The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1469 - The Trial Of President Trump EXPLAINED In 4 Mins

00:00:00.000 Day one of President Trump's criminal trial in New York, the first of four that Democrats have

00:00:05.440 planned for him before Election Day, and the first criminal trial of a former president in

00:00:10.640 American history is officially over. The Libs spied on him. Then they undermined his administration.

00:00:19.900 Then they impeached him. Then they changed all the election rules to kick him out of office.

00:00:24.100 Then they impeached him again. Now they are trying to throw him in prison. And still, still,

00:00:31.060 the man is standing tall. This is an assault on America. Nothing like this has ever happened

00:00:38.960 before. There's never been anything like it. Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense. It

00:00:45.780 should never have been brought. It doesn't deserve anything like this. There is no case. And they've

00:00:51.760 said people that don't necessarily follow or like Donald Trump said this is an outrage that

00:00:57.540 this case was brought. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never before. Nobody's

00:01:03.880 ever seen anything like it. And again, it's a case that should have never been brought. It's

00:01:10.060 an assault on America. And that's why I'm very proud to be here. This is an assault on our

00:01:15.860 country. And it's a country that's failing. It's a country that's run by an incompetent

00:01:21.660 man who's very much involved in this case. This is really an attack on a political opponent. That's

00:01:27.600 all it is. So I'm very honored to be here. Thank you very much. I'm very honored to be here.

00:01:35.820 love him. Hate him. Everyone has got to admit this man has cojones of steel. I'm Michael Knowles. This

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00:02:20.600 why she threatened to murder the council. And we'll get to that in just a moment. First, though,

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00:03:30.960 This trial in New York is obviously a miscarriage of justice. The trial in New York is obviously a

00:03:40.420 threat to our constitutional order. The first time a former president has ever been criminally

00:03:46.740 prosecuted ever in American history. To say nothing of the fact that he's not only the former president,

00:03:53.080 but he's the current leader of the opposition. He's the presumptive Republican nominee in 2024.

00:03:58.040 And it's so personal that they're not even playing around anymore. They're not even pretending that

00:04:06.420 this is just a purely procedural matter. And look, Donald Trump, he committed this crime. And what is

00:04:10.980 the crime exactly? Eight years ago, he donated some money to his own campaign, which is completely

00:04:17.560 legal. But it was in kind because he didn't fill out Form 72B for the FEC. And so it was hush money to

00:04:25.460 this porn star. I don't really remember. But anyway, we're going to throw him in prison forever,

00:04:30.940 especially before the 2024 election because Biden's poll numbers don't look good. So they're not even

00:04:35.900 pretending right now that this is purely procedural, nothing personal here. President Trump made one

00:04:40.780 request. He said, hey, during this ridiculous political persecution that you're all undertaking

00:04:48.660 against me, can I have one day off so that I can go to my son's high school graduation?

00:04:55.100 And as of now, it appears that the answer is no.

00:04:59.660 So thank you very much. We had some amazing things happen today. As you know, my son has graduated from

00:05:07.140 high school. And it looks like the judge will not let me go through the graduation of my son who's

00:05:12.620 worked very, very hard. He's a great student. He's very proud of the fact that he did so well.

00:05:20.220 And I was looking forward for years to have graduation with his mother and father there.

00:05:25.520 And it looks like the judges are going to allow me to escape this scam. It's a scam trial.

00:05:30.640 If you read all of the legal pundits, all of the legal scholars today, there's not one that I see

00:05:36.380 that said this is a case that should be brought or tried. It's a scam. It's a political witch hunt.

00:05:43.140 It continues. It continues forever. And we're not going to be given a fair trial. It's a very,

00:05:48.780 very sad thing. In addition, as you know, next Thursday, we're before the United States Supreme

00:05:54.520 Court in a very big hearing on immunity. And this is something that we've been waiting for a long time.

00:06:01.520 And the judge, of course, is not going to allow us. He's a very conflicted judge.

00:06:05.240 And he's not going to allow us to go to that. He won't allow me to leave here for a half a day,

00:06:11.580 go to D.C. and go before the United States Supreme Court, because he thinks he's superior,

00:06:17.620 I guess, to the Supreme Court.

00:06:19.240 There it is. Two big issues. One personal, one constitutional, one deeply relevant to the

00:06:29.080 law and the politics of this case. The personal issue, this dirtbag judge, what's his name?

00:06:36.420 Juan Mershan, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Mershan, this dirtbag judge won't let President 0.81

00:06:43.660 Trump go to his kid's high school graduation over this farce of a trial. He's going to punish an 18-year-old

00:06:51.640 kid because they hate Trump so much. They're going to punish the American people by prosecuting a

00:06:57.660 former president, taking us that much further into the territory of Banana Republic. They're

00:07:02.720 going to punish the American people by prosecuting the current Republican nominee, the leader of the

00:07:07.740 opposition during Joe Biden's reign as president. And then they're going to punish this 18-year-old

00:07:13.980 kid in particular, just to twist that knife even further because they hate the orange man so much. 0.97

00:07:17.780 What a dirtbag judge Juan Mershan obviously is. But then at the legal and constitutional level, 0.86

00:07:26.240 because you have all of these prosecutions going on at once, just to get Trump, just throw spaghetti

00:07:31.080 at the wall, anything they can to stop this man from being president again, so great a threat he poses

00:07:36.740 apparently to the corrupt liberal establishment. There's going to be this appearance in Washington,

00:07:44.220 D.C., before the Supreme Court that will pertain to immunity, whether or not a president of the

00:07:50.940 United States has some immunity from prosecution after he leaves office for things he does while he

00:07:55.940 is in office. This is obviously pretty important to all of the prosecutions against Donald Trump right

00:08:02.360 now. It's very important to our constitutional order. It's very important to the 2024 presidential

00:08:06.300 election. And this dirtbag judge, Juan Mershan, I don't even know if I'm pronouncing his name

00:08:11.940 correctly, is not going to let Trump appear before the Supreme Court because we've got to keep up this 0.56

00:08:20.000 circus, this farce over an issue that never should have been prosecuted. Forget all the tabloid

00:08:25.940 tawdriness of this. Oh, there was this porn star. There was this porn star, like whatever it was, 0.92

00:08:30.160 20 years ago. And she alleges that she slept with Trump, even though then she said she didn't sleep

00:08:36.300 with Trump. And now she says she does sleep with Trump. But that's not even what the case is about.

00:08:40.820 The case is about whether or not Donald Trump is allowed to make an in-kind contribution to his

00:08:45.680 own presidential campaign, which he is. So then what's the case about? The case is about did Trump

00:08:49.780 file the right paperwork or whatever with the FEC? Give me a freaking break. A total joke. But this is 0.94

00:08:57.020 the kind of lawlessness that one can expect from a late stage republic that has fallen into corruption.

00:09:06.300 You know, I don't think I'm being hyperbolic here. This is what happens to different types of

00:09:10.820 government. I won't belabor the point because I say it on the show a lot. There are all sorts of

00:09:15.900 different types of government. There's monarchy, there's oligarchy, there's democracy, and there are

00:09:20.200 bad forms of it, which is tyranny and oligarchy and mob rule. And the distinction between the two is when

00:09:25.900 one is governing for the common good and when one is governing for self-interest. I think it's pretty

00:09:30.200 clear here that the factionalism, the political partisan self-interest has reached a fever pitch.

00:09:36.940 We've never seen anything like it in American history. And so this circus continues. And Trump,

00:09:42.180 got to hand it to him, man. That guy does not blink. That guy stands very, very tall,

00:09:48.360 even when they throw everything at him that they've got. Speaking of injustice in New York,

00:09:52.540 a man has just been arrested after punching a nine-year-old girl in Grand Central Station.

00:09:59.280 Just walked up to a nine-year-old girl and sucker punched her in the face.

00:10:03.600 This guy, his name is Jean Carlos Zarzuela. He's 30 years old, punched the nine-year-old girl. But

00:10:11.460 that's not the whole story. It's New York. Crazy things happen in New York, right? I think he's a

00:10:15.100 homeless guy. He's obviously some kind of lunatic, probably on drugs. The crazy part of this story 0.99

00:10:20.500 is that he sucker punched the nine-year-old girl after he was arrested and released for punching

00:10:30.760 another woman. That's the crazy part here. This guy, this maniac, homeless bum, goes up,

00:10:42.240 punches a woman in the face, allegedly. I have to say allegedly every single time we mention anything 0.99

00:10:47.720 about this guy's reported activities. Then it gets arrested. Then, because it's New York City,

00:10:55.800 just gets released. And then does it again in a more egregious way because he sucker punches,

00:11:00.880 allegedly, a nine-year-old girl at Grand Central Station. Why is this happening? This was obviously,

00:11:08.500 at least the punching of the nine-year-old was totally preventable. Why is it happening?

00:11:11.820 It's happening because we're not allowed to acknowledge patterns. That's why. Because

00:11:17.620 liberalism and political correctness in particular, and now we call it wokeism,

00:11:21.920 and this has now been written into our law and the enforcement of our law or the non-enforcement

00:11:26.460 of our law prohibits us from acknowledging patterns. Criminals tend to commit crime.

00:11:35.020 We can't say. How dare you suggest that a man who goes up and punches a woman on the street

00:11:40.620 might do that sort of thing again? No, no, no. No reason to believe that. Release the man.

00:11:46.020 Let him out of there. No, no, no. That's anti-criminal discrimination. This is what happened

00:11:50.860 in New York with stop and frisk. Do you remember the stop and frisk policy? This was about 10 years

00:11:54.180 ago, maybe a little bit more now, under the mayoralty of Mike Bloomberg, building on the

00:11:59.180 the crime crackdown policies of Rudy Giuliani, the best mayor in the history of New York City.

00:12:05.540 They had this policy stop and frisk. Stop and frisk was when the cops would go into bad

00:12:10.720 neighborhoods and stop criminals from committing crimes. That's what stop and frisk was.

00:12:14.820 And everyone was up in arms in New York. All the liberals, rather, were up in arms because it was

00:12:20.320 allegedly racist. Why was it racist? Well, because these cops were going into predominantly black and

00:12:27.780 Hispanic neighborhoods and they were stopping and frisking predominantly black and Hispanic people 0.98

00:12:34.000 who were often criminals. So it's racist right on its face, right? Now, what the liberals did not 0.95

00:12:40.980 acknowledge was that it's true. The neighborhoods were predominantly black and Hispanic and the

00:12:46.020 criminals predominantly were black and Hispanic. Also, the people calling the police asking for 0.98

00:12:51.760 protection were predominantly black and Hispanic and the cops in New York Police Department were 0.50

00:13:00.080 predominantly black and Hispanic. It's a majority minority police force. But the focus was only ever

00:13:06.560 on the criminals. So they said, oh, no, this is discrimination. Well, what about the poor innocent

00:13:10.600 people who were the same race as the criminals who wanted protection from the criminals who were the 0.89

00:13:14.240 same race? No, no, you can't. How dare you profile people? Any police work, any kind of law enforcement

00:13:24.800 requires profiling people. Otherwise, you're just going to be stopping everybody or you're going to

00:13:30.120 stop nobody. And that is what's going on in New York right now. It's like the TSA. The fact that I

00:13:36.640 stand in the TSA line at the airport and some old granny from Peoria gets pulled out of line 1.00

00:13:43.620 and frisked is a complete joke. Why does that happen? Even I sort of understand why I would get

00:13:49.660 pulled out of line. I'm a roughly fighting age guy. You know, I don't know. I look maybe I look a little

00:13:55.020 bit Middle Eastern, you know, or of Sicilian descent. It's a little ethnically ambiguous. OK, I mean, what's

00:14:01.500 the point of the TSA? The TSA is there to stop Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists from blowing up 1.00

00:14:06.580 airplanes. That's why we have the TSA regime. But we're not allowed to say that. We're not allowed to notice 0.89

00:14:11.360 any patterns. So we have to pull out the Midwestern granny and we got to frisk nine-month-old babies 1.00

00:14:15.720 all for what? To pretend that it's ever those people who blow up the planes? It's not. But we're

00:14:21.340 not allowed to recognize any kind of patterns at all. Or we necessarily do recognize them,

00:14:27.540 but we're not allowed to acknowledge them. And so what's the consequence of that?

00:14:33.140 The criminals' feelings don't get hurt? That's that nine-year-old girls get punched in the face in 1.00

00:14:37.440 Grand Central Station. OK, wow. Congratulations. Great job, guys. There's so much more to say.

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00:15:47.940 Speaking of violence, very violent show today. There's a story that's one of the top stories in

00:15:54.300 the world right now with videos that have gone viral. A bishop of the ancient Church of the East,

00:16:02.080 which is a sort of sect of a sect of Christianity, was just stabbed in an attack during a church

00:16:11.980 service. And some young guy walks up and just starts attacking this guy. And it's an amazing scene.

00:16:17.600 It happens very, very quickly. But the bishop holds up a small cross. This guy, this young man,

00:16:25.220 has a knife. And the bishop has a small cross. And the bishop is totally fine. And the young man

00:16:31.700 reportedly chopped his own fingers off. Because, call it a miracle, it's being reported, you know,

00:16:37.520 as a miracle. And it certainly would seem to be. The knife malfunctioned. Just as the bishop is holding

00:16:43.280 up the cross to stop the knife malfunctions. So, according to authorities, the kid, the kid,

00:16:49.740 he's like 15, I think, according to the news reports, chopped off one or more of his own fingers.

00:16:55.700 Other people were injured. I mean, this bishop was injured. He was treated, though, for non-life

00:16:59.760 threatening injuries. But no one really knows very much about the motivations here. Because it's a 15

00:17:05.320 year old kid, they're not releasing the name, they're not releasing much of the background. And so

00:17:09.240 people are filling in the gaps. I've seen all sorts of theories, often baseless theories, on

00:17:16.220 social media. So I'll just focus on two of them, because they're the two that have gone the most

00:17:21.620 viral. The first theory that I saw floating around social media was that this was a reprisal against

00:17:28.200 the bishop. Because the bishop is pro-Palestine and anti-Israel. So this was a reprisal by a supporter

00:17:37.000 of Israel, by a Zionist, or something like that, because of preaching such as this. 0.50

00:17:43.080 I said, open the door. He said, I'm not taking the risk. I said, we pay you because I said,

00:17:46.480 This bishop is talking about a visit that he made to Gaza. Open the door. I want to say hello to this

00:17:50.480 little girl. Palestinian, Muslim girl, my sweetheart. Yeah? I don't care. This is a little angel.

00:17:59.460 Stop killing little angels. Okay, so this video has been going viral. They say, see, this is a reprisal

00:18:05.620 because the bishop is not sufficiently pro-Israel enough. Now, I saw that, and I said, you know,

00:18:10.720 speaking of noticing patterns and noticing the way these crimes sort of take place, I said,

00:18:16.160 you don't often hear about knife attacks against clerics by the Zionists or whatever, you know,

00:18:24.920 by the pro-Israel people. But that's not, you know, if there's going to be any pattern,

00:18:30.740 it's usually going to be on the other side of that conflict. So then there was another theory going

00:18:34.340 around with another associated clip that says that the motivation for this attack

00:18:39.180 was that the bishop is anti-Islam because of preaching like this.

00:18:44.640 So Isa in Arabic is taken from the Greek word isos, Jesus, Yeshua.

00:18:51.460 But that Isa in the Qur'an is not the Jesus of the Bible. They've got nothing to do with one another, please.

00:19:00.460 Nothing to do with it. Totally different Jesus altogether. And Mary in the Qur'an, nothing to do with the Holy Mother of the Bible.

00:19:10.880 Absolutely not. So if somebody comes and says, like, we believe in Isa, but that Isa is not my Jesus.

00:19:17.040 This person has got nothing to do with the Jesus of the Bible. Absolutely not.

00:19:22.780 That Jesus in the Bible is the Son of God, is God. That Jesus in the Bible was crucified and he is the Savior and the Redeemer of the world.

00:19:29.840 Do you believe in this or not? Don't tell me he's a prophet. What prophet? What am I going to do with a prophet?

00:19:35.880 A prophet can't help himself, let alone help me. But it's ironic, ironic how they come back and they say

00:19:42.620 that Isa went up to heaven alive and will come back alive. Muhammad is dead and rotted in the grave. 0.93

00:19:49.000 Yet this one went up alive and when he comes back, he will judge the living and the dead.

00:19:54.080 I just want to know, who is the judge of the living and the dead? Isn't it God?

00:19:58.780 Now the other thing is, wouldn't you want to follow someone who is living instead of someone who is dead?

00:20:03.960 Looks like this guy's done much better at work.

00:20:06.420 Okay, so there's more to it. That's just a brief clip. And then there's the possibility

00:20:11.580 that the motivation was not religious at all. That this is just some crazy kid. Because don't 0.98

00:20:16.660 forget, just days ago, there was another stabbing, a mass stabbing, also in Sydney, Australia, as this

00:20:22.980 stabbing was. And the perpetrator, according to reports, was just some crazy guy who was upset that

00:20:28.920 he couldn't get a girlfriend and decided to go out and kill people and stab a lot of other people. 0.87

00:20:32.440 So we don't know. We don't know. And because of the age of the perpetrator here, 0.99

00:20:37.940 we're probably not going to get a ton of details. So which is it?

00:20:42.460 So it's the stabber is a pro-Israel. He didn't really look like a pro-Israel guy. Let's put it

00:20:46.900 that way. Is the stabber a Muslim terrorist? I guess I have my suspicions, just judging by 0.99

00:20:57.660 how these events usually occur. Or is the attacker not motivated by any religion at all?

00:21:05.280 He's just a crazy guy who wanted to go out and stab a bishop one day. We don't really know. So 0.98

00:21:10.400 what's the main takeaway here? The main takeaway is something that we often forget, which is that

00:21:15.320 bishops are under attack. Priests are under attack. Christians broadly are under attack.

00:21:22.000 In the West, how many churches have been burned down by arsonists in Canada, in Europe, even in

00:21:29.760 America, have been attacked in just the past few years based on lies? Remember the lie in Canada 0.73

00:21:35.720 that Catholic schools were murdering indigenous Indian children 200 years ago? There was that 0.85

00:21:43.660 lie. It was completely made up based on false mass graves that they supposedly found. How many attacks

00:21:49.260 on the churches in Europe? Right now, there's a genocide that is beginning in Armenia,

00:21:57.360 fueled by the Azerbaijanis growing out of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. After 100 years ago,

00:22:03.260 there was a Muslim genocide of Christian Armenians. We call it the Armenian Genocide. A reminder that

00:22:09.840 much as you hear about the plight of all sorts of other religious groups, Christianity is and remains

00:22:16.840 the most persecuted religious group in the world, according to any survey that you could take

00:22:24.720 on the subject. And often, often it goes unnoticed. You know, the uncensored and deleted episodes of

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00:22:41.280 These Michael and interviews, they're probably my favorite thing that I'm doing right now. I just

00:22:47.220 love them. They're usually not debates. A couple of them have been debates when the guests are

00:22:54.400 primed for that. Most of them are just conversations, long conversations of people who usually are not

00:23:01.840 that famous, who have stories that are really interesting, that are really pertinent to what's

00:23:05.460 going on in the world today. Here's a teaser from one that I'm not allowed to discuss all that openly

00:23:10.620 on a certain social media platform. I think you'll get the idea from the clip.

00:23:16.560 I had forgotten about being pushed down the stairs. The stuff that he tried to get me to do

00:23:20.800 in the bedroom, that sexual abuse, trying to coerce me into being, acting like we're lesbians, 0.86

00:23:27.680 him dressing up as a woman. In 2010, the kids were ordered and told they could no longer call their

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00:24:02.440 Speaking of Islam, an Indian-American pro-Palestine protester has been arrested for threatening to

00:24:13.440 murder the Bakersfield City Council if the council did not vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.

00:24:23.240 B.T. Patel crying, wearing her. Not an orange jumpsuit against a brown jumpsuit.

00:24:30.800 Not guilty, please, on Patel's behalf to eight counts of threatening a public official and

00:24:35.520 ten counts of making terroristic threats. She's due back in court later this month.

00:24:41.440 Okay. It's always sad to see a woman cry, even if the tears are a direct consequence of her 1.00

00:24:50.380 actions. The strange thing here to me is what was going in her mind. Not as she was threatening to

00:24:59.580 kill these guys. But before that, what did she think was going to happen if she succeeded at

00:25:07.100 intimidating the Bakersfield City Council? She goes there. She says, I'm going to kill you guys.

00:25:12.120 I'm going to murder you if you don't pass a non-binding Bakersfield City resolution 0.99

00:25:18.600 calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And then what was going to happen? 0.55

00:25:23.640 You're going to zip across the world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he calls a major

00:25:28.540 press conference. He says, hello, hello, my fellow Israelis. My fellow Israelis, I'm afraid the war is

00:25:35.160 over. The war against Hamas is over. I wish that the war could continue. But the Bakersfield City Council

00:25:45.100 in California has passed a non-binding resolution calling for a ceasefire. My hands are tied.

00:25:52.220 I cannot. The war is over. Peace has been reestablished in the Middle East because the 0.98

00:25:59.820 seven members, I don't even know how many people are on the city council. I don't, what was supposed

00:26:03.920 to happen? What? Oh, man, how leftist political activism, just like a worm, just burrows its way

00:26:14.800 through your brain and leaves your brain as nothing but mush. This woman is facing pretty serious 0.97

00:26:22.880 criminal penalties for an action that never possibly could have accomplished anything.

00:26:31.520 Many, many such cases. Let that be a warning to you if you're on the left, if you're on the right,

00:26:39.600 if you're engaged in politics in any way. Do not, don't, first of all, don't act like a total wacko 0.94

00:26:46.400 generally. But don't throw your life away for nothing, for not even the possibility of accomplishing

00:26:57.300 anything. Now, speaking of crazy leftist politics, Chaston Glesman, better known by his stage name,

00:27:06.460 Chaston Buttigieg. He is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's paramour. He just went on MSNBC

00:27:15.840 to accuse President Trump of effectively killing LGBT LMNOP people, saying that Trump and the 0.96

00:27:23.860 Republicans are, in effect, telling suicidal LGBT people to pull the trigger. 0.96

00:27:32.960 It's really hard. But for me, getting to grow up to be this person was a miracle. When I was 13,

00:27:39.920 14 years old and sitting in my parents' basement, I would stare at my dad's gun cabinet.

00:27:43.400 And I thought that was the only way out. I would never know love. I would never know family.

00:27:48.020 I'd never know community. I thought I was the only gay person in the world. And I felt like

00:27:51.460 the world was telling me, pull the trigger. I very much feel like this election is about

00:27:56.640 one candidate who looks at that kid and says, I've got your back. And another candidate who

00:28:01.880 surrounds himself with people who are actively saying, pull the trigger. That is what they

00:28:06.840 believe. They do not support LGBTQ people. They do not support families like my own. And they are 0.95

00:28:12.700 not doing anything actively to make life better or safer for kids like my own, for families like my

00:28:18.860 own, and for many other people around this country. This is very disgraceful behavior,

00:28:25.020 but it's also crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend behavior. This is textbook, crazy boyfriend, 0.99

00:28:32.540 crazy girlfriend. We've all heard of the crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend. Maybe you have 1.00

00:28:36.260 experienced the crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend who says, if you break up with me, I'm going to kill 1.00

00:28:41.840 myself. If you do anything that I don't like, I'm going to kill myself. We've all heard of that. 1.00

00:28:50.200 Many people have experienced it. That's exactly what Jason Buttigieg is doing here.

00:28:54.240 So disgusting. So narcissistic. So like everything in the whole world revolves around 0.99

00:29:02.340 him in his own mind. But think about the implications of that because he pulls on your

00:29:09.200 heartstrings a little bit. Yeah, I do. If a young man is confused about his sexual desires or is

00:29:17.360 experiencing some kind of deviant or disordered sexual desires, and he feels that that alienates him

00:29:22.780 or isolates him. I feel for that kid, of course. And you don't want that kid to feel bad about

00:29:27.820 himself or hurt himself or anything like that. Obviously, that's very, very sad. You want that

00:29:33.920 guy to be integrated into society and to have a good life, right? But what Chaston Glesman,

00:29:43.420 now called Buttigieg, says is, well, the only way, the only way to make me feel better, the only way

00:29:51.520 to stop me from killing myself is for you all to tell a big lie. First, that's the first thing.

00:29:58.560 First thing is, in order for me not to kill myself, you all need to pretend that marriage is something

00:30:03.660 different than it is and that it has always been acknowledged to be. For all of human history,

00:30:07.980 everywhere in the world, we have recognized that marriage has something to do with sexual

00:30:12.780 difference. Sexual difference, the complementarity of men and women, is the thing that distinguishes 0.64

00:30:20.240 marriage from other kinds of relationships. A business colleague or a best buddy or gal pals,

00:30:28.480 the sexual complementarity, the fact that there's a union can make children and that man is a coupling

00:30:33.960 creature and then you get married and you raise those children and it's a lifelong commitment,

00:30:39.160 that that is what distinguishes marriage. And what Chaston is saying here is, yeah, lie about that.

00:30:45.460 You have to lie about that and say that sexual difference has nothing to do with marriage or 0.99

00:30:49.920 I'll kill myself. And a lot of people are going to say, okay, well, I don't want you to kill yourself. 1.00

00:30:53.920 So sure, I'll lie about that. Even though I don't believe it, to make you feel better and so you

00:31:00.060 don't kill yourself like a complete lunatic. Okay, I'll lie and say that marriage is totally 0.84

00:31:05.020 different than it always has been everywhere in the world and that it obviously is today.

00:31:08.620 Okay, sure. Yeah, it's different. And then what's the next thing? He says, okay, and now if you don't

00:31:14.020 want me to kill myself, you need to let me go out and purchase a child. Actually, go out, pay money to 0.84

00:31:20.720 a company to create a child by purchasing the eggs of one woman and then renting the womb of another 0.94

00:31:26.560 woman so that I can create a child with the express intent of denying that child his mother. 1.00

00:31:31.860 One of the most important relationships that a human being will ever have in his whole life,

00:31:35.880 especially to a little baby who just cries out, mama, mama, love you, mama, mama, mama, come here.

00:31:40.360 Yeah, I'm going to create a kid intentionally to deprive that kid of that relationship. And if you

00:31:45.780 don't let me do that, I'll kill myself. You don't want me to kill myself, do you? That's what he's 0.99

00:31:51.740 saying. All of a sudden, he's tugging on my heartstrings a little less. When he was just talking

00:31:55.680 about being the kid, the depressed teenage boy, I was with him. I sympathized at least, okay? You

00:32:01.880 don't want a teenage boy to feel bad about himself. But now, hold on. Then you're going to make me lie?

00:32:07.060 I'm not going to lie for you, Chase. I'm not going to commit an action that is intrinsically immoral

00:32:12.100 just to spare you your feelings. I don't think that's going to help you. It's definitely not going

00:32:16.180 to help me, and it's just wrong in itself. But now we're not even just talking about saying a lie or

00:32:21.860 establishing a lie as a matter of our law. Now we're talking about abusing a child.

00:32:31.600 Maybe not intentionally abusing a child, but just by definition, abusing a child by creating that child

00:32:37.760 to deprive that child of his mother. And your feelings are not worth that, Jason. No one's feelings

00:32:45.820 are worth that. That is real, real evil. And your justification for that, which is that if we

00:32:52.320 don't give you every single thing that you want, no matter how disordered, no matter how fantastical 0.94

00:32:56.620 and false, that you're going to kill yourself, that is psycho behavior. And we cannot tolerate that.

00:33:03.580 Society cannot function if that is the baseline. Give this maniac anything he wants so that he 0.89

00:33:12.040 doesn't kill himself. No matter how disordered, no matter how many people it hurts, no matter how 0.98

00:33:16.880 many people it scandalizes and causes to stumble and sin. Give me a break. Crazy boyfriend, crazy

00:33:24.080 girlfriend stuff. Now you, not being crazy, you being very sensible and rational, you should subscribe 0.99

00:33:31.880 to the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. And you should destroy that like button and ring that bell

00:33:36.780 with facts and with logic. Speaking of weird sex stuff, can't believe it. We made it all the way 0.98

00:33:43.460 to Tuesday with that weird sex stuff. A substitute teacher has been arrested after sleeping with a 17 1.00

00:33:51.100 year old student. How many times do we get this story? This one, and what's always, it's always in

00:33:57.640 the comment section, you know, oh man, where were those teachers when I was in school, right? This one's a

00:34:01.380 little less funny in the sense that often these stories, they make it to the news because it's,

00:34:07.060 you know, a 22 year old teacher and an 18 year old student. You say, well, they're actually so

00:34:11.020 close in age, 17 year old student or something. They're so close in age. Maybe it's not, it's not

00:34:15.460 quite as weird. Well here, it's a little clearer why this kind of relationship is so disordered.

00:34:21.220 It's this woman who's 45 years old. They discovered her and a 17 year old student undressed in her

00:34:27.380 Honda pilot parked at a dead end road at three o'clock in the morning. And so there you say,

00:34:33.280 okay, 45 and 17. Now it's a little harder to joke about this. You know, 22 and 18 is one thing,

00:34:42.540 but 20, 45 and 17, I don't know, man. And then the cops find these two and the kid, 17 year old,

00:34:51.280 just is mostly naked, drives off in the car and then crashes. The car gets out, runs. And then

00:34:58.220 the cops finally find him about an hour later. The kid's obviously a little bit shaken up about

00:35:02.840 this. The reason that these stories really are never funny, despite all of the comments of where

00:35:09.740 were these teachers when I was a kid is because I can't help but notice virtually all the people

00:35:16.040 involved in weird sex stuff as adults had some weird sex stuff happen to them when they were young.

00:35:25.200 Whether we're talking about, you know, really direct, you know, particularly egregious stuff,

00:35:30.920 or whether we're just talking about exposure to pornography or bad relationships or whatever.

00:35:37.180 I can't help but notice that this stuff really can scandalize people. It really can traumatize people.

00:35:42.040 This is the one area where I think the libs consistently say something that is true

00:35:49.480 about sex. They're always talking about sex. It's not me. It's not me. Despite the fact that

00:35:55.500 we cover weird sex stuff on the show with some regularity, it's, I'm not the one making up these

00:36:01.320 stories, right? It's the libs who are making these into news stories. I'm just observing them. So don't

00:36:05.560 blame me. You got to blame the libs who were the aggressors in the sexual revolution and in the 0.90

00:36:09.120 culture war. But when the libs say, you know, sex is really important, and that's why we need to 0.59

00:36:14.620 think about it and talk about it all the time. They're right in that it is important. It is

00:36:19.300 important. You're right. Because the distinction between the sexes is the fundamental distinction

00:36:25.180 within human nature. So yeah, it is important. You're right. And when people are indoctrinated in

00:36:34.000 crazy sexual ideas as kids, which is what the libs are trying to do all the way down to elementary 1.00

00:36:38.080 school and succeeding at doing. And then when the kids are trained in bad sexual habits, 0.93

00:36:44.660 which the libs are also training them in doing, not just 45-year-old substitute teachers, but

00:36:48.800 just broadly in our culture, all sorts of sexual education these days is cultivating these bad 0.99

00:36:56.820 habits. And then, you know, the rise of teenage culture and a lot of unsupervised time between

00:37:02.380 teenagers and the notion that sex is not a big deal and you should, you know, have a lot of it when 1.00

00:37:06.800 you're really young and everything, even outside of marriage. That's cultivating moral and intellectual,

00:37:14.320 you wouldn't say virtues, you would just say habits, that are really going to mess you up.

00:37:18.960 And they're going to lead to a lot more of this weird stuff that we see so prevalent in society.

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00:38:25.160 My favorite comment yesterday is from Dave C. Thompson 81, who says,

00:38:29.460 someone tell the Daily Wire that a three-minute explanation does not take 49 minutes and 51

00:38:35.100 seconds. That's common core math, actually, that our producers use. So when they title these videos,

00:38:39.940 you know, such and such explained in three minutes and the video is an hour long,

00:38:42.500 that is because our producers are younger and they were raised on common core math.

00:38:46.640 So don't blame us. Blame the Democrats. Speaking of Democrats, AOC is paying dues to the Democrat

00:38:56.820 Congressional Campaign Committee for the first time. Who cares? Why is that a big story? That is a huge

00:39:04.860 story, even though most people are going to miss this story, because it represents AOC, the firebrand,

00:39:12.920 the outsider, the populist, burning down the establishment. It represents her joining the

00:39:19.060 establishment. AOC, she held off for a long time. She was first elected, what, 2018? It's six years

00:39:26.340 later. It's the first time she's ever paying dues to the campaign committee for the Democrats in the

00:39:32.740 U.S. Congress. Why is she doing that? It can mean one of two things. Maybe it means a little bit of

00:39:39.520 both. On the one hand, it means AOC is now willing to play ball with the establishment. She came in, 0.95

00:39:46.740 I'm an outsider. I'm going to burn it down. I'm going to unseat a long-term establishment incumbent 0.98

00:39:50.260 and I'm not going to listen to anybody and leadership's going to hate me and I'm going to

00:39:54.520 take over this place. And now she's bending the knee. She's playing ball. But on the other hand,

00:40:01.960 what it could represent is the AOC-ification of the Democrat establishment. This is not your

00:40:09.840 parents' Democrat party anymore. Tonight, I'm going to be at the University of Illinois,

00:40:14.780 Urbana-Champaign, and I'm going to be discussing abortion. It's a very urgent matter now when it comes

00:40:22.660 to the 2024 elections. And it's an important issue because it shows just how far the Democrats have

00:40:33.520 moved. When it comes to abortion, the GOP has not really changed its opinion at all in about 50 years.

00:40:40.520 You're going to hear that the GOP is so much more extreme on abortion. It's not true. The view of the

00:40:45.740 real national candidates on abortion in the GOP has not really changed much in 50 years since Roe v.

00:40:52.540 Wade and before. At the time of Roe v. Wade's decision, Democrats and Republicans basically

00:40:59.520 agreed on abortion. During the presidential race between Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter, 1976,

00:41:08.000 the two candidates held almost exactly the same view. They were both opposed to abortion. They both

00:41:12.500 wanted to restrict abortion. Jimmy Carter disagreed with Ford only as much as Ford wanted

00:41:18.960 a constitutional amendment to allow states to pass their own laws. But otherwise, they basically

00:41:23.600 totally agreed. That line held until, gosh, I don't know, five years ago, certainly less than 10

00:41:34.720 years ago. Hillary Clinton was campaigning on safe, legal, and rare. Now it's shout your abortion, 1.00

00:41:39.220 scream it from the rooftop, kill babies after they're born. We're going to pass laws and do 1.00

00:41:42.480 New York that allow that. And then we're going to light up the Empire State Building pink to

00:41:45.860 celebrate killing more babies. Okay. Very, very different. So is this AOC bending the knee? 1.00

00:41:52.560 More than that, I think it's the establishment bending the knee to AOC. And AOC paying her dues 1.00

00:41:59.480 because she won. Speaking of Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. has just topped the list.

00:42:06.220 You're not going to believe this. I believe it, but you might not. D.C. has topped the list of the

00:42:11.380 hardest working cities in America. I know. It seems counterintuitive because we think of D.C.

00:42:18.820 as a bunch of lazy cocktail going, you know, leeches on our system. And there's a little bit of that

00:42:25.000 too. But they work hard. They work hard. According to this ranking, which comes from,

00:42:30.880 I don't even know where the study's from. It's just linked in a news report. So, you know,

00:42:40.200 I take all social science with a grain of salt, but I guess you could take this one especially

00:42:43.640 with a grain of salt. It's by Wallet Hub. There it is, Wallet Hub. Washington, D.C. ranks number one,

00:42:51.540 followed by Irving, Texas, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Virginia Beach, Anchorage, Alaska. So these are kind

00:42:57.720 of all over the place. But D.C. is number one. Yeah, of course. Because people in D.C. are really

00:43:08.800 gung-ho about what they do. Okay? People are more motivated to work when we see our work as part of

00:43:16.920 something bigger than us. And people in D.C. do that. They don't make a ton of money. If you work

00:43:22.160 for the government in D.C., you don't really make a ton of money. The lobbyists make a lot of money,

00:43:25.400 but the government workers don't. But they see that what they're doing is part of something

00:43:29.380 bigger. So they're willing to work more. This is a great insight from St. Josemaria Escriva,

00:43:35.120 who said, sanctity for the vast majority of people implies sanctifying their work,

00:43:42.340 sanctifying themselves in it, and sanctifying others through it. As a pure number of hours worked,

00:43:47.820 I work a lot. I work most, like, all the time, basically. But in terms of feeling like I'm working

00:43:54.400 a lot, you know, I'm not exactly in the coal mines, right? I'm doing something that I really

00:43:58.920 enjoy doing and that I think is important to public life in my own little way. And so

00:44:05.300 it doesn't really feel like work. Yeah, you get tired and all these things, but I'm more motivated

00:44:09.880 to do it. A lot of people in D.C. feel that way. And this can be true of all work. You don't need to

00:44:14.080 just be working in politics. It's of all work. The key to it here is not the ego boost. It's not the

00:44:21.780 self. It's not even the shallow political campaign. It's finding the work to be sanctifying,

00:44:29.700 right? That it's serving something bigger because ultimately our work, by the sweat of our brow,

00:44:34.640 we're to earn our keep. And that work is ultimately to serve God. The Industrial Revolution was a little

00:44:41.700 bit of a setback in this regard in the sense that the Industrial Revolution compartmentalized all work.

00:44:46.780 No longer did people seem to be full integrated human beings doing all different parts of the

00:44:54.180 production of any particular product. All of a sudden, people were compartmentalized and really

00:45:01.000 just came to be viewed as cogs in a machine. And that can be demoralizing. That's not just a personal

00:45:05.680 problem. It's not just, you know, chin up, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. That's an actual

00:45:09.260 political problem. It's a systemic problem that we have to address. But the reason to address that

00:45:16.780 is that we are human beings and we do have to work and we do want to work more and we want to feel

00:45:21.180 that our work is worth it. Because when we feel like it's worth it, it doesn't really feel like

00:45:26.420 work. Now, speaking of the DC swamp, the swampy creatures are accusing President Trump.

00:45:33.180 They've thrown everything they have at him. Now they're just thrown mean insults. They're accusing

00:45:39.140 him of being a low-down con man using boogeyman politics. Here on MSNBC is Al Sharpton.

00:45:45.500 He was the same guy that stood on television as President of the United States and said it'll be

00:45:50.980 over in two weeks. Don't worry about it. Then finally, he told us to take bleach. So now we're

00:45:56.600 going, I think the collective amnesia that a lot of Americans are having is the challenge the

00:46:03.460 Democrats have to put out there is say, this is the guy you voted out. Remember now he ran for

00:46:11.100 reelection. You didn't want him back again. Don't let him con you now with this boogeyman politics.

00:46:18.800 The boogeyman's coming. The boogeyman's coming. He was the boogeyman. And you talking about the

00:46:24.320 economy, do CEOs really want to explain to the world why a man convicted of felonies of hush money

00:46:31.300 to a porn star who sells Bibles after he goes to court defending that he had sex with a porn star 0.90

00:46:41.740 and get my Bible. I'm giving you a discount. $59.99. You don't have to pay $60. That's how low 0.91

00:46:49.380 down a con man he is. That's how low down a con man he is. You heard that straight from 0.59

00:46:54.920 Reverend Al Sharpton, baby. That's right. Reverend Al Sharpton, the hoaxer behind the Tawana 1.00

00:47:00.820 Brawley nonsense. This guy launched his career. This guy launched his career on a rape hoax.

00:47:06.900 Tawana Brawley. Didn't actually happen. Ruined people's lives. This guy set off race riots. 1.00

00:47:12.460 Remember Crown Heights? It was one of his lines,

00:47:16.080 Jaime, I'm coming to get you or something like that. This is a guy whose job was to be a fake

00:47:22.560 con man preacher. The Reverend Al Sharpton. This is a guy. And so what I love, what I find so delicious

00:47:28.980 about this is not how unfair it is a bit unfair against Trump, but that every single thing that

00:47:38.460 they attack him for, they themselves have done a hundred times over. He's a con man. Yeah, 0.98

00:47:45.560 you're Al Sharpton. Are you joking? Are you kidding me? All you people, you're all hoaxers.

00:47:50.840 All these hoaxes over the, the Russia hoax, the this, that. Well, Donald Trump, he didn't want to

00:47:54.600 concede his election. Yeah, you guys pretended Stacey Abrams was the governor of Georgia. You guys 0.91

00:47:58.840 pretended Al Gore won the 2000 election. You guys pretended Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.

00:48:02.800 None of you ever really gave it up. Well, this guy, he's using boogeyman politics. You say this guy's

00:48:08.100 Hitler and that he's, and not only is he Hitler, but he's also a KGB stooge for Vladimir Putin. 0.91

00:48:12.540 Well, this guy, this Donald Trump, man, he's selling Bibles. He's, he's exploiting religion

00:48:18.880 for politics. You're Reverend Al Sharpton. You're a fake preacher. Are you kidding me?

00:48:25.280 This is, it's so delicious. It's, this is how Trump really is the retribution because he baits them

00:48:31.500 with his eccentric personality and his, you know, 40 years of celebrity. So they attack him,

00:48:36.340 but any way they try to attack him, just boomerangs back on them because anything they accuse him of,

00:48:43.140 they have done a hundred times over. I find that very funny. You know what else I find funny?

00:48:48.120 Tee hee hee Tuesday, which is what it is. Our producers have some dumb thing planned for 0.98

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