MUST-SEE RESPONSE to Trump's address

I'm going to show you some pertinent. moments from Donald Trump's presidential. address tonight to the nation, but with. the caveat that you should stay for the. analysis that I give afterwards because. you cannot listen to one without the. other. So, here's that clip and again, stick around for the analysis right. after. >> Our purpose in disclosing this. information is not to weaken confidence. in election, but to earn that confidence. by confronting vulnerabilities and. correcting them very, very quickly and. that's what we're doing.

The documents cover five major areas of. concern. First, they show that over a period of. years starting during the 2020 election. cycle, the People's Republic of China carried. out what is believed to be the largest. compromise of election data. in history resulting in China's illicit. acquisition of 220. million US voter files. That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political.

party preferences, and other sensitive. data that would be needed to register to. vote and engage in other nefarious. activities, which is exactly what was. happening. Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate. declassification and release of critical. intelligence revealing shocking. vulnerabilities in our election. infrastructure. This evidence shows that the election. system we have dangerously exposes.

and really exposes like levels never. thought possible. to hacking, exploitation, and foreign. interference. Just as disturbingly, this vital. information has for many years been. covered up and hidden from you, the. American people, our beautiful, our. great American people. China and other. countries have been trying to meddle in. our elections. Evidence of fraud has. been buried. Hundreds of thousands of.

non-citizens and dead people. are listed and active on the voter. rolls, and yet we still have elections. with no voter ID, no proof of. citizenship, and tens of millions of. ballots floating aimlessly through the. mail. Congress must pass the Save. America Act. >> Now, this was Donald Trump's shocking. claim, as Caroline Levitt previewed. earlier today, that he's got newly. discovered evidence of foreign election. interference. As she said, it will shock.

you. Here's a little hint. It should not. shock you because it was fake. Donald. Trump and Republicans have been trying. to make this claim happen for the better. part of a decade. It is not any less. fake today than it was then. So, why is. this shocking speech even necessary? Here's why. For months now, Trump has been building. the infrastructure to seize control of. the elections and how they're run in. this country. DOJ is suing 31 states for. their unredacted voter rolls. The. Department of Homeland Security is. demanding access to run those rolls. through citizenship verification systems.

that keep wrongly flagging eligible. voters. You've got the Save America Act. sitting in Congress that could. disenfranchise millions of Americans and. would basically amount to a federal. takeover of state-run races. And you've. got a continued refusal by Republicans. to rule out sending ICE, that murderous. agency, to the polls. A lot of steps. they've tried, but the bad news for them. is that none of those steps have worked. They haven't advanced. They've been. stymied by the courts and judges and the. filibuster, you name it. So, now they.

need a new route. According to the. Washington Post, Trump's allies have. drafted a 17-page executive order that. would let him declare a national. emergency over supposed election. interference by a foreign country, an emergency that would, in their own. words, unlock extraordinary presidential. power over voting. Now, just a quick. note to say that my new book, The Day. After, is now available. If you'd like. to support my work and send a message to. Donald Trump who put me on his enemies. list this year that his efforts to. silence us and independent media only. make our voices louder, then please do.

me a favor, support my work and order a. copy. You can click the link right here. on the screen and the post description. or the comments or go to link in my bio. or to briantylercohen.com/book. Here's the thing about a national. emergency that would unlock. extraordinary presidential powers. though. You kind of need a pretext. You. can't just wake up one day and announce. that you're seizing control of elections. because you feel like it. Even this. administration knows that. You need a. story. You need some kind of proof, however manufactured or debunked, that. the system is broken and only the.

president can fix it. Like, say, a new. claim that some foreign country, I don't. know, China, Venezuela, had interfered. in our election and that Donald Trump. now has the proof. Is it real? Again, no, not at all, but it doesn't need to. be. It doesn't need to hold up in court. It doesn't need to be real evidence. After all, remember this? >> On December the 27th, there was a phone. call between President Trump and the. acting Attorney General and his deputy. According to notes taken by that deputy,

they told Mr. Trump, "Understand that. the DOJ can't and won't snap its fingers. and change the outcome of the election. It doesn't work that way." And Mr. Trump. responded, "Just say that the election. was corrupt and leave the rest to me and. the. our counselman.". >> See, he's done it before. This is a. clear pattern. And again, it doesn't. have to be real. It just has to exist. loudly enough, for long enough, in the. zeitgeist, perpetuated by the person. with the biggest megaphone in America,

that Donald Trump can wield it as a. justification to do what he's wanted to. do all along, which is take control of. the election, gain access to the voter. rolls, and decide who can and can't cast. ballots. It would effectively amount to. the end of free and fair elections as we. know it in this country. As Trump. himself admitted, >> We can only lose the. midterms if we allow ourselves to lose. the midterms if we are foolish, stupid, and unwise. But if we terminate the filibuster as we.

should do, and immediately vote for the Save. America Act, then we will not lose. an election. for 100 years. We do that We're not going to lose an. election for 100 years. >> For posterity, no one who genuinely. believes in free and fair elections. tells you that the payoff to their plan. is 100 years of uninterrupted control. When the architect of a massive voter. suppression bill tells you that the.

point of his bill is that his side stops. losing for a century, kind of tells you something. And that really is the whole story here. Donald Trump is not gearing up to win. the midterms on the merits because he. can't. He can't run on a broken economy. and surging prices and rising inflation. and expensive gas and a new war that he. swore wouldn't happen and a failure to. release the Epstein files. He can't run. on his only actual priority being his. relentless focus on vanity projects and. outright admitting that he doesn't give. a about stuff like housing. His.

approval numbers are a testament to. that. So, instead of making a case to. voters, he's just trying to rig the rules of the. game before a single vote is even cast. He wants to gut the Election Assistance. Commission, eliminate the filibuster, nationalize election administration, restrict the very ballots that tend to. favor the Democrats, and do it all under. the guise of election integrity, and. making these big announcements like he's. done tonight. And clearly, he will stop. at nothing to do it, even if that means. propping up the corpse of his supposed.

friend Lindsey Graham to get there. >> I got a call last night sometime in, you. know, the early evening, maybe in the sevens, and he called and he said we're all set. for the Save America Act. He was pushing. the Save America Act like crazy. He got. back, said he just landed from Ukraine. I said that's a long trip to make. He. said he sounded a little tired, but. perfect, but a little bit tired. He had. a right to be. And then he was a worker. No, he was. really a worker, but uh but he sounded.

great, actually. But he was he was uh he. actually said he was tired. But he he wanted to pass the Save. America Act. And I said, "Well, we're. going to get it done, Lindsey. We're. going to get it done. I'll see you like. soon. We start maybe we might even meet. today.". >> Yes, I'm sure that Lindsey Graham's. final words were definitely totally, "Donald, please pass the Save America. Act." Got it. So, look, Trump will lie. because he always lies. But his. gaslighting is not grounded in fact. It. is just one more effort for him to do.

what he always does, which is seek to. rig the rules to consolidate power for. himself. You cannot claim that the. election in 2020, when you were. president, was rigged, but that the. election in 2024, when Biden controlled. the entire federal government, was. somehow not, and expect people to ever. take you seriously. But because he is a. shameless hack, that's exactly what he's. doing. But remember, you don't do this. if you're operating from a place of. strength. You do this when you have no. other recourse. And Trump has no other.

recourse. He is plummeting in the polls, and the rest of his party, with their. wagons hitched to his, are going down. with him. And if they don't want to fall. any lower, they would be well-served to. avoid glomming on to yet another. conspiracy theory where he lies straight. to the American people's faces. >> [music]. >> Before you go, I'm very excited to. announce that I've written a new book. titled The Day After: How to Wield Power. in a Post-Trump World. The book explores. what is, in my opinion, the single most. important theme that we're dealing with.

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