The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1873 - Erika Kirk Addresses Assassination Conspiracies

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00:00:28.400 Erica Kirk breaks her silence in responding to conspiracy theories 1.00

00:00:32.080 around the assassination of her husband three months to the day after he was murdered.

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00:02:45.040 First, the most viral clip that was going around yesterday, really powerful stuff from Erica

00:02:51.560 Kirk, Erica, Charlie's widow, who is making the rounds right now because Charlie just had

00:03:00.120 a book come out.

00:03:00.820 A lot of people are asking, why is Erica Kirk going around on TV?

00:03:04.900 Yesterday was the third, not anniversary, it was the third month since Charlie was assassinated.

00:03:09.960 And they're saying, why is she going on TV?

00:03:11.800 The reason is that Charlie had a book coming out, and this will be his final book.

00:03:18.120 It was published posthumously.

00:03:20.240 But you just think with this poor woman, everything she's dealing with, she's grieving the death of

00:03:28.740 her husband, the assassination of her husband, right at Christmastime, which is very difficult.

00:03:33.300 She's got these two young kids.

00:03:35.160 She's got to deal with all of that.

00:03:37.120 She and Charlie, of course, were very much in the public eye.

00:03:39.880 So she's leading now this organization that is Charlie's life's work and his legacy, and

00:03:45.540 she's dealing with all of the public scrutiny that comes with that. 0.99

00:03:48.180 And on top of it, because Charlie did a million things, Charlie had a book coming out.

00:03:52.260 Some people said, why don't they delay the release of the book?

00:03:54.440 And the way publishing works is, you plan the release of a book 18 months or two years

00:04:00.700 or three years sometimes in advance.

00:04:03.180 And I also don't see why they would delay the book.

00:04:07.340 You know, it's going to be only less and less pertinent the further out you get from it.

00:04:12.980 I guess the one reason that you would delay the release of the book would be because no

00:04:17.640 one would be willing to go out and promote it.

00:04:19.780 You always have to promote a book when it comes out.

00:04:21.120 And this woman, amid everything, goes out and has the strength, the fortitude to go out

00:04:29.980 and do it.

00:04:30.500 And it's really just superhuman.

00:04:33.600 You know, Charlie had a lot of those qualities too.

00:04:36.720 So anyway, she goes on Outnumbered on Harris Faulkner's show on Fox News.

00:04:41.760 And she's asked about a lot of the conspiracy theories that have cropped up since Charlie

00:04:46.360 was killed.

00:04:47.180 Here's her breaking her silence.

00:04:51.120 Talk to me about this part of the conspiracies that are out there, this disturbing part that

00:04:57.360 people are trying to guess where Charlie is.

00:05:00.180 Can I have one thing?

00:05:03.020 Can I have one thing?

00:05:06.820 Can my children have one thing?

00:05:10.420 Everything was public.

00:05:12.040 We will be building the most beautiful memorial for my husband at Turning Point USA, and it

00:05:19.100 will be for the world to see, and it will be spectacular, and it will have basically museum

00:05:24.700 style for our Charlie, for my Charlie.

00:05:28.260 But can I have one thing?

00:05:30.320 Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred, where my husband is laid to rest,

00:05:34.500 where I don't have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and destroying my

00:05:40.360 husband's grave while my daughter is sitting there praying? 0.99

00:05:43.940 One thing.

00:05:45.400 This is my husband.

00:05:47.580 Yes, he was Charlie Kirk to the world, and I know so many people love my husband, and I

00:05:51.040 am grateful for that.

00:05:52.180 But this is my husband.

00:05:53.480 And I want to be able to have one thing left that is sacred to our family, to my in-laws,

00:06:01.080 to my babies, and to my parents.

00:06:03.200 Really powerful stuff.

00:06:06.020 And the point she's hitting on is key here, and I think a lot of people don't really appreciate

00:06:12.140 it.

00:06:13.300 She says, can we have one thing?

00:06:15.280 Can we have one thing that's private?

00:06:17.400 You know, she and Charlie lived a public life.

00:06:19.700 Charlie would have been president.

00:06:20.640 They had a very public life.

00:06:23.080 But they're people, and her kids are people, and Charlie's friends are people.

00:06:29.020 They're real people.

00:06:30.120 They're actual people.

00:06:30.940 And I think for a lot of stuff that you see flying around on Twitter or message boards

00:06:35.400 or social media, a lot of people don't recognize that.

00:06:41.220 I mean, maybe at some base level they do.

00:06:42.960 But to most people, Charlie is a bunch of pixels on a screen.

00:06:48.120 And Erica Kirk is a bunch of pixels on a screen. 1.00

00:06:50.500 And it's kind of like a whodunit.

00:06:52.220 It's a game, almost.

00:06:55.080 Not to say there aren't, obviously, there are plenty of questions about the assassination

00:06:58.000 of Charlie.

00:06:58.560 There's an investigation going on.

00:07:00.060 There are prosecutions that will take place.

00:07:02.240 There are all sorts of questions about who else knew.

00:07:04.640 How many associates of the suspect knew?

00:07:07.520 Did the tranny boyfriend, was he in on it? 1.00

00:07:09.880 Were they trying to cover themselves when they had that text message set released?

00:07:14.360 All sorts of questions, of course.

00:07:15.760 And that investigation is ongoing.

00:07:19.440 But this is a woman who had a real husband, who has real kids. 0.96

00:07:25.340 And she says, look, we're public and everything, but I just want to have some things be kind

00:07:31.420 of private.

00:07:31.820 And I remember a couple of years ago, I was giving some speech, and people asked about

00:07:40.000 the perennial drama among conservative politicians and talkers and everything, and this person

00:07:45.840 and that person, and you disavow, and this and that, and all this stuff.

00:07:48.820 And I said, you know, guys, I get why this is interesting and scintillating, kind of entertaining

00:07:53.740 for a lot of you.

00:07:54.980 I said, but for the players that you're talking about, these are real people to me.

00:07:58.580 They're not real people to you.

00:07:59.700 They're pixels on a screen to you.

00:08:01.320 To me, they're real people in flesh and blood that I actually know, and I'm friends with,

00:08:04.360 and I spend time with.

00:08:05.520 And so they'll say, you know, why don't you, I mean, gosh, this has been going on for years

00:08:09.980 and years and years.

00:08:10.740 I say, why don't you call out this person for, you know, I don't know, adopting this

00:08:15.200 left-wing view or this kind of liberal behavior or this, that, or the other thing.

00:08:19.300 And I said, you know, I talk to these people off camera too.

00:08:21.980 Not everything happens on camera.

00:08:23.220 And it's this very, very human kind of creed de coeur from Erica, who's saying, hey, guys,

00:08:31.540 can you let me have my husband?

00:08:32.340 The fact that we want to have like private memorials too, there was a very public memorial,

00:08:38.740 we want to have private things too, is so that some lunatic secular revolutionary, as

00:08:43.760 she says, doesn't come down and attack the memorial.

00:08:47.220 So that this, you know, this might be entertainment to some of you.

00:08:50.440 This might be kind of a fun game in your head, you know, who killed Kennedy.

00:08:55.160 But to me, it's real, you know, it's personal.

00:08:59.240 And she has, she has a lot of credibility.

00:09:01.020 She has a lot of authority here.

00:09:02.200 The fact that she's able to go out and do this, she's, she's, you know, maintained, I think,

00:09:09.220 a lot of dignity and quiet resolve on, on this issue.

00:09:14.140 The fact that she's able to do that is very impressive.

00:09:17.820 It reminds you of something though.

00:09:19.160 The right was so unified when Charlie was assassinated.

00:09:26.200 It's clear as day.

00:09:28.020 Charlie goes out there, the most prominent promoter of civil dialogue on the American right.

00:09:32.700 He's going out in these unsecure locations, just having open conversations with people,

00:09:37.560 letting people come up and ask him whatever questions.

00:09:40.480 Everybody knew, everybody knew that there was a security risk there.

00:09:43.480 And Charlie had gotten plenty of death threats.

00:09:47.620 Anyone on the, especially on the right who speaks in public life gets death threats,

00:09:51.220 sometimes even attempts.

00:09:52.700 And as Charlie is talking about the transgender issue where the, the trans identifying people

00:09:57.700 have been much, much more violent from firsthand experience and from the data, I guess too.

00:10:04.780 Uh, the pro trans crowd, the LGBT crowd, this guy, I guess was a furry who was dating a trans furry 0.99

00:10:10.820 or whatever goes out as Charlie's talking about that and kills him.

00:10:17.260 You know, the right was, it was, it was just so clear.

00:10:20.040 It was just so clear.

00:10:21.520 However, I think a lot of us could, not a lot, some of us could anticipate what would happen.

00:10:27.000 You know, there was this immediate response, which said, you know what?

00:10:29.120 You tried to strike Charlie down, but we're going to come back stronger than ever.

00:10:32.280 And you've awakened a beast and we're going to be more unified than ever.

00:10:34.560 And I didn't think that we could be strong.

00:10:38.100 We, we could perhaps be unified.

00:10:40.420 We could win elections and cultural battles and hegemony in the country.

00:10:46.100 We, all those things could happen, but the assassination will not help that happen because

00:10:51.280 of the very sad conclusion that no one wanted to admit after Charlie was assassinated, which

00:10:56.680 is that assassinations work.

00:10:58.760 That's why people do them.

00:10:59.800 That's the really hard fact is assassinations really work actually.

00:11:05.900 Maybe not forever, maybe not, but they really can work.

00:11:09.260 And the other part that people were missing as they talked about Charlie is a masterful

00:11:13.620 orator, debater, writer, political advisor.

00:11:17.860 Charlie's most important skill and asset was that he held the coalition together.

00:11:25.040 It's one reason that they would try to kill Charlie.

00:11:28.580 All of, all of these political battles that we've been fighting for years and years and

00:11:33.860 years, all these leftists who are threatening a bunch of the talkers, Charlie was holding

00:11:38.480 the coalition together and that creates a vacuum.

00:11:42.140 So when people predicted, oh, there'll be all this unity on the right, are you sure?

00:11:47.320 Because they killed the guy who was largely, really more than anybody else holding the 0.61

00:11:51.440 coalition together.

00:11:53.540 Really?

00:11:54.060 You sure?

00:11:54.940 And of course, three months, it's been three months.

00:11:56.680 It feels like it's been three years, doesn't it?

00:11:59.200 Three months.

00:11:59.800 I couldn't believe it when I heard that.

00:12:03.940 There was this moment of unity, right?

00:12:06.040 I gave a speech where Charlie and I were supposed to do an event together in Minneapolis, 12 days

00:12:10.700 after he died.

00:12:11.300 I did it.

00:12:11.960 And at that moment, there was a real bit of unity.

00:12:14.580 But without his strength, his leadership within that organization, within the conservative

00:12:19.340 movement, then a lot of division and chaos ensued.

00:12:23.880 It's probably going to happen for a while.

00:12:25.380 It seems to me that the person who still has that capacity, that vision, that ability

00:12:34.380 is the vice president, is J.D. Vance.

00:12:37.220 He really, especially he was so close with Charlie.

00:12:38.740 Um, but it's tough.

00:12:42.440 It's a knock.

00:12:43.020 I mean, even, even given all of that, it's a real knock.

00:12:48.620 Assassinations work.

00:12:49.420 That's why, that's why people do them.

00:12:50.800 And I think the task for all of us now is to not let them win in the long run.

00:12:55.080 You know, do not, don't give Charlie's killer the satisfaction.

00:13:01.300 Don't give the political left, which opposed Charlie.

00:13:04.140 And, you know, he had critics all over the place.

00:13:06.480 But specifically the political left, which really was organized to get him.

00:13:10.440 Don't, don't give them the satisfaction.

00:13:12.340 Now, speaking of conflict and war, looks like we're going to war in Venezuela.

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00:14:38.460 The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

00:14:42.580 It's not a good sign, is it?

00:14:45.760 Maybe it is a good sign. 0.68

00:14:47.100 I don't know.

00:14:47.640 But it, where is it?

00:14:49.040 Where is it?

00:14:49.780 Where's the story?

00:14:51.080 Here it is.

00:14:52.380 Bloomberg reporting.

00:14:53.400 U.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

00:14:56.100 They intercepted a sanctioned oil tanker.

00:14:59.760 Why did they take the oil tanker?

00:15:01.700 Well, most of the Venezuelan oil goes to China, usually through intermediaries, but that's

00:15:07.380 not great.

00:15:07.900 So they're sending oil to China, one of our geopolitical adversaries.

00:15:10.920 That's not great in our own hemisphere.

00:15:12.720 More reporting.

00:15:13.360 U.S. has imposed sanctions on the tanker for what Washington said was involvement in Iranian

00:15:17.080 oil trading when it was called the Adiza.

00:15:20.340 Venezuela has had to deeply discount its crude to its main binder, China, because of

00:15:24.480 growing competition with sanctioned oil from Russia and Iran.

00:15:27.560 So what's going on?

00:15:28.480 We have a major military buildup in and around Venezuela.

00:15:33.120 The CIA is active.

00:15:35.140 So do we support this?

00:15:36.400 Do we not support this?

00:15:37.540 If this were some regime change war in the Middle East, I don't think anybody on the right

00:15:42.700 seriously would support that.

00:15:44.300 I think we've had enough of that.

00:15:46.160 However, it's a little bit different strategy.

00:15:48.260 One, you've got Donald Trump leading this.

00:15:50.600 Trump has more grace when it comes to foreign policy because he's been better at it than any

00:15:54.700 president in my lifetime.

00:15:55.740 Two, this is our hemisphere.

00:15:56.860 And the U.S. has dominated the Western Hemisphere for over 200 years.

00:16:02.340 We have the Monroe Doctrine to say that foreign powers can't interfere in the Western Hemisphere.

00:16:09.920 So if some of our geopolitical adversaries are interfering, we're going to pay attention.

00:16:14.520 Furthermore, this is what we always do.

00:16:16.880 I just looked up, just a brief little history of U.S. interventions in Latin America, going back to 1910, 1915.

00:16:24.200 We have intervened, led coups, supported coups, supported oustings of leaders in Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic again, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, El Salvador, Grenada, Nicaragua again, Panama, Haiti.

00:16:44.720 Is that Haiti again? 0.99

00:16:46.120 Yeah, Venezuela and Honduras.

00:16:48.360 So maybe we're going to add Venezuela again to that list.

00:16:51.400 What is the takeaway for all of us?

00:16:52.960 Well, the takeaway is the U.S. has decided Maduro has to go, and they can do it the easy way or the hard way.

00:16:57.060 And they're just incrementally ramping up the pressure on Maduro.

00:17:01.280 They start zapping his drug boats.

00:17:02.960 Then they have built up a major military presence around there.

00:17:05.540 Then reportedly, the White House calls and says, hey, man, you got to go.

00:17:08.280 We'll let you go now if you leave peacefully, but otherwise it's going to get tough.

00:17:11.900 Then we intercept their oil tanker.

00:17:13.320 Venezuela can't survive five seconds if we seriously interrupt their oil exporting.

00:17:17.920 So we've just decided he's going to go.

00:17:21.780 Is this just?

00:17:23.080 You know, there are principles.

00:17:23.920 We talked about this in the war in Ukraine.

00:17:25.380 We talked about this in the war in Gaza and Israel.

00:17:28.200 Is this just?

00:17:29.220 Is there a good cause for the United States to go to war in Venezuela?

00:17:35.160 It's pretty dubious.

00:17:36.340 It's a little sketchy.

00:17:37.820 But to me, the deeper question is not, is this war just?

00:17:41.200 The question is, is this war?

00:17:43.740 And to my mind, it's not really war.

00:17:45.460 In my mind, it's closer to politics than war.

00:17:49.000 Was it Bismarck who said that war is the extension of politics by other means?

00:17:54.640 This to me seems more like politics.

00:17:56.420 I mean, look, we do this all the time.

00:17:57.960 Nicaragua, Haiti, D.R., Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, D.R.

00:18:01.340 It's not like we're going to send in the Marines or something.

00:18:03.740 We're going to occupy Venezuela and make it safe for democracy.

00:18:07.000 Probably, if I were a gambler man, what I would say is the way that we would oust Maduro and Venezuela is the same way we've ousted unsympathetic leaders throughout our history with Venezuela.

00:18:17.240 Or, sorry, with Latin America.

00:18:19.660 It's probably a little bit closer to politics.

00:18:22.440 But in order for that to make sense, you have to recognize that America is closer to an empire than a nation state.

00:18:27.560 We're the dominant global hegemon.

00:18:29.540 We're not a yeoman republic.

00:18:30.780 And for that to make sense, you have to recognize that when President Trump says America first, he's not talking about isolation.

00:18:36.340 He's never been talking about isolation.

00:18:37.760 He's not some arch-libertarian.

00:18:39.020 That has never been him.

00:18:40.140 When he talks about America first, he talks about buying Greenland from Denmark.

00:18:43.780 He talks about invading Canada because he doesn't like the cut of their jibs on their mooses.

00:18:49.460 When he's talking about America first, he's talking about pushing people around to our adversaries and driving hard deals and making our allies pony up and get in line.

00:18:58.040 And he's talking about a strongman kind of America first.

00:19:01.920 We're going to prioritize our interests everywhere, not just within the confines of our borders.

00:19:08.060 Will the right back him on this?

00:19:10.140 I think they're going to be a little bit confused because what happens in politics is you have facts on the ground that reflect to some degree ideas that get turned, concentrated into slogans.

00:19:23.560 No war for oil would be an example of one during the Bush years in Iraq.

00:19:27.580 They get turned into slogans.

00:19:28.900 Then we adopt the slogans and we chant them.

00:19:31.340 And then we get hoisted on the petard of our slogans because the slogans can never comprehend the totality of the political reality.

00:19:37.800 So a good example of this is five, ten years ago, the right decided we were going to embrace free speech in an absolute sense.

00:19:46.780 Free speech absolutism was a left-wing issue in the 1960s.

00:19:49.920 And it was BS even then because it was just a bunch of leftist terrorists in some cases and leftist activists who said we need total free speech.

00:19:58.220 And on this supposedly liberal principle, they destroyed the old conservative norms.

00:20:01.560 Then they got power and they implemented their own left-wing norms.

00:20:04.620 They didn't really believe it.

00:20:05.500 And then we, because we wanted to crack the left-wing norms and the PC culture, woke culture, we came in.

00:20:09.900 We said, no, we're the free speech absolutists.

00:20:11.700 But then we get hoisted on that petard too because every society needs standards.

00:20:14.760 But it's the same thing here.

00:20:15.780 Say no more war.

00:20:16.740 What does it mean no more war?

00:20:18.340 No more war.

00:20:18.860 There's not going to be no more war this side of the second coming. 0.57

00:20:21.240 There are going to be wars.

00:20:22.060 Wars are a fact of life.

00:20:23.600 No more war.

00:20:24.360 There are good reasons for wars in some cases.

00:20:26.560 There are bad reasons for wars too.

00:20:28.300 So you got to be more specific.

00:20:29.420 It's not that you want no more war. 0.92

00:20:30.560 You say, why are we going to war?

00:20:31.660 The big reason I think that a lot of people on the right adopted the no more war slogan is because you had these liberal globalist wars to neocon wars to spread Madisonian democracy throughout the world and usher in the end of history.

00:20:46.700 That's ridiculous.

00:20:47.700 That was never a good idea.

00:20:49.540 Doesn't mean we don't support any kind of war. 0.99

00:20:51.300 Certainly doesn't mean that Trump supports it.

00:20:52.740 Doesn't support any kind of war.

00:20:53.740 So I can see some confusion.

00:20:55.340 I think this would be another issue where I think the right will become divided.

00:21:00.940 That the unity that we had has been cracked because of the removal, the forceful removal of certain figures, because of the eventual removal of Donald Trump, who is looking ahead at the end of his second term.

00:21:11.220 And because of changing political circumstances, because we're going to be trying to apply the logic of 20 years in Afghanistan to interventions in Latin America, which is as American as apple pie.

00:21:25.200 Speaking of the State Department, a very, very exciting turn of events, and no one's paying enough attention to it.

00:21:34.020 Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, has totally destroyed woke fonts with facts and tradition in Times New Roman.

00:21:44.820 What's the story here?

00:21:46.400 The story is, New York Times is so angry about it.

00:21:49.560 At State Department, a typeface falls victim in the war against woke.

00:21:53.880 Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden era move to the sans serif typeface.

00:21:58.800 Wasteful, casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

00:22:03.160 We'll get into this very important story.

00:22:05.160 And then we'll get into the Republican op.

00:22:07.920 It was apparently a Republican op to get Jasmine Crockett to run for Senate in Texas, and it totally worked. 0.98

00:22:12.640 We'll get into that.

00:22:13.540 There's great reporting on it.

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00:23:24.060 So, when we were a good civilized country, the State Department used good, traditional Times New Roman font.

00:23:34.780 You know Times New Roman.

00:23:35.640 It's a default font before the libs got their hands on everything.

00:23:39.560 And it's a serif font, meaning it's got these little adornments, these little feet and stuff on the font.

00:23:44.340 You know, it's not just...

00:23:45.340 It's not...

00:23:45.840 It's not...

00:23:46.300 Here, do I have a pen?

00:23:47.140 Let me show you.

00:23:47.780 Let me give you a lesson in typefaces.

00:23:49.920 It's not just like...

00:23:51.720 You know, this would be like a lame sans serif font, like a three-year-old can draw.

00:23:57.200 Right?

00:23:57.580 But a nice, like nice serif font.

00:23:59.940 It's got these nice little adornments on here.

00:24:01.680 I promise you I'm going somewhere with this.

00:24:03.600 And you see like, look at that.

00:24:04.680 It's nice.

00:24:05.260 Look at that.

00:24:05.740 It's kind of nice, huh?

00:24:06.500 You got the little adornments on there.

00:24:08.020 Okay.

00:24:08.520 So, what does it matter?

00:24:09.580 Does it really matter?

00:24:10.500 Well, for a long time, we used the serif font, Times New Roman.

00:24:14.080 A little more flowery.

00:24:15.160 A few more adornments.

00:24:15.900 And then, Blinken in 2023, at the urging of his DEI office, I kid you not, at the State

00:24:23.080 Department, changes it from that nice, good, conservative Times New Roman to that lame,

00:24:28.460 gay, Calibri, which is a sans serif font. 0.99

00:24:32.720 It's like Helvetica.

00:24:34.460 And truly, I'm not exaggerating.

00:24:36.260 There is not an ounce of hyperbole in my statement.

00:24:40.180 Sans serif is for libs.

00:24:42.940 His sans serif is inhuman.

00:24:45.040 It is modernist.

00:24:46.980 It tries to make everything clinical and sterile and flat and minimalist.

00:24:53.000 It's like those dumb cube houses that the libs keep building and their drab clothing and

00:24:57.780 their desire to eliminate all pizzazz from life to turn the sexes into one just androgynous, 1.00

00:25:04.920 fat, sexless blob of gray.

00:25:07.180 That's sans serif font.

00:25:11.580 Beautiful serif font like, oh, where do I begin?

00:25:15.860 Garamond, Georgia, the OG, Times New Roman.

00:25:20.880 It's got a little more to it.

00:25:23.000 It's got a little more adornment.

00:25:25.160 Think about it like church.

00:25:25.940 What kind of church you want to go into?

00:25:27.120 You want to go into a church that looks like you're in a dentist's office, 0.98

00:25:30.140 or you want to go into a church that looks like Notre Dame de Paris?

00:25:32.560 Three, what is more conducive to the human spirit?

00:25:38.620 Previously, we said adornments, nice, beautiful stuff, detail, particularity.

00:25:45.080 Ours is a particular religion.

00:25:46.560 Our God is a particular God who becomes a particular man in a particular place. 0.63

00:25:50.160 Okay, countries are distinguished one from another by particularity.

00:25:53.700 So really, it actually matters.

00:25:55.500 I know it seems like it doesn't matter to a lot of people.

00:25:57.300 Who gives a damn about these fonts?

00:25:59.140 You know, it's kind of like the same people who didn't care about wokeness and pieces.

00:26:03.420 Ah, who cares?

00:26:04.180 It's just words.

00:26:05.160 Just words.

00:26:06.020 Words are how we communicate and govern each other.

00:26:07.740 What do you mean just words?

00:26:09.080 I'll use the gender pronouns. 0.79

00:26:10.880 It's just, what do you mean?

00:26:11.800 Don't do that.

00:26:12.940 You're giving away everything.

00:26:13.980 If you use the gender pronouns, you're implicitly endorsing the gender ideology.

00:26:17.840 Same thing here.

00:26:20.820 If it didn't matter, if the font didn't matter, why did the State Department DEI office make

00:26:27.220 such a big deal out of switching it to the lame, lib, sterile, gay, sans-serif font?

00:26:33.880 Why?

00:26:34.280 It's always like, oh, what's the big deal about men using women's bathroom? 0.54

00:26:36.940 Oh, it's not a big deal?

00:26:37.800 Good.

00:26:38.100 Then don't change it.

00:26:39.420 We like it the way it was.

00:26:41.040 Then you, it's not a big deal.

00:26:42.760 Then don't make a big deal about changing it.

00:26:44.700 Well, we want to change it.

00:26:46.000 Oh, so it is a big deal.

00:26:47.020 Yes.

00:26:48.320 This is literally significant.

00:26:51.020 Literal, which refers to letters.

00:26:52.800 Significant, which refers to signs.

00:26:54.240 This is literally significant.

00:26:56.320 And we are returning.

00:26:57.360 We are returning to tradition and Times New Roman.

00:27:00.360 I could talk about this for six hours.

00:27:01.780 Mr. Davies is going to yank my microphone off me if I talk about fonts any longer.

00:27:05.140 I don't care.

00:27:06.040 It matters.

00:27:07.180 Secretary Rubio, great job.

00:27:08.660 I don't want to see any sans-serif nonsense.

00:27:14.180 I want to live sans-serif.

00:27:17.220 Serif man.

00:27:18.000 Okay.

00:27:18.140 Speaking of DEI, Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate.

00:27:21.660 Jasmine Crockett's the new AOC.

00:27:23.180 She's the new wild, crazy, maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed, but she gets a lot of attention. 0.99

00:27:30.020 Democrat member of Congress.

00:27:31.520 And she said she was actively considering running for Senate in Texas.

00:27:34.660 And now she's running.

00:27:36.960 And the problem with this is she's not that likable.

00:27:41.040 She doesn't seem to be the brightest crayon in the box.

00:27:44.440 And even the Democrats are a little worried that she's going to get wrecked by John Cornyn, the Republican in Texas.

00:27:51.020 Here is Jake Tapper, a liberal in good standing on CNN, raising some issues.

00:27:58.760 Saying, hey, Jasmine, how are you going to get over these terrible things you've said with the voters?

00:28:04.660 Let me ask you about a quote that you've made that has some Democrats worried about your ability to win statewide.

00:28:11.880 In a December 2024 Vanity Fair profile, you talked about quotes.

00:28:16.040 And I'm going to read a lot of the quotes just to put it in the context.

00:28:18.640 Quote, all the complexities within the Latino community.

00:28:21.820 The immigration thing has always been something that has perplexed me about this community.

00:28:24.960 It's basically like, I fought to get here, but I left y'all where I left y'all.

00:28:28.760 And I want no more y'all to come here.

00:28:30.660 If I wanted to be with y'all, I would stay with y'all.

00:28:32.580 But I don't want y'all coming to my new home.

00:28:34.380 Instead of y'all, it almost reminds me of what people would talk about when they would talk about kind of like slave mentality and the hate that some slaves would have for themselves.

00:28:42.600 It's almost like a slave mentality that they have.

00:28:46.040 Now, about the time that that was published last year, around a million Latino voters in Texas were voting for Trump.

00:28:52.880 Do they all have slave mentality?

00:28:54.900 No, and that's not what that said at all, to be clear.

00:28:57.820 It did not say that every Latino has that type of mentality.

00:29:00.560 No, no, but slave, the ones that vote for people who believe in strong or Trump's immigration policies.

00:29:07.980 So I don't believe that the people that voted for Trump believe in what they're actually getting.

00:29:13.260 Well, hold on.

00:29:13.780 So Jake Tapper says, hey, here is verbatim exactly what you said.

00:29:17.660 And she goes, mm-hmm, that's not what I said, though.

00:29:19.520 Well, it is because I'm reading your exact words verbatim.

00:29:24.560 No, it doesn't say that.

00:29:25.660 That thing that you would just read, and that doesn't say what you said it says.

00:29:29.300 Well, no, I'm Jake Tapper, and I can read, actually.

00:29:31.780 And maybe some people can't today, but I can, and that is what you said.

00:29:34.520 You said, a million voters in Texas who you need to win are slaves because they're idiots and they hate themselves.

00:29:46.920 Look, the point that she's making is actually a pretty standard left-wing talking point, 1.00

00:29:51.520 which is that women, black people, Hispanics, immigrants, anyone that they consider their property and their coalition,

00:30:00.520 any of them who vote for the other party, for the conservatives, they're slaves, they're self-hating, they're dopes, they're rubes.

00:30:10.360 That line, they suffer, they labor under a false consciousness.

00:30:14.320 That's been their line for decades.

00:30:16.440 Now, they usually have the good sense not to say it about their own voters,

00:30:19.940 their own constituents whose votes they need to win.

00:30:22.720 Jasmine Crockett's a little rough around the edges.

00:30:25.700 So, and Jake Tapper asks, how are you supposed to win over the votes of some of them?

00:30:28.760 Look, some of these Hispanics are clearly, Republicans are not going to vote for you, 0.54

00:30:32.880 but I don't know, Trump won the popular vote.

00:30:34.540 So, some of them are moderate or maybe even left-wing voters who might vote for a Democrat,

00:30:39.540 but just crossed over and voted for a Republican.

00:30:41.760 You're calling them all idiot slaves.

00:30:44.560 Yeah, no, I didn't say that.

00:30:46.240 I mean, I did, but yeah, they're not, but it's bad because they don't,

00:30:49.700 the Republicans don't deliver for them.

00:30:53.180 Not a good answer.

00:30:54.400 Not a good answer.

00:30:55.740 Where did her run come from?

00:30:57.060 According to excellent reporting from Notice, N-O-T-U-S, 1.00

00:31:04.300 the National Republican Senatorial Committee recruited Jasmine Crockett to run for Senate as a Democrat. 1.00

00:31:11.660 An astroturf recruitment process,

00:31:14.420 National Republicans propped up Jasmine Crockett to push her into a Senate run. 1.00

00:31:18.600 The NRSC started including Crockett's name in polling and conducted a sustained effort to get

00:31:23.480 Crockett, the Republican Party's preferred candidate to run against, into the race.

00:31:28.440 So, initially, there was this grave concern.

00:31:31.380 You got John Cornyn, two senators from Texas,

00:31:33.280 Ted Cruz, who already won re-election against Colin Allred last year,

00:31:37.020 Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.

00:31:39.360 Cornyn's running for re-election, and he's fine, but he's not the strongest Republican out there.

00:31:44.520 Democrats had two formidable candidates.

00:31:47.080 Cornyn was caught in the middle of a bruising three-way Republican primary.

00:31:50.880 People were concerned it would weaken the eventual nominee.

00:31:53.540 So, the NRSC, the Republican Senate Committee, puts out a poll back in July.

00:31:59.220 And they've got, you know, the Democrat names who were running,

00:32:02.280 but they included Jasmine Crockett's name in there.

00:32:05.100 Very sneaky.

00:32:06.100 No one was talking about Jasmine Crockett running for Senate.

00:32:08.120 Jasmine Crockett had not expressed any desire to run for Senate.

00:32:10.920 It was the NRSC that put it in there.

00:32:13.720 Said, when we got the results, we were like, okay, we got to disseminate this far and wide.

00:32:18.660 So, they put her in the poll, and they amplified those polls.

00:32:23.980 And they're now taking credit for helping, quote,

00:32:25.840 orchestrate the pylon of these polling numbers to really drive that news cycle.

00:32:29.260 And the narrative that Jasmine Crockett was surging in Texas, it turns out that she's not.

00:32:34.360 It's getting positive news coverage.

00:32:36.400 Her office was being flooded with phone calls urging her to run.

00:32:39.180 And so, now they're saying, look, this is great.

00:32:40.800 We got this total Looney Tunes, and we're going to run against her. 0.90

00:32:43.260 And then Cornyn's going to win, and we're all good, right?

00:32:45.080 Okay.

00:32:46.580 That's clever.

00:32:47.160 Good on the NRSC staffers for doing some clever politics.

00:32:50.640 That's great.

00:32:51.080 However, are we sure that's going to work in the end?

00:32:55.900 It's clever that you did the op.

00:32:59.640 I like that as a tactic.

00:33:01.760 I'm a little worried about it as a strategy.

00:33:04.720 Because what it reminds me of is 2016, when the Democrats were dancing.

00:33:10.220 I have a good buddy of mine.

00:33:11.620 He's a huge dem.

00:33:12.900 And he was laughing when Trump got the nomination.

00:33:14.860 He said, ha ha, you idiot.

00:33:16.020 It was even before he got the nom, but he was looking good.

00:33:17.720 He goes, your party is being held hostage by this madman.

00:33:21.300 This guy's going to lose in the general.

00:33:23.300 It's terrible.

00:33:24.120 Sucks to be you.

00:33:25.720 And then what happened?

00:33:27.460 There was a story that came out.

00:33:28.780 I remember it.

00:33:29.400 It was reported by local NBC News.

00:33:33.800 Do you remember who encouraged President Trump to run for president?

00:33:38.320 Well, Chris, thanks.

00:33:39.320 This is a big story broken by the Washington Post.

00:33:41.720 That before he formally declared for the White House,

00:33:44.120 Donald Trump had a secret conversation with one of America's best-known politicians.

00:33:49.280 Who Trump aides confirmed talked to the Donald about how to better relate to the Republican base

00:33:54.900 and how to get more involved in Republican politics without the aides, say,

00:33:58.860 specifically suggesting that Trump run, which Trump then decided to do.

00:34:03.580 Who was it?

00:34:04.900 Bill Clinton.

00:34:06.600 It was Clinton.

00:34:08.000 And it's not that Clinton said, Donald, hey, buddy, you really got to run right now.

00:34:12.060 I'm writing your name in.

00:34:13.400 But he called, and in that subtle bubble kind of ways, you got to get more involved.

00:34:18.580 You got a lot to say.

00:34:19.920 You got to really shape this primary, Donald.

00:34:22.520 You really, it might be a good idea, you know, Donald.

00:34:28.100 Meanwhile, his wife is the presumptive nominee.

00:34:31.080 And the husband, who's one of the greatest politicians of his generation, says, you know what I'm going to do?

00:34:35.700 I'm going to recruit Donald Trump to run as a Republican.

00:34:39.000 He's going to screw up the Republican Party.

00:34:41.380 By golly, could you imagine if he got the nomination, all the better.

00:34:43.920 We could beat him in two seconds.

00:34:45.160 And then what happens?

00:34:47.240 They get hoisted with their own petard.

00:34:48.920 A lot of petard hoisting going on today.

00:34:50.680 And so when I look at this, I get what the Republican staffers are saying.

00:34:54.300 They're saying, Jasmine Crockett sounds like an idiot. 1.00

00:34:58.040 She does sound like that sometimes.

00:34:59.880 I don't think she's an idiot.

00:35:01.660 I think she's an idiot like a fox. 1.00

00:35:03.760 Was that the expression?

00:35:05.320 I think, because people listen and they hear her when she really turns up this minstrel show that she does.

00:35:10.940 She goes out and she really turns up what people perceive as Ebonics.

00:35:15.600 She goes, mm-hmm, you know what that is, honey.

00:35:17.640 You know, mm-hmm, yeah, well.

00:35:19.140 She's talking to like a black crowd and she's really pandering with this stereotypically black voice. 0.90

00:35:24.440 And I tell them what they is doing is, uh-uh, uh-uh, doo-ba-doo-ba-doo-doo-doo.

00:35:29.400 You know, it's like a show on UPN in the 90s or something.

00:35:32.540 But then you listen to other interviews of her when she's not just pandering to an audience.

00:35:38.280 She sounds totally normal and she knows how to use the English language well.

00:35:41.300 And she sounds downright sober.

00:35:44.180 And furthermore, I remember we all made this mistake with AOC.

00:35:48.360 And we all thought 2018, look at this total lunatic.

00:35:51.320 She's a dummy. 1.00

00:35:51.900 She can't, she's got her foot in her mouth every day. 1.00

00:35:54.580 We got to promote her. 0.93

00:35:56.060 I remember even Cocaine Mitch McConnell came out when she proposed the Green New Deal.

00:36:00.960 He said, I think that every single senator on the Democratic side needs to vote for this.

00:36:06.240 I can't wait to bring the Green New Deal up for a vote immediately.

00:36:08.780 And it worked in the short term.

00:36:10.260 Now the Green New Deal is mainstream Democrat policy.

00:36:13.320 All the Dems support the Green New Deal.

00:36:15.980 And AOC is not just a plausible Senate candidate in New York could take Chuck Schumer's job.

00:36:21.040 She's one of the most plausible presidential candidates in 2028. 1.00

00:36:27.800 So be careful what you wish for, guys.

00:36:29.900 Jasmine Crockett is much smarter than people think she is. 1.00

00:36:33.020 She is.

00:36:33.800 I know.

00:36:34.180 Look, that's going to be unpopular.

00:36:35.500 Sorry.

00:36:36.320 Jasmine Crockett's much smarter than most people think she is. 1.00

00:36:40.180 She's a much more capable politician. 1.00

00:36:42.240 I don't want to be sitting here saying, wow, Senator Crockett, boy, Democrat from Texas.

00:36:53.160 Man, maybe we shouldn't have encouraged her to run.

00:36:55.620 Maybe we should.

00:36:56.240 I wouldn't count her out.

00:36:59.100 Now, speaking of President Trump, there Jasmine was talking about Trump's migration policy and all these self-hating Hispanics. 1.00

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00:37:49.680 Thank you.

00:37:50.520 Thank you.

00:37:50.980 I mentioned yesterday when I heard this proposal from Jasmine Crockett that black people not pay any taxes. 0.68

00:37:56.620 I said, look, the Sicilians are basically African, okay, so power, sister, brother. 0.95

00:38:05.980 When do I get my tax rebate?

00:38:07.880 That sounds great.

00:38:08.900 President Trump has expounded on his new immigration policy.

00:38:12.660 Don't forget, there was this earth-shattering, maybe I'm slightly exaggerating, but not by a lot, change in the Trump immigration policy.

00:38:20.300 Previously, his view had been, destroy illegal immigration, but we want more legal immigration.

00:38:28.040 Sometimes he said, we want more legal immigration than ever.

00:38:30.800 We just, we want to stop illegal immigration. 1.00

00:38:32.960 In other words, the problem with our immigration system is just a procedural problem.

00:38:36.420 It's not a substantive problem.

00:38:37.600 It's not about all the people coming here.

00:38:38.840 It's just how they get here.

00:38:41.200 He has shifted that view.

00:38:43.360 Now, look, at the time that he was promoting that, I think that was probably the politically salient view.

00:38:47.700 I think where the base is now, where a lot of, maybe where most Americans are now, is we want to drastically reduce all migration.

00:38:55.580 We don't have enough social solidarity.

00:38:58.460 We want less illegal and less legal.

00:39:02.560 Now, can we make distinctions between where, you know, this Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota has started to open up that conversation too.

00:39:10.120 Previously, you had to talk about migration like it was all the same.

00:39:13.700 A guy comes to us from merry old England.

00:39:15.920 We've had Englishmen coming to America for over 400 years.

00:39:18.940 And a pirate shows up from Somalia to rape and murder and steal our welfare. 0.95

00:39:23.560 And we had to pretend that was the same thing.

00:39:25.140 Oh, it's all migration.

00:39:25.960 They're all migrants, aren't they? 1.00

00:39:27.980 Yes, John David Shattenworth IV and Jabba the Hutt, Gishi Gushi Gashi Han Solo.

00:39:35.680 Oh, they're all just migrants, right? 1.00

00:39:36.880 It's all the same.

00:39:37.700 We're talking about migrants.

00:39:38.860 No, I don't think.

00:39:40.340 Obviously, some cultures are more assimilable.

00:39:44.560 Some cultures fit in here, like the English, for instance, because America comes from England.

00:39:50.800 And Somalia is a little bit tougher.

00:39:52.940 President Trump made this point.

00:39:54.900 He's being excoriated by the left.

00:39:56.660 And we had a meeting.

00:40:02.520 And I say, why is it we only take people from whole countries, right?

00:40:07.900 Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden?

00:40:12.100 Just a few.

00:40:13.100 Let us have a few.

00:40:14.400 From Denmark.

00:40:16.580 Do you mind sending us a few people?

00:40:18.540 Send us some nice people.

00:40:19.900 Do you mind?

00:40:20.320 But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? 1.00

00:40:27.660 Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.

00:40:30.360 The only thing they're good at is going after ships.

00:40:34.060 There he goes.

00:40:35.280 Very important conversation to open up.

00:40:37.700 This is how we used to talk about immigration before the 1965 Hart-Celler Act.

00:40:41.980 Used to say, okay, we want to restrict immigration, all immigration, including legal immigration. 0.98

00:40:46.520 And if we're going to take migrants, we want them to be from countries that are going to help us.

00:40:50.320 We want them to be the kind of people who can assimilate from places that are assimilable.

00:40:56.500 In some countries, we really don't want them.

00:40:59.360 And I know that's not liberal.

00:41:01.440 But if you don't believe the stuff we believe in, and if you haven't been raised in the institutions that are similar to our institutions,

00:41:08.400 and you don't do the kind of stuff that contributes to our economy and society,

00:41:11.380 and you don't, if you just don't fit in, then we don't really want you to come.

00:41:16.180 We didn't have Somalis in this country in any meaningful sense until the 90s, okay? 0.98

00:41:22.180 The 1990s, not the 1890s, not the 1790s.

00:41:25.620 We had like zero, we had statistically zero Somalis in America until after 1991.

00:41:34.640 And they don't fit in that well.

00:41:36.200 It's not even a knock on them.

00:41:37.600 It's just like, come on.

00:41:39.160 That's what Trump is saying.

00:41:40.060 What's really funny about the distinction that's irritated the Libs, he says, why not put nice places like Norway?

00:41:46.200 Why they got to be bad places like Somalia? 0.90

00:41:50.000 Is that the Libs, until very recently, were always talking up how great the Scandinavian countries are.

00:41:56.300 The Libs, when they were more focused on economics, on promoting socialism,

00:41:59.900 they would say socialism works so well in Scandinavia.

00:42:02.560 We need something like the Scandinavian model.

00:42:04.500 Why is it that Scandinavia works so well and socialism, more socialistic policy?

00:42:10.280 Now, they didn't always work so well.

00:42:11.660 They actually caused a lot of economic problems there.

00:42:13.320 But one reason that socialism, to some degree, a big welfare state worked better in Scandinavia

00:42:19.660 is because they had a completely homogenous population.

00:42:23.400 That was the part you weren't really allowed to say.

00:42:25.340 Furthermore, you don't need to have some lengthy argument to prove Trump's point right

00:42:31.980 because all of the Somali, not just Somalis, but all of the people from the Middle East and Africa

00:42:37.840 are going to Scandinavia.

00:42:40.020 Scandinavia also didn't have any of those people until very recently.

00:42:43.980 And now they're being flooded with those people.

00:42:45.760 And their crime and their rapes have gone absolutely through the roof.

00:42:49.120 So when he says, why don't we have people from nice countries like Norway and not bad countries

00:42:54.580 like Somalia, his premise is obviously true because all the people from countries around

00:43:02.280 Somalia are trying to go to Norway, and none of the people from the countries around Norway

00:43:05.740 are trying to go to Somalia.

00:43:07.180 So it's obviously true. 0.68

00:43:08.360 And that should tell you something.

00:43:10.340 There's something about those Scandinavian countries where things are nice there.

00:43:14.040 So yeah, we want to bring more of the people who live in a nice way, and we don't want

00:43:17.260 to bring in the people who live in a bad way.

00:43:19.860 Speaking of this cultural enrichment, I do have to get to this video.

00:43:22.300 It's an old video, but it's going viral again as this issue of Muslim enclaves is really kicking 1.00

00:43:27.420 up, as the Somali fraud scandal is kicking up.

00:43:29.440 This is from 2019, the Islamic Society of Philadelphia.

00:43:33.700 I will translate.

00:43:38.100 The young girls, some little girls will defend, we'll sacrifice our souls without hesitation, 0.95

00:43:42.840 we will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mas, 1.00

00:43:47.260 we'll lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, we will subject them to eternal torture, 1.00

00:43:51.920 rebels, rebels, rebels, all these little kids, rebels, rebels, one ummah, glorious steeds will

00:44:01.120 lead us into paths leading to Al-Aqsa Mas, the blood of martyrs protects us, paradise needs

00:44:06.640 real men, we've got some boys in there too, some girls, some boys, from the Islamic Society

00:44:12.660 of Philadelphia, not Gaza or the West Bank or Syria, that was from Philadelphia, and I don't 0.86

00:44:25.420 want that in Philadelphia.

00:44:27.000 Frankly, Margaret, I just don't want them here.

00:44:30.160 Margaret, I don't care, I just don't want them here.

00:44:33.280 And I think most people would agree with that.

00:44:35.620 That is an unassimilable culture. 0.98

00:44:38.380 Now, there are people who come from Muslim countries who can assimilate.

00:44:41.620 Again, it's got to be small numbers, but there are people who, there are plenty of people who can.

00:44:45.760 But notice, the way that they assimilate

00:44:48.420 from Islam, which has been

00:44:50.980 trying to invade and conquer the West for 0.79

00:44:52.940 1400 years now, sometimes more successfully than others,

00:44:55.900 the only way that they assimilate is to the degree to which they give up Islam. 0.70

00:45:01.760 Isn't that strange?

00:45:03.800 Christians assimilate to cultures, and frankly, the more Christian they are, the better they 0.89

00:45:08.340 assimilate in many cases.

00:45:10.700 Jews assimilate to cultures, they've been assimilating to cultures for 1700 years.

00:45:15.600 Buddhists assimilate to cultures because they're pretty chill, they're pretty lo-fi. 1.00

00:45:18.780 Muslims assimilate into cultures 1.00

00:45:22.780 only in as much

00:45:25.040 as they

00:45:26.100 lose their religion.

00:45:28.780 I think that's just in the nature of Islam.

00:45:31.660 The nature of Islam,

00:45:32.900 which does not tolerate

00:45:34.740 development, which

00:45:36.860 is quite literalist,

00:45:39.020 which claims

00:45:40.640 an unbridgeable chasm between man

00:45:42.860 and God, totally contrary

00:45:44.780 to Christianity, which says that

00:45:46.660 there is the God-man, Jesus Christ,

00:45:48.560 the only begotten Son of God, who bridges the gap

00:45:50.740 between man and God.

00:45:52.740 It just doesn't work.

00:45:54.580 It just doesn't really

00:45:55.900 work.

00:45:56.920 Okay, speaking of violent criminals, there's a story

00:45:58.500 I really want to get to, I think I have to get to it tomorrow,

00:46:00.580 which is a Pennsylvania sheriff

00:46:02.260 doing something crazy, arresting

00:46:04.680 teenage thieves.

00:46:06.580 Now everyone's upset, they're on the teenager's side

00:46:08.720 instead of the sheriff's side, the sheriff's

00:46:10.640 totally right. We'll get to that. Also, HHS just

00:46:12.600 flipped on the Hep B vaccine for babies.

00:46:15.300 It's a big one too.

00:46:16.240 All right, we can't, but we gotta

00:46:17.340 we have

00:46:19.420 Mr. Matt Fradd coming on the show. The rest of the show

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 11, 2025

Ep. 1873 - Erika Kirk Addresses Assassination Conspiracies

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