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Trump Promised the Smoking Gun. He Handed the Country 270 Pages of Nothing. · Uncensored Objection

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  SPEAKER_00: You were promised proof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hard, undeniable proof.
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  SPEAKER_00: On Thursday night,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump walked in front of the entire country and pledged to hand you the evidence
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  SPEAKER_00: behind a claim he has repeated for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: The claim of a stolen 2020 election and a voting system hijacked by foreign powers
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  SPEAKER_00: and hidden operators inside the government.
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  SPEAKER_00: You leaned in.
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  SPEAKER_00: The evidence never came.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump described his address as a mission to rebuild your confidence in American elections.
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  SPEAKER_00: For most of the roughly 25 minutes he stood at the podium,
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  SPEAKER_00: he worked to tear your confidence down.
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  SPEAKER_00: A broken election system has been one of his favorite themes going back
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  SPEAKER_00: to early 2016, and on Thursday, he returned to familiar ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Great damage has been done to our country, he told you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said your elections were left open to being rigged and stolen,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he said the trust of the American people had slipped away,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he warned the country must not let the situation stand.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's just one problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Almost everything he said Thursday night was a lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's sad because America deserves more from its president.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Mitch Jackson and I've been trying cases for 40 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the audio version of my Uncensored Objection Substack and the title
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  SPEAKER_00: of this episode is Trump Promised the Smoking Gun.
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  SPEAKER_00: He Handed the Country 270 Pages of Nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: The documents his own administration posted to back him up tell a different story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier assessments from the intelligence community land in the same calm place.
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  SPEAKER_00: One file posted on the White House website states the finding in plain language.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale
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  SPEAKER_00: to change an election result.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump declassified a stack of intelligence reports,
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  SPEAKER_00: rushed emails between officials at the FBI and other agencies,
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  SPEAKER_00: and formal assessments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, China looked at modest efforts to shape opinion inside the United States
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  SPEAKER_00: and pulled down publicly available voter rolls.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Publicly available voter rolls from several states.
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  SPEAKER_00: No voting machine was touched.
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  SPEAKER_00: No ballot was altered.
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  SPEAKER_00: The material matched exactly what the people running election security remembered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Timothy Howe,
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  SPEAKER_00: a retired general who held four-star rank and spent years through 2024 deep inside
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  SPEAKER_00: the work to protect elections, put a fine point on the matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said his teams found no area serious enough to raise concerns about
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  SPEAKER_00: an actual effect on the outcome of the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Court cases and state audits had already reached the same place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now watch what Trump did not claim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Standing in front of the nation, he never argued the paperwork showed he won the 2020 election.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's interesting, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: In his view, elections are rigged and stolen and that the trust of the public has been lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe the trust of the public has been lost because of all
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  SPEAKER_00: the false information that's coming from his lips and from his administration over
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  SPEAKER_00: the last 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's the real problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last night,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump asked for repairs to weak spots in electronic voting systems so
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  SPEAKER_00: the country never watches a stolen election again.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said voting today sits in bad shape across many states and he pledged to work
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  SPEAKER_00: with states and local offices to patch known technical weaknesses before
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  SPEAKER_00: the midterms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look hard at the record on this exact point.
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  SPEAKER_00: At Trump's discretion, the FBI Task Force on Foreign Influence has been completely shut down.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence slashed a team built to warn
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  SPEAKER_00: about foreign meddling.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been completely hollowed out.
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  SPEAKER_00: He handed the acting director of national intelligence job to Bill Pulte,
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  SPEAKER_00: who runs the Federal Housing Finance Agency
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  SPEAKER_00: and brings absolutely no intelligence experience to the role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Patching Holes and Testing Election Machines describes the exact mission,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,
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  SPEAKER_00: before Trump gutted it in 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: He then sent its former director,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christopher Krebs, to the Justice Department for investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Krebs is the official who publicly called the 2020 election,
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  SPEAKER_00: and listen carefully, the most secure in the nation's history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me say that one more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The most secure in the nation's history.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the former director of the Infrastructure Security Agency before Trump gutted it in 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last night,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump laid out a run of allegations,
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  SPEAKER_00: none supported by facts, about foreign interference in the 2020 vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: He put the China figure at 220 million U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: voter files and called the breach the largest compromise of election data
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  SPEAKER_00: in history.
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  SPEAKER_00: He described a deep state scheme built to bury the information from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quote, Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden.
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  SPEAKER_00: End quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what he said,
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  SPEAKER_00: telling you the details never reached him as president,
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  SPEAKER_00: never reached anyone, and to the best of anyone's knowledge, never reached Congress.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of that's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: China purchased 2020 voter data from about seven states,
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  SPEAKER_00: a fully legal buy,
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  SPEAKER_00: something anyone can do,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the voter registration list sat out in the open in many places ready to download
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  SPEAKER_00: or purchase.
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  SPEAKER_00: North Carolina posts its list online.
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  SPEAKER_00: Access to public voter data hands no one the power to change a result.
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  SPEAKER_00: Former intelligence officials have explained the purpose behind China's collection.
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  SPEAKER_00: China gathered the material to sharpen influence campaigns aimed
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  SPEAKER_00: at shaping how voters see things.
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  SPEAKER_00: The documents show early Chinese curiosity about influence operations and make clear
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  SPEAKER_00: that Beijing chose not to interfere in the race.
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  SPEAKER_00: The picture on the machines themselves stayed steady.
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  SPEAKER_00: China did not break into the voting databases
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  SPEAKER_00: the way foreign hackers had pierced American telecom networks,
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  SPEAKER_00: the defense industrial base, and the power grid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump also pointed to reporting on Venezuela.
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  SPEAKER_00: He described a CIA report of a plot to help the Maduro regime
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  SPEAKER_00: and claimed Venezuela digitally rigged elections in Venezuela in 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reporting concerned Venezuela's own elections and its own machines,
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  SPEAKER_00: not machines in America.
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  SPEAKER_00: John Solomon,
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  SPEAKER_00: an election denier and member of Trump's task force who helped run
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  SPEAKER_00: the declassification, spoke to reporters outside the White House.
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  SPEAKER_00: Solomon acknowledged no votes were changed in the 2020, 2022, or 2024 U.S. elections.
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  SPEAKER_00: Asked whether Venezuela tampered with American voting machines,
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  SPEAKER_00: Solomon said no and placed the activity strictly inside Venezuela's own systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: One fresh assertion last night came from the Department of Homeland Security,
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  SPEAKER_00: according to Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: The letters claimed more than 256,000 non-citizens sat on the voter rolls
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  SPEAKER_00: in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
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  SPEAKER_00: The claim arrived with absolutely no supporting evidence attached.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: No supporting evidence attached.
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  SPEAKER_00: And state officials from each of those states have pushed back within hours claiming
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  SPEAKER_00: that those assertions were completely false.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing happened on Thursday night,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that's that Russia almost vanished from the script.
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  SPEAKER_00: He raised the subject line a single time in passing, reading from an intelligence assessment.
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  SPEAKER_00: He spent the bulk of the speech on Chinese efforts to smear him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reports he personally declassified carry references to Russian efforts to sway voters too.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for some reason, that didn't come up last night.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to remember that Trump's posture towards Russia has stayed consistent for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: He treats President Putin as an equal.
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  SPEAKER_00: His Justice Department is pushing an investigation into what he calls
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  SPEAKER_00: a grand conspiracy by Democrats to link him to Russia.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gestured at the theory during the speech with an odd aside about burn bags,
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  SPEAKER_00: the bags used to destroy government documents no longer worth keeping and
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  SPEAKER_00: about former President Barack Obama somehow being involved with all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the president.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was in charge.
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  SPEAKER_00: He declassified some of the material in early July of this year,
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  SPEAKER_00: right before the headlined celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the signing of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Declaration of Independence.
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  SPEAKER_00: The obvious question follows on its own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did he sit on all of this back then?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why wasn't this information released sooner?
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  SPEAKER_00: His answer put the blame on his intelligence briefers, his own intelligence briefers.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said everything of importance got kept away from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He cited one single email,
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  SPEAKER_00: one single email describing how information headed
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  SPEAKER_00: for presidential daily briefs had been deliberately massaged.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not deleted, changed, altered, massaged, toned down, dumbed down.
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  SPEAKER_00: He left out a key fact about the timing.
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  SPEAKER_00: When someone wrote the memo,
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  SPEAKER_00: His own director,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump's own director of national intelligence,
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  SPEAKER_00: was John Ratcliffe,
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  SPEAKER_00: who held the post from May 2020 through the end of the first term in January 2021.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ratcliffe now runs the CIA for Trump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ratcliffe endorsed Thursday's release of documents that Trump referred to
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  SPEAKER_00: during his speech in a carefully worded statement saying
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  SPEAKER_00: the files shed further light on China's intentions and Venezuela's He never claimed
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  SPEAKER_00: or said that foreign activity of any kind changed any elections,
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  SPEAKER_00: including the 2020 results.
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  SPEAKER_00: Strip away the foreign intrigue and you reach the actual request.
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  SPEAKER_00: For weeks, Trump has leaned on Congress to pass a sweeping election bill, the Save America Act.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bill would force documentary proof of citizenship to register,
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  SPEAKER_00: require photo identification at the polls, and sharply limit voting by mail.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've written about it extensively here at the Substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Use the search bar, type in Save America.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll see why it hasn't passed in the Senate and why it's such a terrible bill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, last night on Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: he once again pressed Congress, specifically the Senate, to get the bill passed.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact,
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  SPEAKER_00: he said, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: the only reason you would not do it,
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  SPEAKER_00: he means pass the bill, is you want to cheat, end quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: He fails to tell the American people, That it's just a bad bill.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's un-American.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would prohibit American citizens from being able to vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be that as it may,
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  SPEAKER_00: that was one of the key purposes of last night's speech,
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  SPEAKER_00: in addition to setting the stage to be able to claim election interference
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  SPEAKER_00: and election cheating when he loses majority control of Congress in
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  SPEAKER_00: the midterms later this year, which is what is going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here's the piece tying the whole night together.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dangers he spent his speech describing foreign influence campaigns and
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  SPEAKER_00: the threat of hackers reaching local election offices share almost no overlap with
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  SPEAKER_00: the fixes inside the Save American Bill.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bill both answers and creates a different set of concerns.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, you do not need a stack of old,
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  SPEAKER_00: redacted, classified files to try and see what's happening here.
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  SPEAKER_00: A speech promised proof of a stolen election.
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  SPEAKER_00: The government's own paperwork,
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  SPEAKER_00: the documentation they've produced,
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  SPEAKER_00: describes elections that are proper and are accurate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Foreign governments poked around at the edges.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always been that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing new here, folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: No machine flipped.
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  SPEAKER_00: No ballot changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people who guarded the system said so out loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the courts and the audits backed them.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was nothing new in this speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just more of the fear and division that we're used to hearing over and over
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  SPEAKER_00: from this convicted felon and civilly adjudicated sexual abuser.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my takeaway is as follows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pay attention to the space between what gets said on stage and what sits in the documents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read past the headlines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check your own voter registration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask your local election officials what real security looks like and ask them why
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  SPEAKER_00: the teams built to protect the vote keep getting dismantled by this administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Share this episode with the people in your life who take these claims at face value,
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  SPEAKER_00: because they shouldn't, and remind everyone that your vote holds real weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your attention holds even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Use both.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make sure that you and your family and friends are all registered to vote and
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  SPEAKER_00: then vote in this year's midterm elections.