be?
00:40:40.000Again, I think we understand that, you know, she'll say and do anything it can to get elected, but that's sort of scary stuff, especially given the insanity of what we've seen there.
00:40:53.000I'd point out two different contrasts.
00:40:54.000The first time she got interrupted last week by pro-Hamas radicals, she didn't have a script, and she shot them the evil eye, and she said that they had had their time to speak, and if they wanted to keep speaking, they were only helping Donald Trump get elected.
00:41:25.000Then a couple days later, I guess the high command of her campaign had said, you know, that's too provocative, that's too aggressive towards an important element of our party, the pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic wing of our party, whose votes we need.
00:41:37.000So they literally, as you pointed out, had a script for her written, sitting on a piece of paper on her podium.
00:41:43.000So when she was interrupted from giving her planned speech on a teleprompter, She could look down and start reading it.
00:42:03.000Which is, in effect, given conditions in Gaza, the pro-Hamas position.
00:42:07.000I can tell you that if you think Joe Biden has been weak over these last three and a half years, Kamala Harris would be much weaker and more dangerous as the commander-in-chief.
00:42:16.000Well, I mean, it seems to me to be pretty clear that, you know, she didn't go with Shapiro of Pennsylvania simply because he's Jewish, and that would just ostracize sort of the Hamas wing of her party and or voter base, but that should be scary, I think, to a lot of Americans.
00:42:34.000Anybody that cares about Israel, anybody cares about the strength and the safety of America and Americans around the world.
00:42:42.000Look, by the end of this campaign or by the end of the vetting process, it was clear that Josh Shapiro and Tim Walz and Mark Kelly did not really have much difference on their views about Israel.
00:42:54.000But you had those pro-Hamas elements in their party who had run a targeted campaign of dumping opposition research on Josh Shapiro about articles he'd written in college in defense of Israel,
00:43:06.000or condemning Yasser Arafat's terrorism, or his study abroad program in Israel,
00:43:12.000the only real difference between Josh Shapiro and Tim Walz is that Josh Shapiro is an observant Jew
00:43:18.000who is raising his family and his kids to be observant and send them to Jewish day schools.
00:43:24.000Of course, there is one other big difference.
00:43:26.000John Shapiro is the popular governor of probably the most important swing state.
00:43:34.000Because she, I won't say that she caved in to the radical left of her party because she belongs to the radical left.
00:43:39.000I'll simply say that she catered to them.
00:43:41.000Yeah, I get, yeah, I think that's right.
00:43:43.000What do you think, what's the next country, Senator Cotton, or part of the world that we should be keeping our eye on as a possible hot zones?
00:43:52.000You know, are there other growing conflicts that are happening sort of under the radar that we should be prepared for because it's not clear who's actually at the helm of, you know, America right now?
00:44:04.000Well, I do think the most immediate risk of a broader war is in the Middle East.
00:44:07.000I mean, as far as we know, Iran and Hezbollah could be getting ready to strike Israel tonight.
00:44:13.000Because again, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have said now for two weeks after Israel concluded what was a very, very successful, almost miraculous effort at targeting Terrorist leaders throughout the region that Iran should not do this, but also Israel should tone it down.
00:44:31.000That's not what President Trump would have said.
00:44:33.000He would have said what he did repeatedly, which is he stands with Israel, and if Iran strikes Israel, we'll strike back with Israel three times as hard.
00:44:43.000Now, beyond that immediate threat, of course, the Most dangerous and hottest potential flashpoint in the world is in the Western Pacific with Taiwan, which, as Douglas MacArthur said, it would be a disaster of the utmost significance if that island ever fell into the hands of a power hostile to the United States.
00:45:02.000I do think, though, we shouldn't neglect our southern border and the threat we face there, a threat from drug cartels who are running fentanyl in the country and gang members, and also the number of foreign terrorists that are simply coming into Mexico and walking olly olly oxen free across our border.
00:45:19.000Our border was secure, just like the world was stable and peaceful under President Trump.
00:45:23.000It is an extremely dangerous place right now because of Joe Biden and his borders or Kamala Harris.
00:45:30.000Senator Cotton, for those who don't know, talk a little bit about just Taiwan because you know people like, oh, well,
00:45:35.000you know It's just an island off. I mean whether it's semiconductors,
00:45:38.000microchips, you know, everything else that's there if China got a control of that
00:45:43.000What risk does it pose to the United States that you know, because it seems like that would be really significant
00:45:49.000It's greatly overlooked and I imagine, you know, China's probably always had a timeline for when they wanted to go
00:45:55.000do that But I think watching this administration and a future Harris administration has rapidly accelerated whatever their timeline was for trying to take back Taiwan.
00:46:27.000Most immediately, as you point out, Taiwan produces the world's most advanced microchips and in volume produces some of the largest volumes of microchips.
00:46:37.000And if you tried to buy a pickup truck two or three years ago, you remember the long delays you had in part because of supply chain challenges, With semiconductors, if China went for the jugular in Taiwan, no matter what happened, you would have an immediate global recession, maybe a global depression, because at a minimum, those factories would be pulled offline for probably months.
00:46:59.000Likely they'd be destroyed and China doesn't have the ability to reconstitute them.
00:47:03.000But maybe worst of all, if China succeeded.
00:47:07.000and occupied Taiwan and those factories were still producing those microchips, then they could hold it over the United States and essentially blackmail us the way they have tried to do with other countries and other goods, the way they threatened to do with medical supplies and medicines during the coronavirus.
00:47:23.000Second, Taiwan's geography makes it unique.
00:47:26.000To go back to Douglas MacArthur again, at the outset of the Korean War, he called it the unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender.
00:47:33.000Because it is strategically located between Japan and Philippines, two American treaty allies, because it's what another admiral called the cork in the bottle of the South China Sea through which almost half of global trade flows, control of that island by China would allow it to threaten American prosperity and safety and our allies in a way that it simply cannot do Well, Taiwan is not under Chinese communist control.
00:47:59.000What President Trump did, which is what other presidents had done since we switched our diplomatic recognition to mainland China in the 1970s, is maintain the peaceful status quo.
00:48:09.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have threatened that.
00:48:12.000And they will continue to threaten it if she wins this November.
00:48:15.000So it's really hard to overstate just how important Taiwan is to America's security, to America's prosperity, and how ill-equipped Kamala Harris is to protect that.
00:48:27.000So a breaking story tonight from RealClearPolitics that a Secret Service special agent partially responsible for developing the plan to secure the rally where my father was nearly assassinated is now under internal agency investigation for, quote, posting videos and photos from her protective assignments to social media, according to several sources within the Secret Service community.
00:48:51.000I mean, Senator Cotton, where do we go from here?
00:48:54.000It feels like, you know, again, maybe I take this one a little bit more personally than most because it's my father, but, uh, man, it's, it's almost impossible to not, uh, talk about the insanity of everything we've seen and, you know, then also how quickly that disappeared from the news.
00:49:13.000What are your thoughts on all of this?
00:49:16.000Well, you should take it personally because it's your father.
00:49:18.000And, you know, we've talked about this before.
00:49:20.000I want to join what you've said and what your dad has said in recognizing the bravery and the skill of those officers who are around him in Butler who have been protecting your family as well over the years.
00:49:32.000They deserve much better leadership within the Secret Service.
00:49:34.000I think that's very clear at this point.
00:49:37.000One of the first things that President Trump should do once he takes office again Is to look for a a new dynamic outside leader who can come into the Secret Service and provide it with the leadership and cultural change that has been pretty clear that it's needed for some time.
00:49:54.000I can tell you as someone who sits on the committees of oversight in the Senate who's had a hearing with the acting director of the Secret Service since the director finally resigned as he should have on day one.
00:50:05.000There's still a lot more questions than there are answers and the American people deserve those answers and of course.
00:50:11.000President Trump and his family and his campaign team deserve those answers as well, because we came within a fraction of an inch of a terrible tragedy, not just for your family, but for our country, whatever your political beliefs are.
00:50:24.000Any candidate for president should be able to go out, campaign, outdoors, around large crowds, and be protected by our Secret Service.
00:50:32.000That's what those agents on the ground were doing.
00:50:34.000That's what they deserve, leaders, to create the right kind of culture and conditions to allow them to do.
00:51:47.000Highly decorated Purple Heart recipients who I think are going to win those Senate seats.
00:51:51.000So if your audience wants to get off in addition to the presidential campaign, Look at some of these Senate candidates we have around the country, like Tim in Montana or Sam Brown in Nevada, Bernie Marino in Ohio, Carrie Lake in Arizona, Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania, Eric Hubdee in Wisconsin.
00:52:11.000It is vital that we not just elect President Trump again, but that we give him a sizable Republican majority that can confirm his nominees and pass his agenda through the U.S.
00:52:25.000Again, the presidential race obviously is the biggest race of all, but President Trump really does need a workable governing majority in both the House and the Senate, and he knows that as well.
00:52:34.000That's why you saw him, for instance, last week in Bozeman with Tim Sheehy.
00:52:39.000It's really important that we win these Senate races.
00:52:42.000Having worked with a lot of these candidates, given them advice behind the scenes, you know, on phone calls and text messages about how to deal with all the lying, dishonest Democratic attacks, I'm looking forward Now that the kids are almost back in school, to getting out on the campaign trail with them and being in places like Ohio with Bernie Marino and Montana with Tim Sheehy.
00:53:00.000One thing I tell everyone is like, you know, we got to worry all the way down to dog catcher.
00:53:04.000We got to get everyone there, take back our school boards.
00:53:06.000I, you know, there's a part of me having, having been through this, and I think you saw some of this, you know, with my 50 hours of congressional testimony.
00:53:13.000You know, I don't want to win the presidency if you lose the House and you lose the Senate and you have Four years of just, you know, you know, whatever the next Russia, Russia, Russia will be.
00:53:22.000They'll probably just bring that back up and pretend like it's real again.
00:53:26.000So yeah, we have to win these things across the board.
00:53:28.000I think that's really critical that people, you know, get vested, you know, across the board in all of these races.
00:54:10.000They will fund it greatly, and it'll be incredibly damaging to society.
00:54:13.000But, Senator, a question I always ask, you know, if it's 12.01 p.m.
00:54:18.000Eastern on Inauguration Day in January, what would your minute number one priorities be?
00:54:27.000I think you have to focus on that day the things that President Trump can do on day one.
00:54:31.000Obviously, for instance, there's going to be a major tax bill that's going to pass next year because a lot of the provisions of President Trump's very successful 2017 tax bill will expire next year, but that'll take some number of weeks or even months.
00:54:44.000But on day one, President Trump can implement a lot of the policies that Joe Biden reversed on his day one that have endangered the country so badly.
00:54:52.000Just consider what's happening at our border.
00:54:54.000He can, for instance, reverse President Biden's asylum policies, re-implement the Remain in Mexico policy.
00:55:00.000He can, in the meantime, before the inauguration, make it clear to foreign leaders that we expect them to take back their illegals that are their nationals.
00:55:09.000Otherwise, there are going to be severe consequences to pay.
00:55:11.000So there are a lot of things that President Trump can literally do on day one when he walks off the podium and into the Capitol.
00:55:17.000to sign a lot of the documents necessary to formalize his inauguration and his nominees to the Senate that will begin to make a difference on day one for the American people.
00:55:28.000Well, Senator Cotton, thank you so much.
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00:57:11.000It's about stacking that algorithm to make sure that other people can see the messaging,
00:59:08.000Uh, it's how they're able to hide this thing and, uh, get it out there.
00:59:12.000Dal76, can you address the comments about Raskin about planning 14th Amendment with Trump on January 6th, insurrection, even though there was never charged with the same?
00:59:20.000Uh, sorry if you've already addressed.
00:59:22.000I didn't address it as specifically as it relates to the 14th Amendment, but that's the Democrat policy.
00:59:26.000You know, they, they're not sure if they'll let Trump become president even if he wins and This is what we're up against.
01:00:16.000But I think what we got to do is we just got to talk policies.
01:00:18.000If we put out our policies versus their policies, not the policies that they steal that are ours, that are contrary to everything they've put up there, everything that they've done, everything that they've said, they're going to do that.
01:00:41.000I mean, she's the vice president of this administration, and candidly, we don't think Joe Biden's actually in charge, so theoretically, she's the most powerful person in government.
01:03:31.000Whether it's war, whether it's inflation, whether it's the economy, whether it's fentanyl, whether it's our border, there's not a place that we're better off.
01:04:58.000Obviously, it seems like the media is going to try to leak all of that stuff, so brings up a whole different question of, you know, can the media leak things hacked by foreign governments and then given to them?
01:05:07.000I imagine if this was the Biden administration, you'd say no, and they wouldn't do it.
01:05:48.000It seems very contrary to everything that Kamala Harris is out there saying, but she's saying these things because the media will run with it.
01:05:54.000She's saying these things because no one's, you know, holding them accountable.
01:07:06.000And I think there's probably a lot of truth to that.
01:07:10.000Because by the time it's manipulated by the media, by the time they focus only on that and not the real things behind it, people who are not paying as much attention, I could see them getting just simply distracted and or turned off by that.
01:07:23.000So I think You know, that's something that matters.
01:07:27.000I don't think you're wrong, actually, in this case.
01:07:30.000I think, you know, in 16 it's different.
01:08:19.000I find it amusing, but I think with 86 days, the way some of this is shaping up, the way the media is so flagrantly just, like, doing something I've never actually seen before, you know, listen, I think, I think there's, it's something we can do.
01:09:14.000I don't, you know, again, a lot of these things are sort of picked up.
01:09:17.000Hey, you see the data, you make a move, you make a plan, you don't necessarily plan them, you know, a month in advance, because frankly, you just don't know where things are gonna be.
01:09:58.000I'm just saying, hey, the better we do, the more likes we have, the more people like the stuff, the more other people will likely see it, the more it gets prioritized by Rumble and others.
01:10:09.000So, you know, that's what we got to do.
01:10:26.000She'll have to just be able to say whatever she wants, and she won't get fact-checked, and people will believe it, and there'll be no fact, you know.
01:10:51.000I think J.D.' 's been able to actually do a little bit of that both, right?
01:10:54.000He trolled, he can walk up to the Kamala Harris plane, ask the press there, you know, hey, you guys look lonely, you've been bored, you haven't been able to ask any questions, so we'll take, you know, we'll take some time for you.
01:13:53.000I think they're doing some stuff, but yes, the problem is oftentimes leadership over there is very skewed leftist, even if the average sort of Hispanic family is not.
01:14:01.000And so they do a lot of the fear mongering there.
01:14:04.000Sometimes they probably won't even accept our ads, but we definitely have to break out because I think that's a demographic that's really breaking our way right now and is a big deal.
01:14:14.000I think with that guys, uh, I'm gonna go home because I gotta go grab some stuff and eat before the Tucker interview.
01:14:21.000I'm gonna go, uh, or sorry, the Elon interview.
01:14:24.000I'll be probably commenting on that live, uh, just from my Twitter feed.