No secure communication apps
Kim Dotcom says no communication app — including Signal, WhatsApp, or iMessage — is truly secure from government surveillance.
Snapshot · The Tucker Carlson Show
Hacker Kim Dotcom Issues Dark Warning on Surveillance, Electronic Voting Machines, and Nuclear War
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Aug 7, 2026
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Nuclear War, Iran, and Kim Dotcom's Dark Prophecy
At 29:06 · chapter starts 27:40
The conversation reaches its darkest point when Tucker asks about nuclear risk. Dotcom's answer is not hedged: nuclear war is very likely. He moved his family to New Zealand years ago precisely because he anticipated this trajectory [1] — Kim Dotcom "The US is carrying $39 trillion in debt it can never repay, at a cost of $20 billion a day to run the government. Dotcom says collapse is i…" 24:20 . His sequence of events: the US loses the Iran war because it lacks the forces to invade; economic collapse deepens; and a desperate, narcissistic president reaches for the nuclear option. He is explicit that the US would strike first — against Iran and then against Russia and China. On Israel, he makes a pointed argument: Israel obtained its nuclear weapons by spying on the United States, yet goes to war to prevent others from having them. He says Israel should be the first nation to disarm — a position he knows will not be acted on.
Relocated family to New Zealand for safety
Dotcom says he moved his family to New Zealand years ago specifically because he anticipated a coming global catastrophe, including the risk of nuclear war.
Trump, Narcissism, and the Nuclear Exit
Kim Dotcom calls Donald Trump the biggest liar in the world and believes his narcissism and character flaws make a nuclear war under his presidency highly likely. At 80, Trump is looking for an exit — and nuclear war may be it.
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