The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1506 - Libs Send Steve Bannon To Jail

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00:00:30.320 Another day, another senior Trump White House official imprisoned by the Libs.

00:00:35.280 First, it was Peter Navarro, President Trump's trade advisor,

00:00:38.300 who is currently serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.

00:00:42.860 Then, of course, there's President Trump, the first former president ever to be convicted of a crime.

00:00:47.780 A feat made all the more historic, since the liberals can't even say what crime he committed.

00:00:52.580 And now there's Steve Bannon, Trump's chief White House strategist,

00:00:56.580 sent to jail like Navarro for ignoring a congressional subpoena,

00:01:01.300 which is a very serious crime that only Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland

00:01:05.860 is allowed to commit, as he explained on Tuesday.

00:01:08.380 We have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the committees get responses to their legitimate requests.

00:01:19.500 But this is not one.

00:01:22.320 To the contrary, this is one that would harm our ability in the future to successfully pursue sensitive investigations.

00:01:29.420 Now, there have been a series of unprecedented and, frankly, unfounded attacks on the Justice Department.

00:01:39.920 And this request, this effort to use contempt as a method of obtaining our sensitive law enforcement files

00:01:48.340 is just the most recent.

00:01:50.200 The effort to threaten, to defund our investigations,

00:01:55.560 and the way in which there are contributions to an atmosphere that puts our agents and our prosecutors at risk,

00:02:03.380 these are wrong.

00:02:04.100 There you have it.

00:02:06.320 It is wrong for the Congress to try to dominate the executive branch.

00:02:11.240 It threatens the separation of powers, 0.96

00:02:13.960 as Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon argued when they did the same thing that Garland is now doing.

00:02:20.060 It's unprecedented, just as Navarro observed when he became the first senior White House advisor

00:02:25.980 ever to be jailed for this supposed crime.

00:02:28.720 It's June.

00:02:30.900 It's June, and they've already put away two top Trump White House advisors.

00:02:37.600 They're trying to put away Trump.

00:02:38.640 Raises the question, how many more Trump White House officials do the Democrats plan to imprison

00:02:44.840 before the election in November?

00:02:47.380 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:48.120 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:48.940 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:09.640 Did Joe Biden soil himself at Normandy?

00:03:12.460 That is the question on everyone's mind.

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00:04:30.940 I actually have to issue a correction.

00:04:34.000 There's a correction.

00:04:35.140 I know this is fast, but I said that ignoring a congressional subpoena is a very serious crime

00:04:42.820 that only Joe Biden's attorney general is allowed to commit, but that's actually not true.

00:04:49.040 Barack Obama's attorney general also committed it,

00:04:51.380 because Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, was held in criminal contempt of Congress

00:04:55.640 and nothing happened to him.

00:04:56.860 And he said it was wonderful.

00:04:58.080 It was great to ignore the Congress in that case, because to uphold the rule of law,

00:05:02.320 we need to punish Republicans for crimes that they didn't commit in many cases.

00:05:07.320 And we need to let Democrats off the hook uniformly for crimes that they did commit.

00:05:12.700 This is, it seems like an absurd double standard that they couldn't possibly get away with.

00:05:19.680 They can't keep a straight face.

00:05:21.240 They're going to straight face this thing all the way to November.

00:05:23.720 And my proof of that is a June 5th story out of the New York Times.

00:05:28.300 What is, today's the 7th?

00:05:30.160 Here's the headline, New York Times.

00:05:31.440 Trump's vows to prosecute rivals put rule of law on the ballot.

00:05:39.580 Donald Trump's promise to seek retribution challenges long-established norms.

00:05:44.700 The election could hinge in part on what kind of justice system the country believes

00:05:48.000 it has now and wants in the future.

00:05:49.420 They sent, they convicted Trump, what, a week ago, and then will likely send him to jail

00:05:58.800 in a few weeks.

00:06:03.420 That was like a week ago that that happened.

00:06:06.580 They ordered Steve Bannon to jail yesterday.

00:06:10.880 Peter Navarro is currently in jail.

00:06:13.620 Not one hint of irony, not one little wink, a total straight face.

00:06:17.920 Trump's vows to prosecute rivals put rule of law on the ballot days after Joe Biden not

00:06:24.740 only prosecutes his rival, unprecedented in American history, but actually has him convicted

00:06:29.580 and likely to be sent to prison.

00:06:34.460 They're not playing around. 1.00

00:06:37.200 There's no, I can't tell if they're extremely stupid or if they're being dishonest. 1.00

00:06:45.840 And once again, I think the charitable take for the libs is that they're lying. 1.00

00:06:50.280 I can't imagine they're this stupid. 1.00

00:06:52.980 They're lying and I think they're trolling. 1.00

00:06:55.600 That's the only reason you run this headline days after you convict President Trump and promise

00:07:03.920 to punish him and probably send him to prison before the election.

00:07:07.280 It's the only, it's the only way, right?

00:07:11.740 And yet they say the rule of law is on the ballot.

00:07:14.600 So what does rule of law mean in this context?

00:07:17.600 Rule of law is when the Democrats win.

00:07:20.640 Just as democracy is when the Democrats win.

00:07:24.760 Just as freedom is when the Democrats win.

00:07:27.780 Just as equality is when the Democrats win.

00:07:29.360 All of these words that might at one time have had another meaning don't have that meaning anymore.

00:07:36.660 You've especially seen this with democracy because the libs say when most people vote

00:07:42.020 for Trump, it's the end of democracy.

00:07:44.540 When the people vote for Viktor Orban in Hungary, that's anti-democratic.

00:07:49.280 When the people vote for Georgia Maloney in Italy, it's anti-democratic.

00:07:52.000 When the people vote for Brexit in the UK, it's anti-democratic.

00:07:54.660 How can it be anti-democratic?

00:07:55.880 Democratic is just what the people vote for.

00:07:58.100 No.

00:08:00.260 They've erased the real meaning of democracy.

00:08:03.140 They've twisted that meaning, which is a phenomenon that they rely on a lot,

00:08:07.400 which I discuss in Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:08:10.560 And they've, thank you, they've twisted that to just mean

00:08:13.000 the triumph of liberalism when Democrats win.

00:08:18.320 But now they're doing that with rule of law.

00:08:20.620 And it's funny because they're ignoring lots of laws.

00:08:23.240 They're twisting certain laws.

00:08:24.240 I mean, in the case of the Trump prosecution, at least the one in New York,

00:08:28.380 they didn't even say which law he broke.

00:08:30.540 They didn't even say which crime he committed when they convicted him.

00:08:33.780 And the judge, when he was telling the jury how to proceed, said,

00:08:37.820 you don't even need to agree on what crime he committed.

00:08:40.320 I don't know.

00:08:40.640 Did he jaywalk in the 80s?

00:08:42.000 Put him in an orange jumpsuit.

00:08:45.360 So we can pull our hair out.

00:08:46.740 We can say, imagine if the shoe were on the other foot.

00:08:48.160 We can say, imagine if the roles were reversed.

00:08:49.700 But just know, just know, this is the way it works.

00:08:52.920 Rule of law, when mentioned by the press or by the liberal establishment,

00:08:57.760 just means when Democrats win.

00:09:00.020 So at the very least, don't fall into the trap that they have laid for you of saying,

00:09:05.580 well, you know, I do, in fact, defend rule of law.

00:09:08.000 That's not, they do not understand the words coming out of their mouth.

00:09:11.760 And if they do, then they're intentionally lying to you.

00:09:16.040 But that is not what rule of law means.

00:09:18.840 They are going to win at all costs.

00:09:21.820 It is June, July, August, September, October, November.

00:09:25.980 Imagine how many more Trump White House officials

00:09:28.100 they are going to put in prison before November.

00:09:32.500 Speaking of attacks on right-wingers, and the UK, by the way,

00:09:36.520 Nigel Farage was attacked with a milkshake on his first day on the campaign trail.

00:09:41.460 We covered that Nigel, who is largely responsible for the Brexit,

00:09:45.760 big conservative hero in the UK,

00:09:48.140 he has turned his attention away from the European Parliament,

00:09:50.220 which now doesn't really concern the UK.

00:09:52.000 And he's focusing on the British Parliament, and he's running.

00:09:55.120 And he's got this party, Reform UK.

00:09:57.740 And his first day on the campaign trail, someone throws a milkshake at him.

00:10:01.660 So Nigel was interviewed, and he says,

00:10:04.780 I don't know what was thrown at me, but it hit me in the face, fair and square, quite frightening.

00:10:09.600 And it is quite frightening.

00:10:10.540 And it's not frightening because now he's got to have his suit dry cleaned.

00:10:14.480 It's frightening because you don't know what's going to be in there when someone attacks you.

00:10:17.500 This happened to me at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

00:10:20.440 I was giving a speech there, and some wacko busts in through a fire door and sprays something on me. 0.96

00:10:25.720 And we don't know exactly what was in it.

00:10:27.580 At the time, people were saying it might have been bleach or some other toxic chemical.

00:10:32.520 We don't know.

00:10:33.000 It doesn't seem to have been toxic.

00:10:34.500 All it did was really disrupt my blazer and my loafers.

00:10:38.500 But you just don't know what it could have been.

00:10:41.440 I did an interview shortly thereafter on Fox News.

00:10:43.960 And I said, yeah, it's okay.

00:10:45.480 It wasn't anything that poisoned me or anything like that.

00:10:48.780 And Pete Hegseth, who was conducting the interview, he said, that's not the point.

00:10:51.900 It could have been anything in there.

00:10:53.140 And so Nigel is right to be frightened.

00:10:56.520 But he was asked why he thought he had been targeted with a similar attack in 2019.

00:11:02.520 And he said, it's, quote, because I go out and meet the public.

00:11:06.720 Nobody else does.

00:11:07.820 What does Rishi do?

00:11:08.680 Rishi is the head of the Tories, you know, the kind of fake conservative party in the UK.

00:11:12.580 He gets a room with two dozen counselors or whatever it is.

00:11:15.340 Nobody goes out and does the old style street campaigning the way I do.

00:11:20.020 And this is the risk that goes with it.

00:11:21.500 And it's quite scary when he was asked, well, what if it had been more than a milkshake?

00:11:26.040 Sometimes what Antifa would do is put concrete in milkshake containers, you know, in cups and throw it.

00:11:31.460 So it looks kind of like a milkshake, but it could really, you know, it could kill you, really.

00:11:35.440 And Nigel said, that's a very tough question to answer.

00:11:38.820 I try not to.

00:11:40.000 So glad that Nigel's okay.

00:11:41.580 But they're very scary.

00:11:42.640 A major international conservative figure attacked his first day on the trail.

00:11:47.660 But it's not just Nigel.

00:11:49.300 Heinrich Koch.

00:11:50.200 I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly.

00:11:51.740 Of the Alternative for Deutschland, the right-wing party in Germany, was just slashed with a box cutter.

00:11:57.440 This is a municipal candidate for the AFD party.

00:12:01.880 It was stabbed, you know, slashed with a box cutter in the western German city of Mannheim.

00:12:07.040 And this was four days after a knife attack on members of an anti-Islam party in the same city.

00:12:14.200 So this politician was taken to the hospital and he got stitches.

00:12:19.600 Thankfully, he's expected to make a full recovery.

00:12:22.200 But it's not just in the UK and it's not just in Europe.

00:12:24.700 It's in America, too.

00:12:25.700 Let's not forget the liberal who traveled from California to D.C. to try to murder Brett Kavanaugh and potentially his entire family.

00:12:35.880 And why was that?

00:12:36.940 That was because the liberals released the Dobbs decision in advance of that decision coming out because it was obviously going to rile up the left.

00:12:44.280 And if the left did succeed at murdering any of the conservative judges, then the decision wouldn't have gone through because they had such a slim majority.

00:12:52.400 So that was the release of the Dobbs decision early was a call to murder one of the conservative judges.

00:12:59.800 I don't think there's an ounce of hyperbole there.

00:13:02.100 I don't see any other way you could possibly read it.

00:13:04.640 And thankfully, there was a U.S. marshal on hand to arrest the guy before he was able to murder Kavanaugh.

00:13:09.540 But Alito, another conservative justice, had to leave his house during that time because of all the liberal threats that were in violation of the law that neither Merrick Garland nor the Virginia governor decided to enforce laws against protesting at the homes of judges.

00:13:28.360 What about Rand Paul?

00:13:29.580 Remember when Rand Paul's liberal lunatic neighbor broke one of his ribs, punctured one of his lungs, I think?

00:13:36.400 Remember Steve Scalise when the Bernie bro showed up to the congressional baseball game and shot Steve Scalise, almost killed him?

00:13:42.380 Remember Ashley Babbitt?

00:13:44.140 To use a really extreme example of this, we heard about January 6th, the worst day in the history of the world. 0.82

00:13:48.320 And, you know, all the Democrats were almost raped and pillaged and murdered. 0.94

00:13:52.360 Remember the AOC said she was nearly raped. 0.96

00:13:54.080 She wasn't even in the same building.

00:13:56.540 And we heard about all the threats to the Democrats that day.

00:13:59.560 And yet, what did it amount to?

00:14:01.240 One person died in the political violence that day, and it was one of the pro-Trump people in the Capitol.

00:14:09.380 I'm noticing a pattern here.

00:14:10.940 Are you noticing a pattern?

00:14:12.480 All of the attacks on politicians are focused on the conservatives in America and throughout the rest of the world.

00:14:22.160 The right is under attack.

00:14:25.700 Under legal attack, there's a lot of lawfare, unprecedented prosecutions of a former president, current major party nominee.

00:14:32.640 Then more imprisonment, unprecedented imprisonment of senior White House officials for defending the separation of powers and executive privilege.

00:14:41.120 And, when that doesn't work, physical attack to try to kill the conservatives who stand in the liberals' way.

00:14:50.160 Can you, I don't, I'm sure there's some counterexample that exists of a left-winger being targeted or killed.

00:14:57.140 But I can't think of one.

00:14:58.820 It's certainly not in recent memory.

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00:17:35.800 Did the president soil himself at Normandy?

00:17:40.280 You see Biden.

00:17:45.880 He's standing up.

00:17:46.520 He shakes hands with Emmanuel Macron.

00:17:49.100 He then moves to—

00:17:50.340 Distinguished guests, please welcome the Honorable Lloyd J.

00:17:54.140 He kind of bends over.

00:17:55.220 He kind of makes a bit of an odd face.

00:17:58.140 And Jill is there.

00:17:58.820 Now, the First Lady of France, the President of France, and the First Lady of the United States all standing up.

00:18:04.300 Biden does this weird thing where he kinds of sits down.

00:18:06.600 So this was trending all over the Internet yesterday.

00:18:09.140 I came home because I was focused on some other work yesterday during the day.

00:18:13.400 I was kind of out of the news.

00:18:14.880 And Elisa says, Mac, are you going to talk about the Biden thing?

00:18:18.420 I said, what now?

00:18:19.600 She says, well, people are saying he defecated in France.

00:18:25.740 I said, what?

00:18:27.260 Yeah, it was trending all over the Internet yesterday, Mac.

00:18:31.200 I said, I have to look this up myself.

00:18:32.980 And it was.

00:18:34.400 So I said, wow, there's no way I can avoid talking about this, can I?

00:18:37.620 He said, no, you can't.

00:18:39.040 This is what our country's come to.

00:18:40.580 This is very, very important news, Mac.

00:18:43.260 So I said, okay, you're right.

00:18:44.280 You're right, girl.

00:18:45.820 I'll take a look into it.

00:18:46.900 And I want to be fair-minded.

00:18:49.240 And I examined all of the available evidence.

00:18:52.060 I've come to the conclusion.

00:18:55.280 The president did not soil himself at Normandy.

00:18:58.300 And here's why.

00:18:58.880 If you look at the extended video, it is clear that he was in the process of sitting, not another process.

00:19:12.000 See, she shakes hands with Macron.

00:19:15.580 Then he's kind of oddly, he's reaching for something.

00:19:19.320 He's clearly reaching for the side of the chair.

00:19:22.840 And then they all sit down.

00:19:25.680 The first lady, both first ladies and then Macron.

00:19:28.220 So if you look at the clip, if you even extend it by, what, five, six seconds, he was sitting down.

00:19:34.080 I love a good Biden joke as much as the next guy.

00:19:39.880 That's not what he was doing.

00:19:40.960 Now, the fact that this was a top trend, the fact that many people thought this was plausible, likely even, that Joe Biden did this at Normandy,

00:19:56.140 it tells you a lot about his presidency.

00:19:58.560 Because there are all these kind of cheap political attacks, but they usually don't get much further than the most extreme partisan fringes.

00:20:06.900 But here we're talking about news that was really trending all day because even Joe Biden's ardent defenders will admit he's passed his prime.

00:20:16.060 He's lost control of his faculties and perhaps some of his other, not only his mental faculties, but some of his other faculties as well.

00:20:24.620 So he avoided an international incident on the beaches of Normandy, but the political problem is still there.

00:20:34.140 Now, that actually wasn't even the strangest thing that Biden did at Normandy.

00:20:38.660 Biden sat down for a one-on-one interview with David Muir of ABC News, and he was asked about his son.

00:20:51.560 Hunter is currently being prosecuted.

00:20:53.480 Remember, the corrupt DOJ tried to let Biden off the hook.

00:20:56.620 They tried to give him a little slap on the wrist that would have actually resulted in no long-term consequences for his many crimes that we've seen for years.

00:21:03.220 Sex crimes, drug crimes, financial crimes, political crimes. 0.84

00:21:06.200 And a judge looked at this and said, this is so corrupt.

00:21:10.820 I will not allow the DOJ to do this.

00:21:13.440 So now they're prosecuting him for a gun charge.

00:21:16.820 Raises the question, is Joe Biden going to pardon his own son?

00:21:19.880 Here's Biden's answer.

00:21:20.700 Your son Hunter is on trial, and I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution.

00:21:29.420 But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?

00:21:35.120 Yes.

00:21:36.100 And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

00:21:38.480 Yes.

00:21:40.520 Okay.

00:21:41.460 I think a lot of people might not have expected that.

00:21:43.740 I certainly would expect this answer from Joe.

00:21:46.960 Not because I think Joe cares about the rule of law.

00:21:49.620 Not because I think Joe is, you know, suddenly some great defender of integrity and principles. 0.97

00:21:57.480 But because Joe Biden's a liar who's pretty good at politics. 0.96

00:21:59.980 Say what you want about him. 0.96

00:22:00.720 The guy's been in national politics for over 50 years.

00:22:03.760 He got elected in 1971.

00:22:05.760 He was actually, I think, too young even to enter the Senate at the time.

00:22:08.880 He was only 34.

00:22:10.160 And he's stayed in national politics pretty much uninterrupted since then.

00:22:13.840 Became the president of the United States several years after he seems to have died.

00:22:17.280 So, you know, he's a good politician.

00:22:18.880 And he knows he can't say in the lead up to an election where prosecutorial misconduct and DOJ corruption is on the ballot.

00:22:27.600 He can't say, yeah, of course I'm going to pardon my son.

00:22:29.700 I suspect he will.

00:22:30.780 I think he's probably just lying here.

00:22:32.680 I mean, don't forget, for goodness sakes, Joe Biden has already wielded the government in a corrupt fashion to benefit his son.

00:22:42.000 He bragged about this, actually, at the Council on Foreign Relations.

00:22:45.120 When Hunter Biden was being paid oodles and oodles of money from a Ukrainian oil company and natural gas company, Burisma.

00:22:54.020 And it was just trading on the name and getting access to Joe Biden.

00:22:57.860 When a prosecutor started looking into that corrupt deal in Ukraine, Joe Biden not only flew over to Ukraine and bully Ukraine into firing the prosecutor, threatened to withhold a billion dollars in military aid if they didn't fire the prosecutor.

00:23:11.740 But then he went to the Council on Foreign Relations and bragged about it.

00:23:14.600 I remember going over convincing our team, our brothers too, convincing us that we should be providing for loan guarantees.

00:23:24.180 And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.

00:23:34.580 And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against a state prosecutor, and they didn't.

00:23:43.600 So they said they had, they were walking out to the press conference, and I said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.

00:23:50.860 They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.

00:23:53.160 The president said, I said, call him.

00:23:56.080 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.

00:23:58.840 I said, you're not getting a billion, I'm going to be leaving here, and I think it was, what, six hours?

00:24:02.560 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.

00:24:04.540 If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money. 1.00

00:24:07.580 Oh, son of a bitch. 1.00

00:24:09.820 You got fired. 1.00

00:24:10.640 And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

00:24:15.620 And put in place someone who was solidly not going to investigate my son's corruption.

00:24:19.600 So obviously, Joe is probably just lying here.

00:24:23.160 But one little coda to this story.

00:24:26.300 If Joe is not lying, then I think he's wrong.

00:24:29.900 If my kid were up on these kinds of charges, relatively low-level charges, don't forget, Hunter Biden is not being prosecuted for the really serious stuff he committed, the financial crimes, the political corruption, the graft, the selling American influence.

00:24:47.300 Those are the serious crimes.

00:24:48.420 He's currently only being prosecuted for the gun crime in relation to a drug crime, but not even directly for the drug crime.

00:24:57.700 So I'm not, I don't mean to diminish those things, but those are different levels of political significance.

00:25:03.320 And if my kid were in serious trouble, and if he had shown signs that he had kind of turned his life around, and he wasn't going to Skid Row to do crack anymore, and he wasn't, he was kind of coming out of it, maybe to establish some kind of political principle, I wouldn't pardon him.

00:25:21.280 But I'd almost certainly commute the sentence, of course.

00:25:25.280 Of course I would.

00:25:26.260 And I assume Biden would, too.

00:25:27.920 I don't even really blame him for it.

00:25:29.500 I blame him for all of the corruption that not only Hunter engaged in, but that Biden, according to Hunter, participated in.

00:25:38.420 But no, I don't think it's that principle to leave your kid to hang out to dry to advance your political career.

00:25:44.760 I don't think it's, I'm sure he's lying about it, and he won't actually let his son ever see one second in jail.

00:25:49.360 But, but I don't think it's good or principled to do that.

00:25:53.100 I don't think it's good to just toss your kid aside to score political points.

00:25:58.080 That's just me.

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00:27:34.720 My favorite comment yesterday is from SteveWesley8187, who says,

00:27:39.100 I pray my kids and grandkids won't let me vote Democrat after I'm dead.

00:27:43.720 I know.

00:27:44.060 I think we all have to pray for that.

00:27:46.040 Now, oddly enough, then I'll move off of Biden.

00:27:51.000 The potential soiling of himself and then the Hunter Biden, you know, I won't pardon my

00:27:58.300 son answer.

00:27:59.640 Neither of those really were the strangest moment for Biden the past few days.

00:28:03.480 The strangest answer came when he was asked about Vladimir Putin, whom Biden claims he's

00:28:11.240 known for four decades.

00:28:12.480 Let me ask you about what Vladimir Putin said last night about this authorization of American

00:28:18.420 weapons inside Russia.

00:28:21.160 I've known him for over 40 years.

00:28:23.480 He's concerned me for 40 years.

00:28:25.900 He's not a decent man. 0.97

00:28:27.240 He's a dictator.

00:28:28.440 And he's struggling to make sure he holds his country together while still keeping this

00:28:33.360 assault going.

00:28:34.500 We're not talking about giving them weapons to strike Moscow, to strike the Kremlin, to

00:28:38.520 strike just across the border where they're receiving significant fire from conventional 0.95

00:28:44.680 weapons used by the Russians to go into Ukraine to kill the Ukrainians.

00:28:50.080 So 40 years ago, Vladimir Putin was not in power.

00:28:54.540 40 years ago, the Russian Federation was still the Soviet Union.

00:28:58.500 40 years ago, I'm pretty sure Vladimir Putin was still a KGB agent.

00:29:02.560 And Biden was a U.S.

00:29:03.860 senator.

00:29:04.960 Biden became a U.S.

00:29:05.920 senator over 50 years ago.

00:29:08.080 But is Biden saying that he knew Vladimir Putin when he was just some nondescript KGB

00:29:14.620 agent?

00:29:15.520 Possibly.

00:29:16.080 I wouldn't I wouldn't put it past him.

00:29:17.660 We know that the Democrats colluded with the Russians to cook up the steel dossier to try 0.84

00:29:21.020 to torpedo Trump's campaign, ironically claiming that Trump was colluding with the Russians.

00:29:25.180 So I don't know.

00:29:25.740 Possibly.

00:29:26.080 Probably, though, Joe Biden just doesn't care for the truth at all.

00:29:29.300 He lies effortlessly, so much so that he has become a true cynic and probably just can't

00:29:36.000 distinguish between truth and falsehood.

00:29:37.920 And I think that was true even before he totally lost his marbles.

00:29:41.060 And it's especially true now.

00:29:42.700 That's the part of the interview that everyone's focusing on.

00:29:46.960 That's the part of the answer everyone's focusing on.

00:29:48.880 Oh, you know, he says he knew Putin, but he didn't really know Putin then.

00:29:52.180 He only knew Putin 30 years ago, not 40 years ago.

00:29:55.560 No, to me, the craziest part of that answer is the defense of Ukrainians using American

00:30:00.940 weapons inside Russian territory.

00:30:03.360 There was a report I saw last night.

00:30:04.680 I'm not sure if it's verified or not, that Russian warships are headed to Cuba in a replay

00:30:08.620 of the Cuban missile crisis.

00:30:09.700 That could be fake news.

00:30:10.600 I don't know, I guess we'll see how it plays out.

00:30:13.560 At the very least, though, Russia is threatening severe retaliation because that is an extreme

00:30:19.100 exacerbation of what has thus far been a proxy war.

00:30:24.980 We made it through the entire Cold War without Americans going into Russian territory and,

00:30:29.740 you know, firing weapons.

00:30:31.820 Here, we're supplying the weapons to Ukraine.

00:30:34.560 We're saying, OK, keep it focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and defending Ukraine, 0.55

00:30:38.280 which is now basically an American proxy state, a satellite state.

00:30:42.260 But they're saying, no, we're going to use it on Russian territory.

00:30:45.080 How is that in the American interest?

00:30:48.460 How is it in the American interest to greatly escalate a war with Russia over Ukraine, one

00:30:58.280 of the most corrupt countries on earth that has been a battleground for U.S. and Russian influence?

00:31:04.440 And I think the Americans seriously misplayed their hand.

00:31:08.400 And I'm not the only one who thinks it.

00:31:09.820 Many very serious foreign policy analysts, including but not limited to Henry Kissinger,

00:31:15.100 Sam Nunn, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and a number, George Cannon, the author of The Long Telegram,

00:31:20.360 and American Cold War policy, all agreed.

00:31:23.100 That's pretty scary, man.

00:31:27.520 They told me if I voted for Trump in 2020, we'd get World War III.

00:31:30.980 And perhaps they were right.

00:31:32.460 I voted for Trump in 2020, and we might get World War III.

00:31:35.420 Now, speaking of dubious deep state schemes, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Foghorn Leghorn himself,

00:31:44.540 was just grilling the FBI director over the Epstein investigation.

00:31:50.820 Remember Jeffrey Epstein?

00:31:51.600 Jeffrey Epstein was this guy, he had a lot of money, we don't really know where it was from,

00:31:55.940 and he invited all the most powerful people on earth to do weird sex stuff, often with underage girls.

00:32:01.700 And then he videotaped all of it, and his business partner was connected to multiple intelligence agencies,

00:32:07.660 and he was reportedly connected to intelligence agencies.

00:32:10.500 And the whole thing, and then it just kind of went away.

00:32:13.640 Remember, we never found out really anything else about it,

00:32:16.800 even though all these really famous and powerful people went to the island, it just kind of went away.

00:32:20.840 So, Senator Kennedy raised that question to the FBI director.

00:32:24.480 Here's the FBI director's answer.

00:32:26.940 What's the FBI doing to investigate the other people that were involved in these sex trafficking ranks?

00:32:35.160 Well, I'm not sure that I can confirm any specific individuals being investigated.

00:32:42.520 Well, let me put it this way.

00:32:43.720 Let me give you some facts, widely reported.

00:32:46.560 Jeffrey Epstein had video surveillance in all of his homes and on his private island.

00:32:53.620 Do you have those tapes?

00:32:54.880 Again, I can't discuss the specifics of our law enforcement operations related to Mr. Epstein or Ms. Maxwell,

00:33:02.740 but obviously we had very active investigation related to both of them.

00:33:06.620 As to whether specific people are being investigated, that's not something that I, as I'm sure you can appreciate, can engage on here.

00:33:12.580 We've devoted significant resources to the investigation.

00:33:16.380 Is it ongoing?

00:33:17.140 There it is.

00:33:25.420 That's the best question of the whole exchange is Senator Kennedy cuts to the heart of it.

00:33:29.540 The way that these deep state apparatchiks get away with keeping the Congress in the dark, keeping the American people in the dark,

00:33:37.240 just running the government on their own unaccountably, is they say, well, you know, we're not allowed to discuss an ongoing investigation.

00:33:44.460 We're not, listen, we're not, why don't we have the Nashville transgender shooter manifesto years later at this point? 0.80

00:33:50.340 Well, there's an ongoing investigation.

00:33:52.060 What's there to investigate?

00:33:53.120 I think you investigated.

00:33:54.060 No, no, it's ongoing.

00:33:55.180 We can't share any information that might be politically damaging to the left.

00:33:58.160 Okay, why is it that we can't figure out who was, you have the tapes, right?

00:34:03.640 I'm not allowed to say.

00:34:04.660 Well, we know you have the tapes.

00:34:06.240 Can we find out who committed these really heinous crimes on the Epstein Island and in Epstein's other properties?

00:34:12.740 Well, no, we can't do that because, you know, we're not allowed to talk about ongoing investigations.

00:34:16.940 Okay, is there an ongoing investigation?

00:34:23.260 I'm not allowed to say if there's an ongoing.

00:34:26.100 Oh, okay, so you're just never going to tell us anything.

00:34:27.740 Okay, okay, that's fine.

00:34:29.640 If you can't tell us that there is an ongoing investigation, at least, then we just have to take your word for it forever.

00:34:38.900 There is no way ever to get any accountability.

00:34:41.900 If the justification for not releasing any of this information or prosecuting the people who committed the crimes is that there is an ongoing investigation, if you can't even tell us whether or not there's an ongoing investigation, then, okay, I guess we're taking your word for it, FBI director.

00:34:58.120 Okay, yeah.

00:34:59.040 I am not certain how many Trump associates will be imprisoned before the election.

00:35:07.080 I'm not certain how many conservatives will be physically attacked or killed before the election.

00:35:12.900 But one thing I am really certain of is that we are never going to find out anything else from the official sources about Jeffrey Epstein and his operation.

00:35:24.200 Now, the one little silver lining to this storm cloud of corruption is that the American people get it.

00:35:32.400 They are very fired up about it.

00:35:33.960 And they are putting their money where their mouth is and they are donating to the man who is the symbol of resistance to that corruption.

00:35:40.080 It's just how history has played out.

00:35:43.000 And that would be Donald Trump, who has raised a lot of money since his conviction.

00:35:50.220 I just went through a rigged trial in New York.

00:35:54.460 With a highly conflicted, and I mean highly conflicted judge, where there was no crime.

00:36:05.100 It was made up, fabricated stuff.

00:36:08.440 They didn't want to bring the case.

00:36:10.280 They could have brought the case seven years ago.

00:36:12.460 It's only when you run for office, they break cases.

00:36:15.400 But they would have done that seven years ago thing, not in the middle of my presidential campaign,

00:36:20.540 where we're beating Biden, by the way, by a lot.

00:36:22.800 Did you see?

00:36:24.460 And by the way, right after the announcement of this,

00:36:33.120 more campaign funds were given to this campaign than any campaign they think in history.

00:36:39.760 Almost $400 million.

00:36:42.240 $400!

00:36:45.620 Now, it's never been, nobody's ever seen, because they know it was rigged.

00:36:49.460 They know it's a corrupt system.

00:36:51.800 Yes, that is true.

00:36:52.900 Because we're also talking about largely small-dollar donations.

00:36:56.860 Even me, I'm kind of a cheapskate when it comes to political campaigns.

00:37:00.300 I'm not just tossing out money willy-nilly, in part because Shapiro, he promises my first paychecks coming in the mail sometime soon.

00:37:06.400 I don't know, I'm skeptical.

00:37:07.960 I gave pretty big that night to the Trump campaign, because I was so appalled, as were so many Americans.

00:37:17.260 That's the bright side.

00:37:18.040 The American people get it.

00:37:19.100 Whether the American people still have a say in their government remains to be seen.

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00:37:31.380 Take it away.

00:37:31.840 Swirly Mike, a bit of a lighthearted question for you today.

00:37:35.860 I recently got engaged, and my fiancé and I have begun narrowing down possible wedding dates.

00:37:40.720 For various scheduling reasons, January seems like the best bet for us, and we live in Arizona, so the weather will actually be rather nice that time of year.

00:37:47.620 I always liked the idea of picking an easy-to-remember date for your future anniversaries, and of course, the choice was clear to me.

00:37:53.860 January 6th, the worst day in the history of the entire world!

00:38:00.200 My fiancé, for her part, is on board with this, and happens to think it's as funny as I do.

00:38:03.940 Is it any wonder I'm marrying her?

00:38:05.700 Of course, this happens to fall on a Monday, and I'm worried some guests may be displeased at how much time off this would require.

00:38:12.680 My question to you is simply this.

00:38:14.520 Is it worth it to pick your wedding date based primarily on the lols?

00:38:18.080 Again, my lovely bride-to-be thinks it's hilarious and is totally on board, but I'm wondering if perhaps it's a bit too silly to do this for such an important occasion.

00:38:25.900 Your wisdom, as always, is appreciated.

00:38:27.460 I've been listening since you were torturing Clavin with the Oscars, so needless to say, long-time fan.

00:38:31.920 Thanks.

00:38:33.340 Do it.

00:38:34.740 Do it.

00:38:35.460 100% do it.

00:38:36.560 Are you kidding me?

00:38:37.800 100%.

00:38:38.200 First of all, it will be helpful, because as you are married for longer, you will maybe occasionally sometimes forget as your anniversary date is approaching, so it will be helpful to have a memorable date.

00:38:52.540 I think my father was married on March 6th, 1999.

00:38:56.920 So 3-6-99.

00:38:58.060 Very easy to remember.

00:38:59.760 Right?

00:39:00.080 Okay, that's good.

00:39:01.360 It would be harder to remember other days.

00:39:03.180 Even I don't remember my own birthday half the time.

00:39:06.660 So that is good stuff.

00:39:10.880 It's really funny.

00:39:12.180 It proves that your wife is super cool. 1.00

00:39:14.420 That's great.

00:39:15.500 And even in terms of taking off time, yeah, it is annoying.

00:39:19.020 Having gone to non-Saturday weddings before, it's annoying when people do that.

00:39:24.020 But people do it a lot.

00:39:24.860 I've seen Friday weddings.

00:39:26.100 I've seen Sunday weddings.

00:39:27.200 I've seen Thursday weddings.

00:39:28.820 And it's annoying.

00:39:29.380 At least for the Monday wedding, that means people are flying in if they have to travel.

00:39:35.200 The rehearsal dinner is on a Sunday night.

00:39:37.140 Okay, so you've got Sunday off for travel.

00:39:39.740 You don't have to take that day off.

00:39:40.980 The wedding is on Monday.

00:39:41.980 It's true.

00:39:42.640 You do have to take Monday and Tuesday off from work.

00:39:44.920 It's annoying.

00:39:45.680 It's a destination wedding that often involves taking time off.

00:39:48.180 But people could leave very early Tuesday morning.

00:39:49.940 They could probably be back in the office Tuesday at lunch, depending on where they live.

00:39:53.720 Do it.

00:39:54.220 Congratulations.

00:39:54.980 I hope you have a great wedding and a great marriage.

00:39:56.700 But do it.

00:39:58.920 Next question.

00:39:59.580 Greetings, Mr. Knowles.

00:40:01.860 I have asked this question before, but it has never gotten answered.

00:40:05.500 So I'm hoping this time I'm successful.

00:40:08.160 I know you are against President Biden forgiving student loan debt, blanketly.

00:40:13.560 But I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act, which was passed a long time ago, where essentially if after a person graduates, they work for any government entity or a nonprofit, such as a church, that after 10 years of making payments, whatever remains of their government loan is forgiven.

00:40:34.020 I myself am eligible for this and have been working for my county courts for the past nine years.

00:40:41.400 So my loans are due to be forgiven next year, hopefully.

00:40:45.080 And I'm just wondering what your thoughts on this act are, being essentially people like me have been paying it back, but then also have been working for the government.

00:40:57.320 Thanks.

00:40:58.540 I think it's good.

00:41:00.000 You know, I have no problem with it in principle, and I think unlike a lot of the 1980s-style conservatives who just wanted to privatize everything, I actually don't think that always works.

00:41:13.900 And actually, one of the downsides of privatizing everything in modern life is that we've just empowered lots of even less accountable, very liberal people to control our public square.

00:41:24.600 You know, we deregulate communication and what happens, three leftist corporations, totally unaccountable to the people, control the public square.

00:41:33.140 So I think in principle it's good.

00:41:37.240 The question, though, is what do you want to incentivize?

00:41:41.060 What serves the common good?

00:41:42.540 You know, law is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated.

00:41:54.900 That's St. Thomas Aquinas' definition of law, and I think it's a pretty good definition of law.

00:41:59.600 So what is being advanced here?

00:42:02.400 You know, if you can discharge your student debt by going and working for the church or some, you know, missionary organization or, I don't know, some right-wing community organizers, you go work for TPUSA or something, then great.

00:42:18.960 I'm all for that.

00:42:19.780 That's good.

00:42:20.160 But if the effect of that is only going to be getting more and more people to go work for the left-wing organizations and go work in the government, that, you know, as leftists, that would be a bad thing.

00:42:32.660 Now, if we could incentivize conservatives to go work in the government and wield political power, that would be a good thing. 0.74

00:42:36.840 So to me, I would just judge the wisdom of that policy by who is going to take advantage of it and how.

00:42:45.260 So you obviously are a reasonable person and you're working in the government.

00:42:50.460 So good.

00:42:50.860 I want more reasonable people working in the government.

00:42:53.100 Fine by me.

00:42:53.920 You just got to, you got to make sure that the policy isn't, isn't hurting the conservatives.

00:42:59.100 Next question.

00:43:00.860 Hey, Nostradamus.

00:43:01.600 This is Greg, longtime listener of the show.

00:43:03.500 This is my first time submitting a mailbag question.

00:43:05.420 In light of the topics you've touched on with Tony Soprano and Jerry Seinfeld referring to, you know, tough old men and bringing back masculinity and sort of the old school way of things.

00:43:16.660 I do find myself agreeable to that.

00:43:19.100 But I want to let you know that I'm actually going through a program right now where a lot of men are submitting questions to you about how do I quit porn?

00:43:25.400 And this, this program in particular dives deeply into the psyche and having compassion for yourself and trying to deal with things like guilt and regret and shame that revolve around porn addiction.

00:43:37.160 I'm just curious to hear your thoughts on, is there a place for masculine men to still dive into these things like with his family, with his wife?

00:43:44.720 Or do you think that we should still just be burying this stuff down in tobacco and other substances that sort of take the edge off?

00:43:53.100 You know, my, my thoughts are that it's not so healthy, but I'd love to hear yours.

00:43:56.500 Thanks for taking my question and keep up the great work.

00:43:58.900 Good question.

00:43:59.800 A slight correction.

00:44:01.060 Tobacco used properly is not a way to beat down your emotions or get through the day.

00:44:06.460 It is a, an expression of joy and delight and relaxation.

00:44:12.100 That's just what, you know, it's not, not just the guy huffing and puffing the cigarette just to get through a shift.

00:44:17.120 It's, you know, sitting back, reading a good book, talking with friends with a nice Mayflower cigar.

00:44:22.700 Just a little distinction.

00:44:25.080 I don't, men can talk about their feelings in limited circumstances.

00:44:28.080 It's fine.

00:44:28.960 And men certainly can speak to other men about this.

00:44:33.260 I think that's a good thing to do.

00:44:34.740 I don't think you really ought to burden your wife with your problems. 0.96

00:44:38.020 I think that is kind of lame and effeminate.

00:44:40.460 I don't think you say, oh, honey, you know, I'm just having so much trouble all the time.

00:44:44.820 That I think, no, we need the Gary Cooper strong, silent type.

00:44:48.400 Because your wife is a different kind of person than your best friend or your colleague or your boss or your priest.

00:44:59.220 So what you say, should we just, you know, use tobacco or say alcohol or something to just numb our pain?

00:45:07.800 No, I think we should avail ourselves of sacraments.

00:45:10.060 I think that's going to be much more effective than whining to your wife or drinking a lot or something.

00:45:15.920 This is not to say that you can't tell your wife that you're an imperfect man and you struggle with all sorts of things.

00:45:24.140 Because, you know, I imagine if you've got this one addiction, you've probably got other addictions and other vices that you're falling into too.

00:45:32.400 It's very rarely just one thing, you know, it's because it's like when Adam and Eve fall, the way that John Milton describes this in Paradise Lost is that sin and then death pervade the world.

00:45:47.300 It just gets into everything.

00:45:48.600 You know, I was talking to Adam Carolla one time about a somewhat related matter.

00:45:52.080 And he said it's like, it's like radon, you know, like having an annoying wife.

00:45:59.660 That was the topic of the conversation.

00:46:02.400 He said it's like radon.

00:46:03.360 It just pervades the whole house.

00:46:04.680 You don't even really notice it all the time.

00:46:06.100 It's just kind of there.

00:46:07.080 And that's what sin is like.

00:46:08.260 So I think you can be honest about that.

00:46:12.240 But your wife will know that when you go to confession, which you should do regularly.

00:46:16.060 Ultimately, that's going to be much more effective.

00:46:18.340 You can have the support groups and whatever kind of programs you guys are in.

00:46:21.220 That's good stuff.

00:46:21.800 I'm all for that.

00:46:22.860 But it's not a substitute for ultimately the person you should bring your problems to, which is God.

00:46:28.780 You know, and I would recommend in the form of sacramental confession, you know, on your knees, in the box, to a priest.

00:46:35.160 I think that is because you're really the priest is sitting there in the person of Christ and you're confessing your sins of God, who ultimately is the only person who's really going to help you.

00:46:43.660 Next question.

00:46:44.980 Hi, Michael.

00:46:45.500 He's the end of the show.

00:46:46.180 Thanks for everything you do.

00:46:47.880 Thanks for taking my call.

00:46:50.260 I got a question for you about marriage.

00:46:52.480 When my wife and I got married just over five years ago, we had our anniversary last week, politics was not really on the radar of our relationship.

00:47:01.780 But after 2020 and the riots and things, my wife self-describes that she had some sort of political awakening and has become increasingly liberal since then.

00:47:11.620 I wouldn't say she's a full-blown leftist, but definitely heading that way, thinks abortion should be legal up to a certain point, even if restricted. 1.00

00:47:22.600 She's not a fan of BLM, but still believes in the systemic racism, sexism, yeah, thinks we should affirm transgender people, hates on Israel all the time.

00:47:34.720 And it's just becoming more and more difficult to navigate that.

00:47:39.960 So I would love some advice on what to do, if anything.

00:47:45.100 Thanks.

00:47:45.740 The problem is not that your wife's a Democrat. 0.98

00:47:47.980 You know, I've seen wonderful marriages where the husband's a Republican, the wife's a Democrat or whatever.

00:47:54.020 The problem is that this different view, this emerging different view, represents something much deeper than just one political issue or another.

00:48:04.200 It represents not only a different view on life, but an increasingly different view on life.

00:48:10.920 What you're describing is that your wife and you are growing apart at a deep level, which is dangerous.

00:48:18.600 So I'm glad you sent in the question.

00:48:22.420 The first thing you got to ask is, well, look, I would lead with confidence and with love, of course.

00:48:29.360 Your wife says she supports abortion, but not – it ought to be restricted at least.

00:48:35.340 Now, that's the totally incoherent answer, right?

00:48:37.940 Either it's murder or it's not.

00:48:39.980 So if it's murder, it shouldn't be permitted.

00:48:41.960 And if it's not murder, there's no reason to restrict it really.

00:48:45.700 You could just talk that over with her and say, well, you know, here's why I think what I think, you know.

00:48:49.960 And you could get at it that way.

00:48:53.740 With the BLM stuff, you know, I guess you could just talk to her about it and say, yeah, except it isn't really true.

00:48:57.660 And it's all – it's kind of fake, you know, and here's why, in a very loving way.

00:49:00.920 But then the question I would ask is, where is she getting this from?

00:49:04.400 You said it happened during the BLM riots.

00:49:05.800 It was her political awakening.

00:49:07.040 But what was the efficient cause of her supposed political awakening?

00:49:10.440 Was it some friend?

00:49:12.920 Was it spending too much time on social media?

00:49:16.760 Was it reading the New York Times all the time?

00:49:19.220 Was it this?

00:49:20.120 Was it that?

00:49:20.560 You've got to find that cause.

00:49:22.000 Because if your wife is just spending all day on Facebook and Twitter, that might be really bad for her. 1.00

00:49:28.580 And you might need to step in and, you know, gently suggest, knock it off with the Facebook and Twitter.

00:49:35.720 If it's some friend, if it's some problematic friend who's turning your wife against her husband, you've got to reduce the time that that friend is hanging around.

00:49:45.760 You know, I think you've got to identify the efficient cause here and then lead with love.

00:49:50.980 But don't ignore it.

00:49:51.820 As you say, politics wasn't a big deal when we got together.

00:49:54.180 Right.

00:49:55.080 And it doesn't need to be.

00:49:56.100 Who cares about the politicians?

00:49:57.440 You know, it's not for everybody.

00:49:59.000 But practical politics is just like the tip of the iceberg.

00:50:04.320 And what practical politics expresses is views on practical morality.

00:50:08.660 And what views on practical morality express are views on the whole moral order.

00:50:11.740 And with that, when you get down far enough, that's going to express what you think about human nature, existence, and God.

00:50:20.440 And so that's a big thing, especially when you're raising kids, as you're crafting any kind of life together.

00:50:26.520 You can't ignore that.

00:50:27.820 You know, to quote the butler on the first season of The Crown, it's in the little things that the rot begins.

00:50:32.620 So don't freak out.

00:50:34.640 Don't lose your mind.

00:50:35.640 Don't get angry.

00:50:36.320 Lead with love.

00:50:36.920 But you've got to fix it.

00:50:38.560 You've got to fix that.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 07, 2024

Ep. 1506 - Libs Send Steve Bannon To Jail

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