The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump Makes His FINAL PICKS

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, President Trump's cabinet has now taken its final form.

00:00:03.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:00:14.000 So Matt Gaetz was President Trump's original pick for attorney general.

00:00:18.000 He ran into severe headwinds in the Senate for a bunch of good reasons, including open ethics investigations over his activities in Florida.

00:00:25.000 He was also widely disliked inside the House for his attempt to unseat his successful attempt to unseat the then Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, which many people in the House felt was not driven specifically by political necessity, but was more driven by personal animus.

00:00:39.000 And of course, Matt Gaetz had practiced law for approximately two years, which, again, is not usually the sort of record of somebody who you then select for attorney general.

00:00:47.000 So Gaetz has now stepped out of the race, presumably at the behest of President Trump.

00:00:51.000 It became very clear to both Trump and to J.D. Vance, who is sort of the Senate handler for Matt Gaetz, who's going around meeting with a variety of senators in the Senate, that the votes just weren't there for Matt Gaetz.

00:01:02.000 And President Trump, I think, wisely decided he was not going to use his political capital to ram through somebody like Matt Gaetz when there was no need to do so.

00:01:10.000 He could simply appoint somebody who is not going to be nearly as controversial as Gaetz and get exactly the upside without much of the downside.

00:01:17.000 And that's precisely what has happened at this point.

00:01:20.000 President Trump has now selected Instead, Pam Bondi, who is the Attorney General of the state of Florida.

00:01:26.000 Bondi is a longtime Trump ally, as the Washington Post points out again and again.

00:01:30.000 When Donald Trump has faced scandal and scrutiny, Pam Bondi was there to defend him.

00:01:34.000 Bondi said the Justice Department's special counsel investigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with Russian interference in the 2016 election needed to be dissolved.

00:01:42.000 She was, of course, correct about that.

00:01:43.000 She declared the 45th president's first impeachment in 2019 was a sham.

00:01:47.000 And she said that when Trump was indicted a multiplicity of times, that was BS as well.

00:01:51.000 So she's a longtime Trump ally.

00:01:53.000 She, of course, is a former Florida state attorney general.

00:01:56.000 And she was tapped to replace Gates. 0.88

00:01:59.000 Now, if you look at her sort of record, her record is very conservative.

00:02:04.000 She's also endorsed by wide swaths of the Republican Party.

00:02:06.000 Everybody from Jeb Bush to obviously Team Trump has endorsed Pam Bondi.

00:02:10.000 Alex Pfeiffer, Trump transition spokesman, said, quote, Attorney General nominee Bondi is looking forward to this confirmation process and answering any questions these senators might have.

00:02:19.000 And of course, you know, again, she goes back really far with Trump.

00:02:24.000 In 2016, she endorsed Trump in the Republican primaries.

00:02:30.000 And she's a solid pick.

00:02:32.000 Pam Bondi is going to do precisely what needs to be done at the DOJ. In fact, Axios points out exactly what her plans are at this point. 0.92

00:02:39.000 He's going to overhaul the Justice Department.

00:02:42.000 So what is that going to look like?

00:02:44.000 Well, apparently he's going to obviously she is obviously going to fire people like Jack Smith. 0.82

00:02:49.000 She's also going to look into cleansing the DOJ of the so-called deep state. 1.00

00:02:56.000 And we'll get much more into the deep state in a bit, because at the beginning, when people were saying deep state, they were using it to apply to pretty much everybody.

00:03:01.000 Anything you didn't like, anytime you didn't like something, it was the deep state.

00:03:05.000 Well, it turns out that the deep state is actually quite real.

00:03:07.000 And what it means is career appointees inside various executive agencies who have been shielded from the hiring and firing process and thus have been able to substitute their own intuitions as to what the American people require, as opposed to what the president of the United States requires of them.

00:03:24.000 So what exactly does this look like?

00:03:27.000 Well, in Project 2025, which of course is not the guide to the Trump administration, but has some good ideas in it, they talk about a top-to-bottom overhaul that would involve more closely aligning the DOJ with the President's agenda.

00:03:38.000 And this sort of stuff is really necessary because as we saw during Trump Team No.

00:03:42.000 1, if you have career appointees at the DOJ, those people can make an awful lot of trouble for the President-elect.

00:03:49.000 They can actually force him to spend reams of money, reams of time defending himself from completely spurious allegations because they decide to initiate a prosecution against the person they are supposed to be working for.

00:04:04.000 What this shows, the substitution of Bondi for Gates, what that really shows more than anything else is that this is in fact a serious team.

00:04:11.000 Trump could have gone to the mattresses for Matt Gates.

00:04:13.000 He could have.

00:04:13.000 And maybe, maybe he would be able to sneak him through, although I think that's quite doubtful given the fact that only 53 Republican senators and three right off the top weren't going to vote for him.

00:04:22.000 But what Trump wants is his agenda.

00:04:25.000 And listen, what you want from a president-elect is the agenda.

00:04:28.000 The personnel are the policy.

00:04:32.000 And the policy is the personnel.

00:04:33.000 So if the personnel get in the way of the policy, the personnel have to go.

00:04:38.000 So as Kimberly Strassel points out, there are a bunch of lessons from all of this.

00:04:43.000 Lesson number one is that not all allegations against Republicans are partisan shams.

00:04:47.000 And it may be that there were allegations against Gates that were not partisan shams.

00:04:52.000 But not only that, there's a big lesson here.

00:04:55.000 And the lesson is that you want to shake up the system.

00:04:58.000 You need people who are willing to effectively shake up the system and not be a magnet for attention to You can find people who are going to do the thing without creating all of the controversy.

00:05:09.000 And that's why I think it's very smart what President Trump has done here in telling Matt Gaetz to step aside.

00:05:14.000 And again, Pam Bondi is going to do precisely what Donald Trump requires of her.

00:05:18.000 Here's the New York Times' Peter Baker, who of course is no friend of Trump, suggesting that Pam Bondi is going to perform admirably in the role that Trump has suggested for her.

00:05:28.000 She is a partisan.

00:05:29.000 She is a loyalist to Trump.

00:05:30.000 She may not be as flamboyant as Matt Gaetz, but she holds some of the same views about the Justice Department and how it should be used.

00:05:36.000 She has more experience than Gaetz does.

00:05:38.000 She was an attorney general of Florida.

00:05:40.000 Gaetz really never has been much of a lawyer, certainly wasn't a prosecutor.

00:05:43.000 So she brings a little bit more legal experience to the table, obviously. 1.00

00:05:47.000 And she's not as likely, I think, to offend in the same way that Matt Gaetz was willing, not only willing, but eager to do.

00:05:57.000 But again, yeah, you're right.

00:05:59.000 She's going to look at the Justice Department very askance, very much from a Trumpian point of view, viewing it as a department that needs to be deconstructed in a lot of ways and reformulated to be an arm of Trump's White House.

00:06:13.000 And Kim Strassel, of course, is the author of that Wall Street Journal piece.

00:06:16.000 She points out the same thing.

00:06:17.000 She says there's a sigh of relief over Pam Bondi because this is a transition team that is on the rails.

00:06:22.000 It's a transition team that obviously has a forward-looking vision that is disconnected from whatever the personal political ambitions are of the members of the team.

00:06:31.000 She's a much more conventional pick, Paul, than Matt Gaetz was.

00:06:35.000 She was the Attorney General of Florida.

00:06:37.000 Generally got pretty good reviews for doing that down there.

00:06:42.000 The Senators so far have been very excited by this pick.

00:06:46.000 I think you can feel a I think she's going to be an interesting combination of someone who will come in and do some of those things. 0.80

00:06:55.000 Donald Trump says he wants done some reform, getting the department out of political engagement and politicized lawsuits.

00:07:03.000 But also someone that doesn't have all the baggage that Matt Gaetz has had and had going into the office.

00:07:12.000 And again, this is all part and parcel of President Trump's plan to shake up the executive ranch, which requires deep cuts.

00:07:17.000 That's what Doge is for.

00:07:18.000 That's the Department of Governmental Efficiency.

00:07:19.000 They'll be led from the outside by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:07:23.000 And it's also his plan for inside the government.

00:07:25.000 So when it comes to the FBI, for example, which was deeply involved in the whole Russiagate scandal, which turned out to be more of a scandal about the corruption within the FBI than it turned out to be a scandal about President Trump.

00:07:37.000 President Trump is going to shake up the leadership at the FBI apparently and fire both the director and install an experienced former agent and MAGA loyalist in the top two roles, which again makes a lot of sense.

00:07:48.000 You want people who are going to perform the functions the FBI is supposed to perform, namely actually monitoring criminal activity inside the United States.

00:07:55.000 But also you want somebody who is not going to be militarizing the FBI against the people at the top of government.

00:08:00.000 By the way, this has become an international tactic that is used by the left is the integration into a variety of government agencies inside all sorts of Western powers and then use of those government agencies as weapons against the top guy if those people tend to be on the right.

00:08:18.000 It's a major problem that pretty much everybody on the right is facing in international politics because it turns out the administrative state is a tool for people who like bigger government.

00:08:26.000 It is a tool for people who like to administer.

00:08:29.000 That is not a giant shock.

00:08:30.000 And so cleaning out the executive branch is mandate number one for President Trump.

00:08:34.000 Well, over the weekend, President Trump made a bunch of other picks for his cabinet.

00:08:38.000 Those include Scott Besant for secretary of the Treasury.

00:08:41.000 So Besant has sort of an interesting past.

00:08:45.000 He obviously is an investor.

00:08:48.000 He was a protege of George Soros, and he gave money to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Barack Obama.

00:08:53.000 He also was a strong advocate for gay rights and marriage equality, according to the New York Times.

00:08:58.000 He's certainly not a man of the right.

00:08:59.000 However, he has worked substantially with Wall Street.

00:09:03.000 He is going to work to steer tax cuts through Congress.

00:09:06.000 And he has sort of a heterodox view with regard to trade.

00:09:10.000 As the Wall Street Journal points out, as a hedge fund manager, first at Soros' firm and later at his own, Besson specialized in macro investing or analyzing geopolitical situations and economic data to wager on big picture market moves.

00:09:21.000 He generated billions of dollars in profits, betting on and against currencies, interest rates, stocks, and other asset classes around the world.

00:09:28.000 He was motivated to step out from behind the desk and get involved with Trump, in part because of a view that time is running out for the United States economy to grow its way out of excessive budget deficits and indebtedness.

00:09:38.000 He says in his first interview following this election with the Wall Street Journal that his policy priority will be to deliver on Trump's various tax cut pledges.

00:09:45.000 He also said that he's going to be focused on enacting tariffs and cutting spending, as will be maintaining the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

00:09:54.000 So it's sort of, again, a sort of heterodox viewpoint.

00:09:57.000 Besant taught economic history at Yale University, so obviously his credentials are very strong.

00:10:02.000 His association with George Soros sounds less political than investment involved.

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00:12:35.000 From 2011 to 2015, Besant was Soros' chief investment officer.

00:12:40.000 He earned more than a billion dollars in profits for successful bets in Japan, including wagering against the Chinese yen.

00:12:47.000 So again, he is looking pretty seriously at tariffs.

00:12:50.000 He is pursuing a policy he calls 333. That would include cutting the budget deficit to 3% of GDP by 2028, spurring GDP growth of 3% through deregulation, and producing an additional 3 million barrels of oil, or its equivalent, every single day.

00:13:05.000 And he says that he thinks of tariffs as a negotiating tool.

00:13:08.000 He says that, quote, the tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table, but rarely discharged.

00:13:13.000 And he says that maybe you use them as a source of tax revenue if that means lowering taxes.

00:13:16.000 So again, that is a much more cohesive economic agenda.

00:13:21.000 President Trump's talk about tariffs overall has been in glowing terms.

00:13:26.000 I've been saying for months.

00:13:27.000 When President Trump talks about tariffs, he sees tariffs as leverage.

00:13:30.000 If you look at his history, this is what he has used tariffs for.

00:13:33.000 He is not going to slap a 20% tariff on everything across the board because that creates inflation.

00:13:37.000 And Trump, most of all, does not want to be an inflation president.

00:13:41.000 What he will do is he will threaten to use tariffs in productive ways that force other nations to back down, which, again, is not a bad policy.

00:13:49.000 This is a massive tool in the American arsenal.

00:13:51.000 We are, in fact, the world's most productive market.

00:13:54.000 Steve Moore, who is certainly no big state interventionist with regard to the economy, he's praised the pick of Scott Bessent.

00:14:02.000 I've got a big smile on my face because I think this is an excellent pick.

00:14:06.000 I've known Scott now for about 10 years.

00:14:08.000 We've worked together.

00:14:10.000 He's a supply sider, David.

00:14:12.000 You'll appreciate that in the meld of Larry Kudlow and Art Laffer and Steve Forbes.

00:14:17.000 You know, this is a huge job.

00:14:19.000 This is one of the, other than Secretary of State, I'd say this is probably the most important cabinet position.

00:14:26.000 Okay, so again, it is a solid pick.

00:14:28.000 It is all about the economic growth.

00:14:30.000 That is the number one priority, is the economic growth at this point.

00:14:33.000 And that's what Trump is all about.

00:14:34.000 All Trump wants in life is to be a successful economic president and a successful foreign policy president, which is, of course, exactly what we should want.

00:14:41.000 By the way, his approval ratings for his transition thus far, 60%.

00:14:44.000 Those are very, very high approval ratings for President Trump.

00:14:47.000 And if his team does what they are supposed to do...

00:14:50.000 President Trump could be one of the most transformative presidents of our lifetime, probably the most transformative presidents of our lifetime, if he is able to do all of the things that he's attempting to do at this point.

00:15:00.000 Other good picks over the weekend.

00:15:02.000 President Trump picked Sebastian Gorka as a deputy assistant to the president.

00:15:06.000 Of course, Gorka is a very hawkish figure, particularly with regard to radical Islam.

00:15:12.000 According to The Washington Post, he was tapped to serve as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism.

00:15:18.000 He had been an advisor on national security matters for Trump for seven months in the last administration.

00:15:23.000 This doesn't require Senate confirmation.

00:15:25.000 So he is going to be focusing on militant groups and immigration, according to the Washington Post.

00:15:30.000 Trump complimented Gorka's qualifications.

00:15:32.000 He said, quote, he has been a tireless advocate for the America First agenda and the MAGA movement.

00:15:38.000 So, again, this is a solid pick.

00:15:41.000 Gorka is incredibly, as we say, harsh with regard to radical Islam, which is going to be a necessity in a time when radical Islam is on the uptick thanks to the predations of Iran. 1.00

00:15:51.000 In an interview last year, he watched some of the videos of October 7th. 0.72

00:15:56.000 He said, kill every single one of them, referring to Hamas. 0.95

00:15:58.000 God bless Israel. 1.00

00:15:59.000 God bless Judeo-Christian civilization.

00:16:01.000 Obviously, I'm a fan of that particular perspective when it comes to the war on terrorism, which It's not a war on terrorism.

00:16:08.000 It's a war on radical Islam, which is something that Gorka totally understands. 0.99

00:16:13.000 There's one more good pick that I think is worth noting.

00:16:16.000 So, as you'll know from listening to our show, President Trump has now picked Marty McCary, who's an excellent pick.

00:16:23.000 Marty McCary.

00:16:24.000 It is a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

00:16:26.000 He was sort of our go-to guy during the COVID pandemic.

00:16:28.000 We had him on nearly every week during the COVID pandemic, explaining the ins and outs of COVID policy.

00:16:33.000 Did masks do anything?

00:16:34.000 The answer was pretty much no.

00:16:36.000 Should vaccines be mandatory?

00:16:38.000 The answer was no.

00:16:40.000 Was COVID going to kill 2 million people in the United States if left unchecked?

00:16:45.000 The answer was no.

00:16:46.000 These sorts of...

00:16:49.000 Realities are things that McCary did an excellent job picking apart.

00:16:52.000 So he was a lockdown skeptic.

00:16:55.000 He was a vaccine mandate skeptic.

00:16:57.000 And now he's been picked to head the Food and Drug Administration, which is a very solid pick.

00:17:02.000 Again, McCary is a personal friend.

00:17:05.000 He's a friend of the show.

00:17:07.000 And he's going to do an excellent job over at FDA. President Trump said in a statement late on Friday, quote, FDA has lost the trust of Americans and has lost sight of its primary goal as regulator.

00:17:15.000 He will work under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to, among other things, properly evaluate harmful chemicals poisoning our nation's food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our nation's youth so that he can finally address the childhood chronic disease epidemic.

00:17:27.000 But it's not just that McCary is going to be a critic of the way the FDA was run before.

00:17:34.000 So, for example, he criticized the agency and the way that they reviewed data leading up to the approval of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine and some of the claims that were being made by the FDA, including the claim that this thing would cut down on transmission of COVID, which turned out not to be true.

00:17:48.000 And he also was pointing out, was Professor McCary, Dr. McCary, he kept pointing out throughout the COVID pandemic that their recommendations that everyone take the vaccine, including for children, were ridiculous.

00:17:59.000 He's not just going to be about shutting down the distribution of material in the United States.

00:18:03.000 He's going to be about streamlining the process at the FDA to make sure that new treatments actually get into the system faster.

00:18:09.000 One of the big problems in terms of investment in R&D is that the FDA's system is extremely haphazard.

00:18:15.000 It takes for freaking ever for people to get a drug to market.

00:18:19.000 And that means that people die in the meantime.

00:18:22.000 In 2021, he said, I'm pro-vaccine, but the issue of the appropriate clinical indication of the COVID vaccine is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon, as we frequently see in American culture and politics.

00:18:32.000 So, again, McCary is an excellent pick right here, and he's going to do an excellent job at the FDA. Other picks that President Trump has now made, Dr. Jeanette Nashaiwatt-Fox, news medical contributor, picked as U.S. Surgeon General.

00:18:43.000 So I'll admit, I was sort of taken in by a lot of the early clips that were put out of her on X.com by critics of Nashaiwatt.

00:18:50.000 She's a fine pick. 0.99

00:18:51.000 There's nothing wrong with her.

00:18:51.000 The suggestion that she was in favor of, for example, COVID mandates with regard to vaccines, that is not true.

00:18:57.000 She was following the data that was available at the time in 2021, and then she quickly became an advocate for using COVID vaccines only on the elderly or the severely obese.

00:19:07.000 So again, the sort of notion that's being promulgated on x.com that she is some sort of COVID lockdown fanatic is not actually true.

00:19:14.000 So that's a fine pick as well by President Trump, Jeanette Nashaiwatt, for Surgeon General.

00:19:19.000 He also has picked a person named Scott Turner for housing and urban development.

00:19:24.000 And this has prompted some nice racism from the left because they're very upset.

00:19:30.000 They want it both ways. 0.99

00:19:32.000 Trump's cabinet is both too white and also if he picks a black person, it's because Donald Trump is a racist. 0.99

00:19:37.000 Here's the MSNBC panel laughing at Trump's HUD pick, Scott Turner. 0.96

00:19:43.000 Scott Turner, he is a motivational speaker, and he's going to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

00:19:51.000 Ooh, black man leading HUD. I mean, first of all, why does everybody, I mean, every single president, has there ever been a white person who has been the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

00:20:02.000 Not since the 1960s, I'm sure.

00:20:04.000 It's a rhetorical question, but yes.

00:20:06.000 I mean, what?

00:20:07.000 what?

00:20:07.000 Y'all got something to say?

00:20:08.000 I was asking.

00:20:11.000 And it's not just Republicans that do it.

00:20:14.000 I don't know what it is.

00:20:17.000 I don't know what it is about HUD.

00:20:19.000 What is it about HUD? 0.75

00:20:21.000 They don't always want that job You don't have black folks lining up to be at HUD. Okay, so, I mean, the reality is that probably the reason for that is because it was set up as part of the civil rights initiatives under Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965. And a lot of those initiatives were specifically developed as almost affirmative action picks. 1.00

00:20:41.000 The answer, by the way, is that there have been quite a number of white heads of HUD, including people like Jack Kemp, who was the HUD director under George H.W. Bush.

00:20:50.000 You've had a Hispanic head of HUD, who was Julian Castro under Barack Obama.

00:20:54.000 There's an acting head of HUD named Matt Ammon, who is the acting head of HUD very shortly.

00:20:59.000 Between the transition period between Trump and Biden, Sean Donovan was the head of HUD. Yeah, again, the idea here presumably is that Republicans are racist for picking a black guy for HUD. He'll be fine. 0.86

00:21:11.000 Okay, so now we get to the one bad pick in the cabinet, like truly not a good pick inside the cabinet, and that would be Representative Lori Chavez-Dremer for Labor.

00:21:20.000 This one is a problem.

00:21:21.000 It really is.

00:21:22.000 So again, I've praised virtually all of President Trump's picks.

00:21:25.000 I even understood why he picked Matt Gaetz, though I thought that Matt Gaetz was not a good pick, and I thought that he would probably be defeated by the Senate.

00:21:31.000 When it comes to Lori Chavez de Remmer, this is not a good pick by President Trump.

00:21:35.000 She is not a good pick, and the way you can tell she's not a good pick is that she is endorsed by both Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, as well as Randy Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers.

00:21:45.000 If you are endorsed by Randy Weingarten, maybe the most pernicious actor in all of American politics, that is a good indicator you are a terrible pick.

00:21:52.000 She tweeted out, quote, The Department of Labor oversees all sorts of union activities. 0.77

00:22:21.000 It oversees business activities with regard to unions.

00:22:24.000 And the Department of Labor can do awful damage to a capitalist economy.

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00:24:37.000 Here's Senator Patty Murray, who is one of the most left-wing members of the Senate caucus for the Democrats, saying, quote, Americans deserve a labor secretary who understands that building a stronger economy means standing up for workers, not billionaires and giant corporations. 0.98

00:24:49.000 We need a labor secretary who will protect workers' rights, help ensure everyone can have a secure retirement, make sure every worker gets paid the full paycheck they've earned, and that all workers are treated with dignity and respect.

00:24:59.000 As an original author of the PRO Act, I'm glad to see Representative Chavez-Dremmer is a co-sponsor of the bill I wrote with Representative Scott.

00:25:07.000 Okay, again, the PRO Act is one of the most radical pieces of pro-union legislation in American history.

00:25:14.000 It's called the Richard Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act.

00:25:18.000 It would amend the National Labor Relations Act to essentially force through labor unions.

00:25:26.000 It is a massive problem, the PRO Act.

00:25:28.000 The fact that she was a chief sponsor of the PRO Act is a huge red flag, and there is no reason why she should be proposing and joining onto the PRO Act.

00:25:38.000 And one of the sort of core elements of a free market economy is the ability of people to negotiate freely with their employers without being forced into a union, without being forced to pay union dues, to be able to freely vote on whether or not to join a union.

00:25:56.000 There's a reason why private sector unions are really pushing hard for the PRO Act. 0.96

00:26:01.000 It invalidates nationally right-to-work laws.

00:26:03.000 Those right-to-work laws allow people to work in particular sectors of the economy, whether they are members of unions or not.

00:26:09.000 According to the Heritage Foundation, the PRO Act would invalidate 27 states' right-to-work laws and allow unions to take a portion of workers' wages directly from their paychecks without their consent and without regard to their stated opposition.

00:26:20.000 It would also undermine state lawmakers' ability to enact laws leading to more employment opportunities, stronger income growth, and faster growing economies.

00:26:26.000 So again, I think this pick was probably a reflection of President Trump's attempt to reach out to the labor sector.

00:26:37.000 He'd won an outsized share of members of labor unions in this particular election cycle.

00:26:43.000 Sean O'Brien, who, of course, spoke at the Republican National Convention.

00:26:47.000 It was one of the most bizarre sights I've ever seen because he spoke and he basically laid out a Bernie Sanders economic plan at the RNC. And Trump, in an attempt to broaden the Big Ten, which, of course, is smart politically, allowed that.

00:26:58.000 That doesn't mean that you have to shape the Department of Labor around the desires of Sean O'Brien.

00:27:03.000 He endorsed it, of course.

00:27:04.000 He said, North America's strongest union is ready to work with you every step of the way to expand good jobs.

00:27:10.000 She lost her reelect battle this year.

00:27:14.000 And so now she will be joining the administration if she makes it through a Senate confirmation hearing. 0.98

00:27:18.000 My suggestion is that she probably should not.

00:27:20.000 Bottom line is that we are now reaching the sort of full fruition of the Trump cabinet.

00:27:25.000 There are only a few open slots at this point in the Trump cabinet.

00:27:29.000 But when you take a look at the overall quality of these picks, this is a very strong cabinet.

00:27:33.000 This is a cabinet with a serious MAGA agenda.

00:27:35.000 It's a cabinet that is ready to go day one.

00:27:37.000 It's a cabinet with a full commitment to breaking apart many of the ugly parts of these institutions and remolding them in the interests of the American people.

00:27:47.000 So we are set for a transformative presidency, particularly in the first couple of years.

00:27:52.000 The media are not sure what to do about it.

00:27:54.000 They're declaring that the cabinet is dangerous, of course.

00:27:56.000 But the problem for them is its cabinet is eminently not dangerous.

00:27:59.000 Again, if you go down the list of Trump's cabinet picks at this point, you're looking really at heavy hitters.

00:28:06.000 The Trump cabinet, just to go through it really briefly, is Besant at the Department of Treasury.

00:28:13.000 It is at the National Security.

00:28:16.000 National Security Advisor is going to meet Representative Mike Waltz, who's a hawk.

00:28:21.000 At Secretary of State, you have Marco Rubio.

00:28:23.000 At Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

00:28:26.000 Seb Gorka is going to be a deputy assistant to the president.

00:28:33.000 The full cabinet looks good.

00:28:35.000 He also selected, by the way, Brooke Rollins for agriculture secretary as well.

00:28:40.000 She is a co-founder and president of the America First Policy Institute, which is a sort of pro-Trump right-wing think tank.

00:28:45.000 It's very new.

00:28:46.000 And many members of the AFPI have joined the administration, including Linda McMahon, who's going to be filling the Secretary of Education post.

00:28:52.000 Again, it's amazing how dismissive people on the left are of people who've been picked here.

00:28:56.000 Linda McMahon is treated as just the wife of Vince McMahon, as opposed to, you know, the head of the Small Business Administration for several years under Donald Trump.

00:29:06.000 The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has many years of experience.

00:29:08.000 Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, is the governor of North Dakota.

00:29:12.000 Howard Letnick is a major investor at the Department of Commerce.

00:29:16.000 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of course, is probably the most controversial pick in this cabinet right now at Health and Human Services because on the right, there are people who object to his abortion stances.

00:29:25.000 And on the left, there are people who object to his sort of heterodoxy on vaccination, particularly COVID vaccination.

00:29:32.000 But the reality is that he is going to be hemmed in by the strictures of the position.

00:29:38.000 Transportation, Sean Duffy.

00:29:39.000 Energy, Chris Wright.

00:29:40.000 That's an excellent pick.

00:29:41.000 Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins.

00:29:43.000 Homeland Security, Kristi Noem.

00:29:44.000 This is a pretty strong cabinet.

00:29:47.000 It really is.

00:29:47.000 Now, not all those people might make it through.

00:29:49.000 Maybe a couple of those people fall by the wayside.

00:29:51.000 Again, the most controversial members who have been named right there presumably are going to be RFK Jr. and Hegseth.

00:29:57.000 The Hegseth accusations, by the way, the sort of attempt to get Pete Hegseth on the notion that Pete Hegseth is an alleged The allegations against Pete Hegseth are skimpy at best.

00:30:09.000 I mean, really skimpy.

00:30:11.000 Doesn't mean that Pete has been a model citizen in his personal life.

00:30:14.000 What it does mean is that if you look at the actual police allegations that were brought to the police, the ones they did not prosecute over the supposed...

00:30:21.000 That Pete Hegseth allegedly committed.

00:30:23.000 The reason they didn't bring charges is because the testimony of everyone surrounding the woman contradicted her own testimony.

00:30:30.000 Basically, the woman suggested over and over and over that she was drunk as a skunk. 1.00

00:30:33.000 And then Pete Hegseth took advantage of her in his hotel room.

00:30:37.000 And there are a wide variety of sources who testified that she was absolutely not drunk, that she was actually sober.

00:30:42.000 And she brought him back to his room and he was totally drunk as a skunk. 0.94

00:30:46.000 The timelines don't match up.

00:30:47.000 If you want a very, very detailed and graphic exposition of those particular allegations, Megyn Kelly did a show last Friday in which she goes through those accusations in graphic detail.

00:30:57.000 It's well worth listening.

00:30:57.000 Of course, Megyn is a former prosecutor, so she knows what she's talking about.

00:31:00.000 So go take a listen to Megyn's podcast if you want more details on that.

00:31:04.000 Suffice it to say, the short form, if you don't feel like listening to...

00:31:08.000 An hour of going through those allegations in specific detail is that the woman's account here is not particularly credible.

00:31:14.000 And the reason that this allegation was never brought to court is because the police also presumably found it not credible.

00:31:21.000 So that means that the most colorful member of the Trump coterie who was picked for the administration was, again, Matt Gaetz.

00:31:30.000 He is now out.

00:31:32.000 So if you are a Democrat and you're hoping to knock down a couple of the picks, the people you're going to be aiming at presumably are RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth.

00:31:39.000 Hegseth, I think, is going to get through.

00:31:41.000 Tulsi Gabbard, I think, will probably get through.

00:31:43.000 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a heavier lift.

00:31:45.000 It'll be interesting to see how they approach the abortion aspect of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sort of policy.

00:31:50.000 I think President Trump is going to have to commit right now to reinstating the Mexico City policy, which is a government policy blocking U.S. federal funding for non-governmental organizations that push abortion abroad.

00:32:01.000 He's going to have to do that probably on his own if he wants to preserve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Basically, he'll say, listen, RFK Jr. is a pro-choice guy, but that doesn't mean that's going to be the policy of my administration.

00:32:10.000 It's my administration.

00:32:12.000 So it'll be fascinating to see how President Trump plays all of that out.

00:32:16.000 So that's the cabinet.

00:32:19.000 By the way, I do think that Laurie Chavez-Dorema for Labor Secretary might go down in flames as well. 0.67

00:32:23.000 So you're probably talking four nominees among all of these who will get some controversy.

00:32:27.000 I think probably three of them skate through with some opposition.

00:32:31.000 Meanwhile, President Biden, he is leaving the world stage.

00:32:35.000 We have reached the end of Biden times, which is a dangerous place in the world.

00:32:38.000 It really is. 0.51

00:32:38.000 Because this guy's been a lame duck since they ousted him from the presidential race. 0.51

00:32:42.000 I mean, it truly is quite an amazing thing.

00:32:44.000 That the Democrats basically declared the sitting president of the United States non-compos mentis and then left him in place.

00:32:50.000 They said he's too crazy and he's too addled to run for president, but he's certainly fine where he is, you know, running the world as the president of the United States.

00:32:59.000 It is not a shock that in the last six months the world has continued to become worse, that it has continued to become more fiery, there have been more conflagrations. 0.88

00:33:09.000 That is not a shock because President Biden is an empty chair.

00:33:12.000 And yet here was President Biden stumbling and bumbling his way through a speech suggesting that he's leaving the world better off than they found it, which no, the answer there is no, absolutely not.

00:33:22.000 I believe we can be proud.

00:33:24.000 We're leaving America in a better place today than we came into office four years ago.

00:33:30.000 This country is living through the worst pandemic we'd seen in over 100 years.

00:33:36.000 Our economy was in a tailspin.

00:33:39.000 We had just witnessed something we thought we'd never, ever see in America, a violent insurrection on January the 6th, and so much more.

00:33:51.000 We've come a long way since then.

00:33:54.000 We passed historic legislation, often with some bipartisan support, laws that are literally going to change America, not just now, but for decades and decades to come.

00:34:06.000 Again, nobody believes he has left the world a better place.

00:34:09.000 And then he says, who would lead the world if we did not step up?

00:34:12.000 I mean, the answer is that he did not step up.

00:34:14.000 And right now, that means that America's enemies are making hay while the sun shines.

00:34:19.000 I know I've only been around a few days, a few years.

00:34:24.000 I can't believe how long it's been.

00:34:27.000 But I fully believe America is better positioned to lead the world today than at any point in my 50 years of public service.

00:34:39.000 Hold a second.

00:34:43.000 As I say to my colleagues around the world where we meet, If not America leading the world, who leads the world?

00:34:51.000 I mean that literally.

00:34:52.000 Think about that question.

00:34:54.000 Who would lead the world if we did not step up?

00:34:58.000 Again, he has not stepped up and no one is leading the world on behalf of the United States.

00:35:03.000 That's about to change in pretty dramatic fashion.

00:35:04.000 Needs to because chaos continues to engulf the world.

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00:36:28.000 Speaking of lack of leadership, obviously things are escalating between Russia and Ukraine.

00:36:33.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a half dozen U.S. ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine slammed into an ammunition depot some 75 miles across the Russian border early on Tuesday, setting off further detonations that turned the sky red.

00:36:44.000 The following morning, 10 British provided cruise missiles pounded the vicinity of a Kremlin run sanatorium that was apparently used as a military headquarters, smashing one after another in the town of Merino, located in Russia's Kursk region, about 20 miles from the front line there.

00:36:58.000 Ukraine is now taking advantage of longer-range U.S. munitions in order to attack inside Russia.

00:37:03.000 Meanwhile, Russia, the other day, used an intercontinental ballistic missile to fire conventional weaponry.

00:37:09.000 The goal there, obviously, was to sort of threaten the possibility of using nuclear weapons at some point using an ICBM because you don't have to use an ICBM in order to fire conventional weapons.

00:37:21.000 Right now, the Biden administration presumably is trying to up the ante in Russia in an attempt to force Putin to the table.

00:37:28.000 Now, again, do I think that's necessarily a bad thing?

00:37:30.000 No, I just think it's delayed and it's belated.

00:37:32.000 And right now, Putin is incentivized to hold out because he believes that the Trump team coming in might cut him a better deal than the Biden team would.

00:37:40.000 But that's only because the Biden team was never looking for a deal.

00:37:42.000 The Biden team had no actual end goal here.

00:37:44.000 And that absence of leadership, the worst possible policy, by the way, a vacuum of leadership, No goal and no means aimed at the actual goal that Zelensky wanted, which, again, if you want to free the Donbass or you want to free Crimea, you need to give them more weapons. 0.50

00:37:59.000 Biden wasn't giving them more weapons and then maintaining the goal of freeing those territories.

00:38:03.000 And the result has been just a stagnating war with hundreds of thousands of people dead.

00:38:07.000 The lack of leadership by the United States is obvious and clear.

00:38:10.000 The same thing, by the way, holds true over the weekend. 0.91

00:38:13.000 Late last week, there was an announcement by the disgusting, corrupt, and anti-Semitic International Criminal Court.

00:38:19.000 They issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Galant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

00:38:29.000 They also, in order to suggest a moral equivalent, issued an arrest warrant for Mohammed Dayif, who is dead.

00:38:35.000 He was the military chief of Hamas, and he was killed in an airstrike months ago. 0.95

00:38:41.000 The ICC arrest warrant is ridiculous and disgusting. 0.94

00:38:43.000 The claim is that Israel was deliberately attempting to starve the Palestinians. 0.98

00:38:48.000 And let me explain how insane that is.

00:38:51.000 Israel has shipped in, I kid you not, a million tons of food aid into the Gaza Strip.

00:38:58.000 Tons, not pounds, tons.

00:39:00.000 Okay, we're talking about a billion pounds of food aid shipped into the Gaza Strip in the middle of a war in which Hamas, with the help, yes, of some civilians, is currently holding Israelis and Americans hostage.

00:39:11.000 And the ICC decided that it was going to move forward with this arrest warrant.

00:39:16.000 Now, part of this was an attempt by the prosecutor in this case to avoid the fact that he's now been hit with a sexual harassment allegation.

00:39:24.000 Apparently members of both sexes, by the way.

00:39:26.000 And so he was attempting to misdirect away from that by issuing an arrest warrant.

00:39:31.000 The ICC arrest warrant doesn't apply in a bunch of places that don't abide by the ICC. So, for example, the United States is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court.

00:39:38.000 Why?

00:39:39.000 Because we are aware that it is, in fact, a repository of evil dictatorial states and their European dupes. 0.99

00:39:45.000 And so what we were concerned about as Americans is that they would then attempt to arrest, for example, members of the American military who served in Afghanistan or who served in Iraq.

00:39:54.000 And by the way, this is something the Trump administration should in fact be worried about because if you are a signatory to the ICC and the ICC issues an arrest warrant, then you now have a legal duty under the ICC. They have no enforcement mechanism.

00:40:05.000 How does someone actually get arrested?

00:40:06.000 The answer is if you're a signatory to the ICC and let's say that Vladimir Putin, who also has been condemned by the ICC, he's also an arrest warrant.

00:40:17.000 If he lands in an ICC signatory state, that state now has the legal obligation as a signatory to the ICC to arrest that person.

00:40:26.000 So, if you think that that won't be attempted on Donald Trump, you're out of your mind.

00:40:31.000 This is why the United States is not a signatory to the ICC. This used to be a sort of bipartisan understanding that the ICC was a trash organization that manipulates the very idea of international law, which doesn't exist in the first place, in order to militarize and weaponize against the opponents of some of the world's worst regimes.

00:40:48.000 So, again...

00:40:50.000 The proof is in the pudding.

00:40:51.000 They're not just doing it against Netanyahu.

00:40:52.000 They're doing it also against Joao Gallant, his defense secretary, his former defense secretary, who was basically fired by Netanyahu and became sort of an opposition figure for a while.

00:41:04.000 The ICC attempt is now, it's becoming very clear what they're doing.

00:41:08.000 So yesterday, the International Criminal Court, after issuing these arrest warrants, and a bunch of states said, we're not going to abide by this.

00:41:13.000 Argentina said they're not going to abide by it.

00:41:15.000 Hungary said they're not going to abide by it.

00:41:17.000 Because that happened, the ICC is now signaling that it may revoke the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant if there is what they call a credible investigation into charges of genocide and famine in the Gaza Strip by figures inside Israel.

00:41:34.000 Which figures inside Israel?

00:41:35.000 I'll let you guess.

00:41:36.000 And the answer is that there are figures inside Israel who are, in fact, allied with things like the ICC. Remember when I said earlier in the show the deep state is present in an enormous number of jurisdictions across the globe?

00:41:45.000 whether you're talking about a deep state in Brazil that is currently targeting Jair Bolsonaro or a deep state in Israel that is, in fact, targeting Netanyahu.

00:41:52.000 There are, in fact, career appointees in a wide variety of administrative agencies across the world who are directly opposed to the elected governments of these particular places and will use their power in order to stifle the agenda of those particular elected governments.

00:42:06.000 Now, the United States has said already that the Trump, the incoming Trump administration has already said that they're going to take severe measures against the ICC.

00:42:15.000 Hamas is celebrating the ICC, by the way. 0.84

00:42:16.000 This tells you exactly what you need to know about the International Criminal Court.

00:42:20.000 They are so moral.

00:42:22.000 They are so decent.

00:42:23.000 Again, in the International Court of Justice, which is another UN agency, the International Court of Justice, South Africa brought a case against Israel for genocide.

00:42:31.000 South Africa did, which is a place of tremendous human rights violations.

00:42:35.000 South Africa.

00:42:35.000 They did so almost certainly because Iran was paying them.

00:42:39.000 And so all these international institutions have been completely weaponized.

00:42:41.000 And that will happen to President Trump.

00:42:43.000 I promise you that as soon as President Trump is not, maybe while he is in office, the ICC at the behest of some corrupt state will bring some sort of prosecution against Donald Trump.

00:42:52.000 And then they will try to get the Europeans on the hook to arrest Trump if he were to arrive down.

00:42:58.000 Now, frankly, that would be the best thing that ever happened because no European country is going to arrest the sitting president of the United States.

00:43:04.000 It just shows why this institution should be dismantled wholesale.

00:43:09.000 It's vile and it's disgusting and it's obviously directed as part of a broader anti-Semitic We're good to go. 0.89

00:43:35.000 He was murdered by agents of Iran. 0.92

00:43:37.000 They just picked him up off the street.

00:43:38.000 They took him 150 kilometers away from where he was kidnapped, and they clearly murdered him.

00:43:42.000 By the way, he must have been mutilated in some way because they had to use methodologies in order to identify the body.

00:43:50.000 The Israeli Prime Minister's office said, quote, The murder of Zvi Kogan, of blessed memory, is an abhorrent act of anti-Semitic terrorism.

00:43:55.000 The State of Israel will use all means and will deal with the criminals responsible for his death to the fullest extent of the law.

00:44:02.000 Israel suspects Uzbek citizens with ties to Iran were involved in Kogan's abduction and killing.

00:44:07.000 According to a person familiar with the investigation, authorities in the Emirates have arrested three people in connection with the killing.

00:44:14.000 This of course is not a giant shock.

00:44:16.000 Iranian agents all around the world have been attempting to kill Israelis for quite a long time.

00:44:21.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian intelligence agents tried to kill Israeli tourists in Turkey in 2022. They've tried to kill Israeli diplomats, and of course, they've attacked people who are not Israeli either, including the author Salman Rushdie.

00:44:33.000 The targeting of Chabad is particularly egregious, and again, not rare.

00:44:37.000 Islamic terrorists, unfortunately, do tend to target Chabad.

00:44:39.000 Chabad is a Jewish organization that does outreach, Jewish outreach, particularly for tourists.

00:44:45.000 It's very useful.

00:44:46.000 Chabad has emissaries, they're called shluchim, they're all over the world.

00:44:50.000 You'll recall that back during the Mumbai terror attack, maybe a decade ago, they actually went to a Chabad house and murdered everybody at the Chabad house.

00:44:57.000 This is not a giant shock, and it comes amid a growing wave of radical pro-Hamas anti-Semitism that has extended not just into places like UAE, of course, but also into the West.

00:45:06.000 So over the weekend, there were large-scale riots in the city of Montreal by pro-Hamasniks.

00:45:12.000 People burning stores, people smashing up store windows, Wearing face masks, chanting Prochama slogans, setting parked cars ablaze in downtown Montreal.

00:45:24.000 Really, truly ugly stuff.

00:45:26.000 The protests were designed to coincide with the NATO summit in Montreal.

00:45:31.000 And of course, according to the UK Daily Mail, it came on the heels of heightened tensions in the city following a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including a significant protest at Concordia University on Thursday that involves confrontations between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators.

00:45:44.000 So where was Justin Trudeau, the pathetic Prime Minister of Canada, handsome Bernie Sanders?

00:45:51.000 Well, after he had already said that he would actually enforce, there are members of the ICC, that he would actually enforce the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, that it's Netanyahu, the head of state of a democratic country that is allied with the West, that if he visited Canada, Justin Trudeau would have him arrested.

00:46:05.000 This is what Justin Trudeau said.

00:46:06.000 Right after that, Justin Trudeau, while the city of Montreal was being burned by Prokhamasniks, he was partying at a Taylor Swift concert like a little girl. 1.00

00:46:15.000 Because he is, in fact, a little...

00:46:16.000 So here was Justin Trudeau, making the most of his time in the Taylor Swift crowd, looking for all the world like a man who is, shall we say, comfortable with his sexuality. 0.99

00:46:28.000 Look at this pathetic... 1.00

00:46:33.000 He's so pathetic. 1.00

00:46:36.000 At the Euros Tour... 1.00

00:46:39.000 What a sad man.

00:46:41.000 How sad for Canada.

00:46:43.000 Seriously.

00:46:43.000 It's no wonder that Pierre Polievre is going to knock the living out of him in the next election.

00:46:49.000 I mean, this guy has an approval rating in the toilet, and he ought to.

00:46:53.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was spotted shaking it off at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto as Montreal descended into chaos with anti-Israel protests sweeping the streets.

00:47:04.000 So meanwhile, over in Toronto, Ezra Levant, who's a right-wing political pundit, was arrested.

00:47:09.000 Why?

00:47:09.000 Because there's a pro-Khamas rally in Toronto, and he was taping it.

00:47:13.000 He was asking polite questions to members of the crowd.

00:47:15.000 The police arrested him for supposedly being guilty of incitement, because this is the way things work in Canada now.

00:47:20.000 You're allowed to be a pro-Khamasnik who chants anti-Semitic slogans and maybe burns down stores and such. 0.95

00:47:25.000 But if you ask a question to the pro-Khamasniks, you are now involved in incitement. 0.93

00:47:28.000 Wouldn't want to incite the gentle fellows, would we?

00:47:32.000 Yeah, because you're inciting this crowd and then it reaches the peace.

00:47:35.000 As I said, you're friends alone.

00:47:37.000 I mean, that's exactly what you're trying to do.

00:47:39.000 Because I'm a Jew.

00:47:40.000 No, because you're trying to incite me.

00:47:41.000 I haven't tried to incite me.

00:47:42.000 I want you to take a picture of the hate crime that you're abiding.

00:47:45.000 You could have done it on the other side.

00:47:45.000 You didn't need to walk over.

00:47:46.000 No, I wanted to go out.

00:47:48.000 Now I'm going to tell you to move over there. 1.00

00:47:50.000 And ultimately, I allowed you to take this video.

00:47:53.000 I allowed you to take this video.

00:47:54.000 So you're refusing to leave?

00:47:56.000 I'm refusing to leave.

00:47:57.000 Why?

00:47:57.000 Because I'm a Jew, I'm a citizen, and I'm your boss.

00:48:02.000 And I don't leave if you say Jews are allowed on the streets. 1.00

00:48:04.000 Well, you know what?

00:48:05.000 In the interest of keeping peace here and public safety, you're under arrest for preaching the peace.

00:48:09.000 Take a minute.

00:48:09.000 I'm good.

00:48:10.000 So by the way, if you can't see the video, Ezra Levant is doing nothing.

00:48:14.000 There's no way in which he's inciting a riot.

00:48:16.000 He's literally standing there with a camera calmly talking to the police officers.

00:48:19.000 He's not fighting them.

00:48:20.000 He's not trying to hit anybody.

00:48:21.000 He's not doing any of that stuff.

00:48:22.000 Meanwhile, what was actually happening at the Toronto peaceful protest this weekend?

00:48:27.000 It's all on tape.

00:48:27.000 People carrying around posters with the upside-down red triangle, which is used by Hamas to identify targets.

00:48:33.000 Somebody dressed up as Yahya Sinwar to cosplay Yahya Sinwar.

00:48:37.000 He's sitting on a chair holding a stick because the last image of Yahya Sinwar is that he was sitting on an armchair holding a stick, which he threw at a drone before he got blown to kingdom come, where he had an unfortunate, I would assume, afterlife that did not meet with his prior expectations.

00:48:54.000 All of that is totally fine in the city of Toronto.

00:48:56.000 It's taping the stuff that's really a problem.

00:48:59.000 This is the world that Joe Biden has helped create.

00:49:01.000 This is the world the international left has helped create.

00:49:03.000 And Donald Trump is going to come in, and he's going to clean it up.

00:49:06.000 And we are watching it happen in real time, and it can't come too soon.

00:49:10.000 All right, guys, coming up, we'll be getting into Democrats handling their time in the wilderness.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 25, 2024

Trump Makes His FINAL PICKS

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