The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1206 - Angry Libs Prepare To Jail President Trump

00:00:00.000 You know, I've been thinking a lot lately about how lucky we are to live in the land of the free

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00:00:11.400 the press isn't free. Instead, it serves the interests of the regime on whose behalf it

00:00:17.580 spreads lies and propaganda. Can you imagine? Even worse is communist China. In communist China, 0.84

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00:00:30.540 they make, regardless of any nominal rights to privacy. In Russia and China, citizens don't have

00:00:37.740 a practical right to free speech. Even if they have such a right in theory, if they ever contradict

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00:00:49.700 In those kinds of countries, agents of the state even deny parents' right to raise their own

00:00:56.400 children. Law enforcement persecutes people for their traditional religious beliefs.

00:01:02.660 And most brazenly of all, evil autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin jail their political

00:01:10.320 opponents. Thank goodness we don't live in a country like that.

00:01:17.060 Got a lot coming up to talk about. President Trump has just made a really interesting statement

00:01:25.340 about Ukraine that is going to shake up not only the race, but is shaking up Republican Party

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00:02:38.680 with gold today. Thank goodness we don't live in a country like, oh, look, what does this card say

00:02:44.580 right here? It says President Trump might be arrested on Tuesday. Huh, that's weird.

00:02:48.940 This, according to President Trump, though, it comes after an NBC report that prosecutors in

00:02:55.380 New York are preparing to indict Trump. What are they going to indict him over?

00:03:01.100 Is it Russia collusion? Is it Ukraine collusion? Is it his classified documents that Biden apparently

00:03:10.260 had multiples of at his home? That didn't really matter. It was only when Trump had it, that was a

00:03:14.820 bad thing. No, no, it's none of that. The libs in New York are looking to indict Trump over his hush

00:03:25.000 money payment to Stormy Daniels back in 2016. They've gone through so many attempts to try to

00:03:32.460 get Trump. They're now onto reruns. They're now going back to the originals. And so what's the issue

00:03:37.380 here? Why is it a crime for Trump to pay Stormy Daniels? Well, he paid it through Michael Cohen,

00:03:46.700 who is his former attorney, who sang like a songbird and completely turned on Trump,

00:03:54.800 broke under pressure, and got a slightly more lenient treatment apparently by the liberals

00:04:01.480 than he otherwise would have gotten. He says that he made the payment on Trump's behalf

00:04:07.680 to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged 2006 affair that they had.

00:04:14.100 Then Cohen pleaded guilty to related charges and served time in prison. Why is it a crime? Because

00:04:20.820 the payment was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen.

00:04:28.340 But this particular retainer apparently did not exist. Even though Cohen was Trump's lawyer for a

00:04:34.580 long time, there was no legal retainer in this particular incident. And so Trump may have committed

00:04:43.920 a misdemeanor of falsifying business records. A report said that Trump personally signed several

00:04:51.600 checks to Cohen while he was serving as president. Now, a misdemeanor, why are you going to arrest the

00:04:57.380 former president and the current chief rival to the sitting president over a misdemeanor? Well,

00:05:01.600 they can elevate it to a felony if they can prove that Trump's, quote, intent to defraud

00:05:07.040 included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime. And the libs are arguing that the second

00:05:14.060 crime is that the $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels was actually an improper political

00:05:23.880 contribution because he was making the payment to keep her quiet during the campaign. So it's as though

00:05:28.420 it were an improper donation to the campaign, which again is bogus. Pretty much every campaign

00:05:35.100 finance matter is bogus because money is fungible. So if you give X amount of money to a candidate's

00:05:41.540 campaign committee, that can land you in prison. But if you give 10 times that amount of money to

00:05:45.680 a super PAC, that's totally fine. If one group gives money, it's okay. If an individual or a

00:05:51.820 different group gives money, that can be a big problem. So it's all basically bogus. But the reason

00:05:57.720 this is especially bogus is that Trump is the candidate. And candidates can give as much money

00:06:03.740 to their campaigns as they want. So even if the prosecutors in New York argue that this was an

00:06:09.480 improper donation to the campaign, maybe it was done through a kind of improper channel. Maybe the

00:06:16.020 paperwork was a little bit off, but it's still Donald Trump donating to his own campaign. It's so

00:06:21.180 patently absurd. It's so obvious that the Democrats here just want to stop the people from having a chance

00:06:29.760 to reelect Donald Trump. Because they're afraid that if Trump can appear on a ballot, they're afraid

00:06:33.560 that if Trump can mount a real presidential campaign, that the people will vote for him.

00:06:37.220 And so they're doing everything they can. They tried to disqualify him using the 14th Amendment.

00:06:41.480 They tried to, they had multiple suits to try to keep him off the ballots in different states around

00:06:48.100 the country. They have tried to impeach him multiple times. They try, now they're trying to lock him into

00:06:54.680 prison. From, from which place he could still run for president, but obviously would hurt his campaign

00:06:59.340 if he were stuck in a jail cell instead of holding rallies. It's so obvious that these guys fear Trump

00:07:06.920 and want to do everything they can to prevent the people from having a choice. That this is the silver

00:07:10.640 lining of this whole storm cloud. The silver lining is that I think we can finally dismiss once and for

00:07:17.780 all the ridiculous piffle that the Democrats tell us about our sacred democracy. Our, Donald Trump and

00:07:28.920 the Republicans are a threat to our sacred temples of democracy, our cherished norms. We don't act like

00:07:38.960 this in America. We're better than this. No, you're not better than this. You're breaking all the norms.

00:07:44.800 You are undermining our allegedly sacred democracy. You're jailing your political opponents like a

00:07:52.620 two-bit dictator in a banana republic, which some of us conservatives have observed for a long time.

00:08:01.000 So, okay, that's how they want to play? Fine. I do not want to hear it anymore about our sacred

00:08:08.620 democracy or any of that other stuff. Don't want to hear it one little bit. What should the

00:08:15.580 Republicans do in response? I think that a Republican governor or more precisely, I guess,

00:08:22.420 a Republican attorney general should arrest a prominent criminal lib. There is no shortage of

00:08:29.080 candidates, of prominent liberal politicos who have committed crimes. Look around the Clinton circles,

00:08:37.320 look around the Biden circles, look at Clinton and Biden themselves. Plenty of big criminal libs out

00:08:43.200 there who have completely gotten off the hook, and there are plenty of Republican governors and

00:08:47.120 attorneys general out there. I think you would need a Republican governor as well as an attorney general 0.98

00:08:52.400 because if the attorney general indicts a big prominent criminal lib and there's a Democrat governor,

00:09:01.860 the Democrat governor will apply political pressure or eventually probably just pardon the criminal

00:09:06.000 lib. So I think you need to have a Republican governor there as well. But let's do it. Let's

00:09:09.860 indict a big criminal lib. Let's indict two of them. They are going after our guy. Let's go after five

00:09:18.220 of their guys. There's no risk here. Some people push back against this suggestion. They say,

00:09:23.420 well, we're better than them, Michael. Yeah, sure. I think we are better than them. I'm not suggesting

00:09:29.220 we do anything illegal or unjust. I'm not saying we go after an innocent lib. I'm saying we should

00:09:34.840 go after a criminal lib against whom the law has not been applied. The argument against doing that

00:09:39.680 is that we want to preserve our norms and we don't want to live in a country where we throw the vanquished

00:09:46.620 political opposition into orange jumpsuits. I agree. I don't want to live in that country. But

00:09:51.880 the only reason for which we should be concerned about that norm is if the norm continues to exist.

00:09:57.760 The libs are breaking that norm. That's not our fault. We have nothing to say. We're saying don't

00:10:01.640 violate the norm. Don't start arresting the opposition leaders in our country. But if they're

00:10:07.600 going to do that, then we've got to play the game. Otherwise, we're just surrendering to the people

00:10:11.400 who are abusing our political system the most. So, OK, they want to indict Trump. Fine. I want to see

00:10:17.020 every Republican governor and attorney general with the political capital, with the power to do so,

00:10:23.640 to indict prominent criminal libs. And I think you should indict multiple and you should throw the

00:10:28.900 book at them and you should find every stupid little fake misdemeanor charge and you should

00:10:33.940 trump it up as high as you possibly can. OK, the reason that you have to do this, the reason this

00:10:41.020 would be good for our political order is because it would show the libs that there are consequences to

00:10:47.400 their actions. It would discourage further predations on our political order. I remember

00:10:51.200 the late great historian, Donald Kagan, professor of mining college, historian of war and specifically

00:10:58.960 of ancient Greece and the Peloponnesian War. And when he would get down to these margin calls,

00:11:04.520 why did Pericles do this? Why did this statesman do that? He would say, my inclination as to what

00:11:12.340 motivated this statesman in this action or in this strategy comes from one place and it's the

00:11:20.260 Brooklyn schoolyard. And because Donald Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, is kind of a tough New York kid,

00:11:25.380 became a very distinguished professor. He said the Brooklyn schoolyard, the rules hold the same,

00:11:29.880 the rules of war, the rules of politics. They're the exact same as when you walk up to a bully

00:11:34.520 in the playground. OK, and so if we do not push back, if we just roll over and allow the libs

00:11:41.640 to start arresting the leader of the opposition in the United States, we say, well, we're preserving the

00:11:47.620 norms. You're not preserving any norm. You're helping the liberals to establish a new norm,

00:11:52.040 which is that the conservatives never have a shot to win. And if conservatives ever stand up against

00:11:57.580 the regime in any significant way, they will be wearing an orange jumpsuit. Now, the silver lining

00:12:02.900 for Trump here is they restored his YouTube account. That's the, I just imagine Trump having a meeting

00:12:12.160 with the regime, Trump having a meeting with the ruling class. They say, hey, Donald,

00:12:17.220 hey, opposition party, we've got good news and bad news. And what's the good news? Well,

00:12:22.640 the good news is we're going to let you broadcast on YouTube again. So we're going to let you back

00:12:27.340 into the public square. You can post videos to YouTube. Oh, great. What's the bad news? You can

00:12:32.580 do it from prison. There's trade-offs in life. And the timing is so weird. They announced this

00:12:38.580 just as the rumors start flying that they're going to arrest Trump. It seems coordinated.

00:12:47.560 It seems, and so much of our ruling class seems coordinated. The media coordinates with the

00:12:54.560 government. Big tech coordinates with the deep state. We know that. They have regular meetings

00:12:58.420 with the FBI. And the FBI says, don't post this story. It's going to be damaging to Joe Biden.

00:13:03.000 Don't allow people even to privately message this story about Hunter Biden's laptop. Okay,

00:13:06.840 sounds good. And there's all this coordination that goes on. And now the very same day, hey,

00:13:12.040 we're going to let Trump back on YouTube. Isn't that fair? By the way, we're going to arrest him.

00:13:15.260 Okay. Meanwhile, what are the Democrats doing? Well, we just got new information from a House

00:13:20.400 Oversight Committee that another Biden has been taking money from communist China. According to

00:13:27.600 House Oversight, quote, over the course of several years, members of the Biden family and their

00:13:32.280 companies received over $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to their associate, Rob Walker.

00:13:38.360 Most of this money came as a result of a wire from a Chinese energy company and went not only to Hunter

00:13:44.480 and James Biden, James is Joe Biden's brother, but also to Hallie Biden. Hallie Biden, if I'm getting

00:13:51.660 my Biden women straight, is Bo Biden's widow and then the paramour of Hunter Biden after that,

00:14:00.400 as well as an unknown Biden. Who's the unknown Biden? One can only speculate.

00:14:08.860 The corruption is barely hidden. It's not even hidden. When Hunter Biden was on the take and he

00:14:16.820 was being paid 50 grand a month or thereabouts by a Ukrainian state energy company, Burisma.

00:14:24.280 That was pretty brazen corruption. Hunter Biden doesn't know anything about Ukraine. Hunter Biden

00:14:28.940 doesn't know anything about the energy industry. Hunter Biden wasn't providing any services to Burisma

00:14:33.360 other than giving access to the vice president of the United States, who's now the president of the

00:14:37.940 United States, who was Biden's, I'm sorry, who was Obama's point person on Ukraine. I sometimes say

00:14:44.160 oh, Biden, because it seems to be the same cabal of people. That was brazen, transparent corruption.

00:14:53.000 Now we find out the Bidens have been on the take from communist China. They haven't even really been 0.86

00:14:59.380 masking it and washing the money through different people. The wire came from a Chinese energy company.

00:15:05.780 So the wire came with direct fingerprints of the Chinese communist party on it.

00:15:10.800 Are any of the Bidens looking at any consequences for this? No. No. If the Bidens had used their own

00:15:22.000 money to pay some alleged hush payment to a porn star, then they'd have the book thrown at them.

00:15:28.860 But if they're taking corrupt money from communist China to sell American influence overseas,

00:15:33.800 not really disclose this money, it's just coming out now. Oh, that's totally fine. Barely hidden.

00:15:41.400 Two tracks of justice. And it's the squish conservatives who are the ones saying, well, 1.00

00:15:46.620 we can't violate our norms. Maybe we should just let them arrest the leader of the opposition just

00:15:51.420 this way because we don't like, he's very mean and sends mean tweets back when he was allowed to

00:15:54.800 have a Twitter account. And so let's just move on. Can we just move on, please, to preserve the norms in

00:16:02.280 our sacred democracy? Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think we can do that.

00:16:06.620 Now, some people recognize that this is a pivotal moment in American history. This has never happened

00:16:15.100 before. We have never arrested the former president. And more importantly than him being a former

00:16:20.060 president, the current chief rival, the current biggest threat to the sitting president could be

00:16:26.040 arrested. Some people recognize this might be a real turning point in history, including people who are

00:16:34.060 also running for president, including people like my friend, Vivek Ramaswamy, who had this to say.

00:16:39.660 This morning, we learned that it is likely that the New York Manhattan district attorney

00:16:47.500 is likely to indict a former president of the United States who is running for office. Now, I want to be

00:16:54.540 very clear. I am in a presidential primary running against that individual, Donald Trump. But what I'm

00:17:02.780 about to say has nothing to do with Donald Trump and everything to do with the integrity of an election

00:17:09.540 and the integrity of a self-governing democracy. So I don't care whether you root for Trump or whether

00:17:16.500 you don't. If you root for the integrity of our constitutional republic, then you need to be on

00:17:22.820 the side of being really clear. We cannot have politically empowered prosecutors eliminating the

00:17:29.520 opposition of a ruling party using arrest power. It is a sad day in America.

00:17:34.820 Yeah. So Vivek goes on and he calls on the other candidates in the race and the other presumed

00:17:41.060 candidates in the race, people like Ron DeSantis, to condemn this. As these rumors are flying, as

00:17:48.220 these leaks come out, as NBC is reporting, yeah, Trump is looking like he'll be arrested. Before it

00:17:52.940 happens, because once it happens, it's too late. Before it happens, Vivek is saying, these candidates

00:17:58.620 need to condemn this and make it clear we will not go along with it. Even though the other candidates

00:18:03.320 in the Republican primary would benefit if Trump is arrested, they would probably benefit. Trump would

00:18:09.320 get a big PR boost by being arrested. So in that way, it might help his campaign for re-election.

00:18:15.760 But let's not fool ourselves. It would be very hard to run a presidential campaign from prison.

00:18:21.540 Okay? We've seen this once before in American history. And that was the socialist candidate back

00:18:29.800 in 1912, I think it was. And he got 8%, but 8% is not going to win you a race. So

00:18:35.560 it, or 1912 or 1920, it might have been 1920. I'll look it up afterward. Regardless,

00:18:43.520 people don't win elections from prison. It would make it hard for Trump to raise money.

00:18:47.940 Obviously, he wouldn't be out on the campaign trail. And I agree with Vivek's point. This is a

00:18:51.680 turning point. We need a unified front. I see why other candidates, especially Ron DeSantis,

00:18:55.820 who Trump has just been pummeling recently. He's been filing complaints, ethics complaints against

00:19:01.860 DeSantis. So I get why DeSantis wouldn't want to do it. But I think even just optically, even from

00:19:07.120 the standpoint of self-interest, all of the other candidates should come out and condemn this right

00:19:11.300 now. Because if a candidate is seen as benefiting from the blobs, unjust persecution of Trump,

00:19:21.460 it is not going to make any primary voters more likely to vote for that candidate.

00:19:28.920 I just, it just looks so bad. It makes the other candidates look like they are in cahoots with the

00:19:36.760 deep state and the blob and the crooked libs who are arresting Trump. And so just even from the

00:19:42.460 standpoint of pure self-interest, I think it would behoove the other candidates in the race,

00:19:48.640 anyone who's considering running. Nikki Haley is obviously in the race already. Tim Scott looks

00:19:53.840 like he wants to run. Ron DeSantis obviously looks like he wants to run. Pompeo looks like he wants

00:19:58.800 to run. There are a lot of other people. I think it would behoove them. Get out ahead of this. If you

00:20:05.280 wait until Trump actually is indicted, it will be too late. And people will remember that it is too

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00:21:26.200 My favorite comment on Friday is from UpAllNightReviews869, who says,

00:21:31.080 every time I drive past a car lot and see one of those inflatable air dancers, I hear Michael crying

00:21:36.660 out, January 6th. I haven't thought of that before, but you're right. That is, that is,

00:21:43.780 and it's not just me crying out January 6th. It is me channeling all of the libs who have told us now

00:21:50.080 for years that their chief priority is the preservation of our sacred democratic norms,

00:22:00.100 our principles, the importance. It doesn't matter who wins the elections, it's the importance of our

00:22:06.100 sacred temples of democracy. Oh, we can arrest Trump? Yeah, throw him in the paddy wagon.

00:22:11.680 Send him to Gitmo. Let's do it, baby. On what? I don't know, who cares? You're gonna die to ham

00:22:15.940 sandwich. Find something. You show me the criminal, I'll find you a crime. Throw that guy in jail so that

00:22:22.420 we can more easily preserve our sacred democracy. Yeah, okay. I'm not really buying that. So anyway,

00:22:29.700 what is Trump doing right now before he gets arrested? Trump is calling for, among other

00:22:34.600 things, the immediate end to the war in Ukraine. Here's his argument. We have never been closer

00:22:41.760 to World War III than we are today under Joe Biden. A global conflict.

00:22:49.200 So there's one exception to what Trump is saying. He says, we've never been closer to World War III than

00:22:53.800 we are today. The exception to that would probably be the Cuban Missile Crisis, where you had a U.S.

00:23:01.400 blockade, you had Soviet weapons into Cuba, potentially could kick off a nuclear war.

00:23:08.000 That might be the exception. But that exception, which Trump is not acknowledging here, I think

00:23:14.540 actually sheds light on the rest of Trump's proposition on how to deescalate in Ukraine.

00:23:19.580 Between nuclear armed powers would mean death and destruction on a scale unmatched in human history.

00:23:27.440 It would be nuclear Armageddon. Nothing is more important than avoiding that nightmare.

00:23:34.360 We will avoid it, but we need new leadership. Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues.

00:23:41.100 We risk global war. We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to immediately

00:23:49.800 have a total secession of hostilities. All shooting has to stop.

00:23:56.480 This is a redefinition of the goal in Ukraine. Joe Biden doesn't seem to have a goal. So I guess

00:24:03.540 rather than a redefinition, you could say it's a definition. Trump is saying the United States'

00:24:07.480 interest in Ukraine is to stop the war. The Biden administration and the blob, inasmuch as they

00:24:15.600 have an objective in Ukraine, it is to keep it going, to not give Russia an inch, to drag this out until

00:24:25.120 Ukraine is in the European Union, until Ukraine is in NATO, perhaps. The administration's goals

00:24:34.700 only seem to escalate the war. Trump is saying my objective here is to stop the war.

00:24:41.940 This is the central issue. We need peace without delay. In addition, there must also be a complete

00:24:49.620 commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neocon establishment that is perpetually dragging us

00:24:57.840 into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a 0.96

00:25:05.080 third world country and a third world dictatorship right here at home. 0.52

00:25:12.220 Here we go. Real key here. Trump is saying this neocon establishment, the war machine, the military

00:25:19.520 industrial complex, whatever you want to call it, they are constantly pushing for more and more war.

00:25:24.100 In their defense, I'll take their side for a second. The argument for that more and more war is that

00:25:31.260 the United States is the global hegemon. We do run a global empire. And to paraphrase Pericles,

00:25:38.600 maybe it wasn't wise to amass that global empire, but it would be more dangerous to let it go than it

00:25:43.880 would be to maintain it. So we really are the world police. We get a lot of benefits from being the

00:25:48.900 largest empire and most powerful empire on earth. And so we've got to maintain that empire. Okay,

00:25:55.480 fair enough argument, even somewhat persuasive. But then Trump points out the flaw in that argument.

00:26:01.100 He says, the problem with that is we say we're spreading democracy overseas. We say we're defending

00:26:05.840 freedom and democracy, but what's happening? All the while we're doing that, we're eroding freedom

00:26:10.560 and democracy at home. And of course that is the case. We've greatly undermined democracy.

00:26:15.200 I mean, you see this on the most important social questions of the day. You saw this on the issue

00:26:20.820 of abortion, at least until last year. But from Roe v. Wade until last year, some handful of robed 0.90

00:26:27.200 lawyers on the Supreme Court took the question of abortion away from the people, took that out of

00:26:31.980 democracy. The definition of marriage, when the definition of marriage had come up on ballots,

00:26:36.360 even in liberal California, it had been shot down, the suggestion that we ought to radically

00:26:40.800 redefine marriage to take away sexual difference. So what happened? A robed romantic poet on the

00:26:45.820 Supreme Court by the name of Anthony Kennedy decided to wax philosophic and poetic and radically

00:26:51.920 redefine marriage from the bench. Whatever you think about gay marriage, quote unquote, that obviously 0.70

00:26:57.720 is a diminishment of democracy. On and on and on, we're seeing less and less democratic control.

00:27:08.320 Even over our public square. In a self-governing republic, speech is politics, politics is speech.

00:27:16.180 So you think the people ought to have some say over who gets to say what and where, but that's not the

00:27:20.640 case. Because the blob has outsourced the censorship and policing of speech to a handful of billionaire

00:27:26.560 oligarchs in Silicon Valley. They're not accountable to the democracy in any way. If you suggest, 1.00

00:27:33.760 hey, maybe the vaccines aren't as great as people told us. Hey, maybe COVID's not as dangerous as

00:27:37.440 people told us. Hey, maybe there were some shenanigans in the 2020 election. You could

00:27:41.040 be nuked from outer space. You wouldn't have any ability to appeal that in the public square

00:27:47.200 because Google, Facebook, and Twitter control 90% of the flow of information around our republic.

00:27:52.840 So you're seeing democracy ebb at home. You're seeing freedom ebb at home. We're not even allowed

00:27:57.600 to decide who gets to come into the country anymore because we don't have borders for any practical

00:28:01.880 purposes. Meanwhile, we say we're spreading democracy and freedom and nation building abroad.

00:28:07.800 And Trump is saying, the more we focus on that and the more we insist upon that as an imperial

00:28:12.560 objective, the less say we can give people and we can afford to give people in our own country.

00:28:18.020 And so at the same time, paradoxically, democracy and freedom diminish at home. And Trump says,

00:28:23.140 we got to end that. We got to end that so that we can build up our nation here at home. And it's a

00:28:26.840 strong case. He says, we're closer than we've been to World War III. The one exception shows you

00:28:33.620 Trump's thinking here because what the neocons and the war hawks and the empire builders are arguing

00:28:42.140 is that if we look weak right now, that's going to invite more aggression from Putin. That's going

00:28:47.700 to invite more aggression from Xi Jinping. That's going to invite more aggression. The moment we pulled

00:28:51.620 out of Afghanistan in that disastrous way, it invited Putin, it invited Xi. I don't deny that. 0.98

00:28:56.760 But that doesn't mean that the only option is World War III. Think about what happened in the

00:29:01.420 Cuban Missile Crisis. The official storyline is Kennedy stood firm and he stared down the Soviets

00:29:08.460 and then they pulled their missiles out of Cuba. That was only half the story. The other half of

00:29:12.660 the story is Kennedy agreed to pull his missiles out of Turkey, which was one of the provocations that

00:29:19.600 led to the Cuban Missile Crisis in the first place. So the US was allowed to save face, was allowed to

00:29:24.520 look strong, but we did make certain concessions. And the same is going to have to happen in Ukraine

00:29:28.600 if you want to bring that conflict to a close without escalating to the point of potentially

00:29:32.960 World War III with a nuclear reform or superpower. That's what's going to have to happen. 0.91

00:29:38.620 Whose foreign policy has been more realistic? Whose foreign policy has been more successful?

00:29:43.680 In my lifetime, the most successful foreign policy by far has been Trump.

00:29:49.200 George H.W. Bush can make a play for it a little bit. But when you look at the years after and what

00:29:58.260 happened in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, I think Trump takes the cake. Why? Because Trump is

00:30:06.180 unpredictable. So you don't know. One day he's talking like the doveiest dove. He never wants

00:30:10.580 to use the military ever. The next day he's dropping the mother of all bombs. The one day he's saying,

00:30:15.220 I'm not going to start wars. I'm going to bring peace to the Middle East. The next day he's killing

00:30:18.220 Iran's top general. Completely unpredictable. And unpredictability is really, really important 1.00

00:30:23.720 here. Because if you're Vladimir Putin, if you're Xi Jinping, you will, Putin obviously wouldn't have

00:30:28.600 invaded Ukraine under Trump. He didn't. Trump is the only president on whose watch Vladimir Putin has

00:30:33.720 not invaded a sovereign country in over 20 years. George W. Bush, Putin invades Georgia. Obama,

00:30:42.000 Putin invades Crimea. Trump, Putin just kind of chills. Biden, Putin invades further into Ukraine.

00:30:49.880 Why? Because reportedly Trump said, hey, Putin, if you invade Ukraine, I'll hit Moscow. And if you're

00:30:58.120 Putin, you're thinking this is almost certainly a bluff. But there's like a 5% chance that it's not

00:31:05.160 a bluff because Trump is crazy. And he calls nuclear dictators in North Korea short and fat. And when they

00:31:11.340 threaten nuclear war, Trump says, my button's bigger and my button works. And this madman might

00:31:15.700 actually do it. You just don't know. You don't know. 95% chance it's fine. 5% chance you can't

00:31:21.720 take that risk. You can't take that risk. It's a foreign policy alternative. We haven't seen this

00:31:29.600 from basically anyone else in our whole lifetime. And there's a lot of wisdom in it as far as I'm

00:31:36.460 concerned. Speaking of conflicts at home that we're neglecting while we engage in empire,

00:31:42.780 Layla Jane is an 18-year-old detransitioner. She's a girl who was pushed into transition,

00:31:50.840 all these horrible mutilations and chemical injections when she was a little kid. Now she's 0.99

00:31:57.480 18. And she says she greatly regrets it. And she's suing her doctors. Here's her story.

00:32:02.660 I really want to say that I don't think I- Put an applause right there. You can hear it right

00:32:07.940 away. The people who tell you there are no long-term consequences. It's all totally reversible. If a

00:32:14.180 child starts to transition and then stops transitioning, it's no big deal. This girl's

00:32:19.920 voice is quite deep and it's going to be deep for the rest of her life. And there's nothing to change

00:32:25.580 about that. This girl has aspects now in her body which are quite masculine because she was pushed 0.99

00:32:33.120 into this as a kid. And there's no reversal for that. And someone has to be held accountable, as

00:32:37.920 she says. I should have been allowed to change my sex before I could legally consent to have sex.

00:32:44.620 Overall, I don't think I'm better off for the experience. And I think transition just

00:32:50.560 completely added fuel to the fire that was my pre-existing conditions.

00:32:55.700 Her pre-existing conditions. She's talking about psychological conditions. Conditions that I am

00:33:01.400 not even allowed to mention on certain big tech platforms. I am not even allowed to suggest

00:33:07.620 that transgender identity has significant, let's say, overlap with other conditions, let's say.

00:33:17.860 Am I allowed to say that? Can I say that one, censors?

00:33:21.540 Layla's saying that. She's saying, this happened to me and I wasn't treated for other

00:33:24.640 conditions I had. I was treated as though I were really a boy and now I deeply regret it. They

00:33:31.460 did this to me before I was even legally allowed to consent to sex. Her lawyer is our friend Harmeet

00:33:37.820 Dillon. Here's what Harmeet says. She was not given the mental health treatment necessary and it was not

00:33:43.680 disclosed to her family or to her that, for example, teenage transitioners

00:33:49.640 desist from transition at a 80 to 90 percent rate. That the majority of people who go through

00:33:55.080 this regret it later on. That it wasn't a solution for her mental health problems. That many girls, 0.86

00:34:01.620 in fact, most girls probably struggle with puberty. And so it is our position legally as a matter of law

00:34:07.760 that informed consent was missing here. Because is it impossible for a child to give informed consent?

00:34:15.000 And it is impossible for parents who are not fully informed with a child that was not properly

00:34:20.160 treated to also give that consent. And Laura, an important point here is that, you know, you've had

00:34:25.300 me on with our client, Chloe Cole, as well. And Kaiser doctors use the line on her and her parents,

00:34:32.120 would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter? The exact same line was used in this case. So it appears to

00:34:39.040 be a script that certain Kaiser doctors and psychiatrists are using on these victims.

00:34:46.760 This kind of butchery is totally irresponsible at the levels of the parents, yes. At the levels of

00:34:54.440 the school, yes. But at the level of the doctors, okay? The doctors need, someone needs to be held

00:35:01.640 responsible. And what you're going to hear from the squishes is, well, the doctors were just doing 0.87

00:35:06.240 their jobs. Well, we shouldn't look, people should be free to choose whatever they want.

00:35:11.020 Well, Layla's point is, I can't be free to choose whatever I want when I'm 13. I'm below the age of

00:35:17.300 consent. Okay? And for these people whose job it is first to do no harm, to be making these life

00:35:26.600 altering decisions for me before I can consent, is deeply, deeply wrong. You know how it's wrong?

00:35:34.460 You know how we know it's wrong? Because the federal government, which now pretends that

00:35:39.260 transitioning at a very young age is wonderful and great and we support transiting the kids,

00:35:45.240 even the Biden official who is in charge of that, Richard Levine, who now calls himself Rachel,

00:35:50.840 admitted in a clip that's now cropped up that he is grateful that he did not transition until he was an

00:35:57.720 adult. I have no regrets because if I transitioned when I was young and I wouldn't have my children, 0.90

00:36:01.960 I can't imagine a life without my children. And so every experience led me to here. And so how could

00:36:11.920 I regret that? He makes a great point. Had he transitioned, that is to say, been castrated 1.00

00:36:17.700 when he was a little kid, he wouldn't have been able to have children. And for so many of these

00:36:22.060 detransitioners, one of the most painful aspects of the regret is that they've been sterilized,

00:36:26.860 that they've been castrated, that they won't be able to have kids. I look at my little kids.

00:36:31.760 This is the greatest joy that I can imagine in this world, at least. And you don't think about

00:36:39.740 that when you're 13, when you're 14, when you're going through puberty, when you're going through

00:36:43.540 an awkward phase, when you've got some anxiety about your body, when your friends are all wrapped

00:36:47.700 up in this bizarre fad of gender ideology and you're sucked into it. You don't think about those

00:36:52.960 things. But even just a few years later, even at 18, you can begin to think of that and say,

00:36:58.620 oh my goodness, what have I done? And the children should not be held responsible for what's been

00:37:02.220 done. The parents should, the schools should, the government should, and the doctors should.

00:37:05.620 And if we don't hold them responsible, if we don't insist upon consequences for bad behavior,

00:37:13.460 you're going to get more of that bad behavior. And that's unjust, certainly to the victims. It's

00:37:17.280 unjust even to the perpetrators. We'll get into why that's the case in just a second.

00:37:20.880 First though, it's easy enough to look around the world and even around our own circumstances and

00:37:26.620 get a little bit discouraged. That discouragement can often seem insurmountable. But did you know

00:37:31.160 the opposite is true? With a little encouragement, your whole worldview can change. That is what

00:37:35.720 Jordan Peterson talks about in his new five-part series, Vision and Destiny on Daily Wire Plus.

00:37:39.580 Here's a clip.

00:37:40.780 You're not all you could be, and there's pain in that. And there's the necessity for a certain

00:37:46.900 amount of judgment about that, and even a certain amount of exclusion, because what you are that is

00:37:51.640 insufficient, in some sense, should not be allowed to propagate further. But if it's conjoined with

00:37:58.080 encouragement, it's like, yeah, you're in a rough situation there, kiddo. But, you know, here's some

00:38:04.200 things about you that are virtuous and good, and they're pretty powerful, actually. And if you just

00:38:08.820 made those more manifest, you could dispense with a lot of this immaturity and misery, and you could

00:38:14.680 expand yourself out into life physically and psychologically, and you could start walking this

00:38:23.960 pathway that makes things better. And the thing is that as soon as you start walking the pathway that

00:38:29.680 makes things better, then things immediately become better, because your whole orientation changes. And, you

00:38:35.560 know, if you're in a bad place, but you're escaping, that's pretty positive. Even if it's a bad place, and you

00:38:41.240 might think, well, it's still bad, but it's better. It's like, well, that's a lot better than a bad

00:38:46.360 place that's getting worse. That's for sure, because that's hell. Hell is a bad place that's

00:38:51.080 getting worse. The fifth and final episode of Vision and Destiny is out now exclusively for

00:38:56.440 Daily Wire Plus members. Join at dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch Vision and Destiny.

00:39:04.420 We've got to arrest some criminal libs in response to the libs potentially arresting Donald Trump.

00:39:12.600 We've got to sue the doctors who transition, meaning mutilate and castrate the poor little kids 1.00

00:39:19.640 who they're leading into a gender ideology. We have to do that as a mercy, not only to the victims of 0.63

00:39:28.180 these predations, but also to the perpetrators. And people, they don't think about that very often.

00:39:35.160 But the enforcement of consequences is a mercy even to the criminals. You saw this, there was a video

00:39:41.660 that went completely viral on Friday, and it's of a criminal busting in, walking into a Metro PCS

00:39:49.520 store. And he's got a gun. He throws a bag down on the counter to the clerk.

00:39:56.660 Basically, the criminal is saying, fill up this bag with the money. I'm going to walk around here

00:40:01.440 brandishing my gun, threatening your life. And just fill it up, totally casual. And what happens?

00:40:07.640 The clerk is armed. The store had been robbed multiple times, but the clerk is armed. And so he

00:40:14.220 pulls out his weapon. He fires. He empties this magazine on this criminal. Criminal dies.

00:40:20.960 This video has been described on social media as the F around and find out video. It's very sad.

00:40:26.680 We're blurring the image of the criminal because I don't want to be airing snuff films on my show.

00:40:32.580 But this is a case in which the clerk was absolutely 100% right. Somebody walks in and threatens you

00:40:41.300 with a gun. That person has surrendered their expectation that they get to live. Okay, that is

00:40:47.720 a fight or flight kind of scenario. And that guy, who knows, maybe that guy's got a wife. Maybe that 0.77

00:40:53.140 guy's got kids. Maybe that guy just has a natural desire to protect his own life. And he pulls that

00:40:58.520 out and he says, I cannot allow you to threaten my life. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Criminal's

00:41:02.780 dead. For what? For what? For the prospect of making whatever pittance was in the cash register

00:41:10.900 at Metro PCS and stealing some cell phones? For what? This guy threw away his life.

00:41:16.720 Why was the guy impelled to rob the store? Because of his bad upbringing, because he violated

00:41:25.060 the moral order, because he made a bad choice. Also because other people had gotten away with it.

00:41:34.540 That's the most preventable part of the whole story. And it's the part for which the libs bear

00:41:42.740 a lot of responsibility. And it's the part for which the bleeding hearts bear a lot of responsibility.

00:41:47.520 And it's the part for which the criminal justice reformers bear a lot of responsibility.

00:41:50.560 If they would keep their traps shut and allow law enforcement to do its job and allow criminals

00:41:56.320 to face consequences, that guy would very possibly be alive today because he wouldn't have dared to

00:42:02.840 walk into that shop brandishing a gun, threatening a clerk if he thought he were going to face consequences

00:42:08.140 for that. It is, I remember at a very, very small scale, I remember I was giving a speech at the

00:42:16.680 University of Missouri, Kansas City some years ago. This was before the transgender topic became

00:42:23.380 the biggest topic in the whole country. And I was giving a speech called Men Are Not Women 0.98

00:42:26.840 and Other Uncomfortable Truths. And these maniacs at the speech, these leftist activists were screaming

00:42:34.820 like banshees, like hyenas. You couldn't hear a word. They were guffawing and jumping up and down

00:42:40.320 and really behaving like animals. And finally, though, they decided, okay, we're going to leave

00:42:44.500 because I just kept giving my speech. One person, I guess they had planned this out.

00:42:50.340 One person gets to the side a little bit behind the podium and opens up a fire door. And I guess

00:42:57.380 there had been another activist on the other side of the door waiting to come in and attack me. And

00:43:01.940 he wasn't attacking me with a gun. Well, it was a type of a gun. It was a squirt gun filled with some

00:43:06.020 kind of dubious fluids. We've never figured out exactly what was in the squirt gun. It was designed,

00:43:10.560 though, to seem like a chemical of some sort. And the guy comes in and he sprays me with the squirt

00:43:16.020 gun. And I just feel a little bit of this squirt gun. And by the time I squared up on him, so we're

00:43:21.160 talking about seconds, by the time I turn and square up on this guy, he is already down on the ground

00:43:26.640 because there was a cop behind him. And the cop eventually, because he was fighting the cop,

00:43:31.780 cop eventually tases him. And I look down at this guy's face. And I'm just watching this happen.

00:43:37.920 And the look on the guy's face, it was not one of anger. It was a little bit of pain for sure.

00:43:44.320 But the look that is seared into my memory is one of shock, surprise. He thought he was going to get

00:43:53.600 away with it. And he couldn't believe that there would be consequences for his actions. And I don't

00:44:01.560 want to sound like a big lib squish or anything, like a bleeding heart here, but I have some sympathy

00:44:06.180 for him. Because he had good reason to think he would get away with it. Because the school took

00:44:11.480 the side of the crazy leftist activists all the time. Because at events all around the country,

00:44:16.600 in recent years we've seen at Yale Law School, at Stanford Law School, the top two law schools in

00:44:21.280 the country, these students behaving in exactly the same crazy, unreasonable way. And they get away

00:44:27.340 with it and the administration takes their side. So this kid thought he would get away with it.

00:44:31.220 Happened to be the case that at our events, we don't let people get away with it. And so the guy

00:44:37.700 ended up in jail. It's kind of the way markets work. Markets work on reliability, stability.

00:44:51.300 Markets want to be able to predict what's going to happen. More than even they want a tax cut,

00:44:56.380 they want a tax hike, they want this regulation, they just want predictability. And we have a

00:45:02.200 country that is increasingly not predictable. And it's not predictable because we used to be a country

00:45:07.780 of law. And we are increasingly a country of men. We used to be a country that was ruled by the 0.62

00:45:14.220 Constitution, by law, lady justice blindly meeting out justice. Now we are increasingly a country of the 0.80

00:45:24.860 caprices of men, where if you're a liberal, you can commit all sorts of crimes, all sorts of

00:45:30.220 corruption, take money hand over fist from Ukraine, from communist China. You can commit and admit to 0.55

00:45:36.640 countless crimes on your computer, on video, in your own words, implicating your father who's the

00:45:44.200 president of the United States, you'll get away with it. But if the regime doesn't like you, they'll

00:45:49.080 find some bogus reason from seven years ago to throw you into an orange jumpsuit. And in that

00:45:56.720 kind of society, in a society where people think there are not going to be consequences for their

00:46:02.520 actions, the actions of the people in power and the reactions of the people who are out of power

00:46:08.020 are increasingly going to spin out of control. That's just how it works. Okay, today's Music Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 20, 2023

Ep. 1206 - Angry Libs Prepare To Jail President Trump

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