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Jiang says Hillary Clinton's camp helped Trump in the 2016 Republican primary because they expected him to be even more unpopular than Clinton.
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2016 Election
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "now let's get back to the video so in the first trump administration his election caught everyone by surprise uh if you go back..."
Key Notes
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He says Americans rejected Hillary Clinton in 2016 because she represented a corrupt status quo that protected insiders while disregarding the middle class.
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If the elites had real blackmail material on Trump, Jiang argues it would have surfaced during the 2016 or 2020 campaigns, when enormous resources were spent trying to stop him.
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Jiang says a Bernie Sanders nomination in 2016 would have made the Democratic Party and American democracy look very different, whereas Trump legitimately won the Republican primary through message discipline and campaign innovation.
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In the quoted clip, Trump says Russiagate was a total hoax manufactured by Democrats and the media to explain Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss.
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"now let's get back to the video so in the first trump administration his election caught everyone by surprise uh if you go back..."
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"Look, in 2016, the entire world was shocked, bewildered, confused, perplexed, disturbed by the fact that he was able to beat Hillary Clinton, who..."
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"and he was the mentor of donald trump so what did donald trump learn from roy cohn he learned how to blackmail but most..."
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"there was any dirt on this guy donald trump we would have seen it in 2016 or 2020 when the elite spent six billion..."
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"big role here look i think like these two parties democrats and republicans they they always agree on one thing which is like how..."
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"it was a huge field and trump won by working hard by having a message that resonated with as many people as possible and..."
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"Russia Russia was a major hoax okay it's now been a judge to be a total major hoax we had the Mueller Commission we..."
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"...the only reason we know about how much they rigged the 2016 election was because the greatest journalist in modern history julian assange leaked..."
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"...order, maybe started with with Brexit, and then you had the 2016 election of Donald Trump. And this has been cascading for quite a..."
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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