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**Ben Shapiro** (1:28)
Last night, President Trump gave a primetime address. And on its face, the president's speech was about election meddling. And in general, of course, he's right. We do need to pass the SAVE Act and secure our elections. Of course, it's not Jim Crow 2 to require ID to vote or to show proof of citizenship to register to vote. This is baseline rational stuff. But underneath the president's big speech last night was a lurking threat far greater than the question of even election interference or election security. And the president did not go nearly far enough on that threat. The media aren't covering that threat. No one seems particularly interested in covering that threat. And it is, in fact, the greatest external threat our country has ever faced. That threat is China. They're a threat to America. They have lots of allies here in the United States. Bernie Sanders does open events with the Chinese. Hassan Piker and his actual Chinese flag in the background. Zorn Mamdani's China-Friendly Democratic Socialist of America. And yes, a lot of big corporations who want to do business over there. China must be defeated. We'll get into what China is doing, what we need to do to respond. And somehow, Maine Democrats are succeeding in finding someone even weirder than Graham Platner to substitute for Graham Platner in that Senate race. We'll get into all of it. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
All righty, so last night, the president did a primetime address. It was mostly about election security. It was about 25, 27 minutes, and it was mostly a call to pass the SAVE Act. I get it, we are leading up to the election. He's trying to activate the base to go out and vote in large numbers in the midterms, presumably to preserve the possibility of passing the SAVE Act in the last couple of years of his term because it looks unlikely to pass right now. Well, in the speech, the president unleashed some information about the voter rolls and the insecurity of current voter ID rules and a lot of other issues, and we should check all of it out. And President Trump is, of course, totally right when he says that election security is deeply, deeply important. I mean, I take this stuff seriously. You should take it serious. We all should take it seriously. If we don't trust our elections, we have a systemic problem that is almost unfixable in the United States. And of course, I'm not particularly shocked that America's enemies take advantage of our open society, our good and just an exceptionally liberty oriented society.
But here's the thing. The real story of the speech is what China was doing.
Let's be clear. China is not a strategic opponent. They're not a country with whom we should seek conciliatory relations. They are an enemy.
Period. They're an enemy. They're not a strategic opponent. They're an enemy. They're not just an enemy. They're the most insidious and dangerous enemy we likely have ever faced. Nazi Germany never put phones with their propaganda in the hands of your children. The Soviet Union didn't own trillions of dollars of American bonds. China is not only a country that has murdered tens of millions of its own citizens that supports literally all of our enemies abroad, that unleashed a global pandemic, that killed millions of people and shut down the entire Western economy, and that wants to develop artificial intelligence to take over our minds and outcompete our military. They're a country with global ambitions, and their ambition runs right up against the United States. That's the actual story here. But let's start at the beginning. President Trump's focused last night on election security. So the president gets up, he gives this primetime address, it was covered by some networks, but not others. This, of course, ticked off the president who suggested maybe withdrawing the broadcast licenses of particular networks that didn't decide to air his primetime address. That's not really going to happen in any case. The president correctly said last night that Americans deserve to know that their vote is secure.