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00:00:00.000 Someone you know, a household name, just said that President Trump opposes Jesus by fighting the Iranian radical Islamic tyranny.

00:00:10.000 That same person just said that people who oppose the Iranian regime are themselves evil and that they are trying to deceive you that Islam is the enemy. 0.90

00:00:19.000 Also, those same terrible people are turning President Trump into a slave.

00:00:24.000 Is that famous person Zar Mamdani?

00:00:26.000 Is it the new leadership in Iran?

00:00:27.000 No, of course not.

00:00:28.000 It's Tucker Carlson.

00:00:30.000 Now listen, maybe Tucker's just lost it.

00:00:32.000 That, of course, would be the kindest explanation for what's happening right now.

00:00:36.000 And if that lets you sleep easier at night, well, then more power to you.

00:00:40.000 Or maybe he's being paid off by a foreign power.

00:00:42.000 But I don't have evidence of that, so I'm not going to allege it.

00:00:44.000 And frankly, that answer seems too easy.

00:00:47.000 Now, I think Tucker Carlson is saying all of these crazy things for the worst reason of all.

00:00:52.000 He actually believes them.

00:00:53.000 What he is doing is purposeful and terrible and anti American. 0.69

00:00:57.000 He wants to demoralize Americans to tell us that America itself is fatally flawed, Islamophobic, run by a secret cabal, its institutions corrupted. 0.73

00:01:05.000 Its central principles are nefarious.

00:01:07.000 If he can wreck how Americans think about America, then maybe he can pave the way to something he likes better.

00:01:13.000 Well, you know who else believes all of that?

00:01:15.000 Hassan Piker, Zorhan Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, the Ayatollahs, for that matter.

00:01:20.000 Which is why, right now, they seem to all be on the same side.

00:01:24.000 Well, meanwhile, Erica Kirk, the wife of Charlie Kirk, was forced to cancel a live event last night with the vice president thanks to security concerns.

00:01:32.000 Now, you may be saying to yourself, those stories have nothing to do with one another.

00:01:35.000 Wrong.

00:01:36.000 These stories are part of the same broader story. 0.95

00:01:38.000 When any movement Humors, it's grifters, it's crazies.

00:01:42.000 The real world consequences are disastrous.

00:01:45.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:53.000 So yesterday, Tucker Carlson put out a statement via the Tucker Carlson network.

00:01:58.000 This was part of his newsletter on Islam.

00:02:01.000 And it blew a lot of minds.

00:02:02.000 Not necessarily my mind, because of course I've been watching what's been going on with Tucker Carlson for a while now.

00:02:07.000 But here is what he put out via X quote.

00:02:11.000 The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.

00:02:15.000 So first of all, the people in charge don't want, who are the people in charge?

00:02:19.000 Donald Trump doesn't want you to know this.

00:02:21.000 He's the president.

00:02:22.000 JD Vance doesn't want you to know.

00:02:24.000 Who are the people in charge?

00:02:25.000 Who are these nefarious others?

00:02:27.000 I have some ideas as to who Tucker is talking about, but he says the people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.

00:02:34.000 Islam reveres him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes he performs miracles, and states that he will return to earth to defeat the Antichrist.

00:02:41.000 That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the son of God offended the president of Iran.

00:02:46.000 It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.

00:02:48.000 Are you getting all this?

00:02:49.000 According to Tucker Carlson, remember that silly painting, that AI painting that President Trump put up and then took down, where he said he thought he was a doctor and people thought, oh no, he actually is like Jesus there?

00:03:00.000 According to Tucker Carlson, Iran was offended by that image.

00:03:04.000 They weren't using that image to divide Americans.

00:03:06.000 No, they were offended by the image because, of course, it was an attack on Islam and also Christianity.

00:03:12.000 That's how wonderful Iran is.

00:03:14.000 According to Tucker Carlson Network, today's Morning Note newsletter covers Majid Peshechkian's condemnation of Trump's desecration of Jesus, the Iran war's gutting effect on America's housing market, because, you know, the housing market was doing amazing before, and also Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami.

00:03:31.000 That's like his petting zoo.

00:03:33.000 All the important news fit to print over at Tucker Carlson Network.

00:03:36.000 Now, is that true? 0.98

00:03:38.000 What do Muslims actually believe about Jesus?

00:03:40.000 Now, listen, I'm a Jew. 0.79

00:03:42.000 That means that I do not believe in the divinity of Jesus.

00:03:45.000 I also believe, as an Orthodox Jew, that Judaism is not the only path to heaven.

00:03:50.000 Judaism as a religion is not exclusive, meaning that as long as people who are not Jewish follow seven basic Noahide laws, and this includes Christians and Muslims, they too have a share in the world to come.

00:04:01.000 And those seven basic laws are things like.

00:04:03.000 No blasphemy, don't commit sexual sins, set up a court of law, make sure that you're not eating flesh from a living animal, stuff like that.

00:04:10.000 Which is why I can say, and frequently do if you listen to the show, that you as a Christian should go to church.

00:04:15.000 It is good for you to go to church.

00:04:17.000 You know what? 1.00

00:04:18.000 Religious Muslims can't say that. 0.96

00:04:20.000 And the reason they can't say that is because religious Muslims believe that everyone needs to be a Muslim. 0.93

00:04:26.000 So, what exactly does the Quran say about Jesus?

00:04:30.000 Again, I'm not speaking as somebody who's ripping into say, Quranic doctrine.

00:04:36.000 I'm just pointing out that Tucker Carlson is doing something nefarious here and that he is lying.

00:04:40.000 So Dan Berwami, who is a former Muslim and he's now a Christian, he has a book called Islam, Israel, and the West.

00:04:45.000 And here is what he writes.

00:04:50.000 He says, quote, By the way,

00:05:21.000 the same thing is true of Moses. 0.84

00:05:22.000 Every reference to them in the Quran functions not to elevate them, but to conscript them into Muhammad's project of replacing Christianity with Islam. 0.81

00:05:30.000 The Quran itself misrepresents who Mary is.

00:05:34.000 It actually addresses her as the sister of Aaron in Surah 1928, which is an anachronism because, of course, Aaron is generations before, like the brother of Moses, a thousand years before Mary, mother of Jesus.

00:05:47.000 Also, the Quran attempts to call Mary a virgin, not in order to establish that Jesus is the son of God, but to deny Christ's divine sonship.

00:06:00.000 The Quran, according to Berwami, Systematically strips Jesus of every identity that makes him who he is in Christian faith.

00:06:06.000 It denies his divinity.

00:06:07.000 Quran 575 The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a messenger.

00:06:10.000 It denies his sonship. 0.56

00:06:12.000 Quran 1935 It is not befitting for Allah to take a son. 0.77

00:06:15.000 It denies his crucifixion.

00:06:16.000 They did not kill him nor crucify him, but it was made to appear so.

00:06:20.000 So, according to Barwami, again, he's a Christian who was a Muslim. 0.96

00:06:23.000 The Quran preserves Jesus only in order to negate him. 0.96

00:06:26.000 He is a shell, a name emptied of substance. 0.99

00:06:28.000 The Jesus of Islam is not the eternal son of God, not the Word made flesh, not the crucified and risen Lord. 1.00

00:06:33.000 He's an anti Jesus, retained only to erase the true one. 0.99

00:06:37.000 If Jesus is divine, Muhammad is irrelevant. 0.95

00:06:39.000 If Jesus is the Son of God, Muhammad's message collapses.

00:06:42.000 The Quran must therefore silence the real Christ in order to establish Muhammad's authority, says Dan Berwami.

00:06:48.000 And by the way, the idea that he is going to come back and then he is going to turn everyone Christian in the same way that Christians believe this?

00:06:57.000 No, according to Berwami, the Quran's distortion of Jesus extends beyond the past into the future.

00:07:02.000 Islam teaches that Jesus will return at the end of time, but in Islam's eschatology, his role is not to redeem the world.

00:07:08.000 Instead, he returns to enforce Islam. 0.71

00:07:11.000 Jesus returns not as savior, but as Muhammad's enforcer, abolishing Christianity, destroying its symbols, and submitting the world to Sharia, which, by the way, explains why Christians are not well treated, generally speaking, in Sharia law countries. 0.89

00:07:21.000 When I say not well treated, I mean they basically don't exist because majority Muslim countries have been turned into non safe places for Christians. 0.94

00:07:29.000 Places that used to be Christian, like Lebanon, have been turned into hell holes for Christians. 1.00

00:07:33.000 Places like Algeria, that once were Christian, are now totally Muslim. 0.99

00:07:37.000 There is a reason that the only country in the Middle East with an actual organically growing Christian population is, wait for it, Israel.

00:07:44.000 Okay, but Tucker Carlson is running a propaganda op.

00:07:47.000 In fact, Milk Bar TV has done a good job of tracing Tucker Carlson's warm words about Islam, which is again kind of strange from Tucker here.

00:07:58.000 And again, I don't do the game where I interpret other people's scriptures.

00:08:04.000 I just don't do that game because as a religious person, I feel like, you know, scriptures are open to interpretation and the advocates for scriptures should be taken at their word.

00:08:13.000 That's not What I'm doing here.

00:08:15.000 The point that I'm making is that Tucker is deliberately misrepresenting the rule of radical Islam in the world.

00:08:21.000 He's deliberately misrepresenting Sharia law.

00:08:23.000 He is deliberately attempting to create a narrative.

00:08:27.000 To create a narrative.

00:08:28.000 Here's Tucker Carlson on Islam over the course of the last few months and years.

00:08:33.000 For whatever it's worth, a pretty fervent Christian, and I feel completely comfortable here in the seat of Islam.

00:08:41.000 If you have a society in which people bow down before God five times a day, I'm not against that. 0.91

00:08:50.000 I should bow down before God five times a day.

00:08:54.000 And I wish I lived around people who bowed down before God five times a day.

00:08:58.000 But you go to the Gulf, and it's incredible to be in a place that has pride in itself, that believes in its religion and culture, that thinks we're on to something.

00:09:08.000 And this is great.

00:09:09.000 Look at what we're doing.

00:09:10.000 We're really proud of this.

00:09:11.000 Those people are happy.

00:09:13.000 They're welcoming of others.

00:09:14.000 They're tolerant of diversity.

00:09:16.000 They're into things that I'm not into, like, I don't know, polygamy or Islam.

00:09:21.000 And I can sort of look at it and be like, no one's forcing this on me.

00:09:24.000 I'm not mad at you for being a polygamist.

00:09:28.000 Um, what now? 1.00

00:09:30.000 What now?

00:09:32.000 Again, all of this relies on the ignorance of a population about what radical Muslim states are like, what Sharia law states are like.

00:09:37.000 Now, Tucker may feel perfectly comfortable over in Riyadh, but I promise you that people converting to Christianity in Saudi Arabia aren't feeling quite as comfortable these days.

00:09:46.000 The same thing is true in Iran, where there's an actual fatwa out that if you convert to Christianity, you can be executed.

00:09:52.000 Coming up in a moment, we'll get to why Tucker Carlson is doing all of this.

00:09:55.000 I know there are a lot of theories out there.

00:09:56.000 We'll get to it.

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00:10:58.000 So, what exactly is Tucker's goal here?

00:11:03.000 The goal of Tucker Carlson here. is right now to undermine the president in a time of war against a radical fundamentalist Islamist state and to undermine the West in that same battle more generally.

00:11:14.000 Tucker is trying to set up a straw man that a war against the Iranian regime is a war against Islam itself.

00:11:19.000 Now, first of all, that is a total lie. 0.98

00:11:21.000 Nobody with a brain believes this. 0.93

00:11:23.000 You have to have read zero books to believe this.

00:11:26.000 For example, you know who's in favor of what President Trump is doing in Iran. 1.00

00:11:31.000 The Saudis who wait for it are Muslim. 1.00

00:11:34.000 And you know who else is in favor of what President Trump has been doing? 0.96

00:11:37.000 The UAE. 1.00

00:11:38.000 Wait for it, Muslim.

00:11:39.000 And Bahrain, also Muslim.

00:11:42.000 Well, not only that, Tucker, of course, is going further. 0.73

00:11:45.000 He's trying to claim that a war against Iran's Sharia law regime, the greatest terror state on planet Earth, is by proxy a war on Jesus and Christianity, which is quite crazy.

00:11:57.000 But listen, I'm not speculating about Tucker's motive.

00:12:00.000 So Tucker has another newsletter today because he got some blowback for his contention that Muslims love Jesus and therefore that President Trump was somehow not on the side of Jesus, but the Iranian mullahs were.

00:12:11.000 So Tucker has a brand new newsletter out today.

00:12:13.000 And here is what his newsletter says.

00:12:14.000 Quote, Islam is the enemy? 1.00

00:12:16.000 Are we sure about that?

00:12:17.000 So first of all, President Trump has never said that Islam is the enemy.

00:12:21.000 In fact, no American president has said that Islam is the enemy.

00:12:25.000 In fact, again, many of our allies in the current war against Iran are in fact Muslim.

00:12:30.000 The Gulf allies are Muslim.

00:12:32.000 But he's trying to set up a straw man. 0.64

00:12:34.000 What he's truly trying to do is say that America is being manipulated into war by a third party.

00:12:39.000 Hmm, who could it be?

00:12:41.000 Who could it be? 0.96

00:12:42.000 Somebody's trying to manipulate the Christians into fighting with the Muslims.

00:12:46.000 Who could Tucker be talking about?

00:12:47.000 I don't know.

00:12:48.000 It's a gigantic mystery.

00:12:49.000 Quote, yesterday's newsletter pointed out Islam's relationship with Jesus.

00:12:54.000 It set off a firestorm largely because most Americans do not realize the overlap between Christianity and the Muslim faith.

00:13:00.000 That is no accident.

00:13:02.000 I mean, some of us have read some books, and it turns out that the overlap between Christianity and the Muslim faith Amounted for the first millennium and a half of Islam's existence to basically continuous war between Muslim countries and Christian countries.

00:13:18.000 But he says it's no accident. 0.97

00:13:19.000 You are all being, you are all being deceived by the deceivers.

00:13:22.000 Quote, the forces supporting the Iran war do not want the public to realize that the Quran heralds the Christian savior as a prophet and messenger of the Lord.

00:13:29.000 Again, he's still pushing this, even though it is not the full story, even remotely.

00:13:34.000 This does not mean Christianity and Islam are aligned. 0.68

00:13:36.000 They definitely are not.

00:13:37.000 But it reveals that the West's understanding of the world's second largest religion is uninformed.

00:13:41.000 What percentage of US educated adults know that Muslims believe in the virgin birth or that the Nazarene healed the blind?

00:13:47.000 The answer is microscopic.

00:13:49.000 Yes, 9 11 happened, but it was not a representation of an entire religion.

00:13:52.000 Well, hold up a second.

00:13:54.000 I'm just, I'm confused.

00:13:55.000 That last sentence has literally nothing to do with the first several sentences there.

00:13:59.000 Presumably, all of the 9 11 terrorists believed in the Quran.

00:14:04.000 And if the Quran says all of those things, then they presumably believed those same things while they were flying planes into buildings.

00:14:10.000 I agree that you can't represent an entire religion by terrorist outliers. 0.59

00:14:15.000 But again, I'm not interested in analyzing the doctrines of Islam.

00:14:21.000 That has little concern for me.

00:14:23.000 The thing that I care about is the behavior of human beings in the world.

00:14:28.000 But again, Tucker is trying to run an op here.

00:14:30.000 Quote, although Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God, Americans grasping that the faith's roots are not as far from the Bible as they think will destroy the anti Muslim propaganda campaign that has consumed our country for decades.

00:14:41.000 Ah, you see, we.

00:14:42.000 We are all, we have been propagandized, or we are the propagandizers.

00:14:46.000 Hmm, you know who we're talking?

00:14:48.000 Right.

00:14:48.000 I mean, this is the shtick.

00:14:50.000 It is ridiculous. 0.98

00:14:52.000 Also, listening to Tucker Carlson, who doesn't know his ass from his elbow on the Bible, I mean, truly, he says he finished reading the Bible for the first time a couple of years ago, and he is a frequent spouter of the Marcion heresy, an early heresy rejected by the Catholic Church that suggested that the Old Testament could be completely read out of the New Testament. 0.98

00:15:11.000 And Tucker, so Tucker is rewriting Christianity so that it is in line with Islam, but not in any way aligned with Judaism, which, again, is the source of the first half of the book for Christians. 0.94

00:15:23.000 In any case, then he gets to his point. 0.88

00:15:25.000 Neocons have brainwashed the U.S. public into thinking Middle Eastern terrorists lust for American blood because they are Muslim. 0.95

00:15:31.000 But it is not true. 1.00

00:15:32.000 They behave because they do, because they are evil criminals. 0.98

00:15:36.000 Oh. 0.97

00:15:37.000 Oh, I see.

00:15:39.000 So terrorists do what they do because they're evil criminals, but it has nothing to do with their belief system.

00:15:39.000 I see.

00:15:44.000 Nothing at all.

00:15:46.000 And notice again, Tucker completely obliterates the distinction between Islam as a doctrine and the behavior of a very sizable portion of Muslims across the world, which is pretty radical, which is fairly radical.

00:15:46.000 Nothing at all.

00:15:59.000 I mean, these are radical belief systems and they exist in the world. 0.98

00:16:02.000 But Tucker is trying to pretend that actually the only reason that a Muslim would be a terrorist has to do with either blowback at the United States or because they're just violent criminals. 0.74

00:16:10.000 You know, they're just kind of like Hannibal Lecter, you know, people who just have a screw loose or something, which ignores, you know, pretty much every fact on the ground. 0.94

00:16:20.000 Who are the truly evil people, according to Tucker Carlson?

00:16:22.000 Wait for it, wait for it.

00:16:23.000 You're not going to believe it.

00:16:24.000 Quote Anyone seeking destruction can use any of the major religions to justify their violence.

00:16:29.000 Benjamin Netanyahu proves it every time he invokes Amalek to excuse his mass killings of innocents.

00:16:35.000 Okay.

00:16:36.000 Again, likening terrorist groups to Benjamin Netanyahu?

00:16:40.000 Okay.

00:16:40.000 For those who don't know the Old Testament, and I count Tucker among them because he clearly has very little fluency with it, I have some fluency with it since I've gone through it, I don't know, 50 times in the original Hebrew at this point.

00:16:52.000 But if we are talking about Amalek, Amalek is a nation that attacked the Israelites as they were coming out of Egypt. 0.57

00:17:00.000 And there's an injunction in the Bible that Jews are supposed to remember what Amalek did to them, and they are supposed to wipe out the memory of Amalek. 0.63

00:17:07.000 Now, here is the thing no one knows who Amalek is. 0.79

00:17:10.000 This is black letter Hebrew law doctrine, this is Jewish law doctrine.

00:17:15.000 No one knows who Amalek is.

00:17:17.000 And thus, the injunction to quote unquote wipe out Amalek does not apply to any group of people.

00:17:23.000 That is not the way it works.

00:17:25.000 When Benjamin Netanyahu invokes Amalek, he invokes it as an idea of evil.

00:17:30.000 And he invokes it specifically with regard to Hamas, a terrorist group.

00:17:34.000 But of course, Tucker wants to claim that Jews are genocidal because that allows him to support people who actually are, in fact, genocidal and pretend that Hamas is, in fact, just a political group or whatever.

00:17:45.000 If Islam were the issue, says Tucker Carlson, like the establishment wants you to believe. 0.66

00:17:49.000 The establishment.

00:17:51.000 The neocons. 0.96

00:17:52.000 Wouldn't Indonesia pose America a grave national security threat? 1.00

00:17:55.000 For Far Eastern nations, the Far Eastern nation has the world's largest Muslim population. 1.00

00:17:59.000 Pakistan, India, Bangladesh rank second, third, and fourth.

00:18:02.000 None of them threaten the U.S. either because Islam is not the enemy.

00:18:05.000 Okay, so let's be pretty clear.

00:18:06.000 Indonesia is a relatively peaceful state.

00:18:08.000 Itself had to deal with radical Islamist terrorism for decades.

00:18:13.000 Remember the Bali bombing of 2002? 0.61

00:18:15.000 And of course, they've also moved in the direction of more Sharia-friendly law over the course of the last 20 years or so. 0.81

00:18:20.000 Pakistan. 0.93

00:18:21.000 It's hard to make the case that Pakistan is not deeply enmeshed in Islamist terror. 0.95

00:18:25.000 There's a reason why the United States did not coordinate with Pakistani security services in taking out Osama bin Laden. 0.99

00:18:30.000 It is why Pakistan is a nuclear threat to India. 0.98

00:18:33.000 They also happen to be a Sharia law state with some of the worst anti-Christian conditions anywhere on planet Earth. 1.00

00:18:39.000 How about India? 0.85

00:18:40.000 He claims that, you know, Islam is not a problem in India.

00:18:43.000 Well, I mean, there have been some tensions you may have noticed in India.

00:18:46.000 What exactly does Tucker thinks it is happening in Kashmir.

00:18:49.000 You might want to talk to Modi, the leader of India, about his supposition.

00:18:53.000 And as for Bangladesh, Bangladesh has been fighting a decades long war with radical Muslim factions, like decades long.

00:18:59.000 So, again, I don't believe that all Muslims are terrorists or anything remotely like that.

00:19:05.000 I think there are polls that show that a lot of Muslims believe stuff that is not in line with Western values.

00:19:10.000 That is not the same thing as saying they're terrorists.

00:19:13.000 And also, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

00:19:17.000 What Tucker is trying to do is claim that you have been lied to.

00:19:21.000 That every act of terrorism against the United States or our allies is because of American blowback, or you are being manipulated by evil neocons, wink, wink.

00:19:31.000 You're being manipulated by those people, and so is President Trump. 0.86

00:19:34.000 Again, this is part and parcel of the broader demoralization Op Tucker has been running for years at this point, drawing solidarity with America's enemies, including Russia and China, while declaring that we in the United States are unfree pawns of those nefarious forces, that America is somehow being run by the Zionists and their evil doing messengers, the Christian Zionists. 0.61

00:19:54.000 And pro Israel Jewish neocons.

00:19:56.000 Remember, according to Tucker, the Iranian government and Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, they're really not evil.

00:20:01.000 The neocons are.

00:20:02.000 And by neocons, you know exactly who he means.

00:20:05.000 But if he just means people who oppose radical Islamist terrorism, that might include, you know, Muslims like the Saudis and the UAE and Bahrain, all of whom are supporting the president in this current war.

00:20:15.000 But of course, Tucker thinks that President Trump has been mind slaved by, you know, you know who, you know.

00:20:22.000 Here is Tucker.

00:20:24.000 I feel sorry for him as I do for all slaves.

00:20:27.000 He is not free in this moment at all to do what he thinks is best for himself or his country.

00:20:33.000 I don't know what you mean.

00:20:34.000 No, he's, well, he's not free.

00:20:36.000 And we learned that yesterday. 0.98

00:20:39.000 Now, President Trump has robustly rejected this trash, calling Tucker Carlson's routine here low IQ, which is correct. 0.97

00:20:45.000 But here's the thing. 0.99

00:20:46.000 This kind of crap has consequences, not just for the war in Iran and the undermining of American morale and the lies being told, but for American life more broadly. 0.99

00:20:55.000 Already coming up, we'll get into the other big story of the day and how it's linked to this sort of demoralization op. 0.99

00:21:00.000 Erica Kirk had to cancel a live event with JD Vance.

00:21:03.000 Why?

00:21:03.000 What's going on?

00:21:04.000 We'll get into it in a moment.

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00:22:11.000 So, yesterday, Mary Margaret Olihan of the Daily Wire reported that Erica Kirk. had to cancel the event that she was set to do with JD Vance.

00:22:21.000 Erica Kirk put out a statement.

00:22:23.000 I was so looking forward to tonight's event at the University of Georgia with our vice president, JD Vance.

00:22:27.000 But after all our family has been through, I take my security team's recommendations extremely seriously.

00:22:32.000 Thank you to our amazing Georgia chapter for your support.

00:22:34.000 God bless you all.

00:22:35.000 Hey, so Mary Margaret reported via Daily Wire, quote, regarding the threats to Erica Kirk that prevented her from attending today's event with Vice President Vance, a TVUSA official tells me that their security had been monitoring the situation in the days leading up to today's event.

00:22:49.000 Okay, now, let's be very clear.

00:23:14.000 Who do you think is monitoring Erica's travel?

00:23:17.000 Who do you think is doing that?

00:23:20.000 Do we have any clues?

00:23:21.000 So, we have any clues?

00:23:23.000 Well, I mean, hmm. 0.91

00:23:26.000 Candace Owens has been saying that her followers are supposed to follow Erica and give tabs on.

00:23:34.000 I wonder, where could this have come from?

00:23:37.000 Here was Candace not all that long ago.

00:23:42.000 Seems like they were all working to smother Charlie and make sure he was closely watched and handled.

00:23:47.000 And I find it to be very weird and very creepy.

00:23:47.000 Yeah, she does.

00:23:50.000 Mikey McCoy, I don't know if he has a place in there, him and Elizabeth, but they are there all the time because I have sources that live in the building, obviously.

00:23:56.000 Again, APB, Stacey Sheridan on that day.

00:23:59.000 I know I have contacts that live in that same building.

00:24:02.000 If you guys remember seeing Stacey Sheridan, that would be great.

00:24:06.000 Still can't get an Erica sighting because we're everywhere and we're watching and we're listening.

00:24:13.000 Okay, then of course, Hannah's.

00:24:15.000 Came out and immediately claimed that actually there were no security threats.

00:24:18.000 Quote, this is PR horse bleep, obviously.

00:24:21.000 What do we think is the real reason she pulled out?

00:24:23.000 Hey, so JD Vance correctly points out on the stage last night with Andrew Colvitt at TPUSA that the people who are saying that Erica wasn't grieving are full of it.

00:24:33.000 Here was the vice president.

00:24:35.000 The people who tell you I was there with her, I was holding her hand, my wife was hugging her while we loaded Charlie's body onto Air Force Two and said the Lord's Prayer, the people telling you. 1.00

00:24:48.000 That Erica wasn't grieving her husband are full of shit. 1.00

00:24:52.000 And we need to be honest about that fact. 1.00

00:24:56.000 Now, of course, as we know, because I've pointed it out and it's obvious, Megyn Kelly has refused to condemn Candace Owens on this topic in any way, shape, or form.

00:25:05.000 Now, Megyn, of course, will lie and claim that my criticism of her on this matter has something to do with Israel.

00:25:09.000 But you should go back and listen to the prior sentence again.

00:25:12.000 Israel was not in that sentence. 0.96

00:25:14.000 Megyn Kelly, seven months in, still will not say a damn thing about Candace's targeting of Erica.

00:25:19.000 And by the way, the same is true of Tucker Carlson because this entire conspiratorial grievance party worldview is all one.

00:25:25.000 Here was Tucker Carlson over the past few months defending Candace Owens over and over and over again.

00:25:30.000 Here he was with Theo Vaughn, who will come up again shortly.

00:25:35.000 Do I trust Candace more than I trust your average DOJ official?

00:25:40.000 Are you joking?

00:25:41.000 It's not even close, dude.

00:25:42.000 Yeah.

00:25:43.000 It's not even close.

00:25:44.000 It's not even close.

00:25:45.000 We can all be wrong, but who do I trust to like try to tell the truth more?

00:25:49.000 Candace or your average DOJ official?

00:25:52.000 Opposite ends of the spectrum. 0.51

00:25:53.000 I'll just say that.

00:25:56.000 Opposite ends of the spectrum.

00:25:57.000 That's it.

00:25:58.000 Because the DOJ will lie to you and make things up, but he trusts Candace.

00:26:02.000 So, again, presenting full scale support for Candace Owens as she turns Erica Kirk into a punching bag after Erica's husband was murdered in front of everybody.

00:26:11.000 That wasn't all.

00:26:12.000 Again, with Theo Vaughn, who again will come up shortly, here was Tucker Carlson saying that basically Candace is like the FBI, but better. 0.99

00:26:22.000 What Candace is saying is clearly causing a lot of turmoil.

00:26:25.000 Is it true or not?

00:26:26.000 I can't assess it.

00:26:27.000 I'm not the FBI.

00:26:28.000 I'm a freaking podcaster, but I do know how the system works.

00:26:31.000 And it's really simple the FBI has this case, and of course, the state of Utah. 0.57

00:26:37.000 It's their job to not only find out what happened, present it to the public in a way that restores some confidence that you can have justice in this country, that we have functioning law enforcement.

00:26:48.000 I don't have confidence in that because there's a lot of evidence that we don't have that.

00:26:51.000 So, restore confidence by being honest and telling a story that makes sense.

00:26:55.000 So, why?

00:26:57.000 If they don't do that and they haven't done that, they have not done that.

00:27:01.000 How can you be mad at Candace Owens or anyone else for filling a vacuum that they left?

00:27:07.000 Yeah. 0.51

00:27:08.000 Well, Candace is back. 0.90

00:27:10.000 No.

00:27:10.000 Okay.

00:27:14.000 So why, why are people, you know, threatening Erica Kirk?

00:27:17.000 Why are they following around her plane?

00:27:18.000 Why?

00:27:19.000 I can't imagine.

00:27:19.000 Literally yesterday, by the way, while all of this was going down, Buckley Carlson, Tucker's brother, who travels with Tucker and joins the show sometimes as a commentator, tweeted in defense of Candace, while Candace was speculating again that Erica had no actual security threat at all.

00:27:32.000 So what is the common thread here?

00:27:34.000 What's the common thread to all of this?

00:27:36.000 The thread is very simple.

00:27:37.000 Humoring crazies gives them power. 0.91

00:27:40.000 You must fight the crazies. 0.89

00:27:43.000 And they use this power. 0.96

00:27:45.000 The crazies, to harm other people, to attack Erica Kirk and make her life miserable, to spew baseless conspiracy, low IQ mind vomit, to undermine what is in fact a righteous battle against the worst regime on earth. 0.96

00:27:57.000 Regardless of the questions you have about the persecution of the war in Iran, there's no question that the bad guys here are Iran. 0.90

00:28:04.000 Somebody needs to stand up to all of this. 0.96

00:28:06.000 Why won't people stand up to this?

00:28:08.000 Prominent people, in some cases, the people closest to TPUSA.

00:28:11.000 So I said I would mention Theo Vaughn again.

00:28:13.000 There's a reason for that.

00:28:14.000 Last night, The vice president, JD Vance, on the stage at TPUSA was asked about which podcast he would recommend in the middle of this event.

00:28:21.000 And here's what he had to say.

00:28:24.000 Who are some of the conservative influencers or the political influencers today?

00:28:28.000 There are a few people that I look to who I think have very, very smart and wise spiritual wisdom.

00:28:33.000 I mean, like, I think Andrew and Blake and the podcast that they have at TPUSA is amazing.

00:28:39.000 I listen to it all the time.

00:28:40.000 I think it's great.

00:28:41.000 You know, I think if you want a good laugh, I love Theo Vaughn.

00:28:43.000 Like, he's one of my favorite.

00:28:45.000 He's just incredible.

00:28:46.000 And he's got one of these senses of humor where like, Okay, so here's the thing. 0.55

00:29:02.000 Theo Vaughn is a low IQ conspiracist.

00:29:05.000 He has himself routinely propped up Candace Ellens, his lent credence to her insanity.

00:29:09.000 There was Theo Vaughn alongside Dave Smith on his show just a few months back.

00:29:15.000 It's really, really tough.

00:29:16.000 Cause you kids like you do, you gotta just believe anything Candace says, man.

00:29:19.000 That's the new world we live in.

00:29:21.000 I don't know, dude.

00:29:23.000 She's pretty, I mean, she's brave, dude.

00:29:25.000 Oh, she's brave.

00:29:26.000 That's an understatement.

00:29:27.000 That's what we're saying at the beginning, that, yeah.

00:29:29.000 Yeah, dude, her kids play like games or like instead of playing cops and robbers, they played who killed Charlie Kirk.

00:29:35.000 That's so crazy. 0.99

00:29:38.000 Now, of course, Theo Vaughn's half retarded conspiracism doesn't end there. 1.00

00:29:42.000 Of course, here he was recently with Joe Rogan spewing out mind vomit. 0.99

00:29:48.000 People are like, we'll like the Democrats next time.

00:29:50.000 It's like, but it's all the same has been happening forever.

00:29:54.000 They haven't been helping anybody forever.

00:29:56.000 They're letting politicians slurp on kids. 0.80

00:29:59.000 All of our money goes to Israel and they're using it to genocide people.

00:30:02.000 It's like everybody is scared out of their wits right now. 0.70

00:30:05.000 It's like our religious leaders are afraid to speak out. 1.00

00:30:08.000 And it's like the, it's a time where it's like Satan is amongst us and our religious leaders are talking about bullshit. 0.99

00:30:14.000 It's just like, what is going? 0.99

00:30:14.000 The poll. 0.99

00:30:16.000 We got to get you off the present son.

00:30:16.000 I don't know, man.

00:30:18.000 You're losing your.

00:30:19.000 Marbles.

00:30:20.000 You think I am?

00:30:21.000 Come hang out with us.

00:30:21.000 Just chill out.

00:30:22.000 I'm here.

00:30:24.000 And Theo Vaughn is basically just a Bernie Sanders leftist who does not like the censorious impulses of the left and engages in all the same conspiracy theories and, of course, is good friends with Candace Owens and all the rest of it.

00:30:36.000 And that's the guy that the vice president thinks that everybody should listen to. 0.99

00:30:39.000 Now, listen, maybe the vice president thinks he has to kiss Theo Vaughn's half retarded ass in order to keep him in the coalition. 1.00

00:30:44.000 And that's his political calculation. 1.00

00:30:46.000 I think it's a bad political calculation.

00:30:48.000 There is no politician who is fully capable of just picking up.

00:30:51.000 A prior president's coalition and then just carrying it forward. 1.00

00:30:54.000 It didn't work for Hillary Clinton with Barack Obama.

00:30:57.000 It's not going to work for JD Vance with Donald Trump.

00:30:59.000 Just because Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan back Trump doesn't mean that they're going to get behind Donald Trump.

00:31:04.000 They're going to get behind JD Vance.

00:31:06.000 The reality is that the vice president's current coalitional strategy, I think, is deeply flawed.

00:31:11.000 It is hard for me to see how he doesn't shrink President Trump's coalition across the board.

00:31:15.000 But that's a political calculation.

00:31:17.000 Maybe his is better than mine.

00:31:18.000 It is certainly not a moral calculation.

00:31:20.000 And the same is true of the vice president's consistent defense of Tucker's disgusting demoralization up.

00:31:26.000 Which has been in continuous operation for years at this point.

00:31:29.000 Back in December 2025, he said, The idea that Tucker Carlson, who has one of the largest podcasts in the world, who has millions of listeners who supported Trump in the 2024 election, the idea that his views are somehow completely anathema to conservatism, that he has no place in the conservative movement, is frankly absurd.

00:31:48.000 And I don't think anybody actually believes it.

00:31:51.000 That is what Vance said about Tucker.

00:31:53.000 Now, listen, you have to feel a little bit bad for Vice President Vance.

00:31:56.000 Tucker helped him become vice president.

00:31:58.000 The VP appreciates it, as he should.

00:32:00.000 But now, because of his connections to Tucker or his desire to maintain Trump's coalition, a coalition that is broad and complex, he's been relegated to placating the crazies, assuming he doesn't actually agree with them.

00:32:11.000 So last night at TPUSA, he was asked a critical question about the Iran war.

00:32:16.000 And his response was not to defend the president's agenda.

00:32:19.000 His response was this I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy that we have in the Middle East.

00:32:30.000 Okay, I understand that.

00:32:32.000 I also know that we've secured the border.

00:32:34.000 We've lowered housing prices now for eight months in a row, and there's going to be more to come beyond that.

00:32:38.000 We've made America energy dominant, which has lowered electricity costs and things like that.

00:32:43.000 We've made it so that we have the lowest murder rate in 127 years.

00:32:47.000 I'm not saying you have to agree with me on every issue.

00:32:52.000 I'm not saying you have to agree with me on every issue.

00:32:54.000 What I'm saying is don't get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic.

00:33:01.000 Get more involved.

00:33:02.000 Make your voice heard even more.

00:33:04.000 That's how we ultimately take the country back.

00:33:08.000 Back from whom?

00:33:10.000 So you disagree on Iran with the administration.

00:33:12.000 That's when you have to sound off and take the country back.

00:33:14.000 Back from whom?

00:33:15.000 The current president is Donald Trump.

00:33:17.000 The vice president is the guy talking.

00:33:19.000 If we're taking the country back from someone else, then what are we talking about?

00:33:23.000 So here's the bottom line.

00:33:25.000 It is not possible to humor low IQ slop and then assume it will not have consequences. 1.00

00:33:31.000 Honoring garbage is exacerbating garbage. 1.00

00:33:34.000 Laughing along with the purveyors of bullshit while occasionally tut tutting, and then when push comes to shove, defending the overall importance of grifters and nuts and even endorsing them popularizes the worst ideas. 1.00

00:33:45.000 And that matters. 0.98

00:33:46.000 It matters because when these same figures push the demoralization op that America is run by nefarious forces beyond your control, when you prop up and promote those people who do that sort of stuff, You make people's lives worse.

00:33:58.000 You're making American politics worse.

00:34:01.000 And that does make the world a worse place.

00:34:04.000 Terrible low IQ slop ideas have consequences.

00:34:07.000 Stop burnishing them.

00:34:09.000 All right, coming up, the craziness is not relegated just to, you know, the horseshoe right.

00:34:14.000 The left is doing its own version with Hassan Piker.

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00:35:31.000 We are watching as low IQ slop washes over the nation like a tsunami.

00:35:36.000 Hassan Piker, who the Democratic Party will not break from for love or money, day by day continues to humiliate the people who continue to staple themselves to his pant leg. 0.97

00:35:46.000 So, yesterday, Hassan Piker was speaking at Yale, which, again, good for Yale for the affirmative action of letting truly retarded people now have podiums at Yale. 0.92

00:35:58.000 Well, here was Hassan Piker at Yale expressing his devastation over the downfall of the USSR, one of the most evil regimes in world history, responsible for the killing or murder of tens of millions. 0.98

00:35:58.000 Good for them. 0.98

00:36:10.000 Of human beings and the subjugation of entire continents.

00:36:14.000 Here is Hassan Piker weeping over it at Yale.

00:36:18.000 The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.

00:36:27.000 Just wait, listen, maybe you'll agree. 0.93

00:36:30.000 Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner, child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting, but America was no longer contested around the globe. 0.85

00:36:51.000 And it is precisely because of the end to that multipolarity.

00:36:57.000 That we saw accelerated neoliberalism that is devastating every Western nation right now.

00:37:06.000 Unlimited and unchecked greed.

00:37:10.000 This is the. 0.94

00:37:11.000 Okay, the downfall of the Soviet Union is one of the great accomplishments in world history. 0.86

00:37:15.000 Again, the Soviet Union is one of the most murderous regimes in global history. 0.86

00:37:20.000 It spawned similarly tyrannical regimes all across the world, from Asia to Africa to Latin America. 0.89

00:37:26.000 And the fact that Hassan Pike are sitting.

00:37:28.000 In his multi million dollar home, visiting the richy riches over at Yale and telling them that actually we'd all be better off if the USSR were still around because neoliberalism is devastating the West.

00:37:40.000 What does he think happened to countries that were under the thumb of the USSR?

00:37:44.000 What a truly terrible human being.

00:37:45.000 But if you don't believe he's truly terrible, I play again a clip from Pod Save America.

00:37:49.000 These are supposed to be the mainstream Democrats.

00:37:51.000 I know these guys, okay?

00:37:52.000 Like these are supposed to be the mainstream Obama Democrats trying to talk Piker out of completely humiliating them and he just face plans them.

00:38:01.000 Gives them a swirly, just puts their face directly in the toilet and flushes, saying that he supports Hamas, like overtly.

00:38:01.000 He just.

00:38:11.000 Hamas is a thousand times better. 0.91

00:38:12.000 Do you actually mean that? 0.96

00:38:14.000 Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal?

00:38:18.000 Like what?

00:38:19.000 I mean, it's all of the above.

00:38:21.000 I do mean it.

00:38:22.000 I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.

00:38:24.000 I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter, I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.

00:38:32.000 Well, I mean, that's weird because you know what Hamas doesn't really let happen are typically, you know, like voting and rights or anything like that. 0.87

00:38:40.000 But here is the point.

00:38:41.000 These are mainstream figures.

00:38:42.000 Positive America is mainstream stuff.

00:38:44.000 Yale, a mainstream place. 0.99

00:38:45.000 Humor trash. 1.00

00:38:46.000 It will not be long before your entire party is taken over by trash, taken over by horrific communism, terrible anti Semitism. 1.00

00:38:53.000 That's what Democrats have been doing. 0.98

00:38:55.000 Don't let it happen inside the Republican Party as well. 0.99

00:38:59.000 Don't humor garbage. 0.99

00:39:01.000 Don't humor it. 1.00

00:39:02.000 Meanwhile, speaking of people, Who truly are garbage? 0.98

00:39:05.000 Zorhan Mamdani, who is the mayor of New York, he has now decided that the time has come. 0.97

00:39:11.000 The time has come at long last.

00:39:12.000 He is going to put into action his Soviet plan for a government run grocery store. 0.56

00:39:18.000 Are you excited?

00:39:19.000 Are you excited?

00:39:20.000 Government run grocery stores, guys, it's going to be great.

00:39:22.000 Because if there's one thing that we have to fight off in America, it is starvation.

00:39:27.000 Now, I know you're thinking right now that we actually have a massive obesity problem in the United States, and you would be right.

00:39:32.000 But according to Zorhan Mamdani, the biggest problem in America is that people cannot afford food.

00:39:36.000 And the best way for people to afford food. Is for the government to have grocery stores.

00:39:41.000 This has never been tried anywhere except for, you know, Cuba and the USSR and pretty much all the communist countries, which led, of course, to the very, very famous photos of Soviet leadership walking into American supermarkets and being astonished by the selection of products.

00:39:54.000 Because it turns out capitalism, it makes things better and it makes things cheaper and it makes them more plentiful, which is how they become better and cheaper.

00:40:01.000 Now, here is Zoram Amdani explaining his plan because what New York City needs desperately is a government run grocery store.

00:40:10.000 This store will be open in 2029.

00:40:12.000 The reason that we're announcing it first is because, unlike other stores, this will be built from the ground up.

00:40:17.000 We are talking about a vacant lot that is about one or two blocks over there that is currently laying vacant.

00:40:23.000 It is city owned.

00:40:24.000 We're going to build it from the ground up.

00:40:27.000 Wow.

00:40:28.000 By the way, how much is it going to cost to build this grocery store, ground up, at La Marqueta?

00:40:28.000 Wow.

00:40:34.000 According to the New York Times, $30 million.

00:40:36.000 $30 million.

00:40:37.000 Now, I have a question.

00:40:39.000 Do you think that when Publix builds a new store, it costs them $30 million?

00:40:44.000 It don't.

00:40:45.000 It is not.

00:40:46.000 I promise you, what is going to happen is that if, in fact, the city subsidizes particular food products at a cheaper rate, either people will want to buy those food products or they will not.

00:40:57.000 If they do, like for example, eggs, then there will be a run on eggs and then there will be a shortage.

00:41:02.000 That's what will happen.

00:41:04.000 Because when you subsidize a product, when you subsidize the price of a product, it spurs more demand and you will end up with a shortage and lines.

00:41:12.000 Duh.

00:41:14.000 It is amazing how nobody has ever read a book or, you know, Even watched an old documentary.

00:41:19.000 Like, really well done.

00:41:20.000 Again, Mamdani says he wants the new grocery store to offer discounts on basic groceries and to provide quality jobs.

00:41:27.000 The city will waive rent and real estate taxes for the store.

00:41:30.000 Now, again, you want to waive real estate taxes?

00:41:33.000 You know, you could do.

00:41:34.000 If you really wanted to lower food prices, you could do that for all the grocery stores in New York.

00:41:37.000 That would lower some prices.

00:41:38.000 You know what else you could do?

00:41:40.000 You could get rid of all of the regulations surrounding the grocery stores in New York, which make it very difficult to actually run and operate a business.

00:41:47.000 It's hilarious that the minute the Democrats want to lower prices, Then they give a specific cutout that actually gets rid of all of the government red tape, but just for their friends, like the government run grocery store.

00:42:00.000 Genius level stuff there from Zorhan Mamdani.

00:42:02.000 Meanwhile, Representative Roh Khanna, who is the West Coast version of Zorhan Mamdani, free everything, free everything, says Roh Khanna.

00:42:09.000 Again, it is kind of amazing that the Silicon Valley area is represented by a person who really kind of despises tech.

00:42:15.000 In any case, here he was calling for free healthcare and college.

00:42:18.000 By the way, there's no such thing as free, there's just stuff paid for by somebody else.

00:42:24.000 The moment has finally come for national health insurance.

00:42:28.000 Because people now realize you cannot have health care linked to your job, not at a time where your job may change or where you may lose your job.

00:42:28.000 Why?

00:42:37.000 We need Medicare for all.

00:42:39.000 That is a better system with better outcomes where health care is guaranteed to every single person from the day they are born.

00:42:46.000 For our young people to assure career opportunity is not limited by your family's wealth, we need free college and free trade schools.

00:42:56.000 Oh, you know, free everything, free everything.

00:42:59.000 How will that go wrong in any way?

00:43:01.000 Maybe what we can do is we can heavily subsidize everybody going to college, for example.

00:43:05.000 That won't raise the price of.

00:43:07.000 Well, that turns out that that radically raised the price of.

00:43:10.000 Or maybe if we have more government subsidization of health care, that won't raise the price of health.

00:43:15.000 Turns out that raises the price because it just increases the base that people are willing to pay and able to pay.

00:43:20.000 It doesn't matter what the effect is.

00:43:22.000 The only thing that matters to the Democrats is that it feels good when they say the word free.

00:43:26.000 Over and over and over again.

00:43:28.000 Well, speaking of things that don't feel good, Eric Swalwell has now resigned from Congress.

00:43:33.000 We bid a fond farewell.

00:43:35.000 He vanished like a fart in the wind, did it, Representative Eric Swalwell?

00:43:39.000 He put out a statement I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past.

00:43:44.000 I will fight the serious false allegation made against me.

00:43:46.000 However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistake I did make.

00:43:50.000 I'm aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members.

00:43:53.000 Expelling anyone in Congress without due process within days of an allegation being made is wrong.

00:43:58.000 But it's also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties.

00:44:01.000 Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress.

00:44:05.000 Well, the real reason he's resigning is because this stuff is pretty damaging.

00:44:09.000 A new accuser came forward yesterday alleging rape. 0.88

00:44:12.000 Here's what she had to say He raped me. 0.98

00:44:19.000 And he choked me. 0.99

00:44:22.000 And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness.

00:44:28.000 And I thought I died.

00:44:31.000 I did not consent to any sexual activity.

00:44:36.000 Although I did not undergo a rape kit at the time, I disclosed the assault to the people closest to me.

00:44:47.000 Okay, she says, by the way, according to Politico, that her delay in taking action against Swaol was driven by fear, not doubt, fear of his political power, his background as an attorney, and his family law enforcement ties.

00:44:57.000 I've never doubted what happened, she said.

00:44:59.000 She accused him of drugging her as well.

00:45:01.000 Well, this has some implications for some of the other Democrats.

00:45:03.000 So, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who wants to run his own presidential campaign, made very, very close buddies with Swalwell.

00:45:10.000 In fact, here they were on camels in the desert in, wait for it, Qatar.

00:45:13.000 This is back in 2021.

00:45:14.000 Oh, man, stuff that you didn't need to see, but if I saw it, so did you.

00:45:21.000 So now we're all living that life.

00:45:22.000 That's great.

00:45:24.000 Qatar, the land of dreams.

00:45:26.000 In any case, here was Senator Gallego saying that Swalwell lied to him and led a double life and manipulated him.

00:45:33.000 Did he though?

00:45:34.000 I don't know, man.

00:45:34.000 Did he?

00:45:35.000 I don't know.

00:45:38.000 This man led a double life.

00:45:39.000 He lied to us.

00:45:40.000 He lied to his family, lied to his constituents.

00:45:42.000 Some of the most powerful people in this country.

00:45:45.000 Even before he ran, he was trusted with some positions that normally we would never think someone like this could do if they're leading that double life.

00:45:53.000 And again, I was manipulated, I was lied to, and everyone else was too.

00:46:01.000 Well, I don't believe you, sir.

00:46:05.000 I have doubts.

00:46:06.000 Apparently, this is rumored for a very, very, very long time, actually.

00:46:06.000 I have doubts.

00:46:10.000 So he's not the only one stepping down from Congress.

00:46:12.000 Eric Swallow, Tony Gonzalez, the Republican, is also stepping down from Congress.

00:46:17.000 That, of course, is because he was allegedly having an affair, not so allegedly.

00:46:20.000 It's pretty clear that he was.

00:46:21.000 I mean, he's admitted to it, I believe, having an affair with a staffer who then ended up killing herself.

00:46:26.000 So it was a great day all around for Congress.

00:46:28.000 TMZ apparently has set up shop over in D.C., and they're asking for people to turn in evidence of Congress people getting drunk and screwing their mistresses.

00:46:35.000 I assume that, I'm not sure that the bandwidth exists on planet Earth for that amount of material.

00:46:41.000 To inundate TMZ's offices.

00:46:42.000 So I can assume that this will not be the first in a wave of resignations.

00:46:45.000 And meanwhile, back in the Middle East, the president yesterday was talking with Maria Bartiromo, and he said that we are ending this war.

00:46:52.000 We're at least getting close to it.

00:46:53.000 Here's what he had to say. 0.82

00:46:55.000 I had to divert, because if I didn't do that, right now you would have Iran with a nuclear weapon. 0.89

00:47:01.000 And if they had a nuclear weapon, you would be calling everybody over there, sir. 0.83

00:47:06.000 And you don't want to do that.

00:47:07.000 Well, you keep saying was.

00:47:08.000 Is this war over?

00:47:10.000 I think it's close to over here.

00:47:12.000 I mean, I view it as very close to over.

00:47:16.000 Okay, so again, what does that mean?

00:47:19.000 Well, apparently, he believes that the United States' continued pressure is going to bring them to the table.

00:47:27.000 You've got a regime that's been building ballistic missiles, building or trying to build a nuclear weapon.

00:47:34.000 Why should we think that they're actually going to give up on this?

00:47:37.000 Well, they might not give up, but they're going to give up on it while they're exhausted.

00:47:40.000 They are exhausted.

00:47:41.000 They took hits like nobody's ever taken.

00:47:46.000 And again, he is not wrong about this, actually. 0.58

00:47:49.000 So according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. CENTCOM says that a blockade of Iranian ports has now been fully implemented and that U.S. forces are maintaining maritime superiority in the Middle East.

00:47:57.000 Eight oil tankers have been, have obeyed direction from U.S. forces to reverse course according to the United States.

00:48:02.000 No interdictions have yet been reported.

00:48:05.000 Enforcement is unlikely to happen in the Persian Gulf itself.

00:48:07.000 Some 20 commercial ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz recently.

00:48:10.000 That's an improvement in the flow of vessels through the critical choke point.

00:48:13.000 Meanwhile, according to the Associated Press, mediators Are looking to possibly extend a ceasefire between the United States and Iran.

00:48:20.000 Unclear whether that's going to happen, that maybe further negotiations will take place.

00:48:23.000 Apparently, the reports are that the United States is demanding that if Iran sends negotiators, that Iran actually be bound by the things that it is negotiating.

00:48:31.000 Apparently, there's a gap.

00:48:33.000 Some of the negotiators were not on the same page as the IRGC, which is effectively running the country at this point.

00:48:38.000 There are already some positive effects of the broader conflict in the Middle East that is currently happening, not just between Israel and the United States and Iran, but also between Israel and Hezbollah.

00:48:49.000 In Lebanon.

00:48:50.000 So Israel hammered the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, it's an Iranian front group, just last week.

00:48:57.000 That prompted the United States to broker talks between Israel and Lebanon.

00:49:03.000 According to Reuters, the talks hosted at the State Department by Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded with encouraging words and talk of further meetings, but no firm commitments.

00:49:11.000 But the fact of the gathering underscored the degree to which Israel and Lebanon have come to the shared goal of disarming Hezbollah. 0.77

00:49:17.000 This is one of the things that's incredible. 0.95

00:49:18.000 If you know anything about Middle Eastern politics, The way that European leaders talk about this is insane.

00:49:23.000 They'll say that Israel is the aggressor in Lebanon. 0.76

00:49:26.000 They are on the side of the Lebanese government.

00:49:28.000 They are intervening on the side of the Lebanese government.

00:49:30.000 The Lebanese government is harassed by Hezbollah, which is a terrorist group, which is effectively running the southern half of the country, doing so with weaponry not approved by the Lebanese government.

00:49:41.000 And the Lebanese government has been too weak to actually disarm Hezbollah.

00:49:45.000 That's what's actually happening.

00:49:49.000 Again, kind of astonishing that.

00:49:53.000 Israel and Lebanon are now on the same side trying to disarm Hezbollah.

00:49:57.000 Yichael Leiter, who's the Israeli ambassador to the United States and was part of that meeting, he said, actually, we and the Lebanese government are on exactly the same page.

00:50:07.000 We discovered today that we're on the same side of the equation.

00:50:12.000 That's the most positive thing we could have come away with. 0.89

00:50:15.000 We are both united in liberating Lebanon from an occupation power dominated by Iran called Hezbollah. 0.94

00:50:26.000 Lebanon is under their occupation, and we are suffering from their constant barrages of missiles and terror attacks trying to cross our border.

00:50:42.000 Leiter did say that the most important thing is to keep the French out of the negotiations.

00:50:45.000 That, of course, is not a shock. 0.99

00:50:46.000 The French have been an awful force in these negotiations.

00:50:50.000 They've constantly militated in favor of essentially giving goodies to Hezbollah. 0.77

00:50:57.000 I hope we won't have to make a concerted effort, but we certainly don't want the French anywhere near these negotiations. 0.98

00:51:03.000 We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but particularly when it comes to peace negotiations, they're not needed. 0.99

00:51:11.000 They're not a positive influence, particularly not in Lebanon. 1.00

00:51:15.000 So where are things going?

00:51:17.000 The fact is that back to the Iran side of the equation, the United States' embargo right now, our blockade on Iranian ships that are entering or leaving Iranian ports, that blockade is likely to lead to vast inflation in the currency, which is already out of control.

00:51:31.000 Basically, the shutdown of their economy.

00:51:33.000 And the rumors are that the leadership in Iran knows this and they have to act quickly or they will have the complete collapse of their economy in very, very short order.

00:51:39.000 And meanwhile, the conflict between President Trump and the Pope continues.

00:51:43.000 The President put out a statement on Truth Social yesterday.

00:51:47.000 This statement on Truth Social, frankly, I was fine with.

00:51:49.000 I had no problem with this at all.

00:51:50.000 Quote Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed protesters in the last two months and that for Iran to have a nuclear bomb is absolutely unacceptable?

00:51:58.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:52:00.000 America is back, President Trump.

00:52:02.000 That's fine.

00:52:04.000 If you're upset by that, I'm not sure why.

00:52:06.000 That is a perfectly normal political position.

00:52:09.000 Meanwhile, Tom Homan, a lifelong Catholic, and of course, our immigration enforcements are, the borders are, he says, you know, as a Catholic, America has to have a border, and it's my job to enforce it.

00:52:22.000 Look, I'm not going to speak for the president.

00:52:24.000 I'm speaking for myself, a lifelong Catholic. 0.84

00:52:26.000 I wish they stayed out of immigration if they don't know what they're talking about. 0.97

00:52:30.000 Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years and talked to a nine year old girl, they got raped multiple times. 1.00

00:52:36.000 Or stood in the back of the trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a five year old boy that baked to death.

00:52:42.000 If they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change.

00:52:47.000 And I welcome a discussion with any of them because they don't understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. 0.89

00:52:55.000 Again, he is not wrong about any of this.

00:52:57.000 Again, if the Pope steps into politics, then criticizing his politics is perfectly within lines.

00:53:01.000 Perfectly within lines.

00:53:03.000 The Vice President last night at TPUSA said something similar, and he again is not wrong.

00:53:08.000 It has frustrated me.

00:53:10.000 That some of the Catholic clergy have attacked mercilessly the Trump administration on immigration.

00:53:17.000 It is a constant idea that somehow everything that the Trump administration does when it comes to securing our borders is inhumane.

00:53:25.000 And my constant response to that is how is it humane to allow drug traffickers and sex traffickers to bring little kids across the southern border?

00:53:34.000 Amen.

00:53:36.000 Again, he's not wrong about that.

00:53:39.000 Again, I find the most ironic part of all of this, the sudden. 0.92

00:53:42.000 The sudden love for the papacy from people like AOC.

00:53:45.000 So AOC immediately jumps in and says that, that actually it is the Pope who has the moral off.

00:53:51.000 Again, AOC backs every socially left-wing cause and economically left-wing cause that is possible to support.

00:53:58.000 Her crossover with Catholic Church doctrine is minimal at best.

00:54:02.000 And yet here she was.

00:54:05.000 Congresswoman, any remarks or any reactions to Trump's attacks on the Pope?

00:54:14.000 Attacking the Pope, who do you think has moral authority in this situation?

00:54:19.000 You know what I mean?

00:54:21.000 Yeah, cool. 1.00

00:54:21.000 Now, do abortion. 1.00

00:54:23.000 See how it goes for you. 1.00

00:54:24.000 And meanwhile, in the ideas and stupidity has consequences category, clavicular. 0.99

00:54:31.000 You'll remember clavicular. 0.99

00:54:32.000 We've talked about him unfortunately before.

00:54:33.000 He is the 20 year old influencer who has decided that it's a great idea to spend your life being sterile, smashing yourself in the face with a hammer to accentuate your jawline, and taking enough meth to kill a horse.

00:54:47.000 Unbelievable, he overdosed.

00:54:49.000 So, according to TMZ, Clavicular suffered a suspected overdose on Tuesday night.

00:54:54.000 He has since been hospitalized.

00:54:55.000 He was on Kickstreet, he was streaming.

00:54:57.000 Again, this is a miserable life for people. 0.99

00:54:59.000 And if you're following these, if you're a young person, if you're a 17 year old guy and you're following Clavicular because you think he's funnier, just understand he's a miserable loser. 1.00

00:55:06.000 These people are miserable losers, truly. 0.97

00:55:09.000 He is walking around taking drugs with his friends, and then girls come up and they take videos because they want clout, and that's all. 1.00

00:55:16.000 That's all.

00:55:17.000 That's all this is.

00:55:19.000 The actual video is of him basically ODing on camera, which is pretty terrible.

00:55:24.000 In a video from his stream, you can actually see it.

00:55:26.000 We're not showing it right now, but you can see him legitimately go unconscious.

00:55:31.000 And, uh, and then later he resurfaced and he, he said that he got home, quote, all of the substances are just to cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public.

00:55:39.000 But obviously that isn't a real solution.

00:55:42.000 The worst part of tonight was my face descending from the life support mask.

00:55:45.000 I don't even know what that last sentence means.

00:55:47.000 I mean, obviously if the answer is that you're troubled, yeah, clavicular is, which is why young people do not emulate people who have these sorts of troubles in their life.

00:55:56.000 And of course you'll remember that clavicular was one of the genius participants in, uh, in the Heil Hitler van video with Myron Gaines and Nick Fuentes and the Tate Boys and Sneeko and Justin Waller combined IQ that of a cum quad.

00:56:24.000 Maybe the definition of hell would be being stuck in that van.

00:56:26.000 My goodness.

00:56:28.000 Now, Sneeko himself had a bad day yesterday. 0.59

00:56:31.000 Sneeko, who we had discussed because yesterday he was out on the streets of New York shouting Khaibar al Yehud, which is an Islamic chant for the mass murder of Jews. 0.62

00:56:40.000 And that was him just a couple of days ago. 0.83

00:56:54.000 Third worldism. 0.99

00:56:55.000 Hope you're enjoying the third worldism.

00:56:57.000 Well, he had a bad day because someone sucker punched him while he was walking down the street in New York City.

00:57:03.000 And again, folks, don't punch people because you don't like what they say.

00:57:08.000 Also, don't shout for the mass murder of Jews or anyone else and shout also in favor of violence in the streets for political reasons.

00:57:18.000 Now, here's how it went.

00:57:32.000 Some people suspect that this was staged.

00:57:34.000 Probably Sneeko himself would suspect it was staged because he believes everything was staged. 0.99

00:57:37.000 But again, dumb people doing dumb things receive dumb consequences.

00:57:41.000 And no, that is not an excuse for anyone doing violence to anyone else who is not doing violence to them, which is something that we can easily say here. 0.96

00:57:48.000 And we can also say that you should not listen to any of these low IQ individuals. 0.94

00:57:52.000 You should not listen to the foolishness and ugliness that they purvey. 0.99

00:57:58.000 You should not. 0.97

00:57:59.000 It is bad for your soul.

00:58:00.000 It is bad for you.

00:58:00.000 It is bad for.

00:58:01.000 All the people that you know and mainline influencers, people who have actual political voices and voices people listen to who refuse to call this sort of stuff out, there's a reason they're doing it.

00:58:12.000 And it's usually the clicks and it's often the money.

00:58:13.000 And if it's for principle, that's even worse.

00:58:15.000 All righty, folks, coming up, I'm going to be taking your questions.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 15, 2026

Evil Left-Wing Ideas Have Consequences

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