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00:00:00.000The establishment media repeated an apparently false story about Donald Trump for months.
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00:01:38.000The New York Times has a bombshell story.
00:01:41.000Another one of these bombshell stories that is designed to really harm the Trump White House.
00:01:45.000And 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.
00:02:02.000According 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.
00:02:18.000The 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.
00:02:30.000And this became a major issue in the campaign.
00:02:32.000You'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.
00:02:39.000And remember that over and over and over, the media covered this thing.
00:02:41.000In fact, we have a compendium, courtesy of The Daily Caller, of members of the media talking up the bounty scandal.
00:02:49.000In our World Lead Today, President Trump dismissing the Russian bounty intelligence story as a hoax meant to damage him and Republicans.
00:02:58.000The White House also responding tonight to a bombshell report accusing Russia of offering bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.
00:03:06.000And 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.
00:03:35.000Okay, so this is not the first story that has been blown, like completely blown by the media.
00:03:43.000As it turns out, it is now being reported that the intelligence community has very low confidence that this ever happened.
00:03:49.000In fact, Jen Psaki admitted this at the White House yesterday.
00:03:51.000She said, yeah, we don't really think that this is what was happening.
00:03:56.000They assessed with low-to-moderate confidence, as you alluded to, that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks against U.S.
00:04:03.000and coalition personnel in Afghanistan.
00:04:06.000The 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.
00:04:20.000So it's challenging to gather this intelligence and this data.
00:04:23.000Okay, so it turns out that the story has very, very little to back it.
00:04:40.000When 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?
00:04:57.000That'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.
00:05:05.000Molly 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.
00:05:11.000She was mocked, roundly mocked by the media at the time for suggesting all of that.
00:05:16.000Because all of this pushes the narrative.
00:05:17.000It'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.
00:05:25.000Whether 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.
00:05:35.000Some of them were not, but some of them were.
00:05:38.000There'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.
00:05:47.000And that, I don't know why Americans would have any sort of faith in the media to get these things right.
00:05:53.000It is so easy to launder these stories through the media now.
00:05:56.000All 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.
00:06:10.000So you can launder a false story throughout the media simply by dint of having some sort of connection to the intelligence community.
00:06:16.000I mean, that is deep state kind of stuff.
00:06:19.000I'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.
00:06:24.000But 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.
00:06:39.000Yesterday 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.
00:06:47.000Given 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?
00:06:55.000Well, 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.
00:07:12.000Okay, so no, there's not going to be any apology forthcoming because why would you apologize?
00:07:15.000The Democratic Party has the same mentality as Harry Reid.
00:07:18.000Harry Reid, the former Senate minority leader.
00:07:20.000You'll remember that Harry Reid said about Mitt Romney back in 2012 that he didn't pay any taxes.
00:07:25.000He had nothing to back that whatsoever.
00:07:27.000Later it came out, of course, that Romney did pay taxes.
00:07:40.000Well, his project Veritas has been releasing tape of CNN directors talking about the bias at CNN.
00:07:48.000Twitter claimed without evidence, according to the Daily Wire, that O'Keefe was, quote, violating the Twitter rules on platform manipulation and spam.
00:07:55.000According 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.
00:08:05.000O'Keefe immediately said that this is a lie.
00:08:07.000He called their statement accusing him of operating fake accounts false.
00:08:10.000He said, I am suing Twitter for defamation.
00:08:13.000responded 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.
00:08:22.000You 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.
00:08:31.000The 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.
00:08:36.000The idea there was this was hacked material.
00:08:38.000We 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.
00:08:56.000But according to Twitter, the bad guy here is James O'Keefe, obviously.
00:08:59.000And it's not just the O'Keefe story that is now being suppressed.
00:09:02.000Facebook apparently is now blocking users from sharing another New York Post story.
00:09:07.000What exactly is this New York Post story?
00:09:08.000Well, 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.
00:09:23.000According 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.
00:09:38.000Black 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.
00:09:47.000When exactly did the media decide to crack down on this?
00:09:49.000As soon as Jason Whitlock started sharing the story.
00:09:54.000Twitter decided to suspend Whitlock for tweeting out the story.
00:09:58.000Facebook 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.
00:10:07.000Here is Facebook's explanation for why they actually blocked the story.
00:10:11.000The article shared multiple details which could identify the residence of one of BLM founders, in violation of our privacy rights.
00:10:17.000As per our community standards, we do not allow people to post personal or confidential information about yourself or of others.
00:10:23.000We 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.
00:10:35.000We also provide people ways to report imagery they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
00:10:42.000All they did in this original story was they shared a picture of the house.
00:10:51.000In fact, right now, online, you can find pictures of the house of the Minneapolis officer who's just brought up on manslaughter charges.
00:10:59.000You can find pictures on real estate sites of the house that I just sold in California.
00:11:04.000It 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.
00:11:23.000They 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.
00:11:46.000If 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?
00:11:56.000She tripled the black population of Topanga Canyon simply by moving there with members of her family.
00:12:19.000Nicolas Maduro has a really, really nice house in Venezuela.
00:12:22.000So 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.
00:12:31.000In 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.
00:13:26.000And 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.
00:13:33.000Because if she did, she wouldn't be moving out to the boonies.
00:13:37.000Topanga Canyon is a very rich area of L.A.
00:14:35.000Weird, because here you are talking about how you are the support system for your family.
00:14:39.000But I thought that the family was a patriarchal, terrible structure, which was on the BLM website until five seconds ago.
00:14:45.000I was told that Marxism was the solution to the problem, but here you are talking about your money and your family's money.
00:14:50.000I noticed you didn't say the people's money.
00:14:52.000I noticed you didn't say that, Patrisse Cullors, but don't worry.
00:14:55.000It's an embarrassing story, and the media will step in to protect Patrisse Cullors.
00:14:59.000The social media bosses will step in to protect Patrisse Cullors.
00:15:03.000I 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.
00:15:15.000Your establishment media, your social media bosses, they are corrupt.
00:15:18.000And by the way, if you believe that this is all about suppressing misinformation, again, there's a difference between disinformation and misinformation.
00:15:25.000Social media bosses should not be in the process, should not be.
00:15:28.000Involved in suppressing quote-unquote misinformation because sometimes what they perceive to be misinformation is actually correct.
00:15:33.000Disinformation is active propaganda on behalf of a foreign power.
00:15:38.000You'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.
00:15:45.000They 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.
00:15:52.000But I've noticed that only certain types of misinformation are being shut down by the social media bros.
00:15:57.000I'll give you a perfect example of misinformation not being shut down in just one second.
00:16:01.000First, let's talk about the fact you don't wanna go to the auto parts store.
00:16:03.000Who wants to go to the auto parts store?
00:16:04.000I 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.
00:16:15.000Instead, why not head over to rockauto.com?
00:16:18.000Rockauto.com is way easier than doing any of that stuff.
00:16:21.000They offer the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear, like airlines do.
00:16:25.000Why would you spend up to twice as much?
00:17:08.000When 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...
00:17:26.000He was engaging in consensual sex with adults in perverse ways.
00:17:55.000Here 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.
00:18:09.000Notice if you see somebody's name that rings a couple of times.
00:18:13.000You had at least five women per Politico.
00:18:16.000You 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.
00:18:25.000There's Halsey Beshears, a former state legislator and former appointed official in the DeSantis administration.
00:18:33.000If you're Ron DeSantis, does this feel like it's creeping closer to you?
00:18:41.000Does it feel like it's creeping closer to you?
00:18:43.000Matt Gaetz is a, Matt Gaetz is a Republican in Florida.
00:18:47.000He 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.
00:18:54.000Does it feel like it's coming close to, in what way?
00:18:58.000Like 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?
00:19:08.000That is the weakest link of evidence I've ever heard in my entire life.
00:19:11.000And Drury's just throwing it out there.
00:19:12.000Does it feel like the Gates scandal is going to approach Ron DeSantis?
00:19:15.000I 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.
00:19:22.000I mean, you just keep throwing out false headlines about DeSantis.
00:19:25.000Oh, he's going to kill everybody at the Jacksonville beaches.
00:19:27.000Oh, he was probably rolling out this Publix vaccine thing because he was paid $100,000 into a super PAC by Publix.
00:19:32.000Sure, Publix happens to be the single most populous grocery line in all of Florida.
00:19:37.000But it was really about the $100,000 donation, guys.
00:19:40.000Oh, well, he was probably falsifying his death statistics.
00:19:42.000Sure, you have no evidence he was falsifying his death statistics.
00:19:44.000Well, 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.
00:19:55.000Like, you guys have tried to go after dissents on everything.
00:19:57.000So now, the last-ditch attempt here from Joy Reid is try to link him to the Matt Gaetz scandal.
00:20:02.000Now, I've noticed there's been no blowback for Joy Reid on this.
00:20:07.000Imagine 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.
00:20:28.000And let's say that the New York Post reported that a month before the election.
00:20:31.000Social media cracked down on that, right?
00:20:46.000She bought another house in the whitest area of LA.
00:20:50.000We shouldn't know that stuff, because that stuff is dangerous to know.
00:20:53.000But 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.
00:21:29.000We get years of speculation about pee tapes because of this nonsense.
00:21:34.000I 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.
00:21:46.000The 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.
00:21:59.000Now, 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.
00:22:06.000So 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.
00:22:18.000Once again, there is no statistical evidence that black Americans are an existential threat in the United States.
00:22:24.000Black Americans represent 13% of the population of the United States, meaning there are about 40 million black Americans.
00:22:29.000Every year, there are fewer than 25 black Americans who are shot unarmed by the police.
00:22:34.000That is not an existential threat to black Americans.
00:22:37.000You 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.
00:22:42.000And 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.
00:22:50.000By the way, that intra-group violence thing, that's true.
00:22:52.000Intra-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.
00:22:59.000If you're white, you're not most likely to be targeted by a black person.
00:23:02.000You're most likely to be targeted by a white person.
00:23:04.000If you're black, you're most likely to be targeted by a black person in your community.
00:23:08.000And 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.
00:23:16.000And 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.
00:23:23.000Okay, so, that is not the narrative of the media.
00:23:26.000The narrative of the media is that the police are the existential threat to black Americans.
00:23:30.000Chelsea 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.
00:23:39.000That statistic is pulled directly out of her ass.
00:23:41.000She had to remove her head from her ass in order to get to the stat.
00:23:45.000A 50-50 shot of being shot by the cops if you comply with orders?
00:23:49.000There are 40 million police interactions with suspects in the United States every year.
00:23:55.00040 million civilian police interactions.
00:23:57.000Again, the number of black unarmed Americans shot and killed by the police every year is fewer than 30, according to the Washington Post database.
00:24:08.000But the narrative has to be promulgated because the narrative is more important than the data.
00:24:12.000The narrative is more important than the reality.
00:24:14.000The 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.
00:24:29.000It's a lie, but it is the narrative of the Democratic Party.
00:24:32.000And it's forwarded by every aspect of your media, from the Trevor Noahs of the world to your mainstream establishment media.
00:24:39.000Here's Trevor Noah the other day, suggesting that there are no good apples in the police.
00:24:56.000I 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.
00:25:17.000If 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.
00:25:29.000And by the way, I'm not saying that there are no good policemen.
00:25:36.000We don't see a mass uprising of police saying, let's root out these people.
00:25:39.000We 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.
00:25:58.000So, okay, and that's the narrative, right?
00:26:00.000The narrative is that the cops are entirely rotten.
00:26:02.000The entire system is completely rotten.
00:26:04.000And every anecdotal piece of evidence that comes down the line is then misinterpreted by the media in order to achieve this outcome.
00:26:10.000That 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.
00:26:25.000This 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.
00:26:32.000It's every Ta-Nehisi Coates article, right?
00:26:34.000Every Ta-Nehisi Coates article is, here's a terrible thing that happened in 1890.
00:26:37.000Fast forward to 2021, nothing has changed.
00:26:39.000And we just skip the entire civil rights movement.
00:26:48.000By the way, There's a thought experiment that I sometimes enjoy doing.
00:26:55.000If 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?
00:27:03.000Because if that alien said that, that alien would be mentally ill.
00:27:06.000If 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.
00:27:15.000One 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.
00:27:22.000There 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.
00:27:32.000I 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.
00:27:44.000Black people have been Secretary of State.
00:27:45.000Black people are on the Supreme Court.
00:27:47.000Black Americans are at the highest levels of America's industry.
00:27:50.000Black 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?
00:27:57.000He just skips all of the intervening data to pretend that nothing has changed.
00:28:00.000That's the great lie, and it's pushed also by idiots like Nikole Hannah-Jones over at the New York Times.
00:28:05.000And now you get that same sort of stuff being done with the police.
00:28:08.000Here 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.
00:28:15.000And we take those pieces of anecdotal evidence and then we attribute it to the system, broadly speaking.
00:28:19.000By the way, this is how you get to terrible stereotypes.
00:28:22.000Honestly, you want to talk about how people get to racism?
00:28:24.000How people get to terrible stereotypes?
00:28:26.000They 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.
00:28:34.000And that's exactly what you're seeing Trevor Noah do right here.
00:28:37.000Trevor Noah is saying, I've seen a tape of a police officer doing a bad thing.
00:28:40.000Must be that all people who wear that uniform are bad.
00:28:45.000And there are no good apples because the tree is rotten.
00:28:48.000The 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.
00:28:57.000Again, two things can be true at once.
00:29:44.000They'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.
00:29:52.000The officer shouts, Taser, taser, taser, shoots Daunte Wright, and then immediately says, Oh my God, I shot him.
00:29:57.000That is the most obvious body cam footage I've ever seen of a person who mistook a taser for a gun.
00:30:02.000That was not a purposeful first degree murder.
00:30:03.000That was not I shot him and I'm covering up for it by pretending I was going for my taser.
00:30:19.000In fact, internet giants like Big Tech bank on exploiting your data by selling it to the highest bidder.
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00:31:26.000All right, we're gonna get to the actual body cam footage in the Adam Toledo case in one second.
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00:33:26.000All right, so let's get to this body cam footage.
00:33:32.000So one of the nice things about body cams is that we actually have evidence of what goes on in these shooting scenarios.
00:33:36.000Apparently, 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.
00:34:42.000He drops the gun and raises his hands in one motion.
00:34:45.000He drops the gun directly behind him and raises his hands in one motion.
00:34:48.000But 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.
00:34:54.000The 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.
00:35:04.000If you drop the gun right before the cop shoots you, it is very difficult to call that unarmed.
00:35:08.000This 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.
00:35:19.000So, the still that has gone out from the media is the still of the kid raising his hands as he's being shot.
00:35:27.000But they don't go to literally a split second beforehand.
00:35:31.000If 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.
00:35:41.000So how is a cop supposed to deal with that?
00:35:44.000When 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.
00:35:53.000There's a reason why even CNN legal analysts were like, this is a good shoot.
00:35:56.000They're like, what are you supposed to do if you're a cop?
00:35:59.000Are we supposed to tell cops that they're just supposed to take the shot?
00:36:01.000Like, are they just supposed to receive the shot?
00:36:03.000What exactly are they supposed to do right here?
00:36:05.000So, the media have decided this is yet another murder of a young person in Chicago based on race, of course.
00:36:21.000The evidence does not matter for the narrative.
00:36:22.000In the end, the evidence does not matter for the narrative.
00:36:26.000Perfectly 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.
00:36:36.000And 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.
00:36:54.000The 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.
00:37:04.000Oh, you mean the defense laid out a defense is what you're talking about.
00:37:06.000And 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.
00:37:21.000Christine Ebba says, to be honest, I sat it out because I'm black, I'm tired.
00:37:24.000And because I know I will have the chance to see it or something like it again.
00:37:27.000The trial could have been a moment of national catharsis.
00:37:29.000At 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.
00:37:37.000Instead, it became mirror background to more of the same.
00:37:40.000The Sunday as the trial paused, police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, pulled over Daunte Wright while he was driving, citing a traffic violation.
00:37:47.000Air freshener hanging from his rear view mirror, An expired tag, the police department said.
00:37:51.000By the way, it was not the air freshener.
00:37:53.000It was the expired tag by the visual evidence.
00:38:16.000I 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.
00:38:27.000It's the clearest thing on body cam footage.
00:38:43.000Department'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.
00:38:57.000These 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.
00:39:07.000Again, the narrative matters way more than the facts for a lot of the folks in the media.
00:40:19.000And it turns out that criminality is indeed a problem when you are talking about confrontations between police and suspected criminals.
00:40:27.000Well, here's the best part of the article.
00:40:28.000So Christina Emba says, in the words of Senator John Neely Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.
00:41:23.000Pretty obvious answer here, but it doesn't matter because that's contradictory to the narrative.
00:41:26.000Just like it's contradictory to the narrative that police colors decided to buy in the whitest area of L.A.
00:41:31.000as opposed to plunking down her flag in the middle of South Central Los Angeles.
00:41:35.000The minute she could move away from crime-ridden areas, she did!
00:41:38.000Okay, that- how people act- quick rule of social science.
00:41:43.000How people act is significantly, significantly more telling than what people say they think about things.
00:41:48.000Every self-survey has a bias toward people who are taking the self-survey.
00:41:54.000If you ask people how well they did on their SATs, they will just lie.
00:41:57.000If you take a poll today, because Biden won, how many people say they voted for Biden?
00:42:01.000It'll actually be higher than the number of people who voted for Biden in the last election cycle.
00:42:05.000Because 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.
00:42:14.000When you say things like you trust crackheads more than cops, I just, I don't, I don't believe you.
00:42:19.000When 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.
00:42:40.000The evidence, the data, they don't matter.
00:42:43.000That'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.
00:42:51.000It 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.
00:42:59.000This is why Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are now pushing court packing.
00:43:02.000Now, realistically speaking, are they going to pack the court?
00:43:05.000They can't do it through reconciliation, which means they need a filibuster-proof majority.
00:43:09.000Even 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?
00:43:21.000But it's all about pushing a narrative, the narrative being that the Supreme Court is an institutional obstacle to you getting what you want.
00:43:29.000That 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.
00:43:38.000That is the goal here, not actually changing the Supreme Court.
00:43:41.000Jen 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.
00:43:47.000And in fact, if you asked him the question, you were told that you were being too harsh on Joe Biden.
00:43:51.000They're going to look at a number of issues.
00:43:53.000The size of the court is one of the issues, but there are a number of other issues they'll look at.
00:43:58.000I'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.
00:44:05.000But we don't know what that report will look like, and he obviously can still make the decision about what he supports.
00:44:13.000By 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.
00:44:18.000My favorite part of this is how the media just go right along with it.
00:44:21.000The media just go right along with it.
00:44:23.000So Jerry Nadler laid out the most Orwellian perversion of language of the last, you know, seven minutes because they just keep perverting language.
00:44:29.000Remember 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?
00:44:38.000So now Jerry Nadler says that when you pack the Supreme Court, you're actually unpacking the Supreme Court.
00:44:42.000As 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.