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This week, we visited again with our long-time friend Diana West for our show. Our time flew by as we discussed everything from former FBI Director Comey to the extensive communist influence in our federal deep state administration attempting to disrupt President Trump's efforts to right America's ship of state.   Diana West has actually deeply examined Director Comey's communist influences and his impact on President Trump's first administration in her book The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy where she investigated “why a ring of senior Washington officials went rogue to derail the election and the presidency of Donald Trump.”   Former Director Comey just made the news after posting an Instagram photo of shells arranged on the beach with the words “86 47” on a bed of sand. Shortly after posting the photo, Comey took the post down, claiming ignorance about the threat in the message.   The Left has been using “86” for years. Republicans criticized Governor Whitmer of Michigan for using “86 45” during President Trump's first term. During an interview with Meet the Press, Governor Whitmer had a painted sign in the background displaying the numbers 86/45.   The Mafia, according to Newsweek, uses “86” as shorthand to mean ‘take someone eight miles out of town and put them six feet under.' For decades, one of the FBI's greatest responsibilities has been investigating and prosecuting the Mafia.   But former FBI Director Comey, stretching credibility, denies any knowledge of that Mafia meaning of the term '86.'   Fox News' Jesse Watters asked the US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard: “Are you buying that the former FBI director didn't know what ‘86 Trump' meant?”   Director Gabbard responded:   “Absolutely not.   That is an absolutely insane and ridiculous statement to make…especially coming from a guy who is a former director of the FBI, a guy who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, people who know and execute other humans and use this exact lingo of '86.'   As a former FBI Director and someone who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, he knew exactly what he was doing and must be held accountable under the full force of the law.”   We recommend you subscribe to Diana West's Substack to follow her work, including her latest column, “BONUS: James Comey's Red Thread, Chapter 1—by Diana W.”   ______   Learn more about Dr. Peter Breggin's work: https://breggin.com/   See more from Dr. Breggin's long history of being a reformer in psychiatry: https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control   Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, the how-to manual @ https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/   Get a copy of Dr. Breggin's latest book: WHO ARE THE “THEY” - THESE GLOBAL PREDATORS? WHAT ARE THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR PLANS FOR US? HOW CAN WE DEFEND AGAINST THEM? Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey Get a copy: https://www.wearetheprey.com/   “No other book so comprehensively covers the details of COVID-19 criminal conduct as well as its origins in a network of global predators seeking wealth and power at the expense of human freedom and prosperity, under cover of false public health policies.”   ~ Robert F Kennedy, Jr Author of #1 bestseller The Real Anthony Fauci and Founder, Chairman and Chief Legal Counsel for Children's Health Defense.

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Show Notes and Transcript Diana West returns to Hearts of Oak to discuss a shocking Rasmussen poll which found that two-thirds of American voters are worried that their country is turning into a police state.  The poll was carried out last month and 72% of those surveyed were concerned that the US was becoming tyrannical, with a government that is engaged in mass surveillance, censorship, ideological indoctrination and the targeting of political opponents.  Even more incredible is that a whopping 67% of Democrats agreed with these concerns. This is a step change on American opinion and shows the deep mistrust of the government from both Republican and Democrat voters.  Diana also gives us some insights on why she thinks a majority of those polled also believe that “The FBI is a danger to the freedom and security of law-abiding Americans”.  We also discuss Trump and then turn our attention to the plight of the J6'rs and the outrageous jail terms being handed out. Rasmussen Reports Poll: https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1704947091657662531?s=20 Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Diana is also one of 19 co-authors of Shariah:The Threat to America (a Center for Security Policy publication). Diana's work has appeared in many publications and news sites including The American Spectator, Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, Dispatch International, The Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Gates of Vienna, Manhattan, Inc., M, Inc., National Wildlife Magazine, The New Criterion, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Washington Post Magazine and The Weekly Standard. She has made numerous television, documentary and radio appearances, and addressed audiences including at the American Legion, the Danish Parliament, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Foundation, ICON, Institute for the Study of Strategy and Politics, Judicial Watch, the National Vietnam Veteran and Gulf War Coalition, the Naval War College, the Union League Club, and Yale. Connect with Diana...... WEBSITE: https://dianawest.net/ GAB SOCIAL: https://gab.com/realDianaWest PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DianaWest​ Diana's books are available on Amazon in print, e-book or spoken word on Audible...https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diana-West/e/B001JRU95Y?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1660565570&sr=8-2 Interview recorded 25.9.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Diana West. It is wonderful to have you back with us. Thank you so much for your time today. (Diana West) Oh, it's wonderful to be back with you, Peter.  Thank you. And of course, people can find you @RealDianaWest on Gab, and DianaWest.net is the website. People can look at either of those for your regular updates. And today, of course, a lot happening stateside, and we had, I think, Colonel Allen West on, probably about a week or two ago, looking at some aspects, more or less looking at the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives a year on what's happened. But today we want to look on, is America becoming a police state? And this is a Rasmussen poll that you had sent over, which is fascinating reading. It gives an insight into those in the, U.S. and how they see things happen. And it is this here, looking at a police state. And the first question was, a police state is a tyrannical government that engages in mass surveillance, censorship, ideological indoctrination, and targeting of legal opponents. How concerned are you that America is becoming a police state? We can see overall 72 percent of the public said yes, they believe that America is becoming a tyrannical government that engages in mass surveillance with, you can see there in the poll, 67% of Democrats, 72% of Republicans, and 76% of GOP. Basically, we have a majority of the US public believing that is the case. So tell me about this poll, what you thought as a US citizen when you read that two-thirds of America do believe that their country is becoming a surveillance state? This, can I just preface my remarks by saying this is a surreal conversation, that we are having this conversation. I'm still trying to get used to this. I suppose, you know, my flippant comment would be, oh, they've been reading my stuff. No, no, this I think in some ways the most shocking aspect of the poll where there's the shock that the United States is becoming a police state. There's the shock that this is a poll question that is asked in very kind of, solemn or, you know, practical terms, very unexciting, just a poll question. Now, is the United States become a police state? Then such a large number, even including Democrats who generally lag on these things. And to find a consensus is good, as terrible. Terrible that it reflects the reality that I do believe we are in a police state, a new kind of police state, let us say, but also that it is a recognition by the public, as Rasmussen has polled them, that is not dependent on the mainstream media, on most, if not all, pretty much government officials, the academy, any sorts of institutions. This is alternate media, this is believe in your lying eyes, and it's also word of mouth. And so maybe there's a positive development in the sense that we're all coming on to the same page, but it's also the realization that our institutions, our leadership is part of that police state in terms of suppressing the truth. Could you see the Democrats, kind of we end up looking at them as a block, but in one way we see looking at the Republican side as split between MAGA wanting something different, wanting America first and the traditional establishment Republican, but then kind of you put it together and it is a uni party in effect. So it was intriguing that one, as you pointed out, the Democrat voters actually saw this. They've got a Democrat politician in the White House. how could they vote for someone and then accept that restriction? Well, it's... It doesn't, the Democrat side of this poll actually doesn't match other polls that I would say run parallel to this one. There was recently a real clear politics poll on freedom of speech. And this sort of reflected a little bit more of what I commonly see or what one commonly sees when Republicans and Democrats are pulled separately on these questions. Republicans tend to believe far more ardently in the importance of freedom of speech, whereas Democrats tend to believe speech should be regulated by the government, which is something we are seeing happening. In terms of the Rasmussen poll, that's a question I really can't answer unless there is just so much widespread disaffection and embarrassment at what is put forward as American leadership. I mean, you know me, Peter, I've been saying since 2020 that America underwent a coup in 2020. A rolling coup d'etat that went on from 2016 with the advent of candidate Trump to 2020 when they removed him from his second term. So this of course would be an embarrassment. The leadership here. As everything I've studied tells me, is in effect a puppet of some other forces. We know not exactly what. So yes, maybe Democrats as well are noticing the embarrassment of being forced to to submit to a demented man connected to corruption and treason as has been revealed over these years as well. So maybe they're just as embarrassed as anyone else and that is what was reflected in this poll and stricken it's not just a matter of embarrassment it's it's a deep we are We're all stricken here. And suffering. We're suffering the consequences. Again, in terms of American leadership, we have none. Just look at all of the indicators. We have what is referred to as the border crisis. It's not a crisis, it's a war. We have endless onslaughts at this point, as I'm sure you and your viewers are well aware, and suffering yourselves. We are now having this incredible uptick of illegal immigration invasion at our southern border, our northern border as well, but the southern border, of course, is much more extreme. And the people running this government, let's say, are making every provision to keep this going, to provide for these people. To wreck our cities and communities with more and more and more. And indeed, it's at the point now where you had a Democrat in New York City, Mayor Adams, actually say immigration is going to ruin this city. Well, it already has, but it's incredible when these people actually step out for a moment anyway and acknowledge reality. So we are in a crisis at so many levels, it's really hard to know how to even put it all together in this, just in terms of of cogent conversation. It's really a hot mess at this point. Well, I wanna pick you up more on what Adams said, the mayor of New York, because that was intriguing. I was there a few weeks ago, and that, I guess, division within the Democrats, some of them waking up to the reality, is intriguing. Here's a picture that Rasmussen put up on their Twitter account just recently. And the whole issue of Biden himself. This shows him having a video call, I guess, with world leaders, probably in the mid of the plandemic, the COVID nonsense and not wanting to socialize himself. Obviously no one else in the room, in case they all died of this horrendous epidemic. But what about Biden himself? are Americans wakening up to his failure of leadership. And his inability, I guess, to lead America on the world stage? Well, I guess it depends who you talk to, because again, if he is a puppet in the White House, he's being controlled by some other forces. Those who actually support him or support his agenda will still defend it. I mean, you have liberal columnists, for example, like David Brooks or people like that, who talk about this wonderful economy or this wonderful candidate for a second term. It's a surreal experience when you actually see people supporting it. But as far as what Americans are waking up to, it's... We are not in normal times. And so therefore the political mechanisms that we normally look to for change or for redress or for continuity are broken. And so whatever it is that Americans are waking up to in terms of realizing how much trouble we're in, and again at every level, I think what is to people that I talk to, and I'm not talking to to a lot of Biden supporters. But I think there is this growing realization that we are in a rather helpless state. There's this sense that there's this election taking shape and these candidates trotting before us, including President Trump, who's having an extraordinary set of appearances, whereby he is received like a Messiah in many of these. I mean, I'm not trying to be blasphemous, but there is something incredible about the outpouring to this figure, this one man. But I think there's also this realization that what happened last time was never fixed, and I refer to 2020, and we still have all of these pitfalls, these handicaps on a free election, to put it mildly. And so it's almost like the whole thing is sort of a reality show that you unwittingly get sucked into, kind of cheering along or participating in, or thinking, gee, maybe we all could vote really again. But then you have this realization that this is all very alternate reality time. And so it's a really strange time in America. It's very dark time, I'm afraid to say. And where it leads, what conditions we'll be looking at next year come election time, I couldn't even possibly tell you. I just don't think it's going to be good. So that's kind of where things are as far as I see them.  Because on one side, you've got people that believe in the electoral system, which is vast majority of us up until recently. And of course, in the UK, most of Europe, it is a paper ballot system. I know in the US, you've gone full flank into having a system that can be tweaked and changed. And corrupted at the flick of a switch, at the flick of a computer code. But you're right, to my side, very little has changed. And I worry about those who push in the thought that actually the election can change things where the system you're relying on hasn't changed. Am I missing something here? No, no, and I think it may be something deep in human nature that is just difficult to accept the the terminus of a system of a democratic system the realization that yes, they will they will tell Rasmus and yeah I'm afraid we're going to be a police state or we are a police state. But then we can vote we can vote and and there is this. It may just be a inability to look into an abyss and really see what's happening. So it is a difficult time and people do get sucked in and emotionally it's almost as if they need to. We've gone through so much battering, all of us, going back certainly within the last three years starting with the whole COVID plandemic, the complete fraudulent shutdown of life as we knew it. And given the powers that were on display for that in concert, in absolute synchronicity all around the world that were able to affect the shutdown of our rights, of our businesses, of our lives, of our schools, of our children, all the rest of it, that still hangs over us. And so it's very much connected with what happened in electoral politics, to be sure. So maybe people are starting to understand it, but as with this amazing, shocking, overwhelming immigration crisis, alien invasion crisis, you can come to a realization and yet... It's too late. It's too late. What can you do? The fix or the pushback or the fight is so much more difficult when you've been lulled into or somehow paralyzed into inaction. And you know. Speaking of the Republican Congress, and I'm sure what Allen West was saying, my brother was saying, they've done nothing. They've had wonderful, wonderful hearings. And I've come to call them a chat show. Congress is a chat show. They have great guests. They, you know, come back next week and nothing happens. Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida had a fantastic kind of rant about this with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business this weekend where he made this case, she was really applauding what had been done by under Kevin McCarthy, the speaker, and Matt Gaetz was making the case, the reality, that nothing has been done. And let's just look at what the Republicans in charge could do. They could impeach, they can defund, they can even bring in the absolutely criminal judges of the D.C. Circuit who have been flouting and abandoning and abusing due process in all of the January 6 cases, which we haven't spoken of yet, but I know you're interested in that, that have come before the bench. They could bring them in and talk to them. They could impeach them. They could impeach the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Mayorkas, who is overseeing our border invasion. They've done nothing. So it's, again, this feeling of helplessness when all of your institutions have essentially fallen or perhaps imploded from within and you didn't notice it. No, we'll get on the J6. The whole issue with with Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus is intriguing, certainly for me here in the UK. We don't have any Freedom Caucus in the Conservative Party, as we have in the UK. So I love the way you have that element holding the Republican Party to account. Tell us more about, because we've seen the conversations on the debt ceiling, but it goes much wider than that, and Matt Gaetz seems to have held his nerve along with that block and holding McCarthy to account. Tell us more about that. Well, they've been pushing, certainly pushing him and trying to hold him to account, but again, the power of the House is quite profound. You know, when you talk about, is America a police state? Well, a police state cannot function if the three branches of government, which are supposed to be co-equal, our executive, our legislative, and our congressional branch, judiciary, I'm sorry, judicial, executive, and law-making branches are supposed to be all co-equal. And of course, over the past century, we've essentially seen our presidency, the executive branch pretty much turned into a king, a kind of a king. And we've seen the House, or the Congress, House and Senate, we've seen them fall into, again, this chat show, certainly when the Republicans are in control. And so the fact that we are in this terrible place has a lot to do with the failure of Republicans in the House going back at least, I mean, you can, we can go through a history lesson, but I would say at least in the last 10 years, certainly from the Obama years to these years, the House has been empowered at very key points in our history during with the Obamacare period, around when the House and the Republicans came back, won historic victory in 2014 on the heel, something like the Freedom Caucus, but the Tea Party movement. And then kicked us all in the teeth by doing nothing, doing nothing. And then, you know, forward here, we get to the same kind of place where they are. They are putting forward a line and certainly the Freedom Caucus is extremely helpful in honing that line and keeping that sounding much more MAGA or much more, I would frankly say, constitutional and traditional. But again, there is no execution of House powers that do anything to balance or prevent the police state situation we're in from taking hold. And so that is really, it kind of neutralizes really the good that the Freedom Caucus could do because the bulk of the party and the leadership of the party is still holding a line, still backstopping, essentially, the left. And that's just reality. So it is, again, a uniparty with a very loud and noisy Freedom Caucus, which makes us all feel good. But, you know, Gaetz was right. Nothing has been done that could be done, according to their constitutional responsibility. Oath. Actually the curious thing is this the 70% believing that America is a police state, they're not getting that from the mainstream media, talk to us about how they are being informed because that goes against everything that has been pushed out. Right well I think if all of say, the Trump, Biden, et cetera had happened in 2010, let's say, instead of 2020, I don't think people would think we were in a police state. I think we would have been fooled lock, stock and barrel and people might've thought, hey, we should have had some recounts. But I really think where we were 10, 12, 15 years ago was a very different place. We've been through a lot. We've been through a lot. And certainly the COVID plandemic was a major education for everyone. but what it did, because a lot of people have seen through that, through personal experience. I think what it did was cause a lot of people to say, well, hey, if the government can lie to us about a, quote, virus, which may or may not exist, and lock us down and destroy our world, and lying about it, and still are lying about it, even as we're experiencing a die-off that is going to approach genocidal levels before we're done, I'm afraid, what else they lie about us? And you go back and you start seeing, I'm just talking about my own experience, but I know it's mirrored in other people, you start looking at the 9-11 narrative again, you start looking at the JFK narrative again, and for me, because I study these things too, it does track back to the Pearl Harbor narrative as well. And so you start realizing, you know, Gulf of Tonkin in the Vietnam War narrative, you start realizing the extent to which the United States government, the Central Intelligence Agency. All other institutions connected, including the press, have been on board in terms of creating these crises to control us, to change our system as they fancy it. It has made people at this point, I think, much more awake. Then, of course, this summer, we went through a crisis that was barely covered in the media, which is a common thread for all of these things, terrible media coverage, of course, or propaganda, and so on. The fire that destroyed the city of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii. People don't believe the government narrative that global warming caused that fire. And people are still wondering where are all the children? Why did a wildfire do this? Why did the government of Lahaina not sound the alarm, not allow water to be used, keep people in the city? All of these shocking measures before you even get to the ignition of the fire itself. But people are smarter now and more savvy. I think that's why you get to that large number in the Rasmussen poll. We've been through a lot. And there's also this sense that I think Donald Trump was such an interrupter of the 2020, what was it, Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, dictatorship, tyranny plan when he came on the scene in 2016, that they really had to go for it in ways that are far cruder and far more visible to us than they would have had Hillary Clinton come in in 2016. We would not be in this terrible crisis in a way. I think things would be much, we would have gone much more smoother and smoothly into oblivion and digital slavery and all the rest of it. But I think that this has been such a, you know, bumptious era and such a, you know, just bomb-popping era because they were not expecting Trump to come along. What did Trump do? Trump in 2016 awakened the dead part of America. Dead. It was gone. The MAGA people, people who'd given up on the system and were downtrodden. Can I tell you a quick anecdote? I have a friend who was a very established and celebrated news photographer, in the swamp at one of the major metropolitan dailies of the country. And he was out with Trump in 2016. He was out again in 2020. And I remember him saying to me that in 2016, he was shooting these rallies that Trump was going to all over, including the Rust Belt and everywhere else around the country, that the people coming out to see him, many, many thousands of people were down and out, looked terrible, poor, sad, sacks. When he went out again in 2020, they were, even after COVID, they were good looking, they were proud, they were outspoken, they were successful looking. He said it was the most amazing change. That's what Trump did. He awakened the American people who had been utterly disenfranchised by the Uniparty in Washington. And that's why they've had to be so extreme and crazy and aggressive in their consolidation of power. And I think the end game is messier and more violent as a result of it. But it's just where we are. I remember being a CPAC in March and being near the front block, I'm watching Trump's speech an hour and a half along with a prior smoldering speech. And I had never seen him in person, never seen him speak. There's nothing like it. That energy, that drive, that passion, that vision. It's not a, I'm a politician and here are my 10 point plan. It's something which actually connects with you within and drives you. And it's something that's basically not on the British scene at all. And that's why I loved being there and just being part of that and watching him. Well, it really was quite a phenomenon and, you know, where we are now is, you know, we're in such a, we're in such a difficult place. But it's heartening on the one side because he was a leader, you know, he is a very much a charismatic megafauna to use the term from natural history, but he was able to do such, a profound thing for America in just giving people a voice. And it turned out that's the American voice. And I do believe that in 2020, he won a historic landslide, the likes of which we'd never seen in American history. And that is what was stolen from us. It's not just him. It's stolen from him, but it is stolen from the people. And that is what this ruling clack, has complete and utter contempt for, and that is why they're so cruel. They're so cruel and dehumanizing, and it's the kind of people that can take you to a transhumanist place. They could hardly be worse in terms of where they rank on a humanity scale. And I think we see that, again, more clearly than we would have had the same kind of mechanism happened 10 years earlier because we are experienced now and we've been through it and we see it. Which is why the battle for Trump winning in 24 is even more difficult. I want to bring you on to the second question on the Rasmussen poll. Do you agree or disagree with this statement, the FBI is a danger to the freedom and security of law abiding Americans? I think for 36 of Democrats agree, 45% of Independents agree, and 65% of Republicans agree, which is 50%. So in that you have 50% of Americans agreeing that the FBI is a danger. That's quite a change. What has kind of pushed the American people to that realization? One-third of Democrats, two-thirds of Republicans, 50% overall, that the FBI is a threat to them? Well, I would say it's not a threat, it's the enemy of. And it became the federal police force that actually J. Edgar Hoover, the famous and much maligned, you know, famous 20th century director, feared that it would become and worked very hard to prevent it from becoming a federal police force. Because in this guise, it has become, it has taken on the guise of dictatorship polices, polices, that sounds like a funny, police forces, stormtroopers. And you can, all you have to do to know that I'm not just exaggerating, is look at the footage of the endless assaults on the homes of people who could very easily, be asked to appear at the police station to be arraigned. They have gone into, this started it started during the Trump years. And, you know, he is, President Trump is to blame for appointing Christopher Wray, a complete swamp creature, to be the director of the FBI. But it began during the Trump years with some extremely like military style assaults on the homes of various Trump people who were coming under arrest, whether it was Paul Manafort, Roger Stone. I think it was something like, gosh, it was dozens of SWAT officers in full tactical gear, including helicopters. And in the case of Roger Stone, it was frog men, because he happens to live near a body of water, coming to arrest him, this man who comes to the door in a t-shirt and shorts in the middle of the night. You know, it's absolutely a demonstration of raw, naked aggression against the American people. And this has been started, you know, with one or two cases. and now it is the norm for people in the political opposition movements. And this would certainly include many of the January 6th protesters who have been arrested for the protest on January 6th. These are non-violent, non-criminal, no one with records kind of thing, ordinary citizens being assaulted by the FBI in their homes with their families and their wives, et cetera, to be arrested and you look at that a few times and you think, oh, that's a danger. That's certainly a danger to our rights. And then you also understand the surveillance, the new surveillance. Normal procedures, which once upon a time would have been brought them into court for violation of our Fourth Amendment rights against illegal surveillance, search and seizure. It is now de rigueur to do something called geofencing, which has to do with surveilling a person through their phone and other media devices to see where they're going, what they're doing, their banking, their other habits. This is absolutely normal and again, it goes back about 10 12 years, When we learned from Edward Snowden. We learned it from Edward Snowden that all of our data was being sucked up by the federal government and logged into massive, I don't know what they are massive, uh online clouds all over the country or out West in these giant places, this is completely unconstitutional and director at the time of national intelligence Clapper perjured himself telling Congress that this was not happening. But of course Congress never actually recommended that he be indicted and he was never indicted and prosecuted. Another great moment in congressional history and judicial history, but this is where we are, where our rights have been taken from us and I think people understand that and when you have no rights and you have a SS-style federal police force arresting political opponents of the regime that took power in 2020, you go, yes, ergo sum, police state. Yeah. Tell us about the J6, because we've had Jake Lang on a number of times with Brandon Straka on recently. And of course, we've seen a 22-month imprisonment for the leader of Proud Boys who wasn't even there. And yet the media by and large think this is normal for someone to be jailed for something. They weren't even there whenever the so-called offence happens. What is happening with that conversation? Is it becoming more public, the frustration, or is it just something that's accepted because people have believed the lie that this was an insurrection. Well. I'd like to see some recent Rasmus and polling on that. I think that there is a great understanding, after especially after some of the video footage came out on the Tucker Carlson show, early in the summer or last spring. I can't remember exactly when it was it was spring or summer, And people saw that these great big boogeymen that were depicted to us with all kinds of Hollywood stylings actually were walking quite peacefully through the Capitol. And many people had never even seen that. And that started to really have a change of opinion, I do believe. In terms of, again, the FBI and the police state question, I think it very much figures into the discovery and revelations, which again, are not covered in a widespread fashion, but do seem to be getting out thanks to some intrepid reporters like Joseph Haneman at Epoch Times, Julie Kelly, and some others who are doing wonderful work and the work of the defense attorneys as well, who have revealed that there were federal agents answering to the FBI and other bodies present at the Capitol, leading or exhorting the protesters on to either violence or violent acts or entry into areas they ordinarily would not have gone into. And this has been documented to a point where even the groups such as Proud Boys, you mentioned when Enrique Tarrio getting the 22 year sentence, not being there, he was in a hotel room in Baltimore at the time, The Proud Boys were infiltrated by federal assets. The Oath Keepers, another one of these groups who were there to provide security for speakers and others who had been attacked at these kinds of rallies by Antifa, who's fine, they don't get any sorts of indictments, or Black Lives Matter, same, they too were infiltrated by federal informants. And so this, again, is part of the FBI picture that people are responding to, and the police state notion. We have political, politics has been effectively outlawed in the United States. We are essentially this, they are trying to consolidate a one party state with its, you know, Republican acolytes just for cover and for interesting chat show material. But they are essentially outlawing political opposition to a point where opposition groups are infiltrated and then falsely or entrapped into conspiracies. We saw that with the so-called Fed-napping, kidnapping, federal kidnapping of a plot against Michigan Governor Whitmer, which turned out to be a complete FBI-arranged entrapment. And we're starting to see some restitution in the courts on that. Oh gosh, I had a second one that also... Oh, oh, the, well, I'm sorry, go on, you had a question. No, no, I just wanted to ask about the whole Ray Epps thing, because you've got seemingly individuals, part of the intelligence service, part of the FBI, who are moving the situation along. And they seem to get a slap on the wrist where people who were not even there get 22 years. It seems absolutely ludicrous. And zero pushback from the media. Well, it does. And this is the problem when you have such a, you know, such a sublant, submissive media or compliant media. But yes, Ray Epps is highly regarded, widely regarded even before January 6 as a federal asset. The night before he was exhorting people to be sure and go into the Capitol. And he was actually kind of razzed by the crowd. It's on video as a Fed, Fed, Fed, Fed. People are pointing to him saying, don't go in the Capitol, he's a Fed. So there was suspicion about him from the start, but of course, yes, he recently was charged with one misdemeanour, very rare. There may not be maybe more than one other of his poor defendants who came up with such a small charge, but given that he was doing what other people who've been slapped with much harsher charges and sentences, It's extremely suspicious. There's also the problem, which is not covered adequately in the media, of the federal government concocting evidence and planting it. And this is something that was established in court by the lawyers for Jeremy Brown, who was a former Special Forces veteran that the FBI tried to recruit as an informant before January 6. He refused. He was there. He's part of the Oathkeeper Group or had a relationship with the Oathkeeper Group. And essentially, nine months later, he was arrested and charged with having had explosives, a grenade, at the Capitol. But long story short, that grenade had no DNA from Jeremy Brown. And had DNA from a woman on it. It was planted in his van. And then there was also with the Proud boys, there was literally a document that was supposed to show they had a plan for insurrection that has been shown to have been essentially pushed into Enrique Tarrio's phone through a very strange chain of custody. Again, this kind of thing is not unusual, and you see the feds, creating this as an event, a la the Reichstag fire of yore in Nazi Germany, where it was a created event, to cause all kinds of political repercussions, and the destruction of political opposition, same thing here. So this must be getting out there because people have such a strong reaction on that police state question. But certainly it's proof, you know, it's evidence and the media hushes it up, but somehow you can find out about it and you, you know, people need to find out about it because it's truly shocking. And that's why this is now known as as the Fed-surrection. Oh, completely. I mean, they're... Let's end off on another Rasmussen poll that they had put up and there are so many aspects to this. But this was a poll they put up just days ago. 56% of likely voters think the cheating, and I love that word that they're willing to use, will affect the 2024 election according to Rasmussen poll survey. Do you think that's changed since 2020 and if so what's changed since 2020 that will make your outcome different? 56% across the board, this is again across the board, it's not Republican, Democrat, 56% think that cheating affected the election. What does that mean for you for a U.S. citizen going forward looking ahead for, actually it's just a year away, just over a year away, for the next elections. How does that inspire you? How does that influence you? How does that encourage you to, I guess, engage with that political process? Well, it's very discouraging, and again, it gives you the feeling that you're participating in somebody else's reality show, and there's that sense that I won't be manipulated, but it's kind of almost a tribal right. You want to be, you want to participate, and you want to believe that it's an election. I don't believe in the election. I believe in miracles, so I suppose I will hold out the hope for a miracle, but at this point, we are post-election, post-electoral, post-democratic. We are existing under an illegitimate regime and I don't think that that has necessarily become widely understood. People still rail against Democrats or rail against Biden for this or that. This is a junta. You know, this happens in many other countries. It's happened all over the world. It was not supposed to happen here, but it did. And part of the success of this coup, is in the fact that it is censored and suppressed. 100%. Diana, there are lots we could discuss and I appreciate you coming on and sharing, certainly with our main UK audience, with the War Room Posse, who will obviously know this issue well. Just to finish off, I guess as a journalist, as someone who observes what's happening and tries to inform the public. What is your take on a lot of what you've seen? I mean you put out a strong line that America has to return to some of those roots of integrity, of election integrity, of media integrity, but how do you see that looking forward and what kind of is your key message, I guess, that you bring to the American people through your many writings over the following year? Well, now that's the hardest question of all. I think that we are—this is not a joke, you know, where we are. And I think that at this point, it's very important to take care of yourself and your family and be prepared for the storm. Because I don't think this ends well. That's not the normal uplifting message, but I do think people are taking this more seriously. We are at a point where our government is aggressively killing us and destroying our country. So it really is a time for a miracle. It's time for a miracle. 100%. To the viewers, we first had Diana on to discussing her book, which is 10 years old now, actually, American Betrayal, the secret assault on our nation's character, and just something aside as we finish that is an intriguing insight into the change of American society through the influence and onslaught of communism from the USSR and how that developed over time. So I'd encourage our viewers and listeners to get hold of that for something maybe fairly different from the conversation we've had, but I think it's essential to understand what has happened historically and then understanding that, being equipped with that information, I think we can better look forward to what we face ahead of us. Diana, thank you so much for joining us. People can find you @RealDianaWest obviously on gab and dianawest.net online. Thank you for sharing your insights on this huge topic which you know I'm certainly watching eagerly although I have no participation in the US election coming up in a year but we certainly look to you across the pond as hope politically, economically, militarily. Journalistically, maybe that's gone out the window, but we still look to you. So thank you so much for coming on today and sharing that.  Well, thank you, Peter. It's always a pleasure to speak with you.

We have all been watching the events in the US unfold over the last week regarding the indictment of President Trump. It is an honour to have award-winning journalist and author Diana West join us again to take a clear look at the madness. We all know the the left hate Trump and everything he stands for with a passion but what has transpired over the last few days really takes this fear and loathing of him up several notches, the charges the Democrat led legal system have brought against him seem flimsy and weak. There does not seem to be any smoking gun or legal failure that will take Trump down, yet the Democrats continue this legal charade which seems to only unite the Republican party and Trumps core base even more, join us for Diana's expert analysis. Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Diana is also one of 19 co-authors of Shariah:The Threat to America (a Center for Security Policy publication). Diana's work has appeared in many publications and news sites including The American Spectator, Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, Dispatch International, The Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Gates of Vienna, Manhattan, Inc., M, Inc., National Wildlife Magazine, The New Criterion, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Washington Post Magazine and The Weekly Standard. She has made numerous television, documentary and radio appearances, and addressed audiences including at the American Legion, the Danish Parliament, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Foundation, ICON, Institute for the Study of Strategy and Politics, Judicial Watch, the National Vietnam Veteran and Gulf War Coalition, the Naval War College, the Union League Club, and Yale. Follow and support Diana at the following links... Website: https://dianawest.net/ gab social: https://gab.com/realDianaWest Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DianaWest​ Diana's books are available on Amazon in print, ebook or spoken word on Audible... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diana-West/e/B001JRU95Y?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1660565570&sr=8-2 Interview recorded 5.4.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast.   Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! TRANSCRIPT [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak, and thank you for joining us for another interview. Coming up with Diana West. Obviously, we're looking at what is happening in the States with President Trump being indicted, being in New York and then coming back to Mar-a-Lago for that speech, which I watched. And Diana West, obviously as a US citizen, having her finger on the pulse is the perfect person to try and explain some of the madness of what is happening stateside. So we just go through and she shares her thoughts on what she has seen, the judicial system. [0:55] The politicization of that, the media, the lack of response, how the Democrats' hatred of Trump, which we know all too well, and how this will play and how it's galvanized, I think, Trump's support amongst the Republican base. Because there is a distinction between Republican support for Trump and all those rinos and it's been intriguing watching the rinos come out in support of Trump. The Romneys, the John Bolton's, so many have come out in support of Trump. So I know you will enjoy listening to Diana as much as I enjoyed speaking with her.   And hello Hearts of Oak and it's absolutely wonderful to have Diana West back with us again. Diana thank you so much for joining us. Well it's wonderful to be back with you Peter.   Great to be back and your country is seen crazy times at the moment. I will get into that looking at the indictment of President Trump is at the end for America and everything is happening around that. Obviously the viewers can follow you on Gab @RealDianaWest and dianawest.net is your website. They can follow everything you are doing there. Now I think the first, I watched the Wednesday morning when I watched the Trump speech, watched the plane flying to New York. [2:20] I think probably that was Tuesday evening. But I mean, my thoughts were, if you're gonna take the former president or current president out, your case needs to be shocking. It needs to be absolutely overwhelming. And watching it, it kind of seems to be quite underwhelming. In what's been put forward. But can I ask you, what are your thoughts as an American watching what has been unfolding?   Well first of all this is it's a black day for America because this is [2:55] not any sort of a legitimate prosecution. This is a political persecution and prosecution of the opposition leader at a time when, and you and I have talked about this before, America is in a post-coup period. We had a coup d'état between November 3rd, 2020 and January 6th, 2021. And so right now, the government that governs us, frankly, we don't know who's governing us because we have a puppet in the White House, and we have effectively some kind of a, what we might think of now as some sort of a junta, that has gone out to arrest the opposition leader. And I think that one of the most striking comments on these events comes from the president of El Salvador, El Salvador in Central America, who said, imagine if this happened to a leading opposition presidential candidate here in El Salvador. There would be all manner of cries of banana republic, junta power, strongman politics, and all the rest of it. That's the American position, the state of America today. [4:10] There don't seem to be any new facts on the table. And I know President Trump talked about others looking at this case. If you look at some of the issues on the table taking aside the, this is taking out the opposition candidate, putting that aside. And what they brought, it doesn't seem to be anything ground-breaking, there's no smoking gun. It just seems to be the same old stuff. [4:37] Right. That is true. I mean, in terms of a legal case, it is, I'm not a lawyer, but legal experts are looking at this as a junk case, which is the point. But I think also interesting to your viewers would be the notion that campaign violations, campaign finance violations happen periodically to all manner of politicians and they generally are treated as a fine. Witness Hillary Clinton, who had a similar kind of discrepancy in her campaign finance forms related to her payment for the Steele dossier, which was a disguised payment. And she was fined, I think it was $8,000. That's kind of the level that we're operating at. Obviously, this has been exploited and exploded and exaggerated in order to make this kind of a political display which ties right into the next presidential campaign cycle. Believe me, if Donald Trump were enjoying retirement and simply, he's 76 years old, I mean, remember that. If he were simply playing golf and playing with his grandchildren, I tend to think this would not be happening, but he has not taken himself out of the ring. [5:53] And I think that this is what he gets. This is what he's had to deal with in different forms since he first emerged as the presidential candidate going back to 2016 or 2015 even. This is the treatment that he has received because I think if we step back and we look at this first from the vantage point of Central America as what happens in dictatorships, But then stepping back to even farther, when we look at where Trump 2016 [6:26] actually stands in terms of the whole globalist project, the project toward world governance, the project away from democracy, away from individual freedom and so on. He was the great interrupter. And I saw such an interesting clip from George Soros circa 2009 today. I'd never seen it before. You know, we used to look at some of these experts, if you wanna call Soros an expert, but people, leading figures in finance or politics, least I did, and sort of think they were giving you their assessment of things, as if they were thinking independently or didn't have already a plan. And as I watched Soros in 2009 explain that, well, the American economy is going to stay weakened, the American dollar, we have to see that the American dollar is weakened, China will be the driver of that, and will emerge as the leading economy. This was kind of his spiel back in 2009. And you realize all throughout Barack Obama's two terms, this was certainly happening. [7:29] It was going to continue happening under Hillary Clinton, and then you have this great interrupter. And so he's not only a great interrupter of American politics, he is a great interrupter of the globalist project. And I think that it's good to remember that in terms of trying to understand why, as you say, you know, warmed over charges are things that have already been looked at and dismissed political machinations, why we're getting this now. And it's, he remains an interrupter, even after everything that's happened, he remains this very potent force and they just can't let it go. And the other thing to remember for your British and European viewers is also, this repudiation of Trump was a repudiation of the American people, because the American people voted for him in 2020. And so when it's not simply targeting Trump the person, it's targeting the entire American political process. We are disenfranchised officially, and now we're actually seeing the man I consider to be president in exile, now president possibly in incarceration going forward. So it's a terrible time in America. [8:45] Explain to us how, for those of us across the pond, over the UK and Europe. Is it simply that any attorney general of any state can simply bring charges against Trump? Is it because some of the businesses are based in New York? I mean, is it simply that the attorney general here, Alvin Bragg, just has utter hatred of Trump and he's the one who's willing to do this? Well, that's a good question. And I don't wanna be ignorant about what attorneys general can do in different states against national figures, figures that have connections to the state, residency in the state at a time when charges could be brought. I think that's true. I think that's true. It's the kind of thing that certainly doesn't happen. This is unprecedented in American history to see criminal charges pressed against a president. It's this particular case is something that is kind of a hybrid case because there are federal aspects of it knit into these state charges. But the important thing to remember is that someone like Alvin Bragg is an elected official. He's an elected Democrat official. [10:00] And for example, when you see Congress now talking about, oh, we're going to investigate Alvin Bragg, that is actually a way for them to do absolutely nothing because what jurisdiction could Congress, our federal representatives in Washington, have over a state elected official in New York, what they are really doing, in my view, is avoiding exercising the powers that they do have in this same political legal process. And that is specifically related to what we may be seeing happen to Trump. [10:33] And that will be in the area of federal charges. We're not out of the woods. He's not out of the woods in terms of perhaps getting charged by the Justice Department related to various cases that are open against him. And the Justice Department is under the jurisdiction of the Congress. There's oversight of the Justice Department, oversight responsibilities that our elected representatives are supposed to be actually carrying out, specifically the prosecutions and also the judges. We have federal judges now who may be sitting over Trump in the future, in the near future even, who have been using their judgeships to strip away due process and create new precedents, all related to the January 6th prosecutions, which have been ongoing. And the dragnet is increasing. They're vowing to bring in a thousand more of these nonviolent, often generally misdemeanour charges against Americans who were there to protest the election steal on January 6, 2021. In that bench, this federal bench of DC, you have judges that have created this new precedent for incarcerating pretrial defendants, defendants who have [12:01] not come to have now been incarcerated for over two years in absolutely gulag-like conditions, in DC and elsewhere in this country, in penal institutions, experiencing torture, literally experiencing beatings, abuse, deprivation, and these are non-violent defendants, these are non-violent charges, these are often just misdemeanour charges. And what the reason I'm bringing this up is that this is a place Congress has jurisdiction and is punting, just absolutely not doing anything about it. And this is also a place where all these presidents have been created, I fear, to execute against [12:45] President Trump. And if he, this is something that we have, this is the other crazy thing that I'd like you to know, Peter, is that this whole story in many, many ways is considered an alternative media story. And I don't mean the President Trump arraignment, which was a media circus, but in terms of [13:05] what has come out about the federal involvement in January 6th, the assets, provocateurs, informants from the federal and other governmental agencies, including DC Metro Police, that were involved in either getting, worming their way into the confidence of certain defendants and their defence team circles, or actually inciting and leading violent and lawless abuse of the law on January 6th. There's video, new video of Metro police actually exhorting people to break through police lines, climb scaffolding, things like that. This was very much a frame up in so many ways as we're learning. Judges have been making this kind of information, which is part of the discovery process, not available to defendants. They've been, again, leaving them to rot in these gulag-like conditions. And Congress has done nothing about this. So when I hear them now ranting and railing about Alvin Bragg, to me that is a complete act of misdirection. Where are they in terms of calling out this political persecution out for what it is? Nowhere. [14:19] And so, you know, this is sort of why we are in such a compounded, dark place and have been. You know, this is not something to look at as a discrete news event. This is a consolidation of the seizure of power that took place going back to the last presidential election. Yeah, we've had Jake Lang on and I was shocked. I had no idea the situation with so many people being held without trial and everyone should have the right to due process. And it seems those individuals have not, simply because the Democrats have decided that. So I was blown away by the situation.   It's shocking. It's shocking. And again, it's an alternative media story or if you talk to individual defendants, it's absolutely suppressed. But meanwhile, they've been creating this new set of rules that could very well, maybe they were created in the first place knowing that someday the dragnet would include President Trump. I wouldn't put it past any of them. But it's also important to know that a lot of these same people are very much part and parcel of the democratic machine, including, for example, the U.S. attorney of the District of Columbia, a man named Matthew Graves, who in 2020 was on the domestic policy committee of the Biden-Harris campaign. [15:40] So this is the kind of people sitting, It's not against the rules or the lot for this to be the case, of course, but it's just showing where these people are coming from. [15:53] There's no recusal when there are tremendous political affinities that are part of a background, including, for example, the judge who will be sitting in judgment of President Trump. His own daughter is deeply embedded in democratic politics to the point of working for Kamala Harris and Adam Schiff as well, who was the congressional representative who led the impeachments against President Trump. Nobody sits and says, oh, well, maybe I'm a little, you know, there might be the appearance of impropriety. If I were to sit in judgment, I should recuse myself for someone who has less partisan ties, for example. It doesn't happen. It's, it's, that doesn't happen in political persecutions. And you know, where do you, where do you go for historical precedent? I mean, I go from everywhere from the French Revolution to certainly show trials that took place in the Soviet Union for this kind of [16:53] punishment of opposition. It's not merely making sure people obey the law. It's about punishing people for the way they think and for having the temerity of exercising their First Amendment rights in so many of these cases. So that is kind of where we are. We are, you know, post-constitutional. We are post-democratic. It's just a terrible thing to wake up to, but there also seems to be very little realization of just how these different events knit together. And it's really important to see them, I think, in a continuum.   With the legal system so politicized, certainly I from a student of politics from very far away from the US have never seen such a level of politicization in the judicial system, in the legal system. And that absolute division, I mean, [17:57] Trump divides people like no other. You either love him or you hate him and we see that absolute hate in the Democrats that they're not interested in right or wrong, they're simply interested in the hatred of Trump. Where does that leave, I guess that begins to become apparent to the American people despite the failure of the media to report fairly. But I mean, yeah, talk to us, through that politicization of the legal system.   Well, it's a very interesting subject you raise, this politicization. And I think that to really understand it, we have to go back, gosh, it's probably about 100 years, to Pavlov's dog. Pavlov was the very important Soviet, well, Russian to Soviet scientist who did all the experimentation on conditioned response. [18:55] And he very famously, you know, most people think of his dog who was conditioned to salivate, first for a piece of nice meat, but then you could take the meat away and you could create the salivation with, I think he used a red light to create the same thing. And what a lot of people don't know is he did experiments on people as well and the learned response is something that has unfortunately, tragically, entered into our world of politics and media. And certainly beginning with, in the most dangerous ways, going via totalitarian states. And certainly we get to, for example, the Chinese revolution that brought Mao to power, we get the term brainwashing. Brainwashing, when I was growing up, I thought brainwashing was sort of a cartoon term that it was not a real thing, but it actually was this washing of the brain, this creating these responses, these conditioned responses. [20:01] And in China, this was done by repetition, by these groups and communes that would preach over and over again the same messaging. And you would face ostracism and so on if you did not adhere. And then now the reason I'm going through this is it's not at all, I'm not exaggerating. I'm talking about what has come into our politics in all the democracies really, but in the Trump example, [20:29] this has been, the divisiveness is part of this learned response. And in terms of the acceptance of our current regime, I will never forget on election night in 2020, watching the coverage and seeing as things were, or maybe the next day, as things were starting to look very murky in terms of the outcome and what had happened and the various accounts of different kinds, many, many different kinds of fraud that were becoming quite clear. You started hearing the exact same phrase in every written and spoken news story. And it was the phrase was something like unfounded claims of election fraud, unfounded claims of election fraud. This started before anyone had even finished counting anything. And so I bring that up just because we are all victimized, I do believe, by this conditioned reflex regime that just became so commonly used to manipulate [21:31] people. So in terms of the divisiveness of Trump, I think that that was another one of the conditioned response operations, if you will. Certainly it's used all across politics in many different ways. But if your question was, where do we go from there? Or, I'm sorry, I lost your actual question as I was trying to lay the groundwork for something.   Yeah, just with that massive division, you've got a problem in society. If you have institutions siding with one side, it takes away the whole pretence of democracy, I guess. [22:08] Well, yes, but I would take it a step further because we are not in a normal time. And I would say that it's not a matter of the institution siding with one side or another. I think our institutions have been seized from within. I mean, I think we're looking at a very, you know, [22:26] a different kind of long march through the institutions than the kind that we would look at again, you know, in China, for example, where you see a revolution, you see it take shape, you know, you watch it and you know what's going on and they have red stars on their shoulders, right, so you know what's going on. The revolution that took place in America is one that is that is at least we can we can certainly date it a hundred years, or date it 90 years for sure since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, but it has been a revolution from within. It has been a Frankfurt school revolution. It has involved the seizure of all these institutions. Everything had to be in a line to get to 2020. Everything had to work. The courts had to be gone. Both political parties had to be subverted. The education, on and on through all of this. So this is a very long, a long war that is now in this particular, perhaps, end stage. So it's not so much that the institutions are to one side, it's that the institutions were seized. I mean that's how I look at it. It's just not politics as usual, I guess is what I'm trying to say. [23:39] 100%. I mean watching the man himself, Donald Trump, watched his speech, confidence, bravado. And I had the absolute privilege to see him speak at CPAC, being at the front there and being in a pre-event beforehand with a smaller group with him. And I was blown away by the show. You see the showmanship on TV, but that absolute confidence. And it is, I guess, also arrogant. But that leadership, that's what you need to actually lead people, to stand for what you believe with, to portray those values and take a country with you and he has all of that and I'm kind of wondering what the Democrats, want to do with this. They know who they're up against and they know his strength of character and they know the widespread support that he has and I'm wondering whether they've kind of overplayed their hand because I can only see this emboldening Trump. [24:47] Yeah, it does. I think you're right about that. I think that It's hard to imagine that they wouldn't know, the reaction this would have and you know It's sort of another level of nefariousness if that's the case because it may be that what they're really trying to do is embolden all of us to a point where they can bring a hammer down on you know in different ways, It's a really strange thing to be in the country and have this feeling of occupation. [25:25] Is that the right word? Of alienation from the institutions, alienation from these law enforcement agencies, fear of them. It's a very strange thing. You look back at history and we see takeovers. We see tanks rolling. We see, this has been such a different process. So yes, he's emboldened. He is, I think, certainly one of the most remarkable men of destiny that we've seen in our lifetime. And he stacks up against many others in history, love him or hate him. He is this remarkable, irrepressible man. [26:06] He is a man, people forget. He's a man, he's a human being, he's 76 years old. It's an amazing thing what he was subjected to for running for president, for being elected, for actually trying to govern. I mean, I think a lot of other people would have withered away at this point and gone happily into a retirement situation. So yes, it is, you're correct that the impact is what you would think would be backfiring, And yet, do we have a system at this point where the people's will can even be translated into political power? And my cynical, I don't even think it's cynical, but just having experienced the last few years, I don't have that confidence to say the least. I don't think we have any expectation that voting in 2024 is going to mean something if our candidate is not the chosen candidate. And that is kind of really how bad things are in America at this point. We have a 2020 election that was never, never addressed. We did not have the audit that was required, for anyone to have any confidence in the American political system. [27:30] So 2024 is going to be better? It doesn't make any sense. But look what happened in 2020. Every institution on the right walked away from it. Everyone, every foundation, every party, everything, they walked away and said, oh, we're going to take care of election integrity going forward. It's kind of ridiculous. But it's not ridiculous. It's sinister. [27:56] Obviously you expect Trump's core base within the Republican Party, but watching Mitt Romney. [28:05] Watching John Bolton, watching a whole plethora of rinos actually come out and speak up, watching Pence come out, I find that intriguing. Tell me what your thoughts were on this galvanization of the Republican Party. Oh, it's just, it's excruciating. They are such, they are such losers. And they're, you know, I don't know what the best historical parallel, I'll have to think about it for a minute, but they are about as inspiring, you know, as a soggy piece of Wonder Bread. I mean, it's ridiculous, but they are what is, it's kind of like, I often think of politics and media, to be honest, and historians and so on. There are certain ones who operate inside the circus ring, and they can play with certain balls and certain dancing bears, and that's all very much fun. But actually, everything that's important is outside the circus ring. And if you go outside the circus ring, that's when you get zapped by this deep, dark state of whatever you want to call the powers that be. And certainly all those men you just mentioned are all exactly circus ring dancing bears. And so they can do whatever they want, but it's meaningless. They're impotent and they're embarrassing. [29:27] But yet they're putting their public support, now privately it may be hugely different, but that galvanization of the Republican Party makes, obviously the Democrats have thought through this. That's what I can't quite work out. have thought through the scenarios, And yet it's coming back to hit them so quickly. In terms of Trump's resurging support?   Yes, within the Republican Party, that there is anger at what's been happening at a former president being indicted. And those who traditionally were not for Trump suddenly are saying, actually, this is wrong, at least publicly. It's interesting that kind of coalition that is coming together only because of the stupidity of the Democrats? Well, if Trump is so enmeshed in this legal fiasco. [30:27] Which again can also include other charges in other jurisdictions like the federal jurisdiction, it could be that they just are banking on the fact that Trump will not be around for whatever reason. I mean, they will somehow take him out. And so then they become the brand. And frankly, it's also, I think, nobody wants Trump supporters in the Republican Party. That part of the Republican Party wants nothing to do with Trump supporters, nothing to do with MAGA. And in fact, historically speaking, the Trump supporters, the MAGA people of today, have been previously purged from Republican polite society in the past. This is not a new development in American politics. The sort of traditional right, the American first type, very sort of heart of oak and heart, you know, the yeoman type American has long been unwelcome [31:34] in Republican party circles that could be represented by a Mike Pence or a Romney. And so in some ways, maybe that's also what this is about. The branding continues and the uni-party, because they do represent what we could also call, not just rinos, but the uni-party, the party in charge of things, is just perfectly happy to be in the minority, or not be in power, but part of the process. And so I think maybe that's kind of what drives them. I mean, it's certainly a conundrum, But I think those sorts of factors do play into some of what we're watching. It's again, looking from the UK, this seems to be all about hush money and hush money NDAs. They're fairly common in business across the board. So once again, I'm scratching my head thinking, is this your smoking gun? Is this it? And they seem, the AG seem to say that, well, there could be other charges, but if the charges are not there, then you can't really defend yourself. And there seems to be utter confusion from their side. [32:50] Right, right. But in terms of the political accomplishment, the media accomplishment, it doesn't really matter, does it? I mean, you could, again, go back to the January 6th cases. The charges are ridiculous. [33:03] The charges are exaggerations. There have been people who've been literally had on their indictment the crime of going like this to a police, I mean, like raising your finger to a policeman or putting on a Trump hat on a statue, this becomes a crime that ruins your life and makes your business close and your wife divorce you. I mean, literally, that's what's going on. These are all pretexts. If you're looking for legal gravity or legal answers, you're not going to find them because, again, that's what a political prosecution is. Back to Stalin's show trials or some of these other exercises in simply eradicating the opposition. That's what this is. And it's Trump, it's the people who would support him. At this point, I mean, think of the chilling effect that these prosecutions, all of them have had on just free speech in America, people being afraid. I mean, how can you not be afraid if you're going to get in legal jeopardy and perhaps clapped in irons because of one of these ridiculous, not, you know, parading in the Capitol or some such thing that's usually, and we can go back to the Kavanaugh hearings of 20, what [34:28] year was that? 2018. The Kavanaugh hearings are the perfect case for people to refresh on because they, the anti-Kavanaugh protesters occupied Senate office building. They did all the things and more in terms of interrupting the vote, the actual vote on the floor in Congress, all of these things. And they got nothing more than a ticket. They got a ticket that I believe at maximum was a $50 fine. No arrest went into their record. I was watching this report from 2018 and the reporter was explaining that these people who were occupying the building. They had to be taken out. You know, basically, the policeman would tap on their shoulder and they weren't even put in handcuffs or zip ties. They were given a color-coded bracelet. That's how the left treats protesters. That's how the state treats the protesters. When you get to the Trump situation, the January 6th situation, they slam every possible thing and it becomes essentially domestic terrorism. So, you know, again, these are Trump, no pun intended, these are Trumped up charges. So the harder you look at what Alvin Bragg has to say about Trump, I think you're just going to keep scratching your head and just say [35:45] well, it's not in the legal code. There's something else going on here. What about the money? I think Donald Trump Jr. talked about 20 million being spent, whether or not that's correct, but it'll be a lot of money. And when people are living in cities, including New York, where the police are being wound down, not giving the powers, and you've got rising crime, across the country. And you wonder, is this actually a good use of resources to spend money on someone who paid someone else to keep a secret? Again, will that make people angry? That actually this is not the bread and butter issue that we care about. [36:29] Well, that's a good question. It's also the case, and I think it was the Daily Mail, thank you, that reported this, that Alvin Bragg had released something like 10 extremely violent felons back into the New York population and chose instead to drag President Trump in for this completely nonviolent and as you say, perfectly legal non-disclosure agreement between these parties. Yeah, I mean, I think it would make people angry, but what, you know, New York City, what is New York City? President Trump was saying he really should be tried in a different jurisdiction because it's something like 1% Republican, which is another problem for the January 6th defendants because they're being tried in Washington, DC, which is roughly similar in terms of political feelings. So it's, again, it's by any means necessary. Political prosecutions don't have to make the city run better, right? I mean, it's not about him trying to protect New Yorkers. It's a show trial and it shouldn't happen in America. [37:39] It shouldn't happen anywhere. But it's usually the kind of thing we would expect to see, we would expect to read about from North Korea or Albania or Castro's Cuba or something like that. And that's why it is such a shock. And I guess it's also maybe why you are looking to see the grain of reality there or the cause. There must be a cause. This can't be happening in America, but it is. And that's why I keep, it's not a popular message, but we are in a post-democratic period. Our government was seized in 2021. And the rightful president lives in exile at a beautiful place in Florida when he's not being arranged in New York City. So it's kind of we're in a, it's a head spinning moment, but it is a crisis. It's a real crisis. What's the deal, because I am assuming this has been put in play simply to tie Trump up with legal issues and therefore slow down or stop his ability from putting his name forward for 2024. So they don't have to actually rule anything. They just have to tie him up and slow him down. [38:55] Right. Of course, we know that won't happen. If he is simply dealing with legal problems, he will use them. I mean, as I understand it, he wanted a mugshot because I think they had a plan to get it right out. And in fact, there is a T-shirt, which I really want to buy. I don't know if it says free Trump or not guilty, but they sort of created a mugshot for their T-shirt. Clearly, I mean, that kind of attitude is really where he gets so much of his support and affection. Because believe it or not, I mean, and I have to have a big exception here. I've been very estranged from Donald Trump ever since he started to push the vaccine. He's not taken a step back from pushing that thing, no matter how many people have died and been injured. And I just kind of said, well, I'm done. I'm through with him. I can't even look at him anymore. And then this thing comes along and you realize that once again, he's on a front line alone and you just have to kind of, you know, accept him for what he is and where we are and what who else is there. And then you kind of, you know, you kind of find your, your feeling for him again, but it's it's, it's, it won't stop him obviously. And he, he has such an irrepressible spirit, this life force that he has is something that will turn this kind of thing to his advantage, which I know makes them crazy. [40:20] You can go back to watching any kind of, we'll go back to the Clintons and watch the way they handled, I mean, they're real crimes. That's probably one of the main reasons these people committed real crimes. I mean, think about, not even that he was even in trouble for this, but think about Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton declassified something like 11 million pages of military data that experts believe allowed the Chinese military to totally modernize and revamp itself. He also permitted, American military secrets to go to China in exchange for campaign finance contributions. [40:58] I mean, that's not just a national security, that's treason. And yet nothing happened. You couldn't even get it into an article of impeachment because they wouldn't give the committee time enough to draw everything up and go forward with different, I mean, and there probably wasn't enough will to be honest as well, but think about that kind of a transgression compared to paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 in a non-disclosure agreement, which as I understand it, was mainly so Melania, his wife, would not find out. I mean, you know, what hurts the country, right? And who, you know, so it's not really, it's not hypocrisy, it's much worse. It's one kind of crime against the people is fine with the elites. One kind of crime against who? Who's the crime against? It just becomes a pretext to destroy this man.   Maybe the judicial system would be a better place to find Epstein's victims rather than worried about someone who's paid a hundred thou, but that's a whole other area. [42:14] But just to finish off, I mean I agree 100% with your thoughts on the vaccine side and that's why I really do like what DeSantis has done, but also there's no one like Trump and if Trump is in the ring then why would anyone else be in the ring with him? And I'm wondering what your... it's probably never been in this situation before, obviously never having a president, former president indicted. How do you see this playing out? How do you kind of think we will be watching it?   Well I think a lot depends on how far they will go to use their, I think Nancy Pelosi called it quiver of arrows, against him. If they they actually go to federal charges and actually try to incarcerate him and you know do these absolutely Bolshevik things it becomes it probably becomes really difficult for him to run for office. I think short of that, I think he probably will continue to run and he will probably raise more money than he's ever raised before. So, [43:29] you know, after that my crystal ball kind of goes black because, you know, there are just so many other problems, you know, that obstacles that are ahead. But that does seem to be my at least short-term view.   Well I'm sure we'll have you back on. Diana, thank you so much for joining us and giving us your thoughts as it's sometimes difficult to assess things from thousands of miles away and you're living that as a US citizen. So thank you for coming on and sharing your thoughts. Oh well thank you, I'm just thrilled to be able to speak with you about it because it's a lot. You want people to to get a different perspective now that will come out through the media. So thank you, Peter.   Thank you for coming on.

Diana West discusses "Secrets of the Archives: Reconsidering Research of Bukovsky & Romerstein." This event is a Herb Romerstein Memorial Lecture on Propaganda and Deception in collaboration with the Intermarium Lecture Series. About the Speaker: Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy (Center for Security Policy Press, 2019), American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (St. Martin's Press 2013) and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St. Martin's Press 2007). In Fall of 2013, West brought out a companion volume to American Betrayal titled: The Rebuttal: Defending American Betrayal from the Book-Burners, which includes essays by Vladimir Bukovsky and M. Stanton Evans, among others. Honors include one of Newsmax's 50 Best Conservative Blogs; the Hero of Conscience Award from the American Freedom Alliance; and the Center for Security Policy's Mightier Pen Award. Both American Betrayal and The Red Thread have been showcased at The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars Dinner, a club of intelligence experts and writers that meets every Halloween in Washington, D.C. A journalist since graduating from Yale, West began writing a weekly newspaper column at the Washington Times, where she also wrote editorials under Editorial Page Editors Helle Dale and the late Tony Blankley. The column would be nationally syndicated for 15 years. A collection of West's columns came out under the title, No Fear: Selected Columns from America's Most Politically Incorrect Columnist (Bravura Books). West is also one of 19 co-authors of Shariah: The Threat to America, a publication of the Center for Security Policy, West's work has appeared in many publications and news sites including The American Spectator, Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, Dispatch International, The Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Gates of Vienna, Manhattan, Inc., M, Inc., National Wildlife Magazine, The New Criterion, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Weekly Standard, and her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. She has made numerous television, documentary and radio appearances, and addressed audiences including at the American Legion, the Danish Parliament, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Foundation, ICON, Institute for the Study of Strategy and Politics, Judicial Watch, the National Vietnam Veteran and Gulf War Coalition, the Naval War College, the Union League Club, and Yale. She blogs at dianawest.net, and is now making videos at https://www.patreon.com/DianaWest. Having earned her permanent Twitter suspension, Diana now thinks aloud and uncensored at Gab @realDianaWest. Learn more about IWP graduate programs: https://www.iwp.edu/academic-programs/ Make a gift to IWP: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E231090&id=18

With no interview this week as Peter enjoys a well-earned family break, we are revisiting some previous content from our archives. As relevant today, if not more so. Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Diana is also one of 19 co-authors of Shariah: The Threat to America (a Center for Security Policy publication). Diana's work has appeared in many publications and news sites including The American Spectator, Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, Dispatch International, The Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Gates of Vienna, Manhattan, Inc., M, Inc., National Wildlife Magazine, The New Criterion, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Washington Post Magazine and The Weekly Standard. She has made numerous television, documentary and radio appearances, and addressed audiences including at the American Legion, the Danish Parliament, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Foundation, ICON, Institute for the Study of Strategy and Politics, Judicial Watch, the National Vietnam Veteran and Gulf War Coalition, the Naval War College, the Union League Club, and Yale. Follow and support Diana at the following links... Website: https://dianawest.net/ gab social: https://gab.com/realDianaWest Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DianaWest​ Diana's books are available on Amazon in print, e-book or spoken word on Audible... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diana-West/e/B001JRU95Y?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1660565570&sr=8-2 Originally broadcast 22.2.21 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more go to https://heartsofoak.org/ https://heartsofoak.org/find-us/ Please like, subscribe & share!

Diana West has become one of our regular guests due to popular demand from our audience. The many books she has written show her vast range and knowledge of politics and culture in the US and afar. She has been closely following the scandal of the January 6th Committee that has been set up due to the Democrats fear of 2024 and the return of Trump. And following the FBI raid on The Don's home at Mar-a-Lago, we simply had to speak to someone who has a deep understanding of what is happening to break it all down for us. Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Diana is also one of 19 co-authors of Shariah:The Threat to America (a Center for Security Policy publication). Diana's work has appeared in many publications and news sites including The American Spectator, Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, Dispatch International, The Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Gates of Vienna, Manhattan, Inc., M, Inc., National Wildlife Magazine, The New Criterion, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Washington Post Magazine and The Weekly Standard. She has made numerous television, documentary and radio appearances, and addressed audiences including at the American Legion, the Danish Parliament, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Foundation, ICON, Institute for the Study of Strategy and Politics, Judicial Watch, the National Vietnam Veteran and Gulf War Coalition, the Naval War College, the Union League Club, and Yale. Follow and support Diana at the following links... Website: https://dianawest.net/ gab social: https://gab.com/realDianaWest Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DianaWest​ Diana's books are available on Amazon in print, ebook or spoken word on Audible... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diana-West/e/B001JRU95Y?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1660565570&sr=8-2 Originally broadcast 11.8.22 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more go to https://heartsofoak.org/ https://heartsofoak.org/find-us/ Please like, subscribe & share!

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs, Dianawest.net, Author, “Death of the Grown Up,” “American Betrayal” and “Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy,” Twitter: @diana_west_ Diana West argues that what is happening in Georgia is insanity, but not insanity without a purpose Trump’s attorneys warned voters in Georgia ahead of the run-off election about voting irregularities The bizarre death of Harrison Deal: close ties to Gov. Kemp and his family, Sen. Loeffler campaign staffer… Part II:  Why do Gov. Kemp and the Secretary of State in Georgia continue to advocate for an election system prone to fraud and corruption? Blackout Wars: Just as we do not know what is going on in Georgia, we do not know what is going on around the rest of the world West finds that we are witnessing a “war-like” control of information as social media giants may be actively trying to manipulate the news DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander: Iran increased its reserve of enriched uranium by 20% Iranians were fearful to retaliate under a Trump administration, their attitude may shift under a Biden administration  David Wurmser explains why a recent agreement between Qatar and Saudi Arabia may not be all that it seems Wurmser excepts an escalation in violence on the part of the Palestinians towards Israel in the coming months following Joe Biden’s potential inauguration JOE BOSCO, Former China Country Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member of the U.S.-China task force at the Center for National Interest: The threat posed by China pertains not only to the middle class but the country as a whole The Biden team needs to follow in President Trump’s foot steps Biden needs to accept a phone call from Taiwan’s President, Tsai Ing-wen

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs, Dianawest.net, Author, “Death of the Grown Up,” “American Betrayal” and “Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy,” Twitter: @diana_west_Part I: Event 201 from fall 2019 simulated a COVID-19 like disease being "accidentally/deliberately" released on the world Diana West argues that in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the "Great Resetters"seek to harness the power of the state to end Donald Trump's "economic renaissance" Part II:  President Trump sought to create an "America First" agenda Over the past 4 years, the American left used all of the tools at their disposal to depose President Trump from power Part III: This "woke culture" is not the figments of their American right's imagination - it has real world consequences  West reasons that our security institution, FBI, DOJ, CIA, have become the swamp's "secret police" Bill Barr as the "cover-up general" Part IV: The US needs to lead the charge against the Great Reset West finds that the "psychological warfare" exacted against the American people did little to sway their support of the President

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author,  "How Civilizations Die," Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler: David Goldman argues that the Chinese Communist Party is the Party of the "Elite." Consists of a staggering 92 million members, 100 of whom are billionaires.  Under Chairman Xi Jinping's rule, the state in China centralizes the activities of their Cadres. Some 2 million Party members are reported to have engaged in espionage at the behest of the Chinese government.  A current bill before the German Bundestag is a major setback for US national security interests GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies: What will a "great reset" for US policy in East Asia look like under a Biden administration? Grant Newsham finds that the Moon Jae-in government in South Korea wants to create a one-party state China's current "gray zone" coercion campaign against Taiwan SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author, "Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA"(2009): US counter intelligence efforts against the Chinese are "grossly" inadequate Sam Faddis questions whether we are about to have a "Chinese asset" sit down in the Oval Office DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of "Death of the Grown Up," "American Betrayal" and "Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy":  "Evil Doubles Down but Good Advance": Why are election fraud experts being silenced? What is worse than the Hunter Biden Laptop story - the American people's "right to know" being stripped away  Diana West lays out President Trump's numerous paths for victory

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author, "How Civilizations Die," Essayist ("Spengler"), Asia Times:  David Goldman's new take on "Treason of the Clerk"; US intel community supposed attempt to censor the NY Post The US intel community may be the biggest beneficiary of what President Trump calls "endless wars"  China "opening up" markets to specific Chinese firms demonstrates the enormous influence the CCP has over the US KEVIN FREEMAN, Host, Blaze TV's Economic War Room, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Author, "Game Plan" and "Secret Weapon":  Kevin Freeman delves into Economic War Room's Election Fraud Truth Summit  Phil Waldron's insights into fraud on an "industrial scale" The 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act made it a federal crime to disenfranchise a specific group by manipulating votes - How does this apply to what we are witnessing today DIANA WEST, Columnist, Dianawest.net, Author, "Death of the Grown Up," American Betrayal," Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy": Diana West dissects the post-election crisis and the supposed case of a coup against President Trump What will it be like to have a potentially "highly compromised" individual in the office of the Presidency DEREK MALTZ, Executive Director, Government Relations for Pen-Link Ltd., former Special Agent, Department of Justice's Special Operations Division, former Chief, New York's Drug Enforcement Task Force:  Last fiscal year, the Customs and Border Patrol Agency seized about 178,000 pounds of Meth Derek Maltz argues that Chinese crime syndicates are fueling the US opioid crisis Why is there a lack of oversight and accountability in the highest levels of government

DAVID GOLDMAN, Essayist, Asian Times, Author, How Civilizations Die: The German business lobby may be propping up Huawei's interests in Central Europe Biden's continued silence on Huawei has the potential to set up a dangerous precedent David Goldman explains why data will help fuel of the 4th industrial revolution DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:  Diana West comments on why AG William Barr may be trying to shift public opinion away from President Trump The mainstream media's supposed efforts to hinder President Trump's mission to expose voter fraud SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director, The Jewish Policy Center, former Senior Director for Security Policy, Jewish Institute for National Security of America: Shoshana Bryen lays out ways to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power Iran's response to the assassination of their top nuclear scientist Bryen argues that the principles of the Abraham Accords will stay intact during a potential Biden administration KALBINUR GHENI, Committee on the Present Danger: China Captive Nations' Representative for East Turkestan: Kalbinur Gheni talks about her sister, who has been in a Uyghur concentration camp in Xinjiang province, China, since 2018 Chen Quanguo's, current Chinese Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang, brutal suppression of the Uyghur muslims

TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies:  Potential end of the Trump Travel Ban and its implication Sharia supremacy in Europe today MORTON KLEIN, National President of the Zionist Organization of America:  Commentary on Joe Bide’s top pick for his White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre and More Joe Biden’s acidic outlook towards U.S.-Israeli relations DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:  Reaction to the FCC Chairman’s comments about fraud in the 2020 election Fraud in this year's election speaks volumes about the future of American democracy KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”:  Why every American should visit EveryLegalVote.com  Sidney Powell’s contribution to learning the truth about the presidential election 

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler: A recent report diagnosing problems associated with the Chinese Communist Party The United States' use of Asia in its tech industry DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: "Enemy lists" being generated by members of the Democratic party What are democratic socialists? How has social media censorship changed in recent years? MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy, Longtime career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy: A current assessment of the Chinese nuclear weapons capacity What would a Biden administration do to the US nuclear weapons capability? CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-Time International Award-Winning Journalist and Television Producer, Federally Appointed Director with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Author of The Challenge of Modernizing Islam: What is the Red-Green Axis? Turkey's influence on countries around the world National security implications of a  Biden administration

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The continuation of the anti-Trump conspiracy What is the Trump Accountability Project? SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009): The ongoing presidential election Civil unrest following the official results of this election JEFF NYQUIST, Has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War : The origin of polarization in American politics A list of Trump supporters Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is planning to make TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist: What impact would a Biden-Harris administration have on immigration? Would construction of the border wall end with a Biden presidency? The reasons behind US travel restrictions from certain countries tied to terrorism

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler: What will Joe Biden's political strategy be if he wins the presidency? Biden's relationship with big tech The hold on Ant Technology Group's IPO GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019): Recent Chinese propaganda surfacing in the United States US investment relations with China DR. PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA: What would a Biden administration's approach to nuclear deterrence look like? Russia and China's increasing nuclear weapons technology Assessing the United States' nuclear deterrent DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The current state of the presidential election What is "gaslighting"?

SOPHIE MANN, Fast Filer for Just the News, Former Bartley Fellow at the Wall Street Journal:A history of Iranian arms embargoesAnalyzing the relationship between Iran and VenezuelaGEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ:Reasons why George believes President Trump will be electedJoe Biden's alienation of a large percentage of the American electorateNew revelations in the Hunter Biden storyDIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy:The role of the US news media in the presidential electionThe media's lack of reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop storySE HOON KIM, Committee on the Present Danger: China Captive Nations Coalition:Captive nations within ChinaWhat is the Captive Nations Coalition?A recent webinar on this issue of captive nations

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: An update on Hunter Biden's laptop story Did Joe Biden profit from Hunter Biden's business dealings? (PART TWO): A letter signed by 50 former intelligence officials concerning the New York Post article on Hunter Biden Ideological drivers behind the anti-Trump conspiracy The upcoming presidential debate SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009): Analyzing the business relationships of Hunter and Joe Biden The Biden family's relationship with China TRAYCE BRADFORD, Vice President of Christians Engaged, Serves as the Eagle Forum National Issues Chair for HumanTrafficking: The magnitude of human trafficking in the United States The human trafficking issue in Texas Various groups in the US combatting human trafficking

GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ: A recent plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan Will riots continue after the election in November? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Previous attempts to prevent Donald Trump from being inaugurated A recent FBI report regarding Russian collusion in US elections GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019): South Korea's recent election Does Moon Jae-in want to unite with North Korea? How can the US help protect Taiwan? KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”: The IPO of Ant Financial Group being put on hold An upcoming webinar on national security, the economy and trade policy

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler: How "America first" broke the establishment curse What are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ambitions for the Middle East? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Recent revelations in the anti-Trump conspiracy What did President Obama know about the Russian collusion narrative? STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, 26 Years of Experience as a professor of National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of U.S. Army War College: Russian influence operations against the United States The character of the Russian regime under Vladimir Putin The current state of arms control between the US and Russia JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department where she served in Belgium and Trinidad & Tobago: The current state of US immigration policy What will the Biden-Harris approach to immigration look like?

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Analyst for Defense Policy at the Center for Security Policy: China's increasing military capability How can the US slow this buildup? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Analyzing the first presidential debate Cases of election fraud throughout the United States The debate over the BLM and Antifa riots in American cities BRIAN KENNEDY, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China: Hunter Biden's connections to China Chinese financial laws regarding transparency The importance of China in this upcoming presidential election PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council: The distribution of money within the International Monetary Fund Issues with the way this money is allocated to the Chinese Communist Party

OLIVER “BUCK” REVELL, President of Revell Group, Inc., Executive Vice President of Rogue DNA, Trustee of the Center for American and International Law, Chairman, Board of Directors, Middle East Research Institute, Served for five years as an officer in U.S. Marine Corps, Served 30 years as a Special Agent and Senior Executive of the FBI, Served as First Assistant Director in charge of Criminal Investigations at the FBI: An analysis of the protests taking place throughout the United States What are the true intentions of Antifa? (PART TWO): Is there foreign involvement in these protests and riots? Assessing the job the FBI is doing with respect to the riots What can the American people do to help end the protests? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The notion of self-defense in the United States The upcoming Supreme Court nomination by President Trump ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, Former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies: President Trump and Joe Biden's approaches to immigration The connection between American jobs and immigration Will the American voters weigh the candidates' positions on immigration?

MATTHEW TAYLOR, Director of Clinton Cash and Creepy Line: Matt's new documentary "Riding The Dragon" A Chinese company stealing American nuclear secrets (PART TWO): The Biden family's China secrets The upcoming IPO of China's Ant Group Technology Matt's new film on the Electoral College GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies: An overview of Yoshihide Suga, Japan's new Prime Minister The relationship between the US, Japan and South Korea Should Japan become a member of the "Five Eyes?" DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Facebook's censoring of information on the wildfires on the West Coast How does big tech censorship impact US voter opinion?

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research: What is the U.S. Agency for Global Media? Michael Pack's role in this agency Is Ilhan Omar's ideology the future of the Democratic party? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The recent attack piece on President Trump in The Atlantic President Trump's track record with the US military BRAD THAYER, Professor of International Security Studies a Tallinn University, Has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Rand Corporation and served as a senior analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy: Defining the Trump-China policy approach Are we in a new era of international politics? TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist: Has the President’s immigration policy been consistent with initial campaign promises? Biden promises to prohibit deportations for 100 days if elected Comparing Trump and Biden’s immigration positions

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism: Analyzing the United States' missile defense What is holding back the US missile defense capability? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Where is the US with respect to anti-constitution ideology? An update on the Michael Flynn case MORT KLEIN, National President of the Zionist Organization of America: A member of Joe Biden's campaign team's comments on Linda Sarsour The importance of the deal between Israel and the UAE How does this deal help mitigate tension in the Middle East? TARA O, Founder of East Asia Research Center: Policies Moon Jae-in is pursuing with respect to China and North Korea Suppression of protests by the South Korean government How can the US government help the people of South Korea?

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017): Mike Pompeo's recent speech from Jerusalem Democrats' position on China in the past (PART TWO): The recent peace agreement between the UAE and Israel The connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey Previous US sanctions on Iran SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009): What is taking place in Kenosha, WI? How can the US government get these riots under control? Joe Biden's attitude towards China DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Takeaways thus far from the Republican National Convention The current state of the Republican Party

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018): Susan Rice's instincts and decisions on national security in the past Rice's role in Benghazi How will the United States' enemies view the US if Biden doesn't participate in debates? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Joe Biden's selection of Kamala Harris to be his running mate How can the US help the people of Hong Kong? GEORGE RASLEY, Editor of Conservative HQ: What types of national security policies may Kamala Harris introduce? How would mail-in ballots impact the 2020 presidential election? Censorship of conservative voices in American social media DAVID WURMSER, Director of CSP’s new program on fighting global anti-Semitism and defending the US-Israel relationship, Served as Middle East Adviser to Dick Cheney, as Special Assistant to John Bolton and as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Served in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander: What happened in Beirut? Who controls the government of Lebanon?

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler: The need for the US to produce their own semiconductors President Trump's executive order on American medicine production How to incentivize American investors DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The importance of a recent Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Antifa Why don't Democrats denounce Antifa? The bias of America's justice department JEFF NYQUIST, Has written for Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author of the book Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War : The potential of California, Washington and Oregon succeeding from the United States How would this succession impact US national security? RICK BERMAN, President of Berman and Company, a Washington, DC-based public affairs firm: Rick's new website, chinaownsus.com Chinese influence on American media Microsoft's connections with the Chinese Communist Party

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Censorship by Facebook, Twitter and Google How does this censorship impact American's political views? STEVEN MOSHER, President of the Population Research Institute, Author of A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy: Military conflict between India and China Xi Jinping's persecution of the Uyghurs CURTIS ELLIS, Senior Policy Advisory with America First Policies, Senior Policy Advisor with the Donald Trump Campaign: The truth about what is going on in China Manufacturing businesses in China that use slave labor China's influence on the US economy CHUCK DEVORE, Vice President of National Initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs (Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon) from 1986 to 1988, Former California Assemblyman: Assessing the riots taking place in the United States Should President Trump invoke the Insurrection Act? What do Americans think of the US police force?

RICHARD MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government, Former Public Affairs Chief at the U.S. Department of Labor during George W. Bush Administration, Nine years as a state lobbyist for the National Rifle Association: Why have many former White House officials turned against President Trump? The Bush family's history with China DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: How Donald Trump has shed light on the "culture war" taking place in the United States The divide and conquer tactic of the media Who were the "weatherman" in the 1960s? KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”: The need to keep pressure on the Chinese Communist Party What can we do to prevent a Chinese economic attack on the US? What is the uptick rule? MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Hosts the radio show “The Michael Cutler Hour” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio: How sanctuary cities have lead to the protests against the police force Examining the every day life of United States police officers

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, Former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department where she served in Belgium and Trinidad & Tobago: Assault weapon components confiscated recently in the United States The continual advancement of the US border wall How President Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: What served as the precursor for the protests taking place throughout the US? What was "Event 201?" What are the roots of Marxism in the United States? MICHAEL PILLSBURY, Author of The Hundred-Year Marathon, Fluent Mandarin speaker, Served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government: What was the Chinese "Waring States Period?" Analyzing the unrestricted warfare plan of the Chinese Communist Party (PART TWO): The rapid advancement of Chinese Fortune 500 companies How should the United States respond to China's continual repression of Hong Kong?

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The "enemy within" the United States The infiltration of Marxism in the US JAMES FANELL, Retired from US Navy in 2015 concluding 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specializing in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs with an emphasis on the Chinese Navy, Assignments included tours as the Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence for the U.S. Seventh Fleet aboard the USS Blue Ridge, the Office of Naval Intelligence China Senior Intelligence Officer, etc., Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University: What is China's long-term strategy with respect to their position in the international world? The recent advancement of the Chinese Navy How does the US Navy stack up against China's? LTG STEVEN KWAST, Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas: What are China's ambitions for space? The strategic implications of "space power" What does the United States have to do to combat China's increasing space technology? ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens: The defacement of a World War II monument in North Carolina The need to end the violent protests taking place in the US

ANDY BOSTOM, Author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), Author of The Legacy of Antisemitism (2008), Author of Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism (2012), Author of Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran (2014): Is there a second wave of coronavirus happening in China? What is the status of a vaccine for coronavirus? Could microchip technology be used in a vaccine? DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: How have the media and members of the US government become advocates for Communist subversion? How can the nation as a whole be restored? DAN GALLINGTON, Senior Policy and Program Advisor, George C. Marshall Institute, Served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Has there been a Marxist infiltration of the US military? Have the political affiliations of senior military personnel changed recently? Why the US needs to be cautious of the Chinese Communist Party ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine: How is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan trying to roll back secularism in Turkey? Turkey's plan to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque The ongoing persecution of Christians in Pakistan

FRED FLEITZ, President and CEO Center for Security Policy, Former CIA analyst, Former Chief of Staff for Amb. John Bolton in the State Dept., Author of The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare: What Trump Must to Reverse Obama’s Strategic Patience (2018): President Trump's continual work to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons The impacts of economic sanctions on Iran The potential for Iran to gain access to a nuclear weapon GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019): China's involvement in the riots taking place in the US Beijing's continual disinformation campaign agains the United States DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Who is the "enemy within"? How have these enemies penetrated the US government? KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”: The ongoing presence of Chinese companies in the New York Stock Exchange How the coronavirus has impacted the American people's opinion of conducting business with the Chinese Communist Party A simple fix to stop the high-frequency trading risk

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The fact-checking being done to President Trump on Twitter How does Facebook plan to limit free speech? GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019): The role of Henry Kissinger in US foreign policy throughout the years What should be done by the US to stand with Hong Kong? Do members of Congress know the threat that China poses to the United States? DR. PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA: The need to have electric grid technology manufactured in the United States How to stop foreign influence on the US electrical grid Why the US needs to resume nuclear weapons testing SHOSHANA BRYEN, Senior Director of the Jewish Policy Center, Former Senior Director for Security Policy at JINSA, Mrs. Bryen was for 17 years author of the widely read and republished JINSA Reports: How are things moving in the right direction for the US-Iranian relationship? How long will Iran remain in Syria? What is the relationship between Germany and Iran?

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The role of Judge Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case What is the ultimate goal of the left's battle against General Flynn? Digging deeper into the anti-Trump conspiracy KEN TIMMERMAN, President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, Author of Deception: The Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi, Author of Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi, Nationally recognized investigative reporter: The politicization of the Obama intelligence community The lockdown of citizens in France during the coronavirus pandemic The withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria GRANT NEWSHAM, Senior Research Fellow at Japan Forum for Strategic Studies: Why did it take so long to realize US military funds were being invested in Chinese companies? The challenge the Chinese military poses to the United States Is China using the pandemic to advance their military capability? PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Former Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council: The nuclear capabilities of the Russians and Chinese The advancement of missile technology around the world

SASHA GONG, Former VOA’s China Branch Chief, Author of “Born American: A Chinese Woman’s Dream of Liberty”: President Trump's decision to prevent US federal retirement funds going towards Chinese companies China's constant spying on the United States done by their own citizens KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room on TheBlaze TV, Author of “Game Plan” and “Secret Weapon”: The importance of ending the United States' investment in China How did China become a prominent economic player in the international world? How to help Americans invest "patriotically" DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: The latest developments in "Obamagate" Why have these revelations taken so long to get proper attention? ROBERT SPENCER, Director of Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine: How is the French government treating their rapidly growing Muslim community? A professor's life that was threatened in Arizona

ROGER ROBINSON, Co-Founded and presently Chairs the Prague Security Studies Group, President and CEO of RWR: China's penetration of the US federal retirement system How can President Trump intervene to end this investment? GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019): What is China's "wolf diplomacy?" Assessing China's military capability at the moment Matthew Pottinger's speech directed at the CCP DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net, Author of Death of the Grown Up, American Betrayal, and Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy: Bill Gates' connection to the World Health Organization How does "Event 201" fit into the coronavirus pandemic? SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress: Recent developments in the case of Michael Flynn Why was there an animus against General Flynn within the US government? Nancy Pelosi's connection to China

“The anti-Trump conspiracy is not about Democrats versus Republicans. It's not about the ebb and flow of political power lawfully and peacefully transferred. It is about globalists versus nationalists, and they're locked in the old and continuous Communist versus anti-Communist struggle, and fighting to the end whether we, the anti-Communists, recognize it or not.” So writes, Diana West, the award-winning author of “The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy” one of my guests on this week's show. It's a stark claim. And it demands that we look at the Trump impeachment in a whole new light, as part of a century long conflict to take America away from its constitutional roots, and towards globalism. Donald Trump is an enormous threat to this agenda. In this sense, he's a counter-revolutionary, seeking to protect the American nation from its globalist enemies, enemies not just from without, but from within. As Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, and my other guest explains, “What I'm basically saying is that whichever of the isms we decide to label to this particular phase, we're dealing with basically totalitarianism, and the totalitarians have as part of their trade craft operating subversively.” What's astonishing today is that this agenda is now operating right out in the open with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the “squad”, and most of the Democratic Party's Presidential candidates. This war didn't start with Donald Trump. Diana and Frank share incredible stories of a century long struggle with our “enemy within.” Some samples: How William Wirt was the first American to be essentially destroyed by the media, for trying to tell the country about the revolutionary nature of the New Dealers. What was behind the recognition of the USSR in 1933. How the culture wars began in Hollywood in the 30s where stories of Soviet atrocities were kept off the silver screen. How Harry Hopkins engineered the covert sale of uranium to the Soviets Why Joe McCarthy had to be destroyed. How “two foundations of globalism, the United Nations and the IMF, these were actually brought into existence by two Soviet agents working inside, covertly, the United States government, Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss.” Bringing this all up to today (starting at minute 38:45 through 45:30), is the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr, the man that James Comey, “to this day, honors as his deepest influence on his own theory of justice.” We learn that Niebuhr's notion of justice included “no right and no wrong. There are no moral absolutes.” Comey has written, paraphrasing Niebuhr, that “the Christian in politics must be willing to transgress any purely Christian ethic. He must be willing to sin in the name of justice.” These are chilling stories. What we're seeing now is not about “the ebb and flow of political power lawfully and peacefully transferred.” Instead, it's about a coup, a coup being staged all around Washington in various venues, and now in the Congress. Our century long struggle continues.

Why does Diana West believe that communist ideology has infiltrated America’s intelligence agencies? After looking into key figures involved in the Spygate scandal, what information did Diana West uncover about their ideological beliefs? How is Donald Trump a “counter-revolutionary” president, in West’s view? In this episode, we'll sit down with Diana West, a journalist and author of “The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.”

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