The Michael Knowles Show - April 17, 2025


Ep. 1717 - Democrat Attempts to Bring Alleged Cartel Criminal BACK to America


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Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen flies to El Salvador to try to bring a prisoner back to the United States after two judges affirm that he is a member of the notorious gang MS-13. But can he get the guy back?

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00:00:37.680 Yesterday, Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to try to bring a prisoner back to the United States.
00:00:46.120 The prisoner, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was deported by the Trump administration
00:00:50.760 after two judges affirmed that he was a member of the notorious gang MS-13.
00:00:55.740 Here is what Senator Van Hollen had to say from El Salvador.
00:01:01.000 I also told his wife and family that I would try to meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia while I was here.
00:01:10.780 So I asked the vice president if I could meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia.
00:01:15.360 And he said, well, you need to make earlier provisions to go visit Seacott.
00:01:25.160 I said, I'm not interested at this moment in taking a tour of Seacott.
00:01:30.360 I just want to meet with Mr. Abrego Garcia.
00:01:33.460 He said he was not able to make that happen.
00:01:36.240 I asked, he said he needed a little more time.
00:01:39.880 I asked him if I came back next week, whether I'd be able to see Mr. Abrego Garcia.
00:01:43.580 He said he couldn't promise that either.
00:01:46.320 So I asked him if I could get on the phone, either a video phone or just a phone, and talk to Mr. Abrego Garcia.
00:01:53.340 So I could just ask him how he's doing so I could report back to his family.
00:01:58.020 He said he could not arrange that.
00:02:00.480 He said maybe if the American embassy were to ask, maybe that could happen.
00:02:06.600 We have an unjust situation here.
00:02:11.600 I just want to talk to him.
00:02:13.240 I just want to talk to the guy that two judges said is a member of MS-13.
00:02:17.300 I just want to.
00:02:18.140 Why won't you let me even just get on the phone with him?
00:02:21.040 Unjust?
00:02:22.540 We have an unjust situation.
00:02:24.640 Some of Garcia's defenders are claiming that he was not a member of MS-13.
00:02:32.500 They're claiming that the judge's affirmations that he was were based on unproven evidence.
00:02:39.620 That Garcia was only coincidentally arrested wearing MS-13 clothing.
00:02:44.960 That he only coincidentally had rolls of cash and drugs on him.
00:02:48.440 That he was just coincidentally arrested with two other members of MS-13.
00:02:52.560 Fine.
00:02:53.640 You know what?
00:02:54.340 Fine.
00:02:55.000 Whatever.
00:02:55.720 Let's just say for kicks that this guy is not a member of MS-13.
00:03:02.240 What remains undisputed.
00:03:04.420 We're talking best case scenario for this guy's defenders.
00:03:08.360 Is that he is an illegal alien with no right whatsoever to be in the United States.
00:03:13.040 Whose wife in 2021 petitioned to court for an order of protection over two incidents of domestic violence.
00:03:19.460 That is the guy that the Democrat junior senator from Maryland spent his day and your taxpayer dollars flying to El Salvador to defend.
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00:05:46.040 This flight to El Salvador from the Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen was already a disastrous move.
00:05:55.060 It just looked terrible.
00:05:57.520 Democrats cannot win for losing.
00:05:59.680 I mean, they have not learned a single lesson, it seems, from the 2024 election.
00:06:04.280 Already, had the Republicans not reacted at all, this would have been a disaster.
00:06:11.820 Because you got ordinary Americans looking up saying, look, even if this guy Garcia wasn't in MS-13, and by the way, there's a fair bit of evidence that he is.
00:06:19.180 But let's just say that he wasn't.
00:06:21.300 You're telling me the Democrat Senator is spending his time and our money flying to El Salvador to get an illegal alien accused by his wife of domestic violence at a prison?
00:06:31.260 Aren't there a few other things you might focus on, Senator, like our economy, our border, geopolitics, the potential for regional or global war?
00:06:44.780 Or the, I don't know, anything, like anything at all?
00:06:47.520 Well, but no, this guy Chris Van Hollen, this Democrat Senator, just has, he's got an obsession with going soft on illegal alien criminals, specifically criminals.
00:07:00.720 I'm not even, I mean, they're all criminals, but I'm talking about people who have committed crimes in addition to breaking our fundamental laws of the border.
00:07:09.120 Because this guy, Chris Van Hollen, is among the handful of insane people to vote against the Lake and Riley Act.
00:07:19.680 You know, the Lake and Riley Act is the first bill that the new Congress took up.
00:07:23.820 And the Lake and Riley Act said illegal aliens who are convicted of crimes in addition to crossing the border illegally have to be deported.
00:07:32.680 And the reason it's called the Lake and Riley Act is because the illegal alien who murdered Lake and Riley had already been convicted of crimes.
00:07:42.540 And the liberals in this country said, ah, no worries.
00:07:45.760 I mean, yeah, sure, maybe these illegal aliens are committing other crimes, they're creating social disorder, they're harming people, but whatever, we're going to let them stay. 1.00
00:07:52.960 And then, case after case, you're seeing illegal aliens raping American citizens, murdering American citizens.
00:08:00.260 And so, as far as I'm concerned, the Lake and Riley Act is as modest, as minor a measure as there can be against illegal immigration.
00:08:10.240 Saying, okay, we're going to, we'll like let you come into the country illegally, we won't even harass you when you're in the country illegally. 0.96
00:08:15.340 But if you start like stealing and robbing and raping and harassing people, then we might start to enforce immigration law. 0.64
00:08:23.520 Chris Van Hollen can't vote for that. 0.99
00:08:25.660 This guy loves criminal aliens marauding all over our country and injuring and murdering American citizens. 0.83
00:08:33.340 I don't think that's hyperbole. 0.97
00:08:34.580 I don't know how else I can put it, that this guy would spend his day going down pleading on behalf of an illegal alien criminal after voting against a law that would provide basic protections for poor little American girls not to be raped and murdered.
00:08:50.700 How else do you describe it?
00:08:52.340 So, it was already a bad day for Chris Van Hollen.
00:08:54.920 Then, the White House decided to throw the issue into really stark relief by inviting one of Van Hollen's constituents, Patty Morin, to come to the White House. 0.92
00:09:08.500 Because Patty Morin has a daughter or had a daughter, Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien. 0.76
00:09:19.040 This was really what should be the knockout blow to Chris Van Hollen's political career.
00:09:23.700 This guy should go, I don't know, work as a teller at a bank or a barista or just anything out of public life. 0.96
00:09:29.920 Because the guy just looks preposterous, degenerate. 0.94
00:09:36.980 He just looks awful after this story. 0.97
00:09:40.420 And what was the story?
00:09:41.320 The story is the truth of what illegal immigration looks like in America.
00:09:46.460 You know that Rachel's a 37-year-old mother. 0.94
00:09:49.660 She has five children.
00:09:50.640 We've walked the trail for the last 25 years that we've lived in Maryland.
00:09:55.760 He attacked her.
00:09:59.300 I want you to put a pause right here because this is a children's show.
00:10:04.400 Well, it's not a children's show, but it's a whole family show.
00:10:06.120 I would just say for the next 60 seconds or so, if you're watching this with your kids or listening to this with your kids, put it on mute or put the subtitles on or something like that.
00:10:18.660 Because the reality of what illegal immigration means in America is not fit for children.
00:10:26.460 Keep going.
00:10:26.800 There wasn't one inch of her body that didn't have some kind of injury.
00:10:53.380 Whether it's bruising, broken bones, contusions, the scratches. 0.86
00:11:00.160 Blood ran down around her as he was raping her. 1.00
00:11:05.020 And then he threw her down and raped her some more. 0.99
00:11:09.880 And then he strangled her because he didn't want her to be able to live to tell the story. 1.00
00:11:15.680 These are the kind of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country. 0.94
00:11:21.160 That's it.
00:11:23.860 A horrifying story.
00:11:25.760 If you're watching with your kids, you can turn the sound back on now.
00:11:28.760 Horrifying story.
00:11:30.900 And not a particularly rare story.
00:11:34.440 Okay, you know the proof?
00:11:36.480 You know the proof that this is not just cherry picking the one case out of a billion?
00:11:40.660 Well, one, things like the Lake and Riley Act.
00:11:44.080 All of the names that we've heard of American citizens who have been victimized in this way by illegal aliens. 0.94
00:11:49.740 None of those crimes had to happen.
00:11:51.360 They only happened because Democrats rolled out the red carpet to invite the illegal aliens in. 0.90
00:11:56.100 Every single crime that an illegal alien commits in this country was a needless crime. 1.00
00:11:59.500 And there is blood on the hands of the cynical Democrat politicians and some of the Chamber of Commerce Republicans who felt that they could get an extra vote or make an extra buck because of it.
00:12:10.340 And if some Americans have to be murdered, so be it.
00:12:12.140 But the way you know that this is not just some totally rare case, actually virtually all of the illegal aliens are just wonderful law-abiding people, residents as American as apple pie.
00:12:25.020 The way you know is that the Democrats have had 10 years now to find a shining example of an illegal alien to use as the foil to Trump's description of illegal aliens, to use as the example to undermine Trump's immigration policies.
00:12:45.900 They've had 10 years to do this.
00:12:47.280 The best example they can come up with, the one that's going to get them to get on an airplane and fly to El Salvador, put on big press conferences.
00:12:57.380 This guy is the poster child for how wonderful illegal immigration is to America. 0.53
00:13:02.080 The best example they've got is a guy who was affirmed to be a member of MS-13 by two judges, whose wife accused him of beating her and asked for a court order of protection.
00:13:14.660 And who was obviously in this country illegally.
00:13:19.480 That's the best example.
00:13:21.300 Wife beating probable gang member.
00:13:24.780 So don't tell me this is just a rare case.
00:13:28.100 Oh, this is the example that proves the rule that the illegal aliens are all great. 1.00
00:13:32.780 You're hearing these stories time and time again.
00:13:35.020 And the Democrats, they can't help themselves.
00:13:38.020 They got to defend it.
00:13:39.620 What votes do they think they're going to win here?
00:13:41.340 Trump ran in 2024 on mass deportations, not even minor deportations.
00:13:47.160 He ran on mass deportations.
00:13:48.820 He won the popular vote.
00:13:51.180 So please, Democrats, please make Eric whatever his name is.
00:13:55.280 What's this guy's name?
00:13:56.780 Garcia Abrego Garcia.
00:13:58.160 Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
00:13:59.680 Please make him your poster child.
00:14:02.160 Run on that in the midterms.
00:14:04.460 Run on that in the presidential.
00:14:06.140 Run on that for the next 20 years.
00:14:07.400 See how that works out for you.
00:14:08.560 This woman, this very courageous woman, Patty Morin, she describes the awful stuff that happened to her daughter.
00:14:17.300 She describes the reality of illegal immigration.
00:14:19.500 But she doesn't just leave it in the abstract.
00:14:22.360 She points out that people, Democrat senators like Chris Van Hollen, have their priorities so screwed up it's almost incomprehensible.
00:14:33.700 To have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured,
00:14:47.200 leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen.
00:15:05.620 Why does that person, why does that person, why does that person have more right than I do, or my daughter, or my grandchildren? 0.94
00:15:17.580 I don't understand this.
00:15:19.800 Because all this woman did was tell the truth. 0.63
00:15:48.600 That's what was so effective.
00:15:51.520 The truth of this situation is completely devastating for the Democrat position.
00:15:57.840 It completely vindicates the Trump position.
00:16:03.980 Democrats want to keep this up.
00:16:05.480 Good luck.
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00:17:58.660 Now, Chris Van Hollen was not the only Democrat having a bad day yesterday.
00:18:03.220 You know who else was having a bad day?
00:18:04.700 The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James.
00:18:08.760 Letitia James, you'll recall, is this loudmouth politician. 1.00
00:18:13.780 She's supposed to be top law enforcement officer in New York. 1.00
00:18:18.460 But she actually campaigned for the office, not on blind lady justice, not on just enforcing the law as cases appear to her. 0.99
00:18:30.720 She ran on putting Trump in jail.
00:18:33.960 She said, we're going to prosecute Trump.
00:18:36.540 We're going to imprison Donald Trump because we don't like him, basically.
00:18:40.520 And she led one of the witch hunts against Donald Trump.
00:18:45.200 Didn't go very far.
00:18:46.160 And actually, then, Trump won not only the election in a landslide, but popular vote, in part because of the un-American prosecutions against Trump.
00:18:57.000 But now, Letitia James finds herself on the wrong side of the law.
00:19:02.580 The Department of Justice is investigating her.
00:19:06.700 However, she has been referred for prosecution over mortgage fraud.
00:19:12.560 Letitia James, oh, man, I got to try to minimize the smile on my face.
00:19:17.780 I don't want to be accused of schadenfreude.
00:19:20.560 Letitia James seems to have said that her primary residence was in Virginia.
00:19:28.820 She owns some properties in New York, in Virginia.
00:19:32.440 She said that this Virginia property was her primary residence.
00:19:34.800 Obviously, it's not.
00:19:35.740 She's the attorney general of New York.
00:19:37.820 Her neighbors in Virginia never see her there.
00:19:40.900 But according to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pult,
00:19:45.940 Ms. James was the sitting attorney general of New York and is required by law to have her primary residence in the state of New York,
00:19:51.760 even though her mortgage applications list her intent to have the Norfolk, Virginia property as her primary home.
00:19:57.720 Now, why?
00:19:58.360 Was this just a clerical error?
00:19:59.960 Oh, oopsie.
00:20:00.940 Yeah, I forgot I was the attorney general of New York.
00:20:02.920 Yeah, whoops.
00:20:03.560 Now, by listing the Virginia home as her primary residence, she could get more favorable mortgage terms.
00:20:11.620 It wasn't just in Virginia.
00:20:12.660 Also in New York, Letitia James is accused of misrepresenting the number of apartment units in a building that she owns.
00:20:21.840 She said that there are only four units in the apartment building instead of five.
00:20:26.400 Now, again, is this just a clerical error?
00:20:28.080 I'm sure that's what Letitia James is going to try to claim. 1.00
00:20:30.120 Oh, yeah, I forgot.
00:20:32.380 I forgot the number of apartments in my building.
00:20:35.280 It's not the sort of thing one forgets.
00:20:37.180 Especially, we're not talking about 300 units.
00:20:38.640 We're talking about four or five.
00:20:40.060 The reason is that on these mortgage applications, if you have four or fewer units in New York, it can be a kind of a personal mortgage.
00:20:52.020 If it's five or more, it's got to be a commercial mortgage.
00:20:55.660 And so you could get a more favorable rate if you say it's personal.
00:20:58.360 So you get a more favorable rate if you lie, as she did, and commit mortgage fraud, as she is accused of doing, and say it's fewer apartments.
00:21:07.160 According to Pult, this could amount to criminal charges, including wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution, and other charges.
00:21:21.340 Now, I'd just like to take a little trip back in time, if you would indulge me.
00:21:25.300 I'd like to get in our little time machine here on the Michael Knowles Show and take a trip back to what Letitia James had to say.
00:21:31.780 When she was leading a bogus crusade to prosecute Donald Trump. 0.80
00:21:38.740 Good morning, everyone.
00:21:40.700 Donald Trump and the other defendants have committed persistent and repeated fraud.
00:21:47.140 Last week, we approved that in our motion for summary judgment.
00:21:51.240 Today, we will approve our other claims.
00:21:54.280 My message is simple.
00:21:56.260 No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you may have,
00:22:01.780 no one is above the law.
00:22:03.620 And it is my responsibility and my duty and my job to enforce it.
00:22:08.100 No one, no one is above the law.
00:22:10.500 You know, Mr. President, it pains me more than it pains you to have to prosecute you.
00:22:15.500 But Lady Justice is blind. 1.00
00:22:19.040 I have taken an oath to defend the law.
00:22:21.880 Which is why I will upend 250 years of American precedent and lead a prosecution of a former president and current leader of the opposition.
00:22:32.200 Not because it will benefit my political party.
00:22:35.040 Oh, no.
00:22:35.860 No, no, no, you see.
00:22:38.120 Lady Justice is blind and I must prosecute you if I feel that you have committed fraud.
00:22:44.080 So now, you see, Letitia James is much, much more credibly accused of fraud. 0.53
00:22:55.160 The Trump claims, we covered them at the time.
00:22:58.460 The claims about Trump were pretty weak.
00:23:00.420 Like one document is kind of maybe estimating the value on one of his buildings and people disagree with the value of the building.
00:23:10.520 And then in this case, the prosecutors and the judges kind of make bogus evaluations of the property.
00:23:16.500 And so it's all very nebulous.
00:23:18.180 In this case, though, Letitia James is accused of just lying about the number of apartment units she owns. 1.00
00:23:22.520 She's just lying about her primary residence.
00:23:25.540 Okay, this is much more clear cut.
00:23:27.000 So now when the shoe's on the other foot, does Letitia James take that sort of high-minded, detached, Lady Justice's blind rhetoric? 1.00
00:23:34.960 No, she shows up to Al Sharpton's shakedown organization, the National Action Network, and she goes on this unhinged tirade. 0.58
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00:24:46.780 Oh, I love sewing.
00:24:47.460 But then me while I'm reaping what I have sown.
00:24:49.640 No, no.
00:24:50.340 What is happening?
00:24:51.100 Why is this happening to me?
00:24:52.380 That's her. 0.88
00:24:53.740 Well, she is perverting the law to upend 250 years of precedent, to go after a president of the United States, upending the whole political order. 1.00
00:25:01.980 Oh, you know, this is just the law.
00:25:03.860 No one's above the law.
00:25:05.180 And, you know, it pains me to do it.
00:25:06.620 Lady justice is blind, and this is just what we have to do.
00:25:08.980 There's no question about it.
00:25:11.660 Then when that same principle is used much more credibly against her, 0.63
00:25:16.840 We coming.
00:25:19.340 You ain't doing that to me.
00:25:20.360 I overturned segregation.
00:25:21.700 We're getting you, baby.
00:25:22.760 I'm coming.
00:25:23.420 We're going to.
00:25:23.680 Ah.
00:25:24.060 What happened to that sort of poised, calm, indifferent, articulate speech you were making on the importance of blind justice?
00:25:36.060 Hold on.
00:25:36.560 That seems to have gone completely out the window, as has this woman's reason, as has her self-control.
00:25:44.700 Because she knows, again, it's all allegations until it's not, but my read on this, just knowing a little bit about human nature, is I think they got this woman dead to rights. 0.99
00:25:58.420 And I think it's very important, by the way.
00:26:00.300 You're going to have some squishy Republicans say, we should not go after our political enemies.
00:26:04.620 That would make us no different from the left.
00:26:06.840 It would be irresponsible for conservatives not to prosecute at least the most egregious and clear cases of Democrat crime and fraud and corruption.
00:26:19.880 It would be irresponsible because it gives them a blank check to do it again against us, which is bad for the whole political order.
00:26:26.360 They tried to imprison President Trump over nonsense, totally upending our political order.
00:26:32.880 They tried.
00:26:34.140 They raided his home.
00:26:35.360 They tried to kick him off the ballot.
00:26:38.140 They justified murdering him.
00:26:40.080 They almost murdered him twice, one time within a hair's breadth.
00:26:45.640 I am not afraid of what the Democrats might hypothetically do to us in the future.
00:26:51.620 They have already done much more than that to us in reality, with much less justification.
00:26:58.540 If you believe the thing that Letitia James pretended to believe in that first clip when she was going after Trump, that justice is blind and no one's above the law.
00:27:08.380 You must support the federal government's investigation and presumable prosecution of Letitia James for what appears to be pretty basic corruption from a politician that we already all suspected was corrupt.
00:27:26.620 There's so much more to say.
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00:28:41.060 On top of all that, on top of Chris Van Hollen blowing up his political career, on top of Letitia James potentially putting on an orange jumpsuit, on top of all of that, President Trump might actually destroy Harvard University.
00:28:59.400 Wow.
00:29:00.360 Wow.
00:29:00.860 How is he going to do this?
00:29:01.800 We floated the story a little bit yesterday.
00:29:03.400 Now it's become clearer.
00:29:04.400 Trump threatened Harvard, said, hey, Harvard, if you don't protect the civil rights of your students, in particular Jewish students here after the campus intifada was harassing all of them, if you don't protect their civil rights, we're going to withhold grants from you, $2 billion worth of grants, and we might even look into your tax-exempt status that you rely on to operate.
00:29:24.760 Well, now, news broke yesterday, the IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard.
00:29:33.640 This is according to two sources familiar with the matter.
00:29:37.120 This would be an extraordinary step, of course, but we're living in extraordinary times.
00:29:42.360 Final decision is expected soon.
00:29:44.640 So I got one question for all of you conservatives out there, and I'm talking about even the centrists.
00:29:52.100 I'm talking about even the anti-Trump conservatives, all the really nice, fancy beltway conservatives who are above it all.
00:29:59.780 I'm talking about even the conservatives that hated Trump so much they started voting for Democrats.
00:30:05.920 You know, the Bulwark or the Dispatch or those guys.
00:30:14.560 My question is, is it totally sincere?
00:30:16.540 I'm not just taking cheap shots.
00:30:19.980 Did you really mean it when you said for decades that we need to take down the elite liberal universities?
00:30:27.400 Did you really mean it?
00:30:28.940 Because I've been hearing this since I was a little kid.
00:30:31.580 At the very least, I've been hearing this.
00:30:36.320 I know conservatives have been saying this since I was a little kid.
00:30:38.940 I can consciously remember hearing this when I was a student.
00:30:42.780 And all of these people, even the most urbane, even the most established kind of conservatives,
00:30:50.740 they would say, you know, the real poison in our culture are these elite liberal universities.
00:30:55.200 We have to take them down a notch.
00:30:56.700 It's crucial.
00:30:57.800 We've got tenured radicals here, and we got—they all agreed on that.
00:31:01.580 So let me ask you, did you really mean it?
00:31:04.600 If you really meant it, then revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is actually pretty modest.
00:31:14.180 I know it's unprecedented, but it's actually pretty modest.
00:31:17.020 Trump could go full Henry VIII and just steal the endowment.
00:31:19.700 Just like Henry VIII took all of the Catholic monasteries and churches, Trump could go in and say, hey, Harvard, you've got a $50 billion-plus endowment.
00:31:28.680 That's mine now.
00:31:30.760 There have been senators who have threatened to put their hands on the endowments, including Democrat senators, by the way.
00:31:36.980 Sheldon Whitehouse was threatening the university endowments, which actually impelled the universities to get a little looser with financial aid.
00:31:43.180 So I just got to ask you, I know there are going to be some people who find all the reasons to oppose this.
00:31:49.900 Well, it's a threat to free speech.
00:31:51.500 Well, is it?
00:31:52.040 Sort of.
00:31:52.420 Maybe.
00:31:52.720 I don't know that it really is.
00:31:54.420 Civil rights law is the law of the land.
00:31:56.680 It has governed us for 60 years.
00:32:00.020 It's used to defend all sorts of other groups.
00:32:04.020 We can't use it—what, you don't like Jews so much, so we can't use it to defend Jews?
00:32:07.960 Even if you don't like Jews, we can't use it to take down Harvard?
00:32:13.660 There are going to be a lot of excuses in the coming days and weeks as to why the real, true, principled conservative position is to defend Harvard University or something, one of the great sources of elite liberalism in American history.
00:32:28.580 Well, I've had a two-word slogan that's been drilled into me for many years at this point. 0.98
00:32:34.540 Harvard sucks. 1.00
00:32:36.400 Go, Trump. 1.00
00:32:37.060 Go, Trump is my two-word slogan that I've added to that.
00:32:40.700 We don't—if you really believe it, if you really believe we need a fundamental reform of the universities, especially the elite ones, the prestigious ones, this looks like the opportunity to do it.
00:32:53.160 So how are the Democrats going to respond?
00:32:56.100 Brutal, brutal day yesterday for Democrats.
00:32:58.380 How are they going to respond?
00:33:01.120 I must—I can't say it without laughing.
00:33:03.340 The way they're going to respond to getting completely annihilated for the past six months by Republicans is that the DNC vice chairman is promising to spend $20 million campaigning against Democrats.
00:33:18.800 I am not joking because the Democrat vice chairman, as you might recall, is David Hogg.
00:33:26.040 David Hogg, maybe the least popular Democrat in America.
00:33:29.400 He may have been supplanted yesterday by Chris Van Hollen, but at least the second least popular Democrat in America.
00:33:34.700 He's that kid who decided to take 15 minutes of fame after he was a student at a school that had a shooting, and he decided that he was going to translate that into a CNN career.
00:33:45.560 Then he got into Harvard.
00:33:47.460 Actually, Harvard gave him admission, even though his ability to spell and use English grammar on social media seems to suggest maybe he wasn't totally academically qualified for Harvard, but shows you where Harvard's priorities are at.
00:34:01.380 They said, oh, we got an 18-year-old Democrat leftist celebrity.
00:34:05.120 Let's get—we got to get him in our rotation.
00:34:08.320 So this guy, he gets a career out of it.
00:34:12.200 You got to give him credit.
00:34:13.780 He's now the vice chairman of the Democrats, and he has said that he wants to spend $20 million primarying ineffective Democrats.
00:34:21.720 Now, the national parties, as a general rule, do not officially interfere in primaries.
00:34:29.540 Maybe they have their preferences, but as a rule, they don't interfere in the primaries.
00:34:33.120 They let the people, they let their members choose who the nominee is going to be, and then the DNC comes in there to help the nominees beat the Republicans.
00:34:41.420 David Hogg says no.
00:34:43.880 Now, because the national party doesn't do that kind of thing, he is going to simultaneously, while being the DNC vice chairman, he's going to use another group that he has, Leaders We Deserve, to spend $20 million in safe blue Democrat primaries against sitting House members, specifically to support younger opponents.
00:35:02.580 So it's not even necessarily that they're going to support more leftist opponents, though they almost certainly will, but it's even just age discrimination.
00:35:11.380 It's basic, old people bad, young people good. 0.99
00:35:16.160 So this unprecedented move is coming from the upper echelons of the DNC.
00:35:21.720 The DNC chairman, Ken Martin, was asked if he supports this, and David Hogg came in and said, well, Martin, quote, certainly has different views on challenging incumbents.
00:35:32.580 So you got the DNC chairman, the DNC vice chairman, both fighting over the DNC vice chairman's decision to spend tens of millions of dollars in an already somewhat difficult cycle after the Democrats have just lost the popular vote at the presidential for the first time in 20 years.
00:35:46.300 They're having this big battle because the vice chairman wants to spend his time and money campaigning against Democrats.
00:35:51.300 My analysis of this situation is, ah, I can't, it's so, I'm sorry, pull it together. 0.99
00:36:08.300 It's so powerfully stupid of the Democrats that they say, ah, boy, we really seem to have lost the common sense, huh? 0.99
00:36:16.120 Yikes, lost 46% of Hispanics, 40% of women under 30, one in five black guys, man, this is really bad. 1.00
00:36:24.080 I know what we'll do. 0.96
00:36:26.040 We will defend wife-beating illegals who are probably members of MS-13. 1.00
00:36:30.540 We'll fly to El Salvador to do it.
00:36:32.240 We'll forget about our own constituents whose daughters and family members have been the victims of illegal aliens. 0.81
00:36:37.580 And then we'll spend 20 million bucks primarying the even slightly sensible Democrats.
00:36:45.380 Man, where can I invest in the Republican Party?
00:36:49.360 Are there, I'm sure there are markets for this.
00:36:51.320 I don't, the, in my mind, at least, the betting odds on the Republicans have gone way, way up in the last 24 hours.
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00:37:28.780 My favorite comment yesterday is from TheShafe47, who says, he's not an alleged killer, Michael.
00:37:37.000 This is, I assume, referring to the alleged killer of Austin Metcalf.
00:37:42.100 He says, he's not an alleged killer, Michael.
00:37:43.600 He told the cops he did it.
00:37:45.080 Yeah, sure.
00:37:46.080 I actually didn't even know that he confessed.
00:37:47.400 But even if he did, one still has to use the word alleged until he's convicted.
00:37:52.780 It's just a little quirk of both journalism and our justice system.
00:37:59.300 Even if a guy confesses, they could throw out the confession.
00:38:03.240 It could be a false confession.
00:38:04.240 So you have to say alleged, even if you have it on video, a guy doing it.
00:38:08.740 You have to say it, but you can say it with a sigh and a wink and a nod.
00:38:12.000 But speaking of the left in turmoil, that's true not only in America, but all around the world.
00:38:20.180 The UK Supreme Court yesterday just issued a very powerful ruling.
00:38:25.200 It's actually an indictment of our civilization that we need such a ruling.
00:38:29.040 But, okay, I'd rather have it than not have it.
00:38:31.820 The UK Supreme Court has ruled that men cannot actually be women.
00:38:38.180 And it is a big deal.
00:38:39.180 I don't mean just to mock it.
00:38:40.140 It is a big deal. 0.97
00:38:42.000 Silly, but it is a big deal. 0.93
00:38:44.440 The unanimous decision of this court, writes the Supreme Court, is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex. 0.94
00:38:56.680 That's according to the court's deputy president, Lord Hodge.
00:39:00.640 The court decision came about, as you might infer, from this act to protect sex and gender and blah, blah, blah.
00:39:09.100 And the court rules now.
00:39:10.220 You can't, there's no such thing as a gender identity that is distinct from and contrary to biological sex.
00:39:19.920 There are no legal protections for any such thing.
00:39:22.740 Men are men and women are women and men can't become women. 1.00
00:39:24.940 The trans thing is over. 1.00
00:39:26.420 The trans thing is over. 1.00
00:39:28.100 It's over.
00:39:28.860 You heard it here first.
00:39:30.360 Maybe not first, but you heard it here early at least.
00:39:33.340 And you heard it from the guy who a couple years ago called on a national stage for transgenderism to be eradicated from public life entirely.
00:39:41.220 The whole ideology.
00:39:42.120 Not to say that someone can't be confused in his own bedroom, but from public life, we got to get rid of this thing. 0.99
00:39:48.040 It's ridiculous. 0.95
00:39:49.280 Well, here we go. 0.86
00:39:50.300 Two years later, it's over.
00:39:52.800 It's over.
00:39:55.320 Transgenderism is the new lobotomy. 1.00
00:39:57.520 I should be more specific.
00:39:59.240 The trans-affirming surgeries and procedures.
00:40:02.360 It's the new lobotomy.
00:40:03.800 It's going to be a punchline in 50 years, if not sooner.
00:40:07.020 We need to keep pushing, obviously.
00:40:08.900 We need to make sure that all of the last vestiges of this preposterous and harmful ideology are eradicated from public life.
00:40:17.560 But the beginning of the end is upon us.
00:40:21.220 It's done.
00:40:22.660 It was a weird fever dream we had.
00:40:24.880 Weird fads take over cultures pretty regularly.
00:40:28.520 And this was just the one of the last 10 years.
00:40:30.500 But it's over.
00:40:31.780 No one seriously believes it anymore.
00:40:33.280 It has no public support.
00:40:34.840 Not here.
00:40:35.540 Not in the UK.
00:40:36.520 Not throughout the West.
00:40:37.600 It never really had the public support outside of the West.
00:40:41.320 It was really weird.
00:40:43.960 And our grandchildren are going to look back on this time.
00:40:47.200 And they are, at best case scenario for us, they're going to say, man, that was a really weird thing you guys all did when you chopped up people and pretended they were the opposite sex.
00:40:55.620 Worst case and more likely scenario, they're going to condemn us for tolerating this. 0.96
00:40:59.820 Because this ideology has ruined many, many lives, including the lives of children who did not have the ability to consent to this kind of thing and who had it foisted upon them by perverted and ignorant parents and doctors and teachers. 0.94
00:41:16.660 And we're going to look bad. 0.94
00:41:19.320 Those of us who stood against it, I suppose, will look better.
00:41:21.660 But what I'm saying is our generation is going to look really, really bad for this.
00:41:27.220 You heard it from the UK Supreme Court.
00:41:29.180 Now, speaking of international affairs, you know the story of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who had his house burned in part by an arsonist.
00:41:41.360 People didn't know what the motive was.
00:41:43.560 Some of us suspected, but we weren't sure.
00:41:46.280 And we didn't know the politics of the alleged arsonist who burned it down.
00:41:51.720 Well, now we know.
00:41:52.700 And it's always the ones you most expect.
00:41:56.520 This guy, the person who's been arrested and is being charged with this crime, attacked Shapiro because of, quote, what he, Shapiro, wants to do to the Palestinian people, according to a search warrant signed by the Pennsylvania State Police.
00:42:11.540 The guy's name, I usually don't say, I won't say a full name on the show or I'll try not to of a criminal like this.
00:42:17.600 But I do have to say his last name.
00:42:20.360 His last name is Bomber.
00:42:22.700 The guy who set fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion, his name is Bomber, which reminds me of an old principle, Nomen Est Omen.
00:42:33.460 The name is a sign.
00:42:35.980 Sometimes, you know, all nature is but art unknown to the Nomen Est Omen here.
00:42:39.520 Bomber, who's not a kid, by the way, he's 38 years old.
00:42:43.620 He, according to one of the warrants, targeted Shapiro, quote, based upon perceived injustices to the people of Palestine.
00:42:50.460 Now, you've got to ask, what did Shapiro do to the people of Palestine?
00:42:55.900 Shapiro is a governor of a state.
00:42:58.640 Last I checked, Pennsylvania doesn't have a foreign policy.
00:43:01.780 Last I checked, Pennsylvania is not supplying the state of Israel with bombs.
00:43:05.000 Last I checked, Pennsylvania is not talking about displacing people in Gaza.
00:43:10.520 The federal government might do that.
00:43:12.240 But why Shapiro?
00:43:16.240 I think it might have something to do with the fact that his last name is Shapiro, if I had to guess.
00:43:22.060 Same reason that this guy was picked over to be Kamala Harris's running mate, even though he would have been a much better running mate than Tim Walz, because he's a Jew. 0.98
00:43:30.080 And he's focused on the Palestinian people here, this bomber. 0.98
00:43:35.180 And he says this Jew is responsible. 0.96
00:43:38.520 Okay.
00:43:38.740 Well, you get this stuff on the left, fringe left and sometimes mainstream left, but you do also get it on the fringe right.
00:43:48.260 There are people who just really, really hate the Jews and who, even beyond that, who occasionally will engage in some kind of political violence.
00:43:57.080 You know, the Oklahoma City bombing or something like that happens.
00:43:59.360 The right condemns it, unlike the left, which embraces political violence.
00:44:02.320 But the broad right condemns it, but still it could happen.
00:44:04.740 And so you say, all right, well, this guy, he was concerned about, you know, the Palestinian state, such as it is.
00:44:11.240 Or, okay, well, was he on the left or the right?
00:44:13.340 Well, according to news reports, this guy, Bomber, is a self-described Marxist.
00:44:20.180 According to Daily Wire reporting, he had a storage unit in Swatara Township with stickers of Che Guevara all over a toolbox.
00:44:28.840 So, it seems pretty firmly established that the man alleged to have committed this crime is on the left.
00:44:36.780 According to Pam Bondi, the AG, this defendant allegedly said that if, when he burned down the mansion, if he were able to get inside, he had a hammer that he was going to use to bash in the brains of Josh Shapiro.
00:44:47.280 This is a man, very clearly of the left, which means that this news story is going to disappear.
00:44:56.260 That's pretty much it.
00:44:57.300 If they could have said it's a far-right skinhead, neo-Nazi, you know, if in any way you could plausibly place this guy on the right, this would have been international news for months and might have been the basis to impeach Trump again.
00:45:12.280 Again, I mean, they got to impeach him again, don't they? But because he's on the left, and very clearly on the left, this episode of this show might be the very last time you ever hear about this story.
00:45:25.240 Now, speaking of men with complicated political views, the Health and Human Services Secretary, Bobby Kennedy, has determined that he is going to take on any potential link between toxins and autism.
00:45:38.380 This, as there is a lot of confusion over whether or not Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, will investigate vaccines, will change vaccine policy, will continue to pursue links between vaccines and autism, potentially, the kind of links that Kennedy has been alleging for his whole career.
00:45:56.280 We will get to that, but we won't get to it today, because today is Maundy Thursday.
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00:46:52.640 By the way of seeing...
00:47:06.640 What does that mean?
00:47:09.940 This is true.