The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Moment | Ep. 1074

00:00:00.000 The Trump administration brokers a massive peace deal in the Middle East, Joe Biden calls for a national mask mandate, and President Trump opens a can of worms on mail-in ballots.

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00:00:23.000 So, y'all remember that time when Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for existing?

00:00:27.000 Like literally for breathing.

00:00:28.000 He won the presidency of the United States in late 2008, and by 2009 he was being handed the Nobel Peace Prize for literally being a breathing human being.

00:00:36.000 That was his only claim to fame.

00:00:38.000 That was the only reason he was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:00:40.000 Even when he accepted it, he was like, I'm not sure why I'm here.

00:00:42.000 What did I do again?

00:00:44.000 Well, I mean, I am great.

00:00:45.000 I am kind of a messianic figure.

00:00:46.000 But aside from that, I have no idea what I'm doing here.

00:00:49.000 It was very, very weird.

00:00:51.000 Well, what would you say if there was a president who brokered a peace deal between Israel and one of its heretofore Arab nation enemies?

00:01:00.000 And that peace deal provided the basis for many other Arab nations to start making peace deals for normalization of relations with Israel.

00:01:06.000 Wouldn't that be considered like a big win, like a Nobel Prize winning sort of thing?

00:01:11.000 I mean, Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Prize based on brokering a peace deal between Egypt and Israel.

00:01:17.000 Bill Clinton was nominated for a Nobel Prize.

00:01:19.000 It was Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat who won the Nobel Prize, bizarrely, for the Oslo Peace Accords, which turned out to be a complete disaster area.

00:01:26.000 Every single American president tries to make some sort of deal in the Middle East.

00:01:29.000 But only Trump has been able to make a successful deal in the Middle East for the first time since, like, 1994, when Jordan normalized relations with Israel.

00:01:36.000 So it has been full-on almost three decades.

00:01:39.000 Since there was a solid peace deal in the Middle East and President Trump got it done.

00:01:43.000 He got it done because all of the interests align. 0.98

00:01:45.000 Now, to be completely fair, the reason the interests align is because of President Obama, but because President Obama was a garbage president who's terrible in the Middle East. 0.91

00:01:52.000 Because Obama decided that he was going to forward the aspirations of the Iranian mullahs, try to make them a regional power. 0.86

00:01:57.000 He was going to legitimize their nuclear program over time.

00:02:00.000 He was going to try to open up their economy.

00:02:02.000 He was going to look the other way on their terrorism and their attempts to spread their power via regime changes all over the Middle East.

00:02:09.000 Because he did that, a coalition of forces formed against the Iranian rising power, and that included Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, and yes, Israel.

00:02:18.000 It turns out that the common interest of all of those countries was in not seeing the Iranians rise to regional power. 0.93

00:02:24.000 And so the UAE looked at Israel and Israel looked at the UAE and they said, Okay, well, we're on the same page.

00:02:30.000 Not only that, the UAE and Egypt and Jordan and Saudi Arabia, all the countries in the region looked at the Palestinian government, which has allied itself with Iran and has, for decades, pursued terrorism in conjunction with the Iranian regime.

00:02:42.000 They looked at Hamas, which is funded by Iran.

00:02:43.000 They looked at Hezbollah, which is funded by Iran.

00:02:45.000 They looked at Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is funded by Iran.

00:02:48.000 And they said, we don't want a state run by Iran, another state in the Middle East run by Iran, that threatens a country that is helping us fight Iran. 0.71

00:02:56.000 And so they made clear what has always been true, but which the stupid conventional wisdom on the Middle East suggested was false, which is that the center of gravity in the Middle East was never the Israel-Arab conflict. 0.95

00:03:08.000 See, there's been this pervasive, idiotic notion that if you just solve all of the problems between Israel and its enemies, then peace blossoms across the Middle East. 0.97

00:03:16.000 All of the sectarian violence that, by the way, has plagued the Middle East in far larger numbers all over the Middle East. 0.97

00:03:22.000 Then, between Israel and its neighbors, all of that would simply go away. 0.87

00:03:25.000 Like, all the problems between Turkey and Iraq would simply disappear.

00:03:29.000 Between Turkey and the Kurds, that would disappear. 1.00

00:03:31.000 All the problems between Syria and Iran would simply go away.

00:03:35.000 All the problems between Jordan and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, all of that would simply alleviate.

00:03:42.000 All the problems between Iraq and Kuwait, everything would just go away if you just focused in on the Jews. 1.00

00:03:47.000 This was the moral equivalent of everybody saying that white woke liberals in the United States, if they can only get things together, they'll heal all the problems in the United States.

00:03:54.000 Like, nope, none of that's real.

00:03:56.000 None of that's real.

00:03:57.000 The notion that if you force a peace on Israel, that that was somehow going to alleviate all the tensions in the Middle East and somehow all the sectarian violence was going to go away was always a chimera.

00:04:06.000 It was always an act of Western arrogance. 1.00

00:04:08.000 It was always stupid. 0.99

00:04:09.000 And it's why the conventional wisdom had suggested for years that if the United States moved to embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv, the non-capital of Israel, to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, then war would break out everywhere. 0.99

00:04:20.000 And then Trump looked at it.

00:04:20.000 He said, no, that's not real.

00:04:22.000 He did it.

00:04:22.000 And nothing happened.

00:04:23.000 Nothing happened.

00:04:24.000 Because it turns out that there are many interests in the Middle East and very few of them have to do with Israel.

00:04:29.000 It turns out they're economic interests in the Middle East, something the Trump administration recognized.

00:04:33.000 It turns out they're geopolitical interests in the Middle East that simply trump the existence of Israel, which is not going away. 0.86

00:04:38.000 And it turns out that the foundation for any peace in the Middle East is a recognition of reality, that the durable peace, the durable peace, In the Middle East has to come with recognition of realities on the ground.

00:04:50.000 Recognition like Israel is not going away. 0.70

00:04:52.000 Not only is Israel not going away, the areas that Israel controls that have largely Jewish populations are not going to be ceded to the Palestinian Authority.

00:04:59.000 Recognition of the reality, the baseline reality that the Palestinian Authority is in fact a quasi-terror group that is enthralled to terror groups That it is the dictatorship, the non-democratic dictatorship, that the transformation of that terror dictatorship into a state in control of weaponry and its own borders would be a threat, not only to Israel, but to surrounding countries like Jordan, and yes, like Lebanon, and yes, like Egypt. 0.72

00:05:23.000 Those are the baseline realities on the ground.

00:05:25.000 The Trump administration recognized those baseline realities on the ground and Arab nations now facing those looming realities because Iran was rising and Iran was continuing to fund the Palestinians and the problems in Syria and the problems in Lebanon and the problems in Iraq.

00:05:39.000 The rest of the Middle East looked around and said, OK, I guess we better just recognize reality here. 0.94

00:05:43.000 And the reality is it's better to be friends with Israel than enemies with Israel. 0.54

00:05:46.000 That's all that happened here.

00:05:47.000 Now, the media are trying to spin the peace deal as though Barack Obama created it or that this is all about pressure on Israel, because they have to keep fitting a deal that completely goes against the entire grain of what they've been suggesting for years, right?

00:06:00.000 That only a left wing, conciliatory, submissive Israeli government was going to make peace.

00:06:05.000 They have to keep pushing that line.

00:06:06.000 And so, Thomas Friedman in the New York Times has a bizarre piece today where he argues that Bibi Netanyahu was somehow pushed into a peace deal with the UAE, which is just pure absurdity. 0.97

00:06:14.000 Thomas Friedman has his head so far up his butt, it is coming out his face again. 0.84

00:06:19.000 He has been wrong on everything to do with the Middle East. 0.98

00:06:21.000 So has everybody in the Obama administration.

00:06:22.000 They've been wrong on everything.

00:06:23.000 Everything.

00:06:24.000 We'll get to that in just a moment.

00:06:25.000 They're trying to claim credit for a deal.

00:06:27.000 That they themselves only made possible because they got the Middle East completely wrong. 0.97

00:06:32.000 Meanwhile, depriving the Trump administration of credit for the deal when it was the Trump administration that did the deal.

00:06:38.000 And shout out here to the assistant to Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz.

00:06:41.000 I know Avi.

00:06:42.000 Avi was very, very instrumental in these talks.

00:06:45.000 Really, Avi did hard work to make this happen.

00:06:46.000 It is a breakthrough peace agreement.

00:06:48.000 Everybody acknowledges it is a breakthrough peace agreement, and it will be the basis going forward.

00:06:52.000 For many more peace agreements in the Middle East as people recognize that basing peace on the complete fiction that Israel is going to disappear or that Israel making territorial concessions is what causes peace in the first place, that that entire model is broken.

00:07:06.000 That peace for peace is the actual model here.

00:07:08.000 Not land for peace, not Israel giving up its own safety and security, but peace for peace.

00:07:13.000 Namely, Israel says, we're going to leave you alone, and everybody else says, we're going to leave you alone to Israel, and then they normalize economic relations.

00:07:19.000 Which, by the way, has always been the basis for every durable peace.

00:07:21.000 It's always been peace for peace.

00:07:23.000 It has never been land for peace.

00:07:24.000 Land for peace is called blackmail.

00:07:26.000 Peace for peace is simply acknowledging that the other person exists.

00:07:29.000 And that has always been the predicate for anything that remotely approaches a durable peace.

00:07:32.000 So good for the Trump administration.

00:07:34.000 We're going to get into more details here because this really is a major thing.

00:07:37.000 And the media are going to play it up for a moment and then they're going to downplay it and pretend it was Obama, which is insane.

00:07:41.000 That's insane.

00:07:42.000 OK, to pretend that Barack Obama somehow facilitated this peace deal through pressure on Israel like five years ago.

00:07:50.000 And hatred of Bibi Netanyahu?

00:07:51.000 Pure hatred of Bibi Netanyahu?

00:07:53.000 It's totally crazy.

00:07:54.000 I mean, it's nuts.

00:07:55.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:09:11.000 Okay, so the New York Times reports this.

00:09:13.000 Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a landmark accord sealed by President Trump on Thursday that could presage a broader realignment in the region as the two agree to full normalization of relations in exchange for Israel suspending annexation of occupied West Bank territory.

00:09:25.000 Okay, so let's be clear right here.

00:09:27.000 Bibi Netanyahu, the Israeli government, under the Trump peace plan, there was an opening for the Israeli government to basically declare that all Israeli territory, meaning Territories that were largely populated by Jews, like areas outside Green Line, Israel.

00:09:42.000 Green Line is the line that was established pre-1967.

00:09:46.000 In 1967, Israel wins the Six-Day War, and Israel conquers the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the so-called West Bank of the Jordan River.

00:09:53.000 That's what it was called by Jordan.

00:09:54.000 It's actually Judea and Samaria, historically.

00:09:56.000 They conquer the Gaza Strip, and all of that. 0.94

00:09:58.000 Okay, and the basic idea is that there are a bunch of Jewish population centers that are across the so-called Green Line.

00:10:05.000 Right?

00:10:05.000 Including East Jerusalem, all the historic sites.

00:10:07.000 Jerusalem, by the way, will never be divided.

00:10:09.000 Israel will never divide Jerusalem.

00:10:11.000 Nor should they.

00:10:12.000 Because Jerusalem, when it was controlled by Jordan, was closed to people of a variety of different religions, including the Jews.

00:10:18.000 With that said, there are a bunch of huge population senators.

00:10:21.000 Efrat is one that comes to mind, but there are many, many others.

00:10:24.000 And Israel was thinking about simply annexing those areas and saying those belong to Israel for all time.

00:10:29.000 It wouldn't have made a big legal difference, honestly, because other nations that didn't want to recognize it just would not have.

00:10:33.000 Nor would it have taken off the table any of those areas as quote-unquote land swaps in future deals.

00:10:40.000 So it would have been kind of a declaration only.

00:10:43.000 It wouldn't have meant a whole hell of a lot.

00:10:44.000 It's not like declaring the Golan Heights sovereign Israeli territory because that is in opposition to, for example, a Syrian claim on the Golan Heights.

00:10:52.000 Israel doing that and being recognized by the United States is pretty important.

00:10:56.000 It was unclear whether if Israel quote-unquote annexed the territory.

00:11:00.000 Which, again, is not going to fundamentally change things on the ground, whether that gets recognized by anybody, including the United States.

00:11:05.000 Okay, bottom line is that Israel traded a pledge not to annex, which is basically a nothing.

00:11:10.000 They basically said to the UAE it's a fig leaf.

00:11:12.000 Okay, that's the reality.

00:11:14.000 Israel granted a fig leaf to the UAE.

00:11:16.000 The UAE wanted to normalize relations with Israel. 0.92

00:11:18.000 They said, we need something in return to make it look like we give a crap about the Palestinian Authority, which we actually kind of don't.

00:11:23.000 And Israel said, OK, well, we just won't formally annex all this territory we know is going to end up in Israeli hands under any peace deal in the future anyway.

00:11:30.000 And the UAE was like, good, done. 0.96

00:11:32.000 Because in reality, what this deal really is about is a mutual defense alliance against Iran.

00:11:36.000 That's really what the deal is about.

00:11:38.000 In a surprise announcement at the White House after a three-way phone call with Israeli and Emirati leaders, Mr. Trump said the deal would lead to greater cooperation on investment, tourism, security, technology, energy, and other areas while the two countries move to allow regular direct passenger flights, open embassies, and trade ambassadors for the very first time.

00:11:53.000 This has been a long time in the making. 0.95

00:11:54.000 Now, the political media, the idiots like Thomas Friedman will suggest, it was a window that opened and the UAE and the Israelis took advantage of it. 1.00

00:12:03.000 Nonsense. 1.00

00:12:04.000 Nonsense.

00:12:05.000 They've been in negotiations on this thing for a very, very long time.

00:12:08.000 The UAE and Israel were warming in relations for at least the last several years, and that was specifically due to the backlash to the Iranian regime that was created by Barack Obama being a full-on cow tower to the Iranian mullahs. 0.61

00:12:22.000 If fulfilled, the pact would make the Emirates only the third Arab country to have normal diplomatic relations with Israel, along with Egypt, which signed a peace treaty in 1979, and Jordan, which signed a treaty in 1994.

00:12:32.000 President Trump announced the deal yesterday.

00:12:34.000 Here is what President Trump had to say.

00:12:37.000 This is a truly historic moment.

00:12:40.000 Not since the Israel-Jordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the Middle East.

00:12:50.000 By uniting two of America's closest and most capable partners in the region, something which said could not be done, this deal is a significant step towards building a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Middle East.

00:13:04.000 By the way, it is also apparent that Oman and Bahrain are gonna follow UAE in normalizing Israeli ties and Saudi Arabia cannot be far behind.

00:13:11.000 So this means a complete opening of the Middle East in many, many ways. 0.91

00:13:14.000 It is a very, very good day for peace in the Middle East.

00:13:17.000 Now that is not stopping people who hate peace from being very, very angry about this.

00:13:21.000 Of course, the Palestinians have decided they are going to withdraw their embassy from the UAE, to which the UAE is like, what do we care?

00:13:26.000 You guys are supported by Iran.

00:13:28.000 Good luck to you, enjoy yourselves.

00:13:30.000 Ahmad Majdalani, a member of the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee, remember, that's a terrorist group, said in an interview shortly before the Palestinian ambassador to the Emirates was recalled in protest, this agreement is a total departure from the Arab consensus.

00:13:43.000 The Palestinian people have not authorized anyone to make concessions to Israel in exchange for anything. 0.96

00:13:48.000 To which the UAE says, well, good news, we don't give a crap because we're not the Palestinian government. 0.89

00:13:53.000 We are the government of the UAE. 0.96

00:13:55.000 To which the Egyptians say, right, and we have to secure our border against Palestinian terrorism. 0.98

00:14:00.000 To which Jordan is like, um, yeah, so? 0.99

00:14:03.000 And Saudi's like, um, why would we give a crap? 1.00

00:14:05.000 You guys are taking money from the Iranians to pursue terrorism. 0.99

00:14:09.000 Israel and the Emirates have long maintained a thinly veiled secret relationship over mutual interests.

00:14:13.000 The idea of formalizing it has come up several times in the past year.

00:14:16.000 The two sides essentially took it into the open after six weeks of indirect talks through Jared Kushner. 0.97

00:14:20.000 Here was Jared Kushner, the much maligned Jared Kushner, ripped up and down as a dolt. 0.89

00:14:24.000 How could he do anything in the Middle East? 1.00

00:14:25.000 The stupid Trump peace plan. 1.00

00:14:27.000 Jared Kushner doesn't know anything. 1.00

00:14:28.000 We need experts like Susan Rice and the Barack Obama anti-Israel super team to go in there and cram down a deal on Israel.

00:14:34.000 Here is Jared Kushner announcing the deal yesterday, smarter than any of these dolts.

00:14:37.000 Here was Kushner yesterday.

00:14:39.000 The president takes untraditional approaches, he does things in different ways, but he uses common sense and he tries to unite people by focusing on common interests as opposed to allowing them to focus on their common grievances.

00:14:52.000 And what happened was here, is we were able to achieve results that others were not able to achieve, and this will advance the region, and this will advance the whole world.

00:15:01.000 I would like to say to the people of the region, Muslims, Jews, Christians, that this does give hope that the problems of the past do not condemn you to a future with conflict.

00:15:12.000 A hundred percent.

00:15:13.000 Why?

00:15:13.000 This is exactly right.

00:15:14.000 Because the deal, again, was predicated on the notion that the United States was going to back Israel's claims to defend itself, that Israel is not going away, that hopes that Israel will go away using the Palestinians as a sort of tip of the spear in destroying Israel, that those are foolhardy hopes. 0.99

00:15:28.000 They're dumb.

00:15:30.000 And that economic relations provide a better way out for many nations in the Middle East than simple continuation of religious warfare. 1.00

00:15:37.000 He said, this is what happens when you take a proper relationship to the Middle East.

00:15:42.000 This is what happens when you take a non-anti-Israel view toward the Middle East.

00:15:46.000 Peace breaks out.

00:15:47.000 When you say that Israel will continue to remain and will never go away, and that Israel has a right to defend itself, when you don't undercut Israel, peace becomes more possible, not the opposite.

00:15:56.000 The view of the left has always been, if you undercut Israel, then the Arabs will be more likely to make peace.

00:16:00.000 That is such a lie.

00:16:02.000 When you undercut Israel, What that leads to is the belief that simply taking an intransigent line against Israel will lead to more concessions by Israel.

00:16:02.000 It is such a lie.

00:16:10.000 By the way, that's a rational response by Arab states.

00:16:12.000 That'd be a rational response by the Palestinian leadership. 0.59

00:16:15.000 The more that America forces Israel to make concessions, and the more intransigence the Palestinians display, which leads the left to make more concessions, why would you ever make a peace deal? 0.99

00:16:22.000 Ever.

00:16:23.000 Instead, you will simply continue to pursue terrorism by saying, no, peace for peace, not land for peace.

00:16:29.000 It's not up to Israel to make concessions.

00:16:30.000 It's up to you to recognize that Israel is not going away.

00:16:32.000 And then later you can work out all of the territorial issues that you got on the table.

00:16:36.000 But the reality is you first have to normalize relations.

00:16:38.000 You first have to recognize reality's on the ground.

00:16:40.000 Reality is a good basis for a peace deal. 0.99

00:16:42.000 Fantasy garbage. 0.96

00:16:43.000 Pushed by the Obama administration is actually a bad basis for a peace deal. 0.99

00:16:46.000 And you can tell that it's a good deal based on who opposes it.

00:16:49.000 We'll get to who opposes the deal in just one second.

00:16:52.000 By the way, Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, said this is a historic evening today.

00:16:55.000 A new era begins in the relations of the state of Israel with the Arab world.

00:16:58.000 He tweeted out, this is the greatest advancement toward peace between Israel and the Arab world in the last 26 years.

00:17:03.000 It marks the third formal peace agreement between Israel and an Arab nation.

00:17:07.000 So there's the story that is going to be told by the press, which is that this is all about Israel foregoing annexation.

00:17:11.000 And then there's the real story, which is this is all about an anti-Iranian alliance and a recognition of realities on the ground.

00:17:16.000 And that's the real story.

00:17:17.000 So don't believe the press's lies that this is all about Israel's Willingness to make concessions, that is not what happened here.

00:17:24.000 We've been told that only if Israel gave up the Golan Heights, gave up East Jerusalem, gave up settlements, and pledged to go back to the Green Line would there be any sort of surrounding peace in the Middle East and outside in peace where other nations made peace with Israel.

00:17:36.000 Israel annexed the Golan Heights, claimed the Golan Heights, has not given up a single settlement, And has not pledged to do so, by the way.

00:17:44.000 And is never giving up East Jerusalem.

00:17:45.000 And outside nations are now making peace with Israel. 1.00

00:17:48.000 So it turns out that all of the conventional wisdom is a bunch of crap and it always was a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:17:52.000 We'll get to the enemies of this peace deal. 0.99

00:17:54.000 And you can call them enemies of peace because they are literally enemies of a peace deal.

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00:19:00.000 So, who opposes the deal?

00:19:00.000 Well, Iran hates the deal.

00:19:01.000 right now. Again, text Ben to 87222 and join my friends over at the U.S. Concealed Carry Association right now. Text Ben to 87222. So who opposes the deal? Well, Iran hates the deal. Turkey hates the deal, which is not a shock.

00:19:16.000 Iran is, of course, run by radical Islamic terrorists. 0.91

00:19:20.000 Turkey is run by an Islamist, Erdogan, who has transformed what was once a democracy into a thriving hotbed of Islamism. 0.99

00:19:27.000 The historic UAE-Israel deal, brokered by the United States, considered a major foreign policy triumph would make the UAE the third Arab country behind Egypt and Jordan to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. 0.92

00:19:37.000 But Iran is very, very mad. 0.93

00:19:39.000 According to Fox News, Iran's foreign ministry called the agreement a dagger that was unjustly stuck by the UAE in the backs of the Palestinian people and all Muslims.

00:19:46.000 See, if you're gonna talk about, like, daggers stuck in the back of Muslims, you probably have to go with, you know, the hundreds of thousands of people murdered in Syria with the help of the Iranians, or perhaps the complete destruction of Lebanon at the behest of Iranian-backed Hezbollah. 0.70

00:19:58.000 Maybe you'd have to go with the complete breakdown in Yemen, with the Houthis backed by Iran creating the problem. 1.00

00:20:06.000 There are lots of things you could talk about when you talk about Muslims being murdered.

00:20:09.000 The UAE making a deal with Israel, that's not even the top 200 problems for Muslims in the Middle East.

00:20:15.000 In fact, it's a solution for a lot of Muslims in the Middle East.

00:20:18.000 Meanwhile, the Turkish Foreign Ministry claimed the UAE had no right to negotiate the deal on behalf of the Palestinians.

00:20:23.000 They didn't negotiate any deal on behalf of the Palestinians.

00:20:25.000 They negotiated a deal on behalf of the UAE.

00:20:27.000 So, the fact that Iran and Turkey hate it means it's a good deal. 1.00

00:20:30.000 Inherently, that means it's a good deal.

00:20:32.000 Who else was angry about this? 0.98

00:20:34.000 Well, Ben Rhodes, The ridiculous, failed novelist, national security advisor to President Obama, whose claim to Middle Eastern knowledge was predicated on sitting in an apartment in Brooklyn writing bad fiction while watching a bum piss into a trash can. 0.98

00:20:52.000 He had some words. 0.94

00:20:52.000 He says, So, in other words, this is not a triumph? 0.94

00:20:54.000 It's not a good thing?

00:20:55.000 This is the exclusion of the Palestinians? 0.95

00:20:56.000 It's bad!

00:20:56.000 It's mean!

00:20:56.000 total exclusion of Palestinians, dressed up as an election of achievement from two leaders who want Trump to win.

00:21:02.000 So in other words, this is not a triumph.

00:21:04.000 It's not a good thing.

00:21:05.000 This is the exclusion of the Palestinians. 0.96

00:21:07.000 It's mean.

00:21:08.000 It's bad.

00:21:09.000 Well, what's weird about that is that Ben Rhodes, while trying to undermine the deal, is so bad that not even Obama's assistant secretary of state for democracy and human Tom Malinowski, he tweeted out, this is a breakthrough deal for Israel, for peace and for US diplomacy.

00:21:22.000 It affirms that Israel has far more to gain from normalization with Arab states than from annexation of the West Bank. 0.81

00:21:27.000 A win-win we can build on.

00:21:28.000 Again, recognize that the failure to annex Judea and Samaria, that does not change a single thing on the ground.

00:21:35.000 It changes zero things on the ground.

00:21:37.000 It is a fig leaf.

00:21:38.000 It is a complete political fig leaf so that the UAE can pretend that it got a concession from Israel and in reality all that happened was a normalization of relations that the UAE and Israel both wanted in opposition.

00:21:48.000 Okay, it's not a Trump-Netanyahu deal.

00:21:49.000 It's a Netanyahu-UAE deal. 0.83

00:21:50.000 It's an Israel-UAE deal.

00:21:51.000 Congresswoman who prioritizes above all else the support for Palestinian terrorism, she tweeted out, we won't be fooled by another Trump-Netanyahu deal.

00:22:01.000 Okay, it's not a Trump-Netanyahu deal, it's a Netanyahu-UAE deal.

00:22:04.000 It's an Israel-UAE deal.

00:22:05.000 Like, the UAE doesn't exist in Rashida Tlaib's universe.

00:22:08.000 We won't celebrate Netanyahu for not stealing land he already controls in exchange for a sweetheart business deal.

00:22:13.000 The heart of the issue has never been planned formal annexation, but ongoing devastating apartheid.

00:22:17.000 Oh, really?

00:22:19.000 Is that what the issue has always been? 0.96

00:22:20.000 Not the Palestinian refusal to recognize the existence of the State of Israel, the continued education of children to murder Jews as often as possible? 0.99

00:22:26.000 By the way, the same day that Israel made a deal with the UAE, Hamas was floating balloons laden with explosives over the border.

00:22:33.000 That's been their new fun game.

00:22:35.000 Now, you ask yourself, why would they send colorful balloons laden with explosives into Israel?

00:22:39.000 Why would they do that?

00:22:40.000 It can't do that much damage.

00:22:41.000 The answer is, who's attracted to balloons, guys?

00:22:43.000 Who's attracted to balloons?

00:22:44.000 Oh, that's right, small children. 0.96

00:22:47.000 Because Hamas is evil. 0.97

00:22:48.000 Hamas has always been evil. 1.00

00:22:49.000 Palestinian Islamic Jihad is evil. 1.00

00:22:51.000 The Iranian government that backs them is evil. 1.00

00:22:53.000 The Palestinian government that backs them is evil. 1.00

00:22:56.000 But those are the people who are being backed by large swaths of the American political left. 0.98

00:23:01.000 In the second, we're gonna get to the most ridiculous spin on this thing. 0.84

00:23:04.000 The most ridiculous spin on this thing is Joe Biden trying to claim credit for it. 0.72

00:23:08.000 So again, there's this split in sort of democratic circles. 0.96

00:23:10.000 Some of them are like, it's a terrible deal.

00:23:12.000 And we hate the deal because Israel actually got something good, which is really what it comes down to. 0.64

00:23:12.000 It's a terrible deal. 0.64

00:23:16.000 They don't want Israel and the UAE and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Jordan to normalize relations because they love Iran and they despise Israel.

00:23:22.000 There's no other way to read that.

00:23:24.000 There's no other way to read that because it is good for the region.

00:23:26.000 It is good for economic normalization.

00:23:27.000 At least Joe Biden is recognizing it's a good thing.

00:23:29.000 But then Joe Biden's like, and I did it.

00:23:32.000 And you have to be absolutely high on your own farts to believe that. 0.71

00:23:36.000 Yeah, I mean, that's that's a crazy statement. 0.97

00:23:38.000 That is a crazy statement.

00:23:39.000 It's like Bull Connor suggesting that he is responsible for desegregation.

00:23:43.000 Like, nope.

00:23:44.000 Pretty certain not.

00:23:45.000 The Obama administration was as anti-Israel, pro-Iran as any administration in American history.

00:23:49.000 Not as any.

00:23:49.000 Far more than any administration in American history.

00:23:52.000 Them claiming the basis for an Israel-UAE deal is patently crazy.

00:23:56.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:09.000 Okay, so Joe Biden tried to claim credit for this, which is just patently crazy.

00:25:13.000 It is nuts, man.

00:25:15.000 That is crazy towns.

00:25:17.000 Here is what he said.

00:25:19.000 Today, Israel and the UAE have taken a historic step to bridge the deep divides of the Middle East.

00:25:23.000 The UAE's offer to publicly recognize the state of Israel is a welcome, brave, badly needed act of statesmanship. It is a critical recognition Israel is a vibrant, integral part of the Middle East that is here to stay. Israel can and will be a valued strategic and economic partner to all who welcome it. The coming together of Israel and Arab states builds on the efforts of multiple administrations to foster a broader Arab-Israeli opening, including the efforts of the Obama-Biden administration to build on the Arab peace initiative.

00:25:47.000 I personally spent time with leaders of both Israel and the UAE during our administration, building the case for cooperation and broader engagement and the benefits it could deliver to both nations.

00:25:55.000 I am gratified by today's announcement.

00:25:56.000 Okay, Joe Biden trying to claim credit for this is Okay, this is, it's crazy.

00:26:01.000 Okay, it is fully, fully, fully nuts.

00:26:03.000 My favorite here, one of my favorite things, is him trying to claim that it builds on the efforts of the Obama administration to build on the Arab Peace Initiative.

00:26:09.000 So what the hell is the Arab Peace Initiative?

00:26:11.000 You may recall that the Arab Peace Initiative, if you have familiarity with these issues, was a proposal created by the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah at the 2002 Arab League Summit in Beirut.

00:26:21.000 It was later endorsed at a 2007 summit in Riyadh.

00:26:24.000 It called for, okay, among other things, full Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, withdrawal from all of Judea and Samaria, withdrawal from East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

00:26:34.000 Okay, so he's saying that the focus on the Arab peace initiative led to this peace deal. 1.00

00:26:39.000 How can you tell that he's totally full of crap, so full of crap that his eyes are turning brown? 1.00

00:26:43.000 The way that you can tell that is that Israel did none of those things. 1.00

00:26:45.000 Israel has annexed the Golan Heights.

00:26:47.000 Israel has not withdrawn from Judea and Samaria.

00:26:49.000 In fact, it strengthened its presence in Judea and Samaria.

00:26:51.000 And Israel has not withdrawn from East Jerusalem.

00:26:54.000 At all.

00:26:55.000 And has no intention of doing so.

00:26:56.000 So Joe Biden's like, remember that deal that we pushed that completely failed?

00:26:59.000 That was the basis for this one!

00:27:00.000 No.

00:27:01.000 No, it was not.

00:27:02.000 The real reason that this deal got cut is because of Obama, but it's because Obama was so radically anti-Israel and pro-Iran that he drove the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman into the arms of the Israelis.

00:27:15.000 In 2014, the Obama administration delayed delivery of Hellfire missiles to Israel while Israel was trying to defend itself from the Gaza Strip and terrorism from Hamas.

00:27:23.000 Obama was so anti-Israel that he signed an Iranian peace deal that didn't create peace, that only effectuated their pursuit of a nuclear weapon after 10 years, and gave them full ability to normalize their economic relations with the rest of the world and use the money for terrorism.

00:27:37.000 Fully acknowledged, by the way, by Secretary of State John Kerry.

00:27:40.000 Obama was so anti-Israel that as he was leaving office, he planted a time bomb at the United Nations.

00:27:45.000 Passing a UN Security Council resolution and abstaining, the Security Council resolution declared that all of Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem were not Jewish territory.

00:27:56.000 And that there was no historic tie.

00:27:58.000 OK, that's that as a matter of international law, Israel has no claim to the Western Wall, Temple Mount, the entire Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, and that they belong to the Palestinians.

00:28:05.000 That's how anti-Israel Obama was.

00:28:07.000 And so now we're hearing from Biden that he's going to take credit for the deal. 1.00

00:28:10.000 The man's a damned liar. 1.00

00:28:11.000 He's a damned liar. 1.00

00:28:13.000 And the attempt by the media to create several competing myths so they can continue to purvey their overall myth, which is that pressure on Israel creates peace. 1.00

00:28:22.000 They have a few myths that they're purveying.

00:28:23.000 One, Obama had anything to do with it. 0.95

00:28:25.000 In fact, it's an unintended consequence of his garbage foreign policy. 0.90

00:28:25.000 He did not. 0.90

00:28:28.000 Two, the pressure on Israel results in peace.

00:28:30.000 That's not what resulted in peace here.

00:28:31.000 There was no pressure on Israel and peace emerged because there was no pressure on Israel.

00:28:34.000 Not in spite of, because there was no pressure on Israel.

00:28:37.000 Three, there's nothing, peace in the Middle East is not reliant in any way on Israel making concessions to the Palestinians.

00:28:42.000 In any way.

00:28:44.000 And finally, that Democrats and the foreign policy establishment know what in the hell they're talking about.

00:28:51.000 They absolutely do not.

00:28:52.000 National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien said that Trump should be up for a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:28:56.000 Okay, that is true.

00:28:57.000 He should be.

00:28:57.000 Okay, if Obama had cut the steel, he would be.

00:29:00.000 Here is Robert O'Brien.

00:29:03.000 It's really remarkable, I think, when you step back and take a look at what this president has done on the peace front.

00:29:09.000 And it wouldn't surprise me, it'll take some time in this environment, but it wouldn't surprise me if the president is eventually nominated for a Nobel Prize.

00:29:16.000 Today's work is an example of why he would be rightly considered and should be a frontrunner for the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:29:26.000 Okay, people are laughing at that.

00:29:27.000 He's done more for peace in the Middle East than anything Obama did.

00:29:30.000 Obama was a horrible president for the Middle East.

00:29:31.000 He set the Middle East on fire. 1.00

00:29:32.000 Okay, how many regime changes happened while Barack Obama was president that resulted in more dictatorship, not less?

00:29:39.000 How much violence broke out in the Middle East while Obama was president?

00:29:41.000 Okay, that guy won the Nobel Peace Prize for existing.

00:29:44.000 Trump, they all laugh at him.

00:29:45.000 His Middle Eastern policy has been more successful than any president of my lifetime.

00:29:49.000 It is not particularly close, by the way.

00:29:52.000 Okay, meanwhile, all of this is the basis for a solid Trump campaign.

00:29:56.000 Here, this is always the gap for President Trump.

00:29:58.000 His achievements in many areas are quite good.

00:30:01.000 The economy was stellar up until COVID hit.

00:30:03.000 President Trump has appointed a lot of great conservative judges, and some who are not so great to the Supreme Court.

00:30:08.000 The President of the United States has cut some regulations.

00:30:11.000 He cut taxes, which is a good thing.

00:30:13.000 On foreign policy, he's been significantly better than any of his predecessors in the Middle East, and it's not close.

00:30:18.000 He's been harsher on China than any of his predecessors, and it's not particularly close.

00:30:22.000 All of that is good stuff.

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00:32:34.000 ♪♪ Okay, so President Trump has actually done very, very many good things as President of the United States.

00:32:45.000 So why isn't he more popular?

00:32:47.000 The answer is perfectly obvious.

00:32:48.000 People don't like him personally.

00:32:50.000 That is a perfectly obvious answer.

00:32:51.000 It's a perfectly obvious truth.

00:32:52.000 Which means that if he can just cut it out, and we all know what it is, then he'll have a good shot at winning.

00:32:57.000 Okay, the reason that I say this is the case, that nobody is voting for Biden based on policy.

00:33:01.000 Nobody is voting for Biden because they like his agenda.

00:33:03.000 Nobody's even voting for Biden because they like Biden.

00:33:05.000 They're just voting for Biden because they don't like Trump.

00:33:07.000 Pew Research Center Poll.

00:33:08.000 Here are the top reasons for supporting Donald Trump.

00:33:11.000 23% say leadership performance.

00:33:13.000 21% say his issue or policy positions.

00:33:15.000 19% say he is not Biden.

00:33:16.000 17% he's for Americans.

00:33:20.000 16% vote for Republicans and against Democrats.

00:33:23.000 11%, he tells it like it is his personality.

00:33:24.000 So only 11% of people voting for Trump are doing it because they like his personality.

00:33:28.000 Okay, by contrast, Joe Biden, 56%, 56% of people who are voting for Joe Biden say they're voting for Joe Biden because, quote, he is not Trump.

00:33:39.000 That's literally the only reason people are voting for Biden.

00:33:41.000 There is not another statistic that breaks 20%.

00:33:43.000 Leadership or performance, only 19% say leadership or performance.

00:33:49.000 His personality and temperament, only 13% say that.

00:33:51.000 Only 9% of Joe Biden voters say they are voting for him because of his issue and policy positions.

00:33:57.000 And only 7% say they are doing so because they're Democrats and voting against Republicans.

00:34:00.000 So in other words, this entire election has been a referendum on Donald Trump's personality.

00:34:04.000 And that continues to be the main factor militating against a President Trump victory, which is something that President Trump should take under advisement.

00:34:10.000 Because that's something he can correct for.

00:34:13.000 Stay on the teleprompter.

00:34:14.000 Stay on the teleprompter.

00:34:17.000 Because on the issues, The American people do not like the Biden-Harris ticket.

00:34:21.000 They don't.

00:34:23.000 And now yesterday, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held a press conference at which they answered zero questions.

00:34:27.000 That was exciting.

00:34:28.000 So they're just gonna continue to maintain, because they understand that the media are not here to report.

00:34:32.000 The media are here simply to drool over them and to rip into President Trump.

00:34:35.000 So they have a massive advantage, which is they will never have to answer questions, and Joe Biden can be wheeled on a gurney all the way into the Oval Office.

00:34:42.000 With that said, I am absolutely amazed at the lack of follow-up questioning Every governor should mandate.

00:34:47.000 on broad-based policies proposed by Biden and Harris.

00:34:50.000 So yesterday they did this presser, that wasn't a presser because they answered no questions, in which Biden and Harris sat six feet apart awkwardly and talked to experts on COVID and then recommended silly things.

00:35:01.000 So here was Joe Biden yesterday calling for a national mask mandate for the next three months.

00:35:05.000 Now to talk about this makes zero sense at all for a couple of reasons.

00:35:09.000 Every governor should mandate, every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing.

00:35:19.000 The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months.

00:35:28.000 40,000 lives.

00:35:29.000 The people act responsibly.

00:35:32.000 And it's not about your rights.

00:35:35.000 It's about your responsibilities as an American.

00:35:38.000 OK, so you're saying we need a national mask mandate.

00:35:40.000 OK, so a couple of things.

00:35:41.000 One, he doesn't mean a national mask mandate.

00:35:43.000 There is no constitutional power for the federal government to actually enact a federal mask mandate.

00:35:48.000 It doesn't exist.

00:35:49.000 Right?

00:35:50.000 And also, I'm amused by folks on the left who keep saying, the national government should institute a mask mandate!

00:35:54.000 Okay, who are you gonna have enforce it, guys?

00:35:56.000 What's your plan?

00:35:57.000 You're gonna send federal troops into the cities?

00:35:59.000 So, I guess the left agenda on this is, federal troops into the cities, not to protect federal property that's being burned by Antifa in Portland, federal troops in the cities to yell at you if you're not wearing a mask while jogging.

00:36:12.000 But that's not even really what Biden is saying.

00:36:14.000 He's saying, I think all governors should institute mask mandate.

00:36:16.000 Oh, well, I'm glad for your opinion, Joe. 0.99

00:36:19.000 Thank you for your useless, garbage, empty opinion that means nothing. 0.99

00:36:23.000 I'm glad that you think things. 1.00

00:36:25.000 Wow.

00:36:25.000 So you mean as president, you're going to tell governors to do a thing that they can completely ignore?

00:36:29.000 Slow clap.

00:36:29.000 Wow.

00:36:30.000 You solved COVID, dude.

00:36:31.000 Well done.

00:36:32.000 Kamala Harris is like, this is going to save lives.

00:36:34.000 This is going to save lives.

00:36:36.000 OK, Kamala, sure.

00:36:39.000 We just witnessed real leadership, which is Joe Biden said that as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask.

00:36:48.000 For the next three months, because it will save lives.

00:36:53.000 And the thing about Joe that the American people know is that his role of leadership in our country has always been about doing what's best for the people of our country.

00:37:03.000 Except when he's trying to ban her from going to an integrated public school, guys.

00:37:07.000 Joe's leadership has always been great, except when he was sexually harassing the help and or stopping me from going to an integrated public school, says Kamala Harris, the most cynical politician of the modern day.

00:37:17.000 I love that.

00:37:18.000 That was real leadership from Joe Biden.

00:37:19.000 Did you know that?

00:37:20.000 He said there and said mask.

00:37:21.000 He said the word mask.

00:37:22.000 That's leadership.

00:37:22.000 We're done here.

00:37:23.000 I mean, come on.

00:37:24.000 We have solved COVID, guys.

00:37:26.000 Mm-hmm.

00:37:28.000 Sure.

00:37:29.000 By the way, most Americans in hotspots are wearing masks.

00:37:31.000 They're wearing masks without a mask mandate.

00:37:34.000 I'm honored to be with you, Joe.

00:37:35.000 taking seriously COVID in areas where COVID is spiking.

00:37:38.000 Then Biden and Harris refused to take questions, which is really exciting stuff.

00:37:41.000 Because remember, Donald Trump has never had to answer a hard question, but these people are willing to answer all the hard questions, except when they're running directly off stage so Joe Biden can go get an oxygen tank.

00:37:51.000 Here is Kamala Harris yesterday.

00:37:52.000 I'm honored to be with you, Joe. Thank you.

00:38:09.000 So, President Trump, by the way, on masks, much more coherent than either Kamala Harris or Joe Biden because he actually apparently understands the role of the federal government.

00:38:16.000 He said, you should wear a mask, but we are not state governments and it is not the job of the federal government to force people to wear masks.

00:38:22.000 Accurate.

00:38:23.000 That's called federalism.

00:38:24.000 It's in the Constitution.

00:38:25.000 Here's President Trump.

00:38:27.000 He wants the president of the United States with the mere stroke of a pen to order over 300 million American citizens to wear a mask for a minimum of three straight months.

00:38:39.000 He does not identify what authority the president has to issue such a mandate or how federal law enforcement could possibly enforce it.

00:38:49.000 Or why we would be stepping on governors throughout our country, many of whom have done a very good job and they know what is needed.

00:38:59.000 By the way, correct.

00:39:00.000 California has mask mandates all over the place.

00:39:02.000 California just became the first state with over 600,000 diagnosed cases of COVID.

00:39:06.000 They have a higher death count than Texas or Florida, and the curve has not yet begun to bend, really, in California.

00:39:13.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:39:14.000 Again, when it comes to policy, President Trump is not wrong on a lot of this stuff.

00:39:19.000 I'm not saying that he's perfect, because no president is perfect.

00:39:22.000 There are a lot of things I disagree with, including his spending policies.

00:39:25.000 But the real problem for Trump is not his policies.

00:39:26.000 The real problem for Trump is his running mouth.

00:39:29.000 That continues to be the real problem for President Trump.

00:39:31.000 I'll give you a couple of examples.

00:39:32.000 Okay, so yesterday, during a press conference, President Trump was asked about this column from John Eastman, who's a law professor over at Claremont Institute.

00:39:40.000 He's written a lot.

00:39:42.000 And he wrote a column basically suggesting that maybe Kamala Harris was not eligible That's because his interpretation of the 14th Amendment is that in order to become a citizen, you have to have been naturalized.

00:39:54.000 In other words, he doesn't believe in the idea that if you're born in the United States, you are a natural born citizen.

00:40:00.000 And so he asks whether Kamala Harris's parents ever became naturalized citizens.

00:40:03.000 There are questions about that.

00:40:04.000 Therefore, the fact that she was born in the United States does not naturally make her a citizen.

00:40:08.000 That's his legal theory.

00:40:09.000 It's not accepted by virtually anybody.

00:40:11.000 Virtually everybody understands that Kamala Harris is a natural born citizen of the United States.

00:40:15.000 She was literally born here.

00:40:16.000 Her parents apparently were naturalized, as best we know.

00:40:20.000 And so there's not a lot of credence to that. 0.80

00:40:22.000 President Trump throwing out this theory is completely useless and counterproductive.

00:40:25.000 Because again, the case against Kamala Harris is not her ineligibility. 0.88

00:40:28.000 The case against Kamala Harris is that she's awful. 0.98

00:40:30.000 She's awful.

00:40:31.000 So why does the president constantly stick his hand in beehives? 0.65

00:40:35.000 Yesterday was a day where he cut a historic Middle East peace deal, the biggest Middle East peace deal in 30 years.

00:40:40.000 And today, when the Democrats decided to go full on, top down control on masks.

00:40:45.000 And here he was talking about Kamala Harris's eligibility for the vice presidency. Come on, come on. This is useless. I heard it today that she doesn't meet the requirements. 1.00

00:40:58.000 This...uh...

00:40:59.000 And by the way, the lawyer that wrote that piece is a very highly qualified, very talented lawyer.

00:41:05.000 I have no idea if that's right.

00:41:08.000 I would have assumed the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president. 1.00

00:41:13.000 But that's very serious.

00:41:14.000 You're saying that they're saying that she doesn't qualify because she wasn't born in this country.

00:41:19.000 OK, so, you know, that's that.

00:41:21.000 Come on, come on. 0.99

00:41:22.000 How is that useful in any way?

00:41:24.000 Speaking of things that are not useful in any way, yesterday, President Trump was talking about defunding the post office.

00:41:28.000 So there's been a lot of talk about whether to pour more money down the rat hole that is the post office.

00:41:34.000 The post office is awfully run.

00:41:36.000 It has been awfully run for years because the post office's mandate Is to ensure that if you're in a far-flung area, you get charged the same postage as if you are in like a major American city.

00:41:45.000 They run at a loss.

00:41:46.000 The post office has run at a loss for years, which is why FedEx continues to be more reliable.

00:41:50.000 And if you really want to make sure the mail gets there on time, you don't use the post office at all.

00:41:54.000 Right?

00:41:54.000 So the case that Republicans have been making about the post office is, why are we spending more money on the post office when less mail is now being sent than ever before in American history?

00:42:03.000 Why are we doing that?

00:42:04.000 That makes no sense at all.

00:42:05.000 That was the Republican case.

00:42:07.000 The Democrats were trying to pour more money into the post office because the giant government boondoggles. 1.00

00:42:10.000 So why are we pouring more billions of money, more billions of dollars into the post office?

00:42:14.000 President Trump then goes on national TV and he says, the reason we should defund the post office is that the post office does not have the wherewithal to handle mail-in voting.

00:42:23.000 Why?

00:42:24.000 Why, God, why?

00:42:25.000 Why?

00:42:26.000 Why, why, why?

00:42:27.000 Again.

00:42:31.000 The point of not funding the post office that is a bad service and you gotta fix it first.

00:42:34.000 It is not anything to do with mail-in voting.

00:42:37.000 Okay, the problem with mail-in voting is that the U.S.

00:42:39.000 Postal Service is not going to be able to get the mail there on time.

00:42:42.000 That universal mail-in voting, people keep saying absentee ballots are the same as mail-in voting.

00:42:46.000 They're not the same as universal mail-in voting.

00:42:48.000 Universal mail-in voting is they send a ballot directly to your house before you even ask for one.

00:42:52.000 They do so on a universal level.

00:42:54.000 It doesn't matter if you've already moved.

00:42:55.000 You might be receiving three, four ballots at your house, right?

00:42:57.000 It opens the door wide to people committing fraud.

00:42:59.000 It does.

00:43:00.000 Okay, just because not a lot of people have taken advantage of that doesn't mean you should loosen the laws or that you should make it easier.

00:43:07.000 That is the point on universal mail-in voting.

00:43:09.000 Absentee ballots you request because you can't make it to the polling station, for example.

00:43:13.000 Democrats are pushing universal mail-in voting this year on the back of the pandemic, but the suspicion is the real reason they are doing that is because they wish to have universal mail-in voting and ballot harvesting so they can deploy Democratic operatives to go house-to-house and pick up ballots on behalf of Democrats, which is exactly what they did in Orange County, California during the 2018 election and shifted four red seats blue.

00:43:31.000 Okay, so that is the objection to universal mail-in voting.

00:43:34.000 That is not an objection to funding the postal service so people can't actually send in anything, including absentee ballots.

00:43:38.000 Here was Trump shooting himself directly in the foot yesterday.

00:43:42.000 They want three and a half trillion, billion dollars for the mail-in votes.

00:43:48.000 Universal mail-in ballots.

00:43:51.000 They want $25 billion for the post office.

00:43:56.000 Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. 0.56

00:44:02.000 Now, in the meantime, they aren't getting there.

00:44:06.000 By the way, those are just two items.

00:44:07.000 But if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal Okay, so now he's saying that he's going to deprive the post office of resources so that mail-in voting won't work?

00:44:18.000 Like, why?

00:44:19.000 Why?

00:44:20.000 That just opens the door to Joe Biden saying that Trump's trying to undermine electoral integrity, which is exactly what Biden stumbles over himself and says.

00:44:26.000 Here's Joe Biden yesterday.

00:44:27.000 Okay guys, let's go.

00:44:31.000 Come on guys.

00:44:31.000 Let's go.

00:44:32.000 What do you think about that?

00:44:33.000 Pure trauma.

00:44:34.000 Okay guys, let's go.

00:44:35.000 Let's go.

00:44:36.000 Come on.

00:44:37.000 He doesn't want an election.

00:44:38.000 He doesn't want an election is what Joe Biden says.

00:44:43.000 That's the idea.

00:44:46.000 If President Trump wants to win the election, he's going to need to get out of his own way.

00:44:50.000 Now, obviously, the media aren't going to help here.

00:44:52.000 The media are being feted as heroes for massaging the shoulders of the Biden-Harris campaign while simultaneously just trying to make a name for themselves, yelling at Trump.

00:45:02.000 Yesterday, a Huffington Post reporter got up at a press conference and just started haranguing Trump, which, of course, is not asking a question. 1.00

00:45:08.000 It's just him being a jerk. 0.99

00:45:09.000 But don't worry, he'll get a Jim Acosta book contract next. 1.00

00:45:13.000 Mr. President, after three and a half years, you've regretted all the lying you've done to the American people.

00:45:19.000 All the what?

00:45:20.000 All the lying, all the dishonesties.

00:45:22.000 And who has done?

00:45:24.000 You have done.

00:45:26.000 Yeah, go ahead, please.

00:45:28.000 And then he just ignored him.

00:45:30.000 Okay, but the media were like, wow, look at the heroism!

00:45:32.000 So much heroing! 1.00

00:45:33.000 The media are garbage. 1.00

00:45:33.000 Ah, heroing! 1.00

00:45:35.000 Trump needs to understand the media are garbage. 0.99

00:45:37.000 He needs to not give them any sort of ammo. 0.99

00:45:39.000 Deprive the enemy of ammunition is one of the electoral strategies Trump must pursue if he wishes to win.

00:45:44.000 Okay, now, I want to make a quick comment on a story that is finally getting some national attention.

00:45:48.000 So there's a story that got no national attention for like a week.

00:45:52.000 And my compatriot here at Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, really pushed it into the mainstream.

00:45:55.000 There's a story of a 25-year-old man, a black man, who shot a five-year-old boy last week in Wilson, North Carolina.

00:46:02.000 He's now been charged with first-degree murder.

00:46:04.000 Austin Hinnant told CNN affiliate WRAL he was inside the home when his son Cannon was playing outside and was shot.

00:46:10.000 Hinnant says he ran outside and scooped up the injured child and held him in his arms.

00:46:12.000 I screamed, somebody help me, please help me save my son.

00:46:15.000 Hinnant told the affiliate he looked up and saw his neighbor, Darius Sessoms, in the yard next door with a gun in his hand, pacing and frantic.

00:46:21.000 I was looking at him as I was picking up cannon.

00:46:23.000 I was so full of rage, but I couldn't leave my son's side.

00:46:24.000 I just wanted to be with my son.

00:46:26.000 Hinnan's fiance called 911.

00:46:28.000 Sessoms then drove away. 1.00

00:46:30.000 Police identified him as a suspect, arrested him after he was found Monday in a Goldsboro residence about 30 minutes south.

00:46:36.000 Okay, so the motive is not yet clear.

00:46:38.000 The point that Matt Walsh was making is that if the races were reversed, there is no question it would be a national story.

00:46:42.000 Now, do I actually think that this should be a national story?

00:46:45.000 I actually don't think it should be a national story.

00:46:47.000 I think it's a local crime story.

00:46:48.000 I think it's horrific.

00:46:49.000 I think it's an act of tremendous evil.

00:46:50.000 The only reason that it should in any way be a national story is because the media have a double standard on what constitutes a national story, and this is worthy of comment.

00:46:58.000 Okay, the Ahmed Arbery story should not be a national story.

00:47:01.000 It is a local crime story.

00:47:03.000 When it becomes a national story, all stories are initially local.

00:47:06.000 What becomes a national story is one of two things.

00:47:08.000 Either a story that affects the entire nation, or a story that is indicative of a broader trend plaguing the entire nation.

00:47:14.000 There's not a broad trend in the United States of white people hunting down black people.

00:47:17.000 Which is why the Ahmed Arbery story should not be a national story.

00:47:20.000 It is an oddity and a local crime story and a horrific, horrific story.

00:47:24.000 It should not be a national crime story.

00:47:26.000 Neither should Michael Brown.

00:47:27.000 Neither, really, should George Floyd. 0.99

00:47:29.000 Because there is not a great spate of white cops murdering black people. 0.99

00:47:33.000 It's just not happening. 0.98

00:47:34.000 None of those should be national stories.

00:47:36.000 They should all be local crime stories.

00:47:37.000 The same thing holds true here.

00:47:39.000 There is not a spate of black people killing five-year-old white children, so that really should not be a national news story either.

00:47:44.000 The only reason that it should be treated as a national news story is simply as a slap in the face to a media that have decided that certain narratives are worthy of promulgation and other narratives are not.

00:47:53.000 And so if the media wants to pretend that any horrific crime story is now a national news story, then they do need to cover the Canon Hinnant story.

00:47:59.000 And if they want to claim that interracial crime is a national news story, then they need to cover it In a statistically representative way. 0.81

00:48:06.000 In a statistically representative way, on a population-adjusted level, more white people are killed by black people in the United States than black people are killed by white people in the United States.

00:48:13.000 Now, the reason that's not a national news story either way is because the vast majority of white people, like vast, vast, like 90%, 95%, like a huge percentage of white people who are killed are killed by other white people. 0.98

00:48:23.000 The same thing is true for black people killing other black people. 1.00

00:48:25.000 So, if you actually wanted stories that are representative of broad national trends, what you would focus on are five-year-olds being shot in the inner city In gang warfare, that's more indicative of a national trend that requires national attention. 0.97

00:48:37.000 Right, that would be something worthy of national coverage.

00:48:39.000 Or a white person killing another white person in an opioid-addicted town.

00:48:42.000 Right, that would be more indicative of a national news story.

00:48:45.000 But our national news coverage is skewed toward particular narratives.

00:48:47.000 That's the point that Matt Walsh is making.

00:48:49.000 So do I actually think that this canon-hidden story is deserving of quote-unquote national attention?

00:48:53.000 Probably not.

00:48:53.000 It's a local news story.

00:48:54.000 It's deserving of attention just because it's a human tragedy, but that's not really why people want it to be covered.

00:48:59.000 And exacerbating racial tensions by claiming that certain stories are indicative of trends that do not exist on either side is a mistake.

00:49:06.000 Okay, so later today, we have two additional hours of commentary and content.

00:49:11.000 I still have a lot to get to, including, by the way, the fact that HBO Max is now putting a disclaimer on Blazing Saddles.

00:49:18.000 They're putting a disclaimer on Blazing Saddles, an intro to ensure that the film is put into proper social context.

00:49:23.000 The proper social context, by the way, is that people didn't used to be jack wagons who wouldn't laugh at jokes.

00:49:28.000 That's the proper social context, is that you yourself, if you need a proper social context for Blazing Saddles, it's because you're an uptight prude And it's coming from a guy who just got excoriated for reading lyrics on the air.

00:49:39.000 Get over yourselves.

00:49:40.000 We'll see you here a little bit later today.

00:49:42.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here on Monday.

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00:50:14.000 You know, the Matt Wall Show, it's not just another show about politics.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - August 14, 2020

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Moment | Ep. 1074

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