The Ben Shapiro Show - July 25, 2023


Biden Will Be Impeached


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 1 minute

Words per Minute

207.75201

Word Count

12,846

Sentence Count

883

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he never knew anything about his son Hunter's business dealings. But as more and more evidence emerges, it becomes clear that Joe Biden was in on it. And as more people around Hunter Biden are called to testify, and as more records emerge showing people openly talking about attempting to bribe Joe Biden via Hunter, impeachment is on the table. Inside the next year, there will be impeachment inquiries into Joe Biden, and there will probably be an impeachment vote inside the next decade on Joe Biden because of the corruption that is pretty obviously engulfing the Biden family. And now, we can go through the entire timeline, and now it s increasingly appears that Joe was on board with it all along with his son, Hunter Biden. And we can all begin to see that Joe is not just an innocent elderly gentleman, he s also an amazing father who cares deeply about his drug-addicted son. And that s the only reason why he has been squiring Hunter around, or rather, squiring him around. Their connection is purely on the up-and-up, and any accusations of Biden family corruption involving Joe Biden are absolutely out of bounds, and you shouldn t be talking about them and you should not be allowed to talk about them, because they are wrong, and they re wrong. And you re not just innocent, you re wrong they re a criminal, and should be impeached And that's the only way to stop them from ever being impeached, right? by the people who know the truth about what they know, not the ones who do the right thing, and the wrong thing to do, right the ones they know the right way to do right, the ones that matter the most right and the ones to do the best not the things they need to do them the most, the truth they do the most right . in order to do their best to do what they can, right, and that s right, not only to do it right, but the truth that matters so they can do the least they can be fair and fair, and not the best, and have the most effective, the most honest and fair and the most ethical thing they can at all of their best, right and the best in the most transparent way possible including the most fair and most ethical and fair things to do everything they can in the best way possible.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So, Joe Biden is not just an innocent elderly gentleman, he's also an amazing father who cares deeply about his drug-addicted son, Hunter, and that is the only reason why he has been squiring Hunter around, or rather, Hunter has been squiring him around.
00:00:13.000 Their connection is purely on the up-and-up, and any accusations of Biden family corruption involving Joe Biden are absolutely out of bounds.
00:00:20.000 They are wrong, and you shouldn't talk about them.
00:00:22.000 This is the narrative you've heard over and over again.
00:00:25.000 And Joe Biden has repeated this narrative over and over and over.
00:00:28.000 So, for example, Joe Biden has been asked at this point about a thousand times about Hunter Biden's businesses because Hunter Biden, for a decade, made money by running around planet Earth, picking up giant bags of cash, and then doing God knows what.
00:00:40.000 With those giant bags of cash.
00:00:42.000 There have been serious questions about how Joe Biden accrued all of his wealth.
00:00:45.000 Where did all this money come from?
00:00:47.000 Serious questions.
00:00:48.000 In fact, a lot of those questions were at the center of Donald Trump's first impeachment inquiry when Donald Trump called up the president of Ukraine and asked him to look into allegations of corruption involving Burisma, which is paying Hunter Biden something like $83,000 a month while Joe Biden was vice president and presiding over the foreign policy of the United States with regard to Ukraine.
00:01:06.000 Remember, that resulted in Donald Trump being impeached for the first time.
00:01:09.000 Well, these serious questions have been swirling about Hunter and Joe Biden for a long time.
00:01:13.000 And every single time Joe Biden has said, I never knew a damn thing about my son's business.
00:01:17.000 Not once.
00:01:18.000 I am purely innocent.
00:01:19.000 Hunter is a wonderful guy and there's nothing to see here.
00:01:22.000 Here's Joe Biden saying it over and over and over again.
00:01:24.000 Have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
00:01:29.000 I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
00:01:32.000 What's your understanding of what your son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money?
00:01:36.000 I don't know what he was doing.
00:01:38.000 I know he was on the board.
00:01:39.000 I found out he was on the board after he was on the board.
00:01:42.000 And that was it.
00:01:42.000 Well, you've had a lot of time.
00:01:45.000 Isn't this something you want to get to the bottom of?
00:01:47.000 No, because I trust my son.
00:01:48.000 I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life.
00:01:53.000 We learned that this president paid 50 times the tax in China, has a secret bank account with China, does business in China, and in fact is talking about me taking money?
00:02:06.000 I have not taken a single penny from any country whatsoever, ever.
00:02:11.000 My son has not made money.
00:02:14.000 In terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.
00:02:18.000 I have not had, the only guy who made money from China is this guy.
00:02:22.000 He's the only one.
00:02:23.000 Nobody else has made money from China.
00:02:26.000 Okay, here is the thing.
00:02:27.000 Joe Biden is a liar.
00:02:29.000 He is a liar.
00:02:30.000 We know for a fact that Joe Biden knew about his son's businesses.
00:02:33.000 The notion that he did not know about his son's businesses is absurd.
00:02:36.000 It is absurd on its face.
00:02:37.000 We can go through the entire timeline.
00:02:39.000 And now it increasingly appears that Joe was in on it.
00:02:42.000 And as more and more people around Hunter Biden are called to testify, and as more and more records emerge showing people openly talking about attempting to bribe Joe Biden via Hunter, Impeachment is going to be on the table.
00:02:53.000 I'm just predicting it right now.
00:02:54.000 Inside the next year, there will be impeachment inquiries into Joe Biden.
00:02:58.000 Forget inquiries.
00:02:59.000 There will probably be an impeachment vote inside the next year on Joe Biden because of the corruption that is pretty obviously engulfing the Biden family here.
00:03:08.000 Devon Archer is the latest person who is set to testify to the House Republican Oversight Committee.
00:03:13.000 He's supposed to do that within days.
00:03:15.000 Three times they've moved this testimony.
00:03:16.000 Devon Archer and Hunter formed Rosemont Seneca Partners back in 2009 along with Christopher Hines, the son-in-law of former Senator John Kerry.
00:03:24.000 He and Hunter served as managing partners of the firm.
00:03:27.000 Archer and Hines had been college roommates at Yale.
00:03:29.000 Archer and Hunter Biden, according to the UK Daily Mail, each landed lucrative seats on the board of Burisma, despite Hunter not having any expertise in the field, despite him being a drug addict so bad that he was kicked out of the United States Navy.
00:03:40.000 The firm brought in a reported $11 million through the arrangement based on information gleaned from Hunter's infamous laptop.
00:03:46.000 They're photographed golfing with then Vice President Biden back in 2014.
00:03:49.000 And now Devan Archer is expected to talk with the House Oversight Committee.
00:03:55.000 His interview is supposed to take place behind closed doors, according to an aide who noted such appearances are usually led by committee staff.
00:04:01.000 Panel Chair James Comer, who issued the subpoena, says he will testify about, quote, all the times he saw Biden meet with Hunter's business associates.
00:04:07.000 Following reports, Hunter made a habit of putting his dad on speakerphone in a possible bid to impress potential partners and clients.
00:04:13.000 And that comes after Comer and other top Republicans have repeatedly accused Joe Biden of taking part in crimes, but failing so far to produce the hard evidence.
00:04:19.000 But here is the evidence that is coming.
00:04:22.000 Hey, so let me just begin with this, and this is the statement that should hover over everybody's imagination when you're talking about Joe and Hunter Biden.
00:04:29.000 First of all, Joe knew full well that Hunter Biden was a drug addict.
00:04:32.000 First rule of drug addicted family members or friends, deprive them of money because they use the money to buy drugs.
00:04:38.000 Joe Biden did not do that.
00:04:39.000 Instead, he lent his name, and apparently Air Force Two, to his son so that they could run around while Hunter picked up bags of cash.
00:04:46.000 Here is the statement that should hover in everyone's mind as we examine the timeline here of the relationship between Hunter and foreign businesses and his dad, who is now the President of the United States and was Vice President for much of this.
00:04:59.000 Here is the statement.
00:05:00.000 This is a text from Hunter Biden to his daughter in 2019.
00:05:03.000 It's on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop, the non-Russian disinformation laptop that Hunter Biden, drug addicted derelict, left at a computer repair store.
00:05:13.000 Quote, I hope you can all do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.
00:05:19.000 It's really hard, but don't worry.
00:05:21.000 Unlike pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.
00:05:25.000 That is a text from Hunter Biden to his daughter, 2019.
00:05:30.000 Now, that's kind of the ballgame, is it not?
00:05:33.000 Do you think that Hunter Biden is lying to his daughter when he texts that?
00:05:36.000 That actually no money moved via Hunter Biden to Joe?
00:05:39.000 That he's just making all of this up?
00:05:40.000 Does that sound like the kind of thing that you would text to a family member being entirely false?
00:05:46.000 That no money had ever changed hands?
00:05:47.000 Ever?
00:05:49.000 Or does that sound like that has the ring of truth about it?
00:05:52.000 In just one second, we're going to go through the full timeline here because there is now mounting evidence that not only was Hunter obviously speaking with Joe about all this.
00:05:59.000 In fact, we know that he was speaking with Joe about all of this.
00:06:02.000 Dan Goldman, who is a Democratic congressperson, essentially spilled as much the other day in an open hearing.
00:06:08.000 It goes much further than this.
00:06:10.000 The chances that money was flowing from foreign sources to Hunter and then from Hunter to Joe are extremely high.
00:06:16.000 And when Joe Biden said in open debate that he'd never received a foreign dollar, technically that may be true.
00:06:21.000 He may have received the money directly from his son.
00:06:24.000 They're being very squirrely and very lawyerly over at the White House.
00:06:27.000 They're changing their tune, even.
00:06:29.000 They've abandoned now the line that Joe knew nothing about Hunter's business dealings because it's obviously not true.
00:06:34.000 Now we're going to go through the timeline in just one second.
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00:07:43.000 Let's go through some of the timeline here.
00:07:46.000 Because the timeline is really, really damning.
00:07:48.000 And it is perfectly obvious that there's no chance at all.
00:07:51.000 I mean, there's a zero chance, zero, that Joe Biden didn't know about Hunter's business dealings.
00:07:57.000 And there's an extraordinarily low chance that Joe never benefited from Hunter Biden's business dealings.
00:08:02.000 Those chances are vanishingly small.
00:08:04.000 I'll explain why, because we're going to go through the entire timeline here, and we are also going to go through some of the documents that have now been provided by confidential human sources, talking about what the Ukrainians, for example, were saying about Joe and Hunter Biden.
00:08:18.000 And we'll talk about what exactly Devon Archer has already said, and what Tony Bobulinski, another business partner of Hunter Biden's, has said.
00:08:26.000 So, on November 1st, 2013, there's a timeline that's been put together by the House Oversight Committee.
00:08:32.000 On November 1st, 2013, Hunter Biden and some of his friends created ChinaBHR.
00:08:40.000 China BHR was a Chinese investment firm, Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund.
00:08:46.000 It was controlled by the Bank of China.
00:08:47.000 It was focusing on M&A and investment in and reforms of state-owned enterprise.
00:08:51.000 That was in November of 2013.
00:08:52.000 In December of 2013, Vice President Biden traveled with Hunter Biden on Air Force Two to China and met the CEO of the company, Jonathan Lee.
00:09:02.000 Shortly thereafter, BHR's business license was approved and Hunter Biden was magically a board member.
00:09:08.000 So understand that the way that it works when it comes to foreign corruption is foreign states believe that access to high-ranking American officials means that they are going to get sweetheart deals.
00:09:17.000 The reason they believe this is because in their own country, this is in fact how it works.
00:09:20.000 If you're in China and you want to get something done, you're going to have to go to the top levels of the Politburo.
00:09:24.000 You're going to have to talk with members of the CCP.
00:09:27.000 And if high-ranking political members of the CCP approve a thing, that means that you're going to get special benefits.
00:09:31.000 And so the Chinese assume that the same thing works in the United States.
00:09:34.000 That if you have access to Joe Biden, that means that magically you're going to get sweetheart treatment in the United States.
00:09:39.000 The same thing is true in Ukraine.
00:09:40.000 This is why they're constantly attempting to buy access to American politicians.
00:09:44.000 Even though connection with an American senator is worth like a cup of coffee, the reality is you can be connected to a thousand, a bunch of American senators.
00:09:51.000 And it may make no difference to your business's future.
00:09:53.000 You may be connected to a lot of politicians and it won't do anything.
00:09:56.000 If you live in a foreign corrupt country where you have to know a high-ranking member of the government to get anything done, knowing high-ranking members of the American government you think is going to get things done.
00:10:03.000 So, do you think it's a coincidence that November of 2013, Hunter Biden starts a fund with the Chinese government effectively, and one month later, Joe is squiring Hunter there and meeting with the CEO of this brand new fund.
00:10:19.000 And then it's getting greenlit by the Chinese.
00:10:20.000 You think that that's a coincidence?
00:10:23.000 February 5th, 2014.
00:10:24.000 Kenz Rakashev, a Kazakhstani businessman, meets with Hunter Biden at a hotel in Washington, D.C.
00:10:30.000 In April of 2014, Burisma appoints Hunter, business associate to their board of directors, being paid something like $83,000 a month for nothing.
00:10:37.000 For nothing.
00:10:40.000 April 22nd, 2014.
00:10:41.000 Rakesh Sheth's Singaporean company wired $142,000 through his Latvian company to a Rosemont entity.
00:10:47.000 Now, Rosemont Seneca is, again, the company that was originally founded by Hunter Biden and Devin Archer and John Kerry's son-in-law.
00:10:54.000 April 22nd of 2014, that same day, Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine and gave an anti-corruption speech about Ukraine.
00:11:01.000 So it's clear that he was running foreign policy in Ukraine.
00:11:04.000 Right?
00:11:04.000 Literally at the same time this is happening.
00:11:06.000 So April 15th, 2014 is when Hunter is appointed to the board of BRISMA.
00:11:12.000 And now, April 22nd, 2014, you have Joe Biden talking about corruption in Ukraine.
00:11:18.000 And not only that, this becomes now a running theme.
00:11:21.000 Joe Biden is going to run foreign policy in Ukraine.
00:11:23.000 As we'll see, this has some pretty significant ramifications for how Burisma runs its business and how the money flows.
00:11:29.000 It's a delicate thing to say to a group of leaders in their House of Parliament, but you have to fight the cancer of corruption that is endemic in your system right now.
00:11:47.000 I remember going over convincing our team, or others too, convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees, and I went over I guess the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.
00:12:06.000 And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
00:12:15.000 So they said they were walking out to the press conference and said, no, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
00:12:22.000 They said, you have no authority.
00:12:23.000 You're not the president.
00:12:24.000 The president said.
00:12:25.000 I said, call him.
00:12:27.000 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
00:12:29.000 Okay, so this is him openly saying the thing, as we will see, right?
00:12:36.000 The thing that he is saying is that he basically crammed down on Ukraine the kind of deal that
00:12:43.000 Donald Trump was accused of threatening the Ukrainians with and got impeached for the
00:12:48.000 You remember then in that phone call, the perfect phone call of Vladimir Zelensky, you remember that Donald Trump appeared to say that he was thinking of withholding aid to Ukraine if they didn't dig up corruption on the Biden family.
00:12:59.000 And everyone's like, whoa, that's quid pro quo.
00:13:01.000 Whoa, that's terrible.
00:13:03.000 Here's Joe Biden saying, We're going to withhold aid from Ukraine unless you get rid of this particular prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.
00:13:09.000 Viktor Shokin was targeting Burisma at the time.
00:13:11.000 Now, the international community didn't like Viktor Shokin anymore, but that doesn't matter.
00:13:15.000 Because there could be a conflict of interest when it comes to why Joe Biden wanted Viktor Shokin to go.
00:13:20.000 Two things could be true at once.
00:13:21.000 One, Viktor Shokin could have been corrupt, and a lot of people internationally could have wanted him to go.
00:13:25.000 And two, Joe Biden could have seen an opportunity to do a favor for Burisma while getting rid of the guy with the plausible cover that everybody wanted the guy to go.
00:13:34.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
00:13:35.000 We're going to continue going through the timeline.
00:13:36.000 Because again, the more you see of the timeline and the more you see of the contemporaneous statements by people involved in Hunter Biden's business, the more damning this becomes.
00:13:42.000 Joe Biden was being called into meetings.
00:13:44.000 He was being called on the phone.
00:13:45.000 He clearly knew what was going on at a vague level.
00:13:48.000 He didn't have to know the particulars.
00:13:50.000 In the same way that no crime boss knows the particulars.
00:13:52.000 If you ask the heads of the mafia back in the day, if they knew the particulars of specific murders, the answer was no.
00:13:58.000 They would say to their lower downs, they'd say to their capital regimes, they would say things like, go take care of business.
00:14:04.000 And then the capital regime would go to the hitman and the hitman would go do the thing.
00:14:07.000 And the person on top of the chain never knew.
00:14:08.000 That was the whole idea.
00:14:09.000 The whole idea is that if you're the most powerful person in an organization, you always have plausible deniability as to what your associates are doing.
00:14:15.000 The money just magically enters your bank account.
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00:15:23.000 Back to the timeline.
00:15:25.000 April 23rd, 2014.
00:15:25.000 Right, so we already found out that on April 22nd, a Singaporean company that was originally connected with a Kazakh standing businessman had wired $142,300 to a Rosemont Seneca entity.
00:15:39.000 The next day after that, the Rosemont entity wired $142,300, the same amount, to a car dealership to buy a new sports car for Hunter Biden.
00:15:47.000 Right, so there's money that's flowing directly to Hunter Biden.
00:15:51.000 Meanwhile, China BHR, right, which is that original Chinese firm that Hunter formed with the Chinese government, essentially, and then took Air Force Two to China to make sure that all of that got greenlit.
00:16:02.000 They invested $1.7 billion in a Chinese Communist government party linked petroleum and chemical company.
00:16:09.000 And then in December of 2014, Hunter Biden and business invested almost $500,000 into BHR.
00:16:16.000 And then in December of 2014, that Kazakhstani oil company and Burisma joined with the Chinese company to announce a transnational financial arrangement.
00:16:22.000 So this is Hunter Biden basically brokering all of his connections, and now he's got the Kazakhstani oil company and Burisma and the Chinese government all working together.
00:16:30.000 And then we move forward in 2015, and here's where things start to get really, really hot.
00:16:33.000 This is where Joe Biden's involvement becomes pretty apparent.
00:16:37.000 So, March 20th, 2015, Hunter Biden organizes a business dinner at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C., where he has his father stop by the dinner to meet a high-level Burisma official, Vadim Porzharsky.
00:16:50.000 Hunter is now connecting his daddy in with the folks over at Burisma.
00:16:56.000 This is about the same time.
00:16:58.000 that the head of Burisma during 2015 is apparently telling a confidential human source who reports in
00:17:03.000 2020 to the FBI that quote, it costs five million to pay one Biden and five million to pay another
00:17:09.000 Biden. Apparently Zalewski quote, made some comment that although Hunter Biden was stupid
00:17:14.000 and Zalewski's dog was smarter, Zalewski needed to keep Hunter Biden on the board
00:17:18.000 so everything will be okay.
00:17:19.000 The confidential human source who reported this to the FBI inquired whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he should retain Hunter Biden.
00:17:26.000 And Zlochevsky replied, they both did.
00:17:29.000 They both did.
00:17:29.000 Okay, so according to Zlochevsky, a confidential human source now reporting this to the FBI, this is the document that Senator Chuck Grassley released this week.
00:17:37.000 Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, said that he paid money to the Bidens in order to obtain Joe Biden's support for Burisma.
00:17:44.000 And we know that Hunter Biden was organizing dinners in March 2015, where he had his dad stop by to meet a high-level Burisma official, a guy named Vadim Porzharsky.
00:17:53.000 September of 2015, BHR, that's the Chinese company, joined with another Chinese entity to acquire a U.S.-based automotive company in a deal reportedly worth $600 million.
00:18:04.000 In November of 2015, Porosharsky, the guy who met Joe Biden, suggests that high-level U.S.
00:18:09.000 officials come to Ukraine and talk with Viktor Shokin and President Petro Poroshenko about Mykola Zlochevsky's investigations.
00:18:16.000 Zlochevsky, again, is the head of Burisma.
00:18:18.000 Shokin was investigating Burisma and Burisma's owners, Zlochevsky, for fraud.
00:18:23.000 Shokin is the Ukrainian government official Vice President Biden demanded that Poroshenko then fire.
00:18:28.000 That is in November, early November of 2015.
00:18:31.000 And as I say, according to the confidential human source, Zelensky is openly suggesting at this point that he is paying Hunter and Joe in 2015-2016.
00:18:40.000 In November, a few days later, Amos Hochstein, a high-level U.S.
00:18:46.000 government official working in the Obama-Biden administration, met with Hunter Biden to discuss Burisma.
00:18:51.000 And then, Hochstein, a few days later, met with Vice President Biden in the West Wing.
00:18:56.000 A few days, one day after that, Hochstein called Hunter Biden.
00:18:59.000 So clearly, Hunter Biden is a player over here.
00:19:01.000 And clearly, Hochstein is talking with both Hunter and Joe.
00:19:05.000 November 13th, 2015, Joe Biden announces a trip to Ukraine to take place the first week of December of 2015, and things really heat up.
00:19:11.000 November 14th, 2015, Porosharsky emails Hunter Biden confirmation the VP will be traveling to Ukraine.
00:19:18.000 December 7th, 2015, Hunter and the CEFC chairman, Yixuan Ming, began communicating regarding a possible U.S.
00:19:24.000 partnership.
00:19:24.000 This will become relevant in a little bit.
00:19:28.000 December 7th, 2015.
00:19:30.000 This is when Biden arrives in Ukraine and he demands the show can be fired if Ukraine wants a billion dollars in IMF loans.
00:19:36.000 So just notice, November, we start having indications that Burisma is under investigation by Shokin.
00:19:43.000 By December, Joe Biden is arriving in Ukraine to talk about firing Shokin openly.
00:19:47.000 December 9, 2015, Biden departs Ukraine and gets a commitment from Poroshenko that Shokin will be fired.
00:19:52.000 A little bit later, a couple days later, Biden hosts a holiday party at the VP Residence.
00:19:57.000 Both Amos Hochstein and Hunter Biden are present during that time.
00:20:02.000 All of this should be getting your hackles up just a little bit.
00:20:06.000 It's a little bit shocking.
00:20:08.000 We'll get to Devon Archer's involvement in all of this in just a second, because we now have information from Devon Archer on Joe Biden's involvement in all of this.
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00:21:17.000 Okay, so, so much rest on Joe Biden claiming that throughout this period he had no idea what was going on.
00:21:21.000 But here is the problem.
00:21:22.000 According to Devon Archer, So apparently, Hunter would just get Joe on the phone.
00:21:26.000 Now again, Joe can claim that he has no knowledge of the specifics of these business dealings.
00:21:29.000 with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week
00:21:33.000 from Archer. Okay, so apparently Hunter would just get Joe on the phone. Now again, Joe can claim
00:21:41.000 that he has no knowledge of the specifics of these business dealings. He doesn't have to know,
00:21:45.000 right? This is very easy for Joe.
00:21:47.000 The plausible deniability is where all of the doubt lives.
00:21:51.000 The plausible deniability goes something like this.
00:21:53.000 Joe is in charge of Ukraine policy.
00:21:55.000 Hunter is getting paid up the wazoo by Burisma to basically be a drunken, derelict prostitute using John, who snorts cocaine off the carpets, and happens to have the Biden last name.
00:22:06.000 And the Burisma owners are like, yeah, we're connected to Joe and we're connected to Hunter, and so we'll make sure that Chokin gets in the neck.
00:22:13.000 So, meanwhile, you have American officials talking with Hunter, and then going back to Joe, and they're like, you know who's really corrupt?
00:22:18.000 This Victor Shoken guy.
00:22:20.000 And Joe's looking into it, he's got his people looking, and all of them are saying, yeah, Shoken is corrupt.
00:22:23.000 We can get rid of him.
00:22:24.000 And Joe says, well, okay.
00:22:27.000 You know, no harm, no foul.
00:22:28.000 I'll push for the ouster of Viktor Shokin.
00:22:31.000 I'll push for him to get rid of that because, again, the entire international community wants the thing to happen.
00:22:35.000 And if it just so happens that it's kind of good for Hunter and it's good for the company he's connected with and, you know, the people who I've talked to on speakerphone who I don't even recognize them.
00:22:41.000 I mean, Hunter just puts me on the phone with people and I say hi.
00:22:46.000 That's all Joe Biden's role in this is.
00:22:48.000 He is just the shadowy figure who gets called on the phone every so often by his son.
00:22:53.000 And as we'll see, Hunter is very fond of using this particular tactic.
00:22:57.000 As we'll see when we fast forward to 2017 in China, he uses this particular tactic quite openly.
00:23:01.000 We have evidence that he uses this tactic quite openly.
00:23:04.000 Okay, so January 20th, 2016.
00:23:07.000 We've now entered 2016.
00:23:10.000 VP Biden meets with Petro Poroshenko, then the President of Ukraine, at the World Economic Forum, and Biden reinforces the linkage between the loan guarantee and the necessary reforms.
00:23:19.000 The next month, Mikolas Lovchevsky, again, the head of BRISMA, according to Confidential Human Source, thinks Hunter Biden is dumber than his dog, gives Hunter Biden unspecified extravagant birthday gifts.
00:23:30.000 A few days later, Biden and Poroshenko conduct another call.
00:23:35.000 Meanwhile, Poroshenko is asking Shokin to resign.
00:23:37.000 That's February 16th of 2016.
00:23:38.000 Two days later, Biden personally calls Poroshenko to thank him for calling on Shokin to resign.
00:23:45.000 A couple days later, Shokin actually does resign.
00:23:49.000 And again, the money just keeps on flowing.
00:23:51.000 By March 2016, Shokin is gone.
00:23:53.000 Ukrainian parliament approves Poroshenko's firing of Shokin.
00:23:58.000 And the money just keeps on flowing.
00:23:59.000 It keeps on flowing.
00:24:01.000 Okay, so now we're getting to the period where Joe Biden is out of office.
00:24:05.000 So what is Joe Biden going to do now that he's out of office?
00:24:07.000 And the answer is Hunter is going to go shake down the Chinese on the basis that China is going to be connected to Joe and Joe still has a lot of connections.
00:24:15.000 So 2017 now.
00:24:17.000 So Joe Biden is exiting office.
00:24:19.000 BHR invests $460 million, that's the Chinese company of which Hunter is a part, invests $460 million in a Chinese facial recognition company.
00:24:29.000 In February of 2017, Chairman Yi Zhenming of CEFC gives Hunter Biden a diamond worth 80 grand after having dinner together in Miami, Florida.
00:24:40.000 On March 1st, 2017, Chairman Yi Zhenming's company wires $3 million to Robinson Walker, LLC.
00:24:48.000 That is an entity owned by a Biden associate, Rob Walker.
00:24:54.000 A couple of days later, Robinson Walker wires unspecified Biden accounts $5,000.
00:24:57.000 And then a few days after that, another $25,000.
00:24:59.000 And then a few days after that, another $25,000.
00:25:00.000 And then a little bit later, again, this is all in the month of March, another $50,000.
00:25:05.000 Okay, so just during March, Robinson Walker wires accounts associated with Joe Biden $200,000.
00:25:11.000 Let me correct that.
00:25:16.000 Because on March 31st, there are another two payments for $150,000.
00:25:21.000 So $350,000 gets paid from Robinson Walker, which is being paid by the Chinese, to Hunter Biden's various accounts.
00:25:28.000 And then the wires keep on coming.
00:25:30.000 April, $50,000 to a James Biden account.
00:25:34.000 Another $50,000 to a James Biden account.
00:25:36.000 $10,000 to a Hunter Biden account.
00:25:39.000 300 grand to a Hunter Biden account.
00:25:40.000 This is all in April.
00:25:41.000 These are large amounts of money that are being wired by associates of Hunter Biden to Hunter Biden via the Chinese.
00:25:47.000 We're talking hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:25:50.000 In May of 2017, Joe Biden attends a CEFC meeting at the Four Seasons in LA, according to a Biden family member associate.
00:25:57.000 So, This is, I presume, what Tony Bobulinski is talking about.
00:26:01.000 Bobulinski says, So hundreds of thousands of dollars are now going from the Chinese to Rob Walker's company and from Rob Walker's company to Hunter Biden and James Biden.
00:26:06.000 Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:26:07.000 Biden family, including Joe Biden.
00:26:09.000 So hundreds of thousands of dollars are now going from the Chinese to Rob
00:26:13.000 Walker's company and from Rob Walker's company to Hunter Biden and James
00:26:17.000 Biden, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:26:19.000 Probably millions when you add it all up.
00:26:21.000 And Joe Biden, again, all you have to do is Joe Biden walks through the room,
00:26:25.000 they bring him by and he waves to the Chinese and he walks away.
00:26:28.000 I'm On May 13th, 2017, there's an email between Biden Business Associates about the ownership of this particular CEFC deal.
00:26:35.000 That's the Chinese deal.
00:26:36.000 This is the very famous email from Hunter's laptop mentioning 10 held by H for the big guy.
00:26:42.000 Now we know from a variety of other documents that the big guy generally refers to Joe Biden.
00:26:47.000 So again, the idea here is that Hunter is holding, in escrow essentially, a bunch of money or could be, if the deal goes through, a bunch of money for Joe Biden.
00:26:57.000 July 30th, 2017.
00:26:58.000 This is the one where it becomes absolutely clear how this operation works.
00:27:02.000 July 30th, 2017.
00:27:03.000 In a WhatsApp message to a Chinese company, Hunter Biden says, quote, Please have the director call me.
00:27:08.000 Not James or Tony or Jim.
00:27:10.000 Have him call me tonight.
00:27:11.000 I am sitting here with my father.
00:27:13.000 We would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
00:27:16.000 I am very concerned that the chairman has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me, or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made that have not been kept.
00:27:26.000 Tell the director I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.
00:27:30.000 And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this, other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that the man sitting next to me, and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction.
00:27:42.000 All too often, people mistake kindness for weakness, and all too often, I am standing over the top of them saying, I warned you, from this moment until whenever he reaches me.
00:27:50.000 Hunter Biden then continued, quote, okay, my friend, I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
00:27:54.000 I sure hope whatever you are doing is very, very, very important.
00:27:58.000 So that is Hunter openly saying to Chinese business partners, make the money happen.
00:28:03.000 I'm sitting here with my daddy and my daddy is very well connected and my daddy can make things happen that are very, very bad for you.
00:28:10.000 A few days later, August 2nd, 2017, the arrangement between CEFC and the Biden family changes because the original Biden associates are now removed.
00:28:16.000 Hunter Biden writes, quote, The chairman changed that deal after we met in Miami to a much more lasting and lucrative arrangement to create a holding company, 50% owned by me, 50% owned by him.
00:28:25.000 Consulting fees is one piece of our income stream, but the reason this proposal by the chairman was so much more interesting to me and my family, and my family, is that we would also be partners in the equity and profits of the JV investments.
00:28:36.000 The joint entity, a few days later, is formed, 50% owned by CEFC agent Gongwen Dong, who is a Chinese communist agent, and 50% owned by Hunter Biden.
00:28:46.000 The next day in a WhatsApp exchange, Hunter Biden tells CFC associate Don quote,
00:28:49.000 the Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership.
00:28:53.000 And now the money starts flowing $100,000.
00:28:58.000 $100,000 from CEFC to Hunter Biden's company, Owasco PC.
00:29:01.000 CEFC, one day later, or four days later, wires $5 million to Hudson West III, which is another fund in which Hunter is associated.
00:29:11.000 September 21st, 2017.
00:29:12.000 Hunter Biden requests keys made at his office, shared with his Chinese partners.
00:29:17.000 November 8th, 2017.
00:29:18.000 Patrick Koh, a CEFC agent in America, is arrested at JFK Airport on suspicion of bribery and money laundering on behalf of CEFC China.
00:29:27.000 In March of 2018, Yi Zhenmeng, who is the head of CEFC, was detained by Chinese authorities for suspected economic crimes his whereabouts remain unknown.
00:29:34.000 So presumably he's dead.
00:29:35.000 Presumably the Chinese government killed him.
00:29:39.000 All of this is insanely corrupt.
00:29:42.000 Okay, and remember, Hunter Biden says, quote, this is October of 2019, Hunter neither played a role in the formation or licensure of BHR nor owned any equity in it while his father was vice president.
00:29:52.000 He served only as a member of its board of directors, where he joined based on his interest in seeking ways to bring Chinese capital to international markets.
00:29:57.000 It was an unpaid position.
00:29:59.000 To date, Hunter has not received any compensation for being on BHR's board of directors.
00:30:02.000 He has not received any return on his investment.
00:30:04.000 There have been no distributions to BHR shareholders since Hunter obtained his equity interest.
00:30:08.000 Moreover, Hunter played no role in directing or making BHR's investments.
00:30:11.000 Yeah, no.
00:30:13.000 I'm gonna go no on all of that.
00:30:22.000 So, all of this is deeply suspicious, obviously.
00:30:25.000 And here's the thing.
00:30:27.000 The IRS knows about all of this.
00:30:30.000 Okay?
00:30:30.000 The cover-up is what's truly astonishing.
00:30:31.000 According to IRS whistleblowers, The amount of money that was cleared by Hunter Biden during the period 2014 to 2019 was like $11 million.
00:30:40.000 Like tons and tons and tons of money, much of which Hunter never paid taxes on and the IRS didn't investigate.
00:30:46.000 And according to those IRS whistleblowers, they were sabotaged in their efforts to search storage units of Hunters.
00:30:52.000 They're not allowed to obtain search warrants.
00:30:53.000 They're not allowed to ask witnesses about the big guy.
00:30:55.000 They were told not to dig into this.
00:30:59.000 I mean, this is deeply suspicious stuff.
00:31:02.000 Again, one of the IRS whistleblowers testifies it wasn't $11 million.
00:31:05.000 He testified to $17.3 million from 2014 to 2019 in total foreign income streams through various shell companies to Hunter and his associates.
00:31:14.000 That includes $3.1 million from Amania, $3 million from State Energy HK, a firm affiliated with the CCP and CEFC, another $3.7 million from CEFC-affiliated Hudson West III, and $6.5 million from Burisma.
00:31:30.000 Of that $17.3 million, apparently Hunter received $8.3 million.
00:31:33.000 The rest went to immediate family members and associates.
00:31:36.000 Again, I read to you the text that Hunter Biden sent to his own daughter in 2019, quote, I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.
00:31:46.000 It's really hard.
00:31:47.000 But don't worry, oh my pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.
00:31:52.000 Do we really believe?
00:31:54.000 Do we really believe that Joe Biden knew about none of this and benefited from none of this?
00:31:57.000 That Joe Biden was pure as the driven snow.
00:31:59.000 His son was running around all over the world using his name.
00:32:02.000 He was calling his daddy on the phone during business meetings.
00:32:04.000 He was having his father stop by business meetings.
00:32:06.000 He was meeting with officials.
00:32:07.000 We're meeting with his father.
00:32:09.000 Are we really supposed to believe that Joe Biden was sitting there off in the corner and no benefit accrued to him?
00:32:14.000 And he knew nothing about any of this?
00:32:18.000 It's absurd.
00:32:18.000 It's absurd on its face, and everybody knows it's absurd on its face.
00:32:21.000 And when he's vice president and he's doing this sort of stuff, if he was actually affecting Ukraine policy based on this, which it appears he was, then that's actual bribery.
00:32:29.000 That's the kind of stuff that people get impeached for.
00:32:31.000 The stuff he was doing in 2017, which is influence peddling, isn't illegal.
00:32:35.000 It's ugly, but it's not illegal.
00:32:37.000 It also happens to be that Joe Biden was lying consistently to the American people.
00:32:40.000 When he says over and over and over, I know nothing about my son's business dealings, while squaring his son personally on Air Force Two to China so he can pick up foreign bags of cash, that is obviously a lie.
00:32:49.000 You know how it's really a lie?
00:32:50.000 Because yesterday the White House gave away the game.
00:32:51.000 So the White House press secretary, world's most untalented press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, she was specifically asked about Joe Biden saying he knew nothing about the businesses with his son.
00:32:59.000 And here was her answer.
00:33:01.000 Chairman James Comer today says that the oversight So I've been asked this question a million times.
00:33:06.000 The answer is not going to change.
00:33:07.000 The answer remains the same.
00:33:09.000 The president was never in business with his son.
00:33:10.000 of his son Hunter Biden many times.
00:33:14.000 Curious if the White House and the president still stand behind his comment
00:33:18.000 that he's never been involved and has never even spoken to his son about his business.
00:33:22.000 So I've been asked this question a million times.
00:33:24.000 The answer is not going to change.
00:33:26.000 The answer remains the same.
00:33:27.000 The president was never in business with his son.
00:33:30.000 I just don't have anything else to add.
00:33:32.000 That is not the same answer.
00:33:34.000 That's not the same answer!
00:33:35.000 She says the answer never changed, and then she changes the answer.
00:33:38.000 Notice the phraseology of the question there.
00:33:40.000 The phraseology of the question that the reporter asks is, Did Joe Biden know about the business with his son?
00:33:46.000 Did he know about the business with his son, or did he benefit from any of the business?
00:33:49.000 And her answer is, he was never, quote, in business with his son.
00:33:54.000 He was never in business with... That is a very lawyerly answer.
00:33:57.000 As a lawyer, let me tell you, that is a very lawyerly answer.
00:33:59.000 Because when he says in business, what is the definition of in business?
00:34:02.000 Seriously, what's the definition of in business?
00:34:05.000 So my wife and I share a bank account.
00:34:06.000 Are we in business together?
00:34:08.000 Not really.
00:34:09.000 She doesn't work for me.
00:34:10.000 I don't work for her.
00:34:11.000 We're married.
00:34:12.000 We share a bank account.
00:34:14.000 Now, are our financial activities deeply intertwined?
00:34:17.000 Like completely 100% intertwined?
00:34:19.000 Abso-frickin-lutely.
00:34:20.000 Does that mean I'm in business with my wife?
00:34:23.000 No, we're not technically in business.
00:34:24.000 I'm in business with my business partners, right?
00:34:26.000 I own joint stock in our company with them.
00:34:29.000 I have many business partners and we all own stock together in like Daily Wire and other businesses that I own.
00:34:34.000 I'm in business with them.
00:34:35.000 Am I in business with my wife or with my children?
00:34:39.000 I'm technically not.
00:34:41.000 But does the money flow to my wife from our bank account?
00:34:43.000 Of course!
00:34:45.000 Notice what they're doing there.
00:34:46.000 That is the most squirrely language available.
00:34:48.000 That is a big change from, I never knew a damn thing.
00:34:51.000 I never spoke with my son about this.
00:34:53.000 Joe Biden was lying when he said that.
00:34:55.000 And he's lying when he says that he never benefited from this.
00:34:58.000 It's very difficult to see how he's not lying, in fact.
00:35:02.000 And they're asking you to pull the wool over your own eyes.
00:35:04.000 They're asking you to be an idiot.
00:35:06.000 And so the question is, how stupid do you want to be?
00:35:09.000 Again, I think that the straight line from here to impeachment is pretty clear.
00:35:13.000 And it appears that there's going to be a lot more digging and a lot more data that is going to emerge.
00:35:17.000 I can't get over that text in which Hunter Biden... There are multiple instances of Hunter Biden acknowledging the scheme.
00:35:24.000 There's a literal WhatsApp message where he's saying, my daddy's sitting next to me.
00:35:29.000 Send me money.
00:35:30.000 My daddy's right next to me.
00:35:32.000 He's literally telling his own daughter that he picks up bags of cash for his dad.
00:35:36.000 And we're supposed to believe that this is all above board?
00:35:39.000 Absolute nonsense.
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00:37:45.000 OK, meanwhile, the gall of the Biden family in assuming that you are a moron is truly astonishing.
00:37:50.000 I mean, the most obvious example is Hunter Biden, a crack addict, deciding to become an artiste.
00:37:55.000 He's an artiste, guys.
00:37:57.000 He's just, you know, he's like some of the people from La Boheme.
00:38:00.000 He lives in an apartment and he paints in his free time and he paints masterpieces.
00:38:05.000 And those masterpieces go for like half a million dollars to unspecified buyers.
00:38:10.000 I mean, in fact, Hunter Biden's paintings are so amazing that he can deny them to his own biological child, his name.
00:38:16.000 But if he gives her the masterpieces, then that makes up for it.
00:38:19.000 These amazing works of art.
00:38:21.000 So one of the questions that's always been hanging over this is this pretty obvious money laundering routine where Hunter Biden is clearly selling these pieces to unspecified buyers who are allies of the Biden family.
00:38:29.000 It's who are the people who are buying this?
00:38:30.000 Well, now we know.
00:38:31.000 According to one report, Insider is reporting that L.A.
00:38:35.000 real estate investor Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali, who has given tens of thousands of dollars to the political left, purchased a piece of Joe Biden's artwork.
00:38:42.000 Several months after Hunter Biden's art went on sale, the President appointed Naftali to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
00:38:50.000 Oh, how magical!
00:38:51.000 So, um, so Hunter Biden's art goes on sale.
00:38:54.000 Some lady buys the art for way too much money.
00:38:57.000 And then she also magically appears on the President's Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
00:39:03.000 Wow.
00:39:04.000 Wow.
00:39:05.000 The report said it was not clear if the art she purchased came before or after she was appointed to the commission.
00:39:09.000 Hunter Biden wrote in an email discovered on his abandoned laptop that he could have sway in who gets on the commission.
00:39:15.000 So Hunter Biden literally wrote an email where he's like, you know, I could probably figure out who gets on the commission for the preservation of America's heritage abroad.
00:39:21.000 Also, I paint finger paintings.
00:39:23.000 Who wants to buy a finger painting?
00:39:25.000 Everybody's like, yeah, I'd like to be on the commission for the preservation of America's heritage.
00:39:28.000 I will buy your finger painting.
00:39:31.000 Another owner of Hunter Biden's art is LA attorney Kevin Morris, who was recently spotted smoking a bong during a visit with the president's son.
00:39:38.000 How nice!
00:39:39.000 The New York Times said Morris might have received the art as a gift, while insiders said that Morris purchased the art.
00:39:43.000 One buyer, Identity Unknown, reportedly purchased 11 pieces of Hunter Biden's paintings for $875,000.
00:39:48.000 for $875,000.
00:39:51.000 $875,000 for 11 garbage paintings by Hunter Biden?
00:39:56.000 Jen Psaki said at the time, all interactions regarding the selling of art
00:40:00.000 and the setting of prices will be handled by a professional gallerist,
00:40:02.000 adhering to the highest professional standards.
00:40:05.000 Yes, I am sure.
00:40:06.000 I am sure that there is no corruption.
00:40:08.000 It is all above board.
00:40:09.000 See, the thing is, they do all this out in the open and they know the press is never going to ask about it.
00:40:12.000 And they also know the press is going to downplay it.
00:40:14.000 Now, if this were the Trump family, and let's say that Don Jr.
00:40:18.000 had gone around the world picking up bags of cash while his dad was president.
00:40:22.000 Like picking up the bags of cash and pretty obviously funneling it to his dad.
00:40:27.000 And also, pretty obviously calling his daddy on the phone while all of this was happening.
00:40:32.000 Do you think that maybe that would have earned some media coverage?
00:40:34.000 But instead, here is the narrative.
00:40:35.000 Again, the narrative, to go back to the beginning, the narrative here is Joe Biden is such a good, caring father.
00:40:39.000 How dare you ask him about Hunter?
00:40:41.000 He is a caring father, and he's had a tragic life filled with tragedy.
00:40:44.000 And because of his tragic life filled with tragedy, there's some truth to that.
00:40:47.000 That means that you should not ask about this.
00:40:50.000 In fact, it is appalling that anyone would ask about any of this.
00:40:55.000 Well, here's the thing.
00:40:56.000 I think a lot of Democrats are getting pretty nervous about Biden.
00:40:58.000 Not just because they think that he is actually falling apart as a human being, according to a new Harvard-Harris survey.
00:41:05.000 59% of registered voters have doubts about the president's mental fitness.
00:41:08.000 But it is, that by the way, includes 71% of independents who doubt Biden's mental fitness, and so do 24% of Democrats, according to this poll.
00:41:17.000 It's not just about that.
00:41:18.000 I think that deep in the back of their minds, Democrats are getting a little worried about the fact that Joe is not actually all that clean, and he's never been all that clean.
00:41:27.000 And so they're starting to, you can see it, they're starting to promote Kamala again.
00:41:31.000 They're gonna try and make Fetch happen.
00:41:33.000 And fetch ain't gonna happen.
00:41:34.000 Kamala Harris is super bad about this.
00:41:36.000 So Kamala Harris has been speaking a lot more often.
00:41:38.000 She's in the press a lot more often.
00:41:40.000 And here's the problem for them.
00:41:41.000 The more she's in the press, the more people despise her because she is just terrible at this.
00:41:45.000 She inhabits the actual uncanny valley.
00:41:49.000 She's built a summer home in the uncanny valley.
00:41:52.000 So here she is explaining the work that they've done together.
00:41:56.000 I don't know what she's even talking about.
00:41:57.000 No one knows what she's talking about.
00:41:58.000 We all just know that she's annoying and obnoxious.
00:42:00.000 And think about what our work together and our progress together has meant to so many people.
00:42:10.000 So many.
00:42:12.000 Think about the progress.
00:42:13.000 And also Bidenomics, as they call it.
00:42:16.000 They call it Bidenomics.
00:42:20.000 All of this is part of our blueprint together for what America can be.
00:42:30.000 This is Bidenomics, a plan to invest in America and build a future in which all people can truly thrive.
00:42:39.000 It's Bidenomics.
00:42:41.000 You know, it's Bidenomics.
00:42:43.000 Would it surprise you to learn that there's a person behind Kamala Harris who is actually the arms?
00:42:48.000 You know like the game that you used to play with like your little brother?
00:42:50.000 Where you'd stand behind him and you put your arms out from behind him and you actually move the arms?
00:42:53.000 Where the arms are disconnected from the actual body?
00:42:57.000 That is Kamala Harris.
00:42:57.000 So good luck with that, Democrats.
00:42:58.000 This is working out great.
00:42:59.000 You got your corrupt, elderly, dotted president backed up by Kamala Harris, the worst politician who has ever been put to paper.
00:43:07.000 So good luck with that.
00:43:08.000 And meanwhile, the Republican Party continues to spiral.
00:43:12.000 It is unclear who the nominee is going to be at this point, but it appears that Donald Trump, of course, has the upper hand.
00:43:18.000 As I've said a thousand times, you know what would be great is a campaign run against Joe Biden.
00:43:21.000 That would be the best thing, is if you ran a campaign against Joe Biden.
00:43:24.000 So the media have two missions here.
00:43:25.000 One is to make sure that Donald Trump is the candidate, and the other is to rip down any potential other candidate.
00:43:30.000 So, the latest attacks from the media are honestly some of the most scurrilous yet with regard to Ron DeSantis.
00:43:35.000 I gotta say, this is just absurd.
00:43:37.000 So, first of all, the Republican debates are coming up.
00:43:40.000 The first one is supposed to happen August 23rd, and that really is the kind of opportunity for somebody to start jumping in the polls is August 23rd.
00:43:47.000 The problem is that Donald Trump has said he's not going to participate in the debates because why should he, as he says, because he is the frontrunner.
00:43:52.000 There's no point to it.
00:43:53.000 And if he doesn't show up, does anyone care what all of the other sort of all the little people in the race are?
00:43:59.000 Does it doesn't matter them fighting with each other?
00:44:00.000 Like what difference does it make?
00:44:02.000 So the people who qualified so far are DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:44:10.000 Chris Christie says he wants to do it as well.
00:44:12.000 Former Vice President Pence might not actually make the debate stage because you have to have at least 40,000 individual donors and 1% in three national polls of Republican voters.
00:44:21.000 He doesn't have that number of donors yet, I think is the idea.
00:44:25.000 But, if Trump's not on the stage, what difference does any of this make?
00:44:28.000 And that's really the question.
00:44:29.000 Is it Trump or is it somebody else, right?
00:44:30.000 That's the big question.
00:44:31.000 Everybody knows that's the big question.
00:44:32.000 And so the media are trying to take out the everybody else.
00:44:34.000 So the biggest potential rival right now is Ron DeSantis.
00:44:37.000 Everybody knows that, as much as I like Vivek Ramaswamy personally, Vivek is not taking the nomination away from Trump.
00:44:42.000 He's not even running against Trump.
00:44:43.000 Vivek's entire nominating strategy would basically be, if Donald Trump keels over, then maybe he gets the nomination.
00:44:51.000 And so he's basically running a very, very Trump-supportive campaign.
00:44:54.000 DeSantis obviously is the one being attacked by Trump at this point, and the media are helping him out.
00:44:58.000 They're doing so with lies.
00:45:00.000 Their latest lie is that Ron DeSantis is sponsoring some sort of curriculum here in the state of Florida that is anti-black, which is absurd.
00:45:06.000 The African-American curriculum in the state of Florida was written by a commission largely comprised of black academics.
00:45:12.000 We've talked about this.
00:45:13.000 There are two specific things that the left is claiming that this particular curriculum does.
00:45:17.000 One, they're claiming that the curriculum talks up the benefits of slavery.
00:45:20.000 Why?
00:45:21.000 Because there's a phrase in the curriculum saying that some slaves used skills that they learned while they were slaves to benefit themselves after they were slaves.
00:45:28.000 That is not about the wonders of slavery.
00:45:30.000 That's about the resiliency and amazing entrepreneurialism of the slaves.
00:45:36.000 Clearly, it is not about the wonders of slavery, you idiots and you liars, because that is one.
00:45:41.000 The other one is that apparently the curriculum talks about the white-on-black violence that occurred during particular race riots in the United States, as well as black-on-white violence that also occurred in some of these race riots.
00:45:51.000 Okay, well, yeah, that's a thing that happened.
00:45:53.000 I mean, you could pretend it didn't happen, but it absolutely did happen.
00:45:55.000 Now, does that mean that the race riots were not based on white supremacy?
00:45:58.000 No!
00:45:59.000 But was there violence that also occurred toward white people?
00:46:01.000 Sure!
00:46:02.000 I mean, like, it's all a lie.
00:46:04.000 But the media are gonna run with the lie to try and portray Ron DeSantis as a racist.
00:46:07.000 This is the dumbest thing.
00:46:08.000 It really is garbage.
00:46:10.000 And yet you're seeing the media pick up on this.
00:46:12.000 Of course, of course, it's pretty obvious they think that Trump is the one that they can beat most easily.
00:46:16.000 Here is Stephen A. Smith going after Ron DeSantis.
00:46:20.000 But the more I see stories like this, the more it alerts me to the fact that Ron DeSantis, you don't need to be governor.
00:46:26.000 I'm sorry, you don't need to be president either.
00:46:29.000 The battles that he's fighting is just unconscionable.
00:46:33.000 Why is the governor concerning himself with African-American studies?
00:46:38.000 By the way, in the state of Florida, it's been being taught since 1994.
00:46:42.000 Why are you concerning yourself with such things?
00:46:46.000 And when it says here, because I want to make sure that I'm quoting it correctly, bars and structures and schools that suggest anyone is privileged or oppressed based on their race or skin color.
00:46:56.000 Are you trying to deny the fact That white folks have been privileged compared to other races of people in this country?
00:47:08.000 Are you kidding me?
00:47:11.000 That is a fact that even white folks haven't denied.
00:47:14.000 Okay, can we stop right there?
00:47:15.000 Stephen have been and have been and are not the same thing.
00:47:20.000 Of course, white people were privileged based on their race in 1960.
00:47:23.000 Are they privileged based on their race in 2023?
00:47:24.000 I don't know, Stephen A. Smith, since you have a $13 million a year salary from ESPN.
00:47:31.000 $13 million a year, this dude sitting here talking about how rough black people have it in the United States compared to white people overall in the United States.
00:47:38.000 I'm sorry, this is not 1960.
00:47:39.000 In fact, I'm very happy it's not 1960.
00:47:42.000 Like, this is truly amazing.
00:47:44.000 Meanwhile, Washington Post's Eugene Robinson doing the exact same thing.
00:47:47.000 The number of lies that people will tell in order to go after a candidate, and by the way, it shows you what the media's actual agenda, what their actual agenda is.
00:47:56.000 Because if their agenda were to stop Trump, they would presumably not be elevating Trump at the expense of his opponents.
00:48:02.000 But that's precisely what they're doing.
00:48:04.000 This is why I don't believe them.
00:48:05.000 When they say Trump is a fascist and the country's at stake and it's going to be the end of the country and all this, I don't believe you.
00:48:09.000 Because if somebody is actually a true threat to the republic, you know what you do?
00:48:13.000 You try to defeat them at every stage.
00:48:15.000 I will give you an example of this.
00:48:16.000 I think Bernie Sanders is a true threat to the United States.
00:48:19.000 I think Bernie Sanders' ideology is just wrong.
00:48:21.000 I thought in 2020 that Bernie Sanders would be a far more defeatable candidate by Donald Trump than Joe Biden.
00:48:27.000 I wanted Joe Biden to win the primaries because I did not want Bernie Sanders to be president of the United States.
00:48:32.000 Because I actually do think that Bernie Sanders is a threat to the country.
00:48:36.000 The Democrats don't think that, which is why they're perfectly willing to elevate Donald Trump.
00:48:38.000 So they're liars, on both scores.
00:48:40.000 They're liars about the census, and they're liars about Trump.
00:48:42.000 Here they are going after the census again, based on a lie.
00:48:45.000 My conclusion is that Vice President Harris and our editorial board are right here, because not only in that passage, but in other passages as well, these standards seem to me to be attempting to sort of contextualize American slavery in the wrong context.
00:49:03.000 To normalize it, really.
00:49:05.000 To kind of say, well, other people had, you know, other people at other times had slavery.
00:49:12.000 And they don't, in my estimation, adequately explain the unique horror that was American chattel slavery.
00:49:24.000 I'm sorry, this is all.
00:49:26.000 But again, it's about for the Democrats upholding Trump.
00:49:29.000 They think Trump is more.
00:49:30.000 Maybe they're wrong.
00:49:30.000 Maybe they're wrong.
00:49:31.000 Maybe Trump ends up getting the nomination and crushes Biden.
00:49:33.000 Maybe.
00:49:34.000 Or maybe Democrats are right and they're trying to elevate Trump for a reason.
00:49:38.000 Meanwhile, is Trump running against Joe Biden?
00:49:40.000 Is Trump really going after Joe Biden very hard?
00:49:41.000 Of course not.
00:49:42.000 He's going after Ron DeSantis and Jack Smith.
00:49:44.000 Those are his actual targets.
00:49:45.000 So here is Donald Trump going after DeSantis.
00:49:47.000 If they don't like Ron DeSanctimonious now, they won't like him any better six months from now with the start of primary season.
00:49:55.000 The more people get to know him, the lower his polls are going.
00:50:00.000 He's now in the mid-teens and falling fast.
00:50:03.000 He will soon not be number two.
00:50:05.000 Looks like it won't happen much longer.
00:50:08.000 But he deserves it because he's a very disloyal person.
00:50:11.000 Make America great again.
00:50:13.000 Thank you very much.
00:50:14.000 I mean, again, is everything a test of loyalty to Donald Trump personally?
00:50:19.000 This is what you want to run the campaign based on?
00:50:20.000 So not on Joe Biden's corruption.
00:50:22.000 Not on Joe Biden not being capable of doing his job.
00:50:26.000 Not on his crap policies that are placing the American economy in a position of permanent stagnance and our foreign policy in a position of permanent weakness.
00:50:35.000 Not on that.
00:50:35.000 You want to run on personal loyalty?
00:50:36.000 All right, I mean, I guess if Republicans want to do it, this is exactly what they're going to get.
00:50:40.000 And meanwhile, I just want to bring you the latest over in Israel.
00:50:42.000 Supposedly, Israeli democracy is on the brink of absolute destruction.
00:50:46.000 Why?
00:50:47.000 Well, because the Israeli Knesset, the parliament over there, with a 64-vote majority, voted in favor of a law, an amendment to what they call the Basic Law, which is kind of the quasi-constitution, but not really, over in Israel, that says that the Supreme Court of Israel cannot simply overturn any executive or administrative action on the basis of quote-unquote reasonableness.
00:51:05.000 So imagine that the President of the United States issued an executive order and the Supreme Court didn't determine whether it was inside the authority of the President, they just determined whether it was quote-unquote reasonable.
00:51:15.000 You see how this would be a problem?
00:51:16.000 Because this means that the Supreme Court is basically a dictatorship.
00:51:18.000 They now get to use their own judgment of what is reasonable to substitute for an elected person or an elected body's judgment for what is reasonable.
00:51:27.000 Which makes them not a court.
00:51:29.000 It makes them an actual legislature, just not elected.
00:51:31.000 So, the originally proposed judicial reform package by Likud and by the majority in Israel was a lot more far-reaching than that.
00:51:38.000 It allowed a change in how the Supreme Court justices were selected.
00:51:41.000 It got rid of attorneys that existed within every bureaucratic department in Israel that allowed them to preemptively strike down pieces of legislation and other measures taken by those departments.
00:51:52.000 The judiciary is extraordinarily powerful in Israel because it has irrigated to itself.
00:51:55.000 It has simply usurped an extraordinary amount of power since the 1990s because basically the judiciary, which has been a preserve of the left in Israel for a very long time, saw the rise of the political right in Israel and said, we better grab a bunch of power right now to prevent the elected branches from taking that power later.
00:52:10.000 And that's really what the battle in Israel is about.
00:52:12.000 The real story in Israel is that the breakdown of the Israeli population is effective among the Jewish population is about 80% of the entire population of Israel is Jewish.
00:52:22.000 About 20% is Arab, Muslim, Christian.
00:52:26.000 The 80% breaks down.
00:52:28.000 About 40% is what you call Chiloni, which are people who are secular.
00:52:32.000 And then the other 40%, it's really split right down the half, is people who would be considered Masorti, which means traditional.
00:52:37.000 People who are Datil Umi, which would be like religious Zionist.
00:52:40.000 And then people who are Haredi, which is like the ultra-Orthodox.
00:52:43.000 And so the Chilonim, they serve disproportionately in the army, they pay a disproportionate share of the taxes, largely because the Haredim do not serve in the army and pay almost no tax because their income is too low.
00:52:53.000 So the Chilonim have for a long time had sort of a tacit deal where it's like, we will pay the welfare and we will shoulder the burden, but we also get the political power.
00:53:01.000 And now the demographics are turning against them and so they're freaking out about all of that.
00:53:05.000 They're afraid, essentially, of a shift in Israel from their power to the power of the opposition.
00:53:10.000 This election was a perfect example of that, because the opposition right now is secular parties, as well as Arab parties, and the coalition is essentially ultra-Orthodox parties, religious Zionist parties, and Likud.
00:53:23.000 That is the current coalition.
00:53:25.000 And what the fundamental debate is, is how Jewish is the state going to be, right?
00:53:29.000 In terms of sort of religious precepts.
00:53:31.000 So the idea of the left is that this is a state where a lot of Jews live, but it's basically run just like the United States or like any other liberal democracy.
00:53:39.000 And the idea of the political right in Israel is that it's still going to be a liberal democracy, but it's going to have more Jewish elements of it.
00:53:45.000 So for example, buses not running in particular areas on Sabbath.
00:53:49.000 Or the ability of Haredim to have sex-segregated workspaces.
00:53:53.000 Stuff like that.
00:53:54.000 Right?
00:53:55.000 Or whether there should be Hameds, like Levin, in the hospitals on Passover.
00:54:00.000 These are the questions that in Israel actually have significant impact.
00:54:03.000 Okay, but here is the thing.
00:54:04.000 The rift that is over judicial reform isn't over that, because the actual reform is pretty mild.
00:54:09.000 And there are these mass protests, and they've been going on for months and months and months and months.
00:54:12.000 And the idea was that the protesters were simply going to shut down the economy, shut down the roads, shut down everything until they got their way.
00:54:17.000 This means the Israeli government can't abide this, especially because the reservists were saying they were not going to serve if the government did what it wanted to do.
00:54:24.000 No country can survive a bunch of people who are not elected dictating to the elected government what the elected government should do.
00:54:30.000 It means that elections have no meaning.
00:54:31.000 So, of course, this thing had to pass.
00:54:33.000 Now, I'll tell you one thing that didn't.
00:54:35.000 So, not only did it have to pass, it's actually a good piece of legislation.
00:54:38.000 The White House, the Biden White House, pathetically, actually sounded off on this piece of legislation.
00:54:43.000 I'm not aware that the Biden White House does this routinely anywhere else except for Israel.
00:54:47.000 Truly, there's no other Western Democratic ally of the United States where the United States sounds off on their internal politics.
00:54:53.000 Joe Biden doesn't make statements about the economic policies of France.
00:54:57.000 He doesn't make statements about the immigration policies of the UK.
00:55:00.000 Only when it comes to Israel does he feel the necessity to actually speak out about all of this.
00:55:03.000 But here's the thing.
00:55:04.000 The reason that so much of this divide is being exaggerated Is because of media coverage of the divide and politicians in Israel who, like politicians in America, have a stake in playing up the idea that we have reached crisis point and everything's on fire, that's why you have to support me.
00:55:18.000 It's not true.
00:55:19.000 Everybody who's Hiloni in Israel has a cousin who's Dati Lumi, and everybody who's Dati Lumi has a cousin who's Hiloni.
00:55:25.000 And at the end of the day, everybody's gonna end up going over to each other's house for Shabbat, right?
00:55:29.000 That's the basic idea.
00:55:30.000 But if the media exacerbate it, if the political leadership exacerbates it, it gets worse.
00:55:34.000 So take a perfect example.
00:55:36.000 In the aftermath of this very mild judicial reform being passed.
00:55:40.000 There's a Haredi party, an ultra-Orthodox party, called the United Torah Judaism Party, UTJ.
00:55:46.000 And they proposed a basic law aimed at saying, quote, So instead of actually having to serve in the army, because the Haredim generally get religious exemptions, that was originally based on David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the state of Israel, who is a secular, he made a deal with the ultra-Orthodox that in return for their support of the government, He would exempt, at the time, I think, I believe it was 600 yeshiva students from having to serve in the army.
00:56:13.000 Today, that exemption is like 60,000 people a year being exempted.
00:56:16.000 Just demonstrating, once again, all government programs get very, very large.
00:56:19.000 In any case, there's been this basic conflict between the seculars and, by the way, the Dati Lumi and the Masorti against the Haredi, where the Haredi are saying that us studying in yeshiva all day, Talmud, is the equivalent of you serving in the army.
00:56:34.000 Which, to my mind, is an incorrect and wrong position morally.
00:56:38.000 From a Torah perspective, I think it's wrong.
00:56:40.000 As an Orthodox Jew, I think it's wrong.
00:56:42.000 Again, just go back to the Bible, and the fact is that pretty much everybody in the Bible is a warrior scholar.
00:56:46.000 In any case, put aside the actual halakha, the Jewish law, of all of this, which, you know, I'm invested in, but I know a lot of my listeners don't care.
00:56:52.000 But here is sort of the basic thing.
00:56:56.000 The media played up this proposal by UTJ to exempt al-Kharedim from army service basically forever, enshrined in basic law.
00:57:03.000 There is only one problem.
00:57:05.000 The coalition is not backing this.
00:57:06.000 This is the headline right now at the Jerusalem Post.
00:57:08.000 Oh my God!
00:57:10.000 The theocracy has begun.
00:57:12.000 There is only one problem.
00:57:13.000 Likud, which is the leading party in the majority, in a coalition with UTJ, says, quote, This is not on the table and will not be advanced.
00:57:24.000 It will not be advanced.
00:57:26.000 Another Haredi party, Shas, which is a Sephardic Haredi party, actually said that their party was in shock the proposal was even put forward without its knowledge or consent.
00:57:36.000 So in other words, what the media are attempting to do is, of course, play up the exaggerated differences in order to jar more discontent.
00:57:44.000 That's the basic idea here, and it's really gross.
00:57:47.000 Everybody needs to take a breath.
00:57:48.000 By the way, I say the same thing in the United States.
00:57:50.000 Here's language I don't like in the United States.
00:57:51.000 The next election is the last election.
00:57:52.000 And guess what?
00:57:55.000 When Joe Biden won the last election, guess what?
00:57:56.000 It wasn't the last election.
00:57:57.000 And in fact, the person who was defeated by Joe Biden is likely to be the Republican nominee next time around.
00:58:03.000 In Western democracies, language that people should never use is, this is the end of the country.
00:58:07.000 Like the end of the country.
00:58:09.000 Because guess what?
00:58:10.000 It almost certainly is not.
00:58:11.000 And you're gonna have to deal with that tomorrow.
00:58:13.000 And you're gonna have to live in a country with those people tomorrow.
00:58:15.000 And the same thing is true over in Israel.
00:58:17.000 By the way, it's quite possible that over in Israel, after this law was passed by the sitting majority, It is quite possible at this point that that is going to be overturned by the Supreme Court.
00:58:28.000 This is how crazy the system is in Israel.
00:58:30.000 The Supreme Court could theoretically, on the basis of reasonableness, overturn a law saying they can't do that.
00:58:36.000 That's how crazy the system is.
00:58:37.000 You know, thank God for the American Constitution.
00:58:39.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then a quick thing that I hate.
00:58:42.000 So, things that I like today.
00:58:44.000 So, if you look at Rotten Tomatoes, I have a basic rule about Rotten Tomatoes.
00:58:48.000 The basic rule about Rotten Tomatoes is that if a movie clocks in at somewhere between 60% and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, 60% and 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, it's very likely to be a good movie.
00:59:03.000 If it clocks in at above 85%, particularly if it's a cotton candy movie, it's probably crap.
00:59:07.000 And if it clocks in below 50%, it's probably crap.
00:59:10.000 Okay, well, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny fall squarely in that category, right?
00:59:16.000 It's 69% on Rotten Tomatoes right now.
00:59:17.000 So the rule applies.
00:59:19.000 And I don't know why this movie underperformed at the box office other than the IP is a little bit old.
00:59:25.000 And so a lot of the people who have sort of loyalty to the Indiana Jones IP are people older than I am.
00:59:30.000 And I'm 39.
00:59:32.000 However, this movie is delightful.
00:59:34.000 So I went, I took my wife to see it yesterday.
00:59:36.000 And the movie is quite wonderful.
00:59:38.000 The last five minutes of this movie are like the best thing in the Indiana Jones series, maybe since Raiders.
00:59:44.000 I think, I think like better than some of the stuff in The Last Crusade.
00:59:48.000 First of all, the movie is predicated on the notion that Indiana Jones is actually 80 years old.
00:59:53.000 I will say that the de-aging technology used in this movie is so much better than it is in, say, The Irishman or Rogue One.
00:59:59.000 It's really advanced a long way.
01:00:00.000 Like, the first 20 minutes of the movie is young Harrison Ford, and at least the facial technology is very, very good.
01:00:06.000 I mean, like, much, much better.
01:00:08.000 I saw it on a big screen.
01:00:09.000 Much better.
01:00:10.000 They've really advanced.
01:00:11.000 So it won't be long before you have Fred Astaire starring in things again, in all likelihood.
01:00:15.000 The movie is predicated on the idea that Harrison Ford is 80 years old, and he's now living in 1969 America, and he has to go track down an artifact.
01:00:26.000 But what the movie's really about is, is Harrison Ford a man out of time, right?
01:00:30.000 Is Indiana Jones a man out of time, or can he find a place in this kind of new world that he's not used to inhabiting?
01:00:36.000 Is there a reason for him to continue living?
01:00:38.000 Because the premise of the movie is that they basically tried to undo the Shia LaBeouf.
01:00:42.000 Of all of it, you remember that Shia LaBeouf was in, I believe, Crystal Skull.
01:00:46.000 And Shia LaBeouf is now, he's been killed in the war, presumably the Vietnam War.
01:00:51.000 And, uh, and so Indy has lost his son and he's broken up with his wife, Marion Jones.
01:00:57.000 And, um, and so he, you know, has nothing to live for, basically, and he goes on this kind of one final adventure.
01:01:05.000 There's a callback near the end of this movie.
01:01:07.000 I'm not gonna give it away.
01:01:07.000 There's a callback near the end of this movie to Raiders.
01:01:10.000 That is one of the best writing reversals I've seen in movies for a very, very long time.
01:01:14.000 Like a reversal in a movie is where you say a line in a particular way and later there's a callback to the line but in a completely different way.
01:01:21.000 There's a reversal at the end of this movie that is really one of the most beautiful reversals I've seen in a movie in years.
01:01:28.000 Highly enjoyable.
01:01:30.000 Like all movies today, it's probably 15 minutes too long.
01:01:32.000 Some of the chases go on a little bit too long.
01:01:33.000 But, why this movie didn't do better at the box office is beyond me.
01:01:36.000 Because, honestly, it's pretty good.
01:01:39.000 It's pretty good, and again, the end makes up for all of it.
01:01:41.000 The end is really, really strong.
01:01:42.000 The last 10 minutes of this, really great.
01:01:45.000 So, highly recommended.
01:01:46.000 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
01:01:47.000 When my dad said that, I was kind of surprised.
01:01:49.000 And then we heard from producer Zach the same thing.