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00:03:00.720The trial of Donald Trump, the president of the United States, and the leading candidate to be the next president of the United States currently on trial.
00:03:13.380The first time this has ever happened in U.S. history.
00:03:16.980The first time and the only time that we've ever had a leading candidate on trial by the opposition party who's trying him.
00:03:27.020And I tweeted this out earlier today during the trial itself, and this is very clear.
00:03:33.620The leader of this trial, the face of this trial, the man who gave the actual opening statement,
00:03:41.080because we weren't sure who exactly it would be from Bragg's office,
00:03:44.460a name that will be no stranger to the people of this audience.
00:03:48.740Matthew Colangelo was chosen by Bragg, by Bragg, to deliver the opening statement in the Trump prosecution.
00:03:56.900This is a direct signal that the case against Trump comes straight from the Biden administration.
00:04:03.760Matthew Colangelo was a deputy of Merrick Garland.
00:04:08.860Merrick Garland is the Department of Justice's attorney general.
00:05:28.940And they have the entire force of the state behind them.
00:05:31.820So remember, you go to jail if you're an election denier for 2020.
00:05:37.660But President Trump, who won the free and fair election of 2016, is now on trial for election fraud.
00:05:49.220They accuse you of that which they are doing themselves.
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00:32:38.560It's almost like a CHAZ meets BLM meets Occupy, but with a Gaza flavor kicking off.
00:32:45.480Darren Beattie, you warned about the rise of these types of groups on campus recently, but you also warned at the same time that there was a knee-jerk response to banning them outright that is actually very dangerous.
00:33:02.280Walk us through what's going on, because I think that what we're seeing right now with this Occupy movement, in some cases sort of a renewed Gaza camp situation, it's going to lead to renewed resurgence in support for those types of policies, for banning them outright, and a lot of pressure for administrators to do so.
00:33:23.220Indeed, it does seem like some of the things we discussed in an earlier segment have come to pass here, and even intensified.
00:33:35.480And first of all, just looking at these things, I find it a repulsive spectacle.
00:33:40.640There's something about, as I mentioned, the DNA of all sort of left-wing activism and mobilization.
00:33:47.960It's really the same across the board, and you see it express itself in similar ways.
00:33:56.860And justifiably, there is some movement and some energy on the right to pressure universities to address this.
00:34:04.880And I think that pressure needs to observe a really critical distinction that we discussed before, and that is any kind of violent speech, threats.
00:34:17.340That means direct threats, not this stochastic terrorism scam where someone feels uncomfortable that someone might act on the basis of offensive speech.
00:34:30.020Direct threats, and of course, disruptive behavior.
00:34:34.380There should be a zero-tolerance policy for this across the board at universities.
00:34:40.100And to the extent that there's leverage and interest and enthusiasm on the right to pressure universities in the wake of these resurgent protests, it should be singularly focused on that for the following reasons.
00:34:53.180Again, disruption is part of the DNA of left-wing activist protests.
00:34:58.520By adopting a zero-tolerance policy to disruption and violence, you're addressing the problem at its root where the problem actually is.
00:35:08.580That being said, what we want to avoid is what I think is the easy but ultimately counterproductive solution that you're seeing out of some quarters, which is simply to say we need to slap on additional speech codes in order to accommodate the sensitivities of Jewish students or pro-Israel students.
00:35:31.460And this is, of course, and this is, of course, misguided for obvious reasons.
00:35:34.380First of all, we don't want to move in the direction of more speech restrictions.
00:35:39.800But secondly, any kind of speech codes that are adopted will, of course, be used against what remaining conservative speech exists on campus, especially in a critical election year.
00:35:52.280So it's just fundamentally misguided on a practical level and also in principle it's wrong because, again, if we believe anything we say about free speech and maximum accommodation of First Amendment protected speech, even if it's a campus speaker you don't like, what the left does, again, this is the DNA of it, is they disrupt when a conservative speaker goes there.
00:36:15.880If it's Ann Coulter or if it's Charles Murray or if it's Charlie Kirk or recently, I think there was a case of Rittenhouse, no matter who it is, you go to campus, you're disrupted, that's what should be clamped down on.
00:36:32.500But, of course, if these Palestinian activists, if they want to have their own speakers, if they're controversial and they're not interfering with other people, let them do it.
00:36:43.460That's been what conservatives and free speech defenders have been saying for a long time.
00:36:48.820So it would be a shame to succumb to a kind of short-term oriented hypocrisy in order to adopt new speech codes that ultimately won't help the problem in the first place.
00:37:05.420And it's a distinction where we get all of the benefit of clamping down on the disruption, not only by these Palestinian activists, by left-wing activists generally.
00:37:14.860Because, again, they all do this, not, you know, the BLM types do it.
00:37:19.440How great would it be for universities to adopt a truly zero tolerance policy?
00:37:24.580If a conservative speaker is giving a talk and you disrupt it, automatic expulsion.
00:37:31.100Wouldn't it be far better to have that than to embrace some kind of Pyrrhic victory in adopting a speech code so the Palestinians can invite whatever, you know, person they want to speak on their campus and similar such restrictions?
00:37:47.020The idea is, and I get the first part, the idea is don't ban the group, say, just because a group has a belief that's controversial, that doesn't mean they should be banned under freedom of speech.
00:37:57.720But the second point you're talking about is ban disruptors, that when someone comes up and is being disruptive, now, that doesn't mean the entire group that they're associated with necessarily, but that person specifically, not just banned from participating in the event, but actually expel them from
00:38:14.340I would say yes, and obviously, you know, in theory, there would be some kind of judgment involved.
00:38:20.680But in these cases that you see where there's like active harassment or let's say, let's say there's a speaker who's giving a pro-Israel point of view and they go and they disrupt it so people can't hear the speech.
00:38:31.900That kind of disruption that we've seen specifically impede the ability of conservatives to reach an audience on campus, that should face a zero-tolerance policy, anything resembling that.
00:38:47.240But I need to qualify that by saying, because these days people say, oh, you said something that offended me, therefore I'm unsafe.
00:38:54.180Your speech is violence, your speech is causing pain, your speech is causing harm.
00:39:01.400Yeah, some of these self-appointed spokespeople like Talia Khan, who's kind of leading the charge, positioning herself as the new Barry Weiss, it seems some of the rhetoric coming from that direction seems like it's just a repeat of the same emotivism that we see from the left that does not serve our cause and our objectives well.
00:39:22.460So as long as we keep the zero-tolerance policy focused specifically on violent threats and disruption, I think we're going to be in very good shape.
00:39:33.020And the leverage that exists now, insofar as it exists to do something about the campus situation, will be well used.
00:39:40.220I think that's a genius way of putting it, because it's very simple, and it would be easy for so many people to come up here and say, yeah, ban that group because they don't agree with me.
00:39:52.400But then all of a sudden, what happens when the administrators turn around the next day and they say, oh, you're a member of Turning Point USA, or I see here that you're subscribed to Human Events Daily, you're subscribed to Revolver News, you listen to The War Room.
00:40:06.220How much better to use that leverage so you go to talk at a university, Charlie Kirk goes to talk at a university, and someone dares to come up and try to grab the microphone, boom, you're gone from the university for good.
00:40:22.460How many times has this happened when there's been someone who bum-rushed the stage?
00:40:27.320I've had it happen at events where someone's come up and tried to rush the stage, grab the mic, run over, any number of things that have been going on.
00:40:36.560By the way, for years, for years to conservatives, and I can appreciate that people are all of a sudden saying, my goodness, by Jove, it seems as though something's going on at the universities.
00:40:48.740I never noticed such a thing before, because it was only being done to those naughty, bad people, like those bad conservatives.
00:41:49.160It's a case as to bookkeeping, which is a very minor thing in terms of the law, in terms of all the violent crime that's going on outside as we, as we speak, right outside as we speak, but this is a case where you pay a lawyer, who's a lawyer, and they call it a legal expense. That's the exact term they use, legal expense.
00:42:15.160All right, there you have President Trump made the statement just outside the court today
00:42:22.120Court was adjourned early today in the Trump trial
00:42:27.180The first witness, I'm not even sure if they're done with the witness yet
00:42:30.620This is David Pecker, who testified a little bit after noon
00:42:34.160President Trump coming out and giving a statement
00:43:18.600Because this is something where, you know, these people that, you know, kind of outside of, you know, sort of our sphere of, you know, political, socio-media spectrum
00:43:30.220You know, there is this other sliver of the Rachel Maddows who exist in this universe where Donald Trump is like their white whale
00:43:38.740But it's also kind of like a, how should I say this?
00:43:42.940Something that they think about later in the wee hours of the evening at the same time
00:43:47.920That clearly you're seeing exhibited by Ms. Maddow right there