Epstein commits suicide within days of being taken off suicide watch. Conspiracy theorists, including the President, jump on board. And Democrats launch some conspiracies of their own. On this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, host Ben Shapiro reacts to the news of Jeffrey Epstein's death.
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00:01:49.000Okay, so obviously, The big news on this Monday morning is the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:01:56.000Jeffrey Epstein, of course, the convicted pedophile who was recently rearrested on federal charges of sex trafficking.
00:02:03.000There's a lot of worry in the nation's highest corridors of power about what exactly Jeffrey Epstein might say.
00:02:09.000In fact, just on Friday, there was a federal court that unsealed documents from a lawsuit by one of Jeffrey Epstein's accuser against his mysterious girlfriend and alleged procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:02:21.000So the accuser, her name is Virginia Giuffre, accused Maxwell of procuring young girls for sexual abuse by Epstein and his powerful friends, according to the Daily Beast.
00:02:29.000Some of the major revelations include, in 2016, Giuffre said that Maxwell specifically instructed her to serve former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who at one point was a front-running Democratic presidential candidate, Britain's Prince Andrew, wealthy financier Glenn Jubin, Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel, and scientist Marvin Minsky.
00:02:52.000Giuffre also said that Maxwell and Epstein directed her to have sex with another prince, a foreign president, a well-known prime minister, and the owner of a large hotel chain.
00:03:01.000None of the men named have been charged with a crime, and all have denied inappropriate behavior.
00:03:07.000Apparently, there are also accusations, according to another one of the women who dealt with Epstein, that Epstein was basically sexually voracious and thus preyed on girls at an insane rate.
00:03:18.000Juan Alessi, Epstein's former house manager, testified he saw probably over 100 girls serve Epstein at his Palm Beach home over 10 years.
00:03:26.000After each encounter, Alessi said he would clean up the home's upstairs massage room.
00:03:30.000On multiple occasions, he said he found sex toys and put them in Maxwell's closet because he knew that's where they kept such items, along with a shiny black costume.
00:03:39.000This is all really disgusting, obviously.
00:03:42.000And these revelations came as of Friday.
00:03:46.000So there's a lot of talk about whose name was going to drop next.
00:03:49.000What were the next steps in the Epstein trial?
00:03:51.000Well, within 24 hours of all of that dropping, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly committed suicide and apparently committed suicide.
00:03:59.000He was just 11 days removed from being on suicide watch.
00:04:01.000According to CBS News, Epstein, who is facing federal sex trafficking charges, died Saturday from an apparent suicide, federal officials said.
00:04:09.000The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement the FBI was investigating his death.
00:04:14.000Epstein, who is 66, was found unresponsive in his cell at a holding facility in New York City at around 6.30 a.m., according to the statement.
00:04:21.000Staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center tried to revive him.
00:04:24.000He was eventually taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
00:04:28.000The New York City Medical Examiner's Office was also investigating Epstein's cause of death, a spokesperson told CBS News, and will conduct an autopsy and toxicology test to determine the cause.
00:04:37.000There's a statement put out by the Medical Examiner's Office saying they were still going to determine cause of death.
00:04:42.000That doesn't mean they suspect homicide.
00:04:44.000It means they still have to finally determine cause of death, although they think they know what happened here.
00:04:49.000Federal prosecutors in New York alleged Epstein abused dozens of underage girls as young as 14.
00:04:53.000Epstein was found injured on the floor of his cell in late July.
00:04:57.000At the time, law enforcement sources told CBS News that Epstein was found semi-conscious with slight bruising around his neck.
00:05:03.000So apparently he tried to hang himself at that juncture and he was put on suicide watch.
00:05:08.000So there's all sorts of weird stuff surrounding this particular suicide, and it's leading a lot of people toward conspiracy theories.
00:05:17.000The chief medical examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson, released a statement on Sunday saying that her office had conducted an autopsy on Epstein, but that the medical examiner's determination is pending further information at this time.
00:05:31.000She said, A lot of Epstein's victims are upset because they felt like this was their chance at justice.
00:05:45.000Attorney General William Barr says the investigation will continue.
00:05:48.000There are associates and co-conspirators with Epstein who will, in fact, be on the hook for whatever crimes they committed.
00:05:55.000So this thing does not end with Epstein being dead.
00:05:58.000This sex trafficking case was very important to the Department of Justice and to me personally.
00:06:07.000But let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein.
00:06:16.000Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.
00:06:20.000The victims deserve justice and they will get it.
00:06:24.000So, the conspiracy chatter picked up almost immediately.
00:06:27.000You had dueling hashtags on Twitter that were trending.
00:06:30.000One was Trump body count and the other was Clinton body count.
00:06:33.000There was accusations by the right that Clinton body count wasn't trending because Twitter is biased to the left.
00:06:39.000Certainly Twitter is biased to the left.
00:06:40.000I don't know why that wasn't trending.
00:06:42.000The fact is, this was neither Trump nor Clinton by all available evidence.
00:06:46.000But you saw that implication put forward by a variety of sources.
00:06:48.000MSNBC's Joy Reid actually suggested that Attorney General William Barr might be covering up Epstein's death at Trump's behest because Trump, of course, is friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:06:58.000The investigation of Epstein's death now falls into the hands of William Barr, Donald Trump's consigliere and Attorney General, who refused to recuse himself on the Epstein case despite his association with a law firm once involved with Epstein, whose father once hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher with neither experience nor degree, and whose prime directive is to protect Donald Trump.
00:08:34.000Next month he dead, and you know what?
00:08:37.000All the liberals were calling me a conspiracy theorist, saying, Terrence, you coming up with crazy conspiracies, and you need to be banned from Twitter.
00:08:57.000Now, number one, this wasn't the Clintons, okay?
00:08:59.000As we will see, this is wild incompetence by jail officers, which, frankly, is not all that uncommon.
00:09:05.000I mean, it is an unfortunate truth of life that human beings are wildly incompetent generally, and it's also another unfortunate truth that treatment in American prisons It depends on the prison, but many prisons are horribly run.
00:09:16.000The guards don't do their jobs to the apex of their abilities.
00:09:20.000They feel like they're dealing with criminals, and therefore they sort of slack off a bit.
00:09:23.000That's not an indictment of all prison officers by any measure.
00:09:25.000A lot of prison officers, probably the vast majority of prison officers, do their job with honor and diligence, but there are going to be some who do not, obviously.
00:09:33.000And this one falls under Hanlon's razor.
00:09:35.000Never attribute to malevolence that which you can attribute to human stupidity.
00:09:39.000And while this all looks very suspicious, because obviously Epstein was the most watched federal prisoner in America, Still, I am much more inclined to chalk this up to prison guards didn't do their job, then Bill and Hillary Clinton sneaked somebody into Jeffrey Epstein's cell to kill him in his cell.
00:09:58.000I mean, the lady couldn't even find Wisconsin on a map.
00:10:01.000I don't think that this has to do with Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton deciding that it's time for Jeffrey Epstein to be offed.
00:10:07.000Why wouldn't they off him before he was arrested?
00:10:08.000I mean, the whole thing doesn't make any sense.
00:10:11.000And as it turns out, there's lots of evidence of incompetence here.
00:10:15.000Apparently, according to the Associated Press, guards on Jeffrey Epstein's unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail's operations told the Associated Press.
00:10:26.000The person said that the Metropolitan Correctional Center's special housing unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime.
00:10:35.000The person wasn't authorized to discuss jail operations publicly, spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity.
00:10:41.000Epstein's abrupt death cut short a criminal prosecution that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner workings of a high-flying financier with connections to celebrities and presidents.
00:10:49.000The jail staff failed to follow protocols leading up to Epstein's death, according to a report from the New York Times deepening the fallout from what led to his apparent suicide.
00:10:59.000The New York Times reports That Epstein was supposed to have been checked by two guards in the protective housing unit every 30 minutes.
00:11:06.000He was alone in a cell just 11 days after he'd been taken off suicide watch.
00:11:10.000He was supposed to have somebody else in the cell with him.
00:11:13.000The procedure of him being checked every 30 minutes was not followed that night.
00:11:19.000Because Epstein may have tried to commit suicide three weeks earlier, obviously, that other inmate was supposed to be in there, but the jail recently transferred his cellmate and allowed Epstein to be housed alone, a decision that also violated the jail's procedures.
00:11:31.000Attorney General William Barr was fighting mad about that today as well.
00:11:33.000He suggested that there could be prosecution on the table for negligence for some of the people who are associated with all of this.
00:11:42.000In addition, according to the UK Daily Mail, every 15 minutes, guards are required to make another check on prisoners who are on suicide watch.
00:11:49.000The decision to remove Epstein from suicide watch has both baffled former wardens and veterans of the federal prison system alike.
00:11:55.000As Matt Walsh of Daily Wire pointed out, suicide watch is not supposed to be taken quite so literally.
00:12:00.000You're not actually supposed to watch while the person commits suicide.
00:12:13.000Also, I want to discuss why it is that generally people tend to buy conspiracy theories even though conspiracy theories rarely end up being true.
00:12:24.000First, These jailers, they had one job, one job, and they failed to do it.
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00:13:48.000It's very easy for jokes to go viral and then people to take them seriously.
00:13:51.000Social media tends to take pockets of fringe opinion.
00:13:55.000And if there are many pockets out there of fringe opinion, it then sort of agglomerates them into one giant fringe opinion that starts to look more and more mainstream and less and less fringe.
00:14:03.000This is what has happened in pretty much every area of American life with fringy opinion, ranging from white supremacism to conspiracy theorizing.
00:14:11.000It used to be that you were the weirdo in your town, you were on your own.
00:14:13.000Now you're the weirdo in your town, you can hang out with every weirdo online, and then you can form these kind of giant blocks of people who believe in crazy stuff.
00:14:21.000Part of the rise of conspiracy theories also has to do with generalized distrust of the media.
00:14:25.000As we'll get to, the media only seems skeptical of certain types of conspiracy theories.
00:14:30.000Other types of conspiracy theories the media are totally on board with.
00:14:35.000Most of this has to do with the human inability to accept widespread incompetence.
00:14:39.000So as I say, it is very difficult to accept incompetence.
00:14:42.000It's much easier to simply understand that or believe that people are nefarious, that people are in control.
00:14:49.000One of the harder revelations in life as we become adults is recognizing that most people are just as incompetent as they were when they were seven years old and picking their boogers and eating them.
00:14:59.000So, now they're incompetent and they get paid, and you hope that their incompetence isn't so off the charts that it actually harms somebody?
00:15:05.000People get harmed more often than you think.
00:15:07.000But going back to the media for a moment, the media were all over Trump for retweeting the conspiracy theory.
00:15:14.000I mean, it's wild that the President of the United States is retweeting conspiracy theories about his lead political opponents, the Clintons, in 2016, murdering somebody in federal custody.
00:15:24.000I mean, I would say that I'm surprised, except that he accused Ted Cruz's father of murdering JFK.
00:16:43.000With regard to Trump, nonetheless, Trump earning the disdain of the media for this is not unfitting.
00:16:48.000Here is George Stephanopoulos over at ABC News suggesting that it is stunning for Trump to insinuate that Clinton was complicit in the Epstein suicide.
00:16:55.000You mentioned conspiracy that the U.S.
00:17:45.000He's giving life to not just conspiracy theories, but really whipping people up into anger and worse against different people in this country.
00:17:56.000And so this is a tired way that the president does.
00:17:59.000He's been using the Clintons as a means for a lot of his false accusations.
00:18:06.000But remember, this is a nation now where we've seen just horrific acts, whether it's someone walking into a pizza shop based upon these kind of conspiracy theories to take violent action.
00:18:19.000They are dangerous because, again, they suggest that there is somebody who is nefarious, behind the scenes, manipulating everything, and if you took that person out, then you would end the conspiracy.
00:18:28.000It's all three days of the Condor, and there's somebody who's hiding behind that curtain at the end of the story, and if you just take out that person, then the entire conspiracy collapses like a house of cards.
00:18:36.000That's the other thing about conspiracies, is that there seems to be an easy solution, which is you take out the person who's at the head of the conspiracy.
00:18:44.000But one of the reasons that people are suspicious of the media, one of the reasons that conspiracy theories are running roughshod, particularly on the right these days, and I think it is more on the right than it is on the left, is because conspiracy theories on the left are actually mainstream.
00:18:57.000So on the right, there are conspiracy theories, and they tend to be fringy, moving over into the mainstream as people react to the left.
00:19:04.000On the left, stuff that is considered basically untouchable are conspiracy theories.
00:19:08.000I mean, the left will say open things that are conspiratorial, They will put out there absolute conspiracy nonsense that is unsupported by evidence, and the left will simply accept it.
00:19:17.000It's not counted as a conspiracy theory, in other words.
00:19:20.000Now, we can all point to the Epstein suicide, and when somebody says, it was Trump or it was Clinton, we can say, that's silly, that's a conspiracy theory.
00:19:26.000But the left will put out there stories that are obviously untrue and that are, in fact, conspiracy theories, and the press will treat them as though they are perfectly legit.
00:19:45.000Stacey Abrams, the Democrat in Georgia, she's a Georgia state legislator who ran for governor and lost by some 50,000 votes.
00:19:51.000She has been going around for literally months, ever since she lost to Brian Kemp, the actual governor of Georgia.
00:19:57.000She's been going around for months and suggesting that nefarious scheme was perpetrated by Brian Kemp and the Republicans, and that she actually is the governor.
00:20:05.000Now, there is no evidence that she wins that election.
00:20:12.000There's a lot more evidence that in past cases like the Washington state gubernatorial election circa like 2006 that there was some voter interference or that the actual senator from Minnesota in the Al Franken Norm Coleman election was Norm Coleman.
00:20:27.000Those were very close elections where manipulation of a few votes could have changed the outcome of the election.
00:20:31.000But when you lose by 50,000 votes, you lost the election.
00:20:35.000It has become an article of faith on the left that Stacey Abrams was legitimately elected governor of Georgia and that Brian Kemp stole that election.
00:20:59.000And Abrams replied, I think the election was stolen from the people of Georgia.
00:21:03.000I don't know that empirically I would have won.
00:21:05.000But if you add together the thousands of people who faced extraordinarily long lines, who faced hurdles that should not happen in democracy, the votes that we know were not counted.
00:21:13.000The secretary of state, who is also my opponent in the race, purged more than one point four million voters over basically an eight year period.
00:21:20.000Now, she's still not naming the voters who wanted to vote who weren't able to vote.
00:21:23.000Being in a long line does not prohibit you from voting.
00:21:26.000By the way, that's just called a long line.
00:21:28.000Turr noted that Kemp's so-called purges were legal and were enforcement of a law passed by Georgia Democrats who dominated state politics for more than a century after the Civil War.
00:21:38.000Registered voters who don't vote, update their registration information, file a name or address change, sign a petition or respond to attempts to confirm their address for three years, are moved to inactive status, but can still participate in elections, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Washington Free Beacon.
00:21:53.000If they are inactive or don't respond to election officials for another two election cycles, they're removed from the rolls.
00:21:58.000Oftentimes, the voters have moved out of the state or died.
00:22:02.000Abrams said they knew people had been purged from the rolls who didn't meet the criteria but didn't elaborate how she knew or who these people were.
00:22:08.000She claims that 53,000 voters were put on hold by Kemp to prevent them from voting during the race.
00:22:17.000Nonetheless, Abrams continues to maintain this and she's supported in this by figures ranging from other Democratic presidential candidates to columnists like Jamel Bowie, people who continue to suggest that Stacey Abrams is legitimately the governor of Georgia.
00:22:40.000I'm old enough to remember when people were suggesting that if Trump lost the 2016 election, he would suggest that he had that he had wrongly lost and that he actually won.
00:22:49.000And then we spent two years with the Democrats Perpetuating another conspiracy theory, which is that the Russians were behind Trump's election, that if it weren't for Russian interference in the election, Trump would have won, and that Trump and the Russians were actively colluding with one another in order to move the election out of Hillary Clinton's column.
00:23:07.000That turned out not to be true either.
00:23:09.000It took two years and, what, $12 million to investigate that particular conspiracy theory?
00:23:13.000But it's not a conspiracy theory, according to the left.
00:23:16.000According to the left, Trump still did collude.
00:23:17.000Trump is still a traitor, and we should impeach him for this.
00:23:21.000Generally speaking, conspiracy theories from the left are treated as extraordinarily mainstream.
00:23:26.000Conspiracy theories on the right are fringe.
00:23:30.000And then they gain some momentum, and it doesn't help when Donald Trump lends his weight to them, whether you're talking about birtherism or whether you're talking about what just happened with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:23:40.000But when it's on the left, it's not treated as a conspiracy theory.
00:23:42.000It's treated as something completely normal.
00:23:44.000I'll give you another example that happened over the weekend, completely ignored by the media in every conceivable way.
00:24:01.000When you got your Helix Sleep mattress, you got a nice mattress, but you're still not sleeping properly.
00:24:04.000Well, it's probably not because of the mattress anymore.
00:24:06.000Now, it is because of the sheets that you are using.
00:24:08.000If you went down to the local Bed Bath & Beyond, and you picked up sheets at retail prices, and you just picked up like the highest thread count, These may not actually be fantastic sheets.
00:24:16.000And if you went down to the local gas station and just got the 1,000 thread count sheet, and it turns out it's just a plastic tarp, what you actually need is a really nice set of sheets.
00:25:13.000OK, so speaking of other conspiracy theories that are going to be completely ignored, completely and wildly ignored by the media over the weekend was the five year anniversary of the Ferguson incident involving Ferguson, Missouri, involving Michael Brown.
00:25:30.000Michael Brown was an 18 year old, very large dude, black guy.
00:25:35.000Who, according to the media reports at the time, supposedly was murdered in cold blood by a white police officer named Darren Wilson.
00:25:42.000And that was done out of racial hatred because the police force in Ferguson was deeply racist and Michael Brown was in fact surrendering at the time.
00:25:50.000And this is how you end up with famous pictures on the news of people like Sally Cohn and other commentators raising their hands and saying, hands up, don't shoot.
00:25:58.000The idea was, or I can't breathe, they used the Eric Garner slogan, but hands up, don't shoot, was what this became.
00:26:05.000Louis running out onto the field, raising their hands, hands up, don't shoot, because black people were surrendering to police, and then the police saying, oh, well, there's a black guy, would you shoot the guy down?
00:26:14.000And Michael Brown was used as the case in point of all of this.
00:26:18.000Well, as it turns out, that's not what happened at all.
00:26:20.000Michael Brown, Had earlier in the day gone to a store, a convenience store, and he had stolen some Swisher Sweets, which are very often used in the cigars.
00:26:31.000They are often used in the tobaccos removed, marijuana is put in.
00:26:35.000That's beside the point because drug use really isn't the issue here.
00:26:37.000And Michael Brown assaulted the store owner and then walked out.
00:26:41.000Darren Wilson, the cop, was driving around town, and he got some news that criminal activity had been taking place.
00:26:47.000He saw Michael Brown walking erratically with his friend Dorian Johnson down the street, and he told them to pull over.
00:26:53.000He kind of pulled in front of them, so they pulled over, at which point, According to witness testimony and physical evidence, Michael Brown walked up to the side of the car, punched Darren Wilson in the face, tried to grab Darren Wilson's gun.
00:27:42.000He was 18 years old and a very, very large dude.
00:27:45.000So that's not just what was found by the grand jury in the Ferguson, Missouri case, which touched off rioting in Ferguson, egged on by the President of the United States, who suggested that perhaps the grand jury had come to the wrong conclusion and that people weren't making up stories like this when this was, in fact, a made-up story by Dorian Johnson.
00:28:02.000The DOJ did a full-scale investigation.
00:28:04.000Barack Obama's own Department of Justice did a full-scale investigation of the Michael Brown situation and came to the conclusion that, in fact, it was not a racial shooting.
00:28:12.000In fact, it was a justifiable homicide.
00:28:15.000Meaning that Wilson shot in self-defense.
00:28:31.000It is an ongoing conspiracy theory to suggest that Michael Brown was murdered for racial reasons in cold blood.
00:28:38.000All the evidence is against this, including witness evidence from the town.
00:28:41.000And if you actually read the witness testimony, it's kind of heartbreaking in that particular case.
00:28:44.000I mean, we went through this at the time in detail.
00:28:47.000The witness testimony in the case was devastating because a lot of the witnesses said that they'd been threatened by members of their community for even coming forward and testifying.
00:28:54.000And that when the police tried to investigate, people would hide from the police because they didn't want to blow back from members of their own community.
00:29:00.000Okay, so with all of that as backdrop, here's what happened over the weekend.
00:29:03.000Okay, so over the weekend is the five-year anniversary of Ferguson.
00:29:06.000And as I say, Dorian Johnson, the original witness, was lying by all available evidence.
00:29:11.000And it's clear from the media coverage, by the way, that he is lying still.
00:29:14.000So the Washington Post helped perpetuate this lie.
00:29:18.000They had a story called Dorian Johnson, witness to the Ferguson shooting, sticks by his story.
00:29:24.000It's by Wesley Lowry, who was one of the reporters on scene in Ferguson, did a lot of reporting from there at the time.
00:29:29.000Michael Brown was still lying dead in the street when his family gathered in the kitchen of a nearby apartment to hear from Dorian Johnson, the friend who saw what happened.
00:29:36.000Through thick tears, Johnson recounted how he and Brown, 18, had encountered Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson and how Wilson had pumped half a dozen bullets into Brown's body.
00:29:44.000When Johnson finished, Brown's family had one request.
00:29:48.000And so minutes later, a trembling Johnson was staring into a local TV news camera, uttering the words that would change both the nation and his life.
00:29:55.000He put his hands in the air, Johnson said of Brown in his final moments.
00:29:58.000He started to get down, but the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots and my friend died.
00:30:04.000The Killing of Michael Brown On August 9th, 2014, began one of the most incendiary events in American history, spawning the Black Lives Matter movement's most powerful rallying cry, Hands Up, Don't Shoot.
00:30:17.000Ultimately, two separate law enforcement investigations concluded that Brown did not have his hands in the air when Wilson opened fire.
00:30:24.000A controversy over Johnson's account raged for months.
00:30:51.000Whether his hands were up, halfway down, fully down or up, he was killed and he was unarmed.
00:30:56.000He wasn't posing a threat, except for witness testimony, except for forensic evidence.
00:31:03.000OK, so Dorian Johnson still telling this tale.
00:31:07.000So as we'll see, Democratic candidates, presidential candidates perpetuated a conspiracy theory over the weekend, and the media didn't care.
00:31:13.000Not only didn't the media not care, they saw it as a sign of moral truth and decency that these Democratic candidates decided to purvey this conspiracy theory.
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00:33:43.000So as I say, these democratic presidential candidates are perpetuating their own conspiracy theory Not a single question I saw in the media asked about this.
00:33:59.000So, very properly, questions asked about Trump, talking about Jeffrey Epstein's death and all of this, but it is somewhat newsworthy that Democratic presidential candidates are just spouting absolute debunked lies.
00:34:10.000Lies debunked by Barack Obama's DOJ, led by Eric Holder, about Michael Brown.
00:34:14.000So Elizabeth Warren, who's pandering for black votes, she tweets out five years ago, Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
00:34:22.000Michael was unarmed, yet he was shot six times.
00:34:24.000I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael.
00:34:28.000We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on.
00:34:32.000Virtually every word of this is a brutal lie.
00:34:35.000There's no evidence that he was murdered.
00:35:15.000His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.
00:35:19.000We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.
00:35:23.000So that's two front-running Democratic candidates who are engaged in an open conspiracy theory suggesting that Michael Brown was not killed justifiably as per two law enforcement investigations and a grand jury investigation.
00:36:36.000Okay, this is, it is wildly and insanely ridiculous that the Democrats continue to push the notion that police departments are actually the enemy when it comes to the inner city communities.
00:36:54.000That actually do require people to police those communities.
00:37:02.000If you actually want to have a safer America, if you want these areas to be safer, you need to build trust with the police.
00:37:07.000You need to stop accusing every police officer of being a murderer, even when they are not a murderer.
00:37:12.000You need to start recognizing that in order to build credibility between police officers and communities, you need to stop implying that every police officer is a murderer when he's not a murderer, that there's a conspiracy of silence at the top levels of law enforcement, that in places like Baltimore, where the majority of the police force is minority, where the police chief is black, That that police department is out to get black folks?
00:37:33.000In Ferguson, you've seen a radical turnover of the Ferguson Police Department.
00:37:38.000Ferguson's police department has become much, much more minority.
00:37:41.000The reason it wasn't as minority before is because they were having trouble finding applicants, frankly.
00:37:46.000But right now, according to the New York Times, more than half of Ferguson City Council members and police officers are now black.
00:37:53.000That hasn't changed the conditions on the ground in Ferguson, nor has it changed the attitude of many citizens toward police.
00:37:58.000Because when you keep perpetuating the myth that police officers are generally out to get black people, it turns out that has real world effects.
00:38:04.000There's this article in the New York Times.
00:38:06.000It is called, he's a veteran of upheaval molded by Ferguson's traumas.
00:38:11.000And it's a profile of a kid named David Morrison, who's seven years old.
00:38:15.000It says, David Morrison carries the scars of Ferguson's upheaval.
00:38:19.000A veteran protester, he has fled gunshots and tear gas, marched, waved signs, played dead on the asphalt in years of activism, then unspooled after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown.
00:38:37.000Or is it that his mom has taken him to a lot of protests, backed by, presumably, these sorts of presidential candidates?
00:38:43.000Well, as the article makes clear, it is the latter.
00:38:46.000As the article makes clear, his mother was taking him to protest from the time that he was like two.
00:38:53.000David's mother got involved in a citizen journalism project after the shooting of Michael Brown and took David along to protest when he was a preschooler.
00:39:00.000But one night after she had scooped David into her arms and raced to her car, when gunfire erupted, she began to notice the toll.
00:39:07.000He jolts awake from nightmares on the living room couch where he often sleeps, then cracks open her bedroom door to reassure himself she is still there.
00:39:15.000David and his mother were driving on a summer afternoon when the conversation turned, as it often does in Ferguson, to race and injustice.
00:39:21.000David piped up from the backseat, I can fight the police.
00:39:33.000Seven-year-olds don't generally say they can fight the police unless they are told by their relatives that they should fight the police and that the police are the bad guys.
00:39:40.000Does it help when you have national political figures lying and saying that a police officer who did not murder a black man murdered a black man?
00:39:49.000A detailed federal review cleared Officer Wilson of any civil rights violations and largely supported the officer's version of the story.
00:39:57.000Investigators concluded Officer Wilson had confronted Mr. Brown in connection with a theft at a nearby convenience store.
00:40:02.000Then the report found Brown attacked Wilson while the officer was seated in his SUV and struggled for control of his gun.
00:40:08.000After a brief chase on Canfield Drive, the report said, Brown was moving toward Officer Wilson on the street when he was fatally shot.
00:40:15.000After the shooting, Ferguson officials entered into a contentious agreement with the Justice Department, promising to overhaul its court process, make new guidelines for stops and searches, give police officers more training, require them to wear body cameras.
00:40:53.000After Ferguson, crime rates spiked due to something that Heather McDonald correctly called the Ferguson effect.
00:41:00.000Police officers, of whom I know many, not wanting to go into situations in which they could be dragged up on chargers for simply doing their job the way that Darren Wilson was.
00:41:11.000It turns out this law professor, what exactly does he think is the solution to all of this?
00:41:16.000He thinks the solution isn't more police and less crime.
00:41:20.000He thinks that the solution is to end policing and prisons altogether.
00:41:23.000Quote, in the five years since the uprising, Ferguson activists have shifted from a demand to stop killing us to calls for broader civil rights and human rights standards and appeals for the ultimate structural change, an abolitionist ethic that seeks to end policing and prisons altogether.
00:41:41.000This conclusion, admits the law professor, dubious and far-fetched to many, is a response to the thoroughly credible and highly researched position that the use of the criminal justice system as a tool of racial control reflects its original design.
00:41:54.000Yes, I'm sure that this is going to be better for all the people who are law-abiding in their inner city, in their inner city communities.
00:42:00.000I'm sure the best thing will be to continue perpetuating the myth that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in cold blood, just like officers across the country would do, and that has no impact on people's lives in these places.
00:42:10.000Conspiracy theories do have impact, but folks on the left are willing to go along with those conspiracy theories so long as they support their political agenda.
00:42:19.000And as it turns out, I mean, in a wild piece, the New York Times is promoting yet another conspiracy theory today.
00:42:24.000That conspiracy theory is that the shooting in El Paso, Texas, the white supremacist racist shooting in El Paso, Texas, is due to, I kid you not, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and virtually everybody else on the right who has ever been critical of law enforcement when it comes to illegal immigration.
00:42:41.000There's an article in the New York Times called The New Nativists, how the El Paso killer echoed the incendiary words of conservative media stars.
00:42:50.000And it basically looks like that actor from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia standing next to the conspiracy board.
00:43:01.000I mean, they literally took the manifesto of the killer in El Paso, of the shooter, the white supremacist piece of trash in El Paso, and then they scanned it for the word invasion.
00:43:10.000And then they went and found other people who use the word invasion.
00:43:14.000And that apparently is enough to blame those people for the crime.
00:43:18.000To link those people... It's so weird how they didn't do that with the manifesto of the guy who attacked the ICE facility like three weeks ago, calling it a concentration camp.
00:43:25.000So they've all now become Charlie Day in the conspiracy photo.
00:43:29.000There's a striking degree of overlap between the words of right-wing media personalities and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso this month.
00:43:39.000In a 2300-word screed posted on the website 8chan, the killer wrote that he was simply defending my country from a cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion, according to the New York Times.
00:43:49.000It remains unclear what or who ultimately shaped the views of the white 21-year-old gunman, or whether he was aware of the media commentary.
00:43:56.000Well, wouldn't that be the thing you should investigate, you morons?
00:43:59.000If you're going to perpetuate a conspiracy theory about how he watched lots of Tucker Carlson, then went out and shot up an El Paso Walmart, maybe you ought to check out whether he watched Tucker Carlson all the time.
00:44:09.000And even by that logic, maybe you should talk with the shooter in the congressional baseball game, find out how often he was stumping for Bernie Sanders and listening to what Bernie had to say.
00:44:18.000But the New York Times openly admits that they don't have any direct connect between the white supremacist terrorist who shot up an El Paso Walmart and Tucker Carlson, but they're still going to push this.
00:44:26.000It remains unclear what or who ultimately shaped the views of the white 21-year-old gunman, but his post contains numerous references to invasion and cultural replacement, ideas that, until recently, were relegated to the fringes of the nationalist right.
00:44:41.000Again, I don't like the language of invasion, and I don't believe I've used it.
00:44:44.000If I had, I'm sorry I did, because I don't think that it is correct, but I'm fairly certain I never did, because I never considered it a quote-unquote invasion when illegal immigrants cross our southern border.
00:44:52.000But, and I certainly don't believe in the idea of quote-unquote racial replacement, because I literally do not care about the races of people who live in America.
00:44:59.000I care about their ideas and their ideology.
00:45:03.000But the New York Times decides that because there is language that sounds similar to stuff that Tucker Carlson has said, they are now going to attribute this shooter to Tucker.
00:45:11.000Zucker, quote, an extensive New York Times review of popular right wing media platforms found hundreds of examples of language, ideas and ideologies that overlapped with the mass killers written statement, a shared vocabulary of intolerance that stokes fears centered on immigrants of color.
00:45:27.000And the conspiracy theory, this one is deliberately designed in order to link together basic conservative tropes about immigration with white supremacism.
00:45:38.000This is how you end up with the Washington Post running a piece today on their front page about how evil the Trump administration is for cracking down on welfare use by legal immigrants.
00:45:47.000Abigail Haas-Lohner and Nick Miroff have a piece today in the Washington Post titled, Trump Administration Aims to Make Citizenship More Difficult for Immigrants Who Receive Public Assistance.
00:45:59.000They say legal immigrants who use public benefits such as Medicaid, food stamps, or housing assistance could have a tougher time obtaining a green card or U.S.
00:46:07.000citizenship under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration.
00:46:14.000The new policy for inadmissibility on public charge grounds, which appeared Monday on the Federal Register's website and will take effect in two months, sets the new standard for obtaining permanent residency and U.S.
00:46:27.000The Trump administration has been seeking to limit those immigrants who might draw on taxpayer-funded benefits, such as many of those who have been fleeing Central America.
00:46:36.000Now, again, this is a good policy, but you watch as the rest of the week is dedicated to the notion that the Trump administration is racist for attempting to curb public welfare use by people who are legal immigrants to the United States.
00:46:48.000If you legally immigrate to the United States, you should not be dependent on public welfare.
00:46:53.000If you're illegally immigrant to the United States, you should not be dependent on public welfare.
00:46:58.000I mean, frankly, if you live in the United States, you should try not to be dependent on public welfare, but we have no obligation to bring in people who are then going to be dependent on the taxpayer dime.
00:47:07.000That doesn't make the country economically stronger.
00:47:10.000But again, this is all part of a generalized push by the left.
00:47:15.000Beto O'Rourke suggesting that the terrorist attack, I mean this has become his thing, that the terrorist attack in El Paso was motivated by President Trump.
00:47:23.000Again, this is all part of the giant conspiracy theory that suggests that the entire right is tied in with white supremacists who shoot up the El Paso Walmart.
00:47:29.000He's changing the conversation, and if we allow him to do that, then we will never be able to focus on the true problems of which he is a part and make sure that we get to the solutions.
00:47:39.000And then you reported this week that his Department of Homeland Security has been begging the president to focus on the kinds of threats that we saw in El Paso, and he's ignored them or willfully suppressed action on those ideas and those programs and those policies that could have saved lives in El Paso and across the country.
00:47:59.000So Trump is apparently part of the problem here.
00:48:03.000Kamala Harris goes even further, of course, because she always goes further.
00:48:05.000And she suggests that the Trump administration instructed the DHS to commit raids against a chicken factory in Mississippi, specifically as part of a quote unquote campaign of terror.
00:48:15.000Those are specifically chosen words, campaign of terror.
00:48:17.000And they're obviously supposed to connect to El Paso.
00:48:20.000This administration has directed DHS to conduct these raids as part of what I believe is this administration's campaign of terror.
00:48:30.000Which is to make whole populations of people afraid to go to work.
00:48:36.000Children are afraid to go to school for fear that when they come home their parents won't be there.
00:48:43.000And this is the language they're using.
00:48:44.000Again, conspiracy theories on the right are treated with precisely the sort of disdain that they merit.
00:48:49.000Conspiracy theories on the left are treated as perfectly normal rhetoric.
00:48:53.000And then you wonder why people on the right react strongly to the media condemning Trump over conspiracies.
00:48:58.000Again, Trump is dead wrong to say that Hillary Clinton has anything to do or Bill Clinton has anything to do with the Jeffrey Epstein suicide.
00:49:09.000A media that refuses to acknowledge the conspiracism inherent in saying that Stacey Abrams is governor of Georgia and Michael Brown was murdered, that Donald Trump is complicit in a terror attack in El Paso and that Tucker Carlson is responsible, Yeah, the conspiracism isn't just on the right, guys.
00:49:26.000And if you actually want to bring down the temperature, then you're actually going to need to call it out whenever you see it on both sides.
00:49:32.000I'm not seeing a lot of people on the left calling out Elizabeth Warren today over the Michael Brown nonsense.
00:49:36.000OK, time for a thing I like and then a quick thing I hate and we'll be out of here.
00:49:39.000So a thing I like today, over the weekend I had the opportunity to read a great piece of hard science fiction called Three Laws Lethal by David Walton.
00:49:47.000So the basic premise of the book is that there are these self-driving cars And there are these programmers who have designed the self-driving cars, but they come up with a system for making the self-driving cars incredibly efficient.
00:49:58.000It involves building AI, and then the AI, as it is wont to do, goes out of control.
00:50:21.000It raises serious questions about what it means to be human, AI, the nature of identity, and it gets there from basically All of the rideshare services that you use right now.
00:51:57.000I mean, I've lived here my entire life, and the conditions, the living conditions here are awful.
00:52:01.000Open needles on the street virtually everywhere.
00:52:03.000There are homeless people living in piles of trash.
00:52:07.000There's danger of disease, particularly on Skid Row in L.A., but you can't go beneath a freeway underpass and not see an entire homeless city.
00:52:59.000Okay, you think the right to housing is going to solve all of this?
00:53:01.000You think rent control is going to solve all of this?
00:53:03.000Where's the housing going to come from?
00:53:04.000It turns out that a lot of people here want to live on the streets.
00:53:07.000There are a lot of people who are drug addicts, who can't actually last in housing, who are mentally ill, who actually need medication but won't take the medication.
00:53:16.000They've tried exactly these solutions in Seattle and it's exacerbated the homeless problem.
00:53:19.000You think a right to housing isn't going to bring more homeless people to the city of Los Angeles?
00:53:24.000We're living in an economy with like a 3.7% unemployment rate.
00:53:27.000And yet we're hearing about endemic poverty creating the homelessness problem in LA.
00:53:30.000Why was it that 10 years ago when the homeless rate, when the unemployment rate was a lot higher, why is it that in the middle of the Great Recession, the homeless population of Los Angeles was significantly lower?
00:53:41.000It has something to do with the policies pursued by the Democratic legislators and county supervisors in Los Angeles.
00:53:47.000It ain't gonna get better until you start actually arresting people for trespass, until you are able to rouse people and move them, until you are able to get people the help they need by putting them in drug clean-out centers, even if they don't want to be there, until you're able to take people who are mentally ill and get them the treatment that they need, until you're able to arrest people who are willingly living on the streets.
00:54:05.000You're not going to be able to do anything.
00:54:12.000It ain't exactly nice to taxpayers to have homeless people lying face down in drug-induced states of apathy outside your front door, which all too often is happening in the city of Los Angeles.
00:55:04.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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