7-17-26 Hour 1 - Newsom says Trump Election Speech disqualifying

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It was not accusations of voter fraud in Georgia, which some of us might have said we expected to hear after all of the shenanigans that went on in 2020 in the state of Georgia. It was not an indictment of Pennsylvania, even though those of us who know people in Pennsylvania who witnessed some of the craziness that surrounded the vote county in Pennsylvania expected that. No. This was a speech that talked at great length about serious questions that have to do with our elections and our election integrity. And as we are fewer than four months from the midterm elections, the left would have you think that this was a great violation. of the people's trust. In fact, Gavin Newsom, one of the guys who thinks he's going to be a 2028 contender, Gavin Newsom could not wait to get out on social media with a post about Trump's speech last night. Considering it happened at 6 o'clock in the evening on the West Coast, it was still daylight out so Gavin Newsom could put on his casual clothes and get out in his backyard and hold his phone up and make what is one of the... I think one of the more bizarre claims against what President Trump had to say last night. Gavin Newsom, cut 15, please, guys. Well, the only thing missing tonight in Donald Trump's speech was tinfoil. This was a legitimate 25th Amendment moment, the ramblings of a mad king. Don't get me wrong. Foreign interference in our elections, that's a real thing. Nothing about what you watch tonight, though, was real. It's make-believe. He wants to rig the election in 2026. He knows he's going to lose. He needs to rig the election before one vote was cast. That's what that whole thing was about tonight. This is a serious and profound moment where we can either fall prey to cynicism, fear, and anxiety, or we can step up and step in, mobilize, organize, not agonized, and turnout in record numbers this November and end Donald Trump's presidency as we know it. We can do that together. See, I think that last portion is what the Democrats are focused on, ending Donald Trump's presidency. He does add, as we know it, because they know that if they do get control of the House and or the Senate, that Donald Trump will effectively become a lame duck. But for what Gavin Newsom said yesterday, saying that this was fiction, the people of California, the people who watch this. this video of Gavin Newsom, well, they likely didn't get to see the address. They likely didn't hear President Trump talking about the quarter of a million foreign nationals who are not American citizens who were registered to vote all around the country in federal elections.

So that's kind of a problem, I would think. And considering the fact that so many of the blue states are not turning over election data, this is just from red states that cooperated with the administration on trying to make sure our voter roles are legitimate. That's a problem. And the White House declassified a bunch of emails yesterday that showed members of the NSA. deliberately hid intel assessments from President Trump in 2020. Intel assessments that said China was trying to influence the election in favor of Biden, deliberately messaged. One, they're not, they're redacted in some places to keep identity held, but one national intelligence officer in the cyber division wrote, I think I mentioned to you that there is some pending that makes it clear China has been caught conducting election influence. This is in an NSA document recently declassified by the president yesterday. At least that's how it was described to us. But as you scroll up, note that the NSA is, quote, deliberately messaged our one pending PDB president's daily briefing to avoid any direct links to the election. That is a quote from one of the documents declassified last night that said the president's daily briefing was deliberately massaged, meaning they changed it. To avoid any direct links to the election, the information they had. And this goes on and on and on. This is just one of the many documents that was released. So for Gavin Newsom to say that this is Bravo Sierra, for Gavin Newsom to say that this is just not real, that this is fictional, well, he's lying to people. He's lying. And it truly is disgusting. It truly is, to me, election interference. And for anyone not to cover this is speaking quite openly that they don't trust the process.

I'd love to get your take on it, a triple-8-630-965, 888-630-9-625. Let's grab one before we get in here. David in Woodbridge, Virginia. Welcome to the Chris Plant Show, David. Michael, thank you very much. I noticed you eased Chris this morning. I was listening to him and talk about flying the F-16s and F-18s. Relocated, obviously, from, but usually the call-in from the People's Republic of Falls Church, but taking a breather down here in beautiful Trump country, Southern Manassas and Prince William County. In my opinion, Michael, the president did not go far enough last night. I was kind of moderately... Not impressed. He could have mentioned some of the things that several serious scholars know about how the election was rigged in 2020, including the famous hammer and scorecard technologies that were created by a CIA contractor to manipulate foreign elections and then co-opted and used by two very well-known traitors in this country, one who was former... Station Chief in Saudi Arabia and the CIA and then became head of the CIA. I think you know who I meet and his buddy in crime, J.C., who was retired Air Force Lieutenant General. who co-opted this technology to create the way to manipulate elections here in this country and transfer that to a foreign country, a large country in Asia, as we might understand, and a couple other countries. David, to be fair, in a brief speech like this, it's kind of hard to dive that deeply into kind of very heavy statistical information, but I do think the president... could have been benefited in his presentation, if that's even a term to be used. He could have gotten great benefit out of some visual aids to show just how many. people were affected by this, just how many? If you have a quarter of a million votes that are people that are registered to vote here that shouldn't be, that means another quarter million legitimate voters votes will be canceled out by them. And now you've got a half a million that we know about. And I think sometimes those big posters we see in the House and the Senate when they hold them up and do a little grandstanding, some of that I think is beneficial. But if we start getting into the deep dives on this, a lot of people's eyes glaze over because we all got exhausted from the talk of the election meddling in 2020. And we never got any traction on it. So this is one of the things I think overall the people get tired of. I do think the issue is critical.

Towards securing our elections, I do believe the president tried to make a case at the very end that when he said you need to call your senator and your congressperson and tell them past the Save America Act. It's really only about the Senate. But we'll see. We'll see what the people think. AAA 6309625. Chris is on holiday. It's Michael Pelka in sitting in for sitting in for my friend Chris Plant here on the Chris Plant show. It is Chris Plant. Mike Opelka in for my friend Chris Plant. He's on vacation. I'm happy to be here. He's getting away from D.C. and the Canadian smoke-filled, ash-filled air that is blanketing the northeast. I know we're proposing some kind of bill to send to Canada for the cleanup on this, and they're going to tell us, go away. I'm sure that they're going to tell us to pound sand on it. But it is one of those things that if you have breathing problems and you're in the northeast, try and stay inside today. Listen to the radio, at least for the next couple of hours. We've got a lot to get to more on the president's address last night, what the media covered, what they didn't cover. I think at the end of the day, the president was trying to make this case. Our elections are not secure. Our elections are still a hot mess, all kinds of potential problems that could be violating what we like to consider a sacred process. And he called for people to reach out. out to their elected officials to ask them, please, pass the Save America Act. I'm dubious. I don't think they're going to get that across the finish line. I'd be happy if they did. But until you tidy up the elections, there are going to be questions about the integrity in those elections. We'll do a deeper dive on that. Plus, we have to talk about the crazy debate. between the candidates to replace Graham Platner for the Maine Senate race, the Democrat candidate who had to drop out, because, you know, the Nazi tattoo, the alleged rape, all that problem. Well, Maine has certainly stepped up and given us quite a selection of candidates. But the voters won't get to pick them. 600 delegates will select. who will run against Susan Collins. We'll get into all of it. It's Opelka in for Plant on the Chris Plant show.

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