The Ben Shapiro Show - Old Joe’s Throwback Campaign | Ep. 770

00:00:00.000 Old Joe Biden launches his campaign.

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00:01:40.000 OK, so yesterday was the big moment for Joe Biden.

00:01:44.000 He has been waiting all his life for this.

00:01:45.000 And by all his life, I mean since 1862, when Joe Biden first ran for president.

00:01:50.000 He ran for president in 1988 when I was four years old.

00:01:54.000 He ran for president again in 2008.

00:01:56.000 When I was, I guess, 24 years old.

00:01:59.000 And now, he is running again.

00:02:01.000 And this time, he is leading the pack.

00:02:03.000 Why is he leading the pack?

00:02:04.000 Well, obviously because he was Barack Obama's vice president.

00:02:06.000 That means he has 100% name recognition.

00:02:08.000 Now, it is worthwhile noting that vice presidential candidates, the people who come back from the vice presidency and then run again, it doesn't go great for them historically.

00:02:18.000 It doesn't go great for them right off the bat historically.

00:02:21.000 In 2003, in 2003, Joe Lieberman was the actual Democratic frontrunner in early polling data from April 2003.

00:02:28.000 Remember, it is super early still.

00:02:30.000 It is still April, a year before the primaries begin.

00:02:34.000 So we are still almost two years out from the actual national election.

00:02:39.000 It's pretty rare that somebody holds a wire-to-wire lead under these circumstances.

00:02:43.000 John Kerry didn't even in 2004.

00:02:45.000 At this point in the race, Howard Dean was ahead by most national polling, and then, of course, Howard Dean imploded.

00:02:51.000 Joe Lieberman, as I say, was ahead as of 2003, and then Joe Lieberman started to fade, and then Howard Dean took over in late 2003, early 2004, and then he fell apart.

00:03:00.000 Wesley Clark had a lead in that race.

00:03:02.000 In 2008, at this point, Hillary Clinton was the prohibitive favorite. 0.94

00:03:07.000 Hillary Clinton was by far the prohibitive favorite.

00:03:09.000 And then, of course, Barack Obama came out of nowhere and stole her nomination.

00:03:14.000 In 2012, Mitt Romney was the leader at the very beginning.

00:03:18.000 He ended up being the leader in the clubhouse.

00:03:20.000 But in the middle of 2012, he lost the lead several times.

00:03:23.000 Newt Gingrich jumped into the lead at one point.

00:03:25.000 There are a bunch of people who had the lead for a brief little while in 2012.

00:03:29.000 Herman Cain had the lead for a brief little while in 2012.

00:03:32.000 In 2016, Donald Trump was not the wire-to-wire leader.

00:03:35.000 Jeb Bush had the lead for a little while.

00:03:37.000 Trump eventually spiked into the lead and then stayed there because of that 100% name recognition and because all of his negatives had already been priced in.

00:03:45.000 So is Joe Biden more like Joe Lieberman?

00:03:49.000 Is he more like John Kerry?

00:03:51.000 Is he more like Howard Dean?

00:03:52.000 Is he more like Hillary Clinton?

00:03:53.000 Like, who does he look like?

00:03:55.000 I would say that he looks most like Hillary Clinton.

00:03:57.000 He looks most like Hillary Clinton circa 2008.

00:03:59.000 Why?

00:04:00.000 Because he's an establishment pick.

00:04:01.000 A well-established establishment pick with some pretty high negatives when he gets out on the campaign trail.

00:04:06.000 The reason that Biden has flamed out repeatedly in presidential races is because he's not actually a very good campaigner.

00:04:11.000 He's good when he's campaigning for somebody else, because if he's campaigning for Barack Obama, you're like, oh, there's old jokey Joe campaigning for the much more serious Barack Obama.

00:04:20.000 When Joe Biden campaigns on his own behalf, he is not seen as a particularly serious fellow.

00:04:25.000 Now, maybe the age, maybe the fact that he has served as vice president for eight years, militates against that.

00:04:30.000 But I've been saying for a while, I will continue to maintain, I think that he is a weaker candidate than most people believe he is at this point.

00:04:36.000 If you are taking the polls for granted at this point, I think that you're getting a little bit bamboozled.

00:04:40.000 That said, he might be more desirable than I think, and it's also possible that his name recognition carries him to victory in a field that has one million candidates.

00:04:49.000 Well, right now, here's what the polls are showing.

00:04:51.000 So, Biden did get a significant bounce out of his campaign rollout.

00:04:54.000 Yesterday, I had suggested that he had not.

00:04:56.000 It turns out that the new polls show I was wrong.

00:04:58.000 He does have a significant bounce.

00:05:00.000 Biden announced his bid last Thursday.

00:05:02.000 He held his first rally on Monday in Pittsburgh.

00:05:04.000 He is now the first choice of more than a third of those who plan to participate in their state's Democratic primary or caucuses, according to the Morning Consult.

00:05:12.000 36% of Democratic voters say they prefer Joe Biden as the party's nominee.

00:05:16.000 That is a six-point increase That gives him a 14-point lead over Senator Bernie Sanders, who maintains at 22% overall.

00:05:24.000 Elizabeth Warren is starting to see a little bit of a boost. 0.99

00:05:27.000 She is following at 9%, followed closely by Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 8%, Kamala Harris at 7%, and Beto O'Rourke at 5%.

00:05:34.000 Basically, that grouping is well behind both Biden and Bernie.

00:05:39.000 And then, of course, you have all of the sort of fringe contenders.

00:05:41.000 Cory Booker has 3%.

00:05:43.000 Klabuchar and Andrew Yang both have 2%.

00:05:46.000 And then, of course, then you have Kirsten Gillibrand, who has 0%, because nobody wants Kirsten Gillibrand. 0.96

00:05:51.000 That's always a given.

00:05:52.000 All of these polls will show that only Kirsten Gillibrand's immediate family wants Kirsten Gillibrand to be president.

00:05:58.000 There are interesting cleavages in these polls.

00:06:01.000 So Biden's lead among white voters, 34% to 26%, is much smaller than his overall advantage.

00:06:07.000 He has a commanding lead with black voters, 44% to 20%, 44% for Biden, 20% for Bernie, and Harris at 10%.

00:06:16.000 Among Hispanic voters, Biden is leading Sanders by a slim margin, only 30 to 27%.

00:06:21.000 So basically, the entire lead for Joe Biden, or a great majority of the lead for Joe Biden, is with black voters.

00:06:27.000 That's deeply important because obviously it's how Barack Obama won the nomination in 2008 over Hillary Clinton.

00:06:32.000 Hillary won white voters running away. 1.00

00:06:34.000 Barack Obama won black voters running away as well.

00:06:36.000 The difference is that 60% of the Democratic base in a lot of southern states is black voters.

00:06:41.000 So Joe Biden is heavily relying on that minority vote.

00:06:44.000 Now, if Barack Obama came out and endorsed Joe Biden, it's a foregone conclusion he's the nominee in all likelihood.

00:06:49.000 But if he doesn't endorse Joe Biden, then there's going to be a lot of talk about Joe Biden's various racial quandaries.

00:06:56.000 The fact is that Joe Biden has a long record.

00:06:58.000 That record will become the subject of Kamala Harris's attacks and Cory Booker's attacks in particular.

00:07:02.000 They are hoping to steal away that 44% of black support that Joe Biden has in those polls.

00:07:08.000 Biden also has the support of nearly half of seniors, 65 and older, with 48 percent.

00:07:13.000 Sanders is doing very poorly with those older voters.

00:07:15.000 Those older voters tend to be a little bit more moderate, which is why Sanders is even running behind Buttigieg among seniors 65 and older.

00:07:22.000 So basically, old people and black folks really like Joe Biden and everybody else Sort of favors Bernie, or is at least very close to favoring Bernie.

00:07:30.000 Biden leads Sanders by 9 points among men, 33 to 24.

00:07:33.000 He has an 18 point lead among women, 38% to 20%.

00:07:36.000 In other words, it looks like the Democratic Party base is not the Twitter base.

00:07:42.000 But the question is, who is going to be running the show when it comes to the actual primary voting?

00:07:47.000 Who's going to be running the show when it comes to the campaign? 0.82

00:07:49.000 Is it going to be all the moderates who supposedly were going to show up and put Hillary Clinton over the top in 2008? 0.51

00:07:53.000 Or is it going to be the Bernie bros?

00:07:55.000 Remember, Bernie Sanders did not pull nationally on a comparable level with Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:08:03.000 And yet, he won an enormous number of primaries, he won an enormous number of delegates.

00:08:07.000 That's because, number one, Hillary was not a good candidate, and number two, because the people who tend to show up to the polls in outsized numbers are the most excited people, and those excited people tend to be young, white millennials. 0.60

00:08:18.000 Those are the people who tend to show up in primary voting for Democrats.

00:08:21.000 Older folks don't tend to show up as much in primary voting, and black folks don't tend to show up as much in primary voting.

00:08:27.000 Biden had a six point balance that tied Sanders for the largest bump that Morning Consult has measured around a candidate's announcement.

00:08:33.000 Immediately after Sanders launched his campaign, he vaulted six points and trailed Biden narrowly 29% to 27%.

00:08:39.000 So Biden is the front runner for now.

00:08:42.000 That Morning Consult weekly White House poll has a slight drop for Pete Buttigieg who may be maxing out.

00:08:47.000 It may be that Pete Buttigieg's momentum has stalled a little bit and that Biden jumping in is picking up all of the moderate momentum at this point.

00:08:55.000 That Biden pickup of six is coming from Sanders who lost two, Buttigieg who lost one, Harris who lost one, O'Rourke who lost one.

00:09:02.000 So that is pretty interesting.

00:09:05.000 Biden is strongest with black women. 1.00

00:09:07.000 With black women he is doing exceedingly well.

00:09:10.000 He has 47% of the black female vote as compared with 18% for Bernie Sanders and 17% for other But it's still, as I say, extremely early in the game.

00:09:22.000 Extremely early in the game at this point.

00:09:25.000 So for all the people who are already saying, well, you know, Biden's got this thing locked up, I don't really see that.

00:09:30.000 So Joe Biden did his campaign launch yesterday.

00:09:33.000 He was in Pittsburgh and he was speaking at a union hall.

00:09:35.000 This is going to be his chief argument.

00:09:37.000 His chief argument, as the International Association of Firefighters guy who announced him said, his chief argument is I'm the guy who's most likely to beat Trump.

00:09:44.000 Now, I have said for years, I think that's true.

00:09:47.000 I think Joe Biden is the candidate most likely to defeat President Trump because he is a guy who has a blue collar feel, a long record.

00:09:54.000 He's a person who is perceived as more moderate and more comfortable.

00:09:56.000 He can run a back to normalcy 1920 Warren G. Harding style campaign.

00:10:01.000 All he has to do is stand there.

00:10:03.000 People have a level of familiarity with him that they don't have with Bernie Sanders.

00:10:06.000 Bernie Sanders is kooky and scary, whereas Joe Biden is kooky and not nearly as scary.

00:10:11.000 So in a general election, that's the case.

00:10:12.000 If Joe Biden makes it through the primaries, I think he is a formidable challenger for President Trump.

00:10:17.000 My big question is, does he make it through the primaries, considering that the excitement in the primaries is everything?

00:10:23.000 That excitement in the primaries, the ability to mobilize people in Iowa and New Hampshire, for example, that means an awful lot.

00:10:30.000 There are new polls out of New Hampshire, by the way, that show Biden vaulting into the lead in New Hampshire.

00:10:34.000 Elizabeth Warren is picking up no new support in New Hampshire, which means that she's got a problem on her hands. 0.72

00:10:41.000 But Biden, according to the latest poll in New Hampshire, the Boston Globe Suffolk poll, shows that Biden has 20 percent, followed by Bernie Sanders at 12 and Buttigieg at 12.

00:10:50.000 So Buttigieg has been gaining.

00:10:52.000 Elizabeth Warren is still stuck at 8 percent.

00:10:55.000 None of these numbers are prohibitive, however.

00:10:58.000 Because remember, the national polls don't matter nearly as much as the primary polling.

00:11:01.000 In the primary polling, Biden has a very narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa.

00:11:05.000 In New Hampshire, he has a slight lead over Bernie Sanders in the poll average.

00:11:11.000 In the poll average, he's got maybe one point on Bernie Sanders.

00:11:16.000 In South Carolina, he seems to have opened it up.

00:11:19.000 South Carolina is where Biden has an advantage, again, because Iowa and New Hampshire are disproportionately white, and South Carolina is disproportionately black in terms of the voting delegations.

00:11:28.000 So the real question of the election is going to be, do you start to see black support wane for Joe Biden as his record is reviewed and as Barack Obama doesn't endorse him?

00:11:36.000 We'll get to Joe Biden actually jumping in, what he had to say and what his campaign looks like in just a second.

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00:12:53.000 All right, so Joe Biden launches his campaign, and one of the chief problems for Joe Biden is that he happens to be quite old.

00:12:59.000 And because he is quite old, he's 77 years old, come the time of the election.

00:13:04.000 That means that he's kind of slurring his words out there.

00:13:08.000 Donald Trump wants to label Joe Biden Sleepy Joe, which frankly I think is bad branding because Joe Biden's entire campaign is, I'm a normal guy you can trust.

00:13:17.000 Labeling him Sleepy Joe, like Trump being high energy versus Biden being low energy is actually not something that cuts in Trump's favor because I think that Biden's basic appeal right now is, guys, we need a breath.

00:13:29.000 We need a break.

00:13:30.000 I mean, this is just too crazy.

00:13:31.000 It would have been much better if he had gone with Obama-Joe, something that labels Joe Biden as part of the Obama team, but he's not doing that.

00:13:39.000 In any case, it is true that Joe Biden is an old dude, and that is something that is likely to come up in this election cycle, particularly in the primaries where he's running against a bevy of younger candidates, and even Bernie Sanders, who seems more energetic than Joe Biden.

00:13:52.000 Here is Joe Biden yesterday at the Teamsters Temple No.

00:13:55.000 249 in Pittsburgh slurring his words.

00:13:58.000 I want to thank Rich Fitzgerald, the county executive of Algeda County, being here.

00:14:04.000 All my time in public life since I've gotten involved, the country wasn't built by Wall Street bankers, CEOs, and hedge fund managers.

00:14:14.000 If the enterprise hit hard times, everybody took a hit.

00:14:17.000 Union workers, the UAW took incredible cuts in their future and their pensions in the left to get GM working.

00:14:25.000 They also got that last year.

00:14:28.000 OK, so I mean, he is slurring his words.

00:14:30.000 His age is going to be an issue, just like it was an issue for Hillary Clinton.

00:14:33.000 It will give Trump something to run against him on.

00:14:35.000 Although Joe Biden will likely look at Trump and say, listen, dude, you're like three years younger than I am.

00:14:40.000 Effectively speaking, this will be a bunch of old people clubbing each other for nominations and then the presidency. 1.00

00:14:45.000 It's a walker fight.

00:14:46.000 So stock up on tennis balls to make sure that those walkers move smoothly across the floor. 1.00

00:14:51.000 I'm very much looking forward to old people clubbing each other to death for the presidency of the United... When will the boomers leave us alone? 1.00

00:14:57.000 Honestly.

00:14:58.000 My parents are boomers.

00:14:59.000 There are some very wonderful boomers.

00:15:01.000 But can we like move beyond this?

00:15:03.000 That would be kind of nice.

00:15:04.000 In any case, so Joe Biden then launches his campaign.

00:15:08.000 And the launch of his campaign is old themes.

00:15:11.000 And the question for Americans is going to be, do we want to go back to the Obama era?

00:15:14.000 Now, the way that the Democrats are going to play the Obama era is a time of peace and prosperity where we had a popular president and people came together.

00:15:21.000 And then there's going to be a lot of folks who say, no, that's not what it was like at all.

00:15:25.000 So I think that you are going to see footage from President Trump of Ferguson on a loop.

00:15:29.000 You're going to see footage from President Trump of the Dallas police shootings.

00:15:33.000 You're going to see footage from President Trump of people who are impoverished during the Obama administration.

00:15:40.000 He's going to talk about how the economy is much better.

00:15:42.000 And that is Trump's chief appeal.

00:15:45.000 I don't think that Trump can make the case that he has been a radically unifying president, because I don't think that that's true, but the disunity started under Barack Obama, so any idea that Joe Biden is a unifying figure, I think is simply not the case.

00:15:57.000 Like, he should be running with ads of Joe Biden suggesting that Mitt Romney was going to put black people back in chains.

00:16:03.000 He should be running ads of Joe Biden saying that Obamacare was a big effing deal, combined with ads of Bernie Sanders saying that Obamacare is a disaster area.

00:16:11.000 But Joe Biden's real appeal, it's really funny, So Donald Trump's great appeal, when he said, make America great again, is that he was appealing to an ideal.

00:16:19.000 So Democrats, people on the left, they said, America was never great.

00:16:22.000 How can you say America, make America great again?

00:16:24.000 Like when?

00:16:24.000 When there was segregation, when there was slavery, when was America greater than it is now?

00:16:28.000 That's not what he meant by make America great again, as everybody intuitively understood.

00:16:33.000 What Donald Trump meant is that there is a generalized feeling in the United States that we are more disunified than we have been any time in recent history, and that there used to be at least a common sense of purpose in the United States, and that common sense of purpose was moving toward integrating everyone properly, and that America was based on fundamentally good principles.

00:16:53.000 And that we had left that during the Obama era.

00:16:56.000 Well, now Biden is basically running Trump's campaign from 2016.

00:17:00.000 He's now saying the Obama era was the apotheosis of unity.

00:17:03.000 That wasn't true.

00:17:04.000 But that's going to be his appeal.

00:17:05.000 He's going to say that Donald Trump is even more disunifying than Barack Obama.

00:17:09.000 So Barack Obama's period was a halcyon era of American unity.

00:17:12.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember that.

00:17:14.000 It's not true.

00:17:15.000 But you're going to see Joe Biden make that claim.

00:17:17.000 And that's why he was saying yesterday he's running to restore the soul of the nation.

00:17:21.000 If you're looking for the soul of the nation in Joe Biden, let me suggest that you're looking in the wrong place.

00:17:25.000 But here is Joe Biden's moral pitch.

00:17:28.000 There are three basic reasons why I'm running for president of the United States.

00:17:32.000 The first is to restore the soul of the nation.

00:17:35.000 And the second is to rebuild the backbone of this nation.

00:17:39.000 And the third is to unify this nation.

00:17:42.000 We always do better when we act as one America.

00:17:45.000 Yeah, well, I'm, again, old enough to remember when you were suggesting to Mitt Romney, the most anodyne, most antiseptic candidate in American history, you called that guy an incipient slave owner.

00:17:56.000 So don't give me the unity routine, old Joe.

00:17:59.000 But again, that's what he's going to be running on, because when you are running a unity campaign against somebody as divisive as President Trump, you don't have to be the full unifier.

00:18:07.000 All you have to do is be less divisive than President Trump, which actually is not all that hard a job.

00:18:12.000 Remember, Hillary Clinton was divisive for years, long before she did this.

00:18:15.000 Joe Biden is perceived as sort of doltish and cloddish, maybe accidentally un-unifying.

00:18:21.000 But I think that actually plays in his favor.

00:18:24.000 Then Trump gets to policy and Trump's policy is more moderate than the Democratic base.

00:18:28.000 And so Joe Biden will be attacked not only on his history in terms of race, but he will be attacked in terms of his own policy.

00:18:35.000 So Joe Biden has sort of a bizarre combination of policies.

00:18:40.000 He is running an old school Democratic campaign at the same time suggesting that Donald Trump's tax cuts should be repealed, but also it's time to start rewarding work, which is an odd thing since Some 80% of Americans received a tax cut under President Trump's tax cuts.

00:18:54.000 I should know, I am not one of them.

00:18:55.000 Here's Joe Biden deriding Trump's tax cuts but then saying that hard work should be rewarded.

00:18:59.000 It's time to start rewarding work over wealth.

00:19:04.000 Just, the first step is to reverse President Trump's tax cut for the very wealthy and corporations.

00:19:11.000 We need to eliminate these special tax breaks and the tax code.

00:19:15.000 That rewards special interests.

00:19:17.000 Let's get rid of capital gains loopholes for multi-millionaires.

00:19:20.000 Warren Buffett said it best.

00:19:21.000 He should not pay a lower tax rate than his secretary has.

00:19:24.000 I'm going to change that so millionaires and billionaires don't pay lower taxes than firefighters, teachers, and I go on and on.

00:19:31.000 We need to reward work in this country, not just wealth.

00:19:35.000 Okay, well, this is just sheer statistical nonsense, of course.

00:19:38.000 The vast majority of taxes are paid by wealthy folks.

00:19:41.000 My effective tax rate was close to 50% last year.

00:19:43.000 So, no.

00:19:44.000 I mean, this is just a bunch of nonsense.

00:19:46.000 Nonetheless, this is him making an old-school Democratic pitch with a little bit of Bernie Sanders flavor.

00:19:52.000 I'm not sure that the purists in the Democratic Party won't just say, okay, well, why wouldn't I just go with Bernie then?

00:19:57.000 Why wouldn't I just go pure?

00:19:59.000 Biden then makes the case, I mean, this is all lies.

00:20:01.000 Here's Biden suggesting that you got nothing from Trump's tax cuts.

00:20:04.000 That is just simply untrue.

00:20:05.000 Again, the vast majority of Americans received a tax cut.

00:20:09.000 And again, I should know, I am not one of them.

00:20:10.000 Here's Joe Biden making this case.

00:20:12.000 The middle class is hurting.

00:20:14.000 It's hurting now.

00:20:15.000 The stock market is roaring, but you don't feel it.

00:20:19.000 There was a $2 trillion tax cut last year.

00:20:23.000 Did you feel it?

00:20:24.000 Did you get anything from it?

00:20:26.000 Of course not.

00:20:27.000 Of course not.

00:20:29.000 All of it went to folks at the top and corporations that pay no taxes.

00:20:34.000 The basic bargain that used to exist that Democrats and Republicans used to agree to has been broken.

00:20:40.000 And that is if you contribute to the welfare of the enterprise you work for, you've got to share in the benefits and the profits.

00:20:47.000 Okay, that is not true.

00:20:48.000 Everybody still agrees that you get to share in the profits.

00:20:51.000 That is why everyone in the private sector has left unions.

00:20:54.000 Because they felt like the better chance of getting a raise was not to be part of a union that was going to drive down the profit margins of these various businesses, which is why the biggest businesses in America are not unionized.

00:21:04.000 And it's not all that hard to get a union started under the National Labor Relations Act.

00:21:09.000 The fact is the government benefits unions.

00:21:11.000 That act is still in full force.

00:21:13.000 And if companies try to quash unions, that is punishable by law.

00:21:16.000 Joe Biden, however, is making the same sort of case that Donald Trump made.

00:21:20.000 I wonder if that works in the current economy.

00:21:22.000 Now, maybe it does, because the media have been lying about the economy and suggesting that the economy is not all that good and that there's a huge number of Americans who are going without.

00:21:30.000 Still, I think that that is I wonder if that's going to be a convincing case.

00:21:35.000 Finally, there is Joe Biden making the defense of Obamacare.

00:21:39.000 And we'll get to in a second what Joe Biden's special vulnerabilities here are.

00:21:42.000 Here is Biden saying we have to save Obamacare.

00:21:46.000 Affordable health care was a huge step forward, the ACA in our country.

00:21:50.000 We made historic progress.

00:21:54.000 Americans who don't and didn't have it before now have it. 0.65

00:21:57.000 22 million.

00:21:57.000 We have to stop this administration's effort to gut it first and then we have to move on and finish the job and make health care, make health care a right.

00:22:08.000 Health care is a right, not a privilege.

00:22:11.000 We have to give everybody the peace of mind they deserve.

00:22:14.000 OK, so that's hilarious.

00:22:15.000 He's now defending the ACA and he's calling it a step along the way.

00:22:18.000 So the Obama administration was lying all those years.

00:22:21.000 I'll explain in a second why this makes Joe Biden vulnerable.

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00:23:35.000 As I say, the big problem for Joe Biden is twofold.

00:23:39.000 One, he is in fact Joe Biden, which means that he is gaffe-tastic.

00:23:43.000 Dude gaffes all the time.

00:23:44.000 And he says things that are offensive all the time.

00:23:47.000 And the media have not been paying attention to it in his first couple of days, really.

00:23:50.000 But I have a feeling that the backlash to Joe Biden as inevitable frontrunner is going to grow.

00:23:55.000 We see this with almost every race.

00:23:56.000 There's an inevitable frontrunner going in, and it's pretty rare the inevitable frontrunner wins.

00:24:00.000 And when they do, They end up being so wounded in the primaries that it's hard for them to go forward in the general.

00:24:05.000 Hillary Clinton is the person who most comes to mind.

00:24:07.000 Inevitable frontrunners have a rough time.

00:24:10.000 George W. Bush in 2000 was an inevitable frontrunner, and John McCain gave him a lot of trouble.

00:24:15.000 So I don't think this is going to be an uncontested primary where Joe Biden just runs away with it.

00:24:19.000 I don't think that Joe Biden's even capable of hobbling away with it.

00:24:24.000 The other problem for Joe Biden is not just that he is gaftastic, but that he has a history.

00:24:27.000 Modern American politics favors people who do not have histories. 0.78

00:24:31.000 It favors people who don't have anything to apologize for.

00:24:34.000 This is the big problem for Joe Biden, is that Joe Biden has a long and checkered history.

00:24:40.000 He keeps apologizing and apologizing and apologizing.

00:24:43.000 Is he going to be able to win a campaign based simply on apologizing over and over and over since the beginning of the year?

00:24:49.000 This has pretty much been his apology tour in January.

00:24:52.000 He apologized for supporting criminal sentencing laws that help drive down crime in the United States.

00:24:58.000 He did so because those laws are now considered both passé and unwoke.

00:25:02.000 People have said they're inherently racist.

00:25:04.000 Never mind the fact that 1994 criminal sentencing reform actually resulted in the single greatest decline in American crime in history.

00:25:12.000 It's actually something you should be proud of, but Biden has been running away of his own record.

00:25:17.000 If you don't think Kamala Harris and Cory Booker are going to eat him alive on this, you're wrong.

00:25:21.000 Which is why back in January, Biden was saying, I haven't always been right.

00:25:24.000 I know we haven't always gotten things right, but I've always tried.

00:25:27.000 He said that decisions about criminal justice reform trapped an entire generation.

00:25:31.000 It was a big mistake when it was made.

00:25:33.000 That's a pretty large change from 2016 when Biden told CNBC he wasn't ashamed at all for supporting criminal justice reform and bragged, quote, I drafted the bill.

00:25:43.000 So if you don't think those will be campaign commercials directed against old Joe, you got another thing coming.

00:25:47.000 And then, of course, weeks ago, as Biden prepped his presidential run, he approached Anita Hill.

00:25:51.000 That's the woman who accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. 1.00

00:25:54.000 Now, at the time, most Americans didn't believe Anita Hill in the same way most Americans did not believe Christine Blasey Ford and her meritless and baseless or evidence-free, at least, allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

00:26:07.000 Joe Biden didn't even believe Anita Hill at the time.

00:26:09.000 He told Arlen Specter, quote, It was clear to me from the way she was answering the questions, she was lying.

00:26:16.000 Now, however, Biden has told Hill that he was sorry for what happened to you.

00:26:20.000 That's because the left-wing agitprop over on HBO has suggested that Anita Hill is actually a martyr to the women's cause, despite the fact that she followed Justice Thomas from job to job, despite the fact that she had told, apparently, according to her friends, that she had told them that Justice Thomas was a good man and a legal scholar, and that she had left him all sorts of messages soliciting his well-being, seeing how he was doing and all of this over the years.

00:26:43.000 Now, Joe Biden is going around apologizing to Anita Hill, but Anita Hill says, why would I accept your apology?

00:26:48.000 You helped sink my case.

00:26:50.000 Just three weeks ago, Biden issued another quasi-apology for his habitual invasion of women's personal space.

00:26:56.000 It was weird grabbing of faces and touching of hair.

00:26:59.000 He said the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset.

00:27:02.000 I get it.

00:27:03.000 I hear what they're saying.

00:27:03.000 I understand it.

00:27:04.000 I'll be much more mindful.

00:27:07.000 So here's the big problem for Joe Biden.

00:27:09.000 All the things that make him attractive to moderates are all the things he's going to be apologizing for.

00:27:13.000 This puts him between a rock and a hard place.

00:27:15.000 If he had the courage not to apologize, he'd probably be better off.

00:27:19.000 But the media are going to insist he apologize so that he is considered sufficiently woke.

00:27:22.000 And that's why the New York Times has an entire piece today from Lucy Flores.

00:27:26.000 Flores is the former state assemblywoman Who was running for lieutenant governor of the state of Nevada and accused Joe Biden of smelling her hair. 0.98

00:27:34.000 She has a huge piece in the New York Times today called, Joe Biden and the Apologies that Warrant.

00:27:40.000 And she says, the act of atoning may be difficult and complicated, but the concept is simple enough.

00:27:45.000 You did something bad and it caused harm.

00:27:47.000 A basic sense of decency urges you to take measures to, at worst, express how sorry you are, and at best, do something to right the wrong.

00:27:54.000 On the other side of atonement, we find forgiveness.

00:27:56.000 One does not happen without the other.

00:27:58.000 History has shown us that both of these acts are difficult, and yet both are necessary to maintain a cooperative and functioning society.

00:28:04.000 And then she talks about the Me Too movement and how women are still being put under the thumb. 0.76

00:28:10.000 She says powerful, rich and famous men who acted with impunity, some for decades, were finally brought to some version of justice.

00:28:15.000 And then there was Joe Biden.

00:28:17.000 Not a villain.

00:28:18.000 Not an unlikable person.

00:28:19.000 Not a sexual harasser or assaulter.

00:28:21.000 But also, as Anita Hill recently found out, not exactly sorry either.

00:28:25.000 I wrote about my own experience with Mr. Biden last month, about the time in 2014 he grabbed my shoulders, smelled my hair, kissed the back of my head, and soon after, other women came forward about their own experiences with uninvited and unwanted intimate behavior in professional settings.

00:28:37.000 Even though his defenders reduced the behavior to hugging, it was not, and shifted the focus to his intent, it was good intent, and made up false political motives to shift the attention to me, She endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016.

00:28:47.000 Most reasonable people understand that this kind of behavior with women violates not just their bodily autonomy, but also demonstrates a lack of basic understanding of social norms. 1.00

00:28:55.000 Most people acknowledge men don't usually kiss, smell, rub noses with, place their hands on the thighs of, or touch foreheads with random women they don't know.

00:29:02.000 Yet some men do, especially powerful men, who are protected by privilege and a crew of self-interested enablers who don't want to lose their access to power by calling out the obvious.

00:29:10.000 If you don't think Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren Or Amy Klobuchar or Kirsten Gillibrand are going to hit Biden with this?

00:29:17.000 You are wrong.

00:29:18.000 He'll be hit with all of these things.

00:29:21.000 Lucy Flores concludes by suggesting he needs to seek atonement.

00:29:25.000 She says, if a candidate has taken some questionable positions or done or said some questionable things, we must ask, what have they done to show they've actually learned and evolved?

00:29:33.000 Ultimately, the easiest way to fairly assess whether or not someone has truly learned, evolved and atoned is to watch their actions.

00:29:38.000 Because when people show you who they are, then we should believe them.

00:29:42.000 And this is why Biden is going out there and trying to claim that he has apologized to Anita Hill, and Anita Hill is saying, I'm not interested in your apology.

00:29:49.000 Here is Joe Biden on The View, suggesting just that.

00:29:52.000 He said, I take responsibility for how Anita Hill was treated.

00:29:54.000 This is actually on Good Morning America.

00:29:56.000 I was chairman of the committee.

00:29:58.000 I believed her from the very beginning.

00:30:00.000 But I was chairman.

00:30:01.000 She did not get a fair hearing.

00:30:03.000 She did not get treated well.

00:30:05.000 That's my responsibility.

00:30:08.000 And I committed that I am determined To continue the fight, to see to it that we basically change the culture in this country where a woman is put in a position where she is disbelieved.

00:30:21.000 As the committee chairman, I take responsibility that she did not get treated well.

00:30:26.000 I take responsibility for that.

00:30:28.000 Oh, do you take responsibility for that, Joe Biden?

00:30:30.000 Because I have a feeling Anita Hill is not going to accept that. 0.93

00:30:33.000 Anita Hill, I have a feeling, is also going to back Kamala Harris for President of the United States. 1.00

00:30:36.000 So, as I say, Joe Biden has a lot of vulnerabilities.

00:30:39.000 Maybe those are all Twitter vulnerabilities.

00:30:41.000 Maybe those are in-the-bubble vulnerabilities.

00:30:43.000 Or it's possible that a lot of the in-the-bubble vulnerabilities eventually break out into the mainstream.

00:30:48.000 Joe Biden has not faced an iota of opposition yet from the other candidates in the race.

00:30:52.000 Not one iota.

00:30:53.000 And so he is widely perceived as the most selectable.

00:30:55.000 And when it comes to areas of, for example, if it comes to areas of his treatment of women in a general election, he will be able to point at Donald Trump and say, well, at least I'm not that.

00:31:06.000 So I'm not sure he's super vulnerable in a general to all of that.

00:31:08.000 But when it comes to his treatment of Anita Hill.

00:31:11.000 When it comes to his racial history, when it comes to his own history of demonizing his opposition, when it comes to his own history of lying, the fact is that Joe Biden lies with a straight face as well as any politician I've ever seen.

00:31:23.000 I remember in 2012 when he was debating Paul Ryan.

00:31:26.000 He was making things up.

00:31:28.000 Paul Ryan didn't have the base of knowledge, particularly on foreign policy, to fight Joe Biden on this.

00:31:32.000 But Joe Biden was making things up.

00:31:34.000 I mean, talking about how the Syrians had been cast out of Lebanon, making up American history. 1.00

00:31:41.000 And then grinning his way through it like the Joker.

00:31:45.000 I don't think Joe Biden is quite as likable as he seems right now because this is day one.

00:31:50.000 So come back to me in a couple months if Joe Biden is still leading.

00:31:53.000 But don't tell me that right now he is leading and therefore he is the inevitable nominee.

00:31:57.000 I have my doubts about that.

00:31:58.000 Bernie Sanders, too, is going to be attacking Joe Biden.

00:32:01.000 So Bernie Sanders, again, going to go after Joe Biden on his record.

00:32:04.000 I'll show you that in just one second.

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00:34:25.000 out we are the largest fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation so as i say better much better for a candidate not to have a record than to have a record This is what we find out from Barack Obama in 2008.

00:34:42.000 Having a record means you get attacked over that record.

00:34:44.000 So here is Bernie Sanders who has no record.

00:34:46.000 The nice thing about Bernie Sanders for Democrats, dude doesn't have a record.

00:34:49.000 He's said a lot of stuff, but he's never done anything ever.

00:34:52.000 He's not voted for anything. 1.00

00:34:53.000 He's a useless old codger, a useless old commie. 1.00

00:34:56.000 And so, but that gives him the ability to yell at Joe Biden a lot. 1.00

00:35:00.000 So he slams Joe Biden over trade deals.

00:35:01.000 The fact is that Joe Biden is trying to crib from Bernie Sanders's sheet when it comes to his populist outlook.

00:35:08.000 Here's Bernie Sanders trying to crush Biden over it.

00:35:11.000 I think when people take a look at my record versus Vice President Biden's record, I helped lead the fight against NAFTA.

00:35:21.000 He voted for NAFTA.

00:35:23.000 I helped lead the fight against PNCR with China.

00:35:26.000 He voted for it.

00:35:27.000 I strongly oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

00:35:31.000 He supported it.

00:35:32.000 I voted against the war in Iraq.

00:35:35.000 He voted for it.

00:35:37.000 OK, so obviously all of this is going to come up and the Democratic base is going to have to deal with all of this.

00:35:42.000 So he's going to get the Joe Biden is going to get the you're not radical enough.

00:35:46.000 You're not committed enough.

00:35:48.000 You're responsible for war in Libya. 0.90

00:35:49.000 You're responsible for war in Syria. 0.94

00:35:51.000 You were there for Obamacare, which is a giant fail.

00:35:54.000 Joe Biden is going to be able to say, Obamacare is great.

00:35:56.000 And Bernie Sanders is going to look at him and say, no, it's not.

00:35:58.000 Medicare for all is great.

00:36:00.000 And you want to say that you gave us a transition?

00:36:01.000 You said Obamacare was the final step.

00:36:03.000 In other words, there is a lot of dirt on Joe Biden, and none of it has yet really seen the light of day because it was all it was all glossed over by the beautiful candidacy of Barack Obama.

00:36:14.000 Joe Biden is not a beautiful, inspiring candidate.

00:36:16.000 Joe Biden is a confused old dude. 0.92

00:36:19.000 Who says a lot of weird stuff and acts weird.

00:36:22.000 So I do not know that he is going to be able to simply waltz to the nomination as so many people think he is.

00:36:29.000 Now, maybe I'm wrong.

00:36:30.000 Again, I could be wrong.

00:36:31.000 I was wrong about 2016 and Donald Trump's electability.

00:36:34.000 But I do think that we have not yet begun to see this fight.

00:36:38.000 Remember the date.

00:36:39.000 It is still April of 2019.

00:36:40.000 The first primaries are not going to happen for nearly a year.

00:36:44.000 That is a long time for Joe Biden to fall apart on the stump.

00:36:48.000 So for all of the talk about Joe Biden being a prohibitive or formidable front runner, I do not think that is correct.

00:36:54.000 OK, meanwhile, over in Venezuela, things are heating up again.

00:36:57.000 So people sort of forgot about Venezuela after Juan Guaido, who is the Venezuelan opposition leader, declared himself the president of the country.

00:37:05.000 And Nicolas Maduro, who's a dictator, declared, no, not so much.

00:37:08.000 And Juan Guaido has been under danger of arrest.

00:37:11.000 Members of the military have refused to join Juan Guaido's side.

00:37:14.000 Well, now he is pushing toward the endgame, is Guaido.

00:37:18.000 On Tuesday, he appeared with troops at a Caracas military base announcing a final phase to remove Nicolás Maduro from office.

00:37:24.000 It would be great, by the way, for Venezuela, for Nicolás Maduro and his corrupt socialist evil regime to go.

00:37:29.000 Juan Guaido is not a right-winger by any stretch of the imagination, but at least he is not a full-on socialist who is attempting to steal all the wealth for a privileged few while impoverishing the entire people.

00:37:41.000 So here's what we know for now, according to the Washington Post.

00:37:44.000 Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor John Bolton have expressed U.S.

00:37:49.000 support for the opposition.

00:37:50.000 Maduro says that the military has remained loyal.

00:37:52.000 Government leaders denounced a coup attempt by a reduced group of military officials and warned of a counterattack.

00:37:58.000 So that is them saying we're going to come in and maybe we'll slaughter our own troops.

00:38:02.000 Guaido has urged supporters to take to the streets for non-violent action and claims to have a list of names of military officials who support him.

00:38:08.000 So we're about to find out whether or not the people of Venezuela will rise up and whether the military is willing to fire on those people en masse.

00:38:16.000 The one thing Maduro has done is ensured that his top levels are secure by bribing them effectively.

00:38:23.000 According to the Washington Post, Guaido appeared early Tuesday to be staging a military-backed challenge to Maduro, issuing a video with troops that he said was recorded at a base in Caracas, urging other soldiers to join the final stage of Operation Liberty, meant to force the socialist leader from power.

00:38:38.000 In a second we'll get to more details.

00:38:40.000 So, Juayot said, "People of Venezuela, the end of usurpation has arrived.

00:38:43.000 At this moment, I am with the main military units of our armed forces starting the final phase of Operation Liberty.

00:38:48.000 People of Venezuela will go to the street with the armed forces to continue taking the streets until we consolidate the end of usurpation, which is already irreversible." Meanwhile, Maduro's communications minister tweeted that the government was moving to confront a coup and was attempting to deactivate a reduced group of military officials who are traitors.

00:39:05.000 So, this could theoretically break into open warfare in the coming hours.

00:39:09.000 Outside the La Carlota military base in the eastern district of Altamira, where Guaido has asked supporters to assemble, people started to join Guaido's call to protest.

00:39:17.000 They were met by tear gas canisters.

00:39:19.000 Not clear who was firing the tear gas.

00:39:21.000 Troops supporting Guaido appear to be wearing blue armbands.

00:39:24.000 Maduro said that the military is still loyal to him.

00:39:26.000 He tweeted, They're trying to suggest that Guaido is touching off violence with peaceful marches.

00:39:29.000 The question is, who's going to fire the first shot?

00:39:31.000 their total loyalty to the people, the Constitution, and the homeland.

00:39:34.000 I call for maximum popular mobilization to ensure the victory of peace.

00:39:38.000 We will win.

00:39:38.000 They're trying to suggest that Juado is touching off violence with peaceful marches.

00:39:43.000 The question is, who's going to fire the first shot?

00:39:45.000 And if the first shot is fired, how this goes?

00:39:47.000 And then the question becomes, what American involvement should be?

00:39:53.000 Should America be involved in this at all?

00:39:55.000 Should they be writing armed support to Guaido's military backers?

00:40:01.000 Guaido has called for non-violent action.

00:40:02.000 The video has the hallmarks of a significant military challenge.

00:40:07.000 His claim has been recognized, Guaido's claim has been recognized by nearly 60 nations, including the United States.

00:40:12.000 The Russians have been pushing support into the country as well.

00:40:16.000 Vice President Pence had tweeted, of course, to Juan Guaido, the National Assembly, and all of the freedom-loving people of Venezuela who are taking to the streets today in Operation Libertad.

00:40:26.000 Estamos con ustedes.

00:40:27.000 We are with you.

00:40:29.000 America will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored.

00:40:31.000 Vayan con Dios!

00:40:33.000 And of course Pompeo has expressed his support for it as well.

00:40:38.000 So if violence breaks out, how much support?

00:40:40.000 We should be providing as much support, in my view, as necessary, the same way we have provided support to the rightful opposition in Ukraine to Russian usurpation.

00:40:50.000 Marco Rubio, the senator who has strongly backed Guaido and been very vocal, says this is the moment for those military officers in Venezuela to fulfill their constitutional oath and defend the legitimate interim president Juan Guaido.

00:41:00.000 In this effort to restore democracy, you can write history in the hours and days ahead.

00:41:06.000 It's, you know, this is coming to a head, we'll keep tabs on it, but the United States should provide whatever covert support short of actual head-on military intervention is necessary to preserve Guaido and help this opposition take power in Venezuela.

00:41:23.000 Because Maduro is not only illegitimate, he is one of the worst dictators on the planet.

00:41:28.000 He has reduced one of the most oil-rich nations on Earth to a group of citizens eating dogs in the streets. 0.61

00:41:33.000 Which is horrifying in every way.

00:41:35.000 And by the way, one of the reasons that you have, along with many other regimes in South America that have done a terrible job of governing, a citizen in an immigration crisis moving toward South and Central America up through the American border. 0.58

00:41:49.000 Meanwhile, Democrats continue to target President Trump The incoming New York Attorney General has declared basically that she wants Trump.

00:41:57.000 This is prosecutorial misconduct.

00:41:59.000 Honestly, to suggest that you are going after a person, not a crime, is prosecutorial misconduct.

00:42:05.000 The goal of a prosecutor, the goal of police forces, is to detect a crime and then arrest the person responsible for the crime.

00:42:10.000 It is not to target the person, then dig up the crime.

00:42:14.000 It is easy enough for the police to trump up charges against anybody if you look long enough at everything that they are doing.

00:42:20.000 Not that hard to find some violation of law.

00:42:22.000 Well, now the New York Attorney General-elect, Letitia James, says that that's exactly what she's going to do.

00:42:26.000 She's going to unfairly and in corrupt fashion target the President of the United States. 1.00

00:42:32.000 She says that she is going to target Trump, his family, and anyone in his circle who may have violated the law.

00:42:37.000 She says, we'll use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well.

00:42:44.000 She wants to investigate any potential illegalities involving Trump's real estate holdings.

00:42:49.000 The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

00:42:51.000 She wants to examine government subsidies Trump received.

00:42:54.000 She wants to examine whether he's in violation of the Emoluments Clause in the U.S.

00:42:57.000 Constitution.

00:42:58.000 She wants to probe the Trump Foundation. 0.99

00:43:00.000 She doesn't want to investigate anyone in his orbit who has, in fact, violated the law.

00:43:05.000 The fact is that when you have prosecutors who are operating as freewheeling, targeting entities, this is not rule of law.

00:43:13.000 This is rule of men, and this is evil. 0.98

00:43:16.000 It really is.

00:43:17.000 It would be evil if a Republican prosecutor decided to investigate Barack and Michelle Obama just out of animus for Barack and Michelle Obama.

00:43:24.000 Again, if you want to target the crime, that is one thing.

00:43:27.000 That is a good thing.

00:43:28.000 But the fact is that when you have state prosecutors who are targeting individual human beings and then trying to find a crime, that is an abuse of power.

00:43:37.000 A serious abuse of power.

00:43:38.000 And it's something that everybody should consider, right, left, and center.

00:43:41.000 How would you feel if the government came after you and decided to pin a crime on you or to uncover a crime that you may have committed in the past, not based on them uncovering the crime, but based on their dislike for you?

00:43:51.000 This is incredibly, incredibly dangerous stuff.

00:43:55.000 It's so funny.

00:43:55.000 People will suggest that when Donald Trump says, lock her up about Hillary Clinton, that's out of animus for Hillary Clinton, and that's terrible and horrible.

00:44:02.000 At least he's identifying a crime.

00:44:04.000 Letitia James isn't even identifying a crime yet.

00:44:06.000 She's saying, I hope I find a crime here, and I hate President Trump.

00:44:10.000 That's an act of tremendous corruption.

00:44:13.000 Supreme corruption.

00:44:15.000 And this is the problem with the government having this sort of power generally.

00:44:19.000 You have to think about the sort of power that you hand to government because it could, in fact, be used against you.

00:44:24.000 I mean, Trump should be, frankly, Trump should sue her for violation of civil rights based on these sorts of statements.

00:44:33.000 Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank is already providing documents on Trump's financing to the New York state authorities.

00:44:39.000 They're investigating and demanding records related to loans and lines of credit granted to the Trump organization.

00:44:44.000 Trump is trying to sue Deutsche Bank to prevent Deutsche Bank from handing over those documents, saying this is outside the scope of the prosecution.

00:44:52.000 Opposition Democrats are doing the same thing.

00:44:54.000 This is unfair targeting, unless they actually have some evidence of a crime.

00:45:00.000 Now, is that illegal?

00:45:01.000 It is not illegal, but it demonstrates that the American voters need to get serious about how they implement their principles.

00:45:07.000 If you are happy with prosecutors, whether they are in Congress or whether they are state prosecutors, like Letitia James, the New York AG, abusing their power to target individuals just because they don't like their politics, this is dangerous, dangerous stuff.

00:45:20.000 Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.

00:45:23.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:26.000 So, there was a video yesterday that emerged of Amag Peretz, who's a 34-year-old uncle who saved his niece during the Chabad of Poway shooting.

00:45:37.000 He picked her up, ran her in the other room.

00:45:39.000 He was an immigrant from Sderot.

00:45:40.000 He had come over from Sderot, Israel.

00:45:42.000 Sderot is, of course, the city which has been fired upon by Hamas rockets repeatedly.

00:45:47.000 He was reunited with his niece yesterday.

00:45:48.000 The video is really beautiful.

00:45:50.000 And again, there are real heroes out there every day doing their best to save other people.

00:45:54.000 Almog Peretz is one of them.

00:45:56.000 There are many heroes at that particular congregation.

00:45:58.000 It's well worth pointing out.

00:46:00.000 The heroes who were running to save children.

00:46:03.000 One hero who ran unarmed, an armed man, in an attempt to scare him away.

00:46:06.000 A hero who pulled out a gun and shot at the armed terrorist.

00:46:11.000 They're heroes every day.

00:46:13.000 And if you're a hero, honestly, we need to arm ourselves.

00:46:15.000 We really do.

00:46:16.000 And I mean every good person should be armed.

00:46:18.000 Because there are just too many evil people out there for there to be any alternative.

00:46:23.000 Okay, so let's see.

00:46:25.000 Let's do some things that I hate.

00:46:26.000 All right, so things that I hate today. 0.93

00:46:33.000 This is just an awful story and demonstrates that when you are a nutcase driven by partisanship alone, you should... I mean, this is jailable stuff.

00:46:42.000 This is jailable stuff.

00:46:43.000 So, there's a story out today.

00:46:46.000 There was somebody who tried to put up a story suggesting that Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana had sexually assaulted a man in February. 0.95

00:46:54.000 It turns out that this story was just a lie, and it was put together, allegedly, by Jacob Wohl, who is just a gross human being, and Jack Berkman, another gross human being. 0.72

00:47:03.000 In the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh saga, they tried to suggest that certain Democrats were responsible for sexual assault. 0.99

00:47:10.000 They wanted to leverage the allegations and then suggest that, well, if you don't back this allegation even baselessly, then this just shows you're a hypocrite. 0.96

00:47:17.000 And so they tried to come up with apparently false allegations against Democratic figures. 0.93

00:47:21.000 Now they've tried the same thing with Pete Buttigieg, according to the Daily Beast, quote, a pair of right wing provocateurs are being engaged, are being accused of attempting to recruit young Republican men to level false allegations of sexual assault against Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

00:47:34.000 The details of the operatives attempt emerged as one man suddenly surfaced with a vague and uncorroborated allegation that Buttigieg had assaulted him.

00:47:41.000 The claim was retracted hours later on a Facebook page appearing to belong to the man.

00:47:46.000 A Republican source told the Daily Beast that lobbyist Jack Berkman and internet troll Jacob Wohl approached him last week to try to convince him to falsely accuse Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, of engaging him sexually while he was too drunk to consent.

00:47:59.000 The source said their goal was to kneecap Buttigieg's momentum in the 2020 presidential race.

00:48:05.000 The man asked to remain anonymous out of a concern the resulting publicity might imperil his employment.

00:48:09.000 And because he said Wohl and Berkman have a reputation for vindictiveness, which, of course, Is true.

00:48:15.000 The source did provide the Daily Beast with surreptitious audio of the meeting, which corroborates his account in it.

00:48:19.000 Wohl appears to refer to Buttigieg as a terminal threat to President Donald Trump's re-election next year.

00:48:24.000 On Monday, a separate individual using the name of Hunter Kelly published a post on the site Medium, on which he alleged that Buttigieg sexually assaulted him in February.

00:48:32.000 That post was tweeted out by David Wohl, Jacob's father, and quickly rewritten by the site Big League Politics, which is known as a landing ground for right-wing conspiracy theories.

00:48:41.000 Kelly's supposed Medium and Twitter accounts both say they were created this month.

00:48:45.000 His Facebook page included several posts lauding Trump and criticizing Hillary Clinton.

00:48:48.000 And then it turns out that Kelly, when he was identified, said, Again, this is an act of evil.

00:49:00.000 Trying to drum up criminal allegations against innocent people for political purposes is evil.

00:49:05.000 That is evil stuff.

00:49:07.000 And Wohl and Berkman should go to jail for this.

00:49:10.000 I mean, if they were soliciting people to make false charges, that is obvious state-level criminality.

00:49:20.000 Just disgusting.

00:49:22.000 And Wohl should have been thrown out of the movement long ago. 0.95

00:49:24.000 I've always thought that he was.

00:49:27.000 This is insanity.

00:49:28.000 The fact that he has been able to maintain any level of credibility whatsoever with any group of people in the United States demonstrates the gullibility of people who are willing to believe anything so long as it serves a partisan purpose.

00:49:41.000 Just amazing.

00:49:42.000 Just amazing and terrible.

00:49:43.000 So that is certainly the thing that I hate today.

00:49:47.000 Okay, final thing that I hate. 0.95

00:49:48.000 It's actually a thing that I mildly dislike, but it just demonstrates the hypocrisy of the left.

00:49:52.000 So, Sports Illustrated is now featuring a woman named Halima Aden. 0.99

00:49:58.000 Now listen, I don't care, frankly, if a woman wears a burkini. 1.00

00:50:06.000 I don't care if she wears a hijab to go to the beach. 1.00

00:50:07.000 You can wear whatever you want to go to the beach.

00:50:09.000 France has banned this sort of stuff.

00:50:11.000 I don't think that's appropriate. 0.97

00:50:12.000 I think you should be able to wear whatever dumb swimwear you want. 0.98

00:50:14.000 I think you should be able to wear a bikini or a burkini. 1.00

00:50:17.000 If you're a free human being, you get to choose what you wear.

00:50:20.000 But Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is not a sales line for swimsuits.

00:50:26.000 It is, it is a, it is, let's be frank about this.

00:50:29.000 It is softcore pornography for the uninitiated.

00:50:31.000 That's what Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is, was, and always will be. 1.00

00:50:35.000 And this attempt to pretend that it's all about female choice, that's really what Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is, it's really stupid. 0.99

00:50:42.000 I was one of those guys. 0.99

00:50:43.000 I'm one of the few people in America... I subscribed to Sports Illustrated for years until they became so overtly political I could no longer read their magazine.

00:50:50.000 I used to read it cover to cover every single week for years.

00:50:52.000 I was a subscriber for probably a decade.

00:50:54.000 I was one of the few people who actually called up their number and unsubscribed from the swimsuit edition.

00:50:58.000 You could do that and then get an extra issue.

00:51:00.000 I'm one of the people who took advantage of that because it was obvious what the swimsuit edition was.

00:51:04.000 I love that they're now recasting it as female empowerment.

00:51:07.000 So it's it's women in body paint, hot women in body paints, and then just a lady wearing a wet suit, which is an interesting take. 1.00

00:51:15.000 If you're gullible enough to believe the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was ever about anything other than excitable teenage boys or men who are trying to have an excuse to look at women in lingerie or body paint, then you are out of your mind. 0.99

00:51:26.000 So silly, silly Sports Illustrated. 1.00

00:51:28.000 And if feminists fall for this, they are really dumb. 1.00

00:51:32.000 They're really dumb. 1.00

00:51:32.000 OK, so we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours. 1.00

00:51:35.000 Plus, Make sure that you are here tomorrow for the next episode of The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:51:41.000 We'll see you then.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 30, 2019

Old Joe’s Throwback Campaign | Ep. 770

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