Donald Trump is a huge winner in the polls, and he's not even close to losing to Hillary Clinton in any of the latest polls. And he's doing so despite having one of the worst approval ratings in American history among women, and a gender gap that is worse than any other presidential candidate in modern history. But don't worry, Trump's winning broad swaths of new voters in droves. And if you don't believe me, you should try one of his huge, fabulous Trump steaks. I mean, take a look at how delicious they are, and you'll get a whole lot more than you could ever eat at a steak parlor. You can enjoy the world's greatest steaks in your own home with family and friends, anytime, anywhere. Ben Shapiro is on a college tour, and it's a beautiful day in the middle of nowhere in Salisbury, Maryland, and I knew that I wasn't in anymore anymore because of all of the manure you could smell from the plane. But before we begin, a quick note: there's a new course from our friends over at Hillsdale College, and there's that new course called Econ 101, which you can take over at our online course. That's right, 101, Economics 101. I'm in no way an expert in economics, but I do know a thing or two about economics, so why not take the Econ course? You're not going to get much better than that, right? or better yet, you're going to learn a lot more about economics from someone who doesn't know much about it. You could be a lot better than I do that I'm going to be a better at it than I am at my college course at my alma mater, which I'm sure you'll be better than you are, right here in the next few days, so don't miss it! Tweet me to let me know what you think of it? Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What do you think? 3:30 - What would you would like to know about economics? 4:00 | What's your favorite presidential candidate? 5: What are you looking for? 6:15 - What is your favorite economist? 7:00 8:00 -- What are your favorite piece of food? 9:30 -- What s your favorite college meal? 11:30 | What are some of your favorite foods?
00:03:32.000But before we begin, quick note, there's a new course from our friends over at Hillsdale College.
00:03:37.000All of our presidential candidates, or at least a lot of them, know very, very little about economics.
00:03:41.000Certainly Donald Trump doesn't know much.
00:03:43.000Certainly Hillary Clinton doesn't know much.
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00:04:10.000Liberals, leftists, they'd like you to learn that left government down economic policy is all wrong for America.
00:04:15.000The free market's the only thing that's going to save our economy.
00:04:19.000And the fact is that the free market is the only thing that's going to
00:04:36.000All right, so the big story of the day is that Corey Lewandowski, our good friend Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, has now been issued an arrest warrant, essentially.
00:04:46.000And he's been issued an arrest warrant after he committed battery on Michelle Fields.
00:04:51.000Now, if you recall a few weeks ago, I quit Breitbart because of their refusal, in my opinion, to properly report that out of their allegiance to Trump.
00:06:44.000And Corey Lewandowski stands there clapping.
00:06:46.000Well, here is the new video released by the Jupiter Police Department of exactly what went down at that press scrum after the first Super Tuesday in which Michelle Fields essentially got manhandled.
00:07:15.000Truth has no relevance to Donald Trump.
00:07:17.000It just doesn't matter to Donald Trump.
00:07:19.000And this is the theme of today's show.
00:07:21.000I'm going to have to go a little bit brief today, simply because there's so much going on.
00:07:25.000I have to hop in a car, get to New York City, or to D.C., do some media, and then do my speech at George Washington University.
00:07:31.000But truth just does not matter to Donald Trump.
00:07:34.000It just doesn't matter in the slightest.
00:07:37.000So let's start with the fact that Donald Trump at the end of last week, and we didn't really have a chance to talk about it very much on the podcast, the National Enquirer ran a story suggesting that Ted Cruz had had affairs with five different women.
00:07:50.000It had affairs with all sorts of women, these five different women.
00:07:53.000And the five different women that were mentioned, three of them were conservative women.
00:07:57.000Because as we said the Trump campaign not particularly fond of women.
00:08:01.000They said that Amanda Carpenter had had a the National Enquirer said Amanda Carpenter a former cruise press secretary, and had an affair with cruise they said the Katrina Pearson who's now Trump's press secretary, and had an affair with cruise they said that that that.
00:08:26.000There's no substantiation for any of this, but the Trumpkins all came out in force to accuse all of these various women of having sex with Cruz because they're obviously corrupt and in the pay of Cruz.
00:08:38.000That's the only reason that these women wouldn't be attracted to the Donald.
00:08:42.000So, Donald Trump says, well, I had nothing to do with that National Enquirer story.
00:09:43.000Do you categorically guarantee that nobody on your campaign, nobody tied to your campaign, had anything to do with this National Enquirer story?
00:10:25.000So I love that the lies just spill gloriously forth from Trump's fat, small mouth.
00:10:30.000So Donald Trump says things like, that Cruz started it.
00:10:34.000There is zero evidence that Ted Cruz was responsible for that Super PAC ad from Liz Mayer, who doesn't even like Ted Cruz, about Melania Trump, right?
00:10:43.000Cruz had no idea that it was happening.
00:10:44.000He had no correlation with the Liz Mayer Super PAC.
00:11:27.000So Roger Stone is, again, a Trump surrogate, very close to the Trump campaign, appearing on national TV and explaining that he thinks the story is still true.
00:11:43.000I'm not paid anything by the Trump campaign, so therefore, by definition, I can't be a henchman.
00:11:49.000He also went on to say that I copulate with rodents.
00:11:54.000Knowing what a couple of these women look like, I actually think he's the one who's been copulating with Roses.
00:12:00.000So there's Roger Stone basically saying that it's all true, if Cruz doesn't like it, he can sue.
00:12:05.000Okay, first of all, it's very difficult to sue and win against a national publication when you're a public figure.
00:12:10.000Jerry Falwell wasn't even able to win a libel suit against, I think it was Hustler Magazine, when they ran a cartoon suggesting that he copulated with his own mother.
00:12:19.000So this has no relevance at all, but Roger Stone there
00:12:23.000So Donald Trump's, all of Donald Trump's surrogates are out there claiming that this story is true, or at least it should be taken seriously.
00:12:28.000And there's Trump going around saying he has nothing to do with it.
00:14:13.000And today is just more evidence of that.
00:14:15.000And he's willing to rip women on a regular basis in order to achieve that.
00:14:18.000He's willing to send out his campaign surrogates to slam Amanda Carpenter, who has nothing to do with anything because she doesn't back him.
00:14:24.000He's willing to send out campaign surrogates to suggest that innocent women like Amanda Carpenter and Sarah Isker Flores and Katrina Pearson even are lying about all of this.
00:14:33.000His own campaign secretary is lying about this sort of stuff.
00:14:36.000Katrina Pearson, as we mentioned last week, she even tweeted out that while it's not true for her, it might be true for other women that Cruz is schtuping.
00:14:42.000And it's just, it's disgusting all the way around, but this is what the Trump campaign does.
00:14:47.000The case to be made for Trump is that he does this stuff.
00:14:49.000Honestly, the case for Trump is that he does these things because the reality is that Donald Trump, I guess the implication is he's the only one who's willing to go up against Hillary Clinton and really smack her around.
00:15:00.000He's the only one who's really willing to rhetorically hit her with the kitchen sink.
00:15:03.000Yeah, the problem is he alienates every single person in the United States when he does these things because he's willing to lie.
00:15:11.000Donald Trump is our version of the Clintons.
00:15:13.000And for all you Trumpsters out there very upset about the National Enquirer report about Ted Cruz with no evidence whatsoever, I would ask, why don't you care at all?
00:16:16.000Let's take our quick profit timeout a little early here, because I want to get to this question for Democrats.
00:16:20.000The quick profit timeout, OK, if you want to protect your privacy from the big corporations, from the federal government, the way that you need to do this is you need to go to reaganprivacy.com.
00:17:03.000People like me, we've said for now weeks and weeks, months and months, I will not vote for Trump under any circumstances.
00:17:08.000I think that Trump is a flaming garbage heap.
00:17:11.000I think he's a flaming garbage heap whether he's having his campaign manager outright lie about whether he grabbed a woman and bruised her arm.
00:17:17.000And again, for all those folks saying it's not that serious, the case isn't even that it's that serious.
00:17:22.000If some dude grabbed my wife, pulled her back, yanked her arm hard enough to leave his fingerprints on her arm, I would go and I would kick that dude's ass.
00:17:30.000I mean, seriously, any man worth his salt would.
00:17:33.000And the reality that, if they were there at the time, and the reality that the Trump campaign downplays all this, yeah, that's going to be a campaign that wins women.
00:17:42.000Whether they're lying about Corey Lewandowski or rewarding Corey Lewandowski for his brutish behavior, whether it's Donald Trump lying about Ted Cruz based on no evidence, sending out his surrogates, retweeting things about Heidi Cruz, Trump's a scuzzbucket.
00:18:04.000Hillary is more sleazy than Donald Trump.
00:18:06.000She covers up for her husband's rapes.
00:18:09.000Hillary Clinton is the woman who puts all of her classified material on a private server, specifically so that she can avoid having to be held responsible for some of her own emails, so she can delete those emails.
00:18:20.000Hillary Clinton is a criminal, Hillary Clinton is a felon, Hillary Clinton is corrupt, and Hillary Clinton is anti-woman.
00:18:48.000The left says that rule of decency just doesn't exist.
00:18:51.000Ron Fornier is a journalist over at National Journal, big Hillary Clinton fan, and he was explaining on national TV that Hillary Clinton should not be indicted.
00:18:58.000But listen to his reason why Hillary Clinton should not be indicted.
00:19:02.000But the big question is, the only thing that really changes the game is if we have any criminal charges.
00:19:06.000I don't know that's certainly going to happen.
00:19:07.000And the things that you talked about... That may not happen.
00:19:09.000Intel officials have been saying to me, and have been angry for some time, not so much about FOIA, they've been talking about the reckless disregard for the classified information.
00:19:22.000And that there's so many classified documents that both came and went.
00:19:26.000And, you know, when they talk about it wasn't marked on there, that's just a distinction without a difference.
00:19:33.000So politically, that plays into this whole question that we really can't trust her, that she's been saying things like, well, they weren't marked classified when we all know and voters understand that that really doesn't matter.
00:19:43.000Legally, though, there's a big bar that you have to get over.
00:20:00.000And this is the difference between the right and the left, right?
00:20:10.000We feel that everybody should be held equal under the law.
00:20:12.000The left believes that if you're Hillary Clinton and you're running for president, you should get away with it because you're Hillary Clinton and you're running for president.
00:20:19.000Ron Fornier there said, Hillary can break the law and get away with it because she's Hillary Clinton and because she's running for president.
00:20:25.000That's an amazing statement of lack of principle.
00:20:28.000I mean, why is the left not running, screaming away from Hillary Clinton?
00:20:33.000There was a Hillary advisor on TV last night saying Hillary's not going to debate Bernie Sanders anymore until he's nicer, or really school-marming Bernie Sanders.
00:20:40.000Here's a Hillary advisor explaining that, clip four.
00:20:54.000I think, you know, what was notable this weekend wasn't so much that, but in my mind was the Washington Post story with his own campaign talking about how they're poll testing more negative attacks on Hillary Clinton.
00:21:06.000They're talking about running harsher negatives now.
00:21:45.000So Hillary Clinton is going after Bernie Sanders.
00:21:47.000Bernie Sanders has run the most cordial campaign.
00:21:50.000The only thing he could do to please Hillary more would be to simply pull out at this point.
00:21:54.000And yet her advisors are on national TV saying, we won't debate Bernie Sanders until he's nicer to us.
00:21:59.000The same Hillary Clinton campaign, by the way, that has called Bernie Sanders a racist and a sexist, and trotted out David Brock, the guy who looks like Lloyd Bridges in Airplane after he shouldn't have stopped sniffing glue this week.
00:22:12.000He trotted that guy out to say that Hillary Clinton is the victim of sexism at the hands of Bernie Sanders.
00:22:17.000Hillary's campaign has been vicious to Bernie Sanders, but they say that Bernie Sanders is the one whose tone and tenor don't match up.
00:22:24.000Why are Democrats still backing this lady?
00:22:26.000Why are Democrats still backing this lying liar who lies?
00:22:29.000And the answer, again, is that they don't have any principles.
00:22:33.000And on this score, I'm going to give a lot of credit to somebody I've never given credit before to, or at least not since I saw her in Atlantic City when I was like 14, Susan Sarandon, right, who actually said she doesn't think that she can vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:22:46.000I mean, I think a lot of people think to themselves, well, if it's Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, um, and I think Bernie Sanders probably would think this.
00:22:56.000I think Bernie would probably encourage people because he doesn't have any ego in this thing.
00:23:01.000But I think a lot of people are sorry.
00:23:27.000I think that what's going on now, if you think that it's pragmatic to shore up the status quo right now, then you're not in touch with the status quo.
00:23:34.000The status quo is not working, and I think it's dangerous to think that we can continue the way we are with a militarized police force, with privatized, with a death penalty, with a low...
00:23:44.000It's just not saying anything intelligent beyond that point.
00:23:46.000But when she says that she won't vote for Hillary, at least she's honest.
00:23:49.000At least she's saying that she won't vote for Hillary.
00:23:51.000The world would be a better place if we all just said there are certain candidates we won't vote for if they violate the line that is a bridge too far.
00:23:59.000And the lying liars who lie, that bridge has been violated time and time again.
00:24:04.000We'll conclude this portion before we get to a quick thing I like and a quick thing I don't.
00:24:08.000With Donald Trump being grilled on Wisconsin radio's Clip 16, this is what happens when somebody actually asks Donald Trump about lying.
00:24:15.000This is what lying liars sound like when they're lying.
00:24:57.000Now, Mr. Trump, you do like to talk about polls a lot.
00:25:00.000And the recent polls suggest that you have a disapproval rating of about 70% among women.
00:25:05.000And in Southeastern Wisconsin, you are very much underwater.
00:25:08.000And a lot of that has to do, let's be honest about this, with conservative women who are repelled by your attitude and your treatment of women.
00:25:14.000Women are just going to have to see what I've done.
00:25:16.000I've hired tremendous numbers of women.
00:25:18.000Women are in my highest executive positions.
00:25:21.000I pay women in many cases more than I pay men, which is more than most people can say.
00:25:27.000I've been a person that's been in the entertainment business and a very big person in business, and I've been quoted over the years by everybody almost from the time I started business, for whatever reason.
00:27:33.000I thought it was a great movie, honestly.
00:27:35.000It's the first time that I've seen a film that ranks below about 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, where I've actually enjoyed the film, where I actually thought that the film was good.
00:27:43.000And I didn't just enjoy it, I thought it was actually terrific.
00:27:45.000I thought the first two-thirds of the film were as good as any comic book movie ever made, and the last third was about the same as a Marvel flick.
00:27:53.000The only part of it that I didn't really appreciate is the monster fight at the end, but that happens now in pretty much all of the movies, and it's just a rating on how well the special effects are done.
00:28:03.000I did a full review over at Daily Wire.
00:28:07.000What I don't understand is all these people... First of all, if you're a comic book fan, if you're a fan of the comics, then you understand that the Batman played by Ben Affleck is Frank Miller's Batman.
00:28:16.000The kind of sadistic, reveling-in-the-violence Batman.
00:30:54.000You know, if you really want, let them consolidate behind me, because frankly, I'm the one that can win in the fall, and I'm the one that can get the crossover votes.
00:31:24.000Honestly, if he sticks around and wins Pennsylvania, deprives Trump of a couple of other wins, then I'm happy for him to stay in the race.
00:31:30.000But the idea that everybody should stand behind Donald, should stand behind John Kasich is fully delusional.
00:31:36.000And it is sort of entertaining to watch, as Andrew Klavan calls him, the little man who is a raisin, talk about how everybody should consolidate behind him.
00:31:45.000Okay, folks, so I'm speaking at George Washington University tonight.
00:31:48.000You can look for coverage at Daily Wire.
00:31:50.000I'm sure that I'll be doing some media today about this whole Corey Lewandowski incident.
00:31:53.000Just remember, theme of the day, if somebody doesn't back your values, and not only that, if they're a crappy person, don't back them in an election.
00:32:01.000And lefties, please, if you wish for us to take you seriously as human beings and not think that you're also smoking garbage heaps like Trump or Hillary,
00:32:08.000Don't back smoking garbage heaps just because you think it's politically palatable to do so.
00:32:13.000And let's all have some principle here.