Chinese Communist Spies in the Democrat party, plus Virginia Redistricting Decision Causes Dem Meltdown

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All right, Senator, let's start by going back in history. We have seen a lot of really significant infiltration into our government going through elected officials with China. China spends an incredible amount of money spying in the United States of America, but we've never heard about an elected official actually working for the CCP until what we've seen in LA. But I do think we need to set the stage so people understand what we've witnessed in this major. this mayor technically outside of L.A. In a very plush area of California is not only shocking, but it tells you just how much the CCP is willing and wanting to get involved in our politics in this country. And there was even bribery that came up in Washington, D.C. this past week, offering 10 grand to someone that's on a committee to one of the staffers that actually is supposed to be investigating China trying to have influence in the United States of America. Look, there is a systematic effort by the Chinese Communist government to undermine the United States of America to undermine United States government. And in particular, they've targeted the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party is apparently open for business. Now, if you look at the latest facts, I'm going to read from the press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Los Angeles. The mayor of Arcadia has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China, the PRC, the Justice Department announced today. Eileen Wang, 58 of Arcadia, is charged via information with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government. Now, You could hear the Democrat partisans. You could hear the media say, oh, this is a partisan attack by the Trump Department of Justice. They're just going after Democrats. There is no chance this elected Democrat mayor is an agent working for the Chinese communist government. Well, let me read you the next paragraph. In a related filing, Wang has agreed to plead guilty. to the felony count. In other words, she's admitting it, which comes with a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. Wang was elected in November 22 to the Arcadia City Council, a five-person governing body from which the mayor is selected on a rotating basis. Quote, individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy, said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Asyley. The plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend our homeland against China's effort to corrupt our government. By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interest of the Chinese government. Let this serve as a clear warning. Individuals who act on behalf of foreign governments to influence our democracy will be identified, investigated, and brought to justice.

According to the plea agreement from late 2020 through 2022, Wang and Yao Ning Mike Sun, 65 at Chino Hills, worked at the direction and control of the PRC government officials and coordinated with U.S.-based individuals to promote the PRC's interests by, among other things, promoting pro-PRC propaganda in the United States. Sun is already serving a four-year federal prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October 2025 to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government. Wang and Sun worked together to operate U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese American community. Wang and Son received and executed directives from the PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website. For example, in June of 2021, a PRC official contacted Wang and other individuals via the Wii chat encrypted messaging application with pre-written news articles. In other words, the Chinese Communist Party wrote the news articles. including a PRC official written essay in the Los Angeles Times that stated, Chinese stance on the Jin Yang issue. There is no genocide in Jin Yang. There is no such thing as forced labor in any production activity, including cotton production, spreading such rumor to do defame China, destroy Xinjiang stability and stability, weaken local economy, suppress China's development. Minutes later. Wang posted the article on our own website and responded to the PRC official with a link to the article on our website. The others in the group chat did the same. The PRC official responded, so fast, thank you everyone. Now, this pattern, and by the way, it goes on and on with repeated instances of this, this is not a unique problem. So let me say two things. Number one, Ben, Have you heard a single Democrat denounce the fact that an elected Democrat mayor in California? Yeah. Was a now admitted and soon to be convicted? agent of the Chinese Communist Party. Have you heard a single Democrat saying a negative word about that? No, and I think you even go a step further than that, and you say the reason why is because it seems like the Chinese Communist Party and the Democratic Party are almost one the same in so many of these instances. They've gotten a free pass for years. Yeah, look, I don't want to go that far. I think that's an overstatement. But let's take some of the facts. So Senator Diane Feinstein, long time. Exhibit A of how I would fight back. So make it for me. Look, long time Democrat Senator from California. She had a Chinese spy working in her office as her driver, like taking her everywhere. He's a Chinese spy. Eric Swalwell, who just resigned from Congress and disgrace. He dated a Chinese spy, Fang Fang.

A top aide for New York governor, Kathy Hochul, was a secret Chinese agent. Now, this is a pattern. You've got California, you've got New York. You've got a clear effort. Listen, all right, when I was elected 14 years ago, I arrived in D.C. And I began saying then, I think the single greatest long-term geopolitical threat to the United States. is communist China. Yeah. Now, Ben, when I started saying that, that was a lonely view in Washington. Yeah. Every single Democrat disagreed with me, and most of the Republicans disagreed with me. Most of them, they looked at China. They saw nothing but dollar signs as far as the eye could see. They just saw money to be made. Yeah, economic growth. It was all about the money. It was all about the cash. It was all about cheap goods. It was all about expansion. Now, I will say over these 14 years, I think my view has been vindicated powerfully. More and more people, most Republicans have opened their eyes to this, and you are seeing some Democrats. But what does it say that the Chinese government is able to infiltrate to put Chinese spies on the staff of sitting Democrat senators, is able to send Chinese spies to have sexual relations with... prominent Democrats. And here are on top committees. That's one thing I think people don't understand. They target people that have access to significant U.S. information. They're not wasting their time with some low-level person. And to elect... a Chinese spy as a mayor in a U.S. town, I'm not aware of any instance of that happening in our history. Yeah. And by the way, you know what's interesting about this case. And I don't know if you, if you heard this, but I was briefed about this earlier today. I was doing a TV hit. And they were like, they were like, we want to get into just how good China is. They literally altered and changed the way she looked for the campaign. posters and billboards and the stuff that was up about her. Like, China went all in, apparently, to make sure she got elected. And they even changed how she looked to make her look better than she was to hopefully give her a better chance to win. Like, this is not some low-level, you know, group of people in China. They're all in to try to win elections in America when they're involved in it. Wait, Ben, you're saying that's wrong.

So my re-elect campaign that showed me a 6-5 and blonde and ripped like a star of Baywatch. Was there a problem with that? In fact, that was my idea. If I remember correctly, I was one said, we got to make tech priests look better. To be clear, you were the body model for that. Yes, of course. AI is really quite incredible. AI is brilliant. It was made in China, really, right? All right. So you might ask, all right, mayor of Arcadia, Chinese spy. Did they get anything for that? Like, what was the benefit? Okay, posted some Chinese websites. Let me read to you a story from NBC, Los Angeles last year. 21 children, some birthed by surrogate mothers, found in Arcadia home in child abuse investigation. A couple was arrested in connection with a child abuse investigation that led authorities to their Arcadia, California home. That would be the same town that this Chinese spy was the mayor of, where they found more than 20 young children, some of whom were birthed by surrogate mothers, according to police. Police say they're investigating whether the children found in the home of the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles were part of a surrogacy scam. the home's residence. Sylvia Zhang, 38, and Guzhan Zhuang, 65, were released from custody pending further investigation. It's not clear how many children at the home were born to surrogate mothers, but one of the mothers was found in Texas by a bioethics watchdog group. The woman said she was misled into thinking the child was the only child who would be taken in at the Arcadia residence. This is a serious threat. And I think we ought to ask, why is the Democrat Party so open to this? Why are they so susceptible? What it is about their policies? And I think the reason is, if you look at the major interest groups that support the Democrat Party, you have big business, you have big tech, you have big Hollywood, and you have big universities. Yeah. All four of those are in bed with communist China. In a major way. And so when their supporters say, hey, this Chinese communist is a great person, it is, there are far too many officials in the Democrat Party that are open to that argument. I want to talk something else about deterrence here, and that is something that it was glaring to me. I always look at cause and effect. And when you're reading that first article, there's two people involved. One got apparently five years. The other gets 10. Now, if you serve 65, 70%, depending on the sentencing guidelines for federal crimes, then she'll get out in probably six and a half, seven years. He'll get out in two and a half, three. And that's like if you think about what they were doing, the risks they're taking. And even if they get busted and get the maximum Senate, Senator, they still have a life ahead of them. Like, this is not...

like, you know, going to jail for 30 years or 40 years or even 20 years. I mean, five years down to two and a half, three, 10 down to six and a half, maybe house arrest, good behavior. Like, I got to ask the question, what the hell are we doing as a country where they're sentencing guidelines? If you're an American citizen, you're spying for an adversary of the United States, America, I don't care if it's Iran, I don't care if it's Russia, I don't care if it's China. And you are committing espionage. By the way, it used to be a big deal. How are we not bulking up these sentencing guidelines to where there might actually be a moment we think maybe this isn't worth it to go work for the Chinese Communist Party or the Russians or the Iranians because I don't want to go to jail for the rest of my life if I get caught? Look, fully agree. The idea that you would have an elected mayor in the United States serving as a spy. for our enemy, for the Chinese communists, the maximum she can face under current law is 10 years in jail. She may well get substantially less than that. That is not much of a deterrent. I think we ought to ratchet up that punishment. And here's another example of how widespread this is. This is an article from the New York Times. He offered a lawmakers aid, quick cash. Was he spying for China? When a man identifying himself as Chris Chen reached out this winter to an aid on a House committee focused on threats from China, he came armed with a lucrative offer. The staff member, Mr. Chen proposed, could earn $10,000 or more by barely lifting a finger. All he would need to do is agree to phone calls every other week to share information about the committee's work and U.S. foreign policy about China. Insights into U.S. trade or national security issues, including the Trump administration's plans for Venezuela in the aftermath of the January military operation there, would be especially valuable, Mr. Chen said. To sweeten the pot, Mr. Chen repeatedly promised to send the aid $2,000 up front. The offer seemed too good to be true. Instead of quietly accepting the deal, the aid... whose identity the New York Times agreed to withhold because he works on sensitive policy issues related to China, reported it to his bosses on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. The panel quickly concluded that Mr. Chen was not the Singapore-based business consultant he claimed to be, but instead was likely a Chinese intelligence officer or contractor seeking a new recruit. Rather than cut off contact, the committee's Republican majority staff agreed to keep talking to Mr. Chen. They recorded a series of calls this winter to learn more about Mr. Chen's tactics and interests. Transcripts of those calls, which the committee shared with the times alongside some of the recorded audio, depict a determined, at times impatient individual, eager to earn the trust of his mark and get down to business. Mr. Chen mixes holiday greetings with elaborate questions about manufacturing in Vietnam and Mexico and the future of Venezuela's oil industry. This is a pattern, whether it is trying to recruit spies who are staffers on Capitol Hill, or whether it is placing spies as staffers to Democrat senators, or whether it is sending honeypots to sleep.

with Democrat elected officials like Eric Swalwell, or whether it is in this instance, and this is the most brazen, electing a Chinese communist spy as a mayor, a Democrat mayor, this is a concerted effort, and we need to be serious fighting this. I want to take a moment and ask you to help the people in Israel with my friends at the IFCJ working right now on the ground for all those in need. When we talk about Israel, we're not just talking about a place. We're talking about a people connected to a promise, a promise made by God. One, he has never broken, and one that continues even today. Because God's character doesn't change. What he begins, he sustains. What he promises, he fulfills. And that matters today. Right now in Israel, families run to shelters as siren sound. Now, this isn't just a crisis. It's a call to respond. For Christians, caring for Jewish people isn't rooted in politics. It's rooted in trust in a God who keeps his word. So we don't stay distant. We step in with prayer and practical help. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground, bringing food, caring for the vulnerable. and reminding people they're not alone. This is what it looks like to align your heart with gods, to pray, to show up, and to care. So join us in praying for peace of Jerusalem and for the people who need it right now. Visit prayifcj.org. That's prayifcj.org. Why is the Democratic Party so quiet on this? Why are they not condemning this? Why are they not openly talking about it? Why is the media not discovering talking about this? It's part of the reason why we love doing this show. I want to move to Virginia. And by the way, Ben, I do want to say, you know, when you pitched to me last week that we should say verdict is sponsored by China prison camps, I thought it was a persuasive argument. And you did say that someone offered you a bucket of cash. But I, for one, I'm glad. It takes more than two grand, my friend. More than two grand. Now, look, if they offered to let you go on the pro tennis circuit. Yes, yes. I love you, man, but you'd sell yourself out to Communist China to go on the pro tennis circuit. No, no, never, never. I'm too pro. If anyone ever came to me and offered me money to be a spy, like they might be the dumbest person, like a spy in the world. How about if you got to win Wimbledon? Hell no. I never been on this show before. If you're not watching right now, I just gave the number one salute. Like, I am, I bleed America so much so. I'm proud of you, brother. I'm proud of you, brother. And I would, I would say it in a foreign language to you, to, you know what, yourself. Okay, good, good. I just had to ask you because I'm like, you know. You know what they say everybody has a price? Like, no, like on, like, being pro-American, like, no, I would risk my life for this country, but I wouldn't, like, the idea. I remember, it's so funny, you talk about spies.

Movie Breach. Do you ever watch the movie Breach about them? No. Like, where the worst spies in American history who was giving out information. He finally got caught. It's a phenomenal true story movie. Is this what Robert Hassan? Is that who it is? No, it's, what's the guy's name? Oh, it was, now you're going to make me Google the spy's name. But go watch Breach movie. Okay, it's, it's phenomenal movie. See, now you're going to make me go one of, here. I'm going to, I'm just going to, we're doing this live. Breach movie. It came out in 07. It was Ryan Felipe and Chris Cooper were in the movie. Chris Cooper plays Robert Hansen. Hey. Excuse me. Did I pull that name like out of the ether? I am impressed. I give you a golf clap for that. I give you a golf clap. But when that was going down. I would even see the damn movie. Oh, I can't believe you haven't seen the movie. Like, I'm disappointed in you for not seeing the movie. That's almost like un-American. I'm a little worried now. But go watch the movie. But when that happened, my mentor, by the way, he just turned 84. So that's a big deal. John Ashcroft, his first day on the job in 2000. They go, oh, and by the way, we're about to take down, like, the worst spy in one of the worst spies of American history and had to get read in on this. And then when the movie came out, and of course I asked him a million questions about it. But when you see a guy like that, do that, it still blows my mind. You can be an American. You can work in the FBI. You can be just selling these secrets just because either you're disgruntled and you're a little bit crazy. It blows my mind that people sell out their country. It really does a stay. But go watch the movie. And I can't believe I've actually watched a true story. that you haven't watched yet. I feel like I've straight up to you on this one up to you on this one. I feel good about it right now. All right. You got to tell me when you watch the movie, by the way. When it comes to what your family eats and drinks, you know your choices matter. You're the expert because you know what fits your life. And getting it right starts with good information. That's why America's beverage companies are sharing more information about our ingredients at good to know facts.org. No spin, no judgments, just the facts straight from the experts for more than 140 beverage ingredients. Visit good to know facts.org. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring. And tedious. And depressing. And makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth. And help you figure out this crazy modern world. How about something about a comedic tone? We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong and Getty on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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And so they drew these maps where most of the districts reached into northern Virginia, grabbed a bunch of government bureaucrats, and used them as left-wing voters to turn the rest of the district blue. Well, the problem is they got challenged in court. And initially, a trial judge ruled that the redistricting was illegal under the Virginia state constitution. That got appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court. Now, the Virginia Supreme Court, the justices are Democrats. They were put on there by Democrats. They were confirmed by Democrat legislatures. The Virginia Supreme Court, last week, shockingly, most observers were astonished, looked at the Virginia State Constitution and said, hey, what the legislature did here was illegal, and they struck it down. By the way, the previous Attorney General of Virginia, Republican Jason Miaris, had written an opinion saying under the Virginia Constitution, you can't do this. This is contrary to law. Now, when that happened, Democrats in Washington, their heads exploded because this was critical to their seizing power. Since then, they have called for, number one, they've called for putting a mandatory retirement age in Virginia on the Supreme Court. of 54. Their entire purpose is to throw every justice on the Supreme Court off so they could pack them with left-wing activists who were uphold the redistricting. They have also talked about just fundamentally overturning. So Mark Elias, who is the hardcore left-wing Democrat lawyer who brings all of these incredibly partisan decisions. Anytime a Republican is elected in close election, Mark Elias files a lawsuit seeking to overturn the voter's will. He is one of the most rabid partisans in the country. He tweeted out a quote from the Virginia Constitution. Quote, Whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it in such a manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public wheel. And to be clear, What he is saying is, I don't like what the Virginia Supreme Court concluded, even though they're Democrats. So abolish the government of the state of Virginia. That's how radical these zealots are. And by the way, you combine that with the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. that concluded that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional, that drawing lines, drawing congressional lines discriminating, saying we're going to put people of one race in the district, take people of another race out of the district, that that's unconstitutional. It had been an open question whether complying with the Voting Rights Act was essentially an exception to the constitutional prohibition on racial gerrymandering. And the Supreme Court concluded 6'3. No, it is not.

that the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, prohibit discrimination based on race, prohibit voting discrimination based on race. I think that is the right reading of the Constitution. And the Democrats have lost their ever-loving mind. Because understand, look, all right, all of New England, you take the states in New England in the Northeast. which vote anywhere from 6040 Democrat to 65, 35, 35 Democrat, depending on the state. How many Republicans do you think are elected in all of New England? I'm going to go with zero. Zero would be right. In state after state, Massachusetts, zero. Maine, zero. Vermont, zero. New Hampshire, zero. Rhode Island, zero. Connecticut, zero. That is, they just gerrymandered the heck out of it, and they have 100% of the representation Democrat. In the South, Democrats have used the Voting Rights Act to insist, if you can draw a district that elects an African-American Democrat, you must elect that Democrat. Now, the bizarre thing is, we've seen Democrats who also insist, and one of the more absurd things, They've said, well, in light of the Supreme Court decision that discriminating based on race is unconstitutional, you've seen Democrats saying, South Carolina will never ever elect an African American to Congress. Now, I have to admit, when that happened. I pulled out Twitter. I like when you get your little snarky tweets out there. I knew as soon as I said, I was waiting for a countdown clock until you did what you did. I could have predicted that tweet. And in a moment's notice, as soon as I saw, I was like, I can't wait. And then you did it. So keep going. Yeah, I said, hey, Grock, who is Tim Scott? Yeah. And why did Democrats believe he's not black? Because he's a Republican. Yeah. Tim Scott is my colleague in the Senate. He's African-American. He was elected to Congress to a House district in South Carolina. Then he became a senator. He's been reelected over and over and over again in South Carolina. And yet to the Democrats, he does not count as black. Because if you're a Republican, suddenly you're white. It doesn't matter. And mind you, and their view. And by the way, Tennessee, your home state. Oh, dude, this is the best one. Steve Cohen, who's like the whitest guy you'll ever see. He doesn't like me, by the way. He was my congressman for many years. They were losing on TV the other day, and I got to smack some of them around because they were saying, you're taking away this seat that African Americans are being disfringed. I'm like, hold on a second. Steve Cohen is like the whitest old cranky white guy you've ever met. But he's a liberal Democrat, so he's a black guy. But here's what's interesting. Charlotte Bergman, who is an African-American single mother. is probably going to win the seat now. So wait a second. You're saying as a result of the Supreme Court decision, a white guy, a Democrat's going to lose likely to a black woman. To a black single mother who has, who has, who has, who has, who lost a family member to violent crime in Memphis. Like, and the Democrats position is. Yes. Defeating a white Democrat guy.

to elect a black Republican woman is racist against black people. Like how do you say, no, no, no, no, this white liberal is blacker than this actual African-American woman. That is their view and understand all of their hysterics come down to power. Like if you're saying abolish the Virginia Supreme Court because I don't like what they rule, and by the way, we appointed them, but we still don't like how they rule. So if you don't rule in a way that keeps us in power, we will burn down the foundations of our government. That is... That's just sad. It is. Welcome the Democratic Party in 2026, my friends. Don't forget we do this show Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hit that subscriber auto download button wherever you get your podcast. We also do this show on YouTube so you can watch us on YouTube as well. And please write us a five-star review wherever you're listening to this podcast. It helps us reach a new audience. And we appreciate your time. And listening, as always, the Senator and I will see you back here. Lord willing on Friday morning. When it comes to what your family eats and drinks, you know your choices matter. You're the expert because you know what fits your life. And getting it right starts with good information. That's why America's beverage companies are sharing more information about our ingredients at good to know facts.org. No spin, no judgments, just the facts straight from the experts for more than 140 beverage ingredients. Visit good to know facts.org. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring. And tedious. And depressing. And makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth. And help you figure out this crazy modern world. How about something about a comedic tone? We have a winner. Listen to Armstrong and Getty on the I Heart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. What God started in my life, he's going to finish. The Joel Osteen Daily Podcasts. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. What was meant for my harm, Lord, I want to thank you right now. You're turning to my advantage. Your daily source of hope and encouragement. Your second wind is on its way. God is about to breathe on your life in a new way. Listen to the Joel Osteen Daily podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts.