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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kyle with us now. Welcome in Cole, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Being here with us, Good morning things for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
We have a strange sound. There's more's code. Are you
trying to Are you being held hostage somewhere and trying
to send me a message? You hear that on your end?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I do a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, call me, call me right back. That's weird. We'll go.
We'll try and work that out. So they see if
you can sit. I thought, what is is he trying
to see this? Send help? Send help s O S
all right? Uh just put is is it still happening?
I hope it's not still happen If we have to
listen to the phones like that all day, we'ld be
(00:40):
in trouble. I think we got a clear up thing there.
We are.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Modern technology.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought you were sipping Margarita's with the Garcia there
for a moment. Maybe maybe we got a light broadcast
from sea kon. All right, so let's start the the
because this is a big another big week in Michigan.
By the way, you know, there's a lot of stuff
happened into the world. But right back here on that
characterself lot going on too. In fact, this story is
probably one of the biggest. It's tron and center over
(01:10):
on the Midwestern or let's talk about it. So they know,
spokeswoman says, but they won't say.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah. So Jocelyn Benson's office did their own search, their
own audit of records, and they concluded that sixteen, which
we're saying at least sixteen, but they're saying sixteen individuals
voted illegally in the state of Michigan in twenty twenty four.
(01:38):
And we know about the Chinese student at the University
of Michigan, but they are not divulging any other information
about the fifteen at least fifteen other individuals. And what's
very strange about it is they won't give any details
at all, names, locations, precincts, anything. What one thing they
(02:01):
did say is that they are scattered, which says to me,
there's a systemic problem here, Oh one rogue city clerk
who was allowing you know, lots of people to vote illegally.
It's a systemic problem. It's fantastical and feels like or
at least she's treating us like we don't deserve to know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That is a fantastic point and one I'm assuming they
did not catch on uh when they made that statement. Oh,
it's just it's scattered, just here and there, nothing big.
But that means, as you mentioned, it's not concentrated, and
it is a systemic issue. That means we got bigger
fish to fry. Now, who in their right mind would
trust Joscelyn Benson to run the election for governor that
(02:47):
that she's going to be in herself with this type
of thing, with this type of chicanery happening exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And let's go back to September last September twenty twenty four,
when she testified before Congress that she said there is
no evidence that non citizens are voting in the state
of Michigan, and she had this very sort of condescending
attitude that anyone who questioned whether or not only citizens
(03:16):
are voting it was absurd and offensive. Well, here she
now is confessing that at least sixteen non citizens voted
in Michigan elections. Because here's what she does. First, she
starts by saying there's no non citizens voting, and then
when she confesses and divulges the information herself and parenthetically,
(03:40):
let me say, I'm hoping that the House Oversight committee
is going to one verify her own investigation and two
do their own to figure out if she's telling us
the truth. But once, once she confesses that, oh, there
are non citizens voting, they say, oh, it's a very
(04:01):
very small amount, and they didn't they didn't affect the
outcome of an election. Well you can't. First of all,
how do we know that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Sounds? And secondly, like the same playbook for everything else
they've done too.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, it's just it's changing the subject. It's changing the
rules of the game, moving the goalposts, as people like
to say.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And if they're doing I cut you off there. Sorry,
What was number two?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, basically what she's doing is she's changing the rules.
And so she first she said that there are no
non citizens voting, and then when her own when she
herself points out, well there are non citizens voting, then
she says, well, it's a very small amount and they
don't if they don't affect the outcome of elections, well,
(04:50):
we don't know that. And and if you're lying to
us the first time, why should we trust what you're
saying the second time?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, I've got to ask you about the involvement
in the media in all of this. Is the media
complicit in in this cover up as well. We've heard
that part of this story was broken through through the
media and it seems like they may be working hand
in hand here to soften at least soften the blow.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, what happens a lot is and we saw this
when Gretchen Whitmer went to Florida. They they will when
when they think they're about to be caught, because I
would I would hope that the House Oversight Committee will
investigate this publicly and catch what she's doing. But when
(05:37):
they think they're about to be caught, they go and confess,
and they go and confess to a friendly reporter or
friendly outlet to try and get out ahead of it.
And so what we saw was Jocelyn Benson went to
the Detroit News and provided text messages and provided you know,
this this search that they did to try and get
(05:58):
out ahead of this. But Rachelle Smidt is the is
the Election Integrity Oversight Subcommittee chair, and I hope I
had not spoken to her, but I hope that she
is taking all of that and doing her own investigation
to determine whether or not this is accurate in what
(06:19):
they're putting out publicly can be believed.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Kyle Olson with the Midwestern or the midwesternor Dot News
and the latest. Okay, so let's switch geares. We're going
to talk about twenty twenty six. We've had some interesting
new names, and every day there's something else. So this
week we had a former Attorney General Mike Cox jump
in the race. I wouldn't even call it a splash.
That was kind of like a trickle, not a lot
(06:45):
of There's a little bit of coverage, but not a
lot of talk on that. And I would say similarly
on the Democrat side of things, not a lot of
splash from I guess the Senate race. If I think
it's is it Muhammad el Sia? What's what's the guy's
name that said he's going to run for Abdul? That's right?
(07:08):
He he He is formerly run for governor as well
in a failed attempt there. But he also didn't make
much of a splash, although I would say he's pretty
media savvy, so that's somebody to look at on the
left could give mc marxist a run for her money.
(07:30):
Then I'm a little more concerned about this one though,
because it's a name that not a lot of people
know and they ought to. And it's this guy that's
running for Attorney General Democrat. Uh and Totten is his name. Now.
The reason why is, if I'm not mistaken, it wasn't
he the guy that was one of the attorneys advising
(07:53):
NESSL or not NESTL. But well it's probably not too.
But Whitmer specifically throughout twenty twenty and all the case asked,
the shutdowns and everything else. He's the guy that pretty
much went along with all of this and probably helped
instruct it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes, So Mark Totten was It was Gretchen Whitmer's lawyer,
just in simple terms, was her a lawyer, but he
was the governor's legal counsel during the pandemic, which means
Mark Totten said to the governor, all these executive orders
and you know, the restaurant orders and schools and all
(08:28):
of this stuff, this is all legal, it's all constitutional.
The way that she was using her emergency powers was
legal and constitutional. And so she she made all of
these orders and decisions and everything. Then it turned out
and he was wrong, yes, And then turned out that
(08:49):
she was she was wrong, he was wrong. And in
the State Supreme Court ruled that her the way she
was behaving was on constantitutional and then he is so
he was her lawyer, and then he was appointed US
Attorney for the Western District by President Biden, and so,
(09:12):
and he sort of was sort of was under the radar.
He was not getting generating a lot of attention when
he was a US attorney. Obviously, you know, he resigned
or was fired when when President Trump took office, and
now he's decided he is going to run for a
Michigan attorney general. And this should if if you believe
(09:32):
in property rights, if you believe in individual rights, if
you believe the way that the governor behaved during the
pandemic was wrong, all of that generated from him. And
so if you believe in all of those things, he
is not somebody that you can trust.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Or should like somebody to keep an eye on. Course,
we haven't heard much on the Republican side. These races
are attorney general, Secretary of State are convention races, so
it's a little different. I'll have to get through the
convention there on the Democrats side of things, but I
haven't heard many other names mentioned on that level. This
guy would be a very spooky it sounds like answer,
(10:14):
but just goes to show how important twenty twenty six is. Kyle.
I know you're covering all of this at the Midwest
or the Midwesterner dot News, but it's aid. I don't
think it can be overstated. This is Michigan's chance to
make a difference.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yes, you're right, And in the Democrat primary for the
Senate is I think going to be interesting because traditionally
they sort of clear the field and they don't. Democrats
don't like to have primaries. They sort of, you know,
it comes down from on high about who the candidate
is going to be, and they, you know, just sort
of clear the field. It doesn't seem like that's going
(10:50):
to be the case for the Senate race at Dull
As you said, he's a I think most of them
are socialist, but he's an admitted socialist, like he's proud
of it. He embraces the term. And he's already been
endorsed by Bernie Sanders. So there's that. But this is
(11:12):
going to be a primary that is going to run
you know, they're going to see who can run to
the left the fastest, which I think is a departure
generally speaking, it's a departure from what we typically see
because if you go back to twenty twenty four, Alyssa
Slockkin was running ads in the primary with Donald Trump,
(11:36):
with George W. Bush, she was really sort of trying
to portray herself as a moderate, and we've seen from
her votes she's not. We saw in the US House
she wasn't. But McMorrow, et cetera. They're not trying to
do that.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Kyle Olson, always a pleasure with the latest. You got
to stay on top of all this. Don't just book market.
You should do that too at the Midwestern or Dons.
But put your email inc. He stamped in. Get all
the updates ast they come in. Kyle, always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you for being here with us today.
Thank you you got it. God bless u.
Kyle with us now. Welcome in Cole, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Being here with us, Good morning things for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
We have a strange sound. There's more's code. Are you
trying to Are you being held hostage somewhere and trying
to send me a message? You hear that on your end?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I do a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, call me, call me right back. That's weird. We'll go.
We'll try and work that out. So they see if
you can sit. I thought, what is is he trying
to see this? Send help? Send help s O S
all right? Uh just put is is it still happening?
I hope it's not still happen If we have to
listen to the phones like that all day, we'ld be
(00:40):
in trouble. I think we got a clear up thing there.
We are.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Modern technology.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I thought you were sipping Margarita's with the Garcia there
for a moment. Maybe maybe we got a light broadcast
from sea kon. All right, so let's start the the
because this is a big another big week in Michigan.
By the way, you know, there's a lot of stuff
happened into the world. But right back here on that
characterself lot going on too. In fact, this story is
probably one of the biggest. It's tron and center over
(01:10):
on the Midwestern or let's talk about it. So they know,
spokeswoman says, but they won't say.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah. So Jocelyn Benson's office did their own search, their
own audit of records, and they concluded that sixteen, which
we're saying at least sixteen, but they're saying sixteen individuals
voted illegally in the state of Michigan in twenty twenty four.
(01:38):
And we know about the Chinese student at the University
of Michigan, but they are not divulging any other information
about the fifteen at least fifteen other individuals. And what's
very strange about it is they won't give any details
at all, names, locations, precincts, anything. What one thing they
(02:01):
did say is that they are scattered, which says to me,
there's a systemic problem here, Oh one rogue city clerk
who was allowing you know, lots of people to vote illegally.
It's a systemic problem. It's fantastical and feels like or
at least she's treating us like we don't deserve to know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That is a fantastic point and one I'm assuming they
did not catch on uh when they made that statement. Oh,
it's just it's scattered, just here and there, nothing big.
But that means, as you mentioned, it's not concentrated, and
it is a systemic issue. That means we got bigger
fish to fry. Now, who in their right mind would
trust Joscelyn Benson to run the election for governor that
(02:47):
that she's going to be in herself with this type
of thing, with this type of chicanery happening exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And let's go back to September last September twenty twenty four,
when she testified before Congress that she said there is
no evidence that non citizens are voting in the state
of Michigan, and she had this very sort of condescending
attitude that anyone who questioned whether or not only citizens
(03:16):
are voting it was absurd and offensive. Well, here she
now is confessing that at least sixteen non citizens voted
in Michigan elections. Because here's what she does. First, she
starts by saying there's no non citizens voting, and then
when she confesses and divulges the information herself and parenthetically,
(03:40):
let me say, I'm hoping that the House Oversight committee
is going to one verify her own investigation and two
do their own to figure out if she's telling us
the truth. But once, once she confesses that, oh, there
are non citizens voting, they say, oh, it's a very
(04:01):
very small amount, and they didn't they didn't affect the
outcome of an election. Well you can't. First of all,
how do we know that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Sounds? And secondly, like the same playbook for everything else
they've done too.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, it's just it's changing the subject. It's changing the
rules of the game, moving the goalposts, as people like
to say.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And if they're doing I cut you off there. Sorry,
What was number two?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, basically what she's doing is she's changing the rules.
And so she first she said that there are no
non citizens voting, and then when her own when she
herself points out, well there are non citizens voting, then
she says, well, it's a very small amount and they
don't if they don't affect the outcome of elections, well,
(04:50):
we don't know that. And and if you're lying to
us the first time, why should we trust what you're
saying the second time?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, I've got to ask you about the involvement
in the media in all of this. Is the media
complicit in in this cover up as well. We've heard
that part of this story was broken through through the
media and it seems like they may be working hand
in hand here to soften at least soften the blow.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, what happens a lot is and we saw this
when Gretchen Whitmer went to Florida. They they will when
when they think they're about to be caught, because I
would I would hope that the House Oversight Committee will
investigate this publicly and catch what she's doing. But when
(05:37):
they think they're about to be caught, they go and confess,
and they go and confess to a friendly reporter or
friendly outlet to try and get out ahead of it.
And so what we saw was Jocelyn Benson went to
the Detroit News and provided text messages and provided you know,
this this search that they did to try and get
(05:58):
out ahead of this. But Rachelle Smidt is the is
the Election Integrity Oversight Subcommittee chair, and I hope I
had not spoken to her, but I hope that she
is taking all of that and doing her own investigation
to determine whether or not this is accurate in what
(06:19):
they're putting out publicly can be believed.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Kyle Olson with the Midwestern or the midwesternor Dot News
and the latest. Okay, so let's switch geares. We're going
to talk about twenty twenty six. We've had some interesting
new names, and every day there's something else. So this
week we had a former Attorney General Mike Cox jump
in the race. I wouldn't even call it a splash.
That was kind of like a trickle, not a lot
(06:45):
of There's a little bit of coverage, but not a
lot of talk on that. And I would say similarly
on the Democrat side of things, not a lot of
splash from I guess the Senate race. If I think
it's is it Muhammad el Sia? What's what's the guy's
name that said he's going to run for Abdul? That's right?
(07:08):
He he He is formerly run for governor as well
in a failed attempt there. But he also didn't make
much of a splash, although I would say he's pretty
media savvy, so that's somebody to look at on the
left could give mc marxist a run for her money.
(07:30):
Then I'm a little more concerned about this one though,
because it's a name that not a lot of people
know and they ought to. And it's this guy that's
running for Attorney General Democrat. Uh and Totten is his name. Now.
The reason why is, if I'm not mistaken, it wasn't
he the guy that was one of the attorneys advising
(07:53):
NESSL or not NESTL. But well it's probably not too.
But Whitmer specifically throughout twenty twenty and all the case asked,
the shutdowns and everything else. He's the guy that pretty
much went along with all of this and probably helped
instruct it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes, So Mark Totten was It was Gretchen Whitmer's lawyer,
just in simple terms, was her a lawyer, but he
was the governor's legal counsel during the pandemic, which means
Mark Totten said to the governor, all these executive orders
and you know, the restaurant orders and schools and all
(08:28):
of this stuff, this is all legal, it's all constitutional.
The way that she was using her emergency powers was
legal and constitutional. And so she she made all of
these orders and decisions and everything. Then it turned out
and he was wrong, yes, And then turned out that
(08:49):
she was she was wrong, he was wrong. And in
the State Supreme Court ruled that her the way she
was behaving was on constantitutional and then he is so
he was her lawyer, and then he was appointed US
Attorney for the Western District by President Biden, and so,
(09:12):
and he sort of was sort of was under the radar.
He was not getting generating a lot of attention when
he was a US attorney. Obviously, you know, he resigned
or was fired when when President Trump took office, and
now he's decided he is going to run for a
Michigan attorney general. And this should if if you believe
(09:32):
in property rights, if you believe in individual rights, if
you believe the way that the governor behaved during the
pandemic was wrong, all of that generated from him. And
so if you believe in all of those things, he
is not somebody that you can trust.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Or should like somebody to keep an eye on. Course,
we haven't heard much on the Republican side. These races
are attorney general, Secretary of State are convention races, so
it's a little different. I'll have to get through the
convention there on the Democrats side of things, but I
haven't heard many other names mentioned on that level. This
guy would be a very spooky it sounds like answer,
(10:14):
but just goes to show how important twenty twenty six is. Kyle.
I know you're covering all of this at the Midwest
or the Midwesterner dot News, but it's aid. I don't
think it can be overstated. This is Michigan's chance to
make a difference.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yes, you're right, And in the Democrat primary for the
Senate is I think going to be interesting because traditionally
they sort of clear the field and they don't. Democrats
don't like to have primaries. They sort of, you know,
it comes down from on high about who the candidate
is going to be, and they, you know, just sort
of clear the field. It doesn't seem like that's going
(10:50):
to be the case for the Senate race at Dull
As you said, he's a I think most of them
are socialist, but he's an admitted socialist, like he's proud
of it. He embraces the term. And he's already been
endorsed by Bernie Sanders. So there's that. But this is
(11:12):
going to be a primary that is going to run
you know, they're going to see who can run to
the left the fastest, which I think is a departure
generally speaking, it's a departure from what we typically see
because if you go back to twenty twenty four, Alyssa
Slockkin was running ads in the primary with Donald Trump,
(11:36):
with George W. Bush, she was really sort of trying
to portray herself as a moderate, and we've seen from
her votes she's not. We saw in the US House
she wasn't. But McMorrow, et cetera. They're not trying to
do that.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Kyle Olson, always a pleasure with the latest. You got
to stay on top of all this. Don't just book market.
You should do that too at the Midwestern or Dons.
But put your email inc. He stamped in. Get all
the updates ast they come in. Kyle, always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you for being here with us today.
Thank you you got it. God bless u.
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