The Daily Herold: 8/4/26 - Birthday Show and the CCP Back Channel Bombshell

Badlands Media · Aug 4, 2026 · 57m

Jon Herold celebrates his 36th birthday with a lighthearted, slower newsday, opening with chat banter and sponsor shoutouts before digging into a striking story about retired American four star generals who allegedly ran a decades long back channel with a Chinese military intelligence front, some reportedly ending up on China's payroll. He also covers Trump's public frustration with DC's US Attorney Jeanine Pirro over a reflecting pool vandalism case, a former FBI agent accused of stealing crypto and asking ChatGPT how to hide it, Putin signing Russia's first comprehensive crypto regulation…