The Michael Knowles Show - January 12, 2026


Ep. 1888 - Gang Members GET SHOT Trying To Run Over ICE Agent


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

177.9547

Word Count

9,120

Sentence Count

753

Misogynist Sentences

30

Hate Speech Sentences

35


Summary

In the wake of the shooting of a mother and her son by ICE agents in Minneapolis, a new narrative has emerged about what actually happened and why it happened. And ICE is responding the way ICE should be responding. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Trump administration's new policy toward Mexico.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 New liberal narrative update just dropped. I don't want you to miss this one. It's gotten a
00:00:04.740 little confusing. It's moving fast. So here's a timeline. As we all know, the initial narrative
00:00:10.420 around the officer involved shooting in Minneapolis was that ICE agents murdered a peaceful, innocent
00:00:17.480 mom by shooting her through her driver's side window while she sat in her car minding her own
00:00:25.000 business. Then after video footage contradicted all of that, the narrative changed to still pretty
00:00:33.680 close. ICE agents murdering a peaceful, innocent mom while she was driving away from them. She wasn't
00:00:40.780 just sitting in the car minding her own business, but she was driving, but she was driving away from
00:00:44.060 them. Then after video footage contradicted that narrative, the narrative changed to ICE agents
00:00:51.420 murdering the peaceful, innocent mom while she might have been driving toward the cop. So, okay,
00:00:58.020 maybe she wasn't driving away. Maybe she was driving toward the cop, but she didn't actually hit him.
00:01:02.700 So they had no right to shoot. She would have stopped. She would have turned before she hit him.
00:01:07.100 So now that narrative has been contradicted by yet more video. And the liberal mayor of Minneapolis
00:01:18.280 has just given us the latest narrative, which is sure, she hit the officer with her car,
00:01:24.160 but only a little bit. She was peaceful. She was sitting there. She was doing nothing. She was
00:01:28.680 minding her own business, too. She was driving away, too. She was driving at him, but she wasn't
00:01:33.300 going to hit him, too. Okay, she hit him, but only a little bit. It was only a slight attempted vehicular
00:01:38.260 manslaughter and definitely not enough to justify his defending himself. We will get to the latest on
00:01:44.880 the story and to the excellent way that ICE is responding. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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00:03:37.600 Don't take my word for it on the media. Here you have it straight from the horse's mouth.
00:03:42.200 Probably actually a different part of the horse. Actually, it's probably a different animal
00:03:46.840 altogether. One of those animals from Tatooine or the Huttese Village or one of the Ooga Booga
00:03:53.960 Star Wars people. In any case, in English, here is Jacob Fry.
00:03:56.880 Don't take my word for it. Don't take their word for it. Watch the video from every single angle.
00:04:05.280 I mean, the ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from
00:04:13.420 closing a refrigerator door with his hips. He was not injured. I've seen worse injuries from doing that.
00:04:20.980 And so give me a break. No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step.
00:04:31.560 And so we just got to get to the point where we're at least operating from, hey, this is like
00:04:37.160 we're looking at it on the video screen. This is what we're seeing. Can we all see that it wasn't
00:04:40.640 all over? And then, you know, yeah, J.D. fans, this concept of absolute immunity is pretty bizarre.
00:04:49.020 What man closes a refrigerator with his hip? I know that's a tangential point.
00:04:55.040 Does any man, I know women do that. You know, they're in the kitchen. They got the kid in their
00:04:58.960 arm. They're stirring the pasta sauce. They do a little boop. Just a little boop. Hit that refrigerator.
00:05:03.640 Has a man, has a heterosexual man ever one time in his life closed a refrigerator with his hip?
00:05:10.660 It's a minor, a relatively minor point for Jacob Fry, not beating any of the many allegations against
00:05:16.200 him. But then let's get to the narrative. I was reliably informed by the whole media,
00:05:23.280 by all the politicians, by all the Democrats that this woman did not even come close to hitting the
00:05:31.760 officer. Initially, she was just sitting in her car and then she was driving away and then she
00:05:38.220 wasn't going to hit him and she wasn't trying to hit him and she wasn't here close to hitting him. And
00:05:41.640 now, yeah, whatever. He got a little hip injury. She hit him with a car. She hit him.
00:05:51.840 Oh, you just got to in a world after virtue, in a world after orderly society, you have to explain
00:05:58.780 everything. Listen close. I'm going to pull the microphone closer to me. Jacob Fry, if you're
00:06:03.280 listening, Democrats, if you're listening, crazy white women who are going to get yourselves killed
00:06:07.300 if you keep acting the way you are. Listen to me. Tune in. Listen to me. You can't hit police officers
00:06:14.580 with your car ever under. Even if it's just a little tap on the hip, you can't hit anybody with
00:06:20.620 your car. But especially and I want you to write this down. You cannot hit a police officer with your
00:06:27.620 car or you're going to get shot in the face and you're going to deserve it. And this guy, this
00:06:32.260 lunatic, Jacob Fry, we can chalk it up to he doesn't have a great grasp on the English language.
00:06:38.380 If he were speaking cluckaluckal hoo-ha on solo, maybe he would have made more sense. But in English,
00:06:43.720 he's not making any sense. She only hit him a little bit. Let me please show me the statute
00:06:48.120 that says you're allowed to run into a cop with your car, federal law enforcement officer with your car,
00:06:53.060 but only if you only hit him on the hip a little bit. Then he has no right to defend himself.
00:07:00.240 Why is Jacob Fry admitting this? He's admitting this because there's video everywhere. This is why
00:07:07.380 we're very thankful to body camera footage. We'll get actually to some of the video from the officer's
00:07:12.140 body in a moment. This is why the libs demanded. They said we want body cams on all the cops because
00:07:17.360 they concocted and peddled and then came to believe themselves this ridiculous narrative that the
00:07:22.780 cops are out there looking for all the marginalized people and especially black people. But I guess
00:07:27.000 also like crazy liberal white ladies as well. They're just trying to slaughter them. They're
00:07:30.860 just looking to kill them all day long. That's why we need to get body cameras on the cops. And
00:07:34.480 that's going to that's going to protect these innocent, marginalized criminals. And then guess
00:07:38.400 what happened? You put the body cameras on the cops and you find that the cops are in the right
00:07:41.980 99.99999% of the time. And it turns out that the criminals are bad and it doesn't look good.
00:07:48.740 The footage doesn't look good for them. Just want to before I put a little fine point
00:07:53.080 on it. Don't want to beat that dead horse, that dead horse's derriere, Mr. Fry over here. But
00:07:58.660 Margaret Brennan on CBS News interviewing Ilhan Omar. This is the framing of the shooting.
00:08:06.540 It was blocking the road. They are claiming this is an act of terrorism.
00:08:10.720 Yeah, Renee Nicole Good, as you hear her say, she's not mad. She's sitting in her car,
00:08:16.840 peacefully waving cars to get by. This agent, as you see, gets out of his car,
00:08:24.220 automatically starts running towards her, trying to open her door. She feels scared. She tries
00:08:30.840 to turn the wheel away. And then you see the other officer who can clearly see the car is moving,
00:08:37.040 move towards the front of the car, which if they are saying that he has 10 years on service and is
00:08:45.500 trained, he should know that you shouldn't be trying to get in front of a moving car.
00:08:51.100 And so it is not acceptable for Kristi Noem and the president and the vice president to make these
00:08:59.620 kind of judgments without there being a full investigation. Even though we can see in the
00:09:05.960 videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place.
00:09:11.880 And so if they're saying that we shouldn't believe our eyes-
00:09:15.220 Okay, I can't take any more of it.
00:09:16.480 Let the investigation-
00:09:17.080 I can't take any more. And there's Margaret Brennan. Yes. Wow. Yes.
00:09:20.920 Essentially, nothing that Ilhan Omar just said is true. But even just the original framing,
00:09:25.140 she's peacefully sitting in her car, minding her own business. She is obstructing law enforcement.
00:09:31.860 This woman, everything we know, none of this is controvertible. This woman trained to disrupt
00:09:38.340 ICE, federal law enforcement, federal law enforcement, which was there to arrest the
00:09:42.700 gang-affiliated, because you had to deal with the cartels to get across the border. Basically,
00:09:48.180 all of them are gang-affiliated to some degree or another. These criminals who are in Minneapolis,
00:09:54.620 ICE is there to arrest them. She trains to obstruct federal law enforcement. She's blocking traffic,
00:10:00.580 which is a dysfunctional act, which you're not allowed to do, which is very, very dangerous.
00:10:03.880 And then she's not just minding her own business. She's driving into a cop. The cop is in front of
00:10:10.200 the car before she's driving. It's not like he leaps in front of the car. We can see this in part
00:10:15.580 because we have video, but also in part because the bullet goes through the front windshield.
00:10:20.140 Then she doesn't turn her wheel and then drive away. She hits the gas. The tires start spinning
00:10:25.920 directly into the cop. And then finally, she turns her tire, but a little too late because she hit
00:10:31.360 the cop, which we know even Jacob Fry is admitting. None of this is really in dispute.
00:10:38.840 And there's Margaret Brennan in CBS News, and she's just nodding along. Yes, yes, yes. Wow,
00:10:43.440 you're so right. Yes, wow. We have more footage. Here is more camera footage totally vindicating the ICE agent.
00:10:51.900 So you see the agent walking in front of the car. Here she is.
00:11:10.260 I'm not mad at you, boy. Show your face. I'm not mad at you.
00:11:13.580 It's okay. We don't change our plates every morning, just so you know. It'll be the same plate when you
00:11:18.420 come talk to us later. That's fine. U.S. citizen, former...
00:11:21.980 You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.
00:11:28.300 Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car.
00:11:33.280 Get out of the car.
00:11:34.180 Oh!
00:11:37.900 So there you have it. First of all, we now have the footage, whether it was a body cam,
00:11:45.940 whether it was a cell phone camera, whatever it was. We have the footage from the agent. He is hit
00:11:49.380 by the car. You can see that. But what... Look, the only people who have a blind disregard for the
00:11:56.520 truth or who don't consume any reputable news sources at this point don't understand that.
00:12:00.800 What's more interesting about this footage is this woman gets out there. She goes,
00:12:06.380 I'm not even mad. The way this is being portrayed in the media is, I'm not mad. I love you. I love
00:12:10.500 everyone. And then that ICE agent comes in. He says, you F and B-I-T-C-H. That's how it's being
00:12:16.200 portrayed. That's probably what you're seeing on Instagram and Facebook from your liberal
00:12:18.920 colleagues who don't know any better. Really what she's doing is she is obstructing law
00:12:22.760 enforcement. She goes, I'm not even mad. I'm not even mad. She's being very provocative.
00:12:28.760 But the lesbian partner is on the scene. This woman's a lesbian. She has children,
00:12:33.360 but she's a lesbian, whatever. Not even going to get into it. This lesbian partner comes out and
00:12:38.040 she's getting in the cop's face. And she's saying, yeah, this could be a same license plate when you
00:12:42.400 come back later. We're not moving. We're going to keep obstructing law enforcement. Yeah, you big
00:12:46.040 boy, go get a lunch, fatso. That's what she's saying to this guy. And then crucially, she turns to her
00:12:51.180 lesbian partner, these people who have trained to obstruct law enforcement, and she says, drive, baby,
00:12:57.040 drive. That's the key. Four words, actually. Drive, baby, drive, drive. That's the key to this.
00:13:05.920 The person who is most responsible for this woman's death is the woman herself. She drove
00:13:12.840 into a cop. When you drive into cops, generally speaking, you can expect to be shot in the face.
00:13:19.120 The person who is second most responsible for this woman's death is her lesbian partner.
00:13:25.420 She's the one who gave her the order. She's the one who put it in her mind to drive into the cop.
00:13:31.060 Drive, baby, drive, drive.
00:13:32.420 The group that is next most responsible for this woman's death are the Democrat thought leaders,
00:13:40.820 such as they are, the Democrat politicians, the Democrat elected officials who have allowed this
00:13:47.280 kind of anarchy to go on and on and on. The mayor of Minneapolis, the governor of Minneapolis,
00:13:51.540 and the Democrats going back years, certainly all the way back to BLM, who have encouraged this kind
00:13:55.440 of anarchy because it created the false expectation in these women's minds that they could get away with
00:13:59.940 driving into cops. And they can when you have a responsible government in town, as you do at
00:14:03.860 the federal level with President Trump. But all of these layers of scandal had to exist.
00:14:11.500 Had that lesbian not gone in there and told her paramour, drive, baby, drive, that woman probably
00:14:16.960 wouldn't have driven. That's what we're talking about. And when we talk about how to rectify this,
00:14:24.520 this kind of information is crucial because it's not just about individual actions.
00:14:30.600 What it's about is a political solution. What it's about is the kind of society and culture
00:14:37.580 that breeds good behavior and that encourages good behavior. You had to have a lot of things go wrong
00:14:44.580 here for this woman to get killed. And they all went wrong. And this is why, forget about the people
00:14:50.200 on the left, even the more individualist types on the right, need to get it into their heads
00:14:54.640 that the only way to rectify these problems is with a political social solution based on standards,
00:15:01.480 based on norms, based on expectations, based on habituation, based on behavior, which we're
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00:16:18.600 for warranty details. So, we now have more of these incidents taking place. More criminals are
00:16:27.900 trying to run over DHS agents. If we turn to Portland right now, you have two criminals who tried
00:16:34.580 to run over DHS agents, ICE agents, who were then shot. You're not hearing quite as much about this
00:16:39.680 story. And the reason for that is that in this case, it wasn't just some like white lady,
00:16:44.280 white lesbian, you know, activist type. It was a Trendy Aragua gangster. So, the two people who
00:16:49.480 tried to run over the cop were a gangster and his prostitute, both of whom are involved in this ring,
00:16:54.600 both of whom have ties to Trendy Aragua, allegedly. Here we have, this is just a local news report,
00:17:00.640 K-A-T-U. Two shot by border agent in Portland have Trendy Aragua ties, DHS and police say.
00:17:07.720 The case is as clear as can be. There's another example of the body camera or just more facts
00:17:15.720 coming out, vindicating law enforcement, totally upending the liberal narrative, as has even
00:17:21.200 happened in Minneapolis and has happened constantly. Going back to Michael Brown, going back to all of
00:17:25.960 these stories that the left tries to gin up against cops. Well, here you have, as clear a case could
00:17:31.720 be, illegals associated with a particularly violent Venezuelan gang running a human trafficking ring,
00:17:38.200 trying to run over cops who were then shot. They weren't even killed, but they were stopped.
00:17:45.160 Okay, police chief in Portland, Bob Day, what is your take on law enforcement stopping the
00:17:52.020 Latin American gangsters from running them over? And what I can say is there is an association
00:17:59.560 with the two folks yesterday and TDA. TDA, Trendy Aragua. I hesitated to even share this information
00:18:07.740 initially because I'm very aware of the historic injustice of victim blaming, oftentimes portrayed
00:18:17.880 by law enforcement, including this very agency that I've represented so proudly for so many years.
00:18:22.920 For just a moment, specifically to my Latino community.
00:18:31.080 Is he about to cry?
00:18:35.160 It saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand, or at least have
00:18:46.840 attempted to understand through your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger.
00:18:55.160 This information in no way is meant to keep to all, he takes out a hank, he wipes the steers.
00:19:04.160 Or to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday.
00:19:09.760 What actions occurred yesterday? The actions that occurred yesterday in this clip are that
00:19:16.080 Venezuelan gangsters associated with a foreign terrorist organization tried to run over a cop
00:19:23.640 and he shot them. He goes, I don't want it to seem, I, the chief of police, I don't want it to seem
00:19:32.020 like I condone law enforcement officers defending themselves when foreign terrorists try to run them
00:19:39.480 over. I don't condone that. I don't agree with that, okay? Won't somebody please think of the
00:19:47.040 Venezuelan pimps? I know everyone, I don't even, I hesitate even to say, I don't want to victim,
00:19:55.340 but the victim in this case being a Venezuelan pimp terrorists who were trying to run over a cop
00:19:59.860 in America. I don't, I'm not saying I condone that. I don't condone the self-defense. You don't
00:20:07.920 condone it? You should, you need to resign. You don't condone it. You don't condone federal law
00:20:13.700 enforcement protecting itself against a terrorist trying to run them over? A pimp Venezuelan illegal
00:20:19.960 terrorist trying to run them over? You don't condone that? Well, then you need to resign because your
00:20:24.720 judgment is severely impaired. This guy crying, crying, I was going to say crying like a woman.
00:20:33.060 He's not crying like a woman. Any, well, I don't care. The most sensitive little woman with even
00:20:39.540 an, and the most opposed to violence, dainty little gal who has even a modicum of common sense would not
00:20:47.260 be crying in this situation. If you, if one were to cry in this situation, one would cry that the poor
00:20:52.600 law enforcement officer was almost run over by these animals, but no, he cries for the animals.
00:20:58.220 Okay. What are we going to do about this? Well, there's video going viral. We actually can't use
00:21:03.000 it. I think there's some kind of copyright issue with the video, but it's a beautiful video. It's a
00:21:07.440 beautiful video of some little red liberal car, like a Prius or something parked in the middle of
00:21:13.380 the street, obstructing law enforcement, trying to stop the ICE raids. And in this case, the ICE agents
00:21:18.460 walk up, the guys won't get out. They won't, they won't move their car. So they smash in the windows
00:21:25.460 of the car. They open up the doors and they drag these people out and they arrest them. And then
00:21:29.820 one of the officers gets into the car and parks it and gets it out of the street. That's what you
00:21:35.100 have to do. That's, and it feels good, especially for those of us who want to see criminals brought
00:21:40.260 to justice. It feels really good to see the police do their jobs, have the political cover to do their
00:21:44.720 jobs, smash out those windows, drag these people who are obstructing law enforcement, which is a
00:21:48.740 crime, arrest them, get the car out of the way, keep on and carry on. If that feels good, we like
00:21:53.920 that. We recognize that that not only feels good as a matter of kind of visceral, I don't know,
00:21:58.940 it gives us butterflies in our stomach, but it's also good because it advances the cause of justice.
00:22:02.780 But I'd like to add one third good that comes from this. That is the only way to avoid dead
00:22:09.580 leftist agitators. The only way to avoid dead leftist agitators like that lady in Minneapolis,
00:22:15.800 or I guess even if you're, if you're going to blubber like the chief of the Portland police for the
00:22:20.480 Trendy Aragut pimps and prostitutes, I guess you can, you can worry about them too. The way to avoid
00:22:26.460 those people dying is for federal law enforcement to vigorously enforce the law. Because if they don't,
00:22:35.920 one of two things is going to happen. Either these, these people are going to run amok and
00:22:41.020 then you're going to get rioting and then you're going to get a lot of dead agitators as happened
00:22:44.420 during BLM. When the politicians told the cops to stand down and BLM burned cities down across the
00:22:50.000 country and then you had dozens of people killed. Probably many of those people sympathetic to BLM,
00:22:55.220 but they just got caught up in the mob violence. So either that's going to happen,
00:22:58.420 you can get more dead leftist agitators, or cops are not going to allow themselves to be run over,
00:23:03.620 whether it be by agitators, white ladies in Minneapolis or by foreign gangsters,
00:23:09.220 but they're not going to let themselves be run over and they're going to shoot them in the face.
00:23:12.460 And you're going to get more dead agitators. Either way though, those are the only two options.
00:23:16.120 If you want fewer dead agitators, which I would like to do, I don't celebrate that that lady in
00:23:20.260 Minneapolis died. I don't even really celebrate when Trendy Aragut people are mowed down. I'd like
00:23:25.280 for them to reform and it's a fallen world. Sometimes you just got to shoot them, but I'd like for them
00:23:30.020 to repent and lead flourishing lives. In any case, if you want those people not to take a bullet to
00:23:36.280 the head, you need the law to be enforced. You need to smash some windows in some Priuses and move
00:23:43.360 those cars out of the street and let law enforcement do their job. Okay. Speaking of enforcing the law,
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00:25:01.020 Pure Talk, America's wireless company. Trump goes into Venezuela. It's beautiful.
00:25:07.060 All of a sudden, the rest of the world takes note. Trump is serious about not letting drugs
00:25:14.460 enter into our country. And even beyond that, President Trump is serious about kicking foreign
00:25:18.800 adversaries out of our hemisphere. And even beyond that, President Trump is serious about
00:25:22.380 stopping the flow of migrants at the source, which is kind of funny. It occurs to me now,
00:25:27.460 that's something Kamala Harris said. She said, well, I'm going to go to Latin America. I'm going to go to
00:25:30.420 places like Venezuela. And I'm going to get to the root cause of migration. Well, she didn't do that,
00:25:34.760 obviously. Millions of people came in every year under the Biden-Harris administration.
00:25:38.500 Trump did just stop the root cause of migration. He went in. He said, oh,
00:25:41.900 the situation in Venezuela is so bad that people keep flooding to America. Okay. Not only am I
00:25:46.160 going to close the border, I'm also going to go there and take out the root cause, namely
00:25:49.460 Nicolas Maduro. So he does that. And now, all of a sudden, the leader of Colombia, which sends a lot
00:25:55.220 of drugs to the US, he calls. He says, hey, hey, ese, hey, hombre, amigo, let's make a deal, man.
00:26:01.500 I know I said all those things, man, but let's be cool, man. Please don't bomb me.
00:26:06.040 And even in Mexico, President Trump is now threatening this action.
00:26:12.600 We've knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water. And we are going to start now hitting land
00:26:19.960 with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico. It's very, very sad to watch and see what's
00:26:27.840 happened to that country. But the cartels are running and they're killing 250, 300,000 people
00:26:33.520 in our country every single year. The drugs, it's horrible. It's devastated families. You know,
00:26:38.800 you lose a child or a parent. I mean, parents are dying, too, with drugs. So we've done a really good
00:26:44.640 job. We're knocking it down. The numbers are really getting to be, they're always going to be too high
00:26:50.340 if you have one person. But they're going down just like the border. The border was a total mess for
00:26:55.700 years. I did it the first time very quickly. And this time I did it even better because this was a
00:27:01.760 bigger mess. This was a border like no other probably in the history of the world. There's
00:27:05.700 never been a border like that when anybody could just walk into your country. The border's ostensibly
00:27:09.820 really closed now. It's closed. It can't come in. And nobody comes. Nobody even tries.
00:27:15.000 You like how Trump slips that in there to the point that even even Sean, I think, is he doesn't quite
00:27:21.400 hear exactly what Trump is saying. And John's a very good interviewer. And Trump says, yeah,
00:27:26.280 we're doing this. We're doing that. We're doing this. Also, we might do land strikes in Mexico.
00:27:29.040 And we're doing this and that and this. And you say, wait, hold on, what did you say?
00:27:31.480 I said, we're doing this. No, no, after that. Oh, we're doing that. No, no, no. What would you say
00:27:34.700 in the middle? Oh, we're going to bomb Mexico. Oh. And this is pretty brilliant. Even take out
00:27:43.060 what it will mean for migration or drugs or the economy. Just as a matter of political
00:27:48.720 coalitions. This is brilliant. And this is something that I think Trump showed us in
00:27:52.660 Venezuela. What was so notable from a domestic intra-right coalitional view of the hit on
00:28:01.780 Venezuela is it managed to unite disparate factions of the American right. The neocons loved it
00:28:09.680 because the hit on Venezuela weakened Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia and advanced America's
00:28:15.660 geopolitical position. But even the paleos generally loved it because it was very much
00:28:21.880 in keeping with traditional American foreign policy going back over 200 years to the Monroe
00:28:25.420 doctrine. It focused on stopping drugs. It focused on stopping the migrants coming across our border,
00:28:31.920 issues that are near and dear to the people who want to focus more on the American home front,
00:28:36.040 the America first nationalist types. Same thing here. Same thing here. President Trump
00:28:42.800 used the military to hit Mexico. This is something I heard from right-wing critics of the Iraq war and
00:28:47.900 the Afghanistan war. They say, we're going to use the military. Why don't we use a closer
00:28:51.300 home? We got these cartels on our border sending people across human trafficking, sending drugs,
00:28:55.280 killing 75,000 Americans a year because of fentanyl. We're going to use the military. Why are we sending
00:28:58.780 them to Iraq and Libya and Syria and Afghanistan? Why don't we send them down to Mexico? That's what we
00:29:03.720 need to do. And Trump says, okay. And he seems to synthesize two antitheses. You have, let's get a
00:29:14.380 little Hegelian for a second. You have the thesis of the last 25 years, which is the neocons,
00:29:20.240 liberal imperialists, liberal lowercase l, meaning they want to go and spread Madisonian democracy and
00:29:27.440 Lockean liberalism all around the world. And we're going to plant it in the villages of Afghanistan.
00:29:31.500 And the sheer weight of John Locke's second treatise of government will totally extirpate
00:29:38.360 their desires for bakabazi and all sorts of backwards and really unpleasant tribal behavior.
00:29:45.100 Yes, we're going to create little pillars of democracy like 18th century America all over
00:29:52.180 the world. It didn't happen. That's the thesis. Then the antithesis of the paleocons who say,
00:29:57.540 we need to be conservative nationalists. We're not going to be liberal imperialists. We're going
00:30:02.620 to be conservative nationalists. And we're going to focus on America first and on our domestic
00:30:06.700 problems. And Trump is neither of those things. Trump is a conservative imperialist. That's clearly
00:30:16.020 what's going on here. He takes the imperialism a little bit from the neocons, but he takes the
00:30:22.520 the groundedness, the pragmatism, the realism from the paleocons. He's a conservative imperialist,
00:30:28.260 which if you've been listening to this show for any period of time, certainly if you've been
00:30:32.680 listening to it for many years, you will know how much I hate to say I told you so. I've called this
00:30:36.480 from the beginning. I said, Trump is not a Bush, Bushy neocon, but likewise, he is not a pure
00:30:43.920 non-interventionist, isolationist. That's not what he means by America first. What he means by
00:30:50.820 America first is not even really nationalist. It's imperialist, but it's imperialism based on
00:30:57.380 real interests. It's imperialism, in other words, based on a conservative view of politics,
00:31:04.660 of a defense of the nation. But it's not just turning inward and looking within our own borders.
00:31:09.460 It's bombing Venezuela, dropping the Moab, going into Greenland, taking Greenland,
00:31:16.120 joking around, maybe not quite joking around about taking Canada,
00:31:19.700 cheering on regimes falling in Cuba and extending our sphere of influence.
00:31:23.260 That's what he's talking about. And that view, I think, is where a lot of Americans are.
00:31:27.360 We want to be strong. We want to enjoy the privileges that come around with global leadership,
00:31:31.540 but we don't want to be taken off to ideological abstract flights of fancy,
00:31:35.460 such that we get bogged down in quagmires in very distant, very foreign cultures,
00:31:40.200 where our thin liberal ideas, the formalized abridgment of the supposed substratum of what
00:31:47.100 we think makes up the American way of life, it's just not going to take hold there.
00:31:50.780 This is this beautiful meeting of it. Works very, very well, and it's perfectly natural.
00:31:55.980 We have been wielding power in Mexico for a very long time. A lot of America used to be Mexico.
00:32:04.780 Okay, this is natural. This is very traditional. And as Latin America changes, as you see this
00:32:10.400 cascading effects of Venezuela, the next regime that could fall is Cuba. Cuba ostensibly has like
00:32:15.720 four days of oil left. They just got the oil cut off. They were already in a major crisis.
00:32:20.480 The Castro's are dead. Who's the president of Cuba right now? Nobody even really knows. It was Fidel
00:32:25.040 forever, and then it was his brother Raul, but he was old, and then he left, and then it's like
00:32:28.820 some other guy. And the regime is very shaky. Russia's not really supporting Cuba anymore because
00:32:33.400 Russia's busy in Ukraine. China has come in to help Cuba a little bit, but Cuba's really weak right
00:32:40.980 now. So who's going to be the next leader of Cuba? President Trump responding to a tweet that says
00:32:45.600 Marco Rubio will be president of Cuba. He responds and says, sounds good to me. And we on Michael
00:32:51.740 an old show. I actually have exclusive footage of Marco Rubio from inside the Oval Office. There he
00:32:56.620 is. There were signs. There he is on the yellow couch in the Oval Office. He's sitting next to
00:33:02.660 Vice President J.D. Vance, some other, but you see he's got the green military fatigues, that beard.
00:33:09.800 I hadn't even noticed the beard, the cat, the Fidel cap. And then of course, when he was smoking a
00:33:14.860 cigar in the Oval, there were signs that Trump had this planned. In any case, Iran is now also
00:33:20.900 on the brink. It's unclear because there's a near revolution or a color revolution in Iran every
00:33:26.980 six months, it seems. But this one does seem pretty hardcore. So there is a world in which
00:33:31.300 the Shah of Iran returns. The Shah of Iran, whose father was put into rule Iran by the United States
00:33:37.260 back when our imperial policy worked pretty well. It's unclear. Now, if the crown prince of Iran,
00:33:44.360 Riza Pallavi, if he's not up for the task, obviously, Rubio can keep the beard. He's going
00:33:49.360 to have to change his outfit a little bit. But the cascading effects of Trump's very effective
00:33:55.720 strike on Venezuela could reshape the world, could reshape the political order, and could
00:34:01.380 reshape 2026 and 2028. Way back on October 28th, we announced that Matt Fradd was joining the Daily
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00:34:35.720 Daily Wire Plus. My favorite comment you see. Now, I didn't pick the comment.
00:34:39.960 I want you to know I didn't pick the comment. They didn't even remind me to pick a comment
00:34:43.500 today. I guess they sent them over to me, but the producers picked the comment. So if this comment
00:34:46.920 is no good, it's their fault. It's from the Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music. I bet it'll be
00:34:51.340 great. It says, has the left blamed the spinning tires on climate change yet? Good question.
00:34:56.540 I don't know. Look, I don't know if that's really my, maybe I'll look at the comments later.
00:35:02.420 There's been a major endorsement in the 2028 presidential race. I know we're early,
00:35:06.140 but first of all, presidential races last for years now. And two, we're in this weird situation
00:35:10.400 in which President Trump has had a non-consecutive second term, which is why I've mentioned before
00:35:14.940 this is going to be a different kind of primary if there even is a primary. Well, anyway, one of the
00:35:20.240 potential presidential contenders, Glenn Youngkin, very successful governor of a blue Commonwealth,
00:35:27.580 Virginia, who was able to do a pretty good job there, could definitely bring in a little bit more
00:35:31.660 of the moderate vote, maybe could pull in some suburban women, what have you. This guy who could have
00:35:37.320 been a contender just made a different endorsement.
00:35:43.860 No, on a presidential run in the future, not ruling it out then.
00:35:48.940 Well, what I firmly believe, and I'll repeat it again, I agree with President Trump. I agree with
00:35:53.340 Marco Rubio. I think Vice President Vance would be a great nominee.
00:35:56.860 Had to try one more time.
00:35:58.280 There it is. Fox News Sunday, Glenn Youngkin, who is a presidential contender,
00:36:02.340 he says, yeah, I think J.D. Vance would be a great nominee. And notice how he endorses him.
00:36:09.220 He doesn't just say, I, Glenn Youngkin, independently think J.D. Vance, the Vice President,
00:36:12.700 would be a great nominee. He says, I'm with Trump and Rubio. Rubio, who is the number two guy who
00:36:21.420 could be the nominee in 2028. Rubio has already come out and said, I support Vance. I want Vance to
00:36:28.020 be the nominee. Trump, the guy who picked the cabinet and obviously picked J.D. Vance to be
00:36:34.080 his running mate. He came out, he said, yeah, I think Rubio should be Secretary of State forever.
00:36:38.300 And I think Vance, if Rubio is not gonna be Secretary of State forever, maybe Vance and
00:36:44.200 Rubio can run as a ticket. So he has not quite explicitly, but more or less crowned J.D. Vance
00:36:51.260 as his successor, which he was always going to do because it's a non-consecutive second term.
00:36:55.420 So the moment that Trump picked his VP, he was effectively picking the nominee for the next
00:37:01.620 time. Glenn Youngkin now coming around this as well, even the way he does it. It reminds me of
00:37:08.460 something, and I've tried to convey this in various media when the question has come up.
00:37:13.420 There is a lot of talk about a right-wing civil war. We hear this was dominating AmericaFest,
00:37:18.640 TPSA. You hear this on all of the podcasts. There's a right-wing civil war. You hear this,
00:37:23.140 especially in the liberal media. Not really. There isn't. There is one. There is a thing
00:37:29.860 happening, and we can call it the right-wing civil war. But the Youngkin endorsement of J.D. Vance
00:37:36.840 on the basis that Trump and Marco have already endorsed J.D. Vance reminds us that the so-called
00:37:43.340 right-wing civil war is entirely a podcasting phenomenon. And I find that very interesting
00:37:49.720 as a matter of politics, actually, that this division on the right is really just exclusively
00:37:56.240 in the domain of the chattering class. It's different podcasters attacking each other.
00:38:01.500 When it comes to actual policy, you don't see a ton of disagreement.
00:38:07.720 Do you? You see plenty of people cheering on Trump's policy in Venezuela. Even sort of famously or
00:38:14.560 infamously, Tucker was urging caution on Venezuela. But since the Venezuela strike,
00:38:20.740 I don't think Tucker has come out and attacked it. He was at the White House just the other day.
00:38:23.900 Even there, he would be the critic, the big critic of that policy. There's really no disagreement on
00:38:28.640 the policy. How about on the candidates? Everyone supports Trump. And then everyone basically supports
00:38:35.260 the vice president for 2028, including the people most likely to run against the vice president in
00:38:41.020 2028. They've already endorsed him. This is the silver lining of the right-wing civil war,
00:38:47.380 is there is, as a matter of policy and actual politicians who will affect the policy,
00:38:54.000 more unity in the Republican Party than I have probably ever seen in my entire lifetime.
00:38:59.640 That too, by the way, is a characteristic of this historic situation we're in, which is the
00:39:05.860 non-consecutive second term of Donald Trump, who's dominated American politics for a decade.
00:39:09.220 This is not to say that the things that the chattering class is attacking each other over
00:39:16.320 are not important, that they don't involve real moral issues, that they're not thought-provoking.
00:39:22.480 Often they're not, but I guess sometimes they are. There are disagreements to be had. However,
00:39:28.420 my strategy from the beginning is to say, I think that the incentives here are misaligned.
00:39:33.900 The incentives for podcasters, for influencers, for tweeters, for TikTokers is to just create a lot
00:39:41.840 of conflict and get more views. The incentive for people who want the conservatives to advance,
00:39:49.780 for the Republican Party to win as a part of that, for the country to do better, those incentives are
00:39:53.780 to have a unity, to minimize conflict, at least to minimize public conflict, to try to solve the
00:39:58.840 problems behind the scenes. We should be very open about what we think about issues, whether those
00:40:05.480 issues are about geopolitics, foreign policy, or murder mysteries. On all of those issues that
00:40:12.420 are supposedly within the purview of the right-wing civil war, I've been clear as day on my views on
00:40:16.680 every single one of them, and I encourage everyone to be clear as day. But I guess my point on the
00:40:20.800 right-wing civil war phenomenon is, I don't think it is helpful in any way, at least not helpful to the
00:40:27.280 common good of the country, for it to become all this kind of personal jabbing and attacking and
00:40:32.600 picking, you take this side and I take this side and we're in this faction and that. Because that is
00:40:36.540 divorced from the actual political question. It's a kind of a meta-political game. It's a meta-political
00:40:42.060 entertainment, but it's divorced from, if people had different candidates and were advancing different
00:40:48.020 policies, that would be a totally different story. But they're not. Glenn Youngkin just endorsed J.D.
00:40:54.660 Vance because, he says, Rubio and Trump did the same. And we're all excited about Venezuela, and we're
00:41:01.320 all excited about the immigration policy, and we're all excited about the tax policy, and we all
00:41:05.220 ostensibly agree on everything. Now, speaking of those policies, one more little, we have to get to
00:41:14.800 this. I'm old enough to remember when, back in 2015, 2016, all the real fancy conservative types,
00:41:22.540 they said, Trump is not a real conservative. And there was some reason to wonder about that back
00:41:26.520 then. Trump had been a Democrat. We didn't really know exactly what he thought. After the first term,
00:41:32.440 it's hard to say he's not a real conservative. After the interregnum, especially into this term,
00:41:36.040 it's very hard to say that. Well, President Trump, I think, I hope, has just put those claims to rest
00:41:42.620 forever when he declared an anti-usury jubilee. We are talking about Pentateuch levels of
00:41:52.580 conservatism here, but we're not just talking about 1776. We're talking like books of Moses
00:41:58.340 levels of conservatism. Here's what Trump said. Please be informed that we will no longer let the
00:42:01.720 American public be ripped off by credit card companies that are charging interest rates of
00:42:04.680 20 to 30 percent and even more, which festered unimpeded during the sleepy Joe Biden administration.
00:42:09.040 Affordability, all caps. He's taking Zoran Mamdani's word. He's taking the left's word,
00:42:13.500 using it against them. Effective January 20th, 2026. I, as President of the United States,
00:42:17.520 am calling for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates of 10 percent.
00:42:21.820 Now, one year, that's the jubilee part, but interest rates of 10 percent, that's the anti-usury part.
00:42:28.220 It's actually a little tricky to exactly define what usury means. Does usury mean
00:42:32.520 taking of any interest? Does usury mean taking of excessive interest? Does usury mean taking of
00:42:38.240 interest in certain? It's actually quite unclear for millennia now exactly what usury means,
00:42:42.560 but put that aside. Coincidentally, he says, the January 20th date will coincide with the one-year
00:42:47.320 anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump administration. Thank you for your attention
00:42:50.620 to this matter. Okay, love it. I love this for a lot of reasons. One, usury is bad. Usury is actually
00:42:58.240 bad. There are going to be some people who are idolaters of the free market who say, no, no,
00:43:02.620 this is terrible, actually. We need to let the free market do its work. And the only effect of this
00:43:06.480 will be to cut certain people off from taking out lots of credit. Say, yes, that's a feature,
00:43:11.680 not a bug of this policy, because we don't want to allow people who are not going to be able to
00:43:18.380 pay that back to just enslave themselves in debt for the rest of their lives. That's actually not
00:43:22.680 a great thing. We do want to discourage spending on certain things. If they can't afford food or
00:43:26.580 water or medical care, we will offer that to them. We already do that through the welfare state,
00:43:30.280 but we don't want people through sheer vice and miseducation to enslave themselves in debt to go
00:43:36.020 buy more baubles. That's actually bad. And our civilization has discouraged or outlawed that
00:43:40.600 for all of history. That's true. However, let's get down to the even deeper level.
00:43:47.280 This is very, very conservative. Very conservative. As I mentioned, books of Moses,
00:43:53.220 conservative. And throughout Christendom, we've had anti-usury laws. Someone responded and said,
00:43:58.100 well, Michael, we want to conserve 1776. We don't want to conserve some medieval Christian society,
00:44:05.880 or some ancient Middle Eastern society. We want to conserve 1776. The American tradition.
00:44:12.020 Hear me, hear me. All who have ears to hear, let them hear. We had anti-usury laws in 1776.
00:44:18.560 Hear me, hear me. We had anti-usury laws well into the 19th century, like very serious anti-usury laws.
00:44:25.020 And then they started to be weakened a little bit, but they persisted in substantial form until the late
00:44:32.600 20th century. This happens so much, even when people on the right, especially of a more libertarian
00:44:39.340 flavor, when they talk about tariffs or whatever, when they talk about free speech, when they talk
00:44:44.260 about blue laws, when they talk about freedom and individual liberty, they say, this is the American
00:44:49.640 tradition. And what they are describing is very often an innovation of like the 1980s.
00:44:54.620 And they're just wrong about, we've had in this country, all sorts of laws that they would be
00:45:00.000 shocked to find out. Laws against blasphemy, okay? Laws against burning the American flag for a very
00:45:07.540 long time until like within the last few decades. We've had laws against usury. We've had establishments
00:45:15.140 of churches in the States for decades after ratification of the constitution. This is also
00:45:21.300 very American. And then just at a practical political level, what I really like about this
00:45:25.860 is it gets us through the midterms. The Libs are going to complain about that, but that is part of
00:45:31.280 it. It gets us through the midterms. You can't have that forever. It would be much more radical
00:45:37.520 to cap interest rates like at 10% on credit cards forever. And it would probably create that more
00:45:43.100 downstream economic effects. But Trump's not above winning an election and it's good to win elections.
00:45:48.480 You don't want to be immoral to win elections, but you want to win elections. Good. And winning
00:45:52.360 is important. A lot of Republicans just want to lose with dignity and they don't have, they don't
00:45:55.920 even have dignity when they lose. The final reason this is important is it means that Trump is sensitive
00:46:01.940 to, he is responding to the real economic challenges, especially of young people. That is real.
00:46:11.240 And these people who are often very rich want to explain it all away. Oh, it's no, you kids,
00:46:16.100 pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You kids quit your belly aching. Yeah, you can't afford a home,
00:46:20.180 but you know, the homes are a lot nicer now. And like, quit your belly aching. You know,
00:46:23.700 you got big screen TVs and you got, you got Uber Eats and you need to stop ordering avocado toast or
00:46:29.060 whatever. Even if we are, you know, even if we are curmudgeonly old men deep down, you know,
00:46:34.300 even if that is, as conservatives, that's kind of our natural state. We have to recognize the palace
00:46:38.920 is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. And there are very real economic challenges that young
00:46:45.020 people, even young conservatives are facing today. You can say the homes are much bigger and nicer
00:46:48.360 now. Yeah, okay. But there aren't, there aren't like cheap small homes that your grandparents had.
00:46:53.100 So they, you still have this housing problem. You've had massive economic tumult because of the
00:46:57.780 technology revolution. You've had mass migration, which has damaged the economy and economic
00:47:04.740 prospects. You've had decades of racial discrimination against whites and Asians in
00:47:08.580 affirmative action. You've had, you have real economic problems. Trump needs to respond to that.
00:47:13.500 And he is even down to banning institutional investors from buying single family homes.
00:47:20.300 BlackRock doesn't get to buy single family homes anymore. This is the kind of responsiveness
00:47:23.840 that you get from Trump that is deeply conservative. And they're kind of two schools of thought on this.
00:47:29.640 There's one, they're the guys who think that what politics really is, is just perfectly reciting
00:47:36.280 verbatim the campaign slogans of Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign in 1984. They think that true
00:47:42.200 conservatism is never changing anything in any way, including the syllables uttered by politicians
00:47:48.600 from what Ronald Reagan said on the trail in 84. And there are others who say, no, no, no. Ronald
00:47:55.940 Reagan wouldn't be saying that today. If Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would not be saying the
00:47:59.460 things that he said in 1984. Because politics is a practical art and science, and it applies eternal
00:48:05.040 principles, yes, to constantly changing circumstances. And part of the reason Reagan won, by the way,
00:48:10.840 is he was reacting to the real circumstances of Jimmy Carter, of stagflation, of a weak foreign
00:48:16.480 policy. He was responding to it. He would have run differently had he run in 1950. He was very
00:48:21.940 sensitive. That's how he built a big coalition of people who previously hadn't voted Republican.
00:48:26.200 Trump did the same thing. He's showing that sensitivity now. And the future politicians we're
00:48:31.420 looking at, whether we're talking about midterm races in 26, whether we're talking about presidential
00:48:35.020 in 2028, whether we're looking at 2032. They need to be sensitive to, they need to be able to build
00:48:39.960 and rebuild coalitions and change the way that they're talking about policies, not in a way that
00:48:47.080 is hypocritical and undermining their principles, but in a way that is applying those very principles
00:48:51.000 to changing circumstances by acknowledging the reality of change, which is one of the constants in
00:48:56.660 this world. Okay. Today's Music Monday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it.
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00:49:16.700 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
00:49:25.720 Is that who you think I was alone with?
00:49:30.540 Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:49:39.340 All men know of the great Taliesin.
00:49:42.540 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
00:49:46.940 Princess Garrus, savior of our people.
00:49:52.780 I know what the bull god offered you.
00:49:54.060 I was offered the same.
00:49:57.020 And?
00:49:58.620 There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.
00:50:01.180 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
00:50:05.340 We are each given only one life, Singer.
00:50:08.140 No.
00:50:09.340 We're given another.
00:50:13.180 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ.
00:50:15.340 And I have become his follower.
00:50:17.180 He's waiting on a miracle.
00:50:18.620 And I think you can give him one.
00:50:20.780 Trust in Yazoo.
00:50:21.900 He is the only hope for men like us.
00:50:25.020 Vader Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
00:50:28.060 Great light, great darkness.
00:50:30.700 Such things mattered to me then.
00:50:33.260 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?
00:50:37.020 You, nephew.
00:50:38.860 The sword of a high king.
00:50:45.980 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
00:50:53.420 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
00:50:56.620 I cannot take up that sword again.
00:50:59.740 You know what you must do.
00:51:03.100 Great light, forgive me.
00:51:08.860 The time has come.
00:51:14.140 To be reborn.