The Ben Shapiro Show - Another Anti-Trump Media Story Implodes | Ep. 1237

00:00:00.000 The establishment media repeated an apparently false story about Donald Trump for months.

00:00:04.000 A 13-year-old black kid is shot by police in Chicago, prompting more talk about the evils of the police, and the Democrats are looking to pack the Supreme Court.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:18.000 The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN.

00:00:21.000 Your data is your business protected at expressvpn.com slash ben.

00:00:25.000 We'll get to all the news in just one moment.

00:00:27.000 First, a quick reminder, you're spending hundreds of dollars too much on your cell phone bill if you are not using Pure Talk USA, which is why thousands of customers have been canceling the nation's largest wireless providers because they found out they can get the same service at half the price by switching over to Pure Talk USA.

00:00:41.000 A lot of my listeners are doing exactly this.

00:00:43.000 That's right.

00:00:43.000 Instead of charging obscene fees to pay for the Massive mainstream media campaigns and corporate campuses and retail outlets across the country, Pure Talk is passing the savings directly on to you.

00:00:51.000 The average family saves over $800 a year.

00:00:54.000 And switching is super simple.

00:00:55.000 You can keep your phone, keep your number, or get huge discounts on the latest iPhones and Androids.

00:01:00.000 Right now, you can get unlimited talk, text, and 6 gigs of data for just $30 a month.

00:01:04.000 If you go over on the data, they're not going to charge you for it.

00:01:06.000 From your cell phone, dial pound 250.

00:01:08.000 Say Ben Shapiro.

00:01:09.000 You will save 50% off your very first month.

00:01:11.000 That is pound 250.

00:01:12.000 Say Ben Shapiro.

00:01:13.000 A lot of phone companies are not particularly transparent when it comes to what exactly you are getting for your money.

00:01:17.000 A lot of them will tell you you need unlimited data.

00:01:19.000 You don't.

00:01:19.000 What you need is unlimited talk, text, and six gigs of data for 30 bucks a month.

00:01:22.000 And again, if you go over on the data, they're not gonna charge you for it.

00:01:25.000 You got nothing to lose.

00:01:26.000 Dial pound 250.

00:01:27.000 Say my name, Ben Shapiro.

00:01:28.000 You will save 50% off your very first month of coverage at Pure Talk USA.

00:01:33.000 Alrighty, so.

00:01:34.000 If you remember all the way back to the 2020 campaign.

00:01:37.000 June 26th, 2020.

00:01:38.000 The New York Times has a bombshell story.

00:01:41.000 Another one of these bombshell stories that is designed to really harm the Trump White House.

00:01:45.000 And the story is, quote, This is reported by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmidt, and Michael Schwartz, all three of whom were deeply involved in the Russiagate nonsense that was promoted for years, that Trump was a cat's paw of the Russian oligarchy.

00:02:02.000 According to the New York Times, back in June of 2020, American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan, including targeting American troops, amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.

00:02:18.000 The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe, intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turdcoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

00:02:30.000 And this became a major issue in the campaign.

00:02:32.000 You'll recall that Joe Biden commented on it and suggested that Donald Trump was not being harsh enough with the Russians because, again, he was in the pocket of the Russians. 0.54

00:02:39.000 And remember that over and over and over, the media covered this thing.

00:02:41.000 In fact, we have a compendium, courtesy of The Daily Caller, of members of the media talking up the bounty scandal.

00:02:49.000 In our World Lead Today, President Trump dismissing the Russian bounty intelligence story as a hoax meant to damage him and Republicans.

00:02:58.000 The White House also responding tonight to a bombshell report accusing Russia of offering bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.

00:03:06.000 And now you know, from this reporting in the New York Times, which has since been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, that not only does the president know that Russia was paying for American soldiers' deaths, Get this, the Washington Post is now reporting that the alleged Russian bounties to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of U.S.

00:03:30.000 troops.

00:03:31.000 Like this New York Times story about a stunning U.S.

00:03:33.000 intel assessment.

00:03:35.000 Okay, so this is not the first story that has been blown, like completely blown by the media.

00:03:43.000 As it turns out, it is now being reported that the intelligence community has very low confidence that this ever happened.

00:03:49.000 In fact, Jen Psaki admitted this at the White House yesterday.

00:03:51.000 She said, yeah, we don't really think that this is what was happening.

00:03:56.000 They assessed with low-to-moderate confidence, as you alluded to, that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks against U.S.

00:04:03.000 and coalition personnel in Afghanistan.

00:04:06.000 The reason that they have low-to-moderate confidence in this judgment is in part because it relies on detainee reporting and also due to the challenging operating environment in Afghanistan.

00:04:20.000 So it's challenging to gather this intelligence and this data.

00:04:23.000 Okay, so it turns out that the story has very, very little to back it.

00:04:27.000 Trump called it a hoax at the time.

00:04:29.000 He was the head of the White House, so presumably he was being provided with the intelligence reports.

00:04:33.000 The media immediately called him a liar.

00:04:34.000 In fact, the Washington Post called it a Four Pinocchio lie.

00:04:38.000 Not a Four Pinocchio lie, by the way.

00:04:40.000 When Joe Biden, the current president of the United States, says that Jim Crow is now being reinstituted across the South in the United States, and that black Americans are being forced to do Things like guess the number of jelly beans in order to vote the way that they were back in 1890, right?

00:04:57.000 That's not a Four Pinocchio lie from the Washington Post, but it was a Four Pinocchio lie when Trump said that a story that turns out to be nonsense was actually a hoax way back when.

00:05:05.000 Molly Hemingway of the Federalist who reported all the way back then that she was deeply skeptical of this particular story, that there was nothing to back it.

00:05:11.000 She was mocked, roundly mocked by the media at the time for suggesting all of that.

00:05:16.000 Why?

00:05:16.000 Because all of this pushes the narrative.

00:05:17.000 It's weird how every story that damaged Donald Trump was considered perfectly plausible up until Joe Biden became president, at which point half those stories fell apart.

00:05:25.000 Whether we're talking about this story, or whether we're talking about conversations that Trump held with Ukraine, and it turns out that some of those conversations were completely misreported by the mainstream media.

00:05:35.000 Some of them were not, but some of them were.

00:05:38.000 There's an effort to suppress information that is harmful to Democrats, and there's an effort to play up information that is harmful to Republicans, even if that information turns out not to be true.

00:05:47.000 And that, I don't know why Americans would have any sort of faith in the media to get these things right.

00:05:53.000 It is so easy to launder these stories through the media now.

00:05:56.000 All you need is basically one source in the intelligence community to tell a story to the New York Times, and then that same source will talk to the Wall Street Journal or to the Washington Post, and they'll tell the same story, and then the Washington Post or Wall Street Journal will say, we have confirmed that this story is true.

00:06:10.000 So you can launder a false story throughout the media simply by dint of having some sort of connection to the intelligence community.

00:06:16.000 I mean, that is deep state kind of stuff.

00:06:19.000 I'm not a big believer in this idea that there is a conspiratorial cabal within the intelligence community that's seeking to oust Donald Trump.

00:06:24.000 But it's certainly the case that there are a bunch of people in the intelligence community who did not like Donald Trump and were perfectly happy to harm Donald Trump, and many in the media who are perfectly happy to go along with that and not do their actual footwork in terms of ensuring that the stories were true in the first place.

00:06:39.000 Yesterday at the White House, a reporter asked Psaki if Joe Biden felt any remorse at all for attacking Trump repeatedly over a story that turns out not to be true.

00:06:47.000 Given that assessment, does the president have any regrets for how many times he attacked President Trump on the campaign about this issue or not taking action related to the Russian bombings?

00:06:55.000 Well, I'm not going to speak to the previous administration, but I will say that we had enough concern about these reports and about the targeting of our men and women serving, the men and women who are proudly serving around the world, that we wanted our intelligence community to look into it.

00:07:12.000 Okay, so no, there's not going to be any apology forthcoming because why would you apologize?

00:07:15.000 The Democratic Party has the same mentality as Harry Reid.

00:07:18.000 Harry Reid, the former Senate minority leader.

00:07:20.000 You'll remember that Harry Reid said about Mitt Romney back in 2012 that he didn't pay any taxes.

00:07:25.000 He had nothing to back that whatsoever.

00:07:27.000 Later it came out, of course, that Romney did pay taxes.

00:07:29.000 And Harry Reid said, didn't matter.

00:07:30.000 I was trying to make him lose the time.

00:07:32.000 This is the mentality of the media.

00:07:33.000 It is spread throughout social media as well.

00:07:35.000 The latest evidence of this is that Twitter has now banned James O'Keefe.

00:07:38.000 Why?

00:07:38.000 What did James O'Keefe do?

00:07:40.000 Well, his project Veritas has been releasing tape of CNN directors talking about the bias at CNN.

00:07:48.000 Twitter claimed without evidence, according to the Daily Wire, that O'Keefe was, quote, violating the Twitter rules on platform manipulation and spam.

00:07:55.000 According to Twitter, as outlined in our policy on platform manipulation and spam, you can't mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts, and you can't artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts.

00:08:05.000 O'Keefe immediately said that this is a lie.

00:08:07.000 He called their statement accusing him of operating fake accounts false.

00:08:10.000 He said, I am suing Twitter for defamation.

00:08:12.000 Donald Trump Jr.

00:08:13.000 responded to Twitter's latest crackdown by saying, in case you haven't figured out how it works by now, CNN spreads propaganda to elect Democrats, and then Twitter runs interference to protect CNN.

00:08:21.000 They're all on the same team.

00:08:22.000 You remember that not all that long ago, the claim was that James O'Keefe's material couldn't be put online because it was some sort of hacked material, because it was undercover material.

00:08:31.000 The same sort of nonsense that they trotted out there to explain why they were suppressing the Hunter Biden story in the month leading up to the election.

00:08:36.000 The idea there was this was hacked material.

00:08:38.000 We can't allow hacked material, which is weird since you allowed tons and tons of hacked material Again, the real story with James O'Keefe is that O'Keefe got CNN producers and directors to admit on tape that they basically biased their media coverage in order to oust Trump.

00:08:56.000 But according to Twitter, the bad guy here is James O'Keefe, obviously.

00:08:59.000 And it's not just the O'Keefe story that is now being suppressed.

00:09:02.000 Facebook apparently is now blocking users from sharing another New York Post story.

00:09:07.000 What exactly is this New York Post story?

00:09:08.000 Well, the New York Post reported, as we talked about on the show, that Patrice Concolors, who is one of the Black Lives Matter co-founders, has now purchased a new $1.4 million home in a super white area of California.

00:09:23.000 According to Mediaite, the stories about Concolor's a 37-year-old self-described Marxist who spent $3.4 million on homes last year and another $1.4 million in March began in the Post on April 10th, with the first one titled, Marxist BLM Leader Buys $1.4 Million Home in Ritzy LA Enclave.

00:09:37.000 The Daily Mail picked it up.

00:09:38.000 Black Enterprise did so two days later, with a call from New York City BLM Chief Hawk Newsom calling for an investigation into where exactly this money was coming from.

00:09:47.000 When exactly did the media decide to crack down on this?

00:09:49.000 As soon as Jason Whitlock started sharing the story.

00:09:54.000 Twitter decided to suspend Whitlock for tweeting out the story.

00:09:58.000 Facebook is now banning you from sharing the New York Post story in the first place in the same way that they banned you from sharing the Hunter Biden story.

00:10:05.000 Which is insane.

00:10:07.000 Here is Facebook's explanation for why they actually blocked the story.

00:10:11.000 The article shared multiple details which could identify the residence of one of BLM founders, in violation of our privacy rights.

00:10:17.000 As per our community standards, we do not allow people to post personal or confidential information about yourself or of others.

00:10:23.000 We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources.

00:10:35.000 We also provide people ways to report imagery they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.

00:10:42.000 All they did in this original story was they shared a picture of the house.

00:10:47.000 They didn't give the exact location.

00:10:49.000 This sort of reporting is done literally all the time.

00:10:51.000 All the time.

00:10:51.000 In fact, right now, online, you can find pictures of the house of the Minneapolis officer who's just brought up on manslaughter charges.

00:10:59.000 You can find pictures on real estate sites of the house that I just sold in California.

00:11:04.000 It is not difficult to find stories with regard to what people's houses look like, particularly if they are celebrities and if they are political celebrities.

00:11:11.000 So this is just a lie.

00:11:12.000 They're suppressing the story because they don't like the contents of the story.

00:11:15.000 This has nothing to do with the specific methodology of the story.

00:11:19.000 They didn't give out her address.

00:11:20.000 They didn't take a harasser.

00:11:22.000 Nothing like that.

00:11:23.000 They just printed a story, which is extremely newsworthy, that the Marxist founder, of a Marxist organization who suggests that America is deeply in thrall to white supremacy just bought a gigantically expensive house in a super duper white area of California.

00:11:38.000 That's a story.

00:11:39.000 Not only is that a story, that's a story with public interest.

00:11:42.000 Not only is it a story of public interest, it doesn't threaten her in any way.

00:11:45.000 It does undercut a lot of her claims. 0.93

00:11:46.000 If she's so scared of white people, if she believes that white supremacy is really an institutional problem that is putting black people in serious danger, why in the hell is she moving to an area with like three black people? 0.60

00:11:56.000 She tripled the black population of Topanga Canyon simply by moving there with members of her family. 0.95

00:12:01.000 Okay, but it undercuts that.

00:12:03.000 It undercuts the idea that she's an actual Marxist.

00:12:05.000 She's not.

00:12:05.000 Or maybe she is.

00:12:06.000 She's just like Stalin was a Marxist, right?

00:12:08.000 Stalin also had a nice Dasha.

00:12:10.000 Everybody else was living in abject poverty or being slaughtered in Ukraine, but he was living in a really, really nice area.

00:12:15.000 Turns out this is the way Marxists often work.

00:12:16.000 They get to live in the really nice house.

00:12:18.000 You're the one who has to suffer.

00:12:19.000 Nicolas Maduro has a really, really nice house in Venezuela.

00:12:22.000 So I guess she's just taking a page from the normal sort of Marxist playbook, which is those at the top of the echelon, they get to have the really nice houses.

00:12:29.000 Everybody else has to be a Marxist.

00:12:31.000 In any case, Patrice Cullors went on air with Marc Lamont Hill to try and explain why she'd been investing, you know, $5 million, apparently, over the course of the last year and a half in real estate.

00:12:41.000 Pretty non-Marxist stuff there.

00:12:44.000 The way that I live my life is in direct support to Black people, including my Black family members, first and foremost.

00:12:52.000 And for so many Black folks who are able to invest in themselves and their community, they choose to invest in their family. 0.98

00:13:01.000 And that's what I've chosen to do.

00:13:03.000 I have a child.

00:13:05.000 I have a brother that has severe mental illness that I take care of.

00:13:09.000 I support my mother, and I support many other family members of mine, and so I see my money as not my own.

00:13:18.000 I see it as my family's money as well.

00:13:22.000 Oh my god.

00:13:23.000 Okay, so she's just a capitalist! 1.00

00:13:25.000 She's just a capitalist! 1.00

00:13:26.000 And not only is she a capitalist, she doesn't believe that America is a deeply white supremacist place where white people are routinely targeting black people.

00:13:33.000 Because if she did, she wouldn't be moving out to the boonies.

00:13:37.000 Topanga Canyon is a very rich area of L.A.

00:13:40.000 I lived in L.A.

00:13:41.000 for 30 years.

00:13:42.000 Topanga Canyon is not an impoverished area of L.A.

00:13:44.000 It is not a heavily minority area of L.A.

00:13:47.000 I love that it's okay for her to use millions of dollars Weird, because you know what?

00:13:52.000 I have the same exact view about my money.

00:13:53.000 My money is not just my money.

00:13:54.000 It is my family's money.

00:13:55.000 It is not your money, Patrice Cullors.

00:13:57.000 It is not the money of Black Lives Matter.

00:13:58.000 It is not the money of the federal government.

00:14:01.000 weird because you know what?

00:14:02.000 I have the same exact view about my money.

00:14:04.000 My money is not just my money.

00:14:05.000 It is my family's money.

00:14:06.000 It is not your money, Patrice Cullors.

00:14:07.000 It is not the money of Black Lives Matter.

00:14:08.000 It is not the money of the federal government.

00:14:10.000 It is my money and it is my money and my family's money.

00:14:12.000 And I earn money so that I can help my family.

00:14:14.000 I have exactly the same view that she does about helping my family.

00:14:17.000 Which is why I moved to a safer area.

00:14:19.000 It's why I moved to a better area.

00:14:20.000 And every single American should have the same exact right and viewpoint about their money and their family's money as Patrisse Cullors. 1.00

00:14:27.000 It just demonstrates what a damned hypocrite she is. 1.00

00:14:30.000 She and her organization go around talking about how evil America's systems of capitalism are. 1.00

00:14:34.000 Tear down the family.

00:14:35.000 Weird, because here you are talking about how you are the support system for your family.

00:14:39.000 But I thought that the family was a patriarchal, terrible structure, which was on the BLM website until five seconds ago.

00:14:45.000 I was told that Marxism was the solution to the problem, but here you are talking about your money and your family's money.

00:14:50.000 I noticed you didn't say the people's money.

00:14:52.000 I noticed you didn't say that, Patrisse Cullors, but don't worry.

00:14:55.000 It's an embarrassing story, and the media will step in to protect Patrisse Cullors.

00:14:59.000 The social media bosses will step in to protect Patrisse Cullors.

00:15:03.000 I noticed they have no sort of compunction about printing stories regarding a wide variety of housing situations for a wide variety of politicians, but if you step on PLM's toes, this thing gets shut down.

00:15:15.000 Your establishment media, your social media bosses, they are corrupt.

00:15:18.000 And by the way, if you believe that this is all about suppressing misinformation, again, there's a difference between disinformation and misinformation.

00:15:25.000 Social media bosses should not be in the process, should not be.

00:15:28.000 Involved in suppressing quote-unquote misinformation because sometimes what they perceive to be misinformation is actually correct.

00:15:33.000 Disinformation is active propaganda on behalf of a foreign power.

00:15:38.000 You'll notice that over the past few years there's been a subtle shift from disinformation to misinformation in the way that the media talk about information spread online.

00:15:45.000 They went from disinformation is bad, true, because it is foreign propaganda, to misinformation is bad, which is anything we don't like is misinformation and we will shut it down.

00:15:52.000 But I've noticed that only certain types of misinformation are being shut down by the social media bros.

00:15:56.000 I've noticed that.

00:15:57.000 I'll give you a perfect example of misinformation not being shut down in just one second.

00:16:01.000 First, let's talk about the fact you don't wanna go to the auto parts store.

00:16:03.000 Who wants to go to the auto parts store?

00:16:04.000 I mean, you stand in line forever, then you finally get to the front of the line, they ask you a bunch of questions you don't know the answer to, you ascertain which part you need, and then they're like, hey, we don't have that here, we're ordering it online, and we're gonna upcharge you for the pleasure.

00:16:15.000 Instead, why not head over to rockauto.com?

00:16:18.000 Rockauto.com is way easier than doing any of that stuff.

00:16:21.000 They offer the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear, like airlines do.

00:16:25.000 Why would you spend up to twice as much?

00:16:27.000 For the same exact parts.

00:16:28.000 Like, for example, let's say you need, just off the top of my head, a Delphi FG1456 fuel pump assembly for a 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey.

00:16:35.000 Well, that'll cost you like $354 at a big chain store.

00:16:38.000 It's the kind of thing you can get at Rock Auto for $217.

00:16:40.000 RockAuto.com.

00:16:41.000 It's a family business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.

00:16:45.000 Head on over to RockAuto.com right now.

00:16:46.000 Shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.

00:16:50.000 The RockAuto.com catalog is unique, remarkably easy to navigate.

00:16:53.000 You're going to get the part that you need.

00:16:54.000 You're going to get it less expensively than you would at an auto parts store.

00:16:57.000 And you're not going to have to wait for it the same way you would by waiting in line.

00:17:00.000 Head over to RockAuto.com right now.

00:17:01.000 See all the parts available for your car or truck with Shapiro in there.

00:17:04.000 How did you hear about us, Boxer?

00:17:05.000 They know we sent you.

00:17:06.000 That's RockAuto.com.

00:17:08.000 When I talk about the misinformation that the media simply don't care about, and that social media will not shut down, what if I told you that MSNBC's Joy Reid had on a guest, like, last night, in which they just suggested, with no evidence whatsoever, that the Matt Gaetz scandal, which again has shifted in sort of tone and tenor, remember it went from he was engaged in full-on sex trafficking, to...

00:17:26.000 He was engaging in consensual sex with adults in perverse ways.

00:17:30.000 It's kind of shifted and moved.

00:17:32.000 My view on this has been the same always.

00:17:33.000 If he's committed criminal activity, bring the evidence and then we'll go to court.

00:17:37.000 That is the way that the system is supposed to work.

00:17:39.000 In any case, Joy Reid, put that aside, Joy Reid and her guest here suggest that Ron DeSantis is going to be dragged into the scandal.

00:17:47.000 Based on what?

00:17:48.000 Based on nothing.

00:17:50.000 Based on pulling this directly out of their colon.

00:17:53.000 Does this count as misinformation?

00:17:54.000 I feel like it probably should.

00:17:55.000 Here they are, suggesting that the sitting governor of Florida, a probable presidential candidate in 2024, is going to be dragged into an unrelated sex scandal featuring a congressperson from Florida because that guy happens to be from Florida.

00:18:09.000 Notice if you see somebody's name that rings a couple of times.

00:18:13.000 You had at least five women per Politico. 1.00

00:18:14.000 You had Gates.

00:18:16.000 You had a guy named Jason Perizzolo, the hand surgeon and GOP fundraiser, to Ron DeSantis, who apparently Gates wanted to turn into the Attorney General of Florida.

00:18:25.000 There's Halsey Beshears, a former state legislator and former appointed official in the DeSantis administration.

00:18:33.000 If you're Ron DeSantis, does this feel like it's creeping closer to you?

00:18:36.000 Because these are your friends.

00:18:37.000 These are your allies.

00:18:39.000 What in, what?

00:18:41.000 Does it feel like it's creeping closer to you?

00:18:43.000 Matt Gaetz is a, Matt Gaetz is a Republican in Florida.

00:18:47.000 He presumably uses the same fundraising network as pretty much all the Republicans in Florida, just like the same Democratic fundraisers fundraise for a bunch of Democrats.

00:18:54.000 Does it feel like it's coming close to, in what way?

00:18:57.000 Explain.

00:18:58.000 Like seriously, do you have any sort of linkage whatsoever except for the fact that Florida is a giant state with 21 million people in it and that the Republican politicians tend to fundraise from the same people?

00:19:08.000 That is the weakest link of evidence I've ever heard in my entire life.

00:19:11.000 And Drury's just throwing it out there.

00:19:12.000 Does it feel like the Gates scandal is going to approach Ron DeSantis?

00:19:15.000 I know you guys have thrown everything, including the kitchen sink, at Ron DeSantis, and you have failed because your misinformation campaign against DeSantis is disgusting and terrifying.

00:19:22.000 I mean, you just keep throwing out false headlines about DeSantis. 0.76

00:19:25.000 Oh, he's going to kill everybody at the Jacksonville beaches.

00:19:27.000 Oh, he was probably rolling out this Publix vaccine thing because he was paid $100,000 into a super PAC by Publix.

00:19:32.000 Sure, Publix happens to be the single most populous grocery line in all of Florida.

00:19:37.000 But it was really about the $100,000 donation, guys.

00:19:39.000 It was probably about that.

00:19:40.000 Oh, well, he was probably falsifying his death statistics.

00:19:42.000 Sure, you have no evidence he was falsifying his death statistics. 0.95

00:19:44.000 Well, you know, probably we should listen to this crazy lady who used to work for the Florida Health Services and was fired because she's actually a terrible employee and also kind of a congenital liar, apparently. 1.00

00:19:55.000 Like, you guys have tried to go after dissents on everything. 0.61

00:19:57.000 So now, the last-ditch attempt here from Joy Reid is try to link him to the Matt Gaetz scandal.

00:20:02.000 Now, I've noticed there's been no blowback for Joy Reid on this.

00:20:04.000 None.

00:20:04.000 No one's commented on this.

00:20:05.000 No one cares.

00:20:07.000 Imagine for a second that Joe Biden were linked to, I don't know, like his actual son, his actual son, who in text messages was talking about the big guy receiving 10% of particular businesses and was going around, jet-setting around the world, picking up bags of cash for no reason other than his last name is Biden, while being a complete scuzzbag on the personal front.

00:20:28.000 And let's say that the New York Post reported that a month before the election.

00:20:31.000 Social media cracked down on that, right?

00:20:32.000 That was a bad thing.

00:20:34.000 We were told that that was Russian misinformation, that it was hacked material, that it was all dangerous.

00:20:39.000 American people should not be able to even distribute that story. 1.00

00:20:41.000 We're being told that Patrice Cullors, we shouldn't know that she actually bought another house.

00:20:45.000 What is that, her third house?

00:20:46.000 She bought another house in the whitest area of LA.

00:20:50.000 We shouldn't know that stuff, because that stuff is dangerous to know.

00:20:53.000 But if we're just going to go speculating, like Joy Reid's going to go speculating about Ron DeSantis being dragged into a sex scandal with no evidence whatsoever, that's totally cool.

00:21:00.000 It's totally fine.

00:21:02.000 This is the way your establishment media work.

00:21:03.000 If it damages a Republican, it doesn't have to be true.

00:21:06.000 It doesn't even have to be credible.

00:21:07.000 It just has to be an accusation.

00:21:09.000 And then you run with the headline, accusations made.

00:21:12.000 You'll remember they did the exact same thing with the Steele dossier.

00:21:15.000 The Steele dossier was never verified by any member of the media.

00:21:17.000 Instead, what happened is that James Comey went and briefed Trump on the Steele dossier.

00:21:22.000 And then CNN reported James Comey has briefed Trump on the Steele dossier.

00:21:25.000 And then BuzzFeed was like, what is the Steele dossier?

00:21:27.000 Boom.

00:21:28.000 Here's the Steele dossier.

00:21:29.000 We get years of speculation about pee tapes because of this nonsense.

00:21:34.000 I mentioned on the air a few days ago this piece by Margaret Sullivan from the Washington Post talking about how the American people hold no values in common with journalists, because journalists like transparency, and they like information seeking, and they like objectivity.

00:21:45.000 No. 0.95

00:21:46.000 The American people don't like the media because the media are damned liars, and they are just political partisans on behalf of the Democratic Party. 0.98

00:21:52.000 They are propagandists at this point. 0.98

00:21:53.000 If you trust these people further than you can throw them, I don't know what to tell you. 1.00

00:21:56.000 You're a fool. 1.00

00:21:57.000 You're a fool. 1.00

00:21:58.000 Alrighty. 1.00

00:21:59.000 Now, we get to the other big story of the day, and that is the continuing narrative that is pushed by the media with regard to the police. 0.89

00:22:06.000 So the continuing narrative over and over and over is that the police are systemically racist, that every individual anecdotal incident involving a white police officer and a black suspect that goes bad, every one of those is evidence that black Americans are an existential threat in the United States. 0.73

00:22:18.000 Once again, there is no statistical evidence that black Americans are an existential threat in the United States. 0.96

00:22:23.000 None.

00:22:24.000 Black Americans represent 13% of the population of the United States, meaning there are about 40 million black Americans.

00:22:29.000 Every year, there are fewer than 25 black Americans who are shot unarmed by the police.

00:22:34.000 That is not an existential threat to black Americans. 0.99

00:22:37.000 You are far more likely in black America to be killed by a fellow black person than you are to be killed by a white cop. 0.99

00:22:42.000 And if you're a white cop, by the way, you are significantly more likely to be killed by a black American than you are likely to kill a black American in the line of duty. 0.99

00:22:50.000 By the way, that intra-group violence thing, that's true. 0.99

00:22:52.000 Intra-group violence, that is true of every single racial group in America, with the exception of Asian Americans, who are most likely to be targeted, according to FBI statistics, by black Americans.

00:22:59.000 If you're white, you're not most likely to be targeted by a black person.

00:23:02.000 You're most likely to be targeted by a white person. 0.93

00:23:04.000 If you're black, you're most likely to be targeted by a black person in your community. 0.91

00:23:08.000 And if we're talking about extraordinary rates of murder in the black community, and what are the real threats to black life in America, the police rank extremely low on that list. 0.95

00:23:16.000 And the absence of police Ironically, ranks extremely high on the list because it turns out that when the police leave, more people shoot each other, regardless of race.

00:23:23.000 Okay, so, that is not the narrative of the media.

00:23:26.000 The narrative of the media is that the police are the existential threat to black Americans. 0.99

00:23:30.000 Chelsea Handler, that dolt, she tweeted out the other day that why would she obey police orders when there's like a 50-50 shot that even if you obey police orders, you're gonna get shot. 1.00

00:23:39.000 That statistic is pulled directly out of her ass. 1.00

00:23:41.000 She had to remove her head from her ass in order to get to the stat. 1.00

00:23:45.000 A 50-50 shot of being shot by the cops if you comply with orders? 1.00

00:23:49.000 There are 40 million police interactions with suspects in the United States every year.

00:23:55.000 40 million civilian police interactions.

00:23:57.000 Again, the number of black unarmed Americans shot and killed by the police every year is fewer than 30, according to the Washington Post database.

00:24:06.000 That is not a 50-50 shot, gang.

00:24:08.000 But the narrative has to be promulgated because the narrative is more important than the data.

00:24:12.000 The narrative is more important than the reality.

00:24:14.000 The narrative that you are powerless in your own life if you're a black American, that you are living at the mercy of systems beyond your control, and that the only way that you are going to ever live free in the United States is by abdicating responsibility and abdicating power to a giant government apparatus that is going to save you.

00:24:29.000 It's a lie, but it is the narrative of the Democratic Party.

00:24:32.000 And it's forwarded by every aspect of your media, from the Trevor Noahs of the world to your mainstream establishment media.

00:24:39.000 Here's Trevor Noah the other day, suggesting that there are no good apples in the police.

00:24:43.000 Weird.

00:24:43.000 He says, you know, we keep hearing about bad apples, but there are no good apples in the police.

00:24:47.000 No good apples?

00:24:48.000 40 million interactions between cops and civilians every year in the United States.

00:24:54.000 No good apples?

00:24:55.000 My God.

00:24:56.000 I mean, the utter, the sheer ingratitude and arrogance of people like Trevor Noah, who is sitting in his house, presumably with enough security that he doesn't feel threatened by his neighbors, who is living presumably in a very upscale area with a solid police force, saying there are no good apples in the cops is pretty astonishing.

00:25:14.000 Where are the good apples?

00:25:17.000 If we're meant to believe that the police system in America, the system of policing itself is not fundamentally broken, Then we would need to see good apples.

00:25:29.000 And by the way, I'm not saying that there are no good policemen.

00:25:32.000 Don't get me wrong.

00:25:33.000 I'm asking where the good apples are.

00:25:36.000 We don't see a mass uprising of police saying, let's root out these people.

00:25:39.000 We don't see videos of police officers stopping the other cop from pushing an old man at a Black Lives Matter protest or from beating up a kid in the street with a baton.

00:25:48.000 We don't see that.

00:25:49.000 So my question is, where are the good apples?

00:25:51.000 We're not dealing with bad apples.

00:25:54.000 we're dealing with a rotten tree.

00:25:56.000 Oh, the entire tree is rotten.

00:25:58.000 So, okay, and that's the narrative, right?

00:26:00.000 The narrative is that the cops are entirely rotten.

00:26:02.000 The entire system is completely rotten.

00:26:04.000 And every anecdotal piece of evidence that comes down the line is then misinterpreted by the media in order to achieve this outcome.

00:26:10.000 That every incident, that the anecdotal evidence that you see in a George Floyd tape or that you see in a Daunte Wright case, those statistically very, very rare incidents, those particularly rare incidents are indicative of the entire policing structure of the United States.

00:26:25.000 This is the way, by the way, that so much of our sort of race-conscious writing is done and commentary is done in this country.

00:26:32.000 It's every Ta-Nehisi Coates article, right?

00:26:34.000 Every Ta-Nehisi Coates article is, here's a terrible thing that happened in 1890.

00:26:37.000 Fast forward to 2021, nothing has changed.

00:26:39.000 And we just skip the entire civil rights movement.

00:26:41.000 We skip the Civil Rights Act. 0.84

00:26:42.000 We skip the growth of the black middle class. 1.00

00:26:44.000 We skip the fact that we've had a black president twice. 0.79

00:26:46.000 We skip like all the things.

00:26:48.000 We just go direct from 1890 to 2021.

00:26:48.000 By the way, There's a thought experiment that I sometimes enjoy doing.

00:26:55.000 If an alien looked at America in 1890 and then looked at America in 2021, do you think that that alien would have said, look, things look exactly the same? 0.98

00:27:03.000 Because if that alien said that, that alien would be mentally ill. 0.81

00:27:06.000 If you were just a person who came down from space and you looked at America, 1890, black people and white people drinking at separate water fountains. 0.99

00:27:12.000 Black people, no policing. 0.96

00:27:14.000 None. 0.99

00:27:15.000 One of the reasons that you have higher rates of black homicide in the United States, according to Thomas Sowell, is because, deliberately, of racist under-policing in the black community. 0.57

00:27:22.000 There was a view in the white community, the racist white community, in 1890, 1880, well, you know, if black people kill each other, we don't care, so we're not even gonna send the cops in there.

00:27:31.000 There was no intermarriage.

00:27:32.000 I mean, the levels of intermarriage between black and white in 1890 were essentially nonexistent because it was illegal in large swaths of the United States.

00:27:38.000 Fast forward to 2021.

00:27:39.000 Huge amount of intermarriage between the races.

00:27:43.000 Black people have been president. 0.66

00:27:44.000 Black people have been Secretary of State. 0.93

00:27:45.000 Black people are on the Supreme Court.

00:27:47.000 Black Americans are at the highest levels of America's industry.

00:27:50.000 Black Americans are outvoting their percentage of the population, like, to pretend that there's been no progress, but that's how Ta-Nehisi Coates does his shtick, right? 0.77

00:27:57.000 He just skips all of the intervening data to pretend that nothing has changed. 0.99

00:28:00.000 That's the great lie, and it's pushed also by idiots like Nikole Hannah-Jones over at the New York Times. 0.98

00:28:05.000 And now you get that same sort of stuff being done with the police. 0.97

00:28:08.000 Here are a couple of anecdotal instances of things that are either controversial, so we don't even know that they're bad yet, we don't have all the information, either controversial or bad.

00:28:15.000 And we take those pieces of anecdotal evidence and then we attribute it to the system, broadly speaking.

00:28:19.000 By the way, this is how you get to terrible stereotypes.

00:28:22.000 Honestly, you want to talk about how people get to racism?

00:28:24.000 How people get to terrible stereotypes?

00:28:26.000 They take pieces of anecdotal evidence that they have in their lives about people of a particular race acting badly and then they attribute them to the entire group.

00:28:34.000 And that's exactly what you're seeing Trevor Noah do right here.

00:28:37.000 Trevor Noah is saying, I've seen a tape of a police officer doing a bad thing.

00:28:40.000 Must be that all people who wear that uniform are bad.

00:28:43.000 Where are the good apples?

00:28:44.000 Says Trevor Noah.

00:28:45.000 And there are no good apples because the tree is rotten.

00:28:48.000 The latest example that is being used today is this situation in Chicago in which a 13-year-old kid, and he has a kid because there's no such thing as a 13-year-old man.

00:28:57.000 Again, two things can be true at once.

00:29:00.000 He's a kid.

00:29:01.000 Kids are generally not responsible for their actions because they are children.

00:29:06.000 Also, any sort of social and cultural system that generates 13-year-olds running around at 3 a.m.

00:29:12.000 holding guns and being called Baby Diablo as members of a gang, that is a broken cultural system.

00:29:17.000 That is a very broken cultural system.

00:29:19.000 Anyway, this kid is running around.

00:29:21.000 His name is Adam Toledo.

00:29:22.000 Running around, carrying a gun.

00:29:24.000 Apparently, there were shots fired and the police were called to the scene.

00:29:27.000 And this kid, because he's a kid, ran away.

00:29:31.000 Okay, and politicians have been saying this is a deliberate shooting of an unarmed black kid.

00:29:38.000 That is not true.

00:29:39.000 We have the body cam footage.

00:29:40.000 But the body cam footage is going to make no difference.

00:29:42.000 The media have a narrative to push.

00:29:44.000 They're going to continue to push the narrative, no matter what the actual body cam footage shows, in the same way that they're actually ignoring the fact that the Daunte Wright case is a pretty obvious case of an accident.

00:29:52.000 The officer shouts, Taser, taser, taser, shoots Daunte Wright, and then immediately says, Oh my God, I shot him.

00:29:57.000 That is the most obvious body cam footage I've ever seen of a person who mistook a taser for a gun.

00:30:02.000 That was not a purposeful first degree murder.

00:30:03.000 That was not I shot him and I'm covering up for it by pretending I was going for my taser.

00:30:07.000 That is none of that.

00:30:07.000 The media have run with the idea that perhaps it was a murder anyway.

00:30:10.000 They're doing the exact same thing in the Adam Toledo case.

00:30:12.000 We're going to get to this in just one second.

00:30:13.000 First, let's talk about the fact that free email services like Gmail and Yahoo, they're not really free.

00:30:18.000 You pay with your privacy.

00:30:19.000 In fact, internet giants like Big Tech bank on exploiting your data by selling it to the highest bidder.

00:30:24.000 Startmail keeps my email private, period.

00:30:26.000 Every email can be encrypted, even if the recipient doesn't use encryption.

00:30:30.000 When you delete an email in StartMail, it is gone forever.

00:30:33.000 And StartMail uses their own servers, not Amazon's, which means they cannot be put out of business the way that Amazon put Parler out of business.

00:30:38.000 Switching to StartMail is seamless.

00:30:40.000 You can easily transfer all your current email data so there's no starting from scratch.

00:30:43.000 StartMail is also backed by the most stringent privacy laws in the world.

00:30:46.000 You get unlimited anonymous aliases.

00:30:48.000 This feature protects your main email address from spam and phishing attacks when you're starting to give your email to a company or want to protect your identity.

00:30:54.000 StartMail can generate a shareable alias email so people can't sell your information.

00:30:58.000 And they can be deleted at any time.

00:31:00.000 Your cybersecurity has never been more at risk.

00:31:02.000 Why would you trust the tech bros with your most private information?

00:31:04.000 Instead, start securing your email privacy today with Startmail.

00:31:08.000 Sign up today, you get 50% off your first year.

00:31:10.000 Go to startmail.com, slash Ben, that is startmail.com, slash Ben, S-T-A-R-T, mail.com, slash Ben for 50% off your first year.

00:31:19.000 Honestly, I can't imagine.

00:31:20.000 Many more important internet services than having an email server.

00:31:24.000 You can trust startmail.com slash Ben.

00:31:26.000 All right, we're gonna get to the actual body cam footage in the Adam Toledo case in one second.

00:31:31.000 First, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire member.

00:31:34.000 Today, congratulations to Dylan Killman on Instagram, who understands the importance of instilling solid values in kids.

00:31:39.000 In this picture, Dylan's adorable son, Aiden, stands proudly holding two examples of the world's most exclusive Now here's the thing.

00:31:46.000 Yesterday's troubling events between Twitter and Project Veritas should concern everybody left, right, and center.

00:31:49.000 It's becoming easier and easier for big tech to just silence people they view as problematic.

00:31:53.000 there. Thanks for the pic. Thanks for being a Daily Wire member. Now here's the thing. Yesterday's troubling events between Twitter and Project Veritas should concern everybody left, right, and center. It's becoming easier and easier for big tech to just silence people they view as problematic. It's going to get worse and worse before it gets better. It's one of the principal reasons why the Daily Wire embraces a membership-based business model.

00:32:12.000 You saw they kicked James O'Keefe off Twitter.

00:32:15.000 You see how they're attempting to suppress information at Facebook.

00:32:17.000 We cannot become reliant on big tech.

00:32:19.000 We cannot be subject to their arbitrary whims.

00:32:21.000 Every new member who joins us makes us a little bit less dependent on big tech.

00:32:24.000 You're helping us ensure that we don't go off air.

00:32:27.000 You're helping us ensure that they cannot take us offline.

00:32:29.000 Building up our membership base is the only way to ensure The Daily Wire can continue to grow and thrive into the future.

00:32:35.000 If you're a Daily Wire member already, thank you.

00:32:37.000 We appreciate you.

00:32:37.000 You're the best.

00:32:38.000 If you're not a Daily Wire member, what are you doing?

00:32:40.000 Join us today.

00:32:40.000 In fact, it's so vital that we quickly build up our membership base.

00:32:44.000 We are offering 25% off new memberships when you use the code CENSORSHIP at dailywire.com slash subscribe.

00:32:51.000 We don't just want your support.

00:32:52.000 We want to keep bringing you new awesome content like tonight's episode of Candice with Candice Owens' latest guest, Adam Carolla.

00:32:58.000 There are also some pretty good Hunter Biden jokes.

00:32:59.000 Tonight's episode streams live at 9 p.m.

00:33:01.000 Eastern, 8 p.m.

00:33:02.000 Central on dailywire.com.

00:33:03.000 If you aren't a member, you can get the audio podcast, Candace.

00:33:05.000 It drops Saturdays on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcast.

00:33:09.000 So remember, for a limited time, get 25% off a new membership when you use code CENSORSHIP at dailywire.com slash subscribe.

00:33:15.000 It's a great deal.

00:33:16.000 Keep us from being dependent on big tech so we can keep bringing you the news and content you want and you need.

00:33:21.000 You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.

00:33:26.000 All right, so let's get to this body cam footage.

00:33:32.000 So one of the nice things about body cams is that we actually have evidence of what goes on in these shooting scenarios.

00:33:36.000 Apparently, the police were called because Adam Toledo, who is the 13-year-old kid in this case, was one of several youths who were shooting guns at 3 a.m.

00:33:46.000 in the morning.

00:33:46.000 You know, we've seen too many stories, by the way, in places like Chicago of kids being hit by stray bullets.

00:33:51.000 It's dangerous.

00:33:52.000 You're not supposed to shoot guns at any time in Chicago, randomly, and you're certainly not supposed to shoot at 3 a.m.

00:33:57.000 in the morning. 0.96

00:33:58.000 The question that nobody has the actual balls to ask here is where are the parents? 0.94

00:34:02.000 Where are the parents? 0.98

00:34:03.000 Who lets a 13-year-old run around with a gun at 3 a.m.

00:34:05.000 in the morning?

00:34:06.000 Where the hell is the system that is supposed to prevent all of this from happening?

00:34:09.000 Where's the social system that's supposed to prevent all of this from happening?

00:34:11.000 In any case, this kid is running from the cops.

00:34:15.000 The cop is chasing the kid.

00:34:16.000 And you can see the body cam footage.

00:34:17.000 Now, the way this was originally reported was unarmed black kid shot.

00:34:20.000 That is not true.

00:34:21.000 Okay, it is not true.

00:34:22.000 The kid is running.

00:34:23.000 Finally, the kid stops.

00:34:25.000 And the police officer says, turn around and drop the gun.

00:34:28.000 The kid has his hand behind him.

00:34:31.000 Okay, it is very difficult from the body cam footage to see where he drops the gun.

00:34:35.000 So you assume that the officer has the same vantage point.

00:34:38.000 So the kid has the gun sort of on his right hip.

00:34:41.000 He reaches behind him.

00:34:42.000 He drops the gun and raises his hands in one motion.

00:34:45.000 He drops the gun directly behind him and raises his hands in one motion.

00:34:48.000 But because his hand is behind him when he drops the gun and when he starts to raise his hand, by the time his hand begins to raise, the shot has been fired.

00:34:54.000 The shot gets fired before his hand is all the way up to the top of his head because it's literally a bang-bang scenario.

00:35:01.000 Hey, now, cops are not robots.

00:35:03.000 The kid did have a gun.

00:35:04.000 If you drop the gun right before the cop shoots you, it is very difficult to call that unarmed.

00:35:08.000 This is very reminiscent of that case in Baltimore recently, in which the suspect threw away the gun, and in the same motion, as he's running, he throws away the gun and gets shot at exactly the same time.

00:35:18.000 It looks very much like this.

00:35:19.000 So, the still that has gone out from the media is the still of the kid raising his hands as he's being shot.

00:35:27.000 But they don't go to literally a split second beforehand.

00:35:31.000 If you rewound this, a split second, what you will see is the kid's hand behind his hip, right there, it's behind his hip, and you will see that he has a gun in his hand behind him.

00:35:41.000 So how is a cop supposed to deal with that?

00:35:44.000 When the hand is obscured, he's not facing him, when the hand is obscured behind his hip and he raises his hand, you don't know whether the gun is coming up with him in his hand.

00:35:53.000 There's a reason why even CNN legal analysts were like, this is a good shoot.

00:35:56.000 They're like, what are you supposed to do if you're a cop?

00:35:59.000 Are we supposed to tell cops that they're just supposed to take the shot?

00:36:01.000 Like, are they just supposed to receive the shot?

00:36:03.000 What exactly are they supposed to do right here?

00:36:05.000 So, the media have decided this is yet another murder of a young person in Chicago based on race, of course.

00:36:10.000 Okay, that is an absurd contention.

00:36:13.000 The evidence on that, again, is just as scanty as the evidence that Daunte Wright was shot because of race or not by accident.

00:36:20.000 Hey, but here's the thing.

00:36:21.000 The evidence does not matter for the narrative.

00:36:22.000 In the end, the evidence does not matter for the narrative.

00:36:26.000 Perfectly indicative case of this, there's a woman named Christine Emba, who writes a column for the Washington Post, and her piece over at the Washington Post is titled, Why I'm Not Watching the Derek Chauvin Trial.

00:36:36.000 And it's such a telling piece, because basically what it says is, I don't wanna hear any extraneous evidence that might change my mind.

00:36:42.000 That's basically the piece.

00:36:43.000 The piece is, I already know what happened.

00:36:44.000 I'm not gonna listen to anybody who dissents from my belief about what happened, including the actual evidence in the case.

00:36:49.000 She says, Oh, you mean the defense laid out a defense is what you're talking about.

00:36:52.000 Well, not sat it out exactly.

00:36:54.000 The internet and cable news exist, so it's impossible to avoid reports of the testimony, the prosecution witnesses tears, and the defense has scrambled for any possible way to paper over the truth that we all saw with our own eyes.

00:37:04.000 Oh, you mean the defense laid out a defense is what you're talking about.

00:37:06.000 And also it's not papering over the truth when you present medical experts who testify as to what Derek Chauvin was doing with his knee, not on the neck, what Derek Chauvin, what George Floyd's medical state was during the actual case, but none of that matters.

00:37:21.000 Christine Ebba says, to be honest, I sat it out because I'm black, I'm tired.

00:37:24.000 And because I know I will have the chance to see it or something like it again.

00:37:27.000 The trial could have been a moment of national catharsis.

00:37:29.000 At least that's what pundits hoped and politicians begged for after the protests of last summer, police department faints had becoming more kind, solemn statements from state houses and courthouse steps.

00:37:37.000 Instead, it became mirror background to more of the same.

00:37:40.000 The Sunday as the trial paused, police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, pulled over Daunte Wright while he was driving, citing a traffic violation.

00:37:47.000 Air freshener hanging from his rear view mirror, An expired tag, the police department said.

00:37:51.000 By the way, it was not the air freshener.

00:37:53.000 It was the expired tag by the visual evidence.

00:37:56.000 Either way, not capital offenses.

00:37:57.000 Wright attempted to get back into his car and a police officer shot him to death.

00:38:00.000 Allegedly, she mistook her gun for her taser.

00:38:02.000 She has at least resigned and been charged with manslaughter.

00:38:04.000 What do you mean, at least?

00:38:05.000 That's called the system working.

00:38:07.000 OK, the system would work better if she followed procedure.

00:38:10.000 But when the system does not work, there is a secondary system called the justice system.

00:38:13.000 She's now in it.

00:38:14.000 She's been charged with second degree manslaughter.

00:38:15.000 And what is this?

00:38:16.000 I love that she says that it is clear from the evidence of our own eyes that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, but it is not clear from the objectively clear body cam footage that she mistook her gun for a Taser.

00:38:27.000 It's the clearest thing on body cam footage.

00:38:31.000 Doesn't matter.

00:38:31.000 That's alleged.

00:38:32.000 But Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd, not alleged.

00:38:34.000 That's just reality.

00:38:36.000 Says Christine Emba of the Washington Post.

00:38:41.000 She says, That's not even true!

00:38:42.000 They're just lies.

00:38:43.000 Tim Walls is a Democrat.

00:38:43.000 Department's response to protests was to string up a thin blue line flag above the building, removing it only after an outcry online. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, threatened to send in the largest police presence in Minnesota history to arrest and charge those protesting the fact that a 20-year-old was shot dead by the police. That's not even true.

00:38:57.000 These are just lies. Tim Walz, a Democrat, Tim Walz pledged to send in cops to stop rioting and looting, not protests. So she's just lying.

00:39:07.000 Again, the narrative matters way more than the facts for a lot of the folks in the media.

00:39:11.000 Who are the people?

00:39:12.000 By polling data, that's not true.

00:39:13.000 By polling data, the people actually want the same or more police.

00:39:15.000 United States last summer, the people want fewer police.

00:39:17.000 Send more of them.

00:39:18.000 Who are the people?

00:39:19.000 By polling data, that's not true.

00:39:21.000 By polling data, the people actually want the same or more police.

00:39:23.000 By all polling data I've ever seen.

00:39:25.000 De-escalation training.

00:39:27.000 How about we militarize them instead?

00:39:29.000 Investment in communities?

00:39:30.000 How about a robot police dog to terrify and harass you, as if the real ones aren't frightening?

00:39:33.000 Yes, that's what's happening.

00:39:35.000 We're creating the hound from Fahrenheit 451.

00:39:37.000 That's clearly, like, number one priority.

00:39:40.000 Floyd's death and Chauvin's trial could be teaching America a lesson, but it is clearly not one that all of us are ready to learn.

00:39:46.000 Okay, this is my favorite part of the article from Christine Emba, because once again, it just demonstrates that evidence does not matter.

00:39:52.000 Data do not matter.

00:39:53.000 All that matters is the narrative.

00:39:55.000 That's all that matters.

00:39:57.000 Feckless legislators are trotting out old arguments against those who seek reform in police conduct. 0.96

00:40:00.000 If the real problem is black criminality, the police don't deserve all this trouble. 1.00

00:40:04.000 Well, how about this? 0.98

00:40:04.000 How about there are several problems? 0.98

00:40:06.000 Really, resisting arrest is a problem.

00:40:09.000 Police being poorly trained, as in the Daunte Wright case, that is a problem.

00:40:14.000 Failure to get rid of bad cops when they have many complaints against them that are justified.

00:40:17.000 That's a problem.

00:40:18.000 There can be many problems.

00:40:19.000 And it turns out that criminality is indeed a problem when you are talking about confrontations between police and suspected criminals.

00:40:27.000 Well, here's the best part of the article.

00:40:28.000 So Christina Emba says, in the words of Senator John Neely Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.

00:40:34.000 And she writes this.

00:40:35.000 This is the line.

00:40:36.000 Well, maybe I will.

00:40:37.000 They're statistically less likely to shoot me, it would seem.

00:40:40.000 Now, that's my favorite line.

00:40:43.000 I have a question.

00:40:44.000 Based on what is she saying that?

00:40:46.000 Seriously, based on what is she saying that a crackhead is less likely to shoot her statistically than a cop?

00:40:53.000 She doesn't provide any stat.

00:40:54.000 She just says, they are statistically less likely to shoot me, it would seem.

00:40:57.000 No stat cited.

00:40:59.000 Okay, that's not what the word statistically means.

00:41:01.000 Statistically generally is followed by, you know, a statistic, typically.

00:41:05.000 But that doesn't matter.

00:41:06.000 She can just say statistically that you are safer with a crackhead than a cop.

00:41:09.000 So I asked Christine Emba, do you want to go hang out with crackheads or at the police house? 0.74

00:41:13.000 You get to pick one tonight.

00:41:14.000 Which one do you think is going to be safer for you, a columnist for the Washington Post?

00:41:18.000 A crack house or a police headquarters?

00:41:22.000 Which one?

00:41:23.000 Pretty obvious answer here, but it doesn't matter because that's contradictory to the narrative.

00:41:26.000 Just like it's contradictory to the narrative that police colors decided to buy in the whitest area of L.A.

00:41:31.000 as opposed to plunking down her flag in the middle of South Central Los Angeles. 0.99

00:41:35.000 The minute she could move away from crime-ridden areas, she did!

00:41:38.000 Okay, that- how people act- quick rule of social science.

00:41:43.000 How people act is significantly, significantly more telling than what people say they think about things.

00:41:48.000 Every self-survey has a bias toward people who are taking the self-survey.

00:41:54.000 If you ask people how well they did on their SATs, they will just lie.

00:41:57.000 If you take a poll today, because Biden won, how many people say they voted for Biden?

00:42:01.000 It'll actually be higher than the number of people who voted for Biden in the last election cycle.

00:42:05.000 Because people have a tendency to flatter themselves that they're on the right side of history, or that they make all of these good moral decisions, but then you watch what they do and it's completely different.

00:42:14.000 When you say things like you trust crackheads more than cops, I just, I don't, I don't believe you. 0.98

00:42:18.000 I think you're a liar.

00:42:19.000 When you suggest that you are happier in a high-crime area than in a low-crime area, because that low-crime area is predominantly white and white supremacy rules the roost, and then you move to the white low-crime area, I feel like that's more telling about what you actually think about the world than what you say on the BLM website or your latest appearance on Rachel Maddow. 0.99

00:42:40.000 The evidence, the data, they don't matter.

00:42:41.000 You know what actually matters?

00:42:43.000 The narrative.

00:42:43.000 That's all that matters, because it's about tearing down the institutions of the United States, and that is continuing a pace among the Democrats and in the media.

00:42:51.000 It is continuing every single day, the attempt to tear down these institutions, and to justify tearing down the institutions by claiming that America's institutions need to be torn down.

00:42:59.000 This is why Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are now pushing court packing.

00:43:02.000 Now, realistically speaking, are they going to pack the court?

00:43:04.000 No.

00:43:04.000 They don't have the power to do so.

00:43:05.000 They can't do it through reconciliation, which means they need a filibuster-proof majority.

00:43:09.000 Even if they could do it through reconciliation, do you really think that Kyrsten Sinema, who's in a very purple state in Arizona, and Joe Manchin, in a very red state in West Virginia, are going to vote to simply add seats to the Supreme Court?

00:43:20.000 The answer is no.

00:43:21.000 But it's all about pushing a narrative, the narrative being that the Supreme Court is an institutional obstacle to you getting what you want.

00:43:28.000 So vote for Democrats, right?

00:43:29.000 That is the goal of Democrats here, is to cast the Supreme Court, which, by the way, is the only branch of American government that Americans broadly trust, taking the Supreme Court and grinding it under your ideological boot heel.

00:43:38.000 That is the goal here, not actually changing the Supreme Court.

00:43:41.000 Jen Psaki said yesterday that Joe Biden is now open to court packing, which is weird because he wouldn't answer that question throughout the entire campaign.

00:43:47.000 And in fact, if you asked him the question, you were told that you were being too harsh on Joe Biden.

00:43:51.000 They're going to look at a number of issues.

00:43:53.000 The size of the court is one of the issues, but there are a number of other issues they'll look at.

00:43:58.000 I'm sure the president will look forward to reviewing that report when it comes to his desk, and then I'm sure it will impact his thinking moving forward.

00:44:05.000 But we don't know what that report will look like, and he obviously can still make the decision about what he supports.

00:44:11.000 I mean, who knows?

00:44:13.000 By the way, this is the same Joe Biden who just a few years ago was saying that it was corrupt to pack the Supreme Court.

00:44:18.000 My favorite part of this is how the media just go right along with it.

00:44:21.000 The media just go right along with it.

00:44:23.000 So Jerry Nadler laid out the most Orwellian perversion of language of the last, you know, seven minutes because they just keep perverting language.

00:44:29.000 Remember when sexual preference went from just a term to describe whether you are gay or straight to a slur because Maisie Hirono in Hawaii said that it was a slur?

00:44:37.000 They're doing the same thing now.

00:44:38.000 So now Jerry Nadler says that when you pack the Supreme Court, you're actually unpacking the Supreme Court.

00:44:42.000 As David Burge, Iowa hawk, on Twitter said, yeah, and when I crash my truck into a 7-Eleven, it's actually, when I pull out, that's actually me uncrashing my truck into a 7-Eleven.

00:44:53.000 That's the part to focus on.

00:44:54.000 Here's Jerry Nadler claiming that when you add seats to the Supreme Court, you're actually unpacking the Supreme Court.

00:44:59.000 It's the proper number.

00:45:00.000 It matches the number of circuits as it has historically.

00:45:04.000 And it also will enable us to do justice and to rectify the great injustice that was done in packing the court.

00:45:13.000 And some people will say we're packing the court.

00:45:15.000 We're not packing it.

00:45:16.000 We're unpacking it.

00:45:17.000 Senator McConnell and the Republicans packed the court over the last couple of years, as Senator Markey outlined.

00:45:24.000 So this is a reaction to that.

00:45:27.000 We just changed the definitions.

00:45:29.000 Packing is unpacking.

00:45:31.000 Healthcare is infrastructure.

00:45:32.000 Like, the language just randomly changes.

00:45:34.000 That's all.

00:45:35.000 And it all changes in accordance with the democratic agenda, because that's all that matters.

00:45:38.000 Agenda, agenda, uber alice.

00:45:41.000 Effectiveness does not matter.

00:45:42.000 Truth does not matter.

00:45:43.000 Data does not matter.

00:45:44.000 All that matters is what the utopian left wants to do and what they have to break that's in their way.

00:45:49.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:45:51.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here next week.

00:45:54.000 Also, you can't forget to end your week by checking out The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:45:57.000 Drew's show is every Friday.

00:45:58.000 He's got an exciting evening planned for you, as always on Fridays.

00:46:01.000 Head on over to dailywire.com this evening, 7 p.m.

00:46:03.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:46:03.000 Eastern.

00:46:03.000 Tune in.

00:46:04.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:46:05.000 The Ben Shapiro Show is produced by Elliot Feld.

00:46:13.000 Executive Producer Jeremy Boren.

00:46:15.000 Our Supervising Producer is Mathis Glover.

00:46:17.000 And our Assistant Director is Paweł Łydowski.

00:46:19.000 Editing is by Adam Sajewicz.

00:46:21.000 Audio is mixed by Mike Koromina.

00:46:23.000 Hair and Makeup is by Fabiola Christina.

00:46:25.000 Production Assistant is Jessica Kranz.

00:46:27.000 The Ben Shapiro Show is a Daily Wire production.

00:46:29.000 Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:46:32.000 Hey everybody, this is Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:46:36.000 You know, some people are depressed because the republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching, and the moon's turned to blood.

00:46:42.000 But on The Andrew Klavan Show, that's where the fun just gets started.

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 16, 2021

Another Anti-Trump Media Story Implodes | Ep. 1237

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript