The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1864 - Dem Congressional Candidate Caught Admitting She Hates Constituents

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00:01:56.780 Democrats just scored a major win on a minor technicality.

00:02:01.220 A federal judge has dismissed indictments into James Comey, former FBI director,

00:02:06.460 and Letitia James, the New York attorney general who led one of the witch hunts against President Trump.

00:02:12.000 They got off the hook, even though we know that they committed crimes.

00:02:15.780 We have the proof that they committed the crimes.

00:02:17.920 However, there is a procedural technicality.

00:02:21.960 We'll get into how it happened.

00:02:23.120 On the bright side, Democrats continue to make egregious errors,

00:02:26.680 running a candidate for Congress who openly says she hates her constituents.

00:02:31.940 Then Democrats calling President Trump a fascist after palling around with him in the Oval Office.

00:02:37.300 And Democrat legislators doubling down on men and women's sports,

00:02:41.360 the most toxic issue for them in 2024.

00:02:44.680 Maybe it'll be a live issue heading into 26 and 28.

00:02:47.200 Then finally, as an added bonus, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant makes an NBC anchor worry that she is fat. 0.98

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00:02:55.260 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:07.120 I'm going to blow through this story because it's super annoying and I don't want to think

00:05:10.640 about it much more.

00:05:11.500 But, you know, the DOJ has been prosecuting or attempting to prosecute James Comey, former

00:05:18.220 FBI director, and Letitia James.

00:05:21.980 Letitia James, the former attorney general of New York who ran for office saying that she

00:05:26.300 would prosecute Trump.

00:05:28.160 And they were going after Comey because he perjured himself under oath before Congress.

00:05:33.420 He said something that wasn't true, that we now know is not true.

00:05:36.580 When you testify before Congress, you have to take an oath that you will tell the truth.

00:05:41.140 In fact, I testified before the Senate a few weeks ago.

00:05:45.020 So, and afterward, I was talking with my old pal, Senator Cruz, and he said, you know,

00:05:50.600 Michael, it took every fiber of my being, all of my restraint not to just grill you under

00:05:55.760 oath over everything you don't want to talk about because you are compelled to tell the

00:06:01.880 truth when you testify before the House or the Senate.

00:06:05.800 Comey lied.

00:06:07.040 That's a crime.

00:06:07.980 And yet he's going to get off the hook.

00:06:09.780 Letitia James, former attorney general of New York, she committed fraud.

00:06:17.460 She said that her primary residence was going to be at a house in Virginia, even though she

00:06:23.480 was the attorney general of New York.

00:06:24.820 She said that to get a better deal on her mortgage. 0.97

00:06:28.160 Same thing.

00:06:28.960 She said that an apartment building that she owned in New York had fewer units than it did.

00:06:34.240 And it was obvious that this was not just an accidental error because she listed the number

00:06:39.740 of units as just one below what would have made the property commercial, given her a less

00:06:44.180 favorable rate.

00:06:45.160 So I know I have to say allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, but this is not just the rumor mill

00:06:51.560 here.

00:06:52.100 We have documents.

00:06:53.300 We have strong evidence.

00:06:55.840 We have James Comey's congressional testimony that they committed these crimes, and they're

00:07:00.560 going to get off the hook for now because of a technicality.

00:07:03.920 The technicality, the judge in this case ruled, is that the prosecutor didn't have the right

00:07:09.620 to bring these sorts of charges because the prosecutor was inappropriately appointed because

00:07:14.460 the DOJ didn't follow the right procedures and whatever.

00:07:16.960 So it's very, very frustrating.

00:07:20.800 Probably there will be some hand-wringing over at the DOJ about this, as well there should be.

00:07:25.940 However, the cases were dismissed without prejudice, which means that the Trump administration

00:07:30.580 could bring, or the DOJ, could bring these cases again. 0.82

00:07:34.280 I think they should.

00:07:35.620 They should just make sure that they dot their T's and cross their I's this time. 0.96

00:07:39.120 They can try again.

00:07:40.120 I think they should try again because what the American people want in all of these cases,

00:07:46.320 whether we're talking about corruption in the federal bureaucracy, at the state level,

00:07:50.580 prosecuting Trump, upending hundreds of years of American precedent, whether we're talking

00:07:54.900 about the Epstein investigation, what people really want is accountability.

00:08:00.420 It's not that they chiefly want transparency.

00:08:02.800 Governments have to do certain things in an opaque way.

00:08:04.940 That's just how statecraft works.

00:08:06.540 It's not that they chiefly want, I don't know, a prosecution for a certain crime or

00:08:11.440 prosecution of a certain person.

00:08:13.160 What they want is to believe that there are consequences for elites for doing really bad

00:08:20.020 things.

00:08:20.380 So I think it's important to hold Comey and Letitia James to account.

00:08:24.140 We'll see if that happens.

00:08:25.500 Now, that's the bad news for us, good news for Democrats.

00:08:28.580 There is some good news for us, though, and some bad news for Democrats.

00:08:31.320 There is, right here in my own town, Nashville, there's a woman running for Congress in a special 0.99

00:08:37.380 election because Mark Green, member of Congress, is retiring.

00:08:42.180 So there's going to be a special election, open seat.

00:08:44.600 And one of the candidates is a woman named Afton Bain, Afton Bain, like a J.R.R.

00:08:52.420 Tolkien character.

00:08:54.060 She is a cartoonishly bad candidate for Congress. 1.00

00:08:59.820 She, well, to put this in perspective, after there was this horrific shooting where a trans

00:09:06.360 identifying shooter targeted little Christian kids at the Covenant School.

00:09:10.460 This woman comes out and she does a Norm Macdonald bit, except earnestly. 0.95

00:09:16.140 She comes out and she says, you know, I was really, it was really, really troubling after

00:09:19.700 that trans identifying person shot up this school of Christian children because the transphobia

00:09:26.560 just became so terrible.

00:09:28.680 So for those of you who don't know, my partner has a trans son.

00:09:34.720 And the month of April and the final week of March was incredibly upsetting for us.

00:09:43.460 In the wake of the Covenant shooting and the disclosure that the Covenant shooter was trans,

00:09:48.600 I was pulled into a chat with other trans organizers and activists across the state that were fearful

00:09:53.100 of their lives.

00:09:55.540 We identified threats from white, green groups that they would show up at these Trans Day 0.99

00:10:00.880 of Visibility events and threatening our trans kids. 0.99

00:10:04.380 And so I had a snapped moment where I decided we need more people talking about the protections

00:10:09.120 for trans kids in our trans communities at the legislature every day.

00:10:12.700 The first thing I would do is I want to reiterate my, my first bill, which is to curb the expanded

00:10:20.500 state surveillance of our trans community.

00:10:23.520 Won't somebody please think of the trannies? 1.00

00:10:25.600 This woman says, yeah, remember when that psycho tranny shot up a school of sweet little 1.00

00:10:31.200 Christian children? 0.94

00:10:32.580 Yeah, that was a really hard month for me because of all the transphobia.

00:10:36.680 Because my partner, whatever that means, I don't think she's talking about an accounting

00:10:40.360 firm, my partner has a trans kid.

00:10:47.320 And yeah, it was so inconvenient when that tranny shot up all those sweet little Christian 1.00

00:10:52.940 kids.

00:10:53.300 It was so inconvenient because of the backlash against peaceful trannies. 1.00

00:11:00.300 She then, you think that there's no clip that could be worse than that, right, for this

00:11:03.900 woman trying to run for Congress.

00:11:05.040 In Tennessee, I know Nashville's liberal in a sea of conservatism.

00:11:08.720 It's still Tennessee.

00:11:10.760 And that was a local tragedy that was seriously mishandled, actually, by authorities.

00:11:19.380 They've concluded that it wasn't even ideologically motivated.

00:11:22.620 The trans identification has nothing to do with this.

00:11:25.520 You'd think that'd be the worst clip, right?

00:11:27.280 No.

00:11:28.100 No, this woman is caught on tape actually saying that she hates her city and her would-be 1.00

00:11:36.000 constituents.

00:11:36.660 I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city, I hate

00:11:45.160 the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things

00:11:49.680 that make Nashville, apparently, and its city to the rest of the country, but I hate it.

00:11:54.540 Yeah, I'm that girl.

00:11:55.900 I hate it.

00:11:56.560 I hate the city, hate everything about it, hate all of the character of the city, I hate,

00:12:00.560 I hate anything that could define this city, up to and including the people, the people

00:12:04.800 who come here, the bachelorettes, oh, I hate them. 1.00

00:12:07.560 So, okay, you say, well, look, most of the district, I guess, technically is outside Nashville

00:12:12.240 city proper, or maybe she likes that area.

00:12:14.900 Does she like Tennessee?

00:12:16.200 How about the state of Tennessee?

00:12:17.360 Do you at least like Tennessee?

00:12:18.280 So, I have an unconventional background, I'm a social worker, but on the public policy

00:12:25.400 side, and I was actually working in Europe when Trump was elected, and unlike a lot of

00:12:31.280 my colleagues, decided to move back to East Tennessee, where I grew up.

00:12:36.680 After Trump was elected?

00:12:37.500 Yeah, after Trump was elected.

00:12:39.660 Oh, my God.

00:12:40.460 Right, right, not quite the common route.

00:12:44.520 And I remember taking my parents out to eat and telling them I want to get into Tennessee

00:12:48.960 politics, and my mom started sobbing at the table, and she said, you're never supposed

00:12:53.740 to move back to godforsaken East Tennessee.

00:12:58.300 Yeah, I was living in Europe.

00:13:01.020 Isn't Europe so great?

00:13:03.280 Yeah, that's where all of us sophisticated people go.

00:13:06.100 You know, I studied abroad there.

00:13:07.220 I came back, and she's, I'm shocked she didn't have an accent. 0.84

00:13:10.480 I'm shocked she's not one of the people who goes, studies in France for three weeks.

00:13:13.960 It was, how do you say hello?

00:13:16.260 Oh, we are back in America.

00:13:18.140 How do you say I totally forget how to?

00:13:20.420 So, she comes back, she goes, yeah, I had to, I came back from Europe.

00:13:24.200 I come back to America, to this awful state of Tennessee, okay?

00:13:31.360 And then, just to round it out, there couldn't possibly be any other damaging clips of

00:13:37.200 this woman, right?

00:13:37.900 No, she's already as unlikable as possible. 1.00

00:13:40.400 She couldn't possibly be, I don't know, celebrating and encouraging political violence, could she?

00:13:44.660 Afton Bain says, I'm a very radical person.

00:13:50.040 So radical, Bain thinks, rioting is a way for people to express themselves.

00:13:55.440 Worse, Bain went on a midnight joyride harassing ICE officers and state troopers.

00:14:00.000 This is great, we've got our girl squad, and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers.

00:14:05.180 So this is like, unhinged.

00:14:06.980 And it's really f***ing scary.

00:14:11.460 We rioting, we like rioting, we like mostly peaceful arson, we love attacking cops.

00:14:18.680 We ha ha ha ha.

00:14:21.160 I don't know, she might win.

00:14:22.540 I mean, happily, Tennessee is all red, except for around Memphis and around Nashville.

00:14:27.640 The fact that, I don't know, it's still a relatively conservative area.

00:14:30.580 But truly, if this is the caliber of congressional candidate that the Democrats are running, it can mean one of two things.

00:14:38.500 It can mean either the Democrats haven't learned a lesson, they haven't moderated, the people are going to reject them wholesale in the midterms.

00:14:46.680 We'll see special election into the midterms.

00:14:48.940 Or, if she does manage to get herself elected, then it's going to be a very rough next five to ten years for some.

00:14:58.460 We're going to have, I would say, stretch out now a little bit, because we are going to be loaded onto trains, to the gulags.

00:15:06.100 We will very likely get, if you don't smoke, I would start smoking cigarettes for when they put us in front of the firing squads.

00:15:12.060 Because that is as radical as it gets.

00:15:15.700 And it's not just her, you see the scene with the Democrats in Congress, we'll get to that in one second.

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00:18:04.760 It's not just this woman.

00:18:08.180 Democrat legislators in Congress are doubling down on men and women's sports.

00:18:13.640 And this is really shocking to me.

00:18:14.960 121 Democrat House members and nine Democrat senators filed an amicus brief last week in

00:18:24.080 the Idaho case Little v. Hecocks and in West Virginia v. BPJ.

00:18:30.520 The court's going to hear this January 13, 2026.

00:18:33.440 This is all about men and women's sports.

00:18:36.460 And there's very, very little reporting on this.

00:18:38.460 But just keep it in mind as we start to look ahead to the midterms, as we start to think

00:18:42.840 where are the parties moving or is anyone moderating?

00:18:45.240 Is anyone grabbing the center, especially as we look to what's going to happen after

00:18:48.660 President Trump leaves office?

00:18:50.560 This was the cultural issue for the past, I don't know, five years.

00:18:57.920 This is what caused the collapse of the Democrat Party, is that they embraced trans ideology 1.00

00:19:04.380 all the way down to transing the kids, all the way down to men beating up girls in women's 0.68

00:19:08.440 sports and men changing in women's locker rooms.

00:19:10.960 And that caused their downfall.

00:19:13.780 That was it, more than the economy, more than immigration, more than any of the other issues.

00:19:18.140 Because with the trans issue, it shows that the Democrats have no judgment.

00:19:22.500 It shows that their judgment is totally off.

00:19:25.000 And if Democrats couldn't tell you the difference between a man and a woman, if they tried to 0.76

00:19:28.320 seriously make you believe that a man could be a woman or vice versa, then they didn't know

00:19:33.120 anything about anything.

00:19:33.940 This is, it would turn up in public opinion surveys on like common sense, common sense

00:19:39.240 issues was one way to code this.

00:19:41.660 It didn't always come up as, you know, do trans issues land in your top three priorities,

00:19:45.720 but common sense, good judgment, these sorts of, do you trust them?

00:19:49.380 That's where it would turn up.

00:19:50.940 And I thought that the Democrats got the message in 2024 after they lost the popular vote for

00:19:56.140 the first time in 20 years.

00:19:57.180 I thought they got the message, okay, we got to get rid of this stuff.

00:20:00.500 And they kind of pushed trans to the side for a while, but they're held hostage by their 0.96

00:20:04.720 ideology.

00:20:05.160 Because if they're going to hold on to feminism, if they're going to hold on to gay marriage, 0.99

00:20:11.060 so-called, if they're going to hold on to radical egalitarianism, if they're going to hold on to

00:20:16.040 all these other associated ideologies, they have to embrace transgenderism.

00:20:22.780 If you uphold so-called gay marriage, you're saying that men and women are basically the

00:20:26.700 same.

00:20:26.900 There's no meaningful difference between men and women.

00:20:29.420 So you have to embrace transgenderism.

00:20:31.560 And if you embrace transgenderism, you have to embrace men and women's sports.

00:20:36.340 You have to.

00:20:36.900 You can't, if you reject men and women's sports, you are implicitly rejecting transgenderism.

00:20:43.480 And if you embrace transgenderism, you have to embrace transing the kids. 0.98

00:20:46.820 Because you're saying it's true that a man can be a woman. 0.98

00:20:48.800 Well, why is it true for a 30-year-old, but it's not true for a 13-year-old?

00:20:53.700 You have to do it.

00:20:55.360 And so they saw that it was a huge political liability.

00:20:57.960 They tried to pull back from it.

00:20:59.440 You haven't heard a lot about the trans stuff recently.

00:21:01.560 And then they're leaning into it again.

00:21:04.260 Somewhat surreptitiously, but forcefully, 121 House members, nine senators coming out

00:21:10.780 saying, no, we need to defend men and women's sports.

00:21:13.500 This could be a live issue in the midterms and in 2028.

00:21:16.580 And I really hope it is.

00:21:17.780 I really, really hope it is.

00:21:20.000 Please, Democrats, sign any amici briefs you can.

00:21:25.240 Please, go on TV.

00:21:27.800 Please, give me those videos about congressional candidates saying the real problem with trans

00:21:34.380 violence is the transphobic backlash.

00:21:37.180 Please, give me that all day.

00:21:39.000 And for Republicans, hold their feet to the fire on this.

00:21:41.360 I know it feels cliche at this point almost.

00:21:43.080 I know it feels kind of like a dead issue because we want it so forcefully, but Democrats aren't

00:21:47.280 going to give it up because they can't give it up.

00:21:49.620 When pressed on the issue, they're going to have to defend transgenderism. 0.88

00:21:53.300 Good.

00:21:54.260 I want you to beat that dead horse until it turns into a bottle of Elmer's glue. 0.99

00:21:58.420 Okay.

00:21:58.640 I want you to beat that dead horse issue into oblivion because it generates, one, as a matter

00:22:06.240 of justice, but two, electorally, it's just gold.

00:22:10.180 It's absolute gold.

00:22:12.040 And Dems don't want to give it up? 0.99

00:22:13.180 Fine.

00:22:13.460 Fine by me.

00:22:14.080 Speaking of men and women, Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary.

00:22:18.780 I'm a great admirer of the man.

00:22:20.120 I've interviewed him a couple times.

00:22:21.460 I think he's just terrific.

00:22:22.640 Scott Besson just had a beautiful interview on NBC News.

00:22:27.060 And look, they bring Scott Besson out not to talk about all the really sexy cultural

00:22:31.000 issues.

00:22:31.520 They bring him out.

00:22:32.180 He's the Treasury Secretary.

00:22:33.420 So he's brought out to talk about things like inflation, sometimes trade or tariffs,

00:22:38.680 the Federal Reserve, all these really boring, dry issues that just affect the economy or

00:22:43.520 whatever.

00:22:44.040 So they bring him on.

00:22:44.940 But he adds a little pizzazz to it.

00:22:48.260 I'm not even going to set it up.

00:22:51.160 Here is Scott Besson speaking to NBC News.

00:22:54.880 Well, and banana prices are up almost 7 percent.

00:22:59.380 Coffee prices up nearly 19 percent.

00:23:01.780 Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs in admission that ultimately they do drive up

00:23:07.300 prices for consumers?

00:23:08.700 Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?

00:23:11.160 That I do not know.

00:23:12.540 Exactly.

00:23:13.200 But you know how much you weigh.

00:23:14.360 You get on the scale every morning.

00:23:16.380 Inflation is a composite number.

00:23:18.120 And we look at everything.

00:23:19.220 So we are trying, we try to push down the things we can control.

00:23:23.960 And as I said, that we are working on the energy prices are down and everything flows

00:23:32.560 from that.

00:23:33.780 And I think we're going to see these other prices come down.

00:23:37.400 Rare.

00:23:37.880 I love this so much because Besson's so smart and he just operates at a very high level.

00:23:45.960 So he's sitting there.

00:23:46.980 She goes, you know, banana prices are up.

00:23:48.960 You know, she picks a few examples of places where prices have gone up.

00:23:52.000 Inflation actually is quite under control right now.

00:23:54.240 And the San Francisco Federal Reserve just discovered that the tariffs, far from being

00:23:59.200 inflationary, actually were deflationary.

00:24:01.040 And so she says, but in these few examples, the prices have gone up.

00:24:06.500 He says, Christian, how much does your arm weigh?

00:24:10.600 You don't know how much your arm weighs, right?

00:24:13.120 It's just a part of you and you don't, that's not a meaningful number.

00:24:18.140 He says, of course, you don't know how much your arm weighs, but you know how much you weigh.

00:24:22.400 Kristen, every morning you get up, you walk over to that scale, don't you?

00:24:27.960 In the bathroom, you look at yourself in the mirror, disappointed more.

00:24:31.040 More and more each day, wondering how many more flaps, how many more folds are going to

00:24:36.460 appear on your body before the aging starts to reverse course and you start to thin out.

00:24:44.020 You become a stick and a rail before you die.

00:24:47.700 You almost wish that that process might begin because of how fat you look, Kristen.

00:24:53.580 Every time you reach for a muffin, you say, I can't eat it.

00:24:59.540 I don't want to eat it, lest no man in my life ever look at me with desire again.

00:25:09.260 Well, anyway, Kristen, that's kind of how inflation is.

00:25:11.680 Because, you know, you're really measuring the whole thing, right, Kristen?

00:25:14.380 Is Kristen, I don't, I don't do it.

00:25:17.560 She's not fat, by the way.

00:25:18.760 She's not fat.

00:25:20.320 She is a good-looking woman.

00:25:22.740 Just say, I love that, the kind of the needling there.

00:25:27.120 How much does your arm weigh here?

00:25:28.300 You don't know that.

00:25:28.820 You know how much you weigh, though, don't you?

00:25:30.620 Yeah.

00:25:32.040 Yeah, Kristen, I want to talk about that.

00:25:35.880 It's so beautiful.

00:25:36.960 It's great.

00:25:37.560 Anyway, I love it.

00:25:38.300 And it's true. 0.56

00:25:38.660 And he makes a good point on how we should consider inflation and bananas and the whole economy.

00:25:45.680 Because what the Libs are going to do and what the Lib journos are going to do is they're going to try to point to one number.

00:25:51.980 This number, just whatever the bad numbers are, they're going to try to point to that.

00:25:55.340 Meanwhile, if you're looking at Trump's economy right now, you can say, overall, stock markets are at record highs.

00:26:01.500 That's great.

00:26:03.600 Inflation is back under control.

00:26:05.060 In some cases, the tariffs actually were deflationary.

00:26:08.300 Real wages are up because wage growth and salary growth has outpaced inflation.

00:26:15.500 And you're looking pretty good.

00:26:16.880 GDP growth has been strong, relatively strong.

00:26:21.040 The jobs numbers in September doubled forecasts, so more than doubled forecasts.

00:26:25.220 So overall, the economy's looking pretty good under Trump.

00:26:27.860 And a lot of things that the genius economists in the Libs predicted would happen, namely massive inflation because of the tariffs, that didn't happen.

00:26:34.060 Actually, the opposite happened.

00:26:35.060 So it was a very effective way for Scott Besson to do it, and I found it funny and delightful.

00:26:42.120 Now, speaking of NBC News, Zoran Mamdani goes on NBC News to Kristen Welker, who actually did a great job here.

00:26:50.540 She holds his feet to the fire because Zoran just palled around with Trump in the Oval Office.

00:26:57.260 Hold on.

00:26:57.480 I thought Trump was a fascist.

00:26:58.560 We'll get to that momentarily first, though.

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00:29:16.960 Back on MSNBC News.

00:29:18.480 No, sorry.

00:29:18.900 NBC News.

00:29:19.500 Kristen Welker grills Zoran Mamdani after his Oval Office PAL session, his bro session with Trump.

00:29:27.460 And she asks a very good question.

00:29:31.860 Why are you so chummy with Trump?

00:29:33.500 I thought he was a fascist.

00:29:34.480 In that press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that

00:29:41.880 President Trump is, in fact, a fascist, a word that you've used in the past.

00:29:46.120 You were about to answer.

00:29:47.560 Then President Trump sort of jumped in and he said, quote, that's OK.

00:29:51.260 You can just say yes.

00:29:52.660 It's easier than explaining it.

00:29:54.700 So, Mr. Mayor-elect, just to be very clear, do you think that President Trump is a fascist?

00:30:00.600 And after President Trump said that, I said yes.

00:30:03.000 So you do.

00:30:03.840 And that's something that I've said in the past.

00:30:05.480 I say it today.

00:30:06.220 And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were

00:30:10.780 not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment.

00:30:15.440 And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an

00:30:20.260 affordability crisis for New Yorkers.

00:30:21.980 You've also said in the past that President Trump has engaged in a, quote, attack on our

00:30:27.300 democracy.

00:30:27.960 You've called him a despot.

00:30:29.600 Do you still believe President Trump is a threat to the democracy?

00:30:33.140 Everything that I've said in the past, I continue to believe.

00:30:35.420 And that's the thing that I think is important in our politics.

00:30:39.920 What a doofus.

00:30:43.320 What a total doofus.

00:30:44.560 He, man, Trump laid that trap out and he just walked right to it like a giant political bear

00:30:51.520 trap right underneath the resolute desk and Mamdani walked right into it.

00:30:56.960 Great question from Kristen Welker here because her incredulity is so obviously justified. 1.00

00:31:05.440 A picture says a thousand words.

00:31:08.280 Mamdani might say with his words, oh, yes.

00:31:11.080 No, I still think Trump is a fascist.

00:31:13.380 I think he's a despot.

00:31:14.540 I think he is an authoritarian ruler, an existential threat to our country.

00:31:22.060 But then you look at the picture of Zoran in the Oval Office and there they are just broing 1.00

00:31:27.600 out, just palling around.

00:31:29.000 And if Zoran really believed that Trump were Hitler, would he be smiling like a little schoolboy

00:31:37.320 in that Oval Office?

00:31:39.360 Would he and Trump be patting each other on the back, slapping, having fun, joking around

00:31:44.280 together with the press?

00:31:46.480 If you seriously believe that someone poses an existential threat to your country and to

00:31:52.660 democracy, do you treat him like your buddy?

00:31:56.660 No.

00:31:58.320 And so then you have this contradiction here.

00:32:01.600 What Zoran is saying on NBC News to try to save face and what Zoran did in the Oval Office

00:32:08.920 with Trump when it counted.

00:32:11.460 With his words, he said Trump is a fascist and a dictator and a despot and an authoritarian

00:32:16.320 and he's Hitler 2.0, whatever.

00:32:18.460 But what he did, what he showed you in color, in 3D, is that he doesn't believe any of that.

00:32:24.840 He made himself out to be a doofus. 0.55

00:32:27.780 He made himself out to be a total joke.

00:32:30.400 Even the way he delivers this line on NBC.

00:32:33.260 So do you think he's a fascist?

00:32:34.780 I do.

00:32:35.360 Yeah.

00:32:35.760 I do think he's a fascist.

00:32:38.340 That was the guy you were hanging out with yesterday, like joking around with?

00:32:40.700 Yes, I think he's Hitler. 0.91

00:32:41.900 Yeah.

00:32:42.320 I think I was.

00:32:43.620 Yes.

00:32:44.100 I think I was palling around with Hitler yesterday.

00:32:46.220 We had a lovely lunch, Hitler and I.

00:32:48.360 It was, we had schnitzel and schpetzel.

00:32:49.900 It was, it was delicious.

00:32:51.800 Yeah.

00:32:52.260 I think he's the, I think he's the devil incarnate.

00:32:55.640 Yeah.

00:32:56.080 We were texting last night, actually.

00:32:57.440 Yeah.

00:32:57.740 Yeah.

00:32:58.080 Yeah.

00:32:58.260 He's an existential threat to the country.

00:33:00.840 Brutal.

00:33:01.520 Brutal.

00:33:02.240 Well, well done by the president.

00:33:04.840 Really amateur stuff.

00:33:07.040 And Zoran's a good politician.

00:33:08.320 He's clearly a very talented politician.

00:33:13.140 Not talented enough, apparently.

00:33:15.420 Not talented enough to avoid that trap.

00:33:17.520 Okay.

00:33:18.400 Turning to actual threats.

00:33:20.880 Horrific story out of Nigeria. 1.00

00:33:23.960 Many of you have been following this.

00:33:25.620 I've been retweeting things about, you know, I've been posting a little bit about it on social media.

00:33:30.040 I don't, we've covered it broadly on the show, the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

00:33:34.940 But the attack a few days ago was particularly egregious.

00:33:41.680 315 Catholic school children were kidnapped by Muslims in Nigeria.

00:33:46.380 12 teachers in addition to the 315 school children kidnapped by Muslim gunmen in Nigeria.

00:33:55.980 Happily, as of yesterday, 50 children escaped.

00:33:58.740 They took so many kids that 50 kids were allowed to get out.

00:34:01.480 Then also yesterday, another 25 Christian students were kidnapped from a school in Kebby.

00:34:09.660 Just, just absolutely awful.

00:34:12.040 It's a reminder that we, we talk about the persecution of Christians in America, and specifically Catholics, actually, under Joe Biden.

00:34:18.800 Where Joe Biden was, even when he was vice president, was bringing lawfare against nuns, you know, little sisters of the poor.

00:34:25.140 And he was spying on Catholic churches, calling us traditionalist extremists, you know, terrorist threats, basically.

00:34:32.580 Because we like the Latin mass, you know, mass of the ages.

00:34:35.640 But, look, I guess that is a kind of a persecution.

00:34:41.900 Compare that to what real persecution looks like in Nigeria.

00:34:46.600 That's what we're seeing.

00:34:47.340 It's a reminder that, as everyone plays the victim game, and, you know, we all talk about, this is, the real threat's here, the real threat's there.

00:34:56.260 The real threat's Islamophobia, we hear from this woman who wants to be the Congress lady from Nashville. 1.00

00:35:02.680 The most persecuted religion in the world is Christianity.

00:35:08.180 Christians are the most persecuted religious group.

00:35:10.200 By far, it's not even close.

00:35:11.420 And Christians are persecuted by all sorts of different groups, you know, in secular liberalism, you know, there's a kind of an atheist persecution.

00:35:21.440 But the chief persecutors of Christians are Muslims. 0.71

00:35:25.800 And that's been true for a very long time.

00:35:27.780 That's been true for about 1,400 years now, and you're seeing it in Nigeria now. 0.95

00:35:31.800 So, the question is, what do we do?

00:35:33.300 There can be all sorts of debates.

00:35:35.620 Should the United States intervene?

00:35:37.560 We're the global hegemon, but we don't want to get involved in wars that don't directly affect

00:35:41.340 the national interest.

00:35:42.560 And we don't want to get involved in abstract ideological wars, you know, to spread liberalism

00:35:47.040 and democracy in the Middle East or something.

00:35:48.960 Do we want to get involved for religious reasons?

00:35:50.960 That's a little deeper and more defensible than ideological reasons.

00:35:55.120 We are a Christian country, after all, and we want to support our Christian brethren.

00:36:01.320 Maybe, yeah, maybe.

00:36:02.780 There are going to be some more isolationist types who don't want to do that.

00:36:06.620 I guess the question that I would ask is, have you prayed?

00:36:11.340 Have you prayed?

00:36:12.180 This is, because everyone says, why aren't we all talking about persecution of Christians

00:36:16.160 in Nigeria?

00:36:16.720 Why aren't we talking about it?

00:36:18.080 Why aren't we doing something about it?

00:36:19.340 Why aren't we?

00:36:19.620 And I share some of that frustration.

00:36:22.640 But you do have to ask yourself, have you personally prayed for the Catholic school children

00:36:28.380 in Nigeria who were kidnapped, who were under the control of Muslim lunatics there? 0.99

00:36:33.120 For the 100,000 Christians who have been murdered in Nigeria recently?

00:36:37.840 For the tens of thousands of churches that have been burned down?

00:36:41.620 Have you just prayed for them?

00:36:43.260 Because as my friend Father Ben Keeley points out, prayer is not the last resort.

00:36:46.700 Prayer is the first resort.

00:36:48.240 Have you done that?

00:36:50.020 I don't know.

00:36:50.840 Maybe not.

00:36:51.360 If you haven't, maybe you should.

00:36:53.360 Another minor point before we get to the mailbag.

00:36:55.160 It's not a minor point.

00:36:55.840 It's actually a major point.

00:36:56.720 But it has a personal aspect to it.

00:36:59.060 But you'll recall, last week, I was talking about this congressional candidate, Democrat

00:37:06.180 congressional candidate, Jack Schlossberg.

00:37:08.040 He's John Kennedy's grandson.

00:37:10.380 And I was making some jokes about his congressional campaign.

00:37:12.400 He's running in New York.

00:37:13.520 And I said, you know, I don't want it to be personal because he was a schoolmate of mine.

00:37:16.740 He was a couple years younger than me or so.

00:37:18.480 And actually, his sister was in my class.

00:37:22.040 Really awful story.

00:37:23.020 It became a major national, even international news story a couple days ago when it was revealed

00:37:28.680 that his sister, JFK's granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, was diagnosed with a very aggressive

00:37:37.060 rare terminal cancer.

00:37:39.400 And I really didn't know her as an undergraduate, even though she was in my class.

00:37:43.840 I remember her vividly, but I didn't really know her.

00:37:45.880 But by all accounts, she seemed really lovely, very sweet, very nice, nice gal.

00:37:49.540 Just so awful.

00:37:50.360 She's very, very young, has two young kids.

00:37:52.280 She was diagnosed right after she gave birth.

00:37:55.580 It was actually in the hospital while giving birth.

00:37:57.320 They discovered this and diagnosed her.

00:37:58.800 And it's really awful.

00:37:59.460 It seems quite dire.

00:38:00.400 So anyway, just a request of prayer for her as well.

00:38:03.240 You know, obviously, she has a kind of political profile because she's JFK's granddaughter and 0.55

00:38:07.860 she's done some work as a journalist and writer.

00:38:10.460 Just also a little personal request, if you wouldn't mind praying for Tatiana.

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00:39:30.100 My favorite comment yesterday, it's from Carrie T59.

00:39:35.760 It says, when Mom Donnie got back to New York, he heard the displeasure from his people

00:39:39.040 and starting mouthing off again about Trump.

00:39:40.760 What a weasel.

00:39:41.420 Yeah, what a weasel.

00:39:42.020 I know, it's like, it just, but it's great, actually.

00:39:45.740 It's great.

00:39:46.420 I love it so much.

00:39:47.360 That was the whole point.

00:39:48.360 That was the point of the Oval Office meeting, was for Trump to kill him with kindness,

00:39:52.620 do the thing that no one expected him to do, make Mom Donnie play nice, and then expose

00:39:59.700 him as a hypocrite, because he's playing nice with Hitler. 0.85

00:40:02.640 I thought Trump was Hitler, and you're friends with Hitler now, and you're going to work with 0.97

00:40:06.820 Hitler. 0.57

00:40:07.240 We're going to work together.

00:40:08.260 We, I agree with Hitler. 1.00

00:40:09.960 This is what Trump said.

00:40:11.520 He goes, listen, I would, I do feel confident.

00:40:14.040 I would live in New York under Mom Donnie.

00:40:16.140 He and I agree on a lot more, a lot more than I thought about.

00:40:20.180 He agrees with Hitler. 0.99

00:40:21.700 Have I made my point clear?

00:40:23.320 He, he called me Hitler, and he agrees with Hitler. 1.00

00:40:26.960 He's Hitler. 0.95

00:40:27.880 Yeah, right.

00:40:28.520 And he's your buddy, too.

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00:40:36.900 This is Gray Howard.

00:40:37.920 I'm 12 years old, and I watch the show every day.

00:40:40.120 It's the best show on Daily Wire.

00:40:43.000 Anyways, since you have so much experience rizzing up sweet little Elisa, I would like

00:40:47.940 some rizz tips.

00:40:53.900 Great.

00:40:55.220 That's, hey, that's great, man.

00:40:57.260 Thank you for watching every day.

00:40:59.080 Thank you for your excellent taste and the best Daily Wire show.

00:41:03.320 And I'm happy to give you some rizz tips because it's, it's, in fact, the case that I did rizz

00:41:08.860 up sweet little Elisa.

00:41:10.000 I rizzed her up real good. 1.00

00:41:11.480 So how do you rizz up a girl, especially if you're 12? 0.95

00:41:14.520 You know, I think I had my first girlfriend when I was 12.

00:41:17.520 She was 13.

00:41:18.300 It was very scandalous.

00:41:20.000 It was not sweet little Elisa, actually.

00:41:21.560 She was close, though.

00:41:22.240 She was like the third or fourth girlfriend. 0.88

00:41:25.960 Well, very important.

00:41:27.900 You need to be confident.

00:41:30.260 Women like confidence. 1.00

00:41:31.700 So, especially at that age, no boy is confident.

00:41:35.580 So if you can fake it, you're good.

00:41:38.060 And confidence is not machismo.

00:41:40.400 It's not being a braggart or anything like that.

00:41:43.400 It's not overcompensating.

00:41:45.500 It's, it's a little, you find it's a little more still.

00:41:49.840 Here's a good example.

00:41:50.560 You know, when a girl is flirting, sometimes she'll like, she'll be kind of uneasy and 0.91

00:41:55.680 she'll move around.

00:41:56.260 Sometimes she'll play with her hair.

00:41:57.720 You know, that's when a girl is flirting and she's feeling, you know.

00:42:00.180 And it's, it's great.

00:42:03.240 That's a sign that you can pay attention to.

00:42:05.260 But the, the kind of compliment to that is when you are still and you're in command of

00:42:10.560 yourself, of your voice, of your, you make eye contact, not in a creepy way, but enough

00:42:14.520 eye contact.

00:42:15.400 You're very still, you know.

00:42:16.400 And so that's it.

00:42:18.560 And so you're confident, you're solid, you approach the girl, and you have to be sincerely

00:42:26.980 interested in her.

00:42:29.060 So that's the key.

00:42:29.980 And you can't, I wouldn't recommend faking that.

00:42:32.140 I would say, what's, girls are great. 1.00

00:42:33.780 You know, girls are fun. 1.00

00:42:34.920 So you say, oh, you like something about her.

00:42:36.820 When you talk about it a little bit, oh, you know, I love whatever that thing.

00:42:40.420 Oh, we should go to the sock hop or whatever, I don't know, whatever kids do now.

00:42:44.560 We should go to the mall this weekend or something.

00:42:46.900 Oh, yeah, I'd love to.

00:42:47.660 Oh, that thing that you find interesting.

00:42:49.420 I'd love to hear more about that.

00:42:50.840 Oh, yeah, that's cool.

00:42:52.460 Oh, you like such and such, but we should go see that movie or whatever.

00:42:55.060 And just, pretty confident, not overpowering about it.

00:42:59.480 You just, you have some confidence.

00:43:01.480 You have some solidity to you.

00:43:03.820 You have a genuine interest in the girl.

00:43:06.700 And you, and you riz her up.

00:43:08.180 That's how you riz her up.

00:43:08.920 Okay, next, next question.

00:43:11.780 Hey, Michael, I just watched your latest episode of Bar Fight, which was lovely.

00:43:17.860 The one fella brought up the marital contract where, in a marriage, a wife owes her husband a certain activity.

00:43:28.880 And I was wondering if there is another side to that contract, if the wife gets anything from the husband.

00:43:36.620 I mean, obviously, we get stuff from our husbands. 0.99

00:43:38.860 But, like, in that sense, what is owed to us from our husbands?

00:43:44.000 Thanks.

00:43:44.360 This is a great, this is a marvelously womanly question.

00:43:51.300 Because the marital debt refers to the conjugal act, let's say.

00:43:57.440 That's what it refers to.

00:43:58.340 When you take your vows, when you sign up to get married, you are committing to, with some regularity, barring extreme circumstances, bumping uglies.

00:44:11.240 That's what you're doing.

00:44:12.400 And being open to life and, you know, the consequences of that and everything, right?

00:44:16.100 So, that's what it refers to.

00:44:18.960 And I love how you say, well, okay, so that means that the wife owes the man sex. 0.94

00:44:25.020 What's the wife get? 1.00

00:44:26.720 Because the actual answer is, she gets the sex, too.

00:44:32.580 You know, it comes, St. Paul writes about this, I think, in 1 Corinthians, right?

00:44:35.720 He says, you know, men do not withhold the conjugal right from your wife, and wives don't withhold the conjugal right from your husbands.

00:44:41.680 So, I like, you're thinking, like, does it mean I get to go to Cabo once a year?

00:44:45.540 Does that, does it, do I get, like, a nice scented candle or something?

00:44:48.500 What do I, will he cook me dinner one night?

00:44:50.220 No, it, it just refers to that.

00:44:53.960 And it is true that, generally speaking, men are more interested in that than women are.

00:44:59.880 Not that women aren't interested, but men are very interested in that.

00:45:03.100 But that's it.

00:45:04.080 And hopefully women, you know, as you say, hopefully women feel as though they get a lot of things from their men.

00:45:09.200 But that's it.

00:45:10.700 The man owes it to the woman, the woman owes it to the man. 1.00

00:45:13.260 It's the same thing.

00:45:14.500 Next one.

00:45:16.200 Hi, Michael.

00:45:17.260 So, one of my friends from high school, who was a Christian and still claims to be, came out as a lesbian our senior year.

00:45:23.520 And while I know gay marriage isn't a thing, according to the state, she's legally married to a woman now. 0.52

00:45:27.960 She and her partner want to use a donor to have a kid together. 1.00

00:45:30.960 And while there are a lot of problems with that, here's my main issue.

00:45:34.140 I have a young kid, and I plan to have more.

00:45:37.100 I don't want to have to explain why their friend Timmy has two moms.

00:45:40.700 It's my only option to end my friendship with her to protect my kids from that.

00:45:44.960 Thank you.

00:45:45.580 Yeah, tough situation.

00:45:47.580 I would counsel you to maybe bring this up to your friend before she commits this very serious sin, before she creates a child at the baby store intentionally to deprive that child of his natural father.

00:46:04.040 It's a very awful thing to do to a child.

00:46:06.480 And so, I would maybe, since you're her friend, I would maybe counsel her to think about that, you know, to consider the bioethics of it and not to do that.

00:46:14.420 And, you know, I'm not saying you need to, like, throw her off a rooftop or something.

00:46:16.800 You don't even need to really address the lesbian thing. 1.00

00:46:18.620 You could just, you know, say, hey, you know, we kind of are where we are, but I wouldn't recommend doing that thing and explaining why.

00:46:27.940 And she might, who knows, she might end your friendship over that comment. 0.97

00:46:32.700 But I think it would be good.

00:46:33.640 That's a helpful and loving thing to do to your friend.

00:46:35.800 And it's not to say that you can never, you know, see your friend again or go get drinks or something.

00:46:42.480 But, you know, if you really fear that this woman, not just even having the lesbian partner, but, you know, going through the supposed marriage and then, you know, creating a child in this deeply, deeply immoral way. 0.92

00:46:56.980 If you fear that that will really scandalize your kid, then it seems to me you're going to want to circumscribe that friendship.

00:47:04.400 I'm not saying you got to cut the lady out entirely, but you're probably going to want to circumscribe that to protect your kid from that. 1.00

00:47:08.940 That's probably true.

00:47:09.760 And it's sad, it's sad, because maybe you can avoid that by explaining your concerns.

00:47:16.120 And maybe your friend will be open to it, but it's not so easy.

00:47:21.700 Some people, the open-minded liberal types will say, oh, what are you talking about?

00:47:24.640 It's no big deal.

00:47:25.200 But you don't want to scandalize a kid.

00:47:27.560 You really don't.

00:47:28.120 That's what the Millstone verses are about.

00:47:30.280 Okay, last mailbag question.

00:47:32.880 Last voicemail.

00:47:33.420 Hey, Michael.

00:47:33.940 I heard something recently on modesty that has me questioning everything.

00:47:37.480 Apparently, Our Lady of Fatima said that certain fashions would be introduced that offended our Lord.

00:47:44.040 And then people on the internet are saying that means no shorts, no pants, no short-sleeved shirts.

00:47:50.880 And I don't know what to make of it all.

00:47:54.260 Is modesty relative to the time?

00:47:57.120 Or should I be wearing long sleeves and ankle-length skirts every day?

00:48:03.920 Just trying to, you know, avoid hell and grow in virtue.

00:48:08.180 Thanks.

00:48:08.500 Good question.

00:48:10.600 I didn't know that about Our Lady of Fatima.

00:48:13.040 I'm hearing it now for the first time, okay?

00:48:15.700 And she is an amazing woman.

00:48:16.840 Our Lady is an amazing woman, without question about it. 0.98

00:48:19.120 And I don't, and I do subscribe.

00:48:21.160 You know, I do believe in the Fatima apparitions.

00:48:23.160 For those of you who don't know, it's that Mary appeared to three children in Portugal about 100 years ago.

00:48:29.440 So, it's much to say about that, that we don't have time here.

00:48:33.580 So, that's what the question's about.

00:48:35.640 And I suppose, you know, when it comes to an apparition such as Fatima, you are not obligated as a matter of your faith to believe in it.

00:48:44.480 But it seems you do believe in the apparition.

00:48:46.960 And maybe you believe in this supposed aspect of it.

00:48:50.060 So, then let's get to the issue itself, the modesty.

00:48:53.820 I would not advocate going full burqa. 0.97

00:48:56.320 I think the Muslims take it a little bit too far. 1.00

00:48:59.260 However, I have said a tasteful headscarf is nice. 1.00

00:49:01.740 Good enough for Audrey Hepburn, good enough for any of us.

00:49:06.040 On the point of shorts, sometimes the shorts are a little, they're a little much, you know, in public.

00:49:11.520 Maybe not around the house, you know, when you're just with your husband or whatever.

00:49:14.320 But when you're out in public, sometimes, let me, the athletic wear where it's the skin-tight little yoga pants and stuff, it's too much.

00:49:22.640 It's too much.

00:49:23.400 Even sometimes, like, really form-fitting jeans or whatever, it's, it's not, I'm not saying it needs to be proscribed by law.

00:49:31.680 I'm saying it's not the most modest.

00:49:32.840 And sometimes, guys, they look okay.

00:49:36.520 And even with, I don't know, short-sleeved shirts, I think, are probably okay.

00:49:41.620 But not if it's got a plunging neckline or if it's, I don't know.

00:49:44.480 I mean, you have to take that seriously.

00:49:45.940 And this is not that we're instituting Sharia law in America.

00:49:50.000 You know, our own culture was much, much more modest until pretty recently.

00:49:55.820 I mean, the bikini was only invented in, what, the 40s?

00:49:59.400 And our, and women did dress much, much more modestly.

00:50:02.280 So, I like a dress on a lady, you know, I do. 1.00

00:50:05.640 Or, but I would just say, you don't, again, you can use some prudence here, I think, as you're working through this question.

00:50:11.140 Um, just, just about the issue itself.

00:50:14.500 Maybe you don't wear the, like, super, I don't know, skin-tight sweatpants or whatever.

00:50:21.300 Maybe you opt for maybe a little more modest pants.

00:50:25.820 Maybe you, you don't have to go full burkini at the beach, but maybe you wear a more tasteful bathing suit. 0.96

00:50:30.780 Maybe you can, we can work around these things.

00:50:32.800 Is this real?

00:50:33.980 I remember one time I was in school.

00:50:36.260 I think it was in high school.

00:50:38.160 I remember this middle school and high school.

00:50:39.440 And the girls would wear these really, like, you know, skin-tight pants and stuff like that. 1.00

00:50:43.160 I remember I was taking a test, SAT or, I don't know, whatever standardized test.

00:50:47.540 And I remember thinking, I was like, the girls are in an advantage here. 1.00

00:50:50.340 Because here I am, I'm taking the test.

00:50:52.580 And I'm distracted by the girls.

00:50:54.780 But the girls are not distracted by me.

00:50:56.980 Giga-chad though I may be.

00:50:58.220 The girls are not, I am at a disadvantage. 0.94

00:51:01.120 A sexual disadvantage.

00:51:03.420 And that's very wrong.

00:51:05.540 Maybe for that kind of situation, maybe burkas are called for, I don't know. 1.00

00:51:08.320 I don't know.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 25, 2025

Ep. 1864 - Dem Congressional Candidate Caught Admitting She Hates Constituents

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