Shadowing Practice: BREAKING: Trump RAIDS Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's HOME Weeks Before Midterm Elections! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What an insane time to be alive.
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As the president of the United States, Donald Trump wants an all out race war to fall upon the residents of Minnesota as if they haven't suffered enough already.
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He is tweeting this week trying to urge Minnesotans to fight back against Somali immigrants, their own neighbors.
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And at the same time this morning, he has raided the home of Representative Ilhan Omar.
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We're going to dive right into this story, how insane it actually is
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and how they are absolutely weaponizing the Department of Justice to attack political rivals weeks before an election.
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Have a listen.
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Back with the Fox News alert,
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we're learning that the Washington, D .C home of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was raided early this morning by Homeland Security investigations.
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Fox is told by multiple law enforcement sources this began early this morning around 6 a .m.
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Eastern.
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Homeland Security and the DOJ are both working on the investigation.
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A DOJ spokesperson telling Fox this, quote,
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Remember when they said they were just going to be deporting people that were committing violent crimes?
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The only violent crimes I'm seeing right now are from our own government, a government hell -bent on authoritarian control.
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As we all know, several weeks from now, democracy will try to prevail.
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What actually goes down is anybody's game.
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I couldn't be less hyperbolic right now.
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This is the reality we live in.
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Our Constitution needs to be protected.
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Hit the subscribe button if you agree and want to see how this all goes down.
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Now, you want to talk about a war breaking out.
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Here's what Trump tweeted just a few days ago.
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The once great state of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali immigrants.
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There is violence, murder, and mayhem all over the state.
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The people of Minnesota must fight back.
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I mean, look at this.
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Our own president, we've normalized this, folks.
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Our own president wants the people of Minnesota to fight back against their neighbors.
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Minnesota consistently ranked one of the best states to live in.
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I mean, it's always in the top three or four, always.
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And the people of Minnesota seem to be doing just fine.
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If they have an issue with the way their government's run, they can vote in a new governor.
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There's many things that they can do.
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But what Trump is trying to do, now again, let's not forget the Republican Party used to stand for small government, right?
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Small taxes.
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I mean, what do we have now?
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$40 trillion in debt.
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Donald Trump has contributed to more debt than any sitting president has ever committed to debt.
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He has, and there's nothing Republican at all about him.
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It's all authoritarian, right?
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The idea, well, states' rights, they used that for all of their slavery arguments back in the day.
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States' rights is what it's all about.
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Really?
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Now we have the federal government raiding a representative all on a fishing expedition?
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So this is absolute insane.
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He's got a bone to pick with Governor Tim Walz for the crime of being the vice presidential nominee with Kamala Harris.
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And by the way, Tim Walz is absolutely beloved.
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Why?
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Because he wants kids to get free meals before they go to school, you know?
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Coach Tim Walz.
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I mean, literally everyone loved the message he was sharing, and now he's been essentially run out of office from the
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pain of having the spotlight put on him by President Trump as he's been targeted himself.
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So this is absolutely wild.
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Here's some video of the raid this morning, and again, you're not going to see much.
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They're probably going to pull out some files and some computers, whatever they do.
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This is pure Banana Republic stuff and should send chills down every American's spine, especially after Trump's racist attacks on Somalis.
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He wants a race war.
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He's trying to recreate a Black Lives Matter moment.
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He wants to see buildings burning.
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He wants propaganda.
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He's not going to get it.
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The people are smarter than that.
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Not only that, the data centers in Russia have been destroyed.
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So you're seeing a lot less violent rhetoric online.
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I wonder why.
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So we'll get into that story, too.
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Chris Murphy, senator in Connecticut, said Kimberly Guilfoyle, who, of course, was engaged to Donald Trump Jr., former wife of Gavin Newsom,
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fun fact, who is now the ambassador to Greece, commits a crime in broad daylight, but they conduct a pre -election raid relative to paperwork filed by when Omar was a child.
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Yeah, that's right.
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That's what this is all about.
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Ilhan Omar's deceased father may have filed the wrong paperwork.
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Maybe he didn't cross a T or dot an I.
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We really don't know at this point.
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And because of that, what are they going to do?
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Try to kick her out of the country?
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Unbelievable stuff.
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But again, I think it's less about getting Ilhan Omar kicked out of the country.
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It's about shaking down the system, trying to find out where the weaknesses are, trying to start riots.
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trying to have a reason to deploy the National Guard across the country.
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Anecdotally, a country of 300 -plus million people, if they can find one street corner that's rioting, they're going to shut the whole thing down.
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Elections paused.
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We'll see you next year.
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And then they're going to ramp up the war in Iran.
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Hope for a mass casualty event.
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I mean, the things that are going on right now, we have been calling out from a mile away.
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We have been seeing this play out, and it's happening in real time weeks before the election.
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Two sources close to the investigation say the search stems from
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a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali -born congresswoman's immigration paperwork filled out by her late father when she was a child.
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So that's what they're focusing on.
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Meanwhile, Kimberly Guilfoyle literally was paid $300 ,000 all
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so she could do favors to a guy who then called her out because she didn't do the favors.
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Talk about having this smoking gun and nothing's happening there.
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So the Trump DOJ tears up yet another longstanding policy norm, this one of refusing to take actions like this before an election.
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Todd Blanche, when he was Trump's lawyer, argued that so long as the candidacy was declared, no such action should occur.
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Do you remember that?
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Trump literally only ran for office again so that he could avoid being investigated.
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He knew he needed to win an election in order to have charges against him dropped.
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And the charges against Trump, his Mar -a -Lago home was raided
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because of classified documents he was storing after many attempts to get him to return them.
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That's why his home was raided.
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So this is three weeks out from an election.
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Again, hit the subscribe button because we are gonna be, I'm on the West Coast for shows for the next week.
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Once I get home, I'm gonna be live streaming like nonstop the week before in the weeks following the election.
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I hope it's peaceful.
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I tell everyone out there, be peaceful right now
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because any amount of violence will be used against you as
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an excuse to lock down the country is what they're going to try to do.
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Meanwhile, this story broke over the weekend, which we covered this morning.
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If you didn't catch it, watch it after this video.
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But James Tallarico was accused of being in a mental health facility.
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He's kicking ass in Texas, about to turn it blue.
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And they accused him of all these crazy things, which were immediately debunked from the mental health facility.
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But as of 21 hours ago, Elon Musk says the Tallarico campaign is not being honest about
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what's happening he's yet to apologize one of the most dishonest
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men in the world yet to issue an apology to james
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tallarico for clearly ridiculous now debunked right -wing conspiracy theories um
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so he said i'm uh in the midi hassan said i'm old enough uh
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when he also spread conspiracies about nancy pelosi's assaulted husband
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and never apologized so reckless what's going on right now it's almost as
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if the truth doesn't need to come out there just needs to be enough accusations being made about political candidates
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and politicians in office that they're trying to sow doubt
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but I think I really do think more so
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because it's like she's not gonna you know have a problem getting re -elected I think more
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and I don't think James Tallarico will either but I think more
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so what they're trying to do is normalize the accusations normal
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like we used to live in a world where innocent till proven guilty
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and now the world is let's get a photo op of us raiding her home
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and use that to our own advantage an important bit of immigration law
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which is very relevant here section 212k of the ina already creates a waiver by
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which immigrants who obtain status through fraud
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that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card
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so this is even weaker than it already seems so let's say
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that elan omar's dad um checked the wrong box when applying to uh to to come here into the united States.
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It's not the fault of a five -year -old that that would have happened.
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And also, this isn't what the resources should be going towards, period.
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They should be going to violent criminals, which again, they already were.
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We already had a system, if you were committing a violent crime and didn't have paperwork to be here, that you were kicked out.
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But no, since day one, the Trump administration has tried to deport people that wrote op -eds that were pro -Palestinian, right?
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We saw that play out, I believe, at Tufts University in New England.
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We've seen them try to get rid of Mahmoud Khalil, who was literally negotiating peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I mean, unbelievable waste of resources going on right here.
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Aaron Melnick said, when I was an immigration lawyer, I had a case involving two people who got green cards through their father.
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Their father had, before they were born, failed to disclose a marriage to INS.
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Technically fraud.
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ICE put them in removal proceedings.
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They agreed to a 212K waiver.
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One prominent case involved a pair of siblings who got a visa through their mother.
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Their mother had used a broker in South Korea who bribed consular officials for a visa.
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The mother was ordered deported.
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Her innocent children were allowed to stay.
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So there seems to be case law here to make this completely irrelevant.
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And yet what Trump is trying to do.. is start a war.
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He wants violence.
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He wants tear gas.
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He wants all of that.
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It's what he wanted with Dan Bongino when he was running the Ice Brigade.
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Very Nazi -esque activities because they wanted to get the cameras out and show what the country could become.
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If you let these people in, it's complete authoritarian playbook 101.
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Meanwhile, and this is super important, here we have Vladimir Zelensky, president of Ukraine, bombing three data centers in Russia over the weekend.
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We covered this story as well.
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It's taking off like wildfire.
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This might be the biggest story leading up to the midterms, which is that the trolls,
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the bots, the dissent, all of the chaos that follows MAGA got very quiet over the weekend.
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Why is that?
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Well, because a lot of it was astroturfed.
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A lot of it was artificial grassroots.
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It wasn't real.
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It was Boris in a factory in Russia with his thousand iPhones and a thousand of his friends with their thousand iPhones,
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all tweeting as if they were Christian Maga.
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You've been taken advantage of.
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Tell your friends, tell your relatives, you've been taken advantage of.
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There's a war out there.
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The Trump administration trying to use separatist rhetoric in Canada, doing the same in Brazil, sowing discord here in the United States.
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They have tried to divide us and they have done a good job, but we can recover from this.
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We can pull the curtain back from the Wizard of Oz and see a weak old man.
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When you wipe off Trump's shiny orange facade, he is a weak old man, hell bent on maintaining control.
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That's why he's using our tax dollars, literally our tax dollars for the Department of Defense to pay influencers, to also have an opinion that is hateful, that is divisive.
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And it stops now.
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Zelensky bombed the bots to oblivion.
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When we started responding to Russia's operation against our data centers,
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and when our strikes reached Yandex data centers,
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it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms.
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A lot of people, a lot of people noticed it.
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And there was less hate, less division and fewer provocations because there were fewer bots.
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And it's there is shots fired.
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And listen, when I cover Russia, Ukraine, I get a mil I get a million bots coming at me.
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Unbelievable.
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You don't understand this war.
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You're on the wrong side.
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Well, after the bombing, I lost 12 subscribers.
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Were they Russian bots?
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They could have been.
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Let's make up for it hit the subscribe button this is a war of opinion it's a war of division
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and the war that's playing out is a war
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when you know it when you see it from a mile away you sidestep it
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and that's what needs to happen right now not a race war
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but just sidestepping the obvious
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and saying we're not going to fight we're going to unite
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we're going to unite as a country amidst all this astroturf division
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and we're going to come together with our true values what it means to be an american
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And what it means to be a human, standing together, understanding we are better and smarter than the levels they want us to stoop down to.
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Just because they project that insecurity, just because they can't win with actual policy and governing
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and the efforts being used to continue to divide us ahead of this election.
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It ain't going to work, folks.
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It ain't going to work.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “BREAKING: Trump RAIDS Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's HOME Weeks Before Midterm Elections!”. This video has 213 sentences and 2471 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:49. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| raid noun | /ɹeɪd/ | A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. |
| bot noun | /bɑt/ | A physical robot. |
| paperwork noun | /ˈpeɪ.pɚˌwɝk/ | Routine work involving written documents. |
| subscribe verb | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). |
| deport verb | /dɪˈpɔɹt/ | To evict, especially from a country. |
| authoritarian adjective | /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/ | Of, or relating to, or exhibiting strict obedience to an authority; favoring authoritarianism over civic and individual liberties. |
| immigrant noun | /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ | A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. |
| unbelievable adjective | /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/ | Not to be believed. |
| tweet noun | /ˈtwiːt/ | The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. |
| debunk verb | /dɪˈbʌŋk/ | To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something; to refute. |
| normalize verb | /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/ | To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard. |
| sidestep verb | /ˈsaɪdˌstɛp/ | To step to the side. |
| waiver noun | /ˈweɪ.vɚ/ | The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. |
| accusation noun | /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ | The act of accusing. |
| accuse verb | /əˈkjuz/ | To find fault with, blame, censure. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| play out verb | To play (a game etc.) to its conclusion. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| break out verb | To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| fight back verb | /faɪt bæk/ | To defend oneself by fighting. |
| fill out verb | /fɪl ˈaʊt/ | To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I couldn't be less hyperbolic right now.
- Our own president, we've normalized this, folks.
- I mean, what do we have now?
- We really don't know at this point.
- We'll see you next year.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been calling · have been seeing |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to stand · used to live |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't suffered · has raided · we've normalized |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was raided · is told · be protected |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 48 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, we're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, provocation /ˌpɹɑvəˈkeɪʃən/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, anecdotally /ænəkˈdəʊtəli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like raid, bot, paperwork.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
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