The Ben Shapiro Show - March 20, 2024


Texas CRACKS DOWN on Illegal Immigration

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The Supreme Court allows the State of Texas to begin arresting and deporting non-citizens on its own, rejecting an emergency appeal from the Biden administration that argued that states can t interfere with federal authority over the border. What does this mean for the future of the border? And what will the Mexican government do to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the border into the United States? And what does it have to do with all of the illegal immigrants who already cross the border illegally? What role does Mexico play in the process of deporting illegal immigrants from Texas and other states along the southern border? What does Mexico have to say about this? And is this a good or bad deal for illegal immigrants in general, or just one more example of the open border policy that the Biden Administration is trying to implement in order to achieve their vision of an all-encompassing, "open border" immigration policy that will see illegal immigrants flowing across the U.S. border and into the rest of the country. What does that mean for illegal immigration and illegal immigration in general? Is this a win for the border or a lose-win situation, or is it a defeat for the Border Patrol? or is this just more of the same? policy that has been in place for years and will it be even worse? in the future? We ll find out in this episode of the podcast, where we discuss what will happen in the immigration policy and immigration policy from the Obama administration and what it means for illegal immigrant detention centers and detention centers in Mexico and the border patrol areas in Mexico. and what Mexico is going to do in response to the border law that the President is doing to stop illegal immigrants crossing the border to get a fair shot at a fair chance to apply for asylum status in the US. in this segment of the immigration reform. Subscribe to our new show, "The Border Problem." and much more! to learn more about immigration reform, immigration reform and border security, immigration and border enforcement, and what's happening on the border, and how we can expect in the coming episodes of "The border crisis. . The border crisis, immigration, and immigration reform in general. from President Obama's America's immigration policy, and why we should all be paying attention to the situation in the border and what we can do to protect the border in the near and the other places we need to do to make it better, not less.

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00:00:00.000 So, just how committed is the Biden administration to an open border?
00:00:03.000 They're so committed to an open border that they're now trying to stop the state of Texas from actually enforcing the border as we know.
00:00:09.000 The state of Texas tried to erect, for example, barbed wire fencing in the middle of a Texas state park to prevent illegal immigrants from simply rushing over the border and into the interior of the United States.
00:00:19.000 The White House then ordered Border Patrol to go in and take down some of that fencing.
00:00:24.000 The White House has also attempted to now sue the state of Texas to stop the state of Texas from passing a law that would criminalize illegal entry into the state of Texas, which would allow the state of Texas to arrest and then presumably attempt to deport illegal immigrants.
00:00:38.000 The Biden administration said no.
00:00:40.000 Only we have the prerogative when it comes to enforcing border law.
00:00:43.000 And we have chosen not to enforce border law, which means you cannot enforce border law.
00:00:47.000 Which, of course, is an absurd contention.
00:00:49.000 And the entire purpose of the federal government is to enforce things like the border.
00:00:53.000 And if they won't do it, well then states probably Under the law, do have the sovereign ability to actually enforce the border.
00:01:00.000 That was the question before the Supreme Court.
00:01:02.000 The Wall Street Journal reports that on Tuesday, the Supreme Court allowed the state of Texas to begin arresting and deporting non-citizens on its own, rejecting an emergency appeal from the Biden administration that argued that states can't interfere with federal authority over the border.
00:01:14.000 The court declined to block Texas laws known as SB4 that makes illegal border crossing a state crime and then allows state officials to conduct arrests and deportations.
00:01:23.000 The Supreme Court was considering whether, in fact, the supremacy clause meant that the federal government had basically occupied that field of law and states could not intervene in any way, shape, or form.
00:01:32.000 The Supreme Court decided, no, it turns out the state of Texas can criminalize illegal entry into the state of Texas by illegal immigrants and then attempt to deport.
00:01:39.000 The Supreme Court order Split the justices along ideological lines, but it's not a final decision, so it'll probably be remanded back to the appellate court, and then it will come back to the Supreme Court in another form.
00:01:50.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a state enforcing its own immigration law in conflict
00:01:53.000 with federal policy could have an immediate and wide-ranging impact on the border.
00:01:57.000 Migrants who claim asylum from persecution have long been eligible to remain in the United
00:02:00.000 States, at least temporarily, because federal law implementing international treaties bars
00:02:03.000 summary deportation before those cases are decided.
00:02:06.000 So, in other words, the federal government decides to grant somebody temporary asylum
00:02:10.000 status while their case awaits, while it is pending.
00:02:14.000 The state of Texas can say, well, I don't know about that.
00:02:17.000 This seems pretty sketch.
00:02:18.000 We're just going to arrest you and deport you anyway. 0.96
00:02:21.000 The thing about this that's so odd, of course, is that for years and years and years, we've been told that it's totally fine for states not to cooperate with federal authorities in their non-enforcement of the borders.
00:02:31.000 If the federal authorities ask cities, for example, to give them information when an illegal immigrant is arrested, then cities can call themselves sanctuary cities and simply refuse to comply.
00:02:40.000 Okay.
00:02:41.000 So, in other words, the left-wing perspective on this is that if you are the city of New York and you wish to call yourself a sanctuary city, the federal government has not actually occupied the space and you can do what you want, but if you're the state of Texas and you wish to actually enforce the border, you can't do the reverse.
00:02:56.000 The country of Mexico immediately came out and said, we won't even accept any sort of deportees from Texas.
00:03:03.000 So if you try to ship them back into Mexico, we are not going to accept them. 1.00
00:03:07.000 We'll only accept them from the federal government, which again, goes to show you how hand in glove the Biden administration is working with the Mexican government.
00:03:13.000 Remember, Donald Trump had in place, he had negotiated a remain in Mexico policy with the Mexican government.
00:03:19.000 That remain in Mexico policy meant that if you tried to cross the American border, You were captured or you applied for asylum.
00:03:25.000 You had to wait in Mexico to hear whether a court would allow you into the country or not.
00:03:31.000 You could not be released simply into the United States and then you never show up for your court date again.
00:03:36.000 And Trump had negotiated that with Mexico.
00:03:38.000 Day one, Joe Biden walked that one back.
00:03:40.000 So the Mexican government, of course, prefers to work with Joe Biden rather than, say, the state of Texas.
00:03:44.000 The government of Mexico put out a statement.
00:03:47.000 Condemning the entry into force of anti-immigration law SB4 in Texas.
00:03:50.000 They say, quote, on behalf of the government of Mexico,
00:03:52.000 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the entry into force of Texas law SB4,
00:03:56.000 which seeks to stop the flow of migrants by criminalizing them
00:03:59.000 and encouraging the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling.
00:04:02.000 It violate the human rights of the migrant community. 1.00
00:04:04.000 I didn't realize there was such a thing as the migrant community.
00:04:07.000 I mean, spoiler alert, there isn't.
00:04:09.000 It turns out that migrants come from a hundred plus countries all around the globe.
00:04:12.000 They don't constitute their own community.
00:04:14.000 The state of Texas, which is heavily Hispanic, is not simply going after Hispanic people.
00:04:19.000 They're going after anyone who is there illegally.
00:04:22.000 Meanwhile, Mexico says that they reiterate their legitimate right to protect the rights of their nationals in the United States and to determine its own policies regarding entry into its territory.
00:04:30.000 So in other words, Mexico is saying if a Chinese national crosses all the way through Mexican territory and then goes into the United States and the state of Texas arrests that person and tries to deport them back to Mexico, you know, where they were just a moment ago, Mexico will say, no, we get to protect our border from the American invasion from the north. 0.55
00:04:47.000 Pretty amazing stuff.
00:04:47.000 And again, it is the Biden administration that has announced We'll get to more on this in just a second.
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00:06:01.000 Speaking of albatrosses around the neck of the Biden campaign, yesterday, the House GOP held a hearing over the disastrous 2021 withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
00:06:13.000 According to Axios, General Kenneth McKenzie, the head of U.S.
00:06:15.000 CENTCOM during the withdrawal, as well as Mark Milley, will testify to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Republicans on the panel would try to get the retired generals on the record in order to tie the failures in Afghanistan to the Biden administration, which, of course, that's precisely what they were.
00:06:30.000 I mean, those failures are what sank Joe Biden's presidency.
00:06:32.000 Go back and look at his approval rating.
00:06:34.000 His approval rating was in the 50th percentile.
00:06:36.000 It was about halfway.
00:06:37.000 It was like 51, 52 percent.
00:06:39.000 Afghanistan hits.
00:06:39.000 He dumps to the low 40s.
00:06:41.000 He has been there ever since.
00:06:43.000 And there's a reason for that.
00:06:44.000 Again, the simple failure of the Biden administration on Afghanistan was a prelude to all the failures since.
00:06:51.000 Whether in Ukraine, or whether in Israel, whether you're talking in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, whether you're talking in the Straits of Taiwan, or whether you're talking about in the Straits of Hormuz.
00:07:00.000 All of this was pre-staged by the Biden administration's absolute disgusting weakness on foreign policy.
00:07:06.000 How bad was the American government with regards to the withdrawal from Afghanistan?
00:07:11.000 So bad that General Mark Milley actually did testify in front of Congress yesterday saying that he literally has no idea how many Americans were left behind there.
00:07:19.000 The number of Americans, as General McKenzie said, an F-77 report is supposed to... Every ambassador in every country in the world keeps an F-77 report and they're supposed to track the Americans, where they're at, the phone numbers, address, etc.
00:07:30.000 in the country.
00:07:32.000 That was always a difficult number for us in the Department of Defense.
00:07:36.000 to get a hold of, and I think it's true at the tactical level and operational level as well.
00:07:41.000 And I'll be candid.
00:07:42.000 I don't know the exact number of Americans that were left behind because the starting number was never clear.
00:07:47.000 Same is true of at-risk Afghans, SIVs, the commandos, other Afghans that served with us.
00:07:54.000 Those numbers varied so widely that they were quite inaccurate, as best I could tell at the time.
00:08:02.000 So I would just say I'm not sure, even today, about the accuracy of all those numbers.
00:08:10.000 Slow clap for the geniuses in the American military upper echelons who decided to work with Joe Biden on that pusillanimous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:08:18.000 As General Jack Keane, retired, said, Joe Biden bears responsibility for this.
00:08:23.000 What we've heard so far, General, from this hearing is pretty much common knowledge.
00:08:28.000 But this idea that the generals certainly do seem to be pointing a finger at the State Department here does not go unnoticed.
00:08:35.000 Well, first of all, I mean, the rose has got to be pinned here, and I think it's unequivocally clear.
00:08:40.000 The decision to execute an unconditional Withdrawal with a date certain that the president decided on, over the objection of his military chain of command, the advice that his director of the CIA provided to him, that it's likely that ISIS and Al-Qaeda would grow and rise again if we pulled out completely.
00:09:01.000 And the NATO nations who were there with us, who provided some 7,000 troops themselves, all to a person representing those nations wanted to stay.
00:09:12.000 Not to please the United States, but because of their own national interests.
00:09:16.000 The president made this decision over all of those objections.
00:09:20.000 He owns everything that took place as a result of that decision.
00:09:24.000 The media have worked hard to obscure what Joe Biden did in Afghanistan.
00:09:27.000 It is still the single greatest foreign policy failing of my lifetime.
00:09:32.000 As one Afghanistan veteran, Mike Judy, testified, weak leadership is what leads to what happened in Afghanistan.
00:09:39.000 It remains a mystery to this day why, when he requested permission to take out that suicide bomber, it went up the chain of command and never came back down.
00:09:50.000 That's a great question, and I think the American people deserve that answer.
00:09:54.000 Because you need positive identification, and then you're going to put it up to the higher-ups.
00:09:58.000 And either they're going to give you the go or the no-go on that.
00:10:01.000 You know, I think what we have here is a difference between weak and strong leadership.
00:10:06.000 Weak leadership holds zero accountability and pins the blame on their subordinates.
00:10:10.000 Strong leadership will take extreme ownership and accountability for their actions and or inactions.
00:10:17.000 Speaking of failure to take extreme ownership over action or inaction, the Joe Biden economy continues to exist in this weird nether space in which the economy is booming and then a month later you get sort of revisions to the number of jobs that supposedly have been gained.
00:10:32.000 Or the economy is doing amazing but inflation is still carving away at all real wage growth.
00:10:36.000 Or the economy is unbelievable except that you're still paying Way more than you were just a few years ago for gas.
00:10:41.000 Gas prices, by the way, for the record, were $2.40 when Joe Biden took office per gallon.
00:10:45.000 Today, they're clocking in around $3.50.
00:10:49.000 Contributing to that entire problem is the fact that the Biden administration is beholden to its far left flank when it comes to oil and natural gas.
00:10:56.000 In fact, back in January, the White House issued a temporary pause on pending approvals of liquefied natural gas exports.
00:11:04.000 Which, again, makes zero sense.
00:11:06.000 Right now, Europe is begging for LNG.
00:11:08.000 They're begging for it because Russia, of course, has cut off the supply of LNG to Europe.
00:11:13.000 Europe has said, we don't want to take that LNG because we don't want to pay Russia money in order to invade Ukraine.
00:11:19.000 The United States should be filling that gap.
00:11:20.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration is steadfastly undercutting the oil and gas industry in the United States.
00:11:26.000 Why exactly did the Biden administration do this?
00:11:27.000 Of course, to fight climate change.
00:11:29.000 Of course, of course.
00:11:30.000 So back in January, they issued an executive order saying, quote, That's why since day one, President Biden has led and delivered on the most ambitious climate agenda in history.
00:11:45.000 Today, the Biden-Harris administration is announcing a temporary pause on pending decisions on exports of liquefied natural gas to non-FTA countries Until the Department of Energy can update the underlying analysis for authorizations.
00:11:58.000 That, of course, followed on a September announcement by the Biden administration that they were going to slash offshore oil and gas leasing.
00:12:05.000 And, of course, Joe Biden has suggested that there are going to be crackdowns on the oil and natural gas industry, which means nobody is investing in refineries.
00:12:12.000 The natural result of that is increased oil prices because, obviously, in order to generate future products, you have to start the drilling right now.
00:12:18.000 No one in their right mind is going to drill knowing That Joe Biden might step in and shut it down literally tomorrow.
00:12:24.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden's advisors are trying to suggest that this is having no impact on anybody.
00:12:28.000 Here is Joe Biden advisor Amos Hochstein, economic advisor, talking about the LNG pause.
00:12:34.000 The question is, when you build out that much additional capacity, you've got to take a second and say, wait a minute, before I give a lot more export licenses only to countries that don't have free trade agreements.
00:12:45.000 So it's not a total pause.
00:12:47.000 OK.
00:12:47.000 And then we say, all right, let's look, what are the economic impacts?
00:12:50.000 How much demand is going to be past 2035, 2040 for gas?
00:12:55.000 And what are the impacts on the communities that live along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which is really where all of these facilities are being built?
00:13:04.000 And so let's take a look.
00:13:05.000 Let's see if you do a study for a few months, see where it is, and then decide what the right course of action is.
00:13:11.000 Do you want to approve everything?
00:13:12.000 Do you want to select what is right for the economy, for the U.S.
00:13:16.000 economy in the world?
00:13:17.000 And I think we'll be in fine shape after that.
00:13:19.000 I don't think it's going to have that much of an impact. 0.94
00:13:20.000 Okay, this is all ridiculous. 0.87
00:13:21.000 That sounds better than it is. 0.53
00:13:22.000 When he says countries with which the United States has free trade agreements, that does not include, by the way, virtually all of Europe.
00:13:28.000 It includes like Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Korea.
00:13:34.000 It doesn't include any of the countries, by the way, that are currently under the Russian thumb when it comes to lack of energy supply.
00:13:39.000 So once again, big win for the Biden administration.
00:13:42.000 And again, the Biden administration is washing its hands, just like they did on immigration.
00:13:46.000 Just like they did in Afghanistan, they're washing their hands with regard to oil and natural gas.
00:13:50.000 Here's Corinne Jean-Pierre yesterday announcing that Joe Biden has already done everything he can to deal with the high oil prices.
00:13:56.000 The president has done everything that he can to deal with oil, obviously lowering the actions that he took led to lowering gas prices.
00:14:06.000 No, they really, really didn't.
00:14:08.000 They really didn't.
00:14:09.000 Again, you are now paying 50% more for gas than you were when Joe Biden took office, and it's not going to go down anytime soon.
00:14:17.000 Get some more on this in just one second.
00:14:18.000 First, April 7th marked six months since Hamas brutally attacked Israel, launching a vicious war for Israel's survival.
00:14:24.000 We're living in times we never thought we would see.
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00:14:32.000 The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground right now delivering critically needed emergency supplies to those who are suffering.
00:14:38.000 There's an immediate need for essentials like food, medicine, and emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of Jews in Israel.
00:14:43.000 Many cannot return to their homes because of the rocket fire in the north from Hezbollah. 1.00
00:14:48.000 Israel is in desperate need.
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00:14:52.000 It's a matter of life and death for a lot of men, women, and children who are displaced because their homes were destroyed in the South and many who are displaced in the North right now.
00:14:59.000 Many families are still torn apart, have loved ones being held hostage.
00:15:02.000 Many have loved ones who are still fighting in the military.
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00:15:18.000 God bless and thank you.
00:15:20.000 So what this means that the Biden campaign is heavily reliant on pretty much using every tool at their disposal in order to just target Trump.
00:15:27.000 That's it.
00:15:28.000 Because they can't win on the basis of Joe Biden being a good president.
00:15:30.000 He's not a good president.
00:15:32.000 And so I think that Katie Porter spelled it out quite well the other day.
00:15:35.000 Katie Porter is the representative from California, very famous for using a whiteboard very often before losing senatorial races. 0.99
00:15:41.000 And she was appearing on Pod Save America.
00:15:44.000 And she explained that there would be a solution for Joe Biden's lead rival.
00:15:49.000 Here she goes.
00:15:51.000 And so people were like, we got to think everything.
00:15:54.000 Every decision has to be made in tension with Trump.
00:15:58.000 Soon, Trump will lose or go to prison or I don't know, have a heart attack.
00:16:04.000 I'm not sure.
00:16:04.000 I don't know what his demise is going to be, but he'll have his demise.
00:16:08.000 And the question will still be there.
00:16:10.000 Who are we as Democrats?
00:16:12.000 Pretty amazing stuff, right?
00:16:13.000 They're just counting on it.
00:16:14.000 He'll go to jail, or he'll die, or he'll lose.
00:16:19.000 Well, they will use every method at their disposal to make sure that one of those things happens.
00:16:23.000 Most likely, the go to jail option.
00:16:27.000 This presumably is why there is now a Donald Trump aide named Peter Navarro who is going to jail.
00:16:33.000 Peter Navarro is a hawk on trade.
00:16:36.000 He's very much in favor of tariffs.
00:16:37.000 I don't agree with his economic theories, but I also find it quite weird that he is supposed to be going to jail for contempt of Congress.
00:16:43.000 is to make him, along with Steve Bannon, the only officials in American history, so far as I'm aware, who have actually been jailed over a contempt of Congress charge.
00:16:52.000 Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress.
00:16:54.000 Alejandro Mayorkas was recently held in contempt of Congress, I believe.
00:16:58.000 None of them are going to jail.
00:16:59.000 It requires the DOJ to actually carry that forward to criminal fruition.
00:17:04.000 Well, just yesterday, the U.S.
00:17:05.000 Supreme Court denied a request by Donald Trump's former aide Peter Navarro to avoid prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for defying a subpoena from a panel that investigated the January 6th attack.
00:17:15.000 He is now going to be the first senior member of the administration to actually go to prison for actions related to the attempt to overturn Trump's 2020 election laws.
00:17:22.000 Now, there's no question that he obstructed Congress in the sense that he actually had a legal duty to testify in front of Congress.
00:17:31.000 They called him to testify in front of Congress.
00:17:34.000 He refused to do so.
00:17:35.000 He claimed executive privilege.
00:17:36.000 Executive privilege really did not apply to the activities of January 6th.
00:17:39.000 And so Congress held him in contempt.
00:17:41.000 But that's happened a lot, people being held in contempt of Congress.
00:17:43.000 The question is whether they then go to jail.
00:17:45.000 And Peter Navarro is correct when he says, hey guys, why is it that I'm the only one who goes to jail?
00:17:50.000 Could that have to do with the fact that you really don't like President Trump very much?
00:17:54.000 The justice system, such as it is, will have done a crippling blow For the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.
00:18:02.000 Here's where the homework is, because the big constitutional separation of powers are these.
00:18:11.000 Can Congress compel a senior White House advisor, what they call the alter ego of a president, to testify before Congress?
00:18:21.000 And executive privilege goes back to George Washington and his remarks to the Congress regarding the Jay Treaty.
00:18:32.000 And he said, very simply and clearly, succinctly, elegantly, that to write to the Congress, he said, I cannot command you, as members of Congress, to come to me.
00:18:46.000 You cannot command me to come to you.
00:18:51.000 And the reason is the constitutional separation of powers.
00:18:54.000 Now again, the question as to whether executive privilege applied to the kind of conversations that Peter Navarro is having with President Trump is an open one.
00:19:01.000 The point is that there have been a lot of people who have been held in contempt of Congress over the centuries since the United States was created.
00:19:07.000 He's the first guy to actually go to jail over something like that, and that presumably is because there needs to be a headline about Trump aides going to jail over January 6th.
00:19:16.000 Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, they literally put out a piece titled, it turns out the deep state is actually kind of awesome.
00:19:22.000 So Donald Trump is constantly railing about the deep state.
00:19:24.000 Correctly, it turns out that the permanent employed class in Washington, D.C., many of whom work inside the executive branch in these permanent agencies that never go away and never turn over, they're in danger from President Trump.
00:19:35.000 And now the media are gonna come out in their defense.
00:19:37.000 There needs to be an unelected, unanswerable branch of the American government, according to the media, specifically to stymie the kinds of things that Donald Trump wants to do.
00:19:45.000 And that is why you need entire pieces in the New York Times talking about the magic of the deep state.
00:19:50.000 Quote, as America closes in on a major election, Mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity that's now denounced in scary-sounding terms.
00:19:56.000 The Deep State.
00:19:57.000 The Swamp.
00:19:58.000 What do these words even mean?
00:19:59.000 Who exactly do they describe?
00:20:01.000 We went on a road trip to find out.
00:20:02.000 As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are like us.
00:20:06.000 They like Taylor Swift.
00:20:08.000 They dance.
00:20:08.000 They go to bed at night watching Star Trek reruns.
00:20:10.000 They go to work and do their jobs, saving us from Armageddon.
00:20:13.000 Sure, our tax dollars pay them, but as you'll see in the video above, what a return on our investment we get.
00:20:18.000 When we hear deep state instead of recoiling, we should rally.
00:20:21.000 We should think about the workers, otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us.
00:20:29.000 Wow.
00:20:30.000 So what is this piece directed at?
00:20:31.000 It's directed at Donald Trump not being able to use Schedule F. Schedule F allows the president of the United States to summarily fire people in the executive branch.
00:20:40.000 Which he should be able to do.
00:20:42.000 That is a good thing because the president is elected and none of these jokers are.
00:20:46.000 Now, that doesn't mean everybody who's working in a permanent position in the federal government is bad or bad at their job.
00:20:50.000 What it does mean is that the only reason the media are celebrating these people today is because they believe they'll be an entrenched interest group designed to stymie and stifle anything that President Trump attempts to do.
00:21:02.000 Democrats love the deep state specifically because it is unconstitutional.
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00:22:10.000 Again, this is one of the reasons.
00:22:12.000 You want to know why you guys got Trump?
00:22:15.000 The reason you got Trump is because in 2012, Republicans nominated the most genteel candidate in modern American history, Mitt Romney.
00:22:23.000 Absolutely milquetoast.
00:22:24.000 Absolutely bland.
00:22:26.000 Super genteel.
00:22:27.000 Really polite.
00:22:28.000 And you know what you did to him?
00:22:29.000 You hit him with the kitchen sink.
00:22:31.000 You reached into your pocket, you pulled out a lead pipe, and you beat him half to death.
00:22:34.000 And then Republicans were like, hey, you know what?
00:22:37.000 If you're just going to hit with everything you got, and it doesn't have to be fair and it doesn't have to be right, well, we got somebody who will do the same thing to you.
00:22:45.000 And every time the Democrats double down on this sort of stuff, it makes people in the Republican Party more passionate about somebody like Donald Trump, who's willing to use pretty much any tool at his disposal to attack his enemies.
00:22:57.000 And it's every story.
00:22:58.000 I mean, for example, Stormy Daniels.
00:23:01.000 Stormy Daniels.
00:23:02.000 The fact that Stormy Daniels is a national name, no credit to Donald Trump on his personal life, obviously.
00:23:08.000 But let's be real about who Stormy Daniels is.
00:23:11.000 Stormy Daniels literally met Donald Trump at a golf event, and she slept with him after meeting him because he said that he might be able to get her on The Apprentice or something.
00:23:23.000 And then she tried to essentially blackmail Trump for years.
00:23:28.000 She essentially attempted to sell her story to the public to demonstrate that Donald Trump was just the worst person in the world, and so Donald Trump paid her to be quiet.
00:23:38.000 So this raises some moral questions about, you know, a porn star named Stormy Daniels, who was willing to have sex with people because apparently they were willing to put her on The Apprentice for a moment in time, and then decided to try to sell that story to the press to make money.
00:23:50.000 That's not like an amazing person, and that doesn't alleviate Donald Trump of his sins, but this kind of attempt by the left to make Stormy Daniels a charter member of the resistance is very weird on sort of a moral level.
00:24:01.000 Well, now Stormy Daniels is making the case that the reason she actually took the money from Donald Trump, the reason she actually took the payoff money from Donald Trump to keep her mouth shut, the real reason is not because she just likes money because, you know, she was a porn star who sleeps with a lot of people. 0.99
00:24:16.000 It's not because of that.
00:24:17.000 It's because she was afraid, you see.
00:24:18.000 She's an actual victim in all of this.
00:24:20.000 You can call Stormy Daniels a lot of things.
00:24:22.000 You can't call her a victim in all this.
00:24:25.000 I was very relieved when Gina started reaching out and offering me the chance to keep it quiet.
00:24:32.000 I was f***ing terrified.
00:24:34.000 I mean, people had been suspiciously killed for political reasons. 0.86
00:24:40.000 It was really about two things.
00:24:42.000 Trying to keep the story from coming out so that it would not hurt my husband and my daughter and I wouldn't lose my life.
00:24:51.000 And that there would be a paper trail and money trail linking me to Donald Trump so that he could not have me killed. 1.00
00:25:01.000 If you believe this, it's because you're a deeply stupid human being. 1.00
00:25:05.000 Stormy Daniels is sitting in daily fear that Donald Trump was going to have her killed. 1.00
00:25:10.000 Stormy Daniels is one of a litany of women that Donald Trump has slept with and probably paid off. 1.00
00:25:15.000 He was going to have her killed? 0.92
00:25:18.000 Really?
00:25:18.000 Do you believe that?
00:25:20.000 But again, the media will still trot her out. 1.00
00:25:22.000 They'll still present her as though she's like a credible voice of the opposition.
00:25:26.000 Not a shock from the media.
00:25:27.000 And any Republican is subjected to this treatment.
00:25:29.000 What's funny is that Donald Trump has become the repository of all their ire, but as we know, they'll do it to literally anyone.
00:25:35.000 In fact, just yesterday, Sarah Haines had Christine Blasey Ford on The View. 0.98
00:25:40.000 How Christine Blasey Ford is still welcomed in the halls of the media is beyond me.
00:25:45.000 She went into Congress, she testified to a story that she had zero evidentiary proof of.
00:25:49.000 None.
00:25:50.000 And in fact, lots of counter evidence.
00:25:52.000 And she is still treated as though her story is credible when it is deeply un-credible.
00:25:57.000 So un-credible that some of the people she called as witnesses to the event herself said that it wasn't true.
00:26:03.000 But media's still gonna treat her as though she's a credible person.
00:26:06.000 Why?
00:26:06.000 Because, well, Brett Kavanaugh.
00:26:07.000 That's why.
00:26:09.000 Well, you've been called a highly credible witness.
00:26:12.000 And you have a PhD in psychology.
00:26:15.000 You're a professor.
00:26:17.000 You teach at Palo Alto and Stanford universities.
00:26:20.000 But even today, some people remain skeptical of your story.
00:26:24.000 And you write that during the hearing, Senator Lindsey Graham wouldn't even make eye contact with you.
00:26:29.000 Were you prepared for that kind of response?
00:26:33.000 I was prepared ahead of time that none of the Republicans were going to speak with me, and they were going to use an outside interviewer.
00:26:42.000 And so I was actually surprised at how kind some of the other Republican senators were, who broke that protocol and said hello.
00:26:49.000 Who was that?
00:26:50.000 Can you name a good one?
00:26:52.000 Senator Flake and Senator Sasse both came over and said hello.
00:26:56.000 Neither of them is in Congress anymore, right?
00:26:59.000 But still, it's good for them.
00:27:00.000 Both good men.
00:27:02.000 Okay, let's be real about this.
00:27:03.000 She was not telling you a true story.
00:27:07.000 And the evidence that Christine Blasey Ford was telling you a true story about Brett Kavanaugh being part of essentially a gang rape, the evidence does not exist for that.
00:27:15.000 How many times can we go to this well before people stop believing what these folks have to be selling?
00:27:20.000 And I mean people in the media who are willing to sell any story, no matter how nefarious, about anyone.
00:27:26.000 The latest example of this is the story of the Trump campaign.
00:27:29.000 Every other day, there is some story coming from Democrats about the Trump campaign and what Donald Trump has said.
00:27:34.000 And again, Donald Trump says enough crazy things that you actually don't have to make things up if you wish to run a credible campaign.
00:27:39.000 But Democrats can't help themselves.
00:27:40.000 We'll get to more on this in just a second.
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00:28:17.000 So, their latest iteration is that Donald Trump is an anti-Semite. 0.97
00:28:20.000 This dog is not going to hunt. 0.92
00:28:22.000 Let me just tell you, it is not going to hunt.
00:28:23.000 I will tell you why it's not going to hunt.
00:28:25.000 Because the Democratic Party is currently engaged in the most disgusting volt face, about face, when it comes to the state of Israel that I've seen in my lifetime.
00:28:33.000 Joe Biden is currently engaged in a process to withdraw armed support from a Democratic ally of the United States that's about to finish off a genocidal terror group, and he's doing so to win votes in Michigan.
00:28:43.000 So no, I don't believe you when you people like Chuck Schumer are out there suggesting that Donald Trump is the real threat to Israel and the Jews, because Donald Trump had the temerity to say the Jews should vote Republican if they actually care about the state of Israel, but in more brutish words.
00:28:58.000 No, I don't think Donald Trump is an anti-Semite.
00:29:01.000 I know his kids. 0.71
00:29:02.000 That's absurd.
00:29:03.000 He has Jewish grandkids.
00:29:05.000 Not just that he has Jewish grandkids.
00:29:06.000 He's the most pro-Israel president in American history.
00:29:08.000 Forget about his relatives.
00:29:09.000 He's the most pro-Israel president in American history.
00:29:12.000 It's an absurdity on its face.
00:29:14.000 And the people that are trotting out to make the case that Donald Trump's an anti-Semite are, again, people like Chuck Schumer, who is busily engaged in undercutting the state of Israel.
00:29:20.000 So Schumer, who was last seen on the floor of the Senate, calling for the ouster of the democratically elected prime minister of the state of Israel in the middle of a war based on a lie, which is that the Israeli people don't support military action in Rafah.
00:29:33.000 Now he's back to say that Donald Trump is the real threat to the Jews here. 0.94
00:29:37.000 The former president's comments were utterly disgusting. 0.99
00:29:41.000 And a textbook example of the kind of anti-Semitism facing Jews. 0.56
00:29:46.000 Pushing the dangerous anti-Semitism trope of dual loyalty. 0.97
00:29:50.000 To say you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other is sick, it's hateful.
00:29:57.000 That's not what he said!
00:29:59.000 That's legitimately not what he said! 1.00
00:30:00.000 Okay, stop this moron. 0.99
00:30:01.000 Okay, so a dual loyalty trope is where you say, for example, that a Jew cares about Israel more than they care about the United States. 0.99
00:30:11.000 That their true loyalty is not to the United States, it's to Israel.
00:30:13.000 That would be a schmucky and anti-Semitic thing to say.
00:30:17.000 Hey, that is an actual, that is an actual dual loyalty trope.
00:30:20.000 That's what Schumer is referring to.
00:30:22.000 Donald Trump never said anything remotely like that.
00:30:24.000 He said that if you are a Jew, you should care about Israel, which is true. 1.00
00:30:27.000 It's literally in the prayers.
00:30:29.000 Every single prayer, every single day, it's there.
00:30:32.000 You say it during what we call benshin, which is the grace after meals.
00:30:35.000 You say it during Shemona Esrei, which we say minimum three times a day.
00:30:38.000 We read it in the Torah literally every week.
00:30:42.000 When Donald Trump says, if you don't care enough about that, you're not doing Judaism right, he happens to be correct about that. 1.00
00:30:48.000 And if that has political ramifications because the Democratic Party is busily running headlong away from the state of Israel in order to pander to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib supporters in Dearborn, Michigan, that ain't Donald Trump's fault.
00:31:00.000 That's Chuck Schumer's fault.
00:31:01.000 This jackass has spent the last several years, several, going all the way back to 2015, pandering to whatever is the left's most perspective on Israel the Democratic Party can push. 0.94
00:31:11.000 In 2015, he personally involved himself in pushing the disastrous Iran deal that gave a bunch of money to the mullahs in Iran and gave them a pathway to a nuclear bomb. 0.97
00:31:20.000 And here he is lecturing Donald Trump about anti-Semitism. 1.00
00:31:22.000 This is why nobody believes your crap. 0.99
00:31:24.000 This is why nobody believes it when you just start throwing out vague and specious charges that make no sense without any evidence. 1.00
00:31:32.000 And the people that the media trot out on these matters are truly wild.
00:31:35.000 Truly wild.
00:31:36.000 So, for example, There is a rabbi, and I say rabbi advisedly because I'm not sure about his rabbinic degree.
00:31:43.000 His name is Rabbi J. Michelson.
00:31:45.000 Rabbi J. Michelson was appearing on CNN with Abby Phillip to explain that actually he's very, very offended by what Donald Trump had to say about Jews and Israel.
00:31:55.000 Here he was.
00:31:57.000 He also, I mean, believes, based on the Abraham Accords and things that he did when he was president, that Jews owe it to him to support him. 0.55
00:32:07.000 Yeah, like a true mafia boss or something, like we have to have loyalty because he moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
00:32:11.000 Meanwhile, he helped coddle the hard, hard right extremists who have made peace impossible in Israel.
00:32:18.000 Trump also, let's remember, blamed Israel for the October 7th attacks.
00:32:22.000 He didn't come out with a statement saying how appalling and horrific the massacres and rapes were that Hamas committed on that day.
00:32:29.000 He said, oh, well, Israel made a mistake, and he insulted the Israeli general, and he said this would never happen under my watch.
00:32:34.000 It's always about him.
00:32:35.000 And to see this kind of intense narcissism come at the expense of friends of mine who have children serving in the Israeli military and friends who died on October 7th, it's just, I cannot think of a more despicable and disgusting act, and I can't believe it.
00:32:51.000 I can think of many more despicable and disgusting acts.
00:32:53.000 For example, I could think of a President of the United States attempting to withdraw armed support from the State of Israel in the middle of a war to preserve their existence against a genocidal terror group.
00:33:01.000 I could think of a President of the United States bending over backwards not to condemn open terror supporters like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
00:33:08.000 And Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
00:33:10.000 And the rest of the squad.
00:33:11.000 I could think of a lot of more disgusting examples, actually.
00:33:14.000 And you know who I don't take seriously? 0.89
00:33:15.000 This guy.
00:33:16.000 You know why I don't take this guy seriously?
00:33:18.000 He wrote a piece in 2009.
00:33:20.000 Okay, in 2009.
00:33:23.000 Not 2024.
00:33:24.000 15 years ago.
00:33:24.000 And it was titled, quote, How I'm Losing My Love for Israel.
00:33:28.000 And what was that piece about?
00:33:29.000 How I'm losing my love for Israel?
00:33:31.000 The entire piece was about poor him.
00:33:33.000 He was losing his love for it because it made him feel so uncomfortable in his progressive circles because he had to defend the state of Israel, defending itself.
00:33:41.000 Oh, poor him.
00:33:44.000 This guy, this is the true lover of Israel.
00:33:47.000 He also, by the way, is largely a spokesperson on behalf of LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign clauses, which last I checked, not huge in the traditional Jewish community because of this thing called the Bible and all of Halakha.
00:34:00.000 Not to get too abstruse on people.
00:34:02.000 In any case, This guy suggests in that 2009 piece that he's really upset, really upset that his progressive bona fides have been called into question because of the fact that he is not, that he's too supportive of Israel back in 2009.
00:34:19.000 Quote, I think my love of Israel is fading because I feel personally implicated by its injustices, even though I've chosen to live in America and relinquished my right to have any say over Israeli policies.
00:34:30.000 On a recent trip to Berlin, I remarked to a friend I felt more relaxed there than in Jerusalem.
00:34:34.000 Pardon me if I don't take your opinions on Judaism very seriously, Rabbi.
00:34:39.000 Pardon me.
00:34:41.000 By the way, last week, he literally tweeted this, quote, I can't escape the feeling that the war has gone beyond a justified military response to October 7th, or the fear that it is being spurred on in part because of a thirst for collective punishment.
00:34:52.000 A thirst for collective punishment.
00:34:53.000 He's accusing the Israeli government of engaging in a thirst for collective punishment.
00:34:57.000 Pardon me if I don't take you seriously on your contentions that you are just so offended on behalf of the Jewish population, Rabbi Jamek. 0.80
00:35:04.000 Again, I can't even believe this stuff. 0.99
00:35:06.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.81
00:35:07.000 In just one second, we'll get to the Biden administration policy, which is getting worse by the day, in the Middle East. 0.69
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00:35:36.000 So meanwhile, the same people who are out there attacking Donald Trump for his anti-Semitism, what do they have to say about the Biden administration's new take with regard to what Israel should do in Rafah?
00:35:45.000 There are four battalions of Hamas terrorists in Rafah. 1.00
00:35:48.000 They have to be killed. 1.00
00:35:49.000 They have to be destroyed in order for Israel to win the war against Hamas. 1.00
00:35:53.000 Everyone knows this.
00:35:54.000 And yet today, the Biden State Department spokesperson was out there saying, we can't allow military activity in Rafah until there's a real credible plan.
00:36:01.000 What exactly would a real credible plan look like?
00:36:04.000 Like, any time now, guys, would it look like your disastrous Afghanistan pullout?
00:36:08.000 By the way, you know what I noticed?
00:36:10.000 I noticed that the Biden administration has been calling for endless amounts of aid to Ukraine.
00:36:15.000 Without any credible military plan to win back the Donbass or Crimea.
00:36:20.000 Zero credible military plan to do all of that.
00:36:23.000 Now, I'm in favor of funding Ukraine to the tune of preventing Russia from taking more territory.
00:36:28.000 I'm in favor of pushing Putin to the table such that the battle lines get frozen and the conflict ends.
00:36:33.000 And that requires continued Western funding of Ukraine.
00:36:36.000 Not one single solitary time has the Biden administration said to the Ukrainians, guys, before we pour $60 billion into your country for a military offensive in, say, the Donbass or Crimea, would you like to explain to us how this is going to work?
00:36:50.000 You know, against a nuclear armed superpower?
00:36:52.000 Meanwhile, Israel is trying to fight down and kill a a terrorist group that is not nearly as well equipped as
00:37:00.000 the IDF, not nearly as sophisticated as the IDF, but they do have terror tunnels. And Israel's 0.89
00:37:06.000 been fighting these people for legitimately decades. And the White House is like, well, we'll
00:37:09.000 only see a plan on that one.
00:37:10.000 We'll only see a plan. That doesn't, that couldn't have anything to do with the votes in Dearborn,
00:37:14.000 could it? Here's the Biden State Department spokesperson.
00:37:16.000 What assurances did President Biden get from the Israeli Prime Minister?
00:37:23.000 So look, as it relates to the call between the President and Prime Minister Netanyahu,
00:37:28.000 you saw the National Security Advisor yesterday speak pretty clearly about the topics. On the
00:37:33.000 subject of Rafa, the United States has been very clear that we believe that such kind of
00:37:39.000 military activity in Rafa requires a real credible, I want to hear this doof from the State Department talk about military policy.
00:37:53.000 He seems like he really knows what he's talking about.
00:37:55.000 Probably he should design the battle plan for Rafa.
00:37:59.000 And if I seem annoyed by this, it's only because I know a lot of IDF soldiers, including people who have Deal with the wounded and the killed who have been the ones going into harm's way in order to kill members of Hamas while attempting to distinguish them from civilians by the way. 0.97
00:38:16.000 And meanwhile, we got schmucks like these people out there suggesting that they have a magical battle plan. 0.96
00:38:20.000 The magic plan! 0.99
00:38:21.000 Man, if only Israel had had the magic plan in the first place, if only they'd had the Biden magic wand, then clearly they would have been able to use that.
00:38:30.000 Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, who's the leader of, again, a unity government war cabinet, said, quote, we have a disagreement with the Americans about the need to enter Rafah.
00:38:38.000 Not about the need to eliminate Hamas, the need to enter Rafah. 0.80
00:38:40.000 We do not see a way to eliminate Hamas militarily without destroying these remaining battalions. 0.94
00:38:43.000 We're determined to do it.
00:38:45.000 I made it clear to the President in our conversation in the clearest way, we are determined to complete the elimination of these battalions in Rafah.
00:38:50.000 There is no way to do it except by going in on the ground.
00:38:54.000 So, what exactly is the... If the Americans are willing to offer a plan, I'm sure the Israelis would love to listen to it, but they're not offering a plan.
00:39:02.000 What they really want is for this thing to stop, and they want this to stop even if it means that Hamas remains in place. 0.61
00:39:08.000 How do you know?
00:39:09.000 Well, because they're laundering that message out through the media.
00:39:11.000 So the Wall Street Journal, again, when it comes to the Wall Street Journal, by the way, for those who are media observers, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page is conservative.
00:39:17.000 The rest of the Wall Street Journal, their reporting page is actually to the left of the New York Times.
00:39:21.000 Their reporters are actually to the left of the New York Times.
00:39:23.000 They've done statistical analysis on this sort of stuff.
00:39:26.000 So anybody who assumes that it's Wall Street Journal, therefore it's conservative, that's not true.
00:39:29.000 In any case, there's a piece titled, quote, The Dilemma Impeding an Israel-Hamas Ceasefire.
00:39:33.000 A deal to release hostages and pause the Gaza War is held back by Israel's goal of destroying the militant group.
00:39:37.000 Oh, well, I mean, if you say it that way, oh, you mean that Israel is holding up the works on getting back its hostages because they won't agree to let Hamas survive after killing 1,200 Israelis and taking 250 hostage?
00:39:52.000 And firing rockets continuously into Israel for the last 20 years?
00:39:55.000 Well, I mean, wow, they seem really intransigent.
00:39:58.000 Again, it all goes back to that hilarious cartoon of John Kerry, when he was Secretary of State under Barack Obama, sitting with a member of Hamas and a member of the Israeli government, and saying to the Israeli, why won't you just accept their demand that you die?
00:40:13.000 That's effectively what they're saying.
00:40:15.000 Well, why don't we just... I mean, we can get to peace if you'll just allow Hamas to continue running the place. 0.96
00:40:21.000 Israel and Hamas are locked in Gaza truce talks with goals that seem impossible to reconcile.
00:40:25.000 Israeli negotiators are seeking not only the release of dozens of hostages, but also the freedom to resume a military campaign to crush Hamas once and for all, after any ceasefire ends.
00:40:33.000 In contrast, Hamas is essentially negotiating for its survival, pushing for a lasting truce and ways to remain influential in post-war Gaza, if no longer its ruler.
00:40:41.000 Well, I mean, if that's the case, ain't no deal gonna get done.
00:40:44.000 Because it turns out that after you launch a war and then you start losing, you don't get to make a deal.
00:40:48.000 That's not the way any of this works.
00:40:49.000 The fact the United States is trying to hold this up...
00:40:54.000 Again, there's only one reason for that. 1.00
00:40:56.000 It's because Joe Biden is a coward. 1.00
00:40:58.000 He's a political coward. 1.00
00:40:59.000 He's afraid of his left flank. 1.00
00:41:01.000 He's afraid of voters in Dearborn.
00:41:02.000 He thinks he's gonna lose the election based on losing his radical base.
00:41:05.000 Ironically, he's gonna lose the election because he's losing his moderate base.
00:41:08.000 That's the part that's really hilarious.
00:41:10.000 And meanwhile, President Trump, he endorsed a candidate in Ohio.
00:41:15.000 There's an Ohio Senate primary.
00:41:17.000 The Ohio Senate primary was between a character named Bernie Moreno, And another character who's in the state senate, whose name was LaRose.
00:41:30.000 And Bernie Moreno, who was the endorsed candidate by Donald Trump, he won the primary, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:41:37.000 Trump's grip on the GOP continued to tighten on Tuesday in Ohio when his chosen candidate, Bernie Moreno, prevailed over state senator Matt Dolan, a critic of the former president.
00:41:45.000 Trump basically endorsed because Moreno declared fealty to Trump.
00:41:48.000 This is the way, unfortunately, that Donald Trump endorses Senate candidates.
00:41:51.000 It worked out amazing in 2022, by the way.
00:41:52.000 It worked out just spectacularly.
00:41:55.000 I mean, between Dr. Oz, Hershel Walker, Blake Masters, just Don Baldick in New Hampshire, worked out great for Republicans.
00:42:04.000 Probably it'll work out great in Ohio as well, except that I'm looking at the polls right now, and the polls suggest, sadly, that Sherrod Brown, who's a very vulnerable senator in a red state, is currently leading Bernie Moreno by an average of about five points right now.
00:42:18.000 Now again, Bernie Moreno may pull it out, maybe he turns around his campaign.
00:42:22.000 But it seems to me that candidates should not actually be selected on the basis of personal loyalty to a presidential candidate.
00:42:30.000 How do you know, by the way, that Democrats think that Moreno is the better candidate for them?
00:42:33.000 Because they literally dump money into him.
00:42:35.000 This Democratic plan, by the way, has been working wonders for them for years at this point.
00:42:39.000 They find a Republican candidate in a primary.
00:42:41.000 They elevate him with millions of dollars.
00:42:42.000 He wins, and then he loses the general.
00:42:44.000 Moreno has received help from Democrats at Duty and CountryPak.
00:42:48.000 They began spending $2.5 million on TV ads, calling the car dealer too conservative for Ohio, which, of course, was a way of endorsing him in a backdoor fashion.
00:42:59.000 So, Governor Mike DeWine, who won running away in his gubernatorial race in Ohio, and I think he's too moderate, but he did win running away, as opposed to, say, J.D.
00:43:06.000 Vance in Ohio, who won a fairly close race in his Senate race in Ohio.
00:43:11.000 DeWine said, quote, that Democrats know Moreno's the weakest candidate to beat Sherrod Brown this fall.
00:43:15.000 Senator Rob Portman, also who won easily a re-elect in his Ohio bid last time he was in the Senate, also endorsed Dolan, who is the actual other candidate.
00:43:25.000 So here we go.
00:43:26.000 It'll be Moreno. 0.93
00:43:27.000 Moreno's candidacy has also been plagued by this bizarre rumor that back in 2009 or something, he joined anonymously some sort of men-seeking men sex site.
00:43:40.000 And then he claimed that it was an intern.
00:43:42.000 The intern came out and took credit for it, so presumably it was the intern.
00:43:44.000 We don't have any evidence to the contrary.
00:43:47.000 You would assume that gets brought up.
00:43:49.000 Moreno has shifted his positions politically a lot of times.
00:43:51.000 That is no longer a barrier to entry for Republican primary voters.
00:43:55.000 So that's a critique of Donald Trump's candidate-picking ability in the Senate.
00:43:57.000 We'll see how Bernie Moreno does.
00:43:59.000 Again, I want him to win.
00:44:00.000 He's the Republican in that race against Sherrod Brown, who's truly a terrible senator.
00:44:02.000 We'll see how he performs.
00:44:04.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump is clarifying something.
00:44:07.000 The media have been saying that Donald Trump is trying to end NATO.
00:44:09.000 It's not true.
00:44:10.000 It's not true.
00:44:11.000 Again, there's a gap between some of the things that Donald Trump says on the campaign trail and then how he actually implements policy.
00:44:17.000 I like Donald Trump on policy.
00:44:19.000 That is how he won me over for 2020.
00:44:22.000 I didn't vote in the 2016 elections.
00:44:23.000 I didn't like either candidate.
00:44:24.000 In 2020, I voted for Donald Trump.
00:44:26.000 In 2024, I'm giving money to Donald Trump.
00:44:29.000 Why?
00:44:29.000 Well, because here is Donald Trump explaining, for example, that when it comes to NATO, he's not trying to undercut NATO.
00:44:34.000 He's trying to get everybody to pay in.
00:44:37.000 If they start to pay their bills properly and the club is fair, our places like Poland defended, will America be there?
00:44:45.000 Yeah, but the United States should pay its fair share, not everybody else's fair share.
00:44:50.000 Fair enough.
00:44:51.000 I believe the United States was paying 90% of NATO, the cost of NATO.
00:44:55.000 It could be 100%.
00:44:57.000 It was the most unfair thing.
00:44:58.000 And don't forget, it's more important to them than it is to us.
00:45:01.000 We have an ocean in between Some problems, okay?
00:45:04.000 We have a nice, big, beautiful ocean.
00:45:07.000 And it's more important for them.
00:45:08.000 They were taking advantage, and they did.
00:45:10.000 They took advantage of us on trade, and they took advantage on... So if they play fair, if they start to play fair, America's there.
00:45:17.000 Yes, 100%.
00:45:18.000 Okay, again, that is not what the isolationists in the Republican Party are saying.
00:45:23.000 They're saying that Trump wants to end NATO.
00:45:24.000 He's explicitly saying the opposite.
00:45:26.000 That is clearly not true.
00:45:28.000 Also, again, maybe it's a minor thing, or maybe I'm a single issue voter.
00:45:31.000 Anybody who pledges to deport Prince Harry, I'm in favor of.
00:45:33.000 Here's President Trump saying maybe he'll do that.
00:45:41.000 Should he get special privileges that nobody else does?
00:45:43.000 No, and we'll have to see.
00:45:45.000 If they know something about the drugs and if he lied, they'll have to take appropriate action.
00:45:50.000 Appropriate action?
00:45:51.000 Yeah.
00:45:52.000 Which might mean not staying in America.
00:45:53.000 Oh, I don't know.
00:45:53.000 You'll have to tell me.
00:45:55.000 You just have to tell me.
00:45:57.000 Okay, I'm for that.
00:45:59.000 And if he pledges to strip Meghan Markle of her citizenship, man, make him emperor.
00:46:04.000 Just joking, guys.
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