Episode

THE FIVESTACK: THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED

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FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev
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Jul 14, 2026
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Summary

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Five stories, one thread. Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev spent Tuesday’s Fivestack tracing a single line through a broken news day: the people who built a machine to jail, track and frighten Americans are now the ones living behind the walls. A president who bombs a foreign capital flinches at his own hit list. Two justices who handed Trump immunity now beg Congress for bodyguards. The hunter, Zev argued, always becomes the hunted — he watched it happen once already, growing up white in apartheid South Africa. 5️⃣ Trump Books Primetime to Declare the 2020 Election Stolen — Again Trump has booked the nation for Thursday at 9 p.m. to claim newly “declassified” intelligence proves foreign interference handed Democrats the 2020 election — and, per reporting from Georgia’s own senators, to declare Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock illegitimate ahead of the 2026 midterms. Zev called it what it is: a pre-announcement of the intent to cheat. Trump ran the 2020 election as the sitting president; 80 court cases, up to the Supreme Court, found no fraud. The big lie built the resentment that carried him back to power. This is the sequel — the biggest lie, aimed at the vote that comes next. 4️⃣ Twenty FBI Agents at Graham’s Door — and Trump Wants Them Gone Twenty FBI agents searched Lindsey Graham’s home; Kash Patel called it “assisting local authorities.” Zev laid the calendar out plainly: Israeli intelligence warning of an Iranian plot to kill Trump, Graham in Kyiv closing a Russia sanctions deal, a published hit list, Trump refusing the new Air Force One — and then Graham dead. Russia, Iran and China run as one alliance; one death could serve all three. Zev stopped short of the consp…