The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump, Racism & Celebrity Anti-Semitism

00:00:00.000 There's been a lot of speculation for a very long time that the economy was going to soften and now it has finally begun.

00:00:04.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, earnings for the nation's biggest companies are poised to fall for the third straight quarter, hurt in part by the decline in energy prices.

00:00:12.000 So why exactly aren't we technically in a recession?

00:00:14.000 Presumably because consumer spending remains pretty high because of all the inflation in the economy, because of all the extra dollars that Joe Biden blew into the economy because of the easy money policies of the Federal Reserve.

00:00:23.000 It takes a while for that to wash its way out of the economy.

00:00:25.000 But as that happens, consumers are not going to be able to outpace producers. Producers

00:00:31.000 are starting to cut back. They are seeing the writing on the wall. They're starting to

00:00:34.000 consolidate their gains. And they're starting to realize that if they continue to expand their actual

00:00:38.000 manufacturing, their actual production, then they are going to undercut themselves. And so you're

00:00:42.000 starting to see earnings declines for virtually every major company. The members of the S&P 500,

00:00:46.000 according to the Wall Street Journal, on pace to collectively report a 5.2% decline in earnings,

00:00:51.000 their worst performance since 2020.

00:00:53.000 Revenue is on track to rise 0.6% from a year ago, but that's largely due to inflation

00:00:58.000 at this point. Some of this is due to the decline in oil prices.

00:01:02.000 For example, the energy sector is taking it right on the chin.

00:01:05.000 But it's also happening in materials and it's also happening in tech.

00:01:07.000 Apple sales fell for the third consecutive quarter amid softening demand for consumer devices.

00:01:12.000 The only areas that continue to have quarterly revenue growth are areas of healthcare, communication services, real estate is continuing to sort of hold steady at this point.

00:01:23.000 But we are about to see more of these companies report bad earnings, and that means that the economy is likely to see a downturn in the coming quarters.

00:01:31.000 Employment numbers came out on Friday.

00:01:33.000 They're weaker than expected.

00:01:34.000 That, of course, is not greatly a shock because, as we've been saying for months here on this program, what goes up must come down.

00:01:40.000 The idea that an overheated economy was not going to crash off of a cliff was always a rather specious presumption.

00:01:47.000 Meanwhile, on foreign policy, the Ukraine war continues apace.

00:01:51.000 According to the New York Times, Ukrainian forces struck two bridges connecting Russian-occupied Crimea to the rest of Ukraine on Sunday, part of a broader pattern of attacks on and around the peninsula that has sought to scramble critical supply routes for the Kremlin and push the scope of the war into fresh territory.

00:02:03.000 This is all part of the Ukrainian offensive. 1.00

00:02:05.000 They're hoping that they will push the Russians back so much that the Russians will come to the negotiating table. 0.82

00:02:10.000 The question at this point is, what exactly the Russians are asking for?

00:02:13.000 Because everybody knows the lines of the negotiation here, and they also recognize that there's a misalignment of incentives.

00:02:19.000 The West keeps saying that Zelensky gets to make the deals.

00:02:21.000 Zelensky keeps saying there will be no deal until the Russians are off of all of Russian territory, and the Russians keep saying there will be no deal if they're being pushed out of what they consider now to be formal Russian territory, namely in Crimea and the Donbass region.

00:02:34.000 Sunday's attacks injured a driver and closed traffic on a second bridge to the east of Chonhar, near the small town of Henechesk.

00:02:40.000 According to the governor of the region, Vladimir Zahaldo, who's a Russian guy, one of the strikes tore three holes in another roadway as well.

00:02:48.000 Ukraine's armed forces took credit for both strikes on Sunday and another departure from their typically coy approach, as Zelensky and other top officials emphasized their new aim is to force ordinary Russians to face up to the Kremlin's wars.

00:02:57.000 Things are likely to get worse before they get better.

00:03:00.000 Meanwhile, the American public do not have their heart in this anymore.

00:03:03.000 By polls, a plurality of Americans are not interested in an endless level of support for the Ukraine war or really for much more support than has already been given At this point.

00:03:12.000 And Russian and Chinese forces are also upping the ante.

00:03:16.000 Over the weekend, a combined Russian and Chinese naval force patrolled near the coast of Alaska in what U.S.

00:03:20.000 experts said appeared to be the largest such flotilla to approach American shores.

00:03:23.000 Apparently, 11 Russian and Chinese ships steamed close to the Aleutian Islands, according to U.S.

00:03:27.000 officials.

00:03:27.000 The ships never entered U.S.

00:03:29.000 territorial waters.

00:03:30.000 They were shadowed by four U.S.

00:03:31.000 destroyers and a P-8 Poseidon aircraft.

00:03:33.000 It's a historical first, said Bren Sadler, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

00:03:37.000 Given the context of the war in Ukraine and tensions around Taiwan, this move is highly provocative.

00:03:41.000 A spokesman for the U.S.

00:03:42.000 Northern Command confirmed Russia and China had carried out a combined naval patrol in their Alaska and didn't specify the number of ships or their precise location.

00:03:49.000 So Russia and China are upping the ante.

00:03:53.000 And meanwhile, the Biden administration really has no plan because while they're asking for concessions from China and while they continue to fund the war in Ukraine, there's no off-ramp with regard to the war in Ukraine to allow us to shift focus to China.

00:04:04.000 And meanwhile, China is realizing that it's going to be boxed in both demographically and economically in very short order, all of which spells the possibility of future conflict.

00:04:12.000 Now, let's recognize something.

00:04:14.000 It is the unpredictability In change in America's foreign policy from weak and passive to aggressive that really throws people off kilter.

00:04:23.000 And the fact is that Russia never would have invaded Ukraine if it had not been for the sins of the former Biden administration, one which was vice president of the United States.

00:04:31.000 You'll remember that Russia actually invaded Ukraine originally in 2014.

00:04:34.000 That is when Barack Obama was president of the United States.

00:04:37.000 Over the weekend, Obama did another fawning interview with the glowing media in which he claimed that they did all of the right things.

00:04:42.000 Here's Christiane Amanpour, one of the worst Pseudo-journalist in the business, asking Barack Obama about American foreign policy when Russia first invaded Crimea.

00:04:51.000 And part of what happened was both myself, but also Merkel, who I give enormous credit for, had to pull in a lot of other Europeans kicking and screaming to impose the sanctions that we did and to prevent Putin from continuing through the Donbas into the rest of Ukraine.

00:05:13.000 So I actually think that given both where Ukraine was at the time and where the European mindset was at the time, we held the line.

00:05:24.000 Okay, let's be clear.

00:05:25.000 They did not hold the line.

00:05:26.000 And the entire attempt to hand over Crimea to Russia in the first place was deeply tied to Barack Obama's pathetically intransigent approach with regard to Iran.

00:05:34.000 He was trying to cut a deal with Iran, a nuclear deal with Iran.

00:05:37.000 He wanted Russia to help broker that deal.

00:05:38.000 And so he was willing to hand Crimea to the Russians in order to make sure that that happened. 0.93

00:05:42.000 And then when there's another Russian advance in Ukraine, this time Joe Biden is president of the United States.

00:05:48.000 You can see why Russia thought they were going to get away with it.

00:05:50.000 Again, it is confusion in foreign policy that leads to all of these problems, and all of them are starting to stack up with regard to Joe Biden's administration.

00:05:58.000 The polling numbers show that he's really, really weak right now.

00:06:00.000 He's polling even with Donald Trump in Michigan.

00:06:02.000 In most of the major national polls right now, Donald Trump is running about even with Joe Biden.

00:06:08.000 The latest national polls have Joe Biden up one according to Insider Advantage, tied according to New York Times-Siena, up three according to the Morning Consult, and Trump up four according to Messenger-HarrisX.

00:06:18.000 So that says that Joe Biden is running extremely weak right now, and he should be, because his policies are absolutely awful.

00:06:23.000 And when you link that with the fact that the Hunter Biden scandal is not nearly over and could easily break into the mainstream over the course of the next year and a half, Democrats should be running scared.

00:06:32.000 In fact, you're starting to see a few cracks in the base for the Democratic Party.

00:06:35.000 Representative Jake Auchincloss, Democrat of Massachusetts, he finally admitted on national TV that if Hunter committed crimes, he should face penalties for that.

00:06:43.000 If Hunter Biden committed crimes, Hunter Biden should face justice and accountability for those crimes.

00:06:49.000 Which, by the way, is a sentence that I've heard very few Republicans say about Donald Trump for much more massive crimes.

00:06:56.000 This focus, this obsession, I would say, on Hunter Biden is really just a whopper of whataboutism.

00:07:02.000 Because the Republicans are trying to deflect, to diminish, to defend Donald Trump from the grave crime of conspiracy against the Constitution of the United States.

00:07:14.000 Okay, and this is going to be the great misdirect by the Democrats is going to be to Donald Trump.

00:07:19.000 And the question as to whether Republicans can take advantage of Joe Biden's weakness rests almost entirely on whether the Republican base is going to nominate a person who's going to make the entire subject of the next election about his various foibles and legal peccadilloes.

00:07:31.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:08:37.000 Okay, so, The question for Republicans is going to be whether they actually believe that the rest of the country believes like they believe about Donald Trump.

00:08:47.000 If you listen to Republicans in the base talk about what's going on with Donald Trump and the myriad trials that have been brought against him.

00:08:52.000 The trial in Manhattan, the trial in Florida, the trial now in Washington, D.C.

00:08:56.000 When Republicans talk about this, they say that the subject of the next election should be the corruption of the DOJ.

00:09:00.000 And I agree that in an ideal world, we'd be talking Endlessly with independence about the corruption of the DOJ and the weaponization of law enforcement and the use of the FBI to go after Donald Trump beginning in 2015 at the behest of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

00:09:12.000 Now all of that, all that should be highly relevant.

00:09:14.000 Is that going to be the topic?

00:09:15.000 The bread and butter topic upon which Americans vote?

00:09:18.000 Or are they simply going to make the general decision they always make in every election, which is, do I like this guy?

00:09:24.000 Do I trust this guy?

00:09:25.000 Do I think this person is likely to lead to a more stable America where I can send my kid to school knowing they'll be safe and where I can have bread on the table?

00:09:33.000 Those are the real big questions.

00:09:35.000 And Republicans can win on those questions because Democrats have made the country less safe with regard to crime because Democrats are threatening your kids in terms of the values they are promulgating at schools.

00:09:43.000 All those questions are questions Republicans can win, but not if they never talk about it again.

00:09:47.000 If the center issue in 2024 is whether the DOJ is being mean to Donald Trump for political purposes, Or whether Donald Trump is in fact committing criminal acts.

00:09:56.000 That is not going to be a winning formula for Republicans in 2024.

00:09:59.000 It just isn't.

00:10:00.000 The only way that's a winning formula is if so many Democrats stay home because they are just unhappy with Joe Biden that Donald Trump squeaks by.

00:10:07.000 But that is not a recipe for a sort of broad-based electoral victory.

00:10:11.000 That is a recipe that relies on luck.

00:10:13.000 And, you know, when we started our business, one of the things we said at the very beginning of Daily Wire was luck is not a business strategy.

00:10:18.000 Well, luck is not a political strategy either.

00:10:20.000 And the idea that you're just going to luck into 2016, again, that basically Joe Biden won't visit Wisconsin or he won't visit Michigan.

00:10:28.000 That he'll just go absent in the election?

00:10:31.000 Or that Democrats are going to stay home again?

00:10:33.000 There are a couple factors that militate against that.

00:10:34.000 One of them is the factor that a lot of Democrats remember 2016, and they remember that when they thought Hillary Clinton was a 99% lock to win, they didn't show up until Donald Trump became president.

00:10:43.000 Number two, Hillary Clinton in the polls is running well ahead of where Joe Biden is running right now. 0.99

00:10:47.000 So if you're a Democrat, you understand there's a very real risk that Donald Trump is going to get back in the White House, which means you're very motivated to go and vote.

00:10:54.000 Again, when it comes to the message of the campaign, Democrats are going to be able to basically shy away from whatever is the supposed corruption in the DOJ, the alleged corruption.

00:11:03.000 Corruption, I think, is very real and very partisan.

00:11:05.000 They're going to be able to shy away from that and just talk endlessly about Donald Trump.

00:11:08.000 And Donald Trump loves to talk about Donald Trump.

00:11:10.000 And the entire election will be about Donald Trump.

00:11:12.000 If the election is about Donald Trump, he's going to lose.

00:11:14.000 If the election is about Joe Biden, he is going to lose.

00:11:16.000 This is not a particularly hard math.

00:11:18.000 Again, whichever candidate is the subject of the referendum will lose.

00:11:23.000 Nobody likes Joe Biden, so if they're thinking about Joe Biden at the time they pull the lever, they're gonna vote for his opponent.

00:11:27.000 And if they're thinking about Donald Trump at the time they vote, they're probably going to vote for Joe Biden.

00:11:32.000 So what exactly has Trump been doing?

00:11:34.000 Well, just what you would think he's been doing.

00:11:36.000 Sure, he's, you know, handling his legal troubles and sure he's talking about that stuff, but he is spending zero focus at all on his actual political opponent.

00:11:45.000 All of his focus right now, and again, you can't blame him for this, because if you were hit with 87 charges or whatever it is, You would also spend all of your mental energy thinking about that sort of stuff and presumably truth socialing about that sort of stuff at all hours of the day.

00:11:59.000 Now, Trump does that even on a good day, but on a bad day, he's for sure going to do that.

00:12:02.000 But the problem is, again, that where Donald Trump puts his spotlight is also where the media are happy to put their spotlight and where Democrats are happy to put their spotlight.

00:12:09.000 If every waking hour is spent on Donald Trump's truth social talking about how much he hates Nancy Pelosi and Jack Smith and Mike Pence, that is not a recipe for electoral success.

00:12:18.000 And here's the thing.

00:12:19.000 I want Joe Biden not to be president of the United States anymore. 0.72

00:12:22.000 I think he is a terrible president.

00:12:24.000 By the way, I don't even think Joe Biden is really in control of his own administration.

00:12:27.000 I think that the staff, people have been asking this for a while, who actually runs the Biden administration?

00:12:32.000 And the answer is basically everybody who's staffed for Barack Obama.

00:12:36.000 It's a really fascinating interview over a tablet magazine with David Garrow, who's a biographer of Barack Obama.

00:12:41.000 He wrote a biography in 2017 of Barack Obama that was largely ignored by the media because it was not complimentary.

00:12:45.000 That biography of Barack Obama included the fact that Barack Obama in his younger days was pretty rabidly anti-Semitic.

00:12:51.000 Which is not a shock. 0.99

00:12:52.000 He sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years, as we all know, that he wrote love letters to his girlfriends in which he talked about fantasies of gay sex. 0.91

00:12:59.000 He did all sorts of really salacious and ugly material in that biography by David Garrow, who's a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, by the way. 0.87

00:13:07.000 And David Garrow says in an interview with Tablet Magazine that Joe Biden is not running large parts of his administration.

00:13:13.000 Obama is.

00:13:14.000 He doesn't even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already in the White House.

00:13:17.000 They hold the Iran file.

00:13:18.000 Tony Blinken doesn't.

00:13:19.000 Rob Malley is just one person.

00:13:20.000 Brett McGurk, Dan Shapiro in Israel, Lisa Monaco in Justice, Susan Rice running domestic policy.

00:13:24.000 It's turtles all the way down.

00:13:26.000 There are obviously large parts of the White House policymaking that belong to Barack Obama because they're staffed by his people who work for him and no doubt report back to him.

00:13:32.000 Personnel is policy, as they say in Washington.

00:13:34.000 Again, this is a biographer of Barack Obama.

00:13:37.000 David Gary says, to me this is very odd and kind of a spooky arrangement.

00:13:40.000 Spooky because it's happening outside the constitutional framework of the United States

00:13:43.000 government and yet somehow it's been placed off the list of permitted subjects to report on,

00:13:46.000 which is a pretty good indicator of the extent to which the information we get and public reaction

00:13:49.000 to that information is being successfully controlled. That of course is exactly right.

00:13:55.000 But one of the things that's happening here is that we're not talking about any of that stuff.

00:13:59.000 The only thing that we are spending our time talking about, presumably, is Donald Trump's legal troubles, which we'll get to in just one second.

00:14:06.000 We'll get to the latest on that first.

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00:14:58.000 Meanwhile, the Trump team is getting ready to go to court, and they have a bunch of different defenses that they've been putting forward.

00:15:02.000 One of Donald Trump's lawyers, named John Lauro, he's been all over the news making defenses of President Trump.

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00:15:11.000 Meanwhile, the Trump team is getting ready to go to court and they have a bunch of different defenses that they've

00:15:17.000 been putting forward.

00:15:18.000 One of Donald Trump's lawyers named John Lauro, he's been all over the news making defenses of President

00:15:22.000 Trump.

00:15:23.000 He points out that President Trump's expressions of concern over election irregularities,

00:15:28.000 that's all First Amendment protected material.

00:15:30.000 He's pointing out also that the actual statutes that have been brought in the indictment against Donald Trump are not actually properly formulated.

00:15:37.000 So, very likely there may even be a preemptive appeal to the Supreme Court to try to get this thing stopped ASAP, as fast as possible.

00:15:44.000 That has been encouraged by people ranging from Mark Levin to Senator Mike Lee in Utah.

00:15:48.000 A flurry of interviews and statements on Sunday from Trump and his legal team previewed how they might seek to defend the former president against federal conspiracy charges.

00:15:55.000 According to Laurel, Sunday an ABC said the government will never be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump had corrupt or criminal intent.

00:16:00.000 That's what this case is about.

00:16:03.000 Now, that is, again, that's the legal issue, and whether it's true or whether it's false, we're going to find out.

00:16:10.000 Donald Trump has the deck stacked against him, no question, because the judge in this case, number one, is a dedicated Democrat who actually served at the same law firm as Hunter Biden, apparently, because this is taking place in Washington, D.C., which is a very unfriendly area for jury selection.

00:16:22.000 Apparently, Team Trump wants to get this thing moved to Virginia because they believe that Washington, D.C.

00:16:26.000 is a place where Trump can't get a fair trial.

00:16:28.000 And of course, this is only one of three trials that Trump is currently undergoing, and we're expecting the Georgia DA to drop an indictment on Donald Trump any moment.

00:16:35.000 So it'll be four different trials over the course of the next year.

00:16:38.000 Well, all of that is true.

00:16:40.000 And again, all of that is, it really is outrageous.

00:16:43.000 Just to go through each case once more, the Manhattan DA's case is absolutely specious. 0.99

00:16:47.000 It's garbage. 0.96

00:16:47.000 This is the one about Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump supposedly taking personal money and spending it on Stormy Daniels to silence her as opposed to campaign money. 0.96

00:16:55.000 It's all ridiculous. 0.53

00:16:55.000 It's well beyond the scope of the Manhattan DA. 0.53

00:16:57.000 He did it anyway because he wants to be famous. 0.98

00:16:59.000 It's a ridiculous case. 0.95

00:17:00.000 That one should be thrown out summarily. 0.90

00:17:02.000 But it's in Manhattan, so it could get convicted.

00:17:03.000 The one down in Florida, About classified documents, a pretty serious case because Donald Trump did the criming on tape.

00:17:09.000 Don't do criming on tape.

00:17:10.000 First rule of law.

00:17:12.000 With that said, should it be prosecuted?

00:17:14.000 The political case is it shouldn't be prosecuted because Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted for essentially the exact same crime.

00:17:19.000 But in a court of law, could Donald Trump be prosecuted?

00:17:21.000 Sure, but it's also in Florida, which is a much more friendly territory for Donald Trump since he won the state twice.

00:17:26.000 And then you head on up to Washington, D.C.

00:17:27.000 You have an incredibly weak case brought by Jack Smith on the January 6th matters.

00:17:31.000 Again, if he wanted to bring a charge of indictment that is an actual criminal charge, he didn't bother to bring that charge because he couldn't prove it.

00:17:36.000 So instead, he brought a bunch of ancillary charges ranging from obstruction of justice to fraud.

00:17:40.000 None of those statutes really seem to apply.

00:17:42.000 So all of that can be true.

00:17:43.000 And at the very same time, on a political level, all Donald Trump did over the weekend, all he did over and over and over is just tweet about this.

00:17:52.000 And that's all this election is going to be.

00:17:54.000 So the question for you, kind of normal conservative or normal independent is, is this top of mind for you?

00:17:59.000 Is this the thing you wake up every morning outraged about?

00:18:02.000 For a certain percentage of the population, sure.

00:18:04.000 Is that population larger than 25-30%?

00:18:05.000 I have serious doubts that that's the case.

00:18:08.000 Considering again, that a solid majority of independents think Trump should be indicted and they don't really care about what the charge is.

00:18:13.000 It's gonna be very hard to convince those independents.

00:18:16.000 Not only should Trump not be indicted, he should be elected because he's being indicted.

00:18:20.000 That is a very, very heavy lift.

00:18:21.000 And again, I encourage Republicans to think pretty seriously about who they think is likely to beat Joe Biden, not just about who they think it feels good to nominate.

00:18:29.000 Those are not the same thing.

00:18:31.000 So over the weekend, Donald Trump started going after the judge in this particular case.

00:18:37.000 He said, there's all caps.

00:18:38.000 There is no way I can get a fair trial with the judge assigned to the ridiculous freedom of speech fair elections case.

00:18:43.000 Everybody knows this.

00:18:44.000 And so does she.

00:18:45.000 We'll be immediately asking for accusal of this judge on very powerful grounds and likewise for venue change out of D.C.

00:18:51.000 Judge Chutkan, of course, is an appointee of former President Barack Obama.

00:18:54.000 And again, I'm not saying that Trump's concern here is not well predicated.

00:18:57.000 I think that it is.

00:18:58.000 As MSNBC legal analyst David Henderson says, this judge is Trump's worst nightmare.

00:19:01.000 I mean, that's true.

00:19:02.000 This is a very left-wing judge, obviously.

00:19:06.000 In Frank Tern's Amen, she is Trump's worst nightmare and she's his legal team's worst nightmare.

00:19:12.000 I'm just going to be real when I say it.

00:19:13.000 A black woman with a law degree is a virtual unstoppable force when it comes to the justice system. 1.00

00:19:19.000 Here's the reason why.

00:19:20.000 You're taking someone who's been subjected to two different forms of discrimination,

00:19:24.000 discrimination based on gender, discrimination based on race, then you're extracting them

00:19:27.000 on the law in terms of how things are actually supposed to work.

00:19:31.000 Then you put them in an environment where they see people get mistreated based on who

00:19:34.000 they are every single day of their career.

00:19:36.000 Now you've got somebody walking into her courtroom saying, well, hang on a second. 0.91

00:19:40.000 I deserve to be treated differently because I used to be a super powerful person and I

00:19:45.000 expect to become a super powerful person again.

00:19:47.000 That is not going to work on her.

00:19:50.000 Okay.

00:19:51.000 The fact that the left is so excited about this judge demonstrates that Trump is exactly

00:19:55.000 Again, the case that this person is making is that because of her identity as a black woman, this will make her Trump's worst nightmare, which is the opposite of being a good judge.

00:20:03.000 What it means to be a good judge is that you impartially decide the case in front of you, not that you look deep within the wells of your own soul and then come up with some sort of jerry-rigged explanation for why the bad orange man has to go to jail.

00:20:14.000 That's exactly what the MSNBC analyst is saying.

00:20:15.000 So again, Trump's complaints are well predicated here about the judge.

00:20:19.000 I think there's very little doubt about that.

00:20:21.000 The question for Republicans is, should that be the basis on which the elections run?

00:20:25.000 It doesn't stop there, of course, because the posts just keep coming and coming and coming over the weekend.

00:20:29.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:21:33.000 Okay, so this was not Donald Trump's only complaint over the weekend.

00:21:36.000 So Donald Trump also sent out a missive saying in all capital letters,

00:21:40.000 if you go after me, I'm coming after you.

00:21:43.000 Totally unclear who exactly he is talking about here.

00:21:48.000 The implication seems to be that the DOJ is coming after him.

00:21:51.000 So if he's president of the United States afterward, that he's going to go after corrupt members of the DOJ,

00:21:55.000 which is entirely within his purview.

00:21:58.000 That however, sent Jack Smith spiraling.

00:22:00.000 Jack Smith is the prosecutor, in this case, the special counsel.

00:22:03.000 He filed a motion.

00:22:06.000 In the motion, he said all the proposed order seeks to prevent is the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials including to the public.

00:22:11.000 Such a restriction is particularly important in this case because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him.

00:22:20.000 In recent days regarding this case, the defendant has issued multiple posts either specifically or by implication including the following.

00:22:26.000 If you go after me, I'm coming after you.

00:22:27.000 Trump later defended the claim.

00:22:28.000 He said it wasn't about potential witnesses.

00:22:30.000 It wasn't him threatening people.

00:22:30.000 grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery here, it could have a harmful chilling effect

00:22:34.000 on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case.

00:22:38.000 Trump later defended the claim. He said it wasn't about potential witnesses. It wasn't

00:22:41.000 him threatening people. He said that it was for quote, the rhino China loving dishonest

00:22:45.000 special interest groups and super PACs like the ones funded by the Koch brothers and club for no

00:22:49.000 growth, which may very well be the case.

00:22:52.000 But again, this is just how things are going to get litigated all the way until all of this is over.

00:22:56.000 He didn't stop there.

00:22:58.000 He went off about his civil rights being violated.

00:23:00.000 Again, I'm not saying that Donald Trump is wrong about any of this.

00:23:03.000 I'm just asking whether this is an electoral strategy that seems to be worthwhile.

00:23:07.000 Here was Donald Trump going off on his civil rights being violated at a Montgomery, Alabama rally on Friday.

00:23:13.000 The only civil rights that have been violated in this matter are my civil rights and those of the countless people that Biden and the communists have been persecuting.

00:23:23.000 And they are communists, and they're Marxists, and they're people that don't get it.

00:23:30.000 They get it.

00:23:30.000 You know?

00:23:31.000 They're vicious, and they're smart.

00:23:34.000 But we're smarter, and we're tougher than they are.

00:23:39.000 Now, again, all of this may be fine and well and good.

00:23:42.000 Is it the subject of the election?

00:23:44.000 I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but the horse ain't dead yet in the sense that people keep saying over and over that if the election is run on this basis, Donald Trump will win.

00:23:50.000 And I just don't see the evidence of that.

00:23:52.000 Over the weekend, he also went after variously Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence.

00:23:57.000 On Truth Social, he went off on Nancy Pelosi because Nancy Pelosi suggested that he looked like a scared puppy, which is definitely getting his goat.

00:24:02.000 and Trump put out on Truth Social, I purposely didn't comment on Nancy Pelosi's

00:24:06.000 very weird story concerning her husband.

00:24:08.000 But now I can because she said something about me with glee that was really quite vicious.

00:24:11.000 I saw a scared puppy, she said, as she watched me on television like millions of others

00:24:14.000 that didn't see that.

00:24:15.000 I wasn't scared.

00:24:16.000 Nevertheless, how mean a thing to say. 0.99

00:24:18.000 She is a wicked witch whose husband's journey from hell starts and finishes with her. 1.00

00:24:22.000 She is a sick and demented psycho who will someday live in hell, all capital letters. 1.00

00:24:26.000 Woo! 1.00

00:24:28.000 So.

00:24:30.000 Again, I ask you.

00:24:34.000 Who does this win over?

00:24:35.000 Wisconsin?

00:24:36.000 Michigan?

00:24:36.000 Pennsylvania?

00:24:38.000 Georgia?

00:24:39.000 Arizona? 0.82

00:24:39.000 Who are the voters who are like, well now that he did say that she has a sick and demented cycle, will someday live in hell, and that her husband's journey to hell starts and finishes with her, now I'm totally in. 0.82

00:24:51.000 This would be one thing if you're running for re-election.

00:24:53.000 He is now running after an election that he lost.

00:24:56.000 So he's going to have to win some additional votes.

00:24:58.000 Who does he win over with this?

00:25:01.000 And meanwhile, he's going after Mike Pence.

00:25:03.000 So Pence, who has said that he has no plans to testify against Trump over the weekend.

00:25:06.000 So Mike Pence, he said that.

00:25:08.000 And then Trump came back at him and said, wow, it's finally happened.

00:25:12.000 Little Mike Pence.

00:25:13.000 He's running out of nicknames.

00:25:14.000 He's starting to cycle through the same nicknames over.

00:25:15.000 Remember, there was Little Marco, Little Marco Ruby, and then there was Crooked Hillary, who's now Crooked Joe. 0.97

00:25:21.000 He's now recycling them.

00:25:22.000 Which is good for the environment.

00:25:23.000 He says, Little Mike Pence, a man who was about to be ousted as governor of Indiana until I came along and made him VP, has gone to the dark side.

00:25:30.000 Don't know the power of the dark side.

00:25:33.000 I'd never told a newly emboldened, not based on his 2% numbers, Pence to put me above the Constitution or that Mike was too honest.

00:25:39.000 He's delusional.

00:25:40.000 And now he wants to show he's a tough guy.

00:25:41.000 I once read a major magazine article on Mike.

00:25:43.000 It said he was not a very good person.

00:25:45.000 I was surprised, but the article was right.

00:25:47.000 Sad.

00:25:50.000 How many people has Donald Trump selected for positions of power who turn out not to be very good people?

00:25:55.000 Is it pretty much everyone?

00:25:56.000 So either the man has the worst selection in personnel in human history, or it turns out that he crosses swords with a lot of the people who end up working for him because he doesn't do the right thing very often with those people.

00:26:07.000 He also ranted about fellow Republicans over the weekend.

00:26:10.000 Here he was suggesting that it's other Republicans' fault that he's being indicted right now, which again is weird considering that it's really his own.

00:26:17.000 Okay, it's Democrats' fault, and it's his fault.

00:26:19.000 But it's hard to blame, say, Ron DeSantis or Marco Rubio or Chris Christie or Mike Pence for what Donald Trump did.

00:26:26.000 Two things can be true at once.

00:26:27.000 He can be unfairly targeted, and also, In some of these cases, particularly classified documents cases, dude made his bed.

00:26:34.000 And now he's having to lie in it.

00:26:35.000 And it's not pleasant.

00:26:37.000 And he shouldn't be given differential treatment from Hillary Clinton, but blaming other Republicans for his own failings.

00:26:42.000 At some point, won't Republican voters look at him and say, you're a little responsible for your own actions here?

00:26:47.000 No?

00:26:47.000 Like a little?

00:26:50.000 But when they indicted their political opponent, And they did that. 1.00

00:26:56.000 I said, now that gloves are off, he's a crooked, incompetent thief. 1.00

00:27:03.000 And he shouldn't be allowed to be the president. 1.00

00:27:07.000 And the Republicans better get tough, and they better get smart, because most of them look like a bunch of weak jerks right now. 0.99

00:27:16.000 And you got to get tough and smart, and you have to fight fire with fire. 0.99

00:27:22.000 You can't allow this to go on.

00:27:25.000 It's other Republicans' fault.

00:27:26.000 So the guy was president for four long years, and he allowed his entire Justice Department, apparently, to be completely run through with people who hated his guts and did nothing.

00:27:35.000 But now, it's the fault of a rando congressperson from, like, Iowa.

00:27:40.000 Again, is this a winning electoral strategy?

00:27:42.000 I ask you this over and over and over.

00:27:44.000 I'm not going to stop asking you because the only thing that matters to me, the only thing that matters to me is what the policy of the United States looks like going forward.

00:27:50.000 Donald Trump's personal peccadillos and his myriad foibles, I was willing to put those aside when he was doing good stuff for the country.

00:27:57.000 The question is, is he going to have a chance to do those things again by being reelected president on the basis of those things?

00:28:03.000 And Donald Trump's campaign for re-election is actually very simple.

00:28:05.000 Things were better when I was president.

00:28:07.000 Joe Biden has been a terrible president.

00:28:09.000 You want to focus on my legal stuff?

00:28:11.000 I'll take care of it in court because I'm big and brave and strong and stoic, and I'll just take care of all of it in court.

00:28:14.000 And if they come after me, it's because they're corrupt. 0.72

00:28:17.000 But the real issue here is that Joe Biden is a terrible president.

00:28:19.000 And so every day from now until the election, I'm going to talk about what a terrible president Joe Biden is.

00:28:23.000 I'm not going to look at the sort of victimization narrative here.

00:28:27.000 I'm not going to focus in on how the biggest story in America is how people are being mean to me.

00:28:31.000 Legally speaking, I can handle that.

00:28:32.000 I'm a big boy.

00:28:34.000 I'm a very rich person.

00:28:35.000 I've gone through these battles before.

00:28:36.000 I'll continue to go through these battles.

00:28:39.000 But the real issue here is Joe Biden.

00:28:41.000 But Joe Biden doesn't ever seem to leave President Trump's lips.

00:28:44.000 And that's going to be a problem with him in a general election.

00:28:46.000 And if Trump fans and Republicans decide that the chief factor in terms of conservative loyalty is somehow following Trump down the primrose path to losing, I don't see that here.

00:28:57.000 I don't see how that works.

00:28:59.000 It seems like there is a certain number of people who are very into this sort of thing.

00:29:03.000 They're like the Rock'em Sock'em Robots of it, more than they like the idea of actually taking Joe Biden out of the presidency.

00:29:08.000 I saw my father-in-law today.

00:29:09.000 I saw him on the way to the plane.

00:29:10.000 I saw him get off the plane.

00:29:11.000 I think the whole world saw it.

00:29:13.000 about how Trump is stoic and he's standing up to the bad guys.

00:29:16.000 And she got a big hand for this from a Republican crowd on Hannity.

00:29:19.000 I saw my father-in-law today. I saw him on the way to the plane. I saw him get off the plane.

00:29:24.000 I think the whole world saw it.

00:29:25.000 The whole world saw it.

00:29:26.000 Donald Trump.

00:29:29.000 By the way, that's a pretty nice plane, huh?

00:29:31.000 I will say that.

00:29:32.000 It's not bad.

00:29:33.000 I believe that Donald Trump was made for such a time as this because any other person would have crumbled.

00:29:39.000 Any other person would have cracked, would have given up by now.

00:29:43.000 But he is in the fight.

00:29:45.000 And Sean, he's not just fighting for himself.

00:29:48.000 He is fighting for every single American.

00:29:53.000 Okay, so I just have a question.

00:29:55.000 What would it mean to crumble?

00:29:56.000 Wait, what?

00:29:57.000 Cut a plea deal?

00:29:57.000 What would it mean to crumble at this point?

00:30:00.000 Just purely on a factual level.

00:30:02.000 He's being indicted and now he's defending.

00:30:04.000 Which is usually what happens when someone gets indicted and then defends.

00:30:07.000 And again, when it comes to the D.C. 0.93

00:30:08.000 indictment, it's complete bullcrap that Jack Smith is putting forward.

00:30:11.000 When it comes to the Florida indictment, that's his own fault.

00:30:13.000 He did not have to keep those documents.

00:30:15.000 He could have given the documents back to the National Archives.

00:30:17.000 And as I say, unjust prosecution, sure, because it's politically motivated.

00:30:21.000 At the same time, You know what would have been a smart thing is not to keep the documents and not to step on the rake in the first place.

00:30:27.000 But are Republicans going to run on that basis?

00:30:30.000 I want to see the data that shows that the indictments actually make him stronger in general.

00:30:33.000 I keep hearing this.

00:30:34.000 I see no data to this effect.

00:30:35.000 I see a lot of data that suggests that Trump is stronger in a primary because of the indictments.

00:30:39.000 Because again, a lot of Republicans emotionally are resonating to him being unjustly persecuted.

00:30:44.000 I feel it too.

00:30:44.000 I get it.

00:30:45.000 When a Republican is being targeted by his political opposition to be put in jail for crimes that any Democrat could commit and get away with, that is political prosecution.

00:30:54.000 We all know it.

00:30:55.000 And it's terrible.

00:30:56.000 Does that mean he'll win a general election?

00:30:58.000 I keep asking the question over and over because apparently no one else will.

00:31:01.000 I've yet to see President Trump articulate a plan for how he wins re-election.

00:31:04.000 How?

00:31:05.000 What is his plan?

00:31:06.000 He's spending all of his money, literally all of it, on legal bills right now.

00:31:09.000 He's spending none of it on building up the voting base necessary to actually win an election.

00:31:12.000 He's not spending it on ballot harvesting.

00:31:14.000 He's not spending it on door knocking.

00:31:15.000 He's not messaging with regard to President Biden at all.

00:31:18.000 And you know what the predictable effect of this is?

00:31:20.000 The data I'm seeing is that it could be a really, really rough year for Republicans in 2024.

00:31:24.000 Why?

00:31:26.000 Well, there are some early special elections.

00:31:28.000 Special elections can be a bellwether for how the actual elections of 2024 go.

00:31:32.000 The 2023 special elections I've been going horribly for Republicans so far.

00:31:38.000 I wonder why.

00:31:38.000 Could it have something to do with the fact that instead of focusing in on Joe Biden and his terrible governance that everyone hates according to the polls, we are not focusing one iota on that?

00:31:47.000 According to FiveThirtyEight, they did the numbers crunching.

00:31:50.000 They found in 38 special elections held so far this year, Democrats have outperformed the partisan lean by an average of 10% Romping in parts of the country that typically support the party and cutting down on GOP margins in red cities and counties, too.

00:32:01.000 For example, the Democratic candidate in a Wisconsin State Assembly special election last month lost by just seven points in an area where Republicans have a 22-point edge and where Trump beat Biden by almost 17 points in 2020.

00:32:12.000 In a New Hampshire special election in May for a state house seat, the Democrat won by 43 points.

00:32:16.000 That's far beyond the 23-point edge in the district.

00:32:21.000 And these are not good numbers for Republicans.

00:32:23.000 And for comparison, according to FiveThirtyEight, Democrats outperformed the weighted partisan lean by about 4% in special elections held between 2018 midterms and 2020 elections.

00:32:32.000 When Biden won the White House by 4.5%, but Democrats underperformed in House races.

00:32:35.000 So now they're up by like 10% in these special elections.

00:32:38.000 Does that mean that necessarily nothing can change?

00:32:41.000 No, it's still really, really early.

00:32:44.000 But there's no question at this point that if Donald Trump runs an election campaign that is based solely on his indictments, that is probably not going to redound to the benefit of Republicans.

00:32:53.000 And so I ask once again, what's the plan for victory here?

00:32:56.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.

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00:34:42.000 Meanwhile, the media seem absolutely determined to knock Ron DeSantis down.

00:34:46.000 The idea here is that if you can knock DeSantis down, then Trump ends up the nominee and you get the race, presumably, that you want.

00:34:51.000 This is why Newsweek is promoting the idea that Ron DeSantis was met with a large number of empty seats at a meet and greet event in Iowa.

00:34:58.000 He went to Cedar Falls before eating breakfast at the Vinton Family Restaurant before heading to a meet and greet at a livestock auction in Tampa.

00:35:05.000 But then there was a viral photo showed on social media that shows that there weren't a lot of people who showed up at this point.

00:35:10.000 The journalist Tim Miller, who is very much a sort of bulwark type left winger, a quasi

00:35:17.000 conservative, a supposed conservative, he added a caveat saying, for what it's worth,

00:35:20.000 DeSantis is doing a bunch of events this week and not all have been this sparse.

00:35:23.000 This is the reality when you reboot and have to do grind it and have to grind out lots

00:35:26.000 of small events, let Ron be Ron deal.

00:35:28.000 OK, but again, it is pictures like this that the media are promoting.

00:35:32.000 Meanwhile, you have Politico with an entire article today, DeSantis' conservative populism

00:35:36.000 has left some donors chafing.

00:35:38.000 When Ron DeSantis unveiled his economic platform last week, he presented himself as a conservative

00:35:41.000 populist, a skeptic of corporations inside a party often allied with them.

00:35:44.000 But DeSantis' rhetoric hasn't always matched his record as governor.

00:35:47.000 He's done his share to support corporations.

00:35:48.000 As a presidential candidate, he has relied on contribution from titans of the business world.

00:35:52.000 The tension between these two impulses was kept at bay for months, as DeSantis looked well positioned to challenge Donald Trump for his party's nomination.

00:35:58.000 But as he stumbled and continued warring with select corporations like Disney and Bud Light, big business is starting to show signs of irritation.

00:36:04.000 So again, The new narrative that's going to come out, it's not new, is that DeSantis is already done for, that the campaign is already over.

00:36:10.000 And the reason that you're seeing the media mirror that is because despite the fact that it is only August, there's not been a single debate yet, and we are still six months off from a primary, if they can kill DeSantis in the cradle right now, there really ain't anybody in the wings.

00:36:21.000 The only other candidates right now in the Republican Party who are already in the race are polling in single digits.

00:36:27.000 If you look at the RealClearPolitics polling average right now, Donald Trump is at 53.7, DeSantis at 15.7, which is a drop of like three to five points over the last two months.

00:36:37.000 Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped into third at 6%, and Mike Pence is at 5%.

00:36:41.000 In Iowa, by contrast, Trump is running about 27 points ahead of DeSantis.

00:36:46.000 In New Hampshire, he's running about 24 points ahead of DeSantis.

00:36:49.000 DeSantis is in second place in both of those nominating contests right now.

00:36:54.000 None of the other candidates are clocking more than single digits in any of those races right now.

00:36:59.000 So if the media can knock DeSantis down to size, then the idea would be that Trump waltzes to the nomination, which at this point is apparently sort of the plan.

00:37:07.000 Now, is that going to be?

00:37:08.000 Again, it doesn't have to be DeSantis, but it can be Trump, but Trump is going to have to shift his campaign away from everybody.

00:37:16.000 Jump to my defense, because that's how I'm going to protect myself too.

00:37:19.000 Here is what I'm going to do to stop Joe Biden.

00:37:22.000 Here's what I'm going to do to stop Joe Biden.

00:37:23.000 Name the thing, please.

00:37:24.000 Like, I'm waiting for it.

00:37:26.000 Okay, meanwhile, just demonstrating the insanity of our racial moment. 0.99

00:37:30.000 I gotta say, the media are absolute garbage at pretty much everything on matters of race. 0.99

00:37:35.000 This is particularly true. 0.99

00:37:36.000 So the way that this works apparently is that I suppose black people all over the world can be as racist and anti-semitic as they want to be according to the mainstream media.

00:37:47.000 Racism and anti-semitism are bad except depending on who's performing them.

00:37:52.000 The reason I say this, there's an amazing headline in the New York Times, this is from a few days ago, about a song that was sung at a giant political rally at a leftist South African party rally. 0.81

00:38:05.000 That party, the EFF, is run by a person named Julius Malema, who has been challenged in court before for racism, and he started chanting, A Kill the Boer, B-O-E-R, is a reference to killing white people, particularly farmers, in South Africa.

00:38:21.000 According to the New York Times, a video clip of that moment shot across the internet and was seized upon by some Americans on the far right, who said it was a call to violence.

00:38:28.000 That notion really took off when Elon Musk, the South African-born billionaire who left the country as a teenager, chimed in.

00:38:32.000 in. He said they're openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. Well, I mean, yes.

00:38:37.000 I mean, clearly, if this had been a white party in South Africa saying, kill the black people. 1.00

00:38:43.000 I mean, I don't know. It's not super subtle what's going on right here. 0.99

00:38:47.000 Here is the headline from the New York Times, however.

00:38:52.000 Oh, it's the backlash that's the story. 0.96

00:38:54.000 It's not that you have full-scale political parties in South Africa calling for the extermination of white people. 0.94

00:39:00.000 The story is the backlash.

00:39:02.000 Oh, we don't take that literally, you see. 1.00

00:39:13.000 Kill the white people, we don't take literally. 0.98

00:39:16.000 What we do take literally, obviously, is like when a NASCAR driver retweets a George Floyd meme. 0.99

00:39:22.000 That's when we take things super literally and we destroy his career.

00:39:24.000 So over the weekend, NASCAR suspended a driver named Noah Gragson.

00:39:29.000 Why?

00:39:29.000 Well, because he appeared to have liked an insensitive meme with a photo of George Floyd on social media.

00:39:35.000 Legacy Motor Club announced Gregson's suspension, saying his actions do not represent the values of our team.

00:39:39.000 NASCAR said Gregson violated the stock car racing member conduct section of its rules, which says in part members should not publicly disparage people based on their backgrounds.

00:39:47.000 So, um, Gregson did not address the alleged meme but acknowledged his actions.

00:39:51.000 He said, I'm disappointed in myself for lack of attention and actions on social media.

00:39:55.000 Apparently, the post shows a photo of Floyd's face and includes a reference to his death.

00:40:01.000 The immediate response is that he must have been racist to repost the meme.

00:40:04.000 Which, again, not sure why that would be racist as opposed to just gauche.

00:40:10.000 Not quite the same thing.

00:40:12.000 So the same media who will declare that this NASCAR driver is a racist and must be extirpated from American society and his job, they're the same people who are like, kill the boar is actually a subtle message about the evils of white supremacy.

00:40:24.000 According to the New York Times, the channel was born at a time when black South Africans were fighting a violent racist regime and was made popular in the early 1990s by Piper Mokoba, a former youth leader in the African National Congress.

00:40:35.000 But in 2012, the ANC, they distanced themselves from the song, and they expelled Mr. Malema for his incendiary statement.

00:40:43.000 Apparently, this is all not a big deal, according to the New York Times, despite the fact that, again, this song was actually banned, I believe.

00:40:51.000 It has been declared a hate speech song in South Africa for years and years.

00:40:55.000 But now, we have to kind of go back on that, because the minute that the right-wing Americans recognized that perhaps there are, in fact, people who are black who are racist against whites in a place like South Africa, Uh, if we notice that, then the song apparently is good again.

00:41:07.000 That's the way that this works.

00:41:09.000 Meanwhile, in other aspects of race that are terrible for people everywhere, the Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, is focused laser-like on crime problems in his city.

00:41:18.000 So there's been mass looting all over the city of Chicago in recent past, and the new mayor, That's not appropriate.

00:41:24.000 We're not talking about mob actions.

00:41:26.000 I didn't say that.

00:41:26.000 Hold on a second, okay?

00:41:27.000 a reporter for calling a mass looting a mob saying this was racist language. So again,

00:41:30.000 the way that this works in the media and on the left is if you say that a mob ransacked a place,

00:41:33.000 that's racist. If you say kill the boer, that's not racist.

00:41:35.000 That's subtle political messaging. 0.98

00:41:37.000 That's not appropriate. We're not talking about mob actions.

00:41:41.000 I didn't say that.

00:41:42.000 Okay, what I'm hold on a second. Okay, respectfully, these large gatherings,

00:41:49.000 these large gatherings, just hold on a second, y'all.

00:41:54.000 I promise you, we have time to talk.

00:41:58.000 It's important that we speak of these dynamics in an appropriate way.

00:42:02.000 This is not to obfuscate what is actually taking place.

00:42:07.000 This was the scene near Roosevelt and Canal Sunday night.

00:42:10.000 Groups looted a convenience store.

00:42:12.000 More than three dozen teenagers were arrested.

00:42:14.000 Not a mob.

00:42:15.000 Large gathering, guys.

00:42:16.000 And at least one 20-year-old.

00:42:20.000 How many teenagers?

00:42:23.000 How many teenagers are that?

00:42:24.000 That's a lot of teenagers!

00:42:26.000 Not a mob, according to the Chicago mayor.

00:42:29.000 That's just great.

00:42:30.000 So, yeah, it turns out that the soft bigotry of low expectations leads to increased racism.

00:42:34.000 It also leads to increased crime. 0.78

00:42:37.000 Okay, meanwhile, when you talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations, the level of antisemitism that is tolerated so long as it comes from black leftists is truly astonishing. 0.93

00:42:46.000 It really is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:42:48.000 And the way that anti-Semitism is treated in the press is if it's a white fan of Donald Trump or a white non-fan of Donald Trump who's a white supremacist, then anti-Semitism is a true deep scourge. 0.78

00:42:56.000 If it's coming from Hamas, Hezbollah, if it's coming from any of the radical Middle Eastern Muslim groups that seek to destroy the state of Israel, then it's more a political question than, you know, wiping the Jews off the planet. 0.97

00:43:07.000 And if it's coming from prominent black people, then it's pretty much not a problem at all. 0.98

00:43:11.000 We just ignore it completely.

00:43:13.000 By the way, this extends all the way to the very top of how the media treat people.

00:43:17.000 So, I mentioned earlier in the day this interview with a historian, David Garrow, about Barack Obama.

00:43:22.000 Okay, so the fact that Barack Obama's anti-Semitism was overlooked for literally years is an amazing, amazing indicator of just how easy people on the left go when it comes to anti-Semitism coming from members of the black community. 0.63

00:43:35.000 Tablet Magazine covering this, David Samuels is the author.

00:43:38.000 He writes, quote, In Dreams, Obama describes a passionate disagreement following a play by African-American playwright August Wilson, in which the young protagonist defends his incipient embrace of black racial consciousness against his girlfriend's white-identified liberal universalism.

00:44:00.000 As readers, we know the stakes of this decision will become more than simply personal.

00:44:04.000 The black American man Obama wills into being in this scene would go on to marry a black woman from the south side of Chicago named Michelle Robinson and, after a meteoric rise, win election as the first black president of the United States.

00:44:13.000 Yet what Garrow documented, after tracking down and interviewing Sheila Miyoshi-Ager, was an explosive fight over a very different subject.

00:44:19.000 In Yeager's telling, the quarrel that ended the couple's relationship was not about Obama's self-identification as a black man.

00:44:24.000 The impetus was not a play about the American black experience, but an exhibit at Chicago's Spiritus Institute about the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.

00:44:32.000 At the time that Obama and Sheila visited the Spiritus Institute, Chicago politics was being roiled by a black mayoral aide named Steve Coakley, when a series of lectures organized by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam accused Jewish doctors in Chicago of infecting black babies with AIDS as part of a genocidal plot against African Americans.

00:44:47.000 The episode highlighted a deep rift within the city's power echelons, with some prominent black officials supporting Coakley, others calling for his firing.

00:44:54.000 In Yeager's recollection, what set off the quarrel that precipitated the end of the couple's relationship was Obama's stubborn refusal, after seeing the exhibit and in the swirl of the Coakley affair, to condemn black racism.

00:45:03.000 While acknowledging that Obama's embrace of a black identity had created some degree of distance between the couple, she insisted what upset her that day was Obama's inability to condemn Coakley's comments.

00:45:11.000 It was not Obama's blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn anti-Semitism.

00:45:15.000 Well, I mean, yeah.

00:45:17.000 That, again, is not a shock.

00:45:19.000 Remember that Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for full-on 20 years.

00:45:26.000 Full-on 20 years.

00:45:28.000 So is it any shock that he would not condemn anti-Semitism back In his younger days?

00:45:33.000 Well, the latest example of Black anti-Semitism, one is being ignored, one is not being ignored as much.

00:45:37.000 Jamie Foxx over the weekend wrote a post on Instagram saying, quote, 0.88

00:45:41.000 they killed this dude named Jesus. What do you think they'll do to you?

00:45:45.000 Followed by the hashtags fake friends and fake love.

00:45:48.000 The actor later deleted the post, not before being accused of anti-Semitism on social media.

00:45:53.000 Because, of course, they killed this dude named Jesus.

00:45:56.000 Very often that is used by people who don't like Jews very much to refer to Jews.

00:46:00.000 Jennifer Aniston liked the post before it was deleted, and then she, uh, she unliked it. 0.84

00:46:04.000 And she said, I didn't like this post on purpose or by accident.

00:46:06.000 So apparently it was miraculous.

00:46:08.000 More importantly, I want to be clear to my friends and anyone hurt by showing up in their feeds.

00:46:11.000 I do not support any form of antisemitism.

00:46:13.000 I truly don't hate, tolerate hate of any kind, period.

00:46:17.000 Now, Fox posted an apology.

00:46:18.000 He said, I want to apologize to the Jewish community and everyone who's offended by my post.

00:46:21.000 I know my choice of words has caused offense, and I'm sorry, that was never my intent.

00:46:24.000 He said, instead, he was referring to a fake friend who had betrayed him.

00:46:29.000 Apparently, there was also speculation that this sort of phraseology is used frequently in the black community, suggesting they killed Jesus, which sometimes is an imprecation with regard to Jews.

00:46:40.000 So Jamie Foxx backs off that one.

00:46:42.000 Meanwhile, Cardi B just gets away with sort of the most outrageous Jewish stereotyping available.

00:46:46.000 So Cardi B, and again, as a person who is not a connoisseur of her entire oeuvre, Cardi B, who is a deeply unintelligent human being, she tweeted out the other day a picture of two Hasidic Jews. 0.80

00:47:03.000 And these Jews are in like the full Hasidic garb, probably in Brooklyn. 1.00

00:47:07.000 One is wearing a strimal, which is the kind of furry round hat that you see sometimes.

00:47:12.000 The other is wearing a black hat and is also wearing a bekasha, which is kind of a long 0.89

00:47:19.000 black jacket.

00:47:20.000 These the etymology of these things, they go back to Poland and various typical stereotypical

00:47:25.000 picture of like ultra Orthodox Jews.

00:47:27.000 And she says, remember, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.

00:47:30.000 What exactly is she referring to?

00:47:31.000 Apparently, she's referring to a line in her Shakespearean song, Bikkenhead.

00:47:38.000 In which she says this.

00:47:55.000 OK, so lawyer is a Jew is the line, right? 0.97

00:47:59.000 Lawyer is a Jew, he gonna get my money, right? 1.00

00:48:02.000 And this, the idea being that because, so there is a typical Jewish stereotype that Jews are disproportionately lawyers.

00:48:09.000 It's not a stereotype, that's true.

00:48:11.000 Jews are disproportionately lawyers, doctors, accountants.

00:48:13.000 There are a lot of different industries in which Jews represent a disproportionate share of members of the industry.

00:48:19.000 What is actually stereotypical and antisemitic is the implication that if you take a picture of two very Hasidic Jews, that this is somehow representative of, like, her Jewish lawyers.

00:48:30.000 Now, we actually have pictures of her Jewish lawyers.

00:48:34.000 Okay, her Jewish lawyers look like secular reform Jews at the very, very best.

00:48:40.000 Do these look like the Jews that you just saw on the streets of New York? 1.00

00:48:44.000 And the idea that all Jews are the same is a hell of a stereotype.

00:48:48.000 If I was like, wow, rappers, and then I just posted a picture of Barack Obama and Eric Holder, you'd be like, that's a little racist, isn't it? 0.70

00:48:56.000 That seemed like a little racist.

00:48:58.000 Cardi B, however, says this kind of stuff on the routine and no problem whatsoever.

00:49:01.000 And this is true throughout, unfortunately, rap culture.

00:49:06.000 This stuff is posted routinely by people ranging from like Ice Cube to Cardi B. And everybody just goes, eh, whatever.

00:49:13.000 Is that really a big deal?

00:49:14.000 Well, I mean, it would be if we were talking about any other race attacking members of any other race. 0.99

00:49:20.000 This is, the fact that this is let off the hook is astonishing to me, but again, it shows that when racial preference and racial hierarchy is created in the name of intersectionality, ugly things then occur.

00:49:31.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:49:34.000 So, things that I like today.

00:49:36.000 So, over the weekend, I had a lot of time to read since I was in the hospital watching my child breathe.

00:49:41.000 It was really a terrible weekend, but I did read what was a phenomenal book.

00:49:46.000 This is a book by Amor Towles called A Gentleman in Moscow, and it is the best novel that I've read in five to ten years.

00:49:52.000 It's terrific.

00:49:52.000 It's really good.

00:49:53.000 So it centers on a guy named Count Rostov, who's sort of an old-school Russian member of the upper class.

00:50:04.000 And he ends up being taken by the Red Soviets in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and tried and then confined to a hotel.

00:50:13.000 And he's now stuck in the Hotel Metropole for literally the rest of his life.

00:50:16.000 That is his sentence.

00:50:17.000 That he's going to be sentenced to live in a fairly small room in this hotel for the rest of his life.

00:50:22.000 And he's not allowed to leave, ever.

00:50:24.000 And so the entire novel is about what happens to him in this hotel, and the people that he meets, and how he finds meaning there.

00:50:30.000 And it is a beautiful novel.

00:50:32.000 It's truly beautiful.

00:50:33.000 Not just because the writing is terrific, because it really, really is, but also because of the generalized take, which is that, yes, there are things that are worth preserving from the old world, and those things are worthy of care.

00:50:43.000 And that perfectionism and how you approach everyday tasks actually matters.

00:50:48.000 And that you have to open yourself up to experiences of family and childbearing in order to find your most purposeful self.

00:50:59.000 And also, of course, it exposes the tremendous evils of the Soviet Union, but it does so in a really subtle and amazing way. 0.88

00:51:05.000 It's truly a masterpiece, A Gentleman in Moscow, highly recommended by M.R.

00:51:09.000 Tolles.

00:51:10.000 This one was recommended to me by a friend, Andrew Clavin, who has interesting taste in literature.

00:51:15.000 He has a hit rate with me of about like 75%.

00:51:17.000 This one is like one of his best picks.

00:51:18.000 He referred me to this book, really worth the read, A Gentleman in Moscow by M.R.

00:51:21.000 Tolles.

00:51:21.000 Go pick it up today.

00:51:22.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:51:24.000 So, I ask you, which way, Western man, This is a picture of the Prime Minister of Canada who is now getting divorced.

00:51:32.000 And it is a picture of him with his son at the Barbie movie.

00:51:38.000 And I just have to say, are the Chinese quaking in their boots at this point?

00:51:44.000 He had tweeted out, we're team Barbie.

00:51:47.000 And there's a picture of him in a pink sweatshirt that says, love you more.

00:51:54.000 And his son Who is wearing a pink t-shirt and star shorts and they are gazing bizarrely and creepily into the camera right in front of the Margot Robbie Ryan Gosling poster from Barbie.

00:52:10.000 So, here are your choices.

00:52:12.000 The people who are team Barbie or the people who are not team Barbie.

00:52:16.000 Yes, you know where I stand on this, but where do you stand on this?

00:52:21.000 And I ask you, Does this speak well of the future of the Western world?

00:52:28.000 Is this where things are going?

00:52:30.000 Are they going amazingly well?

00:52:32.000 Russia and China just did a joint military exercise near Alaska.

00:52:36.000 And meanwhile, the head of Canada is tweeting out bizarre photos of himself with his son from the Barbie movie and saying he is Team Barbie.

00:52:44.000 Ah, the future is in the best of hands.

00:52:46.000 But I love it when people expose themselves for who they are and Justin Trudeau.

00:52:50.000 Can you imagine?

00:52:51.000 Man, Fidel Castro must be turning over in his grave to see his son acting this way.

00:52:55.000 way. Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:52:57.000 Alrighty, so, Megan Rapinoe, one of the most irritating people on planet Earth, she had 1.00

00:53:08.000 an opportunity to push the United States women's national soccer team into the next round.

00:53:13.000 Bye.

00:53:14.000 Now, she's most famous for having blue hair, and also for really hating America. 1.00

00:53:19.000 I mean, the national anthem is bad, and America's a deeply sexist and racist place, even though they're paying her way too much money to play a sport no one has ever watched except once every four years when we all pretend to be interested in women's soccer and all the rest of it.

00:53:30.000 Well, Rapinoe apparently had a penalty shot and she missed. 1.00

00:53:36.000 And the United States lost and they got booted by Sweden.

00:53:40.000 And bizarrely enough, she started kind of laughing and smiling after she missed the shot.

00:53:46.000 And she didn't miss by a little.

00:53:47.000 She missed by, like, a lot.

00:53:51.000 Rapinoe rifles it over the bar!

00:53:57.000 Now, to be fair to Megan Rapinoe, there are all these pictures that are going around of her laughing and smiling and all the rest of it.

00:54:08.000 She, uh, you know, people react in bizarre ways to terrible things happening to them, so I'm not going to blame her for, like, laughing and then crying.

00:54:15.000 People do react in weird ways to bad situations.

00:54:17.000 If you've ever had to tell somebody truly horrible news, you kind of don't know what to do.

00:54:20.000 So, I get that.

00:54:21.000 The part about Megan Rapinoe that is, you know, annoying is that she's Megan Rapinoe. 0.85

00:54:27.000 And so, she was asked, after blowing this game, she was asked about, you know, the most important things to her, her best memories from her career, and her best memories from her career are absolutely obviously political.

00:54:37.000 Is there a memory that stands out to you right now in this moment?

00:54:41.000 I mean, probably equal pay chance after the final.

00:54:55.000 And I think, you know, they were saying equal pay, but could have been saying a lot of things.

00:54:59.000 I think this team has always fought for so much more.

00:55:02.000 And that's been the most rewarding part for me, of course, playing in World Cups and winning championships and doing all that.

00:55:10.000 But, you know, to know that we've used our really special talent To do something, you know, that's really like changed the world forever I think that means the most to me and you know the players in this locker room here They're just getting started and you know to all the players that I played with obviously You know who know what it's like to be in the grind That's the best part

00:55:37.000 Meanwhile, President Biden tweeted out, It's the worst performance in years.

00:55:40.000 President Biden, of course, had to sign in because he's big fans of Megan Rapinoe, where we all pretend that the women's soccer team is even remotely similar to the men's soccer team.

00:55:46.000 It's a completely different sport.

00:55:47.000 on and off the field.

00:55:49.000 It's the worst performance in years.

00:55:51.000 President Biden, of course, had to sign in because he's big fans of Megan Rapinoe, where

00:55:55.000 we all pretend that the women's soccer team is even remotely similar to the men's soccer

00:55:58.000 team.

00:55:59.000 It's a completely different sport.

00:56:00.000 It earns way less revenue on a four-year basis.

00:56:04.000 Doesn't matter.

00:56:05.000 Megan Rapinoe continued to be hailed by the left as a heroine.

00:56:08.000 Again, the problem with Megan Rapinoe is not that she missed a penalty shot.

00:56:10.000 Lots of people miss penalty shots.

00:56:11.000 And the problem is not that she reacted weirdly when that happens.

00:56:14.000 When bad stuff happens, bad stuff happens.

00:56:16.000 The problem with Megan Rapinoe is that she's kind of a terrible person and that she has spent her entire career pressing forward the idea that America is a terrible, horrible place that has made her extraordinarily wealthy and famous for playing a sport that no one cares about worldwide. 0.73

00:56:28.000 You want to know the evidence that no one cares about this sport worldwide?

00:56:30.000 That the United States wins every year.

00:56:32.000 That's how you know that no one cares about this sport worldwide.

00:56:35.000 Because there are like seven people in the United States who take soccer seriously compared to, you know, the rest of the human population.

00:56:43.000 So if we're winning at that sport, that means that half the population in the rest of the world doesn't even compete in that sport.

00:56:49.000 That's that's just the way it is.

00:56:51.000 But we have to pretend that America is a terrible, no good, very bad place.

00:56:54.000 So that's that's that's that.

00:56:57.000 And we bid a not particularly fond farewell to Megan Rapinoe.

00:57:00.000 Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 07, 2023

Trump, Racism & Celebrity Anti-Semitism

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