The Ben Shapiro Show - Are They About To Arrest Trump -- AGAIN?

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00:00:16.000 Okay, so the 2024 presidential race, it is now underway in earnest.

00:00:20.000 There are a bunch of candidates who are in on the right side of the aisle.

00:00:22.000 On the left side of the aisle, there's a lot of doubt about Joe Biden, which we'll get to in a moment, but on the right side of the aisle, Donald Trump continues to be the central player in this plot because, after all, Donald Trump is the frontrunner.

00:00:33.000 He's the former president of the United States.

00:00:35.000 He's the most famous person on planet Earth by a fairly wide margin at this point.

00:00:39.000 Well, now he is facing down yet another criminal investigation.

00:00:42.000 According to Politico, federal prosecutors have now notified Former President Trump in a letter that he is the target of a criminal investigation.

00:00:49.000 That notification is the clearest signal yet that special counsel Jack Smith is on the verge of a charging decision in his probe of the former president.

00:00:55.000 Trump is under investigation for concealing reams of classified documents at his private estate and orchestrating a scheme to prevent federal authorities from finding them.

00:01:02.000 A spokesperson for Smith's office has declined to comment at this point.

00:01:06.000 In recent weeks, Smith has hauled in several figures in Trump's inner circle before the grand jury investigating the document's case that includes one of his attorneys, Evan Corcoran, after a legal battle over attorney-client privilege.

00:01:15.000 Attorney-client privilege does not include if you are participating in a cover-up of ongoing criminal activity, for example.

00:01:21.000 A former Trump spokesperson, Taylor Budowich, announced on Wednesday that he spent the morning in front of a related grand jury impaneled in Florida.

00:01:27.000 The recent moves have signaled that Smith's probe was nearing a likely charging decision that now appears days if not hours away, according to Politico.

00:01:34.000 The letter to Trump is yet another indication.

00:01:36.000 The DOJ manual provides the prosecutors can send a target letter to people likely to be charged in connection with a grand jury probe, giving them an opportunity to testify before the grand jury before an indictment is actually decided upon.

00:01:46.000 Prosecutors consider a target a person for whom there is, quote, substantial evidence linking him or her to the commission of a crime and who, in the judgment of the prosecutor, is a putative defendant.

00:01:55.000 Now, President Trump is responding over on Truth Social, just as you would imagine he is.

00:02:00.000 He is pretty upset about this.

00:02:02.000 This is shocking.

00:02:03.000 One of the top prosecutors at the Department of Injustice was reportedly so obsessed with quote-unquote getting Trump, he tried to bribe and intimidate a lawyer representing someone being targeted and harassed to falsely accuse and fabricate a story about President Donald J. Trump and a crime that doesn't exist.

00:02:16.000 This criminal and salacious act from within the DOJ has brought shame and embarrassment to this once great and respected institution.

00:02:22.000 Because of this, there is now extreme turmoil inside the DOJ.

00:02:25.000 A top overzealous and dishonest DOJ prosecutor offered a witness's lawyer an important judgeship

00:02:29.000 in the Biden administration if his client flips on President Trump, who has done nothing wrong.

00:02:33.000 The highly respected lawyer was incensed and disgusted at this corrupt and illegal offer.

00:02:36.000 The fake case against me must immediately be dropped, and the inspector general should launch

00:02:40.000 an investigation into this and the many other all too obvious wrongdoings and crimes taking

00:02:43.000 place at the DOJ and FBI. So now Trump is alleging that a top prosecutor at the DOJ

00:02:48.000 actually tried to bribe and intimidate a lawyer representing one of the witnesses

00:02:53.000 into essentially flipping the witness in return for a judgeship from the Biden administration,

00:02:59.000 which is a hell of an accusation.

00:03:00.000 If there's substantiation to that, obviously, there may, there may not be.

00:03:03.000 If there is, that's astonishing.

00:03:06.000 But there's no question that the legal apparatus of the United States has been turned on Donald Trump.

00:03:12.000 Now, to be fair, Donald Trump has a habit of playing with circumstances that open himself up to these sorts of investigations.

00:03:19.000 That does not mean, however, that he should be prosecuted.

00:03:21.000 He's a guy who's constantly skating on the edge.

00:03:24.000 But skating on the edge does not mean that you should be prosecuted if similarly situated people are not prosecuted.

00:03:29.000 Presumably, this prosecution that they are talking about from Jack Smith is about declassified documents at Mar-a-Lago. 0.84

00:03:35.000 As we all know, this is silly. 0.95

00:03:37.000 The reason this is silly? 1.00

00:03:38.000 Not only because Joe Biden had classified documents dating back decades in various offices stashed around the country, including in his garage, where Hunter Biden, his derelict, moral idiot son, was staying. 0.98

00:03:49.000 He just had his classified documents stacked up next to his Chevy in the garage. 0.91

00:03:54.000 He also had it at his office at the Chinese Center for Chinese Grift up in Washington, D.C., did Joe Biden.

00:04:00.000 And nobody made a peep about it.

00:04:01.000 Nobody really cared about that.

00:04:03.000 But of course, Hillary Clinton was exonerated by the DOJ for literally setting up a private server to host emails that should have been on government servers. 0.68

00:04:13.000 And then bleach bidding them and then destroying the hard drives to prevent the knowledge of that.

00:04:19.000 And it's only when we found out that those emails had showed up on Anthony Weiner's computer because she'd emailed them to Huma Abedin or whatever that we found out that those emails actually still existed and there was classified information in them and all that.

00:04:30.000 And the DOJ literally rewrote the law in order to prevent Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted. 0.83

00:04:35.000 You remember James Comey made a big announcement about it.

00:04:36.000 He basically said she absolutely broke the law, but we're not prosecuting her because she did not have the intent to distribute this to foreign sources.

00:04:43.000 He admitted in his statement to James Comey, then the head of the FBI.

00:04:46.000 This would have been in 2016.

00:04:47.000 He admitted.

00:04:48.000 That there was every opportunity for foreign sources to have hacked Hillary Clinton's hard drive, and there was a good shot that those emails actually did end up in foreign hands.

00:04:57.000 But he said she didn't intend to do that.

00:04:59.000 It was just an oversight.

00:05:00.000 It was just a mistake.

00:05:01.000 She meant to keep them protected.

00:05:03.000 Therefore, we're not going to prosecute her because similarly situated people aren't prosecuted. 0.91

00:05:06.000 Well, Is there any evidence that Donald Trump meant to take these documents home to Mar-a-Lago and then hand them off to Vladimir Putin under cover of darkness?

00:05:13.000 You remember, those were all the rumors at the time.

00:05:15.000 The rumors at the time when this broke was that he was selling off our nuclear codes to the Chinese or some such nonsense. 0.99

00:05:20.000 And it turns out that was all crap. 0.94

00:05:22.000 The theory that I had from the beginning was correct. 0.98

00:05:25.000 That basically Trump was like, I like that document.

00:05:27.000 It's nice.

00:05:27.000 It's signed by Kim Jong-un.

00:05:29.000 He and I are friends.

00:05:30.000 Take it home.

00:05:31.000 They call him Kim Jong-un!

00:05:33.000 That was the actual reason he had the documents.

00:05:35.000 Not for any nefarious purpose, but because Trump likes things and so he takes them.

00:05:39.000 By the way, that's not even unique to Trump.

00:05:41.000 Bill Clinton really liked a lot of the stuff at the White House and so he just took it with him when he left in 2000.

00:05:45.000 You remember this. 0.99

00:05:46.000 He like took the cutlery in 2000 because Bill Clinton is trailer trash. 0.97

00:05:50.000 But it is an amazing thing. 0.96

00:05:52.000 That they are now talking about prosecuting Trump over mishandling of classified documents.

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00:07:03.000 So Trump says, wow, this is turning out to be the greatest

00:07:06.000 and most vicious incident of election interference in the history of our country.

00:07:11.000 And again, 2015, 2016, there's a very good case that that was, in fact, the most vicious instance of election interference in the history of the country.

00:07:18.000 According to the inspector general's report on the DOJ and the Steele dossier, essentially the Hillary Clinton campaign was laundering a bunch of false information via the CIA and the FBI into the press. 0.95

00:07:31.000 And they were initiating investigations on the basis of just garbage that had been put together by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the FBI knew it and they went ahead with it anyway.

00:07:39.000 Is this the most vicious instance of election interference?

00:07:41.000 Well, I mean, certainly it's election interference.

00:07:44.000 Now Trump can't stop himself.

00:07:45.000 He says, remember, I'm leading to sanctimonious, big in the polls, but more importantly, I'm leading Biden by a lot.

00:07:50.000 Also, and perhaps most importantly, they are launching all of the many fake investigations against me right smack in the middle of my campaign.

00:07:55.000 Something which is unheard of and not supposed to happen.

00:07:57.000 DOJ, FBI, New York AG, New York DA, Atlanta DA, fascists all. 0.79

00:08:02.000 So again, there are multiple investigations into Trump that are happening right now. 0.98

00:08:05.000 There's obviously the New York ridiculous DA investigation into whether he paid off Stormy Daniels with campaign funds, and it's a bunch of crap, and everybody knows it's a bunch of crap, including the left-wing press, which has said that it's a real stretch for Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.

00:08:18.000 There's the ongoing case in Atlanta, which is investigating whether Trump was involved in illegal election interference, whether he actually was calling up members of the Georgia Secretary of State's office and telling them to commit voter fraud, or whether he was just like, there was voter fraud, go find me the number of votes that I mean, because we know there is a difference between those two things, obviously. 0.60

00:08:37.000 And then you have the classified documents case.

00:08:39.000 You have at least three ongoing cases right now against President Trump.

00:08:43.000 He did last night tweet out, No one has told me I'm being indicted.

00:08:46.000 I shouldn't be because I've done nothing wrong.

00:08:47.000 I've assumed for years I'm a target of weaponized DOJ and FBI, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the no collusion Mueller report, impeachment hoax one, impeachment hoax two, the perfect Ukraine phone call.

00:08:57.000 And various other scams and witch hunts, a travesty of justice, and election interference at a level never seen before, Republicans in Congress must make this their number one issue.

00:09:05.000 And Trump's campaign is predicated on making him the number one issue and his targeting the number one issue.

00:09:11.000 In fact, Trump's campaign put out an ad and the ad was entirely about how much he was targeted by the left.

00:09:16.000 Here's a question for you.

00:09:18.000 Just how far are the radical left and inside the beltway bandits willing to go to stop him?

00:09:26.000 We all know they hate him for winning the fight to protect life, for exposing their deep state, for draining their precious swamp.

00:09:36.000 And they already know he'll crush Biden.

00:09:40.000 So like a pack of rabid wolves, they attack.

00:09:44.000 So let's impeach him.

00:09:46.000 Let's get tainted radical left prosecutors to charge him.

00:09:50.000 Let's conspire with Hillary and the FBI with fake stories about him.

00:09:55.000 All to distract from Biden's incompetence, weakness, and money-grabbing corruption.

00:10:02.000 But here's the thing.

00:10:03.000 He'll never blink.

00:10:06.000 That's called having the courage of your convictions.

00:10:10.000 And it's why he's our president.

00:10:14.000 I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.

00:10:18.000 I like the moving tie in the last image right there.

00:10:20.000 Here's the thing.

00:10:21.000 Trump's campaign, so he's not wrong that he's being targeted.

00:10:23.000 Obviously, he is being targeted.

00:10:25.000 Unless you're going to prosecute Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden for the same exact crime on this classified document stuff, then it's obviously a scam and an attempt to go after Trump because you want to go after Trump.

00:10:35.000 That's clearly what's happening here.

00:10:37.000 The question for Republicans is going to be, do you want this to be the center of the campaign?

00:10:40.000 I understand the sort of emotional draw of this.

00:10:43.000 They're targeting Trump.

00:10:44.000 The only way to stand up in Trump's defense is to make him the nominee and then he will bring the hammer.

00:10:48.000 He will win re-election on the basis of the unfair targeting of him.

00:10:52.000 I just have a question.

00:10:53.000 Is that really what's going to happen?

00:10:55.000 Is that what's most likely to happen?

00:10:57.000 If the campaign is run on the basis of, is Donald Trump corrupt or is Donald Trump not corrupt?

00:11:00.000 Should Donald Trump be indicted or should Donald Trump be not indicted?

00:11:03.000 But who's gonna get away with us not noticing him again?

00:11:07.000 Maybe the guy who ran an entire basement strategy last time around.

00:11:10.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:12:10.000 Okay, meanwhile.

00:12:11.000 So the question here for Donald Trump, for Republicans, is going to be what you want campaign 2024 to be about.

00:12:17.000 Do you want it to be about Donald Trump being targeted by all of these various institutions, or do you want it to be about beating Joe Biden?

00:12:24.000 Those two things are not identical.

00:12:25.000 They really are not.

00:12:26.000 Because the reality is that you can believe that Donald Trump was targeted, and the people who are most likely to believe that are people who are already voting for Donald Trump.

00:12:33.000 Independents, by polling data, they really don't care whether Trump is being indicted or not indicted.

00:12:39.000 They should care, but they don't.

00:12:41.000 And so, the question of politics is a question of realities.

00:12:45.000 Who is more likely to defeat President Biden?

00:12:48.000 Is it going to be the guy who is spending the campaign talking about how he is unfairly being targeted?

00:12:52.000 I mean, he literally says the number one issue for Congress right now should be the targeting of Donald Trump.

00:12:57.000 His campaign ads are all about how you have to stand up for Trump.

00:13:00.000 I've said this before.

00:13:01.000 When Donald Trump is at his best, he is saying, I'm here taking the bullet for you.

00:13:04.000 They're coming after you and I'm in the way, right?

00:13:06.000 That is his actual pinned idea on his truth social platform.

00:13:11.000 If you go over to his truth social platform, Donald Trump, What you will find is that that is the actual thing that he promotes.

00:13:16.000 Quote, they're not coming after me.

00:13:17.000 They're coming after you.

00:13:18.000 I'm just standing in their way.

00:13:20.000 OK, but now he's saying they're coming after me.

00:13:23.000 I need you to stand in their way.

00:13:25.000 Right.

00:13:25.000 They're coming after me.

00:13:26.000 And so I need you to be my shield.

00:13:29.000 I'm not sure that's an amazing electoral pitch to people who don't already love him.

00:13:32.000 To people who love him, sure, but to people who are kind of indifferent about him or who didn't vote for him last time, that's not an amazing pitch in an upcoming election.

00:13:40.000 As I've said before, if an election is a referral on the incumbent, the incumbent is in trouble.

00:13:45.000 If it's a referral, if it's a referendum, rather, on the challenger, then the challenger is likely to lose.

00:13:53.000 And if it's a Joe Biden versus Donald Trump battle, it's up in the air.

00:13:56.000 Who knows?

00:13:57.000 I mean, first of all, Trump and Biden have essentially the same favorable, unfavorable ratings right now.

00:14:02.000 FiveThirtyEight does an average of all of the various favorable, unfavorable polls.

00:14:05.000 And what they find is that right now, Trump is about 14 points underwater.

00:14:09.000 His favorability is at 41 percent.

00:14:11.000 His unfavorables are at 54.6 percent.

00:14:13.000 Joe Biden, his favorables are at 41 percent.

00:14:16.000 His approve, his disapproves at 54.8 percent.

00:14:19.000 So they're basically identical.

00:14:21.000 Trump's under war by 13.6 and Biden's under war by 13.8.

00:14:25.000 But the question is, when faced up against each other, how does that stack up?

00:14:30.000 That's worth noting at this point that Ron DeSantis, according to these same polls, is underwater by about nine points, but unlike Biden and unlike Trump, both of whom the American public have decided about, Ron DeSantis, who is the nearest competitor for the Republican nomination, he's underwater by nine points, but his favorables are at 37 and his unfavorables are at 46, which when you add all of that up, you may notice that's the low 80s.

00:14:52.000 There's still like 17% of the public that has not decided what to think about Ron DeSantis.

00:14:56.000 That 17% of the public is what decides elections.

00:14:59.000 That 17% of the public is what decided the election in 2016 for President Trump.

00:15:02.000 Undecided voters, on the last day of the election, broke 2-1 for Trump in 2016.

00:15:06.000 In 2020, undecided voters, the day of the election, broke 2-1 for Joe Biden.

00:15:11.000 And that was the entirety of the election.

00:15:13.000 That meant the election.

00:15:15.000 Right now, by the way, the Trump versus Biden polling is really pretty dead even.

00:15:22.000 It's certainly within margin of error.

00:15:23.000 It's the latest polls.

00:15:24.000 Economist YouGov has Biden up three on Trump.

00:15:27.000 Quinnipiac has Biden up two on Trump.

00:15:29.000 Harvard Harris has Trump up seven on Biden.

00:15:32.000 All these are within the last three weeks.

00:15:34.000 But the question is, the more you see of Trump, does that mean his numbers go up or does that mean that his numbers go down?

00:15:38.000 Particularly if every headline you're talking about is a headline where he's being targeted, legally speaking.

00:15:43.000 So two things can always be true at once.

00:15:44.000 He should not be targeted.

00:15:45.000 He is being targeted.

00:15:46.000 That's obviously happening.

00:15:48.000 And two, is that those stories are the thing that's most likely to make Trump the nominee and also the least likely to get him elected president.

00:15:55.000 They're not going to have any impact with independent voters, suburban women. 1.00

00:15:59.000 All the people who are going to decide the election are not going to be more convinced en masse to vote for Trump because he's being unfairly targeted and is under indictment.

00:16:08.000 Meanwhile, a bunch of other Republican candidates are jumping into the race.

00:16:12.000 Chris Christie has jumped into the race.

00:16:15.000 I don't know what Christie thinks he's doing.

00:16:16.000 Presumably he thinks, I'm brash and I'm going to take it to Trump and all this.

00:16:19.000 But here's the thing, he blew out his credibility long ago.

00:16:22.000 You remember in 2012, he was the Republican National Convention speaker before Mitt Romney spent 20 minutes patting himself on the back, the round mound to rebound.

00:16:30.000 And then He proceeded right before the election to give a big ol' bear hug to Barack Obama because Barack Obama showed up in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy.

00:16:38.000 And he was like, oh my god, you actually came on a plane?

00:16:40.000 I love you, sir!

00:16:41.000 And it really helped Obama in the closing days of the campaign.

00:16:44.000 And then you recall that he took out Marco Rubio in the primaries in one of the nation's most prominent acts of political murder-suicide.

00:16:50.000 And then he proceeded to join Trump's campaign, and then Trump proceeded to boss him around.

00:16:54.000 And now he's back and he's like, I am brash and I will say the truth.

00:16:56.000 Will you, though?

00:16:57.000 I have doubts.

00:16:58.000 So Chris Christie, he was asked by Jake Tapper, why are you going to do better this time?

00:17:02.000 Because you didn't do all that great last time, where I was like, well this time I can actually attack his record.

00:17:07.000 What is going to make this year different?

00:17:09.000 Well, the whole atmosphere is different, Jake.

00:17:11.000 You know, in 2015 and 16, when we ran the first time, you had a situation where Donald Trump

00:17:17.000 had no record to speak of.

00:17:19.000 He had been on a TV show, had been a developer, a private developer in New York.

00:17:24.000 There was no way to really make the case against him.

00:17:26.000 I think all of us, myself, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Ted Cruz, all found it very difficult

00:17:32.000 to make the case, because he could say whatever he wanted to say.

00:17:35.000 There's no proof point to prove that he couldn't do it.

00:17:37.000 We know.

00:17:38.000 He said he would build a wall across the entire border of Mexico.

00:17:40.000 He didn't do it.

00:17:41.000 About a quarter of the wall was built.

00:17:42.000 He said Mexico would pay for it.

00:17:43.000 We haven't gotten our first peso.

00:17:45.000 And we know a lot of other things.

00:17:47.000 He said he was going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

00:17:49.000 He had a Republican Congress for two years.

00:17:50.000 Didn't get it done.

00:17:52.000 Said he was going to balance the budget in four years.

00:17:53.000 Left with the greatest deficit of any president in modern history.

00:17:56.000 Said he was going to get rid of the national debt in eight years and left it trillions higher than when he walked in the door in just four years.

00:18:05.000 So all those critiques are right by Chris Christie.

00:18:07.000 Nobody wants to hear him from Chris Christie.

00:18:09.000 Trump is dismissing Christie.

00:18:11.000 It's very funny.

00:18:11.000 As soon as Christie jumped into the race, he immediately said,

00:18:13.000 good luck to Chris.

00:18:14.000 He's gonna, he's gonna eat DeSantis' lunch and all the other lunches.

00:18:18.000 And then Chris Christie criticized Trump and immediately went from

00:18:21.000 welcome to the race. 0.98

00:18:21.000 He's going to eat DeSantis' lunch to you're fat. 0.98

00:18:24.000 That's one second.

00:18:25.000 So Trump put this out on Truth Social.

00:18:28.000 And it was about our country and its future.

00:18:31.000 This is a video of Chris Christie talking and they added in a hand.

00:18:35.000 and carrying a giant plate of food in front of a buffet.

00:18:38.000 We're gonna be small, or are we gonna be big?

00:18:44.000 Yeah, seventh grade campaigning, man.

00:18:46.000 It's a party.

00:18:47.000 Meanwhile, Mike Pence also has jumped in.

00:18:48.000 I mean, speaking of quixotic campaigns, there are a lot of people who are running for president, as with everyone.

00:18:52.000 I mean, they're like the actual governor of North Dakota.

00:18:54.000 You've never heard of him.

00:18:55.000 I don't even know his name.

00:18:55.000 You don't know his name either.

00:18:56.000 He jumped into the race also, which didn't even make a ripple. 0.60

00:18:59.000 It was like an Olympic diver doing like a swan dive into a pool.

00:19:03.000 No ripples at all.

00:19:04.000 No one even knows his name or why he's doing that.

00:19:06.000 Mike Pence jumped in as well.

00:19:08.000 We'll get to that in just a moment.

00:19:09.000 First, We say a lot of controversial things on the show.

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00:20:15.000 Pence's pitch is basically that he is the strongest constitutional conservative in the race.

00:20:20.000 He says that our crises are man-made by Joe Biden.

00:20:24.000 I know we can bring this country back.

00:20:27.000 We can defend our nation and secure our border.

00:20:29.000 We can revive our economy and put our nation back on a path to a balanced federal budget.

00:20:36.000 We can defend our liberties and give America a new beginning for life.

00:20:41.000 But it'll require new leadership in the White House and the Republican Party.

00:20:48.000 The crises we face, to borrow a phrase, are all man-made.

00:20:53.000 And that man is Joe Biden.

00:20:58.000 So, Pence is aiming his fire at Biden.

00:21:01.000 The problem for Pence is that he's never going to escape the fact that he and Trump were at loggerheads while he was the vice president because he refused to overturn the election.

00:21:07.000 Now, I said from the beginning that Pence had no legal right to overturn the election.

00:21:10.000 It was absurd of Trump to suggest that he did.

00:21:11.000 It was a ridiculous legal theory that had no grounding in the Constitution, the law, or the facts.

00:21:16.000 Pence says that, but is that going to help him in a primary?

00:21:19.000 I have doubts.

00:21:21.000 My former running mate continues to insist that I had the right to overturn the election.

00:21:27.000 But President Trump was wrong then.

00:21:28.000 And he's wrong now.

00:21:33.000 I will always believe, by God's grace, I did my duty that day.

00:21:38.000 I kept my oath to ensure the peaceful transfer of power under the Constitution of the United States of America.

00:21:45.000 Let me say from my heart, I understand the disappointment that many still feel about the outcome of the 2020 election.

00:21:53.000 I can relate.

00:21:56.000 I was on the ballot.

00:22:00.000 But I had no right to overturn the election.

00:22:04.000 And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024. 1.00

00:22:12.000 So, does Pence have a shot in the election?

00:22:15.000 I think not.

00:22:16.000 But, yeah, again, he may be a stalking horse for Trump to attack.

00:22:19.000 Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is in a knock-down, drag-out fight with the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, again, on an issue.

00:22:25.000 And so this is going to be the question for Republicans voting in the primaries.

00:22:29.000 Do you want to have fights over the issues or do you want to have fights over whether people hate the Republican candidate?

00:22:33.000 Because it turns out that people really, really hate Republican candidates, generally speaking, in the media.

00:22:38.000 So, Ron DeSantis?

00:22:40.000 Went down to the southern border for a visit, which is a smart political move because, of course, immigration is a massive national issue, and it has affected the state of Florida.

00:22:48.000 And of course, he's gotten involved in that issue by asking these migrants where they wish to go and then sending them to places like Martha's Vineyard, where the left declares sanctuary cities in the expectation that no one will ever arrive.

00:22:58.000 Then when people arrive, the left's like, no, no, no, no, no, no!

00:23:01.000 Get him out of here! 0.95

00:23:02.000 That's happening in California as well.

00:23:03.000 Florida's been sending illegal immigrants to California, where Gavin Newsom declared a sanctuary city.

00:23:07.000 Everyone is welcome here, but not you.

00:23:09.000 Get out.

00:23:10.000 So Governor DeSantis was asked about that.

00:23:13.000 These sanctuary jurisdictions are part of the reason we have this problem, because they have endorsed and agitated for these types of open border policies.

00:23:22.000 They have bragged that they are sanctuary jurisdictions.

00:23:26.000 They attack previous administrations' efforts to try to have Border security.

00:23:32.000 And so that's the policies they've taken out.

00:23:35.000 And then what?

00:23:36.000 When they have to deal with some of the fruits of that, they all of a sudden become very, very upset about that.

00:23:42.000 Well, what are these people having to deal with here?

00:23:45.000 I don't see the sympathy for them.

00:23:47.000 And so, you know, the reality is, is I think the border should be closed.

00:23:52.000 I don't think we should have any of this.

00:23:54.000 But if there's a policy to have an open border, then I think the sanctuary jurisdictions should be the ones that have to bear that.

00:24:04.000 That would make sense if you volunteer to take in all the illegal immigrants and everybody around the board is like, we don't want this to affect our city. 1.00

00:24:10.000 Why should those people be forced to take in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants while Gavin Newsom sits in his plush pleasure palaces and decides who gets in and who does not get in.

00:24:20.000 Newsom, for his part, is saying that he wants to prosecute DeSantis.

00:24:23.000 He suggests potential kidnapping charges.

00:24:24.000 Apparently it's now kidnapping to send people where they want to go.

00:24:27.000 There's actual video of these migrants saying that they're very grateful to be put on planes to California, but here is Gavin Newsom.

00:24:35.000 We're human beings used as pawns for a guy's political advancement. 0.99

00:24:41.000 That's pretty sad and pathetic. 0.97

00:24:45.000 And so I take this very seriously. 0.97

00:24:47.000 And as I said, we are not Martha's Vineyard.

00:24:49.000 I love Martha.

00:24:51.000 This is California, fourth or fifth largest economy on planet Earth.

00:24:55.000 We mean business.

00:24:56.000 And so Ron DeSantis should know that.

00:24:58.000 And everyone that's been part of this They may have more direct accountability and culpability.

00:25:04.000 They should know we mean business and we're not backing away from getting the facts and holding those accountable if they broke the laws of the state of California.

00:25:15.000 So, just to make clear, California is a place where if you are a parent who wants to trans your kid, you can take the kid, run to California, away from the other parent who has no say in the matter, and California will grant you sanctuary so that you can trans your kid.

00:25:27.000 California will also make sure that it's a sanctuary city unless you actually take them up on the offer, at which point they will sue you for kidnapping.

00:25:34.000 It is a wonderful state.

00:25:35.000 Meanwhile, Corinne Jean-Pierre is responding to this from the White House.

00:25:37.000 Just sending illegal immigrants to California makes no sense. 0.98

00:25:41.000 As a person from California, let me just say there are a lot of illegal immigrants in California.

00:25:44.000 Like, a lot.

00:25:45.000 A lot, a lot.

00:25:46.000 So, actually, it makes a lot of sense, considering that California has raised taxes and benefits to illegal immigrants throughout the state, bankrupting the state, but, you know, that's their choice. 0.99

00:25:54.000 So, yeah, that's a pretty good place for illegal immigrants to go, since it's kind of like the home of illegal immigration in the United States. 0.64

00:25:59.000 Here is a Corinne Jean-Pierre saying silly things.

00:26:02.000 Does the White House have a position on whether Florida sending migrants to California or any other state for that matter amounts to false imprisonment and kidnapping of those migrants?

00:26:15.000 So one of the things, and you've heard me say this multiple times from here, is about what these political stunts And what they mean.

00:26:23.000 They're dangerous and they're unacceptable.

00:26:25.000 I said this yesterday and I'll say this again.

00:26:27.000 And we've seen them happen over the last couple of months and all they do is cause confusion.

00:26:32.000 And why is it they want to cause chaos and confusion?

00:26:36.000 It doesn't make sense to me.

00:26:40.000 So, um, why do they want to cause chaos?

00:26:42.000 It's you!

00:26:43.000 You're in charge of the federal border!

00:26:45.000 The federal government is in charge of the federal border!

00:26:47.000 You ship people all over the United States, all over the United States as the federal government.

00:26:52.000 But if DeSantis or Greg Abbott does it to like Chicago, New York, or LA, that's when you guys start to get real whiny about it.

00:26:58.000 Shocking, shocking.

00:26:59.000 And meanwhile, the Biden administration is riding a real edge here on the economy.

00:27:04.000 So the debt ceiling bill averted the inability of the government to take out further debt to pay for the debt that they've already taken on.

00:27:11.000 But it's also created a massive problem in terms of the debt.

00:27:15.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, investors are bracing for a flood of more than $1 trillion in Treasury bills, T-bills, in the wake of the debt ceiling fight, potentially sparking a new bout of volatility in financial markets.

00:27:24.000 Some on Wall Street fear that roughly $850 billion in bond issuance that was shelled until a debt ceiling bill was passed will now overwhelm buyers, jolting markets and raising short-term borrowing costs.

00:27:35.000 If you expect major upheaval, many worry about the potential for unforeseen problems in the financial plumbing, where trillions of dollars' worth of transactions occur daily that could send tremors throughout the market.

00:27:43.000 Many remember how money market rates skyrocketed in 2019 during a period of low liquidity, necessitating intervention by the Federal Reserve.

00:27:49.000 John Mayer, the chief investment officer of Global X says, when you dump a tremendous amount of debt into the market,

00:27:53.000 it causes dislocation.

00:27:55.000 Investors are underestimating that. In recent months, markets have been relatively placid.

00:27:59.000 The S&P 500 has gained 11% this year, buttressed by that resilient labor market and the expectation that eventually they would stop the interest rate increases.

00:28:07.000 But when you then issue a ton of further debt into the market, well, that sort of fights what you're attempting to do in terms of the inflation.

00:28:14.000 The calm comes even as short-term bond yields have already jumped in recent weeks, lifted by expectations for the Fed to hold rates higher for longer.

00:28:21.000 Now the Treasury Department is rapidly replenishing its coffers.

00:28:23.000 A weaker-than-expected tax season, coupled with extraordinary measures enacted during the debt ceiling fight, has now drained its checking account to below $50 billion at the end of May.

00:28:33.000 That could weigh on large banks required to bid for treasuries at auction through an agreement with the government, as the so-called primary dealers could be effectively forced to finance the replenishment of the Treasury General Account.

00:28:43.000 So it sucks liquidity out of the economy.

00:28:46.000 So that's a serious problem in a time when everybody's already worried about liquidity being sucked out of the economy.

00:28:50.000 So we could be looking at economic stagnation in the very near future, even as inflation comes down.

00:28:56.000 Now meanwhile, if liquidity is disappearing from markets, and if banks are forced to buy these treasuries, and if those banks have to come up with cash fast, that means they might call in some of those loans that are outstanding.

00:29:06.000 If they have to call in those loans that are outstanding, And those loans don't come in, that could be a real problem.

00:29:11.000 If they have to sell their old T-bills in order to finance the new T-bills, then that could be even more of a problem because the new T-bills have a much higher interest rate than the old T-bills, meaning the old T-bills are essentially worthless, which presumably is why Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, is saying that there may be more bank consolidation, more regional banks may fail.

00:29:29.000 Hilarious how all the people who are like too big to fail have now constructed a financial system in which the only people succeeding are the big banks.

00:29:35.000 Would you be supportive of more consolidation in the banking business?

00:29:39.000 I ask in part because on the other side of the administration, I think the Department of Justice and the FTC in particular have been very aggressive about trying to prevent transactions, not necessarily in the banking space, but given how outspoken you have been and the issues that may be unique in particular to the banking business.

00:29:58.000 Well, I see strength in the banking system that has a diverse set of financial institutions capable of satisfying different needs across our economy.

00:30:12.000 Certainly in this environment some banks are experiencing pressure on earnings and there is a motivation to see some consolidation and It wouldn't surprise me to see some of that going forward.

00:30:31.000 Well, yes, because when you construct a government too big to fail, it turns out that they back firms that are also too big to fail.

00:30:37.000 Okay, meanwhile, New York City is now completely blanketed in smoke.

00:30:41.000 That smoke is coming from Canada, which I think is pretext for us to finally invade.

00:30:45.000 We need to reverse the results of the 1812 war.

00:30:49.000 There's no reason why the frozen north up there should be an independent polity.

00:30:53.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:31:56.000 Okay, so Justin Trudeau, handsome Bernie Sanders, and definitely not Fidel Castro's son.

00:32:03.000 Not Fidel Castro's son.

00:32:05.000 He's been doing a crappy job up there.

00:32:06.000 They'll greet us as liberators.

00:32:08.000 If we invade Canada, they'll greet us as liberators. 0.95

00:32:10.000 And frankly, I take this as an attack on America.

00:32:12.000 So smoke from Canadian wildfires have now engulfed the East Coast, according to the Washington Post.

00:32:17.000 You can see the pictures.

00:32:18.000 They're really quite amazing.

00:32:19.000 Now, I used to live in California, so we saw this thing kind of often, actually.

00:32:23.000 You'd see a giant wildfire, and then you just couldn't go outside for like a week.

00:32:27.000 I remember in the midst of 2020, the hellscape year that my family decided, we are leaving.

00:32:32.000 There were a series of events that led to that decision.

00:32:35.000 Basically, we got triple quarantined at one point.

00:32:37.000 We got quarantined because of COVID.

00:32:38.000 Then we got quarantined because we had to let people ride in the city.

00:32:41.000 I mean, for George Floyd and all.

00:32:42.000 And then we got quarantined because there was a giant wildfire.

00:32:44.000 So you couldn't go outside because of the ash blanketing your house.

00:32:48.000 And then you also couldn't go outside because you might be mugged or robbed or killed.

00:32:51.000 And then you also couldn't go outside because of COVID.

00:32:53.000 So you got like triple quarantine.

00:32:54.000 My wife's like, I think we can look at Florida now. 0.89

00:32:56.000 Well, over in New York, it now looks like an outtake from Blade Runner 2049 with the orange sky over there.

00:33:03.000 And this, of course, leads the left to conclude global warming because global warming is the left-wing god of the gaps.

00:33:09.000 Anytime there's a thing that happens they don't like, it must be global warming.

00:33:12.000 If it's too cold outside, that's global warming.

00:33:13.000 If it's too hot outside, that's global warming.

00:33:15.000 If it's raining outside, that's global warming.

00:33:17.000 And if there's a giant orange smoke cloud blanketing New York City, I mean, honestly, the good news for New Yorkers is that fewer people will be killed on the subway because fewer people will be outside.

00:33:28.000 So the murder rates in New York are probably about to drop pretty dramatically because honestly, it's more dangerous to go outside like on a normal day in New York than it is right now.

00:33:34.000 There are fewer people on the streets right now.

00:33:36.000 My favorite is the headlines like, if you go outside for a full day in New York City, that is the equivalent of smoking six cigarettes.

00:33:42.000 You mean six whole cigarettes?

00:33:43.000 I don't like smoke.

00:33:46.000 Yeah, it upsets my throat, my lungs, and I kind of need those things.

00:33:49.000 But I will say that that is not super alarmist material.

00:33:53.000 Anyway, Bernie Sanders is out there blaming this on global warming, as per our usual arrangement.

00:33:59.000 New York City just yesterday had the worst air quality index they have ever had because of that fire.

00:34:05.000 And the week before that fire, there was a fire in Nova Scotia, also caused a lot of smoke issues all over the East Coast.

00:34:14.000 So what you're looking at is major forest fires in Canada, which are a direct result of climate change and the dryness of the forests.

00:34:24.000 I got bad news for you.

00:34:26.000 And it's only going to get worse.

00:34:28.000 And our job now is to do everything that we can to wake up this Congress, to wake up the American people

00:34:34.000 to the man that we have fundamentally transformed our energy system, waste fossil fuel,

00:34:42.000 fund carbon emissions significantly in our region of the United States and China all over the world.

00:34:48.000 Can we trade him to Canada for a player to be named later?

00:34:52.000 I'm into that.

00:34:55.000 After all, Justin Trudeau is handsome Bernie Sanders.

00:34:58.000 Here is the problem. 0.99

00:34:59.000 The real reason that there is a giant ass wildfire up in Quebec is because, just like California, all the idiot environmentalists have decided that we ought to leave dead brush everywhere. 0.99

00:35:08.000 Big problem in California when your forestry policy involves leaving all of the dead, dry wood out in the middle of the forest, and then there's a forest fire. 0.98

00:35:16.000 Why, boy, howdy, when things start to burn, they really, really burn.

00:35:20.000 You know how I know this?

00:35:21.000 Because The Globe and Mail had an entire editorial about this in 2021.

00:35:26.000 Canada's forests have not been in a natural state for a long time.

00:35:28.000 Fire suppression has led to forests full of deadfall, which is basically kindling.

00:35:32.000 The trees are mostly from a shortlist of human-planted varieties, spruce, pine, fir, that are valuable for lumber yet vulnerable to fire.

00:35:37.000 The result is forests susceptible to massive blazes.

00:35:42.000 Problem is, supersized fires, made possible by the way humans have shaped the forests.

00:35:46.000 Only a very few large fires are to blame for almost all the forests burned in North America.

00:35:50.000 So we actually have had fewer fires, actually, over the course of the years.

00:35:53.000 It's just they're really, really big.

00:35:54.000 Why?

00:35:55.000 Because our forestry policy has been to leave a bunch of dead wood out there.

00:35:59.000 Genius-level stuff from the Canadians. 1.00

00:36:01.000 But it must be, it must be global warming.

00:36:02.000 Anything bad happens, it is global warming.

00:36:05.000 Well, again, at least we can now fulfill our actual Our actual Western push.

00:36:14.000 It's time for Manifest Destiny to take its final form.

00:36:17.000 Marines across the border, let's do this thing. 0.96

00:36:19.000 Okay, time for a thing I like and then a thing that I hate.

00:36:23.000 So, thing that I like today.

00:36:24.000 So this is an odd thing I like, I will admit.

00:36:26.000 My kids, I'm always trying to find them funny songs because they really enjoy the humorous songs.

00:36:31.000 So they are aware of Weird Al Yankovic, certain of his songs, some are not appropriate for them.

00:36:35.000 My kids are also very much into What does the fox say?

00:36:39.000 As well as the coincidence.

00:36:41.000 My kids know all of the words to the coincidence.

00:36:43.000 But one song that they have now become familiar with, because they are now Southerners, because they live in the state of Florida, and there are lots of swamps here, and lots of alligators, is a song by a guy from the 60s and 70s named Jerry Reed.

00:36:55.000 I'm sure a lot of our listeners are familiar with this, but I was not.

00:36:58.000 This is a great song.

00:36:59.000 It's called Amos Moses.

00:37:01.000 It is what starts the morning now.

00:37:03.000 Every morning in our house with the four kids is the song Amos Mose.

00:37:07.000 I thought I would bring you just a bit of this joy.

00:37:08.000 It's good stuff.

00:37:37.000 Yep.

00:37:38.000 So the part that my kids like particularly is hitting the alligator in the head with the stump.

00:37:41.000 They were very, very into that.

00:37:43.000 So, um, they're little Jewish kids, so I think the chances that we are actually going to go out to the bayou and hit alligators in the head with a stump are very low. 0.93

00:37:49.000 We'll have to ask, um, my assistant Kelly about that, since she actually shot an alligator in the back of the head. 0.92

00:37:54.000 That's a thing that Kelly actually did. 0.79

00:37:57.000 Yeah, that's how we roll here at Daily Wire.

00:38:00.000 That's how it works.

00:38:01.000 Alright, time for a thing that I hate.

00:38:03.000 Okay, so, um, Piers Morgan had on his show recently an only fans model.

00:38:16.000 Okay, an OnlyFans model is what we used to call a porn person.

00:38:20.000 A pornography person. 0.97

00:38:22.000 A porn star. 0.94

00:38:23.000 That's what we used to call them. 0.99

00:38:24.000 Just people who get naked for money.

00:38:26.000 And now we pretend that they are legitimate parts of the economy.

00:38:29.000 That's what we do now.

00:38:30.000 Which brings to mind the old apocryphal quote that has been attributed to both Winston Churchill

00:38:35.000 and Oscar Wilde, supposedly, well, use Churchill for this example.

00:38:38.000 He was talking to a lady at some sort of fancy event, and he asked her,

00:38:42.000 would you sleep with me for a million pounds? 0.97

00:38:44.000 And she said, I'd have to think about it.

00:38:46.000 He said, would you sleep with me for one pound? 0.67

00:38:48.000 And she said, how dare you, sir?

00:38:49.000 He said, we've already established what you are.

00:38:51.000 We're now just haggling over the price.

00:38:53.000 Well, this came to mind because this OnlyFans model He's like, what do you think your kids are one day going to think of the fact that mommy was making money by showing her breasts to random men on the internet?

00:39:07.000 And here was her answer. 0.83

00:39:08.000 Online strippers just, you know, naked.

00:39:10.000 I do things that are way more grotesque than that. 0.98

00:39:13.000 Just pornography?

00:39:14.000 Pornography, anything.

00:39:15.000 But it's all within what I want to do and I absolutely love it and I'm really good at it.

00:39:19.000 You know, I could be a good lawyer, yes, but also am I good at doing other things on video and camera?

00:39:24.000 How would you feel when you want to have kids yourself?

00:39:26.000 Well, I mean, that's... I don't really want kids right now.

00:39:29.000 But you will.

00:39:30.000 How old are you?

00:39:30.000 25.

00:39:30.000 Right, so you will do at some stage, probably, right?

00:39:34.000 Maybe.

00:39:34.000 When you do, are you going to be proud that you have your little ones and they look at you and go, didn't you want to be a lawyer?

00:39:41.000 Mummy, what happened?

00:39:41.000 Yeah.

00:39:42.000 And you go, yeah, but look at all my stuff.

00:39:44.000 They can cry in a Ferrari.

00:39:48.000 Oh, they can cry in a Ferrari, so the money is what's going to make it up to them.

00:39:50.000 I just have some news for you.

00:39:51.000 It isn't.

00:39:52.000 It isn't. 0.99

00:39:52.000 It turns out that kids who are rich, but their parents are really screwed up, they remain incredibly screwed up. 0.99

00:39:58.000 That's the way this works. 0.96

00:39:59.000 And there is something wrong with the idea that a woman should value her own accomplishment in getting men to be aroused as they are at, you know, their intellectual accomplishments. 0.87

00:40:09.000 Not to sound like too much of a feminist here, but it turns out that women are more than their body parts. 1.00

00:40:14.000 I know. 0.97

00:40:14.000 It's crazy. 0.97

00:40:16.000 Women actually have inherent dignity as human beings. 1.00

00:40:18.000 And when they simply unclothe themselves for the perverse pleasure of random men sitting in their pathetic basements and paying the money, they are doing harm to their souls. 0.98

00:40:27.000 They are doing harm to their very beings. 0.89

00:40:30.000 They may pretend that it's a matter of just personal freedom and all of the rest.

00:40:35.000 But it turns out that consent is not the only value.

00:40:37.000 People consent to do bad things to themselves all the time, and we don't like it as a society.

00:40:41.000 When people inject themselves with heroin, that is consensual activity.

00:40:44.000 It also happens to be very, very bad for them.

00:40:47.000 A society that basically boils down its morality to the virtue of consent is a society that has lost all notion of good and bad.

00:40:55.000 People have consented to evil activity for literally all of time, and it isn't evil to unclothe before random men for money.

00:41:01.000 It is bad for you.

00:41:02.000 It is bad for them.

00:41:04.000 It undermines the very idea that women should be looked upon with anything more than simple lust.

00:41:09.000 It's a perversity.

00:41:11.000 And the fact that she says, oh, I'm really, really good at it.

00:41:13.000 Okay, seriously, as a dude, let me tell you what it takes for a beautiful woman to be good at being naked. 1.00

00:41:20.000 Being naked.

00:41:22.000 That's what it takes.

00:41:23.000 Wow, she's amazing at it. 1.00

00:41:24.000 Wow, look at her extraordinary skill in being naked. 1.00

00:41:28.000 She's amazing at being, like, come on.

00:41:31.000 Come on, I'm not a fan of the comedian Amy Schumer, because frankly she hasn't been funny for a very long time.

00:41:37.000 But she did have a line at one point that I think was accurate and speaks to this.

00:41:41.000 She said, you know the difference between girls and guys?

00:41:44.000 A guy goes to the bar and he's lucky if he can pick up a girl. 0.99

00:41:49.000 She says, you know, I'm overweight, I don't look amazing right now, but I can, this is her phrase, catch a dick anytime I want to, right? 0.99

00:41:54.000 That was Amy Schumer's phrase. 0.98

00:41:57.000 And let me just be realistic about this.

00:41:58.000 That is absolutely true. 0.94

00:42:00.000 If you're a half-decent looking woman, the idea that you cannot find a man to have sex with you is absurd, because the differences between the male sexual instinct and the female sexual instinct are incredibly large. 0.85

00:42:10.000 Those are very significant differences.

00:42:13.000 As I've said before, when it comes to sex, women need a reason, men just need a time and a place. 1.00

00:42:19.000 So the notion that she is like somehow freeing herself.

00:42:23.000 Now, maybe it gives her a sense of control over these men.

00:42:26.000 Maybe it gives her a sense that she has more power in the universe, but that power belongs to pretty much any woman. 1.00

00:42:31.000 It's just that she is the only person who is willing to subject herself to vile gazes in order to make money. 0.99

00:42:38.000 Which is a bad thing to do.

00:42:40.000 It makes you a not particularly good person.

00:42:43.000 So when people say things like sex work is work, well, I'm sure it is.

00:42:46.000 I'm sure it's the worst kind of work.

00:42:49.000 In the most derogatory sense of work. 0.90

00:42:52.000 But that does not mean that it is a good thing to do, that you are playing an equal part in the economy, in the progress of humanity, if you work as a lawyer or as a coder, as if you take off your clothes on camera for a bunch of incels living in their basements just to **** you.

00:43:05.000 It's not the same thing.

00:43:07.000 And when she says that, don't worry, she's gonna make it up to her kid because she's gonna buy him a Ferrari.

00:43:11.000 Again, the notion that you can supplant with material things, Morality is absurd.

00:43:17.000 And it's a mistake that our entire culture is making right now.

00:43:19.000 In fact, there was a study from the Wall Street Journal fairly recently, we talked about on the show, looking at what Americans now think about being American, what they think is important.

00:43:28.000 Things like parenthood are in steep decline.

00:43:30.000 Used to be that a huge percentage of Americans said that, like, one of the most important things about being a good person and being good American was having kids and having a family and getting married.

00:43:37.000 And now the thing they think about the most is material well-being.

00:43:41.000 Meaning, like, earning.

00:43:42.000 How much money I make.

00:43:44.000 Well, there's nothing wrong with thinking about how much money you make when that is in service to a higher goal.

00:43:48.000 Money is instrumental.

00:43:50.000 But we have now come to the point, I think, in Western civilization, where money, because morality is no longer an object, because we've dispensed with the ideas of good and bad, we've now decided that money is no longer instrumental.

00:44:00.000 Money is a measurement of, are you good or bad as a person?

00:44:04.000 It's like an objective, it's like a video game. 0.86

00:44:06.000 The more money you have in the bank, the more Ferraris you can buy your kids, it no longer matters whether you are being a prostitute on camera. 0.57

00:44:13.000 What really matters is that you can buy the Ferrari for your kid.

00:44:15.000 Materialism has become its own goal.

00:44:17.000 The money, which used to be good for, you know, buying things for your kids because you, within the context of a strong family structure, or getting a nice house so you can have more kids, or giving a lot of charity, or building businesses to hire people.

00:44:29.000 Money as an instrumental, useful thing.

00:44:31.000 That has been transformed into money as a thing of inherent value.

00:44:34.000 And once money becomes a thing of inherent value, then it does become an immoral thing.

00:44:38.000 If you treat money as though it has inherent value, it makes you a better person to have money.

00:44:42.000 The money itself makes you a better person.

00:44:44.000 Or the money itself justifies whatever immoral activity you wish to perform.

00:44:50.000 It's about that that the Bible speaks when it talks about the dangers of wealth.

00:44:54.000 Wealth itself is not actually inherently dangerous.

00:44:57.000 In fact, the vast majority of prophets in the Bible were wealthy people.

00:44:59.000 A lot of them were very, very wealthy people.

00:45:02.000 The question is, how that wealth is used.

00:45:04.000 What is the wealth for?

00:45:05.000 Is it dedicated to a higher goal or is it not dedicated to a higher goal?

00:45:07.000 And if the answer is it's not dedicated to a higher goal, it's just, that's how you buy off your kids when they find a picture of you naked online.

00:45:13.000 Good luck to you and good luck to your kids.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 08, 2023

Are They About To Arrest Trump -- AGAIN?

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