The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1494 - Libs Panic： Cohen Admits To Stealing Up To $130,000 From Trump

00:00:00.000 Democrat Congressman Cori Bush has proposed a new law to pay off Democrat apparatchiks,

00:00:05.420 and she is launching the law on the memory of Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer

00:00:10.480 10 years ago. Michael Brown should have turned 28 years old. The last birthday he celebrated

00:00:16.960 and will ever get to celebrate was his 18th. Just 81 days after his 18th birthday,

00:00:23.740 a Ferguson police officer killed him. In a just world, Mike Brown would be with his loved ones

00:00:31.800 right now, celebrating another year, dreaming of his future as he blows out the candles on his

00:00:38.440 birthday cake. But instead, we are only left with the memories of who he was. We do remember who he

00:00:46.160 was. We remember because we have video footage and eyewitness testimony. Michael Brown was a six

00:00:52.200 foot four, 292 pound, 18 year old whose last acts on earth were robbing a convenience store,

00:00:59.500 assaulting a clerk, punching a cop, grabbing the cop's gun, running away, and then turning for some

00:01:07.120 reason to charge the cop. At which point the cop shot and killed him. Had Michael Brown done everything 0.90

00:01:14.360 up until that final act? Had he robbed the store, assaulted the clerk, punched the cop, even grabbed

00:01:20.280 the cop's gun, and then just run away? Michael Brown would still be alive today. Or at the very least,

00:01:26.760 he would have survived to that particular run in with the law. But he didn't. He had to charge the

00:01:31.960 cop. At which point the officer had no real choice but to fire. At which point liberal hacks lied about

00:01:38.300 what happened, pretended that Michael Brown was executed in cold blood, and then looted and rioted

00:01:44.080 before mow mowing the flat catchers into paying off Democrat patronage groups. Then they demoralize 0.98

00:01:50.480 and defund the police, which encourages more crime, which leads to more confrontations with the cops,

00:01:55.260 which leads to more opportunities for patronage. Great news for Cori Bush and the professional left.

00:02:01.040 Bad news for everyone else. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:14.080 Welcome back to the show. Friends star Courtney Cox says that her former co-star Matthew Perry,

00:02:29.480 who died, still visits her a lot. We will examine how that is possible.

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00:03:12.420 delivered. We want to talk about Democrat patronage. This has been the story of the Democrat Party for

00:03:19.080 many decades, centuries at this point. And this is especially true in Chicago,

00:03:25.120 one of the most corrupt Democrat machines out there. And thanks to a little hat tip from

00:03:30.760 end wokeness. We now see a clip of the new appointed transportation czar in Chicago. This is

00:03:40.300 the Reverend Ira Acree, appointed by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to serve on the transportation

00:03:49.540 board, even though the guy doesn't know anything about transportation. As members of City Council's

00:03:54.720 Transportation Committee learned yesterday, Acree is far from a transit expert. While he grew up

00:04:00.060 using public transportation, Acree told the committee, as an adult, he occasionally uses it

00:04:05.220 downtown. As a man, I use, I don't have to use CTA. I'm fortunate to have a car. While

00:04:15.360 transportation is facing a crisis, Acree says he needs more information to make any judgments about

00:04:20.400 CTA Chief Dordal Carter or an effort in Springfield to consolidate RTA, CTA and PACE. 32nd Ward

00:04:27.200 Alderman Scott Wagesback was disappointed Acree was unaware of an RTA $730 million shortfall.

00:04:34.380 This is my first time hearing about a $735 million shortfall. And so I wouldn't want to

00:04:40.460 respond to that today. Before appearing before the committee, Acree admitted he never spoke with

00:04:46.020 the mayor about the administration's transportation vision. So of course, why would he? He just has this

00:04:53.160 job as a payoff because he's a popular liberal activist, left-wing activist. And so the Chicago

00:04:59.360 mayor is paying him off. And he doesn't need to know anything about transportation. He's probably

00:05:03.320 never going to show up to work. He doesn't need to know about the three quarters of a billion dollars

00:05:06.940 that the transportation department is in the hole. He doesn't need to know about anything. He doesn't

00:05:11.620 even need to take the public transit. He's fortunate enough to have a car because he's getting handouts

00:05:16.320 and bribes from the government. This is how politics has worked for much of American history.

00:05:25.160 We think now that we have a reformed civil service that is based on merit and qualifications,

00:05:32.760 not just political patronage. And we did have that sort of for a little while. That is owing to

00:05:38.880 one of our nation's most underrated presidents, Chester Alan Arthur. I actually did a PragerU video

00:05:45.120 about Chester Alan Arthur. Not often discussed as a great president, but he was a good guy.

00:05:52.340 And he and James Garfield also published the first blank book in American political history.

00:05:57.000 So what Chester Arthur did was he gets in as vice president, and he was a crooked New York

00:06:02.880 politician. And everyone thought he was just going to be doling out patronage to his friends. And he

00:06:07.880 reformed actually in office and said, no, we're going to hire people who are qualified for the job.

00:06:12.500 And we're going to, when we hire someone for the transportation department, they actually have

00:06:16.800 to know something about transportation. And so that was the ideal since, I don't know,

00:06:21.640 at this point now, almost a century and a half of American history. But as the country becomes more

00:06:27.380 and more corrupt, as that supposedly disinterested civil service focused on the common good just

00:06:35.100 becomes a decayed kind of self-interested deep state. You're just going to see more and more of

00:06:43.920 this. And probably you have to, actually, because in politics, your opponents get a say.

00:06:53.960 And so if we don't have a really mature, disinterested civil authority that's focused on the common good

00:07:03.100 and the civil service, then you're just going to dole out jobs. And the Democrats are going to dole

00:07:08.600 out jobs for their friends. And maybe Republicans need to start thinking about doling out jobs for our

00:07:12.880 friends, because personnel is policy, a point we'll be talking about a little bit later.

00:07:17.600 Speaking of transportation and liberal cities, Oakland has just decided to remove some traffic

00:07:23.960 lights ahead of a spike in thefts. So in Oakland, California, there's an intersection

00:07:33.300 that has a ton of homeless people surrounding it. And the city has decided they're going to get rid of

00:07:39.880 the traffic lights and they're going to replace them with stop signs. Initially, I assumed this was

00:07:44.880 because the bums keep going up and harassing the cars if they're at the red light too long. 0.83

00:07:50.240 So the car has got to keep moving. If you're driving through a bad part of town,

00:07:53.160 very often you don't even want to stop at the stop lights or the stop signs. But no,

00:07:57.320 it's apparently even sadder than that. According to reports, the bums, the criminals and the homeless

00:08:06.380 have been stealing copper wires and city infrastructure. They got to get rid of the traffic lights here

00:08:13.820 because these vagrants are stripping the copper off the traffic lights and selling it for cracker. 0.50

00:08:21.100 I don't know. We're probably getting pennies on the dollar for this copper. And so what do the

00:08:26.220 Oakland city officials do in the face of that? Why they get rid of the traffic lights, of course.

00:08:32.180 These people, these libs will do anything to avoid arresting criminals. You know that meme?

00:08:38.380 Men, they'll do anything to avoid going to therapy. Men will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to avoid going to

00:08:44.240 therapy. Well, the liberals will do anything. They will tear down traffic lights to avoid

00:08:50.320 arresting criminals. But there's an obvious answer to this problem. If you just give the police

00:08:57.720 permission to arrest the vagrants and the criminals who are living on the street,

00:09:01.660 who have no right to do so, to quote Rudy Giuliani during the Occupy Wall Street protests,

00:09:06.140 living on the street is a dysfunctional act that harms the individual and society,

00:09:09.480 if you just tell people to cut it out, then you get your traffic lights and you get your city

00:09:16.800 infrastructure. And you don't need to worry about crime all the time. And you get to drive through

00:09:21.740 downtown at night, but the libs, they won't do it. Now, speaking of dodgy city operatives,

00:09:28.380 big, big day in the New York Trump trial yesterday. The prosecution has a star witness. The star witness is

00:09:35.900 that rat who worked for Trump, Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen was the lawyer, fixer, slimy, 0.99

00:09:42.760 slimy character, even in New York real estate and casinos. And you talk about kind of slimy industries.

00:09:51.160 This guy is particularly slimy. And so he was a fixer and he's turned on Trump, turned state's

00:09:58.220 witness. And he's the star. He's the star in this case, because Michael Cohen was the guy who,

00:10:05.900 actually executed on the payment, the supposed hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, that Stormy

00:10:11.480 Daniels said she never received because Stormy Daniels said that she never slept with Trump.

00:10:16.340 And then she said this in official statements, and then she contradicted those. So she's got a

00:10:21.660 credibility problem. And Michael Cohen, because he's a slimy little rat, obviously has a credibility 0.98

00:10:26.100 problem. But his credibility problem got turned up to 11 yesterday when the defense pointed out 0.97

00:10:34.220 that Michael Cohen stole money from Trump. Not only did Michael Cohen steal money from Trump,

00:10:43.820 he stole money in the transaction that is at the heart of the New York case, the transaction where

00:10:50.440 Trump supposedly paid off Stormy Daniels. So how did this all go down? Trump allegedly authorizes

00:10:59.720 certain payments for campaign expenses. You know, okay, we're going to pay off this guy. We're going

00:11:06.580 to take out some ads here. We're going to do this. We're going to do that. We're going to try,

00:11:09.520 you know, move money around to keep the campaign looking good. This includes $50,000 for a company

00:11:15.720 called Red Finch. Red Finch is just one of these political operative companies. There are a lot of

00:11:20.940 them. Cohen, Michael Cohen only pays Red Finch $20,000 in a brown paper bag. Michael Cohen then

00:11:27.720 pockets $30,000. Then when you factor in the reimbursement that he got from Donald Trump,

00:11:33.720 he stole $60,000 from Trump in this complicated kind of series of payoffs that cast very, very serious

00:11:43.960 doubt over whether or not Trump really knew anything about these kind of payments and where

00:11:50.380 the payments actually ended up because a lot of it appears to have ended up in Michael Cohen's pocket.

00:11:54.600 If you're having a little trouble following this, you're not alone. Join the club.

00:11:59.940 The upshot of it is the star witness for the liberals is exposed as a liar, as extremely corrupt,

00:12:10.620 and the prosecution didn't get ahead of it. The defense brings this up on what day is this of

00:12:16.680 this trial? How many days are we like seven or eight days into this trial at this point?

00:12:20.820 Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's not just conservatives pointing out how

00:12:24.180 dreadful this is for the prosecution. Even Jake Tapper on CNN, liberal Jake Tapper on liberal CNN,

00:12:31.440 says that the day of testimony was devastating for the prosecution.

00:12:35.980 They discussed what this repayment schedule would look like for him.

00:12:40.760 Yeah, no, it's fascinating stuff. And I have to say, I'm still kind of reeling from the revelation

00:12:45.740 that Michael Cohen stole money from the Trump organization. And that wasn't, at least to my

00:12:53.640 knowledge, that the prosecution didn't get that get that out earlier, because it's not as though

00:12:59.040 the prosecution is going to be helped by further evidence that Michael Cohen is a shady character.

00:13:06.780 I mean, let's I'll get to the newest stuff in a second. But like, I mean, what's just what's your

00:13:12.180 reaction to that news? Because that was just kind of stunning.

00:13:15.400 So now the two people who are nearest to star witnesses in the New York Trump case 0.98

00:13:21.280 are an unrepentant hooker and this rat fixer in New York who stole money from his boss in the very 0.98

00:13:28.660 transaction that is at issue in the trial. Absolutely devastating. The crime that Michael 0.99

00:13:35.560 Cohen has admitted to committing is a more serious crime than the crime they're accusing Trump of

00:13:42.280 committing. Michael Cohen stole a ton of money by his own admission. That is a much more serious crime

00:13:51.160 than falsifying business records or filing the wrong paperwork with the Federal Election

00:13:55.460 Commission. And Michael Cohen's not being prosecuted. So then you get, for this crime at least,

00:14:03.140 you get a further evidence that this is a political persecution of Donald Trump because the libs 0.88

00:14:11.800 hate his guts. And the left will exalt unrepentant hookers and rats, rat thieves. 1.00

00:14:19.360 As their great heroes just to get this guy. It's amazing that the left could take a billionaire 0.99

00:14:29.440 playboy, casino mogul, real estate mogul, reality TV star, and make him look like the most wholesome

00:14:37.560 person at this trial because of the absolute ne'er-do-well miscreants that they elevate to try

00:14:44.940 to get him. Yet again, Wile E. Coyote trying to get that roadrunner Trump doesn't look like the

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00:16:12.560 Michael Knowles Show sent you. Thank you, and happy sleeping. Speaking of good guys and bad guys,

00:16:17.840 one of the biggest stories yesterday, headlines everywhere, Pope Francis sat down with 60 Minutes

00:16:25.080 and supposedly said that we need to take in all the immigrants and conservatism is suicidal and

00:16:32.180 people are fundamentally good, apparently contradicting scripture. And this was all the

00:16:38.060 headlines, and you saw it not just from the Libs. You also saw it from conservatives. You also saw it

00:16:41.580 from Christians. And so I thought, okay, I know that sometimes the Papa Francesco's comments to the 0.62

00:16:48.140 newspaper are a little bit confusing. But I said, I just don't, I don't really buy it. I got to watch this

00:16:54.520 interview myself. I watched the whole interview, and the headlines simply are misleading. Just on

00:17:00.440 those three points, immigration, we need to take on all the immigrants, conservatism is suicidal, 1.00

00:17:06.740 people are fundamentally good. What does Pope Francis actually say on immigration?

00:17:12.280 My grandparents were Catholic, immigrated from Northern Ireland in the 1930s to the United States,

00:17:19.500 seeking a better life. And I know your family, too, fled fascism. And you have talked about,

00:17:27.300 with migrants, many of them children, that you encourage governments to build bridges, not walls.

00:17:35.580 Migration is something that makes a country grow. 1.00

00:17:38.040 They say that you, Irish, migrated and brought the whiskey. And that the Italians migrated and brought 0.95

00:17:49.220 the mafia. It's a joke. Don't take it badly. But migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.

00:18:00.640 So very much. Based? Not to sound too zoomer about it, but the headline, Pope Francis says,

00:18:12.060 you need to take in all of the migrants. And what does he say? He goes, yeah, look, these migrants,

00:18:16.820 they suffer a lot. And when you Irish came over to America, you brought booze. And when the Italians 1.00

00:18:22.140 came over, they brought the mafia. Huh? Yeah, I'm just joking. But you know, those migrants, 1.00

00:18:26.400 they bring some problems, don't they? So I don't know. It seems like everything he said there is

00:18:32.480 totally fine. And then even when he says, look, when migrants show up to the border,

00:18:37.720 they need to be received. But he follows that up by saying, and then you got to send some of them

00:18:42.780 home, maybe. It's not just that you're going to keep them there forever. You have to receive them,

00:18:46.740 here are their requests, and then you're going to send some of them home. So if you just take the

00:18:52.440 Pope's words here, not the headlines and not the leading questions, I don't disagree with a single

00:18:58.660 syllable. Migrants suffer. They often bring a lot of pretty serious problems. And we're going to hear 1.00

00:19:06.800 them out and then send a bunch of them home. Yeah, okay, I agree. This is like when you read the

00:19:12.540 headlines about Pope Francis on the social issues. People will say he's a little soft on the Rainbow

00:19:18.040 Coalition, you know, the LGBT LMNOP. That came up during the interview. Here is what Pope Francis

00:19:23.580 had to say about LGBT unions. Last year, you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless

00:19:30.920 same-sex couples. That's a big change. Why? 1.00

00:19:36.180 No, what I allowed was not to bless the union. That cannot be done because that is not the sacrament.

00:19:45.480 I cannot. The Lord made it that way. But to bless each person? Yes. The blessing is for everyone.

00:19:56.520 For everyone. To bless a homosexual-type union, however, goes against the given right, against 0.96

00:20:06.100 the law of the Church.

00:20:07.200 Based, again? So, you know, you, Pope Francis, you said that gay marriage is super fun and great

00:20:18.940 and cool, huh? And the Holy Father responds, he says, no, I didn't. It's disordered and God can't

00:20:24.180 bless sin and it is not possible for me to bless a same-sex union. I bless individuals, but that's 1.00

00:20:29.520 always been the case. And so, yeah, we bless individuals, of course, but whatever LGBT

00:20:35.860 agenda you're trying to cram down our throats, uh-uh, ain't what we're doing. Then he says

00:20:42.080 basically the same thing about surrogacy. He says surrogacy is evil. You can't do it. You can't

00:20:45.540 buy people. Now, the most troublesome thing that Papa Francesco said during this interview

00:20:52.900 was he criticized conservatism as suicidal.

00:20:57.240 You used an adjective, conservative. That is, conservative is one who clings to something

00:21:05.280 and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude. Because one thing is to

00:21:13.600 take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed

00:21:20.660 up inside a dogmatic box.

00:21:22.620 Dogmatica quadrada.

00:21:24.780 Okay. I humbly would suggest that perhaps what in the Holy Father's discussion of political

00:21:36.640 philosophy here, he is reminding us that the Pope is fallible except when he's infallible.

00:21:41.820 Okay. And that the Pope, this is misunderstood by many people, including Christians.

00:21:47.360 Papal infallibility does not mean that anything the Pope says has to be 100% true. You know,

00:21:54.640 if he comes out and says, uh, this, um, this rice pilaf is really spicy, but you find out

00:21:59.800 it's not spicy. That doesn't contradict papal infallibility. When he's speaking on matters

00:22:04.380 of faith and morals ex-cathedra, then he is infallible. When, when he's giving his view

00:22:09.960 of political conservatism, which, uh, perhaps is missing a few parts, you know, okay, that's

00:22:17.520 just an opinion. No one's suggesting that, that Pope Francis is the most right wing or,

00:22:22.420 you know, conservative pontiff that we've ever had. But so what? You know, uh, even Catholics,

00:22:32.600 I'm, I'm quite a mackerel snapping papist. Doesn't mean that every single syllable on any topic

00:22:37.240 under the sun that the Pope utters has to be 100% gospel truth. That's not, that is not,

00:22:42.280 and has never been what papal infallibility means. There's so much more to say. First though,

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00:23:53.020 controversy that came out of Pope Francis's 60 Minutes interview is Pope Francis said that man,

00:23:59.020 the heart, the heart, is fundamentally good. That so-and-so is a sinner. Me too, I am a sinner. Everyone.

00:24:06.180 The gospel is for everyone. If the church places a customs officer at the door, that is no longer the

00:24:13.780 church. Everyone. When you look at the world, what gives you hope? Everything. You see tragedies,

00:24:29.420 but you also see so many beautiful things. You see heroic mothers, heroic men, men who have hopes

00:24:40.500 and dreams. Women who look to the future. That gives me a lot of hope. People want to live. People

00:24:50.280 forge ahead. And people are fundamentally good. We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some

00:25:01.360 rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good. Okay, this was the most controversial part because a

00:25:08.100 lot of people pointed out that in Genesis, we read that the imagination of man's heart is evil from

00:25:13.560 his youth. And a lot of people were saying that what Pope Francis says here contradicts original sin,

00:25:18.920 that actually man is totally evil, totally depraved, totally, he's not fundamentally good. How could you

00:25:24.340 say that? Just read Genesis. It says the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth. Okay, hold up.

00:25:30.760 I understand how it's a little bit confusing. And there's a big focus on those verses.

00:25:35.520 However, we also read that some people are righteous in the Bible. Noah is righteous in the Bible. In the

00:25:44.940 epistle to the Romans, we read, he who does right is righteous as he is righteous. We read in the Psalms

00:25:54.280 of a distinction between the just and the unjust, the righteous and the wicked. We read in lots of other

00:26:02.060 places in the Bible. Verses that would seem to contradict the notion that man is totally depraved and totally

00:26:10.700 evil. So what is Pope Francis saying? When he says people are fundamentally good, what he's saying, I think,

00:26:17.040 I don't think it's, I'm being too rosy here, I think this is just kind of basic Catholic and traditionally

00:26:21.660 Christian teaching, is that God doesn't create evil. So God created man as good. His creation was good. He looked on

00:26:28.660 his creation and saw his creation was good. And man abused his free will and did evil and disobeyed

00:26:35.740 God. And so we have a fallen world where sin and death pervade the world. But that does not mean

00:26:41.880 that man's fundamental first primary goodness is totally blotted out. That is a view that is held

00:26:50.360 by Calvinists. That is a view that emerged in the 16th century with the Protestant revolutionary John

00:26:55.980 Calvin. I have the line here in the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin writes,

00:27:01.900 the will is so utterly vitiated and corrupted in every part as to produce nothing but evil. So

00:27:06.420 Calvinists would believe that. But is it surprising that Pope Francis is not a Calvinist? I don't think

00:27:13.680 so. I don't think it is. So even there, I don't, I don't, everyone's accusing him of contradicting

00:27:18.920 Catholic teaching, Christian teaching. I just don't really see it. It's, it's a little bit confusing and the

00:27:26.340 confusion is amplified by unfortunate liberal journalists. But that's why you got to dig below

00:27:32.520 those headlines sometimes and, and see what is actually being said. There, it's, it's really hard to disagree

00:27:38.160 with anything. Now, speaking of religious confusion, Courtney Cox from Friends has just come out and made a

00:27:44.160 strange claim. She says that her late friend, Matthew Perry, who died some months ago, still

00:27:50.360 visits her. They, they, they're still together somehow. Here's, here's Courtney Cox's view of it.

00:27:57.160 I'm so thankful I got to work so closely with him for so many years. He visits me a lot if we believe

00:28:03.280 in that. I know you're a spiritual person, which makes that statement very interesting. So you still feel

00:28:09.220 his presence. Oh yeah. I, I, you know, I talked to my mom, my dad, Matthew. I feel like there,

00:28:16.780 there are a lot of people that are, I think that guide us. I do sense, yeah, I sense Matthew's around

00:28:24.880 for sure. What does that mean? What, what does that mean? I don't, I, I feel bad for Courtney Cox. I know

00:28:34.000 Courtney Cox, you know, misses her friend and her parents and everything. And we'd like to feel,

00:28:38.060 you know, they're around us, man. They're around us. I still talk to my, but how, how, what does that

00:28:43.380 mean? This reminds me of a clip of, of Sir Paul McCartney. I love Sir Paul, huge McCartney fan,

00:28:49.020 but he's sitting in a car with the late night host, James Corden. And Sir Paul made a similar kind

00:28:55.880 of claim. If my granddad was here right now, he'd get an absolute kick out of this. He is.

00:29:01.540 Woo! Oh man. Yeah.

00:29:11.940 I would never have any disrespect for Sir Paul. What does that mean? What does that, does that

00:29:17.860 mean that when we die, we just float around the earth as disembodied spirits that we're

00:29:21.640 just, ghosts are all around us and we're just here. That's what happens when we die. We just

00:29:27.340 float around as invisible ghosts. Do we go to heaven? Do we go to hell? Do we go to purgatory

00:29:31.020 for a little period? Do we, what do we do? Do we just haunt houses? Do we, are we just, do we

00:29:36.160 become, go into the trees in the air? What, what does that mean? Oh yeah. I talk to Matthew all the

00:29:41.740 time. This is the religion of people who don't take religion seriously. And you hear all these

00:29:48.900 modern people. I'm not saying Courtney Cox or Paul McCartney do this, but all these modern people,

00:29:53.140 they make fun of religion. Oh, you, you with your religions and your rules and your dogmas and your 0.99

00:29:58.060 doctrines. Well, what's the alternative? The alternative is this woo woo, feel good nonsense

00:30:03.100 that, that reduces religion to just whatever kind of sounds good at the time, even though it doesn't

00:30:10.080 stand up to even the slightest scrutiny or logic. We have a natural longing for God. We have a natural

00:30:17.660 longing for religion. We have, we have a natural intuition that death is wrong, that we're not

00:30:23.660 supposed to die. My friend Patrick Madrid made this point on his radio show the other day.

00:30:28.720 He said, we, we think it's wrong to die. We just have this natural knowledge that it's wrong to die

00:30:37.340 because we were not made to die. We were made to live forever. And because we abused our free will,

00:30:45.660 sin and death pervade the world. And we recognize that there is a chasm between the way things are and

00:30:50.580 the way things ought to be. And we just know this intuitively. We know this when we consider

00:30:55.080 justice. We know this when we consider time and eternity. We just, we know it. But that means

00:31:02.600 that we need to take these questions seriously. That this, this Courtney Cox stuff, it seems really

00:31:10.040 profound. You know, this is the guy, the interviewer sitting there, I know you're really

00:31:15.820 spiritual. So what does, you know, wow, you think Matthew's here? Wow. You're so spiritual.

00:31:22.880 What spiritual, but not religious, I have observed before is the definition of the demonic. Okay.

00:31:32.000 Because demons are spirits and religion is a habit of virtue that inclines the will to give to God

00:31:37.100 what he deserves, which demons don't do. So spiritual, but not religious doesn't mean you're

00:31:42.520 open-minded. It means, it means you're so open-minded that your brain falls out because theology is faith

00:31:50.060 seeking understanding. We try to apply logic and rigor and make some sense of that. Otherwise, we're

00:31:55.620 just, we're just kind of babbling and wish casting saying, oh yes, my dead relatives are, I talk to

00:32:02.620 them all the time. How's that work? Just explain to me how that works. I'm going to explain to you how

00:32:07.360 the mailbag works. You go to dailywire.com. You go to the watch section of Daily Wire. You then click

00:32:15.400 on the Michael Knowles show. It should be bookmarked anyway. You then click on submit a mailbag question

00:32:20.040 and an email is going to pop up. Then what do you do? You can record your voicemail bag on,

00:32:26.740 or your voicemail rather, for the voicemail bag, on your phone, on your computer, however you want.

00:32:31.520 Keep it to 60 seconds or less so I can put it on the show. And then you just attach it to the email,

00:32:35.340 send it in, and I will give you my greatest, most insightful pearls of wisdom.

00:32:44.340 Speaking of heresy and its consequences, there's a new study out. You're going to be shocked to hear

00:32:48.900 this. People who had gender-affirming surgery are much, much, much more suicidal than those who have

00:32:56.740 not had that surgery. You'll be shocked to hear, I'm sure. Study was published last month,

00:33:02.060 shows that people who underwent the gender surgery, so any of these procedures that lop off parts of

00:33:07.580 your body or make you look more like the opposite sex, had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those 0.72

00:33:14.060 who did not. This is just the latest tranche of data to show that transgenderism is wrong, evil, 1.00

00:33:23.000 and ought to be eradicated from public life entirely for the good of society and especially for the good

00:33:27.200 of the poor people who fall prey to that confusion. The study concludes, quote, gender-affirming surgery

00:33:31.480 is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for

00:33:37.280 comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support. This follows up a study from Denmark, which found

00:33:43.060 that trans-identifying people had a suicide death rate three and a half times higher and a suicide

00:33:47.320 attempt rate more than seven and a half times higher than people who did not identify as transgender.

00:33:51.480 Now, remember, what the Libs will say here is, well, no, the only reason for that, the only reason

00:33:57.460 these people are killing themselves and trying to kill themselves is because we as a society don't

00:34:02.380 accept them. But we do. We're pretty trans-accepting. It's now a matter of national law that we have to

00:34:08.860 affirm the delusions of these people. And the suicide rate doesn't go down. In fact, it's getting worse.

00:34:15.700 And just the sheer number of people who are falling prey to this is getting higher and higher and higher.

00:34:21.480 Because transgenderism is spreading as a social contagion. So to the point that now you have 1.00

00:34:26.500 more than one in five, I think actually now it's like 30% of Zoomers identify as LGBT. And the trans

00:34:33.860 identifying rate tripled in about five years. So if this is really bad and is causing people to have

00:34:41.320 an elevated suicide risk, then why would we encourage it? Back when, even if the Libs are right and these

00:34:48.680 people who had inclinations to pretend to be the opposite sex, they just kept it to themselves,

00:34:52.760 they were in the closet or whatever. Well, back then they had a much lower suicide risk.

00:34:56.960 We're just looking at the numbers here of the explosion in suicide.

00:35:02.840 So it would seem to me the thing we ought to do is tell all of the people who might in any way be

00:35:08.320 inclined to pretend to be the opposite sex to cut it out, that that's wrong, and to not encourage it. 1.00

00:35:13.240 But this is the consequence of not taking religion seriously. This is the consequence of liberalism.

00:35:18.260 Liberalism which says, you know, we don't need to listen to no Pope. We're just talking about the

00:35:23.660 Pope. Or we don't need to listen to any authority. We're just going to make all of our decisions about

00:35:28.840 fundamental questions ourselves. We're going to rely on individual reason and individual conscience

00:35:34.980 for everything. And you can't tell me that I'm not really a woman. You don't know me and I don't know

00:35:41.720 you. We're just all going to do whatever we want individually. Okay, well, then this is what

00:35:50.080 you're going to get. You're going to get people who are so inclined to liberate themselves that

00:35:55.200 they'll liberate themselves from their own bodies. And you'll get government apparatchiks that won't

00:35:59.580 even have the courage and the clarity to say actually a man can't become a woman. If we don't

00:36:06.400 take religion seriously, we're not going to take human nature seriously. Because human beings sense

00:36:13.340 that we're not merely bodies, but spirits, souls. And it's not just the right-wing conservatives.

00:36:19.820 It's Courtney Cox. It's Paul McCartney. It's everybody, everybody, all the woo-woo kind of hippie

00:36:25.160 people. And the libs and everybody. We all know that we're both spirits and bodies, which means we

00:36:30.460 have to take religion seriously. And if you take it seriously, I think you'll come to the conclusion

00:36:37.320 that you can't separate the soul from the body here on earth. The soul is a substantial form of

00:36:44.180 the body. They can't be in opposition to each other. So transgenderism is false. And because it's false 0.99

00:36:49.420 and because it's contrary to human nature, if we encourage it, it's going to make people miserable 0.85

00:36:53.580 and they're going to kill themselves. Easy. I'm no expert in formal logic, but it doesn't take an 0.95

00:37:04.240 expert. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to that conclusion. But if you don't take these

00:37:08.620 questions seriously, then you just say, well, look, who knows, man? Who knows? Maybe Matthew Perry's here

00:37:15.060 with us right now. Maybe James Gordon Grandpa's here with us right now. And maybe a man can really be a

00:37:19.000 woman. And I don't know, man. Anyway, chop yourselves up. What's the worst that could

00:37:24.360 happen? We're seeing the worst that could happen. Now, get ready for something real special tomorrow

00:37:28.980 night. Join me and Ben Shapiro, Mount Walsh, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring backstage at 7 p.m.

00:37:34.460 Eastern, 6 p.m. Central, streaming live and free on Daily Wire+. We are taking you behind the scenes

00:37:39.240 and beyond the headlines at the Daily Wire. And we're being told Jeremy has a special announcement

00:37:44.580 that you will hear first during backstage. There is a ton to discuss. This is your chance

00:37:49.620 to hear all about it. Do not miss out. Watch live and free on Daily Wire+. Tomorrow night,

00:37:53.880 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central. My favorite comment yesterday comes from the Drummer's Workshop,

00:38:01.140 Norm's Music. It's amazing. I don't see who writes the comments. I just read the comments

00:38:06.080 and the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music, keeps coming up. It says, I see Boeing is making helicopters

00:38:11.860 for Iran now. Yes, that's true. Everyone says, is it the Jews who killed the Iranian president? Is it 0.98

00:38:18.000 the CIA who killed the Iranian president? No, no. It was that Boeing contract. A mixture of fog. And no,

00:38:25.080 I'm joking. I don't know that the helicopter was Boeing. But if it were, that would explain quite a

00:38:30.160 lot. You might have forgotten that Father's Day is around the corner. And as such, you might have no

00:38:35.520 idea what to get him. Don't worry. I've got you covered. Treat him to a box of Mayflower cigars.

00:38:44.200 Right now, use promo code DAD10 at MayflowerCigars.com. Get 10% off your order. You must be 21 years or

00:38:51.080 older to order. Some exclusions apply. Now, with no further ado, back to the show. Speaking of confusion

00:38:57.200 and people who are on the brink of death, Joe Biden seems to think that he was President Trump's

00:39:04.400 vice president. And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic.

00:39:11.540 And what happened was, Barack said to me, go to Detroit and help fix it. Well, poor mayor,

00:39:19.040 he spent more time with me than he ever thought he was going to have to. God love you.

00:39:23.820 When I was vice president, the pandemic was absolutely terrible. But then he, I think he

00:39:28.740 remembered. He said, wait a second. I wasn't vice president for Trump. Who's Trump again? Oh,

00:39:34.120 yeah. He's the guy I'm running against. No, it was Barack. Barack was president during the

00:39:38.740 pandemic? No? Hell, anyway. And then he glad hands the guy and moves on. Remember, Joe Biden

00:39:44.760 in testimony didn't remember when he was vice president. He couldn't remember. Okay.

00:39:55.760 He is real, real out of it. It's an amazing contrast to think about Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter.

00:40:03.680 Jimmy Carter is still alive. Jimmy Carter. There was a headline the other day, Jimmy Carter enjoying

00:40:09.720 peanut butter ice cream in hospice care. Jimmy Carter has been in hospice for 15 months. Hospice is

00:40:16.740 where you go in the weeks before you die. Jimmy Carter has had no medical care other than some pain

00:40:23.580 medication for well over a year. He's 99 years old. He had brain cancer. He was diagnosed with brain

00:40:31.240 cancer almost a decade ago. Jimmy Carter was president 48 years ago. There have been seven

00:40:40.400 presidents since then. Headline, Jimmy Carter's enjoying some peanut butter ice cream while he's

00:40:45.720 in hospice. Pretty amazing. No matter what you think of the guy or his presidency here, it's just

00:40:49.700 incredible. Jimmy Carter is almost certainly more with it than our current Democrat president.

00:40:57.200 That is absolutely astounding. And if the Democrats had any sense at this point, they'd probably just

00:41:04.480 cut and run on Biden and replace him with Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter, every year since he left the

00:41:11.580 White House, he's become more and more beloved. Go for it. Go for it. You know, that guy,

00:41:16.640 you can't keep him down. Who knows? He could go another year or two years. Who knows how long he

00:41:23.080 could go? And he's vibrant, enjoying that peanut butter ice cream. Probably makes a lot more sense

00:41:28.880 than Joe Biden. Even the libs are admitting this. Bill Maher made this point the other day.

00:41:34.700 I know a lot of conservatives like sucking up to Bill Maher now. I don't do it. Bill Maher is still a

00:41:39.780 huge lib. But he gives you some insight on what the libs are thinking about the presidential race

00:41:45.300 because he made the observation that things must be really, really bad in the polls if Joe Biden is

00:41:53.640 agreeing to debate Donald Trump. Let's talk about these debates. I mean, I don't really want to.

00:41:59.740 But it is what's going on in the country. And, you know, first of all, to me, it says Biden knows

00:42:04.540 he's losing because else he wouldn't have agreed. Right. Only the loser wants to debate.

00:42:09.560 Trump always wants a crowd. So that's different. But this is this is what's so interesting about it.

00:42:15.020 I've never seen a summer debate, not for the presidential elections. They're always in October

00:42:18.540 right before the election. This one. I mean, June 27th. It's not even they haven't had the convention yet.

00:42:24.480 They're not getting any younger. He raises a great point. First great point. The only reason Biden

00:42:41.360 accepted is because he's losing. And you can't say the same thing about Trump. Trump always loves a

00:42:47.320 show. Joe Biden doesn't always love a show. And Joe Biden's slipping. And Joe Biden did not commit

00:42:52.660 early on to say that he would debate Trump, but he's losing. So he needs to debate Trump. He's got

00:42:58.460 to do something. He can't look weak. But notice they're doing it in the summer. Why are they doing

00:43:04.280 it in the summer? Well, I think the answer to Bill's question here is if it's a disaster, the libs will

00:43:09.120 then still have months to fix it. If it's not a disaster, they can run the clips 24 seven on all the

00:43:16.220 network news. Look at this. Joe Biden destroyed Donald Trump. But if it's a complete disaster,

00:43:22.660 they can just memory hole the whole thing. That's obviously why. The Biden campaign wrote

00:43:26.980 to the Commission on Presidential Debates and said, we're not going to do your debates because your

00:43:30.980 debates are too close to the election. And because your debates include an audience. And we can't have

00:43:36.340 an audience and we don't want it to be too close to the election. So we're just going to do ABC News

00:43:39.940 and CNN debates. And so they'll do it. Both of these guys are the presumptive nominees,

00:43:46.840 even though obviously the conventions haven't taken place yet.

00:43:51.840 And then they'll move on from there. If that doesn't give Biden the poll boost that he needs,

00:43:58.860 they'll just figure something else out. Also because the libs rigged the elections 0.99

00:44:02.060 starting with COVID. So now people begin voting much, much earlier.

00:44:07.180 So they're just setting the stage. But the really nice thing about this from my perspective as a

00:44:14.980 conservative is it's evidence that it's not all just fixed. It's evidence that the whole thing

00:44:21.840 isn't just a total setup and totally rigged. The fact that Biden feels he needs to debate means that

00:44:28.820 he and the Democrats are not confident that they can just lock up the election from the basement of

00:44:32.940 the White House, which means that Trump can win. A lot of people on the right are going to tell you

00:44:39.520 all hope is lost. It's over. There's no chance. I don't think so. If all hope were lost, Biden would

00:44:45.360 not be debating. If all hope were lost, they wouldn't be trying to throw Trump in prison.

00:44:53.860 Trump can win. And right now, if you're Biden, you're probably thinking that Trump most likely will

00:45:01.500 win. Now, speaking of the future of the company, of the company, of the country,

00:45:05.880 what happens if Trump does win? Well, according to the view, the country's over.

00:45:13.500 This lifetime assignment has got to stop. And they need to fix the electoral college also, 0.87

00:45:18.500 because that's un-American.

00:45:20.080 People need to understand what's going on. You will not have a country if Trump gets in.

00:45:25.780 I'm convinced of it.

00:45:26.920 You will not have a country. We need to fix the electoral college because

00:45:30.880 the electoral college makes it harder for us to rig the elections. And so we need to overthrow the

00:45:36.380 wisdom of our framers and founding fathers for the wisdom of Joy Behar and the view. Because if

00:45:42.820 Donald Trump gets elected, you won't have a country. This doesn't work. The Democrats need to get a new

00:45:50.580 line. Not that I want to give them good political advice, but this line doesn't work.

00:45:56.040 Because Trump was already the president and we didn't lose the country. This line, if Trump gets

00:46:02.080 elected, you won't have a country anymore. It doesn't work because he already was in the White

00:46:06.720 House. He was the president. And not only did the country not collapse, we were in much better shape

00:46:11.880 than after he left the White House and Joe Biden came in. So it doesn't work. That, I guess,

00:46:18.460 worked in 2016. But they had to change up the strategy. I mean, it worked in as much as it had

00:46:25.420 some cachet. Obviously, it didn't ultimately persuade people. Then in 2020, they just rigged

00:46:30.660 the thing. Now what? They feel they can't rig it again because they don't have COVID as an excuse.

00:46:37.580 But they don't have anything to say. They don't have anything positive to say about Biden. So they go

00:46:41.600 back to the same old playbook that they tried in 2016. Fine by me. When your opponent is destroying

00:46:47.560 himself, don't interrupt. But I do feel that I've heard this song before. I feel that I'm having

00:46:54.580 deja vu all over again. Cori Bush talking about Michael Brown. This same kind of, oh, Donald Trump,

00:47:01.260 the mango Mussolini. He's going to take away our country. It's like a broken record. I feel like

00:47:06.660 we're just suspended in time with this nonsense from 10 years ago. If they keep playing that same

00:47:14.020 old broken record, as of now, smart money goes to Trump. Okay. Speaking of what happens in the

00:47:24.320 next Trump administration, I have a great guest who's about to come on. We'll get to him in just

00:47:27.600 a moment. First, though, we got to shift on over to the member room segment to him. The rest of the

00:47:33.080 show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S

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Ep. 1494 - Libs Panic： Cohen Admits To Stealing Up To $130,000 From Trump

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