The Ben Shapiro Show - They Are LYING To You About Iran

00:00:00.000 There are four big lies you're being told about the war in Iran.

00:00:02.000 These lies are coming in faster than the news cycle can even process them.

00:00:05.000 If you don't pause to think about each of them, you might be caught up in these lies as well.

00:00:09.000 This is the Bench Bureau Show.

00:00:12.000 One, this is a never-ending war, a quagmire.

00:00:14.000 Two, Iran has strong leadership.

00:00:16.000 Things are going amazing.

00:00:17.000 Three, our oil prices are going to absolutely skyrocket.

00:00:20.000 And four, that President Trump has no plan.

00:00:22.000 You are being lied to about the Trump administration's action against Iran. 0.56

00:00:26.000 You're being lied to over and over and over again because liars, you mean the Democrats, the horseshoe right, obviously terrorists, are working together to make the United States lose.

00:00:37.000 Well, today, I'm going to take you through each of the three big lies that you are currently hearing.

00:00:42.000 We're going to debunk them one at a time, and I'll explain why those lies are being put out there in the first place.

00:00:47.000 These are the catastrophic lies about oil at $200 a barrel and the evils of American military intervention and about inevitable quagmire or inevitable defeat.

00:00:56.000 These aren't just lies.

00:00:57.000 They are insane lies.

00:00:59.000 So let's start with lie number one.

00:01:01.000 This is a quagmire, an interminable, never-ending conflict, doomed to catastrophe.

00:01:06.000 We'll probably have to use nukes and all the rest.

00:01:08.000 This is nuts.

00:01:10.000 Can we be real about something for a second?

00:01:12.000 We are 12 days into this war.

00:01:15.000 12 days.

00:01:17.000 Not 12 years like Vietnam. 0.99

00:01:20.000 Not 12 months like the Spanish-American War, which ended with the United States winning Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain.

00:01:26.000 12 days about how long it takes cottage cheese to spoil in your fridge.

00:01:31.000 Okay, lie number two.

00:01:33.000 Iran is doing great.

00:01:34.000 They're outlasting us.

00:01:35.000 They've never been stronger.

00:01:36.000 They'll be able to stand up to us forever.

00:01:38.000 You see this in the AI slop all over X. People legitimately making up videos that do not exist and pumping them out, showing Iran with nuclear age weaponry. 0.88

00:01:48.000 Iran, basically with the weaponry that the aliens used in Independence Day.

00:01:53.000 Well, no, actually, the war is going incredibly poorly for Iran.

00:01:57.000 Actually, Iran is on its last legs.

00:02:00.000 I should say last leg, because it turns out that Moshtaba Khamineh, the new supreme leader of Iran, reportedly is down to one leg.

00:02:08.000 Apparently, the Israelis blew off the other one in that same strike that took out Moshtaba's dad. 0.99

00:02:12.000 Well, at least Moshaba still has a working dick. 0.99

00:02:15.000 Well, sorry to strike that. 1.00

00:02:17.000 His dick wasn't working even before he ended up in a reported coma. 1.00

00:02:20.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

00:02:20.000 Did I forget to mention that? 1.00

00:02:22.000 Allegedly, Moshtaba isn't even conscious, which is why at a ceremony for Moshtaba, where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps showed up so they could pledge allegiance to him, they used a cardboard cutout of him.

00:02:37.000 I am not joking.

00:02:38.000 Check it out.

00:02:42.000 They're pledging allegiance, not to him, but to a picture of him, like a poster board that they printed at Iranian Kinko's.

00:02:52.000 By the way, this is also how I run our office.

00:02:54.000 I put up a cardboard cutout and then my staffers talk to it and we call it a successful meeting.

00:02:58.000 But that's how Iran is currently doing its government, like right this very instant.

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00:03:23.000 Okay, so back to Moshtaba. 0.75

00:03:25.000 How terrible a pick is Moshtaba? 1.00

00:03:27.000 Well, according to the New York Post, Moshtaba's dad explicitly left a will saying, do not appoint this derelict impotent to replace me. 0.53

00:03:36.000 Here is the post.

00:03:37.000 Quote, assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khomeini was so opposed to his son taking power that he noted it in his will, experts told the Post.

00:03:45.000 Quote, in Khomeini's will, he explicitly asked Moshtaba not to be named as a successor, said Khosro Isfahani, a research director for the opposition group National Union for Democracy with ties to Iranian intelligence.

00:03:57.000 Well, then they appointed Moshtaba anyway. 0.86

00:03:59.000 I guess at least his mother loved him.

00:04:02.000 Maybe.

00:04:03.000 Still, the critics argue catastrophe is upon us, which brings us to lie number three, which is that oil, the oil shock, is going to end this war.

00:04:12.000 Iran's just going to cut off the Strait of Hormuz forever. 0.95

00:04:15.000 They're going to be standing in line like the Jimmy Carter era, waiting to pump gas.

00:04:19.000 Well, not exactly.

00:04:21.000 You remember when like yesterday morning, people were freaking out about the strait of Hormuz and the supposed Iranian threat to global oil supply?

00:04:28.000 And there was talk about the price of crude per barrel going up to $150, $200.

00:04:34.000 Well, it was the fastest turnaround in probably modern market history because the price of oil soared by like $40 a barrel.

00:04:43.000 And then by the close of business yesterday, crude had dropped again below $90 a barrel.

00:04:49.000 So clearly, we're in trouble.

00:04:51.000 The economy is about to collapse. 1.00

00:04:52.000 That's true if you listen to the idiots. 1.00

00:04:56.000 You really thought, these people really thought that President Trump was going to launch a major action in the Middle East without any idea it might upset the oil markets? 1.00

00:05:03.000 I mean, if there's one thing President Trump understands, it is the impact on markets.

00:05:07.000 This is literally why he launches strikes on Friday nights, not just to annoy me because it's Sabbath and I can't cover it, but actually because the markets don't open until wait for it Monday.

00:05:17.000 Noticing a pattern?

00:05:18.000 He did it with Maduro.

00:05:19.000 He did it here.

00:05:21.000 And that is for a reason.

00:05:23.000 I mean, come on.

00:05:24.000 Yesterday, President Trump even announced that if Iran tries to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, he might turn it into the Strait of America to go alongside his monopoly card Gulf of America.

00:05:34.000 But when the time comes, the U.S. Navy and its partners will escort tankers through the Strait if needed.

00:05:40.000 I hope it's not going to be needed, but if it's needed, we'll escort them right through.

00:05:45.000 The president also put up a statement over on Truth Social explaining his plans for the Strait of Hormuz.

00:05:51.000 If Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they have been hit so far.

00:05:59.000 Additionally, we'll take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back as a nation again. 0.99

00:06:06.000 Death, fire, and fury will reign upon them.

00:06:09.000 I love when he starts just doing heavy metal lyrics. 0.97

00:06:11.000 Death, fire, and fury.

00:06:12.000 It's great.

00:06:13.000 But I hope and pray, says the president, that it does not happen.

00:06:16.000 This is a gift from the United States of America to China and all of those nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait.

00:06:21.000 You notice the veiled threat right there?

00:06:23.000 It's pretty wonderful.

00:06:24.000 It's basically Trump saying, hey, China, I know you're working with Iran, but we are going to keep the oil flowing to you for now if you're nice.

00:06:33.000 He says, hopefully it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated.

00:06:35.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Trump.

00:06:38.000 Well, good.

00:06:39.000 Why should we let Iran run the Strait of Hormuz? 0.99

00:06:42.000 They can't even get Moshtaba's penis up, let alone oil production. 1.00

00:06:45.000 President Trump is feeling it. 1.00

00:06:46.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:06:49.000 Together with our Israeli partners, we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force.

00:06:57.000 Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished.

00:07:02.000 The Navy is gone.

00:07:03.000 It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean.

00:07:05.000 46 ships.

00:07:06.000 Can you believe it?

00:07:08.000 In fact, I got a little upset with our people.

00:07:10.000 I said, what quality of ship?

00:07:12.000 Excellent, sir.

00:07:13.000 Top of the line.

00:07:14.000 I said, why didn't we just capture the ship?

00:07:16.000 We're going to use it.

00:07:17.000 Why did we sink him?

00:07:18.000 They said it's more fun to sink them.

00:07:20.000 He said, they like sinking it better.

00:07:27.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:28.000 He's just the best.

00:07:28.000 He's the best.

00:07:29.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:30.000 If you cannot laugh along with the president about the United States sinking Iranian Navy ships, I mean, you need to have a better time in life.

00:07:38.000 The president also spelled out a timeline.

00:07:38.000 Seriously.

00:07:40.000 It will be short and it will be over soon.

00:07:42.000 Here was the president yesterday at the Congressional Institute.

00:07:45.000 We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.

00:07:50.000 And I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion.

00:07:54.000 How good is our military, right?

00:07:59.000 Of the short-term excursion.

00:08:01.000 You know, like a pleasure cruise, basically.

00:08:04.000 So then he was asked by a reporter about when it will be over.

00:08:06.000 And he said, you know, soon.

00:08:10.000 On Iran, you called it an excursion.

00:08:12.000 You said it would be over soon.

00:08:14.000 Are you thinking this week it will be over?

00:08:15.000 Are you talking about days?

00:08:17.000 think so okay and and with respect very soon Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership.

00:08:24.000 In fact, there are two levels of leadership, and even actually, as it turns out, more than that, but two levels of leadership are gone.

00:08:31.000 Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about.

00:08:34.000 So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.

00:08:41.000 As for President Trump talks about this war to reporters, the same way I talk to my kids about a trip to the doctors.

00:08:45.000 It will be over soon.

00:08:47.000 Maybe that's because Trump's opponents here are acting like, you know, children.

00:08:51.000 And let's be real about the way this war is being fought.

00:08:54.000 It is completely different from the way that we even fought wars 20 years ago.

00:08:58.000 As Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says, this is not 2003.

00:09:01.000 Our tech is not 2003.

00:09:03.000 We are not fighting wars like it's 2003.

00:09:06.000 You see, this is not 2003.

00:09:09.000 This is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires we saw under Bush or Obama.

00:09:17.000 It's not even close.

00:09:19.000 Our generation of soldiers will not let that happen again, and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against those kinds of never-ending, nebulously scoped missions.

00:09:32.000 Those days are dead.

00:09:34.000 Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomplish the president's objectives.

00:09:45.000 Is anyone surprised that this is going to be a short war?

00:09:48.000 If so, why?

00:09:49.000 When we entered into this action in Iran, President Trump said the entire thing, the entire thing, would last three to four weeks, which is, by the way, two weeks shorter than the first Gulf War, the high watermark of successful short wars when he kicked Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.

00:10:03.000 Now, this doesn't mean that President Trump is going to stop short of his goals.

00:10:07.000 He already made that clear.

00:10:08.000 Yes, President Trump said, we've already won a lot.

00:10:11.000 We've destroyed Iran's missile launchers, heavily damaged their nuclear facilities, wrecked hundreds of IRGC bases, hit oil supplies that funnel directly to the IRGC. 0.72

00:10:18.000 By the way, we should mention that.

00:10:19.000 There have been a lot of bad reports about how the Israelis are going off the leash and hitting oil supplies, and the Trump administration is mad.

00:10:26.000 Literally, the oil refineries they are hitting are specific oil refineries that fund the IRGC directly.

00:10:33.000 If you think that the Israelis are not coordinating with the Americans on that, you're out of your mind.

00:10:38.000 The United States so far has been highly successful.

00:10:40.000 Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio doing a spectacular job describing our goals.

00:10:46.000 The goals of this mission are clear, and it's important to continue to remind the American people of why it is that the greatest military in the history of the world is engaged in this operation.

00:10:54.000 It is to destroy the ability of this regime to launch missiles, both by destroying their missiles and their launchers, destroy the factories that make these missiles, and destroy their navy.

00:11:06.000 So here's the thing: America has already achieved most of these goals alongside our Israeli allies.

00:11:11.000 But, you know, there's always room for more winning.

00:11:14.000 Here's the president.

00:11:17.000 And but everybody said the same thing.

00:11:19.000 Make sure you win.

00:11:20.000 We will.

00:11:21.000 We've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough.

00:11:27.000 We need more winning.

00:11:28.000 More winning is demanded.

00:11:29.000 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth this morning said that today will be yet again the most intense day of bombing.

00:11:35.000 Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.

00:11:42.000 The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes, intelligence, more refined and better than ever.

00:11:50.000 So that's on one hand.

00:11:51.000 On the other hand, the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles they've been capable of firing yet.

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00:13:28.000 Now, for 10 years plus here on this program, we've been talking about good Trump, bad Trump.

00:13:33.000 But this is not bad Trump and it's not good Trump.

00:13:35.000 This is unsurpassed awesomeness, Trump.

00:13:37.000 Here's President Trump yesterday saying nobody else could do this.

00:13:42.000 I don't want to brag, but you know, they've said this about a lot of things. 0.99

00:13:46.000 No other president could do some of this shit I'm doing. 0.99

00:13:51.000 No other president. 0.99

00:13:53.000 The things I'm doing, nobody else was going to do it.

00:13:57.000 I say, they say it all the time, sir, could you do this?

00:14:00.000 You're the only one can do it.

00:14:01.000 Lie number four, President Trump has no plan.

00:14:04.000 So what's the strategy from here?

00:14:06.000 Again, to hear the Panicans tell it, there is no strategy. 0.73

00:14:09.000 I should mention here that all of the horseshoe right people who are saying that Trump was pressured into this, that somebody is pulling his strings, that somebody is behind the scenes forcing Trump to do this because they're cowards and they won't mention Trump's name. 0.97

00:14:21.000 Yes, I'm talking about Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and all the rest who continue to pretend that Donald Trump didn't make the call and isn't making the calls because they are cowards with a capital C. 0.95

00:14:30.000 I mean, listen to the president there. 0.72

00:14:31.000 Does that sound like a man who is being manipulated behind the scenes or a dude who is in control?

00:14:36.000 All righty, so what is the strategy from here?

00:14:38.000 To hear the so-called panicans tell it, there is no strategy.

00:14:42.000 Senator Mark Kelly, who somehow I think wants to run for president, despite his strange resemblance to Mr. Magoo, you have never seen them in the same place at the same time.

00:14:51.000 He says he does not understand the strategy, which is more about him than it is about a lack of strategy.

00:14:57.000 We've got a math problem here.

00:15:00.000 Regime change didn't happen.

00:15:03.000 The son of the Ayatollah might be worse than the dad. 1.00

00:15:06.000 We don't know yet, and I think only time is going to tell.

00:15:09.000 The president said last summer we obliterated the nuclear weapons that they had and the uranium. 0.91

00:15:15.000 That wasn't the case because now they're talking about ground operations to remove what's left.

00:15:22.000 So I don't see from a strategic perspective what was accomplished. 0.85

00:15:30.000 This is ridiculous. 0.98

00:15:31.000 I mean, that's super ridiculous. 0.90

00:15:33.000 So because Mushtaba, captain failure to launch over there, is now in charge with one leg and in a coma instead of his dad, or because the regime has not fallen yet, or because they've been deprived of the vast majority of their ballistic missile launchers, their drone making and missile making facilities, and their nuclear facilities, he doesn't understand.

00:15:52.000 That's weird because the Iranian people understand it.

00:15:54.000 So do the Saudis, the Emiratis, the Azeris, the Kurds, even the Qataris.

00:15:57.000 And of course, the Israelis understand it.

00:15:59.000 But according to Mark Kelly and the Democrats, the strategy, you know, to totally wreck Iran's military infrastructure and their governing infrastructure and force them into a state of collapse, it's impossible to understand.

00:16:10.000 It's impossible.

00:16:11.000 It's a riddle wrapped in an enigma.

00:16:14.000 Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, he is also bemused, bothered, and bewildered.

00:16:18.000 He tweeted out yesterday, quote, about Trump.

00:16:21.000 He can't articulate a plan or vision because he has no plan or vision.

00:16:24.000 He can't even decide whether or not the country is at war.

00:16:27.000 He's risking the world economy and the lives of millions on whims and vibes. 0.99

00:16:32.000 Well, Chuck Schumer is totally full of crap, risking the lives of millions, millions, really, really. 0.98

00:16:38.000 Of course, if Chuck Schumer believed that, he might, you know, fund the Department of Homeland Security. 0.99

00:16:42.000 You see, right now, Democrats in the Senate are holding up full funding of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:16:48.000 This is why you might be sitting in an airport experiencing a flight delay while you listen to this right now.

00:16:52.000 They're doing so because they're still mad at ICE for deporting illegal immigrants.

00:16:57.000 But it turns out DHS is also responsible for things like the TSA and, say, protection from Iranian terrorist cells.

00:17:03.000 It's now being reported that Iran may have activated its final gambit sleeper cells.

00:17:07.000 According to the New York Post, quote, Iran sent out a possible operational trigger to activate sleeper assets abroad after the war with America and Israel began, according to an encrypted message intercepted by the U.S.

00:17:17.000 The coded signal was sent out following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khomeini-e on February 28th, with the message appearing to hold instructions for covert operatives or sleeper assets.

00:17:26.000 ABC News reported, citing a federal alert sent to law enforcement agencies.

00:17:31.000 U.S. warning said intelligence had detected a broadcast station repeatedly transmitting a message to multiple countries outside Iran, according to ABC.

00:17:38.000 Quote, while the exact contents of these transmissions cannot currently be determined, the sudden appearance of a new station with international rebroadcast characteristics warrants heightened situational awareness, according to the memo.

00:17:48.000 So, with all that happening, now might be a good time to fund DHS, right?

00:17:54.000 Wrong, because the only thing that matters to Democrats is hurting President Trump.

00:17:58.000 The takeaway here, perhaps Democrats don't truly believe that America is at risk.

00:18:03.000 If they do, they should probably fund the protection of Americans, but they won't.

00:18:06.000 And then there's the horseshoe right, which can't stop, won't stop.

00:18:11.000 And what people like Levin, whom I'm not attacking, I feel sorry for because he's clearly living in hell, but what they're trying to do is a species of witchcraft.

00:18:20.000 And it's really simple.

00:18:21.000 You repeat something until it becomes true. 1.00

00:18:24.000 Khamini must die. 1.00

00:18:25.000 We're going into war. 1.00

00:18:26.000 We're going to knock off the government.

00:18:27.000 This is good for us. 0.96

00:18:28.000 Anyone who's against it is an anti-semit, a Nazi should be expelled. 0.62

00:18:31.000 Benedict Arnold, not allowed in the White House.

00:18:33.000 You keep repeating things that are untrue until they become true.

00:18:39.000 You speak, you create truth by speaking.

00:18:43.000 In the beginning was the word, right?

00:18:46.000 There's a holy power, there's a supernatural power in words.

00:18:49.000 Describing things is different from simply doing them.

00:18:52.000 And if you can talk reality into being, this is what an incantation is.

00:18:57.000 This is what a spell is.

00:18:58.000 It's not like spooky, like crazy stuff.

00:19:01.000 It's the lived reality of every person.

00:19:04.000 Say it and it becomes true.

00:19:06.000 And that's exactly what they're trying to do.

00:19:09.000 But there's something deeper.

00:19:10.000 There's like almost a spell.

00:19:12.000 I mean, Huckabee, for example.

00:19:13.000 You really think Huckabee is being threatened?

00:19:15.000 I know Huckabee well.

00:19:16.000 I'm sure you do too.

00:19:18.000 Like, what is this?

00:19:18.000 Nice man.

00:19:20.000 And I look at him and I see a man under a spell.

00:19:23.000 I mean, I mean this and I'll be mocked for it, but I mean it.

00:19:27.000 There's no practical conventional explanation for some of this behavior.

00:19:31.000 I mean, I look at Ted Cruz and I'm like, I think I know what's going on, Lindsey Graham.

00:19:34.000 I think I know what's going on.

00:19:35.000 But Mike Huckabee, I think he has, he is under a spell.

00:19:40.000 He is not thinking clearly at all.

00:19:46.000 A spell.

00:19:49.000 Like a spell.

00:19:52.000 Okay.

00:19:53.000 It's Mark Levin's witchcraft. 0.93

00:19:54.000 That crazy witchcraft. 0.96

00:19:57.000 My goodness. 0.81

00:19:58.000 Megan, of course, you see noddling along over there.

00:20:01.000 You thought you might have a pressing question or two on how Mark Levin's magic incantations work?

00:20:01.000 What?

00:20:05.000 You stop that, sensor.

00:20:06.000 She's not the mother of the internet.

00:20:08.000 By the way, somebody really needs to do a wellness check on Tucker.

00:20:11.000 He's spinning out.

00:20:12.000 ELPA is a hell of a drug.

00:20:14.000 Well, there's something else that Democrats and the Horseshoe Right have in common, it seems, aside from their deep desire to watch America lose a war to Iran, a wellspring of optimism with regard to Islamism, radical Islam. 0.61

00:20:25.000 As we discussed yesterday on the show, on Saturday, two American-born ISIS-associated terrorists tried to throw IEDs at an anti-Islam rally.

00:20:33.000 They weren't hiding their motives.

00:20:35.000 Here was the NYPD announcing those motives.

00:20:38.000 Kayumi said in recorded post-arrest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions that day were partly inspired by ISIS.

00:20:50.000 The complaint also details statements made by Amir Balat after his arrests.

00:20:55.000 En route to the NYPD precinct, Balat made spontaneous statements without being questioned by NYPD officers that were captured on body-worn camera footage.

00:21:05.000 He said, this isn't a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet.

00:21:11.000 We take action, we take action.

00:21:14.000 As well as, if I didn't do it, some will else, someone else will come and do it.

00:21:20.000 And later, after waiving his rights, he requested paper and wrote a message declaring in part, I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. 0.97

00:21:29.000 Die in your rage, you kufar. 1.00

00:21:32.000 Now, die in your rage is a commonly known ISIS slogan. 1.00

00:21:36.000 And kufar is an Arabic term that refers to non-believers.

00:21:43.000 Well, in case you missed it, Amir Balad, who's one of these ISIS-associated attempted terrorists, actually flashed an ISIS salute to photographers.

00:21:51.000 That's what that finger in the air is from a dude who shares, I assume, hair with Jim Morrison.

00:21:58.000 According to Foreign Affairs magazine, for followers of ISIS, a single raised index finger has become a sign of their cause.

00:22:03.000 It is increasingly common in photographs of militants.

00:22:06.000 Some have even gone so far as to call the symbol the jihadi equivalent of a gang sign.

00:22:10.000 Well, you remember that the mayor of New York, Zarn Mandani, he spent like 24 hours pretending that there was no radical Islam problem and the big issue of the weekend was a white supremacist rally that drew 20 people, not the terrorists throwing IEDs at people.

00:22:24.000 Well, yesterday, finally, he made a statement in which he acknowledged that radical Islam did something bad.

00:22:31.000 Quote, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi have been charged with committing a heinous act of terrorism and proclaiming their allegiance to ISIS.

00:22:37.000 They should be held fully accountable for their actions.

00:22:39.000 We'll continue to keep New Yorkers safe.

00:22:41.000 We will not tolerate terrorism or violence in our city.

00:22:44.000 Well, there is a ringing rebuke of radical Islam from our Islamist supporting mayor of New York. 0.97

00:22:49.000 You can feel safe now in your choices, New Yorkers.

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00:24:06.000 So, how did this Leopold and Loeb of Islamist terror join ISIS in the first place? 0.98

00:24:10.000 According to Balat's attorney, they found each other almost randomly.

00:24:14.000 It was kind of a meet-cute, apparently.

00:24:17.000 I'm saying they're from different parts of Pennsylvania, they're in different age groups, they are not known to each other, they did not live together, they're not family or school ties.

00:24:27.000 There is no reason to believe they knew each other prior to this incident, and I don't know how well they knew each other at the time of this incident.

00:24:36.000 Well, true Islamist love cannot be denied. 0.78

00:24:39.000 But here's what we do know about the terrorists.

00:24:40.000 According to the New York Post: alleged ISIS-loving wannabe terrorists, Ibrahim Kayumi 19 and Amir Balat 18 grew up with successful immigrant families in idyllic white picket fence, suburban Pennsylvania, before they tried to detonate IEDs near Gracie Mansion.

00:24:53.000 The Post has learned.

00:24:54.000 Qayumi's parents even own a gorgeous $2.25 million home in Scenic Newton, symbolizing the family attaining the American dream after arriving from Afghanistan decades ago.

00:25:03.000 Records show.

00:25:04.000 The Balat family lives about 12 miles away in a comfortable 3,200 square foot two-story house worth a respectable $653,000 in Leafy Langhorn, Pennsylvania.

00:25:13.000 His parents hailed from Turkey and became naturalized U.S. citizens in 2017, according to Fox News.

00:25:17.000 Authorities said the pair, who allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS after their arrests, appeared to have been radicalized online and plotted to detonate deadly homemade bombs at an anti-Muslim protest outside a Gracie Mansion on Saturday afternoon.

00:25:29.000 Now, there are a lot of questions to be asked here, and not a lot of answers available.

00:25:33.000 What did the parents believe?

00:25:35.000 Where did they go to the mosque?

00:25:36.000 Under what circumstances did they immigrate?

00:25:38.000 What sort of material were these people consuming online?

00:25:40.000 Did anyone notice?

00:25:42.000 But the real story here is even wilder.

00:25:44.000 Nobody really seems to care much about this.

00:25:47.000 In fact, this story, you know, the two ISIS-inspired young people who are throwing IEDs at a rally outside Gracie Mansion, it's a totally inconvenient story.

00:25:56.000 The national coverage of the attempted IE attack hasn't just been muted, it's been nearly non-existent.

00:26:01.000 That's presumably because it's really inconvenient to liberal sensibilities.

00:26:05.000 I think maybe the most darkly hilarious video of the incident was this one.

00:26:11.000 You don't live in New York.

00:26:13.000 You're coming to New York to tell people who belongs in New York and who doesn't belong in New York.

00:26:22.000 We were born and raised in New York and we want everyone here to stay in New York.

00:26:27.000 You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone else.

00:26:41.000 That's that lib on the loudspeaker saying everyone is welcome here in New York as the terrorist comes from behind hurling an IED.

00:26:49.000 Literally using the eyes like a human shield and jumping over his back while hurling the IED.

00:26:54.000 Everyone is welcome here.

00:26:55.000 Oh no.

00:26:58.000 Ah, solid stuff.

00:27:00.000 But that is the reality of modern America.

00:27:02.000 Both the left and the horseshoe right have decided to look the other way at radical Islam.

00:27:05.000 Now, some of that is old school liberal suicidal tolerance, but for a lot of people, there's something beyond that, a third worldism that finds sympathy with Islamist tendencies.

00:27:14.000 Take, for example, Mahmoud Khalil.

00:27:16.000 Khalil, you'll recall, is an import from Syria by way of Lebanon.

00:27:19.000 This is the guy who was supposed to come to Columbia University to study international and public affairs, but instead ended up promoting jihadism via the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which ended with his deportation order.

00:27:30.000 Well, now he's not only still in America, he's dining with the mayor of New York and his terror-supporting wife at Gracie Mansion.

00:27:37.000 According to the New York Post, quote, Meira Zor Mamdani hosted controversial anti-Israel activist and accused Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil, his wife and their young son for dinner at Gracie Mansion for the holy month of Ramadan.

00:27:48.000 And Mamdani put up an Instagram post, quote, last night, as we marked the one-year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud Noor and their son Dean to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.

00:27:58.000 Here is the beautiful picture of the wonderful dinner with a bunch of people who love terrorism. 0.68

00:28:02.000 I mean, it looks like Bain taking over the city from Dark Knight Rises.

00:28:07.000 Mamdani then waxed poetic about his pro-jihad friend, quote, for Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship and by profound courage.

00:28:15.000 A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months.

00:28:24.000 In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child.

00:28:27.000 All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

00:28:33.000 And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty.

00:28:36.000 New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity, a city refusing to look away.

00:28:41.000 Folks, if you wonder why the West seems to be losing to radical Islam, well, it's because we're not just importing radical Muslims, we are electing them to high office. 0.70

00:28:49.000 And then, of course, there are the liberals, like the Normie liberals who support people like Mahmoud Khalil.

00:28:54.000 Meet Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer.

00:28:56.000 Her name is Amy Greer.

00:28:57.000 Here she is talking about how she hates the Constitution and would love to work toward the abolition of the legal system. 0.99

00:29:03.000 In my first year of law school, to like be like, okay, criminal law comes from property law.

00:29:10.000 You know, the Constitution was built while human beings were property, right, in the United States.

00:29:16.000 And so all of these conceptualizations were very present.

00:29:20.000 You know, as a public defender, I only made it, you know, less than a year because I felt like I was, my presence in the room made it constitutional to harm.

00:29:31.000 Are we creating more harm by using our skills to defend folks who are being swept into this system intentionally, purposefully?

00:29:42.000 You know, swept is probably even too mild of a word.

00:29:45.000 Is there a chance to mitigate that harm in any way?

00:29:47.000 Sometimes there is.

00:29:49.000 And so while we work toward abolition collectively, do we engage with the systems that exist now at all to do any kind of harm mitigation or not?

00:30:05.000 I mean, what do Mahmoud Khalil and his lawyer, his very white lawyer, have in common wanting to tear down the system?

00:30:11.000 Do Islamists need even more friends? 1.00

00:30:12.000 Well, they do have the legacy media.

00:30:14.000 Here is CNN's coverage about the two New York City ISIS terrorists.

00:30:17.000 Quote, two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather.

00:30:25.000 But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Azarn Mandani's home.

00:30:36.000 Okay.

00:30:36.000 I mean, I'm going to need to analyze that one for just a second.

00:30:39.000 So they could have had like a really, really nice day in New York, and then it got ruined because they got randomly arrested for throwing bombs.

00:30:47.000 Great job, CNN.

00:30:49.000 Can't believe you guys are having trouble in the rating.

00:30:51.000 You see, Islamists can only succeed when they find a supportive infrastructure of people willing to soft pedal radical Islam. 0.97

00:30:57.000 In America, they found an awful lot of friends, people who truly despise America and find common cause with Islamists who wish to destroy it. 1.00

00:31:05.000 So we'll get to the horror show that is James Tallarico and his faux Christianity in just one moment. 0.99

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00:31:44.000 Well, there are leftists who wish to rip down our systems and ally themselves with radical Islam.

00:31:48.000 And then there are leftists who just wish to rip down Christianity from the inside.

00:31:52.000 One of those voices is James Tallerico.

00:31:54.000 He's the Texas Democratic candidate for United States Senate.

00:31:57.000 James Tallerico defeated hilarious cartoon character Jasmine Crockett in the primaries.

00:32:02.000 Now he's been deemed the great super duper white hope for Democrats to turn Texas blue again. 0.91

00:32:07.000 They seem particularly excited that he cites the Bible while pushing far-left social policies.

00:32:11.000 This is not because Democrats love the Bible.

00:32:13.000 It's because they largely do not like the Bible and would prefer that it be corrupted from the inside.

00:32:18.000 That's why the media love Tallarico.

00:32:20.000 That's the only takeaway I have for Tallerico's brand of Christianity, which seems directly opposed to biblical thinking, traditional biblical thinking on every single score.

00:32:30.000 It's been said before that when fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

00:32:39.000 Well, that sounds like somebody who's very, very interested in Christianity and the values of Christianity.

00:32:47.000 You know, he does have some Christian values.

00:32:48.000 Like, for example, he's very, very upset about carbon emissions, as Jesus spoke about repeatedly in the book of, and also in the book of, here we go.

00:33:02.000 You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases. 0.98

00:33:10.000 Wow.

00:33:11.000 But, you know, there are things that he does stand against, James Tallarico, really important things.

00:33:15.000 So, for example, you know what Jesus would have hated?

00:33:18.000 The Ten Commandments being in classrooms.

00:33:20.000 That's what he would have hated.

00:33:21.000 The Bible really hates when people post sections of the Bible in places where people can see them.

00:33:25.000 If there's one thing that is very clear from the words of the Bible, it is that God hates it when people spread the words of the Bible, particularly to children.

00:33:32.000 God despises it.

00:33:34.000 At least that's what James Tallarico is telling people. 0.99

00:33:36.000 And Democrats are lapping this crap up, really lapping it up, because he looks like a refugee from a bad Sunday school program. 1.00

00:33:44.000 Here he is. 0.99

00:33:46.000 This bill is not doing anything to love God or love neighbor.

00:33:51.000 And in fact, it's discriminating against our neighbors, our Hindu neighbors, our Buddhist neighbors, our Sikh neighbors, our atheist neighbors.

00:34:00.000 So this bill is doing violence to both faith traditions that it claims to represent.

00:34:08.000 It's true.

00:34:09.000 It is doing violence to the biblical tradition to post the words of the Bible, like the Ten Commandments on the wall of a school.

00:34:15.000 And also, I'm unaware, by the way, that it is an act of violence to put up the Ten Commandments in a place where, say, Hindus can see it. 0.88

00:34:25.000 Okay, let me just express this.

00:34:27.000 I, I know, this is a big secret.

00:34:27.000 Okay.

00:34:29.000 I'm Jewish.

00:34:30.000 Okay.

00:34:31.000 And when I went to public school when I was a kid, we full-on had Christmas activities in public school in Burbank, California.

00:34:37.000 My sister, famously in our family, played the elf in the Christmas play at our local public school. 0.53

00:34:43.000 Were we insulted?

00:34:44.000 Were we disturbed?

00:34:46.000 Were we suddenly broken down as human beings because of all of this?

00:34:49.000 Was this Christian nationalism at work? 0.86

00:34:51.000 According to James Tallarico, yes.

00:34:54.000 And of course, there he was sitting with James Carville, among others.

00:34:58.000 Again, I just don't know.

00:34:59.000 Did he go to like, it feels like he is just a trans radical masquerading as a young Republican from 1982?

00:35:09.000 Here is James Tallarico talking about how there are a lot of atheists who are more Christ-like than Christians in Texas.

00:35:16.000 I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, Sikh, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics who are more Christ-like than some of the Christians I serve with in the Texas legislature.

00:35:28.000 It is about how you treat other people.

00:35:32.000 I mean, again, I can name all sorts of religious people who I think act poorly, but that does not mean that somehow Christianity is to blame or that a brand of Christianity that is significantly more traditional than your own.

00:35:44.000 And what he's doing right now, we'll get to in a second, is it is in fact religious heresy.

00:35:50.000 But here was James Tallarico talking about abortion.

00:35:55.000 Again, remember, according to James Tallarico, the biggest thing about Christianity is it says that we shouldn't have carbon emissions, but also Jesus had nothing to say about abortion.

00:36:02.000 The Bible has nothing to say about abortion.

00:36:03.000 Killing unborn kids, you know, no biggie. 0.72

00:36:08.000 90, 95% do not believe that an embryo is a legal person. 0.59

00:36:14.000 Now, the embryo is biologically alive.

00:36:16.000 That is certainly true.

00:36:18.000 But being alive and being a person are two different things.

00:36:23.000 Well, I mean, being a human being, which is what you are talking about here, a human being with potential.

00:36:32.000 That's what we're talking about.

00:36:33.000 But again, I love that his entire shtick is just saying the most left-wing possible things, but then blaming Jesus for it.

00:36:39.000 It's incredible.

00:36:40.000 This is why leftists love it, by the way.

00:36:42.000 Here he was talking.

00:36:43.000 He was asked on a podcast what he loves.

00:36:46.000 What are things that he loves?

00:36:47.000 And his answer was trans children, which, oh, goodness gracious me.

00:36:52.000 I'm sure this is going to go over well in Texas.

00:36:56.000 Something that you love that's not family or friends.

00:37:01.000 I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity.

00:37:12.000 They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.

00:37:17.000 Look at this deep devotee of biblical principles, like in the book of Genesis, where it says male and female, he created them.

00:37:24.000 So here's that howdy-doody looking weirdo who loves trans kids, but isn't that hot on unborn kids, apparently, saying all of this in the name of Christianity. 0.77

00:37:31.000 Well, this is not going to play in Texas. 0.90

00:37:33.000 I'm just going to put it out there, not going to play in Texas.

00:37:35.000 Maybe they would have been better off with Jasmine Crockett, who, again, is an entertaining cartoon character.

00:37:39.000 But it is playing among precisely the crowd you would imagine.

00:37:42.000 New York Times columnist, David French, who is or was a conservative Christian, and he's a person who I've considered a friend.

00:37:50.000 He wrote a truly awful piece about Tallarico for the Times this week.

00:37:54.000 David calls Tallarico, quote, one of the most faith-forward politicians in the United States, saying he doesn't, quote, just root his policies and ideology in his Christian beliefs.

00:38:01.000 He's a seminarian willing to dive deep into theology.

00:38:05.000 Now, French acknowledges that Tallarico's politics are far left, but says David, Tallarico is giving people hope.

00:38:13.000 What's the hope?

00:38:15.000 Well, according to David French, Tallarico is one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian.

00:38:20.000 And by acting like a Christian, he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that's dominated American political life for 10 years. 0.77

00:38:29.000 It does really matter, says David, whether a politician is pro-life or pro-choice, but there is no spiritual or political scenario where you can abandon Christian virtue for the sake of the alleged greater good.

00:38:38.000 And if a Christian politician abandons Christian virtue, then Christian believers should abandon him or her. 0.94

00:38:44.000 So this is pretty silly. 0.99

00:38:46.000 It's just silly. 0.98

00:38:47.000 Christians who support President Trump are doing so because his policies most mirror their own. 0.96

00:38:52.000 They're not doing it because they think that President Trump's sexual history is somehow praiseworthy or that Trump acts like, you know, one of the guys they go to church with.

00:39:01.000 Trump doesn't even talk about himself that way.

00:39:03.000 But what David French is doing right now is boiling Christianity down to being nice, to manners.

00:39:09.000 He's pretending that manners ought to overcome Tallarico's blatant violation of the third commandment.

00:39:14.000 That's the commandment that says, thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain, which you might know if it were posted on like a Texas school classroom wall.

00:39:21.000 It's one thing to take political positions contrary to scripture.

00:39:24.000 A lot of people do that all the time.

00:39:26.000 It's another to claim that you are actually speaking in God's name when you do that thing.

00:39:32.000 That right there is a grave sin.

00:39:34.000 And most Christians know that, which is why James Tallarico, and it is amusing to me how every so often there will be a figure who arises in the left-wing community who quotes the New Testament, but only a few sections of Matthew, really.

00:39:47.000 And then the entire left-wing says, here is our culture warrior here, right here.

00:39:51.000 Here's our Christian.

00:39:52.000 Our Christian is Pete Budiged.

00:39:54.000 And we're all like, what the F?

00:39:56.000 Really?

00:39:56.000 Like, Pete Buddy, like that's that him?

00:39:59.000 Like the one who's saying that Jesus was super good with the gay marriage? 1.00

00:40:02.000 And like abortion on demand?

00:40:02.000 Like that one?

00:40:04.000 That's who you're picking?

00:40:05.000 See, Democrats, they still would love to have the appearance of the presence of blue dog Democrats in their coalition, but all the blue dogs are dead. 0.78

00:40:14.000 They took them out and shot them out back like Christy Noam. 0.96

00:40:16.000 And that means that they are now left with people who cosplay as Christians and give the sort of nice mannered appearance of Christians while speaking actual heretical ideas in the name of the Bible.

00:40:27.000 Well, speaking of Christians who do live out their actual faith, props here to Luca Cornett he's center for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA.

00:40:34.000 He spoke out earlier this week about an Atlanta Hawks promotional night for Magic City, which is a strip club.

00:40:39.000 That's a thing that was happening.

00:40:40.000 The Atlanta Hawks decided that they wanted to have a night honoring Magic City, a strip club.

00:40:47.000 So Cornett went on Substack.

00:40:48.000 He said, this week, the Atlanta Hawks announced a special one-night collaboration to celebrate the city's iconic cultural institution, Magic City, during the team's home game against Orlando on Monday, March 16th.

00:40:58.000 In its press release, the Hawks failed to acknowledge that this place is, as the business itself boasts, Atlanta's premier strip club.

00:41:04.000 Cornett says, given this fact, I would like to respectfully ask that the Atlanta Hawks cancel this promotional night with Magic City.

00:41:11.000 The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world.

00:41:17.000 We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners we know and love.

00:41:23.000 We desire to provide an environment where fans of all ages can safely come and enjoy the game of basketball and where we can celebrate the history and culture of communities in good conscience.

00:41:31.000 The celebration of a strip club, says Cornett, is not conduct aligned with that vision.

00:41:36.000 And good for him.

00:41:37.000 Good for him.

00:41:38.000 And by the way, it actually worked.

00:41:39.000 NBA Commissioner Adam Silver had the Hawks cancel the night, explaining: When we became aware of the Atlanta Hawks' scheduled promotion, we reached out to Hawks' leadership to better understand their plans and rationale.

00:41:49.000 While we appreciate the team's perspective and their desire to move forward, we have heard significant concerns from a broad array of league stakeholders, including fans, partners, and employees.

00:41:59.000 I believe canceling this promotion is the right decision for the broader NBA community.

00:42:03.000 That is the right move.

00:42:04.000 Now, if only the NBA would stop training its cheerleaders to dance like they're moonlighting during their Magic City off hours. 1.00

00:42:10.000 Well, meanwhile, the rest of the globe continues to spin.

00:42:13.000 Thanks to the capture of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro by the Trump administration, Venezuela's oil flow to Cuba has stopped dead.

00:42:19.000 And that means that Cuba is now in serious economic trouble.

00:42:22.000 Protests are breaking out there regularly.

00:42:24.000 hear some of the video of the protest breaking out in Cuba.

00:42:33.000 This regime is in serious trouble.

00:42:35.000 They are.

00:42:36.000 They have no money.

00:42:37.000 They are cut off from everyone.

00:42:39.000 They have no oil revenues.

00:42:40.000 And the people are tired of this, truly tired of this.

00:42:43.000 The freeing of Cuba after decades would be a signal achievement by President Trump, who is at this point single-handedly changing the geopolitics of planet Earth.

00:42:53.000 He is the most impactful president since Ronald Reagan in this respect, by far.

00:42:57.000 President Trump yesterday said the United States might actually liberate Cuba.

00:43:00.000 He said, listen, I think they'll liberate themselves, but maybe we'll help.

00:43:05.000 And it may be a friendly takeover.

00:43:08.000 It may not be a friendly takeover.

00:43:09.000 It wouldn't matter because they're really in, they're down to, as they say, fumes.

00:43:17.000 They have no energy.

00:43:19.000 They have no money.

00:43:21.000 They're in deep trouble on a humanitarian basis.

00:43:26.000 He, of course, is exactly right.

00:43:28.000 Well, this would give Marco Rubio yet another job, a presidente of Cuba, which, you know, he's wearing a lot of hats right now, like a lot of hats.

00:43:37.000 All righty, folks, coming up, we're going to jump into the mailbag.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 10, 2026

They Are LYING To You About Iran

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