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Well, thank you, Steve. Really. This grew in part out of our work on the Committee on the Present Danger, China. We saw the Chinese declare a people's war against the United States in May of 2019 and throughout 2019 and 2020. And I'd come on the war Room, we were talking about the Chinese threat to the country. And after the election of 2020, when it looked like the election was stolen, I had a team of many of them retired intel officers, including our friend, the late Rich Higgins, Many of them put together a report and was studying and evaluating what happened in the election. I went to Arizona, I went to Nevada to investigate what went on. The other intel officers were doing their own investigations. And we all came to the conclusion that we may not be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the election was stolen in 2020. All of us believe so. But what we noticed was the electronic voting systems that were in place. All of them were using component pieces within their system that were made in Communist China. The same way our cell phones and and our laptop computers are all made in Communist China. So were the voting machines. Some of them are built in the United States, but they're all using electronic components. That was a great concern because the PLA has a cyber army of a million men who are capable of all sorts of nefarious cyber activity. That was a concern. Anything that is a computer based system can be programmed. And when you looked at the providence of who programs these election systems, some of it in some of the systems is done in America still using the Chinese components. But the providence of the software looked to be evaluated by Communist China. Some of the design was in Venezuela in some of the systems. Some of the systems used software that was designed in Serbia. And they may be perfectly honest, these machines, but just at the level of transparency. People look at that and they think, you know, that seems crazy. And I got subpoenaed by the Biden Justice Department at the end of 2022. Then in 2023, I testified before a grand jury for six and a half hours on this. It was one of the January 6th grand juries. It was myself and the former national Security advisor for President Trump, Robert o'. Brien. He was in front of one of the other parts of the grand jury. But we testified. I testified for six and a half hours. And the real Question was all about this electronic system and its vulnerability. They had a 50 page PowerPoint that I and the rest of the team had produced. Rich Higgins especially that laid out the Chinese origins of the electronics and the foreign ownership of some of the other components. My big push at the time was we need to investigate this. The federal government needs to investigate it. This is the, obviously the weeks after the election and get to the bottom of this. Well, all these years later, we've had a lot of theories about what went on, but we've never gotten to the bottom of it. We know that there were all sorts of improprieties in the election in 2020, and those things have only now, really now that President Trump's back in office, are being thoroughly investigated here. But we're losing major opportunity. We have an election coming up here this fall, the midterms. It's game day here in Texas. In Texas, you have low voter turnout. A certain percentage of the people don't believe the elections are fair. They think the system is rigged and so they don't vote. It may be a small percentage, but a significant percentage of people really does affect the outcome. What I'm calling for in this piece, after laying all this out, is the fact that because Communist China is part of the mix of these electronic machines that we prohibit through an executive order by the President and a presidential finding, if necessary, that we simply can't use these electronic voting machines because of the potential for foreign interference. Tulsi Gabbard is looking into this. She's certainly looking into what transpired in Georgia. And my hope is between Tulsi Gabbard and the President, they do sign an executive order banning the voting machines, electronic voting machines, and the tabulators and anything electronic, because all of it's going to be touched by Communist China at one level from being used in any future election. Now, once you do that, you're going to have to have a system in place to replace the electronic voting system. And all sorts of people in the war room is very familiar with this, have called for, including Michael and Dell, who's been a real champion of this, a voting system that uses paper ballots, voter id, that they're counted by human beings with other human beings watching them, that these things are all streamed online. So there's absolute transparency about who wins in an election. Because if you don't know who wins your elections, you don't really have a country anymore. You're not a sovereign people. If, in fact you don't know who wins the election. And I describe in the piece we have the crisis of illegal immigration. If you don't have a border, you don't have a country. And if you don't have a voting system, you can't really give consent properly for the Republic you're living in here. And so I'm very serious when I say the President, if he, if he does want to secure the elections, and by every measure he believes the 2020 election was stolen, he thinks the electronic machines are a problem, but not everybody in the White House does. And it is my sincere hope that he looks hard at this essay and looks hard at the executive orders that are before him and talks to all of his best people about this and pulls the trigger, as it were, on making sure that the machines are banned and that a new system is put in place.
