The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 137 - Democrats Think You're All Terrorists

00:00:00.000 So, you remember that time an anti-LGBT activist attended a Hillary Clinton rally and then tried to grab a cop's gun to shoot Hillary Clinton?

00:00:08.000 Neither do I, because it didn't happen.

00:00:09.000 You remember that time an illegal immigrant went to a Donald Trump rally and tried to grab a cop's gun to shoot Donald Trump? 0.93

00:00:15.000 You probably don't.

00:00:17.000 It happened.

00:00:18.000 On Saturday.

00:00:19.000 According to the Associated Press, the prospective assassin was an illegal immigrant.

00:00:24.000 He'd overstayed his visa from the United Kingdom.

00:00:26.000 This would-be John Wilkes Booth told the cops that he drove all the way from California to Vegas to kill Donald Trump.

00:00:33.000 This, however, has not spurred a national conversation about whether leftist rhetoric drives violence.

00:00:38.000 In fact, it'll probably drive the media to question whether Trump did something to provoke the perpetrator, just as they have every time anti-Trump rioters riot and try and hurt pro-Trump people, they ask whether it's Trump's fault.

00:00:49.000 It's actually amazing.

00:00:51.000 Everything bad in the universe happens because of conservatives. 0.97

00:00:54.000 If a Muslim who says he is a Muslim commits a terrorist act, the media come up with an alternative narrative in which white Christians are responsible. 0.96

00:01:01.000 If a British mental case with right-wing associations kills a left-wing politician, the media immediately declare it a political killing. 0.92

00:01:08.000 If someone without any political affiliation commits an act of violence against schoolchildren or theatergoers or a congresswoman, the media blame the NRA or Sarah Palin. 0.86

00:01:17.000 Presumably the only reason this particular British illegal immigrant would want to kill Trump then is because Trump had it coming. 1.00

00:01:24.000 Or maybe the network media will just continue to ignore the attempted assassination.

00:01:28.000 After all, it's kind of inconvenient for their anti-right-wing story.

00:01:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:01:32.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:01:58.000 And we will save all of Lindsay's dancing for the latter portion of the show, so you still have to pay for that. 0.99

00:02:04.000 So basically, we're an online pornography site, is what I'm trying to tell you.

00:02:08.000 No, we're not Lindsay.

00:02:09.000 No, we're not.

00:02:10.000 We're not going to do any of those things.

00:02:11.000 Okay, so Lindsay is too good a person to do those things, aren't you? 0.82

00:02:16.000 Well, maybe.

00:02:17.000 Okay, so today it's a new day and that means that it's time for the Democrats to grab your guns all over again.

00:02:23.000 It's just a romantic brand new day.

00:02:24.000 So yesterday there were four different

00:02:28.000 Gun control measures that are brought up on the floor of the Senate.

00:02:30.000 Two from Democrats, two from Republicans.

00:02:32.000 The two from Democrats, one is sponsored by Dianne Feinstein.

00:02:35.000 This is a measure that would require that anyone who's been on the terror watch list in the last five years, they have to take five years after you're off the terror watch list before they will allow you to buy a gun.

00:02:45.000 Which is called destruction of due process of law.

00:02:48.000 In this country, you actually have to be proved guilty of something before we can just take away your rights, your Second Amendment rights, where we can't just decide to put you on the terror watch list.

00:02:57.000 I think Jonah Goldberg's been on the terror watch list, and Teddy Kennedy was on the terror watch list, which actually makes sense since he killed a woman, but Jonah Goldberg didn't.

00:03:04.000 And the idea here is that

00:03:07.000 The left doesn't believe that you should have to show any evidence that I'm a bad person or even a terrorist.

00:03:14.000 There's no evidence of criminality necessary in order for you to take away my rights.

00:03:18.000 So we'll start with Dianne Feinstein.

00:03:20.000 Her amendment was voted down yesterday.

00:03:22.000 Listen carefully to what Dianne Feinstein said on PBS NewsHour about Americans and what rights they have.

00:03:28.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:03:29.000 The argument that many of your Republican colleagues have made about this is that there is still the potential that people who are innocent are on a watch list, and they would be prevented from buying a gun.

00:03:40.000 Well, then you can petition and prove that you're innocent and get off of the watch list.

00:03:47.000 But, you know, if we want to prevent this,

00:03:51.000 You know, this bill was drafted actually during the Bush administration, when a man, a terrorist, went back to Syria, an American, and said to everybody, now exploit the loopholes in America's laws and buy weapons.

00:04:10.000 Well, we've got huge loopholes.

00:04:14.000 And it's wrong, and we've got to begin to close them, one by one by one.

00:04:18.000 The terrorist bill, no guns for terrorists, is a first step. 0.80

00:04:23.000 Assault weapons is a second step.

00:04:25.000 This man should not have... So the part of this that's relevant is where Dianne Feinstein, you may have missed it because it was kind of quick, there's part of this where Dianne Feinstein actually dropped the line, and it's pretty amazing.

00:04:36.000 She actually dropped the line that you can always prove yourself innocent.

00:04:40.000 You can appeal and prove yourself innocent.

00:04:42.000 Well, I wasn't aware that in the United States, you have to prove yourself innocent in order to exercise your rights.

00:04:47.000 I thought that you were innocent until proven guilty under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

00:04:54.000 I thought that that was sort of the basis of all criminal justice in the United States, is the government has to prove something before they can take away your rights.

00:05:01.000 Dianne Feinstein reverses the polarity, and she suggests that she can take away your rights just because she feels like it. 0.93

00:05:07.000 And this is the entire Democratic move now.

00:05:10.000 Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat from New Hampshire, she was on the radio, and she says that anyone who wants to buy an AR-15, the only reason you'd possibly want to buy an AR-15 is because you want to do bad things with it.

00:05:21.000 I mean, if we can't even expand background checks or expand the list of people who can buy weapons, how is it possible that we could ever even make ground when it comes to the types of guns that people own?

00:05:34.000 Well, I think people need to have their voices heard, and what I've heard from people in New Hampshire is that they think there's reasonable legislation that we can pass, including things like looking at the types of weapons that are so easy for people to get.

00:05:51.000 You know, the fact is, the AR-15, the gun that Mateen used, that's a weapon of war.

00:05:58.000 It's advertised as being able to do

00:06:05.000 Technologically, advances in killing people that previous weapons have been unable to do.

00:06:13.000 And somebody who's buying that kind of a weapon isn't buying it for target shooting.

00:06:18.000 They're not buying it to go out and hunt deer.

00:06:20.000 You don't need an AK-47 or an AR-15 to hunt deer.

00:06:24.000 They're buying it to do bad things.

00:06:27.000 And we need to recognize that and address it.

00:06:31.000 Okay, so she says that the only people who want to buy an AR-15 are people who are violent and want to do terrible things to you.

00:06:36.000 Okay, well, we in the office have a gal named Candace. 1.00

00:06:40.000 And Candace is a lovely person who also happens to be at 100 pounds soaking wet, if that. 1.00

00:06:45.000 And she looks more like 90 to me.

00:06:47.000 And Candace is like a champion marksman with an AR-15. 1.00

00:06:52.000 She just came in third in, I think it was a statewide competition, shooting the AR-15. 0.59

00:06:55.000 Is that because she's a cold-blooded killer? 1.00

00:06:58.000 She's gonna go to a gay nightclub and start shooting people up, or is it because she wants to be proficient with a rifle? 1.00

00:07:04.000 Because it turns out that there are plenty of reasons you'd want to be proficient with a rifle, ranging from home defense to defense against tyranny, which actually maintains, you know, that's why the founders wanted you to have a gun, to hunting. 0.87

00:07:14.000 There are plenty of reasons, but according to the left, there's no good reason.

00:07:17.000 So, we've now heard a couple of excuses from the left for gun control.

00:07:20.000 One is that they don't actually have to prove you guilty, you have to prove yourself innocent, which, by the way, is called proving a negative.

00:07:25.000 You can't do that.

00:07:26.000 There's no way to prove yourself innocent of anything.

00:07:28.000 If I say to you, three years ago, sometime that year, you raped a small child, and then the onus is on you to prove yourself innocent, you'd have to prove where you were every minute of the day for three years ago that entire year, right?

00:07:42.000 There's no way to prove yourself innocent.

00:07:43.000 You can't prove a negative.

00:07:45.000 So, that's number one. 0.92

00:07:46.000 Number two, anyone who buys an AR-15 is evil and terrible, of course, nonsense.

00:07:50.000 And finally, the Democrats come right out and say it, and they just say, well, the Republicans just want to sell weapons directly to ISIS.

00:07:57.000 So, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, he comes out and he says this in an interview with the Washington Post.

00:08:02.000 He says, that's what they've decided to do.

00:08:04.000 He says, Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.

00:08:08.000 ISIS has decided the assault weapon is the new airplane, and Republicans, in refusing to close the terror gap, refusing to pass bans on assault weapons, are allowing these weapons to get in the hands of potential lone wolf attackers.

00:08:19.000 We've got to make this connection and make it in very stark terms.

00:08:22.000 So it's our fault.

00:08:23.000 It's our fault because the terrorists are getting weapons.

00:08:26.000 First of all, I thought until 24 hours ago, Democrats weren't allowed to mention ISIS, right?

00:08:30.000 They were doing the omitted routine.

00:08:31.000 If we mentioned ISIS, they were telling us we can't mention ISIS because that increases terrorism.

00:08:35.000 But I guess that's exciting.

00:08:36.000 Now they get to tell us that ISIS exists, so that's good. 1.00

00:08:40.000 But if we're going to talk about people who actually gave weapons to ISIS, we have to start with the Democrats.

00:08:45.000 I wrote a book

00:08:47.000 Last year called the people versus Barack Obama and in it is a section from the book quote on March 30th 2011 ABC News reported that President Obama had secretly signed a presidential finding to send covert aid to the Al Qaeda linked rebels the same day as the ABC News report the Washington Post announced an Obama secret finding including an authorization to the CIA to carry out a clandestine effort to provide arms and other support to Libyan opposition groups.

00:09:13.000 As you recall, that would include terrorist groups.

00:09:15.000 Libyan terrorist groups began receiving arms shipments and money from Qatar.

00:09:18.000 So if you want to talk about who's arming ISIS, who made ISIS powerful, the only people who did that were Democrats.

00:09:23.000 As Democrats, who actually gave guns to ISIS, who actually gave guns to Al-Qaeda.

00:09:28.000 That would be the Democrats.

00:09:29.000 But no, it's our fault, and now you've got the White House defending Chris Murphy on this, saying, yeah, these evil Republicans, all they want to do is give guns to terrorists.

00:09:38.000 Right, right. 0.99

00:09:39.000 Like we wanted to give guns to the gay people to kill the terrorists, but we were the ones who wanted to give guns to terrorists. 0.99

00:09:43.000 Here's Josh Earnest, the misnamed Josh Earnest. 0.99

00:09:47.000 Josh, this is Thomas Roberts.

00:09:48.000 I just want to ask you about what Senator Murphy of Connecticut had to say about the Republicans and the fact that we've got to make this clear, the constant case that Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.

00:10:00.000 Is that how President Obama feels in light of the fact that we saw these measures fail?

00:10:05.000 Well, Thomas, I think what is clear is that there are individuals in the United States right now that our law enforcement officials are concerned could have ties to terrorism, are susceptible to being radicalized by the online recruitment efforts of ISIL, and right now there is not a law on the books that prevents those individuals from walking into a gun store and buying a gun.

00:10:27.000 So does the President specifically blame Republicans

00:10:31.000 for failure in acting and in doing so that allows isis to buy assault weapons

00:10:38.000 Look, it's a pretty open-and-shut case.

00:10:40.000 It is clear that Republicans have refused to act on a common-sense measure that would prevent individuals with suspected ties to terrorism from being able to buy a gun.

00:10:48.000 Right now, those individuals who we have concluded are too dangerous to board an airplane can walk into a gun store and buy a gun.

00:10:55.000 That doesn't make any sense, and why Republicans allow that to happen is just beyond me.

00:10:59.000 It makes no sense unless you factor in the fear that they have of the NRA.

00:11:04.000 So it's only the NRA, the evil, evil, terrible NRA.

00:11:07.000 So an Orlando jihadist who, by the way, expressed his support for Hillary Clinton in this presidential race.

00:11:12.000 It's the NRA's fault that that guy was able to get a gun.

00:11:15.000 It's worth noting, I mentioned, there were four different gun measures that were up, right?

00:11:18.000 Two from the Democrats.

00:11:18.000 There were also two from the Republicans.

00:11:20.000 The two from the Republicans would have added the ability for mental health to be added to the designation of whether somebody ought to get a weapon.

00:11:27.000 The other one was a 72-hour hold if you're on the terror watch list.

00:11:30.000 So the government now has 72 hours to prove you guilty before they can deny you sale of a weapon.

00:11:35.000 Democrats voted against both of those things.

00:11:38.000 So Democrats decided not to push any form of gun control, demonstrating once again that I guess Democrats want terrorists to have weapons.

00:11:45.000 I guess that's what Democrats want.

00:11:46.000 They want terrorists to have weapons. 0.99

00:11:48.000 So this is all nasty, ridiculous stuff from Democrats, and it's really gross. 0.99

00:11:54.000 All of which means that Donald Trump should be pummeling them. 0.99

00:11:57.000 He should be pummeling them right now, right?

00:11:58.000 I mean, now's the time.

00:11:59.000 Now, if any time were the time, now would be the time.

00:12:03.000 So it's time to do our daily episode of Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:12:06.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:12:07.000 Yay! 0.99

00:12:08.000 Everybody loves Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:12:09.000 Okay, so we'll start with Good Trump, and then we will get to Bad Trump.

00:12:13.000 So, Good Trump.

00:12:15.000 Donald Trump attacked Elizabeth Warren.

00:12:17.000 Elizabeth Warren has been going out there saying crazy things. 1.00

00:12:20.000 Elizabeth Warren and Democrats, they've been tweeting out this hashtag, I think it's Disarm Hate, which I have to acknowledge that when I saw the hashtag Disarm Hate, I immediately flashed to Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the Black Knight being disarmed.

00:12:36.000 Also, what if hate knows jujitsu?

00:12:38.000 I mean, have they thought of that one?

00:12:40.000 I mean, disarm hate.

00:12:41.000 What if hate is a jujitsu master?

00:12:43.000 You gotta really think this thing through.

00:12:45.000 So they've been pushing out this disarm hate stuff, and Elizabeth Warren has been hitting Donald Trump very hard, and Donald Trump reads the smoke signals, and then he's asked about calling her Pocahontas, which he calls her mockingly, and here's his answer.

00:12:58.000 Do you regret calling her Pocahontas?

00:13:00.000 Do you regret that?

00:13:02.000 I do.

00:13:02.000 I do regret calling her Pocahontas because I think it's a tremendous insult to Pocahontas.

00:13:07.000 So, to Pocahontas, I would like to apologize to you. 1.00

00:13:11.000 Okay.

00:13:11.000 This is a funny bit.

00:13:14.000 And he continues along these lines.

00:13:15.000 He's asked by Bill O'Reilly about President Obama.

00:13:18.000 He had hinted last week, as you recall, that President Obama was secretly allied with ISIS.

00:13:25.000 He knew something the rest of us didn't know.

00:13:27.000 O'Reilly asks him about this and Trump does a good job.

00:13:31.000 I don't think you believe that he's a quizling, that he's someone who wants Islamic terrorism to prosper. 0.99

00:13:39.000 You don't believe that, do you?

00:13:42.000 I don't believe it.

00:13:42.000 I do say, though, when I see a deal like was made with Iran, this horrible, horrible deal where we're giving them back $150 billion, to the best of my knowledge, and I tell you what, I've studied that thing pretty closely, we're getting almost nothing out of it, they're going to end up with their nuclear weapons and lots of other things, whatever they want, and then I see the way he treats Israel, I say, wow, what's the... there seems to be a double standard.

00:14:06.000 I'm not happy about it.

00:14:07.000 A lot of other people aren't happy about it.

00:14:09.000 I can tell you the people in Israel

00:14:11.000 I don't like it.

00:14:12.000 I don't like it one bit.

00:14:30.000 Yesterday we mentioned that Donald Trump had tossed his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

00:14:35.000 And I just wanted to recall, this is Donald Trump on Corey Lewandowski back in March, when Corey Lewandowski was under suspicion of having grabbed a reporter, Michelle Fields, and bruised her arm, and here was Donald Trump at the time.

00:14:47.000 I know it'd be very easy for me to discard people.

00:14:50.000 I don't discard people.

00:14:52.000 I stay with people.

00:14:53.000 That's why I stay with this country.

00:14:55.000 That's why I stay with a lot of people that are treated unfairly.

00:14:58.000 And that's one of the reasons I'm the frontrunner by a lot.

00:15:01.000 Okay, so he says he always sticks with people, even if they're treated—especially if they're treated unfairly.

00:15:05.000 Fast forward to yesterday.

00:15:06.000 Donald Trump fires Corey Lewandowski, and then he's on TV, and here's what he has to say now.

00:15:11.000 He's out.

00:15:12.000 What happened?

00:15:14.000 He's a good man.

00:15:15.000 We've had great success.

00:15:17.000 You know, I got more primary votes than anybody in the history of the Republican Party by a tremendous amount, not by a little bit.

00:15:24.000 I think Cory's terrific.

00:15:25.000 I watched him before.

00:15:27.000 He was terrific toward me.

00:15:29.000 Said I was a talented person.

00:15:31.000 And he's a talented person.

00:15:32.000 He's a good guy.

00:15:32.000 He's a friend of mine.

00:15:33.000 But I think it's time now for a different kind of a campaign.

00:15:37.000 We ran a small, beautiful, well-unified campaign.

00:15:42.000 It worked very well in the primaries.

00:15:45.000 I think I'm probably going to do some of that.

00:15:47.000 I want to keep it a little bit very much in control.

00:15:49.000 As an example, I have 73 people.

00:15:52.000 Hillary Clinton has like almost 900 people. 0.77

00:15:55.000 And we're in the same position.

00:15:57.000 So, you know, there's something nice about that.

00:15:59.000 I got criticized for that.

00:16:00.000 I said, wait a minute, I've spent much less money than her.

00:16:03.000 And the results so far is the same.

00:16:06.000 I should be credited for that.

00:16:07.000 But with Corey, I'm really, really proud of him.

00:16:10.000 He did a great job.

00:16:11.000 But we're going to go a little bit of a different route.

00:16:14.000 So it's a different style, and you're bringing in some... A little different style, yeah.

00:16:19.000 A little different style.

00:16:20.000 He just lets it go at that.

00:16:22.000 There are rumors flying all day yesterday that Corey Lewandowski is ousted because he's doing poorly in the polls.

00:16:26.000 Trump is.

00:16:27.000 Corey Lewandowski is ousted because the family doesn't like him.

00:16:29.000 And O'Reilly just nods along with Donald Trump.

00:16:32.000 By the way, that answer was nonsensical.

00:16:33.000 Why are you getting rid of Corey Lewandowski?

00:16:35.000 He's a great guy.

00:16:36.000 So why are you getting rid of him?

00:16:38.000 Well, listen, we ran a really slim campaign, like a campaign with only 70 people, and I think that that's the way we ought to run a campaign.

00:16:44.000 So why are you getting rid of him?

00:16:45.000 Well, he's a great guy!

00:16:47.000 Okay then, I guess.

00:16:49.000 So Corey Lewandowski is on TV to talk about this, and Corey Lewandowski has to have some sort of non-disclosure agreement with the Trump campaign, and so you're gonna see Corey Lewandowski go full Manchurian candidate here.

00:17:01.000 Donald Trump is the kindest, gentlest, warmest, most wonderful human being he's ever met in his life.

00:17:06.000 It's kind of amusing.

00:17:08.000 What happened to that loyalty?

00:17:09.000 Trump said he doesn't discard

00:17:11.000 Members of his team.

00:17:27.000 So getting rid of you was a good decision though, Corey?

00:17:29.000 No, I didn't say that.

00:17:30.000 What I said is my philosophy has been smaller and leaner and more efficient and ensuring that our resources are spent as best as possible.

00:17:37.000 And there are people who think that building a bigger, broader coalition, a bigger, broader campaign to compete with the full-time staff of 732 paid people on the Clinton campaign is the right direction.

00:17:46.000 And that's perfectly fine.

00:17:48.000 So what in particular is the reason that you're being fired right now?

00:17:51.000 The loss in Iowa can't be the reason why.

00:17:53.000 Look, Peter, I don't really want to get into the specifics of it, but what I think is fair to say is that I've had the privilege of being part of something which is much bigger than any one individual, and the opportunity to move this campaign forward is something that's very important.

00:18:08.000 That is a dude with a non-disclosure agreement right there.

00:18:10.000 He gets ousted, and he's sitting there still talking in the talking points from the Trump campaign.

00:18:14.000 Wow.

00:18:15.000 I mean, the Trump campaign could have sidelined him.

00:18:18.000 They could have kept paying him as a consultant or something.

00:18:20.000 Instead, they just fire him and have him escorted from the building, and he's still mouthing these platitudes.

00:18:24.000 So that's bad Trump.

00:18:25.000 But worse Trump is what happened last night.

00:18:29.000 So the Trump campaign is just not competent.

00:18:31.000 They're just not competent.

00:18:32.000 So yesterday,

00:18:33.000 We're good to go.

00:18:59.000 Okay, whatever.

00:19:01.000 Monday night, the new Federal Elections Commission report on the Trump campaign comes out.

00:19:06.000 This is the new information about Donald Trump's campaign.

00:19:12.000 And this is legitimately, legitimately,

00:19:15.000 The worst financial report any presidential candidate in modern history has ever put out.

00:19:20.000 I mean, it is awful.

00:19:21.000 So, just as background, Trump is talking to O'Reilly, he's talking up the fact I have a slim campaign and I'm running even with Hillary.

00:19:26.000 First of all, dude, you're not running even with Hillary.

00:19:28.000 You're running somewhere between 6 and 10 points in the polls behind Hillary Clinton.

00:19:33.000 You're running about even with Hillary in Ohio. 0.99

00:19:35.000 You're running a little behind her in Pennsylvania.

00:19:37.000 You're getting beat by 8 in Florida.

00:19:39.000 You're starting to lose Arizona, you're starting to lose Kansas, and you're starting to lose Utah.

00:19:44.000 Okay, and if you want to close that gap, you would assume, okay, fine, drop some money of your own, right?

00:19:48.000 I mean, Trump said back in 2011 that he was going to dump $600 million of his own money into the campaign.

00:19:54.000 And that sounds like a lot of money, unless you're worth $10 billion.

00:19:57.000 If you're worth $10 billion, you have $10 billion in assets, and you spend $600 million, proportionately speaking, that's if you make $100,000 a year, and you take $6,000 and spend it on something.

00:20:05.000 It's a lot of money, but it ain't the end of the world.

00:20:07.000 If Trump has $10 billion, $600 million is a lot of money.

00:20:10.000 It ain't the end of the world.

00:20:11.000 So far, Trump has lent his campaign.

00:20:13.000 He didn't give his campaign.

00:20:14.000 He lent his campaign.

00:20:15.000 That means that he says to the campaign, here's some money.

00:20:17.000 When other money comes in, you have to repay it back to me.

00:20:20.000 He's lent his campaign somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million.

00:20:23.000 This is the equivalent to a $10 billion guy.

00:20:25.000 This is the equivalent of a $100,000

00:20:29.000 Okay, fine.

00:20:29.000 Donald Trump, she has now spent $23 million dollars reserving ad time in Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and New Hampshire.

00:20:34.000 Donald Trump has spent this many dollars.

00:20:48.000 Zero.

00:20:48.000 He has spent zero dollars.

00:20:49.000 Not one, zero.

00:20:51.000 He's not reserved any ad time in this wing state.

00:20:54.000 He has 70 national campaign employees.

00:20:56.000 She has well over 700.

00:20:57.000 That's the tip of the iceberg.

00:20:58.000 So, here's the bad news in the latest Federal Election Commission's report from the Trump campaign.

00:21:04.000 And this is just devastating.

00:21:06.000 This is bad Trump.

00:21:07.000 This is bad Trump at its finest.

00:21:08.000 So,

00:21:09.000 Among other problems, Donald Trump, he clinched the nomination, as you recall, May 3rd.

00:21:14.000 He clinched it right after Indiana Ted Cruz dropped out.

00:21:16.000 It was obvious he was the nominee.

00:21:18.000 You would imagine that in the month of May, he would do some pretty heavy lifting in terms of fundraising, right?

00:21:22.000 He'd get on the phone.

00:21:23.000 He'd make some calls.

00:21:24.000 He'd get people to give money.

00:21:25.000 He was obviously the nominee.

00:21:27.000 They were consolidating around him.

00:21:28.000 And I can tell you, gang, as somebody who's very plugged into all of the various kind of conservative media outlets, I can tell you that there is an

00:21:36.000 Absolute effort, top-down effort at lots of conservative media outlets to push Donald Trump, to tell people who are anti-Donald Trump that they ought to jump aboard the Trump train.

00:21:45.000 This is a real thing that's happening all across the conservative media spectrum.

00:21:48.000 It's not unique to any one company, but it is definitely happening.

00:21:51.000 It is definitely happening.

00:21:52.000 And to all the people I'm talking to, it's definitely happening.

00:21:55.000 So Trump had his shot, right?

00:21:56.000 I mean, in the last six weeks, he had a shot to consolidate, to raise lots of money.

00:22:00.000 So you'd figure he would do great last month, right?

00:22:02.000 He finally locks this thing up.

00:22:03.000 We're going to get presidential Trump.

00:22:05.000 Well, in May, Donald Trump raises a grand total of $3.1 million.

00:22:13.000 Now, by way of contrast, Mitt Romney, who'd sewn it up a little bit later than Trump, right?

00:22:17.000 By contrast, Mitt Romney, in the month of May, May 2012,

00:22:21.000 Mitt Romney raised $78 million.

00:22:25.000 $78 million.

00:22:26.000 Hillary Clinton in the month of May, even though she's still battling, she only finished off Bernie Sanders in California in June.

00:22:31.000 In the month of May, Hillary Clinton raised $28 million.

00:22:33.000 Donald Trump raised $3.1 million in May.

00:22:34.000 $3.1 million. 0.99

00:22:40.000 Okay, that is sad sack crap. 0.97

00:22:42.000 I mean, that is bad news. 0.99

00:22:44.000 And there are a couple of reasons for that.

00:22:46.000 One is that he's an erratic candidate.

00:22:47.000 People don't want to put their money behind him.

00:22:48.000 Two is that they don't think that Trump is wealthy and they don't think he's going to put his own money behind himself.

00:22:52.000 One of two things is true for Trump, right?

00:22:54.000 Either he's inordinately wealthy, but he doesn't think he's going to win until he's not dumping his money into his campaign.

00:22:59.000 Or, he's not wealthy.

00:23:01.000 In which case, he's not going to be able to self-fund.

00:23:03.000 In which case, he's got a problem, and half of his case for being the nominee is basically gone.

00:23:08.000 Ted Cruz, who stopped running at the beginning of May, he stopped running at the beginning of May, he has $6.8 million cash on hand.

00:23:14.000 Donald Trump raised $3.1 million, and then he spent $2 million of it, and he has $1.3 million cash on hand.

00:23:21.000 There are state Senate candidates in this country who have more cash on hand than that.

00:23:26.000 That's question one.

00:23:27.000 Why can't you raise any money?

00:23:28.000 Question two, where did all the money go?

00:23:31.000 Well, let's explore, shall we?

00:23:33.000 So, Donald Trump spent one-third of all campaign expenditures on his own firms and travel reimbursements for his children.

00:23:41.000 That's right, gang.

00:23:42.000 You gave Donald Trump money, and he then took the money and spent it on his own properties.

00:23:47.000 He spent it on his own kids.

00:23:50.000 Right, this is called a scam.

00:23:51.000 He spent $423,317 to rent a facility, right, for his campaign.

00:23:57.000 Which facility did he rent?

00:23:59.000 He rented Mar-a-Lago, which he owns.

00:24:01.000 So he paid himself $430,000 to rent a facility he already owns, in which he could donate as an in-kind contribution.

00:24:07.000 He spent $350,000 on TAG Air.

00:24:11.000 But, you ask, who owns TAG Air?

00:24:14.000 Oh, that's right, it's Trump.

00:24:16.000 It's Trump.

00:24:16.000 Trump owns TAG Air.

00:24:17.000 I don't know what TAG stands for.

00:24:18.000 It must be like Trump Air.

00:24:20.000 Great!

00:24:21.000 He even spent $4,000 on wines from his son's wine company.

00:24:26.000 Donald Trump spent $200,000 on hats.

00:24:31.000 On hats.

00:24:32.000 I mean, it's like the Kentucky Derby over there.

00:24:33.000 The dude loves hats.

00:24:35.000 He's just got stacks and stacks of Make America Great Again hats sitting somewhere.

00:24:39.000 Trump paid himself a salary.

00:24:41.000 He paid himself a salary.

00:24:42.000 Now, if you were really, really super-duper wealthy, would you pay yourself a salary from your campaign revenue?

00:24:47.000 Would you do that?

00:24:47.000 I wouldn't.

00:24:49.000 My favorite thing here is that the Trump campaign signed a $35,000 check to an advertising firm called Draper Sterling.

00:24:55.000 What, you ask, is Draper Sterling?

00:24:57.000 Well, for those of you who have seen Mad Men, you know that Don Draper and Roger Sterling are two of the main characters in Mad Men.

00:25:04.000 It's an advertising firm that doesn't exist.

00:25:07.000 It's currently registered at a residential address in New Hampshire.

00:25:10.000 People are tracking this down.

00:25:11.000 It looks basically like a buddy of Corey Lewandowski's may have been funneled a bunch of money for basically nothing.

00:25:17.000 That's what it sort of looks like.

00:25:19.000 But you say, okay, so Trump isn't raising a lot of money for himself directly, but he's for sure raising a lot of money for like the RNC.

00:25:25.000 The RNC says, no, we're raising all that money ourselves.

00:25:28.000 And you might say, well, you know,

00:25:30.000 When we say Romney raised $78 million, he didn't raise $78 million just directly for his campaign.

00:25:34.000 He raised a bunch for his super PAC, right?

00:25:36.000 So how much did he raise for his super PAC?

00:25:38.000 The Great America PAC, which is the greatest of all Trump's super PACs.

00:25:42.000 It's huge.

00:25:43.000 They raised $1.4 million in May.

00:25:46.000 They have half a million dollars cash on hand.

00:25:49.000 Half a million dollars cash on hand.

00:25:51.000 I could take a personal loan against my home value for that amount of money right now, today.

00:25:57.000 Okay, this is crazy towns.

00:25:59.000 This is crazy towns. 0.94

00:26:01.000 Trump is not competent.

00:26:02.000 And this raises some questions.

00:26:03.000 This raises some questions.

00:26:04.000 And it raises one big question, which is, for all you people out there who are saying, well, you have to sacrifice principle to oppose Hillary.

00:26:10.000 You have to sacrifice principle to back Trump.

00:26:12.000 Okay, that logic works if Trump is gonna win, or if he has a shot at winning.

00:26:18.000 What if Trump gets creamed?

00:26:19.000 What if you sacrificed your principles to watch a guy just get absolutely shellacked?

00:26:24.000 I mean, just get crushed?

00:26:26.000 This is a real consideration, and coming up to the convention, there are now stories in the Washington Post, there's some concern among delegates, there may be a delegate revolt against Trump.

00:26:35.000 And there are a lot of questions to be asked here.

00:26:36.000 Is Donald Trump even that wealthy?

00:26:37.000 Mark Cuban today, he says, you know, if Donald Trump were that wealthy, he'd just sign himself a $200 million check.

00:26:42.000 I could do it.

00:26:43.000 And I think Cuban's worth like a couple billion dollars.

00:26:47.000 Why not just sign himself a $200 million check?

00:26:50.000 He says, I don't think he's worth that much money.

00:26:52.000 Trump isn't doing it, obviously.

00:26:53.000 He's also not releasing his tax returns.

00:26:56.000 This is kind of stingy material for a dude who's supposedly worth $10 billion.

00:26:59.000 Second question.

00:27:01.000 Does Trump even want to win at this point?

00:27:04.000 If Trump really is that wealthy, why isn't he spending the money?

00:27:07.000 Maybe he thinks he's going to lose.

00:27:08.000 And maybe he would prefer to blame everybody else.

00:27:11.000 Maybe he thinks that he is not going to win this campaign, and so instead of spending his money on his campaign, he's just gonna spend his money elsewhere.

00:27:20.000 He's gonna up his brand, and then he's gonna go do other things after he's done, which would kind of fit the MO.

00:27:25.000 Right now, he's busy blaming Republicans, right?

00:27:26.000 I mean, Donald Trump is out there blaming Republicans for his campaign.

00:27:29.000 Well, it's people like me. 0.99

00:27:29.000 It's my fault that Donald Trump sucks at campaigning. 0.99

00:27:32.000 It's not my fault that Donald Trump isn't signing himself a check. 0.95

00:27:34.000 It's his money.

00:27:35.000 It's not my fault that Donald Trump isn't calling up donors.

00:27:38.000 Politico reported last week, quote, In recent days, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has privately grumbled his advice doesn't seem welcome with Trump.

00:27:45.000 While Trump had promised Priebus he would call two dozen GOP donors, when RNC Chief of Staff Katie Walsh recently presented Trump with a list of more than 20 donors, he called three before stopping, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

00:28:00.000 But according to Trump, it's all of our fault.

00:28:01.000 It's my fault.

00:28:02.000 It's Paul Ryan's fault.

00:28:03.000 It's Ryan Priebus' fault.

00:28:04.000 Here's Donald Trump on Fox & Friends saying just that.

00:28:08.000 I need support from the Republicans.

00:28:10.000 I mean, in some ways I get more support from the Democrats than I do the Republicans.

00:28:14.000 Some of the Republicans.

00:28:15.000 Not all.

00:28:16.000 Some have been phenomenal.

00:28:17.000 I don't want to build that up in one way because I have got so much tremendous support from congressmen and from senators and from lots of other people.

00:28:25.000 But we do need support.

00:28:27.000 And by the way, Reince and the RNC have been terrific.

00:28:31.000 But it would be nice to have full support from people that are in office.

00:28:35.000 I mean, full verbal support.

00:28:38.000 He's talking about Paul Ryan there, obviously.

00:28:39.000 That's passive-aggressive. 0.94

00:28:40.000 It would be so nice if everybody would just get behind me and shut up.

00:28:44.000 I'm old enough to remember five minutes ago when he was saying he didn't need Republicans.

00:28:47.000 I mean, he could do it all on his own. 1.00

00:28:49.000 And the Republicans are running screaming from him because not only does he say stupid things, but he doesn't have the capacity to run a campaign. 0.99

00:28:56.000 Again, the reason, folks, the reason that I'm going after Trump here is because I think it's important to do a couple of things. 0.99

00:29:02.000 One, to be honest, but two, I think it's important to recognize that the anti-establishment notion, we need to get rid of the Republican establishment, doesn't mean that you also get rid of every capacity to win.

00:29:12.000 It doesn't relieve you of the burden of having to run a real campaign.

00:29:16.000 Just shouting cuck online over and over and over isn't going to win you a campaign.

00:29:21.000 I understand there are a bunch of people online who are like small children watching Peter Pan.

00:29:25.000 They think that if they clap for Tinkerbell, Tinkerbell lives.

00:29:27.000 Well, if you shout cuck enough, that's not going to make Trump the president.

00:29:29.000 Trump actually has to do the legwork.

00:29:31.000 He actually has to do the things he needs to do.

00:29:34.000 And what's very frustrating about this is the worse a campaign Trump runs, the more the establishment wing of the Republican Party looks at the rest of us who are anti-establishment, even anti-Trump, anti-establishment people like me, they look at us and say, well, you guys just aren't professional.

00:29:47.000 I mean, this is humiliating.

00:29:49.000 I don't like Trump, right?

00:29:51.000 I don't, I'm not going to vote for him.

00:29:53.000 But the fact is Hillary is highly vulnerable.

00:29:55.000 She's super vulnerable.

00:29:56.000 And Trump, I mean, we said this yesterday, Trump is blowing it and he's blowing it every single day.

00:30:02.000 And Republicans who even support Trump are now running from him.

00:30:05.000 The New York Times contacted a bunch of top Republicans.

00:30:08.000 This is kind of hilarious.

00:30:09.000 They contacted a bunch of top Republicans because they wanted to get comment.

00:30:13.000 And these top Republicans were afraid that they would be asked about Trump.

00:30:15.000 Here are their responses.

00:30:17.000 Lindsey Graham.

00:30:18.000 Says to the reporter.

00:30:20.000 His spokesperson says he sort of had his fill talking about Trump.

00:30:23.000 Rick Perry, who backs Trump.

00:30:25.000 Thanks for thinking of him.

00:30:26.000 Ted Cruz.

00:30:27.000 Not great timing on our end.

00:30:28.000 Mitt Romney.

00:30:29.000 You are kind to think of me.

00:30:30.000 Chris Christie.

00:30:31.000 We are going to take a pass this time.

00:30:34.000 Charlie Baker of Massachusetts.

00:30:35.000 The governor won't be available.

00:30:37.000 Mike Lee of Utah.

00:30:38.000 Senator Lee would love to talk to you about the state of the GOP and conservatism in general.

00:30:42.000 We are free anytime after November 8th.

00:30:48.000 You have to love the stones on that one.

00:30:51.000 Okay, so we've already asked a couple of questions.

00:30:53.000 One is, does Trump want to win?

00:30:54.000 Two, is Trump even that wealthy?

00:30:56.000 Third, is Trump even a good businessman?

00:30:57.000 His entire pitch was, he's a great businessman, he's going to come in, he's going to revitalize the economy, he's going to do a wonderful job because he's so good at business.

00:31:04.000 He can't even put together a team.

00:31:06.000 He can't even put together a team.

00:31:07.000 His team is chaos.

00:31:08.000 We talked about this yesterday with Lewandowski.

00:31:10.000 It's absolute chaos inside.

00:31:11.000 Finally, is this all a scam?

00:31:13.000 Are you all being played?

00:31:15.000 Is this just a giant scam?

00:31:16.000 And I think this is important to discuss.

00:31:18.000 Did you fall for a scam?

00:31:20.000 Did a lot of people fall for a scam?

00:31:21.000 It's not you, just because you backed Trump.

00:31:23.000 There are a lot of people who fall for politician scams.

00:31:27.000 But this is pretty bad.

00:31:28.000 And there's speculation mounting in recent weeks that the only reason Trump ran in the first place was to enhance his brand viability.

00:31:35.000 But this fundraising report really kind of puts that on the table.

00:31:38.000 This fundraising report puts, it puts the Trump campaign behind the eight ball.

00:31:42.000 Now Trump is saying, well, we'll recover, we'll be fine.

00:31:44.000 He put out a statement where he said that our fundraising has been spectacular this month.

00:31:50.000 I don't know what to believe.

00:31:51.000 I don't know whether to believe that or not.

00:31:52.000 I mean, he was saying that his fundraising was spectacular last month, that he was getting all sorts of support.

00:31:57.000 All of which is to say, if you want to win, it requires two things.

00:32:00.000 Yes, you have to be a fighter, but two, you also have to be a professional.

00:32:04.000 Two, you also have to be a professional.

00:32:06.000 And if Trump isn't going to be a professional, it's going to be very difficult for him to win this election.

00:32:11.000 It's going to be very brutal for him to win this election.

00:32:14.000 I think that this is going to be an object lesson for Republicans going forward.

00:32:18.000 First, I think it's important to answer the question as to whether I think Trump should be ousted by the party at the convention.

00:32:25.000 Let's put it this way.

00:32:25.000 If you want to win in 2016, yeah, he should be ousted.

00:32:28.000 Trump isn't going to win. 0.99

00:32:30.000 Trump's going to get killed. 1.00

00:32:31.000 He's going to get killed because he can't turn this sucker around. 1.00

00:32:34.000 Trump is still Trump. 0.99

00:32:35.000 Now, if Trump could turn this around, it would be a minor miracle.

00:32:38.000 But if Trump turned this around, imagine this.

00:32:40.000 If Trump is behind six points right now and he's spending no money, what would happen if he actually dumped a bunch of money into his own campaign and stopped making gaps?

00:32:47.000 He might be competitive.

00:32:49.000 He might actually be able to win.

00:32:51.000 But he's not going to do any of those things.

00:32:53.000 So, should they dump him?

00:32:55.000 I don't know.

00:32:56.000 I don't know if they should dump him.

00:32:57.000 I mean, I'll be honest with you, if they dump him right now before the convention, there's the real possibility that Donald Trump then complains about it all the way till the election, the Republicans lose, and the Trump wing comes back in four years.

00:33:09.000 I mean, Trump's, it's funny to say this, but he's 70, he's not 80.

00:33:13.000 Trump could come back in four years and do this all over again, just to make a fuss about it.

00:33:17.000 I don't think he would, but it's possible that he could do this all over again.

00:33:20.000 His movement certainly would live on.

00:33:22.000 If you let him have it and you let him get creamed, then people have to live with the decisions that they make.

00:33:27.000 But the good Trump-bad Trump dichotomy, I don't think that's going to end anytime soon, and it obscures the fact that Hillary is terrible on everything, that she's awful, and the media are just dying for her. 0.99

00:33:37.000 They are dying for her.

00:33:38.000 There's a chyron today

00:33:41.000 On MSNBC, that was the craziest chyron I've ever seen, okay?

00:33:44.000 Actually, yeah, it's on MSNBC, okay?

00:33:46.000 It's Hillary Clinton speaking, she's wearing the flag, and it says, breaking news, you ready for this?

00:33:50.000 This is what it says on TV.

00:33:51.000 Clinton, speaking for first time as grandmother of two.

00:33:56.000 That's what the chyron says.

00:33:58.000 And you think the media are going soft on Hillary? 0.51

00:34:00.000 You bet the media are going soft on Hillary. 1.00

00:34:02.000 The only way to fight that is to go directly to the population.

00:34:04.000 The only way to go directly to the population is to spend some money.

00:34:07.000 Trump isn't doing that.

00:34:08.000 And so Trump's in real trouble here.

00:34:10.000 And it just goes to show you, all the people who jumped aboard the Trump bandwagon, even in the last couple of weeks, all the people who jumped aboard in the last couple of weeks to try and consolidate behind Donald Trump,

00:34:23.000 If he's raiding his own campaign coffers in order to pay his family, you're being scammed.

00:34:29.000 I mean, that's scuzzy stuff.

00:34:31.000 It really is.

00:34:32.000 It's pretty scuzzy stuff.

00:34:33.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:34:37.000 Okay, things that I like.

00:34:38.000 So, I just started watching the series.

00:34:40.000 I haven't finished it.

00:34:40.000 I know Clavin recommended it also, but the first couple episodes are really good.

00:34:44.000 The Night Manager on AMC with Tom Hiddleston and, uh, and what's his name?

00:34:49.000 Hugh Laurie, the guy from House.

00:34:51.000 Um, and, uh, and it's, it's very compelling TV.

00:34:54.000 Uh, it's, it's, it's a spy thing.

00:34:56.000 It's, it's, uh, John le Carré, I believe is how it's pronounced.

00:34:59.000 Uh, it's based on one of his novels.

00:35:01.000 Uh, and, uh, and here's what the trailer looks like.

00:35:05.000 You're a spectator sport.

00:35:10.000 We are emperors of Rome.

00:35:14.000 What do you want, Miss Byrne?

00:35:16.000 I want to make you an offer.

00:35:17.000 Bring down Richard Roper.

00:35:19.000 I want to put you inside his operation.

00:35:22.000 My name's Fyne.

00:35:23.000 I'm the night manager.

00:35:25.000 Daniel!

00:35:25.000 You bring the money to us, we give you back the boy.

00:35:28.000 You'll be in so deep, you'll worry that you'll never get out.

00:35:31.000 I got nothing to lose.

00:35:34.000 You saved my boy.

00:35:36.000 Welcome to the family.

00:35:42.000 You come into our lives, everyone's attracted to you.

00:35:45.000 We just need you and me.

00:35:46.000 I've got a new asset.

00:35:47.000 You've got any idea how dangerous that is?

00:35:52.000 Murder, theft, you're on every wanted list on God's Earth.

00:35:56.000 My main man, my star.

00:35:59.000 I think you might be playing both sides.

00:36:00.000 We need Richard Roper.

00:36:05.000 So the series, I've only watched the first couple, excuse me, of episodes, and they're very good.

00:36:10.000 They're very well produced.

00:36:11.000 And it's Tom Hiddleston auditioning for James Bond, which apparently he's going to be the new James Bond.

00:36:15.000 So it's really good.

00:36:18.000 I will say the one thing that bugs me is it's amazing how Hollywood goes out of its way. 0.52

00:36:22.000 Every villain in Hollywood must be a white male. 0.52

00:36:24.000 All of them. 0.56

00:36:25.000 There can never be anybody who's not a white male villain in any of these spy stories, particularly. 0.95

00:36:30.000 So this whole thing is about how House, after being a doctor and healing his leg, House has become an arms dealer.

00:36:38.000 And so now he's selling arms, and he's the bad guy because he's the arms dealer.

00:36:43.000 And Hollywood loves to bash the arms dealers.

00:36:46.000 Which is fine and dandy, but the reality is the people on the other end who are using the guns are more of a problem.

00:36:51.000 The same way that Hollywood likes to bash the gun shops instead of bashing the jihadists.

00:36:56.000 In this case, these are illegal gun sales, but there's one point in one of the early episodes where they're talking about the Arab Spring, and they're talking about shutting him down because he's an arms dealer and the British government knows about him, and they say, well, we don't really necessarily want to shut him down because he may be arming the people who are going to be fighting the religious fanatics.

00:37:12.000 And this is sort of dismissed, right?

00:37:13.000 This is sort of dismissed like, oh, that's so terrible.

00:37:15.000 How could they possibly think that?

00:37:16.000 Well, if you recall history, the Arab Spring did not end well in Egypt.

00:37:20.000 Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood took over the country, and then the generals came back in and took back over the country, probably with the help of arms dealers like the bad guy in this particular series. 0.51

00:37:30.000 So, it's, it's, you know, it's funny.

00:37:33.000 Hollywood likes to pretend that it sees shades of gray in politics, but really, Hollywood only sees

00:37:39.000 You shoot black and white, and the black and white is white people are the villains, and brown people are not. 0.99

00:37:44.000 So if you have two brown people, one of whom is bad and one of whom is good, the brown bad guy is not really the bad guy, it's the white bad guy, right? 0.92

00:37:50.000 And at the very beginning, this isn't giving anything away, in the first episode, Tom Hiddleston sleeps with a girl, and she ends up being killed. 0.90

00:37:58.000 And she's killed by an Arab guy.

00:38:01.000 She's killed by a Muslim guy, who's a bad guy, right? 1.00

00:38:05.000 Tom Hiddleston doesn't set his sights on that guy. 0.72

00:38:07.000 Tom Hiddleston sets his sights on Richard Roper, who's the arms dealer, the white arms dealer. 0.82

00:38:12.000 That's the guy who really has to be taken down, as opposed to this guy who's part of this really rich Muslim family in Egypt. 0.97

00:38:18.000 Why?

00:38:19.000 No one really explains.

00:38:20.000 But, you know, there you have it.

00:38:21.000 So, okay.

00:38:22.000 Other things that I like, Daniel Radcliffe, who I've been told I bear a resemblance to, I don't see it at all.

00:38:28.000 Certainly not with the beard.

00:38:29.000 But when he was, I think that, I've gotten the Harry Potter routine a couple of times.

00:38:34.000 And Daniel Radcliffe was on with one of the least funny people in America, Seth Meyers.

00:38:39.000 And Seth Meyers asked him about one time that he met Donald Trump, and it's a little bit funny.

00:38:44.000 Then I heard, is this true, your first talk show appearance, you're very young, you meet Donald Trump backstage.

00:38:49.000 Yes.

00:38:50.000 Yeah.

00:38:51.000 The true story?

00:38:51.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:38:52.000 It was my first time in New York, and I was doing the Today show, and I was, like, really nervous and 10, 11 years old and, like, never been on live TV before and just terrified.

00:39:03.000 And they said, and he was a guest on it, and presumably somebody went up to him and was like, you want to meet the kid that plays Harry Potter?

00:39:08.000 And he was like, yeah.

00:39:10.000 Or probably with less enthusiasm than that.

00:39:11.000 He's probably like, yeah, fine, I don't care.

00:39:14.000 He was like, I am the biggest fan of Harry Potter.

00:39:16.000 And so they marched me over to him.

00:39:19.000 And I remember saying, like, having some idea of who he was, but not really, you know, full concept.

00:39:24.000 And I said, I was just like, oh, he was like, how are you?

00:39:26.000 And I was like, I'm really nervous.

00:39:27.000 I don't know what I'm going to talk about on the show.

00:39:29.000 And he just said, you just tell them you met Mr. Trump.

00:39:32.000 Which I was just like, to this day, I'm like, I can't even relate to that level of confidence.

00:39:38.000 Imagine if, like, I said to Billy, I was just like, oh, just talk about me when you do your interview.

00:39:43.000 Don't worry about it.

00:39:43.000 Like, yeah, I am interesting enough to be everyone's story.

00:39:47.000 Yeah.

00:39:47.000 Especially on a day he just got interviewed and left.

00:39:51.000 Yeah.

00:39:52.000 And then you would come out and say, anything interesting?

00:39:54.000 I just met Donald Trump.

00:39:55.000 Yeah, that's how it works.

00:39:57.000 He was here and you met him.

00:39:58.000 And also just, like, how weirded out would they be for, like, that young British kid loves Trump.

00:40:03.000 He's really into, like, real estate and stuff.

00:40:08.000 I don't know.

00:40:08.000 So, you know, that's funny stuff, but it's also a little bit telling about Trump.

00:40:11.000 For Trump, everything revolves around Trump, obviously.

00:40:13.000 Obviously, obviously.

00:40:14.000 Apparently, there's a story today that was pretty funny that

00:40:19.000 Donald Trump was, when he was helping do this, he was helping write the material for SNL.

00:40:26.000 Apparently he wasn't particularly helpful, but the one thing that he did add in terms of notes is when they came to him with his statements about his vast wealth, he went back to him and he doubled all the figures.

00:40:36.000 That was his vast...

00:40:39.000 statement of wealth.

00:40:39.000 So, Donald Trump being Donald Trump.

00:40:41.000 Again, folks, when I rip on Trump, this does not mean that Hillary is good. 1.00

00:40:45.000 It means Hillary is the worst. 1.00

00:40:46.000 Hillary is the worst. 0.98

00:40:47.000 Why can't we have someone who can beat her and who isn't terrible? 1.00

00:40:50.000 Why?

00:40:50.000 Why, God?

00:40:50.000 Why?

00:40:52.000 Why Republican voters?

00:40:53.000 Why?

00:40:53.000 Okay, so...

00:40:54.000 Time for some things that I hate.

00:40:57.000 I wish that we had an alternative candidate.

00:40:58.000 We don't. 0.98

00:40:59.000 Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is just awful. 0.98

00:41:03.000 So he was asked, this libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who's a nut job, right? 0.94

00:41:08.000 Former governor of New Mexico, former Republican.

00:41:11.000 He was asked about smoking weed because he's been very open about the fact that he smokes pot. 0.99

00:41:16.000 And by the way, if you're a 50-year-old man and you don't have cancer and you're smoking pot, you're a loser, by definition. 0.98

00:41:21.000 By definition, okay? 0.95

00:41:24.000 It's not the same thing as taking a drink. 0.99

00:41:25.000 It's making a cultural statement about what a loser you are. 1.00

00:41:27.000 If you're a 50-year-old man, you're either living in Marin County and you're a hippie, or you're just some guy who's super wealthy and just saying F it to life and you're just smoking pot because... or you're super poor and you're an incredible loser. 0.99

00:41:39.000 There's no real in-between. 0.91

00:41:41.000 Gary Johnson was on MSNBC and he explained that he has eaten edibles and blown a little smoke.

00:41:47.000 He said he wouldn't do that in office.

00:41:50.000 How long has it been since he has had pot?

00:41:54.000 Since he has done any of this?

00:41:56.000 They ask him.

00:41:57.000 He says it's been a grand total of seven weeks.

00:42:00.000 So, seven weeks clean for Gary Johnson.

00:42:02.000 Make that man president of the United States.

00:42:05.000 Also, things I hate, going back to the gun thing, Van Jones, who is the communist on CNN.

00:42:11.000 Really, he's a communist.

00:42:12.000 Van Jones, he was

00:42:15.000 I just think it's very interesting that we're talking about racially profiling in the context of mass shootings.

00:42:20.000 The vast majority of people who are doing the mass shootings in America are not Muslims at all.

00:42:36.000 So, exactly, a young white man. 0.94

00:42:38.000 It turns out that even the people who are ideologically motivated, you mentioned ideology, you are seven times more likely to be killed by a right-wing extremist, a racist or an anti-government nutjob, seven times more likely to be killed by that person than by a Muslim. 0.72

00:42:52.000 Is that ideology important to your consideration?

00:42:54.000 Yes, it is.

00:42:56.000 Well, sure, sure, but I'm just saying before we even just go down the road of should we racially profile Muslims or not, if I came on TV and said let's start racially profiling white men, let's start racially profiling young white men who are loners with bowl haircuts, people would think, wow, that's a pretty unfortunate 0.90

00:43:15.000 First of all, we probably should if a loner who's creepy with a bowl haircut and is white and he's 18 years old walks into a gun shop.

00:43:31.000 Maybe we should take a second look at that guy, right? 0.91

00:43:33.000 I mean, maybe we should.

00:43:34.000 If he's acting all weird and stuff, maybe we should.

00:43:36.000 Second, Islam is not a race.

00:43:39.000 It's a religion.

00:43:40.000 So you can't racially profile Muslims.

00:43:41.000 You can religiously profile Muslims.

00:43:42.000 You can't racially profile Muslims.

00:43:44.000 Third, the statistic he gives that you're seven times more likely to be killed by a right-wing extremist, this is a widely debunked statistic.

00:43:51.000 It's not true.

00:43:51.000 It's lumping in a bunch of people who have nothing to do with conservatism into right-wing

00:43:56.000 It's also ignoring, you have to date it after 9-11, because if you include 9-11, then by far it's radical Muslims killing people that are the grave danger. 0.98

00:44:04.000 And if we're just going to talk murder across the board, you're most likely to be killed in the United States, just generally, you're most likely to be killed by a young black man, because 50% of all murders in the United States are committed by young black men. 0.89

00:44:14.000 All of which is to say that if we're trying to prevent terrorist attacks, all shootings are not the same.

00:44:18.000 All shootings are not the same.

00:44:19.000 If we're trying to prevent Columbine-style shootings, then if a creepy, loner white kid in a bowl haircut shows up at a gun shop and tries to buy a rifle, and he's acting a little weird and wearing all black, maybe you ought to think twice and call the FBI. 0.77

00:44:34.000 Sure. 0.71

00:44:35.000 If you're thinking about how to prevent terrorism, and a guy walks into your gun shop, and he starts talking into his phone in Arabic, and trying to buy large amounts of ammunition, maybe you should do what the gun shop in Florida did, and call the FBI, and the FBI shouldn't suck at its job.

00:44:47.000 If you are trying to prevent gang killings, which are the vast majority of, or at least the vast plurality of killings in the United States, maybe you ought to have stop and frisk in places like New York.

00:44:55.000 In other words, this isn't all one big problem.

00:44:57.000 One of the things I hate about the discussion of crime

00:45:00.000 Is lumping all crime together as though it's all of one piece.

00:45:02.000 It isn't.

00:45:03.000 There are many different types of crime and they all have to be dealt with in different ways.

00:45:06.000 But the idea that you can just restrict anybody on the so-called terror watch list from buying a gun and this is going to solve all your problems, it's just not true.

00:45:13.000 It's just not true.

00:45:14.000 It didn't work for the Orlando Jihadists. 0.58

00:45:15.000 It wouldn't work for the Tarnievs. 0.99

00:45:17.000 Even San Bernardino, they weren't on the terror watch list, so it wouldn't work there either.

00:45:20.000 So none of this actually works in any real way.

00:45:25.000 Well tomorrow we'll be back and we'll be talking about Hillary Clinton gave a big speech on the economy so it'll be bashing Hillary tomorrow. 0.95

00:45:31.000 Today was Trump's turn through the ringer because the news is about Trump.

00:45:34.000 But tomorrow I'm sure we'll be talking about Hillary's big speech on the economy and Trump is supposed to unleash a diatribe against Hillary Clinton about all of her foibles about her unfitness for office. 0.98

00:45:45.000 I'm looking forward to that because now we can have more good Trump than bad Trump in the good Trump bad Trump segment.

00:45:49.000 That'll be really exciting.

00:45:50.000 So come back for that.

00:45:51.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:45:52.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 21, 2016

Ep. 137 - Democrats Think You're All Terrorists

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