American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

“This guy was a radicalized shooter who believes the rhetoric of the left, who said ‘Trump is Hitler. Trump is a tyrant. Trump is an authoritarian. Trump is a threat to democracy.’ What did you think was going to happen?” Sean Spicer reacts to the third attempt on President Trump’s life at the WHCA dinner and the growing scourge of political violence: “I've had people show up to my house. I've had the threats online. I know what it's like. Do you realize that almost every senior staffer who works in the White House now needs a security detail? Just for serving their country, they need a security detail.” In his new book “Trump 2.0,” he argues Trump’s 2nd administration will be far more consequential than his first. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3PfzNA6

“This party-criminal nexus has essentially taken over global money laundering without really firing a shot.” Peter Mattis warns the CCP is exploiting Canada’s weak enforcement landscape as a hub for drug smuggling, money laundering, and criminal influence. “The CCP’s role in drug smuggling and money laundering has just been easier to do there than in other places.” “That gives the party a lot of opportunity.” “The party has operated with triads and other organized crime groups.” “It used to be in the old days, if someone laundered your money, they took 30%-40%.” “What the Chinese are doing now is something less than 10%.” “You can’t compete with that.” The CCP’s ties to transnational crime run deeper than many realize. Peter Mattis joins me to discuss how Beijing has leveraged criminal networks, money laundering, and weak enforcement environments to expand influence: youtu.be/o8XFJRUW4wM

There are more than 1,000 organizations in the U.S. where someone is knowingly collaborating with the CCP. Peter Mattis reveals how the CCP has quietly infiltrated critical parts of America. “The number that we have on file right now is over 1,000 in the United States.” “What that means is there is one person in that organization who is knowingly collaborating with the CCP.” https://rumble.com/v792f5o-peter-mattis-reveals-how-the-ccp-has-quietly-infiltrated-critical-parts-of-.html

There are OVER 1000 organizations with ties to the CCP United Front that are operating in the United States, according to a landmark Jamestown Foundation report by Cheryl Yu. And perhaps even more astonishingly, Canada has 5X MORE United Front-linked groups per capita than the U.S. Why? Because Beijing sees Canada as “the soft underbelly” to the United States and to the rest of NATO, says Jamestown Foundation President Peter Mattis. In Canada, he told me, there has been far less pushback against United Front organizations than in the United States: “These groups have never really had to hide themselves. They never really had to be careful, and therefore, they could just sort of move and operate.” There are even high-level Canadian officials, senators or MPs, “that you see embedded essentially in a network of these United Front organizations,” Mattis says. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3Qrki8F

Senator Ron Johnson says Covid vaccine-injured Americans are still being ignored to this day. “People that claim they’re injured by the Covid injection, they’re gaslit.” “To this day, they’re still not being acknowledged.” “The medical establishment is ignoring and denying these injection injuries.” “Their doctors say it’s all in your head.” “I saw a video from a person… being treated with severe Covid injection injuries.” “The only place he can get treatment is in Japan.” “We’re not putting research dollars into finding out what’s happening.” Many have already moved on from the pandemic, and many others would like to. But thousands of Americans who say they were injured by the Covid vaccine still want accountability. Senator Ron Johnson says he’s working day in and day out to help make that happen. For my full interview with Sen. Johnson, watch below: https://ept.ms/4cGeUFR

Senator Ron Johnson was given internal HHS documents from the pandemic by RFK Jr. Some of his findings including CDC “masking” Covid vaccine adverse event data are truly shocking. “There’s a situation called masking.” “You had Pfizer and you had Moderna.” “They're both mRNA, very similar types of adverse events, very similar types of deaths.” “So what CDC did in their analysis is they would compare Pfizer to Moderna.” “Let's say you had 10,000 deaths with Moderna and 10,000 deaths with Pfizer… you mask the signal.” “They knew it.” “They fully understood that.” https://rumble.com/v78wzg8-heres-what-we-found-in-11-million-pages-of-covid-records.html

As early as Feb. 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Health had notified the CDC of “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people” after the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. CDC officials discussed the growing safety signals for months—yet they scrapped a formal Health Alert and quietly posted web “clinical considerations” instead, according to documents released by Sen. Ron Johnson. After sifting through millions of pages of records, Johnson’s team also uncovered a consistent ischemic stroke safety signal in adults 65+ after the Pfizer bivalent booster — flagged week after week from November 2022 into 2023. Yet, in a January 2023 communications plan, White House edits changed the description of that stroke signal from “moderately elevated” to “slightly elevated” while officials publicly insisted there was “no change” to vaccination recommendations. In our wide-ranging interview, we dive into what Sen. Johnson and his team uncovered. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4cGeUFR

Stephen C. Meyer says Darwin’s theory of evolution has, for many, become more like a religion than a scientific theory. “Darwinian evolution functions as a kind of secular religion.” “And you can see why, because it's answering one of the most fundamental questions that any worldview or religion has to answer.” “Which is what is the thing or the entity or the process from which everything else came?” “And the neo-Darwinian explanation of the origin of new forms of life is part of the answer to that really fundamental question, which is not only a scientific question but a philosophical worldview question.” “Because it functions like a secular religion, sometimes there's resistance to a more dispassionate scientific evaluation of its merits.” When a theory becomes an ideology, it gets harder to question. When you can’t ask questions, science doesn’t take place. For my full discussion with Stephen C. Meyer: https://youtu.be/NA1hnRVkVgk

Most people were taught Darwin’s theory of evolution explains how all life came to be. What if that’s not the full story? Stephen C. Meyer says growing evidence is challenging that idea, and many scientists are now calling for a new theory of evolution. “There’s a huge difference between the idea that natural selection is a real process… and the claim that it has unlimited creative power.” “Many leading evolutionary biologists today are now calling for a new theory of evolution.” “They recognize that the mutation natural selection mechanism has limited creative power.” “It does a nice job of explaining small-scale variation and adaptation.” “But it doesn’t do a good job of explaining… major new body plans or new forms.” Small changes don’t explain big biological leaps. For my full interview with Stephen C. Meyer: youtu.be/NA1hnRVkVgk

“Many leading evolutionary biologists today are calling for a new theory of evolution, because they recognize that the mutation natural selection mechanism has limited creative power,” says Stephen Meyer, NYT bestselling author of “Darwin’s Doubt” and “Return of the God Hypothesis.” While Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection can explain small-scale variations—for instance finch beaks size changes, moth wing color changes, or bacteria developing antibiotic resistance—it cannot explain the origins of new species or new body plans, Meyer contends. The stunning informational complexity of the cell, for instance, presents a fundamental problem to Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection because its complexity is irreducible: removing just one small part of its internal machinery results in functional breakdown, Meyer says. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://youtu.be/NA1hnRVkVgk

Child on child sexual abuse is surging. Kristen Jenson believes children’s access to pornography is to blame. “Child-on-child sexual abuse… has skyrocketed.” “When I first started talking about this issue, it was at 40%, and I thought that was really bad.” “It’s now 70%.” “It’s fueled by pornography.” Kristen Jenson has warned for years that early exposure to pornography would have real world consequences, and now we are seeing it play out in alarming ways. The rise in child on child sexual abuse is a crisis that cannot be ignored. Watch my full interview below: https://ept.ms/484DA9R

Almost all children are being exposed to porn at a shockingly young age, and most parents have no idea. Kristen Jenson revealed these disturbing statistics: “One study in Jakarta said that of the 4th to 6th graders that they were able to talk to, 97% of them had seen pornography.” “When you look at Common Sense Media’s study, they say 15% of kids under 10 had seen pornography.” “I think whenever you give a child a device like a smartphone, that’s when they’re going to start seeing porn.” “Kids are getting these devices younger and younger, and I believe that the average age is much younger than 11.” https://rumble.com/v78llwq-rising-concern-how-young-kids-are-encountering-pornography-today.html

“Every school bus in America is a triple X theater because children are showing p**nography to other children in buses. I've heard so many stories of five year olds getting shown hardcore p**nography on a school bus.” Kristen Jenson is the founder of an organization called Defend Young Minds and the author of the “Good Pictures, Bad Pictures” series of read-aloud books that teach children how to recognize and reject explicit material. In America, kids are encountering p**n at younger and younger ages—often without their parents knowing, Jenson says. Once a child has a smartphone, it is only a matter of time until the child is exposed to explicit imagery—often by other children. And it’s having a devastating impact on their impressionable young minds. Retroactive studies found that the average age kids first view p**nography is around 11 years old but Jenson concluded from her work and research that the average age is much lower. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/484DA9R

Ethan Gutmann says the response from American media, politicians, and human rights groups to CCP organ harvesting has been a complete failure. “The whole response… has been a case study in American failure on many levels.” “The press… showed an incredible lack of interest.” “The politicians… to a great extent did very little.” “The human rights organizations have been a disaster.” “Human Rights Watch interpreted the fact that people were getting DNA tests just as a surveillance tool and an invasion of privacy.” “It's not just an invasion of privacy to have somebody looking you over about to take your organs and kill you while you're alive.” This must watch interview with Ethan Gutmann, exposes not just the atrocity itself of the CCP organ harvesting system, but how our institutions have failed to confront it. It is a sobering look at what happens when the groups and people meant to protect us, look away and stay silent. For the full interview: youtu.be/EoHGo_RwTOc

Ethan Gutmann shares a horrifying account from a woman who says she participated in removing organs for the CCP organ harvesting system. “We talk about victims a lot in organ harvesting, and that's appropriate, we should be.” “But the truth is the strongest witness that you can come up with is somebody from the medical world who performs some sort of surgery or is in some way tangentially involved in this.” “This woman comes in… She describes a series of medical labs below a concentration camp, 4 stories down.” “Her job… was to remove the intestines.” “You’d see somebody handling a kidney, a liver, and so forth.” “Every day that she worked there… there’d be 8 or 9 bodies… sometimes as many as 20.” “Almost always young.” Ethan Gutmann expands on testimonies like this in The Xinjiang Procedure, exposing how young detainees were systematically selected and operated on while still alive. The evidence paints a chilling picture of a hidden system operating at scale. This dark must watch interview pulls back the curtain on one of the most disturbing human rights abuses of our time. Firsthand accounts and investigative reporting make it impossible to ignore. For the full interview with Ethan Gutmann: https://youtu.be/EoHGo_RwTOc

Here’s what one Kazakh woman witnessed below China’s Uyghur concentration camps. “I’m going to talk about something that I haven’t talked about to anyone,” she told investigator Ethan Gutmann. “Samal” worked at a series of medical clinics or labs four stories below a camp in Xinjiang. Two masked guards with AKs kept watch. In the first clinic, her job was to remove intestines. “The other three clinics were there to remove organs. You couldn't see them, but occasionally the door would open. You'd see somebody handling a kidney, a liver and so forth. Every day that she worked there, there'd be eight or nine bodies. Sometimes it was as many as 20.” “Almost always young.” Gutmann is the author of the new book “The Xinjiang Procedure.” 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/41MDOip

“We are having around 30 to 35 arrests a day.” Peter McIlvenna broke down to me the draconian laws in place arresting people over social media posts and speech in the UK. “Often what happens is that these people will be arrested, they’ll be held for 2 days.” “Then told, ‘Don’t you dare do this again.’” “That’s enough to silence most people.” A wide-ranging conversation on grooming gangs, multiculturalism, and free speech in the UK with Peter McIlvenna. Full interview below👇 https://ept.ms/4smT0gE

Peter McIlvenna highlights how little punishment grooming gangs are receiving in the UK. “She was raped twice as a 15-year-old.” “Her perpetrator was jailed for 6 and a half years… released after 3 and a half years.” “Two cases of child rape, 3 and a half years in jail. How is that acceptable?” “We have shockingly lenient sentences from our courts.” “The way you deal with this is to put a 25-year sentence, a life sentence for child rape, then we will maybe begin to see changes.” https://rumble.com/v78akoi-peter-mcilvenna-highlights-how-little-punishment-grooming-gangs-are-receivi.html

“Two cases of child rape. Three and a half years in jail. Why is that acceptable today?” Peter McIlvenna, co-founder of Hearts of Oak, has been following the UK grooming gangs scandal for 15 years and has fought for harsher punishment and financial compensation from perpetrators to victims. “We have shockingly lenient sentences from our courts, and the way you deal with this is to put a 25 year sentence, a life sentence, for child rape. Then we will maybe begin to see changes. But if you let these people out for three and a half years for good behavior, that's the problem. There's no punishment for the crime.” “My anger is against the authorities for turning a blind eye. My anger is against the police for arresting the fathers who complained their daughters were getting raped. My anger is against the politicians that cover this up.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4smT0gE

Flávio Bolsonaro told me he is “ready to rescue my country’s democracy” from lawfare and political persecution. This may be one of the most consequential elections in Brazilian history. “There is a lot of political persecution… symbolized by President Jair Bolsonaro, the greatest victim of this lawfare,” he says. “He was convicted not because of corruption, money laundering, or a violent crime.” “He was convicted for standing up for the truth and not kowtowing to a system that persecuted and interfered with his administration.” “Given he is now barred from running for President, he has named me as the candidate.” https://rumble.com/v786tec-im-ready-to-save-brazil-flvio-bolsonaro-fires-opening-shot.html Watch our full interview below: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/flavio-bolsonaro-on-his-presidential-campaign-and-his-fathers-ailing-health-6006776