The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1961 - Shooter’s Identity & Manifesto Revealed After Trump Event Attack

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00:01:17.160 administration at the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night, which is

00:01:22.100 barely newsworthy at this point. After mainstream leftists have spent years calling for the murder

00:01:29.380 of conservatives, attempting to murder conservatives at public events, nearly murdering President Trump

00:01:35.700 and successfully murdering Charlie Kirk, a leftist assassin at the White House

00:01:40.800 correspondence dinner is barely newsworthy. This is just what they do. So now we've entered the

00:01:49.920 five stages of leftist violence. The first stage is denial. They all deny that it happened.

00:01:57.700 Or they say it was staged. Or they insist that something happened, but we can't possibly note

00:02:04.420 the motive. I've got all the receipts. The second stage is anger. They're angry that it didn't work.

00:02:11.780 The third stage is bargaining. That's where they argue that the violence that they initially

00:02:16.920 denied, is actually justified as a response to President Trump's abstract violence against them.

00:02:23.700 He's not committing literal violence against them or particular violence. But when you really think

00:02:28.540 about it, man, like in the abstract, sometimes when he tweets, it's kind of like violence.

00:02:32.680 So therefore, their own literal violence is justified. Then comes depression. That's the

00:02:38.540 stage when the leftists make themselves the real victims. And then we get to the final stage,

00:02:44.540 acceptance when the left decides they just need to try again. None of that is newsworthy.

00:02:52.540 It keeps happening again and again, more frequently, more brazenly. The left has been

00:02:59.160 doing this for years and their political violence is only getting worse. The only newsworthy question

00:03:04.420 for us is whether we are finally now willing to do something to stop it. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:11.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.92

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00:05:26.480 Little silver lining in the storm cloud because this was a very, very serious event that occurred

00:05:30.540 that the libs are already downplaying.

00:05:33.380 When the shots go off, White House Correspondents Association dinner,

00:05:36.900 first time President Trump has shown up to it since he has been president. He showed up as a

00:05:41.200 guest before he was president. This is the first time he shows up as president. And gunshots go

00:05:46.740 off. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Everybody in the room starts freaking out. I mean, you can see

00:05:52.400 on the first lady's face, total shock. You can see the woman next to President Trump, shock.

00:05:58.900 The guy standing up speaking to him, I can't tell if that's Secret Service or shock, shock,

00:06:04.020 concern terror. And then there's Trump. And Trump just turns. He's looking in the direction of the

00:06:09.640 first lady. And it's that James Franco look from Buster Scruggs. First time? Oh, this is the first

00:06:15.380 time someone shot at you? It reminds me, there's a very famous picture, painting of Winston Churchill

00:06:20.900 at the treaty where they're wrapping up World War I. And everybody's kind of jabbering with

00:06:25.640 themselves. And there's Churchill just staring right out at you, light on him. And it was a

00:06:29.740 picture, actually, that was painted before World War II. But it's him saying, I just see it. I've

00:06:34.420 been through this. I know how this is going to turn out. Nobody seems to get it. Reminds me of

00:06:38.260 that other line from Churchill. I think it's in my early life when he says that it was in Cuba

00:06:42.040 as a student that he first had the thrill of being shot at to no effect. There's Trump.

00:06:47.580 Handles it perfectly. Holds a press conference after with the press wearing their tuxedos in

00:06:52.580 the briefing room. It's a very, very impressive response. But what the libs did here is very,

00:06:58.340 very serious, much more serious than they are letting on. And it demands a political answer.

00:07:02.920 President Trump has this great personal response, which is, I don't think about it much. I'm just

00:07:07.680 going to keep doing what I'm doing. I'm in a dangerous job. They keep trying to kill me.

00:07:10.860 I'm going to keep doing a great job for the country. That's the right personal response.

00:07:14.100 Stiff upper lip, keep calm and carry on. But the political response is different.

00:07:18.980 We cannot ignore this at the level of politics. We need to take a very firm stand against the 0.65

00:07:24.880 people who increasingly support this because it's not just one fringe wacko. It's not just

00:07:31.740 one left wing California teacher. It is a huge portion of the mainstream left from the lady 0.87

00:07:39.040 who sits next to you at work all the way up to elected officials. They support this. They want

00:07:44.260 Trump dead and they want you dead. And we need to do something politically to stop it. So what 0.99

00:07:49.440 happened. This shooter busts into the correspondence dinner. It was so strange when this news broke

00:07:55.860 because not 20 minutes prior, I turned to sweet little Alisa and I said, should I have gone to

00:08:01.040 the White House correspondence dinner? I get very severe political FOMO, and it's very rare that I

00:08:07.560 decline an invitation to a big, fun political function. That's why I'm everywhere. I'm always

00:08:13.660 traveling. And I said, look, I'm traveling too much. My schedule's been too busy. I can't justify

00:08:18.820 going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. I'm going to skip it. And I turned to Elise. I

00:08:22.700 said, should I have gone? 20 minutes later, the news comes in. I was getting texts from people,

00:08:28.200 shots fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. And I thought initially that this was

00:08:33.060 shots fired figuratively, metaphorically. The whole point of the event is that people tell

00:08:38.740 jokes about each other. Oh, shots fired. But no, it was literal shots fired. And the shooter

00:08:44.120 is a California teacher. He's a self-identified liberal, Kamala Harris donor. He writes a

00:08:49.520 manifesto explaining all the reasons that he went to shoot Trump and the rest of the administration.

00:08:56.500 He attended a no Kings liberal protest. He's part of a left-wing group called Wide Awakes,

00:09:02.220 and he's just a huge lib. There's just no denying it, though the libs are going to try that.

00:09:06.800 The most telling analysis I've seen of who this guy is, the libs always tell us these

00:09:13.360 shooters are white this guy's not white the libs always tell us these shooters we can't know their

00:09:17.240 political motive or they or more likely their right wing we can know his political motive he's 0.69

00:09:21.660 left wing they always tell us he's some fringe weirdo out of society basement well no he's a

00:09:27.540 he's a teacher and here is what one of his students said about him he he seemed just like

00:09:36.240 completely average guy i mean i never would have expected anything like this out of a guy like

00:09:41.240 it's really just bizarre. I can't believe it. He seemed like a completely average guy.

00:09:45.740 Everyone is responding to this clip of one of the shooters, the alleged shooter students

00:09:49.760 and saying, well, I guess he wasn't really an average guy. You thought he was just an average

00:09:55.700 guy, but he's not. He was a fringe, crazy, extreme weirdo. The sadder reality, and people need to 1.00

00:10:01.500 get this through their heads, and especially the right needs to get it through its head.

00:10:05.460 The sadder, more disturbing thing that we don't want to deal with, that we don't want to acknowledge

00:10:09.820 is the shooter at the White House correspondence dinner is an average guy. That's the average guy

00:10:16.600 now. He's certainly averaged by the standards of the left. We have a YouGov survey came out

00:10:22.340 shortly after Charlie was assassinated. Most Americans across the political spectrum

00:10:28.640 say that political violence is never justified. But younger and more liberal Americans are more

00:10:36.500 likely to disagree. So we're still at the point where most Americans say you shouldn't engage in

00:10:40.840 political violence. But a disturbing number of Americans say it is justified. 28% of Americans

00:10:48.880 overall say that political justice is justified, or they would prefer not to say. But then when

00:10:54.120 you break this down by political ideology, the numbers get nuts. One in four very liberal voters

00:11:00.320 says that political violence is justified. 14% are not sure, 6% don't want to say.

00:11:07.880 So 45%, almost half of very liberal voters are okay with political violence.

00:11:14.820 When you get to liberal, the number is 17% say it's okay, 12% are not sure, 4% don't want to say.

00:11:22.860 When you get to moderate, 9%, almost 1 in 10 moderate voters says that political violence

00:11:29.280 is justified. 15%, not sure, 4% don't want to say. Then you get to the conservatives,

00:11:34.360 and conservatives basically say it's not justified. Only 6% of conservative people

00:11:38.520 say it's justified. Of very conservative people, it's 2% or 3%. We get very, very low here,

00:11:46.020 which means that if one in 10 moderates says that political violence is justified,

00:11:52.100 and many more moderates are kind of okay with it. And then the number of conservatives who

00:11:58.260 say it's okay is much, much lower. What does that tell you about the moderates? It tells you that

00:12:04.540 the moderates are not moderate. To come out and say it's okay to go shoot people you disagree 0.96

00:12:09.400 with politically is by definition not a moderate position. So that tells you that the moderates

00:12:17.140 are no longer moderate. In other words, what it tells you is that when a teacher goes out and

00:12:23.660 shoots up the White House correspondent dinner because he wants to murder the president and

00:12:26.560 everyone who's around him. And the student says, well, he seemed like an average guy.

00:12:31.560 The very uncomfortable conclusion is he kind of is an average guy.

00:12:37.920 This is why, by the way, the people who want to say, well, it's a setup. It's not real. It's

00:12:41.880 a government. It's a PSYOP. It's a foreign country. It's Israel. I don't know. It's always

00:12:46.020 Israel. It's whoever else, or it's the Russians, or it's the Chinese, or it's whoever. 0.96

00:12:51.400 I think that is a coping mechanism. That's a coping mechanism for people who don't want to 0.96

00:12:56.300 acknowledge that the left and the centrists and the so-called moderates are increasingly,

00:13:03.480 quite notably, radical. The call is coming from inside the house, guys.

00:13:11.500 That's the problem. And therefore, the political solution to deal with this is not to get tougher

00:13:17.840 on the Russians or the Chinese or the Israelis, as the internet wants to focus on, or on the deep

00:13:23.120 state or on the whatever. The problem is the people, and not all the people. Obviously,

00:13:31.300 most people are normal, as the surveys show. But a huge swath of the mainstream left

00:13:38.280 needs to be dealt with politically. So we'll get to the five stages of left-wing violence in just

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00:15:11.720 first response the libs deny that this is happening here's cnn as the shots are ringing

00:15:18.360 out the president the vice president the cabinet are rushed off the stage

00:15:21.400 i always heard with plates falls yes and then we all went down yes yeah cascading effects with the

00:15:27.600 entire ball i thought a waiter drops in plates by accident yeah yeah i thought it was just people

00:15:32.240 dropping plates i don't know this is this reminds us of butler pennsylvania when president trump was

00:15:36.400 almost assassinated. So loud sounds, president falls as loud sounds occur, always trying to

00:15:43.640 maybe it was just plates. Maybe, I don't know, I'm not so sure. And the it was just plates,

00:15:50.840 it wasn't really shots very quickly turned into this theory that some on the right were embracing

00:15:55.840 as well, that it was staged. It was just staged. Trump staged this. And in an age,

00:16:03.920 In defense of that view, in an age when the major institutions have lied to you and were

00:16:07.860 caught in egregious lies, especially during COVID, the left-wing institutions lied to you

00:16:12.620 during COVID, the NIH, the establishment media, they lied to you. And they have increasingly

00:16:18.580 lost credibility, especially the media, especially the journalists who were in that room.

00:16:22.760 And so it is natural that people begin to question everything.

00:16:26.660 However, just examine this for even three seconds. You're telling me that a real man,

00:16:31.600 a California teacher who donated to Kamala Harris, who attended No King's protests,

00:16:38.580 who was part of a left-wing group that wanted to overthrow the Trump administration,

00:16:46.220 who checks all these boxes. You're telling me that he willingly, he did all of that for years

00:16:52.820 and years and years as a setup in order to help President Trump by pretending to try to shoot him,

00:17:00.340 even though he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

00:17:05.220 The people who say it was staged have to grapple with one of two possibilities.

00:17:12.120 Either a guy did what he and all of his comrades say that they want to do.

00:17:21.060 Either a guy is what he says he is and really is the person that he has lived as

00:17:28.240 for the whole history that anyone can find anything about him. And he just did another

00:17:33.980 version of what his fellow travelers keep doing that is attacking conservatives.

00:17:39.980 And he has followed what his leaders have encouraged him to do by saying that Trump

00:17:44.700 is an existential threat to democracy and you have to push back on Republicans and you have

00:17:49.200 to harass them in public and you can't be civil with them. He's just either he this guy has

00:17:54.360 behaved in a way that you would expect perfectly, or it was a decades-long, long game

00:18:03.520 to help Trump or something. What is it? I think he just did it because it's always the ones you

00:18:13.420 most expect. So that's the stage of denial that it actually happened. Then the left starts denying

00:18:20.040 the target. Here's how MSNBC, now called MSNOW, covered the shooting.

00:18:25.820 We do not yet know what the shooter's intended target was. Yes, obviously this was an event

00:18:32.980 that was well publicized that the president would be attending. He has not attended this

00:18:37.040 event since 2015, but it was a room of over 1,000 people. There were reporters, there were lawmakers,

00:18:43.860 there were business leaders, there were members of Congress, there were members of the administration.

00:18:48.740 And yes, of course, they were the president and first lady Melania Trump.

00:18:52.700 But we do not yet know who specifically was the target, correct?

00:18:57.060 That is absolutely right and really important to say.

00:19:00.100 Really important.

00:19:01.060 We just have no idea who the target is.

00:19:02.840 I mean, yes, it's Trump's event and the entire Trump administration was there.

00:19:07.520 And this is the first time he's ever attended this event.

00:19:10.240 But I mean, look, maybe the shooter was trying to kill

00:19:13.460 the deputy assistant editor of TheHill.com, right?

00:19:17.340 I mean, that's totally plausible, right? Maybe the real target was the production assistant

00:19:24.340 from CNN, right? Probably. I mean, that's what the New York Times says too. New York Times,

00:19:29.940 here you go. Search for motive of gunman who charged press gala. Search for the motive.

00:19:38.320 What could the motive be? Gee, Sherlock, can we get you onto the case? Barack Obama posts,

00:19:44.920 Although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting.

00:19:48.560 But this wasn't as it's unfolding.

00:19:49.760 This is the day after.

00:19:51.120 We knew everything.

00:19:52.620 We knew that night.

00:19:53.580 I was on air at the Daily Wire.

00:19:55.460 I hope you were watching the coverage on the Daily Wire, which was a lot better than the

00:19:58.020 coverage on MSNBC.

00:19:59.480 Told you a lot more facts.

00:20:01.900 I was on air.

00:20:03.140 The details about this guy came out.

00:20:04.560 Trump gave a press conference that night.

00:20:06.520 He told us who this guy was.

00:20:08.620 Although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting.

00:20:11.860 I mean, sure, it was a left-wing teacher in California, liberal, who donated to Kamala Harris and wrote a manifesto saying he did it to shoot Trump and all of Trump's associates.

00:20:21.380 But we don't know for sure.

00:20:23.060 We don't know.

00:20:24.540 But it's incumbent to reject violence.

00:20:27.060 Oh, yeah, is it?

00:20:27.820 Okay, so that's the denial phase.

00:20:29.540 That's it.

00:20:29.980 That's the end of denial.

00:20:30.940 The libs did their best to deny it happened, deny that it was from the left, deny that we can know why the guy did it, but we know.

00:20:38.300 So then they move on to the next phase.

00:20:39.900 The next phase is anger.

00:20:41.860 they're really, really angry that it didn't work. Here is just one representative, ordinary lib

00:20:48.520 going viral. Why can none of you aim across a grassy knoll in the back of a moving car?

00:20:58.380 We were real Americans. Stop pulling the trigger unless you have the shot.

00:21:07.580 So this is the same reaction you saw from countless libs throughout social media when

00:21:12.020 president Trump was nearly murdered in Butler. I said, ah, next time we need better aim.

00:21:18.260 Just to give an example, I'm not even, I'll get to the top politicians in a moment, but

00:21:22.780 just to show you just ordinary libs. Here's some brewing company. Here's Minocqua Brewing Company.

00:21:29.560 Well, we almost got free beer day. Either a brother or sister in the resistance needs to

00:21:33.040 work on their marksmanship, or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.

00:21:37.620 We'll never know. So there it is. It's either totally fake because the left would never commit

00:21:42.900 political violence, or it's really unfortunate that the libs didn't succeed at their political

00:21:47.560 violence. That's it. It's one of those two. They said, we need free beer. Free beer if anyone

00:21:54.400 actually succeeds at murdering Trump. But we definitely, no leftist tried to murder Trump.

00:21:58.620 He probably faked it. Here's another, just random teacher, hat tip to libs of TikTok here,

00:22:02.260 Andrea Hovis. I'll pray for better aim. She's a mom, a teacher, a community activist. I certainly

00:22:07.440 hope she loses her job. I certainly hope she's ostracized. I certainly hope we get some real 1.00

00:22:11.540 cancel culture, some good cancel culture here, which is very much what we need, despite the

00:22:16.340 unfortunate misunderstanding of many on the right. We'll get to that momentarily too, though.

00:22:22.460 So that's the anger stage. The anger stage is, darn, we missed. It didn't happen, and also we 0.98

00:22:30.340 missed. Then we get to the bargaining, the justification. Outside of the dinner,

00:22:39.780 you had leftists holding up signs saying, death to tyrants. It's funny, death to tyrants is 0.94

00:22:45.220 basically the line that John Wilkes Booth yelled as he murdered President Lincoln.

00:22:49.520 Sic semper tyrannis, thus always to tyrants. So the libs do this all the time. They echo these 0.67

00:22:57.440 mottos, these slogans, they don't realize that they're the baddies. They're quoting the bad

00:23:00.980 guys. They did this in Minnesota when Tim Walz was upset about immigration enforcement.

00:23:06.380 And he said, we need to go back to 1863 to revolt against the federal government.

00:23:11.360 Yeah, you're putting yourself on the side of the Confederacy, dummy.

00:23:13.780 I don't mean to, does he know he's, maybe he knows he's doing that. I don't know.

00:23:18.060 Death to all of them, says another one of the protesters. 0.99

00:23:21.760 So they defend the violence. And this is where we get to the top leaders. It's not just randos 0.98

00:23:25.800 on TikTok. We get to the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives justifying violence

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00:24:35.600 America's wireless company, Pure Talk. It's just these fringe people on the left. Stop. You got

00:24:41.540 to talk about our leader. Let's talk about the leaders. Let's talk about the mainstream left.

00:24:44.580 Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader in the house, then gets to the bargaining phase. This is where

00:24:49.520 the libs, after denying, after their anger, they get to bargaining where they say, well,

00:24:53.940 actually, you know what? It's justified. Actually, we're not the bad guys here.

00:24:59.000 America will not be lectured, says Jeffries, about civility by far-right extremists in Congress,

00:25:04.400 particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat

00:25:09.280 police officers on January 6th. There we go. There we go. There will be ample time to vigorously

00:25:14.940 debate the issues of the day. Now is the time to unify. To unify? To unify with what?

00:25:19.520 You won't be lectured about civility by far-right extremists.

00:25:21.860 I think you will.

00:25:22.900 I think you will.

00:25:24.400 The best he's got is January 6th.

00:25:28.060 January 6th, where the only person killed by political violence on that day

00:25:32.300 was a Trump supporter murdered by a trigger-happy cop.

00:25:35.720 January 6th, a day that was, we now know, thoroughly infiltrated by the feds.

00:25:41.080 And very likely, we don't have firm evidence of this yet,

00:25:43.520 but very likely, given the discoveries of the last week,

00:25:46.240 very likely promoted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by the left itself.

00:25:49.520 But that's the best they got. Forget about the multiple assassination attempts against Trump,

00:25:55.160 one of which blew part of his ear off. Forget about the actual assassination of Charlie Kirk

00:25:58.560 by a leftist, then celebrated by large swaths of the left. Forget about the near assassination

00:26:02.600 by a leftist of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Forget about the countless calls

00:26:07.560 for political violence from mainstream leftists in Congress and in the Senate. No, no, no.

00:26:13.640 The Horn Hat guy got a private tour of the Capitol on January 6th, five years ago.

00:26:18.400 so we won't be lectured. Really, when you really think about it, this is chickens coming home to

00:26:24.820 roost. Then when we turn from the elected officials to just the political media on the left,

00:26:31.840 you get this guy who goes by Destiny, Stephen Bonnell, who responds to Riley Gaines. Riley

00:26:36.060 Gaines says, stop trying to kill our president. Stephen responds, he says, I've never agreed with

00:26:40.760 a statement more in my entire life. And this is ironic because it seems like what he's agreeing

00:26:46.840 with is the idea that they need to stop killing Trump. But what he's really disagreeing with is

00:26:50.600 the word trying. And we know this because of the context of Stephen Bonnell, who has repeatedly

00:26:55.300 called for violence against conservatives. In fact, his reaction to the assassination of Charlie

00:26:58.920 Kirk was that it is good that conservatives should fear for their lives when they go out

00:27:03.600 in public, that we need to intimidate conservatives so they stop talking up in public.

00:27:08.320 So there's that response. He goes, yeah, we need to stop trying to kill him. We need to actually 0.63

00:27:11.840 kill him. Here's Hassan Piker, a more popular left-wing streamer, now feted by the New York 0.99

00:27:18.100 Times, put on the campaign trail with multiple Democrat elected officials. Here is Hassan Piker

00:27:23.140 openly calling for the murder of the president. And you actually wrote about this, and it was

00:27:30.320 a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it. See, when I say that,

00:27:37.740 Everyone knows exactly what I mean, which which is I think that shows that there is a lot of anger, a lot of resentment and untapped potential, untapped revolutionary potential, as a matter of fact.

00:27:51.080 And it's a great opportunity for for organizing, I think, in these.

00:27:55.480 So there, Hassan, I think he's sitting next to I think that's Taylor Lorenz, who's a very mainstream left wing new media journalist.

00:28:02.440 And he says, yeah, you know, you said someone has to do it.

00:28:05.420 And they all kind of giggle.

00:28:06.300 He goes, and you know what I mean?

00:28:07.740 You all know what I mean. I'm not going to say it, but you all know what I mean. And what he

00:28:10.900 means is someone needs to murder President Trump, which the left has then tried to do many, many 0.96

00:28:15.100 times. Here's Hassan Piker, as I remind you, feted by the New York Times last week, put on a big 0.57

00:28:23.600 podcast from the New York Times, looked to as a thought leader on the mainstream left, Hassan

00:28:27.540 Piker, who had an op-ed published in the New York Times. Hassan Piker, who hits the campaign trail

00:28:32.500 with mainstream Democrats, they embrace him. Here's Hassan Piker calling for the murder of

00:28:36.940 charlie kirk what about democratic mayors it's like what the are you talking about dude we're

00:28:43.980 talking about socialized medicine and you can turn around and you and you can ask a question 0.99

00:28:50.120 about murderous cities and their democratic mayors i will i want to kill him dude i want to 0.99

00:28:56.480 in a video game setting i want to i want to own him in a video game setting oh jesus 0.95

00:29:06.640 in a video game yeah in a debate i want to keep him in a debate in minecraft

00:29:14.620 yeah there you go ha ha ha ha so there he is openly calling for the murder of charlie which 0.98

00:29:21.060 then uh one of his fellow travelers committed so he says i want to kill him i want to kill

00:29:26.180 charlie kirk i mean ha ha you know in a video game or like in a debate or like in minecraft 0.98

00:29:33.040 ha ha ha ha, but I want to kill Charlie Kirk. And then one of his fellow travelers did it.

00:29:37.200 And you can say, well, look, he's just some random streamer. He's obviously not. He's being exalted

00:29:42.360 within the last several days as a major thought leader on the left to be promoted by the most

00:29:51.500 establishment liberal outlet, which is the New York Times. That shooter at the White House

00:29:56.820 Correspondents Dinner, he is the average guy. He is the average leftist. That's the mainstream.

00:30:01.340 Hassan Piker campaigns with Bernie Sanders.

00:30:03.160 Hassan Piker campaigns with AOC.

00:30:04.900 Hassan Piker campaigns with the mayor of New York,

00:30:06.980 Zoran Mamdani.

00:30:08.940 He's as mainstream left as it gets.

00:30:11.820 He's one of the true thought leaders on the left.

00:30:14.200 The problem is he doesn't have any thoughts.

00:30:16.320 And so this brings up a question for us.

00:30:20.560 Why are we going to tolerate this?

00:30:23.080 Hassan Piker is an anchor baby

00:30:24.840 who grew up on the other side of the world.

00:30:27.040 He grew up in Turkey. 0.83

00:30:28.160 He hates America. 0.98

00:30:29.240 He came back to America.

00:30:30.420 for college, I guess. He's been stinking up our country ever since. He's done no good for America 0.99

00:30:35.320 whatsoever. He said that America deserves 9-11. He has openly called for the murder of Republican

00:30:40.160 senators. He called for the murder of Charlie Kirk. He's called for the murder of President

00:30:43.720 Trump. He is nothing but a rot, a fetid rot on our body politic. Why do we tolerate that? 0.99

00:30:50.020 I can think of several reasons, several bases on which to prosecute Hassan Piker

00:30:54.560 off the top of my head. I've mentioned a couple of them. He's called for the murder of U.S.

00:30:59.540 senators. He obviously violated sanctions in a very specific way when he was in Cuba. He bragged

00:31:04.900 about staying at the hotels that the US government tells you you can't stay at. He tortured his dog

00:31:10.520 on camera, animal abuse, whatever it is. There are many bases on which to prosecute Hassan Piker.

00:31:15.620 Why don't we do it? Ideally, he would be deported back to the backwater in which he grew up.

00:31:22.940 In a wiser age, we did that. About 100 years ago, under a Democrat president,

00:31:28.300 we did have the palmer raids when people like hassan piker who were radicals leftists anarchists

00:31:33.480 were calling for and perpetrating violence against america we just got rid of them we just we

00:31:38.040 arrested them we deported them in some cases we could do it again that wasn't even a republican

00:31:41.900 administration was a democrat administration if we were a proper country this guy who has done 0.91

00:31:46.840 nothing but add a fetid nauseous miasma to our country by his very stinky presence here would 0.88

00:31:53.660 be booted out of the country or at the very least put in prison. But we don't do that. We, in fact, 1.00

00:31:59.640 allow him to be a major thought leader on the left, and there are no repercussions for anybody.

00:32:05.020 This is a big problem, big, big problem. Because what the left is doing very openly

00:32:12.420 is calling for and perpetrating violence against the right. And what the right is doing in response

00:32:19.580 is saying, you know, gosh, guys, can't we just have more debate?

00:32:24.940 You don't have to debate everything. This is a major point I bring up on the show a lot,

00:32:28.880 which is that politics is not just a debate club. And the right, as long as it sticks with that

00:32:34.560 view, is just not going to make it. It's just not going to get it. You don't have to debate

00:32:38.900 Hassan Piker. This is what I feel about a lot of the stupid theories that float around 1.00

00:32:44.600 on the internet. So the reason I don't even talk about a lot of them is that not everything is 0.96

00:32:48.820 for debate. Some things require the law, okay? When you make criminal threats, you need to be

00:32:55.120 prosecuted. When you defame people, you don't need to be debated exactly. You need to be sued

00:33:01.200 into the ground. When you undermine the very political order, you need to be excluded from

00:33:09.840 the public square. I said this after Charlie was assassinated. When many of my very well-intentioned

00:33:14.800 friends on the right. They said, this just means we need to redouble our efforts for open dialogue

00:33:19.940 in the free marketplace of ideas. And I said, no, we tried that. That was what Charlie offered

00:33:25.220 to the left and the left murdered him for it and then celebrated his murder. So I think we need to

00:33:29.440 try something else. We just need to endlessly talk about all these people. No, I don't think

00:33:34.680 that's true. I think we need to prosecute them. I think we need to reestablish standards and norms.

00:33:40.840 I think we need to deport a lot of people, as we have done regularly in American history.

00:33:45.760 I think we need to enforce standards and norms and, yes, limits to speech, as we have done from the founding of the country until five minutes ago.

00:33:53.800 And we didn't even stop five minutes ago.

00:33:55.280 We just shifted the standards that we're enforcing. 0.51

00:33:57.600 Now, if you say that a man isn't a woman, now if you say that a baby is a human being, you will be prosecuted in some cases for that. 0.99

00:34:04.740 but if you say we should kill the president we should kill a senator 0.90

00:34:09.660 america deserved 9-11 you face no consequences whatsoever you're promoted 0.96

00:34:13.780 because of a suicidal misconception of free speech that has taken hold on the right 0.75

00:34:18.240 the way to fix this is repression to put it bluntly to put it in a provocative way

00:34:26.860 that i know many on the right go say well we don't want repression well okay then you're

00:34:30.560 going to get left-wing repression. What we did in this country from the colonial era until

00:34:35.800 at least, I don't know, the 60s or 70s, is we said we need to discourage certain behaviors,

00:34:42.720 obscenity, threats, burning the American flag, which was illegal until very recently.

00:34:48.880 The thought that undermines thought, that's the only thought that ought to be stopped.

00:34:53.560 And then the right just gave that up because we bought a misconception of free speech that was

00:34:58.760 ironically imported from the left. But the left never even really believed it.

00:35:02.860 So we'll see. Are we a serious country or not? It's not just the fringe. If it were just the

00:35:09.140 fringe, you could sort of tolerate it as an eccentricity of politics. This is the mainstream.

00:35:13.780 Do we have just a little supercut? I think we have a little supercut

00:35:16.160 of the mainstream of the left actively promoting violence.

00:35:22.920 Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. 1.00

00:35:27.120 I'd like to punch him in the face. 1.00

00:35:28.880 I said if we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. 1.00

00:35:32.340 Punch some people in the face! 0.99

00:35:34.860 When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? 1.00

00:35:38.440 They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact. 0.98

00:35:44.720 Look as his character is stabbed to death. 0.99

00:35:47.740 Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?

00:35:50.680 This way.

00:35:52.480 That's it right there.

00:35:53.560 I have thought an awful lot.

00:35:56.760 About blowing up the White House. 0.92

00:35:59.680 A Missouri state senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.

00:36:07.400 I will go and take Trump out tonight.

00:36:10.080 And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.

00:36:21.260 and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore i could fill up

00:36:29.760 five episodes of this show with all the clips of the journalists yes and the entertainers yes

00:36:36.460 and the elected officials yes and the thinkers yes and the pundits yet on the mainstream left

00:36:41.020 calling for violence against conservatives and so what are we going to do we can either respond

00:36:47.680 and say, could you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot? It's not going to work.

00:36:51.960 We could either say, we just need more debate. Why don't people debate more?

00:36:55.960 It's not going to work. So we need the free marketplace of ideas and not going to work.

00:37:00.080 You can't have a free marketplace of ideas or anything else when bandits keep shooting up the

00:37:03.840 marketplace. Or you can enforce the laws that are already on the books. You can deport the people

00:37:12.660 that are deportable. You can prosecute the people making criminal threats and inciting violence.

00:37:17.300 You can wield the law for justice and as the teacher that it is that will improve morale.

00:37:25.520 Those are the options, and I just think the right is unwilling to do that.

00:37:29.800 What we need is cancel culture, but a good cancel culture. 0.75

00:37:33.380 Because all cultures cancel. 0.91

00:37:35.260 All cultures have taboos.

00:37:36.640 So we can either cancel the bad stuff and promote the good stuff, or we can live in the culture that we currently live in.

00:37:43.360 even when Republicans are elected, which is very frequently that we cancel good stuff,

00:37:48.900 virtuous stuff, and we promote really bad stuff that undermines our whole country.

00:37:54.620 That's up to us. We know what can be done. This is not all that complicated. It's pretty simple.

00:38:02.060 But until people start losing their jobs for promoting this, until people start being

00:38:08.600 ostracized from society until people start being prosecuted where that is appropriate,

00:38:14.240 then we're not serious about it. So you know what's going to happen? The left is going to

00:38:18.800 shoot something else up pretty soon. And it's going to have a chilling effect on conservative

00:38:23.820 speech. And the left is then going to amass more power at some point and going to prosecute

00:38:31.320 ordinary, normal people. And we're going to say, gosh, golly, how unjust this is. If only we had

00:38:36.700 more debate. If only the shoe were on the other foot. That's what we're going to do. And it's

00:38:39.520 going to be totally impotent. Now, speaking of the future of our country, we might not have any

00:38:46.240 future at all because we're not having any kids. Saturday night, as the White House

00:38:49.700 Correspondents' Dinner turned chaotic with reports of shots fired, Daily Wire reporters were already

00:38:53.740 inside the event live as it unfolded. We didn't just cover the story. We were there bringing you

00:38:58.260 the facts. The reason we can do that is because of our members. If you're not a Daily Wire Plus

00:39:01.760 member. Join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. My favorite comment, I didn't actually, I didn't

00:39:07.200 pick this comment. The producers picked it. We'll see if I agree with it. This is from 2Bedo1234222

00:39:12.000 who says, why does Michael Corleone from The Godfather Part 2 look just like Michael Knowles'

00:39:16.780 true Italiano? It's the duality of man. I have two doppelgangers in this world.

00:39:23.540 uh one is michael corleone from the godfather the other one is rachel maddow within each with each

00:39:32.100 within each man there are two wolves which and whichever one you become is the one you most feed

00:39:37.680 am i are we leaning godfather or are we leaning rachel maddow today i'm very much leaning godfather

00:39:43.220 no no doubt about that uh the u.s fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level ever 53.1 births 0.73

00:39:52.040 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. Not good news. Now, why is this? The New York Times are trying

00:39:59.800 to explain this away. So the New York Times reports on it. Let's say U.S. fertility rate

00:40:03.940 drops to another record low. But then they say the fertility rate has been falling since 07,

00:40:07.960 in large part because of a plunge among teenagers. So they're trying to put a positive spin. They say,

00:40:12.960 yeah, we're not having any kids anymore, but it's just because we don't have 13-year-olds

00:40:16.560 getting pregnant. Isn't that a good thing, right? Yeah, but it's not true. The Institute for Family 0.76

00:40:21.560 studies points out falling teen births account for only 10 to 15 percent of the total fertility

00:40:27.800 rate decline since 2007. Even if you go all the way up to age 20, where, you know, 20-year-olds

00:40:33.940 can have kids. It's probably good for 20-year-olds to have kids. But even if you include all the way

00:40:37.500 up to age 20, that only accounts for 26 percent of the fertility rate decline. The rest, 74 to 91

00:40:43.100 percent, is just because women over 20, 20s, 30s, early 40s even, are just not having kids anymore.

00:40:51.560 that's totally unsustainable. We talk a lot. We actually haven't had a moment really and

00:40:57.200 so much going on, but we haven't had a moment to get back to the war in Iran, which is in large

00:41:01.660 part about a geopolitical play to maintain American hegemony in the world against a rising China

00:41:06.620 and other powers that seek to displace us. And we talk about how we need to preserve a new

00:41:11.500 American century and we need to preserve our hegemony around the world. You're not going to

00:41:15.620 preserve American hegemony if you don't have kids. That's the most basic thing a country has to do to

00:41:19.160 survive, much less thrive. And we're not having kids. So what happens? Decline in birth rates

00:41:26.540 is used as justification for more migration because you can't prop up the social welfare

00:41:31.500 system and you can't prop up GDP if you don't have people. So you just import people from the 0.83

00:41:36.500 third world. Then more migration leads to more social breakdown because you're importing people 1.00

00:41:41.680 who don't speak your language, who don't understand your civics, who don't assimilate 0.99

00:41:46.340 to your communities. In many cases, these are the least assimilable people in the world. They have

00:41:50.000 different religions. So you have social breakdown, which then leads to a further decline in birth 1.00

00:41:56.280 rates, which then leads to more migration, which leads to more social breakdown, and you're caught

00:42:01.780 in this endless cycle. So what are we to do about it? Some people, and I'm sympathetic to these

00:42:06.300 calls, they say, well, we just need more economic support for people having kids. We need a bigger

00:42:12.800 a social safety net, or we need a more industrial policy, or we need direct payouts to people to

00:42:18.340 have kids. We've tried a lot of these things. In Europe, Hungary has tried a lot of that,

00:42:23.280 and it's worked to a modest degree. But really, really the only driver of fertility,

00:42:31.800 the biggest driver of fertility is religion. You need people to seriously believe their religion.

00:42:38.640 conservative protestants traditional catholics orthodox jews people who take lds seriously

00:42:49.980 muslims definitely muslims have a lot of kids that they come from various socioeconomic

00:42:58.620 backgrounds they come from various geographies but that's the driver taking religion seriously

00:43:04.040 theistic religion, seriously, is the big driver of having kids, which means that if you consider 0.85

00:43:11.820 this a national problem, I consider it the most important national problem in an existential 0.73

00:43:15.560 political crisis. That means that you need public support, government support for religion,

00:43:23.620 which of course we had in this country until very, very recently. Public support for religion

00:43:29.360 only started to break down in the middle of the 20th century, really the latter part of the 20th

00:43:33.020 century. And now we pretend that America has to be a secular country, and we need to keep religion

00:43:37.060 out of the public square. That is a novelty in America. We used to have prayer in schools. We 0.98

00:43:41.520 used to have the Bible in schools. We used to have Christian displays in the public square.

00:43:46.220 And then we had a lot of court cases. And in most cases, that was pushed out. And we see the

00:43:51.440 results of that. Immediately, you see a collapse in birth rate. So if you're serious about this

00:43:55.280 problem, this is how I feel about political violence. If you're serious about political

00:43:58.000 violence, you need to prosecute the left. You need to fire people who encourage it and sanction it.

00:44:02.320 you need cancel culture. You need right-wing cancel culture, and you need to deport a lot

00:44:06.140 of bad people. Are you willing to do that? Many people, even people listening right now,

00:44:09.660 are going to say, I'm not willing to go that far. Okay, then you won't fix the problem.

00:44:12.840 This is how I feel about the birth rates. You want to fix the birth rates, you need public

00:44:15.980 support for religion, as we had for most of American history. Well, I don't want to do that.

00:44:20.100 I want to live in a secular country. I don't want, I don't know, I'm afraid of,

00:44:23.000 I don't want no theocrats in charge. Okay, fine. You're not going to fix the problem.

00:44:27.540 First of all, that's not what theocracy is, but even whatever, use whatever language you want.

00:44:30.920 Okay, you're not serious about fixing the problem. Okay, that's fine.

00:44:35.180 The other thing you need is strong communities. Strong communities begins with strong families.

00:44:38.880 To have a strong family, you have to know what a marriage is, which means you need to overturn

00:44:42.540 liberal divorce laws. It means you have to re-redefine marriage to exclude all the weird

00:44:48.940 LGBT stuff that obviously isn't marriage. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to overturn 1.00

00:44:53.240 no-fault divorce? Are you willing to overturn so-called same-sex marriage? No, you're not. 0.92

00:44:57.420 okay, that's fine. Fine, whatever. I'm not, but you're not going to fix the problem.

00:45:02.480 You're just not going to fix the problem. So that's too bad. But then don't act surprised.

00:45:07.480 When I, you know, I hate how much I hate to say I told you so. When I come out and I say,

00:45:12.060 hey, you're not going to fix this political violence problem or these problems of defamation

00:45:15.960 and radicalism and sensationalism with just like a lot more debate or a lot more podcasts or a lot

00:45:20.560 more conversations or whatever, that's not going to work. You need something else. When I say that,

00:45:24.960 And then people say, well, that's not, we reject your view, Michael.

00:45:28.020 Okay.

00:45:28.660 And then the problem gets worse and worse and worse.

00:45:32.580 Then don't say you weren't warned.

00:45:35.820 Same thing goes with religion and public life.

00:45:38.420 Same thing goes with families, strong communities.

00:45:40.980 That's how it goes.

00:45:43.200 You're only seeing the problem spiral out of control. 0.98

00:45:45.400 There's now a congressional candidate on the left who is bragging about how she used IVF

00:45:52.360 to create two of her children

00:45:54.680 and then left five of her children on ice 0.97

00:45:58.540 indefinitely, only later to be killed. 0.99

00:46:01.040 And then aborted the children 0.98

00:46:04.600 that she didn't conceive through IVF.

00:46:07.520 Both of my abortions were very early. 0.54

00:46:10.480 So it was like before,

00:46:12.400 the first one was definitely like,

00:46:14.840 I would say eight weeks.

00:46:17.300 And then the other one was at five.

00:46:18.680 You know, it's like, it's very, like very early.

00:46:21.580 But you make a decision for yourself.

00:46:23.900 And that's obviously different from the decision I made when I was 41 because I already had two kids and we had done IVF.

00:46:31.060 So we have, I don't know how controversial this is, but like we have five other embryos on ice right now.

00:46:37.340 It's really crazy because I think back to that moment where my husband and I looked at each other and we know that for us, we've only wanted two kids, a boy and a girl.

00:46:48.300 We got one of each.

00:46:49.880 We were like, we're done.

00:46:50.720 But we're big environmentalists.

00:46:53.320 For us, philosophically, we don't want to overburden our footprint on the world.

00:46:59.840 And we're not the kind of people that are like,

00:47:03.120 I just want a lot of children and I don't know how to explain it.

00:47:05.660 I know exactly why we just wanted to.

00:47:08.620 We wanted just to replace ourselves and not overburden anybody else or the world.

00:47:17.700 So everything she just said is wrong, and most of it should be illegal.

00:47:21.820 But I don't mean to laugh at it.

00:47:23.680 It's really a tragic story.

00:47:25.080 But even getting to the point that we were just talking about, public support for religion,

00:47:29.080 that woman has a religion. 0.95

00:47:32.640 It's not a theistic religion, but her religion is environmentalism.

00:47:36.780 She says that the way that I make even the most important decisions in my life

00:47:41.000 is based on what it means for the environment.

00:47:46.620 So that's the thing that's most important to her.

00:47:48.540 That's the lens through which she makes sense of the world

00:47:50.760 or doesn't make sense of the world in this case.

00:47:52.600 I don't want to burden the environment.

00:47:54.400 So I was going to have two kids.

00:47:56.720 The God of the Bible tells you to be fruitful and multiply.

00:48:00.480 But the God of nature, not the real God of nature,

00:48:05.240 the God of, I don't know, the various lower nature gods,

00:48:07.780 they tell you to only have two kids.

00:48:09.840 We have public support for that religion.

00:48:12.540 Kids are taught that in school.

00:48:13.880 we celebrate Earth Day, we have all sorts of public campaigns to promote this particular

00:48:19.480 version of left-wing environmentalism. We support that kind of religion, but that's a false religion.

00:48:23.800 It's not helpful to our society. It's led to our society literally dying. 0.92

00:48:29.340 It's not even that complicated a religion. It's just nature worship. We had nature worship in

00:48:32.740 the ancient pagan world. We have nature worship in the modern pagan world. That's all it is.

00:48:37.360 There are different religions. There's Buddhism, there's nature worship, there's Christianity,

00:48:42.340 there's Shintoism, there's Baalism, there's all sorts of religions. And that's the one that that

00:48:48.840 lady follows. And that one has a lot of public support. So she comes out and she says, I was 1.00

00:48:54.440 only going to make two kids, which is actually technically below replacement rate because to

00:48:59.660 account for early deaths, you need a replacement a little above two kids per person, per couple.

00:49:04.760 But she says, yeah, so to start out, I killed two of my kids. I sacrificed them to my nature gods.

00:49:10.460 And then I did IVF, which is more popular, but IVF has radically increased the abortion rate,

00:49:18.120 the rate of killing kids, because she says, I have five kids on ice that are going to be killed

00:49:21.980 later on. But I got two kids out out of it. And then I got pregnant again, and I killed it.

00:49:30.040 Not going to make it. A society that permits that stuff and encourages that stuff 0.78

00:49:36.140 and exalts religions that promote that stuff.

00:49:40.820 The most extreme form of political violence, 1.00

00:49:43.500 killing your own kid. 0.95

00:49:45.060 That society is not going to make it. 0.99

00:49:46.620 This is why Mother Teresa said,

00:49:47.880 what was it, 30 years ago now,

00:49:49.580 somewhere around there,

00:49:50.180 she said that abortion is the greatest threat to world peace 0.85

00:49:52.820 because if a mother can kill her own kid,

00:49:54.200 there's nothing that people will not do.

00:49:57.600 But we allowed that. 0.84

00:49:59.100 Even after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, 0.77

00:50:00.940 we still have legal abortion

00:50:01.980 because we make these procedural arguments

00:50:04.180 based on originalism or textualism or whatever.

00:50:07.120 We don't make substantive arguments to just ban abortion. 0.55

00:50:11.200 So we allow that. 0.83

00:50:12.280 And it's just a fact that a society that tolerates 0.98

00:50:16.500 and even in some cases encourages killing its own kids 0.80

00:50:19.580 is not going to thrive. 0.95

00:50:21.240 A society that doesn't know what marriage is

00:50:22.940 is not going to thrive.

00:50:23.780 A society that commoditizes human life

00:50:25.560 such that you can go to the store and buy a baby

00:50:27.220 or custom order a baby is not going to thrive.

00:50:29.740 A society that calls for the political violence

00:50:32.800 against people that you disagree with is not going to thrive. A political society that seeks

00:50:37.100 as the only remedy to those problems, endless blabber and blather and debate and podcasts.

00:50:44.700 I know it's kind of ironic because I'm on a podcast right now, but I'm offering an alternative

00:50:47.780 to the endless debate, free marketplace of ideas, podcast conversation view, which happens to be

00:50:54.020 the view that politics has always rested on, which is you have to do things through the law.

00:50:58.520 You have to set limits because the law is a teacher, and the ultimate goal of governments is to make the country better, and the way you make the country better is you make the people better.

00:51:08.400 And we believed that until relatively recently, and then we flipped it on its head, and we've said our goal is going to be to encourage license.

00:51:15.020 We're going to make autonomy the highest possible good.

00:51:17.960 We're then going to encourage the worst temptations of the autonomous will, and we're going to make as our ultimate end product making people worse, and that's going to make the country worse too.

00:51:28.520 and you might not want to deal with the uncomfortable conclusions that one has to

00:51:33.800 draw to fix the problem. But we can't say that we weren't warned. Okay, much more to get to,

00:51:39.140 but we don't have time. Today's Music Monday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not

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00:51:58.520 Amen.

The Michael Knowles Show - April 27, 2026

Ep. 1961 - Shooter’s Identity & Manifesto Revealed After Trump Event Attack

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