CNN Refuses To Air Trump's Election Speech After Producers Mistake Journalism For Vampire Rules

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” --Mark Twain

ABC, NBC, and CNN all decided America simply could not survive the horror of hearing President Trump speak without a panel of nervous commentators interrupting every eight seconds. Apparently, allowing viewers to hear the president's election interference address unfiltered would trigger an extinction level event for democracy . . . or perhaps their own credibility.

The speech covered something that Washington has insisted everyone ignore. America's election systems remain vulnerable. Massive voter databases have been compromised. China allegedly gained access to information on at least 220 million Americans. Beijing also reportedly financed propaganda efforts through American journalists during Trump's first term.

Naturally, CNN concluded the real national security threat was letting Americans hear about any of it.

Instead, the network sprinted away from the speech like it was carrying a subpoena. This is, of course, the same network that spent years enthusiastically promoting the Russia collusion fantasy, a story that consumed the better part of Trump's first presidency before collapsing under the weight of its own fiction.

Remember when election interference was the greatest threat to civilization? Back then, every Facebook meme was apparently a Kremlin special forces operation. Fast forward ten years and election interference has magically become a conspiracy theory because Trump is talking about it. Funny how that works.

The Compromised News Network's Brian "Mr. Potato Head" Stelter accidentally summarized the entire media business model in one remarkable quote.

"Some network executives felt it would be dangerous to just air Trump's speech live, in full, unedited without knowing what he was going to say ahead of time. That's where we are in America."

Dangerous? What the heck is he talking about and how did he conclude that nonsense?

Since when did hearing a speech without a newsroom translator become hazardous? Americans somehow survive congressional hearings, award shows, and college commencement speeches every year. Surely they could endure twenty minutes of President Trump without requiring CNN to hold their hand.

The obvious answer is that viewers might actually make up their own minds. That possibility terrifies corporate media more than any foreign hacker ever could.

Mr. Potato Head continued.

"Trump's election lies led to violence."

That talking point conveniently skips over the inconvenient fact that Trump explicitly urged supporters to act peacefully and later called for the unrest on January 6 to stop. Those details rarely survive the CNN editing room because they interfere with the preferred narrative.

Curiously, none of this concern about "dangerous" speech existed while networks breathlessly reported Russia collusion claims, anonymous intelligence leaks that evaporated under scrutiny, or countless other Trump stories that proved spectacularly wrong. Apparently misinformation is perfectly safe, provided it comes with professionally lit studio cameras.

What CNN and the rest of the legacy media are really saying is simple. You are not qualified to hear information directly. You need licensed television experts to explain what you should think before your brain accidentally forms an independent opinion.

Then they insist there is no coordinated effort to shape public perception while ABC, NBC, and CNN simultaneously arrive at the exact same decision to keep viewers from hearing the President of the United States.

Quite a coincidence.

Nobody remembers these networks treating Joe Biden's speeches as too dangerous for public consumption, despite his remarkable ability to invent stories, confuse world leaders, or wander into verbal cul de sacs that left aides diving for the mute button.

In the end, America was reminded of several timeless truths. The permanent bureaucracy never really left. Questions about the 2020 election remain forbidden territory in polite media circles. The corporate press remains about as objective as a campaign commercial. Our election infrastructure still deserves scrutiny.

Yet these are the same people who assured us with straight faces that the 2020 election was the "most secure ever."

And they wonder why nobody believes them anymore.

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Harvard covertly trained Chinese "Paramilitsry Organization" members AFTER US SANCTIONED IT OVER UYGHUR GENOCIDE

Harvard University, that bastion of Ivy League prestige, has been caught with its hand in a very murky cookie jar—quietly training members of a Chinese paramilitary group tied to the Uyghur genocide, even after the U.S. slapped sanctions on it. 

[H/T The Washington Free Beacon]

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subordinate described by the Trump administration as a “paramilitary organization,” got cozy with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health not once, but twice post-sanctions, in 2023 and 2024. Now, one expert warns, Harvard could be staring down “a big legal problem.” 

Let's hope that expert is correct.

It all started innocently enough—or so Harvard would have you believe. 

Way back in 2019, the Chan School launched an annual health financing course with Beijing’s National Health Security Administration (NHSA), training Chinese government staffers. A blog post at the time proudly noted XPCC officials from Xinjiang were among the inaugural class. But when conservative outlet The Washington Free Beacon came knocking, that tidbit mysteriously vanished from the site, like it never happened.

The Trump administration hit the XPCC with sanctions in 2020 for its role in “serious rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” where China’s been accused of mass detentions, forced sterilizations, and worse. 

You’d think that would be a red line for Harvard. Nope. 

The university obstinately continued training XPCC officials, first in 2023 (flagged by Strategy Risks in a damning report, “Beijing Exercises Strong Influence Over Multiple Areas of Harvard University”) and again in 2024, a detail buried on the NHSA’s website and unreported until now.

One might think of this as a symbolic flipping of "the bird" to the U.S. government.

This isn’t just a PR hiccup. Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Sobolik told the outlet that Harvard’s playing with fire. “It’s one thing to partner with the XPCC before the U.S. government declared a genocide in Xinjiang. It’s another thing entirely to continue that cooperation afterwards,” he said.

 “Harvard officials should have known that training the XPCC risked complicity in Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs and other ethno-religious minorities. Either they didn’t, and it’s gross negligence—or they did, and it’s beyond the pale. Either way, Harvard may have a big legal problem.” Sanctions mean U.S. entities can’t engage with the XPCC, and violations could bring hefty fines—hundreds of thousands of dollars, potentially.

Harvard’s already in hot water, with the Trump administration freezing over $2 billion in federal funding for its failure to tackle campus anti-Semitism. Now this? The timing’s brutal, but hey, they deserve it.

When pressed, Stephanie Simon, the Chan School’s dean for communications, pointed the finger at China. “Each year, the NHSA invites the local officials who administer health insurance and elder care programs in each administrative region of China. In Xinjiang, that often includes officials from the XPCC,” she said. The trainings, she claimed, are broad, drawing “50 or 60 local officials from across China, with just one or two from each administrative region.” Instructors? A global mix, not just Harvard folks. 

Simon insisted the goal is noble: “To build capacity for public officials across China to create effective insurance programs with sustainable financial models so that all people across China can get access to high-quality health care.”

As for that scrubbed 2019 blog post? Simon shrugged it off as part of a website redesign that ditched “an enormous quantity of old content” across the school’s sites “several months ago.” Convenient.

Harvard’s no stranger to Beijing’s orbit. Between 2019 and 2022, it pocketed nearly $70 million from Chinese entities—more than from any other country, per U.S. Department of Education data. The Chan School itself got a $350 million windfall in 2014 from the Morningside Foundation, controlled by the Chan family—Hong Kong tycoons with deep CCP ties. The school was renamed after their late patriarch, though Harvard swears the gift was “unsolicited, unrestricted, and unexpected.”

The university’s China ties run deeper still. Its health partnership includes seven Chinese universities, six flagged by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute as security risks due to their People’s Liberation Army connections. Three—Sichuan, Xi’an Jiaotong, and Tsinghua—are neck-deep in Chinese defense tech, including the nuclear program. Oh, and in 2022 alone, Harvard trained “188 senior national and provincial-level government officials” from China’s NHSA. That’s not a seminar; that’s a pipeline.

Harvard’s response? It’s all about “advancing the school’s mission of improving health and well-being for all,” Simon said. But when you’re training a sanctioned paramilitary outfit linked to genocide, that mission starts looking like a tightrope walk over a legal and moral abyss.

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Guess what: Rodman gave Kim "The Art of the Deal"

Former basketball player Dennis Rodman went to North Korea to see his "best friend" Kim Jong Un. The cross-dressing superstar gave the dictator, whose people are eating lawn shavings, an unsigned copy of President Trump's book "The Art of the Deal."

The book was actually handed to Sports Minister Kim Il Guk who bowed as he took it.

Rodman, you may know (I didn't), was on "Celebrity Apprentice" reality TV show for two seasons, or so says the Associated Press. 

This was the show in which Donald Trump used to fire people and this gave the country the inspiration to elect him President of the United States.

Rodman touched down in North Korea on Tuesday. He said that he's "just trying to open a door," and soon discovered that doors open by turning the round thing by the edge that doesn't have those metal things holding the door onto the frame, then pulling or pushing, if pulling doesn't work.

Rodman spoke to reporters before the flight from Beijing before taking off to Pyongyang.

It isn't clear if Rodman got the book as a gift from Mr. Trump and is 're-gifting' it to Kim, or if he purchased a copy.

The basketball legend arrived just hours after North Korea decided to release brain-injured Otto Warmbier, an American student who they apparently beat and tortured.

But lucky for Rodman that Kim's his best friend.


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N. Korea may talk with U.S. "under the right conditions"

Choe Son Hui, a senior North Korean diplomat, supposedly said that Pyongyang would talk with the U.S. if conditions were right. As far as we now know, Choe, the foreign ministry director general for U.S. affairs, is still alive and thus, may be taken seriously.

The announcement was made to journalists in Beijing, according to a South Korean news agency.

Earlier this month, President Trump talked about meeting with the corpulent dictator of North Korea saying, "If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it. If it's under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that." 

He would. He would.

Choe was also asked if there were plans for talks with the new government of South Korea. He said, "we'll see."

New sanctions have been imposed on North Korea as well as serious wags of the finger, but there they have had no effect on their nuclear ambitions and ballistic missile tests.

In fact, North Korea has 'flipped the bird' at the U.S. as they have detained four Americans claiming they committed hostile acts and have threatened to "ruthlessly punish" them.

The State Department said that "we have no further comment due to privacy considerations."  

President Trump would be honored if they do not punish them.

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China slams Trump on Taiwan

China made it clear that its one-China policy is "non-negotiable" on the heels of President-elect Donald Trump hinting that he may use American policy on Taiwan as a bargaining chip between the two sides.

This is worrisome because mainland China has a lot to lose if Trump plays that game, and there is no telling what might come from it.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a statement that the "government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing China." He added, "That is the fact acknowledged by the international community and no one can change."

The US recognized Beijing in 1979 and since then, we have only had unofficial ties with Taiwan. Beijing considers that self-governing island as part of its territory, but then again, Beijing considers islands that they are creating in the South China Sea as theirs too.

However, since becoming the President-elect, Trump has often threatened to change the status quo of the Beijing-Taiwan dyad. He went so far as to tell The Wall Street Journal on Friday that "everything is under negotiation, including 'one China.'"

He needs to tread lightly, or at least go slowly. Leaders from countries don't like being told what to do by leaders from other countries. It would be like Mexico telling Trump that Alaska is part of Canada.

When Trump spoke with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, the first time an American president or in this case, president-elect, had publicly spoken to Taiwan's president in nearly 40 years, it rattled China's cage.

Trump went on TV and said he didn't feel "bound by a one-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade."

And of course, Trump tweeted.

He went after China on Twitter over their military build-up and alleged currency manipulation, as well as their failure to rein in North Korea's nuclear program.

At this point in time, China, a country that appears to have designs on expanding its size and global influence, has reiterated its refusal to negotiate on Taiwan. They have run strongly worded editorials attacking Trump.

Let's hope we all use words to express our anger at each other, not hitting.



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Another possible Islamist attack in Australia

A van loaded with gas bottles crashed into the Australian Christian Lobby office in Canberra on Wednesday and then exploded.

No staff members were hurt but the condition of the driver is unknown Lyle Shelton, Lobby manager, tweeted. Along with Shelton's tweet was an image of the burnt out vehicle and he called it a "car bomb."

The blast was powerful enough to destroy several building windows and damaged an extensive amount of property.

The van headed toward the front of the building, a police spokesperson confirmed. 

Of course, no determination as to whether the event was intentional or accidental was made, but it's a Christian building, it's almost Christmas, the van was packed with gas and the incident comes only hours after another minivan drove into a farmers market in Beijing and few days after a Christmas market in Berlin was attacked by a jihadist with a truck.

No screams of "Allahu Akbar" were heard, but that doesn't mean they weren't screamed.

"There are no public safety issues and ACT are seeking any witnesses to the incident," the spokesperson said.

Please have a safe and happy Christmas and Hanukkah. 


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Trump speaks with Taiwanese president, breaks protocol

New York -- President-elect Trump spoke with the President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, Friday in a move that is certain to peeve the Chinese. It is unprecedented for a U.S. president or president-elect to speak directly with a leader of Taiwan as we broke ties with the island in 1979.

Since that year, Washington has pursued a "one China" policy. We shifted diplomatic recognition of China from the government of Taiwan to the communist government on the mainland. We now recognize Beijing as representing China but continue to maintain unofficial ties with the island nation of Taiwan.

Trump's transition team said that The Donald spoke with the Taiwanese President and she offered her congratulations to him.

"During the discussion, they noted the close economic, political, and security ties . . . between Taiwan and the United States. President-elect Trump also congratulated President Tsai on becoming President of Taiwan earlier this year," the statement read.

Forgetting to put on his oven mitts, Trump later tweeted: "The President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to wish me congratulations on winning the Presidency. Thank you!"

Right?

The call was confirmed by a Taiwanese source with direct knowledge of the call, but requested anonymity to speak about it before an official statement was issued on it from Tapei.

The White House learned of the call after it took place, according to a senior administration official, who also requested anonymity because of the sensitive diplomatic relations involved.

China's embassy in Washington didn't respond to a media request for a comment.

The Friday call exemplifies how Trump has disregarded typical diplomatic conventions since his election to the presidency. He has apparently taken other calls from foreign leaders without guidance customarily given by the State Department which oversees U.S. diplomacy.

Tsai was elected in January via a democratic election and took office in May. While our ties with Taiwan are unofficial, they are quite close, since they split from the Chinese mainland in 1949 in a civil war. We acknowledge China's view over sovereignty, but consider Taiwan's status as unsettled.

China sees Taiwan as part of their territory to be retaken by force, if need be, if it seeks independence. The U.S. has legal commitments to help Taiwan maintain its ability to defend itself.

Ned Price, the White House National Security Council spokesman said Trump's conversation doesn't signal any change to our long-standing policy on "cross-strait" issues.

"We remain firmly committed to our 'one China' policy," Price said. "Our fundamental interest is in peaceful and stable cross-strait relations."

The White House (aka Obama) is probably quite frustrated by Trump's conversation with Tsai, but still wants to make a smooth transition.

Let's hope Trump is careful about his foreign policy dealings once he's sworn in.


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U.S. warships challenge China's South China Sea claims

Beijing continues to try limiting freedom of navigation in the strategic waters of the South China Sea, a sea-lane that traffics about five trillion dollars in trade each year and has what is believed to be billions of dollars in oil deposits beneath its sea bed. The U.S. is making efforts to counter Beijing's efforts.

A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China and drew a warning from the Chinese warships to leave the area. China called the move "illegal" and "provocative," and reported that two of their warships had warned the U.S. to leave.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur challenged the "excessive maritime claims" near the Paracel Islands, a string of islands that China and its neighbors have been disputing over.

According to an anonymous source, this latest U.S. patrol has angered Beijing and could further increase tensions over the South China Sea. The Decatur did not sail within the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits of the island, said the anonymous official.

The Pentagon said the Decatur "conducted this transit in a routing, lawful manner without ship escorts and without incident." The ship sailed near Triton and Woody Islands and was shadowed by three Chinese ships, according to the official, and all interactions between the vessels involved was safe, Reuters reported.

The White House confirmed the Reuters report.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing that "This operation demonstrated that coastal states may not lawfully restrict the navigation rights, freedoms and lawful uses of the sea that the United States and all states are entitled to exercise under international law." 

This is the U.S.'s fourth challenge this year to China's overreaching maritime claims, and the first challenge since May.

China said it declared its "baseline" for the Paracel Islands in 1996 and that the U.S. was aware of this claim. Despite that, China said the U.S. had sent a ship into Chinese "territorial waters."

That would be true if we sailed within the 12-mile territorial waters, but we didn't.

China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the U.S. ship did not ask for permission to enter Chinese territorial waters, and had broken both Chinese and international law. They say that the U.S. is deliberately creating tensions.

They are full of wonton soup.

The latest U.S. operation comes soon after Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who took office in June, visited China and announced his "separation" from Washington and his love for Beijing. (Duterte is the guy who's executing drug addicts and dealers, carte blanche.)

A government official in Washington said that our latest operation had nothing to do with Duterte's visit and that the patrol had been planned for weeks. Other officials say they will continue such operations despite Beijing's objections.

"The U.S. Navy will continue to conduct routine and lawful operations around the world, including in the South China Sea, in order to protect the rights, freedoms and lawful uses of sea and airspace guaranteed to all. This will not change," said Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson.

Although U.S. officials have said the operations will continue despite Beijing's protests, the Obama administration has been criticized in Congress for conducting them haphazardly, slapdash, and in a somewhat creampuff fashion.




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Pyongyang threatens US and Seoul with total destruction

North Korea hates it when the U.S. and South Korea have their annual war games exercises and don't invite them. This year, the North has threatened to launch a nuclear first-strike that will turn Seoul and Washington D.C. into "a heap of ashes." 

China has made a similar threat saying that they were willing to go to war to enforce their territorial claims.

Obama has put a nuclear first strike off the table which, in effect, signals to both crazy nations that "you can hit me first--I promise not to cry." The only deterrent in the mix is that nuclear weapons kill innocent people and it wouldn't be nice if they launched them at us.

Pyongyang threatens us every year during our joint exercises with Seoul but this time it comes on the heels of a defection by one of their senior diplomats and a U.S. plan to provide South Korea with a defense missile system.

Tensions were already high in the region last week when China flexed its latest offensive weapons in the Sea of Japan war games. 

Beijing showed off their latest generation frigate and long-range bombers, warning the U.S. that it isn't going to negotiate its territorial claims over the uninhabited islands controlled by Japan.

The U.S. and South Korea began their joint war games despite Pyongyang's angry threats, which claimed their "first-strike" units were locked and loaded for retaliatory attacks on the South and U.S. forces.

South Korea expressed "strong" regret over the North's warnings, explaining that the drills were for defensive measures only and both Seoul and the U.S. have repeatedly made it clear that they have no intentions of invading Pyongyang.

The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills last for 12 days and are mostly computer-simulated war games involving about 25,000 US troops and 50,000 South Korean soldiers. This comes just a few days after Thae Yong Ho, a North Korean official, defected to South Korea. He said he was "disillusioned" with the North's leadership, and Pyongyang's state media called him "human scum" and a criminal who had been ordered home for a series of alleged criminal acts, including sexually assaulting a minor.

Of course, the allegations are simply propaganda. If anyone was to sexually assaulted a minor, it would be Kim Jung Un and possibly Bill Clinton.



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U.S. Navy's secret plan against China

In a move designed to scare the ku zi and chen ku off the Chinese, the U.S. Navy is secretly planning to send a ship as close as 12 nautical miles to the disputed islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. official told Fox News. The official asked the network to keep their lips sealed about this mission because "Loose lips sink ships," they reminded Fox.

The purpose of this secret mission is to challenge Beijing's territorial claims. "They can't just built crap in the middle of the ocean and call it freaking China," Donald Trump may have secretly said in reaction to the boldness with which China plans to expand its borders.

According to top secret information reported by Reuters,  the Navy is planning to move on the Spratty Islands, an archipelago that China has the nerve to lay claim to by building airstrips and other features on top of reefs.

It is quite likely that a surveillance aircraft will join the Navy destroyer USS Lassen  in an American show of testicular fortitude, says Reuters.

When asked for comment at Monday's press briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Notvery Earnest would not confirm nor deny any such operation was planned and he covertly put his index finger to his lips and made a shushing sound to indicate that no further questions on this subject will be taken.

Earnest did say, however, that ensuring freedom of navigation is critically important to a global economy and that this is the principle at stake in the secret mission. "Shush," he added.

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford Jr. will travel to Asia on Friday. So-called president Obama was set to meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday as that country, along with others, are worried about China's expansive maritime balderdash.

The dispute with the strategic waterways situation has intensified last year, as China is clearly upsetting it smaller and militarily weaker neighbors who all lay claim to territory in the Spratly and Paracel islands, one of the busiest shipping routes, rich in fish, oil, fish oil, and potential gas.

You may recall our so-called commander in chief met with Chinese President Xi Jinping last month at the White House. He was greeted by Mr. Obama and about eleven members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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