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00:00:00.000After an extraordinarily contentious first debate between Trump and Biden, Democrats float canceling further debates and the media press forward at the accusation that Trump is soft on white supremacy.
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00:01:38.000Alrighty, so we are still in the midst of the fallout from that extraordinarily contentious, rough, brutal to watch debate between Trump and Biden, where basically Trump yelled over Biden for about an hour and a half, and then Biden said really snarky and terrible things, punctuated by outright lies, and then Chris Wallace tried to intervene and himself became the subject of the debate.
00:01:59.000It was really awful, like, all the way around, and it was not productive from any possible angle.
00:02:05.000One of the things that happened is the media went nuts.
00:02:15.000And I mean, I thought that the debate was not good.
00:02:18.000I mean, I talked about it at length yesterday.
00:02:20.000I talked about it the night of the debate on Daily Wire backstage.
00:02:23.000I thought this was a very, very bad debate.
00:02:25.000Because the purpose of a debate is to inform you about the people who are participating, basically just reinforce what you already knew, maybe provide you a little new information, maybe put the positions of the participants in a different light, and the debate really didn't get into policy very much, or if it did, it was completely obscured by the bizarre antics that were evident from every available side.
00:02:45.000But when the media complains about this being the low point of our democracy, I mean, people like John Meacham, the historian, saying this was the low point of the presidency in the United States, and people on CNN complaining that this was, it was unprecedentedly bad.
00:03:00.000All I could think was, you are Dr. Frankenstein, and this is your monster.
00:03:04.000I've been saying for a long time that one of the great misconceptions about Trump is that Trump is the murderer of American politics.
00:03:10.000There's this weird thing that has happened in American politics ever since Trump became president where everybody assumes that every bad thing began with Trump.
00:03:17.000And the reality, of course, is that Donald Trump is not the murderer.
00:04:04.000Chris Cuomo is a political activist masquerading as a reporter.
00:04:07.000Most evident when he was doing these bizarre interviews with his brother, Andrew Cuomo, who is busily presiding over the worst regime in the United States with regard to handling of COVID.
00:04:18.000Shipping elderly people back into nursing homes with COVID.
00:04:21.000Ensuring that the state then covered up those numbers by pretending that if you died outside of a nursing home, even if you acquired COVID in a nursing home that was not listed as a nursing home death, refusing to answer FOIA requests, openly denying this week that he'd ever done that, which is pretty incredible, and then saying that every night when he puts his head down on his pillow, he knows that he has saved lives.
00:04:38.000I mean, Andrew Cuomo's behavior during this entire debacle has been devastatingly bad.
00:04:44.000And Chris Cuomo has been covering for him the entire way.
00:04:46.000So this was a meeting between two partisan actors.
00:05:12.000Now, the reason this is relevant is because the media created this environment, and then they are very upset to learn that this is now the environment in which we live.
00:05:19.000I saw a lot of this in the aftermath of the debate with regard to 2012.
00:05:22.000I saw people tweeting out about, remember that quaint old time when people attacked Mitt Romney for his binders full of women?
00:05:28.000And people treating that like, oh, it was a quainter time.
00:05:30.000No, the story there is that you guys did go after Mitt Romney for the binders full of women comment, which was the most innocuous comment in the history of presidential debate.
00:05:38.000He literally said, I tried to recruit women into my administration when I was governor of Massachusetts, and I had a binder filled with the resumes of women so that I could pick women who are qualified for positions.
00:05:48.000And they treated that as though it was a sexist thing to have a binder filled with the resumes of females.
00:05:53.000Okay, it was your fault that you got Trump.
00:05:56.000It was your fault we got the debate last night.
00:06:00.000And the complete lack of self-acknowledgement, the complete lack of mirror ownership apparently at CNN, leads the same people who engage in this sort of nonsensical talking over each other, screaming at people, treating people like garbage on national TV, day in and day out, then turn around and they're like, how could Trump do this sort of thing? He's one of you. The answer is he's one of you.
00:06:44.000And the media are obsessed with Donald Trump.
00:06:46.000So much so that there is a story in the New York Times today.
00:06:48.000I mean, this just demonstrates the bizarre, the insane loop that has been created between Trump and the media.
00:06:54.000There's a story in the New York Times today talking about how Trump is the single greatest source of misinformation in politics today, anywhere on the globe.
00:07:01.000They looked at the number of headlines including Trump and misinformation.
00:07:04.000So in other words, because Trump says something and the media are obsessed with him and print 1,000 headlines about the thing he said, that means that he is the source of misinformation, the chief source of misinformation.
00:07:14.000Or alternatively, you guys are the loudspeaker.
00:07:16.000You guys are the ones who decide where to shine the spotlight.
00:07:19.000You're the ones who have decided to turn every issue in American politics into a crisis issue in American politics.
00:07:25.000So, back to this Chris Cuomo and Ted Cruz interview.
00:07:28.000I want you to see if you can distinguish the behavior of Chris Cuomo here from the behavior of Donald Trump in that debate the other night.
00:07:34.000You're going to find it is very hard to do.
00:07:37.000The level of the debate in which we engage in politics in this country is the stupidest possible level, which, by the way, is why people now go to podcasts.
00:07:43.000It's why the ratings on CNN overall have declined.
00:07:46.000They've increased relative to their ratings over the past few years.
00:07:49.000But just overall, in terms of general audience share, there's a reason that fewer people are now watching things like Chris Cuomo and more people are watching long-form podcasts, especially long-form podcasts like, for example, Joe Rogan, where he will do three-hour interviews with people with whom he disagrees and explicate their viewpoints.
00:08:18.000When Chris Cuomo acts like a jackass to Ted Cruz, when he talks over him, when he insults him, when he brings up Ted Cruz's wife and suggests that Ted Cruz is a coward for not attacking Donald Trump more.
00:08:40.000I do think we can have a very reasonable policy discussion about the policy mistakes in New York and New Jersey of sending COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
00:08:50.000I think that was a very serious policy mistake.
00:08:52.000But that didn't happen all over the country, right?
00:08:53.000That wasn't the most vulnerable population.
00:09:05.000Chris, was it a mistake when your brother implemented a policy that nursing homes had to accept COVID positive patients and endangered the lives of tens of thousands of seniors in New York State?
00:09:14.000My brother was the first one to say that there was a learning curve and that mistakes were made and they changed things as soon as they could.
00:09:21.000Okay, everybody turns up the heat here.
00:09:22.000Okay, again, it gets even worse than this.
00:09:23.000Chris Cuomo starts openly defending his brother's behavior and then brings up Ted Cruz as though it's Ted Cruz's job to condemn Donald Trump in the same way that it's Chris Cuomo's job to be an objective journalist.
00:09:35.000The journalists and the politicians, you see, are exactly the same.
00:09:37.000The journalists and the politicians are to be treated exactly the same.
00:09:40.000The only difference is you're supposed to pretend the journalists are journalists.
00:10:10.000You invited me on the show to actually talk about the Supreme Court and talk about the book One Vote Away, and instead you just want to repeat insults over and over and over again.
00:10:25.000His brother is the governor of New York.
00:10:27.000His brother is the governor of New York.
00:10:29.000And you're talking about COVID policy.
00:10:32.000It seems a little relevant to bring up the fact that your brother, the governor of New York, who was treated with kid gloves by you on national TV for weeks at a time, that that was a failure of coverage on your part.
00:10:43.000That is not the same thing as Ted Cruz doing the partisan thing and defending Trump.
00:10:54.000While you hear everybody in the media complaining about Donald Trump, you guys created this toxic brew, and then you're like, oh, this is toxic brew.
00:11:15.000It's not that, You can certainly criticize Trump for his behavior.
00:11:19.000You can certainly criticize anybody you want.
00:11:21.000But you might want to check whether the house that you're living in is literally made of glass before you start chucking those sorts of stone.
00:11:28.000Okay, so how were the actual ratings from the debate?
00:11:32.000They actually nosedived from 2016, which suggests, as I thought before, that there are very few people who have not made up their mind in this election cycle, which, given the polling data right now, is very bad for Trump and very bad for Republicans across the country.
00:11:43.000Cook Political recently re-rated Iowa from lean Republican to deadlock, basically, to throw up.
00:12:01.000So, the polls are trending away from Trump in a lot of these places.
00:12:05.000People have made up their minds, it seems, and unless something dramatic changes, It's gonna be a rough night for Trump, if you look at the polls.
00:12:11.000Now, again, maybe the polls are all skewed.
00:12:13.000Maybe it turns out that Trump still gets a 30% shot at winning the presidency.
00:12:18.000I mean, you know, one in four times you run this simulation, Trump wins the presidency.
00:12:22.000But right now, he's got a deficit to make up.
00:12:24.000That debate definitely did not do it for him.
00:12:26.000The ratings on the debate were abysmal.
00:12:27.000The chaotic first presidential debate, according to the New York Post, between Joe Biden and President Trump officially tanked, pulling in dismal TV ratings compared to the blockbuster showdown between Trump and Hillary Clinton four years ago.
00:12:37.000Again, that was very much because nobody really was tuning in to see Biden get clocked, per se.
00:12:41.000during the 90-minute-plus slugfest, according to Deadline, that is a 36% plunge from the face-to-face brawl between then-candidate Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:12:50.000Again, that was very much because nobody really was tuning in to see Biden get clocked, per se.
00:12:56.000Nobody hates Biden the same way that so many people despised Hillary Clinton.
00:13:00.000And so there wasn't that sort of tension and buildup to this particular debate.
00:13:04.000Nonetheless, the Commission on Presidential Debate now says that they are going to redo the format of these debates.
00:13:11.000They have decided that the debates themselves are not orderly enough because Trump talked over Biden for a lot of the debate, and so now they are probably going to give the ability for the moderator to mute the mics, which of course has created its own set of controversies.
00:13:28.000I mean, the fact is that during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, which were pretty famous debates, people would talk for like half an hour, then the other guy would talk for half an hour, then they would have 10-minute rebuttals, and then they would do it one more time, and that would be the whole debate.
00:13:40.000That seems like a better way of doing it than what we saw the other night.
00:13:43.000So I don't object to the idea of changing the rules.
00:13:46.000I just object to the idea that changing the rules after they've already been set is a good idea.
00:13:52.000But at the same time, I think it's kind of fair.
00:13:55.000Trump is the one who broke the rules from the beginning, so making clear that he can't just set the rules and then ignore the rules, I don't think that that's necessarily a bad thing.
00:14:02.000But I think that they should get rid of a lot of the rules as they stand right now.
00:14:04.000I don't think you can say a lot that's illuminating inside of two minutes.
00:14:07.000Instead of trying to get through 35 topics, how about we have, like, two topics, and everybody has to speak at length, and then we get to watch these guys jabber for half an hour.
00:14:15.000And, by the way, that'd be the best for Trump, right?
00:14:17.000We know that Trump can go off the cuff for half an hour.
00:14:19.000Can Joe Biden go off the cuff for half an hour right now?
00:14:39.000I pointed this out yesterday, and people on the left went nuts.
00:14:42.000Idiot Seth Rogen on Twitter came after me, suggesting that I was selling out to white supremacy.
00:14:47.000If Seth Rogen had received one one-hundredth of the hate from white supremacists that I have received from white supremacists, he would shut the hell up.
00:14:53.000Because the fact is, there is no one in America who has been harder on white supremacists than I have, nor has there anybody- literally by statistics.
00:15:00.000In 2016, I was the number one target of the alt-right and white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
00:15:06.000So the suggestion that if I correctly characterize Trump's comments the other night, that that is some sort of sellout to white supremacism, that is because you guys are so full of crap that your eyes are turning brown.
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00:19:18.000Unless he's trying to lose, I don't think Donald Trump should want to debate Joe Biden again.
00:19:23.000Second, I would say maybe we should give the moderator a mute button, given how President Trump just interrupts at will.
00:19:30.000And the bottom line is, Donald Trump doesn't follow the rules.
00:19:33.000The commission's got to get a lot tougher when debate participants don't follow the rules.
00:19:40.000Alrighty, so they're already talking about the possibility of shutting down future debates so Joe Biden can go back into the basement and run out the clock, which again underscores the entire strategy here is to make it about Trump.
00:19:52.000He should have held Biden's feet to the fire on the very simple question as to whether he's going to pack the Supreme Court.
00:19:57.000Which, by the way, is the single most transformative question up in this election.
00:20:00.000If you're taking one of the three branches of government and rendering it absolutely obsolete in terms of its legitimacy to the American public by packing it with a bunch of partisans, then that seems like that might be worthy of discussion.
00:20:11.000And Joe Biden should not have been able to get away with, go out and vote.
00:20:17.000OK, well, all of this takes a backseat to the generalized, the generalized narrative that the media have attempted to draw from the debate.
00:20:23.000And that is, once again, as always, But Donald Trump is a white supremacist.
00:20:28.000Now, just to recap, Donald Trump is not a white supremacist.
00:20:33.000Donald Trump's history with condemning white supremacy is pretty long, meaning that it was, let's put it this way, it was intermittent for a long time.
00:20:41.000There are a couple of instances in which he did not, and in which I duly ripped the living crap out of him.
00:20:46.000You'll recall back in 2015 when he did an interview with Jake Tapper, and Jake Tapper asked him to denounce David Duke, and he said, I don't know who David Duke is, and then he refused to announce him.
00:20:54.000And you'll remember, I just ripped into him.
00:20:59.000And then you'll remember in Charlottesville, where he actually did condemn white supremacists, but he said there were good people who were marching with the white supremacists, which happened not to be true.
00:21:07.000And that was shortly after he had said that some very bad things happened in Charlottesville, and he sort of ignored the ideological component.
00:21:14.000Then he came back and he revised, and then he recognized the ideological component.
00:21:19.000Ever since then, I mean, he's given multiple speeches in which he has talked about the evils of white supremacy.
00:21:23.000He has repeatedly condemned white supremacy.
00:21:25.000Trump has not been shy over the last several years in condemning white supremacy.
00:21:28.000In fact, you remember in 2017, even during the Charlottesville mess where he was completely inept, he said that white supremacy should be totally condemned.
00:22:18.000Dean Beckett of the New York Times literally said in print, right after the Russia narrative collapsed, right after the Mueller report, they said, we are shifting over our reporters to the racism beat.
00:22:27.000They put out a full article talking about this, how they were restaffing up to cover racism in the lead up to the 2020 election.
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00:24:06.000Okay, so again, the narrative that is now coming out from the left, and they're going to try and run this all the way to the election, is that Trump is soft again on white supremacy.
00:24:14.000Now, do I think this is going to shift votes?
00:24:16.000No, I think we've done this routine several times before.
00:24:19.000It seems like it comes up every several months.
00:24:21.000So Joy Behar is the most blunt instrument in the Democratic arsenal.
00:24:26.000So here she was yesterday on The View suggesting that Trump himself was a white supremacist.
00:24:31.000I'm sure that Donald Trump, the guy who signed into law criminal justice reform, who moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, whose daughter is Jewish and his grandchildren are Jewish, and who has evinced tremendous love for both Jews and black Americans.
00:24:47.000And there's a guy going back decades who was hanging out with Don King.
00:24:51.000Here's Joy Behar talking about how Donald Trump is not just soft on white supremacy.
00:24:55.000Again, he's made comments in the past where I think he was.
00:26:12.000He's absolutely right here that the media Have completely ignored the fact that during that debate, Joe Biden refused to condemn an actual violent group, Antifa, who've been committing acts of heinous violence up to and including murder in America's major cities.
00:26:25.000And that's gone completely by the wayside, like he openly did that.
00:26:27.000OK, you didn't have to read into the comments to get there.
00:26:29.000Joe Biden literally refused to condemn Antifa from a presidential stage.
00:26:48.000Joe Biden has been able to get away with that because the media are so militarized against Trump that they seriously do not care if Joe Biden decides to make excuses for Antifa.
00:26:56.000I mean, Chris Cuomo was a big Antifa defender in the early days.
00:27:00.000He still occasionally will kind of let that mask slip a little bit.
00:27:18.000Seth Rogen and Joy Behar and the members of the New York Times editorial board or your own ears?
00:27:23.000So I'm going to replay the exchange that happened from the debate the other night and see if you can find in here Donald Trump not denouncing white supremacy.
00:27:45.000Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?
00:28:12.000He turns and he swivels and he says, I don't understand why we're talking about right wing violence in cities that are being dominated by left wing violence.
00:28:40.000OK, but the fact is that he does condemn white supremacy.
00:28:43.000He does condemn these people who are committing violence in the cities if they are from the right.
00:28:49.000I'm sorry, but... Okay, so there's literally a three-word thing that Trump says in the rest of this exchange that everybody on the left is hanging their hat on to claim that he is, in fact, a white supremacist.
00:29:00.000Okay, and the only way that you can read this is if you think that Trump is exact with his language, which we all know he is not.
00:29:05.000It is amazing how the left, which fully understands that Donald Trump is wildly inexact with his language, that Donald Trump routinely says dumb crap, how suddenly they get super serious and meticulous about his literal language all the time.
00:29:17.000Now, listen, I understand the left saying to people on the right, you know, you guys, you say that we should take him seriously, not literally.
00:29:22.000And that lets him out of the that lets him basically say whatever he wants to say.
00:29:25.000And we're supposed to read into his words.
00:29:31.000I don't think that virtually anything Trump says ought to be taken seriously because I don't think that he's the world's most serious person.
00:29:37.000I don't think it's possible to look at Trump and think he's the world's most serious person.
00:29:40.000I think very often there's a core of truth to things that he says, but I do not think that he is exact in his language.
00:29:45.000I don't think that he thinks out what he's doing beforehand.
00:29:46.000It doesn't... Okay, so here is the rest of the exchange.
00:29:51.000I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing.
00:31:17.000But if you are going to say that all of these quote unquote right wing militia groups are the same ideologically as white supremacists, that is inaccurate.
00:31:27.000The left has now grouped together, for example, Patriot Prayer, which is a not racist group, with actual white supremacists who are in fact racist.
00:31:35.000Joe Biden did an ad yesterday where he grouped together, in order to group together everybody who they disagree with, they grouped together Kyle Rittenhouse and white supremacists who were marching that Unite the Right garbage people rally.
00:31:48.000Kyle Rittenhouse, for all the idiocy of going to a riot site with a gun, OK, he shouldn't have done it.
00:31:57.000There's no evidence he's a white supremacist.
00:31:58.000Joe Biden groups him together with the white supremacists in this ad.
00:32:01.000So here is that ad from from Joe Biden yesterday.
00:32:04.000Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?
00:33:41.000I don't want anything to do with the Proud Boys.
00:33:44.000But to lump them in as white supremacists, right, that is the next step.
00:33:47.000So in order to get to Trump didn't condemn white supremacy, you have to make a logical leap here.
00:33:51.000The logical leap is that the Proud Boys, number one, are white supremacists, and number two, Trump was attempting to embolden them rather than telling them to stand down.
00:33:58.000Okay, those are two logical leaps, neither of which is in evidence.
00:34:02.000Number one, he told them to stand back.
00:34:04.000When he said stand by, do you think he meant stand back and I want you to stand by in paramilitary fashion?
00:34:08.000I suppose you could interpret it that way if that's how you want to, but I don't think that's what he was saying.
00:34:12.000And I think it's fairly obvious that he meant stand back and stand down.
00:34:15.000OK, beyond that, in order to get to this point, you have to lump together white supremacy.
00:34:20.000OK, so he says twice in that exchange, will you condemn white supremacy?
00:34:23.000OK, and then he says, who are you talking about specifically?
00:34:26.000And Joe Biden jumps in and gives the name Proud Boys.
00:34:29.000Hey, now, in order to get to Trump is soft on white supremacy, you then have to say that the Proud Boys are a white supremacist group.
00:34:35.000In fact, as CNN reported yesterday, they are not a white supremacist group.
00:34:38.000They may be a paramilitary organization.
00:34:40.000They may be an organization whose members engage in illegal activity.
00:34:44.000They may be an organization, some of whose members have engaged in white supremacy, but as an organization, they actually condemn white supremacy, as CNN's own reporters acknowledged yesterday.
00:34:53.000We should be really clear that the Proud Boys do not consider themselves a white supremacist group.
00:34:58.000They have members from many different ethnicities.
00:35:02.000That doesn't mean that they have not wreaked havoc.
00:35:05.000They're more like a political fight club, if you will, than a white supremacist group and have distanced themselves.
00:35:11.000So in order to get to Trump is soft on white supremacism, you have to say, number one, the Proud Boys are a white supremacist group.
00:35:16.000And two, Trump was taking leadership of them and telling them to arm up, which he was not doing, which he was not doing.
00:35:21.000In fact, What are the chances that Trump actually knows who the Proud Boys are?
00:35:46.000I mean, you'll have to give me a definition because I really don't know who they are.
00:35:50.000I can only say they have to stand down, let law enforcement do their work.
00:35:54.000Law enforcement will do the work more and more.
00:35:57.000As people see how bad this radical liberal Democrat movement is and how weak, the law enforcement's going to come back stronger and stronger.
00:36:05.000But again, I don't know who Proud Boys are, but whoever they are, they have to stand down, let law enforcement do their work.
00:36:12.000Okay, this is a completely manufactured media narrative.
00:36:23.000Unless you go in with the predicate that Donald Trump is a white supremacist, you cannot read that as a white supremacist statement, nor any of the statements to follow.
00:36:31.000You know what white supremacists generally don't do?
00:36:33.000The following day, again, say for the thousandth time, they condemn white supremacy, and also that the Proud Boys should stand down.
00:36:42.000The media conflate every single person they don't agree with with white supremacy and then say that if you condemn those people or if you tell them to stand down, you're a defender of white supremacy.
00:37:04.000Certainly more than anybody on the right.
00:37:06.000That is not what happened at the debate last night and the attempt to manufacture this narrative in advance of the election is really a media creation and quite a disgusting media creation at that.
00:37:16.000And you can see, by the way, the media spinning this narrative up in real time on everything.
00:37:21.000You wonder why there's such a level of distrust in the country on these sorts of issues, on racial issues.
00:37:26.000Maybe it has something to do with the media that will somehow come up with the idea that this was a soft on white supremacy moment for Trump in the debate.
00:37:33.000And at the same exact time, they will throw out there that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.
00:37:38.000I mean, there are members of the media who were saying this at the time in Kenosha.
00:37:42.000In a second, I'm gonna get to a piece from NBC News that is truly incredible in terms of its bias against Kyle Rittenhouse and against the Trump administration.
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00:39:19.000Okay, so you want to know why Trump is so skeptical of the media whenever they say we want you to condemn X group or Y group?
00:39:31.000Because he literally doesn't know whether they are asking him to condemn a white supremacist group or whether they're asking him to condemn a not-white supremacist group.
00:39:37.000The reason that he doesn't know that is because the media are dishonest about this sort of stuff.
00:39:41.000They will just lump everybody together.
00:39:43.000They will say that everybody they don't like is a white supremacist.
00:39:46.000That, by the way, is in fact the anti-racist theory that the media have been pushing.
00:39:51.000The media have been pushing the theory that if you are white, you are by nature a white supremacist because you engage in a system of white supremacy.
00:39:56.000Gavin Newsom, the garbage governor of California, said, I'm about to leave.
00:40:00.000He tweeted out yesterday that California just became the first state in the nation to mandate the study and development of proposals for reparations.
00:40:06.000Our past, he says, is one of slavery, racism and injustice.
00:40:10.000Our systems were built to oppress people of color.
00:40:13.000Our systems are not built to oppress people of color, but if you believe that, and then if you believe that you're quote-unquote complicit in those systems, you are a white supremacist by nature.
00:40:20.000The same media who are on the side of people like Gavin Newsom, these same people, this is a crazy story.
00:40:25.000NBC News printed an article today called, Internal Document Shows Trump Officials Were Told to Make Comments Sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:40:32.000And so what you would think is that they were told to lie to make comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:40:37.000They were told to say accurate things about Kyle Rittenhouse, and NBC News found this worthy of reporting on.
00:40:42.000According to NBC News, federal law enforcement officials were directed to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, according to internal DHS talking points obtained by NBC News.
00:40:53.000The document suggests that the DHS note that he, quote, took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners.
00:41:08.000Another set of talking points distributed to Homeland Security officials said the media were incorrectly labeling the group Patriot Prayer as racist after clashes erupted between the group and protesters in Portland, Oregon.
00:41:29.000The media shouldn't be fact-checked on their attempt to smear everybody to the right of Hillary Clinton as a racist.
00:41:35.000So that conversation is so fraught that Trump is, I think, rightly skeptical of the media's take on what constitutes racism and what does not constitute racism.
00:41:42.000But putting that to one side, the entire narrative here, which is that the takeaway from the debate is that Trump was soft on white supremacy again.
00:41:52.000The reason people are very angry with me today is because I'm using my best judgment to determine that in that quote, he is not doing that.
00:41:59.000Okay, now there's another narrative that the media are trying to draw out from the debate the other night, and that is all of the election fallout.
00:42:06.000So they're suggesting that Trump is a threat to the election.
00:42:10.000Now again, this is a media creation into which Trump absolutely steps.
00:42:14.000So for months, we have heard from, months, years, we have heard from Democrats that Donald Trump is not a duly elected president, that he was in fact put in place by the Russians.
00:42:22.000And then we have heard that Republicans have biased every major election.
00:42:26.000George W. Bush was not legitimately elected.
00:42:28.000Donald Trump was not legitimately elected.
00:42:30.000Stacey Abrams is the actual governor of Georgia.
00:42:33.000Voter fraud is rampant in Republican states.
00:42:36.000Republicans attempt to suppress the vote.
00:42:38.000This is a generic Democratic talking point at this point.
00:42:40.000There have been full articles written about John Podesta prepping for the possibility of insane post-election maneuvering should Donald Trump win victory.
00:42:51.000We know that the Biden team has hired hundreds of lawyers in preparation for exactly that.
00:42:55.000There's a weird 20,000-word piece in The Atlantic positing all these bizarre scenarios whereby Donald Trump was going to hole up in the White House like Al Pacino at the end of Scarface snorting coke and firing guns to prevent being dragged out of the Oval Office even after losing an election legitimately.
00:43:27.000Everything the left does, Donald Trump does, except a little bit more.
00:43:30.000So if you get Chris Cuomo doing the cable news routine, you get Donald Trump doing the cable news routine, except more.
00:43:35.000If the left suggests that election fraud is going to skew the election such that Republicans are going to win, you'll get Donald Trump saying exactly the same thing back to them.
00:43:42.000You guys are going to skew the election results so that you guys win.
00:43:45.000And then, that plays into the left-wing narrative.
00:43:47.000So this has been the left-wing narrative for the last couple of days because Donald Trump, when asked about the election, said there's the possibility for serious election fraud, there's the serious possibility of voter fraud, and votes not being counted, and it could be a mess.
00:43:58.000Now, the real answer to that is a duly certified election is one that I will respect.
00:44:02.000If we have evidence of malfeasance, then that is something that we'll have to deal with when it comes up.
00:44:33.000They're saying that Donald Trump is a threat to the legitimacy of the elections, but also he is a threat to the election because he himself is responsible for voter fraud.
00:44:43.000So either he likes the voter fraud or he doesn't like the voter fraud, but apparently he likes both, right?
00:44:47.000No matter what, how the election goes, Donald Trump will be responsible.
00:44:50.000So if Donald Trump wins, it'll be due to voter fraud.
00:44:51.000Also, if Donald Trump loses and then claims voter fraud, it's because he's bad, right?
00:44:55.000This is the way that the media are playing his comments the other night.
00:44:58.000That doesn't mean that Trump has handled that issue properly.
00:45:00.000I criticized him yesterday on the show for handling the issue that way, but this is the narrative that Democrats are drawing because it's a heads I win, tails you lose scenario.
00:45:07.000Again, if Donald Trump wins, it's because of voter fraud.
00:45:12.000On Trump in the New York Times called the attack on voting with just a bunch of and basically the entire story is a bunch of tweets from Trump about how there are various forms of voting that are a problem.
00:45:24.000All those headlines about voter fraud amplified daily on Facebook and Twitter served a purpose, says the New York Times.
00:45:28.000They laid the groundwork for a legal challenge.
00:45:30.000The Trump campaign had a team of election lawyers standing by to dispute election results throughout the country.
00:45:35.000And Republican National Lawyers Association had readied a self-described Navy SEAL type operation to fight similar cases.
00:45:41.000In the event of a Republican loss, they would need a story and fraud it was.
00:45:43.000The truth appeared to be a secondary concern at best.
00:45:47.000There is only one problem with this, which is, of course, Democrats have also hired the exact same number of people.
00:45:52.000As the 2020 presidential election nears, says the New York Times, it is becoming clear the Trump administration and the Republican Party are not just looking at, but heavily investing in the largely non-existent problem of voter fraud.
00:46:03.000A New York Times magazine investigation based on a review of thousands of pages of court records and interviews with more than 100 key players found an extensive effort to gain partisan advantage by aggressively promoting the false claim that voter fraud is a pervasive problem.
00:46:16.000The story did not originate with Trump.
00:46:17.000And then, of course, they suggest that this is all about racism.
00:46:44.000There is no voter suppression in the United States.
00:46:46.000Nobody's blocking anybody from voting.
00:46:49.000So again, another media crafted narrative into which Trump falls headfirst because this is the way our stupid politics work.
00:46:56.000And by the way, if you think that it's getting better after if Trump loses, it's not getting better.
00:47:00.000It's just that all of us will be weaponized on behalf of Biden the same way that it was weaponized on behalf of Barack Obama and enemies of the Biden administration will become enemies of the press.
00:47:09.000Meanwhile, speaking of the militarization of certain aspects of our government, James Comey went to the Hill yesterday.
00:47:15.000So, as it turns out, there have been a variety of stories that have arisen over the past several years demonstrating that the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign was falsely premised, that the Steele dossier, which was the center of the thing, was basically Russian disinformation, and that people knew by the end of 2016 it was Russian disinformation, and they continued to promulgate it as the basis for FISA warrants.
00:47:38.000So James Comey, who presided over the FBI during this entire period and is going to go down in history as maybe the worst FBI director ever.
00:47:45.000I mean, really, truly an awful FBI director.
00:47:50.000And he testified in the aftermath of a bombshell allegation.
00:47:54.000Annie McCarthy reporting for National Review.
00:47:56.000Hillary Clinton personally signed off on the Russiagate farce to distract attention from her email scandal, according to a Russian intelligence analysis obtained by U.S.
00:48:05.000That is the bombshell allegation National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe has just dropped on the Senate Judiciary Committee with the first presidential debate just a few hours away and with former FBI Director James Comey scheduled to testify before that committee tomorrow morning.
00:48:19.000Ratcliffe's letter to committee chairman Lindsey Graham asserts that in late July 2016, American intelligence agencies obtained insight into an analysis by Russian spies, which alleged that Democratic U.S.
00:48:29.000presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to stir up a scandal against her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
00:48:34.000The plan involved, quote, tying Trump to Putin and the Russians hacking of the DNC.
00:48:39.000Let's put this information in context.
00:48:42.000was cleared of criminal charges in a July 5th, 2016 presser by Comey.
00:48:46.000This prompted outrage over whether the Obama administration had distorted the criminal law applicable to mishandling classified information to give Clinton a pass.
00:48:53.000The email scandal would dog Clinton throughout the campaign.
00:48:55.000On July 25th, less than three weeks after the Comey press conference, the 2016 DNC convention began in Philadelphia.
00:49:01.000Three days earlier, July 22nd, the hacked DNC emails began to be published.
00:49:06.000By that point, former British spy Christopher Steele had been commissioned by the Clinton campaign to compile research tying Trump to Russia.
00:49:11.000Steele ran a London-based private intelligence business whose clients include Russian oligarchs.
00:49:16.000Moreover, in compiling the dossier, Steele relied heavily on Igor Donchenko, a man the FBI investigated in 2009-2010 on suspicion he was a Russian spy.
00:49:25.000Days after the hacked DNC emails began being published, Steele generated a dossier report alleging that Trump was in a quote, well-developed conspiracy of cooperation with Russian leadership.
00:49:34.000The evidence of extensive conspiracy between Trump's campaign team and the Kremlin, Steele claimed, included the hacking and publication of DNC emails.
00:49:42.000The Russian regime had been behind the recent leak of embarrassing email messages emanating from the DNC's WikiLeaks. The operation, said Steele, had the full knowledge and support of Trump and senior members of the team. In exchange, Trump had purportedly committed to both downplay Russian intervention in Ukraine and raise American defense commitments to NATO as campaign issues.
00:50:00.000Further, Steele claimed that Trump had, quote, moles within the DNC and hackers in the U.S., as well as outside in Russia.
00:50:06.000On the Trump side, Steele said the conspiracy was managed by Paul Manafort, who is purportedly using Carter Page as an intermediary.
00:50:12.000The story was absurd through and through.
00:50:15.000As McCarthy says, Clinton is not a correspondent in the DNC emails and was not harmed by them.
00:50:19.000Plainly, it would have been easy for Steele to weave this tale together from public reporting.
00:50:23.000Page and Manafort didn't know each other.
00:50:25.000In the same dossier report, Steele claimed Russia was using its consulate in Miami as a hub for the arrangement with Trump.
00:50:30.000Russia didn't even have a consulate in Miami.
00:50:35.000intelligence community does not know the accuracy of the allegation that Hillary personally orchestrated the collusion scandal, nor can our agencies say whether Russian intelligence analysis is disinformation.
00:50:44.000Nevertheless, the allegation about Clinton's role was known to the Obama administration at the time.
00:50:49.000Ratcliffe elaborates the handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan's show.
00:50:53.000Brennan briefed Obama and other senior national security officials about the intelligence, including the quote, alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.
00:51:11.000intel officials forwarded to FBI Director Comey and Agent Peter Strzok an investigative referral regarding, quote, U.S.
00:51:17.000presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S.
00:51:20.000presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S.
00:51:23.000elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.
00:51:29.000Director Radcliffe closes his letter by explaining there is other related intelligence that remains classified.
00:51:33.000Apparently, that intelligence will not be declassified.
00:51:37.000It turns out that CIA Director Gina Haspel, according to Sean Davis over at The Federalist, is blocking release of further Russiagate documents.
00:51:44.000Okay, so now we have a Russian intelligence document, which itself could be disinformation, claiming that Hillary Clinton basically concocted the whole Russiagate scandal in order to distract from emailgate.
00:52:50.000Because a person's financial situation could make them vulnerable to coercion by an adversary, and allow an adversary to do what we try to do to foreign government officials we find are indebted, and that is recruit them to our side.
00:53:38.000Here's Lindsey Graham asking him about it.
00:53:39.000How would you rate the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in terms of being done thoroughly by the book, an investigation the FBI should be proud of?
00:53:52.000I'm not sure I can apply a number scale, but I would say in the main, it was done by the book.
00:54:00.000It was appropriate and it was essential Okay.
00:55:13.000And they knew it was crap, apparently, when they took out the renewals of the FISA warrant.
00:55:17.000Lindsey Graham asked Comey about it, and he was like, well, you know, even though I personally signed the documentation, it's not my job to make sure the FISA applications are accurate.
00:55:39.000No, I signed a certification which is required of the FBI director.
00:55:43.000Okay, does the FBI director have any responsibility to make sure the facts are right when they're given to the court?
00:55:50.000Not in connection with the certification, but in general, the FBI director is responsible for everything that's being done underneath the FBI director.
00:55:57.000Oh, but he's not responsible for anything because it's not his job.
00:56:11.000This investigation of the president was corrupt.
00:56:13.000The FBI and the Department of Justice were politicized and weaponized.
00:56:18.000And in my opinion, there are only two possibilities.
00:56:21.000That you were deliberately corrupt or woefully incompetent.
00:56:25.000And I don't believe you were incompetent.
00:56:29.000This has done severe damage to the professionals and the honorable men and women at the FBI because law enforcement should not be used as a political weapon.
00:57:23.000The sad irony of all of this for the media is that their greatest wish, which is to throw Trump out of office on his year, their greatest wish, which is to take Trump down and replace him with, again, the next step in the leftist revolution via elderly Joe Biden and his Potemkin village of an administration.
00:57:40.000The goal is going to result in their utter destruction.
00:57:54.000They require Donald Trump in order to get the ratings that generate all of the money that they use to push forward the agenda that they want.
00:58:03.000And what happens when they are deprived of that?
00:58:05.000Well, then it turns out more and more people are going to recognize them for the propaganda outlet they are.
00:58:09.000And people are going to start ignoring the media again.
00:58:11.000And you're going to see an uptick in the number of people who are going to alternative media sources.
00:58:15.000And frankly, I think that'll be great for the country.
00:58:17.000Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:58:19.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.