Aug. 25, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:22
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| So people say, well, why should I care now? | |
| We've heard about this for nine years. | |
| Why should we care about now? | |
| Isn't this just a political dirty trick? | |
| And the answer is, in the history of America, we've always had political dirty tricks. | |
| By the way, in the 1790s, our politics were pretty rough and tumble. | |
| Maybe you made some of this stuff look like kid stuff. | |
| In the 1800s, it was pretty rough and tumble. | |
| What sets aside the 2016 election and everything else that followed from it is that for the first time in our history, the intelligence apparatus of America and the law enforcement apparatus of America participated in a political dirty trick. | |
| They enabled it. | |
| They legitimized it. | |
| They extended it when the evidence suggesteests it shouldn't be. | |
| That is the precipice upon which we've never passed before. | |
| We haven't crashed that threshold in American politics before. | |
| People say, well, didn't that happen in Watergate? | |
| And the answer is, well, there was a little bit of Watergate. | |
| Obviously, there was a break in. | |
| And then the president of the United States at the time, Richard Nixon, contemplated having the CIA block the FBI from doing it. | |
| The fact that a tape came out showing that he contemplated using the CIA to block the FBI's ability to solve the burglary led the Republican Party to abandon their president. | |
| He actually didn't use the CIA, didn't actually carry through all the way through it. | |
| The CIA wouldn't do it. | |
| Here you have the FBI and the CIA fully integrated into the plot and all of the key leaders of the country being aware before it started that that was probably going to happen. | |
| There's an intercept. | |
| Rather than stop it, they enable it. | |
| They allow it to go forward. | |
| They go get FISA warrants. | |
| They reanalyze the intelligence to come up with a different narrative. | |
| And ironically, the original intercepts predicted that the FBI would become involved in legitimizing this political dirty trick. | |
| So the new evidence tells us that the government inextricably assisted, furthered, extended, legitimized a political dirty trick. | |
| And that is a chapter that never before in our history has been really done. | |
| And I think that's why, regardless of your political stripe, you should be concerned about what happened. | |
| Because if this becomes the norm in America, we go from the greatest constitutional republic in America, the envy of the world for freedom, to another banana republic that looks like the Latin American dictators of the 1960s, and it's our generation's responsibility to stop that from happening. | |
| Thus far, we haven't done a very good job of it. |
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