Ep. 345 - The MSM Are The Dumbest People On Earth
Summary
The New York Times has obtained 10 years of President Trump s tax return information and discovered, wait for it, from the late 80s to the early 90s, that the president suffered major business losses. We will examine why mainstream media journalists are the dumbest people on the face of the earth.
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The New York Times has obtained 10 years of President Trump's tax return information and discovered, wait for it,
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from the late 80s to the early 90s, the president suffered major business losses,
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which the New York Times could also have learned if they had read the entire book that Donald Trump wrote about that in 1997,
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or read all of the tabloid newspapers from the early 90s that reported on those business losses,
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or watched even one episode of Trump's hit network TV show in which he described at length all of those business losses.
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We will examine why mainstream media journalists are the dumbest people on the face of the earth.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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And these stupid, gullible people at the New York Times,
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This is the moment, you know, the left for two years, three years now,
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has been trying to get Donald Trump's tax returns.
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Now the New York Times breaking story, and it turns out what they uncovered is everything
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Now what they mean is they were in bleaker condition than was previously known to the New York Times.
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Because anybody who's actually paid attention to Donald Trump since the 80s knew all about this.
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But the New York Times, they finally cracked the cover on one of Trump's books,
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and they go, oh my, breaking news, we've got to run this.
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By the time his Master of the Universe memoir, Trump, the Art of the Deal, hit bookstores in 1987,
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Donald J. Trump was already in deep financial distress,
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losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals,
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according to previously unrevealed figures from his federal income tax returns.
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The data, printouts from Mr. Trump's official IRS transcripts,
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with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994,
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represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president's taxes,
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Mr. Trump reported losses of $46.1 million from his core businesses,
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casinos, hotels, retail space, and apartment buildings.
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totaling $1.17 billion in losses for the decade.
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They might have gotten it from a book called Trump, the Art of the Comeback,
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So they're saying from the mid to late 80s to the early to mid 90s,
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Donald Trump literally wrote an entire book about this in the New York Times because they are so
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oblivious, because they live in their own little bubble, because they are so desperate not to talk
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about the actual news of the day, which is evidence that the Obama administration spied on the Trump
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campaign because they're, because of all of these factors, they are running this as though it is
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But what it, this, he literally wrote the book on this.
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The, the description of the Art of the Comeback is Trump's story begins when many real estate moguls
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went belly up in what he calls the Great Depression of 1990.
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Trump reveals how he negotiated millions of dollars in bank loans and survived the recession,
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paving the way for a resurgence during which he built the most successful casino in Atlantic
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City and this and that and the other thing and all of his successes.
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So for real estate developers who were a little weak going into 1990, it took a lot of them out.
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So the premise of the book is by the late 80s, Donald Trump's business was not doing so hot.
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This time frame exactly matches the tax returns that the New York Times appears to have found.
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But let's say they didn't read the Art of the Comeback.
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Maybe, maybe the New York Times could have learned this scintillating bit of information
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by watching even one episode of the hit network TV show that Trump starred in and executive produced
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My name's Donald Trump, and I'm the largest real estate developer in New York.
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I own buildings all over the place, model agencies, the Miss Universe pageant, jet liners,
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golf courses, casinos, and private resorts like Mar-a-Lago, one of the most spectacular
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About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble.
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I was billions of dollars in debt, but I fought back, and I won big league.
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I used my negotiating skills, and I worked it all out.
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I've mastered the art of the deal, and I've turned the name Trump into the highest quality
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And as the master, I want to pass along my knowledge to somebody else.
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That's the whole premise of the show, is that Donald Trump had terrible business performance
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in the early 90s, and then he came back and fought his way back.
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But just pay attention here, because while we're making fun of the mainstream media, which I love
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doing, just remember the headline of the New York Times article, Decade in the Red, Trump
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tax figures show over $1 billion in business losses, a far bleaker condition than was previously
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You just heard Donald Trump 15 years ago say that he was billions of dollars in debt.
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If anything, Donald Trump was exaggerating how bleak his business life was in the early 90s.
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The New York Times found $1 billion in business losses.
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And the New York Times hears that and says, we've uncovered it was far worse than previously
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Actually, if you'd watch The Apprentice, the conclusion would be, Donald Trump was actually
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doing a little better than he was bragging about in the early 2000s.
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But where else could the New York Times have heard about this?
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Maybe the New York Times could have heard about this?
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By reading all of the newspaper articles when this was actually happening.
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In New York Post, in 1990, Donald ducks, with a dollar sign for the S, defaults on $30 million,
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Another New York Post headline, around the same time.
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Trump slump, again with a dollar sign because it's the New York Post.
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He's not a billionaire, says Forbes magazine, says net worth nosedives to $500 million.
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So you've got these headlines, say his wealth is nosediving, he's not a billionaire, he's
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He's saying, I'm actually richer than you're saying I am.
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So this has been going on now for, what, 30 years?
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The media and Donald Trump bickering over what his net worth is.
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Now, I guess the script has flipped a little bit now that he's president.
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The New York Times is trying to exaggerate the scope of his business losses.
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Maybe, by the way, even if you didn't read those newspapers, maybe you didn't watch The
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Maybe if you didn't read that book, The Art of the Comeback.
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Maybe you would have learned this of Trump's major business losses in 1990, in the late
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80s and the early 90s, by listening to every one of his critics for the past 30 years.
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It's not just the media that are writing about this, not just New York tabloids.
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Do you remember that one of the biggest media battles of the last 20 years was Donald Trump
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How did that fight begin when Rosie O'Donnell said this on network television, on The View,
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You know, you say what you want to say about him.
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I know you said that his father gave him his money.
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Well, listen, the fact of the matter is you say what you want to say, but he's a businessman.
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There are a lot of kids who have inherited money from their parents, and you can't see
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anything about it except a car or a house that's defunct.
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And he's been bankrupt so many times where he didn't have to pay.
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A lot of people have been bankrupt, but he's gone back.
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People beneath him who he owed money to got shorted out of the money, but he got to again,
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After his father died, with that money, he paid off all his bankruptcy.
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This is the line of attack against Trump for decades and decades.
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By the way, did you hear Rosie O'Donnell just contradicted herself?
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She just said he went bankrupt a bunch of times, but he got out of it.
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He just screwed over his creditors, and he made the little guy pick up the tab, but he
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And then not five seconds later, she says, and then his father died, and he used that
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So did he pay off his debts, or did he not pay off his debts?
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Did he pay off his debts using his inherited money, or did he screw over his creditors?
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It can't be both ways, but the media want to have it both ways.
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They want Donald Trump to be this billionaire plutocrat who's a corrupt, and he's made all
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They want him to not have that much money at all.
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And they're trying to advance these arguments at the same time.
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And, and by the way, the way they're doing it is, is bringing up information that has
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been so public for the last 30 years that Trump himself has made it a key part of his
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You'll notice in the article, it says the breaking investigative New York Times, and it's
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got these two authors that I haven't really heard of.
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And then at the very bottom of the article, it says, Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.
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Maggie Haberman, you might remember, is one of the favored journalists for the Democrat
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It's, you can't even really call her a journalist at this point because she just carries water
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There was a 2015 strategy document from the Hillary Clinton campaign that got leaked.
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It said that the Hillary campaign always used her to tee up stories for them and that they
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That little note at the bottom, Maggie Haberman contributed reporting, does seem to give away
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Now, when I saw this last night, this was the breaking news on Twitter, I could not stop
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If you were following the whole show on Twitter last night, I just could not stop laughing about
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this because I just thought these journalists are the stupidest people on earth.
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Only mainstream media journalists could be so oblivious, could get so whipped up in their
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frenzy of hatred for the president that they could cover a story that they think is going
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to attack the president and actually ends up totally destroying their own credibility.
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I mean, maybe this is a little too clever by half.
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I wondered if Donald Trump leaked these tax documents himself.
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Seriously, because you'll remember a year or two ago, Rachel Maddow had this big breaking
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news exclusive, we have Donald Trump's 2005 tax return.
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We're going to find out that he didn't pay any taxes and, oh, he paid $38 million in taxes
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And this, at the time, I just thought, man, Trump and his campaign just destroy the media.
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Then fast forward now, almost any period of Donald Trump's tax returns could be used to
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hurt him if they got his returns from the 70s or the early 80s, maybe the early 2000s,
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Just coincidentally, they were only able to get his tax returns from the exact period of
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It's a boast at this point that he wrote a book about, did a TV show about.
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And so what are the conclusions of the documents?
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The conclusions are, for a little under a decade, Donald Trump paid a low tax rate.
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When you take into account losses, deductions, all these sort of things, he basically didn't
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So the charitable view of that is that Donald Trump took major business losses.
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We know there was a huge downturn in New York real estate at that time.
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We know that the tax code was favorable toward real estate developers, toward people who were
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The uncharitable read of that document is that Donald Trump cheated on his taxes, that
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But this one is kind of hard to believe because Donald Trump is under audit currently, I believe,
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and he certainly was under audit two years ago.
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This is a very wealthy guy with a lot of business interests who has been audited.
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So if he really underpaid on taxes, one would expect that that would already be discovered
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Another takeaway is that Donald Trump had less money than he said he did for many years.
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This has always been the knock on Trump is that he brags about having more money than he
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Is that that the New York Times thinks this is a big story?
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They've been lobbying this attack on him for three years, much more than three years.
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Then you got to wonder, what do the Democrats get out of this?
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First of all, nobody cares about Donald Trump's taxes.
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This is just an attack that has come up over the past few decades to, for opposition research
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firms to launch more assaults on other candidates.
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They do not care about the tax returns of some politician from 10 years ago.
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They now get to highlight how Donald Trump fought his way back from a billion dollars of
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Democrats get now to push the narrative that Trump has tried to push for 30 years.
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It exposes a lot of the elitism of the mainstream media.
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When this came out, one of the trends that was going on on Twitter was they said, Donald
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They're making fun of Trump because he took some big risks in business and had some big
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First of all, does anyone actually believe Donald Trump is not a wealthy man right now?
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I know some people try to say that and say he's not as rich as he says he is.
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Certainly, we all can agree Donald Trump is a very wealthy man right now and has been
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So with The New York Times, do they say, ha, ha, he wasn't a billionaire for 10 years.
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We're making fun of how Donald from Queens, you know, he has that outer borough accent.
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He wasn't even a billionaire for the early 90s.
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This is how we're going to win votes from those plebeians in New York City.
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I mean, that's what they're portraying themselves as rich Uncle Pennybags over here.
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They're portraying themselves as the guy on the Monopoly box.
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Not a good way to connect to the American people.
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Whoever leaked it really does seem to have backfired here.
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And I don't know, I mean, I like to think that it was Republicans who leaked this document
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because it's a great troll and, you know, at this moment in time, Republicans are really
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If it wasn't the Republicans who leaked this, if it wasn't Trump himself or somebody, if it
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wasn't like kind of a media dirty hit, if this actually was leaked from the government,
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To leak someone's private tax return information is a very serious crime.
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So certainly an investigation should take place and whoever is responsible for it should
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Unless it was, you know, unless it was Trump himself, whoever actually committed a crime
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of stealing this information should be held to account.
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I mean, we attack WikiLeaks for hacking into the government and, you know, releasing information
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You have somebody going into our federal government, stealing information, leaking it to the media
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and publishing it to damage not only a politician, not only a candidate, but the president of the
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Governor Brian Kemp just signed a bill that will ban abortions if a heartbeat can be detected
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So this means it could be as early as six weeks.
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And there are, look, there have been many restrictions on abortion over the last 10 years and they're
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Hollywood threatened to boycott, pull all of its film industry out of Georgia because
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You've had celebrities constantly ranting about it, giving speeches, going on social media about
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The left is so angry about this Georgia bill because it is extremely consequential.
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Now, this law, it's being referred to as the heartbeat law, this law gives away the whole
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It says that you cannot abort your baby after a heartbeat has been detected.
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I mean, heart's a very important organ, but it's just an organ.
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The reason it's a heartbeat is because we associate, just in our minds, in our culture,
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We associate the heartbeat with the essence of what it is to be a human.
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Again, little clumps of cells don't have heartbeats.
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If you can't have an abortion after a baby has a heartbeat, that means that the baby has
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And if the baby has a heartbeat, then the baby is a baby.
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It's a very good law because it both pulls on the heartstrings, literally, I guess.
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It pulls on, it gives us this image, the heart.
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And it takes abortion to its logical conclusion.
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Everybody listening agrees that you shouldn't be able to kill a baby a day after he's been
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We all agree you shouldn't be able to kill a baby as he's being born, you know, 10 hours
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Well, if those two things are true, you probably shouldn't be able to kill a baby a day before
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Does the baby really change the day before he's going to be born to the day he's born?
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Now, further and further back, the baby stops resembling a baby as much, doesn't have fully
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So, just in our minds, not in objective reality, but in our imperfect perception of things,
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we see the early stage baby and we say, oh, it doesn't look totally like a baby, so I guess
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But now we go all the way back, we get to six weeks or eight weeks, this is pretty early
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in a pregnancy, month and a half, two months, and we say, but even that little thing, which
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doesn't totally look like a baby, has a heartbeat.
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Gosh, I guess it's wrong to kill a baby at all.
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Not just at 20 weeks, not just 26 weeks, I guess it's wrong at all.
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She tweeted out, one of the coldest things I have ever seen tweeted, which is really saying
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She tweeted out, quote, six weeks pregnant equals two weeks late on your period.
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I guess that's true, kind of missing the point.
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A one-month-old newborn baby lying in its crib equals 40 weeks late on your period.
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That is not to say that the sum total of what a one-month-old newborn baby is, is just, yeah,
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Likewise, a six-weeks-old baby, unborn baby, is not just a missed period.
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A six-weeks-old unborn baby is not just a little morning sickness.
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A six-weeks-old unborn baby is not just a little bump starting to form in your belly.
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Most of the men writing these bills don't know the first thing about a woman's body
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It's relatively common for a woman to have a late period and not be pregnant.
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Because I also love most of the men writing these bills don't know anything about a woman's
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Well, what about the men who support abortion rights?
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What about Governor Ralph Northam in Virginia who said that we should be able to kill babies
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What about Andrew Cuomo, who now, in New York, it's now legal to kill a baby as it's being
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They're so selective with their sexual discrimination here.
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They say men can't say anything about abortion unless they support it.
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Just because I am a man doesn't mean I can't understand aspects of womanhood.
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Because I have a brain and I have faculties of reason so I can reason through things.
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And I have evidence and I have the scientific method and I have all sorts of resources at
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Just because a doctor hasn't had cancer doesn't mean a doctor can't operate on cancer.
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Just because I've never been to Tahiti doesn't mean I can't form a picture of what Tahiti
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Of course, the men signing these bills, voting for these bills, and the women voting for these
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And what is at stake is not six weeks of pregnancy.
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And you had a man, not a woman, a man, Chris Cuomo on CNN, who was moderating one of the
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They've lost this argument and they are steadily losing this argument.
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And so they get shriller and shriller and shriller.
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Then our old buddy in Philadelphia, Brian Sims, that wacko, weirdo, local representative there
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who stalks little teenage girls and elderly women at Planned Parenthood, he issues a fake
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But I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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It is $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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A mailbag's coming up tomorrow, by the way, so get your questions in.
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By the way, tomorrow, I am going to be in Missouri.
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I was invited by State Senator Eric Burleson there to give a speech at the state capitol
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of Missouri on the importance of free speech on campus.
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This was after I was physically assaulted at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, after
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And that was after the chancellor of that university, instead of condemning the assailants and the
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hecklers, he condemned me as some sort of bigot and smeared me and did not stand for
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So I'm going to go to the state capitol tomorrow and call for that man's resignation and his
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firing and a vigorous defense of free speech on campus.
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So if you're in Jefferson City, Missouri, come on out.
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Otherwise, I'll see you on the show at dailywire.com because you will need the Leftist Tears Tumblr
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So Chris Cuomo yesterday on CNN was moderating a panel between a debate between Rick Santorum,
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former GOP presidential candidate and senator, and Christine Quinn.
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This woman was almost the mayor of New York, and she gives the shrillest, stupidest defense
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When a woman gets pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her.
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And this is about a woman having full agency and control of her body and making decisions
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about her body and what is part of her body with medical professionals.
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Those are the facts, and that is the law of the land.
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So at least Christine Quinn is not making the argument that the baby is not a human,
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The baby is not a human, therefore it's a giraffe.
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But what she says is it's not an individual human.
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The baby doesn't grow organically out of the woman's body.
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The baby is conceived by the combination of the woman's egg and the man's sperm.
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So another human being has to come together in an act of love or, I don't know, an act
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of drunken revelry, come together with the woman and conceive this baby, which then grows
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Genetically distinct, physically distinct, and then of course will be born unless someone
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So if the baby growing in the mother's womb were just a part of her body, then it would
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probably be pretty weird when that baby is born and starts running around on its own.
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That'd be, that'd be pretty, it would make us like starfish or octopuses or something.
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You know, with a, a starfish, you cut off one of its little legs and then it just grows
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You say, gosh, that's pretty, that would basically humans would become starfishes if that were
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But imagine if you just went out and you cut off your arm.
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That's just, it's just, you know, it'll just grow another person and run around.
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And babies are just part of the mother's body, except the baby's not part of the mother's
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She, so she stops making this stupid argument, which is going nowhere and then gets to the
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You're asking provocative things that are trying to make people angry about what's done.
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So Chris Cuomo is just, I don't know, Chris Cuomo is just not fit morally or intellectually
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This is a brilliant question that a lot of times you don't really hear in pro-life advocacy.
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What Christine O'Donnell says is, the baby is part of the mother's body.
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That's kind of a weird argument to make, by the way.
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But even if you could, even if that were conceptually possible, would you suggest that?
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Therefore, cut it off and chop it up and kill it.
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If it's part of your body, you probably want to preserve it.
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So Rick Santorum sees the flaw in this argument here.
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You can't hear it over Chris Cuomo's stupid yapping.
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Same with Christine O'Donnell or Christine Quinn.
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But what Rick Santorum says is, okay, whatever that baby is, whatever you want to call the baby,
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if you can kill it because it's morally insignificant, it's morally irrelevant, if you can kill that baby, then you can do anything to it, right?
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And then Christine Quinn says something to the effect of, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.
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And so you just have to try to tune that out because it's so grating on your ears.
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If you can kill the baby, then surely you can torture it, right?
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Well, if you're able to murder it, surely you can go in and kind of poke it around and maybe mess up its brain cells a little bit.
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Why is it okay to kill an unborn baby, but it's not okay to torture an unborn baby?
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Now, the real answer is because even pro-abortion supporters have some intuition on some gut level that that baby has moral significance.
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And the reason that they are willing to kill it is not because of some real philosophical conviction that it doesn't matter, but because it's convenient.
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And they don't want to be parents, and they don't want to deal with the consequences of their actions, and they don't want to even give up their baby for adoption.
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In the United States, 36 couples waiting for every American baby that is born and put up for adoption.
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36 couples waiting for every one baby born and put up for adoption.
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There are plenty of people waiting to adopt your baby, but you don't want to put the baby up for adoption.
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Because maybe it's uncomfortable for nine months, and more importantly, because you don't want to give up your kid.
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Because there's a part of us, deep, deep down, our conscience, that says, I don't want to give up my kid.
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And parents who decide to give up their kid rather than kill it, they're making a heroic and courageous decision.
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But the cowardly decision, and the decision that Christine Quinn is trying to defend, is to just kill it.
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I mean, actually, the way that she's holding this debate is indicative of the argument about abortion.
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Because if you just have a calm and collected argument about abortion, which is what Rick Santorum is doing,
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what that probably means is that you've thought about this and you're confident in your opinion.
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But if you're just saying a lot of contradictory and emotional and untrue things about abortion,
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then probably instead of having a cool and collected discussion where you let your other, your debate partner get in his points,
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what you have to do is just scream and shout and la, la, la, la, la, I can't hear you, I can't hear you.
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Chris Cuomo's brother, Andrew Cuomo, is the governor of New York.
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And he just ratified and celebrated one of the most radical abortion laws in the country.
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This abortion law legalizes killing babies as they are being born.
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And it actually changes the penal code such that if a guy goes up and kills a pregnant woman,
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in the old days he would be charged with double murder.
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But now, after Andrew Cuomo's abortion law, he'll only be charged with a single murder.
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Because that legal protection for the baby was taken away.
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He swoops in to try to make the argument and it fails.
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All I'm saying is, you guys go too far when you pervert the facts.
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We have the President of the United States saying that a baby is born at the end of full term,
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swaddled in a blanket, and then to decide whether or not to execute it.
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One person said something stupid and you want to make it something that you can use for advantage.
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So did you see Chris Cuomo just contradicted himself because he said nobody in this country
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has ever called for a baby who has been born to be killed.
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Ralph Northam, the Democrat governor of Virginia,
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not just an activist, not just a congressman, not just a state representative,
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the governor of Virginia, explicitly called for that on the radio.
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There are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions,
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these are done with the consent of obviously the mother,
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with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
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And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.
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So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
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The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
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And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mothers.
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If the baby is born, maybe he's got some deformities.
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Maybe he comes out not looking the way you want him to look.
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So then the baby would be kept comfortable, maybe resuscitated if, you know,
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he had some problems and maybe the mother wanted him to be resuscitated.
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And then, then once the baby has been resuscitated, sitting there on the table,
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swaddled in clothing, then the doctor and the mother would talk about whether or not to kill it.
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Then Rick St. Worm says, the governor of Virginia did.
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One major American political figure of your political party said that.
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And Rick Santorum held back here because what he really should have said is, actually, Chris,
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your brother, Andrew Cuomo, in New York is leading the charge.
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It permits abortion when, according to a medical professional, it is, quote, reasonable,
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a medical professional is, quote, reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient's case.
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And when the patient is within 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, so legal abortion in the first 24 weeks, okay, that's true virtually everywhere.
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It doesn't mean the baby's probably, he's got some condition.
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Or when the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life.
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Okay, so this is also the law in a lot of places.
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If the mother's life is at risk, you can have an abortion.
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Now, there is virtually no case in which an abortion is the remedy to save a mother's life.
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There are some cases in which treating the mother's condition will kill the baby as a consequence of that.
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But there is virtually no condition in which the abortion is the solution.
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That's the medical solution to saving the mother's life.
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But then listen to this last word, the devil's in the details.
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Or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life or health.
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Because health is being described not just in terms of your physical health, but your mental health, your psychological health, your financial health, anything.
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As long as you get a little doctor's note that says, yeah, it's going to be really detrimental to Susie's feelings if she has this baby.
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You can kill that baby in the state of New York, thanks to Chris Cuomo's brother, Andrew, up until the moment he is born.
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And that is what our good buddy over in Pennsylvania, that state representative, Brian Sims, is defending when he goes and stalks teenage girls and tries to dox teenage girls and tries to harass and demean and mock elderly women who were just protesting outside of Planned Parenthood there.
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So Brian Sims, one of the schmuckiest politicians in America, he has just been eviscerated in the press and on social media, in the right-wing press, for those videos that he's been posting that we've played over the last couple days.
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Now, by the way, the CNN has not written about him.
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CNN wrote a story about a positive story about him a few years ago.
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So it's not like they won't talk about this guy and the state representative.
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Brian Sims, one of the hottest news stories in the country right now.
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But they have to cover it up because they have to carry water not only for Democrats, but specifically for defenders of abortion.
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Brian Sims, of his own accord, released an apology video yesterday on his social media account.
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Now, see if you can figure out which word is missing from his apology video.
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And I'm actually up in our capital for this week's legislative session.
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But I stepped off the floor for a moment because I've received a lot of feedback about a video I posted last week.
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You see, I've lived across the street or next door to this particular Planned Parenthood, one of the most heavily protested Planned Parenthoods in America, for the last 15 years.
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I've seen men and women and teens try to go there for routine health care, for checkups, for pap smears, for breast exams, for STD screenings, and, yes, for abortions.
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In fact, it's where I even treat for my own life-saving prep medication.
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And I'm grateful for the services that they provide.
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I've also spent the last seven years serving as a volunteer patient escort at this Planned Parenthood.
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And I have seen firsthand the insults, the slurs, the attacks, and the racism that those protesters aim at mostly young girls going there for clinical care.
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Care that those of us on the outside can never understand.
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I fully understand, respect, and appreciate the non-engagement policy that they have.
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And I would never want to do anything that interfered with the care that they're providing to their patients.
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As an activist and an advocate, I know why pushing back against harassment and discrimination are a must, even when they're uncomfortable.
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I was a neighbor and a concerned citizen, and I was aggressive.
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I know that two wrongs don't make a right, and I can do better, and I will do better for the women of Pennsylvania.
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Did you catch which word was missing from that apology?
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Because he's not apologizing, he's defending his actions.
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So he begins by saying that the people who protest abortion, who protest the killing of children, are bigots.
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Planned Parenthood kills three times as many black babies as it does white babies.
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More black babies in New York City are killed in the womb than are born.
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And the most dangerous place for a black person in New York is in his mother's womb.
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And he accuses those of us who don't want to kill all of those black babies of racism.
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This does underline a pretty eternal truth of leftism.
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When a leftist calls you a racist, you know you've won the argument.
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That's all this coward, bully, schmuck can do is pretend to be a victim.
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And then he defends Planned Parenthood, defends killing babies, defends his actions, his aggression,
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defends stalking and doxing underage girls, defends harassing and mocking and ridiculing an elderly woman.
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Well, I'm going to Philadelphia this Friday because my friend and colleague Matt Walsh launched a major pro-life rally there
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that's going to take place at the Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia.
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The same one that this guy stalks, the same one that this guy volunteers at because he's just so, so covetous of abortions.
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He has such a hunger that more babies be killed that he volunteers his time to walk women in and encourage them to kill their children.
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And then in his free time, when he's not volunteering there, he goes and harasses underage girls and elderly women
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and intimidates them and threatens them and doxes them.
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So I'm going to go there to this wonderful pro-life rally on Friday.
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I think you won't because you're a coward and because Brian Sims can't pick on someone his own size.
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He's got to stick to stalking young underage teenage girls and elderly women.
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He thinks that's a fight that he's more able to win.
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Look forward to seeing him there and I look forward to seeing all of you.
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If you're in Jefferson City, come on out to that speech tomorrow at the state capitol.
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And I'll also see you on the show in the meantime.
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