The Charlie Kirk Show - Joe Biden, Caught Red-Handed? with Peter Schweizer and Michael Seifert
Aired: 2023-06-14
Duration: 34:09


=== Growing Like Crazy (02:09) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today's Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:02]  Peter Schweiser joins us about the recent revelations regarding Joe Biden, including Joe and Hunter Biden prostituting themselves for money.
[00:00:12]  And then Michael Siefert joins us from PublicSquare, publicsq.com.
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[00:00:41]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:43]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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[00:00:49]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:52]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:00:53]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:00:54]  His spirit is love of this country.
[00:00:56]  He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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[00:01:30]  Very important to be able to navigate the new parallel economy.
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[00:01:36]  And joining us now is the man behind Public Square, Michael Seifert.
[00:01:40]  Michael, welcome back to the program.
[00:01:42]  Charlie, good to see you.
[00:01:43]  So Michael, give us an update.
[00:01:45]  You guys are growing like crazy.
[00:01:46]  PublicSquare, publicsq.com.
[00:01:49]  We partner on a lot of different things.
[00:01:50]  Give us an update of how things are going.
[00:01:52]  Well, Charlie, thanks to you and your incredible listeners and community and this overall movement toward the parallel economy, leaving woke companies like Target, Anheuser, Busch, Disney behind.
[00:02:04]  We actually have recently achieved over a million consumer memberships on the platform.

=== Navigating The Parallel Economy (15:06) ===

[00:02:09]  So registered consumer members.
[00:02:11]  These are not bots.
[00:02:12]  These are real people hungry for a solution.
[00:02:14]  And that actually means that we have achieved a million members faster than Twitter did in the early days.
[00:02:19]  So we're really grateful for the growth.
[00:02:20]  It's been tremendous, but we are just getting started.
[00:02:22]  We're confident in that.
[00:02:23]  And every single day, this progressive Marxist culture that's infiltrated corporate America continues to remind us why a platform like this is so needed now than ever.
[00:02:33]  Yeah, especially during this Pride Month nonsense where we're seeing companies, one that we're going to talk about some examples here.
[00:02:41]  But Michael, if you were to say which company is totally out of alignment with their normal customer, I'd put Cracker Barrel at the top of the list.
[00:02:52]  Now, I wouldn't ever want to go to Cracker Barrel because I consider eating there to be a very cruel, unusual form of punishment.
[00:02:58]  However, some people seem to like it.
[00:03:01]  Maybe if you're going on some sort of road trip and you run out of gas and you haven't eaten for a couple of weeks, then you might find yourself in a Cracker Barrel.
[00:03:09]  But Cracker Barrel all of a sudden has gone super pro-LGBT.
[00:03:14]  But now what they need to do, Michael, is for people that are going on a road trip that are 95 miles off a highway and they're running out of gas, take out the Public Square app and see if there is a patriotic business instead of Cracker Barrel.
[00:03:26]  Your thoughts?
[00:03:27]  Well, yeah, I always kind of considered Cracker Barrel as a last resort.
[00:03:30]  But honestly, after the recent moves from Cracker Barrel, I would choose fasting.
[00:03:35]  And we're grateful now, though, for all of these examples, whether it's Adidas, Nike, Target, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, you name it.
[00:03:44]  We have alternatives.
[00:03:45]  And that's exactly the message we're trying to communicate is that it's not just enough to boycott.
[00:03:49]  It's not enough just to say we're leaving this behind.
[00:03:52]  We have to have quality alternatives that we're going to.
[00:03:54]  And now we're over 55,000 vendors on the platform that serve these quality alternatives.
[00:03:59]  And while Starbucks decides to fund abortions and Target decides to do the same and all of them are lecturing you about gender ideology, we're speaking an antithetical message.
[00:04:10]  We're actually going the opposite direction and saying that while they prioritize intersectionality, we're prioritizing true equality and the value of the individual.
[00:04:18]  While they're prioritizing funding their employees' abortions, we actually announced this morning, Charlie, that we are doing a baby bonus, $5,000 to any employee of ours that has a baby or chooses to adopt.
[00:04:31]  So whatever this culture is doing that leads to ultimately the destruction of society, we are doing the opposite.
[00:04:37]  And we're so grateful that millions of Americans are coming with us.
[00:04:40]  This is important.
[00:04:40]  So let's ask, so why would companies pay for their employees' abortions?
[00:04:44]  There's two reasons.
[00:04:45]  Number one, they want to try to win favor in the HR departments.
[00:04:49]  The second, it's really, really sinister, Michael.
[00:04:52]  It's that major companies, they do not want their productive female employees to have to be distracted with children at home.
[00:05:01]  So they subsidize the massacring of the kids in the womb so they could stay happy corporate robots so they don't have to have paid family leave or you might not be able to respond to the email as quick on a Saturday afternoon because you have a little kid.
[00:05:18]  These companies paying for abortions, it's less ideological and it's just pure corporate profit.
[00:05:24]  It's really sick.
[00:05:25]  I'm really glad you guys are doing that.
[00:05:26]  Why isn't it Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Dropbox, Salesforce?
[00:05:32]  Why don't they pay their employees to have kids?
[00:05:35]  Oh, because if their employees start to have kids, then all of a sudden they'll be less loyal to Salesforce and actually might have some distraction.
[00:05:44]  And abortion is a way to keep them attached to the corporate golden calf.
[00:05:50]  So Michael, let's talk about Starbucks.
[00:05:52]  By the way, everyone, again, take out your phone and download the Public Square app.
[00:05:55]  It is your map.
[00:05:55]  It's your compass.
[00:05:56]  It's your navigational tool of this new economy.
[00:05:59]  Starbucks is retreating, backtracking, denying a lot of information around Starbucks right now.
[00:06:06]  So Starbucks, for people that want to go there, I guess, you would see that they're taking down Pride stuff, but the recent update is that they're denying it, right?
[00:06:18]  So Starbucks is denying that they've banned Pride decorations from its stores.
[00:06:22]  However, the Starbucks worker union is pushing back on the denial, saying it's received countless stories from workers who are claiming the decorations are in fact coming down.
[00:06:30]  Coffee shops are one of the life sources of the public square directory.
[00:06:35]  Michael, tell us about it.
[00:06:36]  Yeah, honestly, it's interesting to watch this play out in real time of this teeter-totter back and forth messaging between the unions and Starbucks corporately.
[00:06:45]  Starbucks continuing to reaffirm its support for the alphabet mafia.
[00:06:48]  And actually in the statement of the spokesperson, he literally listed out like 27 different letters.
[00:06:54]  He created new letters to the alphabet that I hadn't even seen before.
[00:06:57]  It was egregious to watch this corporate pandering to this community that's again, all based upon progressive politics and consumers are just tired of it.
[00:07:06]  And so what we're hearing loud and clear is that, especially for these daily essentials like coffee, like your food, household cleaning items, that there's such these strong, there's such a strong need for alternatives.
[00:07:17]  And that's why coffee is one of the largest industries on our platform.
[00:07:20]  And I was actually just at a coffee shop, a public square coffee shop last week run by an Italian immigrant, new to the United States, second generation Italian immigrant, created this coffee shop, loves this country, recognizes how special the values we hold dear are.
[00:07:34]  And the entire premise is around providing high quality, excellent execution of their products to consumers that are going out of their way to support them.
[00:07:45]  And it has, it's so much deeper than politics.
[00:07:47]  It's about principles.
[00:07:48]  So you can actually go to this coffee shop and know that you're supporting someone in your local community, or you can go to another Starbucks off the freeway where they're going to treat you poorly.
[00:07:56]  They're going to get your name wrong.
[00:07:57]  They're going to donate to abortion.
[00:07:58]  And then they're going to pander to the alphabet, mafia, with your dollars.
[00:08:01]  Like, I think the choice is pretty clear.
[00:08:03]  And that's why we're trying to build this economy that's centered on these deeper principles so that you're able to unsubscribe from this corrupt intersectional system and subscribe to a new one that you know will honor the values that built this great nation in the first place.
[00:08:15]  One million active users.
[00:08:17]  Let's play cut 58, please, of a Starbucks employee saying that they were told by corporate they cannot hang the flags because it's unsafe to do so without ladders.
[00:08:26]  Very silly, play cut 58.
[00:08:28]  What are we looking at here?
[00:08:30]  Well, those are our hard thoughts.
[00:08:32]  We have had them up every year for, I don't know, as long as I've worked here.
[00:08:36]  This is the first year that no one hung them up, and they're just sitting in the back room.
[00:08:42]  So, why are those in this bucket right here instead of hanging up during Pride Month in a Starbucks?
[00:08:47]  Well, Starbucks says that it's unsafe.
[00:08:50]  We don't have a ladder to be able to hang them up properly.
[00:08:54]  So, we're just not going to hang them up this year.
[00:08:56]  And so, Starbucks has had these hanging up in the lobby before this year, correct?
[00:09:01]  Every year for as long as I've worked here, which is five or six years.
[00:09:05]  That's really crazy.
[00:09:07]  So, Michael, my thought is that there is some truth to this.
[00:09:12]  I think, especially in Redder States, I bet if you did this, there are probably some Starbuck regional managers that got a call from the CEO.
[00:09:18]  He's like, guys, can you just de-emphasize this Pride stuff?
[00:09:21]  We're seeing sales go down.
[00:09:23]  I mean, that dog does not hunt in Huntsville, Alabama.
[00:09:27]  It's not exactly popular in Sioux City, South Dakota to have like this triumphant trans thing like San Francisco.
[00:09:35]  Michael, I think there is a top-down order and they're trying to cover it up.
[00:09:39]  I actually think there's some truth, especially regionally.
[00:09:42]  Michael, your reaction: $50 billion in market cap, Charlie, has been lost, eviscerated from Anheuser-Busch, Disney, and Target in the last 60 days alone.
[00:09:53]  So, what I think is happening here is those managers, like you just described, are afraid of the Bud Light effect.
[00:10:00]  They're recognizing that the writing's on the wall.
[00:10:02]  Americans are pushing back against these ESG and DEI agendas that force this sort of messaging, and they're saying we're done.
[00:10:09]  And I think it's actually really wise of those managers to hold their ground and say, We do need to pull back the prime stuff.
[00:10:15]  This is awful.
[00:10:15]  This is going to lead to the lessening of our business.
[00:10:17]  So, it's a bummer that Starbucks corporate is coming out and refuting what potentially these managers might be doing.
[00:10:23]  And by the way, one last little point here: the people that were the most affected by Bud Light's malfeasance were the distributors caught in the middle.
[00:10:30]  They didn't have a choice about it.
[00:10:32]  And I think these managers of Starbucks are probably in the same scenario.
[00:10:35]  They're like, We do not want to answer for they don't franchise, I think, right?
[00:10:38]  I think Starbucks doesn't franchise, but the mid-level managers probably, no, but they probably have bonuses and they have to meet metrics, right?
[00:10:45]  So, I mean, if you're a mid-level manager and you oversee the Great Plains, does Starbucks franchise?
[00:10:51]  That would be interesting.
[00:10:51]  I don't think they do.
[00:10:52]  The mid-level managers that they do in the Great Plains, they're like, Look, I got to hit my goals here.
[00:10:58]  And in Lincoln, Nebraska, our sales are down or whatever it is.
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[00:12:14]  So we're about halfway through Pride Month, Michael.
[00:12:18]  Are things going better than you would have expected on the kind of patriot economy corporate front?
[00:12:24]  $50 billion that has been lost in market value from these companies.
[00:12:28]  Did you anticipate this sort of reaction?
[00:12:31]  Charlie, I got to be honest, we saw it two years ago.
[00:12:34]  When we started Public Square initially, we started it with an inclination toward this coming moment that we're currently seeing right now.
[00:12:44]  And back then, it was interesting because when I tell people about the fact that we were building this website, this directory of non-woke businesses that were going to push back against this progressive economy and they were going to provide America-first options for all of our life's essentials, I was met with a lot of, are you sure the country's ready?
[00:12:59]  And I don't know, it hadn't gotten that bad.
[00:13:01]  And I just am not really seeing it.
[00:13:04]  Two years later, nobody asked me that anymore.
[00:13:06]  Everyone completely gets it.
[00:13:07]  In fact, the mama bears have led the way.
[00:13:09]  And our average consumer on the platform today is a mid-30s mama bear that loves her kids and is tired of the indoctrination.
[00:13:16]  And they have led the way in shaping this parallel economy.
[00:13:19]  And that, by the way, is the most powerful consumer demographic.
[00:13:22]  That's over 70% of daily purchases are made by that demographic.
[00:13:25]  And so what we've seen this month has not actually surprised me.
[00:13:28]  You've seen two things happen at the same time.
[00:13:30]  One is Americans are waking up and are realizing that being indoctrinated by companies and lectured about gender ideology when you're trying to buy a cup of coffee gets really tiring.
[00:13:39]  And number two, those companies will eventually turn face if you hit their profits.
[00:13:46]  If you hit their profits, and you actually penalize these companies, we're going to start to see the tide turn in our favor.
[00:13:54]  It's easy to be woke when interest rates are low.
[00:13:57]  It is tougher to be woke when interest rates are high and the economy is a little bit jittery.
[00:14:03]  All of a sudden, you're asking, wait, we're not even making profit.
[00:14:06]  And then you ask yourself, are we a coffee company that's supposed to turn a profit?
[00:14:10]  Or are we a coffee company with millions of shareholders?
[00:14:13]  As soon as that question starts to get asked, this woke stuff starts to get put in jeopardy.
[00:14:19]  Let's play cut 22.
[00:14:20]  Joe Biden's assistant HHS Secretary Dick Levine calls the hacking of kids' genitals necessary.
[00:14:27]  Play cut 22.
[00:14:29]  Gender affirmative care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for transgender and non-binary youth and adults.
[00:14:37]  Those who attack our LGBTQI community are driven by an agenda that has nothing to do with science and medicine.
[00:14:46]  These are politically and ideologically motivated attacks again on trans youth, and they are contrary to the overwhelming science and evidence.
[00:14:54]  So we all have to stand up.
[00:14:56]  We have to stand up and advocate and take a stand on behalf of those who would be harmed in many states across the country.
[00:15:05]  This is being pushed by the government to corporations.
[00:15:08]  We then see Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor, marching in the streets for pride.
[00:15:14]  Michael, we are really going to come up against an inflection point where these companies are going to have to decide.
[00:15:22]  And by the way, they better be careful because shareholder lawsuits need to be threatened if they make the wrong decision because they have a fiduciary responsibility to return profit to the shareholders.
[00:15:34]  And now there is provable evidence that overly embracing this stuff, class action lawsuits can threaten you.
[00:15:44]  Michael?
[00:15:44]  Yeah, Charlie, these companies prioritizing a high ESG score over the interests of their consumers and shareholders is at the root of all of this.
[00:15:53]  They are far more pleased with getting a loan from Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase because they had a high ESG score than they are when the consumers are actually happy with them or when shareholders are happy with them.
[00:16:04]  So, Elon Musk earlier this week called for a class action lawsuit against Target from the shareholders because 15 billion got wiped off of that company alone's market cap, which is absolute degradation to the value of the shareholders.
[00:16:15]  And I think this should happen across the board.
[00:16:17]  I think BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street and Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan Chase, all the way to the top, should learn that them pushing these companies to make bad bets towards socially engineered progressivism nonsense leads to an uprising of consumers and shareholders that are saying we've had enough.
[00:16:37]  And I believe firmly, Charlie, that the tide will turn in our direction and then people will recognize that America First Marketplace is the only way to go.
[00:16:44]  In the culture war, your credit card is your sword.
[00:16:47]  You want to defeat these people?
[00:16:49]  Your weapon is your credit card.
[00:16:52]  Financial pain is the way to teach these companies that we're not going to put up with this anymore.
[00:16:59]  Stop putting woke companies on your credit card.
[00:17:03]  Go to publicsq.com, download the app, and use that as your navigational tool of this economy.
[00:17:11]  Michael will have you on again soon.
[00:17:12]  Thank you so much.

=== Hunter Biden Scandal Deep Dive (16:25) ===

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[00:18:23]  Joining us now is one of my favorite guests.
[00:18:25]  I have a lot of questions.
[00:18:26]  So we are going to learn together.
[00:18:29]  I alongside the audience.
[00:18:30]  Peter Schweiser is the author of Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich, Helping China Win.
[00:18:37]  Peter, welcome to the program.
[00:18:39]  Peter, you deserve a lot of credit.
[00:18:40]  You have been way ahead of the curve on this Biden stuff.
[00:18:43]  When I mean ahead of the curve, I mean years ahead of the curve.
[00:18:48]  And I personally, I do this for a living.
[00:18:51]  I read the news 10 hours a day, 12 hours a day.
[00:18:54]  I get confused on the Biden corruption stuff.
[00:18:57]  I need kind of like a massive whiteboard of webs and wire transfers and shell corporations.
[00:19:04]  And then I don't always know when I hear a new piece of news from Chuck Grassley, for example, or James Comer: is this news or is this something that Peter Schweiser tries to tell us two years ago?
[00:19:14]  So, what is considered news and what is considered now evidentiary confirmation of what we've already known?
[00:19:19]  So, Peter, walk us through what is considered to be new and what we've already known.
[00:19:23]  The floor is yours.
[00:19:24]  Well, we all knew for years now that the Bidens were getting paid by Ukraine, and that came because Hunter was, of course, put on the board and became a consultant to Burisma, that Ukrainian energy company.
[00:19:35]  What is new is the fact that you had a confidential source to the FBI go to the FBI and say, I had a conversation with the head of that Burisma company.
[00:19:47]  His name is Lechewski, who is, by the way, kind of a pro-Russian Ukrainian.
[00:19:53]  And he told me that he paid $5 million to Joe and $5 million to Hunter, basically as protection money.
[00:20:02]  This is above and beyond the million dollars a year that Hunter Biden was getting.
[00:20:07]  He also says, this confidential source says that Zlichewski recorded phone conversations with both Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
[00:20:19]  That is all new.
[00:20:20]  That is further evidence to kind of what we knew before, but I think tightens the noose as far as this scandal is concerned with the Bidens.
[00:20:28]  And it's getting increasingly difficult, Charlie, for them to say, oh, no, it was a business relationship.
[00:20:34]  There's nothing related to Joe here.
[00:20:36]  The noose is tightening, and that is a problem for the Bidens.
[00:20:39]  And I will add, Charlie, that we don't know who this FBI confidential informant is, but we keep being told this is a very, very, very reliable source.
[00:20:49]  He's been giving information to the FBI for 10 years.
[00:20:53]  If you look at Burisma, there are several former U.S. government employees that either joined the board or became consultants to Burisma, former CIA, former FBI officials.
[00:21:06]  I would not be surprised if those are the actual sources for the information that the FBI has.
[00:21:14]  The problem is, Charlie, the FBI does not seem to have done anything with this.
[00:21:19]  They have this confidential source telling them something very, very shocking about the Vice President of the United States.
[00:21:26]  There's no evidence thus far that they further investigated, that they shared it with the Department of Justice.
[00:21:32]  They just sat on it.
[00:21:34]  So there's so much happening here because there's also the IRS stuff with Hunter Biden and the reassignment.
[00:21:41]  So I do want to get into that.
[00:21:43]  But I want to play this piece of tape, and I want you to tell us, based on what Chuck Grassley is saying, who's very credible, how much of this did we not know, for example, a year and a half ago?
[00:21:53]  Play Cut 29.
[00:21:55]  The Foreign National, who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden, allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation with them.
[00:22:05]  17 such recordings.
[00:22:09]  According to the 1023, the Foreign National possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden.
[00:22:20]  The Foreign National possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then Vice President Joe Biden.
[00:22:29]  These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the Foreign National in case that he got into a tight spot.
[00:22:38]  So I'm guessing the recordings is new information.
[00:22:41]  Is that right?
[00:22:42]  Yeah, you're right, Charlie.
[00:22:44]  And let's remember what Joe Biden has insisted from the beginning is he had absolutely no contact with Burisma, this Ukrainian energy company that was paying his son.
[00:22:54]  That was totally his son's deal.
[00:22:56]  This seems to directly contradict it, that he was in fact talking with Burisma executives.
[00:23:02]  There's another interesting wrinkle here, Charlie.
[00:23:05]  If you look at the laptop, the Hunter Biden laptop, you will notice that Hunter Biden is paying for a cell phone for his father to use while he's Vice President of the United States.
[00:23:16]  It's an ATT bill.
[00:23:17]  You see it in the laptop.
[00:23:19]  That was a number that was being paid for by Hunter Biden's firm.
[00:23:24]  So it was a back-channel means of communication with Joe Biden.
[00:23:29]  Here's the interesting thing.
[00:23:30]  The oversight committee is apparently going to subpoena those phone records.
[00:23:36]  If they do so, we gave the committee the phone number.
[00:23:39]  We know the phone number that was Joe Biden's back channel number when he was vice president.
[00:23:44]  If they subpoena those records, we should know pretty quickly who he was talking to and when he was talking to them.
[00:23:50]  And if we, in fact, see numbers from Zlachevsky or Burisma, that is direct confirmation that that conversation or those conversations actually took place.
[00:24:01]  I just want to reiterate something that you mentioned.
[00:24:04]  Peter, you have this all mapped out.
[00:24:07]  If I'm not mistaken, the Oversight Committee is relying on a lot of the research that you've done because they could be going into a labyrinth of trapdoors and stuff.
[00:24:15]  Is that correct?
[00:24:15]  I mean, at least from what you can share, it seems as if you've done 90% of this research.
[00:24:20]  Now it's just up for them to approve subpoenas and do the stuff that you can't do as an outside researcher.
[00:24:26]  Yeah, I mean, Charlie, we have the outlines of the story.
[00:24:30]  We knew about the money flows.
[00:24:31]  We knew about the deals.
[00:24:33]  What the committee can do, as you point out, is issue subpoenas so they can actually get phone records.
[00:24:38]  So, for example, the committee has talked about about $10 million that they've accounted to going to the Bidens from these foreign entities, primarily China.
[00:24:47]  Well, that's only based on subpoenas of four of 12 banks.
[00:24:52]  They still have not received subpoenas from those other eight banks.
[00:24:55]  They still haven't received the financial records.
[00:24:57]  So those numbers are going to go up.
[00:24:59]  But yes, the committee is using our work as a roadmap, but they have the ability to force people like Hunter Biden's business partners, for example.
[00:25:08]  They can subpoena them, force them to share information and cooperate, which I think some of them are doing.
[00:25:14]  So it's very exciting for us.
[00:25:15]  It's confirmation of what we believe was going on, what we charted what was going on.
[00:25:20]  But the committee can really get, you know, pop the hood and get them to take a look at the engine in a way that we never could.
[00:25:25]  So it's really exciting to watch.
[00:25:27]  So Peter, this $5 million payment, is that separate than the $83,000 a month from Burisma?
[00:25:35]  It apparently is.
[00:25:36]  We know that he got $83,000 a month, Hunter Biden, because we saw the Morgan Stanley financial records.
[00:25:43]  That totals about $1 million a year.
[00:25:45]  That's been known.
[00:25:46]  This $5 million is allegedly an additional amount on top of that.
[00:25:51]  So we know that the $83,000 a month went to the Morgan Stanley account.
[00:25:57]  The $5 million doesn't show up there.
[00:25:59]  But again, the Biden family is using a multitude of banks, and it will be very, very interesting to see where that money shows up.
[00:26:08]  There is also the possibility, Charlie, there are hints in the laptop about a possible offshore accounts.
[00:26:16]  So they may have been using financial institutions beyond the 12 that we know of.
[00:26:21]  And it may be very hard to actually trace this money.
[00:26:24]  So if you were to guesstimate based on everything that we have learned, let's say from the moment that Joe Biden became vice president, let's not even go before that, from 2009, January of 2009 to today, over 14 years, how much foreign money has the Biden family received?
[00:26:42]  We know that it's about 31 million from China.
[00:26:47]  We know that there is at least another $5 to $7 million from the Ukraine.
[00:26:53]  We know that there was $3.5 million from Russia.
[00:26:56]  That's Yelena Batarina.
[00:26:59]  And then we know that there were various other deals that they were working on.
[00:27:03]  But those are the ones we know of.
[00:27:05]  I think the numbers are actually higher because those are the ones that you actually see on the laptop.
[00:27:12]  The money gets transferred.
[00:27:13]  Here's my bank account.
[00:27:14]  Email comes back and says, we wired the money.
[00:27:18]  And then in the suspicious activity reports, these banking records that they've talked about on the committee confirm that money was sent.
[00:27:25]  So we're talking about, I would say, upwards of $50 million.
[00:27:30]  And, you know, let's remember again, Charlie, the Bidens don't have a business.
[00:27:34]  You know, people will sometimes say to me, well, what about Jared Kushner?
[00:27:37]  He's done deals in the Middle East.
[00:27:39]  You can raise questions about that.
[00:27:41]  That's fine.
[00:27:41]  But let's be clear.
[00:27:42]  The Cushners actually have a business.
[00:27:45]  They have these things called buildings.
[00:27:47]  They're in real estate.
[00:27:48]  You can argue the judgment of whether they should be doing deals with whoever.
[00:27:52]  But those are legitimate businesses that existed long before Donald Trump ran for office.
[00:27:58]  The Bidens are different.
[00:28:00]  This foreign business entity that they were collecting cash from started six months after Joe Biden became Vice President of the United States.
[00:28:09]  And all of the money Charlie comes from specific countries that Vice President Joe Biden was given responsibility for by Barack Obama.
[00:28:19]  They had no product and no services to sell.
[00:28:22]  This is ultimately about access.
[00:28:25]  And I would argue that it's all highly illegal.
[00:28:28]  Well, yeah, it's the world's oldest profession.
[00:28:31]  They prostituted themselves out.
[00:28:33]  That's what they were selling.
[00:28:34]  They sold themselves.
[00:28:36]  There wasn't any product or machine factory, or they weren't selling widgets or cars or real estate.
[00:28:43]  They weren't renting out condominiums.
[00:28:47]  They were selling themselves.
[00:28:49]  And Joe and Hunter Biden were political prostitutes for at least $50 million over the last 14 years.
[00:28:56]  Did it endanger national security?
[00:28:59]  Were there geopolitical decisions that were made because of these capital flows?
[00:29:05]  We have a word for that, and it rhymes with reason.
[00:29:11]  If there were to be indictments of Hunter Biden, what do you think they will be outside of this silly process stuff, you know, gun registration stuff, which doesn't interest me?
[00:29:21]  And are you seeing any trajectory or pattern of evidence that they might be taking Biden out?
[00:29:30]  Joe Biden.
[00:29:31]  Good question.
[00:29:32]  I think when it comes to Hunter Biden, there's certainly clear evidence for him to be indicted on tax evasion charges, which you're looking at multiple years in prison.
[00:29:43]  You certainly have failing to register as a foreign agent, which they have thrown other people into jail for doing.
[00:29:49]  Those are clear-cut.
[00:29:50]  I also think that you can get them on conspiracy charges, that he was taking foreign money and he was getting meetings and other favors for people in high office.
[00:30:01]  And there are multiple examples, by the way, of Hunter Biden being involved in specific deals that undermined American national security.
[00:30:09]  To the larger picture, where it comes to Joe Biden, I think these new revelations take it right to Joe Biden himself.
[00:30:18]  I think there was evidence before to show that he was part of Hunter's business model.
[00:30:22]  But if you indeed have evidence, which I think we now have, of money going straight to Joe Biden, Joe Biden has a serious problem.
[00:30:30]  What the Department of Justice does is one thing, but I do think, Charlie, that within Democratic circles, there are concerns about his age.
[00:30:39]  I think there are also concerns about this growing scandal.
[00:30:42]  I would not be surprised to see elements of the Democratic Party turn on him, and we'll have a situation where in the fall, the mainstream media has effectively turned on him, and that you see somebody like Gavin Newsom become the standard bearer because the Democrats want to win.
[00:30:59]  And I think with the age factor and with all of these scandals, they are concerned that Joe Biden is sinking pretty quickly in a pond and they want to find somebody else.
[00:31:09]  Yeah, and Gavin Newsom is doing offense.
[00:31:12]  He goes on the Hannity Show.
[00:31:13]  He does all that.
[00:31:14]  And he's got talent, no doubt.
[00:31:16]  Gavin Newsome is not your typical automaton.
[00:31:18]  He's no John Fetterman.
[00:31:19]  I mean, Gavin is an awful governor, but he is no John Fetterman.
[00:31:23]  The guy can play ball at the highest level.
[00:31:27]  You mentioned something interesting about internal Democrat circles maybe taking out Joe Biden.
[00:31:32]  The kind of white female liberal coronation super PAC, otherwise known as Emily's List, funded by sexless, you know, mid-50s something hedge fund wives, is running a bunch of ads for Cammie, Kamala Harris, out of nowhere.
[00:31:47]  Emily's List, which is the pro-abortion group, is coming in with tons of ads promoting Kamala Harris.
[00:31:53]  It's very strange.
[00:31:53]  Is there a wink and a nod that might be trying to lay the foundation here?
[00:31:57]  Peter, this indictment against Trump is so ridiculous, but is it possible that they're setting a standard now to also remove Biden?
[00:32:04]  It's conceivable.
[00:32:06]  And also, there are limitations, right?
[00:32:08]  It's possible that this dam breaks and the evidence gets to be so terrible against Joe Biden, it becomes indefensible that even this administrative state can't cover it up.
[00:32:17]  Is that right?
[00:32:18]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:32:19]  I mean, look, I still want to believe that there are standards, even those that would agree politically with Joe Biden, that they would say, like, look, this is enough is enough.
[00:32:27]  And again, we're not talking about, in Joe Biden's case, some kind of process crime or some, you know, we're talking about conduct when he was vice president of the United States with national security responsibilities, taking foreign money, not from France or Great Britain, which would be a problem, but from our major adversaries on the global stage.
[00:32:47]  And in my mind, we are quickly moving that direction.
[00:32:51]  And I think there is blood in the water.
[00:32:53]  The recent surveys, Harvard Harris poll recently did a survey.
[00:32:57]  67% of the American people believe that Joe Biden engaged in corrupt behavior when he was vice president because of his family's deals.
[00:33:06]  35% of Democrats agreed with that.
[00:33:09]  That's a pretty high number.
[00:33:10]  Among independents, it was up there also in the high 60s.
[00:33:14]  So this is finally, after all these years, despite the attempts to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop in the 2020 election, the truth is now starting to seep out.
[00:33:24]  And boy, I think they've got a real problem, the Democrats.
[00:33:27]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:33:28]  And I actually think Kamala Harris is far easier to beat than Joe Biden.
[00:33:31]  I mean, Joe Biden is, for all of his problems, older white voters in the West Valley of Phoenix.

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[00:33:40]  The numbers show we're more comfortable voting for Joe Biden than even Barack Obama and certainly for Kamala Harris.
[00:33:48]  Okay, Peter Schweiser, thank you so much.
[00:33:50]  Red handed check out his book.
[00:33:51]  Thank you so much.
[00:33:52]  Thanks, Charlie.
[00:33:56]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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