The Ben Shapiro Show - The Second Black President

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, Michelle Obama, the Democrats' break glass-in-case-of-emergency candidate, sounded off on Joe Biden, and here is what she said.

00:00:08.000 And you wonder, where are people, where are we in this?

00:00:12.000 You know, where are our hearts?

00:00:13.000 What's going to happen in this next election?

00:00:15.000 I am terrified about what could possibly happen because our leaders matter.

00:00:21.000 Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit.

00:00:26.000 It affects us in ways that sometimes I think people take for granted.

00:00:31.000 She's speaking for a lot of Democrats right now who are deeply worried that Joe Biden is going to lose the upcoming election to Donald Trump.

00:00:38.000 And the latest polls show that Donald Trump is in fact leading Joe Biden in virtually every swing state.

00:00:43.000 Joe Biden is deeply underwater.

00:00:45.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden headed to Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina.

00:00:49.000 What was he doing there?

00:00:50.000 Well, speaking about the evils of white supremacy and the magic of diversity, equity, and inclusion, of course. 0.96

00:00:55.000 And he was doing so at the church where the Charleston massacre took place, where a white supremacist murdered a bunch of black parishioners. 0.85

00:01:02.000 Why was he there?

00:01:03.000 Well, because it's election time, and Joe Biden knows the only way he is going to win reelection is if he has heavy black turnout at the ballot box.

00:01:10.000 That's the whole thing.

00:01:11.000 That's been the secret sauce for Democratic electoral victory in recent elections.

00:01:14.000 In 2000, just 53.5% of black voters showed up to vote.

00:01:18.000 In 2008, when Barack Obama was on the ballot, that number jumped to a record 60.8%.

00:01:22.000 In 2012, it spiked to a new record, 62%.

00:01:26.000 Then, because Barack Obama was not on the ballot in 2016, it dropped back down to 55.9% and Hillary Clinton lost the election. 0.93

00:01:34.000 When Joe Biden won in 2020, that number rebounded to almost 59%.

00:01:39.000 And Black voters in the 2020 election went for Joe Biden at a 92 to 8 clip.

00:01:44.000 Voters of color overall, by the way, represented four in ten of Joe Biden's votes.

00:01:48.000 The black vote for Joe Biden is going to be especially important because unlike other voters who voted disproportionately by mail in 2020 and probably will not show up this time in the same way, black voters were the subgroup most likely to show up and vote in person.

00:02:02.000 That means that if mail-in ballots drop in the upcoming election and turnout In person stays kind of the same.

00:02:09.000 You would expect to see heavy black turnout because many people showed up in person in the black community to vote this way.

00:02:14.000 So it's back to the old playbook for Joe Biden, racial polarization.

00:02:18.000 This has been the playbook for Democrats my entire lifetime, but it was exacerbated greatly by Barack Obama in 2012.

00:02:24.000 And Joe Biden knows how to play that game because he was the vice president in 2012.

00:02:28.000 Remember that time in 2012 that he said that Mitt Romney Yes, Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast Republican, perhaps of all time, was going to put black Americans in chains during the 2012 race.

00:02:38.000 Remember this?

00:02:40.000 Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing.

00:02:44.000 Romney wants to let the, he said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks once again, write their own rules.

00:02:50.000 Unchain Wall Street.

00:02:55.000 They're going to put y'all back in chains. 1.00

00:03:00.000 Yes, Mitt Romney was going to re-slavery black people in the United States. 0.51

00:03:06.000 Sure, Joe Biden made that contention in 2012, and it worked.

00:03:10.000 So, in 2024, fast forward 12 years, and we're gonna do it again.

00:03:14.000 Joe Biden, by the way, in 2012, not remotely the same as Joe Biden in 2024.

00:03:17.000 Anybody who believes that that man is not in a state of mental and physical decline, watch the tapes of Joe Biden back-to-back from 2012 and watch the tapes now.

00:03:26.000 He was never any great shakes oratorily.

00:03:29.000 He was never any sort of magically brilliant human being, but at least he could speak words from his face hole with some level of fluidity.

00:03:36.000 That is all over.

00:03:37.000 In any case, it's now 2024. 0.97

00:03:38.000 Joe Biden needs black votes, and it was time to head to a historically black church victimized by white violence and then proclaim that he's going to stand up against all the evil white Americans who might vote for Donald Trump.

00:03:50.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second. 0.98

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00:04:53.000 He went to, again, Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, not because Donald Trump had anything to do with the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina.

00:05:01.000 After all, that took place in 2015.

00:05:03.000 Donald Trump was not yet president.

00:05:05.000 It was a year before Donald Trump was president.

00:05:06.000 Barack Obama was president at the time.

00:05:08.000 But the idea is... 0.97

00:05:10.000 That Donald Trump's ideology is the same as the ideology of the evil white supremacist who shot up the church. 0.81

00:05:16.000 That was the idea, and that's why Joe Biden showed up there. 0.96

00:05:18.000 It's a really cynical play, and it's a really ugly play.

00:05:22.000 But it's something Joe Biden is quite familiar with, again, because he has done it before.

00:05:26.000 So he shows up at this church and the audience begins cheering four more years.

00:05:29.000 Now, I've been informed by reliable sources that Christian nationalism is one of the great threats to America. 1.00

00:05:34.000 Christian nationalism, the abuse of church for political purposes.

00:05:38.000 Of course, that only means that evangelical Christians should not support Donald Trump because that would be Christian nationalism. 0.98

00:05:44.000 But when you cheer four more years in a historically black church, well, that means just that's what God wants you to do, apparently. 0.99

00:05:51.000 That's like the good kind of Christian nationalism.

00:05:53.000 Here's some of that.

00:05:55.000 Thank you, please.

00:05:59.000 Thank you.

00:06:07.000 Joe Biden doesn't appear to know quite where he is.

00:06:09.000 That's a lot of politics in a church right there.

00:06:18.000 Okay, well, he needs something in his head, so perhaps it will go to his head, perhaps it won't.

00:06:22.000 There's not much left up there. 0.97

00:06:24.000 Again, the theme of his campaign is going to be that Donald Trump is a Nazi. 0.90

00:06:27.000 That's going to be the theme of his campaign. 0.86

00:06:28.000 And he's laid it out in the past four days.

00:06:30.000 First at Valley Forge, where he suggested that Donald Trump literally was a Nazi.

00:06:34.000 That he was repeating Nazi sloganeering, and that if Donald Trump won the 2024 election, there would be no further elections.

00:06:39.000 And then, on Monday, when he went to this church, where he suggested that if Donald Trump wins, white supremacy will have won.

00:06:44.000 Joe Biden led off this speech by, of course, talking about the massacre that took place in June of 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.

00:06:51.000 Here we go.

00:06:53.000 On June 17, 2015, the beautiful souls, five survivors and five survivors, invited a stranger into this church to pray with them.

00:07:03.000 The word of God was pierced by bullets and hate, rage, propelled by not just gunpowder, but by a poison.

00:07:14.000 Poison that has for too long haunted this nation.

00:07:18.000 What is that poison? 1.00

00:07:21.000 White supremacy. 1.00

00:07:23.000 Again, this idea that white supremacy is a widespread ideology in the United States is absolute sheer nonsense. 0.99

00:07:28.000 It's just nonsense. 0.99

00:07:29.000 That doesn't mean there aren't dangerous white supremacists out there. 0.99

00:07:32.000 I know there are. 1.00

00:07:33.000 Many of them send me death threats.

00:07:34.000 But the idea that that is like a chief threat to the United States right now, an ideology in which white people believe that they are supreme to other races in the United States, there is zero poll data to suggest that white supremacy is a serious underlying problem in the United States.

00:07:48.000 Americans, generally speaking, do not think like that.

00:07:51.000 But this constant harping on race, Which is what Barack Obama began in 2012.

00:07:55.000 Remember, in 2008, he ran as a racial uniter, not a racial divider.

00:07:58.000 In 2012, he ran as somewhat of a racial divider.

00:08:02.000 His entire plan in the 2012 election was racial polarization so as to drive minority turnout against, again, Mitt Romney, the most generic Republican it is possible to generic.

00:08:12.000 And it worked.

00:08:14.000 But you can see the results of that.

00:08:16.000 Now, the myth that Democrats have to tell themselves is that by suggesting that white supremacy is a continuing vast problem in the United States, they're somehow making the United States a better place.

00:08:27.000 And that's what Joe Biden suggested yesterday.

00:08:29.000 He was talking about the bringing down of the Confederate flag, which happened in the aftermath.

00:08:32.000 of that shooting at Emanuel AME. You'll recall that the shooter in that particular case,

00:08:37.000 there are pictures of him with the Confederate flag. This turned into a nationwide debate

00:08:41.000 over the Confederate flag and whether it should be allowed to be flown in any state monuments

00:08:46.000 or appear in any state monuments whatsoever. I thought they were frankly pretty good arguments

00:08:50.000 on both sides of the aisle on that particular disagreement.

00:08:54.000 There are a lot of people who believe the Confederate flag in the South was more of a cultural thing that no longer called to the original purposes of the Confederacy.

00:09:01.000 Obviously, black Americans looked at the Confederate flag and said, well, guys, that was the Confederacy.

00:09:05.000 Yeah, I thought there were good arguments on both sides, but the notion that American race relations got better as a result of that particular debate has been belied by, you know, all of American history since then.

00:09:15.000 Here was Joe Biden playing this game.

00:09:17.000 You brought down the Confederate flag in South Carolina.

00:09:22.000 You brought it down.

00:09:23.000 No, you did.

00:09:28.000 And you helped the nation heal.

00:09:31.000 You showed what America can overcome, what we can be when we want to be something.

00:09:38.000 Now, if he wants to give credit for that to somebody, the person he should credit, of course, is one of the Republicans on the other side of the aisle, the governor of South Carolina at the time, Nikki Haley.

00:09:47.000 So if you see this as a good thing, then Nikki Haley is the person who actually took the Confederate flag off of monuments at the state capitol.

00:09:54.000 With all that said, again, the idea that all of this helped bring down the temperature on race relations in the United States is obviously untrue.

00:10:01.000 When Joe Biden says that this helped the nation heal, Let me just read you the poll statistics.

00:10:06.000 Again, this is one of the most shocking poll statistics in modern American history, these poll statistics.

00:10:11.000 It says, quote, would you say relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad?

00:10:19.000 And here are the stats for very or somewhat good, right?

00:10:20.000 Good race relations.

00:10:23.000 Okay, as of 2001, 70% of black Americans said that race relations were very or somewhat good, and 62% of white Americans said the same.

00:10:31.000 In 2003, those numbers were 69% of white Americans said they were very good, or somewhat good.

00:10:36.000 59% of black Americans said they were very, or somewhat good.

00:10:40.000 In 2008, 70% of white Americans said that race relations were very, or somewhat good.

00:10:45.000 And 61% of black Americans said that they were very, or somewhat good.

00:10:50.000 In 2013, still, 72% of white Americans said that race relations were very or somewhat good.

00:10:56.000 66% of black Americans said they were very or somewhat good.

00:11:00.000 And then something happened.

00:11:01.000 Then something happened. 0.81

00:11:03.000 In 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement launched, and it made the claim that America was a deeply racist place filled with white supremacy.

00:11:09.000 It was, again, an overhang of the Obama-Biden 2012 campaign extended forward in time through 2013 and 2014, and so when the Ferguson riots broke out and Barack Obama decided to take the side of the rioters, effectively speaking, when that happened, when the Black Lives Matter movement started to make the false claim that America was racist in all of its iterations, race relations absolutely plummeted in the United States.

00:11:32.000 In 2013, 72% of white Americans said race relations were good, and so did 66% of black Americans.

00:11:38.000 By 2015, 45% of white Americans said race relations were good.

00:11:43.000 That is a 27 percentage point drop.

00:11:48.000 And simultaneously, 15% percentage points fewer black Americans said race relations were good.

00:11:58.000 Only 51% of black Americans said race relations were good.

00:12:00.000 This is by 2015.

00:12:03.000 Then, those numbers continued to decline.

00:12:05.000 In 2021, Well, Joe Biden is president with the Democratic Senate.

00:12:09.000 43% of white Americans say race relations are good, and only 33% of black Americans say race relations are good.

00:12:18.000 One third of blacks and fewer than half of whites say race relations are good.

00:12:22.000 Again, that is from 72% of whites and 66% of blacks in 2013.

00:12:28.000 I mean, why did that happen?

00:12:29.000 And the answer is, the more you talk about the polarization between races, the more you pretend that that is the source of American conflict, the worse things get.

00:12:37.000 And our political leadership class, particularly on the left, has a heavy stock in doing particularly this.

00:12:43.000 And so Joe Biden, because he needs black votes, he's going to try to transmute the white supremacy shooting that happened in Charleston into a debate about January 6th.

00:12:53.000 Now, again, I think that's a really awkward fit. 0.97

00:12:55.000 There are very few people, black or white, who believe that Donald Trump is a vicious anti-black racist.

00:13:01.000 Again, one of Donald Trump's signal accomplishments, one I disagreed with, was criminal justice reform, which was pushed forward by Trump and Van Jones, who's a black advocate, obviously.

00:13:11.000 But this is Joe Biden's play.

00:13:12.000 Racially polarize the country for political profit.

00:13:15.000 That is the game.

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00:14:19.000 So here he was, trying to link up the lost cause of the Civil War.

00:14:23.000 Okay, that is the myth that was created by Southerners in the aftermath of the Civil War.

00:14:27.000 That there was something magnificent going on with the Confederacy and that that cause had been lost in the aftermath and that the South was ruined and all of this by the loss of the Civil War.

00:14:36.000 He's trying to link that up with January 6th.

00:14:39.000 I mean, this is some pretty astonishing stuff.

00:14:43.000 So let me be clear, for those who don't seem to know, Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.

00:14:50.000 There is no negotiation about that.

00:14:56.000 Now we're living in an era of a second lost cause.

00:15:01.000 Once again, there are some in this country trying to turn a loss into a lie.

00:15:08.000 A lie, which if allowed to live, will once again bring terrible damage to this country.

00:15:13.000 This time, the lie is about the 2020 election.

00:15:17.000 The election which you made, your voices heard, and your power known.

00:15:24.000 Again, this is amazing stuff.

00:15:25.000 Trying to link up the lost cause narrative about the Civil War with Donald Trump claiming that he won the 2020 election, that's such an insane stretch.

00:15:37.000 And it's so obvious again, what he is doing.

00:15:39.000 It's so obvious. 0.98

00:15:41.000 This culminated in Joe Biden calling Donald Trump a loser to wild applause at this church.

00:15:46.000 Again, when wild applause happens at a church for political figures who are right-wing, that's Christian Nationalism. 0.83

00:15:50.000 When it happens for Joe Biden, that's politics.

00:15:51.000 Here we go.

00:15:52.000 There's one thing they don't have.

00:15:55.000 They don't have respect for the 81 million people who voted the other way.

00:15:59.000 Voted for my candidacy.

00:16:02.000 And voted to end the presidency.

00:16:09.000 In their world, these Americans, including you, don't count. 0.84

00:16:13.000 But that's not the real world.

00:16:14.000 That's not democracy.

00:16:16.000 That's not America.

00:16:17.000 In America, we all count.

00:16:19.000 In America, we witness to serve all those who, in fact, participate.

00:16:25.000 And losers are taught to concede when they lose. 1.00

00:16:29.000 He's a loser. 1.00

00:16:35.000 To wild whoops and cheers, obviously. 0.99

00:16:38.000 Biden concluded this speech by suggesting, once again, that January 6th, it's all about January 6th for Biden.

00:16:44.000 It's just gonna be January 6th from now until the end of time for Joe Biden.

00:16:48.000 He is now connecting that to opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:16:52.000 DEI is an outgrowth of postmodernist theory.

00:16:55.000 To give you a very brief one-minute synopsis of what DEI is and its history, postmodernism is a philosophy that says there is no such thing as truth, there is just power.

00:17:05.000 Promoted by Michel Foucault, among others, the basic idea is that anything you believe is not actually a belief in a truth or in a system.

00:17:13.000 What you actually believe is a reflection of your own desire for power.

00:17:17.000 And that means that all the systems in America are not about whether they work or whether they don't, whether they're fair or whether they're not.

00:17:21.000 They're just about the people who succeed under that system creating power structures to benefit themselves.

00:17:28.000 That was first transmuted by Marxists into claims about rich Americans who were structuring the system for their own benefit, and then when that didn't work, it was transmuted into racial claims.

00:17:35.000 Those racial claims became critical race theory, the basic idea being that all the structures of American society are inherently racist, perpetrated by white supremacists in order to reinforce that supremacy.

00:17:47.000 And that transmuted into diversity, equity, and inclusion, the basic idea of which Is that, again, all of the systems of America are fundamentally broken, and the way you can tell this is because there's unequal outcome by group.

00:17:57.000 And that can only be rectified by unequal treatment of groups.

00:18:00.000 That's what diversity, equity, and inclusion is.

00:18:02.000 And this is Joe Biden's pitch.

00:18:03.000 His pitch to black audiences is that he is going to create special carve-outs for blacks. 0.88

00:18:09.000 That is what he is doing right here. 0.86

00:18:10.000 That is why he is saying this sort of stuff.

00:18:12.000 It's why he's trying to link up all of this into one giant ball of mishmash.

00:18:16.000 So here we go.

00:18:17.000 He's going to link together, in this statement, January 6th, An attempt to destroy DEI and a zero-sum view of America.

00:18:26.000 Which is amazing, by the way, because DEI is inherently a zero-sum view of America.

00:18:31.000 When you say DEI is the situation that we should promote, what you are saying is that basically there should be racial quotas. 0.85

00:18:36.000 Racial quotas are, by their very nature, zero-sum. 1.00

00:18:39.000 If there is one slot, and it has to go to either the most meritorious candidate or the most diverse candidate, and they're not the same person in this particular scenario, if that happens, one person gets the slot.

00:18:49.000 That is, by definition, a zero-sum game.

00:18:51.000 A meritocracy is not a zero-sum game because there are positive externalities to the meritocracy.

00:18:56.000 In other words, people who are best at the job get the job, and that helps everybody.

00:18:59.000 When it comes to diversity, equity, inclusion, there are no positive externalities.

00:19:04.000 There are only people who win and people who lose.

00:19:07.000 But that's the opposite of what Joe Biden is preaching because he's fibbing.

00:19:11.000 The lies that led to January 6th are part of a broader attack on the truth of America today that we all have seen before.

00:19:19.000 The same movement that threw out the mob The United States Capitol isn't just trying to rewrite history, January 6th.

00:19:27.000 They're trying to determine to erase history and your future.

00:19:32.000 Banning books.

00:19:34.000 Denying your right to vote and have it counted.

00:19:37.000 Destroying diversity, equality, inclusion all across America.

00:19:44.000 Harboring hate and replacing hope with anger and resentment and dangerous view of America.

00:19:51.000 That narrow view of America, zero-sum view of America, that says, if you win, I lose.

00:19:58.000 If you succeed, it must be I fail.

00:20:01.000 If you get ahead, I fall behind.

00:20:03.000 And maybe worst of all, if I hold you down, I lift myself up.

00:20:10.000 Oh my God, the levels of projection here are absolutely astonishing.

00:20:12.000 That is literally the entire Democratic playbook.

00:20:16.000 If you win, I lose.

00:20:17.000 When it comes to economics, if somebody succeeded, it's because they must have done something wrong.

00:20:21.000 And so we have to punish them for their success and tear them down. 0.72

00:20:25.000 Because obviously the 1% are cruel and evil, as Bernie Sanders says. 0.97

00:20:28.000 If you succeed, it must be that I failed.

00:20:30.000 As opposed to, if the person next door to me is rich, and I'm also a little bit richer because he's good at his job and sold me a good product or service, we all benefited.

00:20:37.000 That is precisely the opposite of the zero-sum economics in which Democrats constantly engage.

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00:21:41.000 When he says that the Republican philosophy is if I hold you down, I lift myself up.

00:21:45.000 Who's trying to hold who down?

00:21:47.000 Who's trying to hold who down?

00:21:49.000 When you suggest that the meritocracy is deeply flawed and is in fact a reinforcement Gerder for power.

00:21:57.000 What you are trying to do is hold down the meritorious.

00:22:00.000 This Harrison Burge run by Kurt Vonnegut.

00:22:02.000 You are taking the most meritorious and you are saddling them with burdens in order to quote-unquote make things more equal.

00:22:08.000 The most famous quote along these lines that that springs to mind here is Barack Obama being asked in 2008 if increasing the capital gains tax actually lowered economic growth would he still do it and he said yes for purposes of fairness.

00:22:20.000 Because dragging people back down to the median is more important than everybody rising, even if that rate of increase is unequal.

00:22:29.000 And this is, in a nutshell, Joe Biden's campaign.

00:22:32.000 This is why he's not going to be able to let go of DEI.

00:22:34.000 Joe Biden is now running directly into a problem.

00:22:36.000 The problem that he has is that the way that he could win is theoretically to go Clintonian third way.

00:22:42.000 He could!

00:22:42.000 He could go Clintonian third way and he could win.

00:22:44.000 Again, if you go back to elections that Democrats have won in the past, What you'll see is that there are many elections the Democrats have won where black voters did not show up in the kinds of numbers they showed up for, for Barack Obama.

00:23:00.000 For example, in 1992, the black turnout rate was 54%.

00:23:03.000 Bill Clinton won.

00:23:04.000 In 1996, the black turnout rate was 50%.

00:23:06.000 Bill Clinton won.

00:23:07.000 In 2000, the black turnout rate was 53.5%.

00:23:08.000 was 50%.

00:23:09.000 Bill Clinton won.

00:23:11.000 In 2000, the black turnout rate was 53.5%.

00:23:13.000 George W. Bush won, but Al Gore won the popular vote.

00:23:16.000 And what they could do is they could rebuild a coalition of white working class voters.

00:23:21.000 But Joe Biden doesn't want to do that.

00:23:22.000 Joe Biden is a believer in the Barack Obama coalition, which is 4 in 10 Democratic voters being of color and pandering to people.

00:23:31.000 That is the basic idea here.

00:23:32.000 And so he can't let go of DEI and he also can't let go of his radical racialized left wing.

00:23:37.000 He can't do it.

00:23:39.000 Now, the costs of DEI are very clear to the United States.

00:23:42.000 You're starting to see it at corporations, by the way, who are all letting go of this ESG nonsense.

00:23:45.000 That's environmental social government nonsense that is designed to essentially subsume the profitability of corporations in favor of left-wing ideology.

00:23:56.000 And corporations are letting go of that because it's a complete waste of money, and it undermines morale, and it undermines the ability of the company to do business.

00:24:02.000 But the costs of DEI are insanely high.

00:24:05.000 Like, insanely high.

00:24:07.000 For example, at the University of Michigan, according to the college fix,

00:24:11.000 the University of Michigan has at least 241 paid employees now focused on DEI,

00:24:16.000 payroll costs exceed $30 million annually, $30 million.

00:24:21.000 That would cover in-state tuition and fees for almost 1800 graduate students.

00:24:25.000 13 DEI staff members earn more than $200,000.

00:24:28.000 What exactly have they added to the University of Michigan?

00:24:30.000 So far, nothing.

00:24:32.000 And precisely the opposite, because again, DEI ideology, which is rooted in the idea that the only reason certain groups succeed in America and certain groups fail is because of inequity and evil.

00:24:43.000 That ideology has promoted radicalism.

00:24:47.000 You can see that, by the way, there's an amazing clip that's now making the rounds from Google's DEI leader, a person named Adriel Parker, explaining why DEI is good.

00:24:55.000 Because the opposite would be to teach people to be colorblind, which apparently is bad.

00:24:59.000 To keep telling people that over and over is so frustrating.

00:25:04.000 And I was just on TikTok and there's a trend where parents are teaching their kids not to see color, quote unquote.

00:25:10.000 And I'm like, okay, so the next round of people that are going to be joining our workforce, this next generation, are going to be dealing with the same issues that we're dealing with now.

00:25:18.000 Because to say you don't see color, you don't see me.

00:25:20.000 You don't care to acknowledge the struggles that people like me face.

00:25:26.000 That's a wild statement.

00:25:27.000 That if you teach your kids to be colorblind, that's somehow terrible because then you're not seeing the struggles other people face.

00:25:32.000 Well, it depends on whether that person's actually... This is the person who is leading DEI at Google.

00:25:38.000 What is the additional struggle this person is experiencing?

00:25:40.000 Did Cloudian Gay experience additional struggles or additional benefits thanks to her race?

00:25:46.000 Instead of looking at people as individuals, they look at them as members of groups and then they suggest that this is how we ought to judge people.

00:25:46.000 This is insane.

00:25:52.000 This also, by the way, leads to antisemitism because the crossover between DEI and antisemitism, it's a Venn diagram circle.

00:25:58.000 Why?

00:25:58.000 Well, because DEI is a conspiracy theory about power.

00:26:01.000 It suggests that the most powerful and the most successful people must have gotten there through exploitation and evil.

00:26:07.000 And then people on the left look and they see the Jews are disproportionately successful in the United States.

00:26:11.000 And they look at Israel versus the Palestinians, and they see that Israel is a disproportionately successful state, a wildly successful state in a deeply unsuccessful part of the world.

00:26:20.000 And they say, well, somebody must have been victimized in order for that to happen.

00:26:24.000 That's the zero-sum view of the world.

00:26:25.000 And Joe Biden can't let it go.

00:26:27.000 He can't let go that zero-sum view of the world because that's how he feels he's going to win election, which is why yesterday at Emanuel AME, in the middle of the speech, a bunch of protesters got up and they started chanting about Gaza.

00:26:37.000 Now, this might be a good opportunity for Joe Biden to have what used to be called a Sister Soulja moment.

00:26:43.000 So, very famously, Bill Clinton, when he was running for president in 1992, he made a statement in which he went off on Sister Soulja.

00:26:56.000 Why?

00:26:57.000 Because in the middle of that campaign, she did an interview.

00:27:00.000 Sister Soulja was a hip-hop MC and political activist and all this.

00:27:04.000 And she made a comment in an interview with the Washington Post.

00:27:08.000 She was asked a question, quote, even the people themselves who are perpetrating the violence in the LA riots, did they think that was wise?

00:27:13.000 Was that a wise reason to action?

00:27:14.000 And she said, yeah, it was wise. 1.00

00:27:15.000 I mean, if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people? 1.00

00:27:19.000 White people, this government and that mayor were well aware of the fact that black people were dying every day in LA under gang violence. 1.00

00:27:24.000 So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person? 0.98

00:27:27.000 Do you think somebody thinks that white people are better, are above and beyond dying when they would kill their own kind? 1.00

00:27:32.000 So Clinton, speaking, by the way, at the Rainbow Coalition, Jesse Jackson's organization in 1992, running for president, responded to that quotation and to something that Soulja had said in a music video, where she said, quote, if there are any good white people, I haven't met them.

00:27:46.000 And Clinton said, if you took the words white and black and you reverse them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech.

00:27:52.000 Right now, that probably won Bill Clinton, not just the nomination, but the presidency.

00:27:57.000 That was very widely reported at the time.

00:28:01.000 The sort of sister-soldier moment became a buzzword in American politics of speaking truth to people in your own party who are too radical.

00:28:09.000 But Joe Biden isn't doing that.

00:28:10.000 So Joe Biden has a bunch of protesters who get up and they start chanting in favor of Hamas, right?

00:28:15.000 They say they want a ceasefire in Gaza.

00:28:16.000 They want a ceasefire in Gaza, by the way, as Hamas continues to kill Israeli soldiers and hold females hostage.

00:28:23.000 Worth mentioning here, by the way, that the International Red Cross apparently refuses to spend any time trying to visit the female hostages who are being held in the worst possible conditions.

00:28:32.000 And again, Israeli soldiers who are trying to free those hostages and kill members of Hamas are dying every day.

00:28:36.000 Does Joe Biden say to these radicals, guys, you know what you're talking about?

00:28:40.000 Hamas is an evil group that must be extirpated.

00:28:43.000 Does he say that?

00:28:43.000 Does he say your belief that Hamas is some sort of part of the broader racial matrix into which you have cast America It's just false?

00:28:53.000 That it's a lie? 1.00

00:28:54.000 That your bizarre idea that Palestinians are brown and Israelis are white, that that's stupid? 1.00

00:28:58.000 And that's not how you should think about morality? 1.00

00:29:00.000 Does Joe Biden say that?

00:29:01.000 He concedes to them because he has to concede to his radical left-wing base because he thinks that radical left-wing base is going to need to turn out in vast numbers to win him re-election.

00:29:01.000 No!

00:29:09.000 By the way, this is how you lose the middle in this country.

00:29:11.000 It turns out 62% of Americans want America to give more support to Israel in its current war against Hamas.

00:29:16.000 But here is Joe Biden being absolutely castrated by a bunch of radical protesters at this church.

00:29:23.000 Without the truth, there's no light.

00:29:26.000 Without light, there's no path from this darkness.

00:29:30.000 If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost in Oprah's ceasefire in Palestine.

00:29:40.000 Ceasefire now!

00:29:45.000 I understand their passion and I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to get

00:30:02.000 them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza.

00:30:06.000 I'm using all that I can to do that.

00:30:13.000 Now, these are a bunch of nuts inside the church. 0.96

00:30:15.000 Okay, there's a bunch of left-wing radical kooks. 0.96

00:30:17.000 He could have just ignored them and said nothing.

00:30:19.000 Instead, he says, I understand your passion.

00:30:21.000 By the way, this is how the Democratic Party sees its most radical constituents.

00:30:24.000 They're just too passionate.

00:30:25.000 That's really the problem.

00:30:26.000 Riots in Ferguson, they're too passionate.

00:30:27.000 I mean, yeah, we don't want them burning things, maybe, but they have a point.

00:30:31.000 I mean, we can see why they're mad.

00:30:33.000 And it's the same thing when you have people yelling at you about protecting Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

00:30:38.000 Is Biden willing to say anything?

00:30:39.000 Of course not.

00:30:40.000 Because the entire Democratic Party infrastructure is unwilling to say or do anything.

00:30:44.000 Which is why you're seeing protesters clogging up traffic lanes in New York City.

00:30:48.000 Yesterday, protesters clogged up basically every major traffic artery in New York City.

00:30:53.000 Some 300 were arrested and then promptly released because that's how it works in New York City.

00:30:56.000 Here's some video.

00:30:57.000 You're disrupting traffic! 0.97

00:31:07.000 This is it, by the way, is a black father telling people to move. 0.98

00:31:14.000 But you know, you gotta let the wokes win. 0.99

00:31:17.000 You gotta leave him alone.

00:31:19.000 He needs to leave.

00:31:25.000 This is illegal.

00:31:25.000 Where are the cops?

00:31:27.000 The guy who's trying to push people out of the way so he can go where he wants to go is not wrong, he is correct.

00:31:32.000 The way that law works in the United States is if it is not enforced, other people will take it into their own hands who try to enforce it.

00:31:38.000 Look at this.

00:31:39.000 They shut down entire freeways.

00:31:41.000 It's absurd.

00:31:41.000 They shut down the Holland Tunnel.

00:31:43.000 They shut down the Brooklyn Bridge.

00:31:45.000 In favor of Hamas. 0.97

00:31:47.000 Where are the cops?

00:31:48.000 Where are the cops?

00:31:50.000 Throw these people in jail and all of this stops tomorrow. 0.73

00:31:52.000 They don't want to spend any time in jail because they're weaklings.

00:31:55.000 They're perfectly happy to do this because they know there are no consequences. 0.64

00:31:59.000 The difference between civil rights protesters and these jackasses is civil rights protesters, number one, were protesting for something good, and number two, were willing to go to jail for that belief.

00:32:06.000 These people are protesting for something evil and are not willing to go to jail for that belief.

00:32:09.000 You know what the easy solution is?

00:32:10.000 Arrest them and put them in jail.

00:32:12.000 It is not particularly difficult, but Democrats won't do that because they believe that these people are part of their base.

00:32:19.000 It's totally crazy.

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00:34:25.000 Jamil Madbak, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, said our aim today was to clog the arteries of New York City to draw attention to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and the people of Gaza.

00:34:35.000 American bombs and American-made internationally prohibited chemical weapons are being dropped on Arabs again, financed by American taxpayer dollars, etc., etc.

00:34:43.000 The protesters were calling for a permanent ceasefire, an end of the U.S.

00:34:46.000 government's arming of Israel, an end to the seize of Gaza, an end to Zionist occupation.

00:34:50.000 They believe, by the way, that Zionist occupation means Tel Aviv.

00:34:53.000 And the release of all Palestinian political prisoners, which means the release of terrorists.

00:34:56.000 This is what they are calling for.

00:34:57.000 And the Democratic Party can't just say no.

00:35:00.000 And one of the reasons the Democratic Party cannot say no is by polling data, the Democratic Party coalition includes a lot of people who sympathize with Hamas.

00:35:07.000 It is unfortunate.

00:35:08.000 It is an unfortunate reality.

00:35:09.000 It is also one of the reasons why things that would absolutely be national stories if the ethnicities were different are not national stories.

00:35:15.000 Let me give you an example.

00:35:17.000 So, Apparently, on Thursday night, there was a girls basketball game between a school called the Leffel School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and a school called Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers.

00:35:30.000 They played a non-league girls basketball game. 0.98

00:35:33.000 In the middle of the game, which turned physically violent, a Roosevelt player told a visiting Jewish opponent, I support Hamas, you effing Jew. 0.96

00:35:41.000 That's according to the New York Post. 0.71

00:35:43.000 The Jewish school head coach held a discussion with the players.

00:35:45.000 They decided to end the game after the third quarter, So why wasn't this a national story?

00:35:49.000 Leffel senior player Robin Bosworth wrote an op-ed saying the right from the beginning of the game

00:35:53.000 there were substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I've

00:35:56.000 experienced in a long time apparently the Roosevelt players were shouting free Palestine along with

00:36:00.000 anti-semitic slurs. She said I've played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school

00:36:05.000 career I've never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before instead of

00:36:08.000 responding to hatred more of the same we chose to separate ourselves from the situation. So why

00:36:13.000 wasn't this a national story if this had been in a black team being insulted by white people

00:36:17.000 using the n-word then that would be a national news story for like a week.

00:36:23.000 Why didn't they?

00:36:23.000 Well, because if you look at pictures of the game, it was minorities, people of color who were insulting Jews.

00:36:28.000 And that means the intersectional hierarchy has not been violated.

00:36:33.000 This is the problem with DEI.

00:36:34.000 It's the problem with radicals inside the Democratic Party base.

00:36:37.000 And by the way, this is metastasizing.

00:36:39.000 According to resumebuilder.com, in November of 2022, Resume Builder surveyed 1,131 US hiring managers and recruiters.

00:36:48.000 about their views on Jews.

00:36:51.000 Key findings. 0.65

00:36:52.000 26% of hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants because, quote, Jews have too much power and control. 0.65

00:37:00.000 And 26% make assumptions about whether a candidate is Jewish based on appearance.

00:37:03.000 23% say they want fewer Jews in their industry.

00:37:08.000 DEI amounts to this.

00:37:11.000 But that's not all DEI is.

00:37:12.000 DEI also suggests, of course, that America's systems, all of them, including our immigration system, are deeply racist.

00:37:18.000 And the only way to rectify that is, as AOC says, to legalize everyone who wants to cross the border.

00:37:23.000 Everything is seen, by the way, by Democrats in terms of this sort of racial conflict. 0.90

00:37:27.000 This is why Mayor Brandon Johnson, the male Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, he says when Greg Abbott is sending illegal immigrants to major Democratic cities, he's doing so because he's targeting black people.

00:37:38.000 Every game is played the same way in the Democratic Party circles. 0.95

00:37:41.000 It's really ugly.

00:37:42.000 Here we go.

00:37:44.000 What are your thoughts about the case and is this an action you would consider taking as well?

00:37:50.000 Well, you know, look, you're very you're absolutely right about the intentions of Governor Abbott.

00:37:56.000 He is attacking democratically ran cities and particularly cities that are being led by black leaders or leaders of color. 0.95

00:38:04.000 This is unconscionable.

00:38:06.000 I mean, it's a very raggedy approach.

00:38:07.000 And quite frankly, not only is it reckless and raggedy, but it is evil spirited.

00:38:14.000 It is evil spirited. 0.98

00:38:15.000 It's apparently racist.

00:38:15.000 Why?

00:38:17.000 It's racist to ask that a sanctuary city take in, you know, the people they said they're going to provide sanctuary.

00:38:23.000 And this has to be what's motivating U.S.

00:38:25.000 policy at this point.

00:38:26.000 Because U.S.

00:38:27.000 policy is a bleep show.

00:38:29.000 Understand, there are a bunch of factors at the border.

00:38:31.000 The biggest factor, of course, is that the United States has changed its laws so that if you apply for asylum, which means literally you arrive on the border and you say, I fear to go back to my home country, we will process you and we will let you into the interior of the United States.

00:38:43.000 Alejandro Mayorkas told Border Patrol agents that quote, above 85% of all illegal immigrants arriving on the border are released into the United States.

00:38:51.000 Now for a long time, Title 42 allowed people to be turned back from the border.

00:38:55.000 They just said, we're not taking you in.

00:38:56.000 Go back to the Mexican side of the border. 0.90

00:38:59.000 But that is no longer happening because Title 42 was ended by the Biden administration.

00:39:04.000 And so now, above 85% of people showing up on the border are just released into the United States.

00:39:11.000 That's insane.

00:39:13.000 Majorca said last week on Special Report well more than a million migrants were released into the United States annually and argued repeatedly it's up to Congress to provide more funding.

00:39:20.000 So if it's more than a million released into the United States annually, then that 2.3 million statistic that the DHS released the other day is a lie.

00:39:28.000 It's not true.

00:39:29.000 It means that over the course of this administration, according to Mayorkas himself, at least 3 million people have been released into the United States.

00:39:35.000 Border Patrol agents have told me there are at least a million known gotaways, which means there are probably another 700,000 to 800,000 unknown gotaways, if their percentages are correct.

00:39:44.000 So you're talking about, under Joe Biden, a minimum, about 5 million people have entered the country illegally.

00:39:50.000 You know this benefits, by the way, the drug cartels.

00:39:52.000 The drug cartels are making absolute bank on this sort of stuff.

00:39:57.000 According to the House Committee on Homeland Security.

00:40:03.000 In 2021, cartels made $13 billion just from human trafficking and smuggling.

00:40:10.000 Because everybody who is crossing the border is paying the coyotes $6,000, $8,000, up to $25,000 for being smuggled across the border.

00:40:20.000 And by the way, the drug cartels are using those vast number of illegal migrants in order to distract Border Patrol from policing the other parts of the borders.

00:40:27.000 What they do is they drop off a huge contingent of illegal immigrants at some Border Patrol way station.

00:40:33.000 And then because of Joe Biden, all these people have to be bused to a detention center as soon as humanly possible and then processed and let into the interior of the United States as soon as humanly possible.

00:40:41.000 Up to 90% of all Border Patrol agents are now staffed on busing and administrative duties.

00:40:46.000 We have turned them into babysitters.

00:40:48.000 And meanwhile, the entire border is left completely unmanned, which means that people are rushing across the border, the ones who don't want to get caught.

00:40:55.000 The vast majority of people walking into the country actually want to get caught.

00:40:58.000 They are walking across and they are waving at the border patrol agents and saying, hey, pick me up, come take me.

00:41:04.000 But the ones who don't want to get caught are able to evade arrest because there are no border patrol agents anywhere along large swaths of the American-Mexico border.

00:41:14.000 And what does that look like?

00:41:15.000 It looks like the amount of fentanyl in the country extraordinarily rising.

00:41:21.000 According to that same Homeland Security Committee, fentanyl costs as little as 10 cents to produce.

00:41:29.000 That's a fake prescription pill laced with fentanyl.

00:41:31.000 It can be sold for 10 to 30 bucks, which means 10 kilos of fentanyl are worth about $20 million.

00:41:35.000 $20 million.

00:41:38.000 Okay, just to explain how much fentanyl is now entering the country.

00:41:42.000 In 2023, according to Border Patrol itself, fentanyl seizures, these are just what was seized, is 27,000 pounds.

00:41:52.000 27,000 pounds of fentanyl.

00:41:53.000 That would calculate out to almost 24.4 billion dollars worth of fentanyl that was caught at the border.

00:42:00.000 And way more is getting through than is getting caught. 0.86

00:42:02.000 Because the stuff that's getting caught at the border are morons who are largely trying to bring it through ports of entry or people who are getting caught, which is a minority of the people who are now entering the country illegally. 0.97

00:42:13.000 But apparently it's racist to mention any of this. 0.99

00:42:15.000 Apparently it's bigoted to mention any of this.

00:42:17.000 There is no reason to leave the border open the way the border has been left open.

00:42:21.000 And Mexico is holding Joe Biden over the barrel.

00:42:25.000 Apparently, according to Fox News, Mexico's president is now demanding $20 billion, basically in cash, plus work permits for 10 million people from south of the border in exchange for immigration help.

00:42:38.000 Also, Mexico says the United States has to end its blockade on Cuba and cut Venezuela sanctions.

00:42:43.000 Because López Obrador, who's the leader of the Mexican government, is in fact a pinko socialist.

00:42:48.000 And so he's allied with the entire pink wave that has happened from Venezuela to Cuba to Mexico.

00:42:54.000 And so he basically wants the United States to surrender to him.

00:42:57.000 The only reason the most powerful country on earth would surrender to this is because there is an internal belief inside the United States that you have to surrender on illegal immigration because it is unjust that people can't just enter via the southern border willy-nilly.

00:43:11.000 So what do they do?

00:43:12.000 They just lie about it.

00:43:13.000 So Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Listen, I don't know Mayorkas' personal role in this versus Joe Biden's.

00:43:21.000 All I do know is that Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas have made it easier to cross the southern border than any time in modern American history.

00:43:27.000 By far.

00:43:28.000 It is not close.

00:43:30.000 Again, the process is super simple.

00:43:31.000 You literally walk up to the border and you wave your hand and you say, I don't want to go back to my home country because I fear to go back to my home country.

00:43:37.000 And they just release you into the interior with a little post-it note that says, come back later.

00:43:42.000 But Mayorkas is going to pretend everything is normal.

00:43:43.000 So here he was yesterday saying, don't worry, the migration challenge isn't unique to the United States.

00:43:47.000 Spoiler alert, it is.

00:43:48.000 In fact, it's even unique to the United States over the course of the last five years, because this was not happening in 2020.

00:43:54.000 The high number of migrants we have encountered at our southern border is a challenge that is not unique to the United States. 1.00

00:44:03.000 Countries throughout our hemisphere, in fact, throughout the world, are experiencing an unprecedented number of displaced people fleeing poverty, authoritarian regimes, homes destroyed by extreme weather events, corruption, and violence.

00:44:22.000 Corruption and violence and extreme weather events, I mean, you mean the things that have driven migration for all of human history?

00:44:27.000 Migration levels as a percentage of the population, in general, globally, are actually kind of similar to what they've been in the past.

00:44:33.000 There's a whole new book out from Harvard University Press all about this.

00:44:36.000 But, you know what's not new?

00:44:38.000 What's happening at our southern border right now.

00:44:40.000 It's not new except in the extent.

00:44:42.000 The extent is brand new.

00:44:44.000 Brand new.

00:44:45.000 Again, in reality, It is highly likely that at least 5 million illegal immigrants have crossed America's southern border and disappeared into the interior of the United States during Joe Biden's tenure.

00:44:56.000 Meanwhile, Mayorkas again, he keeps lying, says we're doing everything we can to reduce what he calls now irregular migration.

00:45:01.000 No, you're not.

00:45:02.000 You know how I know you're not?

00:45:03.000 Because you're releasing everyone into the United States with a comeback later date. 0.97

00:45:07.000 That would not be doing everything you can, would it?

00:45:10.000 The majority of all migrants encountered at the southwest border throughout this administration have been removed, returned, or expelled.

00:45:21.000 A majority of them.

00:45:23.000 We are doing everything we can, within a broken system, to incentivize non-citizens to use lawful pathways, to impose consequences on those who do not, and to reduce irregular migration.

00:45:40.000 Absolutely false. Absolutely false.

00:45:41.000 When he says the majority of all migrants encountered throughout the administration have been removed,

00:45:45.000 that's not true.

00:45:46.000 Title 42 allowed for that removal.

00:45:48.000 And then Title 42 ended.

00:45:49.000 And then Mayorkas himself says 85% of people showing up at the border

00:45:52.000 are being released into the interior.

00:45:54.000 So Mayorkas now is just changing the term.

00:45:56.000 He's going to play semantic games.

00:45:57.000 He says, when we say they're released, they're not really released.

00:46:00.000 They are quote unquote, released into immigration proceedings.

00:46:04.000 I'll explain what he means by this in a moment.

00:46:06.000 It is very important to understand that when an individual is released,

00:46:11.000 they are released into immigration enforcement proceedings,

00:46:15.000 where they can make a claim under the laws that Congress has passed.

00:46:20.000 I'm Okay, let me explain what that means on a practical level.

00:46:24.000 What that means, when he says released in demigration proceedings, you're imagining they're kept in a detention facility until their claim can be heard by a judge, at which point very few of them are going to have an actual asylum claim and most of them get expelled.

00:46:34.000 Wrong you are! 1.00

00:46:35.000 The way this actually works under current Biden protocols is you arrive at the border, You wave your hand like I said, border patrol agent picks you up, takes you to a detention facility.

00:46:44.000 They process you at the detention facility.

00:46:47.000 And then, you are given a comeback later date, within 72 hours, and then you are driven to, say, the Tucson airport, where you are flown to wherever you wish to go.

00:46:57.000 That is what he means by immigration proceedings.

00:47:00.000 I mean, that's like when people in New York get arrested for going on a bridge and then they're released with a show up in court later date.

00:47:07.000 Was that really a punishment?

00:47:09.000 Particularly when you know that the vast majority of people who get that show up later date are never going to show up again.

00:47:13.000 Why would they?

00:47:15.000 They, like, to get expelled?

00:47:17.000 Or they could just, you know, disappear into the interior and never show up again.

00:47:20.000 And ICE is not going to go get them.

00:47:21.000 Because ICE has not been tasked by the Biden administration with following up with any of these people.

00:47:26.000 The Biden administration is not sending ICE to go round up all of the people who were released when they missed their sell-by date, their court date.

00:47:33.000 The Biden administration has said, unless you have a criminal record, we are not going to do that.

00:47:37.000 Unless you commit an act of criminality, we're not going to do that.

00:47:40.000 Which is, by the way, why the number of deportations from the interior of the United States has radically dropped under Joe Biden.

00:47:48.000 There's only one reason to do this.

00:47:49.000 It's ideological.

00:47:50.000 It is certainly not driven by America's best interests.

00:47:54.000 It's DEI related.

00:47:55.000 Again, because DEI is just code for America's systems are white supremacist and therefore America has to fix all of its systems by bending over backward anytime there is somebody who's not white involved in a proceeding.

00:48:08.000 That would be the basic idea right here.

00:48:11.000 Meanwhile, on the Trump side of the aisle, an insane story. 0.99

00:48:16.000 If you thought our public officials can't get any more corrupt and ridiculous, wrong you are. 0.95

00:48:19.000 According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, District Attorney Fannie Willis, you remember her, she's the one who filed a RICO case against Donald Trump for election interference down in Georgia. 0.96

00:48:30.000 She improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute Donald Trump.

00:48:34.000 So she was banging some dude and he became the prosecutor against Donald Trump and then financially benefited from their relationship, according to a court motion filed Monday, arguing the criminal charges in the case were unconstitutional.

00:48:45.000 The bombshell public filing alleged special prosecutor Nathan Wade, a private attorney, paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis Using the Fulton County funds his law firm received.

00:48:54.000 County records show that Wade, who has played a prominent role in the election interference case, has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees since January 2022 and the DA authorized his compensation.

00:49:07.000 So the way this works is that Fannie Willis hired the dude she was nailing to help prosecute Trump and then paid him like $655,000 of public money and then took vacations with him.

00:49:17.000 According to this motion filed on behalf of Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official, a Willis spokesperson said that they will respond through appropriate court filings, but did not respond to a request for comment, which means, you know, that's true.

00:49:33.000 The document offers no concrete proof of the romantic ties between Willis and Wade, but says sources close to both the special prosecutor and the DA have confirmed they had an ongoing personal relationship.

00:49:44.000 Roman's lawyer said she reviewed the case file in Wade's ongoing divorce proceedings at the Superior Court Clerk's office and made copies of certain documents.

00:49:50.000 The case file was later improperly sealed because no court hearing was required as held by law according to the motion.

00:49:56.000 So apparently this all came from a divorce case.

00:50:00.000 According to Stephen Gillard, Professor Emeritus at the New York University Law School, he said a closer look at Willis' decision-making is needed before it can be determined whether the indictment should be dismissed.

00:50:09.000 He said if the allegations are true, Willis was conflicted in the investigation and the prosecution of the case and was not able to bring the sort of independent professional judgment her position required.

00:50:18.000 He said that doesn't mean her decisions were improperly motivated, but it does mean the public and state could not have the confidence in the independent judgment her position required her to exercise.

00:50:25.000 In other words, perhaps the reason she filed these charges against Donald Trump was not just for personal political gain, but because she wanted to go on vacations with the dude that she was paying to prosecute Trump.

00:50:36.000 The filing alleges that Willis and Wade have been involved in a romantic relationship that began before Wade was appointed Special Prosecutor.

00:50:42.000 It said they traveled to Napa Valley and Florida, cruised the Caribbean, using tickets Wade purchased from Norwegian and Royal Caribbean cruise lines.

00:50:48.000 Although the filing did not include documentation of those purchases, the motion said the checks sent to Wade from Fulton County and his subsequent purchase of vacations for Willis could amount to honest services fraud, which is a federal crime in which a vendor gives kickbacks to an employer.

00:51:01.000 It could also be prosecuted under Wade Fort Federal Racketeering Statute.

00:51:04.000 That'd be RICO.

00:51:08.000 Oh, they're all the best.

00:51:09.000 Everyone is great at this.

00:51:11.000 Just genius-level stuff happening at every level of American government.

00:51:14.000 Alrighty, coming up, we're going to get into the continuing controversy over why exactly the Secretary of Defense still has a job after he went completely missing for days on end.

00:51:22.000 Plus, we'll be joined online by Yael Ekstein, President and CEO of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

00:51:27.000 If you're not a member, become a member.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 09, 2024

The Second Black President

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