America Was Never Great is a phrase that has been trending on the left in response to Donald Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again. It ignores all of world history, including modern history, and sets utopia as the objective bar for greatness. Let s instead look at America s record in context: When America was founded, no other nation on earth had the great and good philosophy America would embody. To keep America great requires understanding the values that made us great in the first place. But that merely means it s our job to educate. After all, as Ronald Reagan said, Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It s our responsibility to ensure that generation never arrives. Ben Shapiro: America was never great. America is great. That s why everybody wants in, and why nobody even wants out. But for the left, the solution is the destruction of all those foundational principles that made America great. In the name of sexual license, attacks on traditional religion, racial division, and multiculturalism, without regard to cultural differences, a growing welfare state that creates dependency? None of that makes America great, or even good. And it s no wonder America s children now spit in her face. The only reason she s famous is because she s only famous because she once had sex with Bill Clinton, and the only proof is that she s married to Bill Clinton. That s the only reason Bill Clinton is famous because he s famous because of his sex with Chelsea Clinton, right? And that s just about all the things she's famous, except for being Bill Clinton's wife Chelsea. . And she s just like Bill s wife, Chelsea s name is Hillary. and she doesn t veer off of it, right off the tarmac at the airport at the end of a meeting with Loretta Lynch s plane at the same time she s not veer of it. She s just a bunch of crap, right on the same tarmac on an airplane. - Ben Shapiro and it s just fine, right, right here, right ? right? - that s not even better than Bill s meeting with the attorney general? - it s not a common exchange, right - and that s all she veer or veer right, it s a very common exchange? - And then she talks about it in the news? - It s not?
00:00:00.000Yesterday was Independence Day, so naturally, the left has America was never great trending on Twitter.
00:00:05.000It's an argument that's found some pretty serious support on the left in response to Donald Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.
00:00:12.000Sean King, who's the white guy who pretends he's a black guy for the New York Daily News, he explicitly made the case for America was never great back in May.
00:00:19.000He said, quote, What sustained period in the history of this nation, what decade, what era, what generation was truly great for everybody?
00:00:26.000While this country might have been great for George Washington, it wasn't great for the Africans who were forced to live and work on his plantation, unquote.
00:00:33.000This is a rather narrow definition of great.
00:00:35.000It ignores all of world history, including modern history, and sets utopia as the objective bar for greatness.
00:00:41.000Let's instead look at America's record in context.
00:00:44.000When America was founded, no other nation on earth had the great and good philosophy America would embody.
00:00:49.000The notion of a kingless constitutional republic, a land of liberty based on limited government, given legitimacy by the consent of a moral and religious people.
00:00:57.000As Andrew Klavan, who's usually unintelligent but here was smart, pointed out, quote, Now because of what America showed the world, even the darkest tyrannies have to call themselves republics simply to maintain a pretense of legitimacy, unquote.
00:01:09.000American notions of free speech, freedom of religion, these became the hallmarks of human rights all over the globe.
00:01:15.000American beliefs in freedom against governmental intrusion became the basic definition of liberty.
00:01:20.000For most of human history, virtually every society on earth held slaves.
00:01:24.000America fought a bloody civil war, ending in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of non-black Americans in order to end slavery.
00:01:30.000In the 20th century, while the world decayed into fascism, the United States tried to destroy it, ending Japanese totalitarianism and German Nazism and Italian fascism.
00:01:39.000Then, while half the globe descended into communist madness, the United States rebuilt the other half of the globe, contained and finally forced the collapse of the monstrous communist system.
00:01:48.000America's free economic policies came to dominate the globe, liberating literally billions of people from the chains of abject poverty.
00:01:57.000That's why everybody wants in, and why nobody, even on the left, wants out.
00:02:01.000But for the left, that thinks America was never great, the solution is the destruction of all those foundational principles that made us great in the first place.
00:02:11.000In the name of sexual license, attacks on traditional religion, racial division in the name of multiculturalism, unfettered immigration without regard to cultural differences, a growing welfare state that creates dependency.
00:02:23.000None of that makes America great, or even good.
00:02:25.000To keep America great requires understanding the values that made us great in the first place.
00:02:29.000Our educational system has totally failed to teach Americans those values, so it's no wonder America's children now spit in her face.
00:02:36.000But that merely means it's our job to educate.
00:02:38.000After all, as Ronald Reagan said, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
00:02:43.000It's our responsibility to ensure that generation never arrives.
00:02:55.000Alrighty, so even as I say that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction, it basically died like 30 minutes ago, 45 minutes ago.
00:03:03.000It turns out that if your last name is Clinton, you can break the law as much as you could possibly hope to or want to.
00:03:09.000So to set the stage for this, you have to remember that last week, President Clinton, Hillary's husband, the one that she's famous for, right?
00:03:15.000She's only famous because she once had sex with Bill Clinton, the only proof being Chelsea.
00:03:22.000She, her husband, met with Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, on this plane, and then Hillary said it was purely social, there's nothing to see here, everything is just fine.
00:03:32.000Here's Hillary explaining that over the weekend.
00:03:37.000They talked about grandkids, which is very much on our minds these days.
00:03:41.000Golf, their mutual friend, former Attorney General Janet Reno.
00:04:01.000And then she says, by the way, that she only learned about the meeting on the news, just like President Obama only learns about stuff on the news.
00:04:07.000Here's Hillary explaining that she only learned about this on the news.
00:04:10.000Well, I learned about it in the news, and it was a short chance meeting at an airport tarmac.
00:04:18.000Both of their planes, as I understand it, were landing on the same tarmac at about the same time, and the Attorney General's husband was there.
00:04:53.000Report from the New York Times, Hillary says that maybe she would consider keeping Loretta Lynch as her Attorney General in her new administration.
00:05:00.000Nothing corrupt about any of this, folks.
00:05:02.000Then, President Obama announces that he is going to fly down to North Carolina with Hillary Clinton on Air Force One, which, by the way, she should not be doing because that's our taxpayer dollars to pay for Air Force One.
00:05:12.000We shouldn't be paying for her campaigning.
00:05:13.000And apparently she says now she's going to cover part of the cost.
00:05:17.000She flies down to North Carolina, but still there's this looming issue of FBI indictment over her head.
00:05:22.000What's going to happen if the FBI comes out and says that Hillary Clinton is actually guilty of setting up a private server to store classified information?
00:06:19.000So, as Hillary and Obama are descending onto the tarmac in North Carolina, as all that's happening, FBI Director James Comey comes out, and he announces that, yeah, it turns out Hillary violated every law in the book.
00:06:41.000Here's FBI Director's Clip 19, James Comey.
00:06:44.000First, he leads off by making- this is the weirdest press conference ever, because he starts off by saying, no one knows what I'm going to say.
00:06:52.000You think Obama's descending onto a tarmac with Hillary Clinton in tow on a plane, getting ready for him to campaign with her, not knowing what James Comey's gonna do?
00:07:01.000Does Obama seem that risk-seeking to you, that he was gonna get up there, and that he was just gonna start talking with Hillary next to him, and then all of a sudden, the FBI shows up and just drags Hillary off, and he's just standing there going,
00:07:42.000Because he lays out, the charges he lays out are so clearly felonious, so clearly felonious, so clearly violative of law, that you're thinking he's going to get to the end of this iteration, and he's going to say, and now I'm referring to Loretta Lynch, that they prosecute this case and take it to a grand jury.
00:09:01.000Basically, any place that Bill had sex in the house with someone not her, she had a server.
00:09:05.000Okay, then she contin- then Comey continues by saying, oh yeah, here's another lie, right?
00:09:11.000It turns out that Hillary did, in fact, transmit classified information.
00:09:15.000From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department in 2014, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.
00:09:34.000Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent.
00:09:40.000Thirty-six of those chains contained secret information at the time, and eight contained confidential information at the time.
00:09:48.000That's the lowest level of classification.
00:09:52.000So he's saying here, yes, classified information was on her server.
00:09:56.000Also, you remember she kept saying it was not marked classified when it was sent or received?
00:10:01.000Okay, well, here's the thing, and he points this out later, he says that, he says later in this press conference, it doesn't matter whether it was Marx classified, it either is classified material or it's not classified material, it's Marx classified later, but you're not supposed to be sending this stuff, and when she said it wasn't...
00:10:16.000Classified when it was sent or received?
00:10:18.000He keeps saying sent or received here because he's ripping her apart, right?
00:10:48.000Agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received.
00:10:53.000One at the secret level and two at the confidential level.
00:10:57.000There were no additional top-secret emails found.
00:11:00.000And finally, none of those we found have since been up-classified.
00:11:05.000I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them in some way.
00:11:14.000Okay, so I'm not sure why we're getting cop music in the background like someone's gonna come and arrest Hillary Clinton, but in any case, what he's saying there is that she didn't turn over a bunch of emails, including emails that were classified, one at a secret level, a couple at the confidential level, and then he says Hillary's lawyers didn't read the emails they deleted.
00:11:33.000They just went through her email chain, looked at the title of the email, and then just deleted everything.
00:11:43.000The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her emails, as we did for those available to us.
00:11:53.000Instead, they relied on header information, and they used search terms to try to find all work-related emails, among the reportedly more than 60,000 that were remaining on her system at the end of 2014.
00:12:05.000It's highly likely that their search missed some work-related emails and that we later found them, for example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the Slack space of a server.
00:12:17.000It's also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to state and that we did not find elsewhere and that are now gone.
00:12:25.000Because they deleted all emails they did not produce to state, and the lawyers then cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
00:12:36.000So her lawyers went in, found emails, didn't read them, just deleted them, and then deleted them off their servers, wiped them so that the FBI couldn't get a hold of them.
00:12:50.000But it turns out that Hillary's team was, quote, extremely careless.
00:12:54.000We'll point out this language here, because the language of the statute under which she should be prosecuted says that you only require, not intent, gross negligence.
00:13:03.000If you are grossly negligent with classified material, you go to jail.
00:13:08.000What's the difference between extremely careless and grossly negligent?
00:13:14.000If you say, if I say, you were extremely careless driving and you sideswiped a kid, that's me saying you were grossly negligent driving and you sideswiped a kid!
00:13:22.000Extreme negligence, extreme carelessness, gross negligence, same exact thing.
00:13:27.000But Comey says, well, you know, she was extremely careless, but that doesn't mean she's gonna go to jail.
00:13:31.000Here's him explaining, she was extremely careless.
00:13:34.000Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless.
00:14:00.000What it means, under law, is intent to commit the act.
00:14:04.000So, for example, if I get into a car drunk, I don't have to intend to sideswipe a child in order to be held responsible for first-degree murder.
00:14:13.000The intent lies in me having intent to drink and having intent to get in the car.
00:14:18.000Okay, if I violate prescriptions on classified information, if I violate those prescriptions on classified information, then it's not that I intend to turn those over to the Russians.
00:14:27.000It's I intended to put those in a place where it's vulnerable, and then the Russians came and took them.
00:14:41.000If you're extremely careless in how you treat your emails, that's extreme carelessness with regard to what happens to the emails after you put them there.
00:14:50.000But you intended to put them there by law.
00:14:53.000Under the standard of law, you intended to take those emails and put them in a place where you knew they weren't safe.
00:15:11.000Seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the top secret special access program at the time they were sent and received.
00:15:20.000Those chains involve Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails about those same matters.
00:15:29.000There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about those matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.
00:15:44.000In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as secret by the U.S.
00:15:50.000intelligence community at the time it was discussed on email.
00:15:54.000That is, excluding any later up-classified emails.
00:15:58.000None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system.
00:16:02.000But their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers, not even supported by full-time security staff like those found at agencies and departments of the United States government, or even with a commercial email service like Gmail.
00:17:41.000With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton's personal email domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was hacked successfully.
00:17:55.000But given the nature of the system, and of the actors potentially involved, we assess we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.
00:18:03.000We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.
00:18:15.000We also assess that Secretary Clinton's use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent.
00:18:58.000If you take the tag off your mattress at home, gang, you could go to jail.
00:19:03.000But if you take classified information, top-secret classified information, store it on a private server, because you don't want anybody else having access to your private emails, if you then convey it to people who are hacked by the Russian government, and you do all of this because you just don't care, don't worry, you won't go to jail, so long as your last name is Clinton and you want to have sex with Bill.
00:19:52.000I mean, that's an amazing, amazing admission.
00:19:54.000He just comes out there and he says that anybody, right, anybody else, under similar circumstances, would face consequences but not Hillary Clinton?
00:20:10.000And then Comey explains why he says charges aren't appropriate.
00:20:12.000And I'm going to tear this legal reasoning apart because it's absolute nonsense.
00:20:16.000Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
00:20:28.000Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges.
00:20:33.000There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.
00:20:38.000Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
00:20:47.000In looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.
00:20:59.000All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of information
00:21:11.000Exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct, or indications of disloyalty to the United States, or efforts to obstruct justice.
00:21:47.000Intent doesn't mean she sent an error mail to Vladimir Putin with all her documents.
00:21:51.000It means she had intent to put them in a place that was not safe.
00:21:55.000If my wife, if my wife stuck documents in her purse and took them out to her car that violated HIPAA, she would be looking at jail time right now.
00:22:04.000She'd be looking at jail time right now.
00:22:16.000Now the intentional misconduct is, she wanted the Russians to have it.
00:22:20.000But clearly she exposed vast quantities of material in a way that made it possible for the Russians to have it.
00:22:26.000And then she says disloyalty to the United States.
00:22:28.000Okay, no one's accusing her of being a traitor, but people are accusing her, rightly so, of putting her own interests ahead of those of the United States.
00:22:34.000And finally, efforts to obstruct justice.
00:22:35.000The only reason, folks, the only reason to set up a private server is to obstruct justice.
00:23:01.000And it's just another piece of evidence that the law does not matter to the Obama administration or the Clintons, that rule of law in the United States is utterly dead.
00:23:14.000And again, it's not amazing because I didn't expect it, but there's a difference between expecting to be clocked in the face and actually being clocked in the face.
00:23:20.000And America just got clocked in the face.
00:23:21.000Let me go through the statutes of which Hillary Clinton's actually guilty.
00:23:40.000The statute explicitly states whoever entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years or both.
00:24:28.000This statute says any employee of the United States who quote knowingly removes classified documents without authority and with the intent to retain such documents at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year or both.
00:24:49.000The statute says anyone who quote uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States any classified information shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 10 years or both.
00:25:01.000She clearly used the information in a way prejudicial to the safety of the United States by putting it on her own server for her own personal purposes.
00:25:11.0002071, this statute says anyone who has custody of classified material and, quote, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years.
00:25:24.000We know, Comey said, Hillary destroyed documents, they found it elsewhere, including classified material.
00:27:00.000Here's my theory of what happened here.
00:27:01.000My theory is that James Comey originally was gonna turn over the facts to Loretta Lynch, and Loretta Lynch was going to reject the indictment.
00:27:08.000After the Clinton-Lynch meeting, it became politically unpalatable for that to happen, so instead they made Comey fall on his sword.
00:27:15.000Instead they made Comey fall on his sword.
00:27:16.000Now, in the hands of any other candidate, in the hands of any other candidate, this could be a devastating rebuttal to Hillary's argument that she's gonna keep America safe, right?
00:27:26.000This could be a really devastating rebuttal.
00:27:46.000And it's clear she's trying to do two things.
00:27:49.000One, she's trying to explain how this process works because she knows that this was and remains a disaster of effort proportions when it comes to the independence and the integrity of the Justice Department.
00:28:07.000In the clip you showed, she talks a great deal about career prosecutors and career investigators.
00:28:14.000She's trying to make it clear to everyone, if they're willing to hear it, that she's not making the decision.
00:28:20.000Political people are not making the decision.
00:28:22.000It's career prosecutors and investigators who have been there before she got there and will be there after.
00:28:28.000So that way she's trying to make it clear that there isn't going to be any political influence.
00:28:34.000Okay, so he's saying it's a disaster for her, but it isn't really a disaster for her, because the media won't let it be a disaster for her.
00:28:39.000So, the media are looking for another headline, right?
00:28:41.000They don't want to print that Hillary was extremely careless with documents.
00:28:45.000They don't want to print that Hillary exposed classified material to the Russians.
00:28:49.000They don't want to talk about any of this stuff, because this stuff is awkward for them.
00:28:52.000So instead, they look for another headline.
00:29:07.000As I've said for the past couple of weeks now, if Donald Trump just stopped doing anything but attacking Hillary Clinton,
00:29:14.000Then, it would put a lot of pressure on people like me, the Never Trump folks, it would put a lot of pressure on people like me to vote for him.
00:29:19.000Because, then the case would be pro-Hillary versus anti-Hillary, as opposed to, on one side we've got this horrible crap show of Donald Trump, and on the other we have this horrible crap show of Hillary Clinton.
00:29:30.000By the way, you know, I've seen this argument today.
00:29:31.000Hillary Clinton is so deeply corrupt, you can never vote for, you know, you should certainly vote for him, because otherwise you're voting for her.
00:29:38.000As you know, I don't buy that argument.
00:29:42.000Even if you assume the premise of that argument, if you think that Donald Trump is going to save you from executive branch corruption and abuse, let me remind you that a week ago he was saying that he was going to use the FBI and the IRS to investigate Amazon.com and the Washington Post so he could target Jeff Bezos because he doesn't like Jeff Bezos, the owner of the place, right?
00:30:02.000Honestly, I think the beginning of wisdom is honesty.
00:30:05.000The beginning of wisdom is honesty, and let's be honest about something.
00:30:07.000There are no good choices in this election.
00:30:09.000Maybe there's a better choice, maybe there's not.
00:30:11.000There are no good choices in this election.
00:30:13.000And for people to pretend that there are any easy choices in this election, that's to ignore the reality, which is that we have two Democrats, one running against each other, one may be better, one may be worse, but one also represents my philosophy, supposedly, and one doesn't.
00:30:26.000I mean, this is a very real, balancing decision.
00:30:28.000Anybody who's having an easy time with this one isn't thinking it through.
00:30:31.000Or they're refusing to acknowledge the problems inherent in either decision.
00:30:35.000Obviously there's a problem not voting for Trump because it's effectively not helping him stop Hillary.
00:30:41.000And obviously there's a problem voting for Trump because it's turning over conservatism to a guy who's really a bad guy.
00:30:47.000So Donald Trump, you know, over the weekend, he could have spent the entire weekend talking about Loretta Lynch and Clinton, and then he could have gone into this week targeting Hillary Clinton.
00:30:55.000Instead, Donald Trump tweeted this over the weekend.
00:31:03.000And the meme is the history made Hillary looking in the air photo from her website, and it's pasted over a bed of dollars.
00:31:11.000And then the controversial part, it's inside a Jewish star, it's his most corrupt candidate ever.
00:31:15.000Inside a red Jewish star, it's his most corrupt candidate ever.
00:31:20.000So, this creates a firestorm because obviously this looks like something that he grabbed from an alt-right white supremacist website that's linking money and Judaism, right?
00:31:33.000And it turns out that's exactly what it is.
00:31:35.000It turns out that he likely grabbed it from 4chan or from a white supremacist supporter who was pushing this out via Twitter, and they just grabbed it and put it up.
00:31:47.000And Trump then releases a revised version of this, which has a circle on it, right?
00:31:51.000And the circle covers the Jewish star.
00:31:55.000Except that they're incompetent, so you still see the points of the Jewish star in the background, because that's how incompetent this team is.
00:32:32.000But the media decided now, now of course they're going to make this into the biggest story ever.
00:32:35.000So it wasn't the biggest story ever when Donald Trump explicitly refused to condemn the alt-right on Hugh Hewitt's show and on national TV when asked about it.
00:32:44.000That is something the media will ignore, but now they have to distract from Hillary, so they bring this up.
00:32:51.000One, Trump can be trafficking in white supremacist anti-Jewish stereotypes because he's ignorant.
00:32:57.000I don't think he's an anti-Semite, I just think he's stupid.
00:32:59.000And I think that he's happy to take support from whoever shows him support.
00:33:03.000And if that's the alt-right, then he'll just keep chugging along, taking their memes and acknowledging them as some sort of legitimate force in American politics.
00:33:12.000And it can also be true that the media is exploiting a stupid, ignorant move by Donald Trump in order to avoid talking about the deep-seated, nasty corruption endemic to Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.
00:33:26.000The entire weekend was basically covered, before this news broke today, the entire weekend was covered with just Trump supporters making bad defenses of this particular tweet.
00:33:33.000Here's Corey Lewandowski, who is the former campaign manager for Donald Trump, and a fellow who is just a delight.
00:33:40.000I mean, he has a nondisclosure agreement, he has a nondisparagement agreement with Trump, presumably.
00:33:44.000CNN hired him anyway to give commentary, and things went wildly wrong on CNN.
00:33:49.000You're saying that people are reading too much into this?
00:33:51.000It's the same star that sheriff's departments across the country use all over the place to represent law enforcement.
00:33:56.000To read into something that isn't there is, you know what?
00:33:58.000I think, again, that's the mainstream media trying to attack Donald Trump for something that really isn't there.
00:34:02.000So they put a new tweet up with a circle.
00:34:07.000The message is that Hillary Clinton is corrupt and that the FBI is investigating the leading Democrat frontrunner.
00:34:10.000If there's nothing there, Corey, then why did they pull it?
00:34:12.000And why did they pull it and then send out the new tweet with, instead of that star, and it wasn't a five-point star, it was a circle the next time they did it?
00:34:46.000But at the end of the day, the message is very clear.
00:34:48.000Hillary Clinton is under investigation from the FBI.
00:34:51.000She went in this weekend for a three and a half hour interview because she didn't want to be subpoenaed.
00:34:55.000And her husband is trying to intervene in this case by meeting with the Attorney General, not to talk about golf and talk about grandchildren.
00:35:02.000That conversation doesn't take 30 minutes.
00:35:04.000The real question is, is the FBI going to make the right recommendation?
00:35:08.000Because if it were you or I or anyone else in the American public, we'd be indicted by now.
00:35:13.000And that's what should happen if that's what the facts of the case bear.
00:35:15.000And if that is the case, then Loretta Lynch should clearly either recuse herself or agree right now to accept the recommendation of the FBI, not saying that she will take those into account.
00:35:25.000Okay, so the last part of what Lewandowski's saying is true, and this is the problem.
00:35:28.000What Lewandowski's saying at the end is true, but that's not what the media's gonna run with.
00:35:32.000The media's gonna run with the fact that Donald Trump can't disavow his own bad guy supporters, right?
00:35:36.000Because the media's looking for an excuse to cover Trump.
00:35:38.000Now, this doesn't mean that the media wouldn't go after Trump were he innocent.
00:35:43.000If he were innocent, they'd still go after Trump.
00:35:45.000But at least then he wouldn't be guilty.
00:35:46.000I mean, there's something to that idea.
00:36:08.000Shows them either tied with Hillary or up at this point.
00:36:10.000Trump is five points down in this latest poll today.
00:36:13.000And there's a reason for that, and it's because he can't keep himself under control.
00:36:16.000For God's sake, is there no one there at Trump headquarters to even be smart enough to just shut down his Twitter account?
00:36:23.000To just take control of his Twitter account?
00:36:24.000Is there no one there who's bright enough to do that?
00:36:26.000I'm not a Trump supporter, as you know.
00:36:28.000I think that Trump's Twitter account reflects who Trump is as a man.
00:36:32.000But just from a purely political standpoint, wouldn't you think that you could shut him down to the extent that you could focus on the things that actually matter?
00:36:38.000Instead, you end up with this nonsense with Jeffrey Lord.
00:36:41.000John, number one, the sheriff's image is out there everywhere.
00:36:45.000I mean, this has been around in America for well over a century.
00:36:50.000When I saw this tweet, that is exactly what I first thought of, was that it was the sheriff's badge over money, which meant she was corrupt, which is the crooked Hillary, which is one of the themes of the campaign.
00:37:01.000You know, all of this, frankly, I think some of this is a matter of culture.
00:37:08.000I don't think they should have taken it down, frankly.
00:37:13.000If we're going to talk about anti-Semitism, then we need to be talking about why we had people on the Democratic Platform Committee right now pushing anti-Israel point of views who were put there by Bernie Sanders.
00:37:30.000But just with all due respect, if we're going to talk about division, I mean, I am always gobsmacked that Democrats like to play this game when they have been the party of racial division and at the moment they're...
00:37:47.000Okay, so, you know, he's so so Jeffrey Lord again, half of what he's saying is true.
00:37:51.000Okay, as I'm going to say in a second.
00:37:53.000And the fact is the media are looking to target Trump, no question.
00:37:57.000But Trump doesn't have to provide them fodder.
00:37:59.000You want the evidence the media are trying to target Trump.
00:38:00.000So over the weekend, Elie Wiesel dies.
00:38:02.000Elie Wiesel is of course, the Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in I think 1986.
00:38:07.000And he was a he was the author of the book Knight.
00:38:11.000Which is this very bleak look at the Holocaust from inside Auschwitz death camp.
00:38:15.000I happen to have worked with and helped write the autobiography of his cousin who was in Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel.
00:38:23.000Elie Wiesel was a great man who stood up for human rights.
00:38:27.000After he died, Sidney Blumenthal, who is just a very close Hillary advisor, big anti-Semite, his son, who Sidney Blumenthal sends, his son Max, his son's name is Max, he sends Max's work to Hillary Clinton on a routine basis, right?
00:38:41.000That always happens and it's been happening for years.
00:38:43.000Max Blumenthal tweeted out after Wiesel died, quote, Ellie Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them.
00:38:51.000He did more harm than good and should not be honored.
00:38:54.000After Elie Wiesel dies, this Nobel Prize winning Holocaust survivor.
00:38:58.000Blumenthal has also likened Israel to Nazi Germany.
00:39:00.000Hillary Clinton has connected with Max Blumenthal in the past.
00:39:04.000Here's the New York Observer pointing this out a few months ago.
00:39:07.000Quote, A number of columns have been written exposing how Mr. Blumenthal sent articles to Ms.
00:39:11.000Clinton from his son Max, one of America's most notorious Israel haters.
00:39:42.000Clinton's glowing praise for Max's work.
00:39:45.000On numerous occasions, she forwarded the articles to her staff with the words, please print, and a number of times she asked for multiple copies so that she could hand them out to her staff and discuss them.
00:39:54.000So in other words, there's antisemitism on the Hillary side.
00:41:16.000We can attack Hillary with alacrity because she's the most corrupt politician of my lifetime.
00:41:19.000Barack Obama being a close second, but the two of them working together far beyond anything we've seen in the history of American politics.
00:42:01.000So, one of my favorite westerns, I don't think I've done this one before, one of my favorite westerns is from 1993, the movie Tombstone, with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.
00:42:09.000Kilmer giving a really good performance as Doc Holliday.
00:42:11.000It's a really fun movie, we can play a little bit of the trailer.
00:42:15.000It was a place where a man could start over.
00:43:30.000So Kevin Durant, who's on the Oklahoma City Thunder, he just moved over to the Golden State Warriors, and everybody is going nuts over this.
00:43:46.000You have the right to take your career and take your skills to South Beach, or you take your skills to Golden State.
00:43:51.000I've sort of evolved on this question a little bit.
00:43:53.000I sort of see the athlete side a little bit more.
00:43:55.000That doesn't mean that it doesn't have an effect on your legacy if you leave one team in order to join a better team in order to win championships.
00:44:02.000There's an NBA fan who absolutely lost his mind after learning that Kevin Durant had signed with the Warriors, and it's pretty funny.
00:44:08.000Look at the Players' Tribune, and what was the title?
00:45:15.000So, you know, listen, I appreciate fans who are real fans of sport.
00:45:20.000All I can say is I feel bad because I used to be more of a sport... I still am a sports fan, but I used to follow this stuff a lot more closely.
00:45:26.000And then as you get older and you have kids, you sort of fall a little bit out of touch with it.
00:45:29.000But I appreciate the passion of this guy, even though I think that he might need a job and a girlfriend.
00:48:50.000Okay, what we are, it's about the principles that unite us, and when those principles fall away, we end up with a country that's falling apart, and unfortunately, that's what it looks like right now.
00:48:59.000Well, hopefully I'll be a little bit less pessimistic tomorrow about the state of things, knowing me, that's... Forget it, it's not gonna happen, but you may as well stop by and find out.
00:49:07.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.