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Miranda Devine

Miranda Devine

Australian columnist and writer

Oct 16, 2026

6:08
Oh, God, I hope so
6:08
... just like they did in 2024.
6:10
They always overreach.
6:11
They always go too far.
6:13
In 2024, the election of, re-election of Donald Trump shows you where that ends for them.
6:20
But, uh, look, I actually, you know, I don't feel...
6:23
I'll probably have egg on my face after November 3.
11:26
... what kind of psycho does a debate and mentions the person she's not running against 41 times?
130:04
Oh, God, I hope so
130:05
... just like they did in 2024.
130:07
They always overreach.
130:08
They always go too far.
130:10
In 2024, the election of, re-election of Donald Trump shows you where that ends for them.
130:16
But, uh, look, I actually...
130:19
You know, I don't feel...

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135:22
... what kind of psycho does a debate and mentions the person she's not running against 41 times?
28:51
Miranda, I've been around for a lot of elections, and I don't think I've ever seen a combination of more radical and crazy and terribly ill-informed people running for very high offices like the U.S. Senate.
29:07
I agree, and what's really disturbing is that they're running for one of the two mainstream parties.
29:12
They've been accepted into this supposed broad tent the Democrats are pretending that they now have.
29:19
And what's really happened is that the mainstream Democrats, the establishment, the moderates, the movers and shakers that everybody associates with Democrats, have just become captive to this lunatic fringe which control everything and look like...
29:36
I mean, it's unbelievable to think the polls are showing that someone like El-Sayed is neck and neck, someone like James Tallarico in Texas, when their policies are so destructive, so make people unsafe.
29:50
I don't know any American that really wants prisons abolished and cops defunded, et cetera.
29:56
We've been through that.
34:16
He retracted that statement, but he did call all cops racist.
19:36
Mm-hmm
19:36
... with a covert warrant by the FBI on a bogus FARA investigation, which they never pressed charges on and dropped.
19:44
And, and, and actually they, they issued a statement, uh, because his lawyer insisted they do, clearing him.
19:52
But it gave them access to Giuliani's emails and all the information on his cloud, his SMSs, et cetera, at the time that he was Donald Trump's, uh, personal lawyer.
20:04
So really, the FBI was spying on Donald Trump, as they had been in other ways with, uh, the Russia collusion hoax, collusion hoax.
20:13
And so I was, I'm sure, picked up on that because, um, they, they had access to Giuliani's, uh, cloud at the time that in August 2020 when he received the first very voluminous email about the, uh, contents of Hunter Biden's laptop from John Paul Mac Isaac, who was the laptop repair shop owner, very smart guy.
20:39
So they had that, so they knew that the laptop was out.

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Mm-hmm
4:55
Your thoughts.
4:56
Yeah, thanks, Sean, and I think part of the reason that we hold our judgment is because we have long careers in the media, and we have seen campaigns come and go.
5:07
We've seen hoaxes.
5:08
We've seen stories that the media presents in one very slanted way that turn out to be the opposite.
5:15
Um, and when it comes to these kind of sexual scandals, um, we've seen, for instance, Duke Lacrosse, and a, a great deal of injustice is done, and everybody is harmed in the end.
5:29
So I feel terribly sorry for this girl because, um, she was 20 years old.
5:36
Um, I think sh- it would've been a lot better for her if she had just chalked it up to a bad experience and walked away, and now two years later, she has become a national, probably an international, uh, notorious figure.

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[laughs] That's very funny.
35:23
And this guy wants to end all that just like Joe Biden did.
35:26
Look, I think the fact that we're even contemplating that is because of this very clever psyop that the pollsters, the Democrats, the Democrat-friendly media, their handmaidens, have created, as they always do, which is kind of to demoralise Republicans before and keep them sitting on their couches at a midterm.
35:44
And so, in a way, that's all been turned around.
35:48
It's backfired on them because I think the sort of nadir of...
35:53
Republican disillusionment came about a week ago.
35:56
And since then, you've had the president on message.
36:00
We've had the economic figures that you've been trumpeting day in and day out, almost alone at the beginning.
41:05
Miranda has become an expert on red dye diesel.
4:54
So, uh, uh, j- just to be clear, so Cornell did try to do the right thing in the beginning?
5:00
Look, I, I think so.
5:02
I've looked at what they did.
5:03
You know, they've been accused of, uh...
5:05
A- A- AOC accused Cornell of protecting the perpetrators, she calls them, these alleged, uh, you know, gang rapists who, uh, there's, you know, no, no proof that that's what they did.
5:21
It's just an allegation at this point in her civil suit, which she filed this month.
5:28
Uh, yet two years ago, she told a very different story to the campus police and the, the, uh, you know, everybody who was involved at that time.
8:54
Yeah.
31:48
Be realistic.
31:50
Well, look, I think because of history saying that the party that has the White House has got hardly any chance of keeping the House.
31:59
So I think the doomers, everyone's a doomer, really.
32:02
It would be a miracle.
32:04
But I think that the tsunami predictions are way overblown because Republicans never really speak to pollsters.
32:12
So the polls are usually out of whack.
32:15
And it's...
34:27
So I think it's going to be a lot closer than folks might.
63:21
You can't get rid of him.
63:24
Oh, I've been trying to avoid giving him any more publicity because it's his new addiction.
63:30
But honestly, it's just so ridiculous the way he's trying to rewrite history.
63:36
And unfortunately, there are a lot of gullible podcasters out there willing to allow him to... spew his lies, it's the only way I can describe it.
63:48
is still pretending it's not his laptop, the laptop doesn't exist, you know.
63:55
But the funny thing is that the more he talks, the more he just confirms our reporting.
64:00
And, you know, for instance, the other day he was on some addiction podcast called Dopey, I kid you not.
64:56
Do we know how much he made off those paintings? I would think it was millions.
28:16
You can't get rid of him.
28:19
Oh, I've been trying to avoid giving him any more publicity because it's his new addiction.
28:25
But honestly, it's just so ridiculous the way he's trying to rewrite history.
28:31
And unfortunately, there are a lot of gullible podcasters out there willing to allow him to... spew his lies, it's the only way I can describe it.
28:42
He is still pretending it's not his laptop, the laptop doesn't exist, you know.
28:49
But the funny thing is that the more he talks, the more he just confirms our reporting.
28:56
You know, for instance, the other day he was on some addiction podcast called Dopey, I kid you not.
29:54
Yeah.
3:18
You can't get rid of him.
3:21
Oh, I've been trying to avoid giving him any more publicity because it's his new addiction.
3:28
But honestly, it's just so ridiculous the way he's trying to rewrite history.
3:34
And unfortunately, there are a lot of gullible podcasters out there willing to allow him to... spew his lies.
3:43
That's the only way I can describe it.
3:45
He is still pretending it's not his laptop.
3:48
The laptop doesn't exist, you know.

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8:59
This guy has pulled off a dozen of the greatest military operations in history, from Venezuela to shooting out that spy satellite, hasn't he?
25:33
So what does Moran and Devine think about this?
25:36
I agree it's quite remarkable that he, while playing the nationalist card, while scolding them for globalism and saying, you know, AI is never going to be controlled by you globalists and you guys have made a big mistake with immigration, et cetera, even after all that, he got four applause lines.
25:58
And I think it's an acknowledgement that he has been good for the world.
26:03
And as he said, he solved... intractable, or not solved, but he's at least tried to solve intractable problems that have been kicked down the road for decades by previous leaders.
26:16
And they acknowledge that.
26:18
And Iran...
26:19
And he
27:41
He stabs Netanyahu in the back.
110:28
Yes, exactly.
110:29
And, y- you know, Y2K, uh, the Russia hoax.
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In fact, Donald Trump s- Last night just put out a stream of fantastic t- truths, not tweets, but truths that ended up on X anyway, all about this.
110:45
He calls it, you know, it's the climate hoax, it's the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the double impeachment hoax.
110:51
You name it, we've seen it before.
110:53
It's the same cast of characters, the same deep, deep state actors.
110:59
You know, Anthropic, which is the AI company that's, uh, l- leading the charge here, and they had some, some kid who's been called, you know, Harry Potter Lite-
114:26
[laughs]
11:03
I mean, who do these companies think they are? What do they think exactly they're doing?
11:07
Well, you're quite right to say there's nothing organic about it.
11:10
This has been a very carefully concerted rollout, media rollout.
11:15
The media doesn't make up these narratives, these hoaxes, whether it be Russia hoax, J6 hoax, all the Russia, Russia impeachment, etc., They are handed to them by the Democrats.
11:27
The Democrats and their ecosystem of nonprofits and so on concoct these stories and they have a systematic rollout and the media is complicit in that every step.
11:40
This AI scare, it's no coincidence that it's happened right as we're focusing on the midterms as of this week.
11:48
And it started with that kid, the 27-year-old Harry Potter lookalike from Anthropic, who'd been there all of four months.

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Who do you think is going to win this?
2:49
That tells you up a lot, doesn't it?
2:52
Yeah, they are not on it, but they're comrades.
2:56
They're the same people, a guy called David Cohen, for instance, who was Brennan's deputy at the CIA during the Obama years when they hatched the Russia hoax and Barack Obama told them to cook up that phony intelligence assessment claiming that Russia helped Trump win the election.
3:21
All of that, David Cohen was the number two there and went along with it, presumably.
3:27
And he also has got lots of connections to Mike Morrell, who was the guy, the former acting director, who wrote the Dirty 51 letter and got his pals to sign it.
3:42
So there's a lot, and there's many others.
3:45
Chuck Schumer's former National Security Advisor is on that board.
7:17
So Elon If that's a name we're going to use to try to disprove the point that the Democrats are sounding the alarm, I'm not sure that's going to work for you.
33:56
So you think they can buck history?
33:59
Well, look, it would be hard, but he's given it his all.
34:03
And that line that frames the midterms is just so pure and so brilliant.
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America does not belong to those who hate it, which is his opponents.
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It belongs to those who love America.
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So it is wonderful.
34:17
I think, you know, he was in top form.
37:32
Miranda, did he make the sale last evening?
39:55
Miranda, do you think Republicans know what they should be running on?
39:59
I do, um, but I think that the message has not been fully coherent, which is probably why Donald Trump has felt the need to call this, um, a never before done midterm convention, uh, in Dallas, which kicks off today, and he's speaking, of course, both nights.
40:19
Um, you know, the hope is that he stays on message because he does have a tendency to, you know, do the weave.
40:27
And, uh, at, at the moment, because the Democrat opposition, the negative media, uh, social media, and a whole lot of extraneous stories are getting in the way, um, I think it is important that the, the Republicans actually lay out their successes, 'cause there are a lot, particularly on the economic front.
40:52
And I really think the only person that's been doing a really stellar job of laying that out has been Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary.
41:01
And, uh, he was at the G20 last week in North Carolina, and he, uh, basically ran through how America is, uh, you know, energy s- uh, world's energy superpower, world's computing superpower.
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He in fact said that America has, uh, or by 2028, will have 80% of the world's computing power.

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Figure race in there
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I've never seen somebody who said, hey, within the office, everybody, this is what happened.
61:38
Well, it's extraordinary, but what makes it even more extraordinary is that it comes from the left, because usually what you have is you have some sort of never-Trumper in the administration, isn't been happening so much now, but certainly in President Trump's first term, who comes out as anonymous and gets book deals and is on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post, just making up a whole lot of nonsense about what's going on.
62:07
And then they're phased, of course.
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But this guy who looks like an honest broker, you know, he's an honest prosecutor and a brave man.
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He signed his name to all of this.
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And he's just said, well, I'm sorry, but I have integrity.
62:25
And if you, no matter what you think of Donald Trump, if you, he said to his colleagues, complain about Donald Trump's Department of Justice weaponising itself to come after its political enemies, you should equally complain.
63:07
Miranda, if you run an agency the size of the Attorney General's office in the state, meaning that you have a couple hundred lawyers working under you, How could you circulate that kind of information and think that everybody was going to stay totally quiet about it? It's shocking that whoever thought of this on behalf of the attorney general or she did it herself, that this wouldn't be one of the worst things you've ever you've just ever seen happen in a law enforcement agency.
4:53
Well, it's
4:53
extraordinary.
4:54
But what makes it even more extraordinary is that it comes from the left, because usually what you have is you have some sort of never-Trumper in the administration, isn't been happening so much now, but certainly in President Trump's first term, who comes out as anonymous and gets book deals and is on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post just making up a whole lot of nonsense about what's going on.
5:22
And then they're phased, of course.
5:23
But this guy who looks like an honest broker, he's an honest prosecutor and a brave man, he signed his name to all of this.
5:33
And he's just said, well, I'm sorry, but I have integrity.
5:39
And if you, no matter what you think of Donald Trump, if you, he said to his colleagues, complain about Donald Trump's Department of Justice weaponising itself to come after its political enemies, you should equally complain.
6:21
Miranda, if you run an agency the size of the Attorney General's office in the state, meaning that you have a couple hundred lawyers working under you, How could you circulate that kind of information and think that everybody was going to stay totally quiet about it? It's shocking that whoever thought of this on behalf of the attorney general or she did it herself, that this wouldn't be one of the worst things you've ever you've just ever seen happen in a law enforcement agency.
speaker_4HOST
4:58
But
4:59
what makes it even more extraordinary is that it comes from the left, because usually what you have is you have some sort of never-Trumper in the administration, isn't been happening so much now, but certainly in President Trump's first term, who comes out as anonymous and gets book deals and is on the front page of, you know, the New York Times and the Washington Post, just making up a whole lot of nonsense about what's going on.
5:26
And then they're phased, of course.
5:27
But this guy who looks like an honest broker, you know, he's an honest prosecutor and a brave man.
5:35
He signed his name to all of this.
5:38
And he He's just said, well, I'm sorry, but I have integrity.
5:44
And if you, no matter what you think of Donald Trump, if you, he said to his colleagues, complain about Donald Trump's Department of Justice weaponising itself to come after its political enemies, you should equally not be part of this movement.
6:59
Yes, it certainly
60:20
I've never seen somebody who said, hey, within the office, everybody, this is what happened.
60:26
Well, it's extraordinary, but what makes it even more extraordinary is that it comes from the left, because usually what you have is you have some sort of never-Trumper in the administration, isn't been happening so much now, but certainly in President Trump's first term, who comes out as anonymous and gets book deals and is on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post, just making up a whole lot of nonsense about what's going on.
60:55
And then they're phased, of course.
60:57
But this guy who looks like an honest broker, you know, he's an honest prosecutor and a brave man, he signed his name to all of this.
61:07
And he's just said, well, I'm sorry, but I have integrity.
61:13
And if you, no matter what you think of Donald Trump, if you, he said to his colleagues, complain about Donald Trump's Department of Justice weaponising itself to come after its political enemies, you should equally complain.
61:28
not be part of this uh stitch up of the trump trump donald trump and his allies um and his name he's a young guy 34 years old assistant attorney general daniel reason fell so he's blown up his career considering that the legal profession i'm sure just judge our judge will tell us um is pretty left dominated
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seen happen in a law enforcement agency.
34:54
Is that really true?
34:56
No, it's a deliberate demoralisation op to suppress the vote and make everybody despair as they come back from their summer holidays.
35:07
And, you know, another theme is that China is beating us.
35:12
And in your interview with Scott Besant, he put that to rest.
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I mean, he talked about just in AI.
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He said by 2028, America will have 80% of the world's computing power.
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Now, if we're not winning the battle for AI that is the key to prosperity, I don't know what that means.

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Now, is there any truth to that? Is Canada in bed with China?
5:16
Let's be blunt.
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100%.
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And it's their country, okay? But not in your own country and not when you are representing New York and you are the governor.
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If a mosque will not have you in, in the state of New York, will not have the governor in to speak to them without a headscarf on, then she should say, forget about it.
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I'm not coming in.
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I'm not going to do you the courtesy of coming and talking to you.
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She represents New Yorkers.

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And when they try to back off their positions like AOC did, they don't mean that.
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many of which were started by immigrants who came to the United States legally to work, something that a lot of these nepo baby millionaire socialists don't even recognize.
37:29
Yes, look, David, it's such an irony, isn't it, that there was Zoran Mamdani claiming to represent immigrant New York and calling out the Yemeni bodega owners in his inauguration speech, and yet...
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Look at what he's doing now.
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He's gone to war against these very people.
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I mean, these small business owners, many of whom are immigrants, minorities, they work hard.
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Everyone knows in New York how hard they work.
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And yet he's undercutting them by 30% on grocery prices.
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I mean, it's just like they are living hypocrites and living contradictions of what they profess.
speaker_1HOST
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Fill us in.
0:53
Thank you for having me.
0:55
Well, as you know, John's been keeping a weather eye on.
1:01
Blue, which is the Democrats' number one fundraising platform, is under congressional investigation for the last two years.
1:10
It's also apparently the Department of Justice is investigating them for straw donations, foreign money coming in, deliberately lax.
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procedures to vet that money and today again one of their senior executives has appeared before the House Committee on House Administration and pleaded the fifth.
1:34
This will be I think about the 200th time that one of their executives has pleaded the fifth.
speaker_1HOST
3:41
That is a big one.

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