The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 388 - Epstein Almost Gets Suicided

00:00:00.000 Admitted sex abuser and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found injured and nearly

00:00:06.240 unconscious in his jail cell yesterday in what many friends of Bill Clinton are calling

00:00:11.860 a clear case of attempted suicide.

00:00:14.060 We will examine what is really going on in this sordid saga.

00:00:18.560 Then Ilhan Omar says more terrible things.

00:00:21.660 The media meltdown on Bob Mueller's weak testimony on Capitol Hill.

00:00:25.320 And finally, the mailbag.

00:00:26.400 All that and more.

00:00:27.060 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Of course Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in his jail cell.

00:00:43.440 Of course he was.

00:00:44.840 Now there are many theories flying around about this.

00:00:47.960 I would never engage in the notion that the Clintons have obviously killed people.

00:00:53.320 I wouldn't know.

00:00:53.820 We will analyze, joking and sort of joking aside, we will analyze what is most likely going on

00:00:59.980 here and what this injury is all about.

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00:02:59.080 Jeffrey Epstein. 0.99

00:03:00.780 Admitted sex abuser of young underage girls. 0.99

00:03:05.640 Accused sex trafficker of young underage girls. 0.97

00:03:08.680 Has lots of very rich and wealthy and powerful friends all over the world.

00:03:12.740 And he winds up injured at the point of death in his jail cell.

00:03:18.800 So what is going on here?

00:03:20.200 Is it the case that Bill Clinton's hitman didn't finish the job?

00:03:23.040 Or is there something else going on?

00:03:24.900 I'm kidding.

00:03:25.560 I'm mostly, I'm mostly kidding.

00:03:27.640 Let's look at the facts first, and then we can examine the three possibilities of what's

00:03:32.240 going on here.

00:03:33.760 Jeffrey Epstein, he's not being held in the private wing of the Palm Beach County Jail

00:03:38.400 anymore like he was 10 years ago.

00:03:40.520 He is being held in a real tough place.

00:03:43.500 The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

00:03:46.300 For comparison, this is the place El Chapo was held.

00:03:50.600 This is no joke.

00:03:52.860 This place has been described by people who have been there as worse than Guantanamo.

00:03:57.620 This is a real, real tough place.

00:03:59.800 A 2011 report from Amnesty International said that conditions in the Metropolitan Correctional

00:04:04.620 Center are, and in particular the 10 south wing of that correctional center, amounted to

00:04:10.640 quote, cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment that was quote, incompatible with the presumption

00:04:17.140 of innocence in the case of untried prisoners whose detention should not be a form of punishment.

00:04:23.080 So this is a hardcore facility.

00:04:27.100 He also was housed with somebody named Nicholas Tartaglione.

00:04:31.340 Nicholas Tartaglione, with a name like that, you might think he could be associated with a

00:04:36.260 particularly criminal aspect of the Italian-American subculture.

00:04:39.040 But no, he actually is a former cop. 0.98

00:04:41.900 He's a former cop who became a dirty cop. 0.95

00:04:43.740 He got involved in drugs and drug trafficking and ended up killing people. 0.95

00:04:47.140 So he's there too.

00:04:48.660 There are three possibilities.

00:04:51.900 I guess really four possibilities here.

00:04:54.500 One is that Jeffrey Epstein actually attempted suicide.

00:04:59.020 I mean, this guy is facing what will amount to life in prison and not a pleasant time in

00:05:04.540 prison.

00:05:05.120 So he could have actually attempted suicide himself.

00:05:07.300 Or he could have faked a suicide attempt in order to get himself transferred to a better

00:05:14.180 jail, since he's in basically the worst one you can possibly be in right now.

00:05:18.660 Or one of the very powerful people, one of the many most powerful and richest and connected

00:05:25.500 people in the world that he is associated with, who he could possibly bring down because

00:05:30.640 he has dirt and blackmail on all of them, would very much like it if he winds up dead.

00:05:36.600 And then the fourth possibility is that this guy that he was in the jail with, Nicholas

00:05:41.600 Tartaglione, was the one who tried to kill him.

00:05:44.360 I think this last one is the least plausible.

00:05:46.980 It's not like we're talking about him being housed with some white supremacist gang member

00:05:51.600 who's trying to make a name for himself or something.

00:05:53.520 He's being held in a private wing, particularly and specifically to combat those threats.

00:05:59.020 He's already had threats on his life from people in the general prison population.

00:06:02.580 So the idea that some ex-cop who's also being held basically on his own is going to be the

00:06:08.040 one to off him, I just think that's not very likely.

00:06:10.760 And the people who are familiar with the situation are saying that the cop and Epstein basically

00:06:15.600 got along and were doing fine together.

00:06:18.440 So I don't think it's that one.

00:06:19.480 I think it's one of the three.

00:06:21.240 An actual suicide attempt, a fake suicide attempt, or one of his powerful friends, former

00:06:26.620 friends, trying to shut him up before he can expose their crimes.

00:06:30.480 Now, this last one is the one that's trending on Twitter right now, the Clinton body bag count.

00:06:35.560 You know, there's been this meme that's gone around for 25 years now that the Clintons kill

00:06:39.940 a lot of people because all of these people that have been associated with the Clintons wind

00:06:43.680 up dead, not just Vince Foster, who worked for the White House very famously in the 90s,

00:06:48.580 but a lot of other people too.

00:06:50.320 Now, if you look at any one of these deaths on the Clinton body count list, it just doesn't

00:06:57.240 seem likely that they killed him.

00:06:59.620 The cumulative effect is sort of compelling to people as far as memes on the internet go.

00:07:05.980 I'm not saying that the Clintons have killed people.

00:07:08.100 That's not what I'm saying at all.

00:07:09.560 What I'm saying is the reason that this meme, this idea has made it this far and has lasted

00:07:15.420 for 25 years is because we all know that the Clintons totally would kill people, right? 0.99

00:07:20.840 We all know that these are absolutely, thoroughly dishonest, corrupt psychopaths to the core. 1.00

00:07:27.700 I mean, the Clintons lie like it's the air. 0.99

00:07:30.460 I mean, there's no, they have no regard for the truth.

00:07:33.180 They have no regard for loyalty. 0.99

00:07:35.220 They are vicious, psychopathic people. 0.76

00:07:37.480 So the reason the meme has lasted is because we all know that they would do it.

00:07:42.580 Now, that doesn't mean they did do it, and I don't think they did it.

00:07:45.040 It is certainly possible, though, that many of the other very wealthy and connected people

00:07:50.360 that Jeffrey Epstein is associated with might try to do that as well.

00:07:54.720 I mean, let's not forget the Southern District of New York found a Saudi passport in his safe,

00:08:00.340 a Saudi passport from the 80s with a different name on it, but with his picture.

00:08:04.820 What does that mean?

00:08:05.560 We can, I think, assume at this point that Epstein is a pretty high-level sex trafficker.

00:08:11.100 Was he maybe providing some favors for people in Saudi Arabia?

00:08:14.320 Well, how about all of the other high-powered people around the world that he's palled around with over the decades?

00:08:21.020 It's not implausible at all that someone would try to knock him off.

00:08:23.980 Now, the one reason that I think this is not likely in this case is because he's being held at a very serious place.

00:08:32.840 El Chapo wasn't able to break out of this place.

00:08:35.320 I'm not convinced that someone could very easily go in and off Jeffrey Epstein at this Metropolitan Correction facility.

00:08:42.460 So let's, for now, table that idea that someone's trying to kill him.

00:08:47.060 Plenty of people have motives, too.

00:08:48.520 Plenty of people would do it.

00:08:49.660 I just don't think that's likely here.

00:08:53.320 Number two, did Epstein actually attempt suicide?

00:08:56.760 Jeffrey Epstein is a completely shameless individual. 0.95

00:09:00.780 He has flaunted his sexual proclivities and his sexual businesses for 20 years now. 0.98

00:09:09.920 He has an island that people called Pedophile Island, Private Island.

00:09:13.500 He has a plane that people called the Lolita Express.

00:09:17.320 In profiles of Jeffrey Epstein, people joked about how, President Trump joked about how,

00:09:22.520 he was always around those younger women.

00:09:24.380 He really liked younger women.

00:09:25.660 This is a guy with no shame whatsoever. 0.93

00:09:27.280 However, he's already copped to sex with underage girls 10 years ago, more than 10 years ago.

00:09:34.080 And he continues to do it, even to this day.

00:09:37.400 I don't think he has any remorse, any regret, any shame at all.

00:09:41.420 I think it's very unlikely that he would try to kill himself.

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00:11:31.260 So I think all things considered, no matter how depraved the Clintons are,

00:11:35.880 no matter how much clout and power all of his other foreign friends have,

00:11:41.460 former friends,

00:11:42.200 I think it's unlikely that someone tried to kill Epstein here.

00:11:46.960 I also think it's unlikely that he tried to kill himself.

00:11:49.660 What I think is actually going on is that he faked a suicide attempt.

00:11:54.060 I think he faked a suicide attempt because all Jeffrey Epstein wants is to get out of this jail.

00:11:59.520 What he really wants is to get out on bail.

00:12:01.480 He made this exorbitant, absurd offer to get out of jail on bail.

00:12:07.020 The trouble is, once he gets out on bail, he's going to flee the country, right?

00:12:09.640 There's no chance that this guy is sticking around.

00:12:11.640 He's got his own island, for goodness sake.

00:12:13.440 He is a bond villain.

00:12:15.040 So the judge, rightly, was not going to let this guy out on bail.

00:12:19.440 Next best case would be to get out of this awful El Chapo prison facility and go to a nicer prison.

00:12:24.880 And if that means that he's got to pretend to hang himself or something or choke himself for a little bit,

00:12:29.900 I think it's likely that he would do that.

00:12:33.580 He was taken to the hospital.

00:12:35.020 Apparently, the injuries were not that serious.

00:12:36.660 If this were a hardcore suicide attempt, first of all, it probably would have worked.

00:12:41.260 And also, it would have resulted in more serious injuries.

00:12:46.200 By the way, this is another reason why I don't think it was a hitman.

00:12:49.080 You know, I don't think it was the black-gloved assassins of the Clintons or somebody like that.

00:12:54.700 If it were the black-gloved assassins of the Clintons, Jeffrey Epstein would be dead.

00:12:59.480 He wouldn't be around to tell the story.

00:13:01.700 So I don't think it's that.

00:13:02.820 I think it's a cynical ploy to get out of jail and to either get out on bail or go to a place that isn't so horrific.

00:13:10.840 I mean, this is a very high-level guy, Jeffrey Epstein.

00:13:14.520 This is a top-tier operator in politics and finance and crime, and I wouldn't put anything past him.

00:13:23.880 So I hope that he stays rotting in that facility, and I hope they keep him on protection.

00:13:27.600 I mean, I hope they continue to protect this guy because, in fact, there are a lot of powerful people in this country and around the world 0.51

00:13:34.960 who would like nothing more than for Jeffrey Epstein to turn up dead before he can sing on them.

00:13:40.120 Speaking of child abuse, speaking of child abuse, about, what was it, three days ago, I think on Monday,

00:13:46.860 we talked about this guy, Jessica Yaniv, a man in a dress who sauntered into a Canada beauty salon. 0.98

00:13:55.480 It's run by immigrant women, and they do Brazilian waxes for women, and he insisted that they wax his scrotum, 1.00

00:14:01.120 and they said no, and now he sued them out of business, and he's done this to 16 other beauty salons. 0.77

00:14:06.220 And everyone is trying, people on the left, at least, are trying to portray him as a victim.

00:14:11.980 Oh, he's a transgender woman. 0.99

00:14:16.020 Transgender women are women.

00:14:17.800 That's what we're told, and it's awful that he's getting this kind of treatment. 1.00

00:14:23.060 Turns out, as I could have predicted, this man is a sexual predator. 0.99

00:14:29.100 Who could have guessed? 1.00

00:14:29.860 Could you imagine?

00:14:30.380 It's now come out that this man, his name is Jessica Yaniv, I don't know what his name was before he turned it into Jessica,

00:14:37.240 he was sending very charged sexual messages to a 14-year-old girl when he was 27 years old.

00:14:46.980 Yaniv was, in these text messages, which have now been leaked by the girl, Yaniv whines that the girl is not yet 16,

00:14:55.040 and therefore, because of age of consent laws, he cannot, quote, do anything with you, like four yous in there.

00:15:03.900 In other messages, Yaniv, close your ears if you don't want to hear something truly disgusting.

00:15:08.480 In other messages, Yaniv asked to see the girl's menstrual pad.

00:15:13.020 14 years old.

00:15:13.840 He was a 27-year-old man.

00:15:15.900 Still is a man, but back then he was acknowledging that he was a man.

00:15:19.900 Then, in another instance, he sent a voice message, in an Elmo voice, a Muppet voice,

00:15:27.680 and he was singing, Jessica Rumpel's, that's the girl's name, Breasts Bounce Up and Down,

00:15:34.720 in a little childish Elmo voice.

00:15:37.940 He also told Rumpel that he was horny, and he followed it up by telling the girl, 1.00

00:15:41.800 why are you always so beautiful, LOL, and then he sent her a video of a sex toy. 0.98

00:15:45.980 Anyway, this guy, Jessica Yaniv, is the villain from season one of Another Kingdom. 0.93

00:15:52.500 If you haven't seen Another Kingdom, that's the podcast that I did with Drew Klavan, 0.92

00:15:56.920 the villain is this kind of transvestite, androgynous, criminal hitman figure 0.96

00:16:03.300 who speaks in a lilting, muppety voice. 0.99

00:16:06.500 This guy is him. 0.84

00:16:08.160 This guy is the villain. 0.52

00:16:09.740 And it shows you, the reason I bring it up is not because of what weirdo this guy is,

00:16:13.460 or how awful it was that he ran those women out of business up in Canada,

00:16:17.560 or how awful it was that some people were defending him.

00:16:20.100 I bring it up because it shows you what just a little change of language can do.

00:16:27.180 This guy, we knew nothing about this guy.

00:16:29.860 All we knew about him is that he wore a dress and put an immigrant woman out of business.

00:16:34.080 And you had some people defending him because he's an oppressed victim.

00:16:41.920 We were told that this is a woman.

00:16:45.080 What the left presented this guy as is as a transgender woman. 0.98

00:16:49.820 Now, a woman is always a victim compared to a man in the intersectional hierarchy of victimhood. 0.75

00:16:55.440 And a transgender person is always a victim compared to someone who believes that he is the biological sex that he is. 0.96

00:17:04.600 So he's a double victim.

00:17:07.480 He's a transgender woman in the victimhood language. 1.00

00:17:11.040 In reality, though, what is he? 1.00

00:17:12.380 He's a male predator.

00:17:13.960 He's not a female victim. 1.00

00:17:15.540 He's a male predator. 1.00

00:17:18.240 Criminal. 1.00

00:17:19.800 Just that little change of language.

00:17:21.820 Beyond this guy, Jessica Yaniv, if you go over to the stories we've been hearing around the country of Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:17:28.300 Do you remember this?

00:17:29.380 All around the country, for some reason, at public libraries, they've had something called Drag Queen Story Hour where little kids are brought in to have stories read to them by drag queens.

00:17:39.960 Men wearing very sort of sexualized and sensational makeup and women's outfits.

00:17:46.100 Now, they had a Drag Queen Story Hour at an event in Portland and the library is celebrating it.

00:17:52.080 They're posting photos of it. 0.98

00:17:53.780 We were told, those of us who objected to Drag Queen Story Hour, we were told you're awful, you're bigots, you're transphobic, you're a hateful person, you're hate mongering. 0.94

00:18:05.180 That big debate that broke out on the right between Saurabh Amari at First Things and David French at National Review over cultural conservatism versus libertarianism, that debate was kicked off by Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:18:20.640 Saurabh Amari's piece said, look, when we reach Drag Queen Story Hour to children, we have gone too far.

00:18:26.240 We need to reexamine some of our libertarian premises.

00:18:28.420 And what Saurabh and other people were saying is this amounts to child abuse.

00:18:35.040 It's not, maybe it's not physically abusing children, but it is so confusing, it is so utterly absurd, the ideology and the gender ideology that you're indoctrinating these kids with, we should not do it.

00:18:47.840 All called haters for that.

00:18:49.380 Well, guess what?

00:18:50.080 Turns out that the photos have now been deleted, but the library posted photos.

00:18:54.460 Apparently, as part of this Drag Queen Story Hour in Portland, Oregon, the drag queen who would come in would lie down on the floor and then encourage all of the kids to crawl all over him. 0.99

00:19:09.020 What does that have to do with reading a story in a public library?

00:19:13.960 That's pretty weird.

00:19:15.520 Just imagine for a second if a straight man wearing a business suit walked into a public library and said, okay, what I want to do with my time is I want to come in here once or twice a week and I want to read books to a lot of little children.

00:19:28.060 I want the little children to gather all around me and then I'm going to lie down on the ground in my business suit and then I'm going to encourage the kids to crawl all over my body.

00:19:36.700 Okay, is that cool?

00:19:38.160 Of course not.

00:19:38.720 The guy would be arrested if he did that.

00:19:40.200 But because the man puts on a dress and makeup, the pop culture, the leftist culture celebrates it, takes photos of it, is so blind by their ideology that they upload the photos to the internet as though this is perfectly normal and worth celebrating.

00:19:58.340 It's insane.

00:20:01.760 That is the effect of ideology.

00:20:05.600 That is the effect of language.

00:20:07.240 Because if a woman, let's say a young woman or a mother or something, came into the library and she was kind of playing around with the kids and maybe they were on the floor and she was reading the story to them and then, I don't know, a kid jumps on her back or something.

00:20:21.720 Because mothers are nurturing, because mothers are nurturing, it would be a little weird, but it wouldn't be that weird.

00:20:28.640 It wouldn't be as weird as if a straight male in his 50s came in in a business suit and said, hey kids, I'm going to lie on the floor, rub all over me please.

00:20:36.960 But for some reason, when you say it's a man wearing a dress who looks like a woman who's transgender, when you add all of these different layers of apparent victimhood to it, then it's to be celebrated. 0.97

00:20:52.300 Then we're going to post pictures of that.

00:20:54.980 What it shows is the currency of victimhood.

00:20:58.720 In Texas, it's not just this one drag queen story hour in Portland. 0.78

00:21:03.680 In Texas, when people objected to drag queen story hour, same thing. 0.99

00:21:07.780 You're a bigot, you're a transphobe, you're a hater. 0.99

00:21:11.020 Turns out one of the guys who was coming in to do this drag queen story hour was a convicted sexual predator. 1.00

00:21:18.760 He was a sex offender.

00:21:21.860 Maybe they should have checked that, but they're so blinded by their ideology because of the language and because of the currency.

00:21:28.720 Of victimhood.

00:21:29.460 If you can claim victimhood in 2019, you can do anything.

00:21:33.340 You can do anything you want.

00:21:36.760 And this, we were talking a little bit yesterday about how the left abandons their pet victim groups when something better comes along.

00:21:44.120 So they abandon legal immigrants for illegal immigrants.

00:21:48.020 Right?

00:21:48.760 Initially, they were the champions of legal immigrants.

00:21:51.160 Now they're the champions of illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:21:54.380 But legal immigrants don't tend to encourage illegal immigration.

00:21:58.720 In fact, legal immigrants are some of the least likely people to encourage illegal immigration because legal immigrants did it the right way and they waited in line. 0.54

00:22:05.880 And illegal immigration takes spots away from people who are waiting there in line to be legal immigrants.

00:22:10.980 The left abandons women for men in dresses.

00:22:13.320 Remember, the left used to champion women's rights, feminism, women's liberation.

00:22:16.940 Now, what the left is doing is saying, hey, women, you can't have your own sports. 1.00

00:22:20.960 Women, you can't have your own scholarships. 1.00

00:22:22.740 Women, you can't have your own bathrooms or your own locker rooms. 1.00

00:22:24.920 Because now we champion men in dresses. 0.65

00:22:27.420 Now, the left is abandoning children for men in dresses.

00:22:31.380 Think of the children.

00:22:32.400 Think of the children.

00:22:33.160 Remember that?

00:22:33.760 Now the left is saying, no, no, children, crawl all over that man.

00:22:37.640 Yeah, let that man lie on the ground and you can crawl all over him. 1.00

00:22:40.860 They will do whatever gives them the most control.

00:22:43.820 And the reason this transgender issue matters, I mean, we've talked about what the pronouns mean, the effect of the language.

00:22:50.580 But think about what the effect of the language is over time.

00:22:53.800 The reason that the left is so interested in this transgender issue is it gives them the most control. 1.00

00:22:59.940 Because it cuts right through the politics and the culture to who can define reality itself.

00:23:06.220 This transgender issue is not a mere political issue.

00:23:12.000 It is about ontological control.

00:23:14.700 It is about who can define the nature of reality.

00:23:18.620 Compared to that, illegal immigration is nothing.

00:23:22.060 What does illegal immigration do?

00:23:23.680 Let's say we bring in, I don't know, we've got, let's say we have upwards of 30 million illegal aliens in the country.

00:23:28.760 We have an amnesty, illegal aliens keep pouring in. 0.95

00:23:31.020 Let's say we've got 30 million.

00:23:32.580 Well, if the vast majority of them are likely to identify as Democrats and vote Democrat over time, okay, that gives Democrats political control.

00:23:41.620 They'll own the Congress, they'll own federal elections, and they'll own a few states.

00:23:46.940 But the transgender issue doesn't just give them political control. 0.99

00:23:50.680 It allows them to define what is contrary to nature itself.

00:23:56.640 That is an incredible amount of control.

00:23:58.320 That's why they're willing to put up with just about anything.

00:24:00.220 They're willing to tolerate, even encourage anything in order to effect that.

00:24:05.260 Speaking of radical, awful leftists, we have to turn for a second to Ilhan Omar, who has said another terrible thing.

00:24:12.420 Now, if we covered every terrible thing she said, the whole show would be called Michael Knowles Plays Clips of Ilhan Omar,

00:24:18.540 because we would have about 10 of them every single day.

00:24:20.660 But here is one that is so outrageous, and it's getting a lot of play on social media,

00:24:25.040 because people are defending her, and we just need to break down how absurd it is.

00:24:29.300 Here is Ilhan Omar.

00:24:30.680 She was asked by a constituent if she would condemn female genital mutilation,

00:24:36.580 which is something that's widely practiced in Muslim countries and in her own home country of Somalia.

00:24:42.560 Here is her response.

00:24:43.580 Your second question is an appalling question, because I always feel like there are bills that we vote on,

00:24:52.720 bills we sponsor, many statements we put out, and then we're in a panel like this,

00:25:01.540 and the question is posed, could you and Rashida do this?

00:25:04.620 And it's like, how often should I make a schedule?

00:25:10.260 Like, does this need to be on repeat every five minutes?

00:25:14.060 Should I be like, so today I forgot to condemn Al-Qaeda, so here's the Al-Qaeda one. 1.00

00:25:19.500 Today I forgot to condemn FGM, so here it goes.

00:25:22.960 Today I forgot to condemn Omar, so here it goes.

00:25:26.800 Today, I forgot to condemn Omar, so here it goes.

00:25:30.320 It is a very frustrating question.

00:25:33.040 It's a very frustrating question.

00:25:35.740 Well, it's pretty frustrating that you won't give an answer.

00:25:38.060 It's not like this is coming out of the blue.

00:25:40.000 It's not like people are asking Ilhan Omar every single day to condemn Al-Qaeda,

00:25:44.860 and she keeps doing it every day.

00:25:46.420 I mean, compare this to President Trump.

00:25:48.100 How many hundreds of times has President Trump condemned racism,

00:25:52.080 condemned the KKK, condemned David Duke, condemned neo-Nazism, condemned white nationalism?

00:25:56.380 It seems like he has to do it every three minutes, but he keeps doing it.

00:26:00.520 And after the hundredth time, he says, guys, how much do I have to do it?

00:26:03.800 And he keeps doing it anyway.

00:26:06.380 When has Ilhan Omar condemned Al-Qaeda?

00:26:09.560 Ilhan Omar giggled about Al-Qaeda, giggled about Hamas, giggled, this is all on video,

00:26:14.820 giggled as she compared Al-Qaeda to the United States,

00:26:18.620 compared Al-Qaeda to the U.S. Army, compared Al-Qaeda to England, 0.90

00:26:22.500 drew a moral equivalence between the United States itself and Muslim terrorists.

00:26:27.740 She has fought hard to get lenient sentences for young men who have tried to join ISIS.

00:26:34.700 She has prayed that Allah awaken people to the evils of Israel 1.00

00:26:39.480 and accused Israel of hypnotizing the world.

00:26:42.600 She has said some pretty radical things that pertain to radical Islam and Islamic countries. 0.62

00:26:48.900 In her home country of Somalia, 98% of women and girls are subjected to female genital mutilation.

00:26:57.560 And this has become a problem over in Minnesota.

00:27:00.080 Now, it's true.

00:27:01.040 Ilhan Omar voted once on a non-binding resolution to condemn female genital mutilation.

00:27:05.440 She also voted on an amendment that would have allocated some money to fighting this problem. 0.72

00:27:10.820 But when you're constantly joking, laughing about Al-Qaeda, when you're not addressing these issues,

00:27:17.160 it is not bigoted, it's not hateful, it's not Islamophobic to come out and say,

00:27:22.100 hey, Ilhan Omar, you say a lot of crazy, weird, scary, anti-American things.

00:27:26.700 We just want to be sure you oppose this, right?

00:27:29.960 And she just won't give the answer.

00:27:31.540 She goes on.

00:27:32.060 If you look at my record, I voted for bills, doing exactly what you're asking me to do.

00:27:39.980 I have put out statements upon statements.

00:27:42.580 There's a bill in Congress.

00:27:45.060 There's a resolution that I am the co-author of that I voted out of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:27:51.680 And so I am, I think, quite disgusted, really, to be honest,

00:27:55.260 that as Muslim legislators, we are constantly being asked to waste our time

00:28:02.280 speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to

00:28:09.760 because the assumption exists that we somehow support and are for.

00:28:19.620 Right?

00:28:20.160 No, there is an assumption.

00:28:21.900 So I want to make sure that the next time someone is in an audience

00:28:28.520 and is looking at me and Rashida and Abdul and Sam,

00:28:34.320 that they ask us the proper questions that they will probably ask any member of Congress.

00:28:41.100 Yes, there is an assumption among a lot of people in the country

00:28:44.360 that Ilhan Omar might have some sympathy for al-Qaeda.

00:28:47.940 But that's not an assumption based on the color of her skin.

00:28:50.640 That's not an assumption based on her religion.

00:28:53.200 It's not an assumption based on what country she was born in.

00:28:56.580 It's an assumption based on her many statements that have shown sympathy

00:29:00.880 toward al-Qaeda and other radical Muslim terrorists. 0.94

00:29:04.420 It is an assumption based on her actions which have shown sympathy for radical Muslim terrorists.

00:29:10.980 And I don't think it's unreasonable to ask her to condemn them like even just one time.

00:29:16.000 Imagine if Donald Trump were giving this answer.

00:29:20.000 Someone asked Trump, like they always ask him,

00:29:21.640 do you condemn racism?

00:29:23.380 And he said, I think this question is appalling.

00:29:26.520 I think what guys like me and Mike Pence and other white guys,

00:29:34.000 and he just names a bunch of white guys,

00:29:35.760 we're being asked because of the color of our skin to condemn racism?

00:29:41.420 That's an outrageous, how many times, I'm never, I'm not going to give an answer to that.

00:29:47.480 And I don't want anyone to ever ask me that again.

00:29:50.240 There is a lot more evidence that Ilhan Omar has sympathies for al-Qaeda

00:29:53.920 than there is that Donald Trump is a racial bigot.

00:29:56.400 There is way more evidence.

00:29:57.860 But Ilhan Omar gets to give that non-answer.

00:30:02.860 She gets to refuse to condemn al-Qaeda and female genital mutilation

00:30:06.240 because she gets to claim victimhood. 1.00

00:30:08.360 And President Trump, who has repeatedly done all of those things,

00:30:11.200 gets no similar benefit of the doubt.

00:30:13.500 That's the power of language.

00:30:15.020 That's the power of the left taking control,

00:30:17.840 not just of political or even cultural issues,

00:30:21.000 but they are trying to control the definition of reality itself.

00:30:25.640 And they're doing it in a very sophisticated and clever way.

00:30:28.600 They're doing it by taking control of what reality is,

00:30:33.580 of what a man is, of what a woman is. 0.62

00:30:36.120 And through this radical ideology of intersectionality,

00:30:39.860 the only objective reality that you can point to,

00:30:43.380 the only objective truth, is the truth of victimhood.

00:30:45.800 And coincidentally, they're the arbiters of that victimhood.

00:30:48.480 It's a brilliant political strategy,

00:30:50.020 and we've got to oppose it because it is extraordinarily dangerous.

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00:32:29.200 All right.

00:32:29.820 We're going to burn through these questions today.

00:32:32.000 From Matthew.

00:32:33.100 Michael, ex-Lothario of the Daily Wire.

00:32:35.680 I'm an ex-Lothario?

00:32:36.780 What happened about that?

00:32:37.960 Maybe because I'm married.

00:32:39.400 I sent you a question a few weeks ago

00:32:41.180 about when to kiss a girl I'd been on a few dates with.

00:32:43.860 I kissed her on the next date.

00:32:46.120 Good job.

00:32:47.000 And she held my hand.

00:32:48.980 Good job.

00:32:50.240 Two days later, she tells me

00:32:51.740 she's not ready for a serious relationship.

00:32:54.200 But this upsets her because I'm this perfect guy,

00:32:57.160 100% a gentleman,

00:32:58.520 and I'd managed to sweep her off her feet. 1.00

00:33:01.440 Apparently, he didn't sweep her too much.

00:33:02.960 I'm sorry to say.

00:33:04.320 I think she saw a future with me,

00:33:07.260 saw that it was different than what she had in mind,

00:33:09.600 and panicked. 0.98

00:33:10.660 I'd like another shot at her, 1.00

00:33:12.200 but I'm not sure how to go about it

00:33:14.400 given the circumstances.

00:33:16.280 Any advice you can give on this front

00:33:18.240 would be appreciated.

00:33:20.120 Hashtag came for Ben,

00:33:21.360 stayed for Michael.

00:33:22.540 Happy Feast of St. James,

00:33:24.580 and keep up the good work.

00:33:26.500 Thanks.

00:33:27.640 Yours, Matt.

00:33:29.700 Very difficult position you are in, my friend.

00:33:32.680 So, a couple options.

00:33:34.860 I guess there are only two things

00:33:36.420 that could be going on right here.

00:33:37.480 One, you really did sweep her off her feet.

00:33:40.500 She really does think you're a great guy.

00:33:41.840 She really sees a serious prospect with you,

00:33:44.300 but she's just doing her now.

00:33:46.420 She doesn't want a serious relationship. 0.89

00:33:48.120 She's focusing on her job, or on school,

00:33:50.100 or she's going to move, or I don't know.

00:33:51.840 Or she's still got a thing for her ex-boyfriend.

00:33:53.620 I don't know.

00:33:54.060 So, that's one option,

00:33:56.000 is she could be telling the truth.

00:33:57.300 The other one is,

00:33:57.980 she could be being nice to you,

00:33:59.760 and kind of letting you down gently,

00:34:01.500 but, you know,

00:34:02.860 and basically perfect guy,

00:34:04.100 100% a gentleman,

00:34:04.960 all of that is bogus.

00:34:07.500 Either way,

00:34:08.460 I don't think it matters which it is

00:34:10.560 to determine your reaction here.

00:34:12.320 If you really like the girl,

00:34:13.640 and you want to persist a little bit,

00:34:16.160 then I would recommend it.

00:34:17.240 You know, I've had to be persistent,

00:34:20.100 and I think women reward persistence. 1.00

00:34:22.620 They don't want some little timid guy 0.97

00:34:24.160 who, she says,

00:34:25.000 I don't want to go on a date.

00:34:25.940 You're like, okay, I'm sorry.

00:34:26.960 Never mind.

00:34:27.580 Delete my number.

00:34:28.380 I'll never talk to you again.

00:34:29.760 No one wants that.

00:34:31.540 However, you've got to be gentlemanly,

00:34:35.100 and you've got to be a little crafty here, too.

00:34:37.560 So, this leads to another dichotomy.

00:34:41.720 There are two ways

00:34:42.620 that you can present yourself to this girl.

00:34:45.460 You can either present yourself

00:34:46.980 as okay, reserved, standoffish,

00:34:51.400 you're not that interested,

00:34:52.220 you totally respect her space,

00:34:53.820 and play hard to get,

00:34:55.520 and then maybe she'll come to you.

00:34:56.540 Maybe you came on a little strong,

00:34:57.620 and she'll come back to you.

00:34:58.720 The other way you can do it

00:34:59.940 is be very upfront about your interest.

00:35:02.720 You say, well, look, I think you're great.

00:35:04.080 I really like you.

00:35:04.760 I think you're beautiful,

00:35:05.840 and you're very interesting and intelligent,

00:35:09.300 and so I want to go on a date with you,

00:35:11.260 and, you know,

00:35:12.360 I'm going to be at this restaurant on Friday night,

00:35:14.340 and I sure would like you to join me,

00:35:15.680 and just kind of be that way.

00:35:17.060 Keep it fun.

00:35:17.740 Keep it light.

00:35:18.180 Don't make it creepy,

00:35:18.960 and don't be, you know, a stalker or something,

00:35:21.320 but let her know that you are still interested,

00:35:23.500 and you're not that easily deterred.

00:35:26.300 I think those are the two options.

00:35:27.940 The worst ground you could be in

00:35:29.620 is this middle ground

00:35:30.760 where it's just, like, timid and unsure,

00:35:33.740 and you're not sure if you're pursuing her

00:35:35.720 or you're not pursuing her or whatever.

00:35:37.800 I think it's perfectly legitimate to say,

00:35:39.620 well, I mean, look,

00:35:40.820 I don't think we need to,

00:35:42.220 I'm not asking you to marry me.

00:35:43.380 I'm asking you to go out on another date with me,

00:35:45.120 and, you know,

00:35:46.680 you're not making a lifetime commitment.

00:35:48.180 I just thought we had a good time,

00:35:49.680 and if you think that we had a good time,

00:35:52.180 then let's do it.

00:35:53.440 Now, she might tell you,

00:35:54.280 okay, I was letting you down easy.

00:35:56.040 I didn't have a good time,

00:35:56.820 and I don't care,

00:35:57.400 and I don't want to go out with you anymore.

00:35:58.600 In which case,

00:36:00.700 plenty other fish in the sea, kid.

00:36:02.120 But there's also a chance you say,

00:36:05.360 okay, maybe I really do like this guy,

00:36:09.340 and I'm afraid of my feelings,

00:36:10.440 and, okay, I'll go out on one more date.

00:36:12.080 That's how I would do it.

00:36:13.020 I've always been pretty upfront,

00:36:15.140 pretty direct,

00:36:16.380 and I ended up getting to marry

00:36:18.380 my high school sweetheart.

00:36:19.580 Talk about persistence.

00:36:20.580 I mean, that's years and years of persistence.

00:36:22.380 So, good luck.

00:36:23.940 You know, be confident.

00:36:25.220 Keep it fun.

00:36:26.260 Keep it light.

00:36:28.020 Don't be creepy.

00:36:28.920 Don't be a stalker.

00:36:29.700 Don't be overly emotional.

00:36:30.660 Don't be, you know,

00:36:31.620 don't do any of those modern things

00:36:33.000 that guys fall into.

00:36:35.340 Act like a man.

00:36:36.560 Go after what you want,

00:36:38.260 and if she firmly rejects you,

00:36:41.820 other fish in the sea.

00:36:43.520 From Martin.

00:36:44.720 Hi, Michael.

00:36:46.100 Would it be a good strategy by Trump's team

00:36:47.840 to now keep laying small bits of impeachment bait

00:36:50.620 for the Democrats to keep obsessing over

00:36:52.620 until 2020?

00:36:53.480 Martin.

00:36:54.240 Yeah, I think so.

00:36:55.260 I think all the threats of impeachment

00:36:56.920 really help Trump.

00:36:58.440 I think there are two good ways to do this.

00:37:00.320 One is he wanted to add a question to the census

00:37:04.100 that would have asked whether or not

00:37:06.080 you're an American citizen.

00:37:08.040 Obviously, this was perfectly legitimate.

00:37:10.820 The Supreme Court didn't want to let him do it 0.99

00:37:12.280 because John Roberts is a coward. 0.96

00:37:14.080 So, I would, if I were President Trump, 0.98

00:37:17.400 I would issue an executive order

00:37:18.620 to put the question on the census.

00:37:20.060 And I'd have this legal fight going on

00:37:22.380 and I would have the threats of impeachment.

00:37:24.700 He's already signaled that he's not willing to do that.

00:37:26.760 He signaled that back on July 11th or 12th, I think.

00:37:29.040 So, I think that might be unlikely,

00:37:31.520 but it would be a good way to gin up

00:37:33.380 both popular support for him

00:37:35.420 and antipathy for him in the House

00:37:39.100 that might try to impeach him

00:37:40.220 and then, therefore, antipathy among the American people

00:37:42.920 for the House Democrats.

00:37:44.340 The other way that he could do it

00:37:45.540 is the mass deportation of criminal aliens,

00:37:48.020 which we were promised a week ago on Sunday

00:37:50.200 and it didn't happen.

00:37:51.940 And we only arrested 18 people.

00:37:53.640 I think that would be a great way

00:37:55.240 to, again, do exactly the same thing,

00:37:58.040 galvanize popular support among Americans

00:38:00.760 because Americans hate illegal immigration.

00:38:03.120 Immigration is the top issue for Americans,

00:38:05.580 according to recent Gallup polling.

00:38:07.960 And so, you'd get a lot of popular support.

00:38:10.460 And because the Democratic Party

00:38:12.480 has moved so far left,

00:38:13.780 nothing would get them more ready to impeach

00:38:15.820 than mass deportation of MS-13 gangster criminals.

00:38:19.680 And so, you'd get them to move to impeach

00:38:21.740 and that would amplify the effect of support for Trump.

00:38:24.420 So, those are the two things I would do.

00:38:26.120 Whether they're likely,

00:38:27.220 whether Trump is willing to make that political risk,

00:38:29.360 I'm not so sure.

00:38:30.480 From Logan.

00:38:32.000 Hey, Michael, do you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes stories?

00:38:35.040 I just started reading them and really enjoy them.

00:38:37.400 If so, do you have a favorite story and why?

00:38:39.920 God bless.

00:38:40.920 Hashtag came for Ben, stayed for Michael.

00:38:42.720 I do, in fact.

00:38:43.640 I love the Sherlock Holmes stories.

00:38:45.020 My favorite one is the adventure of the Musgrave ritual.

00:38:48.400 One of the lesser-known Sherlock Holmes stories, I think.

00:38:52.240 And it's excellent.

00:38:53.700 The reason I love it

00:38:54.620 is it has to do with one of my favorite historical periods,

00:38:59.060 namely the reign of James II in England

00:39:04.060 and Charles II, Charles, that whole area,

00:39:07.240 which has to do with a lot of religious wars

00:39:09.420 and the last moments of the glory days of the English monarchy.

00:39:14.260 So, that's a good one to read.

00:39:15.260 Also, what I like in addition to Sherlock Holmes,

00:39:18.400 is the Father Brown stories,

00:39:20.920 which is the same concept.

00:39:22.440 Instead of just a regular private investigator,

00:39:24.880 it's a Catholic priest who is a detective

00:39:28.820 and he solves mysteries.

00:39:30.240 And it was written by G.K. Chesterton,

00:39:32.340 one of the great, great modern writers,

00:39:34.680 great writers of the 20th century,

00:39:36.520 or 19th century, right around that time,

00:39:39.960 the turn of the century.

00:39:41.100 And it's just wonderful.

00:39:42.680 He's got all of these stories

00:39:43.740 and they're the same kind of thing as Sherlock Holmes.

00:39:45.560 And the one to start with is The Innocence of Father Brown.

00:39:49.540 From Cody.

00:39:51.120 Hey, Michael.

00:39:51.900 My daughter is a high school senior this year

00:39:54.380 and interested in positively affecting the culture.

00:39:57.000 However, she has no background in debate

00:39:58.960 and gets terribly nervous and tongue-tied 0.90

00:40:02.440 whenever she ends up engaging with some whiny leftist. 0.99

00:40:06.100 What advice would you give her

00:40:07.660 for improving her skills in fact, memory, and civil discourse?

00:40:11.060 Thanks for all you do.

00:40:11.960 So, Cody, I'll give an answer

00:40:15.100 that probably no other political commentator will give.

00:40:20.060 Your daughter should take acting classes. 0.99

00:40:22.240 That's the way to do it.

00:40:23.280 I don't think debate class

00:40:25.380 or the debate team is going to do it. 0.95

00:40:26.980 I don't think she needs to read a million more books

00:40:29.160 of modern political philosophy.

00:40:31.220 I don't know that that'll...

00:40:32.160 Those are all fine to do.

00:40:33.760 Acting classes will do wonders

00:40:35.860 for her ability to debate leftists,

00:40:38.440 to understand the world,

00:40:39.480 and to retain things that she reads.

00:40:42.160 In a former life, I was an actor myself,

00:40:44.340 and that training I call upon every single day.

00:40:48.240 President Reagan was asked how an actor can be president,

00:40:50.720 and his answer was,

00:40:51.760 how could the president not be an actor?

00:40:54.520 And in a very technical way,

00:40:56.840 it teaches you how to memorize.

00:40:59.360 You know, there are many different ways to memorize.

00:41:01.660 I mean, I could basically look at a sheet of paper

00:41:03.400 and memorize what it says with 95% accuracy

00:41:06.640 within about three to five minutes.

00:41:10.540 But I'll forget it within two hours.

00:41:13.780 Now, there are other ways to memorize

00:41:15.400 where I have monologues, speeches,

00:41:17.920 poems that I memorized 15, 20 years ago

00:41:20.660 that I still remember today word perfectly.

00:41:23.260 So you will learn those things in acting classes.

00:41:25.500 You will learn to think on your feet.

00:41:27.560 Acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances

00:41:30.760 and living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:41:33.500 So it makes you much more adept

00:41:35.260 at responding to questions that you get from the audience

00:41:38.640 or to points made by another debater.

00:41:40.960 It makes you have a greater stage presence.

00:41:43.560 It makes you more self-possessed.

00:41:45.300 And it allows you, I think very importantly,

00:41:48.260 to analyze the human condition

00:41:49.860 from an artistic perspective.

00:41:52.100 Too often, we want to make our politicians into robots.

00:41:54.920 That's why they end up like robots.

00:41:56.160 So all they do is think in ideology

00:41:58.760 and this political doctrine and that political doctrine.

00:42:01.720 That doesn't tell you very much about human nature.

00:42:04.700 What tells you much more about human nature

00:42:06.500 is literature, art.

00:42:08.940 Man is artistic.

00:42:10.580 All we know about our earliest forebears, the cavemen,

00:42:13.440 we don't know whether they clubbed their wives on the head.

00:42:15.700 We don't know exactly what they ate.

00:42:17.280 We don't know exactly how they hunted.

00:42:18.740 We don't know exactly how they lived.

00:42:20.440 All we have from their civilizations, more or less,

00:42:23.360 are paintings on the wall of the cave.

00:42:25.160 All we know about them is that they were artists.

00:42:28.040 And it is through art that we can come to understand

00:42:30.580 human nature much better than we can

00:42:32.680 through some political doctrine.

00:42:34.180 So maybe sign her up for an acting class. 0.89

00:42:36.240 Maybe have her watch some acting classes on YouTube.

00:42:39.360 Have her memorize poems.

00:42:41.000 Have her read plays.

00:42:43.040 Have her memorize speeches.

00:42:45.220 Have her really work through all of that.

00:42:48.020 This is a real difference between practical knowledge

00:42:50.600 and book learning.

00:42:52.540 You know, you can only learn so much from books.

00:42:54.460 You have to embody the rest of it.

00:42:56.440 You have to enact the rest of it.

00:42:58.260 And what better way to enact than

00:42:59.840 in an acting class or an acting setting?

00:43:04.360 Last question from Danielle.

00:43:06.540 Hi, Michael.

00:43:06.920 I'm curious about your opinion of genetic screening.

00:43:09.420 The idea of being able to spare a child's life,

00:43:11.760 pain and suffering by way of

00:43:15.280 genetic screening for disorders is curious to me.

00:43:18.980 Is this selfish for the parent to want a healthy child?

00:43:22.200 Or is it selfless to make the decision

00:43:24.360 so a child isn't strapped with the issues that come with that?

00:43:27.200 Excellent question.

00:43:28.060 I was just discussing this yesterday.

00:43:30.700 I obviously oppose it, as I suspect you do too,

00:43:33.480 in the case of screening for abortion.

00:43:37.800 So you do genetic screening and then there's,

00:43:40.260 they find some problem with the baby 0.99

00:43:41.580 and then you kill the baby. 0.69

00:43:42.800 Nobody wants to do that. 1.00

00:43:43.920 That is just intrinsically evil.

00:43:45.480 However, if you are screening

00:43:47.540 because you can identify some disease

00:43:50.560 and maybe these days even operate

00:43:52.320 on the baby in the womb and cure the disease

00:43:54.880 so that they will have an easier life

00:43:57.040 or they'll have their sight

00:43:58.340 or they'll have a physically healthier life,

00:44:02.180 that's perfectly fine.

00:44:03.540 That's a wonderful thing to do.

00:44:05.260 It's no different than giving medical treatment

00:44:08.100 to someone who is out of the womb

00:44:09.680 or someone who is 30 years old

00:44:11.240 or someone who is 70 years old.

00:44:12.800 It's a good thing to do that.

00:44:13.840 This is not to say that people

00:44:15.880 who are born with physical deformities

00:44:18.140 or they're blind or they're deaf or whatever

00:44:20.140 or mental deficiencies are worse 0.93

00:44:23.500 or they have less human dignity or they,

00:44:27.540 no, not at all.

00:44:28.540 Actually, the fact that everybody is broken

00:44:31.520 and people have needs is a wonderful gift to us

00:44:34.460 because we can then act out of charity

00:44:36.780 and it enriches our experience of humanity

00:44:40.800 and experience of one another.

00:44:41.960 It makes life worth living.

00:44:44.120 But if you can help your child,

00:44:46.880 whether your child's in the womb

00:44:48.020 or your child is 10 years old,

00:44:50.000 absolutely you should do it.

00:44:51.360 There is nothing immoral about that.

00:44:53.500 Okay, that's our show.

00:44:54.300 In the meantime, I will see you on Monday.

00:44:57.740 Till then, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:44:58.820 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:44:59.880 See you then.

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00:45:31.660 Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan,

00:45:32.900 host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:45:34.760 Well, yesterday's Mueller hearings

00:45:36.600 exposed the Russia hoax for what it is.

00:45:38.980 And listen, it's not that I enjoyed

00:45:40.600 seeing the Democrats and their media humiliated.

00:45:43.520 Oh wait, that's exactly what I enjoyed.

00:45:45.720 You'll be able to hear me gloat shamelessly

00:45:47.620 on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:45:49.080 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Michael Knowles Show - July 25, 2019

Ep. 388 - Epstein Almost Gets Suicided

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