Why the Left Hates Jews and Christians

Townhall 

I’ve never quite grasped why the Left has come to hate Jews so much. When I was young, Americans were almost unanimous in their support for Israel; indeed, America was about the only country in the world that virtually unconditionally supported Israel. But that began to change, seemingly about a decade or so ago, and the Left now hates Jews and Israel almost as much as they hate Jesus and Christianity. 

I suspect most Leftists hate Jews and Israel because that’s what they’ve been told to do. Mindless sheep follow their leaders and don’t ask tough questions like “why?”. Democrats, of course, are inclined to be racist and elitist, and such people always look down upon and treat with condescension, contempt, and often hatred for those whom they deem inferior to themselves. 

Further, the Democrats want the support of America’s growing Muslim population, so hatred of Jews is a keen way to buy those votes. 

A bigger mystery to me is why Jewish people continue to support the Democratic Party in such large numbers. I certainly wouldn’t vote for somebody who hated me and wanted to destroy my country. 

Of course, something else happened about a decade ago that may be part of the Left’s “hate Israel” motivation—pro-Israel Donald Trump came down that escalator. The Left hates anything Trump likes. 

There is absolutely no doubt that one of the major reasons the Left hates Christianity is that conservative, Bible-believing Christians largely support Trump. 

The Left, obviously, absolutely abhors Mr. Trump. They believe he is the Very Personification of Evil, and thus, anybody who supports him is a justifiable target for their hatred and abuse. Any “so-called Christian” who defends Trump is a hypocrite, because Trump is Evil, and Christians shouldn’t support evil. (They should support pro-abortion, pro-child mutilation, pro-licentious Democrats instead). 

I want to clarify something here. I am a Christian, as devout as my feeble heart and flesh allow. The teachings of Jesus, i.e., the New Testament, are my final authority on all matters; such is the standard by which I judge everybody and everything (including myself). When Donald Trump does things in harmony with the teachings of God, I support him. When he does things contrary to New Testament teaching, I censure him. I do not have “Trump God Syndrome.” Trump (like me) is far from perfect. And I evaluate Democrats by the same standard. My conclusion is, Trump, at least sometimes (not always), does things I think the New Testament condones; I can think of almost nothing the Democrats stand for that Jesus would approve of. It may be a “lesser of evils,” but that is my stance. 

But underlying their hatred of Trump is their hatred of Jesus. Jesus said it would happen: “The world…hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil” (John 7:7), and His followers would be hated, too (I John 3:13). For all of their James Talarico-sophisms, the New Testament plainly condemns the basic tenets of modern Leftism—atheism, abortion, homosexuality, radical feminism, transgenderism, mutilation of children, sloth and parasitism, racism, licentiousness, etc.—there is virtually nothing in the foundational dogmas of modern Leftism that is a 10th cousin to true, pure New Testament Christianity. They know that, and most of them don’t care; they don’t believe in Jesus or the Bible; they believe in “every man does that which is right in the Left’s eyes.” 

But some of them have a conscience—a few—and do try to use Jesus to justify their beliefs. The arguments they use are mind-bogglingly absurd. The satirical “Babylon Bee” recently had a post on “X”, a picture of James Talarico kicking a dog, with the caption, “’ Jesus Never Said You Can’t Do This!’ Shouts James Talarico While Dropkicking Labradoodle.” Hilarious, but so poignantly accurate. 

I once had a Leftist throw “Jesus said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about abortion” at me. This is an astoundingly fallacious argument, but it showed me two things: one, the Left’s desperation to find some way to justify their heinous activities, and two, the horrible condition of the American education system, a system that has been taken over by the Left and no longer teaches students how to think and reason properly. The satire of the “Babylon Bee” is right on the mark: Jesus said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about kicking dogs, so I guess, to the Left, it would be acceptable to Jesus to do it. No even semi-intelligent individual, thinking rationally, would ever reason like this. 

Building arguments based upon evidence and drawing conclusions only upon that evidence, thanks to our current education system, is something most Leftists have no clue how to do. Or that it should even be done. To argue, “It can’t be proven that it didn’t happen this way,” is only done when one has no real positive, substantive evidence for one’s theory. This is not proper argumentation or valid proof. But when a person is determined to believe something, and if proof and facts are lacking or point in another direction, then recourse is found in chimerical arguments to validate what they want to believe. And when an education system produces a bunch of muddle-heads who have been trained to think like this, then too often the false “reasoning” is accepted. Especially if emotions like hatred are in place first. 

The Left hates Jews for reasons I haven’t completely deciphered yet. The Left hates Christians for two reasons: most of them support Donald Trump, and Jesus of Nazareth exposes and condemns their godless, evil behavior. When Christians do what Jesus did, the Left hates them, too. And the Left tries to find any argument to justify their decadence, or throw out as much abuse as possible, to attempt intimidation into silence. Or, as in the case of Charlie Kirk, the Left kills them. 

Hatred is a fundamental attribute of the modern Left. 

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Academia Embarrasses Itself...Again

American Thinker

Over at Twitchy, a publication that curates the news in funny yet insightful ways, a headline reads, “Head of Medical School Tells Congresswoman the Vast Majority of Pregnancies Occur in Women.”  Sure enough, Twitchy is telling the truth.

During witness testimony before a congressional committee examining the impact of forced “diversity,” preferential (non-merit-based) admissions, and “woke” ideology upon the quality of medical schools, the chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that not all pregnancies come from women.  That chancellor, Samuel Hawgood, is not some administrative bureaucrat with a made-up bachelor’s degree in the discriminatory effects of man-made “climate change” upon “transgender” Pakistanis (and an obligatory master’s in why American taxpayers must foot the bill for all “sex change” surgeries around the world).  No, Hawgood is an actual pediatrician who previously served as UCSF’s dean of the School of Medicine.  A man who did his residency at the Royal Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Brisbane cannot tell us how babies are made.

It is astounding to watch just how far down the propaganda rabbit hole so-called “institutions of higher learning” have dragged society.  Until very recently, this kind of public display of sophistry would have embarrassed an intellectual of the lowest order.  For a medical doctor and university chancellor to pretend that men can get pregnant is a flashing neon sign warning just how corrupt and dishonest all of academia has become.  These days, university leaders sound indistinguishable from North Korean spokespeople assuring starving citizens that they are better off than anyone else in the world.

How did we get to this point in time when professors tell rank lies to the American people, while hiding behind their titles as false evidence that those lies are somehow “truths”?  Well, social media favorite “Oilfield Rando” points to part of the problem.  In an X post responding to the doctor’s pseudoscientific testimony, Rando includes an itemization of Chancellor Hawgood’s university pay and accompanying benefits.  The man in charge of one of the country’s top educational institutions takes home well over a million dollars each year.  Unless Chancellor Hawgood is a moron who genuinely believes men can get pregnant, it is likely that he is willing to sell his intellectual reputation and personal honor for a seven-figure salary.

What does that say about the current state of our society?  The modern university arose from Christian monasteries dedicated to God’s truth.  This is why divinity degrees are generally accorded highest honor during processions accompanying graduation ceremonies.  As monasteries developed into secular institutions of higher learning, they remained places dedicated to the pursuit of truth.  Harvard’s motto, veritas, simply means “truth.”  

For hundreds of years, faculty members did not take positions on college campuses because they sought fame or fortune.  They became scholars and professors because they were dedicated to the rigors of their calling.  Just as a Christian monk lived in poverty because the pursuit of truth provided spiritual nourishment and personal fulfillment, a scholar embraced a penurious life within academia in exchange for the privilege of seeking authentic truth.  The reward — unvarnished enlightenment — was understood to be more valuable than money.

I have spent enough time on university campuses to understand that they are no longer sanctuaries for truth.  There was a time not so many decades ago when campuses were “safe spaces” for all ideas.  Unlike the real world, where an employee might be fired for taking unorthodox positions in the workplace, colleges once encouraged professors and students to advance eccentric, heretical, and dissenting points of view on any subject.  Intellectual debate was more important than “hurt feelings” or “political correctness.” 

Now, the opposite is true.  Universities are so concerned about “hurt feelings” and “political correctness” that they proudly designate most of their campus a “safe space” free from the “dangers” of debate, disagreement, or dissent.  Of course, the kicker is that in the process of creating “safe spaces,” colleges must first decide what points of view to defend as part of their unquestionable curricula.  They stake out positions just as a cleric might do with tenets of a religious faith.  In this way, the university has come full circle.  It has once again become a medieval monastery filled with members of a religious order.  It’s just that these twenty-first-century “monks” despise God, truth, and Christianity.  

In 2026, a pediatrician and chancellor of a major university is incapable of stating the truths that biological sex is real and that only women can become pregnant.  As much as we might be inclined to laugh, this should make us feel sad.  There has never been a time in human history when people struggled with the distinctions between men and women.  

We are presently in an era when the people with the most prestigious titles and credentials are either dumber or more dishonest than the least educated members of any human society that ever existed.  In exchange for their dumbness and dishonesty, they are paid extremely high salaries.  The corporate news media command us to treat these people with respect because they have been recognized as official “experts.”  And these highly paid, credentialed, respected experts from prestigious institutions of higher learning are too cowardly to tell the truth.  The noble pursuit and defense of veritas have been replaced with ignominy and indoctrination.

University cowardice, of course, does not stop with the idiotic fad of “transgenderism.”  There are all kinds of bizarre, fanciful, and unscientific commandments within the “woke” faith.  Believing in hard work, skill, intellect, and merit is now cast as unacceptable “white supremacy.”  Instead, we are told, people should be admitted to universities and receive degrees based on the color of their skin, their recognized victimhood, and/or their sexual proclivities.  Entire generations of intellectual lightweights are now certified “experts” because they claimed to have Native American blood or wrote college admissions essays about having sexual relations with broccoli.  They can’t do math.  They can’t write without the help of AI.  But since they call themselves “doctors” or were handed Ivy League degrees, they expect the rest of society to respect them and believe what they say.

It is such an odd time to be alive.  In the halls of government and academia, nonsensical beliefs masquerading as “truth” run rampant.  Within these wonderlands of delirium, two ideas are so sacrosanct that they cannot be questioned: (1) using any kind of energy other than those available during the Middle Ages causes catastrophic “climate change”; and (2) mass immigration and “multiculturalism” strengthen a society.  Consequently, university professors and government ministers expect us to believe two preposterous things.  First, unless we pay carbon taxes and allow bureaucrats to centrally manage the economy, we will all die.  Second, unless we replace Western civilization with other civilizations, we are all bigots.  

In other words, our “educated elites” treat as indisputable “truths” the canards that bad weather and insufficient “diversity” are the two biggest problems of our time.  Their solutions?  Central bankers, multinational corporations, and government bureaucrats should strictly regulate how productive people build things and prosper.  Ideally, incompetent people rewarded for their perceived “victimhood” and “diversity” should be put in charge of future production.  This is not a plan for success.  This is an idiotic operation that guarantees civilizational self-destruction.

Should we survive this age of stupidity, our descendants will look back and wonder why clear-thinking scholars from our august institutions of higher learning didn’t do more to halt the suicidal impulses now gripping Western civilization.  How could the very universities that trace their lineages back to Western monasteries’ pursuit of God’s truth become cesspools of falsehood, paganism, and superstition?  

Western civilization’s survivors will not have to look hard for their answer: University chancellors were given millions of dollars to “educate” the public about men having babies.  College campuses are catnip for crazies.

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7 Ways DSA Plans To Turn America Into A Third-World Communist Country

The Federalist 

The group that dictates the tenor of the Democrat Party has radical plans for America, which include getting rid of the presidency and the Supreme Court. The Democratic Socialists of America is a far-left organization that appeals to the struggle of the working class while pushing far-left candidates. The organization has recently unveiled a new platform that would destroy the American system and radically remake it.

DSA candidates are currently surging in America, winning major elections across the country. Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier — both DSA members — won their Democrat primaries in New York City, making them almost certain to win seats in Congress. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is also a DSA member, and he has pushed far-left policies since taking office in January.

Abolish the Presidency and Supreme Court

According to the DSA’s platform, “we need a new political system.” This new political system involves remaking the American government and electoral system.

“Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress,” the platform states. This change would help these socialists secure their objective of “creating a real democracy.”

This is part of an effort to give more power to Congress, thereby creating a more “democratic” system. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., showed her disdain for America’s system of government when she introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Accusing Thomas and Alito of failing to disclose their financial information and declining to recuse themselves from cases they purportedly had a personal interest in, Ocasio-Cortez called on Congress to impeach them from the court. Her justification was that “Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach,” according to a press release.

Replace the Constitution

In its introduction to the platform, the DSA quietly slipped in one of its most radical proposals: creating a new United States Constitution.

“We are workers fighting to transform society: to win the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic,” the platform’s introduction states. This is not the first time the DSA has attacked the Constitution, either. An earlier statement published on the DSA website reads: “The Constitution establishes a political order explicitly designed to enshrine rule by elites.”

In a recent attempt to recruit members, a DSA caucus called the Marxist Unity Group attacked the Constitution because “it was made by rich landowners who owned slaves, and it was designed to protect their power, not give ordinary people a real vote. Back then, the Founding Fathers were kind of like the billionaires of today.”

Abolish the Police and Prison Systems

The DSA’s new platform also calls to defund, and eventually abolish, the police. The platform calls for “redirect[ing] funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system.”

Avila Chevalier called for police abolition in a now-deleted post on her Twitter account from 2020. “We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movements,” Chevalier said. She later clarified in another post two days later, where she said police abolition means abolishing police “as we know it.”

DSA-backed Wisconsin State Rep. Francesca Hong echoed a similar sentiment, saying she “support[s] defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police,” in a 2020 post.

Slavery Reparations

The platform advocates for reparations for slavery as part of the DSA’s stated goal to “end the legacies of slavery and colonialism.”

DSA-backed candidates have endorsed this policy. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Penn., introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to grant reparations to descendants of slaves in the United States. The resolution called for reparations not only because of slavery, but also because of historic racism in America.

Trans Surgeries for All

The DSA platform endorses “complete access” to abortion and trans surgeries and hormones, without specifying limitations for children.

Several DSA-backed lawmakers backed a “Trans Bill of Rights” in 2022 to help accomplish these goals.

The “Trans Bill of Rights” said that so-called “transgender” people “are parents, siblings, children, chosen family, and friends deserving of human dignity and support.” The bill goes on to say the government must provide these “transgender” people, a group of which it considers children to be a part, “equal access” to so-called genital mutilation surgeries and opposite-sex hormones.

Abolish ICE and Open the Border

Abolishing ICE and opening the border are also stated goals of the DSA in the new platform: “End ICE detention and deportations and punish federal agents’ brutality. Legalize migration, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, provide a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and end visa caps and quotas.”

This position has become commonplace among leftist lawmakers. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was one of the first to advocate for the abolition of ICE, an issue she ran on in her 2018 campaign for Congress.

Government-Run Economy

In its introduction to the platform, the DSA envisioned a socialist future for America, calling explicitly for a “classless society.” To achieve this society, the DSA advocates for government control over almost every aspect of the economy.

“Housing is a human right,” the platform states. “Build new, publicly-owned social housing, strictly regulate investment properties, establish universal rent control, and guarantee right to counsel for all tenants.” Mamdani has enacted several of these policies as New York City mayor, but with little success. After he implemented a rent freeze on the city’s rent-stabilized apartments, the rents in New York City jumped to a record high.

The platform also endorses government takeover of privately run businesses, another socialist economic policy. According to the DSA, they seek to “establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries to ensure democratic control and accountability to the people.”

Rather Than Back Down, Trump Must Escalate His Campaign For Mass Deportations

The Federalist 

Conservatives who supported Donald Trump primarily because of his pledge to conduct large-scale deportations of illegal aliens had a bit of a scare this week.

An illegal alien from Mexico was fatally shot last week by ICE immigration enforcement officers after he “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.” Another illegal alien, this one from Colombia, was fatally shot this week after he attempted to flee from ICE agents in his vehicle. Both incidents took place during legal, targeted vehicle stops by agents. These types of stops are relatively routine in ICE’s immigration enforcement mission and have been relatively uncontroversial — until now.

In response to an uproar by the usual suspects on the left and the reliably spineless on the right, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered ICE agents to cease most vehicle stops nationwide on Tuesday. According to multiple sources within ICE who spoke to Fox News and the Daily Wire, agents on the ground were frustrated by the directive, lamenting that it would cause a crash in arrests.

The decision was met with almost immediate backlash on the right, fearing that this represented another instance of the administration caving to the left on immigration after the retreat from Minneapolis earlier this year. The administration almost immediately began to backtrack. Border czar Tom Homan went on Fox News to assure audiences that the order was “a short term pause, a short term review” that would not affect arrest numbers. He also mentioned that ICE agents receive “extensive” vehicle stop training.

But, on Wednesday, the White House told Fox News that President Donald Trump had reversed the order on traffic stops. Trump also posted on Truth Social that:

The Open Border Policy of Sleepy Joe Biden allowed 25,000,000 people to pour into our Country, unchecked and unvetted. Many were Criminals, and we have to get them out. In order to do this, we must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands. The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my watch. I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job.

Now, reports have surfaced that DHS will require at least one person on an ICE team to wear a bodycam in order to conduct a traffic stop. Not ideal, but not a great impediment to enforcement in the grand scheme of things.

All’s well that ends well, right?

Well, there’s still the problem of millions, probably tens of millions, of illegal aliens still in this country and the even bigger problem of this administration’s haphazard attempts to deal with that fact. While traffic stops may be one of the most common and effective methods of catching illegal aliens, it’s simply not enough to deal with the sheer number of illegals residing in the country.

Instead of backing down and instead of continuing on with business as usual, the Trump administration needs to take this opportunity to escalate its deportation methods. It needs to begin rounding up illegals en masse by targeting employers of illegal aliens and conducting large-scale raids on known illegal alien neighborhoods. That’s the only way to achieve true mass deportations in a timely manner and fulfill one of Trump’s central campaign promises.

The initial surge of ICE agents in Minneapolis earlier this year was an encouraging sign, but the fatal shootings of two radical anti-ICE activists gave the administration cold feet. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey both talked with Trump, who agreed to a drawdown of ICE’s presence in the city. Walz and Frey’s refusal to cooperate in the actual operation (but they were more than happy to coordinate the retreat) has only encouraged other states and cities to follow their example.

Leftists already try to block every normal enforcement method. Democrat politicians and judges block efforts in the courts and in Congress, sometimes taking the law into their own hands to aid and abet illegal aliens. Radical anti-ICE activists impeded ICE operations and actively aided illegal aliens in evading ICE agents during operations in Minneapolis, as documented by The Federalist’s Breccan Thies.

Instead of crushing the blatant insurrection by Democrats in Minnesota, Trump folded, and he needs to rectify that mistake by doubling down on stronger immigration enforcement.

A few large industries employ millions of illegal aliens. The construction industry employs an estimated 1.6 million illegals, according to the American Business Immigration Coalition, while the hospitality industry (which includes hotels and restaurants) employs another million. Nearly half of America’s agricultural workers are noncitizens without work authorization, according to a 2025 study from KFF.

The Trump administration reportedly restarted workplace raids in 2025, soon after Trump reentered office, but the administration needs to become far more aggressive when taking on these companies. The DOJ should pursue charges and seek maximum punishment for any company that employs illegal aliens. Perhaps the best way to force compliance from businesses is to utilize asset forfeiture against businesses that employ illegal aliens. Asset forfeiture allows law enforcement to seize property suspected of being involved in a crime, in this case, employing an illegal alien. So, if an employer hires illegal aliens, the federal government can seize that business and its assets.

The Trump administration has already begun fining aliens who ignore deportation orders and has ramped up compliance enforcement for businesses, but focusing squarely on the employers of illegal aliens should be the top priority. Employers’ fear of asset forfeiture under a more strict immigration enforcement regime would do much of the heavy lifting — faced with losing their business or dumping their illegal employees, the vast majority of owners will choose the latter.

The Trump administration should also ramp up large-scale raids on residential neighborhoods. This is the best option for high-volume arrests outside of places of employment. Going door-to-door certainly represents a greater danger to agents than stopping a vehicle, since homes are more difficult to navigate for officers and could contain weapons, but the average arrest yield will be much higher. Like most immigrants, illegal aliens tend to concentrate in their own ethnic enclave neighborhoods in urban areas, making the identification and raiding of these areas theoretically straightforward. The president and the officials in his administration just require the will to carry out these types of raids, regardless of the inevitable bad press pushed by the leftist media.

Both of these methods instill fear in illegal aliens, and that’s the point. Physically rounding up the possibly tens of millions of illegals in this country is a herculean task, even when employing the above-mentioned tactics. But employing those aggressive tactics will inspire more aliens to self-deport.

The Trump administration can’t allow its deportation policies to be dictated by the outrage of the left and the propaganda press, or else it will fall far short of its promises to the conservative base. If leftists are going to accuse routine stops of being identical to (insert tired and inaccurate Nazi Germany comparison here), then the only response is to call their bluff and escalate. The administration must grow a spine, dare to be unpopular for a little while, and get down to the nitty-gritty of rolling back the illegal alien tide that has swept over our country for the last five decades. The means by which we’ll save this republic won’t be pretty, but that doesn’t make those methods any less necessary.

CIA Report: Venezuela ‘Could Have’ Used Voting Machines To Rig Elections

The Federalist 

A newly declassified CIA report says the Venezuelan government “could have” used voting machines to rig elections. President Donald Trump declassified a series of documents and reports related to election integrity on July 16, including a “CIA Note” entitled, “Summary of Select Intelligence Reporting From 2004-2020 on Venezuela’s Electronic Voting Manipulation Capabilities.”

The note says that between 2004 and 2020, “intelligence established that Venezuelan government officials developed sustained interest and likely some capability in manipulating electronic voting systems, including Smartmatic technology, to influence electoral outcomes in Venezuela.” The document says it was produced under the auspices of the CIA’s deputy director of analysis and is dated June 29, 2026.

The CIA produced a baseline assessment of Venezuela’s 2012 presidential election that maintained mass electronic election fraud had not occurred. A 2013 CIA “devil’s advocate” analysis, the note says, provided “plausible scenarios” in which “large-scale electronic manipulation could have occurred in Venezuela’s 2012 election without detection.”

The note summarizes sources reporting that, prior to the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s “intelligence services … worked with the National Electoral Council and Smartmatic to develop plans to manipulate election results using preprogrammed voting machines.” The source or sources of that reporting, however, are censored in the document released Thursday.

The note includes claims that such plans included sending “altered machines” to roughly 300 voting centers in pro-Chavez areas “to ensure victory by approximately 1.5 million votes.” Chavez won that election by roughly 1.6 million votes, according to the note.

“[S]ources reported that Chavez congratulated his team for successfully implementing the manipulation plan,” the report continues. The “devil’s advocate” analysis found that elections in countries that “are clients of the technology provider could be in doubt.” But the CIA assessed that such manipulation did not occur in the 2012 Venezuelan election, because the opposition party conceded loss, the CIA didn’t confirm these possibilities were acted upon, and pre-election polls showed Chavez in the lead.

The note says U.S. intelligence reports indicated in April 2004 that Chavez “stated his objective was to prevent the reelection of a sitting US president, suggesting intent to influence US domestic politics.” The report also notes “intelligence that Smartmatic directors held credentials from Venezuela intelligence services.”

Following the 2020 election, Trump election lawyer Sidney Powell posted screenshots of an affidavit on X that alleged “Chavez was most insistent that Smartmatic design the system in a way that the system could change the vote of each voter without being detected.” The New York Times did a lengthy report on this post, along with a few others, to dismiss the claims as conspiratorial.

After the 2020 election, Smartmatic sued both Fox News and Newsmax, alleging defamation after both had commentators appear on the network who expressed concerns that the systems were vulnerable to interference and fraud. Newsmax settled with Smartmatic for $40 million, according to NBC.

A federal grand jury indicted Smartmatic executives in 2024 for allegedly participating in a “bribery and money laundering scheme.” Nearly a year later, Smartmatic was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami for allegedly bribing a Philippine official in relation to the 2016 Philippine national elections.

After Birthplace Citizenship Ruling, China Won’t Need Hackers To Meddle In US Elections

The Federalist 

One of the biggest revelations from President Donald Trump’s declassified election document dump on Thursday night was a report indicating the Chinese Communist Party acquired and exploited American voter data to influence the 2020 election.

One FBI information report released alleged China manufactured tens of thousands of fraudulent drivers’ licenses using data harvested “from millions of TikTok accounts” to ensure noncitizen “Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic” to the authoritarian regime could send mail-in votes for Joe Biden in 2020.

The allegation is alarming, but not as alarming as the fact that, over the next few decades, China could hack U.S. elections without ever breaking a law, risking punishment, or even raising the eyebrows of the intelligence community.

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent birthplace citizenship ruling, the CCP doesn’t need to manufacture fake IDs to sway votes in favor of Democrats. All China has to do to take advantage of America’s elections is to use the birth tourism industry to manufacture babies who are entitled to real American IDs as soon as they are born in the U.S.

China is already a known top exploiter of the U.S. birth tourism industry. One 2024 report claimed Chinese nationals made up 41.7 percent of the surrogacy contracts between foreigners and American women between 2014 and 2020. During that same time period, foreigners’ use of the American birthplace citizenship surrogacy scheme increased by 78 percent.

At that rate, the CCP could ballot-harvest an entire generation of Americans who are sold to any foreigner rich enough to rent a U.S. woman’s womb, get that baby’s U.S. paperwork, and whisk the child back to be raised in China. Because the Supreme Court ruled that if an infant is born on magic U.S. dirt, that child will be entitled to all of the rights of an American child, including the right to cast a ballot as an overseas citizen voter, even though he is susceptible to indoctrination and weaponization by Xi Jinping’s communist regime.

The CCP has already proved it can infiltrate American universities, installing spies posing as students and professors to steal U.S. research and trade secrets. According to a series of declassified memos from an unnamed “sensitive government agency,” China also “had developed capabilities” ahead of the 2020 election to “encourage,” among other hot-button issues, violent demonstrations such as Black Lives Matter riots on both social media and in corporate media.

Birthplace citizenship promises China the opportunity to prime political interference in children even younger than college students and online-addicted teens. For the CCP, violating America’s sovereignty starts in the cradle — no TikTok user data harvesting required.