What if we told you 25 out of the 26 cities and counties that received at least $1 million from Zuckerberg's $420 million donation to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, were won by Biden in 2020? A new report from The Federalist confirms what we've been saying on this show for a long time, that Zuckerberg's hyper partisan election rigging scheme of private grants in public elections had a likely consequential impact on the 2020 election in key swing states and counties. How did this funding model change the way certain counties did elections in 2020? Can we affirmatively determine that it caused a change in the results? Charlie has the analysis for you and then, finally, Charlie documents the blockbuster reporting from DailyMail that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden shared a bank account which could embroil Joe Biden in Hunter Biden's FBI investigation. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Zuckerberg's $420 Million Election Intervention00:02:04
Hey, everybody, what if I told you $420 million was spent by Mark Zuckerberg that changed our elections and with it, our country.
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Private Interests Threaten Democracy00:09:45
For years, we were told that it's a good thing that these tech companies have all of this power.
The founding fathers did not just believe in limited government, they believed in limited government because they believed in the limited centralization of power.
They believe that what Lord Acton famously said, that all of you know this quote: absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Montesquieu, in the book, The Spirit of the Laws, wrote about the genius of checks and balances, about the necessary equal yet separate stations to be able to develop power structures.
And what's really incredible is that when you read the Declaration and the United States Constitution, they both talk about this equal and separate stations.
That the laws of nature and nature's God will allow human beings to pursue virtue, to allow themselves to engage in liberty outside of an intervening power source coming in and manipulating a specific prescribed way of life.
In the Declaration, it says separate and equal station.
And so we should have a check and balance on our leaders.
Those should be elections.
Unfortunately, far too often, we don't have those checks and balances on our leaders.
We should have checks and balances on our federal agencies like the CDC, NIH, and others.
Unfortunately, far too often, that doesn't happen either.
But the check and balance that is totally missing is what is the check and balance against companies and billionaires, tech companies in particular, manipulating elections as we know it.
A new story from the Federalist says the 2020 election wasn't stolen.
It was bought by Mark Zuckerberg.
This is a true story of the account of how Mark Zuckerberg privatized the government's voter registration and vote counting for Democrats in 2020.
The founding fathers always believed that if there was power, there must be a check and a balance against that power.
What is our check and balance against Mark Zuckerberg spending $400 million?
During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters.
But this wasn't traditional political spending, William Doyle from the Federalist rights.
He funded a targeted private takeover of government election operations by nominally nonpartisan but demonstrably ideological nonprofit organizations.
This was done through the Center for Technology and Civic Life, CTCL.
We've talked about this in great detail on this show, but this new story from the Federalist is shocking.
You know, we talk, we are always under, we are always accused.
You are a threat to democracy, as we did on the show previously.
Just type in threat to democracy and then go to news.
The Pandora papers are a threat to democracy.
Trump is a threat to democracy.
Bloomberg, how to save democracy.
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You know, we are a republic, not a democracy.
But if you read this story, who's the real threat to democracy?
The guy playing golf at Mar-a-Lago?
Or the $420 million spent by Mark Zuckerberg, who put money into local government official races, and it came with strings attached.
Every single CTCL and Center for Election Innovation and Research grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used.
The mail-in ballot scheme that many of us know had shenanigans and tomfoolery, treachery, and likely illegal behavior associated was subsidized by a $419 million cash infusion from one person.
This is not a matter of Democrats outspending Republicans.
Private funding, the election administration, was virtually unknown in the American political system before the 2020 election.
So let me be very clear.
This is not that Mark Zuckerberg ran a bunch of ads saying, vote for Biden, don't vote for Trump.
We're used to that.
We were used to 100 million here and 50 million there.
There's processes for that.
Do I like it?
I don't, to be perfectly honest.
I think that it largely reinforces kind of a corporate oligarchy.
Do I think AOC's reforms of publicly funding elections are the solution?
No.
But I'm open to suggestions.
Do I think it's the biggest issue in the country?
No, I do not.
But this is something different.
This is not Mark Zuckerberg writing a massive check and saying, go support this candidate.
No, this is direct intervention into the actual administration of how the elections themselves are conducted.
That's a total diff, that's a massive difference.
So it was where, you know, a billionaire would say, okay, here's 10 million bucks, go get this person elected.
Zuckerberg said, here's $419 million.
Here's how you have to run your election.
The article continues by saying the CTCL and CER Money, Center for Technology, Civic Life and Center for Election Innovation Research, CEIR, money, had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, lobbying, or other expenses that are related to increasingly expensive modern election.
It instead had to do with financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters.
So, the scheme that Zuckerberg and the Center for Technology and Civic Life concocted was that the true change is not going to come in another $200 million boosting Biden.
It's going to say, hey, we need to fix the way that they count the votes.
Now, I'm sure a lot of you are thinking the obvious.
Isn't this illegal?
Yes.
And no one has done anything about this.
You cannot come in and tell a local government, hey, I'm going to give you money if you change the way you do your elections.
It is not constitutional.
You have to go through the state legislature.
You have to go through any form of the appropriation of how elections are done, not just infuse money and say, hey, I'm going to incentivize you to do elections the way I want you to do them.
For instance, the CTCL-CEIR funded self-described vote navigators in Wisconsin to, quote, assist voters potentially at their front doors to answer questions, assist in ballot curing, and witness absentee ballot signatures.
Stacey Abrams called these people happy faces, counting the votes amidst the election night chaos in Fulton County, Georgia.
Mark Zuckerberg Center for Technology and Civic Life demanded the promotion of universal mail-in voting with their $420 million.
How?
By suspending election laws because people were too afraid to go vote in person, but they were okay to go burn down a Wendy's in downtown Atlanta.
Extending deadlines that favored mail-in over in-person voting greatly expanded opportunities for ballot curing, expensive bulk mailings, and other lavish community outreach programs that were directed by private activists.
This right here is the best example of how our economy is rigged: private-public partnerships colluding together to crush you.
What do you have here?
Private-public partnerships and saying, hey, we're going to change the way we cure ballots.
We're going to change the way that we do community outreach.
Do you want this $30 million Phoenix?
And the money went directly into the administration of the elections.
And no one did anything about this.
No one thought to say, wait a second, a private company can just come in with a bunch of money and tell the local city, like, this is how we're going to count our ballots?
Isn't this everything that the Democrats said that this is the threat to democracy, we were told, for years?
Private interests telling elections how to do their business.
Silence from the left, obviously, because it benefits their political objectives.
It makes them more powerful.
I'm just getting started on this story because there was an unprecedented intervention of private tech money that came into, and this is not to mention all the tech censorship, by the way.
This is a totally different thing.
This is $400 million that came in as 501c3 corporations and said, hey, if you do not count the ballots, we want you to do the outreach the way we want you to, you're not going to get this money.
It was incentivizing and subsidizing the takeover of American elections.
You want to know what happened in 2020?
This story right here that we're going through, I think is part of the smoking gun, part of the smoking gun.
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Massive Supply Chain Crisis Looms00:11:55
25 of the 26 cities and counties that received a million dollars from Zuckerberg Center for Technology and Civic Life were won by Biden in 2020.
The 10 largest Center for Technology Civic Life grants in Georgia are the following: Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Clayton, Douglas, Cherokee, one by Trump, Henry, and Muskegee.
If I mispronounce any of them, I'm sorry.
I don't live in Georgia.
But nine out of ten of the biggest counties received massive money from Zuckerberg.
In fact, Fulton County and Cobb County and Gwinnett County received a combined $15 million from the Zuckerberg Center for Technology and Civic Life for the actual administration of election.
I know a lot of you are saying, how on earth is this possibly legal?
Well, the Attorney General of Georgia didn't think to do anything about this.
The Secretary of State Brad Rauffensberger was perfectly fine with this.
Governor Brian Kemp signed a consent degree of Stacey Abrams that allowed the downfall of Georgia to occur.
The Federalists continues by saying the Center for Technology and Civic Life demanded the promotion of universal mail-in voting through suspending election laws, extending deadlines that favored mail-in over in-person voting.
I just want to re-emphasize this.
You have a private company or corporation or nonprofit funded with $420 million that comes in and demands the suspension of the law.
Where are the state legislatures?
This was, in my opinion, one of the sneakiest, treacherous, most treacherous and deceitful actions.
But honestly, the state legislatures in Georgia, they did not meet in the summer of 2020, best of my knowledge, about election integrity at all.
The summer leading up to the election, they should have had a special session in July, and they should have said, hold on a second, we need to have a pregame meeting here.
We got to have a huddle.
And this goes to show how weak, incompetent, and spineless the Republican Party is.
If the Republican Party actually care about winning elections, which sometimes they do, but they're so incredibly dumb sometimes.
They don't know what, why do you not have a special session in July of 2020 in Arizona, in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and just be like, hold on a second, we're in the midst of the Fauci virus, Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
We're about to have mail-in ballots go everywhere.
They're about to be mailed out.
Can we have a couple hearings about this before we know what we're doing?
Can we slow down?
Can we kind of have a, what's the game plan here, right?
Like, who's in charge?
And instead, these state legislatures, they were on vacation.
They went to Pine Mountain or something, which is actually very nice.
Or they went to, I don't know where they went, but this is my, and I say this privately all the time, and I'll say it.
I don't really care about saying it publicly.
I don't mind, is that these state legislatures and the leadership of these states, they were either too lazy or too dumb to do anything in the summer of 2020.
And we're going to keep on going through the story with Mark Zuckerberg.
And yes, hopefully his organization will be held accountable.
They probably won't be.
He will definitely not be held accountable for any of this.
But the real question is that the Republican states, they were not solution-oriented.
They weren't thinking of what was happening in front of them on how they could say, hold on a second.
If Fulton County needs more money, we'll appropriate more money from the legislature to get the election done.
We're not all of a sudden going to say, stop administering the law because Zuckerberg is coming in with a bunch of Zuckerbucks.
And they had these big zucker boxes everywhere.
Why didn't the legislature meet?
No one can answer that question.
I met with a bunch of Georgia state legislators.
My goodness, you guys can do better.
I asked them this question.
They said, well, we never really thought about that.
Well, what do you think about?
And do you think?
It's a very serious question.
Arizona, same thing.
Why didn't you guys have a special session in June, July, and August leading into the election to kind of have a pre-huddle meeting?
What's going on?
Where's the money coming from?
Are we prepared for mail-in ballots going the way they are?
Why are we telling people they shouldn't vote in person?
Let's get our communication strategy right.
Let's make sure this election is conducted correctly.
Let's appropriate more money if necessary.
Let's try to get our election results in on election night.
All these things would have, in my personal opinion, prevented a vast majority of this nonsense from happening.
They could have had hearings all throughout the month of July.
And you know what this would have done?
This would have made it impossible for the media to ignore this story.
It would have put them on defense.
Instead, we have this story from Time magazine we covered in great detail when it came out.
Remember?
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While they were planning the takeover, Republicans were going on vacation in the summer of 2020.
They could have been holding sessions.
They could have been issuing subpoenas.
They could have been asking questions.
It's on them.
And we're going to go into more detail on how the Center for Technology and Civic Life interfered with the 2020 election to a great degree.
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Okay, so let's go.
I'm going to get to Center for Technology and Civic Life, but I want to just focus on this.
It's a total detour.
We'll be back to the election integrity story.
There is a massive supply chain issue right now happening in our country.
And we've talked about this for quite some time, but now the White House has come out and they've said that there might be shortages as Christmas approaches, that there will just be some things that people cannot get.
Quote from Reuters: White House officials are scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks, choking U.S. ports, highways, and railways, warning that Americans may face higher prices and empty shelves this Christmas season.
The White House warning comes as shipping containers remain backlogged as ports on both of the country's coasts.
Recent reports say that 65 cargo ships are waiting to dock the high-traffic port of Los Angeles, which is currently full.
Additionally, 8,000 shipping containers are stuck at the port of Savannah.
Now, I believe the same way that I believe that inflation was intentional, I think this bottleneck is intentional.
Why?
To try to create an argument for mass immigration.
Can't find the labor, can't unpack the boats, let's get an immigration bill through.
Remember, almost everything the other side tries to advocate for is around this idea of expanding the amount of people coming into the country.
And now, this is a very important question: which is what are the other possible reasons that we're having shortages?
Could it be the vaccine mandates, paying people not to work?
All of those things are much more likely to be a reason that we are having the supply chain bottleneck.
And this goes to show, which I think President Trump needed to focus on this more, which is a robust and popular self-sufficiency agenda.
People are very much in favor of making things in America.
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Why can't we make it here in this country?
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We're going to keep our eye on the supply chain issue.
It is constantly growing.
And by the way, and this is just something to look at, if the economy crashes, supply chain issues, currency being inflated, debt everywhere you can see, that can bring in the great reset.
We've covered the great reset.
Hillsdale College Fights Tech Censorship00:09:36
Okay, let's keep on going through this story here: the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
So Zuckerberg spends $420 million in the election.
No one cares about it.
Republican legislatures, they meet the summer before.
They let it happen.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life drove the proliferation of unmonitored private drop boxes, which created major chain of custody issues and opportunities for novel forms of mail-in-ballot engine electioneering.
I'm reading from the Federalists.
Allowed for the submission of numerous questionable post-election day ballots and created opportunities for illegal ballot harvesting.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life increased funding for temporary staffing and poll workers, which supported the infiltration of election offices by paid Democrat Party activists, coordinated through a complex web of left-leaning nonprofit organizations, social media platforms, and social media election influencers.
The amount of additional money these groups poured into the election offices in Democrat voting areas, we were told it's nonpartisan, it's garbage.
This was a Democrat support operation was staggering.
To put it in perspective, federal and state matching funds for COVID-19 related election expenses in 2020 totaled $479.5 million.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life and CEIR money totaled $419.5 million.
These two private nonprofits were responsible for an 85% increase in total additional election funding.
Although the Center for Technology and Civic Life and CEIR are chartered as nonpartisan 501 companies, the research that the Federalists did suggests that the spending that took place was highly partisan.
Of the 26 grants the Center for Technology and Civic Life provided to cities, such as in counties in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia, $1 million or larger, 25 of the 26 went to areas won by Biden.
That's not exactly bipartisan.
The only county on this list won by Donald Trump was Brown County, Wisconsin, received about $1.1 million, less than $1.3 million, $1.3% of the $85 million that CTCL provided to the top 26 recipients.
But even in Brown County, Wisconsin, where heavily Democrat Green Bay is located, funding disparities are stunning.
The Wisconsin legislature provided roughly $7 per voter to the city of Green Bay to manage its 2020 elections.
Rural counties in Wisconsin received approximately $4 per voter.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life boosted Democrat voting Green Bay resources to $47 per voter, while most rural areas still had the same $4 per voter.
Preliminary analysis shows that this partisan Zuckerberg funded $420 million targeting of the Center for Technology and Civic Life funding was repeated in battleground states across the country.
The figure below shows that the counties that received the Center for Technology and Civic Life ranked per capita the CTCL spending in Texas.
As can easily be seen, the counties with the highest per capita levels of CTCL spending were Democratic counties.
This was a partisan intervention.
And it continues, it says, did Zuckerberg flip Wisconsin and Georgia?
The Federalist writes, and this is a PhD, William Doyle, PhD principal researcher at the Cesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irvine, Texas, Irving, Texas.
He specializes in the private funding of American elections.
Good for him.
I should have him on our show and ask him about this.
Our preliminary results in Georgia and Wisconsin suggest a similar impact on Biden's vote margin from CTCL spending.
And spending in those states was likely large enough and targeted enough to have shifted them into Biden's column.
The research and analysis projects will culminate in the creation of a counterfactual electoral map based on the combined results of state-by-state analysis.
It will reflect how the election results would have looked after the last legal ballot was counted if CTCL and CEIR did not spend $419 million in 2020.
He writes, quote, We have good reason to anticipate that the results of our work will show that CTCL and Zuckerberg's involvement in the 2020 election will give rise to an election was not fair.
The 2020 election, with many loopholes, money poured in, and it was bought by Mark Zuckerberg.
We have always been lectured what happens when there's a massive intervention into elections from private interests.
Now that has actually happened.
And the media is quiet.
I was told that democracy dies in darkness.
That's the top of the Washington Post.
And despite all of this, that all of this happened, now all of a sudden you're seeing more people pop up and say, despite all of the shenanigans, as we mentioned yesterday, the conservative movement has become anti-fragile.
That Trump's popularity, his power in the Republican Party, has grown since he has left office, Bob Woodward has said.
It has not shrunk.
What's going on really now is an iron curtain of obedience to Trump.
It's not just polite deference, it is obedience.
It really is an iron curtain because it is so strong.
And Vox came out a month before the election, Vox, which is a liberal outlet, and said that these billionaires spending all this money is going to have an astoundingly large role in shoring up all of these issues.
And they said this is the downside of billionaires funding elections.
But of course, when it helps them, they're silent.
Attorney Generals across the country need to investigate the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
And the state legislatures, the Republican legislatures, I hope you guys know you let this happen.
You didn't do your oversight.
You didn't do committees.
You guys should have, and maybe you didn't have the ability to call a special session.
Maybe a governor has to.
All you had to do is ask.
President Trump could have sent out one tweet at the time he had a Twitter account and said, I demand a special session in Georgia, and it would have happened.
Instead, this happened in the shadows.
This happened without people's knowledge, without their consent.
One of the reasons why the American system has lasted so long is consent of the governed, not the consent of the tech billionaires that come in with unlimited money and blur the election lines, interfere with how we actually do elections.
It's unprecedented.
The question is: will anything happen because of it?
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Hunter Biden Art Compromises Security00:05:23
What if I told you that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden shared bank accounts?
Does that mean that the president might be looped into an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
Don't get your hopes up.
Hunter Biden is still under investigation for tax issues.
I'm sure that'll get cleared up pretty soon because Merrick Garland is too busy investigating moms and dads who children are being raped in bathrooms because they're complaining.
How dare you complain about that?
Merrick Garland says, you're a domestic terrorist, actually.
Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley says this, quote, with these new disclosures, we have accounts being used to pay both Hunter and Joe Biden and money being reimbursed to Hunter Biden from an individual associated with a company called Rosemont Seneca.
Now that's a company that has been tied to payments to China and Russia.
And so this is getting more and more serious.
The question is, why is the Justice Department considered the appointment of a special counsel?
Good question.
Not going to happen.
And where's the Republicans calling for that?
We know there's a criminal investigation into the tax issue, possible money laundering.
But there's also serious questions about whether the Biden family conducted an extensive influence peddling operation involving not just Hunter, but his uncle and potentially the president of the United States.
Now, this is not new for those of us that have been covering the Biden family for a while.
We know that they're purchased by China, and we know that when it comes down to it, Joe Biden will yield to his employers, China, when it comes to the seizure of Taiwan.
We know that Joe Biden and his handlers believe in a strong China, not a weak China.
They refuse to call China an enemy.
Instead, they are perfectly comfortable and fine with the Chinese Communist Party, the evil, tyrannical Chinese Communist Party, coming to power and employing them, including Russia as well.
Interestingly enough, Russia has now come out, since our own intelligence apparatus says we must be enemies with Russia.
Russia was like, fine, if the Americans don't want us, let's just go make friends with China, which was so dumb because we could have had an alliance with Russia, and they're a bunch of thugs and gangsters, but it would have been helpful to create an international coalition against China, not the first time that we would have partnered with Russia for a greater good despite their own shortcomings domestically.
But now China and Russia are together and Russia has come out and said that Taiwan is part of Russia, a part of China, that Taiwan is part of China.
It's going to be very interesting.
In fact, I think it's going to be very sad when we see China move dramatically on Taiwan.
I don't know if America is going to do anything.
I don't.
That is the big international issue in front of us right now.
Of course, let us not forget Joe Biden and his regime giving $85 billion in weapons to the Taliban.
And what does Joe Biden say about his son, Hunter Biden?
He says, I'm very proud of my son after he sold $375,000 worth of painting.
Now, we haven't focused a lot on the painting issue.
There's so much other stuff going on.
We know Hunter Biden's corrupt.
He should be in prison.
We spent way, this is how you know how screwed up America is right now.
We spend more time and more people pay a price for John Gruden's emails, what he sent 10 years ago, than Hunter Biden's email.
All John Gruden has to do is say, I self-identify as Hunter Biden, and no one will talk about his emails anymore.
But Joe Biden says he's very proud of his son and his newfound career.
And you got to give it to the Biden family.
They found a way that they can now pay for access that they won't get investigated in.
What is the one thing that has total and complete subjective value?
Art.
There's only a limited amount of garbage art that Hunter Biden is making.
Therefore, there's a finite amount of it, and people want to get close to him.
He is selling these garbage paintings that look like a five-year-old vomited on a canvas for $75,000 each.
He's saying he doesn't know who's buying them, even though he's taking pictures of the people that are buying them.
It's a brilliant way for the Biden family to make money off of doing absolutely nothing.
And we know why they're doing it.
They're trying to get close to the president's son.
Who's buying these pieces of art?
Could you imagine if Donald Trump Jr. went into the art business?
If Donald Trump Jr. started to just become, I am now Pablo Picasso, buy my art.
There would be a special counsel immediately looking into Donald Trump Jr. who's buying the art, who's behind it.
Instead, it's no, no, no, we're going to go focus on John Gruden's emails.
Hunter Biden selling pieces of art that could compromise national security.
Is it Russian oligarchs buying the art?
Is it Middle Eastern oligarchs buying the art?
Is it Chinese officials buying the art?
We don't know.
Instead, John Gruden's emails.
That's the real existential threat to America.
Not Hunter Biden's emails or the fact that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden shared a bank account.
We're going to keep our eyes on that story.
We don't do too much of that.
But it's important that you guys remind yourself of how corrupt the regime actually is.
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