Ep. 1628 - Trump Threatens ＂ALL HELL TO PAY＂
Summary
Today, President Trump threatens to blow up the Middle East while Joe Biden actively blows up his own political party. Is he bluffing, or is he on the brink of war with the deep state? And what does that have to do with the hostage situation in Gaza?
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President Trump threatens to blow up the Middle East,
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while Joe Biden actively blows up his own political party.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin insinuates that President Trump might be about to be murdered by the American deep state.
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President Trump is threatening to blow up Gaza if Hamas does not return the hostages.
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This, obviously, a couple months before President Trump is due to reenter office.
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Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire world in the Middle East.
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Please let this truth serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20th, 2025,
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the date that I proudly assume office as President of the United States, there will be, now this is in all caps,
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all hell to pay, back to normal font in the Middle East,
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and for those in charge who perpetrated those atrocities against humanity.
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Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America.
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If you're Hamas, you are thinking, maybe he's bluffing.
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Certainly, just like when President Trump threatened to blow up Moscow if Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
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And you're Vladimir Putin, you've got to be thinking, look, maybe, probably he's bluffing.
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Just like Kim Jong-un thought when President Trump threatened to nuke his country,
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But the question with Trump is, can you really take the chance?
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Now, multiple times, three times for president, he's run against war.
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He thinks some American belligerence has been misguided.
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But then, he's hosting Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, and just before he goes down to have dinner with the leader of China, Chairman Xi,
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he launches 59 cruise missiles, rains them down on Syria.
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Then he goes down and eats his steak tartare with Xi, or whatever they dined on that evening.
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And he sent a message that sometimes he's not bluffing.
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Trump wants to focus on America, make America great again.
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And then he drops the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
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And then he assassinates the top Iranian general.
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So, if you're Hamas, how could you possibly call this guy's bluff?
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Some of them are real crazy out there in Hamas.
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Hard for me to imagine that they don't release the hostages.
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This is one of the least discussed but greatest strengths of the Trump presidency,
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Trump is the kind of guy who, on the one hand, is going to appoint Tulsi Gabbard to top positions.
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Tulsi Gabbard, who is vehemently, vociferously against war.
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And he's also going to appoint John Bolton to positions sometimes,
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who has wanted to bomb Iran every single day for the past 50 years.
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Yet, if you are in a negotiation, that inability to be read, that poker face, is invaluable.
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And we know the Biden policy on Hamas and in the Middle East has been a total failure.
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It's the reason that Hamas launched the October 7th attack in the first place,
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Trump might be able to get him out with a true social post.
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Now, speaking of foreign affairs, Tom Homan, who is President Trump's soon-to-be border czar,
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has just made a really important point on how he's going to close up the border,
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how he's going to deal with this mass migration issue.
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Thus far, people have just talked about deporting the illegal aliens themselves.
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They've talked about how we're going to go after Trendy Aragua and MS-13
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and the particular individuals who've crossed the border illegally and get them out of here.
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Tom Homan says, the only way you're going to really solve the problem is if you hold states,
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like Mexico, like Venezuela, like the places that are sending us foreign nationals,
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if you hold the states and the non-government organizations responsible.
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We're going to take control January 20th, and people are going to be held accountable.
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What does the United Nations have to do with this open border crisis?
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Who in the administration, the Biden administration,
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We're going to be very transparent to American people,
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and we're going to tell them the truth of what happened on this border.
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Again, by design, and we're going to let the American people know who was involved,
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It's not just individual by individual by individual.
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This is one of the big errors that we make in liberal modernity,
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The left does it by constantly seeking to maximize individual autonomy
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and to tell individuals that they can be whatever they want to be.
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Absent a country, you're not a citizen of a country.
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Absent a family, you have no obligations to your family.
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If they're not serving your particular whims and desires, get rid of your family.
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The individual autonomy to the point that you say,
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When they say, forget about the common good, that's a dirty phrase.
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You sound like a commie if you ever talk about the community.
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Don't think about your obligations to the people around you or to your country.
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Just go out there, make money for yourself, spend your money how you want to see it.
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Individualism, radical individualism, is one of the pathologies of modernity.
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But you don't solve political problems at the individual level.
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Or I should say, you don't only solve political problems at the individual level.
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You need individuals to grow in virtue and holiness.
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And you need them to better themselves, certainly.
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But even that is a process that involves other people.
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You need families to be their first source of education, to really form the person.
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You need just communities to have laws that inform their conscience.
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We are not, as the liberals say, purely individuals.
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You're not going to solve the border crisis by deporting a number of face-tattooed Satan-worshipping individuals.
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You're going to solve the border crisis by getting down to what Kamala Harris was supposed to do.
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States, laws, non-government organizations, some who push their radical open borders policies, even, to my mind, with some sacrilege, under the banner of Catholicism.
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They insist that it somehow comes from the deep wells of Christianity, from Catholic social teaching, that people are not allowed to have borders, and immigration laws can't be enforced, and we have to allow poison and murderers and rapists and criminals to cross our border.
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But you've got to find out what those organizations are, and you need to make sure that they get in line, and they respect the rule of law, and they respect the civil authority, especially when the civil authority is acting in a just way.
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Speaking of the southern border, Border Patrol in Texas has just encountered a 10-year-old Salvadoran kid who was totally left alone by his parents, by his family, and by the cartels who were smuggling him across.
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The guide, obviously, is a criminal employed by the people who control the border.
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I don't care how much of an immigration hawk you are.
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You see a little kid like that, your heart just breaks.
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Some little 10-year-old kid left alone, abandoned by his degenerate mother and who knows where
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the father is, abandoned by the definitionally degenerate cartels, abandoned by his government,
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I don't care that that guy says, hey, don't worry, I'll call Border Patrol.
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Our government, led by Democrats and some squish Republicans, has encouraged that situation.
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Our government, the United States government, by refusing to enforce the laws because the Democrats are in charge,
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has encouraged that little kid to be left alone in another country, a 10-year-old kid on the verge of tears, obviously in distress,
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has encouraged that kid's mother to just let him cross the border with the help of criminals,
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has encouraged the criminal cartels to control the border.
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The chief victim of the open border is the American people.
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Fusion and Amnesty International put together a survey.
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It was reported in the Huffington Post that 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross the border illegally are sexually assaulted on the journey.
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It's totally avoidable if the Democrats just do their basic job and enforce the law.
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They won't do that because they've made a cynical calculation that if they just import millions and millions of foreigners,
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it will give them a permanent electoral majority.
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A dubious proposition now that Trump is winning almost half of the Hispanic vote, but that's a separate point.
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Democrats are intentionally subjecting girls to rape and 10-year-old kids from El Salvador to be left alone in the middle of the desert.
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They're intentionally doing that because they believe that the good end for them of constantly being elected justifies the evil means of giving criminals control of our southern border
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and having some kids be lost in the desert and having some women be raped.
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They'll say, how can you awful Republicans look at this poor little boy and not want a totally open border?
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I look at that poor little boy and I say, you need to close that border up right now because every second that that border is open,
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another one of those little kids is going to be encouraged to come across.
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But the people who are actually implementing these policies, they know exactly what they're doing.
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And they're willing to sacrifice a few little Salvadoran kids, a few thousand little Salvadoran kids if it means they're going to get more votes.
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Speaking of kids, NBC has a doozy of a headline out yesterday.
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Headline, gay couples rush to marry and have children before Trump inauguration.
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Some wedding venues, photographers, and planners are offering free services to same-sex couples before Inauguration Day.
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I don't know where the fact checkers are on this, but they're going to have to make some corrections to this headline.
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If gay couples are rushing to marry and have children, good luck, because that is not possible.
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Two fellas or two ladies cannot make a child together.
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And because they cannot, in principle, make a child together, they also can't marry each other.
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Gay people, such as they are, can get married, just as they've always been permitted to get married.
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And marriage is defined by the fact that within a marriage, in principle, one can beget and educate children.
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And as a secondary matter, enjoy the mutual support of the spouses.
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This is one of the more Orwellian headlines that I've read in recent years.
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The thing that these people are rushing to do is not possible.
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I know there's going to be some lib out there who clips out this segment of my show, which is fine.
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They often clip out the best segments of my show.
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And there's important facts and reality in this.
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Many people are going to look at the mean old conservative and say, you are telling us that we can't have children.
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I'm not the one telling you you can't have children.
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Reality is telling you you can't have children.
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It is not possible for two men to have a child together.
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I suppose what you could do is go to the baby store and look through a catalog and pick a poor woman and purchase her eggs.
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And then look through another catalog and pick another poor woman, sometimes overseas, and rent her womb from her.
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And then you can pay some unethical scientist to go to a laboratory and create a child for you, probably create many children for you, and then kill most of those children, and then implant one or two of the children, and then select exactly what kind of child you like.
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And then if it works, you get to purchase your baby and take your baby home and intentionally deprive your baby of his natural mother and his surrogate mother, the only mother he's ever known.
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And then you could do all of that, but it's still not two people having, two guys having a baby.
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It's still not two ladies having a baby either.
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Furthermore, I think many people will agree with that fact because it's difficult to deny.
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But there are going to be some people out there, squishier people, who say, okay, Michael, two fellas can't have a baby, but they certainly can get married.
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It's not that I have any particular animus toward homosexuals or anything like that.
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I have no particular animus toward people who are so inclined.
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But what definition of marriage involves two men or two women as well as a man and a woman?
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Is the definition two people who love each other?
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Okay, it's two people who love each other and sleep together.
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Okay, well, I know a bunch of kids in college who engage in those sorts of behaviors.
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Are all those kids in college, are they married?
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Sometimes people are loving and sleeping with multiple people at the same time.
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Or are they just in individual marriages that overlap?
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Are they, no, you wouldn't say they're married.
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And by the way, they're married couples who don't sleep together.
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Can anyone offer me a definition of marriage that includes what we've always considered marriage to be,
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Can anyone offer me a definition of marriage that does not render the term marriage totally meaningless because it overlaps with so many other kinds of relationships?
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It is not possible for homosexual men to marry each other or homosexual women to marry each other or three ladies and a billy goat to get married.
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And people today who live in fantasy want to shoot the messenger, the messenger who just tells them facts about the world.
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It is certainly not possible for two fellas to make a baby together.
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So when they say they're rushing to do this because you might be upset at the mean old conservative telling you the truth.
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Here, they're upset at the mean old conservative Donald Trump, who they think is going to touch so-called same-sex marriage or IVF or the surrogacy industry or whatever.
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There's no evidence that he's going to touch any of that.
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I sort of wish he would touch that issue because it's an important one.
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But they're saying we have to do X, Y, Z before Trump bans X, Y, Z.
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And the problem with X, Y, Z is that it's not possible.
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If you have a problem with reality, don't take it up with me.
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I'm just describing it to you in a way that statistically every single person in the history of the world everywhere has understood until five seconds ago when we in the deluded West decided to live in fantasy.
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Speaking of kids and presidential politics, Joe Biden is pardoning Hunter Biden.
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There's absolutely no surprise here whatsoever.
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However, it doesn't mean that the fallout among Democrats hasn't been delightful.
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A lot of the Democrats are losing their minds because it has totally stolen from them one of their chief attacks against Donald Trump,
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which is that he's nepotistic and that he believes that he and his family are above the law.
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Joe Biden has just totally ripped that issue off the table for Democrats, and it's also left them with a lot of egg on their face.
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People like Adam Schiff, who in 2018 had this to say specifically about the possibility that President Trump would pardon his own son, Don Jr., in the probe over Russia, Russia, Russia.
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So the president's pardon of Scooter Libby, Congressman, has inspired you to propose new legislation.
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What it would do is say that in the event the president pardons anyone in an investigation in which the president is a witness, a subject, or the target,
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those investigative files will all be turned over to the Congress.
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The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice.
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It doesn't prohibit him from granting a pardon, even a pardon he shouldn't grant.
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But it does say that we will be able to at least find out whether the president is using this power to shield himself from liability.
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The fear was there was an investigation into Russian collusion,
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and Don Jr. was being accused of colluding with the Russians,
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it might be a way to obstruct justice because it was going to stop them from getting to the big guy.
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I heard that phrase on Hunter Biden's laptop because if Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden for any crime that he did or may have
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or possibly could have in his own mind committed from 2014 until yesterday,
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then that might be a way not only of protecting his son but of stopping investigators from looking into who his son was sending the money to,
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which according to Hunter Biden's laptop was 10% up to 50% to the big guy Joe Biden himself.
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and this is a deepening of a problem that we saw for Democrats in the latter stages of the 2024 campaign.
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They said Donald Trump's a threat to democracy,
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and then they threw out their democratically chosen nominee for their party.
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They said that Joe Biden was sharp as ever, totally fit to serve,
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and then oopsie, they got caught lying because Joe Biden obviously had dementia.
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They accused Trump of manipulating the media to be some propaganda machine for him.
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Meanwhile, their big networks get caught chopping up interviews with Kamala Harris to make her look better.
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And then finally, the line they had was, no one's above the law.
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He did the thing that the Democrats falsely accused Trump of possibly doing in 2018.
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Once again, the Democrat accusations appearing to be nothing more than a confession, a projection.
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CNN has this final warning to Joe Biden, which is that this Hunter Biden pardon will tarnish Joe's legacy.
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He said categorically, I will not pardon my son.
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And he couched it in very high-minded terminology.
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But as to whether this tarnishes the justice system, I don't think I would go that far.
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I think this, like I said, will go down on the list of ignominious presidential pardons.
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What is Joe Biden's legacy that is now supposedly tarnished?
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But let's just try to be nonpartisan for a moment.
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Let me ask you, Democrats listening to this show.
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Well, he was in the Senate, and then he became the vice president, and then he was the president
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for over 50 years of that whole period of time.
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He entered the Senate in, what, 1972, before he was old enough, even constitutionally, to be eligible.
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He led a high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas.
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I don't think he wants that one in the old obituary.
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He passed a pretty good crime bill, actually, which he totally ran away from, but it was
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the one good thing he ever did, probably, in the U.S. Senate.
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But he had to run away from that because the Democrats are soft on crime.
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He forced Ukraine, he bribed Ukraine, and threatened them with much-needed arms, withholding much-needed
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And then he took, his family took bribes from Ukraine.
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His legacy is being a simpering, glad-handing, oily, venal, corrupt politician.
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There's one piece of his legacy that Democrats might look fondly on, which is that Joe Biden
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Joe Biden, he's the guy who stopped Donald Trump.
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But then the Democrat Party took that away from him because they took his nomination
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So he doesn't even really get all the great credit for stopping Trump because Trump just
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That's why Joe Biden, when they met at the Oval Office, he said, well, welcome back.
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Oh, no, he's going to look corrupt and dishonest?
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The DOJ already looks bad because the DOJ, one, didn't want to prosecute Hunter Biden
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The DOJ run by Merrick Garland, who has effectively been a gangster under Joe Biden's leadership,
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they didn't want to go after Hunter Biden for anything.
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Finally, there was enough pressure from Congress that they went after Hunter Biden for extremely
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low-level crimes, some tax issues, and filling out a gun purchase form incorrectly.
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They didn't go after him for the serious crimes that he would appear to be guilty of, the sex
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trafficking that you see on his laptop, the bribes, the peddling state influence to bad
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So, frankly, the DOJ, the corrupt liberal DOJ under Joe Biden, under Merrick Garland,
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looks terrible, much worse than Joe Biden himself, and Joe looks as bad as he's always
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Now, does this mean that everyone gets off the hook?
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There's this theory now that because Hunter accepted the pardon, he now has no Fifth Amendment
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right against self-incrimination, meaning that the Republicans could force him to testify
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I'm just telling you right now, they're not going to do that.
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So, they're just not, they're not going to, Trump's not going to look back.
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Well, some Republicans are calling for repercussions for Jack Smith, that special counsel who was
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Some people are calling for repercussions within the DOJ.
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These guys who upended 200 years of American precedent and tried to imprison the chief leader
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of the opposition and the former president himself.
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Jack Smith could face severe consequences for year-long legal crusade against Trump.
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I think that needs to happen because what Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee and the
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Biden-DOJ broadly have done amounts to a legal insurrection.
00:32:54.840
Trying to imprison the leader of the opposition in America, trying to imprison former presidents in
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America, that is a shocking sort of legal insurrection, an upending of our political
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order that reduces, debases our country to the level of a banana republic or a tinpot
00:33:15.160
That kind of legal insurrection that Joe Biden led, but that you really saw coming out of the
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DOJ under Merrick Garland's leadership, notably with the face of Jack Smith.
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Is orders of magnitude more threatening to our constitutional order than some eccentrics
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in the Capitol, cracking Coors Light and taking selfies and wearing horn hats, getting a private
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And so there do need to be consequences for that.
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But you can't unilaterally decide to end a war.
00:34:02.040
Had Kamala Harris won, the Democrats would have done their damnedest to imprison President
00:34:10.460
And the January 6th, there's including the really, really peaceful ones who did basically
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The only way to end the lawfare is to let our opponents know that they can't get away
00:34:29.900
In fact, I'm a strong defender of the pardon power.
00:34:35.580
And we need everyone in America to know that there will be consequences to upending our political
00:34:41.880
It is unjust to say nothing of how imprudent it is to let the Democrats just get away with
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Because if they do that, then the minute that they get back in power, they'll probably try
00:34:56.120
They'll either make up some new nonsense or they'll try to put him in prison for whatever
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To protect our constitutional order, you've got to hold the Biden DOJ accountable.
00:35:08.460
Whether we're talking civil penalties, whether we're talking criminal penalties, you
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have to hold—at the very least, they need to be fired and probably kept out of the legal
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But you have to hold them in some way accountable.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Raider Batman said,
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It took me a few years to see, but Michael finally dropped his cup.
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Because I am, on my mother's side of the family, of Italian extraction.
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And now, I don't know, whenever they redid my set, my microphone is basically pressing
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up against my cheek, and then I've got to peddle the cigars.
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I've got the Mayflowers here on this part of my desk.
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And so my leftist-tears tumbler is within dangerous proximity to one of my most wildly
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But the pit crew here at the Michael Knowles Show, led by Pavel with Professor Jacob in backup,
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they came in, they cleaned off that desk in a 20 millisecond clip.
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It was actually, it was a happy fault of mine that I knocked it over to see this well-oiled
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And they got me another seltzer, which was great.
00:37:09.120
Speaking of deep state attacks on President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin,
00:37:14.900
has insinuated that the American state might still try to murder President Trump.
00:37:26.520
President Trump, a smart and experienced person, will come up with a solution.
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Well, probably just like me, you are amazed, not by the fact that absolutely uncivilized
00:37:43.420
means had been used against Trump, all the way up to assassination attempts, numerous
00:37:58.660
Putin is insinuating here, by connecting the assassination attempts with the lawfare and
00:38:08.060
all the prosecutions and all the rest of it, he's insinuating that it was actually the
00:38:12.140
American state that was trying to murder Trump.
00:38:14.780
Without question, the American state justified the assassination of Trump.
00:38:18.980
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both personally justified the assassination of Trump by saying
00:38:23.180
that Trump posed an existential threat to the Republic and that he was the second coming
00:38:27.200
Biden launched his presidential campaign in 2020 on the lie that President Trump called
00:38:34.260
So there's no doubt about that, that the American state justified the assassination of Trump.
00:38:39.800
The question is, was the American state involved?
00:38:43.480
Were the security lapses intentional in Butler, Pennsylvania?
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We still don't know really anything about that shooter.
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We don't know really much about the second shooter either.
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And so Putin is coming in and he's saying, you know, I think it was that deep state.
00:39:00.880
And I think Trump's still not safe because he's still surrounded by that deep state.
00:39:05.640
And they're going to be, they're going to be two claims here.
00:39:09.560
One is going to be, and you know that Putin, he's got a point.
00:39:20.640
He's just trying to, to draw, drive a wedge between the government and Trump and to increase
00:39:28.180
And he's going to try, he's just trying to manipulate Trump's emotions like a KGB agent
00:39:36.540
In fact, the, the, the reason, the way that you know that Vladimir Putin is a very good
00:39:44.580
manipulator is the fact that he does have a point.
00:39:49.160
A bad manipulator is just going to make up some fable that's easily debunked a top KGB
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spy leader of Russia for two decades, kind of manipulator.
00:40:08.040
So you want to say that Putin is our enemy and he's cynical and opportunistic and manipulative.
00:40:16.140
But it is the American left that has enabled that.
00:40:22.700
If the American left had not justified Trump's assassination, if the American government could
00:40:28.500
give us straight answers about not just the prosecutions of Trump, but the security failures
00:40:33.020
in Butler, Pennsylvania, if, if the American liberal political order had not treated President
00:40:39.560
Trump in so unprecedented and egregious and anti-American way, lo, these past 10 years,
00:40:46.260
Vladimir Putin would have no opportunity to make these kinds of insinuations.
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He's doing it because it's effective and it's effective because it's plausible.
00:40:55.680
And it's plausible because, because the left has, has lost its credibility.
00:41:00.580
Speaking of foreign leaders reaching out to Trump, Justin Trudeau, the leader of America's
00:41:08.200
evil top hat in Canada has flown down to Mar-a-Lago to grovel and beg at President Trump's feet
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This is how President Trump described the meeting.
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He posted a picture which reminded me of Trump sitting down with Mitt Romney when Romney was
00:41:27.040
begging for Secretary of State and Trump was sitting there smiling and Romney looked like
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Trudeau at least had a bigger smile on his face.
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I just had a very productive meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada where
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we discussed many important topics that will require both countries to work together to
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address, like the fentanyl and drug crisis that has decimated so many lives as a result
00:41:46.660
of illegal immigration, fair trade deals that do not jeopardize American workers, and the
00:41:50.560
massive trade deficit the U.S. has with Canada.
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I made it very clear that the U.S. will no longer sit idly by as our citizens become victims
00:41:56.140
to the scourge of this drug epidemic caused mainly by the drug cartels and fentanyl pouring
00:42:07.540
Peter Doocy came out with an insider report on how that conversation went down.
00:42:15.160
And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump-Trudeau dinner from two people
00:42:21.020
We are told that when Trudeau told President-elect Trump that new tariffs would kill the Canadian
00:42:27.480
economy, Trump joked to him that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the U.S.
00:42:32.600
to the tune of $100 billion a year, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau
00:42:56.260
So much so that as Peter Doocy gives that report, Brett Baer, who plays it as straight
00:42:59.960
as can be, he's got a little smirk on his face.
00:43:04.560
Hey, if you guys can't have a country without ripping off our country, maybe you should just
00:43:10.660
Then you could become the governor of Canada, the 51st state.
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Washington's biggest mistake, not going up there and taking it in the first place.
00:43:18.140
My conclusion from this actually has little to do with Canada or the potential annexation
00:43:24.620
You know, maybe Trump can hire Dick Cheney and some of the Bush-era neocons.
00:43:29.360
You know, the bombs can start dropping over Calgary and they'll greet us as liberators.
00:43:34.100
You know, we'll free them from the hand of a man who is reputed to be Fidel Castro's son.
00:43:39.480
In any case, seems to me tariffs here are primarily a negotiating tactic.
00:43:48.720
There are three options for Trump's tariff policy.
00:43:51.600
He could either view tariffs as serious economic policy to raise money.
00:43:58.900
Option two, tariffs are a good tactic for negotiation, but they're not ultimately going to be the
00:44:13.920
It seems to me that it's between the first two and I think really it's the second.
00:44:18.220
It seems to me clear that Trump is using the tariffs here primarily as a threat to cudgel
00:44:34.460
Option two, reduce illegal immigration or eliminate illegal immigration, but maintain or even increase
00:44:50.360
Most Americans actually would like to reduce all immigration.
00:44:53.800
This is clear in public opinion polls, but it depends on how you ask the question.
00:44:56.860
If you ask people, do you want to reduce immigration, they say no.
00:45:00.200
But if you ask people, what is the optimal immigration level, they will give you a number
00:45:04.200
that is drastically lower than our current immigration level.
00:45:07.020
So you can infer from that that people do actually want to reduce immigration.
00:45:14.240
I think Trump once again is taking the middle ground, which is he wants to eliminate illegal
00:45:18.720
He wants to maintain or even increase legal immigration.
00:45:27.000
They're going to call him a fascist and a Nazi and the most extreme threat that we've ever had
00:45:33.900
He's appointing Democrats to his administration.
00:45:38.620
I, along with Aristotle and all serious moral thinkers for all of time, believe that moderation
00:45:44.520
But moderation is a virtue in the sense that, in the Aristotelian sense, that virtue is a
00:45:52.740
Virtue is the mean between, say, cruelty and leniency.
00:45:59.120
The virtue of justice is right there as the mean between those two things.
00:46:14.800
I think that's how he's won over people in the middle and even on the center left.
00:46:20.860
Some people who are a little bit more ideologically inclined are going to say, they're going to
00:46:26.780
But those people probably haven't been paying attention all that much below these past 10,
00:46:39.840
Even if partisans are going to want him to go much further in one direction or the other.
00:46:45.020
Now, we're about to focus in on Trump's economic policy in just a moment with my guest, Philip
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