Sept. 4, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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Joining us now is NBC's Ken Delaney. | |
| of actions to target what they allege are attempts by Russian-backed actors to manipulate | ||
| public opinion here in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election, according to two senior | ||
| U.S. officials. | ||
| Joining us now is NBC's Ken Delaney. | ||
| And, Ken, what more have we learned? | ||
| Jose, this is being described by our sources as a whole-of-government action designed to | ||
| target Russian propaganda and disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2024 election. | ||
| It is said to include sanctions by the Treasury Department, law enforcement action by the Justice Department, and one of the focuses is on RT. | ||
| Formerly known as Russia Today, that network of Russian government-funded English-language websites and television platforms that was flagged all the way back in 2017 by the U.S. | ||
| intelligence community as a vehicle for Russian disinformation and election interference. | ||
| And at that time, the Justice Department required RT to register as a foreign agent. | ||
| It remains to be seen exactly what actions the U.S. | ||
| will take against RT today, but this does appear to represent and escalation in the efforts to try to purge the system of | ||
| Russian propaganda and disinformation. | ||
| What's interesting is that, look, the U.S. has been saying all along that not only Russia, | ||
| but Iran and China, but particularly Russia, has been consistently trying to manipulate | ||
| American public opinion with disinformation on social media platforms, use of fake accounts, | ||
| and through RT, through its state-sponsored platforms, as they did in 2016. | ||
| And the difference now is that there are mechanisms in place, particularly on social media platforms, | ||
| to try to stop. | ||
| and flag fake accounts before the influence operations spread too widely. | ||
| So it remains to be seen what impact this Russian disinformation is having. | ||
| But nonetheless, this is a stance by the Biden administration to say, if you're violating | ||
| U.S. laws and policies, we're going to come after you. | ||
| And Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to chair a meeting of the government's election | ||
| task force today, this afternoon, with FBI Director Chris Wray and other officials. | ||
| And he may have public comments to make about this effort at that time, Jose. | ||
| And so, Ken, this is again just breaking as we speak, but the DOJ targeting... | ||
| Welcome to the War Room. | ||
| It's Wednesday, September 4th in the year of our Lord 2024. | ||
| Natalie Winters, I'm back. | ||
| I feel like I've been gone for a few days. | ||
| I guess I step out and we see the Russia hoax is already being revived. | ||
| Absolutely insane. | ||
| We're going to have Dr. Darren J. Beattie joining us shortly to break all of that down. | ||
| But hey, if the FBI is now looking for foreign assets or foreign influence operations, I think they should Look no further than the Kamala Harris campaign. | ||
| I'd start with Tim Walz, who's deeply in bed with the Chinese Communist Party, but we know that's not the sort of foreign influence or interference they're actually looking for because that's actually substantive and well-documented. | ||
| They want to chase random rabbit holes where they always end up with the conclusion of going after MAGA and people who actually spread truth on these social media platforms that they love to say we're what? | ||
| I think it was the New York Times that said we're the number one spreader of misinformation. | ||
| Well, I wear that as a badge of honor, and I would say we're going to keep spreading Russian disinformation, at least the way you guys like to use that phrase here on this show. | ||
| We will not be deterred. | ||
| Got another story that we're going to get to later in the show having to do with, that's right, the Ukrainian national anthem being embedded in election software, not in Ukraine, not in Russia, but here in the United States. | ||
| The very same people who are telling us not only that our elections are secure, but that the biggest threat we need to face is some random Russian hackers and some Russian bots because Americans are apparently so dumb that if you read an article from RT, you're all of a sudden going to change every ideology and viewpoint. | ||
| You hold, because Russia bad, Russia bad, Russia bad. | ||
| Yeah, we didn't fall for it in 2016, we're not gonna fall for it now. | ||
| Now, I am sure, I don't wanna get ahead of myself, but I think that Darren probably shares my same viewpoint, but Darren, I'd love to get your thoughts on sort of the re-upping of this narrative. | ||
| They're choosing to single out Russia, they didn't go with Iran, they didn't go with China. | ||
| Why Russia? | ||
| Why now? | ||
| What does the audience need to know? | ||
| Well, great to be back with you, Natalie. | ||
| And yes, this is an important and ever-evolving saga. | ||
| I mean, if we really wanted to start at the beginning, we'd have to say how basically this subset of the national security community, this subset of the deep state, called the Atlanticists or whatever. | ||
| They're concerned geopolitically about the Atlantic as opposed to the Pacific. | ||
| They're obsessed with Ukraine. | ||
| They're obsessed with the geopolitics of energy. | ||
| They're obsessed with things like the Nord Stream pipeline, which magically blew up much in their favor. | ||
| This is their orientation. | ||
| And it just so happens that this Atlanticist subset of the national security state, was also deeply concerned with the rise of populism, because populism pose a variety of threats to the Atlanticists and their geopolitical order. | ||
| The Atlanticists also had a preferred methodology for dealing with political leaders that they don't like called the color revolution methodology. | ||
| And so you have this specific group, and you have, turning back the clock, the twin events of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. | ||
| And basically, you have this group saying, Why don't we use the same exact tactics against Trump to undermine Trump and his supporters that we would use in an Eastern European country whose recently elected leader we want to subvert or depose? | ||
| Hence, the color revolution directed inward. | ||
| Hence, killing two birds with one stone, geopolitically demonizing Russia by amplifying it, but also Irrigating the imprimatur of national security by saying that Trump came into office on the basis of Russian collaboration. | ||
| There, it's no longer just the ordinary course of political combat. | ||
| Trump and his supporters are no longer just people you disagree with. | ||
| Not even, no longer just racists who are morally wrong. | ||
| They become national security threats. | ||
| So by combining the Trump issue with the Russia issue, it was two birds with one stone. | ||
| And that was really the original framework that the regime used in order to reorient and weaponize the national security state domestically against Trump supporters. | ||
| So that's sort of one framework here that I think is relevant. | ||
| Another framework, though, is as this process has played out, I mean, the premise here is always questionable. | ||
| They're constantly talking about democracy. | ||
| And yet, you kind of alluded to it in your monologue there when you said, is it really the case that if Americans read RT or some other outlet that Americans are so stupid that to read RT or some foreign outlet that's going to somehow subvert the democratic process? | ||
| I mean, maybe that's the case. | ||
| But if that's the case, we're screwed anyway, because there's no way the democratic process could work domestically either. | ||
| If Americans are so broken in terms of their deliberative functioning, that they can be misled and manipulated by foreign propaganda, the same thing applies to domestic propaganda. | ||
| And the whole premise that people are able to make their own political decisions based on weighing and sifting through information is proven to be false. | ||
| And therefore, we need to rethink democracy as such. | ||
| So maybe that's the case, but it's certainly not Russia's fault or any other foreign adversary. | ||
| So I think it's interesting how these types of attacks implicitly question the very premise of democracy, even though democracy is the number one word that these types like to use in order to advance their agenda. | ||
| So that's a second point. | ||
| And I think there's a third point here that's also relevant, which is Notwithstanding all of this talk about Russia, talk about China, this or that, at the end of the day, the only game in town, the only game that matters, is the game in America. | ||
| I've propounded this thesis in a variety of contexts The wokeness comes from America. | ||
| The political poison comes from America. | ||
| If anything, other nations should be very concerned about American influence on their countries because all of a sudden, where the US flag goes up, there you have the rainbow flag and the drag queen shows are not far behind. | ||
| But All of these attempts, and in some cases they're true, but the fundamental truth is that the poison comes from home. | ||
| The game that matters is here in America. | ||
| The bad guys are American, and the good guys are American, and foreigners are just a footnote. | ||
| Because let me tell you something else, and I don't mean to give offense to anybody, but foreigners actually really suck at propaganda. | ||
| They are not good at propaganda. | ||
| If you see, if you look at Russian propaganda, let alone Chinese propaganda, which is a complete... It's horrible! | ||
| It's someone who's read way too much Chinese state media. | ||
| It's absolutely, but I think there's an important point to make that, and I know Mike Benz makes | ||
| this point a lot, that the distinction, this idea that America has a foreign policy and | ||
| a domestic policy isn't really true. | ||
| Our foreign policy, I would argue, is really just more of an extension of the domestic | ||
| policy we have here, whether it's in terms of censorship or projecting these pro-democratic | ||
| values at home. | ||
| I want to link this story to something bigger that I was discussing last week, but haven't | ||
| been back on air since, at least in a few days, and that is Norm Eisen, who is a name | ||
| that people who follow Revolver News know very well, but he, in addition to Obama's | ||
| former campaign manager, as well as high-level staffers to the Harris campaign, they're being | ||
| pulled off, they're being whipped out of retirement to create this thing called, of course, the | ||
| Democracy Defenders PAC, and they're going to be spending millions of dollars in up-and-down | ||
| ballot races, not to even promote candidates, but to go after election lawfare, right? | ||
| To challenge what they say is going to be this massive Republican effort to strip everyone and their mother of their right to vote. | ||
| So can you sort of link the resurgence of Norm Eisen, who, by the way, it seems like every day he's writing a new op-ed, most recently calling for those Georgia election workers to be stripped of their position on that election board, the ones who pushed those election laws, saying just the most absolutely ridiculous thing, saying the Supreme Court's gonna, you know, come in at the 11th hour and save President Trump. | ||
| His resurgence, who he is, and how this dovetailing with the Russia narrative, it's not looking good in terms of how they are stepping up their efforts to rig this election. | ||
| And I use that word intentionally. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| First, a quick point about what you said about foreign policy. | ||
| That's absolutely true. | ||
| And it's an extension of what I was saying is we don't have a foreign policy per se. | ||
| All of our foreign policy is simply just a manifestation, a proxy for domestic disputes. | ||
| And the Trump-Russia thing, I think, recapitulates that well. | ||
| To a certain extent, even the Israel question recapitulates that. | ||
| Our domestic political concerns completely overwhelm what one might objectively think would be our geopolitical interests. | ||
| One quick example of that, Brazil. | ||
| Bolsonaro was Anti China compared to Lula geopolitically, that would have been the way to go. | ||
| If anything, if our deep state were acting in America's geopolitical interests, they would have Help Bolsonaro win. | ||
| But the cultural affinity between the Bolsonaro movement and the Trump movement was so much more important that our national security apparatus, which normally is hostile to China, was willing to accept the relatively pro-China person because the affinity with the Trump movement was considered to be the larger threat. | ||
| So, as to this Norm Eisen figure, we called him out years ago. | ||
| There was a famous segment with me and Tucker Carlson talking about Norm Eisen, who was basically the chief legal hatchet man. | ||
| He is the lawfare czar extraordinaire responsible for basically every operation against Trump that you can imagine. | ||
| He is a color revolution professional, incidentally. | ||
| He wrote a book On how to effectuate color revolutions. | ||
| He's applied pretty much every single tactic he's recommended in that book against Trump, including these lawfare tactics. | ||
| He also has his fingerprints all over the January 6 operation. | ||
| In fact, his legal partner is the one who originally wrote the brief that became the basis for Benny Johnson's lawsuit against Trump, which became the basis for subsequent Indictments and the whole January 6th committee report. | ||
| So Norm Eisen is involved in everything. | ||
| He's never taken a hiatus. | ||
| And so it doesn't surprise me at all to see that he's redoubling his efforts now in order to really lean on this ridiculous censorship pretext, pointing fingers at Russia and some alleged collusion or affinity, which has been disproven time and time again. | ||
| I wonder if these people ever get tired of having to say Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. | ||
| I think apparently not evidenced by today. | ||
| True, very true. | ||
| We can hold you through the break. | ||
| I got some more questions I want to ask you. | ||
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| We'll be right back. | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room where I think we warned you about two weeks ago that they | ||
| were going to re-up this foreign election interference narrative because they know they | ||
| are taking a nose dive in the polls, the so-called Kamala momentum. | ||
| I think they're doing a disservice to the word momentum, as of course. | ||
| Petering out, so I guess Russia's back doing the bidding of the Trump campaign, even though, if I'm not mistaken, they came out a few days ago actually sort of indirectly endorsing the Harris campaign. | ||
| But I know nuance doesn't matter to our Atlanticist elites. | ||
| They're so used to lying, so I guess they don't even read their own rags. | ||
| But anyways, we still got Darren with us. | ||
| Darren, before we let you go, I know you came on the show a few weeks ago. | ||
| You talked about some sort of campaign strategies that you thought the Trump campaign should adopt. | ||
| The clip went viral, some good suggestions in there. | ||
| Seems like you took another one to heart, suggesting on the Lex Friedman podcast, I'll digress on Lex Friedman, but to discuss or rather to release the Epstein client list. | ||
| Can you walk us through sort of your piece and how we continue to see the ramifications of it today? | ||
| Yes, this might be a case in which the vaunted Lex algorithm will end up Changing the course of history for the better. | ||
| I never thought this would be the case. | ||
| But yes, Trump was on, like, Friedman, which is consistent with the strategy I've advocated of maximum exposure, one-on-one interviews. | ||
| And within the context of this interview, Trump did something that was also, I think, quite intelligent. | ||
| He said he would release the Epstein list, among other things, JFK files. | ||
| And these fall into the category of what I call low-cost, high-leverage There are a lot of people who are really passionate about | ||
| this, and there's nothing really to lose by pledging to do these things. | ||
| And you can capture a passionate segment of the electorate. | ||
| And so I think he should continue on with these types of promises. | ||
| The one thing he remains to do, he needs to talk more about the airports, needs to say, you get me back in the White House and you won't have to take your shoes off for the TSA. | ||
| And we're going to have an infrastructure overhaul. | ||
| And we're going to go to Congress and figure out what the hell Biden and Kamala did with the one point $2, $3 trillion spent on infrastructure, pledge to | ||
| infrastructure. | ||
| We still have crumbling bridges and roads. | ||
| In fact, Buttigieg, with billions and billions of dollars, managed to build like seven electric | ||
| charger stations. | ||
| Something ridiculous. | ||
| It's like the transportation equivalent of that famous exchange with the general in Congress. | ||
| They said, how many Sunni rebels did you end up training? | ||
| And he's like, well, maybe five. | ||
| It's exactly that kind of moment. | ||
| So there needs to be accountability there as well. | ||
| But I think Trump is doing a very good job with these interviews. | ||
| We need to see more of that. | ||
| And I hope the debate goes very well. | ||
| Darren, if people want to follow you, stay up to date with everything you're working on at Revolver, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| Revolver.news, Revolver.news. | ||
| If there's one lesson people should understand from all this Russia, Russia, Russia, this or that, this or that, America is the only game in town. | ||
| We've got the bad guys, we have the good guys, the foreigners are a footnote, and yes, sorry to say it guys, they suck at propaganda. | ||
| Foreigners suck at propaganda. | ||
| The only game in town is right here in the United States. | ||
| Darren, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| Now, War Room Posse. | ||
| Like I warned, I think, what was it, two, three weeks ago in the special edition of War Room that I did, ballot warfare. | ||
| I told you they were going to re-up this foreign election interference narrative, though at the time they were going down the Iran rabbit hole. | ||
| Now they seem to have pivoted back to what is comfortable, that is the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. | ||
| Make no mistake, whether it's Norm Eisen re-emerging, whether it's this foreign election interference popping up again, whether it's the continued vamping in CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, you name it, about how there are shortages in election offices of staffers because, you guessed it, MAGA is violent, MAGA is radical, MAGA is even racist, even sexist. | ||
| That's a new angle of attack that they're going with. | ||
| That there's no one who wants to work in elections anymore. | ||
| They've been intimidated. | ||
| They've been edged out. | ||
| They've been pushed out. | ||
| So naturally, you're seeing even more reporting that there's going to be delays in election results. | ||
| I'm sure they'll probably find shortages of paper ballots. | ||
| Oh, if you push for voter ID laws, it's also racist. | ||
| And if you don't attach the SAVE Act... | ||
| Or if you do, then it's also bad because apparently non-citizens, even though they're not a threat and not voting in this election, if we institute legislation that would prevent them from doing so, the entire left and democratic media apparatus is going to melt down. | ||
| But here's the best part. | ||
| While they sit there from their ivory tower and lecture us that we are radical anti-democracy activists for, I don't know, daring to support a few days, maybe a week or two longer extension in the certification of election results, and not just the most important election, In the history of this country, but of the, what, I think there's over 69 or so countries having elections in 2024, the most important election of all of those, we want to make sure we get it right. | ||
| So shout out to those patriots down in Georgia who are daring to stick their neck out. | ||
| Brian Kemp is offering them no cover. | ||
| He's come out and said, oh, actually, we don't support this law. | ||
| But in the same breath, That Democrats and their mainstream media lackeys, their henchmen, are saying that shows like this, who dare to actually defend election integrity, that we're crazy and that we're burning down this country? | ||
| Do you know what they're saying on MSNBC? | ||
| They're quite literally saying that we need to do away with the Constitution and that that is the number one threat plaguing American democracy right now. | ||
| Listen to what MSNBC had to say just last week. | ||
| Denver, if you can roll that clip. | ||
| The most consequential elections in American history. | ||
| The political divide is wide, with both sides of the aisle believing a win for their opponent could doom the country. | ||
| But the Dean of Berkeley Law School argues it's not just politics, but America's founding document, the Constitution, that needs a bit of an overhaul. | ||
| Joining us now is Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. | ||
| His new book is titled, No Democracy Lasts Forever, How the Constitution Threatens the United States. | ||
| Dean Chemerinsky, thanks for being with us this morning. | ||
| So, how in your view does the Constitution that this country was built on and has been for nearly 250 years is a threat actually to the country? | ||
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Choices that were made in adopting the Constitution have come to haunt us. | |
| The Electoral College increasingly is choosing the President who lost the popular vote. | ||
| Two Senators per state is undermining democracy. | ||
| In the last session of Congress, there were 50 Democratic Senators and 50 Republican Senators, but the 50 Democratic Senators represented 42 million people. | ||
| Life tenure for Supreme Court justices is increasingly problematic. | ||
| For much of American history, the tenure for Supreme Court justice was an average of 15 years. | ||
| Since 1970, it's been 27 years. | ||
| All of these are choices made in 1787, but they've become much more salient in recent years. | ||
| An overhaul of the United States Constitution that's coming from the same people who say that patriots down in Georgia who dare to extend the certification process when it comes to election results. | ||
| That those people are anti-democratic, that those people hate the United States, but it's okay to go on primetime MSNBC and say that we need to effectively put the Constitution through a paper shredder. | ||
| Now, we know that they've been wanting to do that forever, right? | ||
| That's not any major conspiracy, though I use that word intentionally. | ||
| But it's the timing that matters. | ||
| We know the media works in lies of omission. | ||
| And for them to be now upping their assault on the United States Constitution—we know they deal in projection—while simultaneously saying that we are burning democracy to the ground, we're using a torch and quite literally setting this country ablaze because we actually want to demand election integrity? | ||
| I mean, that is some next-level psychological warfare that they're waging on us, and to this point of timing. | ||
| Now, there was a very important article that they put up over the Labor Day weekend in Politico. | ||
| Now, I tweeted it out, but I haven't been back on air since, and I wanted to give it its due time, because it dovetails quite nicely with the story we see coming out of DOJ, of State Department today, about Russian election interference. | ||
| Now, this is not The War Room. | ||
| This is not Gateway Pundit. | ||
| This is not Real America's Voice. | ||
| This is Politico. | ||
| Hacking blind spot. | ||
| States struggle to vet coders of election software. | ||
| Let's read the tagline. | ||
| In New Hampshire, a cybersecurity firm found troubling security bugs in the Ukrainian national anthem written into a voter database built with the help of an overseas subcontractor. | ||
| Now, if I'm not mistaken, many of you guys in this audience, this show, people who've hosted this show, have not just been censored and blacklisted, but in some cases, thrown in prison. | ||
| For daring to say stuff like this, such as, our elections are not safe. | ||
| That is the same talking points that Democrats have used since 2016. | ||
| But now it's okay that the mainstream media says it. | ||
| So it's not actually that I'm leaning in or embracing their narrative. | ||
| The question is, why now? | ||
| And when you see that story come out, in conjunction with, just now, the Biden regime saying that Russia is coming to hack our election results. | ||
| Not only does that of course prove that they're in collusion, but it makes you wonder what they have planned for election day. | ||
| And if you read this story, I'll paraphrase it, but this is the quote, Politico found | ||
| during a six-month long investigation there is little oversight of the supply chain that | ||
| produces crucial election software. | ||
| Hackers could manipulate a state's voter list, adding fictitious people to the rolls, changing | ||
| real voters' information, or directing voters to the wrong polling places on election day. | ||
| That might have only a modest or indirect result on the vote. | ||
| Now, don't mind me, Politico, if I don't really take you at your word, because I'm pretty sure you were the same news outlet that hyped the words of those 51 intel officers that told me that Hunter Biden's hard drive was Russian disinformation. | ||
| So when you guys sit back and tell me not to get upset or concerned about the fact that the Ukrainian national anthem, as well as overseas subcontractors using open source code, are backing our election software. | ||
| I don't think I'm going to take your word for it that they're not going to be able to manipulate the results of our election. | ||
| And the best part of this piece, they don't really even focus on what I would argue, not just the Barry lead, but the blazing lead should be, which is that foreign nationals are hacking our election software. | ||
| And I can tell you, the dude who put the Ukraine national anthem in there, he didn't just stop at that. | ||
| These people know what a Trump victory means for Ukraine. | ||
| But these very same people, the whole article, the number one point they make is, we don't want to give any fodder to conspiracy theorists. | ||
| Oh, nothing's going to happen. | ||
| It's not actually going to impact the results of the election. | ||
| Well, I call misinformation on that politico, and I use that word in its truest and most definitional sense, because that's absolute BS. | ||
| And the fact that you're seeing this story compounding with this Russian foreign election interference narrative, they're back to their same playbook, their same tricks. | ||
| And if we learned anything from 2020 that does not bode well, we need to get very serious about the threat we're up against. | ||
| We'll be back after this break. | ||
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| Apparently that's the new number one national security threat in this country. | ||
| It's all our elites seem to care about. | ||
| Mike Benz, you join us now. | ||
| I briefly mentioned your name when I was talking to Darren, but I would love to just sort of get, not to sound narcissistic, but your thoughts on everything I was just ranting on about. | ||
| But sort of the re-upped efforts on the Constitution, the Russian disinformation narrative resurging, With all of these narratives converging, like I ended last block, I don't think it bodes well for the election. | ||
| What are your thoughts? | ||
| Well, starting with the amending the Constitution push that we're seeing in the New York Times, in Politico, from the deans of law school, I think it's very important for people to keep in mind when they see this, that this is all the Transition Integrity Project blueprint from 2020 being re-upped now in case they need it. | ||
| for 2024. So in 2020, there was this group called the Transition Integrity Project, headed by Rosa | ||
| Brooks, who was a senior White House official for the Obama administration with the CIA blue badge, | ||
| who ran this, her and her group, the Transition Integrity Project, ran this tabletop simulation | ||
| for how to stop a Trump coup was nominally what they did. | ||
| They basically said, listen, we're a bunch of military, intelligence, political statecraft | ||
| people whose jobs in the past have been overthrowing foreign countries when they have | ||
| authoritarian dictators who are holding on to power. | ||
| So we need to be able to create the same sort of mechanism here at home in case Trump loses | ||
| the election and refuses to leave office. That's what they said. But if you look at | ||
| the simulations they actually ran, they ran four simulations, but simulation three was called | ||
| Clear Trump Win. | ||
| How can we still run Trump out of office even if he wins fair and square in the electoral college? | ||
| And what they tabletopped with John Podesta, no less, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, and now the climate czar in charge of nearly $400 billion of White House funds, is They ran this simulation called Clear Trump Win, which involved invoking a breakdown on January 6 to prevent Donald Trump's certification. | ||
| They ran this in June 2020, so five months before Election Day and seven months before January 6, 2021. | ||
| They ran a crisis simulator for how they could get their assets, including in left-wing street muscle paramilitary groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa, To take to the streets and to be receptive to a Biden call to take to the streets to shut down the country, to basically terrorize the country, to even have states threatened to secede from the Union. | ||
| In the tabletop exercise, they even created this sort of breakaway American region called Cascadia, which involved California, Oregon, and Washington states seceding, unless Donald Trump was prevented from taking the oath of office, and certain structural reforms are made, such as determining elections by popular vote, instead of the Electoral College. | ||
| And part of the linchpin of that was to invoke a constitutional crisis. | ||
| That the Electoral College was no longer valid under what the Constitution should be. | ||
| And so the winner should be the popular vote. | ||
| So if it so happened Trump won the Electoral College, they would still be able to run him out of office color revolution style and simply say, well, whoever won the popular vote should really be the president if you want the destabilization and destruction of our country to end. | ||
| So what you're seeing right now is essentially this kind of academic Journalistic predicate being laid months before the election to be able to give gravitas, to be able to give institutional support to this technique should they need to use it. | ||
| And we know that they are already considering running back that playbook because Rosa Brooks and her group just a month ago published in the Guardian that they ran a similar tabletop exercise in 2024 and the linchpin of it are public protests and destabilization. | ||
| I don't see any of this as an accident, not one bit. | ||
| What they're doing is they are laying a predicate for extra constitutional action should they decide they need to use it. | ||
| An overhaul, that's a euphemism if I've ever heard one. | ||
| I think another fake distinction that we see, like you pointed out in your wonderful interview with Tucker, is the distinction between America's foreign policy and domestic policy, right? | ||
| There really is none, and when you look overseas, at what's happening, not even in the case of France and the | ||
| telegram arrests, but now Brazil and the sort of X back and forth, and frankly, the | ||
| lack of United States explicit involvement in terms of issuing statements, which to me | ||
| means they're tacitly involved on the underhanded side of things. | ||
| Can you kind of walk the audience through where we stand on, I guess, both those situations, | ||
| but what that means, the implications for censorship here at home? | ||
| Yeah, if you recall two years ago, the United States, United States passed sanctions on | ||
| Iran for censoring their own people. | ||
| In 2017, the State Department passed sanctions on North Korea for censoring their own people. | ||
| This is a common trick that we did. | ||
| We did this in Belarus. | ||
| But, you know, people need to understand that free speech is an instrument of U.S. | ||
| statecraft. | ||
| But now, after 2016, when the technology and institutional Swell shored up into the censorship apparatus. | ||
| Censorship became an instrument of statecraft. | ||
| And all around the world, in 140 countries now, the U.S. | ||
| State Department has its tentacles into other countries' own censorship activities in order to strategically censor rising political opposition who might rise to power and oppose the State Department's agenda there. | ||
| And what they're doing in Brazil against X is the culmination of six years of State Department activity in the region. | ||
| When I say State Department, I mean State Department, USAID, and about a thousand U.S. | ||
| funded government organized non-governmental organizations, essentially CIA cutouts. | ||
| and State Department grantees, who all swarmed into the region in order to influence Brazil's | ||
| own internal speech laws and speech edicts through their censorship court, the TSE, in order to | ||
| prevent any pro-Bolsonaro sentiment from being shared by and among the Brazilian people. | ||
| So it started really in 2018 when Bolsonaro was running. | ||
| The State Department had already basically gotten Facebook, YouTube and Twitter under control in terms of censoring Bolsonaro. | ||
| This is the reason that most of Gab's first user base regionally came from Brazil. | ||
| It's because they were already censored by the U.S. | ||
| censorship apparatus who deemed them to be far right. | ||
| And so we're kicking them off of social media for hate speech and the like. | ||
| for supporting Bolsonaro. So then these pro-Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil started flocking | ||
| to WhatsApp and Telegram. So the State Department leaned on Facebook and that brought WhatsApp to | ||
| heel. WhatsApp folded to Brazil's censorship requirements within two and a half days. | ||
| It took Telegram about two and a half years of holding out before Telegram was actually banned | ||
| in Brazil for about 48 hours. It was illegal to access Telegram in Brazil in 2022 | ||
| until they agreed to certain misinformation reforms that would prevent anyone from who | ||
| supported Bolsonaro from being able to have a popular Telegram channel. | ||
| And so they brought Telegram to heel in 2022. | ||
| But then a funny thing happened. | ||
| One of their little pawns, Twitter 1.0, was acquired by Elon Musk. | ||
| which set about this heart attack in the State Department that they were now going to, all the hard work, all the effort they had poured, all the millions of dollars they had poured into targeting Bolsonaro supporters on all these different U.S. | ||
| platforms and non-U.S. | ||
| platforms like Telegram, was all coming undone because X is the largest incubator of political thought. | ||
| It's got long-form video too, so it's basically an everything app. | ||
| And X was completely free from censorship in Brazil. | ||
| So they cracked down and what we're seeing right now is a coordinated effort. | ||
| And the way I describe it is Brazil, like the United States, has a sprawling spider web of censorship institutions. | ||
| You have the censorship court, the TSE, you have the Brazilian Supreme Court, the STF, | ||
| which oversees that. | ||
| You have these advisory committees, these external stakeholder groups on disinformation. | ||
| You have legal scholarship on disinformation there. | ||
| You have these university centers dedicated to disinformation there. | ||
| You have these journalism outlets with disinformation beats there. | ||
| You have these fact-checker networks with disinformation beats there. | ||
| You have these activists calling for You have this totally astroturfed U.S. | ||
| government-funded censorship spiderweb within Brazil that provides the political support for Damores, this tyrant who's making these decrees, to have the political capacity to do what he's currently doing. | ||
| But that spiderweb comes from the United States. | ||
| So when you see this Brazilian spider sinking its fangs into the fly of a U.S. | ||
| platform, Those are star-spangled fangs. | ||
| That is the U.S. | ||
| State Department and USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy and a thousand U.S. | ||
| government-funded institutions coming from truck drivers. | ||
| It's our members of Congress, too. | ||
| And I know that you've been hammering them time after time on Twitter, but you've been saying, fly me into D.C., let me brief you guys. | ||
| They're willing to put out tweets talking a tough game when it comes to, you know, defending X in Brazil. | ||
| But then why are they still funding all these entities that are propping up this censorship spider that you're alluding to? | ||
| What does Congress need to do to actually move the needle on this issue and not just put out another damn strongly worded letter? | ||
| Well, there's any one of five congressional committees which can get the ball rolling for momentum against this. | ||
| House Foreign Affairs, House Intelligence, House Weaponization, House Oversight, and House Appropriations. | ||
| You know, part of the issue is House Foreign Affairs has been a complete black box for protecting Americans against censorship. | ||
| I mean, think about this, Natalie. | ||
| A month ago, the head of the EU Commission for Enforcement of the Digital Services Act threatened Elon Musk with arrest and practically forbade him from talking to the current presidential nominee of the Republican Party, as well as the former U.S. | ||
| President and the Republican-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee. | ||
| Said I ain't looking. | ||
| Not a single reaction. | ||
| Not a single statement. | ||
| Not a single hearing. | ||
| Not a single subpoena to the U.S. | ||
| Ambassador to the EU. | ||
| Not a single demand for all communications with the EU, between the EU and the U.S. | ||
| State Department Ambassador to the EU. | ||
| None of it. | ||
| So the House Foreign Affairs Committee has either been in a coma for six years now, Or they're captured. | ||
| Now, hopefully, that can start to change over the course of the coming weeks, as pressure, I think, is being applied to have them actually wake up from this. | ||
| Remember, it took about four or five years for House representatives in Congress to take on the censorship issue. | ||
| The fact is, in 2017 and 2018, when there was a Republican-controlled Congress, all of this censorship infrastructure was being laid down. | ||
| I was screaming about it even then, at the top of my lungs. | ||
| Republicans in Congress were holding hearings about how Russia may have interfered on Facebook and they should actually do more to censor. | ||
| So now that has started to change as we've had, I think, excellent interrogations into the censorship industry by folks like Jim Jordan at Weaponization and oversight from James Comer. | ||
| and Dan Bishop from the House Homeland Security Committee. | ||
| But the fact is, is that the State Department, the global blob is not really their purview. | ||
| It could be, but the fact is, is they already have their hands full | ||
| taking on weaponization of the Justice Department, the FBI, DHS, and so many of these rogue agencies. | ||
| The House Foreign Affairs Committee has one job. | ||
| You oversee and hold to account the U.S. | ||
| State Department, USAID, NED, and all these other soft power institutions who do democracy promotion programs. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| Censorship is now part of the toolkit of democracy promotion, okay? | ||
| Let me say it again. | ||
| And Mike, we're coming up against the end of the break, or rather the show. | ||
| If people want to follow you, get access, I know you guys are always putting up reports on this on your website. | ||
| Where can they go to do all that? | ||
| I'm going to say that again. | ||
| Democracy is a tool of... Censorship is a tool of democracy promotion. | ||
| Censorship is a tool of democracy promotion. | ||
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All these democracy promotion programs have a censorship element to it now. | |
| And House Foreign Affairs can defang it. | ||
| House of Probes can defund it. | ||
| Get to work, people. | ||
| You can follow me at MikeBenzCyber on X. At MikeBenzCyber on X. It's the show clock. | ||
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| We'll be back after this short break. | ||
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Mike Benz, as always, thank you for joining us. | |
| Welcome back to The War Room. | ||
| You know we are championing the SAVE Act here in The War Room. | ||
| But if it seems like House Republicans, or frankly Republicans as a whole, are just used to losing, you always are left wondering, wow, it's almost like it seems like they're controlled opposition. | ||
| Dare I use that C-word when I critique our Republican bettors, the ones that we work so hard to elect and doorknock and donate to. | ||
| Well, if it feels like they want Trump to lose, It's almost because they do. | ||
| There's a new story in Politico today, which don't lose your breath when you read that headline. | ||
| If Republicans want to win, they need Trump to lose. | ||
| EM dash big. | ||
| Now, if you go through the story, there's two buried leads that I want to go through, but we'll start opening the firing squad, metaphorically, of course, on House Republicans. | ||
| Trump will never concede defeat, no matter how thorough his loss—or rather, you know what, we'll start here. | ||
| In fact, asking around with Republicans last week, the most fervent private debate I came across in the party was how best to accelerate Trump's exit to the 19th hole. | ||
| One high-level Republican conceded it may only be wishful thinking, Even floated the idea of a Harris victory followed by Biden pardons of both his son Hunter and Trump. | ||
| That would take the issue of both cases off Harris's plate. | ||
| More to the point, drain the energy behind Trump's persecution complex so that Republicans can get on with the business of winning elections. | ||
| The best possible outcome in November for the future of the Republican Party is for former President Donald Trump to lose and lose soundly. | ||
| GOP leaders won't tell you that on the record. | ||
| I just Did, end quote. | ||
| That is Politico. | ||
| Now, we know the mainstream media lies, but they also calculate and curate narratives. | ||
| And this story is so important because it confirms, frankly, the reason that the war room exists, right? | ||
| Which is that our House Republicans, our so-called allies, they don't have our backs. | ||
| They want President Trump to lose. | ||
| That's why they negotiated the debt ceiling deal the way that they did, basically handing away free leverage to the Democratic Party. | ||
| Now, of course, we're seeing some engagement when it comes to the SAVE Act. | ||
| Maybe if that materializes, that'll give us a little bit of a win. | ||
| But they are doing everything in their power to prevent a Trump victory. | ||
| They're laughing in back rooms with Politico reporters. | ||
| Imagine what they're saying off the record. | ||
| Imagine what they're doing off the record. | ||
| But they're also doing everything in front of us to make President Trump's victory a Pyrrhic victory. | ||
| What do I mean by that? | ||
| That's why they haven't mounted any actual offense to the pandemic treaty, which would effectively strip President Trump of any ability, should he win, to do anything on the public health pandemic front because the WHO would have all the power in that regard. | ||
| That's why they made it so any president, no matter what, they can't back out of NATO. | ||
| That's why they've straddled him and just strapped him with Unrecognizable amounts of debt and irresponsible fiscal spending because they want to basically make it so that his hands are tied that he can't do anything because the number one beneficiary of that is the deep state, is the permanent political class, is the administrative state. | ||
| It's right, it's the Death Star critique of the Washington DC government. | ||
| They don't like change. | ||
| That's why you can't normalize President Trump because he represents Really, a blowing up of that system, metaphorically, of course, but a much needed reassortment and reassessment of what our so-called government is doing for we the people, because last time I checked, they're not doing much except throwing us in prison. | ||
| Now, the other important takeaway from this story? | ||
| Is this line right here? | ||
| Trump will never concede defeat no matter how thorough his loss. | ||
| Yet the more decisively Vice President Kamala Harris wins the popular vote in Electoral College, the less political oxygen he'll have to reprise his 2020 antics, and importantly, the faster Republicans can begin building a post-Trump Party, obviously they want to make the 2016 victory seem like an anomaly, an aberration, so they can say that the Republican Party's shift to more populist policies, which really is just aligning with the actual grassroots activist class as opposed to the open borders Koch brother type donor class. | ||
| Nothing radical there, just aligning the interests with the American people. | ||
| They want to say that 2016 was an aberration. | ||
| So let's go back to pitching the Mitt Romneys and the John McCains of the world, because those MAGA people are just too damn crazy. | ||
| But the most important part of this article isn't to get you worked up, isn't to get you mad. | ||
| They're telling you the plan right there. | ||
| They need Harris to win by such a margin, not only to give her the so-called legitimacy and accountability that Joe Biden never had. | ||
| But they need that margin to be so high, so big, that they are going to do everything in their power when it comes to the legal election challenges spearheaded by Mark Elias, by Norm Eisen, by all these shady dark money groups. | ||
| They're not going to play fair. | ||
| It's why they're accusing Trump. | ||
| Do a Boolean search right now for Trump and rigged election. | ||
| Every other article that's coming out is saying that Trump is going to rig the election. | ||
| Trump is going to say it was a rigged election. | ||
| These people deal in projection. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's the Alinskyite rule. | ||
| Accuse the enemy of what you're guilty of. | ||
| They are going to make the margins such that there's no way that the Trump campaign can even claw back or begin to have victories in court because they're going to have so many non-citizens voting. | ||
| That's why they're so adamantly opposed to the SAVE Act in the same breath that they tell us that no non-citizens vote. | ||
| Then why the heck do you guys care if the SAVE Act gets passed? | ||
| Right, doesn't make sense. | ||
| Almost like it's Russian disinformation. | ||
| Someone who knows probably, probably you've been accused of being a Russian disinformation agent way too many times. | ||
| Probably every form of disinformation agent is Mike Lindell, who joins us now. | ||
| Mike, spread some disinformation here in the war room. | ||
| Well, I'm telling you, Natalie, you're right. | ||
| I'm probably the most attacked company in history because of me speaking out for our election platforms. | ||
| You're spot on. | ||
| This Uniparty, the Republican Uniparty, these establishment guys, when I went across this country and fought for our election platforms, my biggest pushbacks are these Uniparty Republicans, starting with Georgia. | ||
| Wisconsin, Robin Voss, Brad Rasenberger, but all these states you think you could just go right into and get things done, get our cast vote records, get stuff, be proactive, like your Alabama, Arkansas, South Dakota, Texas, you think you'd be able to go right into them, but that's not the case, everybody. | ||
| These are people that are against the people. | ||
| And this is what we get one shot at this. | ||
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| Go to LyndalePlan.com. | ||
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