August 15, 2025 • 33 mins
1. Social Security System Cleanup
- Claimed Actions by Trump Administration:
- Removal of 275,000 illegal immigrants from the Social Security system.
- Purging of 12.4 million names of individuals allegedly over 120 years old.
- Identification of 135,000 individuals listed as over 160 years old, some allegedly receiving payments.
- Framing:
- Trump presents these actions as efforts to combat fraud, waste, and abuse.
- Contrasts his actions with the Biden administration, which he accuses of negligence.
- Announces no tax on Social Security benefits for seniors.
2. Critique of Social Security Program
- The text argues that Social Security is a broken system with poor returns.
- Claims that the media is whitewashing the program’s issues during its 90th anniversary.
- Includes a segment from CNBC’s Sharon Epperson explaining Social Security basics and recent changes.
3. Crime in Washington, D.C.
- Trump accuses DC officials of manipulating crime statistics to make the city appear safer.
- References a whistleblower lawsuit from a DC police sergeant alleging crime stat manipulation.
- Criticizes mainstream media (e.g., NYT, Washington Post, Politico) for ignoring the whistleblower and downplaying crime.
- Includes commentary from Joe Scarborough (MSNBC) and ABC News Live, both acknowledging rising crime concerns.
- Mentions CNN’s Daniel Dale, who admits DC has a long-standing crime issue but disputes Trump’s framing.
4. Big Tech and Election Interference
- Accuses Google of flagging Republican fundraising emails as spam while allowing Democratic ones through.
- Cites a memo from Targeted Victory, a GOP consulting firm, and a study from NC State University.
- Claims this behavior undermines Republican fundraising and election competitiveness.
- Suggests systemic bias in tech platforms against conservative candidates.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Speaking from the Oval Office during the ninetieth anniversary of
the Social Security Act, President Trump stated that his administration
has now successfully kicked nearly two hundred and seventy five
thousand I legal immigrants off the Social Security system. He
also mentioned having removed about two point four million names
(00:23):
of individuals that were over one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's what the record state.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The Social Security Administration has reportedly updated records for individuals
no longer holding legal status, but details remain unclear on
whether those individuals had been actively receiving benefits. President Trump
framed this action as part of a broader effort to
protect Social Security from fraud, waste, and abuse, contrasting it
(00:52):
with the previous administration, which he claimed failed to address
a massive issue. Here's the President, in his own words
from the Oval Office making the announcement, kicked.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Nearly two hundred and seventy five thousand illegal aliens off
of the Social Security system. These are people, many of
them have already left the country. And what that's doing
is making the system strong. It's making it strong. Biden
never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined. We cleared twelve point
(01:24):
four million names listed in the Social Security database over
one hundred and twenty years of age.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Think of the one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Thirty five thousand people listed who were over one hundred
and sixty years old and in some cases getting payments.
So somebody's getting those payments, and we're after that. Last month,
I signed one big beautiful bill and allowed no tax
on Social Security for our great seniors. Okay, so how's
that not bad?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No tax on social Security for our seniors. And to
protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly two hundred seventy
five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
These are people, many of them have already left the country,
and yet we were sending them checks all the time,
(02:12):
and two hundred and seventy five thousand, and that number
is now even larger than that. Frankness, its unbelievable job.
And what that's doing is making the system strong. It's
making it strong. Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined,
and we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more
illegals committing social security fraud. It's the social security fraud
(02:36):
that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
We cleared twelve point four million names listed in the
Social Security database over one hundred and twenty years of age.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Think of that.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So we had twelve point four million names where they
were over one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's a hell of a statement.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I have a feeling then that's I'm really gonna really
didn't happen to it. So you have twelve point four
million names listed in the Social Security datamas that were
over one hundred and twenty years of age, meaning you
were breaking records because I've never heard of anybody at
one hundred and twenty five. There were nearly one hundred
(03:19):
and thirty five thousand people listed who were over one
hundred and sixty years old and in some cases getting payments.
So somebody's getting those payments and we're after that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I love how the President said there, we're looking into that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
In translation, if you've been cashing these checks, the federal
government is coming after you. Now, let's talk about what
active benefit recipients mean. There is a confirmation now that
there's many individuals that were simply outdated in their information
but continued to receive the checks or were not alive
(03:56):
The Social Security administration is now trying to figure out
how how to deal with all of these individuals and
the claims that two hundred and seventy five thousand people
were actively removed from benefits, meaning they were actually receiving checks.
Trump's announcement frames these individuals, many of them as quote,
illegal immigrants, and that's another part of why the left
(04:19):
is losing their mind at this moment.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
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Speaker 1 (04:24):
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(04:58):
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and the DHS have undertaken various quote identity verification and
database updating efforts this year, including tougher in person at
any checks and reducing overpayment callback rates as well effects.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
On legal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Earlier in twenty twenty five, the administration said, Hey, we're
going to do everything we can to make sure that
those that are deserving of the benefits receive them. But
what we're not going to do is hand out money
to illegal immigrants and anyone that walks into a government office.
Which makes total sense, and that is exactly why the
President said, in his words, two hundred and seventy five
(07:19):
thousand illegal aliens have been removed.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Be if it's we've already kicked nearly two hundred and
seventy five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
These are people, many of them have already left the country,
and yet we were sending them checks all the time,
and two hundred and seventy five thousand and that numbers
now even larger than that. Frank, It's unbelievable. And what
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that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's making the system strong. Now what does the president
mean by that, Well, we all know that Social Security
is going bankrupt. Why because there's more people that are
getting money than are paying into it. Part of that
is because of age expectancy. We continue, through modern medicine
to extend life far longer than many people believe that. Well,
seniors were going to live. Now, that's great news, right,
(08:11):
because people are living longer. The problem is the system
is set up in a way that is going to fail.
And that's why the President's like, well, how do we
fix that. Well, if you can get two hundred and
seventy five thousand illegal aliens and remove them from receiving
Social Security benefits, that's one massive step in the right direction. Now,
on this ninety anniversary, one of the biggest things I
(08:32):
think that's just interesting to me is how the media
is now trying to cover Social Security acting like it's
some amazing program. In reality, it's actually a disaster and
has been for decades and decades. Just the rate of
return alone is heinous and would never survive in the
private sector. Yet this is what we do with our
government dollars. There's a lot of money that's paid in,
(08:53):
there's clearly a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. But
it's one of those programs that the media always loves
to tell you about that somehow are just like a
great thing. So the Today's Show they decided to celebrate
the ninetieth anniversary, and here's their jolly report.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Today marks ninety years since the signing of the so
Social Security Act never actually said it out loud, and
all these decades later, sixty nine million Americans rely on
those checks and that number is only going up. So
we called on CNBC's senior Personal Finance correspondent Sharon Epperson
to answer some of the big questions about Social Security.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Social Security marked to say out now that I realize it,
so good morning social Security.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I know it can be complicated. I know I pay
into it, I don't actually know what it is, so
break it down for us.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, it's guaranteed income. It is an income stream financial
protection for people who are retired, for their survivors and
for disabled Americans. And a lot of people don't understand, well,
how is it funded. It's funded by you by payroll
taxes that you've put into it, and you're able to
get these benefits for your lifetime after you start claiming
them in retire The thing that people need to know
(10:02):
is when to claim them, and what that is is
your full retirement age. It's not the same as Medicare,
and it may differ depending on what year you were born,
So for most people it's between the ages of sixty
six and sixty seven. You could take your retirement benefits
early as well as early as age sixty two and
as late as age seventy to get the maximum benefit.
(10:23):
The other thing to keep in mind is this is
guaranteed money, but it does increase over time based on
the cost of living. So that cost of living increase
this year is two and a half percent, it should
go up next year.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The COLA the cola and.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
This year there are some big changes.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Can you walk us through those?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So some of the big changes are the fact that
there are no longer to be payper checks for your
retirement checks direct deposit, direct deposit. You've got to enroll
in that. Go to the Social Security website if you're
not already enrolled there and make sure that you know.
If you're turning sixty five this year, you were born
in nineteen sixty, that does not mean you're at the
full retirement age. You can't collect Social Secure at least
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not the full benefit. You have to wait till sixty seven.
So this is the time to figure out does it
make sense to take it now or take it later.
There are calculators on the Social Security Administration website that
you can go to. My favorite is going to the
one that's my Social Security account because you get your
earnings and you get to get an estimate of what
it will look like sixty two all the way to
seventy what's your monthly benefit will be.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Isn't it interesting how they're not telling you the reality
of the situation. Now, let's just celebrate it. It's wonderful,
it's amazing, there's no issues. Why are they doing this
because they don't want to change anything. They don't want
to admit that's a broken system. They don't want to
emit there's waste fraud abuse that happened under the Biden administration,
and they don't want to admit that many Americans are
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getting a terrible deal on the money that they're giving
the government when it comes to return a rate on return.
That is why Donald Trump and the Republicans are working
so hard to bring this issue to light and show
the Americans that it can be a lot better of
a system than we currently have, and it's been broken
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
President Donald Trump on.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thursday accused the District of Columbia and its leaders of
changing crime statistics on purpose to make it look like
the city was actually getting safer, when in reality it
was not. Trump, talking to reporters that White House said, sadly,
what I guess the mayor did, or whoever it was,
they asked that the numbers would be fudge so that
(12:27):
it would show less crime than the actual fact of
what was happening. Trump has been criticized by the way
by the DC mayor Bowser and National Democratic Party leaders
for deploying the National Guard troops to DC to help
turn crime around and bring greater security to the capital area.
Trump told reporters Thursday that we will have crime under
(12:47):
control very shortly in DC.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The President said he would fix.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The DC crime problem just like he's done with the
southern border, saying, the fact is it's worse than it's
ever been, and we will have it just like we
did at the ball where the borders are totally in
great shape now the best ever, record setting shape. Will
have the crime situation solved in DC very very soon. Now,
why did the President make these accusations, Well, a DC
(13:14):
police sergeant exposed her superiors for misclassifying crimes on purpose
to make the stats look like crime was getting better.
The city, by the way, just quietly settled her lawsuit.
Records revealed in the suit from the police sergeant, and
it showed the department's leadership directed subordinates to file theft
(13:38):
and violent crimes as lower level offenses, quote unquote, And
that's exactly why the District of Columbia quietly settled a
lawsuit from that sergeant who accused the Metropolitan Police Department
leaders of deliberately misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics.
(13:58):
Court records obtained by the Washington Freebeacon now show police
Brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks,
and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions,
and phone called transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed now. The
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former MPD sergeant sued the department in twenty twenty, alleging
that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme.
The woman, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq,
accused the MPD brass of attempting to quote distort crime
statistics by downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors so
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that there would be quote, fewer felonies in the statistics.
She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed
their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep
them out of the crime stats that the city reports
to the the public. The lawsuit, as well as the
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city's decision to settle, calls into question the prevailing narrative
presented in mainstream media outlets as President Donald Trump carries
out the DC crime crackdown. For example, the New York Times,
Washington Post, and Politico have all cited data for the
Metropolitan Police Department to contend that DC crime is low
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and Trump's crackdown is unnecessary and just a political maneuver.
The coverage did not mentioned, by the way, the whistleblower,
nor did it disclose that a DC police commander is
actually currently on leave after the city's police union accused
him of manipulating crime stats to artificially lower them. Now,
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this also goes back to the second narrative. Democrats are
claiming that DC is safe and people are not scared.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That is also a huge lie.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
In fact, even on MSNBC admitted on Morning Joe that
it's very clear that ninety one percent of people that
live in Washington, the residence there, say that crime is
a problem. Take a listen to Joe Scarborough being forced
to tell you the truth on this one.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The answer to this, this, this problem for Democrats is
not everything's okay, there's nothing to.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
See here, move along, move along.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Oh, Washington has dropped twenty four percent or whatever in crime. Well,
let me give you some other numbers. The Washington Post
took a poll in late April early May. Ninety one
percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem. Ninety
one percent fifty one percent, it is an extremely serious problem.
(16:54):
And John Heilman, we've had people before put in racial terms,
and this is I must say, this is one thing
that I think Democrats have gotten so wrong about crime,
so wrong about crime. Well, let me just read let
me just read the Washington Post. Here there are stark
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divides among the lines of race and income in the poll,
with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried
about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes,
as they were last year. Black women are among the
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most concerned, with sixty five percent saying crime is a
very or extremely serious issue, compared with eighty two percent
who said the same thing last year.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
There it is folks morning, Joe Scarborough scorching Democrats on
the DC crime denial. Ninety one percent of Washington resident
say crime is a problem, with black residents and lower
income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents
and those with higher incomes. So you have to ask
yourself this question, why are Democrats so hell bent on
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stopping Donald Trump from making Washington, DC safer? It's because
they don't want to lose control of their cities and
they're afraid if he's successful in this, then other cities
around the country will demand the same outcome, and Democrats
don't actually want to fight crime at all. By the way,
Joe Scarborough isn't the only person in the media that's
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had enough of the lie. An ABC anchor ditch the
script and proves how dangerous DC actually is. This from
ABC News Live. Listen carefully to the anchor.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you played Devil's Advocate as you talk about, oh, well,
stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown DCU where we work, right here
around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know,
there were two people shot. One person died literally two
blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the
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last two years that I actually was jumped walking just
two blocks down from here. And then just this morning
one of my coworkers said her car was stolen a
block away from the bureau. So we can talk about
the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single
day because we're all experiencing at firsthand while working and
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living down here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And yet Democrats and most of the media are still
refusing to admit what you just heard.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
This is the problem right now.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
CNN's Daniel Dale also declared a lot of quote deception
from President Trump on crime and wasthing DC, but then
goes on to admit that there's an actual crime problem,
another example.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Of the lies coming from the media.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Listen closely to his l Well, Trump's bad, but yeah,
the numbers say that crime's bad.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
There was a lot of deception from the President there.
So here's a reality check. There is no doubt that
DC has for decades been a high crime city. It
is among the US cities with the highest homicide rates,
though there are a bunch of other big cities that
are worse. And DC did indeed have a big crime
spike in twenty twenty three, which is the year the
President kept citing. But contrary to what the President said today,
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even in twenty twenty three, DC did not have an
all time high in murder. It was way worse during
the crack crisis of the eighties and early nineties and
more presently, Dana, the President would just flat wrong when
he said it's getting worse now, not getting better. Crime
in DC, including murder, has fallen sharply since that twenty
twenty three spike. It fell in twenty twenty four, it's
(20:46):
fallen further in twenty twenty five. So let's look at
some of this data. In twenty twenty three, DC had
its most murders in more than two decades, two hundred
and seventy four. Of course, that's terrible, But it then
plunged to one hundred and eighty seven murders last year,
and it's falling again so far this year. Through July.
According to figures compiled by crime data expert Jeff Asher,
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DC has thirty four percent fewer murders than it did
through the same period in that year twenty twenty three. Now,
how about violent crime more broadly, Well, that's also down
sharply in the last year and a half.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Isn't it amazing that CNN tells you that DC has
been quote for decades of high crime city.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Of course, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
There were two hundred and thirenty four murders in twenty
twenty three, but there was a less than twenty twenty four.
So let's not try to stop like the murder rate.
It gets better than the worst case scenario. And then
he said, quote, we know crime is an issue in DC.
He said, we know that every violent crime is a shame,
a tragedy. And then he said, of course I'm not
excusing any of them, but I don't want Donald Trump
to fight crime because I don't want him to be
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right that he can actually fix the problem. And that's
the media for you. They care more about hurting Trump
than saving lives in Washington, d C. In an election,
the most important thing for any candidate is being able
to connect with voters, and most of the time that
is through paid advertisements or emailing or text messaging or
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social media posts that are boosted. It is extremely important
because without reaching the electorate, it's impossible to actually win
an election. So I want you to just imagine for
just a moment how influential different tech companies are. Like Google,
for example, if they decided that they didn't want conservative
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emails to make it to your actual email account. Instead,
they decided to flag conservative emails to your spam account.
Now that would be an egregious abuse of power, right
you would think that's probably even maybe against the law,
that you're not delivering the mail the right way, even
though it's an email knowing that you're trying to change
(22:58):
or al to the outcome of an election. Well guess
what Google caught flagging GOP fundraiser emails as quote unquote
suspicious and then sending them directly to spam. A new
memo is revealing. Now this is even more troubling because
if a candidate cannot raise money, they cannot compete in
(23:21):
an election, and many candidates will buy email lists to
solicit from conservative donors or liberal donors if you're a
Democratic candidate money because without it, you cannot get elected.
Insert Google. Google was at it again, and the GOP
campaign donations could be a major casualty of it. The
(23:43):
search giant has been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising
emails as dangerous spam. That means it kept them from
hitting Gmail users inboxes and yes, the majority of people
in this country actually use Gmail, while leaving similar solicitations
from Democratic emails untouched. A consulting firm is now warning
(24:08):
that despite repeatedly sparking headlines and even lawsuits in recent
years over allegedly partisan practices. Last year, for example, a
federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee,
they complained of biased email filtering. In twenty twenty three,
the Federal Election Commission dismissed an RNC complaint alleging discrimination
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in Gmail's spam filters as well. Nonetheless, Targeted Victory, whose
clients include the National Republican Central Committee Representative Steve Scalise.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, said it observed that the serious and
troubling trend was still going on. As recently as June
and July of this year, Gmail had been flagging emails
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containing links to the fundraising platform when read, and in
many cases, sending them directly to spam. According to a
copy of the memo to clients exclusively obtained by The
New York Post, Targeted Victory by the Way conducted tests
in which emails containing links to the democratic fundraising platform
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Act Blue were delivered consistently without issue. The memo includes
video demonstrations of the firm's tests. If Gmail is allowed
to quietly suppress when red links while giving ActBlue a
free pass, it will continue to tilt the playing field
in ways that voters never see, but campaigns will fill
(25:43):
every single day, the memo states, Now the memo could
fuel new allegations of political bias yet again against Google,
which was accused also by Elon Musk and March of
interfering to help Democrats thousands of times every election season.
Critics including Donald Trump, have accused Google of manipulating search
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results specifically to hurt Republicans, and even of suppressing information
of the assassination attempt against Trump last year. The company,
of course, toned any wrongdoing. When reached for comment on Wednesday,
Google spokesman said the company's email filter protections are in
(26:27):
place to keep our users safe. They look at a
variety of signals, like whether a user has previously marked
an email as spam and applied quote equally to all senders,
regardless of political ideology. The Gmail Google statement says, well,
guess what. In twenty twenty two, a study by the
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North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged fifty nine
percent more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones
during the lead up to the twenty twenty presidential election.
We observe that the spam filter algorithms of different email
services indeed exhibited biases towards different political affiliations. The researchers
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said at the time. Targeted Victory said its first informed
Google about the issue on June thirtieth, after receiving lots
of complaints from its clients. The company initially deflected by
blaming local settings for the email issues. According to the memo,
so yet again, here we are, and this is what's
actually happening. We have big tech pushing the scales in
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favor of the radical left and doing everything they can
to undermine even Donald Trump while he's president. This time,
you may ask yourself, how do they really know that
there's a bias in this way? While the consulting firms
tests involve sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only
difference being that one contained a when read donattion link
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and the other contained an act Blue link, So the
same exact wording, same exact email. The only difference was
a Democrat link and a Republican link to donate.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
In fact, the memo states quote, the only difference between
the two emails was the link ActBlue delivered to the
email accounts when Red got flagged.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That is not a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
This held true even for major accounts, including Donald Trump
and at least stephonic links compared to DNC links.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
After weeks of back.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And forth with Google, the Coming support team acknowledge that
links to when Red were deemed suspicious and flagged with
a red warning banner alerting users that it was potentially
suspicious or unsafe to click on that. According to a
screenshot of a July twenty second email, this should alarm
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every campaign and every election committee that relies on email
to connect with voters. The memo continue to state, So
here we are yet again in twenty twenty five, and
we have clearly this interaction with Google, clearly caught flagging
GOP fundraiser emails as suspicious and clearly tipping the scales
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to the Democratic Party or Democratic Radical causes. So the
question now is what can Congress or the President do
to change this and make sure that it doesn't keep happening. Now,
if you've got a Gmail account, you also have to
ask yourself this question, what emails are you not getting?
(29:44):
And if you do have a Gmail account, is it
time to move somewhere else? Remember, you're very valuable to Google.
All of your search history and your Gmail account, it's
all tied to your data. That data is what makes
them hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's also the
same company that's influencing your search engine responses, which brings
(30:09):
me to another example of how radical they've become. I
want to take you back to January of twenty twenty three,
the RNC file, the complaint that Google's spam filters were
biased against conservatives. Yes, that also happened, and it's pretty
clear that when you googled certain things, they wanted you
(30:32):
to see bad information on conservatives, and when you googled
certain things, they only wanted you to see good things
about the Democrats. So imagine you think you're googling something
and you're actually getting back in response, massive political bias.
In its letter, the FEC side of Google's public statements
(30:54):
claiming that it's reason for spam filtering, including blocking malware,
phishing attacks and scale. That was not the real problem
then either, which goes back to why are we even
in this situation? It is because big tech is doing
everything they can to tip the scales. Cato Institute, for example,
(31:15):
talked about how if you just googled President Donald Trump,
it would actually show you news about Kamala Harris. But
if you googled Kamala Harris, it didn't show you any
negative news about her and nothing about Donald Trump. Why
would they do that because they were trying to make
sure that Kamala Harris became the president, and they wanted
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to make sure that Donald Trump was someone you didn't like.
So here it is in black and white. You now
know that if you keep using Google, you're helping support
this bias. If you keep using Gmail, you are helping
them become rich, and you're supporting this bias. And if
you are using email right now, with Gmail, there's a
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very good chance that important emails you may want to
see are being flagged or put into your spam on purpose,
specifically so you do not see them. And more importantly,
this is altering and changing the outcome of elections because
if every email the Democrats want to send shows up
in your inbox, if you're a liberal, and every Republican
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email that Republicans want to see is going to spam.
And it's all about fundraising, Who do you think is
going to raise more money? Email is steel one of
the top ways to raise money in political campaigns, and
it is obvious that Donald Trump knows, and so do
many other Republicans that this is now what Google is doing,
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and this is why we all need to be advocating
for Congress to get their hands dirty on this issue.
And big tech shouldn't be picking winners and losers when
it comes to emails they're being sent to you. And
more importantly, they should have to be honest about what
they've already done, be transparent about what they've done. And
that's exactly what I hope Republicans are going to do
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on Capitol Hill. Don't forget share this podcast please with
your family and your friends wherever they are, and I
will see you back here tomorrow
Speaking from the Oval Office during the ninetieth anniversary of
the Social Security Act, President Trump stated that his administration
has now successfully kicked nearly two hundred and seventy five
thousand I legal immigrants off the Social Security system. He
also mentioned having removed about two point four million names
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of individuals that were over one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's what the record state.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The Social Security Administration has reportedly updated records for individuals
no longer holding legal status, but details remain unclear on
whether those individuals had been actively receiving benefits. President Trump
framed this action as part of a broader effort to
protect Social Security from fraud, waste, and abuse, contrasting it
(00:52):
with the previous administration, which he claimed failed to address
a massive issue. Here's the President, in his own words
from the Oval Office making the announcement, kicked.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Nearly two hundred and seventy five thousand illegal aliens off
of the Social Security system. These are people, many of
them have already left the country. And what that's doing
is making the system strong. It's making it strong. Biden
never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined. We cleared twelve point
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four million names listed in the Social Security database over
one hundred and twenty years of age.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Think of the one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Thirty five thousand people listed who were over one hundred
and sixty years old and in some cases getting payments.
So somebody's getting those payments, and we're after that. Last month,
I signed one big beautiful bill and allowed no tax
on Social Security for our great seniors. Okay, so how's
that not bad?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
No tax on social Security for our seniors. And to
protect our benefits, we've already kicked nearly two hundred seventy
five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
These are people, many of them have already left the country,
and yet we were sending them checks all the time,
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and two hundred and seventy five thousand, and that number
is now even larger than that. Frankness, its unbelievable job.
And what that's doing is making the system strong. It's
making it strong. Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined,
and we're carrying out historic deportations to remove many more
illegals committing social security fraud. It's the social security fraud
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that was taking place at levels that nobody's ever seen.
We cleared twelve point four million names listed in the
Social Security database over one hundred and twenty years of age.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Think of that.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So we had twelve point four million names where they
were over one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's a hell of a statement.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I have a feeling then that's I'm really gonna really
didn't happen to it. So you have twelve point four
million names listed in the Social Security datamas that were
over one hundred and twenty years of age, meaning you
were breaking records because I've never heard of anybody at
one hundred and twenty five. There were nearly one hundred
(03:19):
and thirty five thousand people listed who were over one
hundred and sixty years old and in some cases getting payments.
So somebody's getting those payments and we're after that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I love how the President said there, we're looking into that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
In translation, if you've been cashing these checks, the federal
government is coming after you. Now, let's talk about what
active benefit recipients mean. There is a confirmation now that
there's many individuals that were simply outdated in their information
but continued to receive the checks or were not alive
(03:56):
The Social Security administration is now trying to figure out
how how to deal with all of these individuals and
the claims that two hundred and seventy five thousand people
were actively removed from benefits, meaning they were actually receiving checks.
Trump's announcement frames these individuals, many of them as quote,
illegal immigrants, and that's another part of why the left
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is losing their mind at this moment.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
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and the DHS have undertaken various quote identity verification and
database updating efforts this year, including tougher in person at
any checks and reducing overpayment callback rates as well effects.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
On legal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Earlier in twenty twenty five, the administration said, Hey, we're
going to do everything we can to make sure that
those that are deserving of the benefits receive them. But
what we're not going to do is hand out money
to illegal immigrants and anyone that walks into a government office.
Which makes total sense, and that is exactly why the
President said, in his words, two hundred and seventy five
(07:19):
thousand illegal aliens have been removed.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Be if it's we've already kicked nearly two hundred and
seventy five thousand illegal aliens off of the Social Security system.
These are people, many of them have already left the country,
and yet we were sending them checks all the time,
and two hundred and seventy five thousand and that numbers
now even larger than that. Frank, It's unbelievable. And what
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that's doing is making the system strong. It's making it strong.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's making the system strong. Now what does the president
mean by that, Well, we all know that Social Security
is going bankrupt. Why because there's more people that are
getting money than are paying into it. Part of that
is because of age expectancy. We continue, through modern medicine
to extend life far longer than many people believe that. Well,
seniors were going to live. Now, that's great news, right,
(08:11):
because people are living longer. The problem is the system
is set up in a way that is going to fail.
And that's why the President's like, well, how do we
fix that. Well, if you can get two hundred and
seventy five thousand illegal aliens and remove them from receiving
Social Security benefits, that's one massive step in the right direction. Now,
on this ninety anniversary, one of the biggest things I
(08:32):
think that's just interesting to me is how the media
is now trying to cover Social Security acting like it's
some amazing program. In reality, it's actually a disaster and
has been for decades and decades. Just the rate of
return alone is heinous and would never survive in the
private sector. Yet this is what we do with our
government dollars. There's a lot of money that's paid in,
(08:53):
there's clearly a lot of waste, fraud and abuse. But
it's one of those programs that the media always loves
to tell you about that somehow are just like a
great thing. So the Today's Show they decided to celebrate
the ninetieth anniversary, and here's their jolly report.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Today marks ninety years since the signing of the so
Social Security Act never actually said it out loud, and
all these decades later, sixty nine million Americans rely on
those checks and that number is only going up. So
we called on CNBC's senior Personal Finance correspondent Sharon Epperson
to answer some of the big questions about Social Security.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Social Security marked to say out now that I realize it,
so good morning social Security.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I know it can be complicated. I know I pay
into it, I don't actually know what it is, so
break it down for us.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, it's guaranteed income. It is an income stream financial
protection for people who are retired, for their survivors and
for disabled Americans. And a lot of people don't understand, well,
how is it funded. It's funded by you by payroll
taxes that you've put into it, and you're able to
get these benefits for your lifetime after you start claiming
them in retire The thing that people need to know
(10:02):
is when to claim them, and what that is is
your full retirement age. It's not the same as Medicare,
and it may differ depending on what year you were born,
So for most people it's between the ages of sixty
six and sixty seven. You could take your retirement benefits
early as well as early as age sixty two and
as late as age seventy to get the maximum benefit.
(10:23):
The other thing to keep in mind is this is
guaranteed money, but it does increase over time based on
the cost of living. So that cost of living increase
this year is two and a half percent, it should
go up next year.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The COLA the cola and.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
This year there are some big changes.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Can you walk us through those?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So some of the big changes are the fact that
there are no longer to be payper checks for your
retirement checks direct deposit, direct deposit. You've got to enroll
in that. Go to the Social Security website if you're
not already enrolled there and make sure that you know.
If you're turning sixty five this year, you were born
in nineteen sixty, that does not mean you're at the
full retirement age. You can't collect Social Secure at least
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not the full benefit. You have to wait till sixty seven.
So this is the time to figure out does it
make sense to take it now or take it later.
There are calculators on the Social Security Administration website that
you can go to. My favorite is going to the
one that's my Social Security account because you get your
earnings and you get to get an estimate of what
it will look like sixty two all the way to
seventy what's your monthly benefit will be.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Isn't it interesting how they're not telling you the reality
of the situation. Now, let's just celebrate it. It's wonderful,
it's amazing, there's no issues. Why are they doing this
because they don't want to change anything. They don't want
to admit that's a broken system. They don't want to
emit there's waste fraud abuse that happened under the Biden administration,
and they don't want to admit that many Americans are
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getting a terrible deal on the money that they're giving
the government when it comes to return a rate on return.
That is why Donald Trump and the Republicans are working
so hard to bring this issue to light and show
the Americans that it can be a lot better of
a system than we currently have, and it's been broken
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
President Donald Trump on.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thursday accused the District of Columbia and its leaders of
changing crime statistics on purpose to make it look like
the city was actually getting safer, when in reality it
was not. Trump, talking to reporters that White House said, sadly,
what I guess the mayor did, or whoever it was,
they asked that the numbers would be fudge so that
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it would show less crime than the actual fact of
what was happening. Trump has been criticized by the way
by the DC mayor Bowser and National Democratic Party leaders
for deploying the National Guard troops to DC to help
turn crime around and bring greater security to the capital area.
Trump told reporters Thursday that we will have crime under
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control very shortly in DC.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The President said he would fix.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The DC crime problem just like he's done with the
southern border, saying, the fact is it's worse than it's
ever been, and we will have it just like we
did at the ball where the borders are totally in
great shape now the best ever, record setting shape. Will
have the crime situation solved in DC very very soon. Now,
why did the President make these accusations, Well, a DC
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police sergeant exposed her superiors for misclassifying crimes on purpose
to make the stats look like crime was getting better.
The city, by the way, just quietly settled her lawsuit.
Records revealed in the suit from the police sergeant, and
it showed the department's leadership directed subordinates to file theft
(13:38):
and violent crimes as lower level offenses, quote unquote, And
that's exactly why the District of Columbia quietly settled a
lawsuit from that sergeant who accused the Metropolitan Police Department
leaders of deliberately misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics.
(13:58):
Court records obtained by the Washington Freebeacon now show police
Brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks,
and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions,
and phone called transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed now. The
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former MPD sergeant sued the department in twenty twenty, alleging
that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme.
The woman, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq,
accused the MPD brass of attempting to quote distort crime
statistics by downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors so
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that there would be quote, fewer felonies in the statistics.
She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed
their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep
them out of the crime stats that the city reports
to the the public. The lawsuit, as well as the
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city's decision to settle, calls into question the prevailing narrative
presented in mainstream media outlets as President Donald Trump carries
out the DC crime crackdown. For example, the New York Times,
Washington Post, and Politico have all cited data for the
Metropolitan Police Department to contend that DC crime is low
(15:23):
and Trump's crackdown is unnecessary and just a political maneuver.
The coverage did not mentioned, by the way, the whistleblower,
nor did it disclose that a DC police commander is
actually currently on leave after the city's police union accused
him of manipulating crime stats to artificially lower them. Now,
(15:46):
this also goes back to the second narrative. Democrats are
claiming that DC is safe and people are not scared.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That is also a huge lie.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
In fact, even on MSNBC admitted on Morning Joe that
it's very clear that ninety one percent of people that
live in Washington, the residence there, say that crime is
a problem. Take a listen to Joe Scarborough being forced
to tell you the truth on this one.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The answer to this, this, this problem for Democrats is
not everything's okay, there's nothing to.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
See here, move along, move along.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Oh, Washington has dropped twenty four percent or whatever in crime. Well,
let me give you some other numbers. The Washington Post
took a poll in late April early May. Ninety one
percent of Washington residents say crime is a problem. Ninety
one percent fifty one percent, it is an extremely serious problem.
(16:54):
And John Heilman, we've had people before put in racial terms,
and this is I must say, this is one thing
that I think Democrats have gotten so wrong about crime,
so wrong about crime. Well, let me just read let
me just read the Washington Post. Here there are stark
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divides among the lines of race and income in the poll,
with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried
about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes,
as they were last year. Black women are among the
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most concerned, with sixty five percent saying crime is a
very or extremely serious issue, compared with eighty two percent
who said the same thing last year.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
There it is folks morning, Joe Scarborough scorching Democrats on
the DC crime denial. Ninety one percent of Washington resident
say crime is a problem, with black residents and lower
income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents
and those with higher incomes. So you have to ask
yourself this question, why are Democrats so hell bent on
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stopping Donald Trump from making Washington, DC safer? It's because
they don't want to lose control of their cities and
they're afraid if he's successful in this, then other cities
around the country will demand the same outcome, and Democrats
don't actually want to fight crime at all. By the way,
Joe Scarborough isn't the only person in the media that's
(18:36):
had enough of the lie. An ABC anchor ditch the
script and proves how dangerous DC actually is. This from
ABC News Live. Listen carefully to the anchor.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
We've been talking so much about the numbers, and yeah,
usually that's how you played Devil's Advocate as you talk about, oh, well,
stats say crime is down. However, I can tell you
firsthand here in downtown DCU where we work, right here
around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know,
there were two people shot. One person died literally two
blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the
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last two years that I actually was jumped walking just
two blocks down from here. And then just this morning
one of my coworkers said her car was stolen a
block away from the bureau. So we can talk about
the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single
day because we're all experiencing at firsthand while working and
(19:34):
living down here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And yet Democrats and most of the media are still
refusing to admit what you just heard.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
This is the problem right now.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
CNN's Daniel Dale also declared a lot of quote deception
from President Trump on crime and wasthing DC, but then
goes on to admit that there's an actual crime problem,
another example.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Of the lies coming from the media.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Listen closely to his l Well, Trump's bad, but yeah,
the numbers say that crime's bad.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
There was a lot of deception from the President there.
So here's a reality check. There is no doubt that
DC has for decades been a high crime city. It
is among the US cities with the highest homicide rates,
though there are a bunch of other big cities that
are worse. And DC did indeed have a big crime
spike in twenty twenty three, which is the year the
President kept citing. But contrary to what the President said today,
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even in twenty twenty three, DC did not have an
all time high in murder. It was way worse during
the crack crisis of the eighties and early nineties and
more presently, Dana, the President would just flat wrong when
he said it's getting worse now, not getting better. Crime
in DC, including murder, has fallen sharply since that twenty
twenty three spike. It fell in twenty twenty four, it's
(20:46):
fallen further in twenty twenty five. So let's look at
some of this data. In twenty twenty three, DC had
its most murders in more than two decades, two hundred
and seventy four. Of course, that's terrible, But it then
plunged to one hundred and eighty seven murders last year,
and it's falling again so far this year. Through July.
According to figures compiled by crime data expert Jeff Asher,
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DC has thirty four percent fewer murders than it did
through the same period in that year twenty twenty three. Now,
how about violent crime more broadly, Well, that's also down
sharply in the last year and a half.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Isn't it amazing that CNN tells you that DC has
been quote for decades of high crime city.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Of course, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
There were two hundred and thirenty four murders in twenty
twenty three, but there was a less than twenty twenty four.
So let's not try to stop like the murder rate.
It gets better than the worst case scenario. And then
he said, quote, we know crime is an issue in DC.
He said, we know that every violent crime is a shame,
a tragedy. And then he said, of course I'm not
excusing any of them, but I don't want Donald Trump
to fight crime because I don't want him to be
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right that he can actually fix the problem. And that's
the media for you. They care more about hurting Trump
than saving lives in Washington, d C. In an election,
the most important thing for any candidate is being able
to connect with voters, and most of the time that
is through paid advertisements or emailing or text messaging or
(22:13):
social media posts that are boosted. It is extremely important
because without reaching the electorate, it's impossible to actually win
an election. So I want you to just imagine for
just a moment how influential different tech companies are. Like Google,
for example, if they decided that they didn't want conservative
(22:35):
emails to make it to your actual email account. Instead,
they decided to flag conservative emails to your spam account.
Now that would be an egregious abuse of power, right
you would think that's probably even maybe against the law,
that you're not delivering the mail the right way, even
though it's an email knowing that you're trying to change
(22:58):
or al to the outcome of an election. Well guess
what Google caught flagging GOP fundraiser emails as quote unquote
suspicious and then sending them directly to spam. A new
memo is revealing. Now this is even more troubling because
if a candidate cannot raise money, they cannot compete in
(23:21):
an election, and many candidates will buy email lists to
solicit from conservative donors or liberal donors if you're a
Democratic candidate money because without it, you cannot get elected.
Insert Google. Google was at it again, and the GOP
campaign donations could be a major casualty of it. The
(23:43):
search giant has been caught this summer flagging Republican fundraising
emails as dangerous spam. That means it kept them from
hitting Gmail users inboxes and yes, the majority of people
in this country actually use Gmail, while leaving similar solicitations
from Democratic emails untouched. A consulting firm is now warning
(24:08):
that despite repeatedly sparking headlines and even lawsuits in recent
years over allegedly partisan practices. Last year, for example, a
federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee,
they complained of biased email filtering. In twenty twenty three,
the Federal Election Commission dismissed an RNC complaint alleging discrimination
(24:33):
in Gmail's spam filters as well. Nonetheless, Targeted Victory, whose
clients include the National Republican Central Committee Representative Steve Scalise.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, said it observed that the serious and
troubling trend was still going on. As recently as June
and July of this year, Gmail had been flagging emails
(24:58):
containing links to the fundraising platform when read, and in
many cases, sending them directly to spam. According to a
copy of the memo to clients exclusively obtained by The
New York Post, Targeted Victory by the Way conducted tests
in which emails containing links to the democratic fundraising platform
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Act Blue were delivered consistently without issue. The memo includes
video demonstrations of the firm's tests. If Gmail is allowed
to quietly suppress when red links while giving ActBlue a
free pass, it will continue to tilt the playing field
in ways that voters never see, but campaigns will fill
(25:43):
every single day, the memo states, Now the memo could
fuel new allegations of political bias yet again against Google,
which was accused also by Elon Musk and March of
interfering to help Democrats thousands of times every election season.
Critics including Donald Trump, have accused Google of manipulating search
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results specifically to hurt Republicans, and even of suppressing information
of the assassination attempt against Trump last year. The company,
of course, toned any wrongdoing. When reached for comment on Wednesday,
Google spokesman said the company's email filter protections are in
(26:27):
place to keep our users safe. They look at a
variety of signals, like whether a user has previously marked
an email as spam and applied quote equally to all senders,
regardless of political ideology. The Gmail Google statement says, well,
guess what. In twenty twenty two, a study by the
(26:48):
North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged fifty nine
percent more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones
during the lead up to the twenty twenty presidential election.
We observe that the spam filter algorithms of different email
services indeed exhibited biases towards different political affiliations. The researchers
(27:13):
said at the time. Targeted Victory said its first informed
Google about the issue on June thirtieth, after receiving lots
of complaints from its clients. The company initially deflected by
blaming local settings for the email issues. According to the memo,
so yet again, here we are, and this is what's
actually happening. We have big tech pushing the scales in
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favor of the radical left and doing everything they can
to undermine even Donald Trump while he's president. This time,
you may ask yourself, how do they really know that
there's a bias in this way? While the consulting firms
tests involve sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only
difference being that one contained a when read donattion link
(28:01):
and the other contained an act Blue link, So the
same exact wording, same exact email. The only difference was
a Democrat link and a Republican link to donate.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
In fact, the memo states quote, the only difference between
the two emails was the link ActBlue delivered to the
email accounts when Red got flagged.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That is not a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
This held true even for major accounts, including Donald Trump
and at least stephonic links compared to DNC links.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
After weeks of back.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And forth with Google, the Coming support team acknowledge that
links to when Red were deemed suspicious and flagged with
a red warning banner alerting users that it was potentially
suspicious or unsafe to click on that. According to a
screenshot of a July twenty second email, this should alarm
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every campaign and every election committee that relies on email
to connect with voters. The memo continue to state, So
here we are yet again in twenty twenty five, and
we have clearly this interaction with Google, clearly caught flagging
GOP fundraiser emails as suspicious and clearly tipping the scales
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to the Democratic Party or Democratic Radical causes. So the
question now is what can Congress or the President do
to change this and make sure that it doesn't keep happening. Now,
if you've got a Gmail account, you also have to
ask yourself this question, what emails are you not getting?
(29:44):
And if you do have a Gmail account, is it
time to move somewhere else? Remember, you're very valuable to Google.
All of your search history and your Gmail account, it's
all tied to your data. That data is what makes
them hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's also the
same company that's influencing your search engine responses, which brings
(30:09):
me to another example of how radical they've become. I
want to take you back to January of twenty twenty three,
the RNC file, the complaint that Google's spam filters were
biased against conservatives. Yes, that also happened, and it's pretty
clear that when you googled certain things, they wanted you
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to see bad information on conservatives, and when you googled
certain things, they only wanted you to see good things
about the Democrats. So imagine you think you're googling something
and you're actually getting back in response, massive political bias.
In its letter, the FEC side of Google's public statements
(30:54):
claiming that it's reason for spam filtering, including blocking malware,
phishing attacks and scale. That was not the real problem
then either, which goes back to why are we even
in this situation? It is because big tech is doing
everything they can to tip the scales. Cato Institute, for example,
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talked about how if you just googled President Donald Trump,
it would actually show you news about Kamala Harris. But
if you googled Kamala Harris, it didn't show you any
negative news about her and nothing about Donald Trump. Why
would they do that because they were trying to make
sure that Kamala Harris became the president, and they wanted
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to make sure that Donald Trump was someone you didn't like.
So here it is in black and white. You now
know that if you keep using Google, you're helping support
this bias. If you keep using Gmail, you are helping
them become rich, and you're supporting this bias. And if
you are using email right now, with Gmail, there's a
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very good chance that important emails you may want to
see are being flagged or put into your spam on purpose,
specifically so you do not see them. And more importantly,
this is altering and changing the outcome of elections because
if every email the Democrats want to send shows up
in your inbox, if you're a liberal, and every Republican
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email that Republicans want to see is going to spam.
And it's all about fundraising, Who do you think is
going to raise more money? Email is steel one of
the top ways to raise money in political campaigns, and
it is obvious that Donald Trump knows, and so do
many other Republicans that this is now what Google is doing,
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and this is why we all need to be advocating
for Congress to get their hands dirty on this issue.
And big tech shouldn't be picking winners and losers when
it comes to emails they're being sent to you. And
more importantly, they should have to be honest about what
they've already done, be transparent about what they've done. And
that's exactly what I hope Republicans are going to do
(33:06):
on Capitol Hill. Don't forget share this podcast please with
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will see you back here tomorrow
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