The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1750 - I Looked Into Why Terrorists Are Being Let Into Our Country. It's WORSE Than You Think

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00:01:01.740 Today, the Matt Walsh Show. By now, we've all heard about the third world immigrant with ISIS ties who

00:01:06.400 was allowed to stay in the United States and carry out a terror attack. But why did that happen? Why

00:01:11.400 does it keep happening? What's the real agenda behind this? We will discuss today. Also, California is

00:01:15.720 about to make two Muslim holidays into official state holidays. And Erica Kirk is grotesquely defamed yet

00:01:21.640 again. Why doesn't she just sue to put a stop to this? Well, I'll give you the real reason. All of

00:01:26.540 that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:01:51.640 Well, it's never a good sign when news anchors begin struggling to keep track of all the Islamic

00:01:58.460 terror attacks that are occurring throughout the United States. You see, it used to be that

00:02:02.060 when a jihadi tried to commit mass murder, there would be some sort of cooling off period before the

00:02:07.000 next attack. But that wasn't the case a few days ago as jihadists, within the span of just two hours,

00:02:12.960 attempted to commit mass murder in two separate locations, a college campus in Virginia

00:02:17.400 and a synagogue in Michigan. And that left news producers and anchors scrambling to cover what

00:02:23.880 was happening. And here's how the local affiliates at Fox responded, for example.

00:02:30.800 Okay, so if you were watching us earlier in the day, you know, we were tracking two breaking

00:02:35.300 situations. One was what we were just talking about in Michigan. The other in Virginia at Old

00:02:42.480 Dominion and Fox 5 in DC traveling down south to report on the scene. The latest in that deadly

00:02:49.640 investigation there. Let's watch. And first tonight, we are learning a professor of military

00:02:55.040 science. Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw was the victim killed in today's shooting at Old

00:03:00.080 Dominion University. And the gunman is a man from Northern Virginia who previously served time for

00:03:03.960 providing support to ISIS. The FBI arriving to the shooter's home tonight in Sterling.

00:03:08.280 So he's having to pivot from one terror attack to another on the same day. It's not exactly a

00:03:14.060 ringing endorsement of post 9-11 foreign policy in this country, which doubled the Muslim population

00:03:19.060 in the United States. But the bigger issue with that footage is what came next. We're told

00:03:24.080 that the shooter was, quote, a man from Northern Virginia who previously served time for providing

00:03:29.000 support for ISIS. So there's a lot to think about in that sentence, starting with the fact that the

00:03:33.700 shooter was not, in fact, a man from Northern Virginia. 36-year-old Muhammad Baylor Jallo was

00:03:40.280 actually a man from West Africa, specifically the poor Muslim nation of Sierra Leone. And although we

00:03:47.100 don't know the precise timeline, the government won't release it, we do know that at some point he

00:03:52.920 became a naturalized citizen of the United States. And as part of that process, he was required to pledge

00:03:57.840 his loyalty to this country and its constitution. Jallo also served in the Virginia Army National

00:04:03.420 Guard from 2009 to 2015. And for the media, that's one of the most important parts of his biography.

00:04:11.060 Watch.

00:04:12.480 Mark, this is now being investigated as an act of terrorism. The life of this man taken,

00:04:18.260 the veteran Army pilot surviving combat missions in the Middle East during the early 2000s,

00:04:23.380 only to be killed here on U.S. soil. And there could have been other casualties if it were not

00:04:28.560 for those brave students confronting the attacker and ending his life as he tried to end theirs.

00:04:33.980 Prior to him conducting this act of terrorism, he shouted, or stated, Allah Akbar.

00:04:40.880 Those words and then gunshots as a convicted terrorist targeted Old Dominion University in Norfolk,

00:04:47.180 Virginia. All of a sudden we heard a commotion. A lot of people rumbling, starting to get up.

00:04:51.600 We started running and that's when we heard gunshots.

00:04:54.640 The FBI identifying the gunman as 36-year-old Muhammad Jallo, a former Virginia National Guard

00:05:00.200 member. Around 1045 Thursday morning, investigators say he calmly walked into a classroom on campus,

00:05:06.660 asked if it was the ROTC. And when someone said yes, he shot the instructor several times.

00:05:11.980 The student cadets fighting back.

00:05:13.980 There were students that were in that room that subdued him and rendered him no longer

00:05:21.380 alive. I don't know how else to say it, but they basically were able to terminate the threat.

00:05:28.160 So he was not shot?

00:05:29.380 He was not shot.

00:05:32.360 So she picks the single most muddled and incomprehensible way to describe what happened.

00:05:37.080 And then she says, I don't know how else to say it.

00:05:40.920 The best she can come up with is the cadets rendered him no longer alive.

00:05:45.180 And then a reporter has to play guess who and asks her if the cadets used a gun.

00:05:49.500 And she says, no, they definitely didn't use a gun.

00:05:52.560 Now, not to play mind reader here, but putting two and two together,

00:05:55.420 we can conclude that the final moments of Muhammad's life were not exactly pleasant.

00:06:02.120 The cadets saw this terrorist murder, murdered their instructor.

00:06:05.720 And in response, they stabbed, bludgeoned and stomped him to death.

00:06:10.060 And indeed, it was later reported that one of the cadets used a knife.

00:06:14.280 In other words, just like the terrorists in Michigan who attacked the synagogue,

00:06:17.200 Muhammad Jallo wasn't stopped by the police.

00:06:19.720 He was stopped by his potential victims.

00:06:21.640 People who only survived because they were armed with a weapon of some kind

00:06:27.140 and because they had the heroism and courage to act in that moment

00:06:30.920 when a lot of people wouldn't.

00:06:32.960 But the bigger part of the story, which every mainstream media outlet

00:06:36.240 has decided to obfuscate as much as possible,

00:06:39.640 is why Muhammad Baylor Jallo was allowed to remain in this country in the first place.

00:06:45.880 Like the terrorists who attacked the synagogue

00:06:47.660 and like the terrorists who shot 18 people in Austin

00:06:49.980 and like the parents of the two New York City bombers

00:06:53.180 who tried to kill Jake Lang,

00:06:55.200 Muhammad Baylor Jallo was a naturalized citizen of the U.S.

00:06:59.460 Our government, without any obligation to do so,

00:07:02.540 awarded citizenship to all of these terrorists.

00:07:06.660 And you might say, well, we had no idea they'd become terrorists.

00:07:09.560 We had no idea that there was any connection

00:07:11.340 between Muslims and anti-Western, anti-Christian violence.

00:07:15.500 But even if you buy that logic, which is obviously absurd on its face,

00:07:19.200 the problem is that Muhammad Jallo remained a naturalized citizen

00:07:24.180 even after he pleaded guilty in 2017 to providing material support to ISIS.

00:07:30.440 I mean, he quite literally swore allegiance to a foreign enemy

00:07:33.600 that wants to destroy the West.

00:07:37.200 We didn't take away his citizenship even after he did the one thing

00:07:41.380 that under our current law would obviously justify it.

00:07:46.200 And the more you dig into this story,

00:07:48.520 the more disturbing and inexcusable it becomes.

00:07:51.580 We'll start with this news report that I found in the archives of CBS News.

00:07:55.180 It's from 2016 when Jallo was first arrested.

00:07:59.100 Watch.

00:08:00.320 Today, 26-year-old Muhammad Jallo,

00:08:02.660 a former National Guard soldier accused of working for ISIS,

00:08:06.320 made his first appearance in court.

00:08:08.360 Afterwards, his attorney declined to talk about the case.

00:08:11.220 I told everyone no comment, and you guys are just, you know, continuing to follow me.

00:08:18.000 You can follow me as long as you want.

00:08:19.900 But there will be a time for this, and it's just not now.

00:08:23.680 Court documents show Jallo was arrested at his sterling home Saturday.

00:08:27.800 He's accused of donating money to ISIS

00:08:29.660 and attempting to buy weapons to be used in an attack on American soil,

00:08:33.540 similar to the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting

00:08:35.980 that killed 13 people and injured dozens of others.

00:08:39.600 We stopped by his home Tuesday to try and speak with his family,

00:08:43.880 but no one came to the door.

00:08:45.600 If you look into here, you can see his house is right there.

00:08:50.940 Neighbors like Kenneth Brown never suspected anything was going on.

00:08:54.480 You just never know.

00:08:55.780 When you say you have a quiet community,

00:08:57.640 nothing is really quiet anymore.

00:09:00.080 We also stopped by Blue Ridge Arsenal, a gun store in Chantilly,

00:09:03.440 where court documents state Jallo test fired and then tried to buy an assault rifle.

00:09:08.080 He was turned away at first for not having the right paperwork,

00:09:11.660 but came back Saturday with the right documents and left with a gun.

00:09:15.760 But court documents say unbeknownst to him, the firearm was inoperable

00:09:19.680 and the gun store couldn't elaborate on the case.

00:09:22.720 Unfortunately, we can't see what's in their mind.

00:09:25.040 But the guys here do talk to people and ask questions about why they want them,

00:09:29.160 to get a good feel for them.

00:09:30.440 And if they get a negative feel, they're going to shut it down real fast.

00:09:33.720 So we do try.

00:09:34.520 Apparently, the gun store could tell right away that he was probably a terrorist.

00:09:40.720 So they sold him a gun that didn't work, probably after contacting the FBI.

00:09:45.640 This is the kind of thing that would prevent a lot of mass shootings if more gun stores did this.

00:09:50.700 You know, if somebody looks like a terrorist,

00:09:52.720 if he's a lone Muslim with bad paperwork who keeps demanding that you sell him a rifle,

00:09:57.600 or if he's a blue-haired man who insists that you call him a woman,

00:10:01.800 then you have the option of refusing to sell that person a firearm and ammunition.

00:10:06.520 And in doing so, you could save a lot of lives.

00:10:08.860 Just by using basic common sense, you can stop the, you know, a huge number of mass shootings,

00:10:15.120 and you can mitigate the damage when they do occur.

00:10:18.180 But in this case, just like we saw in many, many other cases,

00:10:21.660 common sense came to an abrupt end once the legal system got involved.

00:10:28.160 A federal judge named Liam O'Grady, who appropriately enough was appointed by George W. Bush,

00:10:34.200 decided to give Muhammad Jalloh a sentence of just 11 years in prison with credit for time served.

00:10:39.480 That was roughly half the sentence that the Justice Department was seeking.

00:10:43.440 And we'll talk about why the judge might have handed down that sentence in just a moment.

00:10:46.960 But in addition to the light sentence, Jalloh was allowed to leave prison two and a half years early

00:10:53.240 because he completed a drug treatment program.

00:10:57.100 You see, in court, he stated that he had been abusing drugs because of a bad breakup

00:11:00.760 after dating a woman for several years.

00:11:03.540 This is one of those excuses that isn't actually an excuse at all.

00:11:08.000 I mean, if anything, it makes the crime worse.

00:11:10.120 If you're going to commit an act of terrorism because you got dumped,

00:11:13.220 then you're liable to fly off the handle whenever you face any kind of setback,

00:11:17.980 no matter how minor it may be.

00:11:19.540 I mean, you're a danger to society permanently.

00:11:21.540 You should never be let out of prison.

00:11:22.640 But apparently, in our court system, this is exactly what you need to say.

00:11:27.900 And although these drug treatment programs are only supposed to shave a year off of your sentence at most,

00:11:32.440 Jalloh got out more than two years early.

00:11:35.540 No one can explain that.

00:11:36.880 He just got out of prison early.

00:11:39.440 Now, at that point, the moment he got out of prison in December of 2024,

00:11:44.780 he should have been detained by the feds and placed in denaturalization proceedings, obviously.

00:11:51.920 But the Biden administration didn't do that,

00:11:54.340 even though Jalloh's plea deal by itself was evidence that he had lied on his application for citizenship.

00:11:59.480 This is an open and shut case.

00:12:01.380 And then when the Trump administration took over, they didn't attempt to deport him either.

00:12:06.360 So why?

00:12:08.100 I mean, what's going on here?

00:12:09.440 Why was this self-described terrorist allowed to remain in the U.S.

00:12:15.660 and continue to plan to murder American citizens in the name of global jihad?

00:12:21.000 Why did, in fact, two administrations allow this to happen?

00:12:25.920 Well, to answer that question, we need to take a closer look at Mohamed Jalloh's arrest.

00:12:31.720 In June of 2015, he traveled to Sierra Leone, only returning to the United States in January of 2016.

00:12:39.640 Now, in that period, he met with ISIS members in Nigeria and first came in contact with an FBI informant.

00:12:46.060 In February of 2016, he purchased a Glock handgun.

00:12:49.300 And concerning an attack on the United States, he said, I really want to, but I don't want to give my word and not fulfill it.

00:12:57.720 In April 2016, Jalloh began speaking to an informant about his love for an al-Qaeda cleric

00:13:03.300 and provided more indications that he desired to commit acts of terrorism in the United States.

00:13:08.340 Jalloh explained that he quit the military and, quote,

00:13:10.440 In particular, Jalloh expressed an interest in conducting an attack on the U.S. military.

00:13:30.360 He described Mohamed Abdullaziz, who killed five members of the U.S. military in a terrorist attack

00:13:36.860 in Tennessee in 2015, as a, quote, very good man.

00:13:40.820 He also told a confidential human source for the FBI that he was contemplating a Nidal-Hassan-style attack,

00:13:48.480 referring to the Muslim former U.S. Army major who killed 13 people and wounded 32

00:13:52.760 during an attack on Fort Hood in November 2009.

00:13:56.080 Well, eventually, Jalloh was connected directly with an undercover FBI agent,

00:14:00.160 where he indicated he was interested in obtaining weapons for an attack on military personnel in the United States.

00:14:06.860 He also sent $500 to an online account that appeared to belong to ISIS,

00:14:11.320 although it was actually controlled unbeknownst to him by the FBI.

00:14:15.600 Well, that's how the government described Jalloh's crimes, which, again, he pleaded guilty to committing.

00:14:22.940 But if you look through the court filings from his attorney, as the journalist Ford Fisher did,

00:14:27.960 then you find that Jalloh's attorneys offered a different perspective about what exactly the FBI told him.

00:14:32.800 And the attorneys argued that while Jalloh did indicate a willingness to commit an act of terrorism in the abstract,

00:14:39.480 he wasn't actually serious about committing an attack himself.

00:14:42.940 And that's important because, in this case, there are reasons to believe that Jalloh's attorneys were maybe telling the truth.

00:14:51.300 First of all, all the texts and emails and phone conversations were recorded.

00:14:54.640 So if the attorneys decided to lie about the contents of those communications,

00:14:58.480 they might compromise his plea deal and his lenient sentence.

00:15:02.040 Instead, they got the plea deal they wanted, complete with a light sentence,

00:15:05.260 which indicated the judge thought their argument was persuasive.

00:15:09.520 And the prosecutors didn't object to how Jalloh's lawyer characterized these conversations either, which is telling.

00:15:16.360 So with that in mind, it's important to consider the argument that the defense is making.

00:15:21.960 According to the lawyers, when Jalloh was first invited by the confidential informant to participate in an operation on American soil,

00:15:29.740 he initially responded with ambivalence.

00:15:32.940 And shortly afterwards, he explicitly, quote, refused to participate.

00:15:36.920 He wasn't interested in committing an act of terrorism at the time.

00:15:40.440 Instead, he met with the informants for, quote,

00:15:42.160 the express purpose of trying to meet a Muslim woman to marry.

00:15:46.360 So in this version of events, he was a loser, a loner and a loser,

00:15:52.380 exactly the type of person that the FBI has targeted in the past.

00:15:56.820 For example, the fake Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.

00:16:00.560 That's what happened here.

00:16:02.700 And over the next few months, according to Jalloh's attorneys,

00:16:04.920 the FBI informants, quote,

00:16:06.280 shaped and influenced his views using text messages, phone calls, and two in-person meetings.

00:16:12.500 During these conversations, he agreed to secure a weapon

00:16:15.280 and provide funding, but, quote,

00:16:18.020 continue to decline to participate in any kind of operation.

00:16:22.740 Now, we have no way of knowing exactly what the FBI said during these text messages and phone calls

00:16:27.060 because they're not public record.

00:16:29.280 That's one of the benefits of a plea deal from the government's perspective.

00:16:32.300 It keeps the evidence hidden.

00:16:33.340 The government and the judge have access to that evidence, but nobody else does.

00:16:39.000 At the same time, it's no secret that the FBI, as a matter of policy,

00:16:43.380 routinely uses informants to convince targets to engage in criminal activity.

00:16:49.220 Additionally, the FBI has been known to protect terrorists who have a connection to its informants.

00:16:53.620 Not many people know this because the government tried to hide it,

00:16:57.080 but the father of the Pulse nightclub shooter was an FBI informant for more than a decade,

00:17:02.900 right up until the moment of the massacre in June of 2016, in which 49 people were killed.

00:17:07.720 And that's significant because several years earlier, in 2013,

00:17:10.980 the FBI investigated the Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen,

00:17:14.260 after he told his coworkers that he had connections to al-Qaeda.

00:17:17.020 But that investigation went nowhere, evidently.

00:17:21.740 And then the next year, the FBI opened a second investigation into Mateen

00:17:24.960 due to his relationship with a Florida man who traveled to Syria to become a suicide bomber.

00:17:30.300 And that investigation also went nowhere somehow.

00:17:35.460 But what might be the reason that all of these investigations went nowhere?

00:17:40.420 This is from The Intercept, quote,

00:17:41.800 An FBI intelligence report indicates that agents told an unidentified undercover informant

00:17:46.720 that they were investigating Mateen.

00:17:48.660 The informant then became very upset that Mateen was under scrutiny, according to the report,

00:17:53.200 although neither federal prosecutors nor the FBI has confirmed that the unidentified informant

00:17:57.960 in the report was Mateen's father.

00:17:59.460 Defense lawyers for Nawar Salman, the shooter's widow,

00:18:03.260 assert that they can now infer that the father played a significant role in the FBI's decision

00:18:07.860 to close the assessment and not to pursue a larger investigation or criminal charges against Mateen.

00:18:13.540 Prosecutors and the FBI director at the time, James Comey,

00:18:18.440 tried to hide this arrangement for as long as possible.

00:18:20.920 They also downplayed the fact that the FBI launched an investigation to Mateen's father

00:18:25.260 after, quote,

00:18:26.420 finding evidence that he made money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan

00:18:29.700 in the months leading up to the shooting.

00:18:32.020 So let's take this back to the case of Mohamed Jallop, okay?

00:18:37.340 Did the federal government see him as a potential informant to be protected?

00:18:42.560 Did they buy his story that he was reformed and deliberately spring him loose

00:18:48.320 in order to set more traps for other terrorists?

00:18:52.780 I mean, that's not a far-fetched conspiracy at all.

00:18:55.080 The FBI does it all the time.

00:18:57.380 They've also been known to encourage terrorists to commit mass shootings.

00:19:00.460 In May 2015, at a convention center in Garland, Texas,

00:19:04.300 there was an event called the First Annual Mohamed Art Exhibit and Contest

00:19:08.560 where people drew cartoons of Mohamed as a kind of free speech exercise.

00:19:12.560 The police were prepared for potential terror attacks,

00:19:15.020 so they had police officers, SWAT teams, and snipers standing by.

00:19:18.740 And indeed, a terror attack took place.

00:19:21.400 This is from CBS, quote,

00:19:22.460 The terror attack in Garland, Texas, was the first claim by ISIS on U.S. soil.

00:19:26.820 It's mostly been forgotten because the two terrorists were killed by local cops

00:19:29.720 before they managed to murder anybody.

00:19:31.800 And looking into what happened in Garland,

00:19:33.340 we were surprised to discover just how close the FBI was to one of the terrorists.

00:19:37.300 Not only had the FBI been monitoring him for years,

00:19:39.820 there was an undercover agent right behind him when the first shots were fired.

00:19:43.880 Yes, an undercover FBI agent was right behind the shooter.

00:19:50.140 And no, the FBI agent didn't neutralize the shooter.

00:19:53.200 Local police did that.

00:19:54.920 And it gets worse when you look at what exactly the FBI agent was telling the shooter.

00:19:59.600 Watch.

00:20:01.340 Suspicion surrounds the undercover FBI agent who did not engage Elmer Simpson and Nadir Sufi

00:20:07.020 as they opened fire.

00:20:08.240 So it's pretty clear that from day one, the intent was to encourage some kind of action

00:20:13.840 at the Garland Events Center.

00:20:16.400 Houston attorney Trenton Roberts represents Garland ISD security officer Bruce Joyner

00:20:20.720 wounded in the shootout.

00:20:22.180 Days before the attack, the undercover FBI agent was communicating with gunman Elmer Simpson,

00:20:28.000 telling him to tear up Texas.

00:20:30.320 It does look like his intent was to document a terrorist attack

00:20:35.620 in order to advance himself within the terrorist organization of ISIS.

00:20:40.380 Seconds before the shooting, the same undercover agent took pictures of the south entrance

00:20:44.800 to the Colwell Center where the shootout went down.

00:20:47.940 These are black and white reproductions from the court record.

00:20:51.640 In FBI documents, the unidentified agent says he saw the shooters get out of their car right

00:20:56.500 in front of him, the driver holding an assault rifle and raising it up.

00:21:00.320 And he heard many shots fired.

00:21:02.040 The agent quickly drove away and continued to hear shots fired.

00:21:06.520 So there has to be, you know, a very strong necessity argument that they had to keep this

00:21:11.720 guy in there and couldn't stop this attack.

00:21:13.780 Sources tell me the agent couldn't risk blowing his cover.

00:21:17.080 When you invest an enormous amount of time trying to infiltrate and to get into these organizations,

00:21:26.040 you have to make these decisions on the fly.

00:21:29.720 And Clarice, Garland Police did stop that undercover FBI agent moments after the shooting.

00:21:36.020 They did stop him.

00:21:37.080 They detained him.

00:21:37.720 He identified himself only as FBI.

00:21:40.340 Other agents rushed in and swooped him out from here.

00:21:44.360 Garland Police could not get any answers about what he knew and when he knew it.

00:21:48.580 Again, the FBI wouldn't even identify him as being here for 15 months.

00:21:53.220 The official word from the FBI is that they knew one of the shooters was in town three hours

00:21:58.540 before the incident.

00:21:59.640 But the FBI from the top down denied knowing anything about an actual attack being planned

00:22:04.880 to take place.

00:22:05.600 So they whisked the undercover operative away without providing any kind of explanation

00:22:11.280 for what he was doing over the last several months.

00:22:13.440 And that's it.

00:22:14.200 The story just died along with the two terrorists.

00:22:16.860 Nobody asked any more questions.

00:22:19.420 That seems to be the goal with the case of Muhammad Jalloh as well.

00:22:23.980 Nobody in the government has explained why he was not denaturalized and deported.

00:22:30.140 Or why he got out of prison early.

00:22:32.780 Or what the FBI agents were telling him to do.

00:22:36.040 When he insisted he didn't want to commit an act of terrorism.

00:22:38.920 No one has explained why at every turn the government took steps to help the terrorist

00:22:42.940 rather than protect Americans from him.

00:22:47.520 Now, if you're the cynical type and you're left to speculate because that's all we can

00:22:52.100 do when we're not given the full story.

00:22:54.700 You might conclude that maybe there's some authoritarian political motives here.

00:22:58.940 I mean, you might point to the fact that the same week that Jalloh opened fire in Virginia,

00:23:03.620 a Virginia state senator named Saddam Aslan Salim, yes, his name is literally Saddam,

00:23:10.780 helped pass a major unconstitutional anti-gun bill that he sponsored, which prohibits so-called

00:23:15.420 assault firearms.

00:23:17.040 According to Fox, the law would, quote, ban a wide range of firearms and features, including

00:23:22.500 semi-automatic centerfire pistols with magazines exceeding 15 rounds, rifles with detachable

00:23:27.460 magazines and weapons with certain characteristics such as collapsible or thumbhole stocks and

00:23:32.760 threaded barrels.

00:23:33.640 Is this the kind of result the Bureau is hoping for?

00:23:39.680 Is it the result the DOJ is hoping for?

00:23:41.660 Is that why they don't denaturalize anyone, even the self-described domestic terrorists?

00:23:46.720 Even someone who literally pledged allegiance to ISIS does not get denaturalized?

00:23:50.860 Is that the reason?

00:23:53.380 We really don't know.

00:23:54.320 I mean, the only alternative explanation is that they're just extraordinarily, historically

00:24:02.020 incompetent to a degree that is impossible to fathom.

00:24:08.480 Either way, assuming nothing changes, which is a very safe assumption, we can assume, we

00:24:13.800 can conclude that our leadership class has implemented a regime in which, number one, you subsidize

00:24:19.680 foreigners who hate you and try to kill you, and number two, when they do kill you or your

00:24:25.840 neighbors, they use that as a pretext to strip everybody's constitutional rights.

00:24:31.640 And it's not just Democrats who are doing this.

00:24:33.120 Nearly two dozen Republicans in the Senate just voted against legislation that would strip

00:24:37.740 welfare funding from so-called, quote, unquote, refugees.

00:24:42.860 So again and again, our leaders are taking the side of foreign invaders.

00:24:46.800 And they do it because they can get away with it.

00:24:52.200 Millions of people, myself included, have called for the full and unredacted list of

00:24:56.440 Epstein files, but no prominent political figure or journalist has called for the release

00:25:00.980 of all FBI correspondence with Mohamed Jalloh, or the Garland shooters, or the Pulse shooters'

00:25:07.580 father.

00:25:09.740 Nor is there any interest in why the Trump administration, which pledged to dramatically increase the number

00:25:14.160 of denaturalization proceedings, hasn't done that.

00:25:19.200 What are they doing to ensure that we never offer citizenship to another anti-American third

00:25:24.200 world invader ever again?

00:25:26.480 What's being done?

00:25:27.900 Is anything being done?

00:25:30.600 These are not academic issues, especially now that we've gone to war in Iran, which has 90 million

00:25:35.900 Muslim citizens, and this is after 20 years, 25 years of the floodgates being open with the entire

00:25:43.820 Arab world invited to come settle within our borders.

00:25:48.660 So these acts of terrorism will continue at an ever-increasing pace unless the government

00:25:53.920 starts denaturalizing and deporting a lot more of these foreigners, a lot more.

00:25:58.780 And until that happens, and it may never happen, we have to do exactly what they did in Michigan

00:26:05.420 and Virginia.

00:26:06.820 We have to be ready to defend ourselves.

00:26:10.420 We certainly can't rely on anyone else to do it for us.

00:26:14.020 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:27:42.000 Okay, on a similar topic, a new bill has been introduced in California that would make Muslim holidays into official holidays, official state holidays in the state.

00:27:53.020 Two Muslim holidays in particular.

00:27:56.440 And here we have the legislators that are pushing this, explaining this wonderful measure.

00:28:02.640 Watch.

00:28:04.040 Ramadan Mubarak, everyone.

00:28:05.940 I'm Assemblymember Matt Haney, and we're here at the Islamic Society of San Francisco with an incredible group of community members announcing an exciting bill that we've put forward in the state legislature, AB 2017, which will make Eve a state holiday in California.

00:28:24.780 Right now, too many students are being forced to celebrate what is one of the most holy days for them, or missed time in school.

00:28:34.920 And workers are being forced to miss critical time at the jobs to be able to celebrate something that is one of the most holy days, not just for Muslim Californians, but nearly two billion Muslims across the world.

00:28:49.040 This is how we show truly that we are inclusive, that we value diversity, we celebrate diversity, and that our Muslim neighbors, our friends, our colleagues are fully included and able to celebrate without consequence the most holy day for them.

00:29:08.220 So I'm here with somebody who is leading that effort here in San Francisco and is my supervisor and is also the first Muslim American supervisor in San Francisco and is an incredible leader here for the Tenderloin and for District 5.

00:29:26.260 And thank you for being here.

00:29:27.040 Okay, that's good.

00:29:30.080 Good.

00:29:30.720 So first of all, turn the background music down.

00:29:33.740 My God, I can't.

00:29:34.920 I mean, why is the audio quality so bad?

00:29:37.320 Are you using like a 2004 flip phone for this video?

00:29:40.180 It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:29:42.800 But more to the point, the substance here of what they're saying, they want to make the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha into state holidays.

00:29:55.900 And if the bill goes through, it would be the second state in the country after Washington state to recognize Muslim holidays as official state holidays.

00:30:04.780 And then there are states like New Jersey, I think Illinois, New York, where schools close for Eid or whatever it's called, even if it's not officially recognized as a state holiday.

00:30:16.540 And then there's legislation in other states that would do that.

00:30:20.200 So this is a growing trend.

00:30:21.220 And it's a bad trend.

00:30:23.160 It's a dumb trend.

00:30:24.240 We should not be officially recognizing any Muslim holidays at all.

00:30:29.080 No schools should be closed.

00:30:30.320 No government buildings should be closed.

00:30:31.680 Everything should go on as normal.

00:30:32.680 Now, if you're Muslim and you want to celebrate your holiday, go ahead.

00:30:34.900 No one's saying you should be banned from doing it.

00:30:36.900 But it shouldn't be recognized by the state.

00:30:39.000 And if you're a stupid person, you might say, well, but Christian holidays are recognized by the state.

00:30:47.460 Christian holidays are recognized.

00:30:48.800 Why wouldn't Muslim holidays be recognized?

00:30:51.280 Well, actually, to begin with, that is barely true.

00:30:54.920 Christmas is the only federally recognized Christian holiday, just Christmas.

00:31:00.000 And in California, I think Christmas and Good Friday are recognized as federal, not federal, but as state holidays.

00:31:08.680 So that's two.

00:31:10.840 You know, it's not like every Christian holiday is recognized at the state or federal level, not even close to that.

00:31:19.140 But now California is recognizing two Muslim holidays.

00:31:23.000 So in California, it's two and two.

00:31:24.760 They got two Muslim holidays that they recognize and they got two Christian holidays.

00:31:28.660 Exactly even.

00:31:30.480 And that's the point.

00:31:32.700 Right?

00:31:33.180 And I'm sure that's why they did the two, so that it's even.

00:31:36.040 But does it make sense for it to be even?

00:31:38.120 Why should it be even?

00:31:40.080 I mean, this is the whole problem with the multicultural approach, with the cult of multiculturalism.

00:31:45.520 And let's just, and I'm using this one issue as kind of a microcosm.

00:31:50.000 Right?

00:31:50.380 I think there's a lot in this one issue that we can, to be analyzed.

00:31:56.000 Because the idea, which we're being told now, is that it's not fair for California to give special treatment to Christianity.

00:32:04.640 They have state-recognized Christian holidays, and so they should have the same number of state-recognized Muslim holidays.

00:32:10.380 Except that Christianity should be treated as something special in California, because Christianity has been special to California since its inception and long before that.

00:32:22.920 California would not exist without Christianity.

00:32:27.960 Christianity has defined it from the beginning.

00:32:30.500 It's part of the culture.

00:32:32.500 It's part of the identity.

00:32:34.620 It's part of the fabric of the state at the most fundamental possible level.

00:32:41.020 I mean, look at the names of the city.

00:32:43.000 San Diego, San Francisco, San Bernardino, San Mateo, et cetera, and so on.

00:32:46.900 These are obviously saint names.

00:32:48.480 San, saint.

00:32:49.180 I think people know that.

00:32:50.220 Los Angeles, which the angels, comes from Our Lady, Queen of the Angels.

00:32:55.020 Sacramento, the capital of the state, literally means sacrament.

00:32:58.780 And I would hope everyone already knows all this.

00:33:03.700 I mean, I probably am hoping too much.

00:33:05.760 But the point is that California is steeped in Christianity, Catholicism specifically, at every level.

00:33:13.980 That's because the state began as a Spanish territory full of Catholic missions.

00:33:20.800 I mean, it has been deeply Catholic since before it was a state.

00:33:24.340 That's why Catholicism has defined everything about it, even the architecture, the way that the buildings were built, and what they look like.

00:33:35.180 Many of the major universities in California were established by the church or by Christian organizations.

00:33:40.780 Many of the hospitals and charity organizations and all the rest of it.

00:33:44.660 You get on the list.

00:33:47.680 Catholicism is the foundation of the state itself.

00:33:50.800 It's the scaffolding.

00:33:51.740 It's the bones of the place, which is one of the reasons why it's so sad to see what it's become.

00:33:58.320 And yet, still, historically, culturally, there's no question that Christianity has been absolutely integral to the state.

00:34:09.920 California never would have become the great state that it once was without Christianity.

00:34:14.540 It wouldn't exist at all.

00:34:15.340 That's just a fact, historically.

00:34:16.480 So, should Christian holidays be recognized by the state?

00:34:20.840 Well, yeah.

00:34:22.680 Should the legislators who are working there over in, you know, Eucharist town, Sacramento, should they at least recognize Christmas at a minimum?

00:34:33.160 Obviously.

00:34:34.300 It would be absurd not to.

00:34:37.400 So, then what about Islam?

00:34:38.740 What has Islam contributed to California?

00:34:43.280 Again, just using this as a microcosm.

00:34:45.180 What has Islam contributed to California?

00:34:49.540 If we ask what has Christianity contributed, well, it's more like what has it not contributed?

00:34:55.280 Everything.

00:34:56.940 Everything down to the names of the places.

00:35:01.660 What about Islam?

00:35:02.540 What has Islam, the religion that is now being recognized by the state, what has it been, what has it contributed to California?

00:35:14.100 Nothing.

00:35:15.540 I mean, literally nothing.

00:35:16.960 Not a single thing.

00:35:18.200 That's the answer.

00:35:19.240 Catholics have been the foundation of California since the 1700s.

00:35:24.440 Since, you know, over a century before it was a state.

00:35:27.920 Actually, do you know when the first Catholic Mass was celebrated in California or what would become California?

00:35:35.980 Do you know when that was?

00:35:39.000 1602.

00:35:40.120 There was a Catholic Mass celebrated in California in 1602.

00:35:49.220 So, the Catholic Mass has been celebrated in California for 424 years.

00:35:57.920 Muslims, on the other hand, when did they show up?

00:36:01.440 So, Catholics showed up 424 years ago and celebrated actually before that.

00:36:06.200 But the first Mass was 424 years.

00:36:10.240 What about Muslims?

00:36:11.320 Well, they showed up in semi-significant numbers for the first time in like the year 2002.

00:36:20.720 I mean, as recently as 1990, there were maybe 30,000 Muslims in the entire state.

00:36:26.220 It was not until the 2000s that it had a sizable Muslim population.

00:36:32.400 And even now, it's sizable only relatively speaking.

00:36:34.800 It's still a very small minority.

00:36:37.460 Islam has nothing to do with the history of California.

00:36:40.660 It has nothing to do with present-day California even.

00:36:44.040 It has nothing to do with its culture, with its identity.

00:36:45.860 If Islam didn't exist, what would be different about California?

00:36:54.200 If the whole religion just never existed, if we could erase it from the history books,

00:36:58.500 what would be different in California?

00:37:01.100 Nothing.

00:37:02.140 It would have no effect.

00:37:04.640 Right?

00:37:05.360 I mean, if Catholicism didn't exist, what would California look like?

00:37:09.540 It wouldn't exist.

00:37:10.440 It would be something that does not even vaguely resemble California as we know it.

00:37:14.800 It would be a totally different place.

00:37:18.120 Most likely, I mean, almost certainly, in fact, it would still be,

00:37:21.980 this whole hemisphere would still be run by human sacrificing cannibal savages.

00:37:27.500 But, because the Catholics were the ones who came over here and first conquered those barbaric civilizations.

00:37:40.420 But, certainly, if Islam didn't exist, everything would be the same.

00:37:43.360 It would have no effect.

00:37:44.580 Islam has nothing to do with the state of California, historically, culturally, or in any other way.

00:37:50.400 Muslims have not contributed anything significant at all.

00:37:53.700 Not anything.

00:37:54.680 And now they get a holiday recognized by the state.

00:37:58.060 Why?

00:37:59.220 It's not part of the culture.

00:38:00.520 It's not part of the identity.

00:38:01.600 It's contributed nothing.

00:38:02.600 It is, at best, irrelevant.

00:38:04.660 Like, the most generous thing we can say about Islam to California is that it's irrelevant.

00:38:09.720 That's the most generous way to put it.

00:38:14.200 And this, of course, extends logically to the whole country.

00:38:16.640 Christianity shaped this country from the beginning, from way before the beginning of the country.

00:38:25.280 The first Westerners who settled this place came specifically in order to spread the gospel and claim this land for Christ.

00:38:33.900 Now, you can feel however you want about that.

00:38:35.800 I think it's great.

00:38:37.380 But that's a fact.

00:38:38.500 It has been Christian to its core since its infancy and before infancy.

00:38:47.420 America was culturally Christian before it existed as a nation.

00:38:54.880 And Christian ideas, Christian philosophy, Christian theology are embedded into the nation's founding.

00:39:00.320 This is not debatable in the slightest.

00:39:02.380 It's also not debatable that Islam is not embedded in our nation's founding whatsoever.

00:39:09.860 Islam has nothing to do with this country.

00:39:13.440 It is not part of the culture.

00:39:14.620 It's not part of our history.

00:39:15.680 It's not part of our identity.

00:39:17.180 It's not part of our national fabric at all.

00:39:20.120 And it never has been.

00:39:22.780 Again, the most generous thing we can say about it is that it's irrelevant.

00:39:28.260 And that's why Christmas deserves to be a national holiday.

00:39:30.720 America is so Christian already that even if it weren't recognized as a national holiday, it would still be.

00:39:39.680 Like, when the government recognizes Christmas as a national holiday, it is literally recognizing it.

00:39:48.600 Okay?

00:39:48.880 As in, this is already a national holiday, whether you like it or not.

00:39:53.960 And so we're just going to recognize that fact.

00:39:56.740 It's not even like imposing anything.

00:39:58.580 It's just like, of course, Christmas is a, no matter what the government says, it's a national holiday.

00:40:06.920 Everyone in America loves Christmas.

00:40:08.900 Even if you're Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, you still, you know, you know about Christmas.

00:40:14.500 You have positive associations with it.

00:40:16.660 Christmas music, decorations, colors, Christmas movies, the whole thing.

00:40:19.960 It's such a part of our identity here.

00:40:23.440 And Christmas itself is such a wonderful, joyous holiday that even if you aren't Christian, even if you hate, even if you hate Christians, you still can't help but have a warm feeling about our holidays.

00:40:37.560 And that's why the holiday is recognized and should be.

00:40:40.800 It's absurd not to.

00:40:41.580 What about Eid Al, what is it?

00:40:44.160 Eid Al-Fatir?

00:40:46.120 What is that?

00:40:48.740 What kind of like cultural associations does anyone have for that?

00:40:53.620 Nobody knows what the hell it even is.

00:40:55.860 Like, what is that?

00:40:56.820 No one has any warm, right?

00:40:58.160 Oh, yes, Eid Al-Fatir.

00:40:59.540 No, we all love Eid Al-Fatir season.

00:41:01.540 Nobody who isn't Muslim has any clue what that is.

00:41:06.420 There is no such thing culturally as Eid Al-Fatir decorations or Eid Al-Fatir music.

00:41:14.800 No one is saying, hey, you got to get into the Eid Al-Fatir spirit.

00:41:19.200 That might exist within Islam, but culturally it doesn't.

00:41:22.740 It doesn't exist at all.

00:41:24.740 Nobody outside of Islam cares about it.

00:41:26.280 Nobody knows about it.

00:41:27.180 No one's influenced by it.

00:41:29.720 At all.

00:41:31.540 So why should it be recognized by the state?

00:41:33.680 Why should it be recognized by the government?

00:41:36.160 Christian holidays are culturally relevant.

00:41:39.880 That is indisputable.

00:41:41.860 Muslim holidays are not at all.

00:41:44.240 So this is what pisses me off.

00:41:48.180 Christianity, and obviously it's not just about California.

00:41:51.600 It's not just about holidays.

00:41:54.360 Christianity made this country.

00:41:57.380 Made it.

00:41:58.860 Made it.

00:41:59.580 Without Christianity, this country in its form, in the current form, simply would not exist.

00:42:08.680 And now other faiths come here.

00:42:10.860 Okay.

00:42:11.300 But you come here and graft yourself onto it.

00:42:16.640 You want to affix your stuff onto our country like a barnacle.

00:42:20.580 You want to say, hey, hey, hey, why aren't we recognized?

00:42:23.500 We want our faith to be treated as just as important.

00:42:27.340 But it isn't.

00:42:28.620 It just isn't.

00:42:29.940 You haven't earned that.

00:42:31.620 Your religion hasn't earned that.

00:42:33.240 Your religion, if you're Muslim, your religion, America is the envy of the world.

00:42:42.240 Everybody wants to come here.

00:42:45.440 I mean, that's what this whole argument's about.

00:42:47.140 If that wasn't the case, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

00:42:49.200 Christianity made this country into the envy of the world.

00:42:58.100 Islam didn't.

00:42:59.980 Now, if you're Muslim, you have your own countries that Islam made.

00:43:04.740 Islam has created many countries.

00:43:07.900 Why aren't those countries the envy of the world?

00:43:14.580 No one wants to go to those countries.

00:43:17.020 They want to go to this country.

00:43:18.180 This country was made by Christianity.

00:43:21.280 That is a fact.

00:43:24.960 And so at the very least, if you come here, have the humility to have respect for that.

00:43:31.340 And say, okay, I'm coming here.

00:43:33.400 And this is a Christian country.

00:43:34.860 It was made.

00:43:35.680 Christianity made this country.

00:43:37.900 Everything that is good about this country, it is because of Christianity.

00:43:43.200 And so if you come here, have respect for that.

00:43:45.620 Have humility.

00:43:49.720 And recognize that, okay, Christianity is going to be treated as something special in this.

00:43:53.780 I decided to come to this country.

00:43:55.300 I didn't have to come.

00:43:56.820 Nobody invited me.

00:43:57.680 I'm showing up.

00:44:02.340 And in this country, in America, Christianity is special.

00:44:05.420 For all the reasons we've described.

00:44:11.700 And if you come here, you should have respect for that.

00:44:15.200 Instead, you come here and say, I want Islam to be treated as just as special.

00:44:18.580 It's not.

00:44:20.500 Not here.

00:44:21.100 You didn't earn that.

00:44:24.740 Go make your own country that will become the envy of the world.

00:44:27.420 The most powerful country on earth.

00:44:28.540 Go ahead and try.

00:44:30.180 Go make your own country that everybody wants to move to.

00:44:34.000 Go make your own country that's so amazing that I want to go there.

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00:46:45.900 Uh, there was a post over the weekend that went viral that I want to talk about.

00:46:53.100 Um, amplified by guys like Ian Carroll and, uh, other quote unquote independent creators, as we call them now.

00:47:05.300 And I'm not going to put the post up on the screen or read it because it's totally false.

00:47:09.840 Um, it's just, I will summarize it by saying that this post that was all over X and, and maybe other platforms as well is just another volume in the ever expanding library of anti Erica Kirk defamation.

00:47:25.180 And basically the post claimed that an audio recording, which they also posted the audio recording, uh, depicts Erica helping to facilitate sex trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein.

00:47:38.000 Now it's not true, obviously it's totally made up.

00:47:41.120 Plus the recording is from over like 20 years ago when Erica herself would have been a minor.

00:47:46.880 So this person was accusing Erica as a child of being a, a, uh, involved in a facilitating capacity with, uh, sex trafficking.

00:47:59.720 Totally insane.

00:48:00.720 Not true at all.

00:48:01.560 Clearly.

00:48:01.760 And yet the original poster claimed factually, objectively that it is, that it's Erica wasn't even like, Oh, this is, might this be Erica?

00:48:11.720 Does that sound?

00:48:12.420 No, it's, it was the exact phrasing.

00:48:14.680 This is undeniably Erica Kirk, not even bothering to throw in and allegedly, or to couch the accusation in any way whatsoever.

00:48:24.620 Just saying, yep, this is Erica.

00:48:27.680 That post got 11 million views.

00:48:29.540 And again, it was reposted and amplified by other large accounts.

00:48:34.160 Um, Ian Carroll in particular.

00:48:37.320 And now he, he did do the, um, the, the smarmy, cowardly, passive aggressive thing of allowing yourself plausible deniability because he reposted it and said it was with something like, wow, wow.

00:48:52.740 This sounds an awful lot like her.

00:48:54.240 And then later he could backtrack what she did and said, well, I never said it was her.

00:49:00.360 Why, what are you talking about?

00:49:01.380 I wasn't trying to, I didn't imply anything.

00:49:04.340 I never, I never implied anything.

00:49:06.080 I, all I was saying is that we should look into this.

00:49:08.260 Um, and again, it's not remotely true at all verified to be false, something your common sense should have already told you.

00:49:17.540 And this is, as I said, just one more example of just blatant, fraudulent, slanderous nonsense being leveled at Erica.

00:49:26.100 Uh, and there's a lot of it all over the place.

00:49:28.880 Yesterday, there's a, a nutcase who calls herself a journalist named Liz Croken kept the narrative going.

00:49:34.960 She posted a quote, Erica Kirk is involved in the rape, torture, and trafficking of children.

00:49:41.960 Just, just not even an, again, no allegedly, just not the vaguest attempt to even pretend that she's exercising any kind of prudence or discretion at all.

00:49:53.320 Just outright defamation, totally made up.

00:49:56.700 I mean, there's no evidence of this at all.

00:49:58.040 There's no evidence of Erica Kirk being involved in rape, torture, and trafficking of children.

00:50:09.640 There's not even like, you know, if, if proving that is a mile away, like if, if the, if the, if you're, if, if the proof of Erica being involved in that is a mile away, Liz Croken has not even made it an inch in that direction.

00:50:24.540 Okay.

00:50:24.900 Not a, not a foot in that direction.

00:50:28.040 There's no evidence at all, totally made up and, uh, and stated as fact.

00:50:37.300 Um, and this is what's happening.

00:50:39.720 The worst, most insidious, most damaging lies that it's possible to tell about a person.

00:50:46.120 And that post has a million views.

00:50:49.740 And here's what I want to say about this.

00:50:51.120 And this is what I posted over the weekend.

00:50:52.720 And I want to say it here too, because it's important.

00:50:54.680 Uh, and there's a reason I bring it up aside from just lamenting the constant assault on this woman who is at this point, the most defamed person to ever live.

00:51:05.220 I mean, it's insane.

00:51:06.880 I don't like, I've never seen anything like it, but here's my point.

00:51:12.700 And I don't really have a solution for this.

00:51:14.280 I gotta be honest.

00:51:14.700 I have some ideas maybe, but I don't have a solution.

00:51:17.960 I don't know what to do about this exactly, but it's, it's really bad.

00:51:21.980 Because this is how defamation works these days.

00:51:25.560 And it's all over them.

00:51:26.640 It is totally out of control.

00:51:29.400 And it's only going to get worse.

00:51:30.640 You start, you bring in AI and all that kind of thing.

00:51:33.020 I've been warning about that.

00:51:33.880 Other people have warned about it.

00:51:35.440 But as AI videos and AI audio and that sort of thing gets even more, um, sophisticated, this is only going to get worse.

00:51:42.740 And, uh, and what you need to understand if you, if you don't, I think a lot of people who, I mean, I think a lot of people don't get this, maybe because they're just not as clued into this particular problem.

00:51:58.300 And if you've never fallen victim to it, then I would see why you wouldn't be.

00:52:01.900 But the victims of this kind of thing are almost powerless to do anything about it.

00:52:10.120 There's almost nothing you can do about it.

00:52:13.100 That's the reality that I think most people don't quite understand.

00:52:18.060 I keep hearing about Erica.

00:52:19.740 People say, well, if none of this stuff is true, why is she, why won't she sue?

00:52:25.020 Well, I'll tell you why.

00:52:26.460 And this is a case, again, here's a case study, microcosm.

00:52:30.060 Can Erica sue over any of this stuff?

00:52:32.600 Sure.

00:52:32.900 She could sue.

00:52:33.980 I mean, I hope she does just as an outside observer.

00:52:38.760 Um, you can sue anyone.

00:52:40.820 Anyone can sue anyone.

00:52:42.180 That is for sure.

00:52:44.160 So if the, if the question is, can so-and-so sue this other person?

00:52:51.060 The answer is always yes, they can.

00:52:53.340 You can sue anyone for anything.

00:52:54.860 But to win a lawsuit, well, that's a different man.

00:53:00.060 Because in order to win, she would have to prove that this person, first of all, posted this nonsense knowing that it wasn't true.

00:53:10.000 That's proving malice.

00:53:12.820 She would have to prove, that's the standard for someone, especially someone who's a quote-unquote public figure.

00:53:18.120 Right?

00:53:18.500 And what's, what's a public figure?

00:53:19.560 Well, I guess like any, like if a lot of people know who you are, then you're a public figure, basically.

00:53:23.780 If you're not a public figure, the standard is a little bit lower.

00:53:27.020 But, um, if you could be considered a public figure by the courts, you have no hope of getting anywhere unless you can prove not only that the claim is false, but also, and in this case, the proving it's false thing would be easy to do.

00:53:43.380 Because the claims are so ridiculous.

00:53:46.620 But oftentimes, depending on what the defamation is, even that part is like proving a negative.

00:53:52.120 I mean, there are many times when someone can make a claim that, oh, you, you said this or you did this.

00:53:57.120 Now I got to prove that that didn't happen.

00:54:01.000 I mean, infamously, proving a negative is very, very hard to do, even if it's clearly not true.

00:54:09.400 That's why in a court of law, in a criminal court, you know, if someone is accused of a crime, they don't have to prove they didn't do it.

00:54:17.240 Because we all understand that proving you didn't do something, like if you're saying, oh, you killed, if you're coming to me and accusing me of killing someone, I don't have to prove to you I didn't.

00:54:26.580 Because in many cases, I might, like, prove that I didn't do or say this on this specific time at this, like, I mean, unless there's video of me at that moment, I'm not, I might not be able to prove that.

00:54:38.540 But no, the onus is on you.

00:54:39.840 If you're accusing me, well, no, you have to prove that it happened.

00:54:42.720 And if you can't prove that it happened, then the assumption is that it didn't.

00:54:47.260 But over here, when it comes to defamation, it's, it's flipped on its head.

00:54:51.860 Or you have to prove that the thing is not true.

00:54:54.040 Okay, well, let's say you, let's say you get over that hurdle.

00:54:56.180 And in many cases you can, but not always.

00:54:58.680 Well, now you have to prove that the person who said you did it knew when they said it, that it wasn't true.

00:55:08.540 And that's almost impossible to prove in most cases.

00:55:15.420 I mean, that's almost impossible.

00:55:16.420 Like, how can I prove, so now I got to prove not only that I didn't do something, but I have to prove what was in your head when you said it?

00:55:22.940 How am I supposed to do that?

00:55:23.720 I can't do that.

00:55:26.160 That's almost impossible most of the time.

00:55:27.980 And that alone right there is reason enough why 99% of the time when someone's being defamed, especially as a quote-unquote public figure, it's like you don't even, I can't clear that hurdle.

00:55:40.220 I can't prove, I can't prove malice.

00:55:41.760 I can't prove, like, I know what you're doing and you know what you're doing.

00:55:46.740 Common sense shows what you're doing, but I can't prove what's in your own head.

00:55:49.580 I can't prove what's in your heart.

00:55:52.600 But it's more than that.

00:55:53.540 She'd also probably have to prove damages.

00:55:55.920 She'd have to prove that this specific lie damaged her in a measurable way.

00:56:02.480 So it's not even enough to prove that, oh, it's not true, and then prove that, well, you knew it wasn't true.

00:56:07.660 But then you've got to prove, in many, many cases, that this actually harmed you in some way.

00:56:13.700 Which, ironically, if you're being lied about all the time by lots of people, it's even harder to prove damages from any one specific claim because you're being damaged all over the place.

00:56:23.020 Like a firing squad, you know, when 10 guys are firing at you, how do you know which one actually hit?

00:56:27.520 And then she'd have to hope, even if she gets through all that, somehow, then you've got to hope that the broke bastards who are saying all this stuff about you actually have the funds to pay, which they probably don't.

00:56:45.100 And all this will take time in court, years potentially, to work itself out.

00:56:51.580 And even if she wins, it won't make a difference to the people who have decided already that she's, you know, a villain, that she's some kind of supervillain.

00:57:00.360 It's not going to matter.

00:57:01.940 They'll just use the lawsuit as proof that Erica has something to hide.

00:57:05.940 Right?

00:57:06.300 This is the game.

00:57:07.000 They say, well, if it's not true, why aren't you suing?

00:57:08.880 And then she sues, and then they say, oh, you're suing, you're trying to shut me down, you're trying to censor me now.

00:57:14.080 Oh, now I'm over the target.

00:57:17.760 So no matter what, it doesn't matter.

00:57:19.140 No matter what, it doesn't matter, and we all know that.

00:57:22.420 Right?

00:57:24.600 Erica's not suing, and everyone says, oh, it's a little suspicious she's not suing.

00:57:27.300 If she did, the second that happens, the second a lawsuit is announced, we all know what the reaction will be.

00:57:32.460 There's not a single person who's been attacking Erica who, because she files a lawsuit, will say, oh, well, if she's filing a lawsuit, then, okay, well, maybe we should step back a moment and let this thing, no, it's not going to happen.

00:57:43.300 Every single one of them will say, well, clearly.

00:57:47.240 Well, now we know.

00:57:48.260 And meanwhile, she'll have only further highlighted and called attention to the very lies that she's trying to rectify in court.

00:57:58.020 That's really the biggest problem of all.

00:58:01.540 When you're being lied about and defamed, and then you file a lawsuit over it, well, all you're doing is making it into a bigger story.

00:58:11.380 Now you're taking this lie that you'd rather, that you just want it to go away, because you don't want to be lied about.

00:58:17.080 Well, it's hurting your reputation unfairly.

00:58:20.600 You don't want to bring it to the attention of more people.

00:58:26.280 Right?

00:58:26.680 It's like someone saying something about you and then suing them over it is you might, it's like, it's the equivalent of taking a megaphone and repeating what they just said.

00:58:34.340 And so it's a lose-lose scenario is what I'm trying to say.

00:58:39.400 It's the ultimate lose-lose scenario.

00:58:41.100 And I've experienced much smaller versions of this.

00:58:45.160 I've had people lie about me, smear me.

00:58:47.780 I've had people Photoshop like fake tweets and messages I never sent.

00:58:52.500 I mean, people have no standards anymore.

00:58:55.220 I mean, there's so many people that just, they have no moral standards at all.

00:58:58.340 They have no conscience.

00:58:59.500 And they, they don't care.

00:59:01.620 Well, they'll lie about you.

00:59:02.400 They'll say whatever they want.

00:59:04.500 And this has happened to me.

00:59:05.520 It's anyone in the public eye, it's happened.

00:59:07.000 It's certainly happened to me.

00:59:09.400 And yet I don't sue for all the reasons above.

00:59:12.700 I haven't sued in any of these cases.

00:59:15.820 For all these reasons, all the reasons I just described.

00:59:18.660 I, I, I run through the math and I go like, it's just, it's not worth it.

00:59:22.420 I mean, it's, it's only going to cause more problems than it solves.

00:59:24.940 And that sucks because I'm really mad also.

00:59:29.280 Like, I also just want justice.

00:59:31.060 You shouldn't be allowed to do this.

00:59:32.320 You can't lie about someone.

00:59:33.440 It's one of the worst things you could do.

00:59:35.980 Lying about someone to destroy their reputation.

00:59:38.040 I mean, to me, morally, I put that on the same level as like murder or close to it.

00:59:41.960 I really do.

00:59:43.020 Using, using lies and deceit to, to destroy someone's reputation.

00:59:48.120 I put morally, I, I, I personally, I put you on the same level as like murder.

00:59:52.320 It's a form of, of, of murder.

00:59:54.920 It's like you're killing someone's reputation.

00:59:58.400 And, um, and so you want justice for it also, but you run through all the, the math of it

01:00:06.220 and you realize that the chance of getting justice here is very low.

01:00:13.680 Probably not going to win.

01:00:15.240 Even if I do win, what will I win?

01:00:17.640 Money?

01:00:18.140 Probably not.

01:00:18.780 Even if I do get money, that's not going to restore my reputation.

01:00:21.180 Likely we'll have the opposite effect.

01:00:23.360 And the option, the upshot here is that the slanderers and the defamers basically have

01:00:27.820 carte blanche to lie about you and destroy your reputation.

01:00:31.000 Your only recourse is costly, um, time and cost prohibitive and may damage your reputation

01:00:40.520 even more than it already was.

01:00:42.640 And this is the situation now.

01:00:47.760 It's, it's, it's a really bad.

01:00:49.800 It's real, it's real ugly out there.

01:00:51.540 Uh, Erica Kirk is one of the worst examples we've ever seen, but it's like, it's not just

01:00:57.140 her.

01:01:00.100 And this is all part of the, you know, the information environment that we're in now, which is totally

01:01:07.220 screwed to put it scientifically.

01:01:10.000 Um, and you know, mainstream media obliterated its reputation, its credibility over the course

01:01:22.700 of decades.

01:01:23.520 I mean, it used to be that the, you know, information, if you were getting information

01:01:27.340 about what's going on in the world, you could, you would, you could only get it from these

01:01:32.080 big legacy mainstream media outlets.

01:01:34.180 Right.

01:01:36.080 And that also gave you recourse by the way, because back before all this, if like some

01:01:41.340 New York times reporter came out and just stated as a fact, Erica Kirk is, you know, torturing

01:01:48.220 children.

01:01:49.600 Um, it's well, now you have, now you're, you've, you have many more options.

01:01:55.600 Right.

01:01:56.240 And, and even before a lawsuit, like you could, there's an institution there.

01:01:59.680 You can try to hold the institution accountable.

01:02:01.040 You can at least get the person fired.

01:02:03.200 And if you do go and file a lawsuit, well, now there's like, they've actually got, they've

01:02:07.640 got something to lose here because it's the New York times.

01:02:10.320 Um, but now in this environment, it's not like that anymore because everyone just has

01:02:19.440 a platform.

01:02:19.860 They can say whatever they want and they can lie.

01:02:22.280 And a lot of people do, uh, does that mean that we're, it'd be better off if it was still

01:02:28.520 the mainstream media controlling everything?

01:02:29.980 No, obviously not.

01:02:30.640 The mainstream media obliterated its credibility over the course of decades, culminating in

01:02:35.080 COVID, BLM, transgenderism, three of the worst examples of mass hysteria in American

01:02:40.560 history, all unfolding at the same time, basically.

01:02:44.780 Right.

01:02:44.960 I mean, transgenderism that the trans ideology had predated it.

01:02:49.500 Obviously the BLM did too, but like all these things kind of came to a head at this, basically

01:02:55.420 the same time.

01:02:56.140 And they were all pushed by, by, uh, by the mainstream media.

01:03:00.640 And that was the end of the old gatekeepers regime.

01:03:04.800 And there's no, there's no coming back from it, nor should we any faint hope of redemption

01:03:11.960 for the MSM.

01:03:13.020 I don't think there is any hope, but if there ever could be, it would require accountability

01:03:17.720 and consequences for the people who push these lies.

01:03:20.560 And there's been none of that at all.

01:03:22.440 It never will be.

01:03:23.020 And so what happens now?

01:03:26.060 Well, into the vacuum that has been left rushes the, uh, independent quote unquote creators,

01:03:34.400 independent, even though they're not actually independent.

01:03:37.020 And I don't just mean because of foreign involvement or whatever.

01:03:39.760 I mean, sure there's some of that, but, but, uh, everybody is relying on ads.

01:03:43.900 They're reliant on, you know, ad revenue clicks, um, subscriptions in many cases, like all these

01:03:52.540 things, right?

01:03:54.000 That's not, it's not sinister in and of itself, right?

01:03:58.020 You got to make your money somehow.

01:03:59.020 Well, but like anyone who has sponsors, if you have sponsors, I have sponsors.

01:04:07.560 Okay.

01:04:08.200 But then you say, well, I'm independent.

01:04:10.700 Well, how independent are you?

01:04:12.960 You answer to your sponsors.

01:04:16.980 But in any case, all these, everyone else rushes in and, um, and then what's ended up

01:04:23.260 happening is that many of them have proven to be just as deceitful, amoral and fame

01:04:28.760 hungry as the worst of the MSM personalities.

01:04:33.960 That's what's happened.

01:04:36.060 Uh, and in the past, it was the MSM pursuing ratings and that's many of their worst sins

01:04:44.100 came down to not only their, their political ideological commitments, but the fact that

01:04:50.000 they were chasing ratings.

01:04:51.900 And now we have, uh, instead of chasing ratings, chasing clicks.

01:04:55.480 The results have proven to be just as bad, if not in some cases, worse in some ways.

01:05:04.300 So I don't know.

01:05:05.160 I don't have the answer for it.

01:05:06.080 I don't know what to do.

01:05:06.700 I don't, I don't know what to do, except that, um, I think, uh, all it just comes down

01:05:10.520 to the individual to exercise a lot of discernment.

01:05:12.900 That really is the only solution.

01:05:14.120 There's no other solution.

01:05:17.920 So, so there, there is no going back to how it was before.

01:05:21.180 We shouldn't want that anyway, because like I said, those people were all liars and rats

01:05:24.420 in the legacy media.

01:05:26.640 Um, so individual discernment is the only way forward.

01:05:31.680 It's the only way.

01:05:32.620 People have to be very discerning and just realize that, um, integrity is a rare trait,

01:05:46.380 especially for people that, you know, talking to a camera every day for a living or make

01:05:54.580 their living off of, uh, getting attention.

01:05:57.460 Integrity is a real, rare trait.

01:05:58.820 And so you have to keep that in mind and exercise discernment.

01:06:03.640 That's the only way.

01:06:06.700 Because it's not, you know what, the people that are, that are spreading, I mean, going

01:06:09.940 back to where this, what I started with, the ridiculous claims about Erica Kirk, she's

01:06:16.540 helping Jeffrey Epstein.

01:06:17.980 Well, yeah, the people that were pushing that, the personalities or whatever, that they, they

01:06:23.020 deserve most of the blame, but it's not just them.

01:06:24.980 What about all just like the normal people who also retweeted that or commented approvingly?

01:06:33.100 They're also to blame.

01:06:34.960 Have some discernment.

01:06:37.000 Have some integrity.

01:06:38.980 Don't just like assume it's true because you'd like it to be, or because it, because it's,

01:06:42.900 it supports your preexisting narrative that you have about this person or this issue.

01:06:46.280 So it really falls on all of us.

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01:09:02.680 All right, finally, briefly, I want to mention this post-millennial report.

01:09:08.060 A left-wing Portland politician has gone after a 95-year-old constituent blasting her on social

01:09:12.820 media after she made a mild criticism of how he choose to present himself in public regarding

01:09:18.000 his tattoos.

01:09:18.940 He wrote back that she was small-minded on his personal Instagram account.

01:09:22.480 The 95-year-old woman, whose name is Joan, wrote to city councilman Jamie Dunphy that

01:09:28.740 tattoos can be very personal and can be a turnoff to many people.

01:09:31.400 She then suggested that he wear a long-sleeved shirt.

01:09:34.420 Please consider wearing long-sleeved shirts in public, the note read, which appeared to

01:09:37.240 be torn in half after Dunphy posted an image of the note on his personal Instagram account.

01:09:42.140 Dunphy, who responded via social media, posted a picture of the elderly woman's correspondence

01:09:45.540 and said, no, mind your own business and keep your small-minded opinions about other people's

01:09:49.560 bodies to yourself.

01:09:50.520 The 95-year-old woman who struggles to hear because she has hearing aids was not able to

01:09:56.520 be reached for comment by the Oregonian by phone after a failed phone call.

01:10:01.560 The outlet sent the constituent a text, but she didn't respond.

01:10:04.520 Dunphy, meanwhile, has doubled down, said, I'm genuinely shocked by the audacity of any

01:10:10.180 person in our community thinking it's appropriate to contact elected officials criticizing their

01:10:13.980 bodies or appearance.

01:10:15.720 Portlanders pride ourselves on our weirdness and our ability to be openly ourselves.

01:10:19.980 So I'm honored to be able to reflect that as a leader in our city government.

01:10:22.240 Okay, so first of all, obviously publicly dunking on a 95-year-old woman is about as lame as

01:10:26.800 it gets.

01:10:27.920 This guy's a dork and a bully trying to play tough by telling off a woman who's old enough

01:10:32.080 to be his great-grandmother.

01:10:34.240 Now, personally, leaving aside the specifics of what she said, I'm very happy that there

01:10:38.040 are still old grannies out there that are writing letters of concern like this.

01:10:41.260 She apparently wrote like a physical letter and said it to him.

01:10:44.420 And this woman saw this dude's tattoos, thought they were inappropriate, took the time to personally

01:10:49.780 write him a letter, a correspondence to express her concern.

01:10:54.600 And there's something just very genuine about that.

01:10:57.640 Like, there's just something genuine, sincere, not performative about it, which I appreciate,

01:11:02.280 especially nowadays when nobody really cares about anything.

01:11:06.740 Everything's for show.

01:11:08.300 Everything is for likes and shares all the time.

01:11:12.420 If anyone does have a complaint, they always air it publicly.

01:11:15.940 So there's, I think we're going to miss, we're going to miss when the last of the old grannies,

01:11:21.680 the old concerned grannies who write letters of concern, when they die off, we're going to

01:11:26.460 miss that.

01:11:27.140 Um, I already do.

01:11:28.480 My, my grandmother was this way.

01:11:31.340 We'd be watching something on TV.

01:11:33.000 She would, we would, there'd be something like a Disney movie she didn't like, and she

01:11:36.160 would write a letter to the Disney corporation to let them know about it.

01:11:41.720 And you know what that comes from?

01:11:43.480 It comes from actually caring about stuff.

01:11:45.180 It comes from having a genuine, real human reaction to something and then trying to express

01:11:49.980 your view about it so that they'll understand.

01:11:52.400 There's a kind of like an, there's a sincerity and sort of innocence to that, that I find,

01:11:57.380 uh, endearing.

01:11:59.320 So I'm on the granny side at a deeper level.

01:12:02.340 And as to the issue of tattoos themselves, well, you know, my objectivity might seem to

01:12:06.400 be a bit, a bit, uh, compromised on the subject, given that I have, you know, I've got a tattoo.

01:12:12.040 I actually have another one on my shoulders.

01:12:13.520 I have two.

01:12:14.740 And, um, however, I still actually agree with the granny, even on the substance of the

01:12:19.700 topic.

01:12:20.040 You know, my relationship with tattoos is a little bit weird.

01:12:23.600 Like I wouldn't say I regret having the two.

01:12:26.740 I don't regret getting them necessarily, or, or having gotten them when I was in my early

01:12:30.340 twenties, when everyone else gets tattoos, uh, I'm not going to get them removed.

01:12:34.100 I don't have like an emotional, I don't, I don't waste any emotional energy feeling bad

01:12:39.940 about them or regretting them.

01:12:41.420 Um, however, and as far as tattoos, like it could have been a lot worse.

01:12:48.520 I got my tattoos in early, early two thousands when the, like the tribal armband tattoo was,

01:12:54.380 was big.

01:12:55.680 At least I didn't do that.

01:12:57.800 At least I didn't get a tattoo that would permanently brand me as a guy who was a big

01:13:03.080 Papa Roach fan when he was 19.

01:13:05.180 Uh, so I didn't do that.

01:13:06.780 However, if I never got them, would I get them now?

01:13:09.660 No.

01:13:10.940 I mean, obviously not.

01:13:12.240 Like I, would I go to a tattoo shop, right?

01:13:14.260 If I had no tattoos, would I, as 39 year old Matt Walsh, would I go to a tattoo shop

01:13:18.980 and get them now?

01:13:20.140 No, no chance.

01:13:21.360 So I'm, I'm weirdly ambivalent about it.

01:13:24.380 I don't actively regret them, but I, I wouldn't get them now if I hadn't already done so.

01:13:28.620 If that makes sense, which maybe it doesn't.

01:13:32.420 Uh, it's a bit of a complicated feeling.

01:13:34.040 All that said, there's no question that the tattoo thing has gotten out of hand.

01:13:37.620 I mean, it's, and it's totally lost whatever appeal it had in terms of being rebellious

01:13:42.780 or whatever.

01:13:43.800 I mean, like this guy says, oh, I have my tattoos because I'm an individual and I'm weird

01:13:48.880 and I'm expressing my individuality.

01:13:52.320 It's like, no, you, you look like every other person in Portland.

01:13:55.400 What are you talking about?

01:13:56.200 You may as well claim that you're expressing your individuality by wearing jeans.

01:14:00.140 You may as well just be wearing blue jeans and said, this is my, this is who I am.

01:14:04.040 This tells you who I am as a person.

01:14:05.400 I'm wearing blue jeans.

01:14:08.540 And also this is the worst part.

01:14:10.160 Tattoos have absolutely been one of the major drivers of the erosion of professional standards.

01:14:15.960 I mean, it used to be that having a tattoo was considered uncouth.

01:14:19.300 So you had to cover it in the workplace.

01:14:21.360 That was part of the, that was part of the whole deal of it being rebellious and individualistic.

01:14:25.480 Um, and there were some consequences to that.

01:14:29.400 You know, if you want to be rebellious and individualistic and brand your body with it,

01:14:33.340 well then, you know, it's, it's going to create some difficulties for you.

01:14:36.680 You're going to have to work around it.

01:14:37.620 Part of the whole deal.

01:14:40.180 But now everybody has them.

01:14:41.580 So every workplace has just given up and professional standards have eroded even further.

01:14:46.640 I wish there were still that taboo around tattoos.

01:14:49.100 Not because I have some desire to commit social taboos, but because that would be a sign of a healthy society.

01:14:54.820 And the funny thing is when I got tattoos when I was 20, 20 years ago or so, a lot of people told me that,

01:15:00.980 well, you're going to regret it later in life because it's going to be hard to get a job, you know.

01:15:04.880 And that ended up not being the case, um, because, you know, I never got a job.

01:15:11.900 No, I, I, I do this for a living.

01:15:15.040 So it doesn't really matter, but also because professional standards have plummeted into the ground.

01:15:20.540 Like I could go work in a, I could work in a business environment and it wouldn't matter at all.

01:15:25.080 So that's the problem.

01:15:27.720 And it, and it is an issue.

01:15:28.920 And even if you have tattoos, I think we should all acknowledge that.

01:15:31.200 Um, and yeah, it's true that like, if you, if you've decided, especially if you've branded your whole body,

01:15:36.340 you've got the sleeves and everything.

01:15:38.300 Um, no, it does.

01:15:40.320 Okay.

01:15:40.720 You want, you wanted to do that to yourself.

01:15:42.320 That's, that's your choice.

01:15:44.900 But the idea that every environment now has to conform to that or everyone has to be okay with it.

01:15:54.500 Um, that, that doesn't make any sense.

01:15:57.360 And then you don't get to complain about it.

01:16:02.980 I mean, you've branded your whole body in this way.

01:16:07.420 Someone reacts negatively.

01:16:08.940 You can't do that.

01:16:09.700 That's a, that's a, that's a, like an, a, an aggressive move to make to go to a tattoo, especially this guy.

01:16:14.280 I think he had the sleeves and everything.

01:16:15.180 So you're going to a tattoo artist and saying, brand my entire body.

01:16:19.660 Right.

01:16:20.040 Or at least like whole limbs of my body.

01:16:22.300 You do that and then you turn around and you're offended when anyone is even slightly critical, when anyone has even the slightest credit, the, the mildest criticism and says, Hey, would you, you know, I don't know if that's entirely professional.

01:16:38.620 You can't have it both ways.

01:16:39.720 That's why I have a common cause with the anti-tattoo 95 year old woman on this issue and probably on a lot of other issues.

01:16:47.920 Let's be honest.

01:16:48.500 I probably have common cause with her on like almost everything, whatever that says about me.

01:16:53.440 And we will leave it there for today.

01:16:55.060 Thanks for watching.

01:16:55.540 Thanks for listening.

01:16:56.960 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:16:57.660 Have a great day.

01:16:58.920 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 16, 2026

Ep. 1750 - I Looked Into Why Terrorists Are Being Let Into Our Country. It's WORSE Than You Think

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