The Ben Shapiro Show - September 03, 2026


First Mangione, Now This: The Left Will Excuse Any Dead 'Executive'


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00:00:00.000 So, I think it's fair to say that things have gone wrong in the world of social media.
00:00:03.000 So, if a woman returns from maternity leave to work a job at Bank of America and then she is stabbed to death on the streets of New York, there are people online who will celebrate her murder because she worked at Bank of America.
00:00:15.000 This is where we are.
00:00:16.000 And it'll get like 32,000 likes.
00:00:17.000 That's where we are now.
00:00:18.000 Plus, we'll get to the latest on Lindsey Clancy.
00:00:21.000 We'll jump into it.
00:00:22.000 Crazy people finding solidarity with people who do horrible things, so long as it attacks the system.
00:00:28.000 That is sort of the theme that has arisen in the online world.
00:00:30.000 Obviously, Luigi Mangione was a great example of this.
00:00:33.000 He murders a healthcare executive, and pretty much all of the left decides that Luigi Mangione is now a hero.
00:00:39.000 Well, now we have another example that's even more insane in some ways.
00:00:43.000 According to the New York Post, the Bank of America executive, randomly slain near Times Square, was preparing to build a life with her husband and five month old daughter.
00:00:51.000 Her family revealed in a heartbreaking statement on Wednesday, relatives of Aaron Piacenti, 32, said they were devastated by her unprovoked stabbing death on Monday.
00:00:59.000 That was her first day back at work after maternity leave.
00:01:03.000 She was stabbed to death by this very overweight, Mentally ill person on the streets of New York with a couple of knives who then ended up being shot by the cops.
00:01:14.000 And people, some people in the blue sky world immediately decided that actually Aaron Piacenti deserved to die, that they deserved to die, that she deserved to die.
00:01:25.000 And the reason she deserved to die is because she worked for Bank of America.
00:01:29.000 Doesn't matter that she was not exactly like the president of Bank of America.
00:01:34.000 And even if she were, that's legal in the United States to be a bank executive.
00:01:38.000 The idea is that if you work for the system in any way and someone stabs you, we ought to celebrate.
00:01:43.000 German Palestinian American filmmaker Lexi Alexander reacted with a meme of Luigi Mangione.
00:01:50.000 32,000 likes.
00:01:51.000 32,000 likes.
00:01:55.000 Again, we are building permission structures for violence in real time.
00:02:00.000 Social media is preying on the brains of vulnerable people.
00:02:03.000 It's a disaster area.
00:02:05.000 Social media is largely destroying the country.
00:02:07.000 And that is true.
00:02:09.000 Kind of just across the board, which brings us to Lindsay Clancy trial update.
00:02:13.000 So, yesterday, the judge read the so called Tui Rodriguez instructions.
00:02:17.000 So, there is a system in Massachusetts where if the jury keeps coming back and saying we can't make a decision, a hung jury, then you can give what's called a Tui Rodriguez charge.
00:02:29.000 The goal is to help break a jury impasse without coercing a verdict.
00:02:33.000 So, here is the judge reading that.
00:02:36.000 If you were left in doubt of any element of the crime, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of the doubt and must be acquitted.
00:02:45.000 However, in conferring together, you ought to pay proper respect to each other's opinions and listen with an open mind to each other's arguments.
00:02:55.000 Thus, where there is disagreement, jurors for acquittal should consider whether a doubt in their own minds is a reasonable one if it makes no impression on the minds of others who are equally honest, equally intelligent, And who have heard the same evidence with the same attention, with an equal desire to arrive at the truth, and who have taken the same oath as jurors.
00:03:23.000 And so, again, basically all this is is the judge saying, Please, please, please, could you keep thinking about this thing?
00:03:31.000 I'm saying it basically doesn't do anything, but it is the judge saying, You guys need to think about this some more.
00:03:37.000 Now, again, I think the jury is very likely to come back hung here.
00:03:40.000 Obviously, there are some significant factual claims that have been made on both sides of the was she doing this out of psychosis.
00:03:47.000 Which is the core of the case.
00:03:49.000 I've said before, I think that under Massachusetts law, which is kind of rigged for the defense in this particular case, because the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in Massachusetts that she was sane and rational when she killed her kids, which is a pretty heavy lift.
00:04:04.000 But that has not stopped all of the ambulatory psychotics outside the courtroom from doing their thing.
00:04:11.000 One of those people is a crime junkie named Dawn Light.
00:04:15.000 She was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly filming jurors in Lindsey Clancy's case.
00:04:19.000 She pled not guilty to the charge of aggravated intimidation of a juror in the same courthouse where Clancy's high profile triple murder trial has been underway for the past six weeks.
00:04:28.000 Apparently, she pulled her blue Toyota into a restricted area of the court and filmed and took photos from inside the car as jurors were leaving court.
00:04:35.000 She was adamant she wasn't filming jurors, but waiting to see if Clancy would come out of the building.
00:04:39.000 But then, of course, they looked at her phone and it turns out that she was filming the jurors.
00:04:42.000 The idea is that this was a form of jury intimidation.
00:04:45.000 There is some video of her running out of the courthouse after allegedly filming the jurors.
00:04:54.000 She looks sane and rational.
00:04:58.000 She's smiling and enjoying her life.
00:05:05.000 At least she's having a good time.
00:05:06.000 That's the important thing.
00:05:10.000 So, what happened?
00:05:12.000 Nothing.
00:05:14.000 I see Lindsay and I did see her.
00:05:16.000 She's getting picked up by the van.
00:05:17.000 That's it.
00:05:19.000 Thank you.
00:05:22.000 Good Lord.
00:05:22.000 Good Lord.
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00:06:27.000 Kaylin Bennett.
00:06:28.000 Was on the site talking to female Clancy supporters, and here's what that sounded like.
00:06:35.000 Do you stand with her, yes or no?
00:06:37.000 I don't think she did it.
00:06:38.000 Yes.
00:06:38.000 We feel she's very sleep deprived.
00:06:40.000 Her job as a labor and delivery nurse working night shifts and three children is a lot.
00:06:45.000 A lot.
00:06:46.000 Do you have children?
00:06:47.000 Yes.
00:06:47.000 Would you ever hurt them?
00:06:48.000 Yes and no.
00:06:49.000 As a mom or as a dad, I think that you are not perfect.
00:06:54.000 So, what are the consequences she should face for this?
00:06:56.000 Obviously, she's already in a wheelchair.
00:06:59.000 He should go to jail for negligence.
00:07:01.000 He needs to take care of his kids, and that was his responsibility.
00:07:05.000 Is this any of your girlfriends?
00:07:07.000 This is your girlfriend?
00:07:09.000 I think you have to do some reflection on that.
00:07:12.000 I just have seen a little bit on TikTok of the case.
00:07:15.000 I'm watching it on TikTok or like the live streams.
00:07:18.000 Where are you getting your news that the defense might not be getting theirs?
00:07:22.000 I don't, but I'm TikTok.
00:07:27.000 So, again, things are going well here in the United States, and media is driving all the hot takes.
00:07:33.000 So, one of the hot takes that has become prominent. In the past couple of days, is the hot take that if Lindsey Clancy were black, no one would support her and that she would probably go to jail.
00:07:45.000 And Nancy Mace says if Clancy was black, nobody would support her.
00:07:48.000 Oh, God, we're just going to do this crap now.
00:07:51.000 I'm so tired.
00:07:51.000 I'm so tired.
00:07:53.000 Not just because of the new baby, because of this, because of this garbage.
00:07:57.000 We can, I think, have a discussion about mental health, but that doesn't excuse murder.
00:08:02.000 I mean, she murdered her children.
00:08:04.000 And look, I mean, if you murder someone out of cold blood like that, yeah, you're crazy.
00:08:09.000 You're insane.
00:08:10.000 You're mental.
00:08:12.000 But that doesn't mean everybody who's insane who murders should walk free.
00:08:15.000 And that's what's going to, she's going to walk free because of this pink mob.
00:08:20.000 Basically, they're just you know, it's our FU to whatever.
00:08:23.000 I think it says a lot about our culture, and it's a sad statement of where we are.
00:08:28.000 If she was black, it would be a different situation.
00:08:30.000 Oh, nobody would be supporting her if she were black.
00:08:32.000 These liberal no one would be supporting her if she was black.
00:08:35.000 No, liberal white women aren't going to support a black woman who murdered her kids.
00:08:37.000 There was one in New York that did, um, and uh, just got away with it, who murdered her children in New York.
00:08:42.000 You didn't see the same pink liberal white woman.
00:08:45.000 I don't, I think, I think that the left is inherently racist.
00:08:49.000 That's what I think.
00:08:51.000 Don Lemon is doing the same thing, by the way.
00:08:52.000 Don Lemon says that if Clancy were black, she wouldn't be allowed to say she had mental illness.
00:08:58.000 There has been so much interest in this Lindsey Clancy case.
00:09:02.000 But what I've been wondering, and a lot of folks are wondering, right?
00:09:05.000 All the public sentiment around her and people being sympathetic about her.
00:09:10.000 Okay, that's great.
00:09:11.000 But what if Lindsey Clancy were black?
00:09:13.000 And that's a legitimate question because actually we don't have to imagine it.
00:09:18.000 I talked about this on Hot Topics on my YouTube show this morning because there's already another case.
00:09:22.000 It's Latarsha Sanders.
00:09:23.000 Sanders is a black mother who was convicted of killing two of her children.
00:09:27.000 She had a documented history of serious mental health problems, but that history was never even presented to the jury, and she was sentenced to two life sentences.
00:09:35.000 Now compare that to Lindsay Clancy.
00:09:37.000 Clancy does not deny killing her three children.
00:09:40.000 Her entire defense is centered on severe postpartum psychosis and whether she understood what she was doing.
00:09:46.000 And yes, mental illness should be taken seriously, postpartum psychosis should be taken seriously, but it should have been taken seriously for Latarsha Sanders, too.
00:09:58.000 Well, he says that she wouldn't be allowed to plead not guilty by reason of insanity were she black.
00:10:03.000 Literally this week, a woman is acquitted in the Bronx on similar charges, killing her young kids, two of them, in 2022 while suffering from postpartum psychosis.
00:10:14.000 And the judge ruled that she was mentally ill.
00:10:19.000 Her name is Damone Fleming and she is black.
00:10:21.000 So that's not true.
00:10:22.000 But again, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
00:10:27.000 Now, again, one of the things that's driving the support for Lindsey Clancy here is the basic thesis.
00:10:32.000 Is that postpartum depression and psychosis need to be normalized, apparently for some, all the way up to and including murder?
00:10:37.000 That if somehow a woman suffers from these things, that is not an individual mental issue, that is a societal problem.
00:10:44.000 And again, that comes down to this broad argument that is just wrong.
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