After RNC: Which Part of the Party Will Trump Embrace? The Dem Party's Growing Civil War; Scandal at WaPo Involving Neocon Max Boots and his Accused Spy-Wife
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Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.
Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight, the four-day Republican National Convention concluded last night with a quite lengthy and sometimes genuinely emotional speech by the former president and current Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Typically, the purpose of a convention is to present a clear, unified, and coherent vision of America and the policies that will facilitate it to the public.
And sometimes it is the genuine policy and ideological preference of that party, and sometimes it is simply the image the party wants the public to hear.
But either way, there's usually a highly coordinated, scripted, and tightly controlled message that the party wants the public to hear and on which the party intends to campaign.
Now, as was true for the first term of the Trump presidency, there were many clearly expressed views and perspectives that we heard during the Republican National Convention, but they were anything but tightly coordinated.
In fact, there were often very contradictory speakers from one night to the next, or even from one speaker to the next.
Trump's choice for Vice President J.D.
Vance, for example, delivered a very populist anti-Wall Street message only for many members of the Republican Party who are more traditional from the more traditional wing to demand the standard subservient policies of the GOP when it comes to serving large corporate interests.
And then several speakers gave arousing and sometimes rather radical denunciations of US support of the war in Ukraine, such as Tucker Carlson and David Sachs, and even J.D.
Vance alluded to that, while others were brought onto the platform in prominent speaking spots in order to urge the traditional hawkish GOP view.
about the war in Ukraine and about foreign policy in general.
People like Mike Pompeo and Tom Cotton, those worlds and those views could not have been further apart and yet both of them are accommodated within the Republican Party.
Now this incoherence of message was, in my view, one of the biggest mistakes of the first Trump presidency.
Trump won in 2016 on a clear platform of rejecting Bush Cheney war policies, but then empower people at the highest level of his government, such as Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, who are classic neocons who are pursuing the goals exactly the opposite of the ones Trump won the campaign on.
Now, given that Trump, by all accounts, has a very good chance of winning the 2024 election, it is very worth, and I think very important, to examine what kind of presidency Trump will have this time around, or more to the point, With which faction of the Republican Party he will align.
Then the Democratic Party, by contrast, is embroiled in what can only be described without hyperbole as an embittered civil war, the likes of which we really haven't seen inside a major party for several decades.
On the one hand, huge segments of the Democratic Party leadership are using cowardly anonymous leaks, highly coordinated ones, to make increasingly clear that they want Joe Biden out of the race as soon as possible and are doing everything and will continue to do everything possible to force his his hand.
While other members of the party and the party's base, as well as those closest to Joe Biden in the White House, are making equally clear still that they have no intention of withdrawing, but instead are quite enraged by the efforts of people like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and now Barack Obama but instead are quite enraged by the efforts of people like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and now Barack Obama to Now, for a while, it seemed as though Biden was almost certain not to leave.
Then it started to look as though the momentum for his expulsion was growing so much and the leaks started claiming that he was actually on the verge of softening up and almost agreeing to leave.
and And now it's hard to know if those leaks were just further designed to pressure him and they were just lies or whether they were real.
But either way, we're now back to a situation of utter lack of clarity and even growing enmity within the party over these conflicting leaks.
We will look at where everything is when it comes to the current viability of Joe Biden's ongoing candidacy as a Democratic Party nominee.
And then finally, we have a journalistic scandal that is just almost too good to be true.
It just brings me so much pleasure to be able to report and talk about all this.
The fanatical neocon and Washington Post columnist Max Boot has been basically making a living over the past several decades recklessly accusing anyone he disagrees with of being a clandestine agent of some foreign power, usually Russia.
He is the author, for example, of endless screeds in the Washington Post, claiming, obviously falsely, that Donald Trump secretly works for or is subservient to the Kremlin.
He certainly says the same exact thing of anyone who has questioned the war in Ukraine.
And he spent much of the war on terror, accusing the people who disagreed with him of being on the side of Saddam, secretly working for Al-Qaeda or Assad or Gaddafi, et cetera, et cetera.
And he used that accusation of foreign disloyalty or secretly serving a foreign power anytime anyone questioned the Bush-Cheney and the Obama-Warren terror policy that he supported.
Yet now, in a turn of fate so karmically perfect that I can barely believe it's happening, you almost never get karmic justice this sweet and this perfectly constructed.
Max Boot's wife, who is a former CIA agent named Sue Mi Terry, was just indicted by the Obama Justice Department for criminally serving as an agent, an undisclosed agent, of the South Korean government.
And further, of helping that government infiltrate the United States government with South Korean spies, all without disclosing any of this.
To make matters much worse for the Washington Post and for Max Boot, The duo often co-authored op-eds in the Washington Post that were not only about South Korea, the country she's now accused of illegally being a secret agent of, but also, according to the DOJ, articles were written by after Sumi Terry explicitly requested instructions from her paymasters in Seoul on what she should say.
In other words, many articles published by the Washington Post and even the New York Times About South Korea written to advance the interest of the South Korean government were being published in her name and in her husband's name at exactly the same time.
According to the Justice Department, those articles were specifically constructed not to express a genuine opinion but to advance the interest of a foreign government that unbeknownst to any of the readers or perhaps to these papers was paying her to not only do that but to help it contaminate the US government with its spies.
We'll examine the implications of the fallout of this delicious but also highly revealing journalistic scandal.
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The interesting and idiosyncratic and I think quite unusual aspect of the Republican National Convention that took place over the last four nights in Milwaukee, to me was the same idiosyncratic and unusual attribute that characterized the first term of the Trump presidency.
Namely, on the one hand, you have Trump And people closest to him, including in this case, his chosen Vice President, J.D.
Vance, who are clearly not just advocating for or campaigning on, but I think are true believers in at least some important sectors of this new populist, anti-establishment kind of politics that has proven so popular within the Republican Party and in the nation more broadly.
But then on the other hand, you have people who still occupy extremely important positions, including ones who are very close to President Trump, and who seem to be on their way to holding very high positions of power within the Trump presidency, who despise that populist and anti-establishment politics on which Trump is winning, and the campaign is based, and on which Trump has dominated the Republican Party over the last eight years.
And it was just like in the first presidency when Donald Trump had a whole variety of views that ended up being subverted and sabotaged because so many of the people he invited into his government at the highest levels not only didn't believe in those views that Donald Trump, the elected president, believed in, but they actually sought overtly to sabotage them.
So he ran against neoconservative ideologies.
This is one example.
And then he had one of the ultimate neocons.
Mike Pompeo, who just had a standard warmongering record in the House, very pro-CIA and U.S.
security state, who he had run the CIA for the first couple of years and then went and became his Secretary of State.
And then, of course, we all know what Nikki Haley's warmongering policies are.
And yet remember, she was the ambassador to the U.N.
In the first Trump presidency, and now Donald Trump is giving hints that she may be part of the presidential team again.
On top of that, you have people like Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, the latter of whom, by all accounts, President Trump put on his shortlist for vice presidential choices, who certainly are adamantly opposed to all of that.
And you have this kind of mishmash People at the top levels of the Republican Party, I think Trump's major character flaw that caused that is that, as everybody knows, he's very susceptible to flattery.
So anybody who comes in and says, I love President Trump in public or an interview is someone who he admits, and he said this in his acceptance speech last night, if somebody loves me, I love them.
And you have smart people like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley who know how to flatter Donald Trump and therefore get access and power.
I think that was one of the problems of the administration.
One of the things that prevented it from being better is that Donald Trump clearly has this character flaw where he immediately embraces and appreciates anyone who praises him.
And a lot of people can exploit that to swarm their way into power and then work against the ideology that the Republican base is making clear they support.
Now just to give you a few illustrations from the Republican National Convention that make very manifest and vivid this kind of very unusual, not ancillary division ideologically within a party, but often radical and even fully contradictory So here is David Sachs, who is a billionaire Silicon Valley investor and a very ardent supporter of the Trump campaign.
He's one of the people donating a lot of money and participating in PACs and fundraisers to help the Trump campaign.
And yet David Sachs is also somebody who has shared almost every view that I have and John Mearsheimer has and others have when it comes to the war in Ukraine.
He's vehemently opposed to it.
He believes the U.S.
government has fed propaganda and lies about what that war is about and why it continues and that what we're essentially doing is destroying Ukraine.
And he was given a very prominent spot to speak at the convention.
I believe he spoke on Monday night or Tuesday night, one of the first two nights.
And here is part of what he said.
First, President Biden botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, displaying incompetence and weakness for the whole world to see.
Then he provoked, yes provoked, the Russians to invade Ukraine with talk of NATO expansion.
Now let me just stop there and note how radical that is of a thing to say.
It's also accurate.
It's demonstrably true.
But oftentimes the things that are the most true are the things that are deemed radical and taboo to say.
So usually when Republicans are expressing opposition to the war in Ukraine, they'll say things like, I don't think we should be funding this war.
I don't think it's doing any good.
We don't have the money.
We should be spending the money at home.
We should get a diplomatic solution.
But they'll also say Vladimir Putin was evil and invaded Ukraine in a completely unprovoked way.
That's not what David Sachs said.
That's not what he believes.
He said that the United States went out of its way in many ways to provoke the Russian invasion.
And I think it's very hard to argue that given that we participated in a coup in 2014 that changed the government of Ukraine undemocratically.
There was a president who was elected in 2010.
His term was to expire in 2015.
He was considered not an ardently pro-Moscow president of Ukraine, but one that certainly had friendly relations with Moscow.
The EU was angry about that.
And so people like Victoria Nuland and John McCain and Chris Murphy and the Clinton State Department overtly supported a coup.
It was the Kerry State Department in 2014 changed the government, come at a bordering state, And then the United States began openly and very vocally speaking about expanding Ukraine to include NATO right up to the most sensitive part of their border.
And it has been the known, clear, and often very emphatically stated view of the top levels of the US government that any attempt to expand NATO to Ukraine or any talk of that in a serious way Will provoke the Russians to enter eastern Ukraine and to annex Crimea because they will feel such a great threat from that they will want to create a buffer between the US and NATO and their country.
In fact, Bill Burns, the current head of the CIA, was so alarmed in 2008
When two people began talking about expanding NATO up to Ukraine, the Bush-Cheney Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and her partner in that, who was none other than Victoria Nuland, who was serving as ambassador to NATO at the time under the Bush administration after serving as Dick Cheney's primary foreign policy advisor, and warned in a secret memo that WikiLeaks ended up publishing,
That everybody in Moscow knows, not just Putin, but even anti-Putin liberals, he said it's across the board, the political spectrum in Moscow, that they regard NATO expansion for Ukraine as an existential threat and that it will provoke a war.
So if you have the people at the top levels of your intelligence community writing for years inside the U.S.
government that expanding NATO into Ukraine will provoke a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and Crimea, And then you go and do exactly what those memos warn you shouldn't do unless you want to provoke a Russian invasion.
Obviously, you can make a strong case that what the U.S.
was doing in Ukraine, wittingly or not, was highly likely to provoke a Russian invasion.
Not because the Russians are insane, but because they're rational, as every single president.
Before Joe Biden, who dealt with Vladimir Putin, said, That Putin is a very cunning, rational, calculating, self-interested president.
He understands the complexity of foreign affairs, and he will do anything to protect the Russian state, which is his job as Russian president.
And so David Stack stood on this stage and said something that, although very factually certainly supportable, I would say dispositively true, is not something that you even hear from Republican opponents of the war in Ukraine.
Afterward, he rejected every opportunity for peace in Ukraine, including a deal to end the war just two months after it broke out.
Now the war is deep into its third year, with no end in sight.
Hundreds of thousands of people are dead.
Hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars have gone up in smoke.
President Biden sold us this new forever war by promising it would weaken Russia and strengthen America.
Well, how does that look today?
Russia's military is bigger than before, while our own stockpiles are dangerously depleted.
Every day there are new calls for escalation and the world looks on in horror as Joe Biden's demented policy takes us to the brink of World War III.
All right, so that is an extremely clear message about the dangerous idiocy And of the US funding of the war in Ukraine and the edifice of lies on which it's based.
And that's somebody who is a major funder of the Trump campaign, also organizing a lot of Silicon Valley support.
He's one of the earliest co-founders or high executives in PayPal, which is what gave the wealth to Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, that sort of original group of people.
Silicon Valley who remain very powerful to this day and are also helping to support and fund the Trump campaign So it's a pretty significant indicator of where a lot of people in the Republican coalition or at least the Trump coalition are That's also true of Tucker Carlson who I think the only time in his career, and he's been around for 30 years in Washington media and politics, has ever endorsed a candidate or spoken at a presidential convention.
He talked about how he was only endorsing Trump after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, which offended him so deeply because it was such a clear weaponization of the justice system and the police force in order to persecute a political opponent.
That he felt like he had a duty to stand up because of how dangerous this was.
And he, too, was given a primetime speech at the Republican National Convention, in fact, last night on the same night that Trump spoke.
He's very close to Trump.
And Tucker has been one of the most vocal voices from the start against the war in Ukraine.
I don't know how many times I was on his show to talk about it, but it was dozens.
And this was early on.
We were often on the same official list of people who are supposedly propagandists for the Russian government, issued by Ukrainian intelligence and the like.
So Tucker's been very consistent on this, and he went to that convention last night, got up on that stage, and gave a similar message with a lot of scorn to the people who support the war in Ukraine, even though many of them are in the Republican Party, were in that building.
...are in the US Congress and are also seeking to have high positions with the Trump administration.
Democracy on television?
Actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country.
They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country.
And for that to be true, their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do.
Or a close approximation thereof.
But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy.
And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, he's attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States.
Hey, let's pay attention to what people actually want.
And the lack of interest in that question in Washington is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years.
Lawmakers stepping over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens OD'ing on drugs to go cast votes to send money to some foreign country.
Yeah, actually, we've lost more Americans from drugs in the past four years than we lost in World War II.
Yeah.
Our bloodiest war.
More than we lost in World War II.
Does anybody care?
It is pathetic.
It is pathetic.
And do you hear a single word from Washington about doing anything about it?
We know where the drugs are coming from.
We know the supply routes.
The U.S.
military spent billions bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
You don't see our commander-in-chief suggesting that we use our military to protect our country or the lives of its citizens.
No!
That's for Ukraine.
And it's too much, actually.
It's too insulting.
It's too insulting.
It's a middle finger in the face of every American.
It's a very clear statement, which is unmistakable.
And that is, we don't care about you.
And Donald Trump Whatever you say about him, and I think he's a wonderful person, I know him well.
By the way, the funniest person I've ever met in my life, actually.
You can't be funny without perspective, or without empathy, which is true.
But everything else about Trump aside, he actually cares.
Because he's interested in the people who live here, because that's his job.
A father's job, his duty is to his family.
An officer's duty is to his men, a president's duty is to his citizens.
And he seems to be the only one who thinks that.
Now, I haven't confirmed this with Tucker, but several of the reporters who were present for the speech said that Tucker came up with no written speech.
There was nothing on the teleprompter.
He just spoke in an impromptu way.
And I have to say, and I've heard this from other people who spoke there, That they were not required to submit their speech ahead of time to the Trump campaign, or even if they were given, giving their speech to the Trump campaign, that they were never told they couldn't say anything, including people who were probably off-message.
It was a very free and unstructured convention.
And the fact that Tucker was able to get up on the stage, and you can see by the way he's speaking as well, giving an impromptu, unscripted speech with nothing on the teleprompter, Obviously he's a professional communicator, but still.
And that point that he made there, which is the way you know the working class hates you, is they refuse to spend money or take action to prevent dangers in your communities or to fix things that are going wrong in your lives or to improve your lives.
No, that's only for Ukraine.
We keep spending hundreds of billions of dollars to send to this war in Ukraine or to other countries.
And obviously, though he didn't say it, he also means Israel.
And that, in his view, in Tucker's view, is a spitting in the face or a middle finger in the face of American citizens, that the members of Congress will step over your dead body to send tens of millions of billions of dollars to foreign wars.
Here's J.D.
Vance, who, as we reported on Tuesday night when Trump announced the, or Monday night when Trump announced his choice,
Was somebody whose choice provoked extreme anger, even revolt, by both the neocon wing of the Republican Party as well as the sort of traditional Reaganites who just always want to serve the interests of large corporations, even if it comes at the expense of the American worker, who are in favor of mass immigration because of how it lowers wages and makes the worker powerless because of such a flood of
Laborers had a supply of labor that the worker has no leverage.
Here's part of what he said about all of this.
My friends, things did not work out well for a lot of kids I grew up with.
Every now and then, I will get a call from a relative back home who asks, did you know so-and-so?
And I'll remember a face from years ago, and then I'll hear they died of an overdose.
As always, America's ruling class wrote the checks.
Communities like mine paid the price.
For decades, that divide between the few, with their power and comfort in Washington, and the rest of us only widened.
From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people who govern this country have failed and failed again.
President Trump's vision is so simple and yet so powerful.
We're done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street.
We'll commit to the working man.
All right, so that's part of why the Wall Street Journal freaked out today, had a big editorial saying, what is JD Vance doing on the Republican Party ticket?
We love Wall Street.
Why is he ranting against Wall Street and praising Lena Khan, who's using antitrust law to break up massive, concentrated corporate power in the hands of Amazon or other corporate giants who have no allegiance to the United States or the American worker?
So there's a real divide in the Republican Party as well.
Now, on the other hand, The convention had people speaking, such as Nikki Haley, and we went over her record many times when she was running against Donald Trump.
Just an unconstrained warmonger on the most extremist end of the militaristic spectrum, has no convictions of any kind that aren't for sale, just such a vacant, empty opportunist.
But for sure, an advocate for the exact kind of Republican ideology that voters led by Donald Trump rejected, which is why she was the last person standing against Donald Trump, because she was trying to get the Republican base to return to the politics of George Bush and Dick Cheney, with what she agrees.
Now before I show you this, I just want to tell you the funniest thing.
We don't have this clip, but I saw it earlier today.
Nikki Haley in her speech got up and she said, look, the reason why I'm here is because President Trump asked me to be here.
And then they cut to President Trump and he was saying, mouthing to whoever was next to him, I didn't ask her.
She asked me to be here.
She wanted to be here.
So you just see this ongoing tension, but at the same time, there have been reports that Trump intends to make Nikki Haley part of his team.
We'll see whether or not he does, but she was given a prominent speaking role, and here's part of what she said with it.
When Barack Obama was president, Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea.
With Joe Biden as president, Putin invaded all of Ukraine.
But when Donald Trump was president, Putin did nothing.
No invasions, no wars.
That was no accident.
Putin didn't attack Ukraine because he knew Donald Trump was tough.
Now look, that, I don't know, that clip is pretty much what Nikki Haley is saying there is true, but it sort of led to this broader Foreign policy advocacy that what we need always to do is to show that we're ready to go to war, to bomb people, and she's called on that many times.
And she represents that version of the Republican Party that people have come to hate.
And she used her speech to advocate that, as did the person I think did more to ruin the Trump presidency than anybody, the most destructive force in the Trump presidency, which is Mike Pompeo.
Who went to Harvard, went to Harvard Law, and was able to understand Trump's psychology and how to manipulate it, and became the head of the CIA, and then the State Department.
He did more than anybody to ensure Julian Assange was prosecuted, and that the Ecuadorians lifted the asylum for him, as we've documented many times.
And he is a standard neocon, and here he is advocating for standard Republican policy on foreign policy.
You'll remember, for those four years, the evil of Vladimir Putin was held at bay.
When we walked out January of 2021, the Iranian regime was afraid, and the people of Israel were strong and secure, and we treated like the friend and ally that they need to be. and we treated like the friend and ally that they Everywhere we went, everywhere we went, religious freedom was protected.
We held three summits in North Korea, and North Korea was quieted.
We had begun to, we'd begun an honorable exit from Afghanistan, and not a single Chinese spy balloon flew across the United States of America.
We've got four years.
Had I been the Secretary of State and a Chinese spy balloon flew across our country, I would have been the former Secretary of State.
And rightfully so.
You know, under President Trump, the Chinese Communist Party, which to this day presents the greatest threat to our nation from outside of our country, we confronted it like never before.
Look, ladies and gentlemen, in short, we put America first every single day.
No, that's the standard neocon view of the Middle East and of China, which, by the way, if you listen to Donald Trump on China, he will certainly talk about how it is a rising power.
But he never talks about the need to confront it militarily.
He talks about the need to compete with it better in terms of trade and American jobs.
That's always what he wants to confront China on.
He never talks about deploying more military into the South China Sea, building up bases all surrounding China.
In fact, he warrants constantly, and did in his speech last night, That you cannot go to war with the nuclear power.
In fact, when he talked about his friendly relationship with Kim Jong Un in North Korea, and he was saying, he really likes me.
I like him.
I think he misses me.
I'm glad we're going to be back together soon.
And he said, I got criticized for that.
But you know what, it's actually a good thing to have open communications with countries with major nuclear weapons.
And you have Mike Pompeo instead saying, look, what we need to do is go around the world confronting everybody.
And that is not the kind of thing Donald Trump has argued or believes in, and yet you can see how clever Mike Pompeo is in pretending that he shares Donald Trump's vision while advocating this standard neocon view of the Middle East and every other region in the world.
Now, the Republican Party is very aware, the establishment wing is, that Their dogma is in danger if they just allow Trump on his own to go and do what he wanted to do.
They were desperate to put Marco Rubio or someone like that on the vice president's ticket.
It's why they were so angry when instead he chose J.D.
Vance, someone who far more is aligned with Trump's populism and anti-establishment view of foreign policy and economic policy.
And now the Republicans are The traditional Republicans are highly focused, intensively working to ensure that the people who end up running foreign policy in the Trump administration, who run the CIA and the Pentagon, are the people whose ideology were the exact ones Trump vowed to cleanse from Washington and the Republican Party.
Hear from Semaphore on March 19th.
The Senators who could fill Trump's National Security Cabinet.
Donald Trump is eyeing three Republican Senators Bill Hagerty, Tom Cotton, and Marco Rubio for key national security posts if he wins the White House in November, people close to the Trump campaign told Semaphore.
The conservative lawmakers are all prominent hawks on China and Iran and supporters of increased U.S.
spending on defense and border security.
Trump sees the politicians as potentially partnering with cabinet members and advisors from his first term to create a more unified national security team from day one, these people said.
Among the first-term confidants, Trump is expected to consider for top jobs former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, John Ratcliffe, a one-time congressman who served as Director of National Intelligence, former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, and Trump's ambassador to Germany, Rick Grenell.
So tell me about a team that are the standard Republican hawks in the Republican Party.
Now, who knows who this person close to the Trump campaign is, if they are somebody who wants this, but there's definitely all kinds of talk about the Republican Party, the establishment pro-war wing, putting those kinds of people in those positions of power, especially after the choice of J.D.
Vance.
And that's a lot of what happened in Trump's first administration.
He was surrounded by unelected operatives in the deep state, in the administrative state, but also in his own White House, in his own administration, who were actively working to sabotage his campaign, his presidency.
One of the worst examples being that he ordered the withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Syria, and various generals and other national security types just ignored it.
They blocked it.
They pretended not to.
Believe that he was really ordering the withdrawal of troops completely because they didn't want to.
And I remember the media and liberals standing up and clapping and cheering for the adults in the room, meaning unelected generals, who were thwarting Trump's policies.
It's impossible to have a worse attack on civilian rule in American democracy, as the Constitution understands it, than to have military officials who there are permanently, who are not elected, overriding The policy orders of Donald Trump, they had classified information from him.
This was all reported and celebrated, even though a few things are more undemocratic than that.
But in a lot of ways, Trump allowed it to happen by putting in the kinds of people who were helping to do that.
And it seems like at least some people close to Trump, and maybe Trump himself, are considering doing that again.
And I think the question is going to be who he listens to.
He was very close to picking Marco Rubio or someone like that.
And it was only at the last minute that a team of people, including Donald Trump Jr., who is far more on that better side of the Republican divide, and others as well, prevailed on him to select J.D.
Vance, Tucker Carlson being one of them.
Who helped make J.D.
Vance a national figure by constantly putting him on his show.
He's friends with him.
So you can see this internal conflict.
And we'll see what the first President Trump term looks like.
Now, as I said, he selected J.D.
Vance and enraged a lot of the Wall Street corporatist types in the Republican Party, including the Wall Street Journal.
And yet, bizarrely, Trump has been talking about making Jamie Dimon his U.S.
Treasury Secretary.
Hear from Reuters July 16.
Trump says he mulls Jamie Dimon for the U.S.
Treasury and won't try ousting the Fed's Powell.
Now, Jamie Dimon was the CEO of Citigroup during the financial collapse.
Obama adored him.
He adored Obama.
You cannot find a worse corporatist and Wall Street tycoon than Jamie Dimon.
He used to despise Trump.
Trump talked about him as a sort of corrupt scumbag.
I don't know if Jamie Dimon has been privately knowing that Trump was likely to be elected, aggrandizing Trump and talking well of him, but after you select J.D.
Vance who rants against Wall Street, you then talk about making Jamie Dimon your Treasury Secretary?
Quote, on Diamond, Trump said he was considering him for the top job at the Treasury Department.
Trump also said in the interview that he would reduce the corporate tax rate to as low as 15%.
Trump had until recently been critical of Diamond.
Last year, Trump called Diamond, quote, a highly overrated globalist on his true social platform.
J.P. Morgan declined to comment on Trump's remarks.
Jamie Diamond is the CEO of J.P. Morgan.
So there you have that exact tension that we're talking about here.
He's a corrupted globalist, and then you turn around and say, I want to put him in charge of the economy as the Treasury Secretary.
I don't think that necessarily means that that faction will prevail, but I think it is signifying that the same sort of internal tensions and conflict that drove the first Trump presidency, and I think impeded and settled it a lot of ways, potentially seems to be repeating itself.
And the question is, who's going to be in Trump's ear and who he's going to listen to?
Obviously, there's going to be a lot of pushback against that.
Just to conclude, here is an article on Harrods on July 19th, extremely angry that Tucker Carlson was given the right to speak at the Republican Convention.
And here you see the headline, Tucker Carlson, isolationist, Israel skeptic, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, is winning the battle inside the GOP.
I wish that were true.
As Jewish Republicans insisted that the GOP is the only, quote, pro-Israel party throughout the convention in Milwaukee, the final night made it clear that Tucker Carlson wields the real power over policy and over Donald Trump.
So first of all, yet again, you have Tucker Carlson, simply because he has questioned whether or not the United States should be paying for the role in Israel now being branded an anti-Semite.
And trying to scare American Jews into believing that because Tucker has influence in the Republican Party and the Trump presidency, it means that Jews ought to fear him.
You can see, yet again, that when you have people who are anti-establishment and the establishment looks like they are in danger of losing power, they have all kinds of weapons, very serious weapons that they unleash to fight back.
Prosecute Trump, they helped impeach Trump, all of which gave them leverage over Trump to prevent him from doing things they didn't want him to do.
There is no such thing as an establishment that simply allows you to take away their power and take away their prerogatives.
They have all kinds of weapons to fight back, and that sort of article, which I hope ends up being true, is a very clear example of how that's typically done.
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There has long been a sort of cliché or meme among liberal pundits that the media is always claiming that, quote, "Democrats are in disarray." It's one of those ways that liberal pundits claim, and I know it's hard to believe, but they really do believe that the media is biased against Democrats.
Even in the age of Trump, it is unbelievable to me.
The longtime liberal activists and Democrats complain that the New York Times or other media outlets aren't anti-Trump enough, and that somehow this is a failure of journalism.
And one of the ways they've complained is that media outlets always are talking about Democrats in disarray for decades.
And it's sort of true that it has been a common theme, although this time it is not only undeniably accurate, but it's an understatement of what's going on in the Democratic Party, where You have a faction of the Democratic Party that, since the debate happened, has been increasingly, in a drip-by-drip way, daily, escalating just a little bit, the pressure they're putting on Joe Biden to get out of the race.
But because Joe Biden was making clear, emphatically, categorically clear, that he will not leave the race, he told George Stephanopoulos only God Almighty could make him leave the race.
And then between that, the fact that time was ticking, and then the Trump assassination attempt, it seemed as though there was sort of an acceptance on the part of Democratic elites that Biden was their candidate.
But now, after the assassination of Trump throughout this entire week, the pressure has escalated severely from the top levels of the Democratic Party.
It's getting more and more out in the open, although it's still being done in this cowardly way through weeks.
And there are very few Democrats left.
Maybe Bernie and AOC and a couple others who are still loyal to Joe Biden at the top level of the Democratic Party.
Once the leaders start signaling it's time to do it, they're herd animals.
They all then start doing it.
They switch on a dime from what they've been saying for the last three years.
There's nothing wrong with Joe Biden.
He's more mentally adept and healthy than we've ever seen him be.
He's engaged.
All of that that the media was saying as well.
And then they all switched on a dime.
Because they're never off script from one another.
They just say what the other people, they hear, and that they know they're supposed to follow a say, and then they all say the same things.
And so now you have this desperation on the part of the Democratic Party, and they're almost being cruel to Joe Biden in the way that they're now leaking over and over.
Not just that they want him out, but claiming that he's going to make a big announcement on the weekend, that he is more open to leaving the race, that he's talking about whether Kamala can win.
They're just constantly leaking anonymously and the media just reports it, gives them anonymity to do it, which is a total abuse of anonymity.
Anonymity is actually only supposed to be given in very rare cases by journalists.
You're not supposed to quote people and hide who they are unless there's a real compelling reason to do it, like a whistleblower inside a government agency or a corporation who would lose their job or who would suffer severe consequences if you disclose their name.
It's supposed to be rare.
But all these crappy tabloids, glorified tabloids like Axios and Politico, these kind of DC gossip rags, give anonymity to anyone who asks because they want to keep their sources.
And so they allow these Democratic operatives and Democratic officials to just manipulate the media, manipulate the public, while hiding who they are.
And this is the kind of thing that the top leadership of the Democratic Party has been doing over the last couple weeks now.
They leak That Nancy Pelosi wants Joe Biden out.
That Chuck Schumer wants Joe Biden out.
That Barack Obama wants Joe Biden out.
But then you go to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Obama, and they all lie.
And they say, no, no.
This is Joe Biden's decision to make.
I haven't been pressuring him in any way.
So here from Axios today, behind the curtains, top Democrats now believe Joe Biden will leave the race.
Quote, several top Democrats privately tell us the rising pressure of party congressional leaders and close friends will persuade President Biden to decide to drop out of the presidential race as soon as this weekend.
The 81-year-old president, now self-isolating with COVID, remains publicly dug in, but privately he's resigned to mounting pressures, bad polls, and unattainable scrutiny, making it impossible to continue his campaign, the Democrats tell us.
Noting that's not coming from Biden or his camp, that's coming from the Democrats who want to force him out.
And they're just saying, yeah, he's close to leaving the race.
He's probably going to do it this weekend.
Quote, his choice is to be one of history's heroes or to be sure of the fact that there'll never be a Biden presidential library, one of the president's close friends told us.
I pray that he does the right thing.
He's headed that way.
For a long time, it was just major billionaire donors inside the Democratic Party threatening to deny him the funding he needs to run a presidential race if he doesn't leave.
Now, it's his close scumbag friends threatening him that he will never have a presidential library, that he will be a disgraced figure in history if he doesn't do what he's told and get out of the race.
And then they're sort of using the carrot as well and saying, if you do get out of the race, we will turn you into a hero of epic proportions.
But you'll notice none of these people are willing to go on the record.
So you have no idea if it's true.
They could be completely lying, making up that Joe Biden is about to leave the race just to turn up the heat.
And you see that these media outlets are all giving them anonymity.
They're all like little rats crawling around in a sewer in the dark, doing their little dirty work.
And the media is helping to protect who they are.
And they're helping to protect this, this deceit.
That you go to these people like Obama, Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the outlets that know they're the ones who are leaking this, allow them to lie and say Nancy Pelosi denied any of this was happening and these media outlets know it's false because they're the ones giving anonymity to Pelosi and her close aides to publish this all in the first place.
It's not anything remotely resembling journalism.
It's pure activism, because they want Biden out of the race as well, because they want more than anything else to ensure Donald Trump doesn't win, and they believe getting Biden out of the race is their only chance.
Here from AP News, and this is from today, Biden is located at home as Obama, Pelosi, and other Democrats push for him to reconsider the 2020 race.
The reporting of this story is based in part on information from almost a dozen people.
A dozen people, all of whom insisted on anonymity to discuss sensitive private deliberations.
Why would you give anonymity to people To say they want Biden out of the race.
Why don't you force them to go on the record and say it?
Why is anonymity merited here?
There's no chance that they're going to be punished, that their lives are going to be ruined.
These are politicians.
They should be on the record.
Instead, they're cowards with the help of these media outlets.
Quote, the Washington Post first reported on Obama's involvement.
In Congress, Democratic lawmakers have begun having private conversations about lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris as an alternative.
One lawmaker said Biden's own advisers are unable to reach a unanimous recommendation about what he should do.
More in Congress are considering joining the others who have called for Biden to drop out.
Obama has conveyed to allies that Biden needs to consider the viability of his campaign, but has also made clear that the decision is one Biden needs to make.
The former president has taken calls in recent days from members of congressional leadership, Democratic governors, and key donors to discuss their concerns about his former vice president.
Biden said Monday he hadn't spoken to Obama in a couple of weeks.
Campaign officials said Biden was even more committed to staying in the race than ever as the calls for him to go mounted.
And senior West Wing aides have had no internal discussions or conversations with the president about Biden dropping out.
So you see what's going on.
Nancy Pelosi, Obama, and Chuck Schumer, the rest, are going to the media and lying and saying Biden's going to make a decision as recently as this week.
We believe that he is accepting the fact that he has to leave.
It's just a question of time.
But then Biden's closest aides in the White House, to whom he listens, are telling these media outlets this is a total lie.
Biden has no intention of leaving.
In fact, he's getting angrier and angrier about what Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are doing to him.
And it's making it less likely that he will leave, not more likely.
Here's CNN from Wednesday, quote, Pelosi privately told Biden that polls show he cannot win and will take down the House.
Biden responded with defensiveness.
Now, obviously, how would they know this unless Nancy Pelosi went and told the media or dispatched somebody to do so what Nancy Pelosi said to Joe Biden and how Biden responded.
Obviously, it's not Biden leaking this.
Quote, the president responded to Pelosi by pushing back, telling Pelosi he had seen polls that indicate he can win, one source said.
Another one of the sources described Biden as getting defensive about the polls.
At one point, Pelosi asked Mike Donilon, Biden's longtime advisor, to get on the line to talk over the data.
Well, the exact date of the conversation was not clear.
One source described it as being within the last week.
Pelosi made waves when she said in an interview last week, quote, it's up to the president to decide if he's going to run.
We're encouraging him to make that decision because time is running out.
Now, time is running short.
Now, obviously, Joe Biden has made that decision.
He's made it repeatedly.
He's always said, I'm not leaving the race.
There's no chance.
The discussion is over.
My decision is made.
And then Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats keep going into the media and pretending that that never happened and saying, we hope President Biden makes a decision shortly.
Just pretending that he hasn't decided because they obviously are trying to push him out of the race.
And by the way, Nancy Pelosi is 84 years old.
She's not the Speaker of the House any longer, but It's sort of ironic that you have 84-year-old Nancy Pelosi and 85-year-old James Clyburn and other people like that all in charge of pushing out someone actually younger than them.
Joe Biden on the ground said he's too old to serve.
Here from the Wall Street Journal, this is yesterday Pelosi's office slams the quote feeding frenzy from the press.
Nancy Pelosi is so angry that there is a feeding frenzy from the press when of course she's the one who's inciting it all.
Quote, after several outlets reported that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told President Biden that polls show his candidacy would hurt down-ballot Democrats, a representative for Pelosi said that reports misrepresented, quote, any conversations the Speaker may have had with the President.
The statement also slammed, quote, the feeding frenzy from the press based on anonymous sources.
The Wall Street Journal hasn't independently verified the reporting.
She's the one using anonymous sources to put all this pressure on Biden.
The media knows this, and then they allow her to lie and say she's angry about anonymous sources and the feeding frenzy.
Quote, Speaker Pelosi respects the confidentiality of her meetings and conversations with the President of the United States, Pelosi's representative said Thursday.
Now my view after the debate was that there was no chance Biden would voluntarily leave the race.
I actually did a live stream the night of the debate.
I watched it earlier today and I confirmed that that's what my main point was, was that, look, Joe Biden has been chasing this presidency and the power and title that goes with it for his entire life.
The idea that he's just going to voluntarily give it up when he finally got hold of it after trying for decades.
Seems very contrary to the character of these politicians.
Like he's going to just sacrifice himself and his lifelong dream of being at the center of power in the White House for the good of the country, as though Joe Biden has ever self-sacrificed for the good of anything other than himself.
But then when I saw just how intense and building and continuous the campaign to force him out was from Democratic pundits, and media outlets who have long been his biggest allies and now the very top leadership of the Democratic Party, Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer, I guess I started believing the reports that Biden was getting softer, he was open to the idea that he was had to leave, that he's on his way to making a decision maybe as soon as this weekend to lead the race.
But Biden and his allies are back to pushing back as strong as they can on this claim, leaving it very uncertain exactly what's happening here.
Here is Senator Chris Coons.
He is a Democrat from Delaware, which is Biden's home state, very close to Joe Biden.
And he said this earlier, quote, I fully support the president.
He told me he's in it to win it.
I'm with him 100% because I know he can beat Trump just like he did last time.
Here is a video with Chris Coons, where he went on CNN a couple days ago, and this is what he said.
Look, when I was on a call with him, with all the campaign co-chairs, I think this was a week ago, Saturday now, one of the things he said was, give it to me straight, folks.
One of the co-chairs started by talking about how great his record is, how much he's accomplished as president.
And he said, that's great.
Thank you.
That's not what we're here to talk about.
I need to hear input.
I read to him two texts that I've received, one from someone well known to both of us, a longtime close friend and supporter, and one someone who I've known for decades.
One saying, keep at it, go fight Joe, we've got your back.
And the other saying, please, Chris, make sure you tell Joe Biden, he needs to drop out.
I'm also 81.
I know that he can't do it.
He's not up to it.
And someone else needs to carry the ball forward.
I have shared that with him.
Others have shared that with him.
His innermost team that spent almost two hours with the Democratic caucus conveyed to the president the concerns raised by many of my colleagues.
And now here he is two days later, saying Biden is not dropping out.
I'm with him 100%.
AOC gave an hour-long rambling, half valley girl, half fake street talk accent that she uses, and she just covered all sorts of things that aren't worth paying any attention to.
But one of the points she made, I don't even know when the last time this happened, but I not only agree with it, but I think it's an important point that she made.
She and Bernie have been the leaders, bizarrely, in being the most loyal to Biden, saying Biden should not drop out, pushing back against the, quote, elites in the Democratic Party that want him to drop out, saying he's our candidate, he should stay.
And that's still AOC's position and still Bernie Sanders' position.
And here she is last night making a point about this campaign of anonymous people to try and drive Joe Biden out of the race.
So what I see right now, and I want you all to know, is that over the last several weeks there have been lots of Democrats who have been Giving little anonymous quotes to the press, to some journalist, to print, and I'm not here to knock the press on it, I'm here to knock my colleagues on it.
Because to me, I think that's, and I'm sorry I'm going to say it because it's after midnight, that's bullshit.
Like, if you have an opinion, say it with your chest and say it in public.
But the idea that you are an elected official and you are supposed to be responsible for a community and you're just gonna like text some journalist on the low and say this is what I think but don't put my name next to it.
What are you here to do?
If that's your opinion and if that's what you think is best for the country, put your name on it, okay?
But instead, it's all this little pick-a-little talk-a-little to whatever, texting some pundit about what they think because they're too...
Cowardly to like come out with a public opinion.
I'm not coming for the people who have made a public statement and put their name on it.
Like, Lord knows I've done plenty of that myself.
I'm talking about people who are too scared to say what they want to say in public, but somehow not afraid to say what they want to say to a journalist so long as they promise not to use their name.
That's a bunch of horseshit.
God, it's amazing.
Even when I agree with 90% of what AOC is saying, that pinged very close to exceeding my ability to listen to her speak.
But I have to say, she has a point.
God, it's amazing.
Even when I agree with like 90% of what AOC is saying, I just felt like being very close to exceeding my ability to listen to her speak.
But I have to say she has a point, and it's a point I've made many, many times over many years.
It is a pathetic, cowardly thing to do.
If you are elected to high office in Washington, to the Congress, to the Senate, and you're too much of a coward to say what you think on the record, and you keep voting.
Doing this little dirty work with your friends in the media, texting them and saying, don't don't tell anyone it was me who said it, but you can quote me off the record or anonymously.
Again, I do criticize the media heavily for that.
But also imagine what a coward you have to be to do that.
Oftentimes just to be like, snotty and they issue this like catty insults, and Politico and Axios give them an anonymity to do that.
Which is even worse.
But to engage in this campaign where they're trying to drive the president, the sitting president, out of the race against his will, and for all the flaws in the Democratic nominating process, which we've covered, the process they chose was one that resulted in Joe Biden being chosen by the voters who were allowed to vote, the tens of millions, as their nominee.
And polls showed overwhelmingly that Democratic voters wanted Biden.
Maybe that would have changed if the Democrats allowed a real nominating process and they had debates.
But that was what Democrats were saying and typically that's what a party wants is to nominate the incumbent, though not always.
I do think it's pathetic.
It is.
It's sickening, actually.
It's so cowardly.
And I agree with AOC strongly there that, you know, if you have something to say, if you want to weigh in on this debate, weigh in with your name.
Now again, I think anonymity is appropriate for powerless people when they come forward with exposing crimes or wrongdoing or lies against powerful people and they could be in jeopardy if their identity is known.
That's not the case here at all.
These are journalists abusing anonymity to get scoops and to serve their sources and make sure that these sources stay as their friends.
Now, as I said, We saw for a while the Biden administration, the Biden White House, Joe Biden himself, just making unambiguously clear that he's not going anywhere.
And then for a while we were hearing these reports, no, now he's different, he's softening up, he's getting ready to leave.
But his top aides in the White House are not only continuing to deny that, but are heaping scorn on those who are doing this.
Andrew Bates, we can put his Twitter bio up, is the White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary and a Deputy Assistant to the President.
So he's basically there to just be a propagandist for the President, that's his job.
And he's someone who works in the White House and he has spent days on Twitter denying claims from his fellow Democrats that Joe Biden is leaving the race.
Here today, Politico posted, the Biden inner circle says, quote, it's moment to moment as defections grow.
And he just denies that and said, that's not true.
Keep the faith.
Here's a Tweet that he retweeted today from M.G.
Lee, who's a reporter, I believe, with CNN, and she published this article, quote, New.
Senior most, the most senior West Wing advisors to the President say they have had no discussions amongst themselves or with President Biden about the President dropping out of the race.
So absolutely denying vehemently all these leaks coming from top Democrats.
He retweeted that as well.
And then here is another retweet.
Or another tweet from Andrew Bates.
There's a headline, quote, Biden to make major announcement in coming days, says the Hill.
And then he just says no.
So right now, you have what appears to be a campaign, a dirty campaign of disinformation and lying by top Democratic leaders aided by their friends in the media to protect them and allow them to lie, to leak continuously things that may not even be true.
And then when they're asked on the record if they're doing it, not only deny it, but let Nancy Pelosi say she's so offended by leaks and the feeding frenzy when she's so obviously behind it all.
How do you let a major political figure knowingly lie that way?
Publish her leaks and then allow her in public to say she's sickened and angered by the leaks.
Or to say she's disgusted by the feeding frenzy when she's the one who's most feeding it.
But that's exactly what's going on.
Maybe Biden will end up dropping out because he's just sick now.
He's with COVID, although he's supposedly getting better.
And he has these lifelong friends who are just heaping scorn on him and trying to do everything possible in this dirty campaign to get him out.
But also Joe Biden is very stubborn.
And it is very possible that he conceives himself not as a byproduct of the Democratic elite, even though that's what he is, but this sort of man of the people and he's fighting the Democratic elites on behalf of the voters that he wants.
And it's very possible that this campaign will actually fortify his determination to stay in the race.
Max Boot is one of the worst people in the Washington media and has been for many, many years.
He's like David Frum or Bill Kristol or people of that kind.
Just an absolute fanatical, sociopathic, bloodthirsty neocon who has cheered every single war that the United States has not only fought but proposed to fight.
He constantly is holding himself as this powerful, strong figure talking about strength all the time.
He's never gotten anywhere near combat or fighting in combat.
He loves to send Americans and their families and other people's kids and people and their families in other countries to go fight and die in the wars that he then runs to a column and speaks in this Churchillian way about the glory of the conflict so that he can feel righteous and powerful to compensate for his internal weakness.
Just one of those kind of neocons.
Very, very standard.
But what he also is is somebody, like most neocons, who the minute you question their wars and say, wait a minute, why are we going to this war?
Why should we go to war in this country?
Will accuse you of being an agent of that foreign country.
It's not that you disagree about whether the US should fight the war.
It's that you must be a sympathizer of Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad or Vladimir Putin.
And the reason why Max Boot went from being a hardcore Republican in the Bush years to now being an overt Democrat and a hater of Donald Trump is because he spent so many years insisting and writing that he had no question that Donald Trump was a secret agent, a spy or agent of the Russian government, even being paid or blackmailed to do it.
Obviously there was no evidence for that.
Robert Mueller, after 18 months, barely alluded to that theory, let alone affirmed it.
But that's his tactic.
He's called me a Russian agent before, worked for the Russian government, Tucker Carlson, many other people.
That's what he does all the time.
As it turns out, he does know someone very well who was an actual secret agent and spy for a foreign government.
It's his wife.
Who just got indicted by the US Justice Department.
In a very detailed affidavit for secretly working as an agent of the South Korean government, helping South Korean spies infiltrate the United States government, and using her access to U.S.
media to disseminate South Korean propaganda for pay that she never disclosed.
Here from the New York Times on Monday, quote, the U.S.
accuses a former CIA analyst of working for South Korea.
Obviously, Matt Booth's wife is a former CIA analyst.
Quote, Sumi Terry, a North Korea expert with the Council on Foreign Affairs, was charged with acting as an agent for Seoul after leaving the intelligence agency.
Sumi Terry, a prominent voice on American foreign policy, had a refined palate.
A love for top-shelf sushi and a taste for designer labels, she likes coats by Christian Dior, handbags by Bottega Vetna and Louis Vuitton, and Michelin-starred restaurants.
And, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, she accepted such luxury goods and other gifts in exchange for serving the South Korean government in Seoul.
Ms.
Terry, a former CIA analyst and a senior fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, It was accused in a 31-page indictment, remember, by the Biden Justice Department, released Tuesday of a years-long effort to assist South Korean spies.
The indictment says she even introduced the spies to congressional staff members, an action that she described as, quote, bringing the wolf in.
She was bringing the wolf into the most sensitive areas of The U.S.
government and she married Max Boot, who has a lot of access in Washington.
Quote, in Ms.
Terry's case, prosecutors said she began operating as a foreign agent in 2013, five years after leaving the CIA.
She was first contacted by an intelligence officer posting as a diplomat for the Korean mission to the UN in New York City, the indictment said, in return for her work over the next decade Ms.
Terry received handbags, clothing, and at least $37,000 in covert payments to the think tank where she was employed at the time.
According to the indictment, federal agents had suspicions regarding Ms.
Terry's contact with Seoul as recently as November 2014 when the FBI called her in for a voluntary interview.
Over the ensuing years, agents would track Ms.
Terry to numerous restaurants and luxury stores in Washington, providing photos of her dining with her handlers and standing next to them at cash registers as they bought her expensive goods.
Several were included in court papers Tuesday.
Ms.
Terry's activities on behalf of South Korea started small and became more ambitious as she worked with three different handlers, the indictment said.
At first, she mainly published opinion articles favorable to South Korea's stance on North Korea, but soon she was facilitating meetings between incoming Trump administration officials and South Korea intelligence agents in 2016.
By 2018, Ms.
Terry was hosting meetings at a think tank at the request of her South Korean handlers, giving them access to U.S.
national security officials, the indictment said.
This is so ironic, isn't it?
That Max boot?
has spent 20 years intensively and incessantly accusing people of being secret agents, undisclosed secret agents for foreign governments when they disagree with them and all alone, all along the woman next to whom he was sleeping and to whom he's married was herself actually what he accused everybody else of being.
And it's not just that it's his wife.
It's somebody who he helped get into the Washington Post, where he's a columnist, someone with whom he co-wrote Washington Post articles, and co-wrote Washington Post articles not only about the government she was serving and getting payments from criminally, according to the DOJ, but he co-wrote articles with her that did nothing but push the propaganda of the South Korean government, including in articles that the indictment explicitly cited
As ones where she called up her handlers and said, I need to get instructions on what we're supposed to say in this article.
One of those is this article in the Washington Post.
It's co-bylined by Max Boot and Sumi Terry.
And the headline is, the nascent trilateral relationship is the best possible answer to China.
Referring to an alliance between the United States, Japan, and South Korea bolstering this alliance that obviously is in South Korea's interest.
Cooperation grows regarding economic security, intelligence, sharing, and military readiness.
And it goes on to argue that not only is it vital that the United States continue to arm and ally with South Korea, but warning that Donald Trump is a danger to the alliance because he sees South Korea as just this waste of money Remember, he poured billions of dollars into it in exchange for nothing, and so he's trying to defeat Donald Trump on behalf of South Korea.
Now, after this indictment came out, the Washington Post has continued to promote Max Booth's articles as though nothing had happened, and I and others raised our voices and said, how can you just ignore this, Washington Post?
You have articles in your paper that, according to the DOJ, were basically written by South Korean intelligence agents.
And given to Sumi Terry, the co-author, in exchange for pay, and you presented it as though it was a legitimate, valid expression of opinion.
And so finally, in response to all this pressure, they finally put an editor's note on top of not just this article, but every other one that she wrote, including she co-wrote with Max Boot.
That says the following, quote, editor's note, July 18th, 2024.
On July 16th, a federal indictment was made public alleging that Sumi Terry had acted as an unregistered agent of the South Korean government beginning in 2013.
If true, this information, this is information that would have been pertinent for the post publication decision.
Oh, do you think?
Ms.
Terry has denied these charges and has asserted through counsel that the allegations in the indictment are unfounded.
But here's the kind of thing they were writing, Max Boot and his ex-CIA wife, who's now accused of being a criminal spy for the government of South Korea.
This was just a couple months ago, May 27, 2024.
Quote, a pro-American trilateral alignment is the best possible answer to the menace posed by the anti-American trilateral alignment of China, Russia, and North Korea.
But because the Japanese-South Korean-U.S.
relationship is so recent and might be imperiled By changes of leadership in those countries.
Although it has little to do with the trilateral relationship, Biden, Yoon, and Kishida are all unpopular, meaning that three leaders of the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
A Trump return to the White House, a Trump return to the White House, they argued, on behalf of the South Korean government and the Washington Post, would be a serious setback for the United States systems of alliances and the trilateral relationship is no exception.
This is the kind of foreign interference in our government, in our elections, that people like Max Boot and everyone else, including the Washington Post, has been warning of when it came to Donald Trump, even though it ended up being false.
This article, that according to the OJ was actually just a disguised propaganda article by the South Korean government to manipulate our elections, goes on, quote, Trump is obsessed with the cost of defending South Korea.
Without considering all of the benefits.
Can we put this next thing up?
Trump is obsessed with the cost of defending South Korea without considering all of the benefits that accrue from a close relationship with the world's 13th largest economy and a stalwart liberal democracy.
As president, Trump demanded that South Korea increase its subsidies for the U.S.
troop presence to more than $1 billion a year, but he still isn't satisfied.
Just to be clear, Trump's point of view is that South Korea is a booming, thriving economy, and their citizens have a higher standard of living than millions of Americans.
And so Trump's argument is, why are we paying to protect you when you're not contributing economically at all, and we're paying for everything?
And he forced them to increase the amount of subsidies, like he's trying to do with NATO, and Max Butin, his spy wife, his ex-CIA wife, Who's accused of being a spy by the DOJ on behalf of South Korea is here to say that Trump is evil for even pressuring the South Korean government to do anything.
Quote, sounding a refrain he has echoed consistently since at least 1990, Trump told Time Magazine in April, quote, I want South Korea to treat us properly.
They've become a very wealthy country.
We've essentially paid for much of their military free of charge.
Trump previously suspended joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises.
In the future, he is unlikely to fund trilateral exercises.
Little wonder that during a recent trip to both Japan and South Korea, we found considerable anxiety in both countries about the prospect of another Trump term.
The Biden administration is now in the midst of talks with South Korea on a new cost-sharing agreement for U.S.
forces in the hope of reaching a deal before Trump can return to office.
All three leaders would do well to act urgently right now to lock in the trilateral process.
I mean, this is nothing more than an article demanding that the United States give as much money to South Korea and to pay for all their defense and not ask them to do anything more by a spy for the South Korean government, according to the DOJ, who's partnering with our husband Max Boot to be able to launder those South Korean government talking points in the Washington Post.
Even though her husband is somebody who never, who goes around incessantly accusing anyone who raises doubts or questions about his views of being a spy or an agent for Russia or whatever.
It's not just in the Washington Post where she wrote, she also wrote in the New York Times this article from 2014, Let North Korea Collapse, where she said, So far, the United States, South Korea, Japan and China, the main countries of the stake on the Korean Peninsula, have responded by adopting a policy of soft containment.
Even as they have tried to curb North Korea's excesses, they have allowed the regime to stay in place.
They fear that its demise would be too destabilizing and that the peninsula's reunification would mean crippling economic and social costs for South Korea.
But this is a blankered view because the long-term benefits of North Korea's collapse, both strategic and economic, far outweigh short-term costs.
So she's essentially arguing here that the U.S.
engaged in regime change against the government of North Korea, a government with a vast stockpile of dangerous nuclear weapons in order to benefit South Korea.
Now, one of the really fascinating parts of this story, because I'm sure the New York Times and the Washington Post are going to say we had no idea, is that there is this satirical account on Twitter that's been around for quite a while under the name Richard M. Nixon.
It's at Dick Nixon and sort of gives voice to or tries to channel Nixon's thought process.
And yet in 2014, June 16, 2014, more than 10 years ago, this account directed this tweet to Sumi Terry, Max Boot's wife, now accused of being a spy.
And he said, following, quote, "How much did the South Korean intelligence service pay you to write that trash in the Times?" The trash saying, oh, we should let the North Korean government collapse.
We should help it fall and then reunify it all under South Korea.
How did this account know that she was getting paid by South Korean intelligence to publish insane pro-South Korea propaganda in the New York Times, and yet the New York Times, the Washington Post didn't know.
This is from 2014, that tweet.
Just to underscore this story here from the Washington Post, Max booed, and I could show you articles like this all night, January 13, 2019.
Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset.
Imagine you're married to an asset of a foreign government, and you go around accusing other people of that with no evidence while you're next to and co-authoring with a woman who actually is your wife. .
He says, quote, this is hardly beyond a reasonable doubt case that Trump is a Russian agent.
Certainly not in the way that Robert Hansen or Aldrich Ames were, but it is a strong circumstantial case.
That Trump is, as former acting CIA director Michael Morell and former CIA director Michael Hayden warned during the 2016 campaign, quote, an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation or a useful tool who is manipulated by Moscow.
If Trump isn't actually a Russian agent, he is doing a pretty good imitation of one.
I mean, who would know better than Max Boot?
And then here he is on CNN doing the same thing.
There you see the caption on CNN, "18 Reasons Why Trump May Be a Russian Agent." Financial ties to Russia, election hack to favor Trump, all the, Russia if you're listening, 101 contacts, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Rogers, all the crap.
The conspiracy theories, the falsified conspiracy theories that dominated our discourse for years drowned our politics in it.
A CIA, FBI, false conspiracy theory laundered through the Washington Post and the New York Times.
They gave themselves Pulitzers for it, designed to destroy the Trump presidency.
And here was Max Boot on CNN, accusing Trump of likely being a Russian agent, while his wife was actually that for South Korea the entire time.
I mean, like I said, The universe is rarely this just.
You rarely see karmic justice so satisfying, so perfect.
I mean, imagine someone telling you three years ago that it's going to turn out that Max Boot's own wife is a criminally concealed agent of a foreign power while his whole career is based on accusing others of that.
And that he co-wrote op-eds with her.
He brought her into the Washington Post to put his own name on these articles that the GSA says were part of the criminal scheme.
How can Max Boot just say it at the Washington Post?
I mean, I get that these are accusations, but certainly some response to a huge journalist scandal on the part of the Washington Post and on the part of Max Boot, and it's also a deeply, deeply satisfying one.
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