Trump has changed his story about what actually happened when Corey Lewandowski was caught on tape grabbing a female reporter by the arm, yanking her forcefully back and bruising her arm. Now Lewandowski is headed for court. Plus, we have an interview with Phelan Mackley, our first guest on The Ben Shapiro Show, talking about his new book, Ferguson: The Play. And we talk about Hillsdale College s new course, Economics 101, which fills in the gap in our understanding of how the world works and how the Constitution works, and how it should work for a conservative. You can get a free course from Hillsdale called Economics 101 by taking their free online course, which is a great way to get a basic understanding of the world and the Constitution without having to go to a liberal college. You can also get a copy of Ferguson the Play over at Daily Wire, where we'll have a brand new release, "Ferg's Play," a new book about the history of the game "Fergus the Play." And, as always, thanks to our sponsors, we're giving you a discount code: CRITICY! to get 20% off your first order of $99 or more! Ben Shapiro's new book "The Good News: A Conservative's Guide to Economics 101" is now available for purchase at Amazon Prime and Vimeo. Click here to get 10% off the entire course, starting at $99, plus free shipping on your first month, and a free shipping when you sign up for the book is available. The Good News is Good News. You won't want to become a member of the Good News Club? and get 5% off of the course, and we'll get an ad-free version of the book Good News 101, too! You'll get a $5 discount when you buy a book and get an extra $5 or two-day shipping, and they'll get $10 off the course gets you an ad discount, and you'll get 5 VIP membership when you get the book, too get $25, plus they'll also get $5,000 shipping starts, they'll have access to the course starts shipping that starts at $50, plus a $10, they're also get 5, they also get VIP access to VIP access, and the best PRIVATE PRICING gets 4,000 MBPROMO AND VIP pricing starts are $24,99 and they get a discount on the course is 4,99 gets 5,000, they get VIP pricing.
00:00:08.000Plus, we definitely want to talk to you about this brand new release that we're going to be having over at Daily Wire of something called Ferguson The Play.
00:00:16.000We'll have an interview with Phelan Mackley, our first interview here on The Ben Shapiro Show, in just a little while.
00:00:21.000But first, I think that it's important to talk about breaking news.
00:00:25.000Finally, Donald Trump has told us the true tale of just
00:00:30.000What happened that his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was caught on tape grabbing a female reporter, Michelle Fields, by the arm, yanking her forcefully back and bruising her arm.
00:00:40.000Lewandowski was earning himself a Medal of Honor.
00:00:42.000Really, according to Trump, this event never happened in the first place.
00:00:45.000It was all a figment of your imagination.
00:02:01.000But then, like an avenging angel from heaven, Trump, by the way, only hires the very best people because he has the very best brain, a very good brain.
00:02:09.000Corey Lewandowski, his campaign manager, swooped in past Trump's secret service detail and seized the offending 100-pound female assassin by the arm, thrusting her away from the great leader.
00:02:29.000I've learned from Trump's followers, it must be so.
00:02:32.000The great leader would never lie, he would never lie to you.
00:02:35.000He looks forward to seeing you at his unicorn lair, where Lewandowski will be granted sainthood.
00:02:40.000And, if you become a Trump guardian angel, you too can earn his esteem, and perhaps, just perhaps, a spot beside him on the podium of hugeness.
00:02:49.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:04:10.000Okay so Donald Trump's story on the Corey Lewandowski routine has now changed.
00:04:15.000So yesterday all hell broke loose as we talked briefly about on the program because tape was finally revealed demonstrating that indeed Michelle Fields was grabbed by the arm which everyone knew was true.
00:04:36.000And because the media play this evil, nasty game where they suggest that the truth and falsehood are just two sides of the same coin, they're just two people telling their different truths, Trump was allowed to get away with this.
00:04:47.000This is why he says things that are eminently false, eminently, egregiously, terribly false.
00:04:52.000And everybody just says, well, you know, that's just that's just because you don't understand his perspective.
00:05:22.000Okay, so as you can see from the video, and this is their surveillance video from the room, it's cut a little bit because the way that surveillance video often works is it only registers every 0.5 seconds or so, so stuff goes on between, but what you can see is Lewandowski coming from behind, grabbing Michelle Fields from the arm and thrusting her backwards, yanking her backwards, and her hand was bruised.
00:05:44.000Here's the tweet of the bruise that she tweeted out shortly after this happened, within 48 hours.
00:05:49.000Right, because people were claiming that she hadn't been bruised, she'd made it all up, it was just some evil scam to get the great Donald.
00:05:56.000You know, because that's just how sophisticated we, who don't like Donald Trump, are.
00:06:01.000We're the kinds of people who fake stories about being yanked and bruised just to get Trump, just to get him.
00:06:06.000Here's what Corey Lewandowski tweeted at the time.
00:06:09.000So Corey Lewandowski is the campaign manager, and here's what he tweeted at the time of the alleged battery.
00:06:17.000As a matter of fact, I have never even met you.
00:06:20.000Well, as you can see from the video, that is pure and unadulterated BS.
00:06:25.000And Donald Trump backs that BS all the way.
00:06:27.000So here is Donald Trump a couple of days after the report was first made and before the police report.
00:06:33.000Here is Donald Trump initially responding to Michelle Fields' allegation that Corey Lewandowski grabbed her by the arm, pulled her backwards forcefully enough to bruise her.
00:07:24.000When the Clintons had to face down more serious accusations than this, when they had to face down accusations of sexual assault and sexual harassment, James Carville said about various women who had affairs with Bill Clinton, if you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.
00:07:40.000That's essentially what Trump is saying there.
00:07:42.000He's essentially saying Michelle Fields is an attention whore and that's the only reason this happened in the first place.
00:07:47.000Apparently Trump's people were saying that they thought that Michelle Fields only made a big deal out of this after she realized Trump was rich, which is absurd.
00:07:54.000The only reason anyone knows Trump's name is because he won't shut up ever about how rich he is.
00:07:58.000He inflates his wealth just to demonstrate how rich he is.
00:08:28.000And the reason she filed a police report in the first place is not because she thought this was the worst thing that ever happened.
00:08:33.000She didn't claim that she'd been beaten up.
00:08:35.000She didn't claim that she'd been hit with a crowbar.
00:08:37.000The reason she did this is because all of the Trump people said that she was lying and making this up.
00:08:41.000And she wanted to substantiate the allegations by saying, listen, I take it seriously enough that I'll file a police report.
00:08:46.000Plus, let the police vouch for the fact that these bruises on my arm are real.
00:08:51.000Here's what Trump had to say last night about these allegations and it just I mean we're now we're now in the realm of the completely unreal and this is what frightens me about a certain segment of Trump support and now large segment of Trump support.
00:09:09.000Their story has shifted from she was lying, it never happened, to okay, maybe it happened, but it wasn't so bad, to Trump's new story is that Corey Lewandowski is a Medal of Honor recipient who should be granted a spot.
00:09:21.000He should be canonized by the Catholic Church, actually, for having saved the world from the scourge of Michelle Fields, who was definitely going to use her James Bond pen to kill Donald Trump if Corey Lewandowski hadn't stepped in.
00:09:31.000Here's Donald Trump last night on Anderson Cooper.
00:11:25.000Yesterday, Trump said that not only was Michelle Fields grabbing at him, which is patently untrue from the tape, and I spoke with Michelle, and it's not true,
00:11:32.000Here is what Donald Trump said was the real threat.
00:11:36.000And just so you understand, she was off base because she went through the Secret Service.
00:11:41.000She had a pen in her hand, which Secret Service is not liking because they don't know what it is, whether it's a little bomb or whether it's a knife.
00:12:53.000But she said she had a bruise on her arm.
00:12:55.000I mean, to me, you know, if you're going to get squeezed, wouldn't you think that she would have yelled out a scream or something if she has bruises on her arm?
00:14:22.000Good piece over at The Federalist about this.
00:14:23.000And in the play, there's a husband who's trying to drive his wife insane.
00:14:28.000And so the way he decides to drive his wife insane
00:14:30.000What he's saying is he lowers the lighting in the house, and then when she says that the lighting in the house was lowered, he tells her that it wasn't lowered, right?
00:14:38.000He gaslights her, because they're gaslights.
00:14:40.000He artificially lowers the lights, and then he tells her it's all in her head.
00:14:47.000Donald Trump is telling you that your own eyes deceive you, that what you see on tape is not real, that what you see on tape is not—that what Michelle Field said in her own statement
00:15:07.000You'll hear him skip words in the statement in order to malign her.
00:15:11.000It's an amazing thing what he's doing, and he's getting away with it because he's got a support base that is willing to back whatever lie he tells, and he's got a media that's willing to grant him a patina of credibility even though he deserves none.
00:15:34.000She said Lewandowski tried to throw her to the floor, but that she lost her balance and regained it.
00:15:38.000She never said she was thrown to the floor, but she just lies about it.
00:15:43.000So the new tactic is that, number one, she was a psycho assassin killer.
00:15:47.000Number two, she was grabbing at Trump like some sort of pawing animal.
00:15:50.000Only in Trump's dreams would Michelle Fields have any mild interest in making serious physical contact with Donald Trump.
00:15:56.000And then finally, we get to Donald Trump just lying about what she originally alleged, saying, oh, she alleged basically that I beat her down with a baseball bat.
00:16:05.000The tape shows exactly what she said it shows.
00:16:08.000But again, truth is of no consequence.
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00:17:00.000Oh, well, you know what I really meant by that was.
00:17:02.000And then he finally lies about the lies about the lie, right?
00:17:04.000Then he finally says, well, all of that was nonsense.
00:17:06.000Here's the real story that I haven't been telling you for a month.
00:17:09.000The real story is that Michelle Fields is a trained ISIS assassin who is sneaking up on me in her very clever way, asking me a question about affirmative action.
00:17:18.000As she toddled along on her high heels, and she was just about to pounce, when Corey Lewandowski came out of nowhere and saved Donald Trump, you know, the biggest, strongest, toughest man in the universe?
00:17:28.000Saved big, fat, bloated sack of crap Donald Trump from this itty-bitty reporter.
00:17:36.000Real men are deeply afraid of young female reporters holding pens anywhere near them.
00:17:41.000I know that that's been a particular fear of mine, if I were an insane person.
00:17:46.000But again, these Trump supporters, there's so many Trump supporters, and I get it on my Twitter feed, you're ruining your career over this!
00:17:53.000No, it turns out that I don't do this sort of stuff for career reasons.
00:17:57.000Listen, if I wanted your love, I could do it.
00:18:00.000I could pretend that I thought Donald Trump was a good guy, or that he was a valuable part of the political conversation, or that he adds to the great voice of debate in the country in a real and valuable way.
00:18:10.000Yeah, he can say whatever he wants, but me telling you the truth does not make me popular with the Trump supporters.
00:18:17.000I'm less concerned about your allegations that I'm sinking my career by going after Donald Trump than I am about the truth.
00:18:23.000And it turns out it's true that Corey Lewandowski grabbed Michelle Fields.
00:18:26.000It's true that Donald Trump is a damn congenital liar, and that Corey Lewandowski is the same, and that both of them are willing to cover up for thuggish behavior simply in order to avoid apologizing, because all this could have
00:18:49.000And I promise you, the media are just overjoyed about this.
00:18:53.000So, for example, Jake Tapper was talking with one of the Trump spokespeople, and here is how that interview went.
00:18:58.000It went very poorly for the Trump spokesperson.
00:19:00.000Your campaign, I'm telling you as a factual matter, is pushing it.
00:19:04.000Your social media director tweeted out a crazy video suggesting that Amanda Carpenter, who's married with two children, and this married senator, who also has two children, that something untoward was going on.
00:19:20.000There is no actual evidence that it happened.
00:19:23.000I mean, at some point, aren't you just ashamed?
00:19:25.000This is the Trump campaign sending it out.
00:19:29.000Look, what I'm personally, Jake, what I'm ashamed of is the entire process.
00:19:34.000That it's gotten to where it's gutter politics.
00:19:36.000I think it's very disingenuous for the Cruz campaign to come out and act like they've done nothing wrong in this entire political process.
00:19:44.000They're one of the dirtiest and nastiest campaigns out there.
00:19:47.000And, I mean, if you don't believe me, ask Ben Carson.
00:22:32.000I'm upset about the Michelle Fields incident.
00:22:34.000The reason I'm upset about the Michelle Fields incident is because if you refuse to see facts, I'm going to keep telling you these facts over and over.
00:22:40.000I'm being labeled by the Trump supporters as a social justice warrior.
00:22:43.000We'll get to the Trump supporters who have no grounds to stand on when they label other people leftists in just a second.
00:22:49.000But the fact that the reason why people are getting upset about this is because when you're arguing with people who will not see reason,
00:23:00.000And the Trump people not only refuse to see reason, they refuse to acknowledge basic truth.
00:23:05.000And by the way, if you think, if you think that Trump is going to get away with this crap in a general election, you are out of your mind.
00:23:12.000Here's how a general election is going to look.
00:23:13.000In clip 14, Anderson Cooper asks Donald Trump about the way he's running his campaign, and particularly about his attacks on Heidi Cruz.
00:23:20.000This is what a general election campaign is going to look like once the media really starts getting involved.
00:23:25.000After saying that you were going to spill the beans about Heidi Cruz, you retweeted an unflattering picture of her next to a picture of your wife.
00:23:32.000I thought it was a nice picture of Heidi.
00:26:06.000Here is Donald Trump's response to that same question because he doesn't know what the Constitution is, he doesn't know what the federal government is, he doesn't know how to spell federal government or any other word that is more than two syllables.
00:26:16.000Here is Donald Trump explaining the functions of the federal government and all you Trump fans out there, all you people saying that people who oppose Trump are the real lefties, you tell me how Donald Trump is not the real leftist with an answer like this.
00:26:29.000So in terms of federal government role, you're saying security, but you also say healthcare and education should be provided by the federal government.
00:26:37.000I mean, there are obviously many things.
00:26:39.000Housing, providing great neighborhoods and safe neighborhoods.
00:26:41.000Because aren't you against the federal government's involvement in education?
00:26:45.000Don't you want it to devolve to state?
00:26:46.000No, I want it to go to state, absolutely.
00:26:49.000So that's not part of what the federal government's role is?
00:26:51.000The concept of the country is the concept that we have to have education within the country and we have to get rid of Common Core and it should be brought to the state level.
00:26:59.000And federal health care run by the federal government?
00:27:04.000We need a good... Obamacare is a disaster.
00:27:07.000Is that what the federal government should be doing?
00:27:09.000The government can lead it, but it should be privately done.
00:27:13.000Okay, his head is so far up his ass that it's actually coming out his mouth again.
00:27:18.000Like he's gone all the way to his anal cavity, through his small intestine, through his large intestine, through his stomach, through his esophagus, and his head is coming out of his head again.
00:27:26.000I mean, that's what you get from this clip.
00:27:27.000So in this clip, he says, education is a federal government function.
00:27:31.000Anderson Cooper, who is significantly less stupid than Donald Trump, says, well, but I thought you're against Common Core.
00:27:35.000He says, well, I am against Common Core, but what I mean is that education has to happen in the United States.
00:28:53.000But you're stupid, so you don't know that.
00:28:55.000Okay, now I'm not saying all Trump followers are stupid.
00:28:57.000Maybe you have a good reason, although I would really, really like to hear your grand reason for voting for the most unpopular man in American politics, who has an IQ of 105, a not even rudimentary understanding of how government works, and whose greatest qualification, apparently, is hitting random people
00:29:38.000So, as I mentioned a little bit earlier in the program, Ferguson the Play is this fantastic production that's now been filmed.
00:29:45.000Phelan McAleer is the writer of Ferguson the Play, and basically the way that it works is they took the transcripts of the Ferguson grand jury testimony and they turned them into a play.
00:29:56.000It's very dramatic, it's wonderful, and we're very proud to host it here at Daily Wire.
00:30:00.000Here's my interview with Phelan McAleer.
00:30:05.000So, this is the first interview that we've actually ever done on The Ben Shapiro Show podcast, and we're honored to have with us Phelan McAleer.
00:30:16.000He also is the guy behind the new Gosnell movie that should be coming out pretty soon.
00:30:20.000But what we're here to talk about today is a production that we're premiering exclusively here at The Daily Wire.
00:30:25.000It's the video performance of Ferguson the Play.
00:30:29.000So, Ferguson the Play is a piece of theater, Phelan, that you came up with.
00:30:33.000Uh, that was supposed to kind of tell the truth about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, and the situation between Officer Darren Wilson, the white police officer, and Michael Brown, the young black man who was shot, and then obviously it became a national story because the left claimed that he'd been shot unjustifiably.
00:30:46.000What caused you to get this play going in the first place?
00:30:51.000Well, there was a lot of stories about what happened, Michael Brown, and a lot of media coverage about what happened.
00:30:57.000I'm a court reporter in a previous life.
00:30:59.000I'm a journalist, really, at the end of the day.
00:31:02.000And I went and I actually read a lot of the grand jury testimony.
00:31:06.000And I suddenly realised so much of what we'd seen on the news, so much of what we'd been told, was complete garbage, right?
00:31:13.000I mean, and I thought, and I'm from Northern Ireland,
00:31:18.000And I've always known in Britain is a thing called verbatim theater, where they take a court case or a tribunal of inquiry, like the Bloody Sunday.
00:31:28.000They had a two year tribunal of inquiry into it.
00:31:31.000And a playwright took the best stories about Bloody Sunday of why witnesses and made them into a play was hugely successful, ran the West End for weeks and weeks, months.
00:31:40.000And I thought, and that's that's a British thing that's been well known.
00:31:43.000So I thought this is the perfect vehicle for a verbatim play where
00:31:49.000You don't change one paragraph, one sentence, one comma, and it's basically everything that happened to Michael Brown in the three hours leading up to his death from multiple eyewitness accounts.
00:32:02.000It's literally one woman saying, I saw him walk around the corner, and then the next woman saying, he came around the corner.
00:32:10.000I mean, it was on in the Odyssey Theatre in Santa Monica, and I was watching the audience.
00:32:15.000The audience were actually leaning forward to listen, not wanting to miss a word, because the great thing about verbatim play is that you know every word that was said by those people on that stage was said by an actual live human being, and they don't want, literally don't want to miss a word.
00:32:31.000And it drives the left nuts because the fact is that you did it as verbatim theater, meaning that you didn't add anything, you didn't subtract.
00:32:37.000I mean, you edited, obviously, but you didn't add anything.
00:32:48.000It was a big media story at the time, but people may not have heard it.
00:32:51.000You had a big problem with your own cast because there are a lot of people who signed up to be in the cast and then realized, wait a second, this isn't the story we thought we were getting.
00:32:59.000You know, there's a lot of talk about diversity in Hollywood and in the entertainment industry.
00:33:05.000I had a play where 10 of the characters were black, were African American.
00:33:11.000And we had 13, a cast of 13, 9 of, I can't remember how many were black, but
00:33:16.000Before, in the weeks running up to it, nine members of the Thirteen cast dropped out because they felt the play, the truth, didn't match what they thought the truth should be.
00:34:59.000It's not, you know, in this thing of, you know, he said, she said.
00:35:03.000Well, let's go and look at the truth and let's look at what the witnesses said under severe questioning, what they said when they were confronted with forensic evidence.
00:35:10.000Lots of them said things, but when they got in there and they had to confront the evidence, they all crumbled.
00:35:24.000It's a staged reading, and we had a staged reading.
00:35:26.000I couldn't afford it on a full play, so it's a staged reading.
00:35:29.000But I think it gives it more verbatim feeling because you see people actually reading from the testimony.
00:35:35.000And, you know, anyone who's watched it says, I've just realised, I've just found out about 10 things that I never knew about Ferguson.
00:35:42.000And it's an amazing thing, because obviously this launched the Black Lives Matter movement, you had President Obama sending emissaries to Michael Brown's funeral, him saying this is the experience of the normal black person in America, and all of that is debunked in this play, which again, you'll be able to see on dailywire.com exclusively.
00:35:58.000We're really excited about releasing it.
00:36:00.000So, when this first came out, how did the critics meet it?
00:36:02.000I mean, did they actually review it honestly, or did they just say they didn't like what the actual testimony was?
00:36:08.000To be fair to the critics, they reviewed it pretty honestly.
00:36:12.000Now, a lot of them reviewed it without reviewing it, if you know what I mean?
00:36:15.000They neutrally wrote about it without saying whether it was true.
00:36:18.000And I always know when they do that, the truth is something they don't want to acknowledge, so they won't go there.
00:36:25.000So they wrote about it and said it was very controversial, and it's happening, and this person did that, but they don't tell you what the truth is, right?
00:36:33.000However, to be fair, something like LA Weekly, they reviewed it fairly.
00:36:57.000Let's say a big piece on Ferguson, 1,200 words, which is a big piece in journalism now, that's an edited version of Ferguson down to 1,200 words.
00:37:06.000I've edited Ferguson down to an hour and 15 minutes, an hour and a half.
00:37:10.000That's the least unedited thing about Ferguson in the history of Ferguson.
00:37:15.000It's the most comprehensive analysis of what happened
00:37:18.000In that hour or two before Michael Brown was shot dead.
00:37:24.000So there's more information in there than you will get in any newspaper anywhere on the planet or any blog on the planet.
00:37:30.000So what are you hoping the impact of Ferguson the play putting it out on video now, what are you hoping the impact will be?
00:37:36.000Because the Black Lives Matter movement is obviously the cat out of the bag at this point.
00:38:55.000But I just felt it was important to get the truth out there and try and seed something that that truth keeps cascading through.
00:39:06.000Well, folks who are wondering where the Hands Up, Don't Shoot myth came from and why it exactly is wrong, this is the play that you're going to want to watch.
00:39:14.000This is the stirring rebuke to the false narrative that was put out by the left about Michael Brown that turned into a racial conflagration that has major consequences for the country.
00:39:23.000The massive crime wave we're seeing in major cities, people call it the Ferguson effect because of
00:39:48.000You should check it out at dailywire.com.
00:39:50.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I like.
00:39:52.000I don't really need things I hate today, I think, because I think the entire show has basically been things that I truly, truly despise.
00:40:00.000First and foremost, the disdain for the truth shown in allegiance to an idol.
00:40:04.000I don't like idol worship, and Trump has become an idol.
00:40:07.000The thing that I like today is a book basically about the idol worship of the left and how that has come to become such a prominent part of American life.
00:40:14.000It's a book called The Long March by Roger Kimball.
00:40:18.000It's a bit of an old book, about 10 years old.
00:40:20.000Roger Kimball is somebody with whom I am friendly, and this book is quite brilliant.
00:40:25.000It really traces the rise of the intellectual left and how they defeated the liberals in America, how the left took over for the liberals and destroyed leftism and liberalism from the inside to create what we see now, an unworkable left that really wants to rip away at the roots of what America stands for.
00:40:45.000We will be back tomorrow with the latest controversy, and we will always be here fighting for a truth, regardless of whether it hurts our numbers, regardless of whether it hurts our ratings, because it turns out that truth is more important than whether people who don't want to hear the truth like us or not.
00:41:00.000As I'm fond of saying, facts don't care about your feelings, and facts on tape certainly
00:41:04.000Don't care about your feelings, your warm-hearted feelings, your sexually frustrated feelings for Donald Trump, and neither do I. I'm Ben Shapiro.