Ep. 2466 - China Declared War on Our Elections. This is How We Should Respond
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Media aren't covering that threat. No one seems particularly interested in covering that threat. And it is, in fact, the greatest external threat our country has ever faced. That threat is China. They're a threat to America. They have lots of allies here in the United States. Bernie Sanders does open events with the Chinese. Hassan Piker and his actual Chinese flag in the background. Zoran Mamdani, China-friendly Democratic Socialists of America. And yes, a lot of big corporations who want to do business over there. China must be defeated. We'll get into what China is doing, what we need to do to respond, and somehow Maine Democrats are succeeding in finding someone even weirder than Graham Platner to substitute for Graham Platner in that Senate race.
We'll get into all of it. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
All righty, so last night, the president did a primetime address. It was mostly about election security. It was about 25, 27 minutes, and it was mostly a call to pass the SAVE Act. I get it. We are leading up to the election. He's trying to activate the base to go out and vote in large numbers in the midterms, presumably to preserve the possibility of passing the SAVE Act in the last couple of years of his term, because it looks unlikely to pass right now. Well, in the speech, the president unleashed some information about the voter rolls and the insecurity of current voter ID rules and a lot of other issues. And we should check all of it out. And President Trump is, of course, totally right when he says that election security is deeply, deeply important.
I mean, I take this stuff seriously. You should take it serious. We all should take it seriously. If we don't trust our elections, we have a systemic problem that is almost unfixable in the United States. And of course, I'm not particularly shocked that America's enemies take advantage of our open society, our good and just and exceptionally liberty oriented society.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:41
2
What did President Trump claim about election meddling in his primetime address?
3:41–22:55
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How extensive is China’s alleged acquisition of U.S. voter files and why does it matter?
22:55–1:06:00
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What evidence and declassified documents suggest U.S. intelligence downplayed China’s influence operations?
1:06:00–1:18:00
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