The Mid-Terms: 2. The Regime

The Coming Storm

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When Gabriel Gatehouse is reporting on the aftermath of the presidential election in 2020, and trying to understand the motivations behind QAnon, he comes across people who believe another conspiracy theory.

It’s about a laptop which Hunter Biden, the son of the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, had supposedly left in a computer repair shop in Delaware. The laptop allegedly contains damning information about the Biden family. Gabriel thinks it’s fake news and ignores it at the time. But that is a mistake.

The laptop turns out to be real, even if some of the claims about its contents are not. Silicon Valley and perhaps even the FBI seem to have tried to suppress the story, while the mainstream media refused to run it. For some, it is now powerful evidence that the Biden administration, and the entire establishment, is a regime that must be toppled.

Producer: Lucy Proctor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.5	Hello, I'm Gabriel Gatehouse.
0:07.4	Welcome back to the coming storm from BBC Radio 4 and World Service. In early September, as the midterm elections loomed,
0:20.0	in early September, as the midterm elections loomed, Joe Biden made a speech in Philadelphia.
0:27.0	My fellow Americans, please if you have a seat, take you.
0:33.0	The setting was carefully chosen, Independence Hall.
0:37.2	It was here in 1776 that the founding fathers articulated a set of truths that they held to be self-evident.
0:46.5	This was the birthplace of those most vaunted of American principles.
0:51.1	As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault.
1:00.0	We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.
1:03.6	Donald Trump and the migrant Republicans
1:06.4	represented extremism that threatens the very foundations
1:10.9	of our republic.
1:12.4	Even though Trump lost almost 75 million people voted for him in
1:16.8	2020. But Biden said MAGA was not going to make America great again, it was going to destroy it.
1:24.4	And they're working right now as I speak in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers
1:37.7	to undermine democracy itself.
1:40.3	Remember the story we told at the start of the last episode about the people linked to
1:46.2	Kewenon who were running for office in the midterms in places like Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania Michigan, so that they could fix it for 2024.
1:56.7	We're going to fix the whole country, and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024.
2:05.4	That's what Joe Biden was warning about here.
2:08.6	They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th, brutally attacking law enforcement, not as
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