This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

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#666 - Sen. John Kennedy

Explore episode Jul 1, 2026
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Biden's Aides Were Running the Country and Lying About It

#666 - Sen. John Kennedy · Jul 1, 2026 Government

Kennedy says 4–5 aides were making major decisions for a cognitively declining Biden, with ties back to Obama's network, and they were deliberately hiding the truth from the American public. 'They were lying to the American people.' The debate made it undeniable.

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Border Security and the Biden Immigration Legacy

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Kennedy uses his most polished analogy of the episode to reframe the immigration debate: Americans lock their front doors not because they hate everyone outside, but because they love the people inside and want to know who is entering. The U.S. admits more legal immigrants per year than any other country in the world, but illegal immigration is illegal everywhere. The Biden administration, Kennedy argues, functioned like 'The Price is Right' — 'Come on down' — admitting 8 to 15 million unvetted people with no idea who they were. Some were decent people, but some were rapists, murderers, and drug dealers, and nobody knows where they are now. He contrasts this with China, which is so monolithic it doesn't even want immigrants — the only people trying to sneak into China are North Koreans fleeing worse conditions at home.

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