The Ben Shapiro Show - Apparently, Only Certain People Get Investigated…

00:00:00.000 Well, today is one of the most crucial days in the history of American politics when the former president of the United States and current Republican frontrunner shows up at a federal courthouse in Miami to turn himself in for arraignment.

00:00:11.000 That is the reading of the charges.

00:00:13.000 And here's the thing.

00:00:15.000 While Donald Trump is about to enter the criminal bar on the federal docket, Joe Biden continues to be subjected to very little scrutiny by members of federal law enforcement.

00:00:24.000 And this discrepancy is very clear to pretty much everyone at this point.

00:00:29.000 Because when we look at our political class, generally speaking, I think most Americans, they look at the political class, they see a lot of people who seem to be corrupt, people who seem to violate the rules, skirt the rules, but only certain types of people seem to get fully investigated and then prosecuted.

00:00:41.000 The discrepancy between Hillary Clinton's behavior and her exoneration at the hands of the FBI and Donald Trump's behavior and his criminal indictment at the hands of the DOJ.

00:00:50.000 That discrepancy is very clear to everybody, but it's also clear to everybody that the current occupant of the White House, his entire family has been making millions of dollars off of his name for years while he was vice president of the United States, going around and picking up bags of cash.

00:01:03.000 And now we have this information that has been very little covered by the legacy media.

00:01:06.000 This information from a whistleblower in what's called the 1023 form, suggesting that Joe Biden was fully aware of Hunter Biden working with Burisma in order to essentially facilitate bribery while he was president and vice president of the United States.

00:01:19.000 The goal apparently was for Burisma to Open business arrangements in the United States using Hunter's relationship with Joe to pave the way and also to get Joe Biden to exert pressure on a Ukrainian prosecutor to go away because that Ukrainian prosecutor was looking into Burisma.

00:01:36.000 These questions have been very open for a very long time, but this whistleblower document, which the FBI was refusing to turn over to Congress, has now been looked at by members of Congress and some of the information that's being spilled out there by Pretty serious people, right?

00:01:49.000 Not fringe members of the Republican caucus, but people like Senator Chuck Grassley.

00:01:52.000 Long time Republican senator from Iowa.

00:01:54.000 Pretty shocking.

00:01:55.000 So yesterday, Senator Grassley, he pointed out that it is fascinating how law enforcement, federal law enforcement has been laser focused on Donald Trump, but there's been almost no laser focus on the Biden family.

00:02:09.000 Based on the facts known to the Congress and the public, it's clear that the Justice Department, the FBI haven't nearly had the same laser focus on the Biden family.

00:02:26.000 So he's obviously right about that, and everybody knows that he is right about that.

00:02:30.000 So Grassley went on to actually describe some of the information in this so-called 1023 whistleblower document.

00:02:36.000 Some of that information includes the fact that apparently the person who's making the allegation says that there are taped recordings, like audio recordings, between not Hunter Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs working with Burisma, but Joe Biden and Ukrainian oligarchs working for Burisma.

00:02:51.000 Now, that doesn't mean that bribery was facilitated on the phone call, but it does raise some pretty serious questions as to why Joe was getting on the phone with the people that Hunter was picking up cash from.

00:03:00.000 I mean, that obviously creates a pretty significant appearance of impropriety, given the fact that Hunter was completely not in the government at the time.

00:03:07.000 A lot of people have been comparing, for example, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump to Hunter Biden and Joe Biden because Jared Kushner now runs a very well-funded hedge fund that has a bunch of Saudi money in it.

00:03:17.000 The difference is that Jared Kushner was actually working for the American government and facilitating peace policy in the Middle East when he was working for Donald Trump.

00:03:24.000 Hunter was basically freelancing out in Ukraine, snorting coke off the floor while picking up giant checks from Burisma with no expertise in either natural gas or Ukraine while facilitating phone calls between his pops And these Ukrainian oligarchs, and apparently some of those phone calls are now on tape.

00:03:39.000 Here's Grassley alleging just that.

00:03:42.000 That the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation with them.

00:03:54.000 17 such recordings.

00:03:57.000 According to the 1023, The Foreign National possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden.

00:04:08.000 According to the 1023, the Foreign National possesses two audio recordings of phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden.

00:04:22.000 So the real question here is whether the FBI has actually done any of the research on this sort of stuff, because the FBI was more than happy to launch an entire investigation based on garbage information about George Papadopoulos mouthing off in bars.

00:04:36.000 Based on the Steele dossier, which is a compendium of nonsense.

00:04:38.000 They launched a full-scale four-year investigation into Donald Trump and supposed Russian collusion.

00:04:42.000 But meanwhile, they have a whistleblower who's alleging actual taped phone calls between the Vice President of the United States, now the President of the United States, and corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs who are paying his son.

00:04:52.000 And we have no information as to whether the FBI is actually even bothering to investigate any of this.

00:04:57.000 Meanwhile, James Comer, the Republican congressperson who is on the House Oversight Committee, he's been saying that the Biden family pretty obviously is shuttling around money here.

00:05:06.000 They have 20 shell companies.

00:05:08.000 You're hot on the trails.

00:05:09.000 This trail gets hotter and hotter and the bribery scandal grows and the evidence points to it.

00:05:15.000 Does this not constitute an impeachable offense for President Biden?

00:05:22.000 If we can trace bribery, it sure does.

00:05:24.000 But look what we've already found, Larry.

00:05:27.000 The Biden family has at least 20 shell companies that were created for the sole purpose to launder money to at least nine Biden family members.

00:05:36.000 When you create a bunch of shell companies for the sole purpose of laundering money, that's called racketeering.

00:05:41.000 And the money laundering, those aren't my words, those are the words of at least six Big publicly traded banks that filed bank violations against the Biden family.

00:05:51.000 They said it sure appears that they're money laundering.

00:05:56.000 Now, the lack of investigation into the Biden family is going to be the political pushback that you're going to get from the Trump camp, and that you should get from the Trump camp, which is, again, Donald Trump, when it comes to this indictment on mishandling of classified information, on charges of obstruction of justice, and all of the rest, what he has to prove in a criminal court, which we'll get to in a little while, in order to preserve a defense, in order to actually succeed in his defense, that's a different thing from what he has to do in the public eye in order to push forward electorally.

00:06:22.000 And the push forward electorally is actually fairly easy here.

00:06:25.000 And that is, they're out to get me.

00:06:26.000 They've been out to get me since day one.

00:06:28.000 If they actually cared about this sort of stuff, they would have gone after Hillary, and they would currently be going after Joe Biden. 0.95

00:06:34.000 And by the way, Representative Comer also has now issued a subpoena for former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer for deposition this week.

00:06:42.000 We have not heard back from Archer's attorney.

00:06:45.000 And of course, it is Devon Archer who is helping facilitate a lot of the deals that Hunter Biden was making abroad.

00:06:49.000 Basically, he was the handler for Hunter Biden because Devon Archer was not nearly as much of a crack addict, apparently, as Hunter, and so he was kind of squaring him around to pick up these bags of cash while using the big guy's name.

00:07:00.000 That would be Joe Biden's name.

00:07:01.000 Okay, in just one second, We'll get to the other myriad absurdities plaguing the Biden administration as Donald Trump prepares to head to a Miami courthouse for his arraignment first.

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00:08:15.000 Speaking of myriad absurdities in the White House, again, the White House has a very simple reelect effort here.

00:08:21.000 That is, keep the focus on Trump.

00:08:22.000 If the focus ever goes back to Joe Biden, he's in serious trouble.

00:08:25.000 This is the rule of elections, and this is something both Republicans and Democrats should keep in mind.

00:08:29.000 I think Democrats understand this, which is why they want Trump top of the headlines.

00:08:32.000 The more people are discussing Donald Trump, the less they are discussing Joe Biden being very bad at his job, the less they are discussing Joe Biden's corruption.

00:08:39.000 It's all a giant misdirect.

00:08:40.000 And the thing about Trump is that Trump really likes talking about Trump, so he's happy to talk about Trump all day long.

00:08:44.000 But the problem is that was his actual electoral strategy in 2020, and it didn't work out particularly well.

00:08:49.000 So do you want to talk about Biden or do you want to talk about Trump?

00:08:52.000 We should be talking about Biden since he's the actual president of the United States, not a former president who is currently running for president of the United States.

00:08:58.000 But all the talk is about Trump because the media loves that storyline.

00:09:01.000 And Joe Biden is really boring.

00:09:02.000 But while Joe Biden is being boring, his policy is not boring at all. 1.00

00:09:06.000 See, the thing about the Biden administration is that he puts you to sleep because he is a doddering old fool. 1.00

00:09:12.000 And feels unthreatening because he is a doddering old fool. 1.00

00:09:15.000 But his agenda is actually extraordinarily threatening. 0.99

00:09:18.000 It's like the core values of the United States.

00:09:20.000 I'm not even talking here about the sillinesses of Karine Jean-Pierre, who apparently violated the Hatch Act because she kept talking about mega-MAGA Republicans in the run-up to the 2022 midterms, according to the Office of Special Counsel.

00:09:32.000 According to NBC News, that Office of Special Counsel has now determined that she violated the Hatch Act.

00:09:37.000 Now, they decided to close the matter without further action.

00:09:39.000 Of course, of course, because this is the way that it works.

00:09:41.000 If you are a Democrat and you violate the Hatch Act, nothing happens to you. 0.81

00:09:44.000 The Hatch Act, in and of itself, is a ridiculous piece of legislation.

00:09:47.000 But, you know, there are little things like that, but then there are much bigger things.

00:09:49.000 Okay, so, you may be wondering, who are the kinds of people who are standing behind the Biden administration?

00:09:55.000 Well, as it turns out, one of those people is not George Soros, but his son, Alexander Soros.

00:10:01.000 So, remember, supposedly he's anti-semitic to talk about how George Soros is a nefarious force in American politics, which he is. 0.86

00:10:07.000 He defunds the police prosecutors all over the United States, he funds wildly anti-Israel clauses all over planet Earth, and then hides behind his Jewish ethnicity in order to shield himself from criticism, which is quite disgusting. 0.97

00:10:18.000 As an Orthodox Jew, let me just say right here, right now, it is not antisemitic to call out George Soros and his garbage spending is bad for the country and bad for the world. 0.97

00:10:26.000 His political bona fides are very bad.

00:10:28.000 Well, now he is handing over his fund, his money, to his 37-year-old son, Alexander Soros, a self-described central left thinker who grew up self-conscious of the family's wealth and wasn't thought to be a potential successor.

00:10:41.000 He said that he is broadening his father's liberal aims, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:10:44.000 He's gotten more political compared to George.

00:10:46.000 He recently met with Biden administration officials, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

00:10:50.000 He also met with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is in increasingly fascistic fashion, going after political opposition and rigging the system over there, as well as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is definitely, definitely not Fidel Castro's son.

00:11:03.000 The Soros Nonprofit Open Society Foundation, known as OSF, directs $1.5 billion a year to groups such as those backing human rights around the world and helping build democracy.

00:11:12.000 Well, that is a euphemism in the United States at the very, very least.

00:11:16.000 Alex said he was concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump's return to the White House, suggesting a significant financial role for the Soros organization in the 2024 presidential race.

00:11:24.000 Remember, it's anti-Semitic to mention George Soros and Alex Soros spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to defeat Republicans, but they're allowed to do it.

00:11:32.000 As much as I would love to get money out of politics, as long as the other side is doing it, we have to do it too.

00:11:36.000 He said, well, he doesn't want to get money out of politics, then he'd be irrelevant.

00:11:38.000 No one would ever heard of Alex Soros if it weren't for money in politics.

00:11:41.000 He'd just be another 37-year-old dweeb living off dad's money.

00:11:45.000 In contrast with some on the left, Alex believes that speech on college campuses and elsewhere has become too restricted, but he does meet apparently on the regular.

00:11:55.000 With the White House.

00:11:56.000 He's visited the White House multiple times.

00:11:58.000 He was not expected to be the person who took over the family firm that was supposed to be his older brother, Jonathan.

00:12:03.000 But, um, you know, apparently he was politically aligned with daddy.

00:12:07.000 And so he gets control of the money.

00:12:10.000 According to the New York Post, VP Harris has been huddling with Alex Soros.

00:12:14.000 Harris greeted Open Society Foundation's Chair Alexandra Soros shortly after flying back to Washington from Philadelphia just last week, where she held an event with the Service Employees International Union.

00:12:24.000 At that point, Alexandra Soros treated great to catch up with Madam Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:12:28.000 The Vice President did not acknowledge the sit-down on her public schedule.

00:12:32.000 But he's made a dozen other visits to the White House, according to official visitor logs, including to attend a swanky state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron late last year.

00:12:41.000 He also contributed almost $750,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020, and he's put another $11 million in the pockets of left-wing PACs since 2010.

00:12:50.000 His father, George, donated $125 million to Democratic groups and candidates in the 2022 cycle through his Democracy PAC.

00:12:58.000 So these are the people who the Republicans are going to have to go up against.

00:13:03.000 The George Soros-funded far-left crowd who thinks that the height of human bravery is a man gallivanting around dressed up as a woman with surgeries to prove it, jiggling his bare breasts on the White House lawn in the name of sexual fluidity and individual freedom.

00:13:17.000 That's what the Republicans have to go up against.

00:13:19.000 So naturally, the Democrats would prefer that you put your focus on Donald Trump, which is why all the focus in the media today will be on the former president of the United States showing up in corrugated that in just one second.

00:13:30.000 First, Congress once again allowed itself this year to be pushed into appeasing the Biden administration.

00:13:34.000 They raised the debt ceiling again.

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00:13:44.000 We're just going to continue spending, which seems to be the plan.

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00:14:36.000 Okay, so meanwhile, and the biggest news of the day in the media will not be Joe Biden or his agenda or anything else.

00:14:41.000 It'll be Donald Trump heading to court.

00:14:43.000 So according to Politico, at about 3 p.m.

00:14:46.000 today, Trump is going to be heading to a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday.

00:14:51.000 Before departing for Florida, the former president spent Monday morning at his clubhouse in New Jersey where he spoke with aides and met with a congressional ally.

00:14:56.000 Trump and his team of advisors and attorneys plan to spend Monday night at his golf resort in Miami, that's at Doral apparently, preparing for his court appearance and trying to bolster his legal team.

00:15:04.000 It is unclear at this point, by the way, who exactly his lawyers are because he just switched over a bunch of his legal team.

00:15:10.000 Politico playbook actually has a pretty good rundown on what Trump's defense could theoretically look like.

00:15:16.000 They say, this would be Ryan Lizza, Rachel Bade, and Eugene Daniels reporting.

00:15:21.000 They say that it's unclear who exactly is going to be representing Trump at this point.

00:15:26.000 Trump has been scrambling to identify a seasoned Florida trial lawyer willing to take the case.

00:15:29.000 Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kyes, who are leading that search, are likely to appear today in court.

00:15:34.000 So what exactly will the defense look like?

00:15:35.000 They talked to a guy named Timothy Parlatori, who left the Trump team last month.

00:15:41.000 And parlatory made a sort of compelling case as to exactly how Trump could defend himself.

00:15:45.000 He said there are a few things that Trump is going to do.

00:15:47.000 One, he's going to pursue aggressive discovery.

00:15:48.000 So whenever you have an indictment like this that spilled into public view, you now need full discovery from the prosecution, right?

00:15:53.000 You need every document that they've looked at is now the defense is entitled to it.

00:15:57.000 So the defense has to look at all of that stuff and see exactly what the alternative explanations for Trump's behavior could be.

00:16:03.000 They're also going to look at the possibility of prosecutorial misconduct.

00:16:06.000 You remember just a few days ago, Donald Trump went on Truth Social, and he alleged that the Justice Department's counterintelligence chief, Jay Brat, had pressured Trump's co-defendant, Walt Nowda.

00:16:14.000 That is the aide that Trump was directing to move boxes around, allegedly.

00:16:18.000 Trump alleges that Jay Brat pressured Walt Nowda during an interview by mentioning that Nowda's attorney, Stanley Woodward, was applying for a presidentially nominated D.C.

00:16:26.000 Superior Court judgeship.

00:16:28.000 So what they're going to try and say is that it's witness tampering, that basically Nowda was in the room with his attorney, that the DOJ said to his attorney, listen, you're up for a D.C.

00:16:34.000 Court judgeship.

00:16:35.000 You know, you need your guy to talk here, which of course would be illegal.

00:16:39.000 You're not allowed to pressure a client by pressuring the attorney with the threat of essentially excommunication from a judicial seat.

00:16:47.000 They're also going to attack the search warrant.

00:16:48.000 Parliamentary said he'd go after the legitimacy of that search warrant.

00:16:50.000 The Trump team will finally have access to the unredacted version of the search warrant, which, again, we're gonna have to see what the grounds were for the search warrant in the first place.

00:16:59.000 Remember, what the search turned up were a lot of the confidential documents that Trump had already testified, his lawyers had already testified, that he didn't have.

00:17:05.000 But you have to have good grounds for the search warrant.

00:17:07.000 It can't just be we feel like writing up a search warrant.

00:17:09.000 We've seen that happen before.

00:17:10.000 We saw a FISA warrant that was taken out against Carter Page on the basis of absolutely nothing.

00:17:14.000 It was essentially illegal.

00:17:16.000 So it would not be a shock if the grounds for the search warrant were bad.

00:17:20.000 Also, the defense is going to try to exclude notes that were taken by Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran.

00:17:25.000 So a lot of the indictment is rooted in the allegations of Evan Corcoran, who's Trump's lawyer.

00:17:29.000 That was stuff like Trump saying, what would happen if the documents just disappeared?

00:17:33.000 What would happen if we destroyed the document?

00:17:35.000 Now, Trump can make the case even then that that is attorney-client privilege.

00:17:39.000 So basically, the government made the case that Corcoran had to turn over those notes because here's the deal.

00:17:43.000 You're not allowed to conspire with your lawyer to commit a crime.

00:17:46.000 Attorney-client privilege applies to virtually everything.

00:17:49.000 You can tell your lawyer that you have committed a crime in preparing your defense, but you can't say to your lawyer, I'm about to commit a murder tomorrow.

00:17:55.000 Can you help me preemptively with how I should handle this?

00:18:00.000 That is now you attempting to facilitate a crime with your lawyer, and attorney-client privilege does not cover that.

00:18:06.000 And so if you're planning a crime with the lawyer or asking the lawyer to help you plan a crime, attorney-client privilege does not cover that because there is a criminal exception to the law.

00:18:16.000 It's called the crime-fraud exception.

00:18:17.000 So the prosecution is arguing that essentially Trump has been asking, can I get rid of the documents?

00:18:22.000 What happens if they're just destroyed?

00:18:23.000 That that violates the crime-fraud exception.

00:18:26.000 Presumably Trump's lawyers will try to argue That's not right.

00:18:30.000 Quote, So making the case that, you know, when you ask your lawyer, like, is it legal for me to do X or is it legal for me to do Y or what would the consequences be if I did X or Y?

00:18:36.000 That's not the same thing as planning the actual crime.

00:18:37.000 it shouldn't have been the evidence for a charge,"

00:18:39.000 said Parlatory, it's insane.

00:18:41.000 So making the case that, you know, when you ask your lawyer, like,

00:18:44.000 is it legal for me to do X or is it legal for me to do Y?

00:18:46.000 Or what would the consequences be if I did X or Y?

00:18:49.000 That's not the same thing as planning the actual crime.

00:18:51.000 That seems like a pretty good defense, actually.

00:18:54.000 Parlatory also alleges a pattern of misconduct he says he witnessed inside the grand jury,

00:18:57.000 where prosecutors repeatedly asked about privileged attorney-client communications,

00:19:00.000 then argued to jurors that invoking the privilege was evidence of guilt.

00:19:03.000 That, of course, would justify a motion that the entire grand jury process was flawed, because you're not allowed to use failure to testify against yourself or failure to break privilege as guilt.

00:19:14.000 If I grill you and you say, listen, that's privileged.

00:19:17.000 I don't have to talk about that.

00:19:18.000 That's not evidence that criminal activity has taken place.

00:19:21.000 Now, that really is not a question for the jury.

00:19:22.000 All of these are going to be questions for the judge.

00:19:23.000 So it'll be fascinating to see which of these motions actually succeed, right?

00:19:25.000 why this entire investigation is irreparably tainted by government misconduct,

00:19:29.000 the case should be dismissed, or at a minimum, the prosecutor should be disqualified.

00:19:32.000 Now, that really is not a question for the jury.

00:19:34.000 All of these are going to be questions for the judge.

00:19:36.000 So it'll be fascinating to see which of these motions actually succeed, right?

00:19:39.000 These are motions to exclude.

00:19:40.000 That does not change what the jury is going to hear.

00:19:43.000 So that's what Trump's defense, presumably, is going to be.

00:19:48.000 That, at least, is his actual legal defense.

00:19:51.000 His political defense, as I've said, is going to be, listen, there's an obvious double standard here.

00:19:55.000 And that political defense is obviously true.

00:19:58.000 This is why Trump's poll numbers have not collapsed in the wake of all of this.

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00:21:12.000 The reason that Trump's poll numbers have not collapsed, aside from the fact that a lot of Republicans are very loyal to him on a personal level because they believe that he pulled out a miracle in beating Hillary Clinton.

00:21:21.000 The other reason is because virtually all Republicans agree, even if you think that Trump never should have done what he did here.

00:21:26.000 Even if you look at the conduct, you know, like, this looks like criminal conduct to me.

00:21:29.000 Even if you think all of that, you can still think, as I do, that this is a full-on double standard.

00:21:34.000 And you can see it in the end-ending hypocrisy of Democrats who have obviously committed crimes. 0.55

00:21:40.000 Actually, going around on MSNBC and CNN, the galling nature of these people going around claiming that Donald Trump needs to be indicted for a crime while they themselves have committed pretty obvious crimes is pretty insane. 0.72

00:21:51.000 So, for example, John Brennan, who is the former director of the CIA.

00:21:56.000 If you go all the way back to 2014, he openly lied to Congress.

00:21:59.000 I mean, openly lied to Congress.

00:22:00.000 And everybody knew that he lied to Congress at the time.

00:22:04.000 And yet here he was yesterday talking about how Trump was a threat to national security.

00:22:10.000 And now he's been charged under the Espionage Act.

00:22:13.000 Is Donald Trump a national security threat right now?

00:22:16.000 And if he is, I think I know what you're going to say.

00:22:19.000 Why isn't that, you know, noun, a verb and a threat, everything that all of his opponents for the White House are saying today?

00:22:27.000 He is definitely a threat.

00:22:29.000 Major dangers are national security.

00:22:31.000 He has been, I think, for many years and will continue to be, which is why I just find it so, so Disheartening, and it makes me angry when I hear people like Lindsey Graham make excuses and apologies for Donald Trump.

00:22:47.000 I mean, that's amazing.

00:22:48.000 Because John Brennan is a person who literally lied to the Senate.

00:22:52.000 You'll recall, all the way back in 2014, that he suggested that the CIA had not improperly spied on US Senate staffers.

00:22:59.000 And that was a lie.

00:23:00.000 It was not true.

00:23:02.000 As it turns out, Brennan was actually forced to apologize privately to the Intelligence Committee chairs.

00:23:05.000 Now, if he had not been a member of the Democratic administration at the time, he certainly would have been brought up on some sort of contempt charges by the Senate of the United States.

00:23:15.000 They didn't do it, presumably because he was a Democrat and part of the administration, which is, again, the rule.

00:23:19.000 This is the double standard.

00:23:20.000 If you're John Brennan, you get away with everything, and you're on MSNBC talking about the importance of rule of law.

00:23:24.000 Here was John Brennan in 2014 lying.

00:23:25.000 This is at the Council on Foreign Relations.

00:23:28.000 As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth.

00:23:34.000 I mean, we wouldn't do that.

00:23:35.000 I mean, that's just beyond the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.

00:23:43.000 Okay, so he is a, as The Guardian said back in 2014, And yet John Brennan is walking around free as a bird and talking about the importance of the rule of law.

00:23:50.000 Now this sort of stuff is incredibly galling.

00:23:51.000 entire first term in the White House, Brendan Bilt oversaw, executed, and excused America's

00:23:55.000 robotic assassination program.

00:23:57.000 Intelligence documents leaked to McClatchy confirmed that Brendan was lying about all

00:24:01.000 of that for literally years on end.

00:24:03.000 And yet John Brennan is walking around free as a bird and talking about the importance

00:24:07.000 of the rule of law.

00:24:09.000 Now this sort of stuff is incredibly galling.

00:24:10.000 It's not just him.

00:24:11.000 Right?

00:24:13.000 Andrew McCabe.

00:24:13.000 He's a former member of the FBI.

00:24:16.000 You'll recall that Andrew McCabe actually was fired from the FBI for violation of leaking.

00:24:22.000 He joined the FBI in 1996.

00:24:25.000 And then, in 2021, he had to settle with the DOJ a wrongful termination suit that he filed in 2019.

00:24:31.000 He was fired in March of 2018, 26 hours before his scheduled retirement, because McCabe, as it turns out, leaked information to the Wall Street Journal about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and then misled agents who questioned about it on four occasions, three of which were under oath.

00:24:45.000 That was according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

00:24:47.000 So basically, in order to show that James Comey's FBI was on the up and up, he was leaking information without authorization to the press.

00:24:53.000 He then claimed, of course, that Comey had allowed him to leak that information.

00:24:57.000 Then in 2020, the Justice Department, shocker, announced that they were not going to prosecute McCabe.

00:25:04.000 So this is a person who leaked information to the press, which is one of the allegations against Trump, is that Trump was saying classified information leaking to the press.

00:25:12.000 McCabe leaked an investigation to the press.

00:25:15.000 He ended up being fired for it before he could retire.

00:25:17.000 He ended up embroiled in a lawsuit.

00:25:19.000 And then here he was defending Hillary Clinton on national television yesterday.

00:25:24.000 Let's talk about the Hillary Clinton case because that was a serious breach of protocol and she was criticized by the FBI director at the time for being, I think he used the word reckless, I might be wrong, but what is the difference?

00:25:36.000 There's huge differences here Jake and unlike what you've heard from uh... congressman mccarthy and biggs our system is not

00:25:42.000 based on you know we don't play by organized crime rules it's not you take out one of

00:25:46.000 my guys i take out one of your guys it's all equal

00:25:48.000 every one of these cases is analyzed based on the evidence evidence that

00:25:52.000 you've been able to uncover during the course of the investigation

00:25:55.000 in the clinton case top-secret documents thirty-seven secret dot are not

00:26:00.000 documents content that was that was judged to be at that level

00:26:04.000 and ten at the confidential level Important to note that none of that was actual documents bearing headers and footers and classified stamps and portion markings and all the sorts of things you expect to see.

00:26:17.000 Okay, so he's now defending Hillary Clinton.

00:26:19.000 So Hillary Clinton, who absolutely criminally was hiding information and obstructing it, and had it, by the way, not stored on like hard copies in a bathroom like Donald Trump, actually had it stored on a server that James Comey admitted in his failure to indict.

00:26:33.000 He admitted that Hillary was likely exposed to hack by foreign sources.

00:26:37.000 So it's very likely that information ended up in the hands of nefarious foreign sources.

00:26:40.000 Andy McCabe, who himself leaked information To the press and was fired for it.

00:26:45.000 He's now on national TV talking about the evils of Donald Trump.

00:26:48.000 This is the sort of stuff that, politically speaking, is good for Trump, at least in a primary.

00:26:52.000 Now, in a general election, I don't think it's going to help him very much because, again, everybody knows about all this stuff going in.

00:26:56.000 All this is baked into the cake already.

00:26:58.000 People think of Trump what they think of Trump.

00:26:59.000 However, you want to know why Republicans are rushing to Trump's defense.

00:27:03.000 It's because of the double standard.

00:27:04.000 It's not even because of the behavior.

00:27:05.000 It's because of the double standard.

00:27:06.000 That double standard is so obvious.

00:27:08.000 And it's also driven by the fact that the media are obviously just salivating over this.

00:27:12.000 The media have been wanting Trump in jail since day one. 1.00

00:27:14.000 Anna Navarro, over at The View, again, politics for dumb people. 1.00

00:27:17.000 She says she hasn't had this much fun reading anything, she's talking about the indictment here, since Fifty Shades of Grey. 0.97

00:27:23.000 So first of all, that shows you something about her sexual and literary taste, and it also shows you something about her IQ.

00:27:28.000 This man is so unfit, and any Republican candidate who is not jumping at this opportunity to say, hey, he is unfit for office, I'm the future, they're not running seriously.

00:27:38.000 Well, look, a few things.

00:27:40.000 Number one, I haven't had this much fun reading anything since I read Fifty Shades of... Right?

00:27:46.000 Wasn't it... I mean... This was the best reading you can imagine.

00:27:53.000 Mmm.

00:27:54.000 That's... That's delightful.

00:27:56.000 Well, you wonder why Republicans respond the way they do?

00:27:57.000 This is the reason.

00:27:59.000 Well, turnabout will be fair play.

00:28:00.000 If the idea here is that Hillary does not get prosecuted, McCabe does not get prosecuted, John Brennan does not get prosecuted.

00:28:06.000 None of these people get prosecuted.

00:28:07.000 But Donald Trump does get prosecuted.

00:28:08.000 Eventually, the worm is going to turn.

00:28:10.000 We have now broken the glass.

00:28:13.000 Donald Trump showing up in court today means the glass has been broken.

00:28:15.000 So prepare for political opposition to be prosecuted from here for the rest of American history.

00:28:21.000 This is where we now have gone.

00:28:23.000 This is really dangerous stuff.

00:28:24.000 Even if you believe the allegations against Trump, it is very, very dangerous to prosecute him under these circumstances for the future of the United States, because once you have a double standard, that double standard will not stand.

00:28:34.000 There will be a single standard, and if the single standard is you prosecute your political opposition, That would be the standard.

00:28:40.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:30:19.000 Okay, meanwhile, if turnabout is fair play and the way that American politics from here on in is going to work, then what this means is that the Biden family better prepare that the minute they're out of power, whether that is in January of 2025 or whether that is in January of 2029, There will be prosecutions coming for them.

00:30:36.000 It's just going to happen.

00:30:37.000 Donald Trump basically vowed as much yesterday.

00:30:39.000 You're worried about the weaponization of the Justice Department under Donald Trump?

00:30:42.000 It didn't happen.

00:30:43.000 Remember that Donald Trump did not prosecute Hillary Clinton even after taking office under the assumption that you don't go after your chief political opposition, right?

00:30:51.000 It's just not a thing that you typically do.

00:30:53.000 Joe Biden has had no problem having Merrick Garland do it.

00:30:55.000 Now again, I think this is about Merrick Garland and Joe Biden.

00:30:58.000 A lot of people are on Jack Smith, the special counsel in this case.

00:31:01.000 If you're Jack Smith and your literal job is to just look at the facts on the ground in Donald Trump's classified documents case and you just look at that fact pattern, it's very hard to see how Jack Smith could have said, it doesn't look like a crime to me, we're done.

00:31:12.000 That's not Jack Smith's call.

00:31:13.000 Jack Smith recommends the charges.

00:31:15.000 Then it's up to Merrick Garland and Joe Biden to take into consideration the actual political ramifications for the country should they decide to go forward with the prosecution of Donald Trump.

00:31:23.000 So, blaming it on Jack Smith is wrong.

00:31:25.000 Smith is doing his job.

00:31:27.000 It is Merrick Garland, the AG, and Joe Biden who are not doing their jobs in protecting the country from the ramifications of weaponizing law enforcement only for one side.

00:31:37.000 Again, the basic rule of authoritarianism is, for my friends, anything.

00:31:42.000 For my enemies, the law.

00:31:43.000 And that's essentially what we have right now.

00:31:46.000 Donald Trump, predictably enough, went on TruthSocially and said,

00:31:49.000 Now that the seal is broken, in addition to closing the border and removing all of the 0.90

00:31:52.000 criminal elements that have illegally invaded our country, making America energy independent

00:31:55.000 and even dominant again, and immediately ending the war between Russia and Ukraine,

00:31:58.000 I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history

00:32:02.000 of the United States, Joe Biden, the entire Biden crime family, and all others involved with the

00:32:06.000 destruction of our elections, borders, and country itself.

00:32:09.000 So the Democrats have now manifested the form of their destroyer.

00:32:13.000 Remember, they said back in 2015, this is what Trump was going to do.

00:32:16.000 Trump would be elected.

00:32:16.000 He would immediately appoint to head the DOJ a lackey who's going to go after all of his political opponents and jail them.

00:32:23.000 And then they proceeded to elect Joe Biden.

00:32:24.000 And guess what?

00:32:25.000 Everybody under the sun is now attacking and attempting to prosecute and put in jail Donald Trump.

00:32:30.000 And so Trump, predictably enough, is like, OK, fine, you want to do it?

00:32:32.000 I'll do it, too.

00:32:33.000 And this will be the game from here on out.

00:32:36.000 When the Justice Department gets reduced to pure politics, you got a problem.

00:32:41.000 Now, I hear people screaming, all right, well, but you just said that Trump may have committed criminal activity here.

00:32:45.000 The allegations against him are very strong.

00:32:46.000 That's true.

00:32:47.000 The only way that you actually restore the credibility of the justice system is to have Republicans prosecute Republicans and Democrats prosecute Democrats.

00:32:54.000 Because the minute that this now crosses the aisle, we've become so politically polarized and partisan that if the basic line here is that Republicans are just supposed to accept that Republicans who are guilty of crimes get indicted, and Democrats who are guilty of crimes get slots on CNN and MSNBC, That is not a workable solution for anyone.

00:33:11.000 In order to reestablish credibility when credibility has been lost, when an institution has lost its credibility, everybody has to do something painful.

00:33:18.000 Everybody has to do something.

00:33:19.000 Everybody has to make a sacrifice.

00:33:20.000 The sacrifice in this particular case would be Joe Biden looking at this and saying, listen, I think that he probably committed the crime, but guess what?

00:33:27.000 I'm not going to prosecute him because we believe that Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted.

00:33:33.000 Or at the very least, you could... I mean, this would have been an easy call, by the way.

00:33:36.000 The DOJ could have said, at the same time they were doing this, politically speaking, Merrick Garland could have said, we're also bringing charges against Hunter.

00:33:42.000 Right?

00:33:42.000 That would have shielded.

00:33:43.000 Because Hunter is clearly guilty of a bevy of crimes up to and including violation of gun law.

00:33:48.000 So, that could have happened.

00:33:49.000 They didn't do that either.

00:33:51.000 Again, the double standard is what's going to destroy the credibility of the institution.

00:33:54.000 The only way to restore the credibility of the institution is even-handed application of justice against your own side, not when it looks politically valuable to go after your chief political opposition.

00:34:03.000 And that's why this thing is going to remain incredibly polarized.

00:34:07.000 Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House.

00:34:09.000 He actually made this point with regard to Andrew McCabe.

00:34:10.000 We mentioned McCabe before.

00:34:12.000 McCabe was an assistant director over at the FBI, and he was spilling classified information, apparently, to the Wall Street Journal.

00:34:18.000 Nothing ever happened of it.

00:34:19.000 He got fired, and then he settled the lawsuit with the DOJ.

00:34:21.000 No prosecution.

00:34:22.000 Here was McCarthy going after CNN, because CNN has now hired McCabe as a commentator on this case.

00:34:27.000 The former president is accused of misleading law enforcement, of a conspiracy of obstructing justice.

00:34:34.000 That's a different set of facts.

00:34:36.000 Are you prepared to defend him as the former president?

00:34:39.000 And what other actions will the House take in the House Judiciary Committee in terms of funding?

00:34:44.000 Are you prepared to defend your network, CNN?

00:34:48.000 I'm answering your question.

00:34:50.000 You can ask me any question you want, but I'm entitled to answer the question, okay?

00:34:55.000 You can't put words in my mouth, even though your network can hire Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for leaking classified documents.

00:35:04.000 Did you remove him from your network?

00:35:06.000 No, you continue to put him on to give judgment against President Trump.

00:35:12.000 Again, he's right about that.

00:35:14.000 That media double standard, the fact that if you commit a crime and you are a, if you're James Comey and you're horrible at your job, and you're the person who basically destroyed all faith in the justice system in the United States, you get just treated as national hero by the left.

00:35:30.000 Meanwhile, Republican candidates are trying to figure out exactly how to handle the Donald Trump situation.

00:35:35.000 Most of the Republican candidates seem to be coming down on the same side of this, which is it is a double standard.

00:35:40.000 And also, these are serious allegations, which, by the way, is true.

00:35:42.000 All of that happens to be true.

00:35:43.000 Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina, he says this is a serious case with serious allegations.

00:35:49.000 What we see today across this nation under Joe Biden's leadership is both un-American and unacceptable.

00:36:00.000 You can't protect Democrats while targeting and hunting Republicans.

00:36:06.000 This case is a serious case with serious allegations.

00:36:10.000 But in America, you're still innocent until proven guilty.

00:36:18.000 Senator Scott obviously read about that.

00:36:20.000 Nikki Haley taking a very similar line.

00:36:21.000 Another candidate for the presidency.

00:36:25.000 ...about how they should look at this.

00:36:28.000 Two things can be true at the same time.

00:36:30.000 One, the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people, and getting rid of just senior management isn't going to be enough to fix this.

00:36:39.000 This is going to take a complete overhaul, and we have to do that.

00:36:43.000 Two, the second thing can also be true.

00:36:46.000 If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually The case.

00:36:52.000 President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security.

00:36:56.000 More than that, I'm a military spouse.

00:36:58.000 My husband's about to deploy this weekend.

00:37:01.000 This puts all of our military men and women in danger if you are going to talk about what our military is capable of or how we would go about invading or doing something with one of our enemies.

00:37:13.000 And if that's the case, it's reckless, it's frustrating, and it causes problems.

00:37:21.000 All of that is true.

00:37:22.000 Okay, all that's true.

00:37:23.000 Trump's behavior in this case was reckless.

00:37:25.000 Not just reckless with regard to America's national security, but as I said yesterday, you know you're in the crosshairs.

00:37:29.000 What are you doing?

00:37:31.000 What are you doing?

00:37:31.000 But that does not change the fact that the double standard is in fact a massive double standard.

00:37:36.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and some things that I hate today.

00:37:39.000 JP Morgan is now having to shell out $290 million to Jeffrey Epstein's victims, according to CNN.

00:37:46.000 Apparently, they're doing this to settle a class action lawsuit from Epstein's sexual abuse of victims.

00:37:51.000 According to David Boies, who's one of the victims' attorneys, a big Democratic attorney also, the victims had accused the bank of enabling sex trafficking by the deceased financier when he was a client.

00:38:00.000 A joint statement from the nation's largest bank and attorneys for the victims said, quote, they have informed the court they've reached an agreement in principle to settle the putative class action lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

00:38:08.000 Now, to be fair, JPMorgan Chase is worth like trillions of dollars.

00:38:12.000 So, a $290 million settlement sounds like a lot of money to regular folk, but it actually is not all that much money.

00:38:18.000 It's not clear exactly how many people are going to benefit.

00:38:20.000 the settlement, JPMorgan Chase will not admit liability in the case, but upon the settlement's

00:38:24.000 approval, the bank will put out a statement regretting its association with Epstein.

00:38:27.000 It's not clear exactly how many people are going to benefit.

00:38:30.000 Apparently, there are more than 100 women who are expected to seek compensation. So what 1.00

00:38:35.000 exactly did JPMorgan do?

00:38:38.000 Well, they also have litigation pending between JPMorgan and the US Virgin Islands.

00:38:42.000 Essentially, the allegation is that JPMorgan Chase was informed over and over and over again that Jeffrey Epstein was using its bank accounts in order to facilitate His sex crimes.

00:38:54.000 That's the basic allegation, is that there are a bunch of red flags and they just failed to recognize the red flags.

00:39:00.000 The lawsuit claimed that JPMorgan ignored, according to the New York Times, repeated warnings that Epstein had been trafficking teenage girls and young women for sex even after he registered as a sex offender and pled guilty in a 2008 Florida case to soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl.

00:39:12.000 The complaint said that the bank overlooked red flags in Epstein's activity because it valued him as a wealthy client who had access to dozens of even wealthier people, so basically the idea was that he was a go-between for future JPMorgan clients since they started looking the other way at major transfers of funds coming out of Epstein's bank account that were being used to facilitate sex trafficking.

00:39:30.000 Court documents and deposition testimony reviewed by the New York Times revealed that bank employees had filed numerous suspicious activity reports about Epstein's repeated large-cast withdrawals.

00:39:38.000 The legal documents revealed that after designating Epstein a high-risk client in 2006, the bank kept him on as a customer despite all of those media reports.

00:39:46.000 And they continue to provide banking services to him all the way up until 2013.

00:39:53.000 So, what did they know and when did they know it?

00:39:55.000 Totally unclear.

00:39:57.000 All of this, the secrets in the Epstein case still have not dropped.

00:40:00.000 What's the full list of people who are visiting Epstein Island?

00:40:03.000 How did that dude make all of his money?

00:40:05.000 Who's facilitating all this?

00:40:06.000 We know that he was blackmailing people, right?

00:40:08.000 I mean, that's pretty clear at this point, that he had tapes of everybody, that he was essentially bringing people there, blackmailing them, and then using the money in order to treat famous people to trips to his island where he would then blackmail them.

00:40:18.000 That was his game.

00:40:19.000 But the question is, who was bankrolling all this stuff and who else had access to that intelligence?

00:40:23.000 Because this story has not even remotely been told yet when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.

00:40:28.000 I'm glad that JP Morgan is settling the case, but the digging needs to continue.

00:40:32.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:40:38.000 Well, when you talk about corporate America going woke, I mean, we're just doing the memes now.

00:40:42.000 So, as I mentioned yesterday on the show, there is a very famous meme.

00:40:45.000 The meme is when Republicans run the country and it shows a bomb with an American flag on it dropping over another country.

00:40:50.000 And when Democrats run a country and it's a bomb with a transgender flag on it dropping over a country. 1.00

00:40:55.000 Well, Lockheed Martin Which produces the bombs?

00:40:58.000 They're apparently all in.

00:40:59.000 So Lockheed Martin showed up at a Pride parade over the weekend.

00:41:03.000 This would be, it looks like in Washington, D.C.

00:41:06.000 And here is Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor, marching for pride, guys.

00:41:10.000 Yep, producing, you know, heat-seeking missiles on behalf of the LGBTQIA community. 1.00

00:41:24.000 Wow. 0.99

00:41:25.000 Corporate America, all the way down to manufacturer of our jet engines, has been hijacked by this entire pathetic ideological movement. 0.99

00:41:36.000 It is insane. 1.00

00:41:37.000 Fully, fully crazy.

00:41:39.000 Mark Cuban, for his part, he is saying that he is woke.

00:41:43.000 So according to Breitbart, Cuban was speaking with business and political leaders at Michigan's Mackinac Island.

00:41:49.000 He said, call me woke.

00:41:50.000 You don't need to call it DEI.

00:41:52.000 You can call it whatever you want.

00:41:53.000 I call it good business.

00:41:54.000 It means taking the people you're selling to and making sure your workforce looks like them, making sure you can reflect their values, being able to connect to that.

00:42:00.000 That's what works for me.

00:42:02.000 And he says, your constituents wake up in the morning.

00:42:04.000 They don't think about Bud Light.

00:42:05.000 They don't think about Target.

00:42:06.000 They don't think about any of that stuff.

00:42:07.000 They think about how it's going to live their lives or what's going to get them satisfaction.

00:42:11.000 Now, that is not true at all, and Cuban is going to take it in the teeth if he continues with this. 0.91

00:42:17.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, companies' mentions of green and social initiatives during earnings calls have fallen off sharply in recent quarters, reversing a more boastful approach taken over the past few years amid intensifying pressure from some investors and conservative activists.

00:42:30.000 DocuSign, for example, where Chief Financial Officer Cynthia Gaylor in March 2022 said the company achieved carbon neutral status during that year.

00:42:38.000 Well, now, at the time, she said the company was continuing its efforts to reach net zero, but company executives have not mentioned sustainability initiatives, carbon neutral status, or net zero emissions on earning calls since.

00:42:48.000 Why?

00:42:49.000 Because it actually is not an investor interest to do any of these things.

00:42:54.000 It turns out that a lot of brands are running headlong away from ESG, DEI, sustainability.

00:42:59.000 Executives at U.S.

00:43:00.000 listed companies mentioned environmental, social, and governance, DEI, or sustainability on 575 earnings calls from April 1st to June 5th.

00:43:07.000 That is down 31% from the same period last year.

00:43:10.000 That's the largest such year-over-year decline and the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year drops following a pickup in these discussions.

00:43:17.000 So, Mark Cuban can talk all he wants about getting rich by going woke, but I fail to see any of the evidence of this.

00:43:24.000 By the way, while we're talking about some things that we hate, I have to say, this is an amazing headline.

00:43:30.000 So, there's a piece from the Washington Post called, quote, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over Pride Merchandise.

00:43:35.000 Now, you read that headline, and you would think, who exactly is, who exactly is threatening with the bombs?

00:43:44.000 Who's making these threats?

00:43:45.000 You would think that it's a bunch of wild-eyed right-wingers who are making these threats.

00:43:51.000 Well, that's actually not what is happening.

00:43:55.000 That's actually not what is happening.

00:43:56.000 According to the piece, quote, police in Lafayette, Louisiana,

00:44:01.000 searched two stores there and reviewed security footage after bomb threats were sent to multiple news organizations.

00:44:05.000 The unknown sender said Target, quote, betrayed the LGBTQ plus community 0.96

00:44:09.000 and our pathetic cowers who bowed to the wishes of far right extremists who want to exterminate us. 0.95

00:44:13.000 And so bomb threats were made in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah from people claiming to be angry 0.99

00:44:21.000 about the removal of the merchandise.

00:44:24.000 So if you just read that headline, you would think that it's all Matt Walsh's fans who are threatening to bomb Target.

00:44:28.000 People who listen to this show threatening to bomb Target.

00:44:30.000 Wrong! 0.86

00:44:31.000 Who is it?

00:44:32.000 It's all the people who are pissed off about the removal of trans bathing suits from Target.

00:44:39.000 They bury that down in paragraph 20.

00:44:40.000 So again, the headline was, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over Pride Merchandise.

00:44:44.000 Now, that is the most dishonest headline ever.

00:44:47.000 It should be, Target Stores See More Bomb Threats Over the Removal of Pride Merchandise.

00:44:52.000 Because the people threatening are the people mad about the removal of the Pride Merchandise.

00:44:55.000 But the media have to play this as though it's evil right-wingers, even when it is not, in fact, evil right-wingers.

00:45:01.000 Okay, final thing that I hate for today. 0.96

00:45:03.000 So, Megan Fox, who is a legit nut. 0.98

00:45:05.000 I mean, she's a crazy person, by all available evidence. 0.90

00:45:08.000 So, Robbie Starbuck, who is a great follow over on Twitter, he recently accused Megan Fox of forcing her three sons to wear girls' clothing against their wishes. 0.86

00:45:17.000 And he tweeted out a picture of the actress with her boys, Noah 10, Body 9, and Journey 6.

00:45:24.000 Starbucks used to live in the same community.

00:45:26.000 And he said he saw two of her sons have a full-on breakdown, saying they were forced by their mom to wear girls' clothes as their nanny tried to console them.

00:45:31.000 He said it's pure child abuse.

00:45:32.000 Pray for them.

00:45:33.000 Well, yesterday, Fox posted a screenshot of that viral post.

00:45:37.000 She said, I really don't want to give you this attention because you're clearly a clout chaser, but let me teach you something.

00:45:41.000 Irregardless, First of all, there is no such word.

00:45:44.000 The word is regardless.

00:45:46.000 Irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame, never use children as leverage or social currency, says the lady dressing her boys as girls, for the...

00:45:56.000 For the joys of being known as a virtuous mom.

00:45:59.000 Especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense.

00:46:01.000 Exploiting my child's gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe. 0.99

00:46:07.000 I have been burned at the stake by insecure, narcissistic, impotent little men like you many times. 0.98

00:46:11.000 And yet I'm still here. 0.99

00:46:13.000 You effed with the wrong witch. 0.63

00:46:15.000 Well, you sound totally not crazy.

00:46:20.000 You sound like a person who should be trusted with children.

00:46:22.000 You effed with the wrong witch. 0.63

00:46:25.000 Also, um, you should probably not dress your three boys as girls. 0.68

00:46:30.000 And when I say probably, I mean you definitely should not.

00:46:31.000 That's an actual act of child abuse.

00:46:33.000 You should not do that.

00:46:34.000 See, this is how Upside Down... We're living in the Upside Down.

00:46:37.000 The Upside Down is where it is considered an act of child abuse to tell your boy that he is a boy.

00:46:43.000 But it is an act of amazing parenting to forcibly dress your male child in female clothing. 0.79

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00:46:51.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 13, 2023

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