The Matt Walsh Show - May 24, 2024


Ep. 1375 - How The Trump Trial Has Backfired Spectacularly On The Democrats


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we haven't talked much about the Trump trial in New York,
00:00:03.280 mostly because the whole thing is a ridiculous farce. But at this point,
00:00:06.180 it has backfired so magnificently on the Democrats that it's worth taking a few
00:00:09.600 moments to review just how bad it's gotten for them. Also, tragedy strikes as media matter
00:00:14.520 suffers massive layoffs. Leftists and media declare that Caitlin Clark benefits from
00:00:18.680 white privilege in basketball. And a man on Wheel of Fortune last night makes the worst
00:00:23.620 mistake in the history of game shows. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:53.420 Well, unlike the national news media, I have not spent a lot of time talking about the day-to-day
00:01:57.600 happenings in the Donald Trump criminal trial in New York. And there's a few reasons for that. First
00:02:02.080 of all, everybody, regardless of politics, already understands that the trial is a farce. It's a
00:02:06.260 criminal proceeding over an alleged bookkeeping error that was supposedly made many years ago,
00:02:10.420 which harmed no one. The idea that the leading presidential candidate should be imprisoned on
00:02:14.660 this basis, even if these charges were somehow proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt,
00:02:18.740 is laughable. In the third world, they at least invent plausible-sounding charges before they
00:02:23.120 throw political dissidents and opposition leaders in jail. But in this case, we're left with falsifying
00:02:28.120 business records in the first degree. I mean, it sounds like something Michael Scott would accuse
00:02:32.480 one of his employees of doing. It's just a laughable on his face. The other problem with going into
00:02:36.460 any great detail about this case is that it risks legitimizing the proceedings.
00:02:40.420 This is why CNN has panels of 25 guests every night breaking down all the testimony and excruciating
00:02:46.620 detail. They want people to think of this trial as serious and fair, something worth analyzing at
00:02:51.780 a technical level. But it's not. And there's no reason whatsoever to accept the premise that this
00:02:56.560 proceeding is anything more than a show trial brought by a partisan prosecutor in one of the
00:03:00.420 most partisan jurisdictions in the country before a clearly unfavorable judge. But today, I'm going to
00:03:05.500 make an exception to my general approach to this trial. I'm going to talk about the trial because at this
00:03:09.080 stage, it's important to highlight what an unmitigated disaster it's been for the Democratic
00:03:13.980 Party with less than six months to go until the election. It's actually comical, as you'll see in
00:03:19.020 a second. Now, at a minimum, from a purely political perspective, this trial and the decision to make
00:03:24.740 this case the first Trump prosecution has backfired so spectacularly that it's been a clear net positive
00:03:31.420 for Trump and his campaign. That's why Donald Trump was able to hold a massive rally in the Bronx last
00:03:37.300 night, not exactly a traditionally pro-Trump part of town. And right now, it's all but certain that
00:03:43.340 this is the only trial, criminal trial, that Trump will face before the election. So there's no real
00:03:48.560 hope for Democrats to salvage their strategy of using lawfare to swing the vote. The collapse of the
00:03:54.660 prosecution's case was sealed with the testimony of their star witness, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
00:04:00.300 It was always clear, as even the most partisan CNN panelists have admitted, that without Cohen,
00:04:06.220 there's no case. He's the one claiming that Trump ordered him to pay hush money to a porn star to
00:04:10.580 protect Trump's campaign, that Trump also tried to reimburse him through fake invoices for legal
00:04:15.560 services. There are no cameras allowed in the courtroom because in New York, judges do everything they can
00:04:20.100 to imprison presidential candidates in secret. But fortunately, we do have transcripts of the
00:04:24.600 proceedings, and a handful of YouTube channels have conducted dramatic readings of Cohen's
00:04:29.280 cross-examination by Trump's defense team. And one of those channels is called Good Logic.
00:04:34.700 It's run by a lawyer, and it's known for its legal analysis. So they're the perfect channel for the
00:04:39.440 job. And they understand how absurd Cohen's testimony is. So they have a hard time keeping a
00:04:45.240 straight face. I'll go in chronological order throughout the testimony so that you can get a
00:04:49.260 sense of how things escalated, or rather, spiraled out of control for the prosecution.
00:04:53.600 And I'll start with Michael Cohen claiming that Trump's team had secretly reimbursed him in part
00:05:00.200 for the hush money payment. And for context, Michael Cohen had previously testified that he
00:05:05.340 made around $420,000 a year from the Trump organization. That was his consistent pay year
00:05:10.700 after year. But in this testimony, Cohen attempts to claim that one year, his $420,000 salary was
00:05:19.000 actually a partial reimbursement for the hush money payment. Watch.
00:05:24.760 And I believe your testimony is that the way that the $35,000 a month, the way that that number
00:05:30.080 was kind of developed was $130,000 for the payment to Ms. Daniels, right?
00:05:35.340 Correct.
00:05:36.620 $50,000 from the Red Finch polling situation.
00:05:40.400 Yes, sir.
00:05:41.740 That's $180,000, right?
00:05:43.960 Correct.
00:05:44.480 And then your testimony is that Mr. Weisselberg said, let's gross that up and double it,
00:05:50.060 which brings you to $360,000.
00:05:59.940 One second, I need to answer with a straight face.
00:06:02.460 That's correct.
00:06:05.840 Yeah, they just voluntarily said, they voluntarily said, let's just double how much money we're
00:06:10.780 going to give you. Let's just do that.
00:06:12.440 That's correct. That's exactly what he said. I didn't have a gun to him or anything. And
00:06:17.280 he voluntarily just said, I didn't even suggest it. He just threw it at me. Yeah, yeah. Why
00:06:22.600 don't we just double that?
00:06:23.300 That's what happened in every business deal.
00:06:24.040 He paid $180,000. We're going to give you back $360,000 because that's how our business
00:06:28.400 operates. That's correct.
00:06:32.820 And then Mr. Weisselberg said that you were getting another $60,000 bonus.
00:06:37.320 Why not? Yes, sir.
00:06:39.180 So it's $360,000 because we're doubling the $180,000 and then tacking on another $60,000.
00:06:45.820 Now, the case is not clear. Everything after the reenactor started laughing wasn't the actual
00:06:49.540 testimony. They couldn't even get through the transcript because the claim they were reading
00:06:52.640 was too absurd. Cohen's saying that the Trump organization didn't pay him $420,000 because
00:06:58.280 that's what they always pay him. Instead, Cohen is claiming that during that particular year,
00:07:02.380 the Trump team paid him $420,000 because they were giving him the hush money loan payment
00:07:07.380 and then doubling it and then adding a bonus because they were feeling generous, I guess.
00:07:13.700 In other words, Cohen is claiming that this secret arrangement, which allegedly involves
00:07:17.840 funneling a lot of money to a porn star and then reimbursing Cohen, just so happens to add
00:07:22.200 up to Cohen receiving the same pay he would normally receive anyway. In order to sell a story
00:07:28.100 like that to the jury, a story that doesn't make a lot of sense, you need to have a very
00:07:31.360 trustworthy, unimpeachable witness. But in the next few minutes, Cohen made it clear that he's
00:07:36.300 not only untrustworthy, he's also done something far worse than anything Donald Trump is accused
00:07:40.740 of doing. Watch.
00:07:42.680 You never gave the $30,000 that was owed to the guy that owned Red Finch, did you?
00:07:48.340 No, no, no, sir.
00:07:50.280 So you stole from the Trump organization, right?
00:07:53.320 Oh, yeah. Yes, sir.
00:07:55.160 Did you ever have to plead guilty to larceny?
00:07:58.600 Oh, no, sir.
00:08:00.560 Have you paid back the Trump organization the money that you stole from them?
00:08:05.220 No, sir.
00:08:08.020 So this is the prosecution's star witness admitting on the stand to willfully stealing
00:08:12.140 tens of thousands of dollars from his employer and not paying it back.
00:08:16.280 By any measure, that's a lot more serious than falsifying a business record, allegedly.
00:08:21.020 But Newark prosecutors never had any interest in investigating Michael Cohen for that and
00:08:24.200 said they gave him immunity to testify.
00:08:25.800 That wasn't because Michael Cohen had any kind of credibility prior to this trial.
00:08:29.460 Even before he admitted on the stand to stealing from his employer, Cohen previously lied to
00:08:34.020 both Congress and the Justice Department.
00:08:35.680 Additionally, Cohen had told numerous reporters in recorded calls on the record that Trump had
00:08:41.340 nothing to do with the hush money payment.
00:08:43.600 And he admitted that during this cross-examination as well.
00:08:46.440 Watch.
00:08:46.600 You and Mr. Albstein went to visit Mr. Croman, who's in jail here in New York City.
00:08:52.260 Yes, sir.
00:08:53.480 And this is around the time or right after the time that the story of you making the payment
00:08:57.180 had been released, right?
00:08:59.080 I'm sorry.
00:08:59.600 One more time, please.
00:09:01.360 When you went to visit him in jail, it was right after the story had been leaked out that
00:09:05.360 you made the payment to Stormy Daniels, correct?
00:09:07.960 Yes, sir.
00:09:08.500 And do you remember saying that both of them, insisting to both of them that President Trump
00:09:13.640 knew nothing about it?
00:09:15.820 I don't recall specifically saying that, but it would have been what I would have said at
00:09:19.940 that time.
00:09:20.520 Yes, sir.
00:09:21.860 You spoke to, again, we talked about it a lot, but you spoke to Ms. Haberman about it
00:09:26.900 and told her that President Trump didn't know about it, right?
00:09:30.680 Yes, sir.
00:09:31.940 And you also, and you said that on the record, right?
00:09:35.320 Yes, sir.
00:09:35.820 You recorded conversations with multiple reporters where you told them you didn't
00:09:40.940 know, correct?
00:09:42.220 No, sir.
00:09:43.960 Do you recall a conversation with a reporter named Suzanne Kianpour with the BBC?
00:09:49.280 Yes, sir.
00:09:50.300 Do you recall recording a long conversation with her in early February about the payment?
00:09:54.700 Yes, sir.
00:09:55.880 And do you recall telling her that there is no way you had told President Trump about
00:10:00.280 it at the time?
00:10:01.020 Do you remember telling her that?
00:10:02.740 Sounds correct, yes.
00:10:03.820 So these are conversations that Cohen recorded, sometimes secretly, in which he affirmed again
00:10:10.280 and again that Trump had nothing to do with these payments.
00:10:12.420 And Cohen apparently didn't only tell that story to reporters.
00:10:15.720 A defense witness, Robert Costello, also testified that Cohen told him in 2018 that Trump, quote
00:10:20.960 unquote, knew nothing about the $130,000 payment that he made to Stormy Daniels.
00:10:25.680 Throughout the trial, Trump's defense team outlined why Cohen has a motive to change his story
00:10:30.240 and lie about Donald Trump.
00:10:31.900 One of the main reasons is that he was apparently upset that Trump didn't give him a job in the
00:10:36.580 White House.
00:10:37.680 Getting left on the sidelines like this seems to have caused some problems in the relationship.
00:10:41.860 Earlier in the trial, Trump's lawyers played audio tapes of Cohen saying that the trial,
00:10:46.700 quote, fills me with delight, and that he felt, quote, giddy with hope and laughter imagining
00:10:52.280 both Trump and his family in prison.
00:10:54.180 Because in court, in front of the jury, Cohen essentially said the same thing.
00:10:58.300 He admitted on cross-examination to saying that he wanted revenge against Donald Trump.
00:11:05.140 Now, you also testified on Thursday that you were mad at President Trump.
00:11:09.280 You blamed him, at least in part, for what happened to you, correct?
00:11:12.980 That's correct.
00:11:14.700 You said, and we played it for the jury, that revenge against President Trump is a dish that is...
00:11:20.140 Served best cold.
00:11:22.840 Best served cold, correct?
00:11:25.140 Correct.
00:11:26.600 And you meant it when you said it then, correct?
00:11:29.000 You meant it when you said it then.
00:11:30.880 Yes, sir.
00:11:32.220 And you meant it when you said it just now.
00:11:35.000 Yes, sir.
00:11:37.380 So again, this is the man that the prosecution's case depends on.
00:11:41.860 Without his testimony, they have no chance of convicting Donald Trump,
00:11:44.820 even if they manage to prove the existence of falsified records.
00:11:48.540 Cohen's testimony is the link between Trump and those records,
00:11:52.740 and there's no reason to believe anything Cohen says.
00:11:56.080 In a sane jurisdiction, the judge would have issued a directed verdict by now.
00:12:00.380 The case would be dismissed.
00:12:01.880 The prosecutor would be sanctioned for attempting to imprison the leading candidate for president
00:12:05.620 on the basis of testimony from a witness who's clearly been discredited.
00:12:09.640 Instead, a witness who is, by his own testimony, a liar, a thief, who's out for revenge.
00:12:16.000 But it's not clear what will happen next, because this case is being tried in New York with a
00:12:20.340 clearly pro-prosecution judge, an electorate that overwhelmingly supported Joe Biden in the
00:12:25.240 last election.
00:12:26.300 Still, there are signs that there is some political diversity on the jury.
00:12:30.280 During jury selection, eight jurors said that they read the New York Times,
00:12:33.100 while one juror said that he gets his news from Truth Social.
00:12:37.120 In a political show trial like this, that's as good a sign as any that
00:12:40.360 there might be a hung jury here, because it's hard to imagine a Truth Social user voting to
00:12:44.860 convict Donald Trump.
00:12:46.280 At the same time, the judge is doing everything he can to encourage the jury to convict.
00:12:50.620 Under New York law, in order to convict Donald Trump of felony falsification of business records,
00:12:55.620 the jury needs to unanimously agree that Trump falsified documents in order to conceal a separate
00:13:01.160 crime. But the judge recently ruled that the jury doesn't need to unanimously agree about what
00:13:05.900 the separate crime is. And the prosecution hasn't suggested anything. As far as I can tell,
00:13:11.940 it seems like the idea is to suggest that Trump was trying to conceal some kind of campaign finance
00:13:19.380 violation, which is a notoriously confusing area of law. And that's why the defense wanted to put a
00:13:25.160 campaign finance law expert on the stand, but the judge prevented the defense from doing that.
00:13:28.820 Instead, the judge allowed Michael Cohen to strongly imply that Trump had violated campaign finance
00:13:35.340 law without explaining how. This was a predictable problem from the moment New York prosecutors
00:13:40.260 unveiled their criminal complaint against Trump, which listed 34 felony counts, all of them saying
00:13:45.040 that Trump had concealed some other crime. But the complaint never mentioned what the other crime
00:13:51.500 was. Everyone assumed the prosecution would eventually get around to explaining that part.
00:13:56.040 Well, they just rested their case. And still, they have no idea what the other crime is. It has not
00:14:03.940 been explained, so the jury doesn't have to figure it out. For all the talk about how Donald Trump is a
00:14:08.680 threat to the rule of law and democracy, this trial is easily the single most lawless, vindictive,
00:14:14.860 and undemocratic prosecution that's been brought in modern history. They're trying to imprison the man who
00:14:20.280 could very well be the next president on the basis of a crime they can't even define based on the
00:14:25.460 testimony of a witness who admits he's a liar who's out for revenge. If there's any upside, it's that
00:14:31.060 prosecutors in New York have managed to thoroughly discredit not only themselves, but every other effort
00:14:35.680 to imprison Donald Trump. So thanks to Alvin Bragg, now everyone can see these prosecutions
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00:15:45.840 That's tnusa.com slash Walsh. All right, we begin with some tragic news today. Here's the report from
00:15:52.320 Mediaites. Media Matters for America laid off over a dozen staffers on Thursday as former employees took
00:15:58.780 to X to announce they were out of a job. Catherine Abugazala, also known as Cat Abu, posted,
00:16:05.560 bad news. I've been laid off from Media Matters along with a dozen colleagues. There's a reason
00:16:11.100 far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers. They know how effective our work
00:16:17.160 is, and it terrifies them. Parentheses, him. Abu appeared to be referring to Elon Musk, who filed a
00:16:24.520 defamation suit against the progressive media watchdog last November over a report claiming that major
00:16:28.720 corporate ads on X were being shown alongside white nationalist content. Media Matters President
00:16:32.980 Angelo Carusone hit back at Musk's threat of a suit at the time, saying Elon Musk has spent the
00:16:38.540 last few days making meritless legal threats, elevating bizarre conspiracy theories, and lobbing
00:16:43.520 vicious personal attacks against his enemies online, even if he does not follow through with
00:16:47.440 this threat to sue the volatility of actions reinforced by major brands are rightly skittish
00:16:52.300 of partnering with X. So they're blaming Elon Musk for the fact that these layoffs are happening,
00:16:57.200 even though of course they're the ones who defamed him, with what was in fact a false story.
00:17:04.280 And then there's a bunch of other Media Matters employees who were tweeting about how they lost
00:17:09.040 their jobs. So massive layoffs. Lots of conservatives are celebrating the layoffs. And if you can believe
00:17:17.520 it, there are conservatives that are saying really uncharitable things about this story.
00:17:22.560 Um, they're even saying that they're happy that these employees were laid off. There are people
00:17:28.540 saying that they're saying that Media Matters employees are the worst people on earth and
00:17:34.540 deserve to be unemployed. And they hope that they can never find another job. I mean, there are people
00:17:39.780 saying that, you know, they're saying that Media Matters only ever tries to cancel people and get
00:17:44.900 people fired. That's their whole mission in life. And so they richly deserve for the same thing to
00:17:48.820 happen to them. That's what's being saying, being said. Uh, I mean, I've heard, I've heard just
00:17:54.620 terrible things. I've heard them. I've heard people say that, um, you know, Media Matters is nothing
00:18:00.420 more than a collection of, of utterly useless scumbags who contribute nothing of value to society.
00:18:06.440 Um, I've heard that. Someone said to me that Media Matters is basically the human equivalent of like a
00:18:12.900 colony of termites. You know, they're saying that Media Matters is, uh, they're, they're the, the, uh,
00:18:18.280 the tapeworms in the intestines of, of society. I've heard these things. People have said these
00:18:23.560 things. I've heard them. And I'm not saying this because I'd be dehumanizing language. I'm not saying
00:18:29.880 it. I'm telling you what these people have said. Uh, I mean, they're saying that Media Matters,
00:18:34.900 you know, uh, that, that Media Matters employees, I've heard someone say that Media Matters employees,
00:18:39.980 they even had a cameo in the first Jurassic Park movie as that giant pile of dinosaurs.
00:18:45.780 And, um, again, this is what people have been saying. And, you know, I think they're terrible
00:18:50.220 things. They're terrible things to say. They're, they're, they're popping champagne and celebrating
00:18:54.040 the demise of Media Matters and the fact that all these people have lost their jobs.
00:18:58.380 I'm not saying any of this because I'll tell you why I'm horrified by it and, and shame on all the
00:19:04.480 people that are saying these terrible things. I would never celebrate this kind of misfortune being
00:19:08.840 visited upon Media Matters. How could I, how could I celebrate the decimation of my own PR department?
00:19:17.420 I mean, Media Matters has done so much work. Um, I'll say thanklessly, they've done so much
00:19:23.760 thankless unpaid work on my behalf. And I feel ashamed of that, that I have never, uh, I have
00:19:32.140 thanked them, but I've never, I've never paid them a dime for any of this. And yet they promote me and
00:19:37.900 they promote my work. Um, there's no organization on earth that's been more dedicated to marketing me
00:19:43.740 and helping to grow my brand. They've done more than, than anyone for, for me. They really have.
00:19:50.720 Um, I owe them a huge debt of gratitude and I'm worried now that with the organization falling
00:19:56.140 apart, that they won't be around to promote me anymore. And, and so that's, that's a fear that I
00:20:01.000 have. I mean, just to give you an idea of how dedicated they've been and how good they are at
00:20:05.540 marketing me. I just went back just to review their most recent headlines about me.
00:20:11.340 So here are some of the headlines just from the last couple of weeks. Matt Walsh rants against
00:20:15.680 Native American reservations. You got conquered. Okay. It happens. Daily Wire host defends using
00:20:22.120 anti-black racial slur in a friendly way. Did I, did I say that? Um, Matt Walsh says a lot of
00:20:29.720 undocumented, documented immigrants are whiny little babies. Matt Walsh should white men just
00:20:35.640 build, maintain, and run their own airport. I'd be quite happy to use that airport personally.
00:20:39.720 I think most people would actually, uh, Matt Walsh, the people that are destroying the planet,
00:20:44.800 the worst offenders of destroying the planet are non-whites. Matt Walsh calls for arming teachers
00:20:50.260 in schools saying there's no magic button to prevent mass shootings in schools.
00:20:53.360 In response to Caitlin Clark contract controversy, Daily Wire host says the WNBA shouldn't exist and
00:21:00.160 nobody watches it. So these are just some of the most recent headlines. And at, you know,
00:21:06.360 you could see how adept media matters is at highlighting my best moments and my best points.
00:21:12.880 They're very good at it. They've got a real ear for this sort of thing. And, you know,
00:21:17.540 they've been following my work for so, for so long, they've been working so hard to promote me
00:21:20.740 that, um, I don't think anyone could ever truly replace them. And now what's going to happen?
00:21:27.860 I mean, I mean, what's going to happen to me is what I'm saying.
00:21:31.240 Like the real question here is whether these layoffs are going to mean fewer headlines about me.
00:21:38.820 That's what I'm worried about. And I think more people should be worried about it. And frankly,
00:21:43.840 even though I'm, I'm gutted by this news and, and, uh, I feel very sorry for the media matters
00:21:48.620 employees who lost their job. I will say I was a little taken aback by all of the former media
00:21:53.280 matters employees who've been tweeting about getting laid off and making it all about them.
00:21:59.100 And none of them, not a single one have offered me any condolences or acknowledged how difficult
00:22:06.060 this is for me. Can you believe I haven't even gotten a personal message from any of them
00:22:10.300 saying, Hey Matt, you know, we got, we lost 12 employees. There might be fewer, there might be a
00:22:16.580 little bit less, uh, there might be fewer headlines about you and, and, and really, really sorry about
00:22:21.440 that. You know, I hope that you'll be okay. What, what can I do for you? What can I do to make you
00:22:26.140 feel better about this? No, no one has said that to me at media matters now. Sure. I'm still earning a
00:22:31.560 paycheck and these people are now unemployed and will have trouble finding new jobs because they have
00:22:36.540 no skills or professional achievements to speak of. But again, I'm the one facing the harrowing
00:22:43.860 prospect of having fewer headlines written about me in the future. And that is very difficult.
00:22:51.480 That that's what I'm dealing with. Okay. So if you're in media matters and you lost your job today
00:22:56.560 and you're waking up without a job, think about, think about what I'm going through. All right.
00:23:01.480 All right. New York post reports the view co-host Sonny Hostin argued that white privilege and pretty
00:23:08.100 privilege played a role in Indiana fever star Caitlin Clark's popularity during the ABC talk show
00:23:13.400 on Wednesday. The co-hosts of the view were discussing former ESPN host Jamil Hill Hills argument that Clark
00:23:19.540 owed much of her popularity to her race and sexuality. Hostin said earlier in the discussion that she had no
00:23:24.620 issue with Clark bringing the WNBA some much needed attention. But it seems that she in fact does.
00:23:31.840 So let's let's go ahead and watch the video. You know, I've been a basketball fan since I can
00:23:37.020 remember. I played basketball with my dad in Harlem when I was five years old. I remember loving the game
00:23:42.980 and the game not necessarily loving women back, right? At all. At all. And the WNBA started in 1996.
00:23:50.860 First games played in 1997. It's 2024. And we're just really now talking about it. And so if Caitlin
00:23:59.920 Clark is the vehicle that will bring this sport that I have loved so much and so long to little
00:24:08.080 five-year-old girls playing in Harlem, I say yes, bravo. I have no problem with that.
00:24:13.540 Okay, let's pause there just for a moment because she says that women loved the game,
00:24:17.000 but the game didn't love women back. Now I honest to God have no idea what that's supposed to mean.
00:24:23.260 How is a game supposed to love you? What do you mean the game doesn't love you?
00:24:30.320 That is, I mean, no offense, but that's the most womanly complaint about sports that you could
00:24:36.260 possibly have. I mean, that's next she's going to start nagging the game for not spending enough
00:24:41.520 time with her and, you know, not being more emotionally honest with her. No, it's not that
00:24:46.840 the game didn't love women. It's the other way, of course. Not many women have loved the game.
00:24:52.800 Okay, that's the whole issue here, which isn't really an issue. It doesn't need to be an issue.
00:24:57.260 Like, I don't consider it a problem. If women don't like basketball for the most part,
00:25:00.780 fine, who cares? But that's the case. Only a very small percentage of women care about basketball.
00:25:06.580 And by the way, most of the women who do care about basketball still just want to watch the NBA
00:25:12.880 because the NBA is more interesting and it's more exciting because the players are approximately
00:25:18.380 5 billion percent better than the WNBA players. So that's what's going on here. That's the entire
00:25:25.520 issue. But let's continue with this very insightful analysis here.
00:25:32.840 With that being said, I do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege. There is a thing
00:25:41.440 called white privilege. There is a thing called tall privilege. And we have to acknowledge that. And
00:25:47.600 so part of it is about race, because if you think about the Brittany Griners of the world,
00:25:54.140 you know, why did she have to go to play in Russia? Because they wouldn't pay her.
00:25:58.520 Because they wouldn't pay her. Not because she was black, but because they didn't believe in the WNBA.
00:26:04.440 This is part of my point. So now, you know, Caitlin Clark is bringing this money,
00:26:11.160 these sponsorships, we hope, into the league and other players will benefit from it. But I do think
00:26:17.580 that she is more relatable to more people because she's white, because she's attractive. And
00:26:23.620 unfortunately, there still is that stigma of against the LGBTQ plus community. 70% of the WNBA
00:26:30.740 is black. A third of the players are in the LGBTQ plus community.
00:26:36.340 Okay, so this is where we are now. She's claiming that Caitlin Clark has white privilege
00:26:41.820 in basketball. Okay, she's claiming that people haven't wanted to watch basketball because there
00:26:50.760 are too many black people. Now, of course, the problem with this theory is the existence of almost
00:26:57.120 every professional sport in the country, because most of them have a wildly disproportionate number
00:27:02.440 of non-white people. And yet, the big ones are still wildly successful. So yes, the WNBA has
00:27:10.440 gotten terrible ratings and sold like five tickets total in the 25 years of its existence. And Sonny
00:27:17.600 says that's because there are so many black people in it, I guess, and America's racist. Except that
00:27:21.800 the NBA, during that time, has done extremely well. And it has the same amount, if not more,
00:27:28.500 black people. So how do you explain that? How do you explain why the NBA does better than the WNBA?
00:27:35.820 How does that fit into your racial picture here? If we're at the point where you're somehow finding
00:27:43.360 anti-black racism in basketball, of all places, then we've really reached the end of the race hustle.
00:27:51.520 We have reached its bottom. Now, I know that we can't actually reach the end. It will continue
00:27:58.360 no matter what, untethered from reality. But still, this should be the end. When you find a way to
00:28:04.760 make basketball racist against black people, then there's nothing more to be said. It's just, you
00:28:09.560 can't, that's it. There's nothing to discuss or debate anymore. Now, with all that said, I also have
00:28:19.820 to echo something that's, I think it was Jesse Kelly said this on Twitter. It's an important point,
00:28:26.220 which is that, okay, fine. What if white people are now, some anyway, are now more interested in
00:28:35.320 women's basketball because it has a white star? Fine. So what? Why is that a problem?
00:28:44.000 I don't even necessarily buy this argument, but, and I certainly don't buy the privilege, the way,
00:28:49.300 you know, framing it as privilege is insane. But let's go with it for a minute. And then the next
00:28:56.280 question is, who cares? Like every other race is allowed to have more interest in something when
00:29:02.140 they see themselves, quote unquote, represented. And we take that for granted. We celebrate it.
00:29:08.100 You know, the fact that Tiger Woods got more black people interested in golf, for instance,
00:29:12.660 nobody sees that as a negative. Nobody's talked about how problematic that is. There's never been
00:29:18.780 one conversation anywhere of people saying, well, I don't know. This is, this is, is there black
00:29:25.500 privilege in golf because of Tiger Woods? Like that's basically, because it's the exact opposite,
00:29:34.940 right? But this, that's basically, it's, it's, it's as absurd claiming that Caitlin Clark has white
00:29:39.860 privilege in basketball is like saying that Tiger Woods had black privilege in golf.
00:29:47.460 But no one ever did say that. And no one ever found anything problematic about a black person
00:29:53.780 saying that, you know, they became interested in golf because of Tiger Woods. Nobody has a problem
00:29:58.320 with that. Yet if a white person uses the same logic, has the same motivation for now becoming
00:30:05.100 interested in women's basketball. It's a problem. Why? Why should it be? But you have to actually
00:30:13.320 explain that. And you can't, which is why we can't accept that premise. So, okay, it might be true
00:30:20.260 that there is increased interest in Caitlin Clark because she's white in part. That's not white
00:30:28.180 privilege. But that might be true in the same way that there was increased interest in Tiger Woods.
00:30:40.480 And that's because it's unusual for a white woman in particular to be good at basketball.
00:30:46.520 It's an un, or certainly to be that good in comparison to the other women in the WNBA.
00:30:51.960 Anyway, it's an unusual thing. It's unusual. So unusual things are stories. Unusual things are
00:31:00.240 stories more than normal things are stories. When we see something that is the same thing we've seen
00:31:05.840 a million times, it's not much of a story, which is why there was never any story about,
00:31:10.900 can you believe this white guy is really good at golf? No one ever said that. There are plenty of
00:31:14.220 white people that have been very good at it, but the fact that he's white was never,
00:31:16.760 it's not a story because it's not unusual. It's normal. But when you have an unusual thing,
00:31:22.840 it becomes a story. Who cares? And if there are white women out there who now care more about
00:31:30.000 women's basketball because of Caitlin Clark, okay. Isn't that the whole point of representation?
00:31:38.000 Isn't that what we've been told relentlessly for years now? Haven't we been told that people need to
00:31:43.360 see themselves represented in all of these different spaces? And I don't buy that. I don't
00:31:48.840 think representation is, it's fine. It's not something to pursue for its own sake. I don't
00:31:54.440 think we need to look at an institution or a company or a sport or a genre of entertainment or whatever
00:32:02.400 and say, well, there's not enough of this race and we need that race represented. So let's,
00:32:06.780 we don't need to do that. But if it just so happens that someone of a certain race ends up in a
00:32:11.280 certain field where it's uncommon for them to be there, fine. And that's just an important point
00:32:16.120 because I think that most people will sort of take issue factually with some of the things that
00:32:24.020 somebody like this person on The View said, the white privilege stuff, like that's kind of the
00:32:29.700 low hanging fruit. It's easy to dispute that because it's so ridiculous, but there won't be as
00:32:37.020 many people who go to the next part and say, okay, well, even if you're right, who cares?
00:32:42.320 Like, why is that an issue? But it's important for us to do that.
00:32:48.200 We've been debating playing this. It's not exactly newsworthy.
00:32:54.880 Well, it is newsworthy. It's, you know what? Nevermind. It's newsworthy. It is,
00:32:58.580 it is newsworthy because it's the worst, it's the worst wrong answer in the history of Wheel of
00:33:04.940 Fortune. Okay. This is, it's going viral today. And, you know, I'll be honest, I see these kinds
00:33:11.600 of like game show, you know, mess up videos sometimes. And these bloopers, game show blooper
00:33:21.460 reels that you see on social media all the time. And usually they're sold as, oh, this is the dumbest
00:33:27.580 thing anyone's ever said. And like, you watch it and you're like, oh, it's pretty dumb, but it wasn't
00:33:30.360 that bad. But what people are saying is that this is the worst mistake anyone's ever made in the
00:33:36.280 history of Wheel of Fortune. And in this case, I think it actually lives up to the billing.
00:33:39.880 It's truly the worst wrong answer. It probably not just in Wheel of Fortune history, but
00:33:44.140 in game show history, period. I think it lives up to that. I really do. I don't think I'm overselling
00:33:50.320 this thing here. If you haven't seen it, you'll see why in a second. Let's play this. This is from
00:33:57.020 Wheel of Fortune, I think, last Thursday night. This is what happened. Watch.
00:34:00.940 Our first toss up is worth $1,000. Category is phrase and off we go.
00:34:14.900 Tavares, right in the butt.
00:34:17.200 What?
00:34:19.520 No.
00:34:24.280 Blake.
00:34:25.140 This is the best.
00:34:26.160 Yeah, that's it, I think. Yeah.
00:34:28.640 Much better answer.
00:34:31.640 Blake gets $1,000.
00:34:39.160 I mean, when you get that from your fellow, when you get a what? From your fellow contestants,
00:34:45.200 you know you're screwed up. That doesn't usually happen. And so that, yeah, that's, how do you
00:34:53.160 recover? I don't, now I want to go back and watch the whole episode.
00:34:56.520 How does that guy, how do you recover? I think at that point you have to just put the little
00:35:01.800 clicker thing down and leave. You got to say, all right, guys, that's it for me tonight. I'm
00:35:06.600 heading out. That's, what am I going to do now? I can't do anything else.
00:35:09.920 And you know, the other thing too is that they, I mean, we can't go into a lot of detail analyzing this,
00:35:20.240 but there were not enough letters to spell right, R-I-G-H-T. So it would have to be like R-I-T-E, R-I-T,
00:35:31.900 that kind of right. And so you put that together and it, it, it takes on even weirder connotations
00:35:39.400 that I can't, well, we don't need to think much about it. In any case, this does bring up
00:35:47.920 an important point as I desperately grasped for some reason to justify having played that for you.
00:35:56.000 But I think it does bring up an important point when I think of what it is. And you know, but I've said
00:36:03.800 this before. I like Wheel of Fortune. I like Jeopardy. I like game shows in general. It's just not worth it
00:36:11.920 these days. It's not worth it to, to go on a game show these days. I wouldn't do it. I don't care how much
00:36:21.980 money is at stake. I wouldn't do it because there, there, there's, there might be money at stake,
00:36:26.280 but there's too much else at stake these days. You can't do it now. Cause think about it back in
00:36:31.740 the old days, pre-internet, pre-social media, back then it was different. You could, you know, you could
00:36:38.280 go on Wheel of Fortune and you could give a wildly wrong answer about something. And, and then,
00:36:48.580 and that's it. People might see it if they're watching, happen to be watching the show that,
00:36:52.660 that evening, but that's it. That's, there, there isn't, there wouldn't be any place for that moment
00:36:59.320 to live forever in infamy. You know, there, there would be no way if someone in 1992 was watching
00:37:06.620 Wheel of Fortune and they saw that, they'd laugh hysterically. Maybe they'd tell their friends about
00:37:12.260 it. Maybe if they had the VHS go and they would record it. But other than that, there's no place
00:37:19.480 for them to go and say, Hey guys, did you all see this? If you guys weren't watching Wheel of Fortune
00:37:23.320 last night, check it out. Here is this moment of this guy humiliating himself. There wasn't any way
00:37:27.280 to do that. And so you, you could probably horrifically embarrass yourself and survive.
00:37:34.880 And most of the people that you encounter for the rest of your life will have never seen that
00:37:38.340 moment. Cause it, it happened one time and never again. It may be, you know, reruns or something,
00:37:44.080 but for the most part, there was that one time. Now, now it's immortalized. If you say something
00:37:51.980 really stupid, it's immortalized. It does live forever. There's a place where it can go and it
00:37:59.460 will just be there forever. And now like Bill, think about this. And I don't want to make this guy
00:38:06.120 feel worse about himself than he already does, but I am going to make him feel worse about himself
00:38:11.180 because like billions of people are going to see that over the next several years. Billions
00:38:17.360 are going to see that moment. Um, and so it's just not, it's just not worth it. It's not worth it.
00:38:27.800 There are other ways to make, and on Wheel of Fortune, how much money do you earn anyway?
00:38:31.920 You know, they still, they have, I don't think they've increased their amounts. I don't,
00:38:34.760 I haven't watched Wheel of Fortune recently, but they're not keeping up with inflation.
00:38:38.360 So people are still walking away, winning like you won $12,000. Oh, great. What does that buy you?
00:38:46.180 That's like one night hotel stay holiday in and a dinner at five guys. Well, good. I'm glad that
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00:41:06.240 You might remember that about a year ago, there was a coordinated effort to attack Supreme Court
00:41:16.920 Justice Clarence Thomas for going on vacations with a couple of his wealthy conservative friends.
00:41:21.760 The idea was that Clarence Thomas was being bribed and possibly breaking the law by not publicly
00:41:26.180 disclosing these trips. And therefore, the Supreme Court is illegitimate and Democrats don't have to
00:41:30.180 obey its rulings. That was the idea. They figured that if they can't pack the court, then they can at
00:41:34.400 least discredit the court in the eyes of the public. Now the whole scandal kind of fizzled
00:41:37.900 though after the Daily Wire reported that left-wing judges were doing the same thing.
00:41:41.760 Sonia Sotomayor, for example, made millions of dollars from Random House, but she didn't recuse
00:41:46.020 herself from cases involving the company. And somehow Democrats didn't have any problem with that
00:41:50.460 though, which exposed their whole attack on Clarence Thomas as a politically motivated hit job,
00:41:54.580 which of course is what it always was. Now at the time, it was clear that activists on the left
00:41:59.920 would regroup and come up with another line of attack on the Supreme Court. And last week,
00:42:03.460 they made their move. They launched the single most desperate smear campaign that they possibly
00:42:09.220 could have come up with. It began with a story in the New York Times about an upside down flag outside
00:42:14.200 of the home of Justice Samuel Alito. We mentioned this briefly on the show a few days ago. Here's
00:42:20.280 ABC's stern sounding, no nonsense evening news anchor to explain.
00:42:26.340 We turn next tonight to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito under fire after an image of the American flag
00:42:32.100 being flown upside down at his home for several days. This is the image of the flag outside his home,
00:42:37.940 the image from the days after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Tonight, Justice Alito
00:42:42.700 blaming his wife. Here's Terry Moran.
00:42:46.220 Tonight, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito embroiled in controversy after the New York Times
00:42:51.620 published a photograph showing the American flag outside Alito's house flying upside down.
00:42:57.600 The Times says the picture was taken in January 2021, just days after the January 6th attack on
00:43:03.680 the Capitol. Some Trump supporters that day held aloft upside down American flags as a sign of their
00:43:09.660 rejection of Joe Biden's election. The U.S. flag code says the American flag should never be flown
00:43:15.640 upside down except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger. Alito's neighbor,
00:43:22.420 Aya Carlson's remembers seeing Alito's flag that way in 2021. In my mind, I just said,
00:43:29.640 there's something wrong with the flag. Today, she saw the story in the New York Times.
00:43:36.140 And I said, oh my God, of course that is what it was. It was hanging upside down.
00:43:42.260 Great neighbor, by the way. Good, good, good thing to do to your, uh, to your neighbor to go
00:43:46.960 ratting them out to the media. And that makes a lot of sense. The neighbor saw the flag three years
00:43:53.020 ago, but she couldn't figure out that it was upside down until she saw a picture of the flag
00:43:57.280 in the New York Times. She just knew that something was off about the flag,
00:44:02.120 couldn't recognize that it was upside down. And now she has the answer. Oh, it was upside down.
00:44:07.340 Mystery solved. Now, it's not clear why this woman is speaking to a national news station instead of
00:44:11.480 heading to an optometrist's office. It could be that she sees the entire world upside down,
00:44:16.600 which would obviously inconvenience her life in many other ways. But we really don't know what
00:44:20.520 this woman's issue is because ABC never pushes her to explain her confusion. ABC also doesn't
00:44:25.340 explain why it took three years for somebody to send the photo of the upside down flag to the New
00:44:29.160 York Times. And most notably, ABC doesn't articulate any clear link between the upside down flag and
00:44:35.460 January 6th. At the Wall Street Journal, Kim Strassel went looking for any references to upside down
00:44:41.080 flags and January 6th coverage prior to this Alito report in the New York Times. She searched a large
00:44:47.540 database of news articles and didn't find a single reference. So why are we only learning now that
00:44:53.820 January 6th is connected with upside down flags? And why are news organizations acting like we should
00:44:59.520 have known this all along and that Samuel Alito should have known this? Now, obviously, with all these
00:45:05.580 unanswered questions, this image was never going to sustain a scandal. And on top of that,
00:45:09.440 Alito directly refuted all the allegations. He said his wife put up the flag, not him. And
00:45:13.460 he said it was a response to something his neighbor did, not January 6th. So there was no kill shot
00:45:18.300 here. There was just an old photo of an upside down flag. Fortunately for Democrats who want to
00:45:22.900 destroy the Supreme Court, though, there was another shoe to drop. Watch. Now, while that boycott was
00:45:29.820 raging last August, according to a search of financial records by legal reporter Chris Geidner,
00:45:35.540 Justice Alito sold a chunk of stock in Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, and he bought shares,
00:45:42.400 of course, on the same day. Kid Rock was out shooting up Bud Light cases and Sam Alito was selling his
00:45:49.560 Anheuser-Busch stock. Now, you could say, well, I don't know, maybe just a coincidence if it weren't for
00:45:55.320 everything else we know about Sam Alito. So it's not even clear what they're complaining about here
00:46:02.480 or what we're supposed to take from this. Apparently, Sam Alito was guilty of not wanting
00:46:07.480 to lose money. He sold his Bud Light stock when the company was in a tailspin. He actually sold it
00:46:13.300 well after it began its steep decline. So there's clearly no insider trading going on here. And when
00:46:19.020 he bought shares, of course, which was doing better, that's why he bought it. Boy, he bought it on the
00:46:24.920 same day. I like how they emphasize that. He sold those stocks and bought these on the same day.
00:46:33.620 Wow. Thanks for letting us know. We're supposed to conclude, according to the Rachel Maddow
00:46:39.300 impersonator guy, that this could be more than a coincidence. Well, yeah, it's not a coincidence at
00:46:46.400 all. You're not supposed to, now, I'm no stock market expert, okay? But this is not how investing
00:46:56.300 in stocks is supposed to go. You're not supposed to just do things randomly with no reason behind
00:47:02.580 it. That's not how it's supposed to work. And it's not how it worked here. There was a clear cause and
00:47:06.400 effect. The company was tanking, so he sold the stock. Maybe he didn't think the stock would go
00:47:12.100 back up. So you wanted to cut his losses. Maybe he didn't like the company's advertising. Maybe
00:47:16.820 it's a bit of both. Who cares? Why should we care exactly? Well, that's never explained. There's no
00:47:21.780 conflict of interest that's even claimed here. There is no major Bud Light Supreme Court case that
00:47:26.300 Samuel Alito ruled on. He didn't dump the stock right before ruling that Bud Light should be banned
00:47:31.940 or whatever. So what's the problem? We're apparently told to fill in the blanks because no one really
00:47:37.360 knows. Now, at this point, if you were running the smear campaign, you might consider aborting
00:47:41.920 the mission. It's clearly not working out as intended. It's not even making sense.
00:47:46.560 But the other day, there was yet another volley in this campaign of unmitigated, flailing
00:47:51.920 incoherence when we circled back once again to flag controversies. Only this time, the left
00:47:57.900 tried to find something sinister in the fact that Alito's beach house had a flag that people
00:48:02.640 have been flying since the Revolutionary War. Watch. The developing headline tonight involving
00:48:08.580 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, just days after images emerged showing an upside-down American flag
00:48:14.580 flying outside his home for several days after January 6th. Tonight, the new report on a second
00:48:20.140 flag, this time at his beach house. Here's our Chief Justice Correspondent, Pierre Thomas, now.
00:48:25.520 Just days after the nation saw an image of an upside-down flag outside of the home of Supreme
00:48:31.420 Court Justice Samuel Alito in the days after January 6th, a symbol of the Stop the Steal movement,
00:48:37.440 a new photo tonight raising yet more questions. The New York Times publishing images of a pine tree
00:48:43.400 flag outside of Alito's New Jersey beach home last summer with the words, appeal to heaven. Like the
00:48:50.300 upside-down flag, the pine tree flag was carried by some pro-Trump supporters on January 6th as the
00:48:56.600 Capitol was attacked. Tonight, it's unclear who allegedly placed the flag and what
00:49:01.400 kind of statement was being made. The flag, which dates back to the Revolutionary War, has also been
00:49:07.240 associated with Christian nationalism.
00:49:10.860 I love the headline, Second Alito Flag Incident.
00:49:15.460 Because you can, you know, this is what you could do. You take any innocuous, take something totally innocuous
00:49:21.100 and just call it an incident. And then when it happens again, there's a second one.
00:49:25.780 So they could say like, the second Alito shoe incident. Yes, on Monday, Samuel Alito was found
00:49:34.380 wearing shoes. And on Tuesday, he wore shoes again. Coincidence?
00:49:40.240 So this time around, the flag is right side up, but it's still a problem because they're saying the
00:49:45.020 1775 pine tree flag was flown by some January 6th protesters. So Alito is an insurrectionist and needs
00:49:51.020 to be removed from the court. Never mind the fact that the pine tree flag is displayed right now in
00:49:55.960 the Capitol outside the Speaker of the House's office. Never mind that it was flown by a frigates commissioned
00:50:01.520 by George Washington. Never mind that it's been flown by thousands of people for centuries.
00:50:09.220 None of that matters because the January 6th protesters waived it. Therefore, it's been
00:50:13.700 helplessly corrupted. So follow this logic to its conclusion. And what you'll find is that we have
00:50:20.560 to ban pretty much everything else that the insurrectionists, quote unquote, insurrectionists,
00:50:24.800 waived or possessed, including the current American flag. That's obviously an insurrectionist symbol
00:50:33.300 because there were a lot of those in the crowd that day. Any Supreme Court justice with an American
00:50:38.220 flag outside of his or her home should be disqualified immediately. That's the new rule, I guess.
00:50:42.160 So what you have to do before you wave any flag, you need to go and look, scour the footage from
00:50:48.000 January 6th and take note of every type of flag that was present at that event. And then you can
00:50:58.840 never fly that flag again. Now, it appears that that would be the current position of dozens of
00:51:04.040 House Democrats. As the Washington Post reported this week, quote, nearly 50 House Democrats called
00:51:08.040 on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from January 6th related cases on Tuesday.
00:51:13.680 The lawmakers asked Alito to decline to participate in deciding a pair of major cases the Supreme Court
00:51:17.880 is slated to rule on in the coming weeks, whether Trump may be criminally prosecuted for his efforts
00:51:22.560 to remain in office after losing the 2020 election, and whether the Justice Department can use an
00:51:27.080 obstruction charge to prosecute more than 300 January 6th rioters. One of the leading congressmen
00:51:32.920 who organized that letter is Hank Johnson, who famously warned that Guam could tip over and capsize
00:51:39.220 because too many military personnel were on the island. So, you know, we're dealing with some
00:51:43.420 intellectual heavy hitters here. Unfortunately for Democrats, in typical Hank Johnson
00:51:47.700 fashion, that letter is not exactly subtle. It gives the game away. The objective of this current
00:51:53.820 smear campaign is to undermine and intimidate the Supreme Court ahead of rulings that might help
00:51:57.600 Donald Trump. They want to do everything they can to ensure that Trump isn't elected, so they're
00:52:02.240 digging three-year-old photos up and spreading bizarre, incoherent lies and conspiracy theories
00:52:08.860 about flags and Bud Light stock. Now, I began the show with a discussion of the Donald Trump trial
00:52:14.640 and how obviously farcical it is. And I wanted to end with the attacks on Samuel Alito because
00:52:19.520 they're similar in one very important way, which is that they're both absurd and totally self-discrediting.
00:52:26.600 Yes, they're trying to imprison the leading presidential candidate because of an invented
00:52:29.880 crime. And yes, they're trying to discredit the Supreme Court because of a couple of flags that
00:52:34.820 they don't even understand. To be sure, those are not signs of a functioning or healthy society,
00:52:39.600 we can say. Now, at the same time, it's also a very good sign that these activists and politicians
00:52:43.480 are so completely, unbelievably clumsy and stupid. They're not anywhere near smart enough to pull off
00:52:50.540 the coup that they're attempting. They've made that very clear. And as we head into the Memorial Day
00:52:56.200 weekend, with less than six months until the election, that is some much-needed good news to
00:53:01.560 celebrate. And that's why the Samuel Alito flag truthers and everybody else who's pretending to be
00:53:06.720 terrified of flags that they don't remotely understand are all today canceled. That'll do
00:53:13.260 it for the show today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Tuesday. Godspeed.