The Ben Shapiro Show - BREAKING: Trump’s FOURTH Indictment Hits In Georgia

00:00:00.000 So they did it!

00:00:01.000 They finally did it!

00:00:02.000 It has long awaited.

00:00:03.000 Fannie Willis is the DA in Fulton County for a couple of years.

00:00:06.000 This has been coming.

00:00:07.000 She's very fond of charging RICO cases. 0.81

00:00:09.000 She's now going to charge Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators in a giant RICO case. 0.72

00:00:16.000 According to the Associated Press, Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers, and other aides of a criminal enterprise to keep him in power.

00:00:30.000 It's a nearly 100-page indictment.

00:00:31.000 It's 98 pages.

00:00:34.000 It details dozens of acts by Trump or his allies to undo his defeat, including beseeching Georgia's Republican Secretary of State to find enough votes for him to win the battleground state, harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud, and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of Electoral College electors favorable to Donald Trump.

00:00:51.000 In one particularly brazen episode, it also outlines a plot involving one of Donald Trump's lawyers in accessing voting machines in rural Georgia County to steal data from the voting machine company, supposedly.

00:01:01.000 Although, of course, the question there is whether they were looking for evidence of the possibility that the voting machines had been hacked or something.

00:01:08.000 Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis announced the charges last night.

00:01:13.000 Today, based on information developed by that investigation, a Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment, charging 19 individuals with violations of Georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in this state.

00:01:43.000 The indictment includes 41 felony counts and is 97 pages long.

00:01:51.000 Every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Through participation in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing Donald J. Trump

00:02:19.000 To seize the presidential term of office beginning on January 20th, 21.

00:02:26.000 So yesterday was a complete mess at the Georgia courthouse.

00:02:29.000 Apparently, there was a brief but mysterious incident in which the county website put up a list of criminal charges to be brought against the former president.

00:02:36.000 Those were taken down pretty quickly.

00:02:38.000 And then, of course, something very, very similar went up very late last night.

00:02:42.000 Trump's legal team says the events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with a leak of the presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had even testified.

00:02:49.000 That's sort of how the indictment reads.

00:02:50.000 It's very long, it's very detailed, and it sort of goes over a lot of territory that has already been trod.

00:02:55.000 They accuse Trump and his alleged co-conspirators of 161 acts.

00:02:56.000 you in fourth grade attempting to write a very long five paragraph essay in the hope

00:03:00.000 the teacher would give you an A even though the essay wasn't very good.

00:03:03.000 That's sort of how the indictment reads.

00:03:04.000 It's very long, it's very detailed, and it sort of goes over a lot of territory that

00:03:08.000 has already been trod.

00:03:10.000 They accuse Trump and his alleged co-conspirators of 161 acts.

00:03:14.000 Many of these acts are things as simple as like retweeting things.

00:03:18.000 So if you look at the actual indictment, it actually says that, for example, it accuses

00:03:23.000 act 28 on or about the third day of December 2020, Donald Trump met with the Speaker of

00:03:27.000 the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the Oval Office and discussed holding a

00:03:29.000 special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

00:03:33.000 This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

00:03:36.000 So meetings are apparently now illegal, but he called Brian Kemp.

00:03:41.000 He retweeted something from OANN.

00:03:43.000 There are people who are suggesting that those sorts of acts are now illegal.

00:03:47.000 That's not really how this works.

00:03:48.000 So to understand how these charges work, you first have to understand what RICO is, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, how that actually works.

00:03:55.000 It's a very controversial law that was passed in 1970.

00:03:58.000 Originally, it was aimed at the mafia.

00:04:00.000 And again, the basic predicate for the law is that it's very difficult to charge people who are upper-level gangsters with the crimes of their subordinates.

00:04:08.000 This is why Rico was passed.

00:04:10.000 Originally, you'd have a low-level hitman, and he would get charged with murder, and then he would refuse to rat on his boss, and there was no way to actually try the boss.

00:04:17.000 And so what they did, is they started wrapping together the entire criminal organization in an effort to get the low-level hitman to flip on his superior, and to get that guy to flip on the boss.

00:04:25.000 That was the basic idea.

00:04:26.000 If you indict everybody altogether, it is easier to flip all of the associates by threatening them with the highest-level charges.

00:04:33.000 That's sort of the goal, right?

00:04:34.000 You charge the accountant with murder, and therefore, because the accountant is now wrapped into the giant conspiracy, the accountant doesn't want to go to jail for murder.

00:04:42.000 The accountant doesn't want to go to jail at all, and so the accountant flips on the boss.

00:04:44.000 That's what racketeering originally was.

00:04:47.000 It comes from the term racket, which meant an organized illegal activity.

00:04:51.000 All it requires, the violation of RICO, at least on the federal level, and the Georgia RICO statute, which is the one that's being charged, and it does make a large-scale difference, by the way, this is a state case and not a federal case, because what it means is that even if Donald Trump were elected president, he could not pardon himself of any charge for which he was found guilty in the state of Georgia.

00:05:08.000 He could not free himself from that.

00:05:10.000 By the way, any accusation that the Georgia governor, who's a Republican, Brian Kemp, that Brian Kemp could pardon Donald Trump for this is not correct.

00:05:16.000 There's a panel in Georgia that would actually have to sit and decide whether or not he would receive a pardon.

00:05:21.000 He also does not have the power to summarily dismiss DAs in the state of Georgia, Brian Kemp.

00:05:24.000 So all of the jabber.

00:05:26.000 It is amazing that every time Donald Trump gets in trouble, there's always a lot of talk about how other Republicans have a responsibility to rescue him.

00:05:34.000 And very often, that responsibility is not even within their power.

00:05:37.000 I mean, this goes all the way back to January 6th itself, when Donald Trump suggested openly that Mike Pence had the ability to simply toss out electoral college votes that had been state-certified already.

00:05:46.000 He did not.

00:05:47.000 It's not the responsibility of any of these other people to bail Donald Trump out when they don't have the legal power to do so.

00:05:52.000 If they had the legal power to do so, at least you can make the argument.

00:05:54.000 But Brian Kemp doesn't even have that legal power in any way.

00:05:57.000 Anyways, when it comes to the state RICO Act, which is very, very similar to the federal RICO Act, the way that racketeering basically works is racketeering is broadly defined as requiring at least a couple of acts of racketeering activity committed within 10 years of each other.

00:06:11.000 And it also requires that there be a criminal conspiracy in furtherance of a crime.

00:06:15.000 Criminal conspiracy in furtherance of a crime.

00:06:17.000 Okay, what that means is that, let's say you and I, we decide that we're gonna conspire to go to the Walmart together.

00:06:23.000 Not a crime, because that's a conspiracy without actual furtherance of a crime.

00:06:26.000 You and I decide we're gonna rob a bank together.

00:06:28.000 That means that if we go to Walmart to buy a shotgun, and we buy the shotgun at the local Walmart or something, normally that wouldn't be illegal.

00:06:36.000 It becomes illegal because you and I are now planning to use that shotgun in the robbing of the bank.

00:06:40.000 So many of the acts that Trump and his associates are being accused of are acts, quote unquote, in furtherance of the crime.

00:06:46.000 So the real question in this case is not whether Donald Trump did all the things that the indictment alleges.

00:06:52.000 Most of that is undisputed.

00:06:53.000 The real question in this case is whether it was in furtherance of a criminal activity.

00:06:57.000 In other words, is it a criminal activity for Donald Trump to pursue a bunch of legal means to forestall his election loss?

00:07:06.000 Is that stuff illegal?

00:07:07.000 Now, if he had gotten together with a bunch of his friends and he said, let's actually overthrow the federal government, it would look illegal.

00:07:12.000 But then Jack Smith would be charging that on the federal level, right?

00:07:14.000 He'd be charging him with actual insurrection, which he did not.

00:07:18.000 He would also be charging him with incitement of riot, which he did not.

00:07:20.000 When it comes to Georgia, the accusation is that Donald Trump essentially wanted to overturn the results of the Georgia election through illegal means.

00:07:28.000 And he was pressuring people to do it through illegal means.

00:07:31.000 And this is a pretty serious charge.

00:07:33.000 Again, I think that it is doubtful that this could be proved in court, but it's also happening in Atlanta.

00:07:37.000 So just like the Washington DC case, this means that you have a local jury that is not going to be friendly to President Trump.

00:07:43.000 As I say, I think it's a doubtful charge because, for example, some of the things that are being charged here and some of the people being charged are some of the quote-unquote false electors, right?

00:07:51.000 These are people who signed a document saying that they were the duly elected electors of the state of Georgia when they were not.

00:07:59.000 But there's a problem with that, which is that if you go all the way back to 1960, for example, Hawaii Democrats actually did the same thing.

00:08:06.000 Hawaii, believe it or not, was a very sort of razor's edge state between Republicans and Democrats in the 1960 election.

00:08:12.000 So Democrats created an alternative slate of electors who signed a document claiming that they were actually the alternative slate of electors.

00:08:19.000 That was not illegal at the time.

00:08:21.000 So if you sign onto a document saying, I'm a member of the duly elected slate of electors, and then the state rejects that, is that illegal?

00:08:28.000 If you take bad legal advice, is that illegal?

00:08:30.000 Because it turns out that many of the people who are now being indicted are Donald Trump's lawyers.

00:08:35.000 And so the idea here is that Donald Trump would have to show, it would have to be shown that Donald Trump knew for a fact that he lost the Georgia election, and that he then pursued a bunch of means in order to overturn that election.

00:08:45.000 So you come back to the same thing that you have in the Jack Smith federal case, which is, what did Donald Trump know, and when did he know it?

00:08:51.000 Do you think that he actively believed that he won the Georgia election and he was pursuing a bunch of legal strategies in order to assure that win, or did he know that he lost and he didn't care, and because he knew he lost, he was attempting to overthrow the election?

00:09:03.000 That's going to be the open question.

00:09:04.000 Now Donald Trump has done himself no favors along these lines.

00:09:08.000 Let's be clear about this.

00:09:08.000 Donald Trump actively retweeted an article after David Perdue who lost in a Senate race in 2021 largely because Donald Trump told everybody not to vote in 2021 in a runoff.

00:09:19.000 After he lost, Donald Trump tried to prop him up to run against Brian Kemp for governor because Brian Kemp did not go along with Donald Trump's Georgia shenanigans.

00:09:27.000 David Perdue got his ass kicked by like 50 points in the primary against Brian Kemp and Donald Trump then proceeded to tweet out an article suggesting that David Perdue had lost because of voter fraud.

00:09:36.000 So it again, the case that Fannie Willis and company are going to make just to be totally legally fair here. 0.81

00:09:42.000 The case they're going to attempt to make is that Donald Trump doesn't actually care at all whether he wins or loses an election.

00:09:47.000 He's going to claim that he won and then he's going to attempt to overthrow the illegitimate results of the election.

00:09:51.000 But Donald Trump also could legitimately believe that he won the Georgia election.

00:09:56.000 Even if that's not true.

00:09:58.000 And by the way, it is not true.

00:09:59.000 The Secretary of State of Georgia has actually attempted to pry out information from True the Vote, which is the organization behind 2,000 Mules.

00:10:07.000 And True the Vote has refused to turn over the information they say supports the idea of widespread voter fraud in the state of Georgia.

00:10:13.000 But that doesn't matter.

00:10:14.000 The real question is intent.

00:10:15.000 Is it a criminal act to listen to bad legal advice?

00:10:17.000 Is it a criminal act to call up the Georgia Secretary of State and say, I want you to find me 11,870 votes?

00:10:23.000 Is that a thing that is criminal? 1.00

00:10:24.000 Or is that just you being an idiot? 1.00

00:10:26.000 You being an idiot, not a crime. 1.00

00:10:28.000 A conspiracy to be an idiot, also not a crime. 1.00

00:10:31.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second. 0.99

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00:11:35.000 So, two things can be true at once.

00:11:37.000 One, this can be a fairly serious charge that Donald Trump is facing down, particularly in an unfriendly jurisdiction.

00:11:42.000 It can also be true that Donald Trump is being targeted by Fannie Willis in highly political fashion. 0.85

00:11:48.000 It's the exact same thing as Jack Smith going after him in Washington, D.C.

00:11:53.000 Although, I will say that the Georgia case, just based on statute, is stronger than the Washington, D.C.

00:11:58.000 case.

00:11:58.000 The Washington, D.C.

00:11:59.000 case has a bunch of twisting and turning to try to fit what Donald Trump did into a bunch of statutes that don't quite fit.

00:12:06.000 This one, you can at least make the argument, legally speaking, that Donald Trump fits within the purview of these statutes.

00:12:12.000 In a way that he doesn't in sort of the D.C.

00:12:14.000 case.

00:12:14.000 But with all of that said, why is it that four cases have now come down in five months leading up to the election?

00:12:21.000 Why?

00:12:23.000 That's a little bit suspicious.

00:12:25.000 You have four major criminal cases that have come down in the last five months against the leading Republican contender for the presidency.

00:12:30.000 That looks an awful lot like election interference just to any outside observer, obviously.

00:12:35.000 Now, as I say, this particular case is extremely broad.

00:12:39.000 Fannie Willis, Has now given Donald Trump a deadline to turn himself in.

00:12:45.000 And people at the courthouse- I mean, it's all political.

00:12:46.000 People at the courthouse are already saying that he's going to take a mugshot, which will easily be the most trafficked photo in human history.

00:12:52.000 You can imagine that Donald Trump will smile for the photo.

00:12:54.000 Because when you smile for your mugshot, you look cool.

00:12:57.000 And Donald Trump knows that.

00:12:58.000 Here's Fannie Willis explaining the deadline.

00:13:02.000 I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on Friday, the 25th day of August 2023.

00:13:15.000 Okay, so Donald Trump is going to have to turn himself in probably next week.

00:13:19.000 It is worthwhile noting here that Donald Trump is going to have one defense, which is that the grand jury was essentially preset.

00:13:24.000 That the bias in the grand jury was essentially preset.

00:13:27.000 You'll recall that there was a crazy lady who was the foreperson of the grand jury in this particular case. 1.00

00:13:32.000 Her name was Emily Kors, and she was the witch? 0.85

00:13:36.000 I believe.

00:13:37.000 Who then went on a national media tour talking about the grand jury workings and was extremely weird.

00:13:43.000 So Donald Trump's legal team is going to have something to hang their hat on here.

00:13:46.000 Here is a flashback of Emily Kors, the grand jury foreperson who again is a weirdo.

00:13:52.000 personally want to hear from the phone i want to hear from the former president

00:13:56.000 but honestly i kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because i got to swear everybody

00:14:00.000 in and so i thought it'd be really cool to get 60 seconds with president trump of me looking at him

00:14:05.000 and being like do you solemnly swear and me getting to swear him in i just i kind of just 0.81

00:14:10.000 thought that would be an awesome moment jury duty man It's the place where twelve people too dumb to get out of jury duty get to decide your fate.

00:14:18.000 So, um, yeah, Donald Trump's team is gonna have something to say about all of that as well.

00:14:22.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:15:32.000 Okay, so as I say, this criminal indictment, here are the people who are named.

00:15:35.000 Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, who is the lawyer, Mark Meadows, who is his chief of staff.

00:15:41.000 John Chisbrough, who is one of his lawyers as well.

00:15:44.000 Jeffrey Clark, who is a member of the DOJ.

00:15:48.000 Jenna Ellis, one of his lawyers.

00:15:50.000 And then there are a bunch of more local officials, including a bunch of people who signed on to the Alternative Elector Scheme.

00:15:56.000 Okay, now, how is this going to play out?

00:16:00.000 It is very likely that he faces, apparently he faces 13 charges and up to 71 years in jail.

00:16:08.000 He's now facing, we are talking, 13 charges there.

00:16:10.000 He's facing, I believe, 14 charges in Washington, D.C.

00:16:13.000 He's facing a bevy of charges in the classified documents case.

00:16:16.000 So, I mean, Trump is in serious jeopardy of going to jail.

00:16:20.000 And as we say, because this is a state case, he cannot pardon himself.

00:16:23.000 So the argument that Donald Trump must be elected president so that he can escape jail, which is an argument I'm seeing made right now, I don't see how that works.

00:16:30.000 I don't see exactly how that argument is even operative.

00:16:34.000 In terms of which of these cases poses the largest-scale legal threat to Donald Trump, this is the case that obviously poses the largest-scale legal threat to Donald Trump.

00:16:43.000 The reason being, it is broad.

00:16:44.000 It is all-encompassing.

00:16:46.000 It allows Fannie Willis to tell this overarching story, linking together his activities in Pennsylvania, and his activities in Washington, D.C., and his activities in Georgia, in this broad-based conspiracy in which she can connect all of these dots.

00:16:59.000 So it's smart of her to charge under the RICO Act. 0.81

00:17:03.000 To be simple about this, it is not a stupid charge for her to do this. 0.98

00:17:06.000 You can say that it's corrupt. 0.99

00:17:07.000 You can say that it is politically motivated.

00:17:09.000 I think there's some truth to that.

00:17:10.000 It also happens to be the case that just from a legal perspective, what she's doing here is not unintelligent.

00:17:15.000 What she's doing here is a weapon designed to take down Trump. 0.95

00:17:18.000 No call, no question. 0.94

00:17:20.000 Trump calls her an out-of-control and very corrupt district attorney.

00:17:22.000 He declares the charges are part of a witch hunt.

00:17:25.000 The case, again, is the fourth, targeting Trump just this year alone.

00:17:31.000 The, the, this case probably will run all the way through the election because it is very large scale.

00:17:37.000 Now she says, and this, this part, this part is crazy.

00:17:39.000 She says she wants to try all of the defendants at once, like put them all in a room together and try them at once.

00:17:44.000 Sort of like that scene where Harvey Dent tries everybody all together in the dark night You remember that scene where he brings in all of the corrupt mobsters and he puts them all in a room together and all of their lawyers are protesting and all of the rest of this?

00:17:55.000 And he does this to throw a scare into them?

00:17:57.000 That's part of it.

00:17:58.000 What Rico is designed to do, as I suggested earlier, is to get the accountant to flip on the hitman who flips on the headman.

00:18:03.000 Part of this is going to be an attempt to get people who are around Trump to flip on Trump to avoid criminal charges.

00:18:10.000 So, when is this actually going to take place?

00:18:12.000 That is still up in the air.

00:18:14.000 Willis did not say whether she has spoken with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith at this point, which probably means that she has.

00:18:20.000 She said she doesn't care whether this goes first or last, which means that it will go all the way through the election, without a doubt.

00:18:26.000 Trump wrote on Truth Social, so the witch hunt continues.

00:18:29.000 19 people indicted tonight, including the former president of the United States, me, by an out-of-control and very corrupt district attorney who campaigned and raised money on I Will Get Trump.

00:18:38.000 And what about those indictment documents put out today, long before the grand jury even voted and then quickly withdrawn?

00:18:42.000 Sounds rigged to me.

00:18:44.000 Why didn't they indict 2.5 years ago?

00:18:45.000 Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign.

00:18:48.000 Witch hunt.

00:18:50.000 And again, that may very well be the case.

00:18:52.000 That does not mean he is not in legal danger.

00:18:54.000 Two things can be true at once, as always, as always.

00:18:56.000 He can be in legal danger.

00:18:58.000 It can be a witch hunt.

00:18:59.000 It can be an attempt to take him out in the election.

00:19:02.000 The real question for Republicans is whether they're going to go along with the bait here.

00:19:06.000 And the obvious bait is nominate Trump so that he can take his revenge.

00:19:10.000 As I said before, I don't see how that worked even legally speaking.

00:19:13.000 If he goes to jail in Georgia, he will still be in jail in Georgia as President of the United States.

00:19:20.000 There's a civil suit that was filed against Bill Clinton when he was President of the United States by Paula Jones.

00:19:26.000 It went forward.

00:19:27.000 It's why the Monica Lewinsky scandal happened. 1.00

00:19:29.000 We've never had a case where a state criminal charge is filed against the sitting president of the United States before he became president of the United States.

00:19:35.000 I don't even know how that would work.

00:19:37.000 I'm not sure anybody knows how that would work.

00:19:40.000 Let's say that you get hit with a murder charge and you run for the presidency from jail.

00:19:44.000 Are you automatically freed from jail on the murder charge?

00:19:48.000 Like, let's say that Ted Kennedy I've actually gotten hit with a murder charge, or at least a manslaughter charge, as he should have been in the case of Mary Jo Kopechny in Massachusetts, and then he had continued to serve in the United States Senate.

00:19:58.000 Presumably, he still would have gone to jail.

00:20:01.000 So, I don't know how any of this works.

00:20:03.000 I'm not sure anybody knows how any of this works.

00:20:07.000 Georgia represents probably the most serious threat to Trump's liberty, according to a wide variety of legal analysts, including Andy McCarthy.

00:20:14.000 It is highly likely at this point, as I say, it is hard to imagine that Trump escapes all legal consequence for all of these charges.

00:20:23.000 I'm not sure how he escapes what's going to happen to him in Washington, D.C.

00:20:28.000 or Georgia.

00:20:30.000 And when we say that it's outrageous, it is.

00:20:33.000 It also means that the glass has now been broken.

00:20:35.000 So what we're about to see next is what truly what we're about to see next is Republican DAs all over the country start to indict people like Joe Biden for things like racketeering and corruption as Vice President of the United States.

00:20:50.000 Once the glass has been broken, it cannot be unbroken.

00:20:53.000 The glass has now been broken.

00:20:55.000 The predictable result of this is not that Donald Trump gets elected president.

00:20:58.000 The predictable result of this is that lawfare now becomes the way that political opponents go after each other on the regular in the United States.

00:21:05.000 And that's going to be a really, really dangerous thing.

00:21:07.000 Remember, Donald Trump was considered wildly out of the bounds of propriety when Donald Trump said to Hillary Clinton that if he was elected president, she would be in jail.

00:21:15.000 You remember he said this during a debate.

00:21:18.000 She said, well, what would you even do if you're president?

00:21:19.000 If I were president, you'd be in jail.

00:21:21.000 And then he didn't do anything about it.

00:21:23.000 And a lot of people, myself included, thought, well that's probably good.

00:21:25.000 We actually don't want people persecuting their political opponents.

00:21:29.000 Well now we clearly have Democrats all over the country.

00:21:31.000 From Manhattan, to now Georgia, to Washington D.C., to Florida, going after their political opponents.

00:21:37.000 That is not a bell that can be unrung.

00:21:39.000 Get ready for Republicans to do the exact same thing as soon as they have the power and the grounds to do so.

00:21:45.000 That is where we stand as a country.

00:21:46.000 So things are about to get worse, not better.

00:21:48.000 All those people on the left who think that this is restoring rule of law and all that nonsense.

00:21:53.000 Nonsense.

00:21:54.000 All this is going to do is going to achieve a race to the bottom.

00:21:57.000 Because again, once the law can be used as a weapon directly against your political opponents, why exactly would you allow the other side to use that weapon and to avoid culpability for their use of that weapon?

00:22:10.000 It's hard to see exactly how this doesn't end poorly for pretty much everybody.

00:22:13.000 We'll get to more on this in one second.

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00:23:21.000 Then there are the co-conspirators.

00:23:23.000 Again, the real question here is whether Rudy Giuliani or Mark Meadows decide to flip on Donald Trump.

00:23:29.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, a lot of these people are well-known co-defendants, and they're all legal advisors.

00:23:35.000 Now, we already know that some of these people are, like Rudy Giuliani, is highly likely to get convicted in this case.

00:23:42.000 The reason that Rudy Giuliani is highly likely to get convicted in this case is because he has openly had to apologize to a particular poll worker for suggesting and implying that she was corruptly bringing in empty ballots to the Fulton County vote counting location.

00:23:58.000 Knowing, presumably, that she was not, in fact, doing that.

00:24:01.000 Well, once you have people who are caught in false statements, it shouldn't be that hard to flip them.

00:24:05.000 Sidney Powell, like, the question is, how strong is their loyalty going to be?

00:24:08.000 So, Donald Trump has had the loyalty of subordinates for a very, very long time.

00:24:13.000 In the Classified Documents case, for example, he has Walt Mata and a bunch of low-level aides who are maintaining their unwillingness to basically flip on him.

00:24:21.000 Is that going to hold with somebody like Sidney Powell?

00:24:23.000 Does it seem like Sidney Powell is somebody who is going to, you know, stick by her word here and hold by President Trump?

00:24:30.000 Hard to see that.

00:24:31.000 Five of the co-defendants, Giuliani pal John Eastman, Kenneth Chesbrough, and Jeffrey Clark are identifiable though unnamed as co-conspirators in a separate federal indictment from Jack Smith.

00:24:40.000 Some of the people who are gonna be called in this case, and again, it will be televised.

00:24:42.000 Some of the people who are gonna be called in this case will include, I assume, the current Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, in Georgia.

00:24:49.000 Brian Kemp, because he was called by Donald Trump, could actually be called to testify in this particular case.

00:24:54.000 It will be televised, it will be a spectacle, and it will be an electoral disaster for Republicans if this thing runs all the way through the election.

00:25:00.000 I know there are a lot of Republicans who are in love with the idea that this is gonna backfire on Democrats, and that the attempt to quote-unquote, get Trump, is going to lead to a revenge play by Trump, That ends with a Republican in the White House?

00:25:10.000 I'd love to see the poll data supporting that.

00:25:12.000 I've yet to see one iota of data supporting that.

00:25:15.000 There's a lot of data to suggest that the targeting of Trump has helped him in the primaries.

00:25:20.000 I've yet to see one piece, like one, a single piece of data suggesting that the American people are going to react to all this lawfare against Trump by voting for Trump.

00:25:29.000 There's not one poll showing it.

00:25:30.000 Seriously, not one.

00:25:31.000 Even the most Trump-friendly polls don't show that.

00:25:34.000 What they show is that a majority of the American public believes Trump should be indicted on something, which is a very bad indicator.

00:25:39.000 I think they're wrong, but it doesn't matter what I think.

00:25:41.000 It matters what the American public thinks because they're the ones who are going to be voting.

00:25:44.000 Also, is Trump likely to win Georgia in the 2024 election if the entire case in Georgia is about how he was basically pressuring people into changing votes or into finding votes or whatever it is?

00:25:57.000 Is that going to help his case in the state of Georgia?

00:26:00.000 Remember, Brian Kemp Do you think Georgians are really fond of this sort of stuff?

00:26:15.000 I have doubts.

00:26:16.000 If Donald Trump loses Georgia, all the rest of these states don't even matter.

00:26:19.000 And by the way, the Arizona Republican Party continues to keep doubling down on this sort of stuff.

00:26:23.000 Do you think that's going to help them?

00:26:24.000 It certainly didn't help them in 2022.

00:26:25.000 How about in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan?

00:26:28.000 Is any of this going to help?

00:26:30.000 I say this because, again, Whatever sympathy I have for President Trump being targeted, and I have sympathy for President Trump being targeted for sure.

00:26:37.000 The question for me, as a conservative, is who stops Biden?

00:26:40.000 Who stops the bad policy that affects me and my family and you?

00:26:44.000 Who stops all of those bad policies?

00:26:47.000 You can have sympathy for somebody while still recognizing that the thing that shapes your life as an American is who is the President of the United States.

00:26:55.000 And yes, it shapes your life that the DOJ is going after political opponents because those political opponents could be you.

00:26:59.000 But the only way to stop that is power.

00:27:01.000 The only way to stop that is to put someone in the White House who can actually clean out the DOJ. 0.97

00:27:05.000 If Donald Trump can't make it, it does no one any favors to run him.

00:27:09.000 This is a really serious question.

00:27:10.000 This is going to linger over the entire election cycle.

00:27:13.000 Right now, the court dates are spread out all over 2024.

00:27:17.000 We already know that the classified documents case is likely to begin sometime in May.

00:27:24.000 Right in the middle of the election cycle, like just before the conventions.

00:27:27.000 This case is likely to begin, you would imagine, August-September, right before the election.

00:27:32.000 There's every possibility that the Jack Smith indictment in D.C.

00:27:35.000 is going to start even before the primaries.

00:27:37.000 This thing is going to lurk over the entirety of the election.

00:27:41.000 Now you have all of these other people who, as I say, could flip, including people like Ray Stallings Smith, who's an Atlanta-area lawyer who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit challenging Biden's Georgia victory.

00:27:53.000 He was the subject of a complaint from a legal watchdog group to the state bar seeking disciplinary measures.

00:27:57.000 Or Robert Cheeley, who's been hit with 10 counts.

00:27:59.000 He's a personal injury lawyer.

00:28:01.000 He presented Georgia state senators with video clips he claimed showed election workers at a downtown Atlanta precinct double and triple counting votes.

00:28:07.000 And it turns out that that wasn't actually the case.

00:28:11.000 And so the question is whether he knew that or not.

00:28:12.000 Do you think these low-level officials want to go to jail for years on end?

00:28:16.000 For Donald Trump?

00:28:17.000 Do you think that's a thing that they want to do?

00:28:20.000 And this is why what Fannie Willis is doing, you know, corrupt as it may be, bad as it may be for the country, it is smart legally because the chances of flipping somebody are pretty significant.

00:28:35.000 So this is gonna be wild.

00:28:39.000 And by wild, I mean really, really horrific for the country on pretty much every single level.

00:28:45.000 Okay, in just a second, we'll get to Joe Biden.

00:28:47.000 He's supposed to be Captain Sympathy, and yet he remains a person who is oddly unsympathetic to everybody who does not have the last name Biden.

00:28:54.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:30:50.000 So Joe Biden's appeal back in 2020, whatever appeal it was, is that he was supposedly a big contrast with Donald Trump.

00:30:58.000 If you look at the latest polls from Gallup just before the election, they looked at character dimensions for the various candidates.

00:31:04.000 And what they found is that 66% of American voters thought that Joe Biden was likable, as

00:31:10.000 opposed to 36% who thought that Donald Trump was likable. 52% thought that Joe Biden was

00:31:14.000 trustworthy, as opposed to 40% who thought that Trump was honest and trustworthy. But most

00:31:19.000 importantly, 54% of Americans said that Joe Biden cared about people like them, as opposed to only

00:31:24.000 45% who said that Donald Trump cared about people like them. Well, this has always been the lie about

00:31:29.000 Joe Biden. He's not honest and trustworthy.

00:31:31.000 He's not particularly likable.

00:31:32.000 And he does not care about anyone outside of his immediate circle.

00:31:35.000 This is why everybody who is a member of the Biden family is rich.

00:31:38.000 If you are inside the circle, he makes you rich.

00:31:40.000 If you are outside the circle, he does not care about you.

00:31:43.000 And he has put this on display a multiplicity of times.

00:31:46.000 From Afghanistan to, most recently, this Lahaina fire that killed at least 100 people.

00:31:52.000 So according to Bloomberg, this Maui fire is the deadliest fire in the United States in 105 years.

00:31:57.000 93 people at least have been killed.

00:31:58.000 We still have hundreds of people missing.

00:32:00.000 The number of fatalities expected to climb further as authorities continue search and rescue efforts.

00:32:04.000 According to the Hawaii governor, Josh Green, only 3% of the area has been searched.

00:32:08.000 They're still bringing in 12 more cadaver dogs to help with the efforts.

00:32:11.000 That death toll is definitely going to go up.

00:32:13.000 So what is Joe Biden doing during all of this?

00:32:15.000 Now, remember, we have a history in the United States of holding the president of the United States or even senators from a given state accountable for natural disasters where they are not Really hands-on, like right in the middle of it, just involved.

00:32:27.000 You'll recall, of course, when George W. Bush was perceived as disconnected from the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

00:32:33.000 Here, for example, is a montage of media coverage talking about the evils of George W. Bush when it came to his supposed dereliction of duty during Hurricane Katrina.

00:32:42.000 This is a quote from an editorial.

00:32:44.000 A better leader would have flown straight to the disaster zone and announced the immediate mobilization of every available resource.

00:32:51.000 The cool, confident, intuitive leadership Bush exhibited in his first term, particularly in the months following 9-11, has vanished.

00:33:00.000 The New York Times, not unexpectedly, kind of chimed in.

00:33:03.000 They said the president showed up a day later than he was needed, and they excoriated him for appearing casual to the point of carelessness.

00:33:11.000 Harsh words coming from FEMA's former disaster response chief, Eric Tolbert, who says the government was not ready and shifted its attention from natural disasters to fighting the war on terror.

00:33:23.000 Well, George W. Bush did a terrible leadership job during that crisis.

00:33:27.000 He kind of acted like nothing was happening wrong for the first days.

00:33:30.000 He had been in San Diego where he played air guitar, and then he did the famous flyover, being very detached From the devastation and that photograph that damaged his presidency immensely of him just peering down at the abyss.

00:33:44.000 But it was also seen in our correspondent just referred to it, President W. Bush, George W. Bush flying over in Air Force One, not landing.

00:33:52.000 And it was peculiar, wasn't it?

00:33:53.000 Because we thought back to 9-11, we see George W. Bush with a bullhorn addressing the firefighters.

00:33:58.000 This was a man who got the crises when it comes to the public relations and he lost the touch when it came to Katrina.

00:34:04.000 What happened?

00:34:06.000 Well, I think it was, again, a breakdown at all levels.

00:34:09.000 And in that particular case, the pilots were instructed not to come in.

00:34:12.000 It would have been more of a complication to bring the airplane in than to land.

00:34:16.000 I think, in retrospect, it would have been better just to figure out how to get that plane on the ground there.

00:34:20.000 So he could have been the Commander-in-Chief.

00:34:22.000 You remember all of this.

00:34:23.000 You remember when Ted Cruz was in Cancun for a vacation and a freeze hit Texas.

00:34:27.000 And supposedly the senator from Texas had to be on site suffering through the freeze despite the fact that really this was a state-level issue.

00:34:34.000 Now again, Hurricane Katrina was a state-level issue.

00:34:37.000 It was the governor's issue, really.

00:34:38.000 It was the mayor's issue when it came to New Orleans.

00:34:41.000 And when it came to what was going on in Texas that really had very little to do with a senator who has very little power over any of that.

00:34:46.000 But this is the standard to which we hold our presidents of the United States.

00:34:49.000 It's why Barack Obama got big plaudits during Hurricane Sandy when he showed up in New Jersey and got a big ol' hug from Chris Christie.

00:34:56.000 Remember this?

00:34:56.000 And it's why, of course, George W. Bush got ripped up and down.

00:34:58.000 Well, so how is Joe Biden responding to crises?

00:35:01.000 The answer is he just ignores them.

00:35:03.000 And again, this is not the first time.

00:35:05.000 Remember that time he said he was going to visit East Palestine, Ohio?

00:35:07.000 Remember a train blew up and sent a bunch of toxic waste into the air?

00:35:11.000 And his own Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, did not show up for quite a while.

00:35:15.000 In fact, Donald Trump beat him there.

00:35:16.000 And remember how Joe Biden said he was going to visit East Palestine, Ohio?

00:35:19.000 Well, it has now been months and months and months.

00:35:22.000 No sign of President Joe Biden.

00:35:23.000 Remember that time where we had a giant crisis on our southern border?

00:35:27.000 You know, like now because it continues and Joe Biden still has not made a serious visit to the southern border.

00:35:33.000 This, in fact, is the way that Joe Biden governs.

00:35:35.000 He governs in a way that if there were any other president, it would be treated as the sort of dereliction that it is treated as when it's just not Joe Biden.

00:35:42.000 But as soon as it's Joe Biden, we're all supposed to ignore it.

00:35:45.000 And it really is quite incredible.

00:35:46.000 So a couple of hours.

00:35:49.000 He spent a couple of hours on Rehoboth Beach.

00:35:52.000 And he was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii.

00:35:53.000 This is after he took a 14-day vacation, and then he went back for another four-day vacation to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he sits on the beach basically by himself, being an old man.

00:36:02.000 And here's a picture of the President of the United States, hundreds of feet away from the photographers, sitting there, enjoying his life.

00:36:10.000 He was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii, and he said, no comment.

00:36:14.000 Then he went bicycling.

00:36:16.000 Which is really important for the President of the United States to be a bicycling, obviously.

00:36:21.000 And he was asked about a potential visit to Maui.

00:36:23.000 And he said the same thing that he said about East Palestine, Ohio.

00:36:25.000 He said, we're looking at it.

00:36:27.000 Here was Joe Biden saying, oh, you know, well, no comment.

00:36:29.000 We're looking at it.

00:36:31.000 Good morning.

00:36:32.000 Will you be going to Maui?

00:36:34.000 Good morning, Madam First Lady. 0.96

00:36:36.000 Can you come talk about Maui, Mr. President?

00:36:39.000 And bye.

00:36:40.000 Catch you later.

00:36:41.000 Now, if it's heartless for everybody else, why would it not be heartless for Joe Biden?

00:36:46.000 The answer is, it is heartless for Joe Biden.

00:36:48.000 In fact, Joe Biden is now planning to travel to Lake Tahoe, Nevada on Friday, and he's going to spend a week there, leaving the following Thursday.

00:36:55.000 So 14-day vacation, followed by a four-day vacation in Delaware, followed by like a week-long vacation in Lake Tahoe.

00:37:00.000 You wouldn't want to break up his vacation, folks.

00:37:03.000 You wouldn't want him to worry too much about what's going on in Maui.

00:37:07.000 This is not a caring individual.

00:37:08.000 This is a guy who cares only about himself.

00:37:09.000 And this has been true his entire political career. 1.00

00:37:12.000 It's why he's a congenital liar. 0.97

00:37:13.000 It's why he says things that are untrue on the regular. 0.98

00:37:15.000 It's why he lied when he suggested that a drunk driver killed his wife and his daughter in a car crash and the guy wasn't drunk.

00:37:22.000 It is why he goes to veterans houses and then he tells them like wounded veterans houses or gold star parents or gold star spouses and he tells them that his son Bo died in battle in Iraq or some such nonsense.

00:37:33.000 All Joe Biden cares about is Joe Biden. 0.95

00:37:35.000 He is a mean son of a gun. 0.96

00:37:37.000 Joe Biden is not in fact a caring president. 0.96

00:37:40.000 When he says no comment or when he says we're looking at a visit Or when he says, again, no comment.

00:37:46.000 And then when he goes on more vacations.

00:37:47.000 And we're all supposed to believe this is a person who has wells of empathy.

00:37:50.000 You know, honestly, this is his entire pitch in 2020.

00:37:53.000 He felt your pain.

00:37:55.000 Now, he wasn't a good actor, so he couldn't do it like Bill Clinton.

00:37:57.000 But people wanted to believe.

00:37:59.000 Because they believed that Donald Trump didn't feel their pain. 0.99

00:38:00.000 Donald Trump, of course, being selfish and narcissistic and all the rest, supposedly. 1.00

00:38:04.000 Well, Joe Biden is far more selfish and narcissistic than Donald Trump. 1.00

00:38:09.000 He's just quieter about it. 0.98

00:38:11.000 This is why he has no problem plagiarizing and getting thrown out of his own presidential campaign for it.

00:38:16.000 I mean, this was Joe Biden's shtick for years and years and years.

00:38:20.000 And it just remains an object of enormous astonishment to me that the media were willing to go along with this narrative that Joe Biden was a decent elderly fellow who truly cares about people like you.

00:38:31.000 What is the evidence of any of this?

00:38:35.000 By the way, when people are truly dishonest with other people, like on a routine basis, that is a sign of narcissism.

00:38:40.000 It means they don't care about you.

00:38:41.000 This is true in personal relationships and it's true in politics.

00:38:43.000 When people lie to you regularly, it means they don't respect you.

00:38:46.000 It means they don't treat you as a normal human being.

00:38:49.000 Because if they treated you as they would wish to be treated, presumably they wouldn't want to be lied to.

00:38:52.000 But Joe Biden doesn't care about that.

00:38:55.000 Later yesterday morning, Joe Biden tried to walk all of this back.

00:38:58.000 He tweeted out, as residents of Hawaii mourn the loss of life and devastation taking place across their beautiful home, we mourn with them.

00:39:04.000 Like I've said, not only our prayers are with those impacted, but every asset we have will be available to them.

00:39:09.000 Here's the latest.

00:39:10.000 And then he says that FEMA temporary sheltering assistance is now available for residents who are displaced from their homes by the wildfires, allowing survivors to shelter in motels or motels temporarily as they develop a long-term housing plan.

00:39:19.000 And then, guys, they're laser focused on getting aid to the survivors, including Critical needs assistance.

00:39:24.000 A one-time $700 payment per household offering relief during an unimaginably difficult time.

00:39:29.000 $700 per household?

00:39:32.000 Now, far be it from me to suggest that we should just throw bags of cash at people, but if the idea here is that you have a federal crisis that necessitates a federal response, $700 a household?

00:39:44.000 That's not even going to pay for like two weeks of groceries for your family in Joe Biden's America.

00:39:48.000 $700 is not going to do it.

00:39:51.000 You know the amount of property damage that was done to Lahaina?

00:39:54.000 $5.6 billion in property damage done to Lahaina.

00:39:57.000 $700?

00:39:58.000 It doesn't even begin to scratch the surface.

00:40:00.000 We sent like $115 billion to Ukraine.

00:40:03.000 And even if you think that's a good expenditure of defense money, you gotta start asking yourself, why $115 billion of aid to Ukraine and like less than $2 million to the people of Lahaina?

00:40:12.000 Which is what that would amount to because there aren't that many households in Lahaina.

00:40:16.000 And then Biden says, we're making sure all residents receive critical information so they can take steps forward to move forward in their recovery.

00:40:22.000 This includes translating materials into the most common languages spoken in the- Oh my god, you mean they're actually gonna translate government materials into foreign languages?

00:40:29.000 Wow.

00:40:30.000 Oh, the sacrifice.

00:40:31.000 Oh, the amazing on-the-ground nature of all of this.

00:40:36.000 I mean, he's lounging at the beach, and we're supposed to believe that he gives two damns about this?

00:40:40.000 Of course he doesn't.

00:40:42.000 Joe Biden, as always, cares only about Joe Biden.

00:40:45.000 Which, of course, is why the Hunter Biden situation continues its ongoing cover-up.

00:40:50.000 So Hunter Biden's team is now very, very angry at prosecutors.

00:40:52.000 They're very angry at the DOJ.

00:40:54.000 And they have a right to be angry at the DOJ because Joe Biden's DOJ cut a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden.

00:40:59.000 Well, now, as it turns out, the defense team is really ticked off at the DOJ.

00:41:02.000 Why?

00:41:02.000 Well, because that plea deal blew up in open court.

00:41:05.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden's legal team said late Sunday the Justice Department had decided to renege on the previously agreed-upon plea agreement, escalating a dispute that is threatening to become a factor in the 2024 presidential race as President Biden seeks re-election.

00:41:18.000 A major part of the botched deal, Hunter Biden's agreement to enroll in a diversion program for gun offenders, should stand, the lawyers argued.

00:41:24.000 Prosecutors had agreed not to pursue a separate felony gun possession charge against the younger Biden as long as he remains drug-free and agrees to never own a firearm again.

00:41:30.000 His attorney said he intends to abide by the terms of the agreement and expects prosecutors to do the same, but that's actually not what was in there.

00:41:36.000 Part of that diversion program for gun offenders plea deal said that anything tangentially related to the tax charges would also be taken off the board.

00:41:45.000 Prosecutors on Friday disclosed the plea talks with the president's son had broken down.

00:41:48.000 AG Merrick Garland then named Delaware U.S.

00:41:50.000 Attorney David Weiss as a special counsel, which of course, as we talked about yesterday, is completely insane.

00:41:55.000 You're not supposed to take the person who was not a special counsel and was the investigating person and then make him the special counsel the minute that he gets called out for the sweetheart deal.

00:42:02.000 That is obviously a cover-up designed at preventing testimony from that person in front of Congress.

00:42:07.000 It's pretty impressive.

00:42:08.000 And meanwhile, Democrats continue to kick those goalposts into the ocean.

00:42:11.000 Representative Jared Moskowitz, he says, there's no evidence that any of this links back to Joe.

00:42:14.000 Well, isn't that a far cry from Hunter Biden never did anything wrong?

00:42:18.000 And Joe never knew anything about this.

00:42:20.000 And Joe was never connected in any way.

00:42:21.000 There's no evidence to link anything back to Joe was true about Al Capone with regard to murder.

00:42:25.000 They had to get him on a tax charge just because there's no evidence.

00:42:29.000 That Joe Biden took, like, money directly into his bank account doesn't mean he didn't benefit from Hunter taking tens of millions of dollars into the Biden family bank account.

00:42:38.000 That's a wild statement.

00:42:39.000 Here's Representative Jared Moskowitz hanging his hat on a very, very slim hook.

00:42:45.000 Republicans, the modern Republicans in the House know they can't save Donald Trump, right?

00:42:49.000 He has the triple crown of indictments right now.

00:42:51.000 He's going for the final four.

00:42:53.000 I mean, he's batting a thousand on every indictment we thought he was going to get.

00:42:56.000 And so they know they can't save him.

00:42:58.000 So the whole idea is they want to make Joe Biden just like him.

00:43:01.000 You know, the head of the Biden Graham family, like somehow Joe Biden all of a sudden is Tony Soprano.

00:43:06.000 But there is not a single shred of evidence that has anything to do with Joe Biden.

00:43:12.000 Okay, this is what they're going to hang their hat on.

00:43:15.000 If we're talking about things you don't have evidence for, how about evidence that Donald Trump colluded with Russia?

00:43:19.000 You went after that for four years.

00:43:22.000 How about evidence that Donald Trump committed major campaign finance violations?

00:43:26.000 You don't have evidence of that and you're charging him criminally in Manhattan.

00:43:29.000 How about evidence for the charges that you're bringing against him in Washington, D.C.

00:43:33.000 with regard to January 6th?

00:43:35.000 The evidence there is real slim.

00:43:37.000 I don't see you guys stopping your roll for half a second.

00:43:40.000 But Jamie Raskin is doing the same routine.

00:43:41.000 So they've not even laid a glove on Joe.

00:43:44.000 Oh, the hackery.

00:43:44.000 Oh, the unbelievable hackery here.

00:43:47.000 And we're going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments, millions of dollars we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals when he was president and that his family got.

00:44:01.000 But they've not laid a glove on Joe Biden.

00:44:04.000 As president, they haven't been able to show any criminal corruption on his part.

00:44:09.000 As president, they haven't been able to show any criminal corruption.

00:44:11.000 As president.

00:44:13.000 Those aren't even the allegations.

00:44:14.000 The allegation is that there's criminal corruption when he was vice president.

00:44:17.000 So you're not even naming the same period.

00:44:19.000 By the way, the evidence of criminal corruption is that his own AG tried to keep the Hunter Biden scandal with a lid on it.

00:44:27.000 That's the actual evidence.

00:44:28.000 And we have testimony from IRS whistleblowers to exactly that effect.

00:44:33.000 Again, I think the House of Cards that is Joe Biden's reputation is crumbling.

00:44:37.000 I think it's going to materialize if Republicans have the brains to, you know, run somebody who's able to make that the issue.

00:44:43.000 Democrats, in order to distract, are of course going to now apparently indict President Trump every day of this week, every day of next week, and every week to come.

00:44:50.000 And that's precisely what Joe Biden wants.

00:44:51.000 Because again, when you focus in on Joe Biden, what you see is a corrupt elderly man who does not care about anyone except him and his immediate family.

00:44:59.000 And if you focus on Donald Trump, Donald Trump is likely to lose.

00:45:02.000 That is the simple math here.

00:45:03.000 And Donald Trump makes it easy for his opponents when he praises people like Laura Loomer. 0.99

00:45:09.000 Laura Loomer is pretty obviously a crazy person. 1.00

00:45:13.000 And Donald Trump on Friday apparently praised her pretty fulsomely in a video clip posted to social media. 0.88

00:45:23.000 She flattered him and then he did a pose with her.

00:45:25.000 He said, it's great to have you.

00:45:26.000 You work hard.

00:45:27.000 You're a very opinionated lady.

00:45:29.000 I have to tell you that in my opinion, I like that.

00:45:32.000 And then she praised him, and he praised her, and all of the rest.

00:45:35.000 Trump had actually offered to hire Loomer a little while ago.

00:45:39.000 Loomer, of course, has done things like suggest that Casey DeSantis didn't actually have cancer, that she faked or exaggerated her cancer. 0.64

00:45:48.000 She said that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a B-word who says she's spreading all this truth, but she's just spreading her legs. 0.99

00:45:53.000 Laura Loomer is a delight.

00:45:55.000 Donald Trump, once again, associating with, you know, people who flatter him.

00:45:58.000 But is that a great way to staff?

00:46:00.000 Is that a great way to run a campaign?

00:46:01.000 I have some doubts.

00:46:02.000 Okay, meanwhile, the craziest judicial ruling of the day.

00:46:06.000 According to the New York Times, a group of young people in Montana won a landmark lawsuit on Monday when a judge ruled that the state's failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects was unconstitutional.

00:46:17.000 The decision in the suit, Held v. Montana, coming during a summer of record heat and deadly wildfires, marks a victory in the expanding fight against government support for oil, gas, and coal, the burning of which has rapidly warmed the planet.

00:46:27.000 Julia Olson, the founder of Our Children's Trust, which is a legal nonprofit group that brought the case on behalf of minors, said, quote, As fires rage in the West, fueled by fossil fuel pollution, today's ruling in Montana is a game-changer.

00:46:37.000 It marks a turning point in this generation's efforts to save the planet.

00:46:42.000 The ruling means that Montana must consider climate change when deciding whether to approve or to renew fossil fuel projects.

00:46:49.000 Now, it's an absurd ruling because normally, in order to sue, you have to have standing.

00:46:54.000 Standing means that you are damaged by the thing.

00:46:56.000 And it's not enough to have general standing.

00:46:57.000 If you don't like a law and the law damages you, you can't just sue based on general standing that you don't like the law.

00:47:03.000 For example, they increase taxes.

00:47:04.000 You're a person who pays taxes.

00:47:05.000 That does not give you standing to sue.

00:47:07.000 That's a political question.

00:47:09.000 In order to have standing, it's gotta be like, I hit you with my car, now you have standing to sue me.

00:47:14.000 But in this particular case, the court suggested that the mental anguish undergone by children because of climate change gave them standing to sue Montana for not considering climate change when determining whether or not to drill for oil.

00:47:27.000 Emily Flower, spokeswoman for the Attorney General, said, The ruling is absurd, not surprising from a judge who let the plaintiff's attorney put on a week-long taxpayer-funded publicity stunt that was supposed to be a trial.

00:47:37.000 It's a bizarre, bizarre case for sure.

00:47:38.000 Michael Berger, who's the executive director of the Saban Center for Climate Change Litigation in Columbia, said, quote, this was climate science on trial.

00:47:44.000 And what the court has found, as a matter of fact, is that the science is right.

00:47:47.000 So now we have courts suggesting the science is right.

00:47:50.000 And by the science is right, that means that if Montana drills for oil, then indubitably, this is going to create massive climate change that will kill your kids.

00:47:58.000 Because now it is the job of courts, presumably, to decide the science.

00:48:03.000 Pretty incredible ruling.

00:48:04.000 So first of all, not the purview of courts, actually.

00:48:07.000 And you know what else is not the purview of courts?

00:48:08.000 You simply give standing to plaintiffs who don't have it in the first place.

00:48:13.000 The Montana case revolves around language in the state constitution that guarantees residents the right to a clean and healthful environment and stipulates the state and individuals are responsible for maintaining and improving the environment for present and future generations.

00:48:24.000 But the right to a clean and healthful environment doesn't mean that the state doesn't have to do a balancing routine and figure out whether or not it is worthwhile for the citizens to, say, drill.

00:48:34.000 So now, apparently, all these young people are going to sue in states ranging from Hawaii to Utah to Virginia.

00:48:39.000 This is the first kind of case like this to go to trial in the United States.

00:48:45.000 The state contended that Montana's emissions are minuscule when compared against the rest of the globe.

00:48:49.000 The plaintiffs argued the state has to do more to consider how emissions are contributing to droughts, wildfires, and other growing risks.

00:48:56.000 It's an insane ruling, obviously.

00:48:59.000 Many of the youngsters testified about the effects they had witnessed. 1.00

00:49:03.000 So now we have 15-year-olds testifying about how they saw that it was really hot outside, and this is now the ground to shut down drilling in the state of Montana, thanks to this idiot judge. 0.99

00:49:12.000 Now, I have a question. 0.99

00:49:13.000 I have a question.

00:49:14.000 Why is it, exactly, that young people could not sue to stop, for example, pretty much every government program because they all take on debt?

00:49:22.000 Really, why not?

00:49:24.000 Why don't they say that the government has a responsibility to make sure that those who cannot vote are not burdened with the cost of policies that are undertaken now?

00:49:32.000 That seems like a violation of equal protection, for example.

00:49:35.000 You could theoretically make a crazy argument that the Equal Protection Clause, which says that every citizen is entitled to equal protection of the law, should protect people who are not able to vote yet in their interests.

00:49:46.000 So, for example, if you saddle the country with, say, $32 trillion in national debt, that's going to hit my kids and my kids' kids.

00:49:52.000 So shouldn't the A.B. 0.88

00:49:53.000 be able to sue?

00:49:53.000 And say that the federal government shouldn't be able to pass laws that raise debt.

00:49:58.000 That if they're actually going to, you know, actually spend money, then maybe people who are above the age of 18 should have to pay for that thing.

00:50:04.000 Is that the direction that we're going to now have judges going?

00:50:06.000 I highly doubt the left wants to go down this path. 1.00

00:50:09.000 First of all, it's gonna get struck down at the Supreme Court level because it's obviously specious and stupid. 0.97

00:50:13.000 But the fact that this is how the left would love courts to rule just demonstrates, once again, the left has no limits when it comes to power. 0.99

00:50:19.000 They truly don't.

00:50:19.000 They'll suggest that the right is power-hungry when the Supreme Court says, we will not step into the abortion debate.

00:50:25.000 We will instead kick it back to the state and federal level.

00:50:28.000 That apparently is an egregious usurpation of power by the Supreme Court.

00:50:31.000 But it is a protection of rights When a local judge says that an entire state now has to stop drilling because a bunch of 15-year-olds are mad, which is literally what this decision is.

00:50:44.000 Pretty incredible stuff.

00:50:45.000 Well, all of this ties into a really fascinating piece by David Brooks today over at The Atlantic.

00:50:49.000 It's called, How America Got Mean.

00:50:52.000 Here's what David Brooks says, he says, over the past eight years or so, I've been obsessed with two questions.

00:50:56.000 The first is, why have Americans become so sad?

00:50:58.000 The rising rates of depression have been well publicized, as have the rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide, but other statistics are similarly troubling.

00:51:05.000 My second related question is, why have Americans become so mean?

00:51:09.000 I was recently talking with a restaurant owner who said he has to eject a customer from his restaurant from rude or cruel behavior once a week, something that never used to happen.

00:51:17.000 A head nurse at a hospital told me many on her staff are leaving the profession because patients have become so abusive.

00:51:23.000 At the far extreme of meanness, hate crimes rose in 2020 to their highest level in 12 years.

00:51:27.000 Social trust is plummeting.

00:51:28.000 In 2000, two-thirds of American households gave to charity.

00:51:31.000 In 2018, fewer than half did.

00:51:33.000 The words that define our age, reek of menace, conspiracy, polarization, mass shootings, trauma, safe spaces.

00:51:38.000 We're enmeshed in some sort of emotional, relational, and spiritual crisis.

00:51:42.000 What exactly is going on?

00:51:44.000 So David Brooks has a theory as to what exactly is going on here.

00:51:48.000 So David Brooks says that there are a few different stories.

00:51:51.000 One, the technology story.

00:51:52.000 Social media is driving us all crazy.

00:51:54.000 Second, the sociology story.

00:51:55.000 We've stopped participating in community organizations and are more isolated.

00:51:58.000 Third, the demography story.

00:52:00.000 America, long a white-dominated nation, is becoming a much more diverse country, a change that has millions of white Americans in a panic.

00:52:05.000 And fourth, the economy story.

00:52:07.000 High levels of economic inequality and insecurity have left people afraid, alienated, and pessimistic.

00:52:11.000 He says that he agrees to a certain extent with all of these stories, but I don't think any of them is the deepest one.

00:52:16.000 He says, the most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest. 0.96

00:52:21.000 We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration.

00:52:25.000 Our society has become one in which people feel licensed to give their selfishness free reign.

00:52:29.000 The story I'm going to tell is about morals.

00:52:31.000 In a healthy society, a web of institutions, family schools, religious groups, community organizations, workplaces, helps form people into kind and responsible citizens, the sort of people who show up for one another.

00:52:39.000 We live in a society that's terrible at moral formation.

00:52:43.000 He says the moral formation comprises three things.

00:52:44.000 First, helping people to learn to restrain their selfishness.

00:52:48.000 He says that America used to be good at this.

00:52:50.000 Second, teaching basic social and ethical skills.

00:52:53.000 And third, helping people find a purpose in life.

00:52:55.000 Now, he's right about all of this.

00:52:57.000 But he is missing why exactly all of this fell apart.

00:53:01.000 Now, part of it was the increasing atomization of American society that we've talked about.

00:53:04.000 And this ties back into the decline of church attendance, for example.

00:53:08.000 It ties back into the rise of social media.

00:53:12.000 You know, the sort of move toward individual expression, as opposed to a communal obligation, that led to this sort of breakdown, obviously.

00:53:24.000 He says schools began to abandon moral formation in the 1940s and 50s.

00:53:28.000 He says the post-war period saw similar changes at the college level.

00:53:32.000 He says questions like, what is the meaning of life?

00:53:34.000 How do you live a good life?

00:53:35.000 Lost all purchase?

00:53:36.000 In sphere after sphere, people decided that moral reasoning was not really relevant.

00:53:39.000 Psychology's purview grew, especially in family and educational matters.

00:53:43.000 It's vocabulary framing virtually all public discussion of the moral life of children.

00:53:46.000 This would be the privatizing morality, the attempt to get away from the idea of a common good.

00:53:53.000 He says the moral instincts Most of us who noticed the process of demoralization as it was occurring thought a bland moral relativism and empty consumerism would be the result.

00:54:01.000 You do you and I'll do me.

00:54:02.000 Which of course is what we've talked about.

00:54:03.000 Most of us who noticed the process of demoralization as it was occurring,

00:54:07.000 thought a bland moral relativism and empty consumerism would be the result.

00:54:10.000 You do you and I'll do me.

00:54:11.000 That's not what happened.

00:54:12.000 Jonathan Haidt says, when you're raised in a culture without ethical structure,

00:54:16.000 you become internally fragile.

00:54:18.000 You don't have a moral compass to give you direction, no permanent ideals to which you can swear ultimate allegiance, and so people start to suffer from what Emile Durkheim has called anime.

00:54:26.000 This is true.

00:54:27.000 I mean, all of this is true.

00:54:28.000 There's something else that's happened though, and that is an attack on all these institutions, a motivated attack.

00:54:35.000 And a reliance on the niceness of the American public to tolerate the attack.

00:54:39.000 So it's not just... I mean, this is true.

00:54:40.000 A lot of the moral education went away.

00:54:42.000 That undergirding niceness is kindness.

00:54:44.000 And kindness and niceness are not the same thing.

00:54:47.000 Being nice to someone means that you just are inoffensive to them.

00:54:51.000 Being kind to someone very often means you're looking out for them.

00:54:53.000 It means that you're going to tell them a thing that maybe they don't want to hear.

00:54:56.000 If you have a friend who's a drug abuser, and you simply say, you do you, that may be nice, but it's not kind.

00:55:02.000 If you have a child who does bad things on the regular, And you just let them do it?

00:55:06.000 That may be nice, but it's not actually kind.

00:55:09.000 But what's happened is over- but kindness is undergirded by a belief in some sort of higher good.

00:55:14.000 Because what it means is that you do have to use judgment.

00:55:16.000 You do have to be judgmental.

00:55:17.000 You have to know that not being a drug addict is actually morally preferable to being a drug addict.

00:55:22.000 Or you actually have to say that certain behavior is better than other behavior.

00:55:26.000 It is an act of kindness to chide your fellow when he goes astray.

00:55:30.000 But niceness says that that's mean.

00:55:32.000 Niceness says that that is actually something you should not do.

00:55:36.000 And so when you have an entire moral system that is based not on kindness, but on niceness, when you wipe away the moral framework and all you're left with is niceness, of course niceness is going to fall apart.

00:55:45.000 Because what ends up happening is that people take advantage of the niceness.

00:55:48.000 Niceness lasts only so long as someone's fist doesn't touch your face.

00:55:51.000 But it turns out that doesn't last very long.

00:55:53.000 It turns out that when you don't have a shared moral framework, kindness devolves into niceness, and then niceness is taken advantage of by people who have no care about you at all.

00:56:02.000 And the people who actually don't abide by niceness are the beneficiaries initially.

00:56:06.000 Then you have an actual prisoner's dilemma, a game theory prisoner's dilemma, in which the person who benefits the most is the person who is not nice, who violates all the rules.

00:56:13.000 Because while you're playing by the nice rules, they're doing what they want, and they're getting ahead, and they're winning.

00:56:18.000 And so you say, well, hold up a second.

00:56:20.000 I don't want to play by those rules.

00:56:21.000 I'm not going to play by those rules either.

00:56:22.000 And then it's just a race to the bottom.

00:56:25.000 And you can see this, by the way, in the polling data.

00:56:27.000 Democrats, for example, in the 1990s, by the late 1990s, Democrats thought that most Republicans were actually bad people.

00:56:34.000 And Republicans still thought that most Democrats were just wrong.

00:56:37.000 And then around 2013, 2014, the stats change and Republicans start to say, oh, maybe Democrats are also bad people.

00:56:42.000 And so both sides now think the other side is bad people.

00:56:44.000 Why?

00:56:45.000 Well, because again, Democrats were relying on the niceness of Republicans while at the same time taking advantage of the lack of kindness in the system.

00:56:57.000 So David Brooks is right when he says that lack of moral education is the problem.

00:57:00.000 That, of course, is true. 0.83

00:57:02.000 But it's also people being aggressive in taking advantage of the niceness of others.

00:57:06.000 And that means social radicalism that is designed to tear down the institutions.

00:57:12.000 That is what this is really about.

00:57:13.000 An actual attempt at dissolving the institutions themselves.

00:57:19.000 This is where David Brooks goes wrong because David Brooks, you know, he cites, for example, Ted Lasso.

00:57:25.000 right, as an example of a restoration of niceness.

00:57:28.000 He says, in the summer of 2020, the series Ted Lasso premiered. When Lasso describes his goals

00:57:33.000 as a soccer coach, he could mention the championships he hopes to win or some other

00:57:36.000 conventional metric of success. But he says, for me, success is not about the wins and losses.

00:57:40.000 It's about helping these young fellows be the best versions of themselves on and off the field.

00:57:44.000 He says that's a two-sentence description of moral formation.

00:57:47.000 But as it turns out, what Tad Lasso really ends up being is a moral relativist.

00:57:52.000 He basically, in the series, whatever floats your boat is the morality of the series by the end.

00:57:57.000 There are no actual real expectations other than sort of a generic niceness to everybody else.

00:58:02.000 You can't build a society on niceness.

00:58:04.000 No society functions on niceness.

00:58:05.000 Niceness is a byproduct of kindness.

00:58:07.000 When you kill kindness, niceness will not remain.

00:58:10.000 Meanwhile, the economy looks like it is about to turn bad.

00:58:12.000 I don't understand people who say that basically what goes up is just going to stay up and never come down.

00:58:17.000 It's like modern monetary theory, this idea that you can just inflate the currency and nothing will ever happen about that, so you get 40-year high in inflation.

00:58:24.000 Right now, a lot of leds are blinking red.

00:58:26.000 That's particularly true in China.

00:58:28.000 By the way, China is an incipient, looming disaster area. 0.79

00:58:31.000 I have an entire episode of my new series, Facts, available on YouTube, where it really is seeing a lot of light, and also over on X slash Twitter, where it has hundreds of thousands of views, so it's probably at about a million views total at this point on various platforms.

00:58:44.000 Talking about the various problems that China is experiencing.

00:58:46.000 But China is in serious trouble.

00:58:47.000 They're demographically completely upside down.

00:58:49.000 They have way more old people than they have young people, so no one's going to be able to pay the bills. 1.00

00:58:52.000 They've got a serious debt problem, like a really serious systemic debt problem.

00:58:56.000 And they're now pursuing autarkic economic policies that cut them off from the rest of the world market, which means they can't even use their comparative advantage properly.

00:59:03.000 So they're really in a bleep load of trouble here.

00:59:07.000 Right now, according to the Wall Street Journal, China's latest property crisis is threatening to spill over into the broader economy, worrying investors and causing a broad market sell-off.

00:59:13.000 Chinese stocks fell in Hong Kong and mainland China on Monday, with real estate developers, electric vehicle manufacturers, and other companies in economically sensitive sectors declining the most.

00:59:22.000 The Hang Seng Index, which is loaded with Chinese companies, dropped 1.6 percent, taking its year-to-date loss to 5.1 percent.

00:59:28.000 The financial struggles of Country Garden Holdings, China's top surviving and privately run developer, have been front and center since it missed interest payments on two U.S.

00:59:35.000 dollar bonds a week ago.

00:59:36.000 The property giant said that over the weekend, trading in 11 yuan-dominated domestic bonds has been suspended and intends to discuss repayment plans with investors.

00:59:44.000 The property sector has gone from being a massive contributor to the country's overall growth to a massive drag on the economy.

00:59:49.000 That is because China basically had a giant pyramid scheme going.

00:59:51.000 Where they would take retirement funds from the people who lived in China, and they would tell them that if they invested in empty shell apartments in ghost cities, that this would eventually turn into real money because those ghost cities would then be populated and you'd make a bunch of money on those shell apartments.

01:00:06.000 And it turns out that there was no one picking up rental on those shell apartments on the other end.

01:00:11.000 So that money just disappeared into these vast cities that are completely empty at this point, all built around debt.

01:00:19.000 New home sales increased in the first few months of 2023 providing a glimmer of hope.

01:00:23.000 But the market then turned in April and nationwide sales of China's top developers have slumped ever since.

01:00:28.000 China is now dropping into deflation.

01:00:30.000 Households are now borrowing less because they racked up high levels of saving.

01:00:33.000 Chinese banks extended the equivalent of $47.8 billion in new loans in July that is down nearly half from the same month one year ago.

01:00:41.000 Their currency is depreciating pretty significantly at this point.

01:00:45.000 Again, if China's economy takes a serious dip, that's going to have a major impact on American markets.

01:00:50.000 It's not going to be all roses for us because we are so intertwined with the Chinese economy.

01:00:54.000 Again, thanks to a lot of bad foreign policy decision making over the course of the last few decades, particularly the decision to suggest that if we intertwined our economy with China, that magically China would liberalize, which of course they did not.

01:01:05.000 Meanwhile, those higher costs, which are going to be brought on the American economy, thanks to the collapse of the Chinese economy, those higher costs are going to be exacerbated by a new model in the West of subsidization and attenuated trade links.

01:01:17.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the world's biggest economies are offering huge subsidies and a cutthroat ways to win the industry of the futures.

01:01:24.000 The losers are all the countries that can't pay up. 0.98

01:01:26.000 But the reality is that the losers are also the industries that aren't subsidized.

01:01:29.000 That money comes from somewhere.

01:01:31.000 Subsidies, you just take money from someone and you give it to another person in the hopes that that second person is going to use the money better.

01:01:37.000 But why is the government picking winners and losers?

01:01:39.000 How do they choose who gets to win and who gets to lose?

01:01:42.000 Subsidized industries, by the way, over time tend to become fat.

01:01:44.000 They tend to become lazy.

01:01:46.000 They tend to have high rates of unionization, which drives up labor costs, and then eventually they get undercut.

01:01:49.000 This is the story of the American car market, by the way, from the 1950s through the 1970s.

01:01:54.000 In the 1950s, it was American cars all over the world.

01:01:56.000 By the 1970s, Toyota was eating America's lunch.

01:01:59.000 There's a reason for that.

01:02:01.000 When you subsidize industries to the point where those industries don't really have to worry about their cost structure, they charge too much, their labor starts to cost too much, their parts start to cost too much, and eventually somebody undercuts them.

01:02:13.000 Right now the level of subsidization is really, really high in major developed countries.

01:02:20.000 I'm not sure why people think that this is a particularly good idea, particularly when you're talking about totally inefficient industries like clean energy.

01:02:27.000 The US is now offering $369 billion in incentives and funding for clean energy as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

01:02:34.000 They're starting to see a few people who are building here, but mainly because they know that the United States government is going to pony up for a bunch of this.

01:02:42.000 This is also combined with the downfall of globalization.

01:02:44.000 Now, there are a lot of people who talk about globalism as a bad idea.

01:02:50.000 I agree.

01:02:51.000 They'll say the globalists are bad.

01:02:52.000 If you're talking about international governance, Americans giving up their power to international organizations, I agree. 1.00

01:02:58.000 If what you're saying is that international trade is a bad thing, Let me remind you that if it were not for international trade, if you don't like the inflation now, wait until international trade gets cut off.

01:03:07.000 The reality is we all benefit from those wide open shipping lanes the United States has been insuring essentially since World War II.

01:03:13.000 When those start to fall apart, when trade goes down, the cost on everything that you currently pay for is going to go up radically.

01:03:21.000 It is not just a matter of globalization helping low-income countries.

01:03:24.000 Or once poor countries like South Korea or Taiwan.

01:03:28.000 It is also that the standard of living in the United States is way better now than it was in 1980. 0.96

01:03:31.000 And if you don't believe me, go look at the crap people had in their house in 1980. 0.67

01:03:36.000 Seriously, like pick up a product from 1980. 1.00

01:03:38.000 They suck. 1.00

01:03:39.000 They're terrible. 1.00

01:03:41.000 I understand everyone wants to believe that the middle class hasn't gotten any richer since 1980 based on false pictures of the wage stats.

01:03:48.000 But that is not true.

01:03:49.000 The stuff that the average middle class person has now is better than pretty much anything that a rich person had in 1980.

01:03:53.000 That's because what real world economics is about is the creation of new goods and services that are better and cheaper.

01:04:00.000 And that is in effect of globalization.

01:04:02.000 So as we unwind globalization, And as we direct money into subsidization, we are going to get a slower economy.

01:04:08.000 That is going to be the end result in all of this.

01:04:10.000 And if you're one of the lucky few in one of these subsidized industries, you'll feel real good about yourself.

01:04:14.000 But if you're not, your costs are going to go up pretty much everywhere else.

01:04:17.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

01:04:20.000 So, things that I like today.

01:04:22.000 So, it turns out that terrible economic policy has some after effects.

01:04:25.000 This is why Republicans in the United States should take heart in the fact that eventually Joe Biden should pay for His economic crimes here.

01:04:34.000 If Republicans have the brains to run somebody who actually has a shot at winning, that would be the big one.

01:04:39.000 Not saying that Donald Trump couldn't win.

01:04:40.000 He could, but his campaign would actually have to be about the issues, not about whatever the legal issue he has today is about.

01:04:46.000 The reason I say this is because right now, Argentina is showing this is a possibility, which is kind of wild.

01:04:52.000 So according to the New York Times, a far-right libertarian candidate won Argentina's open presidential primary election on Sunday, a surprise showing for a politician who wants to adopt the American dollar as Argentina's official currency and embraces comparisons to Donald Trump.

01:05:04.000 Xavier Millet, 52, a congressman, economist, and former TV pundit, secured 30% of the vote, with 96% of the ballots counted, making him the frontrunner for the presidency in the fall general elections.

01:05:14.000 He now has a clear shot at leading Argentina.

01:05:17.000 Argentina's general election in October, which could go to a November runoff, will now become a new tested strength of the far-right across the world.

01:05:23.000 Again, the way that this works is that if you are anywhere to the right of Karl Marx, according to the New York Times, you are far-right.

01:05:28.000 Although hard-right forces have gained new influence in several powerful nations in recent years, including the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and Finland, they've suffered some defeats, including in Spain and Brazil.

01:05:37.000 Millet has pitched himself as the radical change the collapsing Argentine economy needs.

01:05:41.000 It could be a shock to the system if elected.

01:05:43.000 Besides his ideas about the currency and central bank, he's proposed drastically lowering taxes, cutting public health spending, closing or privatizing all state-owned enterprises, and eliminating the health, education, and environment ministries.

01:05:56.000 Sergio Massa, the Argentine center-left finance minister, finished second in the primary with just 21% of the vote.

01:06:02.000 The third place finisher, Patricia Bullrich, is a conservative, and she's in third place at 17, which means the two out of the top three are conservatives, and nearly the top two.

01:06:14.000 The Sunday results showed that Argentina's three separate coalitions have similar levels of support, making it unlikely that anyone will actually win in the first round.

01:06:22.000 The center-right coalition's candidates received a combined 28% of the vote on Sunday.

01:06:25.000 The center-left received 27%, both slightly less than Millet's total as well.

01:06:31.000 Millet said, we're not only going to end Kirchnerism, that is a reference to former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, we're also going to end the useless, parasitic, criminal political cast that is sinking this country.

01:06:44.000 He also thanks his sister and all of his dogs who are each named after a conservative economist.

01:06:50.000 Which is awesome.

01:06:52.000 Yeah, and this is the result of bad left-wing policy.

01:06:54.000 See, this is the way politics works.

01:06:55.000 When left-run things and they do a bad job, people swivel to the right.

01:06:58.000 If you give them someone who is capable of talking about the issues people actually want to hear about.

01:07:03.000 Okay, other things that I like.

01:07:04.000 So, YouTube had to apparently reverse course after they attempted to throttle a video that we did for our new series, Facts.

01:07:11.000 We did a video on YouTube about The organization GARM, which is essentially a consortium of advertisers that work to shut down all advertising on controversial platforms.

01:07:25.000 By controversial, they just mean basically right-wing platforms, even if they're very mainstream.

01:07:29.000 Well, YouTube then demonetized the video, claiming that it was conspiratorial.

01:07:33.000 Media Research Center pressed YouTube about why monetization was suppressed.

01:07:37.000 Apparently, YouTube effectively refused to acknowledge the platform had limited the video in the first place.

01:07:43.000 A YouTube spokesperson said, in order for a video to monetize on YouTube, it must comply with our advertiser-friendly guidelines, which are publicly accessible and apply to all creators.

01:07:50.000 Upon review, the video in question is currently monetizing, so they reversed themselves.

01:07:54.000 Which is funny, because they didn't tell that to us.

01:07:58.000 Again, they claimed that we discussed the New World Order, which is a non-monetizable conspiracy theory.

01:08:03.000 But there's nothing that is conspiratorial about the actual episode, which simply names the various subjective guidelines put in place By these advertising collusive regimes.

01:08:15.000 So I'm glad that YouTube backed down.

01:08:17.000 Elon Musk did see the video and he actually suggested that maybe the way to solve this would be to have a basket of safe content and a basket of unsafe content.

01:08:25.000 That of course is not right because the problem is who gets to decide what is safe and what is unsafe?

01:08:28.000 The same exact groups are currently using exactly those guises in order to push censorship.

01:08:34.000 What we actually need to do is blow up these collusive enterprises entirely, and then advertisers get to decide on their own what they want to put their advertising on.

01:08:42.000 If they did that, that would be a normal market mechanism as opposed to the sort of collusion that we're seeing right now.

01:08:48.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.

01:08:54.000 So Michael Orr, you remember him?

01:08:56.000 He was popularized, he's a former NFL player, he was popularized by the pic The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock.

01:09:01.000 He has now petitioned a Tennessee court with allegations that a key element of the 2009 film was a lie created by the Tohey family to profit off of his expense.

01:09:10.000 According to ProTalk, in the film, Orr is adopted by the Twi family to protect him from living on the streets. 0.97

01:09:15.000 Orr says he was never adopted by the family.

01:09:17.000 Instead, he says the Twis tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators. 1.00

01:09:21.000 This agreement allowed the Twis to make business deals and profit off of Orr's name. 0.69

01:09:26.000 The legal filing says the lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which co-conservatives Lee Antuhi and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their ward, the undersigned Michael Orr.

01:09:34.000 Michael Orr discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023 when he learned that the conservatorship to which he consented on the basis of doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.

01:09:46.000 Orr says the Tuohy family used their power to turn his story into the blind side and then they allegedly received millions in royalties from the movie.

01:09:52.000 Orr says he didn't get any money from any of that.

01:09:57.000 Or his attorney says that he's deeply hurt by the situation with the Thuy family.

01:10:00.000 We haven't heard a response from the Thuy family so far, but pretty ugly stuff, no matter what. 1.00

01:10:06.000 I mean, the fact is that he was basically living on the streets when the Thuy family took him in.

01:10:12.000 If they took advantage of him by having him sign a conservatorship agreement, but they didn't adopt him, and that gave them financial power over him, Even when he reached majority?

01:10:21.000 That'd be a serious problem.

01:10:22.000 We'll keep an eye on that case.

01:10:23.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 15, 2023

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