The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1637 - ABC Forced To Pay Trump $15 Million

00:00:00.000 Why is ABC News paying President Trump $15 million?

00:00:05.040 What are the drones flying over New Jersey?

00:00:08.600 Is Sidney Sweeney hot?

00:00:11.220 We tackle all the important questions.

00:00:13.120 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:13.780 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:35.220 The Duke Lacrosse accuser from 20 years ago has finally come clean, admits she lied about

00:00:40.440 the whole thing, and with that confession, the Me Too era is officially over.

00:00:45.740 There's so much more to say.

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00:01:52.960 George Stephanopoulos, the chief political anchor at ABC News, the former White House communications

00:02:00.780 director under Bill Clinton, a total hatchet man for the Democrat establishment.

00:02:07.020 George Stephanopoulos and ABC News have just apologized to President Trump for lying about

00:02:13.780 him.

00:02:14.040 And they've apologized with their words, and they've also apologized with $15 million that

00:02:20.700 they have been forced to donate to the future President Trump Library and Museum.

00:02:28.360 This is some beautiful stuff.

00:02:31.500 How did it all happen?

00:02:33.440 It all happened because George Stephanopoulos alleged 10 times in an interview with Nancy Mace

00:02:39.080 that President Trump had been found liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that

00:02:44.860 rape.

00:02:45.560 Trump said that that is actually defamation of me because that is not true about me, Donald

00:02:52.360 John Trump.

00:02:53.120 And so he sued ABC News and George Stephanopoulos.

00:02:55.960 And in America, it's very difficult to successfully sue for defamation if you're a public figure.

00:03:01.560 Donald Trump is the most public figure on planet Earth and has been for a long time.

00:03:05.240 So it was a long shot.

00:03:07.440 George Stephanopoulos, he was joking about this lawsuit.

00:03:10.020 He went on Stephen Colbert's show.

00:03:11.140 He said he will not be cowed by Donald John Trump into neglecting the duties of his job.

00:03:18.240 Now you're being sued for defamation.

00:03:21.440 Why?

00:03:21.900 Because of an interview like that.

00:03:23.400 I was interviewing a congresswoman named Nancy Mace, who used to be highly critical. 0.85

00:03:28.140 My hometown, Charleston, South Carolina.

00:03:29.800 Charleston, South Carolina, of Donald Trump.

00:03:31.500 And she famously started her political career in a statehouse when she was in the statehouse 1.00

00:03:37.420 talking about being a victim of rape.

00:03:40.560 And so I asked her how she could be, as a victim of rape, how could she support someone

00:03:47.740 who a jury has found liable for rape?

00:03:49.980 Trump sued me because I used the word rape, even though a judge said that's in fact what

00:03:54.900 did happen.

00:03:55.640 And in fact, we filed the motion to dismiss last week.

00:03:59.020 But she she's now fallen on.

00:04:01.960 And she she tried to say that I was the problem for asking the question rather than he being

00:04:06.760 the problem because a jury found him liable for defamation and sexual abuse.

00:04:11.800 Well, what do you now?

00:04:12.780 So you're a you're a major political reporter and anchor.

00:04:16.060 How how does it feel to be sued by the the former president for defamation for just doing

00:04:23.560 your job?

00:04:25.040 Unfortunately, it now comes with the territory, but I'm not going to be cowed out of doing

00:04:29.480 my job because of the threat.

00:04:32.420 OK, and to be fair, George Stephanopoulos was doing his job.

00:04:36.080 His job as the chief political analyst for ABC is to lie about Donald Trump and Republicans.

00:04:40.900 His job is to smear and defame anyone even slightly to the right of Hillary Clinton.

00:04:45.360 So that's his job.

00:04:46.760 That's what he's paid millions of dollars for.

00:04:48.460 But now, because his job involves such dishonesty, because his job involves defamation, which is

00:04:57.400 not legal, you're not allowed to do that.

00:05:00.180 Now he's going to have to pay.

00:05:02.180 ABC News is going to have to pay 15 million dollars to President Trump and Trump in his

00:05:07.540 magnanimity said, look, you don't need to pay it to me personally.

00:05:10.460 I've got enough money personally.

00:05:11.800 Just donate it to a charity of my choosing.

00:05:15.100 Oh, and by the way, the charity is going to be the Donald John Trump Presidential Library.

00:05:19.260 Now, I have said for many years now that the Trump Library, unlike the Bush Library, the

00:05:23.980 Obama Library, the Clinton Library, I think that Trump should establish the Donald Trump

00:05:28.700 Presidential Library and Casino.

00:05:30.540 And I think he should build it in Atlantic City.

00:05:32.780 And I think you just really go all the way with it.

00:05:35.340 And in any case, whatever he builds, ABC and George Stephanopoulos are going to be responsible

00:05:40.380 for 15 million dollars of that build, plus a million dollars for Trump's attorney's fees

00:05:45.240 because the judge did not find Trump liable for rape.

00:05:49.680 That was just a lie from Stephanopoulos.

00:05:52.220 So not only did they have to pay the money, they also had to add an editor's note to a story

00:05:57.860 about this interview.

00:05:59.440 ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J.

00:06:04.360 Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep Nancy Mace on ABC's This Week on

00:06:08.600 March 10th, 2024.

00:06:09.820 Good stuff. 0.97

00:06:11.440 We need to kick them while they're down. 1.00

00:06:14.460 We need to kick them while they're down. 1.00

00:06:16.600 Not out of cruelty, not to take vengeance into our own hands or purely to be vindictive. 0.99

00:06:22.860 We need to kick them while they're down as a matter of strategy. 1.00

00:06:27.820 The left, the liberal establishment, is being really dishonest. 0.87

00:06:31.580 They're violating the law in many, many ways.

00:06:33.960 Just in this case, we're talking about defamation, but they're violating the law by not enforcing

00:06:37.180 immigration law.

00:06:37.880 They're violating the law by trouncing on the rights of women and taking away their bathrooms 1.00

00:06:42.120 and sports teams.

00:06:42.840 They're violating the law by giving a blanket amnesty that even Barack Obama admitted was

00:06:46.780 unconstitutional with DACA.

00:06:49.140 The list goes on and on and on.

00:06:51.660 They're doing things that are illegal.

00:06:53.520 They're doing things that are certainly unjust.

00:06:55.040 And so now that we have an opportunity, perhaps a once in a generation opportunity, not just

00:07:01.280 to reset the relationship between the citizen and the state, but also between the citizen

00:07:06.100 and the state and the press, the press, which is supposed to be the medium or the media

00:07:10.300 between the people and the government.

00:07:12.640 We need to make sure that we take this opportunity, crack their corrupt stranglehold on public speech

00:07:19.020 in a supposedly self-governing republic.

00:07:21.460 It means the media have substantial control over the whole political order.

00:07:24.900 Got to get them out of there.

00:07:25.920 Guys like Stephanopoulos, organizations like ABC News, they've abused their power.

00:07:30.640 They've acted in corrupt ways.

00:07:31.920 They've acted dishonestly.

00:07:32.980 They've lost their credibility.

00:07:34.260 Now make them pay up for that.

00:07:35.700 Make them pay money.

00:07:37.040 Make them pay in their apologies and make them pay in the viewership that they are bleeding.

00:07:42.020 More exciting news.

00:07:45.020 The woman at the center of the Duke lacrosse scandal.

00:07:47.780 Many of the people listening to this show right now will not remember the Duke lacrosse

00:07:51.280 scandal.

00:07:51.620 I remember that this was 20 years ago.

00:07:54.140 The Duke lacrosse team was accused of raping a stripper, Crystal Magnum, I think her name was. 1.00

00:08:00.320 This former stripper now has come out and admitted she made the whole thing up. 1.00

00:08:08.120 I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't.

00:08:14.220 And that was wrong.

00:08:16.260 And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me.

00:08:28.880 And made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.

00:08:36.920 And that was wrong.

00:08:38.560 And I hope that they can forgive me.

00:08:43.260 There it is.

00:08:44.700 No caveats.

00:08:45.780 No hesitations.

00:08:46.780 I lied.

00:08:47.520 I violated their trust.

00:08:48.740 I testified falsely against these people.

00:08:50.920 I realize now I was seeking the validation of the principalities of this world instead of from God.

00:08:57.960 And so I'm coming clean all these years later.

00:09:02.160 That's really important.

00:09:03.940 We think that the Me Too era started four or five years ago.

00:09:08.280 It didn't.

00:09:09.180 The Me Too era started with the Duke lacrosse scandal.

00:09:14.600 There have been sex scandals forever.

00:09:17.240 But this is a different kind of thing.

00:09:19.880 Bill Clinton, obviously we were just talking about George Stephanopoulos.

00:09:22.320 Bill Clinton, he was actually accused of rape by Juanita Broderick.

00:09:25.180 But most of the sex scandals that actually got the guy impeached were about Bill Clinton having a consensual affair with an intern and with this woman and that woman.

00:09:36.780 And it was a sex scandal, but it wasn't this.

00:09:41.240 It wasn't the accusation of a man raping a woman and having everyone believe it even without any evidence.

00:09:48.440 Having the case tried in the court of public opinion even before it was tried in a court of law these days with Me Too.

00:09:54.140 Sometimes it never is tried in a court of law.

00:09:56.080 It's some kangaroo court on campus or it's some media frenzy that destroys a person's career before anything is actually heard.

00:10:05.400 This ends that.

00:10:06.920 This ends that 20-year dark chapter where the gravity of crimes on the one hand and the rights of the accused were just totally thrown out the window.

00:10:17.320 And there's a little cherry on top of all that, how you really know this era is closed.

00:10:21.720 Got to give a hat tip to Jack Posobiec for finding this one.

00:10:25.280 There was one person within the universe of Duke University, during the Duke lacrosse scandal, there's one guy who was going on TV to defend the rights of the accused.

00:10:37.560 To even suggest that maybe these guys who have maintained their innocence, whose innocence has now been proven, might actually be innocent.

00:10:44.760 That guy is Stephen Miller, who is about to become the deputy White House chief of staff under President Trump.

00:10:51.400 We're very, very concerned that two innocent people may have possibly just had their lives ruined.

00:10:58.540 Oh, good lord!

00:10:59.080 Your first concern is that somebody's falsely accused?

00:11:01.560 Don't tell me what my first concern is.

00:11:03.880 I was disturbed to see how people were saying, why aren't they coming forward?

00:11:07.360 Why aren't they saying what happened?

00:11:08.780 Why haven't they spoken out against other players?

00:11:11.560 But no one said, wait, hold on a moment.

00:11:13.540 What if they're innocent?

00:11:14.820 What if they didn't do anything?

00:11:15.760 Oh, I understand your point, but it's also freedom of speech.

00:11:18.640 People have a right, just like you're expressing your opinion, to express their opinion.

00:11:20.920 They do, but it was prosecuted as a witch hunt from the beginning.

00:11:24.160 People presumed their guilt, and in America, we don't do that.

00:11:27.280 There was never any real evidence against these players.

00:11:29.940 The DNA didn't match on any count in any way, in any capacity, this entire time.

00:11:34.760 You have absolutely no reason to believe these players committed this crime.

00:11:37.820 One of the players has a solid alibi during the time the crime was supposed to have occurred.

00:11:41.580 You've got all this stuff.

00:11:42.560 I cannot think of one case, one case of equivalent or near profile in the United States of America

00:11:48.080 where there's been so little reason for three people or one person or anybody to be brought to trial.

00:11:53.940 This is insanity.

00:11:56.080 There it is.

00:11:57.140 There's the cherry on top.

00:11:58.360 A lot of people forget Stephen Miller was even around Duke at this time.

00:12:02.260 The chief accuser who kicked off the whole era just admits she lied about everything.

00:12:06.780 The notion that we have to believe all women, which was totally absurd, of course,

00:12:10.640 is that women are not capable of lying. 1.00

00:12:12.260 Women are not capable of sin. 1.00

00:12:14.340 That, totally out the window, the most prominent accuser of the proto-MeToo era just admits,

00:12:19.780 yeah, I totally lied.

00:12:20.600 You shouldn't have believed me.

00:12:21.680 That was wrong of you to believe me.

00:12:23.280 Obviously, you shouldn't believe all women. 1.00

00:12:25.920 And now the guy who was a lone voice defending the innocent accused at that time

00:12:31.620 is entering the White House in one of the most prominent and important positions.

00:12:36.340 That is a really, really healthy sign for the culture.

00:12:40.520 What did the Libs say?

00:12:41.440 The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

00:12:46.600 I guess that's true.

00:12:47.300 It took 20 years, but here we are.

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00:13:55.240 Speaking of women, Hollywood, is Sydney Sweeney hot? 1.00

00:14:02.460 This is the debate that has taken over social media.

00:14:06.860 Much of my Twitter feed is Sydney Sweeney hot, and people can't agree on this question.

00:14:12.280 Well, they agree on the question.

00:14:13.260 They can't agree on the answer.

00:14:15.400 I must weigh in.

00:14:17.060 I have very strong opinions on this debate.

00:14:19.300 I am not going to wade into the substantive matter all that much.

00:14:24.420 I'm not going to make some impassioned case for why or why not Sydney Sweeney is hot, 1.00

00:14:29.180 because I find that untoward, because I'm a married man, and that's just not the sort of thing a respectable fellow would do.

00:14:35.080 However, I will make one cultural observation why the is Sydney Sweeney hot debate matters,

00:14:42.320 and that is this whole debate, the fact that the debate is taking place, is proof of widespread pornography addiction.

00:14:51.140 I think that's really what lies at the heart of this, and you don't need to just take my word for it.

00:14:55.620 You can also take the credibility and the authority of Jean Baudrillard, who's a sociologist, a postmodern philosopher.

00:15:04.960 However, we've mentioned him on this show before.

00:15:07.800 You might recall, I don't know, two years ago, three years ago, I had a great commentator,

00:15:11.920 Vocal Distance On, and he was discussing Baudrillard's theory of hyper-reality.

00:15:17.880 And the analogy he used was, he said, you know, in ancient days, people ate strawberries.

00:15:22.660 And they said, well, the strawberry tastes really good.

00:15:25.000 And then over time, they said, you know, the strawberry is so good, but I want even more of the strawberry,

00:15:30.060 you know, even more potent form.

00:15:31.420 So they made strawberry jam.

00:15:33.340 And then over the years, they said, oh, this jam, it's not enough.

00:15:36.060 I want to make a strawberry candy.

00:15:39.040 Okay, I'm going to have a strawberry candy.

00:15:40.900 No, even that, it's not hardcore enough.

00:15:43.880 I've got to distill it down even further.

00:15:45.500 I'm going to have a strawberry Jolly Rancher. 0.98

00:15:48.120 And then they said, no, even that's not enough.

00:15:49.980 I want a strawberry Jolly Rancher-flavored soda.

00:15:54.880 And by the time you reach the end of this process,

00:15:57.620 people really like the strawberry Jolly Rancher-flavored soda.

00:16:01.680 But if they actually picked up a regular old strawberry, they wouldn't recognize it.

00:16:05.080 They said, what is this?

00:16:05.660 This isn't good enough.

00:16:06.460 I don't even know what this is.

00:16:08.460 That you've distilled the essence of the thing down so far that it now bears very little

00:16:13.900 resemblance to the actual thing that you started with.

00:16:17.480 I was thinking about Baudrillard, not just because of our conversation with vocal distance,

00:16:21.700 or not just because of hyper-reality, but Baudrillard wrote a book about seduction.

00:16:26.120 And I think this helps to explain why people are confused about whether or not Sidney Sweeney,

00:16:31.740 who is manifestly a rather pretty lass, whether or not she's attractive. 0.97

00:16:36.700 He wrote this book about seduction, and he focused a lot of it on pornography.

00:16:43.120 He said, pornography promotes female pleasure in so exaggerated a manner

00:16:48.600 only in order to better bury the uncertainty that hovers over the black continent of femininity.

00:16:55.000 He says that the female is a principle of uncertainty.

00:16:59.200 He views being male as a principle of production.

00:17:04.260 That's what lies at the essence of masculinity, of being a male.

00:17:09.100 Whereas with femininity, it's all about this uncertainty. 0.86

00:17:11.680 He focuses on drag queens. 0.66

00:17:13.200 And he says, what's so interesting about drag queens, transvestites, is sometimes they'll have a mustache. 1.00

00:17:18.020 Sometimes they'll have their chest hair sticking out.

00:17:20.140 That what transvestitism is about is not so much the seduction of another person as the seduction of signs and symbols.

00:17:28.860 I mean, just to bring it back down to earth, we can see that kind of strawberry jolly rancher milkshake,

00:17:36.040 you know, hyper-reality process taking place.

00:17:38.140 The drag queen is so exaggerated a caricature of a female that the drag queen is almost unrecognizable from the female. 0.93

00:17:49.700 Or what being a female actually is, is basically unrecognizable if you were to look at a drag queen. 1.00

00:17:55.540 It's so exaggerated that it's just taken on its own kind of being.

00:18:00.180 It's now divorced from the subject matter.

00:18:02.740 With the Sidney Sweeney is hot debate, I think Baudrillard is really on to something.

00:18:09.900 Even though he's a postmodern philosopher, he's really on to something here.

00:18:12.120 Which is that when people get really into pornography or into any kind of hyper-real distillation of something,

00:18:21.440 they become perverts.

00:18:23.240 You know, their tastes just become so weird.

00:18:25.660 They need the jolly rancher flavored soda.

00:18:29.320 They no longer want a strawberry.

00:18:31.420 They no longer can even recognize a strawberry.

00:18:35.040 A line from Baudrillard's Seduction.

00:18:37.120 Perhaps pornography is only an allegory.

00:18:39.180 That is to say, a forcing of signs, a Baroque enterprise of over-signification touching on the grotesque.

00:18:46.620 The obscenity itself burns and consumes its object.

00:18:50.860 I think that's what this comes down to.

00:18:52.320 If one cannot recognize that Sidney Sweeney possesses a kind of attractiveness,

00:18:59.020 it is probably because one has so burned out one's censors on pornography.

00:19:04.320 And I don't even just mean literal pornography.

00:19:06.200 I mean the overstimulation of our culture, the saturation with caricature and grotesquerie.

00:19:12.800 The culture has become just so decadent that, well, you see this every year.

00:19:17.420 There's surveys that come out about pornography, the top terms they're searched for.

00:19:21.960 And they always become weirder and weirder and more grotesque.

00:19:25.580 At a certain point, they don't even seem like they're connected to sex at all.

00:19:29.800 I remember there was a Supreme Court case that came up.

00:19:33.140 This was now 10, 15 years ago.

00:19:35.040 And it was about a type of pornography that involved just torturing kittens.

00:19:41.320 You know, viewer discretion advice.

00:19:43.040 Well, certainly for that kind of pornography. 0.92

00:19:45.120 But even this discussion, it involved torturing poor little animals.

00:19:48.340 And what was so striking about the case is, it had nothing to do with sex.

00:19:52.940 And yet it was a type of pornography.

00:19:54.880 It was this hyper real bizarre kind of perversion.

00:19:58.400 And I think that's basically where the culture leads you. 0.95

00:20:01.640 As a barometer, if you cannot find a glamorous Hollywood starlet of perfectly ordinary glamour, common glamour, but glamour nonetheless, attractive, something's gone wrong with your brain.

00:20:19.160 You got to get off the strawberry flavored Jolly Rancher sodas.

00:20:22.160 You need to get back to reality, man.

00:20:24.680 Now, speaking of pornography and hyper reality, there's another story coming out about this fact.

00:20:31.800 And it is that OnlyFans models are using AI chatbots to talk dirty to the perverts who subscribe to their websites.

00:20:40.500 So, again, I have no experience with OnlyFans.

00:20:46.180 But from what I read, the guys would pay money.

00:20:49.940 And part of what you're paying for is this illusion of a relationship, this kind of parasocial relationship with one of the pornography people.

00:20:57.420 But the women aren't actually chatting with you. 0.96

00:21:00.700 Previously, they would just hire people in the third world to chat with these men and to make them titillated.

00:21:06.740 But now they're not even doing that.

00:21:08.140 Like, as with all of AI, it seems that automation is even coming to the pornography industry.

00:21:13.020 So they're outsourcing it to chatbots.

00:21:14.740 Some of the chatbots write responses to prompts that are sent to them by the people who run the OnlyFans websites.

00:21:23.060 Other chatbots that are apparently more lucrative actually initiate the chats with the subscribers.

00:21:29.560 And those result in higher tips.

00:21:32.020 They're better able to titillate the subscribers.

00:21:34.460 And so they'll, one example given in a news story here by Wired is that one of the subscribers, in response to this prompt initiated by a robot, gave the woman a $1,000 tip.

00:21:48.060 Another reminder here.

00:21:51.700 There are economic indicators that don't really represent the health of an economy.

00:21:59.460 GDP might be going up because people are subscribing to OnlyFans.

00:22:02.980 The economy is actually getting worse.

00:22:04.980 People are just being lazy and addicted to things and perverted.

00:22:08.580 And they're not really producing anything.

00:22:10.280 They're just titillating themselves.

00:22:12.240 Some people are saying this is good.

00:22:13.620 Well, at least now it's not the women involved in this. 0.99

00:22:15.820 It's just these robots.

00:22:17.280 I think this is not good because it's only going to make the industry more efficient.

00:22:21.080 It's just like the screen when you go to McDonald's now.

00:22:23.580 It makes McDonald's much more efficient, which is fine when I want to get a double quarter pounder with cheese.

00:22:27.800 But if you make intrinsically vicious, evil industries more efficient, that is only going to have a negative effect.

00:22:35.740 It's going to have a negative effect, well, ultimately on your economy, I guess, because it's damaging the people.

00:22:40.460 But it's going to have a negative effect on the state of people's souls.

00:22:44.540 It's going to have a negative effect on the common good.

00:22:47.200 Not good stuff.

00:22:48.380 There's so much more to say.

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00:24:07.460 Now, speaking of threats, you know those drones that are flying over New Jersey that everyone's talking about, and people are asking, is it an alien invasion?

00:24:16.140 Is it the Iranians? 1.00

00:24:18.380 Is it the U.S. government?

00:24:21.080 Is it, I don't know.

00:24:22.820 I don't know what it is.

00:24:24.560 One New Jersey state senator is trying to shed some light on this.

00:24:28.500 This state senator, John Bramnick, told NewsNation that he suspects the government knows a lot more than they're letting on.

00:24:39.140 Whatever these drones are doing, the government really doesn't want us to know.

00:24:44.820 What that must mean is they're more concerned with us getting knowledge and being afraid of that information than having no knowledge and having all these questions.

00:24:55.100 That's why I'm worried about it.

00:24:57.180 It must be something going on that they can't tell us because they are so fearful of what the public's going to do when they hear what the drones are doing.

00:25:06.100 There's no way the Department of Defense does not know what's going on.

00:25:10.880 We have not heard.

00:25:11.820 Have we heard one word from the Department of Defense?

00:25:14.480 Zero.

00:25:14.960 Okay, so there are two ways to look at the Department of Defense, CIA, FBI, the deep state, and the state senator is expressing one of those views.

00:25:26.160 He's saying there's no way the Defense Department doesn't know.

00:25:29.400 There's no way our government doesn't know exactly what's going on.

00:25:32.660 This is the James Bond view of the government.

00:25:36.100 They know exactly what's going on.

00:25:37.780 The CIA controls everything in the world.

00:25:39.840 They're extremely efficient.

00:25:41.320 They're extremely effective.

00:25:42.480 They are in control of everything.

00:25:45.440 But there's another view of the Pentagon and the CIA and the FBI and the deep state.

00:25:50.900 The other view is the Coen brothers' burn after reading view.

00:25:53.820 The other view is that these agencies, though they have done some heroic and impressive things, they're government agencies.

00:26:00.180 And they screw up and they bumble.

00:26:01.860 In burn after reading, the CIA, every time they try to do anything and fix any problem, it just gets 20 times worse.

00:26:08.300 And they say, okay, well, keep your eye on it, you know, and then things, people are dying and it's getting, it's totally crazy.

00:26:13.020 It spins out of control.

00:26:14.800 Those are two views of government.

00:26:17.000 His view, the government, they're really in charge, don't worry.

00:26:20.000 And the government doesn't really know how to do anything effectively.

00:26:22.660 And what's odd is people simultaneously hold both of those views. 1.00

00:26:26.260 The very same people who will tell you that the government is full of bumbling idiots who can't do anything right. 0.99

00:26:31.040 And that's why we need to privatize so many sectors of our public life. 1.00

00:26:34.780 They're the same people who will tell you, oh, the CIA knows what's going on.

00:26:37.580 The Defense Department knows exactly what's going on.

00:26:39.240 They've got their finger on the pulse of every vein around the world.

00:26:41.920 So that's one view.

00:26:44.120 Some more information coming out of New Jersey.

00:26:46.040 A New Jersey mayor, Michael Mellum, has just stated that he heard from the state of New Jersey that if any of these drones go down, they should not interfere with it.

00:26:55.580 They should not touch it.

00:26:56.460 They should call in a bomb squad and the state government immediately.

00:26:59.840 On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team, and we now have guidance coming from the state.

00:27:05.340 And that guidance does say two different things.

00:27:07.480 First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county.

00:27:13.240 And second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.

00:27:17.680 So if something falls out of the sky that people have seen, and some of these things are as big as an SUV,

00:27:22.880 if that happens, you're to treat this more than a plane crash.

00:27:29.960 It's treated like an attack on the homeland?

00:27:32.700 That is correct, because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not.

00:27:34.980 And that's what we were told during our briefing on Wednesday.

00:27:37.080 Something's not adding up here.

00:27:38.520 It sounds like it might very well be our highest level government.

00:27:42.120 It might be government assets that are being deployed as a countermeasure.

00:27:45.860 Okay, so this is another theory that Michael Mellum has floated, which is, and I saw this going around X as well,

00:27:54.640 that these drones are U.S. military equipment.

00:27:59.300 However, they are a countermeasure against, if someone, say, had a dirty bomb, God forbid.

00:28:06.840 These are able to detect nuclear weapons or some terrible threat.

00:28:11.400 And so that's what's going on.

00:28:12.520 They're being sent over as a countermeasure.

00:28:14.120 Or another theory is they're being sent over just as a trial run to see if they would work effectively as a countermeasure.

00:28:21.660 And secondly, to see how the public would react if there ever were an actual threat, which at present there is not.

00:28:27.040 But if there were, how would the public react to the drones flying overhead?

00:28:30.980 And then there's another theory expressed by John Kirby, the national security spokesman at the White House,

00:28:38.860 which is that we don't know anything about the drones. 0.77

00:28:42.520 The government doesn't know a damn thing. 0.54

00:28:44.240 This is pretty much full-on burn-after reading view. 0.94

00:28:47.760 We don't know anything about it.

00:28:49.200 And so because we know so little about the drones, we actually can't shoot them down.

00:28:53.320 Well, okay, the idea of taking something down, again, you want to worry about public safety.

00:28:58.400 First of all, we don't have enough conclusions to take that kind of a policy action.

00:29:02.000 But let's just assume for a minute, Martha, that we did.

00:29:04.560 I mean, you're not going to want to shoot something down where it could hit somebody's house or hurt somebody.

00:29:08.720 The Coast Guard says that there are 30 of them following one of their ships in the ocean.

00:29:12.140 So would that work?

00:29:13.440 I mean, again, we have to develop the policy options based on what we know we're dealing with here.

00:29:18.540 And we just don't know enough to make those kinds of, to take those kinds of actions.

00:29:22.080 But my goodness, we're going to do everything we can to find out.

00:29:24.600 And we're going to share as much as we can.

00:29:26.180 I understand it's frustrating for folks.

00:29:28.020 It's frustrating for us.

00:29:29.180 We want to know as well.

00:29:30.580 Okay.

00:29:31.340 I love Martha's response here.

00:29:32.540 She goes, hold on, hold on, John.

00:29:33.920 You're telling me that you don't want the drone to go down on someone's house.

00:29:37.040 Well, what about when they're way out into the ocean following Coast Guard ships?

00:29:40.820 Why can't you shoot them down to the ocean?

00:29:42.240 Oh, well, we don't know.

00:29:43.360 Maybe it'll poison the ocean water. 0.85

00:29:45.320 Who knows?

00:29:45.680 We can't.

00:29:46.080 We're not going to do anything.

00:29:47.100 But by golly, Martha, we're going to get to the bottom of this.

00:29:50.040 So what do I think is actually going on?

00:29:53.080 I suppose if you put a gun to my head, if you put a drone to my head and said, Michael,

00:29:56.420 tell me exactly what you think is going on.

00:29:57.740 I find John Kirby's explanation to be the least likely because if the Pentagon, if the

00:30:04.840 White House didn't really know what was going on, I don't think they would tell you that.

00:30:08.940 I think that if the White House didn't really know something about these drones, they would

00:30:14.100 nevertheless project strength.

00:30:16.020 If this really were some threat that this were from Iran or from China or from wherever,

00:30:21.820 you know the first thing the White House would be doing is saying, we know everything.

00:30:24.380 We're totally in control.

00:30:25.480 Nothing to worry about here.

00:30:26.560 Move along, move along.

00:30:27.620 The fact that their actual line, their strategic line is, yeah, we don't know what it is.

00:30:33.380 We're trying to figure it out.

00:30:34.600 To me, it says, no, they do know.

00:30:36.580 They're not terribly concerned about it.

00:30:38.540 I'm not terribly concerned about it.

00:30:40.360 I am not easily distracted by things fluttering around in the sky.

00:30:43.780 I'm not distracted by butterflies.

00:30:45.720 I'm not distracted by lightning bugs.

00:30:47.800 I'm not really distracted by these drones.

00:30:49.920 I think that there are more pressing matters on the table.

00:30:52.700 And if this were really something to be concerned about,

00:30:56.560 then if that were the case, the White House's line would be, hey, we know exactly what it is.

00:31:04.700 We're totally in control. 0.64

00:31:05.580 With this kind of a dishonest, lying White House, then I would know it's time to be scared.

00:31:10.020 As of now, I'm not too concerned about the Martian landing or the Iranian landing, by the way.

00:31:14.960 The only alien invasion I'm concerned about is the one at the southern border that the White House seems to love distracting from.

00:31:22.660 Speaking of the U.S. military, Joe Biden.

00:31:28.100 The hits just keep on coming from Joe Biden.

00:31:29.980 Joe Biden just gave some remarks at a Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots events.

00:31:37.360 You want to talk about the culture turning.

00:31:39.740 You want to talk about the end of these malicious, malignant eras, the Me Too era, this politically correct era.

00:31:46.700 Joe Biden said happy holidays at this event.

00:31:50.100 And a child corrected her.

00:31:52.480 Hello.

00:31:53.240 How are you?

00:31:54.460 Hi.

00:31:55.360 Happy holidays.

00:31:56.780 Hi.

00:31:57.100 Happy Christmas.

00:31:57.920 Happy Christmas.

00:31:58.920 Happy Christmas.

00:31:59.820 Yes.

00:32:00.420 Happy Christmas.

00:32:02.280 The president and I are so grateful and we're honored to open the White House to all of you.

00:32:08.340 So Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

00:32:11.960 Happy holidays, everyone.

00:32:14.180 And then from the mouth of babes, you get this wisdom.

00:32:17.560 Look, he goes, happy Christmas.

00:32:20.040 It's Christmas, lady.

00:32:21.840 It ain't happy holidays.

00:32:23.260 Every year, fewer and fewer conservatives make this point.

00:32:29.180 And then every year, the libs make fun of us conservatives for making this point.

00:32:32.220 And then every year, we make fun of the libs for making fun of us for making this point. 0.98

00:32:37.040 And we're trying to figure out who looks more ridiculous. 0.85

00:32:39.560 The people who say happy holidays or the people who criticize those who say happy holidays for saying happy holidays. 0.97

00:32:45.040 Happy holidays is a ridiculous expression this time of year. 0.83

00:32:49.520 The holiday is Christmas. 0.89

00:32:50.900 There is one major holiday in December.

00:32:55.460 It's Christmas.

00:32:57.340 What's the other major holiday?

00:32:59.900 Hanukkah?

00:33:00.760 First of all, there are like five Jews in the whole world and Hanukkah is not even a major Jewish holiday.

00:33:04.960 It's a minor Jewish holiday.

00:33:07.040 It's taken on some significance in America as a kind of Jewish alternative to Christmas.

00:33:12.460 But it's not a major holiday.

00:33:14.540 Talk to any serious religious Jew.

00:33:16.620 He will tell you it's not a major holiday.

00:33:19.740 Kwanzaa?

00:33:20.140 Is it Kwanzaa?

00:33:22.080 Fewer people celebrate Kwanzaa than celebrate Hanukkah.

00:33:24.620 I promise you that.

00:33:25.760 And not many people celebrate Hanukkah.

00:33:29.180 Kwanzaa was invented by a socialist lunatic who was in prison for torturing women in the 1960s.

00:33:34.440 Some flunky Cal State Long Beach professor. 0.98

00:33:37.360 A complete nut.

00:33:38.720 It's not a real thing.

00:33:40.220 That's not a holiday.

00:33:41.700 Certainly not a major holiday.

00:33:43.800 What would you say?

00:33:44.520 New Year's?

00:33:45.500 New Year's is January 1st.

00:33:47.260 That's not a December holiday.

00:33:50.560 Happy holidays.

00:33:51.880 What else?

00:33:52.380 What do we have?

00:33:52.780 Does Arbor Day fall in December?

00:33:54.420 No, it doesn't.

00:33:55.740 Festivus?

00:33:56.180 I don't think so.

00:33:57.000 That's just a Seinfeld joke.

00:33:59.100 What's the holiday?

00:34:00.600 Oh, Michael, why do you care?

00:34:02.460 What do I care?

00:34:03.140 What do you mean, what do I care?

00:34:04.080 Because it's Christmas.

00:34:04.840 I'm going to say happy Christmas.

00:34:06.220 You're the one who's changed it.

00:34:08.320 It's like the libs.

00:34:09.000 They say, why do you care if we force men into the women's bathroom? 1.00

00:34:11.520 Why do you care so much?

00:34:12.420 Why are you so obsessed?

00:34:13.040 I'm not obsessed with bathrooms.

00:34:14.640 I was perfectly fine the way things were.

00:34:16.640 You're the ones who insisted that we change how the bathrooms work. 1.00

00:34:19.100 And then I criticized you for it.

00:34:20.340 And you make it seem like I'm the one with the problem.

00:34:22.640 I'm just saying, hey, don't change it.

00:34:24.320 That's what I'm saying about Christmas.

00:34:27.160 Happy holidays.

00:34:27.900 What holidays?

00:34:29.260 It's Christmas.

00:34:30.240 The kid knows it.

00:34:31.640 You know it.

00:34:32.640 Everybody knows it.

00:34:33.420 The only reason not to say Merry Christmas, the only reason to say happy holidays is if

00:34:39.360 you have some weird disdain, some bizarre bubbling contempt for Christmas, which probably

00:34:48.040 reflects a contempt for Christianity, which probably reflects a contempt for God.

00:34:52.560 That's it.

00:34:53.080 That's all we're saying.

00:34:55.360 Should I say happy holidays in, I don't know, February?

00:35:01.760 Do we say happy holidays around Easter?

00:35:04.560 Easter often coincides with Passover.

00:35:06.760 Passover is a way more serious holiday in Judaism than Hanukkah is.

00:35:10.480 Do we say happy holidays?

00:35:11.320 I don't know.

00:35:11.620 It's just weird.

00:35:13.380 And the kids know it.

00:35:14.800 And now even the first lady, the Democrat first lady is being forced to concede the war on Christmas. 1.00

00:35:20.240 Me too, over.

00:35:22.340 Total conservative victory.

00:35:24.640 War on Christmas, over.

00:35:26.540 Total conservative victory.

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00:36:53.240 My favorite comment from Jay Primo last week.

00:36:57.560 It's a quote from me, actually. 0.97

00:36:59.940 He quotes me as saying, you owe it to your neighbors to not be a creepy little goblin pervert. 1.00

00:37:05.780 Michael Knowles, 2024.

00:37:06.920 And that's an important quote.

00:37:07.820 I want that one to go on my Goodreads profile.

00:37:12.600 I want there to be a motivational poster with my name on it.

00:37:16.220 It says, you owe it to your neighbors.

00:37:17.980 Because it's not just, sometimes you'll hear people say, look, 0.99

00:37:20.240 you owe it to yourself not to be a creepy little goblin pervert, like a little weirdo. 0.97

00:37:24.920 For whatever it is you're doing, you owe it to yourself. 0.99

00:37:26.900 No, no.

00:37:27.240 You owe it to your neighbors.

00:37:28.960 That is an obligation you have to society for the purpose of advancing the common good. 0.97

00:37:35.320 It's your patriotic duty not to be a creepy little goblin pervert, okay? 1.00

00:37:38.720 All right? 0.97

00:37:39.400 That's, the sooner we figure that out, the sooner our culture will improve.

00:37:45.280 Speaking of the Bidens, oh boy, this was a doozy.

00:37:49.000 Joe Biden yesterday showed up to the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.

00:37:53.840 I know this because I was at the Willard Hotel just before he showed up.

00:37:58.140 And I knew he was going to show up because the Secret Service locked down the whole block.

00:38:01.960 And it was very difficult to get in and out of the hotel.

00:38:05.220 And I almost had to drag all my suitcases and all my kids and my wife two blocks down.

00:38:09.080 Luckily, the Secret Service let the cars come in.

00:38:10.660 It was okay.

00:38:11.020 It was good.

00:38:11.420 But I knew, okay, there's going to be some event here.

00:38:13.820 And this is going to be a presidential level event.

00:38:16.160 I didn't know if it was Biden.

00:38:17.200 I didn't know if it was Trump.

00:38:18.080 But I knew this is not some low-level cabinet official.

00:38:21.320 This is the real deal.

00:38:22.700 And sure enough, it was Joe Biden.

00:38:25.020 What did Joe Biden have to say?

00:38:26.820 Never in a million years could I have guessed that the reason Joe Biden showed up to the Willard,

00:38:33.500 gave this nice big address for the Democrats' holiday reception.

00:38:37.540 That's what C-SPAN called it.

00:38:38.520 The Democrats' holiday.

00:38:39.680 Not Christmas.

00:38:40.820 No, the Democrats don't like Christmas because they don't like God.

00:38:43.520 The Democrats' holiday reception.

00:38:46.220 Here is what Joe Biden had to say.

00:38:48.440 I knew what I was doing to ask her to be my vice president.

00:38:51.200 I knew her.

00:38:51.800 I knew of her.

00:38:52.400 I knew about her.

00:38:53.140 I knew her record.

00:38:54.140 I trusted her.

00:38:54.920 She always served this country with purpose and integrity.

00:38:58.540 And she always will.

00:38:59.920 And you're not going anywhere, kid, because we're not going to let you go.

00:39:04.140 Not going anywhere.

00:39:06.120 Okay.

00:39:07.300 Here is the surface-level reading of this comment.

00:39:11.500 I picked Kamala Harris to be my VP because I trusted her.

00:39:16.440 And listen, you're not going anywhere, kid.

00:39:18.920 You're not going anywhere.

00:39:19.600 You're going to stay in politics.

00:39:21.320 I'm going to make sure you stay in politics, kid.

00:39:24.920 But then just listen to the words he chose.

00:39:28.480 He said, I picked Kamala Harris to be my VP. 1.00

00:39:31.060 I trusted her.

00:39:34.040 Not I trust her.

00:39:36.220 I trusted her.

00:39:38.200 And she stabbed me in the back and threw me out of my own job and took my nomination from me after the primary process. 1.00

00:39:43.740 But you know what?

00:39:45.780 And she lost.

00:39:47.120 You know what?

00:39:49.460 You're not going anywhere, kid.

00:39:52.660 You're not going anywhere.

00:39:56.060 You want to go places?

00:39:57.840 You're not going to go to those places.

00:39:59.580 Because I'm not going to let you.

00:40:03.700 Kid.

00:40:05.920 Wow.

00:40:07.240 Some will say I'm reading too deeply into this.

00:40:09.100 I really don't think I am.

00:40:12.040 Oh, Joe Biden's senile.

00:40:13.240 He doesn't know what he's saying.

00:40:14.080 He doesn't know how that sounds.

00:40:15.320 Let me promise you something.

00:40:16.960 Joe Biden is senile.

00:40:17.880 And Joe Biden, he doesn't walk as well as he used to.

00:40:22.080 He doesn't look as good as he used to.

00:40:24.260 He doesn't even quite smile as well as he used to.

00:40:27.480 The last thing to go in Joe Biden before he croaks will be his political sense.

00:40:32.400 That guy has a political sense down to his bones.

00:40:35.320 He got himself elected to the U.S. Senate before he was old enough constitutionally to do so.

00:40:40.200 He has been in it for the vast majority of his life.

00:40:43.360 He still has that political sense.

00:40:45.400 So you couple what he said at the Willard last night.

00:40:48.160 With that other supposed gaffe, remember?

00:40:50.600 He put on a Trump hat on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania and smiled for the cameras.

00:40:55.360 Now, that was explainable too.

00:40:56.600 Oh, no.

00:40:57.020 It was just he offered a Kamala hat to a Trump supporter.

00:40:59.760 He put on the Trump hat.

00:41:00.560 It was a funny show of reaching across the aisle.

00:41:04.500 Give me a break.

00:41:05.420 If you believe that, I got a bridge of Brooklyn to sell you.

00:41:08.200 Joe Biden knew how that would look.

00:41:09.540 He knows how pictures work.

00:41:10.880 He knows how political messaging works.

00:41:12.700 It's like the only thing he knows.

00:41:14.640 He knew what he was doing there.

00:41:16.320 Okay, you don't believe that one?

00:41:18.820 How about this one?

00:41:21.120 Jill Biden comes out with her husband on election day to go vote. 0.74

00:41:25.500 She's wearing a bright red dress.

00:41:28.260 The media is speculating.

00:41:29.660 Wow, she would appear to be. 0.98

00:41:30.840 She's covered head to toe in red. 0.99

00:41:32.880 That would seem to signal by wearing the color of the Republican Party that maybe she actually supports the Republican in this race. 0.60

00:41:40.560 Oh, no, you're reading too deeply into it.

00:41:42.980 Okay, you don't believe that.

00:41:44.560 Then Jill Biden shows up to the White House. 0.62

00:41:47.420 She lives in the White House.

00:41:48.700 She gives a speech about the joy she feels this season.

00:41:52.200 She makes a point.

00:41:52.900 She says, you know, this season, it's really important to focus on the joy that we're all feeling.

00:41:56.920 Joy was Kamala's first campaign theme.

00:42:00.020 That was her campaign catchphrase. 0.90

00:42:02.120 And Jill made a point.

00:42:03.220 She leans into the mic.

00:42:03.960 She doesn't have subtlety. 1.00

00:42:04.800 She's got all the subtlety of a vaudevillian or a Marx brother.

00:42:07.340 She leans in.

00:42:07.980 She says, I just feel joy this season.

00:42:12.500 Oh, you all are going to read into that.

00:42:14.580 She even admitted the joke.

00:42:16.460 She even said, yeah, I chose that word intentionally.

00:42:19.520 And now you get this.

00:42:21.940 Kid, you're not going anywhere because I'm not going to let you go anywhere.

00:42:25.800 You cannot convince me that the Bidens did not vote for Trump.

00:42:32.340 I would have said two months ago, the Bidens certainly don't support Kamala.

00:42:39.180 But who knows?

00:42:40.060 At this point, I am fairly convinced they voted for Donald Trump. 0.96

00:42:45.100 That is how much they hate this woman. 0.96

00:42:46.580 And probably she's not going to go anywhere.

00:42:48.600 And in part, that's because Joe Biden won't let her.

00:42:51.640 Larger part is that she's not capable of going anywhere.

00:42:54.040 Speaking of presidential politics, Adam Schiff, the man President Trump refers to as pencil

00:43:00.480 neck.

00:43:01.160 He is come out.

00:43:03.620 He was a big part of the Trump impeachment back during the first term.

00:43:07.840 He was leading a lot of the hoaxes against Trump.

00:43:10.520 He has just come out on ABC News, which just paid Trump $15 million for lying about him.

00:43:15.060 Said, look, I know Trump got elected.

00:43:16.620 I know he got unified government.

00:43:17.660 I know he won the popular vote.

00:43:18.760 But he needs to make sure he doesn't pardon the January 6th.

00:43:23.840 That is not what the people elected him to do.

00:43:27.040 How about the question about the January 6th pardons?

00:43:30.640 Well, greatly concerned about it.

00:43:32.900 First of all, that he could pardon people that beat police officers, gouge them, bear spray them.

00:43:38.740 But also, even beyond that, just the general message it would send, George, that his first

00:43:45.520 pardons are going to go to people who sought through the use of violence at the Capitol to

00:43:50.620 stop the peaceful transfer of power that played some role in that.

00:43:54.480 Really, that's that's who he wants to pardon.

00:43:57.140 The American people, I think, voted for him in part because they wanted something done about

00:44:01.480 crime, not because they wanted to see him pardon criminals attacking the government.

00:44:05.800 But yeah, no, they they did.

00:44:09.920 They did, actually.

00:44:11.220 Well, we're not talking about we're talking about grannies who took selfies in the rotunda. 0.88

00:44:14.340 We're not talking about your guys.

00:44:15.860 We're not talking about your BLM activists or your Antifa activists who burned the country

00:44:20.260 down, who murdered dozens of people who looted, pillaged, burned. 0.78

00:44:24.940 We're not those guys are pretty hardcore criminals.

00:44:26.980 We're not talking about your guys.

00:44:28.280 MS-13 and Trendy Aragwal, the criminals running across the border when you rolled out a red 1.00

00:44:32.900 carpet for them.

00:44:33.780 We're not talking about those people.

00:44:36.140 We're talking about the January Sixthers who were a handful of eccentrics, who in many

00:44:42.460 cases were escorted into the Capitol.

00:44:46.360 Some cases they did nothing more than step foot in there, maybe take a picture or two and

00:44:50.360 step out into the people's building.

00:44:53.180 And then were arrested a year later and imprisoned in solitary confinement in some cases.

00:44:58.540 Those guys aren't criminals.

00:44:59.980 They were unfairly, selectively prosecuted on extremely trumped up charges that you guys

00:45:07.140 wielded so that you could clamp down on the political order.

00:45:11.600 You tried to do the same thing to Trump himself.

00:45:13.300 The problem is the people voted for him.

00:45:15.720 For Adam Schiff's argument to make sense, Trump couldn't have won because by Adam Schiff 0.98

00:45:22.500 standards, Trump's a criminal. 0.53

00:45:24.340 He was convicted. 0.97

00:45:25.760 He was prosecuted four times by Democrats.

00:45:29.880 He was convicted.

00:45:31.380 He was also found liable in a civil case.

00:45:33.780 He's a criminal by the Adam Schiff standard.

00:45:36.880 And the American people voted for him. 0.60

00:45:38.720 And almost half of Hispanics voted for him.

00:45:40.660 And one of five black guys voted for him.

00:45:42.160 And 40% of women out of the age of 30 voted for him.

00:45:44.220 And the majority of Americans voted for him.

00:45:46.340 And he won in an electoral college landslide.

00:45:48.700 So yeah, I think they want him to pardon most of the January 6thers. 1.00

00:45:54.980 Now, I agree, maybe the January 6thers shouldn't be the very first pardon. 0.87

00:46:00.160 The very first pardon should be the pro-lifers who were arrested and imprisoned for peacefully

00:46:06.480 demonstrating against the wholesale slaughter of little babies.

00:46:10.240 That should be the first part.

00:46:11.320 If Trump's writing out the pardons, maybe 9 a.m., he pardons the pro-lifers.

00:46:17.100 And then 9.02 a.m., he pardons the January 6thers.

00:46:20.120 And there are other people he should pardon.

00:46:22.520 Joe Biden's pardoning a lot of people, hardcore criminals, like his son.

00:46:28.040 Trump?

00:46:28.580 I don't think so.

00:46:29.580 The Democrats are coming to grips with the fact that Trump won.

00:46:33.680 They are.

00:46:34.180 Some of them are recognizing that.

00:46:35.700 They're trying to figure out how it happened.

00:46:37.320 And they're at least admitting, look, it was such a landslide.

00:46:40.520 It was too big to rig.

00:46:41.540 You can't really claim that it was unfair.

00:46:43.940 You can't even claim that it was undemocratic by using the silly measure of the popular vote

00:46:47.780 because Trump won that too.

00:46:48.860 And it wasn't all that close.

00:46:51.260 They have come to grips with the fact that Trump won.

00:46:54.880 They have not come to grips with the significance of Trump winning.

00:46:59.080 Trump ran on mass deportations.

00:47:03.320 That is now a mainstream political position.

00:47:05.380 Trump ran on pardoning people like the January 6thers.

00:47:10.500 Trump ran on gutting the desiccated bureaucracy of the federal government.

00:47:17.220 He ran on that.

00:47:18.440 And most people voted for it.

00:47:21.260 But Democrats can't bring themselves to accept the significance of that election,

00:47:25.020 even if they accept the election itself,

00:47:26.560 because it means that they would have to rip out the heart of their own party.

00:47:30.580 And they're not willing to do that.

00:47:31.680 Not yet.

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Ep. 1637 - ABC Forced To Pay Trump $15 Million

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