The Ben Shapiro Show - August 19, 2026


Another Assassination Attempt


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Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

168.87

Word count

1,441

Sentence count

117

Harmful content

Misogyny

10

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Toxicity

16

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Hate speech

20

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00:00:00.000 Democrats keep trying to push that white supremacy or something is the biggest threat to America. 0.94
00:00:04.000 But all we keep seeing are leftist trans radicals promoting violence, from mocking Charlie Kirk on drag stages to, as it turned out this week, planning an actual assassination and thank God, getting caught this time against Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
00:00:16.000 The Democrats would do well to stop promoting and condoning anything like this. 0.56
00:00:20.000 Yesterday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced that the transgender assassin who was attempting to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Besant had been sentenced.
00:00:31.000 Here she was explaining.
00:00:33.000 A man who intended to kill incoming Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant was sentenced today to 73 months in prison by federal Judge Contreras, or six years in prison, as a result of his attempted assassination of incoming Secretary of the Treasury.
00:00:52.000 On January 27th, the defendant English decided that he would take the life of the Treasury Secretary.
00:01:00.000 Unfortunately, we are seeing more and more of these cases.
00:01:03.000 Where people think that they can come from all over the country and act out their political violence in the nation's capital.
00:01:09.000 She ain't wrong.
00:01:10.000 Apparently, 25 year old Ryan Michael English, who goes by Riley or Raleigh, Jane English, good God, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, pled guilty in March to weapons charges stemming from a plot to assassinate Scott Besant. 0.98
00:01:24.000 His gender identity was not publicly known until Tuesday when court documents and testimony showed that English identifies as a woman.
00:01:31.000 So, ladies, if you want him, he's all yours. 1.00
00:01:34.000 More female violence. 0.99
00:01:35.000 It's just sad. 1.00
00:01:37.000 Drag queens, by the way, who, again, I've been told this by high ranking Democratic nominees for high office. 0.96
00:01:42.000 Drag queen shows are awesome.
00:01:44.000 And drag queens are now mocking Charlie and Erica Kirk because these are fun, family friendly, awesome shows.
00:01:56.000 We are Charlie Kirk.
00:01:57.000 What you gonna do with all that drama?
00:02:05.000 All that drama? 1.00
00:02:28.000 You got one dressed as Candace Owens. 0.99
00:02:29.000 You got Erica, and then you had Charlie with an actual blood stain on his neck.
00:02:37.000 These are delightful people.
00:02:38.000 These are just the best people.
00:02:39.000 They're awesome.
00:02:40.000 They're just great in every fashion. 0.99
00:02:43.000 I'm so glad, by the way, that Candace Owens normalized the mockery of a widow and her slain husband.
00:02:49.000 That was great.
00:02:50.000 Glad we did that.
00:02:50.000 And all the people who lent credibility to that, well done.
00:02:53.000 Just awesome job all the way around.
00:02:56.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:04:05.000 Okay, meanwhile, in other trans political issues, a person named who calls himself Julia Curley, who's actually a man, was fired from the administration after a few weeks or a few days because this is a man who identifies as a woman and now is trying to make a federal issue out of this, right?
00:04:31.000 Because Julia Curley says that he was well qualified and then was fired for no reason.
00:04:39.000 And because at one point Mike Pence was nice to him, then he says, In that moment, it felt like the battle had been won.
00:04:46.000 But oh no, the Trump administration found out that this man who says he's a woman was in the intelligence agencies and then fired him.
00:04:55.000 Here was a Julia Curley supposed victim.
00:04:58.000 Can we just talk about that for a second? 0.87
00:04:59.000 So you're fired on a Saturday.
00:05:02.000 Yeah.
00:05:03.000 Well, you're out with your family after a not so subtle tweet from Laura Lohmer about you.
00:05:09.000 And Then they said, but please come back on Monday anyway, even though we're firing you?
00:05:15.000 Yeah, they still needed me.
00:05:15.000 Yeah.
00:05:18.000 I was helping with a very important budget item.
00:05:21.000 The new administration was still getting up and running.
00:05:23.000 And we had two years of turnover to conduct.
00:05:26.000 And then you went back to the CIA from there.
00:05:26.000 Yeah.
00:05:28.000 You were fired from your post at the White House, but you stayed with the agency.
00:05:32.000 So it didn't work at the White House, was still at the CIA, is a victim.
00:05:37.000 Not so much.
00:05:39.000 Not so much.
00:05:40.000 Okay.
00:05:40.000 Well, other NBA, the N.
00:05:43.000 Okay, can we stop with this nonsense of male cheerleaders, please?
00:05:47.000 Please. 1.00
00:05:49.000 There are male cheerleaders.
00:05:50.000 Usually they're the ones who are like the big buff guys in college who like chuck the women 40 feet in the air while they do various feats of gymnastics. 0.59
00:06:00.000 Or you could theoretically just get a dude who can't dance as well as a lady, but put him in some high heels and pretend that he's dancing like the ladies. 0.71
00:06:06.000 I don't know who is the crowd for this. 1.00
00:06:08.000 Who? 0.96
00:06:09.000 So the NBA's Denver Nuggets has now hired a male dancer who is a man who wears high heels and gallivants around like the women. 0.99
00:06:17.000 And it's just ridiculous. 0.82
00:06:19.000 Can you just imagine, like, Nikola Jokic, who is the most no nonsense player in the NBA? 0.78
00:06:25.000 I mean, like, barely can stand to be on the court.
00:06:27.000 Like, the greatest player of our generation by far.
00:06:30.000 And he can barely stand.
00:06:31.000 Can you just imagine him from Serbia standing there and just watching what is happening on the sidelines and being confused?
00:06:39.000 That is where we are.
00:06:40.000 Here it is.
00:06:41.000 So much groundbreaking things happening in our culture.
00:06:43.000 So much groundbreaking in our culture.
00:06:45.000 Here we go.
00:06:47.000 Laray earned one of those 19 coveted spots on the team, becoming the first ever male dancer in Nuggets Dance Championship in history. 0.86
00:06:55.000 There's like one black guy. 1.00
00:06:56.000 That's something that's not.
00:06:57.000 At all lost on this trailblazer, he hopes his journey encourages others to put themselves out there and pursue what they truly love.
00:07:05.000 I couldn't believe it, honestly.
00:07:06.000 I was so, honestly, I put in the work, but seeing everybody else in this room, honestly, I got inspired by the girls.
00:07:16.000 He's inspired by the girls. 0.92
00:07:18.000 And he's just a gay dude who tries to dance like a lady. 1.00
00:07:22.000 That's all. 1.00
00:07:23.000 Okay.
00:07:24.000 NBA, who's your crowd?
00:07:25.000 Like, who's the audience for this?
00:07:27.000 Who's the audience for this?
00:07:28.000 All right.
00:07:29.000 Well, apparently the Denver Nuggets were unable to get Hassan Piker to be one of their dancers.
00:07:34.000 Awkward clip time with Hassan Piker. 0.89
00:07:36.000 So he explained why he isn't gay.
00:07:40.000 And it was a take. 0.62
00:07:41.000 Then why aren't you gay? 1.00
00:07:43.000 Because God has cursed me. 1.00
00:07:45.000 God has cursed me with heterosexuality. 0.99
00:07:48.000 I am forever cursed. 0.99
00:07:52.000 It is what it is.
00:07:54.000 Okay.
00:07:56.000 They step out of the gate closet, not just step out of the socialist closet.
00:07:59.000 Yeah.
00:08:00.000 Um, In any case, in any case, yeah, it's truly a curse.
00:08:08.000 I disavow it every day. 0.91
00:08:11.000 I'm not sure why heterosexuality is a curse.
00:08:13.000 I feel like it's kind of a blessing in that literally all of human reproduction relies upon it.
00:08:20.000 But then again, I have five children and he has none.
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