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The SitRoom Ep. 68: Kathy Barnette & Ali Soufan

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This episode of SitRoom features The SitRoom: Congressional Candidate Kathy Barnette & National Security Expert Ali Soufan

Kathy Barnette, a black Congressional candidate running as a Republican in Pennsylvania.

  • Kathy shared her own story, growing up the product of rape, “a little black girl born in a pig shed” to an 11-year-old mother, and becoming a veteran, mother, professor of Corporate Finance — and now, U.S. Congressional Candidate in Pennsylvania.
  • Kathy believes the black community is being manipulated about America’s founding and calls America and its founding documents the greatest to have ever existed. “Only in America is my story possible,” she said.
  • She also discussed what she called “the genocide” of black babies taking place at the hands of abortionists, citing that for every 100 black babies born, 33 are killed in their mother’s womb. “You may not like the fact that I’m pro-life, but you can’t ignore my story, and you can’t tell me that I’m not valuable.”
  • Born in the same house as her slave great-great-grandmother, Kathy shared how she hopes to change hearts and minds through her personal narrative and how this moment could be a silver lining as “black people continue to push towards complete inclusion and shared prosperity in America.”

    • Ali Soufan, Chairman and CEO of The Soufan Group, a leading national security and counterterrorism expert, who plays a significant advisory role in global intelligence issues.

    • Ali believes the U.S. has surrendered global leadership in the face of Chinese misinformation and propaganda, asserting the U.S. has stopped effectively communicating with our allies and neglected to inform the UK or other European allies of our Coronavirus travel ban in advance of Trump’s speech.
    • Ali said known terrorist groups and Jihadists are using Chinese disinformation to blame the West for Coronavirus and are using the crisis to assert their control over their territory by offering relief, supplies, and protection to heavily affected communities in North Africa, East Africa, and the Middle East.
    • ISIS has been disproportionately active during Coronavirus, targeting military and civilian health aid workers alike to prevent the West and the legitimate government of Iraq from supplying aid.
    • Meanwhile, Ali said ANTIFA is not technically a terrorist organization, which requires clear leadership, organization, and structure, which essentially no U.S. domestic organization posesses at the current time, and noted the U.S. does not have a category for domestic terrorism under current legislation.
    • However, almost unanimous bipartisan support for theoretical domestic terrorism legislation exists to designate white supemacist groups as terrorists. An emerging global white supemacist network, mimicking the growth pattern and structure of Al-Qaeda, has been flagged by both the Trump Administration and Congress as an area of concern.
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