The Ben Shapiro Show - HUGE WIN For Trump SCOTUS

00:00:00.000 A lot of people these days on the supposed right are deeply unhappy with President Trump.

00:00:05.000 Some of them are even saying they regret their vote for President Trump. 1.00

00:00:09.000 These people are idiots. 1.00

00:00:11.000 On the basis of President Trump's astonishingly great Supreme Court alone, they are idiots. 1.00

00:00:15.000 Obviously, President Trump has done a lot of great things. 0.99

00:00:18.000 He arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, wiped out DEI in the executive branch, went after the trans movement, attacked Iran's nuclear and missile capacity, and a lot more.

00:00:18.000 He shut the border.

00:00:26.000 But his greatest legacy by far, his most lasting legacy by far, Will be the astounding Supreme Court that he put into place.

00:00:35.000 They overturned Roe versus Wade. 0.95

00:00:37.000 They allowed states to ban the transgender mutilation of children.

00:00:40.000 They've stood for religious freedom. 0.50

00:00:41.000 And now, in yet another amazingly courageous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot force states to draw racist congressional districts.

00:00:50.000 And Democrats are fighting mad. 0.59

00:00:51.000 Surprise! 0.97

00:00:52.000 If you say we should not draw congressional districts based on race, then you must be the racist.

00:00:59.000 We'll get to all of it. 0.58

00:00:59.000 Plus, Erica Kirk directly taking on Candace Owens at long last, and the Democrats embracing their Nazi standing. 0.58

00:01:05.000 Senate candidate in Maine.

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00:01:14.000 So, President Trump's greatest legacy will be the Supreme Court.

00:01:17.000 Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

00:01:20.000 This Supreme Court is the most constitutionally protective Supreme Court in modern American history by far.

00:01:28.000 And they showed it this week when they ruled that courts can't force states to draw racist congressional districts.

00:01:32.000 So, Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, finally got it right for once by accident.

00:01:36.000 He says this is the Trump court.

00:01:38.000 It's not the Roberts court, which is true because when Justice Roberts was appointed, three of these justices were not on the court.

00:01:44.000 Here is Hakeem Jeffries giving full credit to President Trump.

00:01:46.000 He means to blame President Trump, but he is right.

00:01:49.000 This is President Trump's court.

00:01:50.000 He's the one who created it, and this court is great.

00:01:53.000 That doesn't mean they always rule for President Trump.

00:01:55.000 They don't.

00:01:55.000 But it does mean he gets credit for the fact that this court is fabulous.

00:02:00.000 Now, when this decision came out earlier today, it's an unacceptable decision.

00:02:08.000 But not an unexpected decision.

00:02:11.000 Because this isn't even really the Roberts Court.

00:02:16.000 It's the Trump Court.

00:02:17.000 Yes.

00:02:18.000 And what we would expect from the Trump Court is an effort to continue their scheme to suppress the vote and rig the midterm elections and beyond. 0.99

00:02:31.000 Okay, this is ridiculous, and Democrats are going nuts. 0.99

00:02:34.000 See, here's the thing Democrats think that Americans, by and large, are racist, that white Americans are racist. 1.00

00:02:39.000 So, the government must force white Americans not to be racist by creating racist districts. 0.95

00:02:46.000 Get it?

00:02:46.000 I didn't think so.

00:02:47.000 Basically, they are arguing that if you don't want the government discriminating on the basis of race, you are the real racist.

00:02:53.000 In fact, you must draw congressional districts that are majority minority.

00:02:57.000 You have to do it, or you're doing Jim Crow 2.0.

00:03:01.000 This is what Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, was saying just yesterday.

00:03:04.000 This is somehow a return to Jim Crow.

00:03:06.000 Again, they are saying that if you don't create a congressional district based on race, That's Jim Crow.

00:03:11.000 If you don't create a segregated district, that's Jim Crow.

00:03:16.000 And today we're ramping up our efforts. 0.52

00:03:18.000 We see the need for it just today in today's Supreme Court decision, which was a despicable decision that is a return to Jim Crow, taking decades of hard work, sweat, blood, and tears, and even people dying for the right to vote, to prevent racial discrimination in the right to vote.

00:03:40.000 We see what they're doing in the SAVE Act.

00:03:43.000 Which would disenfranchise 20 million people.

00:03:46.000 And we are fighting that every step of the way.

00:03:50.000 Honestly, this is conspiratorial nonsense. 1.00

00:03:52.000 The idea that white people are trying to stop black people from voting in the United States is ridiculous. 1.00

00:03:56.000 First of all, take Virginia, for example. 0.99

00:03:59.000 The white candidate, Abigail Spanberger, won 90% of the black vote.

00:04:02.000 The black candidate, Winsome Sears, won 90% of the white vote.

00:04:07.000 So it turns out the American people are not nearly as racist as Chuck Schumer wishes they were.

00:04:14.000 So he tweeted out this decision upends half a century of precedent, defies the spirit of the American civil rights movement, and reverses generations of progress toward racial justice.

00:04:24.000 And it shows that Democrats hold 24 seats in a variety of Southern states.

00:04:29.000 And after redistricting, Republicans will gain 12 more seats.

00:04:32.000 And then he added, by some estimates, this decision could lead conservative state legislatures to draw as many as 19 additional seats that favor Republicans in the House.

00:04:40.000 Okay, that is telling on himself.

00:04:41.000 The reason he's upset is not because he believes that black people are discriminated against.

00:04:45.000 It's because black people are disproportionately Democratic voters, and he believes that Democratic seats are going to disappear.

00:04:51.000 That's called normal gerrymandering. 0.82

00:04:53.000 Now, again, gerrymandering has been a part of our process since the very beginning.

00:04:57.000 There's truly no great substitute for gerrymandering, political gerrymandering, where the State legislature or state commission or another body draws the districts within a state.

00:05:07.000 And there's nothing wrong with that.

00:05:09.000 This is why I wasn't complaining when California decided to redistrict.

00:05:13.000 Florida's going to redo it or just did.

00:05:13.000 Texas just did it.

00:05:17.000 And this is the way that states work.

00:05:18.000 And there's nothing illegal about it.

00:05:20.000 It may be a bad thing, but there is no alternative to it.

00:05:23.000 Every alternative that has been tried is a giant fail.

00:05:26.000 But according to the Democrats, if you are not drawing specific black districts, right, they're the ones who want to take race into account. 0.94

00:05:32.000 If you are not drawing specific black districts, this means you are a racist. 0.68

00:05:36.000 And again, Democrats are just telling on themselves. 0.97

00:05:38.000 They believe that government must discriminate on the basis of race to stop those racist Americans.

00:05:45.000 This is their baseline belief system. 0.99

00:05:47.000 Americans are racist, just as racist as they were in 1964. 0.98

00:05:51.000 And therefore, we must have government promoted policies that benefit black people at the expense of other people. 0.97

00:05:57.000 This is why Hakeem Jeffries yesterday was suggesting that affirmative action, equity, inclusion, and also racial tolerance are all gone.

00:06:06.000 Those are not the same thing.

00:06:07.000 Racial tolerance is very, very high in the United States.

00:06:10.000 Which is why you don't need specific government policy in order to promote black people over the racism of white people.

00:06:17.000 Here's Hakeem Jeffries.

00:06:19.000 In the aftermath of the 2008 election, they've tried to do everything that they can to eliminate and erase our journey, our struggle, our march in this country toward a more perfect union.

00:06:37.000 And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone.

00:06:41.000 Diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone, the Voting Rights Act largely gone.

00:06:51.000 But guess what, extremists?

00:06:53.000 We're still here and we're not going anywhere. 0.67

00:06:57.000 Okay, by the way, the fact that black Democrats are still there demonstrates that America is not, in fact, particularly racist.

00:07:03.000 Actually, there's something like 26 majority black districts in the United States, 24 of them are represented by a black person in those districts.

00:07:12.000 As their elected representative.

00:07:14.000 But there are well over 60 black representatives in Congress, which means a lot of white people are voting for a lot of black candidates.

00:07:23.000 I mean, that does not bespeak tremendous American racism.

00:07:27.000 Barack Obama, of course, a beneficiary of the white vote, he comes out and he says, Today's Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities. 0.51

00:07:42.000 So long as they do it under the guise of partisanship rather than explicit racial bias.

00:07:46.000 And as we'll explain in just a second, he's lying.

00:07:49.000 Basically, what the Supreme Court ruled is that you can do normal partisan gerrymandering. 0.99

00:07:54.000 You just can't decide that you're going to hurt black people because they are black.

00:08:00.000 Obama says this serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

00:08:12.000 The good news is such setbacks can be overcome, but that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers.

00:08:20.000 Now, again, his tweet is self defeating.

00:08:23.000 If it turns out black citizens can mobilize and vote in record numbers, you do not have systemic barriers to voting in the United States, do you?

00:08:30.000 Which is what the VRA was designed to stop, the Voting Rights Act. 0.87

00:08:33.000 All right, coming up, Kamala Harris sounds off on the Supreme Court ruling, plus Candace Owens getting slapped down by Erica Kirk.

00:08:40.000 And we get to Graham Plattner, that's the Nazi tattoo guy being embraced by the Democratic Party a lot to come first.

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00:09:51.000 Meanwhile, Kamal Harris again, there is a conspiracy theory on the right that suggests that voter fraud is deciding our elections.

00:09:58.000 That there are millions of people who are voting fraudulently, which is not true.

00:10:01.000 And there is a similar countervailing conspiracy theory on the left that vast voter suppression is happening in the United States, and that is also not true.

00:10:09.000 In fact, in several elections in the recent past, the black turnout rate was higher than the comparative white turnout rate.

00:10:18.000 But here is Kamala Harris doing this routine also. 1.00

00:10:20.000 Again, everyone's a victim.

00:10:23.000 No, they have had an agenda that has been in place for decades. 0.99

00:10:29.000 To get to this very moment and beyond, which is to make it so difficult for the people to vote that they won't because they know the people are not stupid and see the corrupt, incompetent, callous administration that is in the White House right now. 0.99

00:10:54.000 And they're so damn scared. 0.99

00:10:57.000 They're so damn scared of losing the midterm.

00:11:01.000 And by the way, we should mention that the biggest beneficiary of racialized voting in the United States was and is Kamala Harris.

00:11:07.000 Right now, Kamala Harris is the most likely candidate to win the Democratic nomination.

00:11:11.000 Why? 1.00

00:11:12.000 I mean, she just lost to Donald Trump. 1.00

00:11:13.000 She's a terrible candidate. 0.96

00:11:14.000 Why? 1.00

00:11:15.000 The answer is, as everyone knows, that she is going to wildly outperform with black voters in South Carolina. 0.99

00:11:20.000 That is racialized voting. 0.97

00:11:22.000 That is what it is. 0.96

00:11:23.000 I mean, she does this routine where she kind of goes into a particular way of speaking, she's kind of cosplaying, and then she'll drop out of it.

00:11:31.000 Here we go.

00:11:32.000 I'm a black woman in America. 0.69

00:11:33.000 So, I mean, you know, I mean, some people are just like, oh, but you're a congresswoman.

00:11:41.000 I'm a black woman first.

00:11:43.000 And so, you know, the level of disrespect that is continuously lobbed against us as black women, you know, for me, I'm like, wait a minute now, I am one of the 535 most powerful people in this country.

00:12:00.000 And for some reason, you think we're on the same level, but you're going to disrespect me?

00:12:04.000 Like, it's not going to happen.

00:12:05.000 It's not going to happen.

00:12:06.000 It's not going to happen.

00:12:10.000 Okay. 1.00

00:12:10.000 She is not lacking respect because she's a black woman. 1.00

00:12:13.000 She's lacking respect because she was a terrible candidate. 1.00

00:12:15.000 I should point out at this point that her district in Texas was only 40% black, and she ended up as a representative anyway. 1.00

00:12:22.000 And actually, when she was running for Senate, she won 45% of the predominantly white counties.

00:12:28.000 So clearly, America is deeply racist.

00:12:31.000 Rashida Tlaib, again, another demonstration of how terribly racist America is that we can have a terrorist stand like Rashida Tlaib in Congress. 1.00

00:12:39.000 She wants to expand the court and impeach the justices. 1.00

00:12:43.000 You know, Governor J.B. Pritzker, he's saying that Republicans are incapable of winning majorities, so they're making it harder to vote. 0.98

00:12:52.000 The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.

00:12:55.000 I'll just say it Donald Trump and Republicans can't win majorities at the ballot box this November, so they're going back to a playbook as old as this country, making it harder for black and brown Americans to vote.

00:13:09.000 On every front, Trump and his allies are assaulting the institutions of our democracy.

00:13:15.000 Enough is enough.

00:13:19.000 Okay, so what exactly did the Supreme Court do here that is?

00:13:21.000 Totally setting off the Democrats.

00:13:23.000 Why are they going so insane? 0.82

00:13:25.000 Why are they going so nuts?

00:13:26.000 Okay, in order to understand what was the actual case here, there was a redistricting that was forced by a court in Louisiana.

00:13:34.000 And that redistricting is insane.

00:13:37.000 So I want to show you some maps.

00:13:40.000 Okay, the first map here was the original map of Louisiana's district.

00:13:44.000 Okay, this is the map of Louisiana's districts.

00:13:47.000 And what you see here is that there were six congressional districts here in Louisiana.

00:13:52.000 And what you have is a first district that is sort of disparate, and a second district that is sort of disparate, a sixth that is somewhat more cohesive, a third that is cohesive, a fourth and a fifth that are somewhat cohesive.

00:14:05.000 That's what you're looking at when you look at this map. 0.83

00:14:07.000 You have a sort of salamander like majority black district.

00:14:11.000 That would be the second congressional district in Louisiana.

00:14:13.000 That was Louisiana's map from 2013 to 2022.

00:14:16.000 Then a court ruled that they couldn't use that map.

00:14:21.000 So they drew another map.

00:14:23.000 Okay, and that map again, the congressional districts look pretty cohesive.

00:14:27.000 What you have there, and again, the way that the congressional districts are split in Louisiana is fairly even.

00:14:35.000 The Louisiana districts are not, it's not like all six districts are represented by Republicans.

00:14:40.000 That's not the way that it works.

00:14:41.000 But even if it were to work that way, that would be a partisan gerrymandering.

00:14:44.000 Now we get to the actual map.

00:14:46.000 This is the map that was mandated by the court.

00:14:50.000 Okay, the map that was mandated by the court is totally crazy because here you have.

00:14:54.000 A congressional district that stretches all the way from New Orleans to Shreveport, which is like 150 miles away.

00:15:02.000 It spans basically the entire width of the state. 0.99

00:15:07.000 The district looks ridiculous and crazy. 0.97

00:15:09.000 It's not cohesive at all. 1.00

00:15:10.000 It carves all the way through the heart of the state, like through the middle of the state, in order to unite black populations in places that are 100 miles apart.

00:15:17.000 And they did that because the court said you must have a second majority black district. 0.64

00:15:21.000 So you must discriminate.

00:15:24.000 Some white voters sued, and they said this violates the Equal Protection Clause, right?

00:15:28.000 The Equal Protection Clause says you're not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race. 0.99

00:15:33.000 And the Supreme Court said that's right. 0.94

00:15:35.000 You're not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race.

00:15:37.000 If you draw a district just to get black voters in it, you can't do that.

00:15:42.000 And the defense against that was no, no, no.

00:15:44.000 The Voting Rights Act says that you must do that in order so that you're not watering down black votes.

00:15:50.000 So there were basically three interlinked questions here in this particular case.

00:15:53.000 First, did that 2024 congressional map violate the Equal Protection Clause as a racial gerrymander?

00:16:01.000 And the court found yes.

00:16:02.000 Second, can compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act be a compelling interest that justified intentional race based redistricting?

00:16:11.000 And the answer is yes, but only very narrowly.

00:16:13.000 So, Section 2 has to be very narrowly applied.

00:16:15.000 Like, when there's intent to draw a congressional map to harm black people, and that's the open intent of the thing, then you can invoke Section 2.

00:16:23.000 When does Section 2 require redistricting?

00:16:26.000 Only when circumstances create a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred.

00:16:34.000 So, Justice Alito is writing.

00:16:35.000 He was joined by all the conservative justices.

00:16:37.000 Kagan dissented, and she was joined by Sotomayor and Jackson.

00:16:40.000 So, Again, just to go through the decision, the 15th Amendment provides that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

00:16:53.000 And Section 2 of the 15th Amendment authorizes Congress to enact appropriate legislation to enforce that amendment.

00:16:59.000 Okay, so the 1965 Voting Rights Act comes about.

00:17:04.000 And there are a couple of sections that theoretically implicate redistricting and how districts are drawn.

00:17:09.000 One is Section 5.

00:17:10.000 So Section 5 originally had rules.

00:17:13.000 About what was called preclearance.

00:17:15.000 If you were in a historically discriminatory part of the United States, the Jim Crow part of the United States, you actually had to preclear your maps with the federal government in order to show that you weren't discriminating.

00:17:25.000 And in 2013, in a case called Shelby County versus Holder, the Supreme Court found hey, look at the calendar.

00:17:31.000 It's now 2013, it is no longer 1965.

00:17:35.000 And therefore, many of the qualifications that were being used to say which parts of the United States had to engage in preclearance.

00:17:44.000 They were no longer appropriate.

00:17:45.000 And so Section 5 preclearance was no longer forced.

00:17:48.000 Now, what you will notice is that in the aftermath of Section 5 going away, there were still a lot of black representatives in the United States from the South.

00:17:57.000 That map that Chuck Schumer was showing earlier of the map of congressional districts in 2024 showed a lot of Democrat political districts in the South.

00:18:07.000 That was after Section 5 of the VRA was basically ruled to be non applicable.

00:18:12.000 Okay, so now there is an attempt to invoke Section 2.

00:18:16.000 Of the Voting Rights Act.

00:18:17.000 So, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act says no voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any state or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

00:18:32.000 So, as you may notice, there's nothing in there about redistricting.

00:18:35.000 What that's really talking about mostly is things like poll taxes or literacy tests or things that are designed to get black people not to vote.

00:18:43.000 And again, the Voting Rights Act was necessary because from the end of the Civil War to basically the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60s, There were heavy attempts by various Jim Crow states to stop black people from activating politically.

00:18:57.000 And that included discriminatory tests designed to stop black people from voting.

00:19:00.000 That's why the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed.

00:19:05.000 And so that set up some elements of the law in both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act that would seem to be facially violative of the Constitution of the United States.

00:19:14.000 It's a point Christopher Caldwell has made, convincingly, in my view.

00:19:18.000 There are elements, for example, of the Civil Rights Act that pretty clearly Discriminate against private business owners, for example, in a way that would be unconstitutional, but the CRA basically overrules that.

00:19:28.000 And the VRA gets involved in what normally would be state matters in order to enforce the 15th Amendment.

00:19:34.000 Okay, so how about redistricting?

00:19:36.000 So there is a case called Gingles from 1986, which set out a four part test to prove vote dilution.

00:19:43.000 Okay, so vote dilution is the idea that the Voting Rights Act can stop redistricting that dilutes the black vote. 0.66

00:19:52.000 So the example that Elena Kagan uses is let's say that you have a circle shaped black population in terms of its sort of demographic location inside a square sized state. 0.55

00:20:04.000 So, you have the circle and then you have the square. 0.87

00:20:07.000 Okay.

00:20:08.000 And inside that black circle, you would have a group of people voting for a particular candidate. 0.90

00:20:16.000 And so, what the state does in order to water down the black vote is they say, We don't want black people to have that much autonomy. 0.92

00:20:22.000 So, we are just going to carve the state into four separate parts and we are going to dilute the black vote so that 25% of each part of that circle goes into a broader square. 0.52

00:20:33.000 That would be vote dilution. 0.97

00:20:33.000 Right. 0.97

00:20:35.000 Well, according to the Gingles precedent, You have to show that a minority group is sufficiently large and geographically compact and politically cohesive, and that that's why it's being divided. 0.52

00:20:45.000 It must also demonstrate the white majority votes sufficiently as a block to defeat the minority's preferred candidate, and that the process, based on the totality of the circumstances, is not equally open to minority voters.

00:20:55.000 Okay, well, those factors are not actually present in this particular case in Louisiana.

00:21:00.000 First of all, the district that is being drawn, again, stretches like 150 miles.

00:21:05.000 It is certainly not geographically compact and politically cohesive.

00:21:11.000 And if the idea is that just because black voters vote disproportionately Democrat and white voters in Louisiana vote disproportionately Republican, that you must therefore draw districts for Democrats or you're racist, no.

00:21:23.000 That is just called political districting.

00:21:25.000 So Justice Alito wrote the opinion of the court.

00:21:28.000 He says Section 2 of the VRA was designed to enforce the Constitution, not collide with it.

00:21:33.000 Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this court's Section 2 precedents in a way that forces states to engage in the very race based discrimination the Constitution forbids.

00:21:42.000 He's saying here that sometimes a court will force you to draw a black majority district, which is in fact racist and violative of the Equal Rights Amendment of the Constitution, 15th Amendment.

00:21:55.000 If the court is forcing you to draw a majority black district, that is in fact racist and that violates the Constitution.

00:22:02.000 So the court held that Section 2 imposes liability only when the evidence supports a strong inference that the state intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.

00:22:13.000 When a state defends a districting scheme on the ground it was drawn for partisan purposes, plaintiffs have a special burden to overcome.

00:22:20.000 To prevail, the plaintiff must disentangle race from politics by proving that the former drove a district's lines.

00:22:27.000 So, in other words, if you draw districts because you want to maintain Mike Johnson's district in Louisiana, that's fine. 0.52

00:22:34.000 And if it turns out that maintaining that district meant a not majority black district, okay, that's normal. 0.79

00:22:40.000 That's how politics works. 0.99

00:22:43.000 And again, one of the things that Alito points out is that the calendar says 2026, not 1966. 0.52

00:22:47.000 Quote, Vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, where many Section 2 suits arise.

00:22:54.000 At the time of the act's passage, the nation had faced nearly a century of entrenched racial discrimination in voting, an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution.

00:23:07.000 So things have changed. 0.72

00:23:09.000 Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate, even turning out at higher rates than white voters in two of the five most recent presidential elections nationwide and in Louisiana.

00:23:21.000 Also, a full blown two party system has emerged in the states where Section 2 suits are the most common.

00:23:26.000 Gingles arose, the original Supreme Court case you mentioned, in the context of a one party system in which black and white voters had starkly different voting patterns despite their affiliation within the same party.

00:23:37.000 In the area involved in Gingles, an overwhelming majority of white voters did not vote for any black candidate in the Democratic Party primary elections, which for all practical purposes selected the candidates who would ultimately obtain office.

00:23:47.000 And in the general, white voters in heavily Democratic areas often ranked black candidates last among Democrats.

00:23:54.000 Such intra party disparities showed black voters had less opportunity to elect their preferred candidate because of race.

00:23:59.000 Not because of partisanship.

00:24:00.000 So he's saying those were intra democratic fights.

00:24:04.000 Okay, so the majority decision says that basically Section 2 has become obviated by racial progress in the United States.

00:24:13.000 Justice Thomas, being the most strict constructionist on the bench, says basically Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act should not have applied to districting at all.

00:24:23.000 He says, as I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.

00:24:29.000 The relevant text prohibits states from imposing or implying a voting qualification prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure in a manner that results in denial or abridgment of the right to vote based on race.

00:24:40.000 This does not include a state's choice of one districting scheme over another.

00:24:44.000 Okay, so Elena Kagan, in her dissent, she says, no, no, no, this is racism.

00:24:49.000 And she says, this part's pretty funny, actually.

00:24:52.000 She says, in the states where that law continues to matter, the states still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting, minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process.

00:25:03.000 Now, I would just like to point out at this point that if you're talking about residential segregation, it turns out that actually, actually, some of the most segregated parts of the United States are in areas that Elena Kagan would leave alone under the VRA.

00:25:18.000 Here is a map from the left wing Brookings Institute.

00:25:21.000 Brookings is a liberal institution of the most and least segregated areas in the United States.

00:25:28.000 Areas of low segregation are predominantly located in the Southwest and in places like Texas and some of the rest of the South.

00:25:36.000 Some of the places that have the highest levels of segregation are the Northeast and the Rust Belt, which are presumably not the areas that Elena Kagan thinks are racist.

00:25:44.000 In fact, according to William Fry, demographer at Brookings, the most segregated city in the U.S. is Milwaukee.

00:25:51.000 The next most segregated, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh.

00:25:57.000 The most segregated city, by the way, between whites and Hispanics is, wait for it, Los Angeles.

00:26:03.000 So what's actually happening here is that Democrats, as per their usual arrangement, Are trying to claim that normal politics is racism.

00:26:12.000 And what they're really upset about, of course, is that more and more people are moving to the South, which means more Southern congressional districts, which means more Republicans.

00:26:20.000 Here is a map of projected 2030 congressional reapportionment.

00:26:24.000 This is based on population trajectory.

00:26:28.000 And what you see is massive gains in the South.

00:26:31.000 You see Texas picking up another four seats and Florida picking up another three.

00:26:37.000 You can see North Carolina picking up another two.

00:26:43.000 The Southwest picks up some.

00:26:44.000 California loses four.

00:26:46.000 The areas that are bleeding votes are the Democrat areas.

00:26:49.000 The places that are gaining votes are the Republican areas.

00:26:51.000 So, total numbers red states are likely to gain eight to 10 congressional seats by 2030.

00:26:56.000 That also, by the way, means another 10 electoral votes in the presidential election.

00:27:00.000 So, what's actually happening here, as per our usual arrangement, is Democrats are claiming that them losing politically is America being racist or the Supreme Court being racist.

00:27:09.000 And they insist.

00:27:10.000 That we impose actual racist top down policy in order to protect them politically.

00:27:15.000 That's what's actually happening here.

00:27:16.000 Now, what's really amazing here is that President Trump, who again has been widely derided by the left, remember, Trump is trying to do Jim Crow 2.0, according to the Democrats.

00:27:26.000 Well, it turns out that Trump's approval rating among black Americans is actually at an all time high.

00:27:31.000 Doesn't mean that he has 40%, but these numbers are pretty astounding.

00:27:37.000 I think what we're seeing right now in the numbers is President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away at the long term advantage that Democrats have had with black voters with African Americans. 0.67

00:27:47.000 You can see it right here.

00:27:48.000 Look, Trump's approval among African Americans at this point in term one.

00:27:51.000 He was at 12%.

00:27:52.000 You know, he's been losing ground with a lot of people.

00:27:55.000 He's gaining.

00:27:56.000 He's gaining ground with African Americans.

00:27:58.000 He's up to 16% at this point.

00:28:00.000 And you say this isn't that big of a shift.

00:28:02.000 But I will tell you, Republicans absolutely love this shift that's going on because Democrats have had such a long term advantage.

00:28:09.000 The fact that he's actually gaining ground versus where he was in term number one, this has major implications.

00:28:18.000 So it turns out Democrats shouting racist, racist over and over and over is not actually winning over additional black voters, it's alienating some black voters.

00:28:25.000 That is not a shock.

00:28:26.000 Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas, a Republican, he was asked about the supposedly racist Supreme Court hearing.

00:28:33.000 He's like, listen, I'm not here because I'm black.

00:28:34.000 I'm here because I'm good, which, by the way, is how we ought to think as Americans, shouldn't we?

00:28:41.000 There's been a lot of talk how there won't be any black Republican members in the new term.

00:28:45.000 What do you make of that?

00:28:45.000 Yeah.

00:28:47.000 Nothing.

00:28:48.000 I don't understand how that's relevant.

00:28:49.000 Is there a problem with recruitment?

00:28:51.000 I don't think there's a problem with anything.

00:28:53.000 I'm not here because I'm black.

00:28:55.000 I am here.

00:28:56.000 Because I'm a qualified representative for Congressional District 38, and the American people choose who they want to choose.

00:29:02.000 And the one thing I don't want to get into is this game of race bait all day, every day.

00:29:07.000 If there's four, if there's 10, if there's none, we are talking about who is the best person that is best qualified to fill a seat, regardless of the way that they look. 0.85

00:29:17.000 I mean, that is absolutely right.

00:29:19.000 And that's what Republicans think.

00:29:20.000 But Democrats, of course, think that if not enough people of a particular melanin level are in Congress, that somehow this is reflective of deep and abiding American racism.

00:29:30.000 Okay, now, again.

00:29:30.000 There are many Republicans right now, not a huge number, but some who are off the Trump train for a variety of reasons.

00:29:38.000 But let me just remind you none of this good stuff would be happening absent President Trump.

00:29:41.000 None of it. 0.80

00:29:42.000 You would have preferred Kamala Harris?

00:29:43.000 Is that what you would prefer? 0.80

00:29:44.000 One person who apparently would have is Candace Owens. 1.00

00:29:47.000 All righty, coming up, we'll get to Erica Kirk finally tearing into Candace Owens.

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00:31:45.000 So, Candace, she has said that she.

00:31:47.000 Regurts her vote for Trump.

00:31:49.000 Listen, we all have some regrets in life.

00:31:52.000 But in today's news surrounding Candace Owens, Erica Kirk has now come out and condemned Candace directly after months of Candace implying, openly stating that Erica was complicit in Charlie's death.

00:32:08.000 Finally, Erica Kirk came out and said something. 0.96

00:32:10.000 And by the way, I have to say, as somebody who was saying from literally the first moment this sort of crap started circulating, that it's garbage and terrible and horrible and evil what people are doing to Erica. 0.73

00:32:21.000 As somebody who laments the fact that that's somehow a controversial statement in some right wing circles, and that where are her allies? 0.97

00:32:29.000 The fact that she has to come out and defend herself here from this nonsense is indicative of a moral collapse on the part of the pseudo right. 0.87

00:32:38.000 It's disgusting that Erica has to somehow come out and defend herself from bizarre charges that she's involved in a cover up of the murder of her husband.

00:32:47.000 She's the mother of his kids. 0.99

00:32:50.000 It's disgusting. 1.00

00:32:51.000 Disgusting that she has to do this. 1.00

00:32:54.000 Well, yesterday, in a much noted internet moment, she called out Candace Owens for her disgusting conspiracism. 1.00

00:33:02.000 Here she was.

00:33:04.000 Every morning I wake up to a new headline lying about me.

00:33:10.000 I have comedians dressing up in whiteface.

00:33:15.000 I have people saying I'm not fit to be CEO.

00:33:18.000 And I have Candace Owens claiming I murdered my husband.

00:33:22.000 And the list goes on and on.

00:33:24.000 And on and on.

00:33:29.000 And as she points out, she is now under a security threat because of this sort of stuff, which of course is true.

00:33:34.000 I mean, by the way, I know this kind of stuff is true because I know where my security threats come from as well.

00:33:39.000 Here is Erica saying that if you keep stripping people of their humanity, then this is where you end up.

00:33:46.000 And this culture we're living in absorbs disagreement as a form of personal betrayal, it turns having an opposing viewpoint.

00:33:57.000 Into a moral crime worthy of punishment.

00:34:00.000 And here's what I've realized through all of this truly, having lived through quite literal hell these past seven months, if you strip someone of their humanity long enough, you will arrive at the chilling conclusion that they don't deserve to exist at all.

00:34:19.000 So Erica finally spoke out. 1.00

00:34:22.000 And then Candace denied everything because she's a coward. 0.54

00:34:26.000 So she put out a tweet Very uncomfortable to watch. 0.88

00:34:28.000 Painful prompt to read, a speech clearly written by someone else, objectively terrible.

00:34:32.000 So they will now pay for people to tell us otherwise.

00:34:34.000 Also, of everything I've ever said about Erica, she chooses to respond to something I never said.

00:34:38.000 They always lie.

00:34:41.000 I'm not sure there's a bigger liar in American life than Candace Owens. 0.86

00:34:44.000 I mean, truly. 1.00

00:34:45.000 An astonishing liar.

00:34:46.000 So it turns out that a person named Aubrey Leitch was texting with Candace Owens, and Andrew Colvitt released these texts. 0.84

00:34:57.000 And in the text, she literally accuses Erica Kirk of murder.

00:35:03.000 So, this person, Aubrey Lage, and Candace were texting each other during the. 0.94

00:35:08.000 You remember part of the saga is when Erica was forced basically to go and sit down with Candace while she was making these crazy accusations.

00:35:16.000 This is just before the TPUSA event at the end of last year.

00:35:22.000 And this person wrote, I assume she's coming to you.

00:35:24.000 This is actually so wild.

00:35:26.000 And Candace said, and she has apparently been preparing since yesterday evening.

00:35:30.000 And this Aubrey Lache person said, Been preparing explanations for all the lies they have told, I assume.

00:35:34.000 If COVID and her have any common sense, they see the online narrative and understand that their support is fading very rapidly.

00:35:39.000 And Candace said, She is coming here.

00:35:40.000 And yes, absurd.

00:35:41.000 They need to prepare.

00:35:44.000 And then this Aubrey Lage person wrote back, geez, that's actually crazy.

00:35:46.000 I'm so intrigued to hear how it goes.

00:35:48.000 I got your back, go Max.

00:35:50.000 And she wrote back, I'm asking everything.

00:35:52.000 First question, why did you murder your husband? 1.00

00:35:57.000 So, yes, Candace is a liar. 0.91

00:35:59.000 And here is Candace making a wild series of accusations, ranging from complicity of Erica in the murder to all sorts of other accusations surrounding Erica. 1.00

00:36:08.000 She is truly an awful human being. 0.99

00:36:12.000 And honestly, If you are an audience member of Candace who foments this sort of evil, because she makes money off of you, the way she makes money is by spewing trash into the public sphere, and then she makes money off it through advertising. 1.00

00:36:29.000 That's how she does it. 0.80

00:36:30.000 So if she's monetizing your gullibility, then you are complicit in this nonsense. 1.00

00:36:37.000 Here is Candace.

00:36:41.000 That right there is why it is impossible for me to think that Erica Kirk is not complicit somehow.

00:36:47.000 Straight to jail, straight to jail for questioning, at least, Erica.

00:36:52.000 I have seen enough, ladies and gentlemen.

00:36:55.000 I've seen enough. 1.00

00:36:56.000 Erica Kirk should be dragged into a police precinct for questioning.

00:36:59.000 Like I said, the amount of evidence that is now piling up, I would say against Erica Kirk, is almost akin to an NBC Dateline episode.

00:37:11.000 I don't want to say anything that's controversial.

00:37:13.000 She did it, but I don't want to.

00:37:16.000 It just screams at me that this was an inside job.

00:37:19.000 It reeks of an inside job.

00:37:21.000 That is how I feel.

00:37:25.000 But she never said any of that.

00:37:27.000 She never said it.

00:37:28.000 By the way, she lies about a lot of stuff, as it turns out.

00:37:30.000 Most recently, she lied about the fact that her husband was allegedly arrested for a DUI in August 2023.

00:37:38.000 She said it wasn't true.

00:37:40.000 It turns out that there was a police report showing that her husband, George, who is a British immigrant who now has dual citizenship, at the time I don't believe he did, that he was found on the side of a highway, more alcohol than human.

00:37:50.000 Apparently, his Blood alcohol level was 0.261, which is 3.3 times the legal limit somewhere in that neighborhood.

00:37:59.000 Who's also wandering on the side of the road in possession of a firearm.

00:38:02.000 She lied about that, too.

00:38:03.000 She said that never happened.

00:38:04.000 Apparently, that police report is now widely available.

00:38:08.000 Also, a member of Charlie's security team, the head of his security, has now filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace for saying that he and Erica conspired to murder Charlie.

00:38:18.000 According to the lawsuit Candace Owens, a wealthy, influential, and well known conspiracy theorist with a massive social media following, falsely accused. Brian Harpole of conspiring to assassinate Charlie Kirk.

00:38:29.000 She did so in coordination with Mitchell Snow, who fed Owens a completely and obviously fabricated story that Brian Harpole met with Army intelligence officers and Erica Kirk, Charlie's now widow, at Fort Huachuca to plan the murder.

00:38:41.000 Unsurprisingly, this lawsuit follows.

00:38:43.000 There are six counts in the lawsuit, ranging from defamation to false light invasion of privacy to civil conspiracy to the fame to aiding and abetting defamation.

00:38:53.000 He's demanding a jury trial. 0.98

00:38:56.000 Again, the fact that Erica has been forced to now defend herself, the fact there's a lawsuit about all of this, it doesn't just show that Candace Owens is quite a terrible human being, which clearly she is.

00:39:05.000 It also shows the absolute unbelievable cowardice of so many people who have been hugging her for the last eight months.

00:39:13.000 True cowardice. 0.98

00:39:14.000 And if you think that the sort of vile, toxic garbage that she's been spewing into the public sphere has no impact, know that the left has picked it up as well. 1.00

00:39:24.000 Jennifer Welch. 1.00

00:39:25.000 Who again is sort of, I have no idea why this person is in some way popular with the left, but they pick weird models for sure. 1.00

00:39:33.000 Jennifer Welch dressed up like Erica Kirk to tell Erica Kirk that she is a racist fascist because Erica Kirk is pursuing the great crime of defending herself from charges that she murdered her husband or is complicit in a cover up of said murder. 1.00

00:39:50.000 Make sure you like and subscribe.

00:39:51.000 Make sure you pre order my book, which I would like to dedicate to. 1.00

00:39:56.000 One Erica Kirk, not today, fascist. 0.97

00:39:59.000 And Erica, the person that I'm talking about today, fascist, is you. 0.99

00:40:04.000 You. 1.00

00:40:05.000 You were the racist fascist about whom I am talking to. 1.00

00:40:08.000 The work that your husband's company and that you were doing to America's youth to make them racist, narrow minded, hateful, and bat crazy is an absolute disgrace. 1.00

00:40:20.000 And thank you for the outfit, hashtag inspo. 0.99

00:40:23.000 Thank you very much for that.

00:40:24.000 It's been a lot of fun.

00:40:25.000 Make sure you subscribe to our channel.

00:40:29.000 Make sure you pre order my bag, not absolutely.

00:40:32.000 You're welcome for the Ugly Caddiness, but you're making money off of it.

00:40:35.000 I'm serious. 1.00

00:40:38.000 Disgusting. 0.99

00:40:39.000 Disgusting stuff, obviously. 1.00

00:40:41.000 But this is also who the Democrats have become.

00:40:44.000 So, one of the factors that's fascinating about the midterm elections is that apparently, while President Trump's approval is down, Republicans remain somewhat steady with likely midterm voters as well as GOP voters, according to a brand new Harvard Harris poll.

00:40:59.000 Again, what you see here is that while President Trump is at 42% overall, and again, that is not some sort of kind of gigantic shock.

00:41:08.000 He's been in the mid 40s for months and months at this point.

00:41:10.000 This is his lowest point, but it is not wildly lower than he has been previously in this Harvard Harris poll.

00:41:16.000 It turns out that when it comes to midterm voters and GOP voters, he's basically where he was.

00:41:26.000 Nothing has really changed all that much.

00:41:29.000 And part of that is because Democrats are largely disliked.

00:41:33.000 It's also because Americans actually agree with President Trump about our interests in the Middle East.

00:41:38.000 So they're upset more about inflation than they are actually about, say, the war in Iran.

00:41:42.000 48% of Americans say that inflation and affordability is their number one issue.

00:41:48.000 Foreign affairs is 2%.

00:41:50.000 2%.

00:41:51.000 So naturally, if they believe that foreign affairs is impacting inflation, they're not going to like what's going on.

00:41:56.000 But to pretend that they are somehow on the other side of the war is wrong.

00:41:59.000 They are not. 0.60

00:42:01.000 According to the same Harvard Harris poll, 74% of Americans believe that it's in America's interest to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

00:42:10.000 66% of Americans believe it's in America's interest to restrain the global influence of China and Russia.

00:42:19.000 Meanwhile, in the primaries, JD Vance still has a strong lead among Republicans.

00:42:26.000 He's clocking in at 48% to 18% for Don Jr., who, of course, is sort of just a proxy for President Trump.

00:42:32.000 Marco Rubio at 16%, Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, at 9%.

00:42:36.000 Tucker Carlson stuck down there at 4%.

00:42:39.000 Meanwhile, among Democrats, Kamala Harris is up to 50%, Gavin Newsom at 22%.

00:42:44.000 Pretty astonishing numbers there for the candidate who lost to Donald Trump.

00:42:48.000 Now, the Democrats have decided that the only way to win is to go more and more radical, which is totally insane.

00:42:54.000 Jan Favreau, who you'll remember just a couple of weeks ago, I know Jan, he's a likable enough fellow, but I don't know what he thinks he's doing here.

00:43:02.000 Aside from hanging out with Hassan Piker while Hassan Piker was hugging Hamas, now he is grilling the DNC chair Ken Martin, suggesting that the Democrats have to move further and further and further to the left.

00:43:14.000 That's the only way to win, apparently.

00:43:17.000 I understand there are lessons.

00:43:19.000 But those are not the full report.

00:43:21.000 Why not release the full report?

00:43:23.000 What's in the report that you wouldn't want to publicize?

00:43:25.000 Well, first off, yeah, there's no smoking gun in the report.

00:43:28.000 And I know that's what everyone's so eager to learn.

00:43:31.000 The smoking gun.

00:43:32.000 Guess what, John?

00:43:33.000 But if there's no smoking gun, why wouldn't you just release it then?

00:43:37.000 Because we want to keep the focus on the lessons.

00:43:39.000 Because what ends up happening here is that people, of course, want to weaponize the report in a way to look backwards, to point fingers, place blame in a way that actually doesn't keep us focused on the upcoming election.

00:43:51.000 But instead, the navel gazing of focusing backwards actually takes us backwards.

00:43:57.000 We're 189 days from this election, John.

00:44:01.000 Okay, so what is John Favreau's actual recommendation?

00:44:04.000 That the Democratic Party needs to join up with the Hassan Pikers and also with the Grant Platner.

00:44:10.000 So you'll remember that Grant Platner is the main Senate Democratic candidate with the Nazi tattoo, like the actual literal Nazi tattoo, who had appeared on Nazi podcasts as well.

00:44:22.000 Well, now Janet Mills. who had been basically talked into running for the Senate by the Democratic Party in order to take out Susan Collins.

00:44:28.000 She suspended her campaign for Senate on Thursday.

00:44:32.000 Graham Platner, who cosplays as a blue collar dude, he is now going to win that primary.

00:44:39.000 And John Favreau is pleased with this.

00:44:41.000 Graham Platner isn't just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins.

00:44:43.000 He's a good, decent man who struggled and grown and is always trying to do better. 0.83

00:44:47.000 Oh, that's what a Nazi tattoo is. 0.78

00:44:48.000 Struggled and grown is it? 0.77

00:44:49.000 By the way, that Nazi tattoo was on him until literally this race. 0.89

00:44:53.000 He was fine with it. 0.87

00:44:54.000 Until like this precise moment in time.

00:44:57.000 I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces.

00:45:03.000 Clearly, that's what so many people in Maine have done from all different walks of life and political persuasions.

00:45:09.000 I'm just going to point out now that John Favreau in 2002 literally tweeted, Let me know when a far lefty candidate appears with a Nazi sympathizer and we can chat.

00:45:19.000 I'm letting you know right now, John.

00:45:22.000 I'm going to let you know right now, actually, like this moment.

00:45:27.000 Meanwhile, Here was Graham Plattner.

00:45:32.000 You know, here is Graham Plattner saying that the DNC has not contacted, and Jon Stewart being like, no, the DNC must contact you.

00:45:32.000 That was in 2022.

00:45:40.000 You are our future.

00:45:41.000 You're our future.

00:45:43.000 Here's the thing the same Democratic Party that thinks that white people are racist, this is one of the reasons they think that Graham Plattner is like the white people talker.

00:45:51.000 They think that he is the spokesperson for Democrat white people. 0.88

00:45:55.000 Because if white people are kind of Nazis, then maybe if we run some dude with a Nazi tattoo who cosplays a Gene wearing blue collar dude, even though he's kind of wealthy. 0.93

00:46:04.000 Then maybe that'll win over the white people in Maine. 0.98

00:46:07.000 Susan Collins is going to retain this seat.

00:46:09.000 I'm just, that's my prediction.

00:46:10.000 Susan Collins will continue to maintain the seat and Graham Platinum will lose.

00:46:13.000 But the Democratic Party will keep digging down this rabbit hole.

00:46:17.000 Here is Jon Stewart.

00:46:20.000 Past couple months, though, there has been more reach out from, I would say, more kind of like establishment folks.

00:46:27.000 However, however, and this is the important part, not from like, The, not from like the DSCC, not from the DNC, like the, like nobody in the places of power remains interested.

00:46:40.000 But they're lost, dude.

00:46:41.000 Like they're, I hate it so bad.

00:46:43.000 They're lost.

00:46:45.000 And the thing that bothers me the most isn't like, I'm not asking for you to be my friend.

00:46:52.000 I'm just, but you should be curious because I'm pulling 40 points ahead.

00:46:59.000 I mean, we know why you're pulling 40 points ahead because primary voters tend to favor the more extreme candidate with the more colorful rhetoric.

00:47:05.000 That would be the reason.

00:47:07.000 Meanwhile, mainstream Democrats continue to try and hug Graham Platner with the most, I mean, it's awkward hugging, really awkward.

00:47:14.000 Senator Chris Van Hollen, truly a dullard from Maryland, he says, That Platner is going to grab the attention of blue collar voters because he wears a sweatshirt, gang.

00:47:25.000 In my view, we need somebody who will shake things up.

00:47:29.000 And Platner has clearly proven himself to be somebody who can, you know, grab the attention of a lot of voters and not just Democratic primary voters.

00:47:38.000 You know, we're talking about blue collar labor voters.

00:47:41.000 We're talking about some of the tribes up in Maine who've not been happy with the way things are going.

00:47:48.000 So, you know, Platinum, you know, for all his sort of, you know, ups and downs.

00:47:54.000 And let's talk about those edges, has been somebody who connects him.

00:47:59.000 You know, he's blue collar.

00:48:00.000 I mean, never mind the fact that he's the grandson of a Manhattan architect.

00:48:04.000 His dad is a lawyer.

00:48:05.000 His mom is a restaurateur whose business caters to summer tourists.

00:48:08.000 And he went to the Hotchkiss School.

00:48:11.000 Silver spoon.

00:48:12.000 He's really blue collar.

00:48:13.000 You know, you know how you can tell he's blue collar because he has a Nazi tattoo. 0.69

00:48:17.000 Actually, it's demonstrative of how he can cater to those terrible blue collar voters. 0.66

00:48:21.000 Who generally like President Trump. 0.63

00:48:23.000 The way to get to those guys is the dude with the Nazi tattoo.

00:48:26.000 Chris Van Hollen says, you know, he went through a rough period, a rough period when he got a Nazi tattoo.

00:48:31.000 Oh, goodness gracious. 0.98

00:48:34.000 The dude hasn't not had a Nazi tattoo. 0.92

00:48:36.000 I mean, let's be clear about what's going on here. 0.73

00:48:38.000 I mean, is that how do you view that?

00:48:39.000 I mean, that seems to be at least somewhat disqualifying and traditional.

00:48:45.000 Certainly, historical issues.

00:48:46.000 So, look, I mean, let's take a couple issues, including the comments he's made in the past.

00:48:50.000 I mean, he's been very clear.

00:48:52.000 That he went into combat on behalf of the United States.

00:48:55.000 He went through a really rough period, PTSD type period.

00:49:01.000 And he has himself said there are lots of things he's done and said that he completely regrets.

00:49:07.000 And I do believe people should have second chances and that people can learn from their mistakes.

00:49:15.000 And I think he's been doing that.

00:49:17.000 Oh, he's been learning from his mistakes.

00:49:18.000 Let's be real about this. 0.61

00:49:20.000 The reason that he's popular is because of the Nazi tattoo and the pro Hamas comments.

00:49:24.000 This is why moral derelict Hassan Piker literally praises him for his praise of Hamas in 2014.

00:49:31.000 It's a feature, not a bug for the Democratic Party.

00:49:35.000 Dude, are you unironically saying Janet Mills is better than Graham Plattner?

00:49:40.000 Please, dude. 0.96

00:49:42.000 He was pro Hamas, okay? 0.77

00:49:44.000 He was giving Hamas credit in 2014.

00:49:49.000 Okay, what more do you want?

00:49:53.000 He's great.

00:49:53.000 What more do you want?

00:49:54.000 He's great.

00:49:54.000 And if Hassan Piker says you're great, then you're great.

00:49:56.000 By the way, you want to talk about.

00:49:59.000 Cartier communists, Mansion Marxists over here. 0.97

00:50:03.000 What a pretentious douchebag Hassan Piker is, truly. 0.94

00:50:06.000 He took a picture of himself reading What is to be Done by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on a train. 0.97

00:50:18.000 Honestly, like watching him read, it's like those pictures of LeBron James where you go into the locker room and LeBron had read one page of a book.

00:50:24.000 And people were like, I'm not sure he read that book.

00:50:27.000 First of all, the fact that he did this guy, this one.

00:50:33.000 The guy can barely make his way through one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

00:50:37.000 And he's sitting there reading Lenin while he wears Cartier jewelry.

00:50:43.000 But this is the.

00:50:44.000 I was asked.

00:50:44.000 Somebody was asking me yesterday, actually.

00:50:47.000 We were talking about this, and they said, I don't understand.

00:50:49.000 How does he get away with that?

00:50:49.000 You don't understand.

00:50:50.000 That is the draw of the Hassan Pikers. 1.00

00:50:53.000 The transgressive nature of wearing very expensive, capitalist driven jewelry while reading Lenin is the draw. 1.00

00:51:01.000 It is a nihilistic, hypocritical draw. 0.88

00:51:04.000 That's what it is. 0.96

00:51:05.000 Anything that is destructive of systems and that appears to be sort of campy is what the Democrats are looking for, which is why they're fine with Nazi tattoo guys.

00:51:13.000 Once again, the only voice of reason in the Democratic Party is Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. 0.51

00:51:17.000 Here was his comment on Graham Platner Democrats really, really like Platner in Maine, but the Republicans effing love him.

00:51:24.000 If Maine wants an a hole with a Nazi tattoo on, it's just they got him.

00:51:28.000 Fetterman, the only rational person in the Democratic Party at this point.

00:51:31.000 Meanwhile, over in Los Angeles, the mayoral race is heating up.

00:51:36.000 Spencer Pratt has now cut a pretty viral ad regarding the failures of Los Angeles leadership, contrasting.

00:51:43.000 The homes of the people implementing crappy policy with, you know, the actual living conditions of a lot of Angelenos.

00:51:52.000 This is where Mayor Vass lives.

00:51:53.000 You notice something? 0.98

00:51:54.000 Or here, where Nikki Rahman's $3 million mansion sits. 1.00

00:51:58.000 They don't have to live in the mess they've created where you live. 0.59

00:52:04.000 This is where I live.

00:52:05.000 They let my home burn down.

00:52:07.000 And he shows it's a trailer of his policies.

00:52:10.000 That's why I'm running for mayor for my sons and the rest of us, Angelenos.

00:52:15.000 That would have stopped these corrupt politicians from destroying our city.

00:52:18.000 We are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back.

00:52:23.000 So, again, contrasting their nice houses in the middle of LA with the trailer where he has to live because his house burned down because of bad fire policy.

00:52:30.000 So, meanwhile, one of the other LA mayoral candidates is an LA city council member named Nithya Raman.

00:52:36.000 And she is as far left as it's possible to be, which means that she is welcome to Podsave America, of course. 1.00

00:52:42.000 How radical is she? 1.00

00:52:44.000 Well, she blames stolen catalytic converters, people stealing parts out of cars. 1.00

00:52:49.000 Not on the crime policies. 0.97

00:52:52.000 She blames it on Toyota.

00:52:54.000 It's the fault of the car company.

00:52:58.000 We have a company, you know, the Prius, whatever, Toyota, who makes the Prius, that essentially has a device on their cars, which is super easy to remove.

00:53:12.000 It's basically the value of a MacBook, right?

00:53:16.000 That is put in a place that is incredibly easy to access in your car.

00:53:21.000 And then the thefts related to this issue have essentially all of the costs of that are given to us to bear instead of them having to manufacture a car that actually is not so easy to be stolen.

00:53:36.000 This person says the fault of the car company that the car is stolen, not the fault of crime policies in Los Angeles.

00:53:42.000 By the way, she also voted against a law that prohibited encampments on sidewalks and parks, schools, underpasses.

00:53:48.000 Here she was explaining that.

00:53:51.000 Like, I don't think a kid's going to be safer because a tent is 500 feet away from a school.

00:53:54.000 You know, it's like.

00:53:55.000 It just doesn't.

00:54:00.000 People making fun of her, even in the town hall meeting.

00:54:02.000 So she's one of the candidates.

00:54:03.000 Things are going well in America's major cities run by Democrats.

00:54:06.000 In Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson is saying that she's fine with billionaires packing up and leaving her state.

00:54:11.000 Well, we'll see how that goes for you when you have no tax base, gang.

00:54:15.000 I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown.

00:54:20.000 And if, you know, the ones that leave, like, Bye.

00:54:24.000 So.

00:54:29.000 Yay.

00:54:33.000 Yay.

00:54:34.000 Bye, taxpayers.

00:54:35.000 It's all going to be fine.

00:54:36.000 By the way, this is always the approach of Democrats until they run out of money.

00:54:39.000 Yeah, you taxpayers, you billionaires, you can leave.

00:54:41.000 We don't even need you here.

00:54:42.000 We don't need, please come back.

00:54:43.000 Please, we need your money, please.

00:54:45.000 So, Zorhan Mamdani is now being forced to extend a budget deadline because of a crisis.

00:54:48.000 So, everything will be free.

00:54:50.000 Don't worry.

00:54:51.000 Everything will be fine.

00:54:52.000 Five minutes later, we're out of money.

00:54:55.000 Sorry, we got no money.

00:54:56.000 It turns out all the free stuff costs money. 0.95

00:54:58.000 Here is Zorhan Mamdani, the pathetic mayor of New York City. 0.82

00:55:02.000 New York City faces a budget crisis of a historic magnitude. 0.89

00:55:07.000 We inherited a deficit larger than any since the Great Recession.

00:55:11.000 Years of mismanagement and chronic under budgeting.

00:55:14.000 Alongside a structural imbalance between what New York City sends to the state and what we receive in return, have taken a toll.

00:55:20.000 We cannot close this deficit with savings alone.

00:55:23.000 We need new revenue, and we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state.

00:55:29.000 That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget, and to do so without imposing a financial burden onto the backs of working people.

00:55:38.000 I'm glad to partner with Speaker Menon as we call upon Albany and deliver a balanced budget.

00:55:44.000 Together, We are extending the executive budget deadline from this coming Friday until May 12th because a crisis at this scale cannot be solved without state action.

00:55:54.000 Oh, they ran out of money.

00:55:55.000 The socialists ran out of money.

00:55:56.000 Wow.

00:55:57.000 There's a gigantic shocker.

00:55:58.000 I can't believe it.

00:55:59.000 All right, it's a Friday.

00:56:00.000 So I want to bring back something we haven't done in a while things I like and things I hate.

00:56:05.000 Yeah, because, you know, it's a Friday.

00:56:06.000 So let's enjoy.

00:56:07.000 So my father sent me a recording last night that I wanted to share with you.

00:56:11.000 It is amazing.

00:56:12.000 I had never heard of this pianist before.

00:56:14.000 This is probably the most astonishing performance of any.

00:56:14.000 He is astonishing.

00:56:18.000 Piano piece I've ever seen in my life.

00:56:21.000 The pianist's name is Mark David Hamlin.

00:56:24.000 He's Canadian American.

00:56:25.000 He teaches up in the Northeast.

00:56:28.000 It just demonstrates, by the way, that there are so many areas of life where people who are legitimately like the best in the world and maybe in human history at their craft, they're just not world famous.

00:56:38.000 It's kind of amazing.

00:56:39.000 Like I'd never heard of him.

00:56:40.000 My father, who's a professional pianist, had never heard of him.

00:56:42.000 He's unbelievable.

00:56:44.000 Here is an excerpt of him playing The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt, which you will recognize from all the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

00:57:26.000 He's an unbelievable dynamic touch, by the way.

00:57:29.000 But wait until the cadenza he plays here.

00:57:31.000 So, cadenza is a part of a classical piece that's basically written by somebody who's not the original composer to demonstrate the skill level of the player.

00:57:39.000 Here's some of that. 0.58

00:58:17.000 The speed with which he's playing some of these octaves is just ridiculous.

00:58:27.000 Okay, so go check out the entire performance.

00:58:27.000 Just insane.

00:58:29.000 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:58:29.000 Okay, time for a thing I hate. 0.99

00:58:31.000 So there's a story that went totally viral on the internet over the course of the last 48 hours.

00:58:36.000 It was about a very good looking woman at JP Morgan who supposedly was sexually harassing a younger man.

00:58:46.000 Okay, now these sorts of stories go viral all the time online where there's a good looking woman who is having sex with a 17 year old student and then everybody's like, ah, ha, Okay, in this particular case, the idea was that there was a former JP Morgan staffer.

00:59:02.000 Who had been sexually harassed by a higher up at JP Morgan who's a very pretty woman.

00:59:08.000 And this thing went viral because the Daily Mail reported it. 0.97

00:59:10.000 So, first of all, I hope she sues the living hell out of the Daily Mail, and I hope she sues the living hell out of this former JP Morgan staffer because now it turns out it was a lie, which is gross, truly disgusting.

00:59:21.000 According to the New York Post, a former JP Morgan staffer, whom sources identified as Chirayurana, has been accused of making fabricated sexual harassment claims against a high ranking executive at the bank after an internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.

00:59:34.000 Multiple sources told the Post that 35 year old Rana, now a principal at investment firm Briegel Sagemount, is the man who brought a bombshell lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini earlier this week.

00:59:44.000 Rana's suit, filed on Monday under the pseudonym Jondo, accused the 37 year old executive director of turning him into her sex slave by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra and threatening to slash his bonus if he did not comply.

00:59:57.000 The British tabloid quoted the now deleted court papers and reported that Hajdini, the executive director at JP Morgan's leveraged finance team, even turned up unannounced at Rana's apartment and forced him to have sex.

01:00:06.000 And so, of course, the entire internet was like, oh man, I'd love his job.

01:00:06.000 Okay.

01:00:10.000 Oh man. 0.99

01:00:11.000 I hope she sues him into the absolute dust. 0.99

01:00:14.000 I hope she destroys this guy financially. 0.99

01:00:17.000 What a terrible thing to do to anyone, truly. 1.00

01:00:20.000 How gross.

01:00:21.000 And how gross of the Daily Mail to run with the allegations without even going and getting a response from her or from her lawyers or from the bank.

01:00:29.000 You know, what people want to do for clicks, truly, what people want to do for clicks.

01:00:33.000 Okay.

01:00:34.000 Coming up, we're going to get into the latest in Iran.

01:00:37.000 There is a fair bit of action, and it's possible that we may be seeing some more kinetic action sometime in the near future.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 01, 2026

HUGE WIN For Trump SCOTUS

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