The Ben Shapiro Show - June 22, 2016


Ep. 138 - Trump Rips Hillary Apart


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

189.91643

Word Count

10,227

Sentence Count

798

Misogynist Sentences

47

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

In the wake of the Orlando shooting, the Obama administration is doing exactly what it said it would do in order to cover up the truth about what happened in Orlando. They re rewriting reality to fit their narrative, and it s going to be hard to remember the truth as we know it in the future. The more power politicians have over us, the more they have over the reality we see, and the more power they think they can get away with manipulating that reality. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains how the White House altered reality for the benefit of their own political party, and how they re already re-writing history for the historians. He also talks about the Democratic response to the Orlando attack, and why it s a good thing there s no gun control legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives, because they re mad at each other for not having a plan that s better than the one on the Senate floor. And he answers your questions in the mailbag section of The Ben Shapiro Show. Subscribe to Dailywire to get immediate access to all the latest breaking news and analysis from the world s most influential news outlets including CNN, CBS, Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS and the New York Times, USA Today, USA TODAY, and The Huffington Post, and much more. Go to dailywire.co/TheBenShapiro to sign up for a FREE epsiode of the most influential pieces of news and commentary from the left-wing media you can read and listen to each and every single day, wherever you get your most up to date on the breaking news you care about it. Use the hashtag and subscribe to our social media accounts! . to stay up to keep up with the latest in the latest trending topics, including trending topics on the left wing media and trends, and everything else going on in the left side of the left and the left's most influential right wing media, wherever else you get the most authentic and up to learn about things going on around the left s most authentic in the real world, including what s going on. , on social media, including the most important things happening in the world, including the left, the real thing, the left has got it all, and more! , the realest thing going on, right s the most real, the most interesting, the truth is real, and there s more real than you can get it, and so much more!


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Barack Obama is a dramatic failure.
00:00:02.000 His economy has been a slow motion train wreck.
00:00:04.000 His domestic policy has driven racial antagonism to new heights and divided Americans from each other along lines of religion and sexual orientation.
00:00:12.000 On foreign policy, he set the world on fire in the name of a pretty meaningless verbiage and a less hegemonic America, less powerful America.
00:00:20.000 But there's good news.
00:00:21.000 At least he controls the information flow.
00:00:23.000 This week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Americans to believe her rather than their own lying stupid eyes.
00:00:29.000 First, she openly admitted the FBI would censor the 911 phone call of the jihadi Omar Mateen, who murdered 49 Americans at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
00:00:38.000 The FBI, she said, would remove explicit references to ISIS, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Islam.
00:00:45.000 The resulting transcript is pretty hilarious.
00:00:47.000 Here is a taste.
00:00:48.000 Quote, in the name of God, the merciful, the beneficial, in Arabic, praise be to God in prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of, in Arabic,
00:00:55.000 I let you know, I'm in Orlando, and I did the shootings.
00:00:58.000 My name is, I pledge of allegiance to, omitted.
00:01:01.000 I pledge allegiance to, omitted.
00:01:03.000 May God protect him, in Arabic, on behalf of, omitted.
00:01:07.000 This memory-holing would make George Orwell weep.
00:01:09.000 In this iteration, Allah becomes God.
00:01:11.000 See, Islam is just like Judaism and Christianity, gang!
00:01:14.000 But we can't mention terrorist groups and their leaders.
00:01:17.000 In fact, more than a week after the attack, Lynch is still telling the press she doesn't know the jihadi's motivation, even though it says what he was doing right there in the transcript.
00:01:26.000 This is called Crazy Towns.
00:01:28.000 But this is not unusual for the Obama administration.
00:01:30.000 We know that in the run-up to the Iran deal, the Obama administration simply altered reality to fit its narrative.
00:01:35.000 It had fiction writer and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes cook up an account where negotiations with the terrorist state began only after the accession of moderate President Hassan Rouhani.
00:01:46.000 Never mind, Obama and company had been negotiating with the mullahs behind the scenes for years before that.
00:01:51.000 The narrative had to be falsified and upheld.
00:01:53.000 When the State Department was forced to admit about those lies in a press conference, the White House chopped out that section of the taped conference for public release.
00:02:00.000 We also know the Obama administration lied openly about Obamacare.
00:02:04.000 If you knew from the beginning that you couldn't keep your plan or your doctor, you were right.
00:02:08.000 But the Obama administration hid that.
00:02:10.000 We know the Obama State Department sliced out a section of transcript mentioning radical Islam when French President Francois Hollande visited the United States.
00:02:17.000 The person who controls the information flow controls reality, and the Obama administration is already rewriting reality for the historians decades from now.
00:02:25.000 We won't find out where they hid most of the bodies until too late, just as we won't find out what Hillary Clinton hid in her private server until it's way too late.
00:02:33.000 This is why a government must not be trusted with massive power, gang.
00:02:36.000 Politicians have every incentive, not just to lie in the present, but to lie with an eye toward the future.
00:02:41.000 The more power they have over us, the more power they have over the reality we see, and the more they think they can get away with manipulating that reality.
00:02:48.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:02:49.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:57.000 So, okay, for some reason I'm not hearing things, but we'll see if that holds true in a second.
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00:03:27.000 Today, the Democrats decided that they'd come up with a brilliant new plan to fight on behalf of gun control.
00:03:35.000 We talked about how Senate Democrats yesterday rejected their four different proposals brought to the floor of the Senate.
00:03:41.000 Two were terrible, two weren't so terrible.
00:03:43.000 The Senate Democrats rejected the two that weren't so terrible.
00:03:45.000 The Republicans rejected the two that were terrible.
00:03:47.000 All four were rejected.
00:03:49.000 Now, today, Democrats in the House, they're really super mad.
00:03:51.000 They're so angry.
00:03:52.000 They're so angry that they're doing this.
00:03:55.000 Right?
00:03:55.000 This is 28.
00:03:56.000 This is Democrats acting like toddlers.
00:03:59.000 They're here on the floor of the House.
00:04:00.000 And what do you see?
00:04:02.000 A bunch of people sitting on the floor of the House.
00:04:04.000 Sitting there.
00:04:04.000 This is their sit-in.
00:04:06.000 Sponsored by Preparation H.
00:04:08.000 And they're sitting there all day apparently.
00:04:10.000 They're going to sit until they get a vote on the no-fly list.
00:04:14.000 They want the no-fly list to become the no-gun-buy list.
00:04:17.000 What's hilarious is one of the leaders on this thing was on the no-fly list.
00:04:20.000 So apparently he thinks he shouldn't be able to buy a gun because he was on the no-fly list.
00:04:24.000 But they're sitting there.
00:04:25.000 They've been sitting there all day.
00:04:27.000 They're hashtagging no more silence.
00:04:29.000 I do love some of the things that they're tweeting.
00:04:31.000 It's pretty ridiculous.
00:04:32.000 First of all, let me just tell you, Democrats, this is not a threat, okay?
00:04:36.000 You can't strike against something I don't want you to be doing anyway.
00:04:40.000 This is like you declaring that you want me to do something, so you're gonna strike against kidnapping my child.
00:04:45.000 Like, I didn't want you to kidnap my child, so I would hope that you continue to strike against kidnapping my child.
00:04:49.000 Please continue to strike against voting in the House.
00:04:52.000 I don't want you voting in the House.
00:04:53.000 You're terrible!
00:04:54.000 I hope that you sit on that floor forever.
00:04:56.000 I hope that you just sit there until you decay.
00:04:58.000 I hope that you sit there until you get bedsores and abscesses.
00:05:02.000 I hope that you sit there for all eternity, and you never go anywhere, and you never vote on things, and you just leave me alone.
00:05:08.000 That's my great hope.
00:05:09.000 This is the greatest sit-in of all time.
00:05:10.000 I'm totally for the sit-in.
00:05:12.000 If... if...
00:05:14.000 If you can do this every day, this would be great.
00:05:16.000 Representative John Lewis says we don't have any intention of leaving anytime soon, which means it's going to get kind of stinky in there pretty quickly.
00:05:21.000 I've already suggested that Republicans counter the sit-in with a Saul Alinsky-style fart-in.
00:05:26.000 They go up to the house, the balcony of the House chamber, and they just start ripping them, start letting them loose, and let the Democrats just stew in that.
00:05:34.000 For the next few hours, and that'll basically be a great summary of what Congress is anyway.
00:05:38.000 A bunch of fat old people sitting around farting on each other.
00:05:40.000 That'll be basically what Congress does in any case, so that'll make me a happy camper.
00:05:45.000 That's very exciting.
00:05:46.000 My favorite quote comes from Jerry Nadler, who is legitimately one of the more ridiculous figures in Congress.
00:05:52.000 We don't have a picture of him, unfortunately, because he looks like a George Lucas creation from Star Wars Episode IV, but
00:06:00.000 Not even, like, a computer-generated George Lucas.
00:06:02.000 Like, one of the actual animatronic ones.
00:06:04.000 And Jerry Nadler, he just said, quote, Which sounds like they're actually gonna do, like, a human sacrifice on the floor of the house.
00:06:15.000 Which, come to think of it, I mean, I have a few people I could volunteer for that.
00:06:18.000 If we're gonna do that, we may as well just really go for it.
00:06:21.000 I mean, that's assuming that some of them are still alive, like Nancy Pelosi, but the whole thing is just hilarious.
00:06:27.000 My favorite tweet thread here is Charles Cook from National Review.
00:06:33.000 He's been tweeting out this fake conversation about their threat, and basically the conversation goes like this.
00:06:40.000 If you won't attack the Fifth Amendment, we'll sit down on the floor.
00:06:43.000 Okay?
00:06:44.000 But we're sitting on the floor!
00:06:46.000 Okay?
00:06:47.000 I'm not sure you understand this.
00:06:48.000 We will actually sit on the floor.
00:06:51.000 We'll be sitting, it'll be on the floor.
00:06:54.000 Okay?
00:06:55.000 In other words, you choose.
00:06:56.000 Undermine the fifth, or we sit on the floor.
00:06:59.000 Sit on the floor then.
00:07:00.000 We'll do it.
00:07:00.000 We'll sit down.
00:07:03.000 Okay?
00:07:05.000 That's exactly what this is.
00:07:08.000 I love it so much.
00:07:09.000 They're just sitting there and they expect me to care.
00:07:11.000 It's like, oh my God, you're right!
00:07:12.000 Let's burn the Constitution or you're gonna sit there!
00:07:15.000 Oh no!
00:07:18.000 Now again, let's reiterate.
00:07:20.000 What the Democrats want from all of this is they want to be able to revoke the due process rights in the Fifth Amendment.
00:07:25.000 They want to make it so that if the FBI puts you on a list, you can't buy a gun and you really have no way of getting off the list.
00:07:30.000 You don't even know you're on the list until you go to try and buy a gun or you try and fly on a plane.
00:07:34.000 And then they say, well, maybe we'll let you off if you show us that you're innocent.
00:07:38.000 Which is not exactly how democratic countries work, but it's pretty incredible.
00:07:42.000 I love it a lot.
00:07:43.000 So I hope that by this time tomorrow, they're still sitting there.
00:07:47.000 I hope that they continue to sit there forever.
00:07:49.000 I'm happy to ship in IVs.
00:07:51.000 I'm happy to ship in candy.
00:07:52.000 My daughter has a small toilet that we can ship in for them.
00:07:56.000 She has a little potty.
00:07:58.000 I could not be more excited about this whole thing.
00:08:00.000 Honestly, I think that it's just fantastic.
00:08:02.000 Okay, so.
00:08:03.000 Meanwhile, that's all going on.
00:08:05.000 Well, that's ongoing.
00:08:06.000 The propaganda mill continues to churn over at the Obama administration.
00:08:10.000 Loretta Lynch, who, as Andrew Klavan calls her, she's the most sinister figure in the Obama administration, because she sits there and talks with preternatural calm about the stupidest, most insane, insipid crap that you've ever heard in your life.
00:08:23.000 So, yesterday, Loretta Lynch did a press conference, and she said many a stupid thing.
00:08:27.000 Many a stupid thing.
00:08:28.000 Let's start with stupid thing number one.
00:08:30.000 This is where she says that the best, she gives the best response to Orlando jihadists shooting up gay people at a nightclub.
00:08:38.000 Here's the best response, she says.
00:08:40.000 We stand with you to say that the good in this world far outweighs the evil, that our common humanity transcends our differences, and that our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion, to unity, and it's love.
00:08:57.000 We stand with you today as we grieve together.
00:09:00.000 And long after the cameras are gone, we will continue to stand with you as we grow together in commitment, in solidarity, and in equality.
00:09:10.000 Passion, unity, and love are the best response.
00:09:12.000 I could make an obscene hand gesture right now, but I'm barred by my company from doing so.
00:09:17.000 So, passion, unity, and love.
00:09:19.000 Somewhere ISIS is going, yeah, you know what?
00:09:21.000 I'm gonna fund a community center now.
00:09:24.000 I can't believe it.
00:09:24.000 She really, passion, unity, and love.
00:09:28.000 Okay, so that's exciting.
00:09:29.000 Meanwhile, Loretta Lynch continued by saying, we don't know this guy's motives.
00:09:33.000 Okay, so we don't know his motives, she says.
00:09:37.000 Except for when he called 9-1-1 and spent three hours on the phone telling them his motive.
00:09:42.000 Except for that.
00:09:43.000 It's like the O.J.
00:09:44.000 Simpson trial.
00:09:45.000 Oh, what could O.J.'
00:09:45.000 's motive have been?
00:09:46.000 I don't know.
00:09:47.000 What was his motive?
00:09:48.000 He probably wasn't O.J.
00:09:49.000 It was probably Mark Furman.
00:09:51.000 You know, why would he kill his ex-wife he'd threatened to kill many times before?
00:09:54.000 This is crazy!
00:09:54.000 Okay, the guy came out and he said, I'm doing this for ISIS.
00:09:57.000 But why would he do this thing?
00:10:00.000 I don't know!
00:10:01.000 This is great!
00:10:01.000 Okay, so, here's Loretta Lynch, sticking her head like an ostrich into the sand, and it's actually coming out in Australia by now, so here is Loretta Lynch.
00:10:09.000 We may never know!
00:10:10.000 The Man's Mode is all a mystery wrapped in an enigma!
00:10:14.000 Wrapped in another mystery!
00:10:16.000 I don't, it's just, it's a conundrum.
00:10:18.000 Here we go.
00:10:19.000 She said in particular they're looking into why Mateen targeted this place and this community.
00:10:24.000 They have repeatedly said this is not only terrorism, it's also a hate crime, but it seems that she and the administration are trying to shift the conversation more to hate and not just terrorism.
00:10:34.000 And is there a reason, Paula, as to why there's such an emphasis more on the hate than the terrorism?
00:10:38.000 It's interesting because yesterday we saw with the redactions there was such an outcry when they tried to take out his name and the terrorist organizations, plural, that inspired him and there was such pushback saying do you not want to admit that this was a terrorist act?
00:10:52.000 So it's interesting that once again she's trying to make this pivot.
00:10:55.000 I will say that in her career the Attorney General has tried very hard for the LGBT community to protect their rights and the rights of other minority groups here.
00:11:04.000 I think she wants to make sure
00:11:05.000 This is how the reporters work, right?
00:11:07.000 So she's a really crappy attorney general.
00:11:09.000 She's the most morally bankrupt attorney general since, like, Eric Holder, who was the last guy.
00:11:14.000 But she said, I love the reporter saying, so she's really bad at her job, but she's super pro-gay.
00:11:19.000 Well, that fixes everything.
00:11:21.000 My favorite part of this is that Loretta Lynch yesterday announced that the wife of this jihadist was texting with him during the attack and apparently helped scout out the site.
00:11:29.000 Here's Loretta Lynch explaining what happened to his wife.
00:11:32.000 And really, for this to work, you have to be imagining the Benny Hill music in the background.
00:11:36.000 So you have to sort of imagine that music playing underneath Loretta Lynch here.
00:11:45.000 Right now, I do not know exactly the answer to that.
00:11:48.000 I believe she was going to travel, but I do not know exactly her location now.
00:11:53.000 She's gone!
00:11:54.000 We don't know where she could be.
00:11:57.000 Yes, she sort of has escaped to the FBI, right?
00:12:00.000 She's a mastermind criminal.
00:12:01.000 I don't know where she is.
00:12:02.000 I like how she says that.
00:12:04.000 She was going traveling.
00:12:05.000 She was going traveling.
00:12:06.000 She's vacationing, and she's like Andrew Klavan, and she summers in New Hampshire, like, well, what are we talking about here?
00:12:11.000 So, this whole thing just continues to be increasingly ridiculous, and the purposeful blindness of all of it is truly amazing.
00:12:19.000 John Kerry is the Secretary of State.
00:12:21.000 John Kerry, he comes out, and right after this happens, right after this happens, and remember, this guy's father, the Orlando shooter's father, was an Afghan refugee, right?
00:12:29.000 And we let him in, and then he came in, and he brought up this crappy son.
00:12:32.000 We now have a case in Idaho that's being looked into where it appears that some Muslim refugees may have raped a five-year-old mentally disabled girl.
00:12:42.000 And John Kerry is telling us, oh, no, don't worry about these refugees.
00:12:46.000 They don't pose any risk.
00:12:47.000 Come on.
00:12:48.000 There is absolutely no evidence, my friends, zero evidence, that refugees who make it through this arduous process
00:12:58.000 ...prose any greater threat to our society than the members of any other group.
00:13:04.000 And it is important for people to know that.
00:13:06.000 There's no evidence.
00:13:08.000 I can't show you evidence.
00:13:10.000 My face is in a full state of structural collapse.
00:13:14.000 But there is no evidence.
00:13:16.000 Let me be very clear.
00:13:18.000 Preventing any group from entering the United States solely because of their race or because of their nationality or because of a religious affiliation
00:13:27.000 is directly contrary to the very ideals on which our country is based.
00:13:42.000 I don't know what's sort of left here.
00:13:44.000 It looks like Silly Putty, and the Silly Putty was left out in the rain or something.
00:13:48.000 It's just, it's a bizarre world.
00:13:51.000 But aside from making fun of John Kerry's sagging facial structure, which looks like a mudslide in the San Fernando Hills, aside from that, John Kerry saying that refugees don't pose a risk.
00:14:00.000 Yeah, ask France how that's going for them.
00:14:02.000 Ask the Germans how that's going for them.
00:14:05.000 And it just continues like this.
00:14:06.000 Josh Earnest from the White House, he came out yesterday.
00:14:09.000 He says, radical Islamic extremism is just a talking point.
00:14:13.000 Well, I don't know why everybody's upset about this whole radical Islamic extremist thing.
00:14:16.000 I mean, come on!
00:14:17.000 It's a talking point.
00:14:18.000 Not like when we say that gun control needs to be pursued in the aftermath of a jihadist killing law.
00:14:22.000 That's not a talking point.
00:14:23.000 That's reality.
00:14:24.000 Not like when we have a bunch of people sitting around on the floor of the house pooping on themselves for no reason.
00:14:28.000 No, this is a real talking point when people say radical Islamic extremism.
00:14:32.000 No, Chris, it's outrageous, actually.
00:14:34.000 The truth of the matter is, the individuals who spend most of their time talking about radical Islamic terrorism are individuals, like Republicans in the Senate, who voted against legislation that would prevent those individuals from being able to buy a gun.
00:14:46.000 And those are individuals who have not actually put forward their own strategy for keeping the country safe.
00:14:51.000 Using the term radical Islamic extremism is not a counterterrorism strategy.
00:14:56.000 It is a political talking point, plain and simple.
00:14:59.000 And what the President of the United States has done
00:15:00.000 Why isn't his FBI aggressively pursuing deporting those people?
00:15:30.000 Because they're not.
00:15:32.000 Because here's the inconvenient problem.
00:15:34.000 Here is a friend of the Orlando terrorist from many years ago saying, uh, I told the FBI this guy was a creeper.
00:15:42.000 I told them.
00:15:44.000 Shortly after that, Malik says he heard Mateen talking about Awolaki's videos.
00:15:49.000 It concerned him so much, he called the FBI.
00:15:51.000 He told me they were very powerful.
00:15:54.000 And that, for you, was troubling?
00:15:55.000 That raised the red flag even higher for me.
00:15:58.000 The FBI did investigate Mateen for the second time in two years and cleared him of any suspicion.
00:16:04.000 Malick says the FBI never asked Mateen again, but did contact him.
00:16:11.000 Slow clap for the FBI.
00:16:13.000 Yeah.
00:16:14.000 So their new narrative is that we have to take away my guns, take away your guns, take away everybody's guns.
00:16:19.000 Because let's be real about this.
00:16:20.000 As soon as the federal government has the power to ban you from buying guns based on your presence on a terror watch list, they're just going to put you on a terror watch list.
00:16:28.000 As soon as Democrats are in power, they're just gonna say anybody who opposes the administration, anybody who opposes certain policies, anybody who has ties to any organization they don't like, up to and including just normal political organizations, they're just gonna ban you from buying guns.
00:16:41.000 That's where this is going.
00:16:43.000 Okay, so meanwhile, as the Democrats continue to implode over gun control in Orlando, Hillary Clinton is going on attack against Donald Trump.
00:16:52.000 So Hillary and Trump are now going at each other directly.
00:16:55.000 And what's kind of fun about this is that they're legitimately two of the worst people in America.
00:17:00.000 And when they attack each other, they only say true things about each other.
00:17:04.000 They only say false things about themselves, but they only say true things about each other.
00:17:08.000 And so watching them attack each other is kind of amusing.
00:17:10.000 Now, I think that Hillary would make a worse president than Trump, as I've articulated before.
00:17:15.000 Because I think all of her principles are wrong.
00:17:17.000 I think two-thirds of Trump's principles are wrong.
00:17:20.000 The reason I'm not voting for Trump is because I think that there are a lot of people, as we'll get to in just a little while here, who are willing to sell out principle and not just sell out principle, undermine principle, in order to back Trump, who's gonna get shellacked anyway.
00:17:30.000 But here is Hillary Clinton attacking Trump over the economy yesterday.
00:17:35.000 Just look at what he did in Atlantic City.
00:17:37.000 He put his name on buildings, his favorite thing to do.
00:17:40.000 He convinced other people that his properties were a great investment.
00:17:46.000 So they would go in with him.
00:17:48.000 But he arranged it so he got paid no matter how his companies performed.
00:17:53.000 So when his casino and hotel went bankrupt because of how badly he mismanaged them, he still walked away with millions while everybody else paid the price.
00:18:07.000 Well, today his properties are sold, shuttered, or falling apart.
00:18:13.000 And so are a lot of people's lives.
00:18:15.000 We cannot put a person like this with all his empty promises in a position of power over our lives.
00:18:26.000 We can't let him bankrupt America like we are one of his failed casinos.
00:18:32.000 Okay, so we can stop it right there.
00:18:34.000 Yes, that's true.
00:18:35.000 He has gone bankrupt.
00:18:36.000 His companies have gone bankrupt many times.
00:18:38.000 He says he likes to play off of debt.
00:18:40.000 He clearly does like to play off of debt.
00:18:41.000 Hillary goes after Trump.
00:18:42.000 She says he didn't even pay his own employees properly.
00:18:46.000 And small businesses that did work for Trump and never got paid.
00:18:52.000 Painters, waiters, plumbers, people who needed the money and didn't get it.
00:18:59.000 Not because he couldn't pay them, but because he could stiff them.
00:19:05.000 Sometimes he offered them 30 cents on the dollar for projects they had already completed.
00:19:12.000 Hundreds of liens have been filed against him by contractors going back decades.
00:19:20.000 Again, fact check, true.
00:19:21.000 All of this is true.
00:19:23.000 Donald Trump is a sleaze.
00:19:25.000 Okay, all of this is true.
00:19:26.000 And then Hillary says that Donald Trump's policies would lead to an economic recession.
00:19:29.000 Again, kind of true.
00:19:32.000 One of John McCain's former economic advisors actually calculated what would happen to our country if Trump gets his way.
00:19:42.000 He described the results of a Trump recession.
00:19:48.000 We would lose three and a half million jobs, incomes would stagnate, debt would explode, and stock prices would plummet.
00:19:59.000 She's talking specifically about his trade policy, and his trade policy is in fact disastrous.
00:20:03.000 It's very stupid, as I've talked about before.
00:20:06.000 You don't make an economy richer by shutting it off to all the other economies, then we can't trade with them.
00:20:10.000 They won't buy our products.
00:20:11.000 We can't buy cheaper products from them.
00:20:13.000 We don't get cool stuff.
00:20:14.000 We just generate whatever.
00:20:15.000 Think of it this way.
00:20:16.000 If you could only trade with the people inside your own house, namely like you and your immediate family, would you be poorer or richer than if you can trade with everybody around you?
00:20:24.000 If you can go to the grocery store and the gas station, the answer is you'd be a lot poorer.
00:20:27.000 Okay, the same thing holds true for the American economy as a whole.
00:20:30.000 Now here's the problem.
00:20:31.000 Here's the problem.
00:20:32.000 Hillary Clinton can make a fine anti-Trump case.
00:20:35.000 She can't make a pro-Hillary case, because there is no pro-Hillary case.
00:20:38.000 So here is Hillary Clinton's economic advisor being asked again, this is like the fourth time this has happened, where somebody's asked Hillary's people, what's the difference between a socialist and a democrat, and they have no idea how to answer the question.
00:20:49.000 What's the difference between a democrat and a socialist?
00:20:54.000 Look, I'm not here to do general definitions, but I believe that the kind of progressive Democrat that she is, is one that understands that we are of course a market economy, that we of course rely on job creation, small business, entrepreneurship here.
00:21:09.000 But believes that we as a country have a responsibility in the face of strong economic change to make sure that we are shaping that change so that it is not hollowing out the middle class or being indifferent to the middle class, as I think we've seen from too many Republican administrations and Republican leadership, and one that is actively seeking to shape economic change so that it strengthens the middle class, that the focus is on our middle class families seeing their wages, their hopes, their aspirations.
00:21:35.000 There's no good answer here.
00:21:36.000 It's babbly babble McBabbleface.
00:21:38.000 Because there's no good answer here.
00:21:39.000 Okay, so Hillary is a crap.
00:21:41.000 So, now we turn to Trump, and Trump has his opportunity.
00:21:44.000 The Democrats are doing sit-ins on the House floor.
00:21:46.000 The Democrats are proclaiming that Islam has nothing to do with a radical jihadist murdering 49 people in Orlando, Florida.
00:21:53.000 Hillary Clinton has no capacity to defend herself.
00:21:56.000 So, as always, now it's time for some Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:21:59.000 Yay!
00:22:00.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:22:01.000 So, should we start with Bad Trump or should we start with Good Trump?
00:22:03.000 We'll start with Good Trump today.
00:22:05.000 So there's an awful lot of Good Trump today.
00:22:07.000 Aren't you excited about it?
00:22:08.000 And just out of the significance of this moment, it's time for some Good Trump.
00:22:16.000 Oh, yes.
00:22:16.000 It's time for some good Trump.
00:22:17.000 So, okay, Donald Trump made a speech today.
00:22:20.000 Donald Trump made a speech today from a teleprompter.
00:22:22.000 So, normally, this is sort of how this works, right?
00:22:25.000 Donald Trump speaks from the teleprompter, and it's good!
00:22:27.000 Yay, good Trump!
00:22:28.000 He's speaking from the teleprompter.
00:22:29.000 America's a wonderful place.
00:22:31.000 Then, the teleprompter shuts off, or he turns his face away from the teleprompter, and we get bad Trump, right?
00:22:37.000 And then we get, oh, well, that's when the Mexican judge came after me.
00:22:40.000 So,
00:22:41.000 Donald Trump was actually more on teleprompter today.
00:22:43.000 He was in, and this is the thing, teleprompter Trump is much better than unscripted Donald.
00:22:47.000 Much better than unscripted Donald.
00:22:49.000 So, he gave a speech today in which he went after Hillary Clinton.
00:22:52.000 It wasn't a perfect speech.
00:22:54.000 He still had moments that were stupid.
00:22:55.000 He still made his inane points about trade, which are just, again, economically illiterate.
00:23:01.000 He still said his silly things about how he's the only one who can save America, but
00:23:05.000 He got in some pretty good jabs at Hillary Clinton, and this does a couple of things for him.
00:23:09.000 This does a couple of things for him.
00:23:10.000 One, it justifies the argument that a lot of folks were making about Trump in the primaries, that he was the only one capable of really hitting Hillary cleanly.
00:23:18.000 That he was the only one capable of really punching Hillary hard.
00:23:22.000 This speech punched Hillary hard, there's no question.
00:23:23.000 It really hit Hillary hard.
00:23:25.000 It didn't hit her cleanly because Trump is dirty.
00:23:27.000 So because he's dirty, he's opened up himself.
00:23:29.000 So Hillary's hitting him.
00:23:30.000 They're hitting each other.
00:23:31.000 Remember in, I think it's in Rocky 2,
00:23:36.000 And Rocky, too.
00:23:36.000 At the very end, they have the fight, and at the very end of the fight, Rocky and Apollo both hit each other at the same time, and they both go down, and then Rocky gets up.
00:23:45.000 Right, because he's Rocky?
00:23:46.000 By the way, those movies, the idea that Sylvester Stallone would ever beat Carl Weathers in a fight is a joke.
00:23:50.000 Carl Weathers would destroy Sylvester Stallone in a fight.
00:23:53.000 But aside from that, they hit each other and they both go down, and Sylvester Stallone gets up.
00:23:57.000 Trump and Hillary are like that.
00:24:00.000 He's getting a lot of good shots in at Hillary, but he's not really clean on any of these shots, and I'll explain why, but he is justifying the contention made by Trump people that Trump was capable, maybe the only one in the field, capable of really hitting Hillary hard.
00:24:13.000 If Trump starts to be effective at this, if he stays on message, if let's say he spends the next six months just hitting Hillary, the next five months just hitting Hillary, it's gonna put a lot of pressure on people like me to support Trump.
00:24:24.000 Hillary Clinton, and as you know, she, most people know,
00:24:46.000 She's a world-class liar.
00:24:48.000 Just look at her pathetic email server statements.
00:24:52.000 Or her phony landing in Bosnia, where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.
00:25:01.000 A total and self-serving lie.
00:25:03.000 Look, this was one of the beauts.
00:25:06.000 A total and self-serving lie.
00:25:10.000 Brian Williams' career was destroyed for saying less.
00:25:14.000 Just remember that.
00:25:16.000 Okay.
00:25:16.000 He continues along those lines.
00:25:18.000 He calls her a liar.
00:25:19.000 And that's all right.
00:25:19.000 That's all good.
00:25:20.000 It doesn't have, I think, the kind of, this particular section didn't have the resonance that you would hope that it had because if the best you can come up with is her lying about the tarmac in Bosnia in 1999.
00:25:29.000 That's a little bit of weak tea.
00:25:30.000 I mean, she lies much worse.
00:25:31.000 And that's, when he gets to that stuff, then this speech gets good.
00:25:34.000 Then suddenly you start to see good Trump, right?
00:25:36.000 You start to see the Trump who wails against people.
00:25:38.000 You do have to ask, again, the reason this doesn't totally work is because Trump lies all the time.
00:25:42.000 So when he accuses Hillary of lying all the time, it doesn't have the same impact as it would from somebody who tells the truth more often.
00:25:48.000 And when he says that Hillary Clinton falsifies things in the past, it doesn't have quite the same weight as it would from somebody who didn't masquerade as his own
00:25:56.000 The other candidate in this race has spent her entire life making money for special interests, and I will tell you, she's made plenty of money for them.
00:26:18.000 And she's been taking plenty of money out for herself.
00:26:22.000 Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft.
00:26:28.000 She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others, and really many, many others,
00:26:38.000 In exchange for cash.
00:26:40.000 Pure and simple, folks.
00:26:42.000 Then when she left, she made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests, and in less than two years, secret speeches that she does not want to reveal under any circumstances to the public.
00:27:00.000 I wonder why.
00:27:02.000 Together, she and Bill made $153 million giving speeches to lobbyists, CEOs, and foreign governments in the years since 2001.
00:27:13.000 They totally own her, and that will never, ever change, including if she ever became president.
00:27:22.000 Okay, they totally own her.
00:27:23.000 Yes, totally true, totally true.
00:27:25.000 So, quick side note.
00:27:26.000 It's weird when Donald Trump inhales like he's doing a line of cocaine between phrases.
00:27:30.000 But what he's saying there is, of course, true.
00:27:33.000 When he says, Hillary Clinton is totally owned.
00:27:37.000 In a way that no one else has ever been totally owned, this is true.
00:27:41.000 She is owned.
00:27:41.000 The problem, of course, is that Donald Trump has also bragged about owning politicians and engaging in the buying and selling of politicians, but he's not wrong here.
00:27:49.000 He's not wrong here.
00:27:49.000 These are all solid jabs at Hillary Clinton.
00:27:52.000 And this was the best moment for Trump.
00:27:54.000 This, I thought, was the best moment for Trump.
00:27:55.000 This is clip 16.
00:27:56.000 Donald Trump goes after Hillary Clinton's slogan.
00:27:58.000 He's going precisely after Hillary's biggest weakness, which is people think Hillary is a narcissist who is self-serving, and the only reason she's running is for her personal self-aggrandizement.
00:28:07.000 Right?
00:28:07.000 And Trump hits her on that, and he hits her solid.
00:28:10.000 She believes she's entitled to the office.
00:28:12.000 Her campaign slogan is, I'm with her.
00:28:16.000 You know what my response is to that?
00:28:19.000 I'm with you, the American people.
00:28:35.000 And folks, the reason I'm laughing is because you can't see it, but Trump is sitting there doing his smug, self-satisfied grin.
00:28:42.000 It's exactly this grin, actually.
00:28:44.000 And Trump is sitting there doing that, and he suddenly just mouths at people.
00:28:51.000 His mouth doesn't expand beyond this radius of his face, so it's just below his nose.
00:28:58.000 So, in any case, Trump says the thing.
00:29:00.000 But he's right.
00:29:01.000 That's the best line of his speech, right?
00:29:02.000 Where he says that Hillary Clinton, her slogan is, I'm with her, I'm with you, right?
00:29:08.000 I'm with you.
00:29:08.000 This would resonate better if you were actually with us, but sure.
00:29:11.000 I mean, this is actually a great line.
00:29:14.000 It's a legit grade-A political line.
00:29:17.000 It's a great line that Donald Trump just dropped on her, and he ought to keep repeating it as often and as loudly as he possibly can.
00:29:24.000 He continues along these lines.
00:29:25.000 He says that Hillary is getting rich off your back.
00:29:27.000 Again, good stuff.
00:29:29.000 Hillary Clinton gave China millions of jobs, our best jobs, and effectively let China completely rebuild itself.
00:29:37.000 In return, Hillary Clinton got rich.
00:29:43.000 The book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweitzer documents how Bill and Hillary used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.
00:29:53.000 She gets rich, making you poor.
00:29:57.000 She gets rich, making you poor is a great line.
00:30:00.000 He's wrong about Chinese policy, because again, he doesn't understand trade.
00:30:03.000 But he does hit it right on the head.
00:30:07.000 He's a hammer in search of a nail.
00:30:08.000 I said this.
00:30:08.000 He's a hammer in search of a nail.
00:30:10.000 Hillary is a nail.
00:30:11.000 And so he just keeps hammering her.
00:30:13.000 And if he keeps hammering her,
00:30:14.000 It's gonna put a lot of pressure on people to support him, even though he's not a very good guy, and he's not a good candidate, and he doesn't believe any of the right things, people are gonna say, yeah, but he's a hammer, and he's hitting the nail.
00:30:23.000 So how can you oppose the hammer for hitting the nail?
00:30:25.000 I don't oppose the hammer for hitting the nail.
00:30:27.000 I oppose the hammer because he sometimes hits Mexican judges, and sometimes he hits disabled people, and sometimes he hits puppies.
00:30:34.000 But, when he's hitting a nail, you have to celebrate the hitting of the nail, because it is very satisfying, and he's hitting the nail flush right here, most of the time.
00:30:41.000 His attack on Hillary Clinton's foreign policy
00:30:48.000 Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Hillary Clinton's foreign policy is that she refuses to acknowledge the threat posed by radical Islam.
00:30:58.000 In fact, Hillary Clinton supports a radical 550% increase in Syrian refugees coming into the United States, and that's an increase over President Obama's already high number.
00:31:12.000 Under her plan, we would admit hundreds of thousands of refugees from the most dangerous countries on Earth with no way to screen who they are, what they are, what they believe, where they come from.
00:31:27.000 Already, hundreds of recent immigrants and their children have been convicted of terrorist activity inside the United States.
00:31:37.000 The father of the Orlando shooter.
00:31:41.000 was a Taliban supporter from Afghanistan, one of the most repressive anti-gay and anti-woman regimes on earth.
00:31:51.000 I only want to admit people who share our values and love our people.
00:31:59.000 Right.
00:32:00.000 Exactly.
00:32:01.000 Correct.
00:32:01.000 Correct.
00:32:01.000 And he goes after Hillary on Ambassador Stevens too, which is great.
00:32:05.000 In the middle of the speech he talked about Ambassador Stevens and he said Hillary slept right through it.
00:32:08.000 He hit her with the kitchen sink.
00:32:09.000 He hit her with the kitchen sink.
00:32:11.000 This is good Trump.
00:32:12.000 Good Trump hits Hillary Clinton with the kitchen sink.
00:32:14.000 And that's great.
00:32:15.000 That's great.
00:32:15.000 Okay.
00:32:16.000 Now it's time that's been a lot of good Trump.
00:32:18.000 And that's the news cycle today, because the bad Trump actually took place before the good Trump.
00:32:22.000 Because the way that this works is you say something stupid, and you say something smart afterward, we pay attention to the latest thing that you said.
00:32:28.000 This was good Trump.
00:32:29.000 This is Trump at his best.
00:32:30.000 It was his second best speech of the campaign.
00:32:32.000 His best speech of the campaign was about radical Islam last week.
00:32:35.000 If all Trump were, or just a guy who said things on teleprompter, he would actually be a lot more palatable as a candidate.
00:32:41.000 He's not.
00:32:42.000 So now, we've done good Trump.
00:32:44.000 Now the time has come.
00:32:45.000 The time has come for bad Trump.
00:32:48.000 So bad Trump has arrived.
00:32:49.000 He kind of creeps in on you.
00:32:51.000 So bad Trump arrives.
00:32:53.000 And bad Trump is a guy who doesn't really understand much about policy, but says he does.
00:33:00.000 He says silly things about the economy.
00:33:02.000 Here is bad Trump talking about how he's going to beat Hillary Clinton.
00:33:07.000 Well, I know why she says that, and I think that's fine.
00:33:11.000 I think that's smart for her to say that.
00:33:13.000 I hit Bill a couple of times because once he's in the campaign, you know, if he's in the campaign, I guess he deserves to be hit.
00:33:21.000 But I would much rather have it based on issues and policy.
00:33:25.000 I think we win on issues and policy.
00:33:27.000 He'd much rather have it based on issues in policy.
00:33:29.000 See, this is kind of not good Trump.
00:33:31.000 This is kind of silly Trump.
00:33:32.000 But even this is kind of mediocre Trump, right?
00:33:34.000 This is somewhere between good Trump and bad Trump.
00:33:37.000 This is like resting, resting angry face Trump.
00:33:40.000 Actual bad Trump is here.
00:33:42.000 So he's on CBS with Norah O'Donnell and he's asked about his economic policy.
00:33:47.000 And he's asked specifically about what he would do about America's national debt.
00:33:51.000 And what he says here is just utterly asinine.
00:33:54.000 Because again, when he's on attack against Hillary, he doesn't have to talk about himself.
00:33:57.000 He doesn't have to talk about himself.
00:33:59.000 You know, he can attack Hillary as much as he wants and he's on safe ground.
00:34:02.000 The minute he starts talking policy, the man is like a drowning sailor.
00:34:07.000 Here we go.
00:34:08.000 I'm the king of debt.
00:34:08.000 I'm great with debt.
00:34:09.000 Nobody knows debt better than me.
00:34:11.000 I've made a fortune by using debt.
00:34:13.000 And if things don't work out, I renegotiate the debt.
00:34:15.000 I mean, that's a smart thing, not a stupid thing.
00:34:17.000 How do you renegotiate the debt?
00:34:20.000 Because you go back and you say, hey, guess what?
00:34:21.000 The economy just crashed.
00:34:22.000 I'm going to give you back half.
00:34:24.000 I like debt for me.
00:34:26.000 I don't like debt for the country.
00:34:27.000 I like debt for my company.
00:34:29.000 But I don't like debt for the country.
00:34:31.000 I wouldn't renegotiate the debt.
00:34:33.000 I'd negotiate if I do a deal in a corporation, as an example.
00:34:37.000 And if the economy goes bad, I'll oftentimes renegotiate that debt.
00:34:40.000 But that's a different thing.
00:34:41.000 That's just a corporate thing.
00:34:42.000 And other people like me, very big people in the world of business, they do that.
00:34:46.000 No, I wouldn't do that.
00:34:47.000 But I think it could be a good time to borrow and pay off debt, borrow debt, make longer-term debt.
00:34:53.000 Okay, so he says a few things here that are ridiculous.
00:34:58.000 So, first of all, he says that he would renegotiate the debt.
00:35:01.000 I mean, that's what he says at the top.
00:35:02.000 He says, we'd go to people and say, our economy's bad, we're gonna pay back half of what we owe.
00:35:05.000 This is called defaulting on your debt, gang.
00:35:07.000 And when the US economy defaults on its debt, the problem is we can no longer borrow.
00:35:11.000 If we can no longer borrow, we can't pay off any of the debt that we have to, for example, the people on Social Security or the people on Medicare.
00:35:18.000 We can't pay back any of the people we've previously borrowed from.
00:35:21.000 6% of our national budget, 6% of it, is just debt service.
00:35:24.000 It's just the amount that we owe to people.
00:35:26.000 The interest on the debt, that's not even the debt itself, it's just the interest on the debt.
00:35:30.000 We do that, the value of the dollar ends up dropping because we're gonna have to print dollars to pay this off.
00:35:35.000 It's bad news all the way around.
00:35:36.000 Everybody knows that, except for Trump.
00:35:38.000 So Trump backtracks it, then he says, oh, I wouldn't renegotiate the debt, but I would kind of renegotiate the debt, right?
00:35:43.000 Like, I wouldn't renegotiate the debt, but when I was in business, I renegotiated debts, and it worked out great for me, and, but I wouldn't do it for the country, but I kind of would, but not so much, because it's just, because, I don't really know, but I'm just telling you, I don't know what, what,
00:35:57.000 Right, bad Trump.
00:35:58.000 Okay, so, having too much fun with the good Trump, bad Trump.
00:36:01.000 Thank you to Lindsay for the production of this new very sophisticated production element that we have added to the Ben Shapiro show.
00:36:09.000 Okay, so, all of that being said, more bad Trump.
00:36:14.000 Here is the spokeswoman for Donald Trump.
00:36:15.000 She talked about the Donald Trump campaign.
00:36:18.000 Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Katrina Pearson, who's just
00:36:22.000 Amazing.
00:36:23.000 Amazing.
00:36:24.000 Katrina Pearson, who has what would be, for an honest person, one of the hardest jobs in life.
00:36:29.000 Katrina Pearson is on CNN and she's asked about the fact that the Trump campaign, which only has $1.3 million cash on hand, spent $200,000 in the month of May on hats.
00:36:40.000 On hats.
00:36:40.000 Like to cover that crazy hair.
00:36:42.000 So here's Katrina Pearson explaining herself.
00:36:45.000 Well, I think moving forward, you're going to see some of those numbers shift.
00:36:47.000 Again, we're just now transitioning into more of a fundraising mechanism, simply because Donald Trump does want to help the RNC in a joint effort.
00:36:56.000 And absolutely, you know, everyone loves the hats.
00:36:59.000 I mean, everyone has their Make America Great Again hat, and those are big commodities for the campaign, and it's a way for them to show their support.
00:37:05.000 People love hats.
00:37:07.000 People love hats.
00:37:08.000 Okay, great.
00:37:08.000 So we have no campaign employees and no infrastructure and we raise no money, but people love their hats.
00:37:14.000 They love the hats.
00:37:15.000 By the way, I don't understand why, I mean, there's something about the entire Trump brand that's just 1992 style nice.
00:37:24.000 It's like word perfect style nice.
00:37:26.000 Like when you used to take clip art and make a card for your mom.
00:37:29.000 It's like that.
00:37:30.000 So it's it's it's.
00:37:31.000 But in any case, that's not even really bad, Trump.
00:37:33.000 So here's here's the reason why, again, and I keep having to reiterate this because I feel like people need the explanation.
00:37:40.000 The reason I'm not supporting Trump, even though Trump, when he hits Hillary's right on the money, is because I'm seeing so many people, so many people pervert
00:37:48.000 The values of conservatism and decency to fit Donald Trump.
00:37:51.000 You don't have to do that.
00:37:53.000 You can say, I support Trump, but he's absolute garbage.
00:37:56.000 He's only better than Hillary, right?
00:37:57.000 You could do that.
00:37:58.000 That's not what people are doing.
00:38:00.000 That's not what people are doing.
00:38:02.000 Here's Ben Carson.
00:38:03.000 So yesterday, Donald Trump met with hundreds of evangelicals, hundreds of evangelicals, right?
00:38:07.000 In an attempt to woo them.
00:38:08.000 And I don't know what's going on with Joe Scarborough's hair in this particular clip.
00:38:11.000 It looks like he was caught in a windstorm, or he was in a scene, an outtake from There's Something About Mary.
00:38:17.000 But in any case, Ben Carson was on with Joe Scarborough, and he was asked about evangelicals backing Donald Trump, because there were a bunch who came out and said they would back Trump.
00:38:27.000 Yeah, I think the evangelical community realizes that we're not choosing the preacher-in-chief.
00:38:33.000 We're looking for the commander-in-chief.
00:38:36.000 But we want a commander-in-chief who understands the importance, for instance, of the First Amendment, and not penalizing people for living according to their faith.
00:38:48.000 They want a commander-in-chief who understands the sanctity of life, who understands the importance of the family, and how the family is the basic unit for a strong society.
00:39:03.000 So those are the kinds of things that they're really looking for, not necessarily somebody who can quote verse and chapter of the Bible.
00:39:10.000 Okay, so that's actually not a terrible argument.
00:39:13.000 That's actually not Ben Carson's worst argument.
00:39:15.000 He's made many worse arguments than that.
00:39:16.000 That's not Ben Carson's worst argument, right?
00:39:20.000 There's only one problem.
00:39:21.000 That is that Ben Carson's statements here are not reflective of what other people are saying.
00:39:27.000 One of the most ironic photos ever is Jerry Falwell Jr.
00:39:29.000 took a photo with Trump endorsing Trump.
00:39:32.000 And we should have pulled the photo.
00:39:33.000 It's my fault.
00:39:33.000 I didn't send it to Mathis.
00:39:35.000 But the photo is a photo of Trump standing next to Falwell.
00:39:38.000 Behind them is a picture of Donald Trump on the cover of Playboy magazine with a porn star.
00:39:46.000 Legitimately, right?
00:39:47.000 Like, right behind his left shoulder.
00:39:49.000 And it's like, okay, well, you know, you can endorse Trump without endorsing Trump, right?
00:39:54.000 You can say, we'll back him to stop Hillary without going all in.
00:39:57.000 But instead, you have a bunch of people going all in.
00:40:00.000 So Jerry Falwell and Ralph Reed and Franklin Graham, they're all in on Trump.
00:40:03.000 Now they said they've been convinced.
00:40:05.000 They've seen the light.
00:40:06.000 They're on the road to Damascus, and this guy appeared in the sky to them, and that face just graced across the sky like the sun.
00:40:14.000 And then they realized that they had to support Donald Trump because he was just such a wonderful fellow.
00:40:19.000 Here's Greta Van Susteren and the parts of her face that move talking to the other three.
00:40:23.000 Reverend Franklin Graham, Ralph Reed, and Jerry Falwell Jr.
00:40:26.000 all go on the record.
00:40:27.000 And I should note, as of today, Ralph and Jerry are both on Trump's advisory board.
00:40:32.000 So welcome, gentlemen.
00:40:33.000 Welcome to all of you.
00:40:34.000 Reverend, first to you.
00:40:36.000 What happened today?
00:40:37.000 Well, Greta, we were asked, I was asked to come to a meeting and to hear Donald Trump.
00:40:43.000 I'm glad I did.
00:40:45.000 As you know, I'm not supporting or endorsing anyone this year.
00:40:48.000 I'm going to all 50 state capitals to hold prayer rallies on Capitol steps, and that's what I'm doing, and I promise people that I won't get involved and endorse anyone.
00:40:56.000 But I was invited to hear him, and I'm glad I did because I think he answered everyone's questions.
00:41:02.000 I think good concerns.
00:41:03.000 I want to say good concerns, and they were honest concerns.
00:41:07.000 And I think Donald Trump addressed most of those today.
00:41:10.000 Jerry, you were there as well.
00:41:11.000 In fact, I think you're an early endorser of Donald Trump, if I'm correct.
00:41:16.000 What did you think today?
00:41:19.000 I was very impressed.
00:41:20.000 He was very presidential, and he's really showing a deeper understanding than I've ever seen before of issues that are important to conservatives and to Christians.
00:41:30.000 He talked a lot about his Supreme Court nominees.
00:41:33.000 He talked about how they're all going to be pro-life.
00:41:35.000 He talked about support for the nation of Israel, and he was strong on that issue.
00:41:41.000 That's something that's very important to the group in that room.
00:41:44.000 He also talked about
00:41:47.000 So many other issues that are so important.
00:41:50.000 He talked about religious freedom.
00:41:52.000 That was the number one concern, religious liberty, because the government now is impinging on the religious freedoms of people of faith.
00:42:00.000 And those were the key issues.
00:42:03.000 He went a lot longer than he promised the group he would go.
00:42:07.000 I was very impressed, and I was honored to introduce him, and I tried to point out to the crowd that we have such a simple choice this election.
00:42:17.000 We can vote for somebody who's promised to support and defend the values that are important to conservatives and Christians, and to appoint the right nominees to the Supreme Court, or we can vote for a candidate... This wildly enthusiastic bunch.
00:42:33.000 They've decided to back Donald Trump.
00:42:36.000 But they're not just backing him.
00:42:37.000 They're talking up his character.
00:42:39.000 They're talking up his character, which is utterly unnecessary.
00:42:42.000 Look, this is a sales pitch.
00:42:43.000 He brought a bunch of evangelicals into a room.
00:42:45.000 He told them what they wanted to hear.
00:42:46.000 If you put him in a room with a bunch of anti-evangelicals, he would tell them what they want to hear.
00:42:49.000 This is what Donald Trump does.
00:42:51.000 He sold the people, and some of the people had already been sold.
00:42:53.000 Tim Alberta from National Review
00:42:55.000 He wrote about this.
00:42:57.000 He said, after all the hype, nothing was said or done to fundamentally alter the uneasy relationship between Trump and the Christian right.
00:43:02.000 In interviews with a dozen attendees, the most common assessment of Trump's performance was a shrug.
00:43:07.000 He checked poxes on policy issues, they said, and played to the crowd's greatest insecurity by repeatedly referencing the Supreme Court.
00:43:13.000 Some activists reluctantly acknowledged they planned to personally vote for him, but many were present due to their leadership roles, and none of them are yet willing to extend Trump an endorsement.
00:43:23.000 Right?
00:43:23.000 Tony Perkins on the Family Research Council.
00:43:25.000 They say a lot of social conservatives want to be with Trump because they see the alternative, but he said that he hasn't taken the leap of endorsing Trump yet.
00:43:32.000 And this is true for a lot of these people, but some people have.
00:43:34.000 Some people have.
00:43:35.000 And this is the quote I want to focus in on because it's pretty amazing.
00:43:38.000 Franklin Graham, and I like a lot of what Franklin Graham has to say, and I respect him as a religious leader.
00:43:42.000 Franklin Graham said about Donald Trump, he gave a speech for Donald Trump in which he said that Donald Trump was like Moses because Moses disobeyed God and was punished.
00:43:52.000 David, because David committed adultery and killed a man.
00:43:56.000 Okay.
00:43:58.000 Reverend Graham.
00:44:00.000 Okay, a couple of quick biblical notes on this particular exegesis.
00:44:05.000 Okay, a couple of quick things.
00:44:06.000 One, Moses repented.
00:44:10.000 Also, David repented.
00:44:12.000 As you recall, David had sex with Bathsheba and then sends her husband Uriah out to get killed after he got her pregnant.
00:44:18.000 Remember this?
00:44:18.000 And then what happened?
00:44:19.000 The prophet Nathan came and yelled at him and told him that his kingship was basically over because of all of this, and David then repented.
00:44:27.000 Moses hit the rock, and then he repented before God, but God wasn't willing to forgive him because God didn't want him to lead the nation into Israel.
00:44:35.000 Neither of them said, oh, well, you know what?
00:44:37.000 I did the right thing.
00:44:38.000 I did the right thing.
00:44:39.000 I was sarcastically tweeting out Moses Trump and David Trump, how they would have played these situations, and David Trump was like, yeah, I had sex with a married woman.
00:44:47.000 Of course I had sex with a married woman.
00:44:49.000 My sword is long and beautiful.
00:44:51.000 And Moses Trump was like, of course I hit the rock.
00:44:54.000 In the olden days, they would have taken that rock out on a stretcher.
00:44:57.000 This kind of stuff is just silly.
00:45:00.000 It's just silly.
00:45:02.000 The idea that Donald Trump is reflective of any sort of real Christian thought... I thought the best quote was from one of the evangelical leaders who said something to the effect of, Donald Trump speaks Christian like somebody who just got the Rosetta Stone version and is learning.
00:45:15.000 I think that's probably right.
00:45:16.000 And this is what I don't like about any of this, is the perversion of conservative principle.
00:45:22.000 In order to make room for Donald Trump.
00:45:24.000 You don't have to pervert conservative principle.
00:45:26.000 Just say Trump isn't particularly Christian.
00:45:30.000 He doesn't believe in a lot of these things, but he's better than Hillary.
00:45:32.000 You trust him to defend your values a little bit more.
00:45:34.000 Don't pervert the standard.
00:45:36.000 Don't pervert the principle.
00:45:37.000 If you change the principle to fit the man, the principle no longer means anything.
00:45:41.000 Okay.
00:45:42.000 Time for some things that I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:45:44.000 Okay, things that I like.
00:45:45.000 I'm mentioning here Game of Thrones.
00:45:47.000 I'm not talking about Game of Thrones, the TV series.
00:45:50.000 I don't watch Game of Thrones, the TV series.
00:45:52.000 I watched the first three episodes, and there was too much Gratuitous Nudity for me.
00:45:56.000 I just was not into that.
00:45:58.000 Or rather, I was into it, but it's not a good thing for your soul.
00:46:00.000 So, in any case, Gratuitous Nudity is not something that I'm in favor of.
00:46:04.000 The first books... The first book is great.
00:46:07.000 The first Game of Thrones book is legitimately a great book.
00:46:10.000 Book 2 is weaker.
00:46:11.000 Book 3 is very good.
00:46:12.000 The rest of them suck.
00:46:13.000 So if you're going to read the Game of Thrones series, 1 and 3 are the good ones.
00:46:16.000 You sort of have to read 2 because they're in between.
00:46:18.000 After the Red Wedding, which everyone knows what that is now, after the Red Wedding, the series basically died for me.
00:46:22.000 It's been meandering around nonsensically for a while.
00:46:25.000 I think the same is true.
00:46:26.000 I still read the summaries online because George R. R. Martin is never going to finish this series.
00:46:29.000 He's going to die before finishing it.
00:46:31.000 So the TV series is now ahead of the book series.
00:46:33.000 How many seasons are they in?
00:46:34.000 Four?
00:46:34.000 I think they're in the fourth season now?
00:46:35.000 Five?
00:46:36.000 They're six seasons in, right?
00:46:37.000 They started six years ago, so six seasons in on Game of Thrones, and George R.R.
00:46:42.000 Martin has released one extra book, right?
00:46:44.000 And so, they're now ahead of him.
00:46:46.000 They started off with book one, he'd already completed, I think, book seven?
00:46:49.000 Book six or seven?
00:46:50.000 And they're now ahead of him, which just shows how slow he is, but I read the summary still,
00:46:55.000 And it's not going anywhere, okay?
00:46:57.000 We all know what's gonna happen, right?
00:46:59.000 Jon Snow has survived, and Daenerys is gonna come back, and maybe they get together, and whoop-de-doo.
00:47:05.000 But the first book is really a shocking book.
00:47:07.000 It's really a change in the nature of fantasy fiction because, as everyone knows by now, the main character ends up dying at the end of the first book, which is a shocker, right?
00:47:14.000 So, okay.
00:47:15.000 So, the first book is good.
00:47:16.000 Okay.
00:47:16.000 Things that I hate, besides Mathis's new haircut.
00:47:19.000 So, sorry Mathis, it had to be said.
00:47:22.000 Yeah!
00:47:23.000 Lindsay loves his haircut, but Lindsay also has a tattoo that says brave.
00:47:26.000 And as we all know, people with tattoos that say brave, particularly women, are not allowed to, well actually men too.
00:47:34.000 My rule about men who have tattoos that say brave is, if you're gay, or if you fought in Afghanistan, those are basically, not even Iraq, Afghanistan, if you have one of those two, you're a man who can have a tattoo of brave.
00:47:43.000 If you're a woman, you just put a tattoo of brave on because...
00:47:46.000 That's true.
00:47:47.000 Lindsay is in charge of my look.
00:47:49.000 But Lindsay, you didn't cut Mathis's hair.
00:47:51.000 So you're not responsible for that.
00:47:52.000 So in any case, Mathis had really good looking James Dean hair.
00:47:59.000 He's basically now shaved it all the way around the sides.
00:48:02.000 So he looks like a half biker, half James Dean mashup.
00:48:06.000 He looks like a match that's on fire.
00:48:09.000 And so, sorry Mathis, but I miss the old hair.
00:48:13.000 I miss the old hair.
00:48:14.000 It's sad.
00:48:15.000 It's a little sad.
00:48:16.000 Other things that I hate.
00:48:19.000 So Broadway stars decided to react to the Orlando shooting with their typical savoir faire and genius.
00:48:28.000 They decided that what they needed to do was sing a song.
00:48:30.000 Sing a song.
00:48:32.000 What song was it that they decided to sing on NBC?
00:48:35.000 What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love.
00:48:38.000 Hosted by Martin Short and that woman who's supposed to be funny but I don't remember her name.
00:48:44.000 Thank you, Maya Rudolph.
00:48:45.000 Okay, so we can play it.
00:48:47.000 Following the tragedy in Orlando, Broadway performers came together to record a song in support of the victims and their families.
00:48:54.000 What the world needs now is love was released yesterday on iTunes to benefit the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida.
00:49:02.000 So performing that song here tonight, please welcome Broadway for Orlando.
00:49:11.000 My God.
00:49:17.000 Nobody knows who any of these people are.
00:49:18.000 They're all on Broadway, so nobody knows.
00:49:19.000 Factually untrue.
00:49:21.000 More dead ISIS terrorists.
00:49:24.000 We need more of those.
00:49:37.000 Okay, we don't have to listen to this whole thing.
00:49:51.000 It's just a montage of Broadway people singing over, and there's the guy from Will & Grace.
00:49:57.000 Yeah, and there's a guy whose face I recognize from TV, but can't name him.
00:50:01.000 And there's Martin Sheen doing things.
00:50:02.000 Not Martin Sheen.
00:50:03.000 What is that face?
00:50:04.000 Martin Short.
00:50:04.000 Okay, a bunch of obscure people saying the same thing.
00:50:06.000 Okay, so somewhere ISIS has gone like this.
00:50:08.000 They got a lighter and they're really enjoying themselves.
00:50:11.000 And then they just go castrate a gay person and throw him off a building.
00:50:14.000 So that's it.
00:50:15.000 So it gets awkward when... If Broadway were in charge of America, America would last precisely negative three seconds.
00:50:23.000 And like, the ISIS terrorists would find a way to go back in time and destroy America.
00:50:27.000 That's how... What absolute, utter inanity you get from the left.
00:50:33.000 It's truly amazing.
00:50:34.000 So, we've got sit-down strikes in Congress.
00:50:36.000 We've got the Broadway stars singing their song.
00:50:38.000 Amazing.
00:50:39.000 Okay, final thing that we'll talk about here.
00:50:41.000 So Michelle Fields had her book come out yesterday.
00:50:44.000 And Steve Malzberg, who I'm friendly with.
00:50:46.000 I've been on Steve's show.
00:50:47.000 The only reason I'm playing this clip is not because I want to re-litigate the Michelle Fields incident.
00:50:52.000 God knows we've done this enough.
00:50:53.000 I want to point out the unfairness of something that Steve Malzberg does here that I keep hearing, and it's this Michelle Fields thing.
00:51:01.000 I mean, come on guys, give it up.
00:51:02.000 Lewandowski grabbed her arm and he bruised her.
00:51:04.000 End of story.
00:51:05.000 If you think that's a good thing, then celebrate Lewandowski.
00:51:07.000 If you think that's a bad thing, then say that he's not a great guy for doing it, and then slandering Michelle Fields.
00:51:11.000 This really isn't very complicated, but the twists and turns, the pretzeling that people who defend Trump have to go through on this particular score is pretty egregious.
00:51:19.000 Here's Steve Malzberg going after Michelle Fields.
00:51:22.000 He decided not to prosecute, which wasn't surprising.
00:51:24.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:51:25.000 The prosecutor conducted an investigation with a preconceived condition that there would be no court case, that the prosecutor would aim to get you an apology?
00:51:37.000 That's what you're telling me?
00:51:40.000 Yeah, that's not news.
00:51:41.000 I mean, this is something that I had spoken about before during the whole entire situation.
00:51:47.000 I know you wanted an apology.
00:51:49.000 I know you wanted an apology, but why would a prosecutor spend taxpayers' money when you're saying... I mean, if a wife is beaten by her husband and she doesn't press charges, I don't think that she could say, hey, go ahead with the investigation.
00:52:03.000 I don't want anything to happen to him.
00:52:05.000 I don't want to go to court, but I want him to apologize.
00:52:07.000 I don't think it works that way.
00:52:29.000 She's allowed to do that.
00:52:30.000 You're allowed to file a police report based on an incident that happened.
00:52:33.000 It's then the police's decision and the prosecutor's decision to go forward.
00:52:36.000 He's factually wrong, by the way.
00:52:37.000 If a wife goes in and says, I want to press charges against my husband, and the prosecutors say, okay, we're going to negotiate some sort of deal,
00:52:45.000 Where you and your husband separate?
00:52:46.000 This happens all the time.
00:52:47.000 Informal deals like this actually are relatively common.
00:52:49.000 They're relatively common.
00:52:50.000 But this is the way that the narrative shifts.
00:52:52.000 Because Trump was lying, because Lewandowski was lying, people decided that they had to shift the attack on Michelle Fields from, Michelle Fields was lying and she made up her bruises and she was never grabbed and it was all made up, to, well, she never should have filed the police report.
00:53:04.000 The only reason she filed the police report is because you people were calling her a liar.
00:53:08.000 So I just want to point out the kind of shifty nature of how politics works, because it really is kind of yucky.
00:53:13.000 It really is kind of yucky.
00:53:13.000 Whether you think the incident was overblown or not, the shifting defense routine here is really kind of ridiculous.
00:53:19.000 Okay, so tomorrow we will be back with much, much more, including the Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag.
00:53:24.000 We will see if good Trump or bad Trump show up once more.
00:53:29.000 We'll see which one we get.
00:53:31.000 I think that most Republicans are now praying that Donald Trump just shuts his face for 24 hours and doesn't destroy the good cycle of headlines about him attacking Hillary.
00:53:40.000 But we'll find out.
00:53:41.000 We'll find out because it's been now like an hour and a half, two hours since Trump gave the speech and we may be reaching expiration date before he can generate another headline.
00:53:49.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:53:50.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.