Taylor Swift's endorsement of Joe Biden's re-election campaign is bad news for the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, and it's not because she doesn't like him. It's because she's a pop star, and pop stars endorsing other pop stars doesn t tend to move the needle much, and especially not when it comes to moving the needle in a presidential election. And if you base your vote on the thoughts of celebrities who spend two seconds engaging with politics, but you really like their songs, you should not be voting. That's not how politics is supposed to work, and if you're voting based on who Taylor Swift endorses, you shouldn't be allowed to vote in the U.S. This is a mild proposal: if you don't like politics, then you should be banned from voting in the United States, because politics is not supposed to be based on the opinions of people who spend 2 seconds engaging in politics. It's not even about who you like, it's about what you like. Today's episode is a mashup of two stories from the New York Times and NPR covering what's going on in the world of politics and pop culture, and why celebrities are not going to be able to sway your vote in 2020 and why they should stop endorsing other politicians. (1:00) 2:30) 3:00 4:15) 5:10) 6:15 7:30 8:20) 9:40) 11:30] 11: What s going on with Taylor Swift? 12:00] 13: Who's going to vote for Joe Biden in 2020? 15:00? 16: Is Taylor Swift backing Joe Biden? 17:00: What does she think about Kanye West? 18:50 19:40 21:30: Is she a good presidential candidate? 22:10 23:00 Is she more likely to back Joe Biden running for president in the future? 24:00 21: Does she have a chance to win the 2020 election? 25:00 22:00 Do you like Joe Biden s chances? 26:00 Does she support him? 27: What do you think Joe Biden need to do more? or is she a better than Kanye West a better presidential candidate than Hillary Clinton? ? 26 :00 Is she better than Bill Clinton a better candidate than Bill Cosby?
00:00:00.000When it comes to the 2024 election, there are a couple of points made.
00:00:04.000One for Republicans and one for Democrats.
00:00:06.000Let's start with the point for Democrats.
00:00:08.000Celebrities are not going to save you.
00:00:10.000I know that Democrats seem to believe that leveraging celebrity in favor of their best political candidates magically raises them to victory.
00:00:18.000They're thinking back to a time when Marilyn Monroe was singing Happy Birthday Mr. President to the president she was shipping, JFK.
00:00:24.000They're thinking back to a time during the 1990s when Bill Clinton was playing saxophone on late night TV.
00:00:29.000They're thinking back to a time when celebrity mattered an awful lot more than it does right now.
00:00:35.000Trying to drag a lackluster candidate over the finish line with celebrity tends not to work.
00:00:39.000But when you are a desperate candidate, you have to take desperate measures, which is why The New York Times is reporting today that President Biden is trying to pump energy into his re-elect bid, kicking off what is likely to be an ugly, dispiriting, and historically long slog to November between two unpopular candidates.
00:00:54.000Apparently, he has now sent two of his most trusted White House operatives to take the helm of his reelect campaign in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:01:01.000Other Biden aides are drafting wish lists of potential surrogates, including elected officials, social media influencers, and the endorsement of their wildest dreams, the global superstar, Taylor Swift.
00:01:12.000Oh yes, they are resorting to the Swifties this early.
00:01:16.000That is not a good sign for your campaign.
00:01:18.000When you are starting to target Taylor Swift as like, if she endorses, oh my God, that's going to change everything.
00:01:23.000So first of all, we should point out Taylor Swift did in fact endorse Joe Biden for president in 2020.
00:01:28.000It didn't really move the needle all that much because she's just a very famous pop star and very famous pop stars endorsing people doesn't tend to move the needle all that much.
00:01:38.000Now, there are some polls that suggest that actually A fifth of voters are likely to back the candidate endorsed by the singer.
00:01:46.000There's a poll conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies for Newsweek, and it found that 18% of voters say they are more likely, or significantly more likely, to vote for a candidate endorsed by Taylor Swift, and that sway was most visible with voters under the age of 35.
00:01:59.000So I have a mild proposal, a moderate proposal.
00:02:02.000If you base your vote on who Taylor Swift endorses, you should not be allowed to vote in the United States.
00:02:07.000This doesn't hold just true for Taylor Swift.
00:02:09.000If you base your vote on the thoughts of celebrities who spend two seconds engaging with politics, but you really like their songs, you should not be voting.
00:02:19.000If you are voting Republican based on the endorsement of Kanye West, if you are voting Democrat based on the endorsement of Taylor Swift, you should not be voting.
00:02:25.000That is not how politics is supposed to work.
00:02:29.000And it's worth noting again that back in 2020, she literally tweeted in favor of Joe Biden.
00:02:34.000She tweeted, quote, After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence.
00:02:41.000When the looting starts, the shooting starts.
00:02:42.000We will vote you out in November, Donald Trump.
00:02:45.000Now, it is also true that 17% said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate backed by Taylor Swift.
00:02:51.000So 18% said more likely, 17% said less likely.
00:02:55.000How about no one cares what Taylor Swift has to say on politics because she is a pop star and she makes songs and then is in many shots by the NFL.
00:03:06.000I have to say, good for Lamar Jackson for preserving his breathing on this planet because if Lamar Jackson had actually put the Kansas City Chiefs in danger of losing the AFC Championship game the other day, Roger Goodell would have hit him with a drone to prevent that from happening.
00:03:21.000There's actually a drone hovering over the stadium.
00:03:23.000It's gonna be like a Barack Obama drone attack in Somalia or something if Lamar Jackson actually brought the Baltimore Ravens to the brink of the Super Bowl.
00:03:29.000In any case, Biden is now early reaching for the celebrity lever.
00:03:33.000When you're reaching for the celebrity button or lever that quickly, you're in serious, serious trouble.
00:03:38.000According to the New York Times, the campaign has begun discussing discussions with celebrities and social media stars about promoting Mr. Biden on Instagram and TikTok because there's nothing the kids like better than their favorite celebrities endorsing A vegetable.
00:03:50.000When Biden took a fundraising swing through Southern California in December, the campaign carved out time to meet with influencers to pitch them on posting pro-Biden content.
00:03:56.000You remember some of the pro-Biden content from a little bit earlier in his presidency, including random weird people with selfie sticks in the White House being all strange and off-putting?
00:04:07.000We're gonna get a lot of that this year.
00:04:09.000The biggest and most influential endorsement target is Swift herself, the pop sensation and NFL enthusiast who can move millions of supporters with an Instagram post or mid-concert aside.
00:04:42.000If Joe Biden is counting on Taylor Swift, getting millions of people to vote, good luck to him.
00:04:47.000Gavin Newsom apparently all but begged Taylor Swift to become more involved in Biden's campaign.
00:04:52.000He said, quote, Taylor Swift stands tall and unique.
00:04:55.000What she was able to accomplish just in getting young people activated to consider they have a voice and they should have a choice in the next election, I think is profoundly powerful.
00:05:01.000That, of course, is Gavin Newsom trying to massage Taylor Swift into endorsing him for president in 2028.
00:05:07.000The chatter around Swift and the potential of her 279 million Instagram followers being reached, reached such intensity that the Biden team urged applicants in a job posting for a social media position not to describe their Taylor Swift strategy.
00:05:23.000There was an idea that maybe they would send Biden to actually her eras tour, which would be the death of her eras tour, by the way.
00:05:29.000Like nobody wants to watch that old dude hobble up there and then try to dance to Taylor Swift's overproduced music at this point.
00:05:37.000So instead of actually, you know, being a good president, they're going to try to bring Taylor Swift on board in all of this.
00:05:43.000Now, again, I'll just point out here, the Democrats have been trying to play this game for multiple election cycles in a row.
00:05:48.000Barack Obama did not win in 2008 or 2012 because he had celebrity endorsements.
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00:08:50.000Okay, now, onto the Republican side of the aisle.
00:08:52.000Guys, not everything is a Pentagon conspiracy.
00:08:56.000So, the right has been falling for this line a lot.
00:09:00.000For the past 10, 12 years, increasingly, every conspiracy theory now must be treated as a real possibility.
00:09:08.000So here's the problem with conspiracy theories.
00:09:10.000The problem with conspiracy theories is that almost always they are wrong.
00:09:12.000The reason I say almost always they are wrong, sometimes they're right, but almost always they are wrong because they require incredible levels of dedication.
00:09:18.000They require incredible levels of competence.
00:09:22.000And every time somebody says something about the moon landing being faked, for example, you have to think to yourself, how many thousands of people would have to be in on it and competently do their part in order to make this happen?
00:09:33.000And then it could be debunked, as my friend Matt Walsh said, by some schmuck in the internet connection in 2024 and like a couple of pictures from Google images.
00:09:41.000And the answer is no, that is not real.
00:09:43.000Okay, the problem with conspiracy, sometimes they're fun, sometimes they're silly, but conspiracy theory starts to do damage because if you believe that a conspiracy is in control of all the things you see, all the things you hear, it is enervating.
00:09:56.000It makes you less likely to get active.
00:09:58.000It makes you more likely to believe that nothing you do is going to end with the result that you seek.
00:10:03.000There is no connection between your action and the result because there's an intervening conspiracy to stop that thing from happening.
00:10:09.000And that is particularly true in politics.
00:10:11.000It's the reason I do not like and still do not like.
00:10:28.000If by that you mean that all the rules were changed, that you saw an unprecedented number of voters in that election cycle, virtually all of whom were marginal voters who had very little interest in voting in the first place and who are now sending their ballot in by mail months in advance of the election in violation of the way that law is normally supposed to work.
00:10:43.000If you want to argue that the media rigged the election by ignoring all of the relevant issues in 2020 in favor of a bunch of garbage and then actually hid stories about Joe Biden in the run-up to, again, totally agree.
00:10:53.000You want to argue that social media was actively stumping on behalf of Joe Biden and acting at the behest of actors in the deep state to stymie stories.
00:11:03.000That is not the same thing as the conspiracy theory that there was a well-organized voter fraud effort that deprived Donald Trump of his reelect.
00:11:11.000The reason that's bad is not, again, just because it's untrue.
00:11:13.000It is also because if that's true, why bother voting?
00:11:17.000And that, in fact, is how people reacted.
00:11:19.000If you recall all the way back to early 2021, well, we were in the midst of all of this craziness.
00:11:23.000Donald Trump literally told people that in Georgia.
00:11:26.000And so we now have two Democratic senators in Georgia, a heavily red state.
00:11:30.000And if Donald Trump is the nominee, which he will be, then he's going to win that state in all likelihood this time around.
00:11:38.000Did all the voter fraud just disappear?
00:11:40.000Or is it possible that he just wasn't that popular a candidate in 2020 because of all the aforementioned reasons and because he ran a bad campaign in 2020 and didn't do an amazing job in 2020?
00:11:50.000The problem with conspiracy theories is, again, it leads you to believe that all the factors out there that could lead to your success are actually beyond your control.
00:11:59.000So, while the Democrats are busily digging their own graves by saying, look, we're going to ignore the fact that we're crappy on policy and we're going to go get Tay-Tay to endorse it.
00:12:06.000If we can get the 1989 lady, you know, the lady who's... How old is Taylor Swift now?
00:12:11.000Taylor Swift is... I think she's 34, right?
00:12:17.000They're like, if we can get the 34-year-old lady who sings songs like she's 17 years old and breaking up with her first boyfriend again, and she's like two years younger than my wife, who's a doctor and has four kids.
00:12:26.000If we can get that lady to endorse us, then magically, we are going to win the election.
00:12:31.000If Republicans just stood there like, why?
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00:13:47.000Now listen, again, I think some of this stuff is hilarious.
00:13:49.000I think that it's- I think that the entire Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce so she can boost the NFL's ratings and then write a breakup song, Fury of Life, may very well be true.
00:14:01.000Because, again, everything around Taylor Swift is incredibly produced, everything around the NFL is incredibly produced, and frankly, it's funny, and I enjoy the funny of it.
00:14:11.000But one of the signal failures of the right these days is to believe that everything is a conspiracy.
00:14:17.000So there's a theory going around, I kid you not, that Taylor Swift is being promoted by the NFL, which she is, for ratings.
00:14:24.000I mean, the ratings have gone up because Taylor Swift is very popular and people are amused and interested in the fact that she is dating the tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, Travis Kelsey, and that every so often, and by every so often I mean literally every 27 seconds when the producer gets fired, the NFL swivels to a view of her in the skybox.
00:14:41.000People have speculated, on the right, that this is actually a Pentagon deep state conspiracy that is designed to elevate Taylor Swift so that she will endorse Joe Biden and thus change the election.
00:14:56.000Again, I'm all here for the pop culture, people dating each other for the press kind of stuff because they do that all the time.
00:15:01.000That does happen in Hollywood all the time.
00:15:02.000It happens in the music industry all the time.
00:15:05.000You can find entire ratings online of Taylor Swift's various romances and which are considered legit and which ones are just sort of put together for the press.
00:15:14.000This has been a long-standing tradition in Taylor Swift circles, from what I understand.
00:15:22.000I don't know, like, pretty much anything about what she does, other than some of her songs are catchy, but those tend to be the older songs.
00:15:28.000And she doesn't write any of her own songs anymore.
00:15:31.000The theory that is now going around, and again, it's become popular on the right, is indicative of a deeper rot inside the Republican Party, which is that when you despair of the world, you start to think that everything is a conspiracy.
00:15:41.000So, there's a video that's going around from 2019 of somebody in like the Pentagon PSYOP division talking about how they would love to recruit Taylor Swift.
00:15:55.000If you're a government and you could get Taylor Swift as, like, a CIA asset, why wouldn't you?
00:15:59.000Does that mean that what we are watching right now is, like, a deep state conspiracy to promote Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?
00:16:05.000And then, I guess there's a deep state conspiracy so that the San Francisco 49ers will lose the Super Bowl and Travis Kelce will propose to Taylor Swift and her first act, upon being proposed to, will be to accept the ring and then immediately turn around and say, but there's only one person I love more.
00:16:18.000Joseph R. Biden. And suddenly Biden's winning in a landslide.
00:16:23.000Again, if that first of all, if that's the Pentagon's plan, it's the dumbest plan I ever
00:16:25.000heard. Taylor Swift can't move 35,000 voter registrations. That's really stupid. But anyway, here
00:17:19.000The Pentagon PSYOP unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online.
00:17:27.000If I was running Biden's management perception team, I would identify someone who would align themselves with my agenda, such as a Taylor Swift who has close to 600 million followers.
00:17:41.000I would target her, I would engage her, and I would get her to do what we used to see as like public service announcements and that type of enlistment.
00:17:52.000That type of solicitation is analogous to the old days of deployment of a PSYOP.
00:18:01.000You mean a celebrity endorsement in a candidate's campaign?
00:18:05.000Is that what we're talking about here?
00:18:47.000So like, all the angst and all the kind of heartburn that you see on the right constantly about this sort of stuff... The left is motivated.
00:19:26.000I think the generalized belief that all systems are rigged in America is a very bad belief, whether it is on the left or whether it is on the right, because the truth is in America, Very few things are truly, truly rigged to the extent that people like to believe they are.
00:19:40.000And when politicians tell you that things are so rigged, everything is so rigged, when they say that sort of stuff without any real evidence...
00:19:48.000When they don't present evidence, they just say that things are rigged.
00:19:50.000Typically, it's because they want more power to rig them the other way.
00:19:53.000That is what they are doing here, and I don't like any of it.
00:19:56.000We'll get some more on that in just one second.
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00:21:12.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of Joe Biden being like an absolute crappy president, the thing that people are actually gonna vote based on, We are now finding out that the names of the soldiers who were killed in Jordan by Iranian proxy forces.
00:21:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States failed to stop a deadly attack on an American military outpost in Jordan when the enemy drone approached its target at the same time as a U.S.
00:21:35.000drone was also returning to base, U.S.
00:21:37.000So basically, an Iranian drone came in at the same time an American drone was coming in.
00:21:41.000They mixed up the American drone and the Iranian drone, and the Iranian drone killed a bunch of American soldiers, and there are still something like 40 wounded.
00:22:12.000White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters there's a responsibility that needs to be laid at the feet of the leaders in Tehran.
00:22:18.000But the problem, of course, is, as we have said, the Biden administration has botched this thing six ways from Sunday.
00:22:24.000I'll just remind you that right now what we are seeing in the Middle East, this giant conflagration, is all Biden.
00:22:29.000In the same way, the giant wave at the border is all Biden.
00:22:33.000Back in September 2023, Jake Sullivan, wisest, fairest in the land of most national security, such a wise person that he moved from the Obama administration where he screwed up national security to the Biden administration where he screwed up national security.
00:22:46.000He was at the Atlantic conferences back in September.
00:22:48.000And here he was bragging about how quiet the Middle East was in September.
00:22:52.000You may recall that in October, some things happened.
00:22:55.000Look, first, I think it's very important to note that this is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East.
00:22:59.000today than it has been in two decades.
00:23:21.000I would argue that we have not seen a situation.
00:23:25.000as dangerous as the one we're facing now across the region since at least 1973 and arguably
00:23:32.000even before that. Oh well I mean what changed? What magically changed?
00:23:38.000Now of course October 7th happened but the question is why did October 7th happen?
00:23:42.000And the answer is because you pursued a pro-Iranian policy from day one of this administration and it emboldened Iran and made Iran believe that they could push the United States around and its allies in the region without any sort of serious consequences.
00:23:56.000And of course, Iran so far has been right.
00:23:59.000And when John Kirby keeps putting out there All of these sort of weak need responses to Iran killing Americans.
00:24:06.000Iran is sitting there thinking, OK, we can get away with pretty much anything we want.
00:24:10.000Does it really hurt Iran if we kill a few of its proxy forces without dismantling the terror networks?
00:24:14.000Does it really hurt Iran if we allow the Red Sea to continue to become a sort of pond on behalf of Iranian military proxies?
00:24:23.000What exactly are we doing to hurt Iran at this point?
00:24:25.000Again, Donald Trump had them contained.
00:24:27.000Joe Biden has not only uncontained them, he's released them.
00:24:30.000He's unleashed the power of Iran via its proxies all over the Middle East.
00:25:11.000But no one wants a war with Iran in the United States, but you know who wants a war even less?
00:25:14.000And that matters because when you're trying to deter someone, if you don't want to get in a fight with that guy over there, And that guy over there is crazy.
00:25:21.000Sometimes, if he starts getting in your face, you might have to punch him.
00:25:27.000And if it turns out that you are stronger than he is, he will stop punching you.
00:25:31.000That is the entire policy of deterrence.
00:25:42.000And when you keep saying over and over and over that you don't have a credible threat, the other side might think you might not have a credible threat.
00:25:47.000Here was John Kirby, national security spokesperson, yesterday.
00:25:51.000Is the president currently actively considering potential attacks inside Iran?
00:25:57.000We are not looking for a war with Iran.
00:27:00.000The president's response to Republican critics who are of the mind that this attack was the result of perceived weakness.
00:27:07.000For instance, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said that President Biden's fear of escalation has morphed into a doctrine of appeasement.
00:29:19.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:30:21.000Now, as it turns out, you know what's a terrible plan?
00:33:19.000They think the West is colonialist and imperialist.
00:33:21.000And they believe in the equity structure that has been built up by the political left that suggests that lack of success in the world must be due to exploitation by the West.
00:33:31.000In any case, The media do have an agenda.
00:33:34.000Their agenda is shape American public opinion so as to pressure Joe Biden into giving in to the bad guys.
00:33:39.000Al Jazeera knows that, which is why they're pushing it, too.
00:33:41.000Here's a reporter for Al Jazeera pressing the White House.
00:33:56.000Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, let me just stop you right there.
00:33:59.000Commander-in-Chief is not looking at polling or considering the electoral calendar when he's defending... Now can I answer the question?
00:34:10.000He's not looking at political calculations or the polling or the electoral calendar as he works to protect our troops ashore and our ships at sea.
00:34:20.000And any suggestion to the contrary is offensive.
00:35:32.000They do not like the presence of the West in the Middle East because they somehow believe that the lack of success in the Middle East is due to Western interventionism as opposed to, you know, the gigantic history of failure in the Middle East.
00:35:44.000But in any case, you can see that in the media.
00:35:46.000So there's an amazing clip that emerged a couple of days ago.
00:35:49.000There was a host from Sky News who was interviewing a spokesperson for Israel and compared the Gaza Strip to the Holocaust.
00:36:00.000It's just, this is the kind of crap that the media are doing on a regular basis.
00:36:05.000You've called for a voluntary migration of Palestinians from Gaza.
00:36:08.000In November, you co-authored a piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:11.000You suggested the ethnic cleansing of some of Gaza's population to Western countries that would accept the refugees.
00:36:18.000The exact quote from that article, one idea is for countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate.
00:37:09.000She literally just compared the question of whether a Palestinian who wants to leave the Gaza Strip, so is not to live in the Gaza Strip, wants to live in Egypt or Jordan or somewhere else.
00:37:18.000She compared that to Jews being shipped via train to concentration camps.
00:37:24.000This is what these people are talking about.
00:37:26.000I mean, like, this is what the media are.
00:37:28.000So this is why they are hoping that Joe Biden is looking at the polls.
00:37:30.000And unfortunately, Joe Biden is, in fact, looking at the polls, particularly on his left, which is what he's afraid of.
00:37:36.000Meanwhile, again, because the Biden administration has a central foreign policy fallacy, which is that the Israel-Palestinian issue is central to all Middle Eastern politics.
00:37:45.000They continue to put pressure on Israel, despite the fact that Hamas continues to deny every hostage deal offered to them.
00:37:52.000According to the Jerusalem Post, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is turning down an offer of a two-month ceasefire in which Israel would release more Palestinian terrorists in exchange for the innocent hostages that are being held by Hamas.
00:38:05.000He turned it down because he says Israel has to stop the war.
00:38:29.000A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found 1,200 people out of the UNRWA's total 12,000 employees had direct links to Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:38:40.000And it's way higher than that because those are people with direct links.
00:38:44.000And so the United States temporarily paused aid to the UNRWA because it's a Hamas front group, because that's what it is.
00:38:49.000But because the Biden administration refuses to acknowledge the reality, which is that the Palestinian population in Gaza is incredibly radical, that they do support terrorism on an ideological basis.
00:38:59.000By the way, so do Palestinians in the West Bank.
00:39:01.000By every available polling metric, every single one, there is no data to support the idea that there is a moderate Palestinian population that does not seek vast terror attacks on Jews and the murder of many Jews.
00:39:28.000has suspended aid momentarily to the U.N.
00:39:31.000relief agency UNRWA in Gaza after accusations that members of the U.N.
00:39:37.000agency were connected to Hamas and in one case participated in the October 7th attack on Israel.
00:39:45.000What is the proper response if these allegations are verified and what does that mean in terms of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as well as this is the main agency administrating aid there?
00:39:55.000Yeah, the UN Reliefs and Works Agency, UNRES, it's called colloquially.
00:39:59.000They have been doing a lot of amazing work on the ground in Gaza, literally helping save thousands of lives.
00:40:07.000They brought the information to us, by the way.
00:40:10.000They let us know that they had this report of about a dozen employees who were somehow involved in October 7th.
00:40:16.000They're taking this very, very seriously.
00:40:17.000They've called for an investigation, and they've made it clear that they're going to hold anybody appropriately accountable, to include criminal prosecutions.
00:40:49.000The latest stats that we have from the southern border in December, which were just released recently, 370,000.
00:40:54.000370,000 border encounters, which means those people, they don't call them border arrests because the vast majority of those people aren't sent back to their home countries.
00:41:02.000Those people are let into the United States.
00:41:26.000The reason it's not a useful thing is because the state of Texas has this under control.
00:41:29.000The state of Texas is using its actual state power as it should to protect its citizenry.
00:41:36.000The state of Texas has not been ordered by the Supreme Court to get rid of razor wire or not build any more razor wire or not to put any more border wall in place.
00:41:44.000They've not been ordered to do any of that by the Supreme Court.
00:42:15.000So Donald Trump seems to be shading his message in a better way.
00:42:18.000So yesterday he was like, put the failure of the border bill on me, which is exactly what Joe Biden wants.
00:42:21.000Today he put out a statement that is much better and much more explanatory.
00:42:26.000Which, I mean, when I read a Donald Trump statement, you can kind of tell what he's writing and what he's not based on the syntax and how the sentences are structured.
00:42:33.000He needs to let other people write his truth social tweets because this one's very good.
00:42:36.000A border bill is not necessary to stop the millions of people, many from jails and mental institutions located all over the world that are pouring into our country.
00:42:42.000It's an invasion the likes of which no country has ever had to endure.
00:42:44.000It's not sustainable or affordable and will, under crooked Joe Biden, only get worse.
00:42:48.000I had the safest and most secure border in U.S.
00:43:18.000It raises a lot of risks that are absolutely unnecessary, again, when your political opponents are making a mistake.
00:43:24.000All right, so we're supposed to believe that E. Jean Carroll, who was a gossip columnist who wrote a lot about sex in the 1990s, was raped by Donald Trump.
00:43:33.000And as I've pointed out before, E. Jean Carroll's claims, they don't bear even kind of mild scrutiny.
00:43:40.000She doesn't know what season it was when she was raped.
00:43:43.000She can't describe the physical layout of the store, so you can't even check the timeline on whether she's telling the truth or not.
00:43:50.000She can't tell you what day of the week.
00:43:51.000She can't tell you anything about any of these things.
00:43:52.000She just knows that she met Donald Trump in a Bergdorf and then he took her upstairs to a dressing room and proceeded to rape her.
00:44:03.000And jurors in New York decided that she was telling the truth, which means that Trump denying it and then calling her kind of a crazy person was an act of defamation.
00:44:15.000So according to USA Today, jurors originally said that he had not quote-unquote raped her because they weren't convinced that Trump penetrated her with his member, but they were convinced that he sexually abused her.
00:44:31.000So, again, she had claimed more than that.
00:46:33.000So yesterday, Eugene Carroll appears with Rachel Maddow.
00:46:36.000And Rachel Maddow asks her what she's gonna do with all of this money that she has now taken from Donald Trump.
00:46:41.000And she presumably expects her to say some stuff about how she's going to use the money in order to stand up for women, how she's going to fight rape everywhere, and the sexual assault culture and all this.
00:46:50.000And instead, Yijin Carol, being a complete weirdo and a non-credible witness, says this.
00:46:54.000And you can see Rachel Maddow wanting to jump over the desk and duct tape her mouth.
00:48:09.000And that's the person who we're supposed to believe Was raped by Donald Trump, didn't fib about it, isn't doing this for personal gain, is doing this because she's just so upset with what happened to her, allegedly, 30 years ago.
00:48:23.000That's what we're supposed to believe.
00:48:25.000We're supposed to believe that she didn't do this for the money, when she literally just went on Rachel Maddow and said she did it for the money.
00:48:31.000She literally went on Rachel Maddow and she said what she's going to use the money for.
00:48:35.000Although again, I have very significant doubts based on her lack of any sort of supporting evidence that I can find anywhere that would support her story.
00:49:08.000So Democrats who believe that somehow this is going to damage Donald Trump in the presidential race, I have another thing for you.
00:49:15.000If you guys trot this out as evidence that Donald Trump is like the bad guy, he's like a terrible person, he's a rapist and all the rest, she is the least credible person I may have ever seen on camera.