13 MAY 2026: Q&A! Trump to China // XI's Spies in California // President AOC? // Zimbabwe Reverses Course, Begs White Farmers // Venezuela: A New State? // Sketchy Iran Intel // Trump's Secret Mexico War
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Wednesday Listener Q&A episode of The Wright Report, Bryan tackles President Trump's high-stakes trip to China, offering his wish list for a tough conversation with Xi Jinping on Iran, tariff evasion, Chinese espionage, fentanyl, Taiwan, and Beijing's growing operations inside the United States.
He also answers listener questions on Chinese influence in California, including the guilty plea of a former Arcadia mayor accused of acting as an illegal agent of Beijing, and explains why he believes the Chinese threat requires a sustained national intelligence briefing campaign from the White House. Bryan then breaks down China's oil strategy during the Iran war, arguing that Xi may be carefully managing global supply to avoid a recession while keeping economic pressure on Trump and the GOP ahead of the midterms.
Plus, Bryan covers the economic pain driving voter frustration, including inflation, student loan defaults, foreign worker visa programs, and Trump's messaging challenges on Iran. He also responds to questions on Zimbabwe's failed Marxist land reforms, Venezuela as a possible 51st state, reports that Iran may be digging out buried weapons, the DOJ investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, and new reporting on CIA operations against Mexican cartels.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's May 13th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:16.2 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News Podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | It is our Wednesday Q&A, an episode built by you and your questions with my facts and intel and analysis. |
| 0:28.9 | On events, that as ever, are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:32.8 | First up, we've got a question about President Trump and his trip to China later today. |
| 0:38.3 | It's from Richard in Lubbock, Texas, who's writing in asking Brian, any predictions on what we are likely to see or that you wish that we would see come out of this big meeting? |
| 0:48.0 | Any thoughts, by the way, also on a possible war over Taiwan? |
| 0:52.7 | All right, Richard. So I suspect that the president is going to say very, |
| 0:55.7 | very nice things about President Xi, like what an awesome guy he is and whatever, and keep things |
| 1:01.8 | focus on trade, like agriculture and rare earth minerals, try to keep things light and happy, |
| 1:07.1 | maybe a little bit of focus on China's so-called crackdown on fentanyl. But what do I wish for? |
| 1:12.7 | What do we need to do really beyond the surface level diplomatic stuff? Or maybe hopefully that |
| 1:17.3 | will get covered behind closed doors. So first, I would say that President Trump has got to warn |
| 1:22.6 | President Xi about his support for Iran. And we know that Beijing is supplying drones and other military hardware via the Caspian Sea and some overland routes as well. |
| 1:32.5 | So what Trump has to say here is that any more shipments of that stuff, well, a lot of his Chinese people are going to die in some clandestine warfare. |
| 1:40.5 | And the same message has to be true for Beijing's provision of satellite intel. |
| 1:44.9 | Did we know she is giving to Iran to then blow up our people and our weapons in the Middle East? |
| 1:51.0 | So that's got to come to an end as well, or his people die, you know, tit for tat. |
| 1:57.0 | Second, I think that Trump has got to tell Xi to knock it off when it comes to the evasion of our tariffs. Because as I've long shared with you all, Beijing is what's called trans-shipping most of their products, first through Vietnam and Thailand, putting on some fake labels, you know, that say, oh, made in Vietnam when they're not. It's all made in China. And then they send it along to the U.S. to evade our tariffs. |
| 2:18.5 | So we've known that's been happening for a while, and I think Trump should bring that up. |
| 2:22.7 | We also know this morning something new that President Xi's goons in the business community over there, |
| 2:28.5 | they are cheating again by sending their solar panels to a new country. |
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