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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Trump's War Against Thomas Massie and Rand Paul; Exposing Corrupt Foreign Influence and DC Rot: With Kenneth P. Vogel

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Trump escalates his attacks against Thomas Massie and Rand Paul as they continue to uphold their principles instead of following the White House's lead. Plus: journalist and author Ken Vogel discusses his new book "Devils' Advocates The Hidden Story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington Insiders on the Payrolls of Corrupt Foreign Interests."

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0:00.0

Good evening. It's Tuesday, October 21st. Welcome to an episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, Donald Trump has been vocally supporting and fundraising for the Republican Senator of Lins, from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, despite the fact that Graham is what MAGA long claimed to most abhor, namely an extreme warmonger and corporatists. Meanwhile, Trump has also decided to wage war, what looks to be a relentless war, on two Republican members of Congress in particular, both from Kentucky, Congressman

0:55.3

Thomas Massey and Senator Rand Paul, despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact, that

1:01.0

those two are among the most stalwart anti-war, anti-interventionist, anti-censorship, and anti-spending

1:08.3

conservatives in all of Washington will examine what all of this means.

1:12.3

Then, New York Times investigative reporter Ken Vogel has spent years, first at Politico and the New York

1:17.8

Times, aggressively devolting all sorts of corruption and influence peddling by virtually every

1:22.5

faction in Washington. He probably did more than any single reporter in the country to investigate

1:27.2

and bring to light Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

1:31.2

And he's also done the same for many of Trump's closest confidants, in particular Rudy Giuliani.

1:36.0

He has a new book out that is full of new reporting and insights on all of this corruption entitled Devil's Advocate,

1:43.0

the hidden story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden,

1:45.3

and the Washington Insiders on the payrolls of corrupt foreign interest, and help be with

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us here tonight to talk about that new reporting and his book.

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Before we get to all of that, a couple of quick program notes.

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First of all, Friday night, this Friday night, so three nights from now, I will be in San

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Antonio, Texas, along with Megan Kelly and Emily Jasinski for an event that we are doing. It's actually the first stop on Megan Kelly's nationwide tour. The first stop is in San Antonio. I will be there for that. That's the only one I'll be there for. And it is at the Majestic Theater, 7.30 at night. I'm actually not sure now if there are tickets left. I believe there may be a couple. I don't know. But if you're in the San Antonio area, I'd like to come. We would love to have you. You can look online and see about ticket availability. System Update is also available in podcast form. You can listen to every episode, 12 hours after the first broadcast live here on Rumble here on Rumble on Spotify, Apple, and all the major podcasting platforms.

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2:55.9

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