The Ben Shapiro Show - The Sad Story Of Fauxcahontas | Ep. 639

00:00:00.000 So, President Trump has a new nickname for Stormy Daniels, and Elizabeth Warren's Native American tale collapses, and Michael Avenatti had a bad day and now he's having a slightly better day, so we'll get into all the Avenatti-related things.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:18.000 This is certainly the most entertaining timeline. 0.92

00:00:20.000 I mean, I don't know what happened, what black hole we fell through to emerge from the other side, where the President of the United States is calling a woman horseface he once had sex with, and she is insulting his genitalia as a mushroom character from a 1997 video game.

00:00:36.000 But all I can say is I'm very happy we fell into this particular black hole because it's deeply entertaining.

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00:01:55.000 So did you think that yesterday's news cycle was going to be the pinnacle of insanity?

00:02:01.000 Did you think that we had really reached the apex of crazy and hilarious with Elizabeth Warren revealing a test that supposedly showed that she was Native American only to show that she is significantly less Native American than a Jeep Grand Cherokee?

00:02:16.000 Were you a person who thought, you know, maybe we finally reached the summit of ridiculousness with Elizabeth Warren claiming that she was a member of the Cherokee Nation when, in fact, Elizabeth Warren is whiter than this piece of paper?

00:02:31.000 Did you think we... Well, you ain't seen nothing yet!

00:02:34.000 It's 2018, gang!

00:02:36.000 Boom! 0.99

00:02:37.000 So, President Trump leads off this morning, and he had a bunch of tweets about Elizabeth Warren.

00:02:40.000 We'll get to those in just a second, but we begin.

00:02:42.000 We begin.

00:02:43.000 With the President of the United States, who has decided that he doesn't like Stormy Daniels anymore.

00:02:50.000 Our producer, Senya, is down with illness, but we'll make a Taylor Swift reference for her here.

00:02:55.000 It turns out they are never, ever, ever getting back together.

00:02:58.000 So...

00:02:59.000 Here's what happened.

00:03:00.000 There's a lawsuit that Stormy Daniels had filed against the President of the United States. 1.00

00:03:04.000 It was always a frivolous, stupid lawsuit. 1.00

00:03:05.000 Anybody with a law degree knew this. 1.00

00:03:07.000 And there's a suit in which she sued him for defamation after he tweeted that she was engaged in a total con job. 0.98

00:03:16.000 He tweeted a sketch years later about a non-existent man, a total con job playing the fake news media for fools.

00:03:21.000 This is when she claimed that she was stalked by a guy who was sent by Trump.

00:03:24.000 And she sued him for defamation.

00:03:26.000 That's not defamation.

00:03:27.000 She's a public figure.

00:03:28.000 Defamation is knowingly and maliciously attacking someone with false information.

00:03:33.000 It's knowing and malicious is the standard for public figures.

00:03:36.000 It wasn't knowing and it wasn't malicious.

00:03:37.000 It was just basically free speech and him giving an opinion.

00:03:40.000 But she sued him for defamation and then it was thrown out.

00:03:44.000 The case was thrown out.

00:03:46.000 And here's what the judge wrote.

00:03:47.000 Ouch.

00:03:47.000 So, the President of the United States had a response on Twitter.

00:03:49.000 Remember, this is an office once occupied by Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ronald Reagan,

00:04:15.000 Here's the President of the United States' official statement on his Twitter account.

00:04:19.000 Quote,

00:04:37.000 Well, that's one way to step on a news cycle.

00:04:40.000 So we could have done an entire week of Elizabeth Warren. 0.98

00:04:43.000 Now we will do an entire week of the President of the United States calling a woman he once had sex with horseface. 0.98

00:04:49.000 Yeah. 0.90

00:04:51.000 So that's a thing.

00:04:52.000 Now, a couple of different things to note here.

00:04:55.000 First of all, if you had to sum up this entire news cycle in one meme, it would be President Trump as the Lone Ranger, silver,

00:05:06.000 Would be horseface Stormy Daniels and Tonto would be Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:05:11.000 So our artistic geniuses in the back room are cooking up that one right now.

00:05:15.000 But with that said, is it good that the president of the United States calls any woman horseface? 0.96

00:05:23.000 No, probably not a good thing. 0.99

00:05:26.000 Is it smart that he calls a woman he once had sex with horseface? 0.78

00:05:29.000 Well, it does call into question his judgment regarding women. 0.76

00:05:33.000 It's kind of a weird thing to do. 0.98

00:05:35.000 Like, you have sex with a woman you're not married to, and then you call her horseface. 0.96

00:05:38.000 Is that more of a rip on her or a rip on your taste? 1.00

00:05:41.000 Because it's kind of weird.

00:05:43.000 Also, just politically speaking, is that going to make for a good news cycle that now we're going to get media outrage about Trump calling woman horseface, like, a week and a half after the Brett Kavanaugh saga in which the left wanted to launch a war on women and failed?

00:05:56.000 Is that gonna be good?

00:05:58.000 No.

00:05:58.000 But no one ever accused the president of not stepping on his own mushrooms, so it's really... It's not great, I'll be honest with you.

00:06:06.000 I think that there are flaws in this line of thinking.

00:06:09.000 That when the president got up this morning and he thought, you know what, I'm gonna tweet about Shermie Daniels and her horse face.

00:06:14.000 Hi-ho, Silver!

00:06:15.000 Away!

00:06:16.000 Yeah.

00:06:22.000 Not great, not great.

00:06:23.000 Okay, now, just from an objective, an objective human point of view, is it hilarious?

00:06:30.000 Of course it's hilarious!

00:06:32.000 Okay, we can appreciate two things at once. 1.00

00:06:34.000 Trump, when it comes to women, is a garbage human. 1.00

00:06:36.000 Okay, I've said this one million times because it is one million times true. 1.00

00:06:39.000 He is not great with women. 1.00

00:06:40.000 And when I say not great with women, I mean that this is a man who said in the 1970s that avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam.

00:06:48.000 This is a guy who nailed anything that moved for about 40 years here.

00:06:52.000 And this is a man who is very lucky there are not lots of little illegitimate Trumps walking around.

00:06:57.000 Like, Trump has not been shy about his treatment of women.

00:07:00.000 And he was caught on tape in the last election cycle saying, in Access Hollywood tape, that he grabbed women by their... by their hooves.

00:07:09.000 So, it's very... It's... Like, there's nothing shocking here, but...

00:07:14.000 Just from a pure human point of view, are we through the looking glass?

00:07:16.000 Are we in the middle of idiocracy? 0.99

00:07:17.000 You bet your ass we're in the middle of idiocracy. 0.99

00:07:20.000 I mean, my goodness. 0.99

00:07:22.000 I got to the stables every morning and there's Horseface.

00:07:25.000 Horseface and Toad from Mario Kart, an American romance.

00:07:30.000 That's where we are.

00:07:31.000 So, all good stuff.

00:07:33.000 The other narrative of the day is that Elizabeth Warren, as Tonto, is not actually Native American.

00:07:38.000 So, she claimed that she was Native American many, many, many, many, many times.

00:07:42.000 She claimed that she was Native American in legal journals.

00:07:44.000 She claimed that she was Native American in an award that she won from University of Pennsylvania Law School.

00:07:49.000 She claimed that she was Native American

00:07:51.000 In a story that she told over and over and over, a romantic story, a Romeo and Juliet story, about her mother, a proud Native American woman, wandering the plains, who met her father, and her father brought her home.

00:08:02.000 But the in-laws were racist. 0.84

00:08:04.000 Racist! 0.98

00:08:05.000 And said, you can't bring home that Native American woman! 1.00

00:08:08.000 You can't bring home that that Indian! 1.00

00:08:11.000 Get out of here! 0.99

00:08:12.000 And then apparently her parents eloped and they had a beautiful romance from there on.

00:08:16.000 And well, it turns out that Elizabeth Warren is not, in fact, Native American.

00:08:20.000 But it was funny to watch as the narrative turned yesterday.

00:08:22.000 So yesterday, Elizabeth Warren started this whole thing off by releasing a video of her and her family members talking about how Native American she was.

00:08:31.000 And here was what the video sounded like.

00:08:34.000 This isn't just about casual racism.

00:08:37.000 War hoops and tomahawk chops.

00:08:39.000 Native communities have faced discrimination, neglect, and violence for generations.

00:08:45.000 And Trump can say whatever he wants about me.

00:08:48.000 But mocking Native Americans or any group in order to try to get at me?

00:08:54.000 That's not what America stands for.

00:08:57.000 Some people have questioned my heritage and my family history.

00:09:00.000 Maybe they do it to insult me.

00:09:02.000 Maybe they do it to distract from the kinds of changes I'm fighting for and the kind of change I'm trying to bring to Washington.

00:09:10.000 Maybe they do it because they think politics is a blood sport.

00:09:14.000 But my parents were real people.

00:09:16.000 The love they shared, the struggles they endured, the family they built, the story they lived will always be etched on my heart.

00:09:24.000 And no one

00:09:26.000 Not even the President of the United States will ever take it away from me.

00:09:46.000 One 1,024th Native American, which is just awesome.

00:09:50.000 It's just awesome in every way.

00:09:52.000 So she releases that, and watch as her tweets evolve over the course of the day.

00:09:56.000 So she starts off by saying this,

00:10:08.000 And here's the verdict.

00:10:09.000 Please send the check to the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. 0.81

00:10:12.000 And number one, that's not what he said.

00:10:13.000 What he said is, if you prove you're Native American, then I'll give you a million bucks.

00:10:16.000 She didn't prove she was Native American.

00:10:18.000 She proved that she is whiter than any person this side of Marky Mark. 0.51

00:10:21.000 And then she continued tweeting.

00:10:23.000 But watch how her tweets evolve. 0.94

00:10:24.000 NIWRC is a nonprofit working to protect Native women from violence.

00:10:28.000 More than half of all Native women have experienced sexual violence, and the majority of violent crimes against Native Americans are perpetrated by non-Natives.

00:10:35.000 Send them your $1 million check, Donald Trump.

00:10:39.000 And then she continues along these lines.

00:10:41.000 TikTok, Mr. President.

00:10:42.000 This is one of the most annoying things on Twitter these days, the TikTok.

00:10:57.000 Well, TikTok, I mean, we're ticking down to something big.

00:11:00.000 Or it turns down, we are ticking down to you completely collapsing in on yourself like a dying star.

00:11:04.000 She continues.

00:11:05.000 And she says, having some memory problems, Donald Trump?

00:11:08.000 Should we call for a doctor?

00:11:09.000 Here's something you won't forget, Mr. President.

00:11:11.000 You're the least popular president in modern history and your allies will go down hard in the midterm elections.

00:11:16.000 22 days.

00:11:17.000 TikTok.

00:11:18.000 Oh, God.

00:11:20.000 Then she concludes,

00:11:40.000 Wait, what happened?

00:11:41.000 I mean, that was a sudden left turn.

00:11:43.000 It was like when Michael Scott was driving on the road and the GPS told him to drive into the lake.

00:11:47.000 That's basically how that tweet thread went.

00:11:49.000 He's just, he's talking, she's talking about, yeah, I'm Native American and Native Americans are great and give some money to Native Americans.

00:11:55.000 But I'm not Native American.

00:11:57.000 What could have happened to trigger such a change?

00:12:00.000 What could have happened to Tonto?

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00:13:16.000 So...

00:13:32.000 What could have changed Elizabeth Warren's mind?

00:13:34.000 What could have changed her mind?

00:13:35.000 She was saying, very confidently, that she was Native American.

00:13:39.000 That she was Native American!

00:13:41.000 And then, all of a sudden, well, you know, it turns out the tribes get to decide who's Native American.

00:13:45.000 Why?

00:13:46.000 Why?

00:13:46.000 Because the Cherokee Nation came out and said, uh, you're not Native American.

00:13:50.000 Now, let's be clear about this.

00:13:52.000 The Cherokee Nation does not come out and make political statements very often, but they sent out their Secretary of State, Chuck Hoskin, to issue a statement.

00:13:59.000 He said,

00:14:06.000 Whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America.

00:14:09.000 Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship.

00:14:13.000 And while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation.

00:14:20.000 And then they continued.

00:14:21.000 Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.

00:14:29.000 It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven.

00:14:39.000 Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.

00:14:45.000 Ouch.

00:14:46.000 Ouch.

00:14:46.000 So she just got slammed by the Cherokee Nation to which she claims ancestral membership.

00:14:52.000 Yeah, that went poorly for Elizabeth Warren, which is why she shifted and said, I'm not claiming that I'm Native American anymore, but I'm kind of Native American, so give me a million dollars. 0.98

00:14:59.000 Again, I call on the Trump administration, I call on President Trump to personally sign a $900 check to Elizabeth Warren's charity of choice, because she is one 1,024th Native American, maybe he should pay her 1,024th of a million dollars.

00:15:14.000 That is the amount to which she is owed.

00:15:16.000 So President Trump was asked about this yesterday, and he basically dismissed all of it.

00:15:22.000 No, I have no.

00:15:23.000 Who cares?

00:15:25.000 Who cares?

00:15:27.000 I didn't say that.

00:15:28.000 You better read it again.

00:15:31.000 I hope she's running for president because I think she'd be very easy.

00:15:35.000 I hope that she is running.

00:15:38.000 I do not think she'd be difficult at all.

00:15:39.000 She'll destroy the country. 0.99

00:15:41.000 She'll make our country into Venezuela. 1.00

00:15:44.000 With that being said, I don't want to say bad things about her because I hope she would be one of the people that would get through the process.

00:15:50.000 It's going to be a long process for the Democrats.

00:15:53.000 Okay, so, President Trump, he's eager to go after Elizabeth Warren.

00:15:57.000 Again, I still think we need the image of him with a publisher's clearinghouse-sized check, handing it to Elizabeth Warren, in order to basically have that image linked with Elizabeth Warren forever.

00:16:06.000 Unfortunately, it seems like he's swiveled, and he's less interested in whether Elizabeth Warren has a relationship with Tonto, and more interested in whether Stormy Daniels is, in fact, silver.

00:16:15.000 Hide the silver away.

00:16:17.000 But I want to talk a little bit more about why it's important for Elizabeth Warren to have maintained her Native American ancestry point, what made her think she could get away with this.

00:16:25.000 So let's talk about that.

00:16:26.000 Here's the thing.

00:16:27.000 There's a story that came out September 1st of this year in the Boston Globe, and it discussed a serious issue for Elizabeth Warren.

00:16:34.000 Was Senator Warren actually a professor at Harvard Law because she claimed Native American ancestry?

00:16:39.000 In other words, was she granted special status that sort of gave her an upper hand when it came to her job at University of Pennsylvania or at Harvard Law School?

00:16:49.000 Well, this long article from the Boston Globe, in-depth research found that folks at Harvard said that her Native American claims had nothing to do with any of that.

00:16:58.000 That her Native American claims had nothing to do with her actual ability

00:17:02.000 to be granted a professorship at Harvard Law School.

00:17:04.000 They interviewed something like 31 professors, many of whom were on the admissions committee, some of whom I know, people like Charles Freed, who I had for contracts.

00:17:09.000 And he said, no, when we hired her, it had nothing to do with her claiming Native American ancestry.

00:17:14.000 In fact, we didn't even know that at the time.

00:17:15.000 We assumed she was white. 1.00

00:17:16.000 And the internal documents suggested that University of Pennsylvania treated her as a white person, and so did Harvard Law School, until it became beneficial for them to claim that she was of minority heritage for purposes of their diversity curriculum.

00:17:29.000 They had to claim that they had a certain number of diverse professors, and so they sort of faked it and said that she was Native American.

00:17:35.000 But that doesn't mean she got her job based on Native American claims.

00:17:41.000 So with that said, why didn't Elizabeth Warren, a month and a half ago, simply say,

00:17:46.000 I was told by my family members that I had Cherokee ancestry.

00:17:49.000 My mom used to tell me that.

00:17:50.000 My uncles and aunts used to tell me that.

00:17:52.000 And because of that, I simply assumed that they were right.

00:17:54.000 I wasn't going to assume that my relatives were lying to me.

00:17:56.000 Those were the stories that I was told growing up.

00:17:58.000 I guess that was wrong.

00:17:59.000 And so I never should have done any of that stuff.

00:18:01.000 But it didn't have any impact on my actual career trajectory.

00:18:05.000 My career trajectory was going to be great no matter what and had nothing to do with those claims.

00:18:10.000 So I apologize to Native Americans for having taken seriously the stories of my family without checking them. 0.97

00:18:15.000 But with that said,

00:18:16.000 To claim that I was a beneficiary of some sort of affirmative action is simply untrue.

00:18:20.000 Why didn't she do that? 1.00

00:18:22.000 Well, there are two reasons she didn't do that, and both of them are telling.

00:18:24.000 Reason number one, she figured that she could get away with pretty much anything because the media would cover for her, which the media did yesterday.

00:18:31.000 There were headlines in the Daily Beast saying, Elizabeth Warren proves Native American ancestry. 0.57

00:18:37.000 There's a headline over at CNN, Elizabeth Warren provides solid evidence of Native American ancestry. 0.81

00:18:43.000 So she legitimately threw out a study that showed she was not Native American and counted on the media to say that the study showed she was actually Native American.

00:18:51.000 And the media complied for the first 12 hours.

00:18:55.000 And then it all began to fall apart because people can read.

00:18:58.000 And we don't live in a world where there are only three networks and three major newspapers anymore.

00:19:02.000 We live in a world where people can fact check stuff.

00:19:05.000 And that meant that her narrative began to collapse in on her.

00:19:08.000 So, she thought she could get away with it because the media would cover for her.

00:19:11.000 And why not?

00:19:12.000 Why wouldn't she think that?

00:19:13.000 I mean, the media have covered for the fact that Beto O'Rourke in Texas, who is being treated as an Obama-esque, Kennedy-esque, new, young figure, that that guy was involved in a DUI when he was 26 that involved him crossing over a median line, smashing a truck, and then trying to flee from the scene.

00:19:30.000 And they're still touting him as the big, new, next Democratic thing.

00:19:32.000 Now, listen, I'm somebody who's had my license suspended for driving too fast.

00:19:37.000 I'm obvious about that.

00:19:38.000 I was not driving drunk and I didn't crash into anybody.

00:19:40.000 It was on an empty freeway.

00:19:41.000 Beto O'Rourke was driving drunk and hit a guy and then tried to flee the scene while he was drunk.

00:19:47.000 And the media have basically said that's a big nothing.

00:19:50.000 This is the same media that said that George W. Bush's DUI back in the 1970s should have disqualified him in 2000 from running for the presidency like two weeks before the election.

00:19:59.000 So, Elizabeth Warren had good cause to think that the media were going to cover for her no matter what.

00:20:04.000 If the media covered Democrats the way they cover Republicans, half of the candidates for Congress in this election cycle would be toast.

00:20:10.000 They would be finished.

00:20:12.000 Bob Menendez in New Jersey would be done.

00:20:15.000 Honestly, he'd be gone.

00:20:17.000 Claire McCaskill in Missouri would be done.

00:20:19.000 Kristen Sinema in Arizona would be just toast. 1.00

00:20:22.000 But they are not because Elizabeth Warren, like every other Democrat, knows that there is a grace, a sort of buffer zone.

00:20:30.000 That is established for Democratic candidates and so she can simply claim Native American ancestry without any proof and the media will continue to cover for her as much as humanly possible, right?

00:20:39.000 And they will just continue to cover for her endlessly.

00:20:43.000 That's the reason number one that Elizabeth Warren felt comfortable releasing a study that actually contradicted her main narrative line.

00:20:49.000 Then there is reason number two and this one goes a little bit deeper for the Democrats.

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00:22:22.000 Okay, so,

00:22:23.000 What is the second reason?

00:22:24.000 What is the second reason that Elizabeth Warren didn't just come out months ago and say, listen, my family got the story wrong?

00:22:32.000 You know, I shouldn't have said all that stuff, but I trusted my family.

00:22:36.000 My bad.

00:22:37.000 Had no impact on my career.

00:22:38.000 Why didn't you just say that?

00:22:39.000 The second reason is because identity politics, identity politics is all that matters to the left.

00:22:45.000 And Elizabeth Warren knows this.

00:22:46.000 She knows that in a battle between Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, she comes up short in the minority category.

00:22:51.000 Folks in the Democratic Party have decided that all that matters in the end is intersectionality.

00:22:56.000 How many victim groups you belong to.

00:22:58.000 Elizabeth Warren only belongs to one purported victim group. 0.97

00:23:01.000 She's a white woman. 1.00

00:23:03.000 And white women are under a pretty significant attack by the left right now. 1.00

00:23:05.000 There's an article we read last week on this program, an op-ed, in the New York Times, talking about how white women were the serious problem in the United States.

00:23:13.000 Elizabeth Warren is a white woman. 0.95

00:23:15.000 She has no intersectional advantage over Cory Booker, over Kamala Harris, over Deval Patrick.

00:23:20.000 Claiming minority status allows her to say that she's part of the victimized minority in the United States, even though she's led a pretty easy life.

00:23:28.000 Elizabeth Warren went to Rutgers Law School, 0.55

00:23:30.000 And then she became a lawyer, and then she became a law professor at University of Texas at Austin, then University of Pennsylvania, then Harvard Law School.

00:23:37.000 She flipped some houses, she's made some money. 1.00

00:23:39.000 Elizabeth Warren is not a person who has endured tremendous suffering at the hands of the evil American patriarchy and hierarchy.

00:23:47.000 She has to come up with some story of victimhood. 1.00

00:23:49.000 And the easiest way to do that is to try and connect to your relatives.

00:23:53.000 It's the same routine that Hillary Clinton did. 1.00

00:23:54.000 She used to talk about her parents all the time and how her parents suffered a lot.

00:23:58.000 Her mom particularly was trod upon as a woman in the United States because it turns out Hillary didn't have a good victimization story. 1.00

00:24:05.000 In the Democratic Party, you need a victimization story in order so that you can try to lead the charge on behalf of all the victim groups.

00:24:13.000 Elizabeth Warren knew that she needed to lead that charge, but she could only do that if she identified as some form of minority, and the way that she did that is by saying that she had Native American ancestry, and what group in America has been more put upon than Native Americans?

00:24:26.000 It's

00:24:42.000 That Elizabeth Warren basically traded on fake minority heritage in order to try and score points with the minority base. 1.00

00:24:51.000 It's going to hurt her pretty badly.

00:24:52.000 So Elizabeth Warren actually damaged herself pretty significantly. 0.99

00:24:55.000 But that was basically inevitable because she was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:24:58.000 She's just a white woman running in a party that doesn't care about white women and thinks that white women are part of the patriarchy. 1.00

00:25:05.000 And she also can't claim minority status because if she does, she's lying. 0.92

00:25:09.000 So Elizabeth Warren shot herself in the foot in a pretty significant way here.

00:25:13.000 And I'm not sure that she recovers because honesty was not a priority.

00:25:17.000 If she had simply been honest about all this stuff, everything would have been fine.

00:25:21.000 She wasn't.

00:25:22.000 And so things went to hell in a handbasket for her.

00:25:24.000 Meanwhile, she's not the only Democrat in turmoil.

00:25:26.000 There's a story out today.

00:25:27.000 President Trump has raised already for his re-election ancestry, his ancestry, his re-election campaign, $100 million in fundraising for his re-election.

00:25:37.000 It's only 2018.

00:25:39.000 According to the Greenwich Times, President Trump has topped $100 million in fundraising for his 2020 re-election bid, an enormous haul for a president barely two years into his first term, according to new figures reported by his 2020 campaign.

00:25:53.000 Trump pulled in more than $18 million last quarter through his campaign committee and two joint fundraising committees with the RNC, for a total of at least $106 million since January 2017, according to his campaign and federal filings.

00:26:07.000 So that's bad news for Democrats who thought that Trump would have collapsed at this point, that he would have destroyed himself by this point.

00:26:12.000 Trump can't destroy himself because nothing you do can destroy a man who has no character.

00:26:18.000 President Trump is not a man of rich character. 0.92

00:26:20.000 Listen, I like a lot of what he does politically, but this is a guy who goes on Twitter and calls former lovers who he had sex with while he was married horseface. 0.97

00:26:27.000 Okay, so it's going to be kind of difficult to destroy that guy.

00:26:30.000 And it turns out that most folks who want to see his priorities put in place don't care too much about his character.

00:26:36.000 Like, we've established that character in American politics is no longer a major concern, obviously.

00:26:41.000 And so Trump can raise as much money as he wants.

00:26:43.000 Meanwhile, Democrats in Senate races across the country

00:26:47.000 are having trouble, too.

00:26:48.000 Beto O'Rourke, acting on the best ideals of his Democratic spread-the-wealth-around campaign, he announced on Monday he is not going to share any of his $38 million war chest, even though Democratic bosses want the cash for more competitive states.

00:27:02.000 So, Beto O'Rourke is going to lose to Ted Cruz in Texas in the Senate race.

00:27:05.000 Latest polls have him down almost double digits after the media have been fawning over him the same way they fawned over Wendy Davis, the former state senator in Texas, who then lost by something like 20 points to Greg Abbott.

00:27:17.000 Well, now they are for governor in Texas.

00:27:19.000 They're doing the same thing with Beto O'Rourke.

00:27:20.000 Beto won't share the money.

00:27:21.000 Why won't he spread the wealth around?

00:27:22.000 Why is he so greedy, Beto O'Rourke?

00:27:24.000 He's like a Republican or something.

00:27:25.000 The Texas Democrat told reporters after a campaign rally he will not spare any expense in his own race.

00:27:30.000 He plans to leave all the money he has raised out on the field ahead of Election Day.

00:27:34.000 O'Rourke raised, from July to September, $38.1 million.

00:27:39.000 He says that he is not going to contribute any of that money to other candidates, which is kind of amazing, because honestly, if he wants to ensure his future in the Democratic Party, he really should become a patron of the arts, right?

00:27:50.000 He should be taking that money and distributing it to more hotly contested races.

00:27:53.000 He's not going to do any of that.

00:27:55.000 So that's a bad story for Democrats.

00:27:56.000 Meanwhile, Claire McCaskill is running a very tight race in Missouri, and James O'Keefe, the kind of undercover journalist,

00:28:07.000 I can tell them because she does support a semi-automatic firearm.

00:28:30.000 Because I want to say something I shouldn't say.

00:28:33.000 I think a semi-automatic rifle ban is more so what she would support. 0.68

00:28:38.000 But she doesn't openly go out and support groups like Moms Demand Action or just other groups that are related to that because that could hurt her ability to get elected because people see that and they're just like, well, I don't want to support her even though they stand for the same policies. 0.83

00:28:58.000 Right.

00:29:00.000 Okay, so she's basically been fibbing about her own positions.

00:29:03.000 So Claire McCaskill is in trouble in Missouri. 0.99

00:29:05.000 Kyrsten Sinema, just three weeks ago, was leading Martha McSally in the Arizona Senate race. 1.00

00:29:09.000 And now it turns out that all of her past has come out and Kyrsten Sinema is a nutcase. 0.91

00:29:13.000 So Kyrsten Sinema is the Democratic nominee in Arizona.

00:29:16.000 According to the Washington Examiner,

00:29:19.000 She apparently takes sorcery very seriously. 0.63

00:29:21.000 Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner show Sinema was invited to a prominent coven of feminist witches in Arizona.

00:29:29.000 It was called Pagan Cluster to celebrate International Women's Day and to protest the war in March of 2003.

00:29:35.000 Code Pink protesters wore pink, obviously enough, and the women in black wore black. 1.00

00:29:39.000 But Sinema encouraged the witches to wear colorful clothing and come ready to dance, twirl, and stay in touch with your inner creativity and with the earth.

00:29:49.000 The cinema campaign would not say why she invited the witches or clarify why she thought members of the occult deserved a seat at the table during discussions concerning war and peace.

00:29:58.000 The witches in question, it should be noted, claim to practice only non-violent magic.

00:30:01.000 Per the about section on their webpage, there is a peaceful and democratic kind of sorcery.

00:30:06.000 The pagan cluster focuses on sharing spiritual insights and participating in direct democracy.

00:30:11.000 Their visions are decidedly liberal.

00:30:12.000 Many of their coven, quote, have roots in the reclaiming tradition of feminist witchcraft.

00:30:18.000 Mm-hmm.

00:30:19.000 Senema also went to an anti-war rally with pagans later that year, and apparently she talked about singing and spiraling in the pagan circle only five rows from the police line.

00:30:30.000 And then the police arrested everybody.

00:30:32.000 So, Kirsten Senema.

00:30:34.000 Yeah, just doing yeoman's work on behalf of her own campaign. 0.62

00:30:36.000 Also, it turns out, she organized for the Arizona Alliance for Peace and Justice.

00:30:41.000 In one email, she urged supporters of the AAPJ to deluge the phone lines of a radio show hosted by an unapologetic, unconditional supporter of Israeli policy.

00:30:50.000 So, Kirsten Sinema is basically toast in that Senate race as well. 1.00

00:30:54.000 Democrats' radicalism is the major issue here, and all they have is President Trump, which is why it's not good that the President of the United States goes around calling women whores face. 0.96

00:31:04.000 I mean, really? 0.97

00:31:05.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.

00:31:08.000 The Democratic response to all of this, plus a kind of shocking story Carter Page is now suing.

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00:35:04.000 So with all of this said, with all of this said, the economy continues to do well.

00:35:09.000 This was such a good news cycle.

00:35:10.000 It really was.

00:35:11.000 It was such a good news cycle.

00:35:12.000 The economy was doing great.

00:35:14.000 The new jobs numbers are just terrific.

00:35:17.000 Not only that, we have the highest federal collection of income taxes in history in 2018.

00:35:25.000 If you just look at the numbers, we are collecting more income taxes than ever before, even though we have lower income tax rates than we did last year.

00:35:31.000 Why?

00:35:31.000 Because supply-side economics works.

00:35:33.000 When the economy grows, then the government actually takes in more taxes than if the economy is stagnant and we have higher tax rates.

00:35:39.000 The economy has been going great guns under President Trump.

00:35:41.000 We'll get to the deficit in a second, which is not quite as good, but...

00:35:44.000 This is a very good news cycle for President Trump.

00:35:46.000 So in the last three weeks, he got a Supreme Court justice and watched the left kill themselves over Kavanaugh.

00:35:50.000 He got Elizabeth Warren in one of the great unforced political blunders of my lifetime, releasing a report saying she was Native American when she is less Indian than actual people from India.

00:36:04.000 Like actual people from India have more Native American blood than Elizabeth Warren does.

00:36:07.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:36:10.000 And with that said, President Trump decides to step on himself with Stormy Daniels and calling people horseface.

00:36:17.000 This is the only line of attack that Democrats have.

00:36:19.000 It's just attacks on President Trump.

00:36:21.000 And so this is what they're ratcheting up.

00:36:22.000 Nancy Pelosi, who's looking at a bad Senate map right now, 0.96

00:36:26.000 She's trying to suggest that President Trump is now in the pay of the Saudis.

00:36:30.000 That the reason that President Trump hasn't been harsher on the Saudi government with regard to their murder of Jamal Khashoggi, their alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an American resident who was a critic of the Saudi regime and also a fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, she says the reason Trump hasn't been harsher is because maybe he's being paid off by the Saudis.

00:36:48.000 In terms of Saudi Arabia, I think that was, I've always wondered why he went there as the first country to visit outside of the United States.

00:36:55.000 Of course, as President of the United States, all the other presidents back to Ronald Reagan went to Canada or to, one to Mexico, George W. Bush.

00:37:05.000 So in our hemisphere, were there many friends and allies we could have gone to?

00:37:09.000 So there was, I was always suspicious that there was some kind of a financial transaction involved there, whether for his businesses or whatever.

00:37:17.000 Good luck with this line of attack.

00:37:19.000 It's pretty crazy that Democrats think the only way that they're going to be able to win elections is by simply throwing out unverified and unverifiable information like this.

00:37:27.000 But it shows how desperate they are, which is why, again, unforced errors are the biggest problem for the Trump administration.

00:37:32.000 They've always been the biggest problem for the Trump administration.

00:37:36.000 Here's, I think, the rule in American politics right now.

00:37:39.000 Whoever shuts up first wins.

00:37:42.000 Really.

00:37:42.000 Because this is just, it's the worst tennis match ever.

00:37:46.000 If you watch tennis players, very often you will see that sometimes the best strategy is just get the ball over the net, because sooner or later somebody is gonna smack the ball into the net, and then you win.

00:37:57.000 Basically, there's a great line, which comedian is it?

00:38:00.000 I think it's Mitch Hedberg?

00:38:02.000 Is that the name of the comedian?

00:38:04.000 So he has a line, he says, the problem I have with tennis is no matter how good I get, I'm never better than the wall.

00:38:10.000 Well, that's essentially what's happening in American politics right now.

00:38:14.000 If you are the wall, you win. 0.74

00:38:16.000 If you are the wall, you win. 0.74

00:38:17.000 That's all.

00:38:17.000 If you are the person who just sits there and lets the other side bang its head against you, you win.

00:38:23.000 If you are the person who commits unforced errors, you lose.

00:38:25.000 The Democrats have been committing unforced error after unforced error here.

00:38:30.000 And that's why it would be great if the president would just stop.

00:38:33.000 But again, I guess we're going to have an entire news cycle now about horseface.

00:38:36.000 Does it hurt Trump in any serious way?

00:38:38.000 Not really.

00:38:39.000 But it does jazz up the Democrats.

00:38:40.000 Again, it reminds them how much they hate President Trump.

00:38:43.000 When he goes away, it's hard for them to talk about this as much.

00:38:45.000 Nobody cares.

00:38:47.000 But with that said, Trump going to Trump.

00:38:50.000 That's just the way that it goes.

00:38:53.000 Trump also comes along with the benefit of Trump, right?

00:38:55.000 There's always a good side to what Trump is and a bad side to what Trump is.

00:38:57.000 So the same guy who calls his former lover's horse face is the same fellow who's actually trying to stop these immigrant caravans that have been traveling from places like Honduras. 0.98

00:39:07.000 So President Trump on Tuesday threatened to withdraw funding and aid from Honduras if it does not stop a caravan of people that is heading to the United States.

00:39:14.000 Trump said the United States has strongly informed the president of Honduras that if the large caravan of people heading to the U.S.

00:39:20.000 is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras effective immediately.

00:39:26.000 Up to 3,000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday on a trek northward after a standoff with police in riot gear and warnings from Washington that migrants should not try to enter the United States illegally.

00:39:37.000 And then the crowd more than doubled in size.

00:39:39.000 And they do this march every year where people are sent up from Latin America through Central America and to the United States border.

00:39:46.000 Trump threatening to withdraw aid from countries that don't stop this seems not completely unreasonable to me.

00:39:52.000 With that said, he should be threatening aid to Saudi Arabia as well based on their human rights violations and frankly any country that commits human rights violations in the way that Saudi Arabia has. 0.80

00:40:00.000 I'm not sure why we should be funding those countries.

00:40:03.000 Especially when we have the capacity to do much more direct damage to Iran through sanctions and through military know-how than the Saudis do. 1.00

00:40:10.000 I mean, the Saudis basically are there because we let them be there. 1.00

00:40:13.000 In any case...

00:40:14.000 The other big story of the day is that Carter Page is now suing the DNC.

00:40:18.000 So according to the Daily Caller, former Trump campaign associate Carter Page has filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the DNC and its law firm, which commissioned the infamous Steele dossier.

00:40:27.000 Page filed the suit in federal court in Oklahoma against the DNC, the law firm Perkins Coie, and two of its partners, Mark Elias and Michael Sussman.

00:40:35.000 Now you remember what happened with Carter Page.

00:40:36.000 The accusation from the Republicans that Carter Page was a low-level foreign policy aide for President Trump was

00:40:42.000 Basically, hamstrung by the DNC.

00:40:44.000 He was targeted for destruction by the DNC, working hand-in-glove with law enforcement members of the FBI and the Obama administration.

00:40:53.000 The goal being to get a FISA warrant against him that would somehow damage the Trump campaign.

00:40:57.000 That's basically the accusation.

00:40:59.000 And to support that accusation, there are a couple pieces of evidence.

00:41:04.000 One, Carter Page still has not been arrested.

00:41:06.000 For all the attempts to get Carter Page, nobody's actually gotten Carter Page on anything.

00:41:09.000 He's not been arrested.

00:41:10.000 He's not been tried.

00:41:11.000 No charges have been brought against him.

00:41:13.000 So maybe this was all a setup.

00:41:15.000 Point number two is that there are heavy ties between the Fusion GPS

00:41:21.000 We're good.

00:41:36.000 Page, he filed that lawsuit, and Perkins Coie is the firm that hired Fusion GPS, the opposition researcher that investigated Donald Trump's links to Russia.

00:41:46.000 Elias, who's one of the lawyers over at Perkins Coie, was Perkins Coie's main contact to Fusion GPS.

00:41:51.000 It was founded by three former Wall Street Journal reporters.

00:41:55.000 As part of its $1 million project, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele to conduct the investigation.

00:41:59.000 Now, what's fascinating about this lawsuit is that lawsuits sometimes are designed for victory, and sometimes lawsuits are designed for discovery.

00:42:06.000 In other words, in the process of doing a lawsuit, you can ask

00:42:11.000 We're good.

00:42:28.000 Asking for materials on Carter Page's relationship with the Trump administration in Russia.

00:42:33.000 For Carter Page to launch the lawsuit, unless it's really ill-founded, suggests that Carter Page doesn't have a lot to hide, but he thinks the DNC does have a lot to hide.

00:42:40.000 That's damaging stuff, obviously.

00:42:46.000 Again, Carter Page has been sort of the main linchpin of a lot of Democratic efforts to paint collusion between Donald Trump and the Russian government in 2016.

00:42:54.000 And so far, no hard evidence has been brought out to prove any of that stuff.

00:42:59.000 To prove any of that stuff.

00:43:00.000 So that is a story that we're going to watch as it unfolds.

00:43:03.000 Now, in other news that I think is not as good, the budget deficit is the highest that it's been in years.

00:43:08.000 And I hear I have to ding Republicans.

00:43:09.000 So we've heard for a lot of years that Republicans care about budget deficits.

00:43:13.000 We kept hearing that Barack Obama was blowing out the debt, which he was.

00:43:17.000 It's up to, what, $21 trillion now?

00:43:19.000 It's unsustainable.

00:43:20.000 And that's only the debt that we

00:43:22.000 According to CNBC,

00:43:46.000 The U.S.

00:43:47.000 federal budget deficit rose in fiscal year 2018 to the highest level in six years as spending climbed, the Trump administration said Monday.

00:43:53.000 The deficit jumped $779 billion, $113 billion, or 17% higher than the previous fiscal period, according to a statement from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

00:44:03.000 It's larger than any year since 2012, when it topped $1 trillion.

00:44:07.000 The budget shortfall rose to 3.9% of U.S.

00:44:09.000 gross domestic product.

00:44:10.000 That despite the fact we are now taking in more money than any time in American history from income tax.

00:44:15.000 The problem we have in this country is not a taxing problem.

00:44:17.000 It is a spending problem.

00:44:19.000 And government is addicted to spending, and nobody's going to stop it.

00:44:22.000 Because no one has an interest in actually stopping the spending.

00:44:25.000 Americans like the idea of spending less until you actually ask them what sorts of programs they wish to see cut, at which point they get quite skittish.

00:44:32.000 Very, very skittish about doing any sorts of real cuts.

00:44:36.000 At all.

00:44:36.000 Federal revenues rose slightly by $14 billion after Republicans chopped tax rates for corporations and individuals.

00:44:42.000 Outlays climbed by $127 billion including a spike in defense spending as well as increases for Medicaid, Social Security, and disaster relief.

00:44:52.000 So that is not exactly fiscal discipline.

00:44:53.000 We have no party in the United States that stands for fiscal discipline.

00:44:56.000 That needs to stop.

00:44:57.000 This is bad whether it is Republicans or whether it is Democrats.

00:45:00.000 It is just bad stuff all the way around.

00:45:03.000 There's nothing good happening here.

00:45:05.000 We need to get that under control if President Trump...

00:45:08.000 wants to win a second term, I would suggest that we start talking in serious fashion about those deficits, because at some point, the burden comes due.

00:45:15.000 Okay, time for a few things that I like, and then we'll do some things that I hate.

00:45:19.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:22.000 Mark Levin's dad writes books, and he wrote a children's book that's really great.

00:45:27.000 I bought it for my kids, and it's great.

00:45:29.000 It reminds kids that the police can actually be your friends.

00:45:31.000 Despite all of the coverage by the media, policemen are generally doing a great job.

00:45:37.000 And I say that in spite of the fact that there are some policemen who are doofs, right? 1.00

00:45:39.000 I told you a story last week about a doof policeman who pulled us over while we were in a police escort in Detroit. 0.96

00:45:44.000 But the police overall do a fantastic job.

00:45:47.000 They do a fantastic job keeping us safe and appreciating the members of our police is deeply necessary.

00:45:52.000 Jack Levin, the father of Mark Levin, wrote this.

00:45:56.000 And Mark, I think, does something really sweet here by pushing his dad's books.

00:45:59.000 I think that that's just a great thing that Mark does.

00:46:02.000 I'm a big Mark Levin.

00:46:03.000 Fan and supporter.

00:46:04.000 You should check it out.

00:46:05.000 Our Police by Jack Levin.

00:46:07.000 Go check that out right now.

00:46:08.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:46:09.000 So, this is pretty funny.

00:46:11.000 Last week, there was a song that I played on the show by a young woman of the left.

00:46:15.000 Her name was Lindsay Lab Stewart.

00:46:17.000 It was a feminist song in which she claimed that women can't do anything in the United States but men 1.00

00:46:23.000 I don't act out of ignorance and not out of fear.

00:46:25.000 You can blame the patriarchy, but I'll have none of that here.

00:46:29.000 Someday I plan to have a family and an awesome career.

00:46:31.000 If I need some inspiration, I just look in the mirror.

00:46:33.000 Thanks, Leslie Knope.

00:46:53.000 Because this is empowerment to me.

00:46:57.000 Conservative women might be in the minority. 1.00

00:47:00.000 You can speak for yourself, but you don't speak for me.

00:47:04.000 I got a mind of my own, so just let me be.

00:47:07.000 So this is a better message.

00:47:08.000 It's a better message than, women are deeply victimized every single day in the United States, and men shouldn't worry about their victimization at the hands of women who lie sometimes, or who misremember sometimes.

00:47:20.000 This is a much better message because, turns out, you know it's a bad message?

00:47:23.000 A better message than the democratic message?

00:47:25.000 The left message?

00:47:26.000 That you're not a victim and that you're in control of your own life in a free country.

00:47:29.000 There's a fascinating study.

00:47:30.000 We talked about it last week.

00:47:31.000 This hidden tribe study was the one that said 80% of Americans hate political correctness.

00:47:35.000 That same study showed a massive gap between the left and the right on one particular issue.

00:47:40.000 Whether people can succeed on their own merits in the United States.

00:47:44.000 86% of people who call themselves progressive said that you are not free to succeed on your own merits in the United States.

00:47:49.000 Only 2%

00:47:51.000 Of people on the right thought that you're not able to succeed on your own merits in the United States.

00:47:54.000 Which one do you think is a more inspiring message likely to lead to the success of individuals?

00:47:59.000 Certainly the conservative message.

00:48:01.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:48:07.000 So Alec Baldwin now apparently has a talk show, I guess, on ABC, which is pretty incredible.

00:48:13.000 The man just keeps failing up, right?

00:48:15.000 He was on MSNBC.

00:48:16.000 He lost his talk show on MSNBC.

00:48:17.000 That couldn't support ratings.

00:48:18.000 They thought, okay, we'll put him on ABC and that will fix things. 0.99

00:48:22.000 Well, one of the things that he said over the past week is that he is horrified President Trump is president, which is kind of amazing coming from a guy who left a message on his daughter's answering machine talking about how she was a little pig and how terrible she is. 0.99

00:48:32.000 Again, 0.96

00:48:33.000 I understand people having character quibbles with the President of the United States and serious character questions about the President of the United States.

00:48:40.000 I certainly do.

00:48:40.000 But I do not understand people in Hollywood suddenly finding their moral scruples when it comes to presidents after they spent years preparing the way, playing fluffer for Bill Clinton.

00:48:51.000 But here's Alec Baldwin.

00:48:53.000 I mean, to me, every day I wake up, I still am horrified.

00:48:57.000 And I feel like I'm in some dream that Trump is the president of the United States.

00:49:01.000 I can't, I almost can't even say it.

00:49:03.000 Okay, well, I have to say, it is just amazing.

00:49:05.000 It is amazing. 1.00

00:49:06.000 We can shut that idiot up. 1.00

00:49:07.000 This is amazing. 1.00

00:49:08.000 According to Nielsen, the premiere, this is on ABC, right?

00:49:12.000 Not on MSNBC or a cable network, on ABC.

00:49:15.000 The premiere of his ABC talk show brought in 2.2 million total viewers with an anemic 0.4 rating in the advertiser coveted 18 to 49 demographic.

00:49:25.000 Okay, let me give you a by way of contrast.

00:49:26.000 A by way of contrast.

00:49:28.000 He's on ABC, a network.

00:49:30.000 My Fox Sunday show, okay, my Fox election special, last week, the week before Sunday, because I think the ratings aren't out yet, the week before Sunday, it brought in 1.8 million.

00:49:40.000 I nearly matched his ratings on Fox News on a Sunday night during Sunday night football.

00:49:45.000 Hey, he's on ABC and he couldn't get any ratings.

00:49:48.000 He keeps failing up.

00:49:50.000 He keeps failing up.

00:49:50.000 You know what there's a market for?

00:49:52.000 It's really amazing when you think about it.

00:49:54.000 There is not a single Trump, forget Trump supporting,

00:49:59.000 Trump curious.

00:50:01.000 You know, there's not even anybody who's mildly positive toward Trump, even when he does good things on network TV.

00:50:06.000 And yet they keep going back to the same old horses who keep falling down dead in the ratings.

00:50:12.000 And so Alec Baldwin keeps getting jobs, even though the guy can't draw flies, except if he's on another show like 30 Rock or SNL.

00:50:18.000 Pretty amazing how all of this works.

00:50:19.000 OK, well, we will be back here tomorrow with all of the latest.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 16, 2018

The Sad Story Of Fauxcahontas | Ep. 639

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