The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1478 - My Case For Trump

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, with one day to go until the election, I will present my own

00:00:03.520 closing argument for Donald Trump. Also, bombshell revelations in the Daniel Penny trial only make

00:00:08.760 it more clear that charges never should have been brought. Arizona's attorney general is

00:00:12.520 investigating Trump for criticizing Liz Cheney, just more lawfare being used by the Democrats,

00:00:17.580 who are the only ones who ever use it. Joe Biden fantasizes about inappropriately touching Donald

00:00:21.800 Trump, and the country comes together to mourn the loss of a squirrel named Peanut. We'll talk

00:00:26.260 about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:32.620 7 Central, only on Paramount Network. When Donald Trump first entered the political scene almost a

00:02:39.020 decade ago, I did not like him. That is a generous way of putting it. I really didn't like him. The only

00:02:45.540 thing I knew about Trump at the time, aside from the fact that he was a reality TV star,

00:02:49.180 was that he was a longtime Democrat from New York who was friends with all of the worst people in

00:02:54.340 media and politics. And all of those people hate him today and openly root for his political and

00:02:59.200 physical demise. But that wasn't the case in the early days of Trump's political life. So back in

00:03:03.940 those days, I thought that Trump was a leftist infiltrator. I thought that no matter what he promised,

00:03:09.980 he would govern from the left. I thought that electing him would be the same as electing a

00:03:15.380 far-left Democrat because that's what he was, I believed. Now, it turns out I was wrong. Not for

00:03:21.120 the first time. Sadly, not for the last. But I was wrong. Trump did not govern like a Democrat 0.54

00:03:27.760 infiltrator sent by the Clintons to destroy the Republican Party from within, a conspiracy theory

00:03:33.320 that I admit I once entertained. If he did, if he had governed that way, then they wouldn't have spent

00:03:38.700 the last four years trying to send him to prison or failing that to the morgue. You know, if I had

00:03:44.580 fallen into a coma in January of 2017 and missed the entirety of Trump's tenure and woken up in

00:03:50.560 January of 2021, I would still know that Trump was a successful conservative president based entirely

00:03:56.880 on how they've treated him ever since. Indeed, I would have all the reason that I needed to vote for

00:04:02.020 him on that basis alone. They have tried to destroy him. Leftist elites have waged a campaign of

00:04:07.260 vengeance unlike anything ever seen in the history of American politics. And that is reason enough

00:04:13.140 to vote for him in 2024. I don't even need to know what happened from the years 2017 to 2021.

00:04:19.400 But I do know because I was thankfully actually alive and conscious during that time.

00:04:23.540 So I saw that Trump fulfilled his promise to appoint constitutionalist justices to the Supreme Court,

00:04:29.380 who then went on to overturn the most abominable decision in the history of the court,

00:04:33.540 a decision that cost 60 million American lives. I saw that Trump enforced our immigration laws and

00:04:39.000 defunded sanctuary cities and sent criminal illegal aliens to prison. I saw that Trump's time in office

00:04:43.980 was also a time of relative peace all over the globe. He prevented wars rather than starting them,

00:04:49.900 which was a kind of a novel strategy, at least compared to every other president in my lifetime.

00:04:55.300 And I saw that Trump presided over a strong and growing economy. The unemployment rate hit a low,

00:05:00.180 not seen in 50 years. Manufacturing jobs started coming back to America. The stock market hit record

00:05:04.700 highs. I saw all of that. We all saw it if we were paying attention. And here's what we did not see.

00:05:12.280 That would be any of the dystopian horrors that Trump's opponents keep warning us he will visit

00:05:18.080 upon us. He did not govern like a fascist tyrant drunk on his own power. He did not install himself 0.93

00:05:24.520 as dictator for life, which is why he's running for re-election. In fact, he exercised great

00:05:29.980 restraint. He didn't start any new wars. He didn't move to expand his own executive powers. He didn't

00:05:35.360 even issue that many executive orders compared to the three most recent presidents before him.

00:05:41.800 So that's why I'm voting for Trump. Why I believe you should too. He earned our vote. He earned it by

00:05:48.100 governing successfully and leading competently. Trump was already a good president, which is very

00:05:54.580 compelling evidence that he will be a good president. Now, nothing is sure in this life. You cannot

00:06:00.380 predict the future with absolute certainty. Yet you can be extremely confident that someone can do a

00:06:07.080 job well if they've already done it well. So that's the best selling point for Donald Trump as I see it.

00:06:14.020 The best selling point is who he is and what he's done. But the second best selling point is who he

00:06:20.780 isn't. And he isn't Kamala Harris. Now, I'm voting for Trump because we need him in the White House.

00:06:27.100 I'm also voting for him because we need to keep Kamala Harris out of the White House. Now, I'm not

00:06:32.860 going to spend a lot of time making the case against Kamala Harris here. I've done that literally every day

00:06:38.820 on the show for the past three months. I suspect that anyone who listens to this, anyone who is

00:06:43.700 even potentially reachable at this stage of the game, already knows that Kamala is bad. You know, 0.97

00:06:48.880 a bad leader, a bad vice president, a bad person. Totally unqualified for the job she currently holds, 1.00

00:06:54.640 even less qualified for the job she wants to hold. She is a far left radical. No matter how much she's 1.00

00:06:59.900 backtracked over the past couple of months, her record speaks for itself. She wants to open our borders, 0.78

00:07:05.060 defund our police, start more wars, kill more babies, take more money out of our pockets,

00:07:11.700 destroy our free speech rights, make the world less safe, make our communities less safe.

00:07:16.180 Now, she may be profoundly incompetent, but she is capable of doing all of those things.

00:07:22.040 And she will. And that's the point that I want to emphasize.

00:07:27.280 Kamala Harris may be a bumbling, empty-headed buffoon, 1.00

00:07:30.520 but she does have an agenda. And she will use the powers of the presidency to enact it. 1.00

00:07:36.660 And it will be a catastrophe for your family and for mine.

00:07:40.420 Now, I would vote against Kamala Harris no matter who she was running against. I'd vote for a house 0.98

00:07:44.060 plant over her. We've already had one of those running the country for four years. It's been a 0.96

00:07:48.260 disaster. But Kamala will be worse. Kamala gives us more than enough reason to vote for Trump.

00:07:54.740 But the good news is that we don't have to hold our nose. We can vote against Kamala and for Trump.

00:08:03.340 And we can do it proudly. Now, on that note, I want to say one last thing.

00:08:12.960 Trump's critics like to say that character matters. And they're right, it does. They say that we should

00:08:20.520 think about Trump's character before we consider voting for him. And they're right, we should.

00:08:26.820 Well, there is no character trait more important than courage. You know, C.S. Lewis once wrote that

00:08:34.060 courage is the form of every virtue at its testing point. Now, what he meant is that courage contains

00:08:39.680 all of the other virtues. Courage is how all of the virtues are expressed when push comes to shove.

00:08:46.700 So if you're the most virtuous person in the world, but all of your virtues disappear when you're under

00:08:52.360 fire, then you have no virtue. A man is defined by how he acts in those moments. So when you boil

00:09:00.960 everything down, only one question matters. Do you have courage? That is what separates the men who

00:09:07.540 shape history from the ones who will be forgotten by it. That is the dividing line. So now think about

00:09:14.620 the iconic picture of Trump raising his fist in the air right after he was shot in the head.

00:09:20.540 You know, most pictures are worth a thousand words, they say, but I think for the best pictures,

00:09:24.720 you only need one. And the picture of Trump, that picture of Trump, screams one word, courage.

00:09:34.020 Now, Trump's enemies may hate to admit it. They may never admit it. They will never admit it. But

00:09:40.100 Trump proved in that moment, and in the weeks and months that followed, that he is a man of exceptional

00:09:47.540 courage. He was shot. A few weeks later, he was nearly shot again. It takes immense courage to

00:09:55.220 continue along unfazed, still campaigning, still appearing in front of massive crowds,

00:10:02.020 even after a bullet came half an inch from blowing a hole in your skull.

00:10:07.940 The best thing that I can say about Trump, the thing that most testifies to his character,

00:10:13.300 is that if I had spent the month of July living in a cave, and I only reemerged in August,

00:10:19.920 and I had been following Trump closely ever since, I would never know that he escaped death by 10

00:10:26.920 millimeters. That's because the media has done everything they can to bury it and pretend it

00:10:31.780 never happened. But it's also because Trump is so completely unshaken by the event. He just doesn't

00:10:39.100 come off like a man who just suffered a severe trauma, though he did. When you face down your own

00:10:47.020 mortality and are not remotely rattled by the experience, and then you continue to put yourself

00:10:54.680 in vulnerable positions because you simply refuse to run and hide, you have courage.

00:11:00.900 You, in fact, have shown a kind of courage that nobody in American politics today has ever shown.

00:11:07.080 Nobody. Trump's relentlessly theatrical enemies have to invent all kinds of fantastical threats that

00:11:16.320 they are supposedly facing. They pretend that Trump is some sort of existential danger to them,

00:11:21.780 that their lives hang in the balance. But it's all performance. We know that. The truth is that

00:11:28.860 most of them are living lives of great comfort. And the irony is that if Trump wins, their lives will

00:11:35.780 only become more comfortable as the economy improves. So they're not facing down any threats.

00:11:41.160 They aren't showing any courage. They don't know what courage is. Okay, they're on the same side as

00:11:50.040 Hollywood and the media and corporate America and almost every powerful person in D.C. That's the

00:11:56.320 safest position you can possibly be in. They are safe. Trump is the one who is literally under fire.

00:12:04.380 Trump has actually taken a bullet in real life. It is not a performance for him.

00:12:12.900 So when it comes to character, Trump is not a perfect man. Neither am I. Neither are you.

00:12:22.180 But what I know is that when the bullets were flying, he stood tall. And that's the kind of man I want in

00:12:31.500 the White House. It's the kind of man we'll need in the times ahead. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:51.540 Let's start the headlines with something that is not directly election related, but I mean,

00:13:58.220 it's still very much election related. I guess it is directly election related. Nevermind.

00:14:02.800 The Daniel Penny case in New York City. We've been following the case closely on this show.

00:14:08.320 And now that it's gone to trial, some new details, new to us, but not new to the prosecutors who

00:14:14.560 brought this case, are coming to light. So here's the Daily Mail on Friday. This is the report.

00:14:20.760 Police detected a pulse on homeless man Jordan Neely after he was put in a chokehold by Marine

00:14:25.460 veteran Daniel Penny. Bombshell new body cam footage reveals. The video became public today

00:14:30.040 as Penny's manslaughter trial began in Manhattan. Penny, then 24, is accused of killing Neely by

00:14:34.840 putting him in what prosecutors say was a fatal chokehold. During opening statements today,

00:14:39.300 body cam footage of the moment cops found Neely was shown. NYPD officers arrived on the train at

00:14:44.960 Fulton Station at 2.33 p.m. Two police officers confirmed that Neely still had a pulse when they

00:14:50.860 arrived. I got a pulse, one said. A second police officer confirmed that he too felt a pulse.

00:14:55.460 Neely was unconscious, lying on the subway car floor. When asked how Neely ended up there,

00:15:00.520 Penny replied, I put him out. Despite initially detecting a pulse, they issued Narcan, the drug

00:15:04.960 used to reverse opioid overdoses to Neely, and started CPR 238. At 3.13, almost 45 minutes after

00:15:12.020 police first arrived, Neely was still on the train. He was not pronounced dead until he arrived at

00:15:16.760 Lenox Health Hospital in Greenwich Village later that afternoon. Among witnesses on the first day of

00:15:22.800 evidence was an NYPD sergeant who testified that none of his team performed mouth to mouth on Neely

00:15:26.960 because he was a drug user, quote unquote. Quote, he seemed to be a drug user. He was an apparent drug

00:15:31.700 user. He was very dirty. I didn't want them to get hepatitis. If he did wake up, he would have been 1.00

00:15:36.040 vomiting. I didn't want my officers to do that. He was filthy. You look like a homeless individual.

00:15:40.280 You have to protect your officers. I wouldn't want my officer to get sick if the person throws up.

00:15:43.940 Okay. So Neely had a pulse when officers arrived. They refused to perform mouth to mouth because he

00:15:51.300 was filthy and they didn't want to get sick. And then he was pronounced dead later in the afternoon.

00:15:56.800 So what are we doing here exactly? What is this case? Penny did not kill Neely. He was still alive.

00:16:06.140 He was still alive. The officers did not perform mouth to mouth. And now Penny is on trial. It seems

00:16:14.920 so that New York City can basically cover its own ass. And look, I'll say, I don't blame the officers 0.99

00:16:20.220 for not performing mouth to mouth on Jordan Neely. Getting hepatitis or some other disgusting disease

00:16:26.060 is a very real concern when you're putting your mouth on some tweaked out druggie. And, you know,

00:16:33.460 he throws up and then you just like your throws up into your mouth. I mean, that's I don't think

00:16:41.820 we should require police officers to contract diseases from homeless drug addicts as part of

00:16:46.940 their job. Like that shouldn't be part of the job that you just said, well, you're just going to get

00:16:50.020 a disease now. That's not a job requirement. And and I wouldn't, you know, I'll put a I wouldn't do

00:16:56.460 it. I'm not going to get infected by a drugged out vagrant. I'm just not. So so I get that. I do. 0.96

00:17:03.300 I don't blame them. But Daniel Penny did not kill Jordan Neely. He was alive. It sounds like it was.

00:17:14.580 Well, they don't tell us exactly like how long was it from when police arrived to when he was

00:17:20.280 actually pronounced dead. They just say later that afternoon. Sounds like it might have been hours

00:17:24.000 later. At the very least, it was more than 45 minutes. We know that. And he was obviously already

00:17:31.140 on drugs. Did the headlock even kill Neely? It doesn't sound like that's the case. Is this yet

00:17:39.040 another case where someone has an overdose? And then we end up sending someone else to prison

00:17:45.340 because that person happened to be making physical contact with the guy who was overdosing?

00:17:50.800 Is that what it is now in America? Like if you're in the vicinity of someone who overdoses,

00:17:54.680 now you go to jail for killing them because they chose to take a lethal dose of drugs?

00:18:02.640 I mean, we don't know if that's what happened here. We don't know. I mean, the facts are still

00:18:06.560 coming out, but it sounds like it sounds very, very likely, very plausible.

00:18:10.500 And listen, if you have an overdose, that's on you. Nobody should go into prison for that,

00:18:19.360 whether you're George Floyd or Jordan Neely or anybody else. Your overdose is your own fault.

00:18:24.140 Nobody else's. The idea that anybody else should go to prison for that, I mean, unless you want to

00:18:29.500 arrest the drug dealer who gave you the drugs, then I'm all on board with that. But somebody who was

00:18:37.580 not involved in the drug transaction, being arrested for it, that's crazy. 0.88

00:18:45.680 Someone, in fact, who was protecting the community from you because you were cracked out of your skull

00:18:50.620 and acting in a threatening way. That's even crazier. And again, we don't know if Neely actually died of 0.94

00:18:56.300 a drug overdose, but there is precedent for this kind of thing. We know that. And what makes this so

00:19:02.380 outrageous is that even if Neely actually was killed by Daniel Penny, incidentally,

00:19:11.840 even if Penny, while restraining Neely, accidentally caused him to lose his life, 0.79

00:19:17.840 it would still be an absolutely ridiculous, insane, outrageous miscarriage of justice to put

00:19:25.720 Penny on trial for that. Neely was threatening people on the train. That's a fact. Like, 0.72

00:19:32.240 nobody disputes that. He had to be restrained. You know, if you're acting in an explicitly

00:19:39.440 threatening way and somebody has to restrain you because of how you're acting and you die

00:19:44.560 as a result, that's your fault. That's on you. You know, and even if they use a little bit more

00:19:52.800 force than they needed to, that's, we don't, the onus, when you are the one who is a threat to the

00:19:59.480 people around you, the onus is not on everybody else to make sure that they restrain you in exactly

00:20:05.180 the correct way so that it doesn't harm you. This isn't, the whole thing now is your fault.

00:20:09.940 Whatever happens next is your fault. That's on you.

00:20:15.200 Don't want to get choked out on the subway. Don't go around threatening to kill people.

00:20:18.580 Pretty simple. It's like not a high bar to clear here.

00:20:24.260 So even if the prosecution's theory of the case is true, this would still be a monumental injustice,

00:20:30.560 but it sounds like their theory isn't even true. And so that just makes it, you know,

00:20:37.140 that just means that really everybody involved in bringing this case, everybody involved in

00:20:42.120 prosecution should be in jail. Like, you should go to jail for this kind of thing. That's what should

00:20:47.240 happen. The prosecutors in this case are a much greater threat to the public than Daniel Penny

00:20:54.640 is. Daniel Penny is actually protecting the public, right? Like the, who, I don't care where you pretend

00:21:04.320 to stand on the Jordan. Would you feel unsafe having Daniel Penny in your neighborhood on the train with

00:21:12.480 you sitting next to you somewhere, but would you feel unsafe? No. If anything, you'd feel safer.

00:21:19.340 You're not going to feel unsafe unless you're planning on getting up and threatening to kill 0.89

00:21:22.860 people. Well then like maybe you would feel less safe, but you should feel less safe in that case.

00:21:29.560 So Daniel Penny is not making the community less safe. These prosecutors are on the other hand.

00:21:36.380 By prosecuting law abiding people who are protecting the community, they are actively making the

00:21:40.660 community less safe. All right. Our reporter, uh, Spencer Lindquist here at the Daily Wire went to

00:21:47.100 a Kamala Harris rally over the weekend to talk to Kamala supporters and find out why they're voting

00:21:51.380 for Kamala. And, uh, I guess just to see if they're really as delusional as they seem. That's my own

00:21:58.140 editorializing. That's not what Spencer said in his coverage. But, um, anyway, it turns out that,

00:22:03.240 yeah, they're, uh, they are delusional, uh, just as much as you think, if not more so. In fact,

00:22:09.300 watch this. So tell me a bit about Trump's agenda and what about it, uh, is, is most scary,

00:22:16.700 most concerning to you. He says that he's going to take anybody who disagrees with him and put them

00:22:21.660 in jail. And from there, he's going to deport them out of the United States altogether. And I think he

00:22:26.900 wants to basically turn this into a white Christian nation, which it is not. He hates everyone. He hates 0.95

00:22:34.280 his followers. And he will, he will totally try to destroy all life on earth before he dies. 0.99

00:22:40.580 That's who the Trump is. Do you think that the rhetoric of him being a Nazi or a fascist might 0.96

00:22:45.180 encourage other people who are going to try and take him out, you know, violently? I mean,

00:22:49.140 I don't know if that's the leap I would make. I think it is a totally reasonable assumption. I

00:22:54.840 mean, Elon Musk is wearing a make America great hat in the Nazi font. That is, that was definitely the

00:23:00.220 side there. It was frightening and disgusting. He is, he's Nazi. He's a fascist. Of course he is. Yes. I

00:23:08.420 think he's a full fascist authoritarian. What I will say to you is if he wins in November, it is going

00:23:14.360 to be the birth of the American Nazi party with him as the top of it. What do you think America looks 0.79

00:23:20.900 like if Trump wins? I mean, we've been hearing that he's a fascist or that he's a Nazi. Did you agree 0.88

00:23:25.840 with those characterizations of him? Yeah. He's the most repulsive person in public life.

00:23:31.580 He's a floating island of trash. Him and his supporters. If you can't tell Trump is the most 1.00

00:23:37.320 blatantly obvious criminal of all time, oh, you. You committed treason and we hate your ever 0.99

00:23:43.080 guts. You have a binary choice. You can either vote for a good, a good qualified politician or you 0.99

00:23:50.480 can vote for a, the Donald Trump who is a big red pimple on the act of the, of the American body 0.68

00:23:57.720 politic. All right. So you got a guy with a balloon of Trump in a diaper with a swastika. Uh,

00:24:06.220 I mean, and you know, and then a lot of other crap. I mean, there was also the guy in a, 0.87

00:24:09.740 I think that was a man in a COVID mask. Um, but a couple of things about that. So, so first of all,

00:24:15.060 where do you get, I'm watching the balloon, the guy with the balloon, like, where do you get

00:24:20.320 something like that? Where do you, where do you buy, where do you buy a balloon of Trump in a diaper

00:24:30.420 with a swastika? Is that something, do you pick up a party city? Is that, um, do you have to custom

00:24:35.140 order it or do you buy the Trump baby balloon and then draw your own swastika on it? Uh, that's what I

00:24:40.620 want to know. And aren't there two competing messages there? That's a, it's a very confusing,

00:24:45.800 uh, the, the, the, the, the illustration that you're missing. It's very confusing because

00:24:51.660 it, it either, either it's, it seems to me either Trump is a baby or he's Hitler incarnate

00:25:00.820 or he's none of those things, but you can't really be both of those, right? Like I know that Hitler was, 0.87

00:25:07.440 was a baby at one point, but if someone, if we're supposed to take someone serious as a serious

00:25:13.240 threat to the Republic, like Hitler reincarnated, um, then that can't also be a baby because a baby

00:25:20.740 is not a threat to anybody. Nobody is threatened by a baby. Uh, babies are, are harmless. Now I know

00:25:27.240 if you're on the left, maybe this is confusing for you because you hate babies and you kill them. 0.99

00:25:32.400 Um, so maybe, you know, maybe you don't quite understand that because your mind is so warped, 1.00

00:25:37.400 uh, and you're such a fundamentally evil, uh, disgusting person. But I think for everybody 0.99

00:25:43.160 else, we see that and they're like, well, okay, what do you want? Am I supposed to be scared of

00:25:47.000 Trump or am I supposed to think that he's a ridiculous baby? I, for normal people, you can't 1.00

00:25:52.640 do both. We cannot hold both of those thoughts in our head at the same time about one person

00:25:56.560 because there's a disconnect because we're not threatened by babies. We don't find babies to be

00:26:02.000 threatening. So you really got to go one or the other on that. Um, and the other thing too,

00:26:08.360 is that you see the swastika there and it, uh, you'll notice that left-wing political events

00:26:13.580 have way, way more swastikas than right-wing events. In fact, because right-wing events,

00:26:20.540 Trump rallies, whatever, have no swastikas. So there's zero. If you go to a Trump rally,

00:26:24.800 you go to a, any kind of right-wing rally, you're going to see zero swastikas. Um, all,

00:26:32.180 all of that is the left, like the left, a hundred percent of the swastikas that are being waved,

00:26:40.600 worn, drawn on balloons, a hundred percent of them are, that's happening on the left.

00:26:47.740 That's just a fact. So, um, anyway, what do these people have to say? Why are they afraid of Trump?

00:26:54.100 They say they're afraid of him because, uh, they say he's going to arrest and deport everyone who

00:26:58.160 disagrees with him. He's going to turn this country into a Christian theocracy. Uh, he hates 0.99

00:27:04.620 everyone. He wants to destroy all life on earth. And when I hear that, I think, well, that would be

00:27:13.760 true, uh, if I was the candidate. So when I assume my rightful throne after Trump's next term,

00:27:22.400 then those will all be totally reasonable things to say. You'll be executed for saying them, 0.60

00:27:27.240 but they would be reasonable. Like that would be true in my case. But, uh, in Trump's case,

00:27:32.380 none of that has even the vaguest attachment to reality. Like none of that it's, it's not in the

00:27:39.020 ballpark of anything. Trump's going to arrest and deport anyone who disagrees with him.

00:27:45.100 Where, where is that in from Trump's record to anything that he said, where do you find that?

00:27:52.280 What are you basing that on? Uh, you've extrapolated what Trump has said he's going to do. And I hope he

00:27:58.640 does in fact do is deport illegal immigrants. So you've extrapolated from deport illegal immigrants

00:28:04.840 to deport anyone who disagrees. Um, now, of course, I, I realized that if you were to ask them this

00:28:12.180 and say, well, where'd you get that from? Uh, they, they wouldn't be able to tell you they've,

00:28:15.780 well, they got it from their own fevered mind. That's, that's their own feverish mind is where they got

00:28:21.840 all this stuff. Um, and speaking of feverish minds, um, on Friday, we, we, we had, uh, we talked about

00:28:32.720 what, what may prove to be the final Trump hoax of the campaign. There's still a day left, so we'll

00:28:37.980 see. Uh, maybe they can fit one more in, but the hoax was that Trump threatened to kill Liz Cheney.

00:28:43.740 And it was a total lie. Of course, we talked about it as a total lie, absolute nonsense 0.92

00:28:47.440 fabrication. Trump did not threaten Liz Cheney. Obviously he merely pointed out how she sends

00:28:53.760 young men off to go die on, on foreign battlefields. And she would never want to do that herself.

00:28:58.740 You know, she's, she's, she does that from, uh, the comfort of her home or her air conditioned 0.76

00:29:02.960 office in DC. Very true. Factually correct. And also a point that many of us have made many times

00:29:10.080 a very kind of normal thing to point out about these neocon war hawks. So the claim that he

00:29:16.300 threatened her was again, total nonsense. Uh, but nonetheless, it led to this. Here's a MSNBC with

00:29:22.600 the report. Bram Resnick, the political anchor and reporter from our NBC affiliate in Phoenix,

00:29:29.560 KPNX joins us. Uh, talk about this, this breaking news regarding Donald Trump's comments that he made

00:29:35.840 about Liz Cheney in Arizona last night. The attorney general is responding.

00:29:42.520 That's right. I just spoke to attorney general, Chris Mays about, uh, two hours ago for the taping

00:29:47.820 of my Sunday show. Uh, she told me she'd just got gotten off the phone with her criminal division

00:29:52.740 chief and she was investigating whether what Donald Trump said about Liz Cheney constituted a death

00:29:59.960 threat under Arizona law. Uh, I'll tell you under Arizona law, it is illegal to make threats or

00:30:06.040 intimidate. Someone can be charged as a class one misdemeanor, class six felony. Uh, Chris Mays told me

00:30:12.520 they're looking into it. I asked her whether this was just political speech at free speech. Uh, she

00:30:17.720 said, we're checking to see if it crossed that line, but she also put it in the larger perspective.

00:30:23.220 If you're here right now, you begin to understand how this place is ready for a high security event

00:30:31.200 on Tuesday, an election. Uh, our sheriff's office is talking about a no tolerance policy for protests.

00:30:38.140 Chris Mays is activating all her agents. Every law enforcement agency in the state is involved with

00:30:45.580 protecting the vote, protecting voters. So that's Chris Mays brought that into the conversation that

00:30:52.100 for Donald Trump to make these kinds of remarks at this time, such a really fraught and intense moment,

00:30:59.340 uh, here in Maricopa County is just bad.

00:31:02.980 So this is of course, uh, nakedly partisan lawfare. Once again, criminally investigating

00:31:10.220 Trump for something that is clearly, clearly, clearly protected political speech. Uh, it's

00:31:16.420 lawfare. Um, Trump, as we know, has been the target of lawfare many times. This is something that only

00:31:21.220 the left ever does only the left. They are the only ones who engage in lawfare. They are the only ones

00:31:26.680 who try to use the courts, use the law, use criminal charges and criminal enforcement against their

00:31:32.080 political enemies. Um, Republicans never do this. Democrats constantly do this. This is like a, uh,

00:31:41.280 this is like it, you know, it's, it's, it's a nuclear war that isn't actually a war because one country

00:31:47.800 is just nuking the other ones to smithereens and the other one is, is, is showing restraint, right?

00:31:54.960 Showing restraint because they don't want things to get out of hand,

00:31:57.340 but they are out of hand. They've been out of hand. It's just that, you know, only one side is

00:32:06.560 suffering the consequences, which means it's just going to continue. If your enemies pummel you and

00:32:12.120 you don't hit back, uh, why would they ever stop? Why would they stop? Why would the left ever stop

00:32:19.960 using lawfare? If, if they could just do it unopposed and nothing's going to happen to them?

00:32:27.780 Why would they stop? Um, or to use an analogy that maybe Tim Walls would understand if you're

00:32:34.900 playing football and the other team is up by 45 points in the eighth inning and they're hitting

00:32:39.640 all their jump shots, then why would you let your foot off the gas? You know, why would they let their

00:32:45.960 foot off the gas and let you off the mat? I'm a big fan of sports games like Tim Walls is. So, uh,

00:32:52.080 I just, I can't help but make the sporting sporting event analogies. Uh, my point is that if, if they

00:32:58.200 are, if they're the only ones who do this, then there's no reason why they will ever stop. They're

00:33:02.920 not going to ever stop. Um, which means that Republicans have to respond by using lawfare themselves.

00:33:10.940 It's just the only way, you know, you need Republican AGs to go after Democrats, uh, in

00:33:19.600 similar circumstances and for similar sorts of things. It's the only way that it stops because

00:33:25.900 if not that, then we're just sitting around waiting and hoping that maybe eventually they'll,

00:33:33.520 they'll just have enough and they'll, they'll stop hitting us because they feel bad.

00:33:38.020 It ain't going to happen. No, they're just going to keep ramping it up.

00:33:44.920 And if Kamala Harris wins, then, uh, this campaign of lawfare, we haven't even seen,

00:33:50.700 you, we've seen, you ain't seen nothing yet. Okay. If, if Kamala Harris wins, um,

00:33:56.700 and not just the ways that they're going to target Trump, like, yeah, if Trump loses,

00:34:00.980 they're going to try, they are going to put him in prison. That is going to happen, but, uh,

00:34:04.560 it's not just going to be him. He's not going to be alone. Um, and the only way to make it stop

00:34:12.340 is for the left to get a taste of their own medicine and to realize that, okay, you know,

00:34:16.280 you can continue playing this game, but you will suffer consequences for it. It's, it's,

00:34:20.120 it's not going to be, we are not, we refuse to be the only ones who are suffering this.

00:34:25.960 You will also be made to suffer it. And then at least you give them something to think about.

00:34:34.280 Maybe the Arizona AG is hesitant to open a criminal investigation over something like this.

00:34:41.440 If they thought that, okay, well, you know, if we do this, uh, they, they're definitely like,

00:34:46.900 they're going to come back and they're going to try to do it to one of ours. I don't know if it's

00:34:51.240 worth all that. If they don't have to make that calculation, they will never stop.

00:34:55.960 All right. I want to play this quick clip from, uh, Trump's rally over the weekend.

00:35:01.300 One, one of his rallies, this is, uh, it's 45 seconds, probably my favorite,

00:35:05.180 one of my favorite things Trump has ever said. Um, no exaggeration. And when, when you hear it,

00:35:09.600 you'll know why it, why it resonated, especially with me. Um, cause very much singing my tune here.

00:35:15.940 Let's listen to this.

00:35:18.140 And we are just three days away from the greatest political victory in the history of our country,

00:35:24.820 I guess, in the history of the world. But it only happens if you vote, if you don't vote,

00:35:30.700 then bad things could be happened. You'll be very depressed. And we don't want to have depression,

00:35:35.420 right? There's no depression. You know, the best way to stop depression, work your ass off.

00:35:42.240 You don't have time. You want to work so hard that you don't have time for depression,

00:35:50.180 but I didn't come here looking for your money. I don't need your money. I don't want your money.

00:35:55.440 All I want you to do is get out and vote.

00:36:00.660 So the best way to stop depression is, uh, to work your ass off. He says, and he's exactly right.

00:36:09.180 I mean, and this is coming from a guy, Trump, who knows about working your ass off.

00:36:13.340 So, uh, take it from me, you know, take it from him rather. If you won't take it from me,

00:36:17.460 I mean, I've said it, I, I, you know, I've probably made this same point 10 million times

00:36:21.080 on the show. If you want to take it from me, then take it from Trump. Um, in most cases,

00:36:26.880 you can stop depression from working hard. You know, the reason why we have so much depression

00:36:33.640 in the modern world, one of the reasons is because only in the modern world,

00:36:37.660 and only in the richest countries in the modern world, is it even possible to live and survive

00:36:42.780 and be comfortable without working hard. Um, so for, for a lot of people, working hard is kind

00:36:50.420 of a choice. You can choose to not work hard and you'll still survive. You're not going to have all

00:36:56.840 of the nice things that people who work harder will have, but you could, you could get by,

00:37:01.140 you can get by and survive without working hard. Um, it's an option. Like you go for most of

00:37:07.500 human history for the majority of people on earth, the most of human history for almost

00:37:11.420 everybody on earth with the, with the exception of the top of the top of the top. Um, there really,

00:37:17.620 like you didn't have to give speeches about working hard cause it really was not an option. I mean,

00:37:20.940 you, you had ever living every day was hard work. It's just surviving was hard work. You had to work

00:37:25.960 to survive. And if you didn't work hard, you would just die. And so nobody really has to give you a

00:37:31.000 lecture about it. Um, there really wasn't much of a choice, but, but these days there is. And,

00:37:36.380 um, and so if you choose not to, then, you know, depression is kind of what happens when you have

00:37:42.800 too much time and energy to spend on, on dwelling on your own feelings. Now that's not saying that

00:37:46.960 everyone who feels depressed is not, is not a hard worker. That's not the point. Um, the point is

00:37:52.520 that when you, if you're not working hard, it does, it breeds that. Um, and if you're really

00:38:01.500 working hard, I mean, and Trump is talking about this in the context of the election,

00:38:05.520 but obviously he'd be the first to say that this is, uh, this is beyond the election. This is about

00:38:11.680 life. This is how you live, uh, beyond the election. And I'd say in my, in my own case on the times of my

00:38:19.340 life, when I've got, you know, I've got a bunch of different projects I'm working on, I'm doing,

00:38:23.580 you know, I'm working on a movie. I've got the show that I'm doing. Of course I have six kids.

00:38:26.880 There's always a lot of hard work involved in that. It's like so many things happening and, uh,

00:38:32.780 uh, long-term, like working on long-term things that I'm thinking about short-term tasks I have to

00:38:38.180 complete. I don't have time. Like I don't have time to be depressed. It's just not even, it's not,

00:38:43.280 I don't have time for it. Um, it's only when, you know, you, you step back and, uh,

00:38:54.500 and maybe you get a little bit lazy and you look around, there's not as much to do. And then,

00:38:59.660 and then you have time to dwell and to think and to kind of like internalize and do all those sorts

00:39:03.500 of things. Um, and you know, Trump as an extremely successful person is, is saying the set, like any,

00:39:14.320 any extremely successful man will tell you exactly what he just said. Every single one.

00:39:22.280 I mean, I defy you to find an extremely successful man who will not say that.

00:39:26.140 I know it's not like these days with the, we're supposed to say depression is nothing but a disease

00:39:30.280 and it's, it has no relation to lifestyle at all. And it's, it just happens and there's nothing.

00:39:35.500 Uh, I know that's the popular view of things, but it should tell you something that you will not find

00:39:39.920 an extremely successful man who, who would disagree with that. They would all say the same thing.

00:39:44.020 They all extol the value of work. And if you understand the value of work,

00:39:49.840 it's kind of, you kind of get everything. You understand the value of work.

00:39:54.780 You'll be successful and you'll be happy. You'll have, you'll kind of have it all.

00:40:00.280 Um, and, uh, I think there's no, no doubt about it. Finally, I got to, well, I've been,

00:40:09.740 I would rather not play this video cause it's rather disturbing, but I, I feel like we have to,

00:40:17.000 because I don't know. It's, um, it feels significant, like something's going on here

00:40:25.220 and we got to talk about it, unfortunately. So, so here is Joe Biden a couple of days ago.

00:40:32.940 This is not out of context. Like there is no context to this clip that would make it okay.

00:40:38.220 Really? So, uh, so you don't even need to know the context, but the context is that Biden is talking

00:40:44.460 about Trump and he's talking about what he would like to do to Donald Trump. Let's listen.

00:40:53.740 But I'm serious. These are the kinds of guys you'd like to smack in the ass. 1.00

00:40:58.100 These are the kinds of guys you'd like to smack in the ass. He says, and he really put some feeling 1.00

00:41:07.620 into it. Like he, he put some force into it. He meant it. This was not the stumbling, stuttering,

00:41:13.800 not knowing what to, this, he meant it. Like he's been thinking about this and he, he let it out.

00:41:19.740 Uh, I never thought we'd get to the point where the president of the United States was openly

00:41:23.260 threatening to sexually assault his political rival, but here we are. And if you're Trump,

00:41:29.960 how are you supposed to feel about this? Like I feel bad. What is, how are you supposed to feel

00:41:35.260 if you're Donald Trump and you hear that clip grossed out? Yeah. Uh, but I don't know.

00:41:42.960 I mean, he's, I just wish that Biden could have held on a little bit longer.

00:41:48.220 He almost made it to the end of the campaign without vocalizing his sexual fantasies about 0.62

00:41:54.520 Trump. Uh, he almost made it. He, he, he almost got there. We, we never would have had

00:41:59.520 to hear this, but he couldn't contain himself. He just couldn't, he couldn't keep it in and he had

00:42:03.920 to let it out. And, um, you know, now if I'm Trump, I think I'm, well, yeah, I mean, I guess

00:42:13.900 just like, thanks, I guess, but, but, uh, I'm married and I'm not gay, you know, but, but,

00:42:18.880 but thanks man. Uh, but I'm also thinking that I think I'd rather they go back to threatening to

00:42:24.540 kill me, uh, and trying to kill me over this. I think I'd prefer that. I prefer that over Biden 0.78

00:42:31.420 grunting about how he wants to touch my butt. Like if I'm, if I'm Donald Trump, that's what I'm 0.99

00:42:36.400 thinking. So this is, um, anyway, that's, that's Biden's closing argument. That is his closing

00:42:43.340 argument against Trump is that he wants to smack him in the ass. It's, uh, it's unorthodox. It's 1.00

00:42:50.120 an unorthodox argument. I got to say, we haven't heard that one before. Uh, man, we'll, we'll see.

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00:44:53.400 Whenever I come across a viral story about animal martyrdom like Harambe or Cecil the Lion or Charlotte

00:45:05.880 the Groundhog, I don't usually join the outrage mob, at least not right away. Instead, my first

00:45:10.280 reaction is to question how Americans can get so worked up over the demise of a gorilla or a lion

00:45:14.740 or a groundhog in a country that systematically slaughters infants by the thousands. Melting down

00:45:20.100 over the death of an animal, however famous that animal may be, seems like a sign that your priorities

00:45:23.960 could be out of whack. Now that said, I have to concede that it's possible to be upset about

00:45:28.600 multiple things at once. I understand that. And every now and then, even given everything else going

00:45:33.420 on in the world, there's a story about non-human martyrdom that's so over the top and so disturbing

00:45:37.940 that it does need to be talked about. And that's certainly the case this week after the untimely

00:45:42.580 demise of a squirrel named Peanut at the hands of government officials in New York State.

00:45:47.380 Now, if you hadn't heard about Peanut until this week, that's not surprising. Like Vincent Van Gogh,

00:45:52.800 poor Peanut only achieved worldwide fame after his death. Although before his death,

00:45:57.600 Peanut had more TikTok followers than Van Gogh ever did, to his credit. So for several years,

00:46:02.520 Peanut had a relatively large following on various social media platforms, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,

00:46:07.660 as the public face of Peanut's Freedom Farm. Now, Peanut's Freedom Farm is an animal sanctuary that a

00:46:13.040 man named Mark Longo set up after rescuing Peanut several years ago when his mother was hit by a car.

00:46:18.420 I'm talking about the squirrel's mother, not Mark Longo's mother. This sanctuary takes care of a

00:46:22.940 variety of rescue animals like blind horses and things like that. And over the years, they've helped

00:46:27.160 more than 350 animals. But Peanut was by far the most famous of these animals because he appeared in

00:46:33.320 videos like this one with his owner. Watch.

00:46:39.480 So, you know, the music, of course, added after the fact. Maybe overly sort of emotional music for a video of a

00:46:52.380 squirrel eating a waffle. But anyway, you know, in some popular videos. And he made a lot of friends at his

00:46:57.740 animal sanctuary, too. In particular, he was apparently best buddies with a raccoon named Fred,

00:47:02.200 who also appeared in a lot of videos. Videos like this one. Watch.

00:47:07.960 If I would have known that you wouldn't be here anymore.

00:47:14.660 Okay. Now, if you've been on the Internet for more than 10 seconds, you know that people on the

00:47:17.920 Internet love nothing more than cute videos of animals eating human food. If you can call Dunkin'

00:47:23.580 Donuts human food. Anyway, it's very endearing to most people, but not to everyone, apparently.

00:47:29.060 As we all learned during the COVID lockdowns, a substantial percentage of Americans are deeply

00:47:32.920 unhappy and highly neurotic. And they want nothing more than to narc on their neighbors,

00:47:38.340 especially in liberal strongholds. This is the case in places like New York. And they hate seeing

00:47:44.160 other people enjoying their lives. And so they seek out every opportunity to destroy happiness,

00:47:48.320 whether it's human happiness or animal happiness. They just want it all gone. And that's why several

00:47:52.220 people in New York reported these videos to the ironically named Department of Environment

00:47:56.620 Conservation, or DEC. And in response, DEC and several other New York state agencies raided

00:48:02.140 Mark Longo's property. Ultimately, they killed both Peanut and Fred the raccoon,

00:48:07.500 supposedly because Peanut bit one of the officers who was dragging him outside of his home.

00:48:12.300 And therefore, to test for rabies, they had to kill both of the animals. Watch.

00:48:17.740 That's Peanut the squirrel eating a waffle with his rescuer-turned-owner, Mark Longo,

00:48:22.460 who launched the critter to social media fame over the past seven years. But now the squirrel

00:48:27.280 and Longo are getting even more attention. Peanut was the best thing that ever happened to us.

00:48:32.840 The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation seized the pet and Longo's pet

00:48:37.120 raccoon Fred on Wednesday. It said, quote, following multiple reports from the public

00:48:41.800 about the potentially unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping

00:48:47.500 of wildlife as pets. DEC conducted an investigation. Then on Friday afternoon, it confirmed in a joint

00:48:53.720 statement with the Chemung County Health Department that, quote, a person involved in the investigation

00:48:58.880 was bitten by the squirrel. To test for rabies, both animals were euthanized. We spoke with Longo

00:49:04.480 earlier Friday about the seizure of his home and farm in Pine City, which he says lasted five hours.

00:49:10.280 You need that many officers to show up to my house to literally pull my closets apart?

00:49:18.160 Now, until the government shows up, everything's completely fine. The animal is bringing a lot of

00:49:22.780 joy to people's lives. People like the squirrel. He's also helping to raise money for this animal

00:49:26.740 sanctuary, which is the kind of thing that, you know, we generally want to encourage in society,

00:49:30.920 I would think. Then the Department of Environment Conservation decided the best way to conserve the

00:49:35.460 environment is to conduct a Waco-style siege of Mark Longo's property, creating a problem where

00:49:41.780 none exists. There was no problem with the squirrel. It was not. It's a squirrel on this guy's property.

00:49:46.960 Who cares if he has a squirrel in his house? I wouldn't want to have a squirrel in my home. Like,

00:49:50.540 I wouldn't want a squirrel inside the house. Not a choice that I would make personally, but

00:49:53.780 if somebody else wants to have a squirrel in their house, couldn't care less. Does not bother anyone.

00:49:58.020 Does not hurt anybody. It's not an issue at all. And then when the animal allegedly bites someone,

00:50:04.080 the government springs into action to solve the problem they created. They euthanize the

00:50:08.140 animals to test them for rabies because you can't do the rabies test without first euthanizing the

00:50:12.300 animal. They wanted to make sure the government official didn't contract rabies after being

00:50:16.020 bitten, supposedly. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that the agents were wearing heavy gloves

00:50:21.580 when they absconded with the squirrel. So did the squirrel bite through the gloves or was the bite

00:50:27.820 story made up after the fact to justify euthanizing the squirrel? None of this makes a lot of sense.

00:50:32.300 First of all, if a squirrel is allegedly showing signs of rabies and you're an animal control expert,

00:50:36.080 then you wouldn't be handling the squirrel without gloves. So we can assume that they were wearing

00:50:40.600 gloves. Then how did anyone get wounded by the animal's bite? And on top of that, we all know the

00:50:45.580 animals weren't showing signs of rabies because they happen to be some of the most photographed and

00:50:49.960 recorded animals in the world. Their every move was uploaded to the internet and eating waffles and

00:50:55.180 whipped cream, as far as I know, is not a sign of rabies. And also, by the way,

00:50:59.060 if you have any experience encountering rabid animals, as I have a time or two in my life,

00:51:04.680 there's no mistaking it. It's pretty clear from the way they're behaving that they have rabies.

00:51:10.100 Now, it's true that the normal protocol when an animal bites a person is to euthanize and test

00:51:14.220 the animal. The idea is to assume the worst. And I guess the animal has to suffer the consequences.

00:51:18.840 This helps save money and time for the person who was bitten. But that protocol seems inappropriate

00:51:23.000 when the person who was supposedly bitten is the one who barged into the animal's home and grabbed

00:51:26.720 him without any provocation. What happened here is that to save this person some time

00:51:31.300 and the cost of the precautionary rabies shot, they killed the animals to see if these preventive

00:51:36.320 shops were necessary. And that's the only reason they killed them. As it stands, this whole scenario

00:51:42.860 lays the groundwork for any number of other unlawful government-sanctioned home invasions.

00:51:47.100 Who's to say the government can't barge in your home if there are reports that you're not affirming

00:51:51.560 your child's gender confusion, for example. That's the precedent they're setting. The same

00:51:56.060 Democrats who say that an Instagram squirrel is some massive public health risk will have

00:52:00.300 no problem saying that you're creating a health risk if you don't affirm your child's identity.

00:52:04.300 In fact, they're already doing that. That's a thing that's already happened.

00:52:07.540 There's another troubling aspect here as well. In this case, the outrage over it is as much about

00:52:13.120 the needless execution of somebody's pet rodent as it is about, and this for me is the thing that

00:52:18.820 concerns me the most personally, it's the wildly disproportionate and flagrantly wasteful use

00:52:26.520 of law enforcement resources. As you heard in that clip, this raid lasted several hours.

00:52:33.240 And in a separate interview, Mark Longo explained in detail what happened. Watch.

00:52:37.220 It not only tears my family apart, but Peanut was the cornerstone of our non-profit animal rescue.

00:52:43.240 And 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for

00:52:51.220 five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue

00:52:58.340 horses breakfast or lunch. I was sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check 1.00

00:53:07.260 out her immigration status, then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to

00:53:13.040 go through every cabinet nook and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon. They got a search

00:53:18.340 warrant? They got a search warrant. Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a

00:53:26.200 squirrel and a raccoon. So in a country with a violent crime epidemic, precisely zero dollars and

00:53:33.880 zero man hours should be allocated to killing harmless, if unorthodox, household pets. In fact,

00:53:40.620 even if we had no violent crime epidemic or violent crime at all, I still wouldn't be in favor of

00:53:44.460 killing harmless household pets. But in this case, given what's happening in this country right now,

00:53:48.480 it's especially egregious, especially in a place like New York. So for example, just a few days ago in

00:53:54.020 New York state, a man was arrested for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl. And this is someone who was in 0.55

00:53:59.040 this country illegally. The government knew who he was. They led him into the country after determining 0.87

00:54:03.780 that he had no right to be here. He was here for several years, nearly a decade, in fact. And in that

00:54:08.000 decade, there wasn't a single New York state police officer who, you know, looked for him or tried to

00:54:12.400 detain him. They didn't spend five hours at his place of residence looking for evidence of crimes or

00:54:16.640 anything like that. They didn't care at all, apparently. And this is the end result.

00:54:20.860 Good morning. I'm Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. Unfortunately, I am here because of a tragic

00:54:30.100 circumstance, a heinous crime committed here in Nassau County by an illegal immigrant who should not have 1.00

00:54:39.740 been in this country. Unfortunately, it ended in a circumstance where a five-year-old girl was raped. 0.96

00:54:49.820 Five years old. Apparently, this individual, who is under arrest now due to the fine work of our Nassau County

00:55:01.160 Police Department, entered this country at the age of 16 in 2014. That individual was detained at the border

00:55:13.200 and given a hearing date and never showed up for that hearing date. That individual was part of the catch and

00:55:24.540 release program that still goes on here in the United States.

00:55:30.120 That's probably overstating the case to say that New York state's decision to kill Peanut and Fred could

00:55:35.700 influence the result of the presidential election tomorrow. It's hard to imagine that there's a single

00:55:39.080 undecided voter anywhere in the country at this point, or if there is, that this would be the deciding

00:55:43.260 factor. But if there are any undecided voters left, it's not unthinkable that this is the kind of thing that

00:55:48.240 it takes to wake them up when you have the contrast between the two. The absurdity of it is just too much.

00:55:53.440 They'll barge into your home and murder your pets, but they'll let foreign criminals terrorize children 1.00

00:55:59.000 and assault children with total impunity. Remember how much coverage there was when

00:56:03.940 Donald Trump said they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats. Well, this is the kind of imagery

00:56:08.460 that resonates. This time around, there's no denying it. They're clearly killing the squirrels and the

00:56:12.560 raccoons. They are. I don't know if they're eating them, but they're killing them. And for their part,

00:56:17.300 the Trump campaign certainly thinks this is a good way to illustrate the priorities of Democrats and

00:56:20.700 government watch. So I know Don's fired up about peanut the squirrel. We were on the way down here

00:56:27.580 from Cincinnati. He was like, you know, is it really the case that the Democrats murdered the Elon Musk of

00:56:33.080 squirrels? And I said, yeah, it sounds like, have you seen the videos of this squirrel? He's like, he's a genius

00:56:39.320 or he was, unfortunately, but the same government that doesn't care about hundreds of thousands of illegal

00:56:45.620 immigrant criminals coming into our country doesn't want us to have pets. It's the craziest, 1.00

00:56:51.180 the craziest thing. So there are at least two major lies being exposed here. The first is that

00:56:57.020 the left's claim, you know, that they care about the well-being of American citizens. They clearly

00:57:01.020 don't. They obviously prioritize the rights of foreign criminals over the rights of Americans,

00:57:04.800 even when those Americans are uploading harmless Instagram videos of their pet squirrel. The other lie

00:57:10.360 is that Democrats care about the environment or about conservation. That's also not true.

00:57:16.060 New York's Department of Conservation isn't actually doing much conserving. And the case

00:57:19.760 of Peanut and Fred is just another example of that. The Daily Wire's news division recently spoke with

00:57:24.140 Will Coggin, who runs the Center for Consumer Freedom. And his assessment is that, quote,

00:57:28.140 the death of Peanut appears to track with a broader trend in the animal rights movement of killing

00:57:31.340 animals. Sadly, many of those people have a better dead than fed mentality. Coggin continued,

00:57:36.640 quote, PETA euthanized 79% of the dogs and cats it took in last year at its shelter, which state

00:57:42.820 inspectors likened to a euthanasia clinic. Apparently, PETA only adopted 58 animals in 2022,

00:57:48.460 which is an adoption rate under 3%. Which, by the way, this is how the left treats human beings,

00:57:53.340 too. So it's no surprises what they do with animals. Human beings, they also want to just,

00:57:56.540 you know, if you're old and sick, they want to just euthanize you and get rid of you.

00:58:01.900 Maybe it's a little surprising they're doing that to animals, too, because usually the left values

00:58:05.140 animals over humans. But anyway, by contrast, it's small shelters like Peanuts that are adopting and

00:58:11.920 saving a lot of animals. These are the kinds of shelters that, you know, a sane society. It's good

00:58:16.020 to have them. Instead, as actual criminals brutally attack children, Democrats are going after the

00:58:21.780 animal sanctuaries and the animals living inside them. The peanut, the squirrel, and Fred the raccoon

00:58:26.460 may be gone. But as an illustration of government overreach, incompetence, and evil, they are immortal.

00:58:35.800 They will live on forever. Or maybe at least until tomorrow. Influence a few votes. And that is why

00:58:42.880 the bureaucrats who barged into a man's home to murder Peanut and Fred are today canceled. That'll do 0.92

00:58:49.080 it for the show today. And we'll talk to you tomorrow, Election Day. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:58:56.460 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 04, 2024

Ep. 1478 - My Case For Trump

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