The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 389 - Are The Tweets Working？

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00:00:30.100 Because today is a day that ends in why.

00:00:32.900 President Trump is being accused by the left of racism.

00:00:36.160 This time because he pointed out that a horribly run and incredibly dangerous city,

00:00:41.540 Baltimore, is horribly run and incredibly dangerous.

00:00:45.140 Nice right-wingers are lamenting the mean tweets.

00:00:48.460 We will take a cold, hard look at whether the tweets are helping or hurting Trump's case.

00:00:54.260 Then the White House wins big on the wall at the Supreme Court

00:00:57.860 and Attorney General William Barr resumes executing criminals for the first time in 16 years.

00:01:04.600 We will examine why everybody hates the death penalty these days

00:01:07.580 and why it's actually a wonderful institution.

00:01:10.820 All that and a lot more.

00:01:11.920 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:13.800 Is President Trump a racist?

00:01:25.900 I feel like this could be the perpetual headline because every day the left says he's racist.

00:01:30.280 In this case, some right-wingers are calling him racist too.

00:01:33.120 And even the right-wingers who aren't calling him racist are saying that the tweets are terrible

00:01:36.880 and they need to stop.

00:01:38.020 I have a little bit, I guess, of an unconventional view on this.

00:01:41.520 So we will take a cold, hard look at all of those tweets.

00:01:44.620 Why is President Trump being accused of racism?

00:01:47.060 He's being accused of racism because he pointed out that Baltimore,

00:01:50.680 which I'm not too far from right now, I'm in Washington, D.C.,

00:01:53.240 so I'm a stone's throw from Baltimore,

00:01:55.260 is one of the most crime and poverty-ridden cities in America.

00:01:59.920 And that is largely thanks to corrupt politicians.

00:02:03.840 Now, Democrats can't answer this charge.

00:02:05.520 Democrats have run Baltimore for a very, very long time.

00:02:09.320 The congressman who represents Baltimore and one of the worst areas of Baltimore

00:02:13.340 has been there for 36 years at this point.

00:02:17.060 And so they can't answer Trump on the merits, so they call him racist.

00:02:20.600 This is what the left always does.

00:02:22.440 Nothing new there.

00:02:23.860 What is new is President Trump's response,

00:02:26.100 which is he's calling the left racist right back.

00:02:29.480 He's just going right for it.

00:02:31.200 He's not trying to play this down.

00:02:32.680 He's not trying to avoid the issue.

00:02:34.020 He is going for the jugular.

00:02:36.160 He is harping on the issue.

00:02:38.040 And he's calling them racist.

00:02:39.960 And the question is, who's right?

00:02:42.300 Who's racist?

00:02:43.200 And politically, are the tweets helping him or not?

00:02:46.060 Now, one thing that the mainstream media have failed to point out here

00:02:49.460 is that in this fight, as is almost always the case with Trump,

00:02:54.160 the Democrats started the fight.

00:02:57.020 Trump continues the fight.

00:02:59.520 Trump maybe elevates the fight or escalates the fight.

00:03:02.020 But as is often the case with him, his opponents start it.

00:03:06.360 He plays nice with people.

00:03:07.360 If they play nice with him, they start it.

00:03:09.280 And then he pushes back, punches back twice as hard.

00:03:11.880 So specifically in this case, Elijah Cummings, who is a Democrat from Baltimore,

00:03:16.300 he's been in office for a thousand years.

00:03:18.180 He's accomplished nothing.

00:03:19.520 He started this fight.

00:03:20.960 Cummings started the fight by screaming like a petulant little child 0.54

00:03:24.480 at the head of the Department of Homeland Security on television last week.

00:03:28.760 Here he is.

00:03:29.220 When we hear about stories coming out from you and your agency

00:03:34.500 that everything is pretty good and you're doing a great job,

00:03:40.500 I guess you feel like you're doing a great job, right?

00:03:43.060 Is that what you're saying?

00:03:44.080 We're doing our level best in a very...

00:03:45.880 What does that mean?

00:03:47.040 What does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces,

00:03:52.060 can't take a shower?

00:03:53.380 Come on, man.

00:03:57.720 What's that about?

00:03:59.320 None of us would have our children in that position.

00:04:04.260 They are human beings.

00:04:07.420 And I'm trying to figure out, and I get tired of folks saying,

00:04:12.840 oh, oh, they're just beating up on the Border Patrol.

00:04:16.380 Oh, they're just beating up on Homeland Security.

00:04:19.120 What I'm saying is I want to concentrate on these children.

00:04:26.640 And I want to make sure that they are okay.

00:04:30.100 I will say it.

00:04:30.920 I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

00:04:34.660 It's not the deed that you do to a child.

00:04:38.220 It's the memory.

00:04:40.460 It's the memory.

00:04:42.260 So it goes on like this.

00:04:44.100 It goes on like this, on and on and on.

00:04:46.340 All BS from Elijah Cummings.

00:04:48.520 He doesn't care about these kids at the border.

00:04:50.820 If he cared about these kids, he would take care of the kids in his own district,

00:04:54.460 which is one of the most crime and poverty run districts in the country.

00:04:58.140 Baltimore, look, I've taken that train and I've taken that bus from D.C. to New York and back a lot in my life.

00:05:04.320 And that city is a disaster.

00:05:06.680 I mean, it is absolutely unconscionable that that is an American city 0.74

00:05:11.000 and that the politicians in that city would let it descend that way.

00:05:14.080 I am not saying this to defend Trump's tweets.

00:05:16.560 I am not saying this to launch an attack on left-wing politicians.

00:05:21.380 The place is awful.

00:05:22.780 Take a look.

00:05:23.260 I mean, there's videos all over the Internet of this.

00:05:25.360 If you happen to be nearby or if you're on the train or the bus, you can see it.

00:05:28.360 It is an unconscionable disgrace.

00:05:32.220 And it's a disgrace that is at the feet of these politicians who have been there forever and haven't done anything.

00:05:36.900 Elijah Cummings doesn't care about these kids at all.

00:05:39.720 He wants to make a spectacle of himself and score cheap political points against Kevin McAleenan, who is the acting DHS head.

00:05:48.100 Elijah Cummings, though, it is not fair to blame politicians for all of the terrible things that happen in their districts.

00:05:55.080 It is fair to blame Elijah Cummings because this guy has been around forever.

00:06:00.100 He is a key power broker in Baltimore.

00:06:02.220 He's been representing Baltimore in politics since 1983, if you count his service at the state level, not just at the federal level.

00:06:11.580 1983.

00:06:12.140 What does Cummings do for the children that he's represented for 36 years?

00:06:17.160 We got in Baltimore, highest crime rate, second highest violent crime rate just behind Detroit, highest murder rate, 50 murders per 100,000 people.

00:06:26.620 Baltimore, according to the New York Post pointing this out, has a similar murder rate to Jamaica, Venezuela, and El Salvador.

00:06:33.000 Don't just take the right-winger's words for it.

00:06:34.700 The left admitted this as well, and they never called the New York Times or Bernie Sanders or any of the other leftists who pointed this out, including the Democratic mayor of Baltimore.

00:06:44.160 They never called them racist.

00:06:45.440 We'll take a look at that.

00:06:46.520 We'll see how Trump responded, whether it helped him or hurt him politically.

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00:08:34.760 Don't just take my word for it on Baltimore, and don't just take the word of right-wingers.

00:08:39.560 Even left-wingers and left-wing outlets have admitted this year, I mean, just a few months ago,

00:08:44.540 that Baltimore is a tragedy.

00:08:46.680 The New York Times, in March, published a piece called The Tragedy of Baltimore.

00:08:51.320 Since Freddie Gray's death in 2015, violent crime has spiked to levels unseen for a quarter

00:08:56.780 century inside the crack-up of an American city.

00:09:01.200 A lot of other people have come out on this, too.

00:09:04.140 So, Elijah Cummings launches this ridiculous attack against the acting director of DHS.

00:09:09.560 And, by the way, not only is Elijah Cummings neglecting his own district, not only should

00:09:14.340 he certainly not be throwing stones, but his attack on DHS simply wasn't true.

00:09:19.220 Here's the acting director of DHS.

00:09:21.580 I would welcome the opportunity to travel with you to the border and to see our men and

00:09:25.320 women and how hard they are working to care for children. 1.00

00:09:28.140 Border Patrolating is holding children that were not their own, brought across by smugglers,

00:09:32.280 putting formula and baby bottles together.

00:09:34.880 There's no one defecating in a Mylar blanket.

00:09:37.720 We are taking care of these children thanks to the resources we finally have.

00:09:41.400 They're moving very quickly through our facilities to health and human services, to a better situation.

00:09:46.160 And I'd be happy to show you that at the border, Mr. Chairman.

00:09:48.580 Generally, the case is if someone is going crazy and grandstanding and yelling and screaming

00:09:53.820 and becoming very emotional, and then another person is keeping his cool and just calmly responding,

00:09:59.520 it's going to be the second person who's got the truth on his side.

00:10:02.340 And that's very often the case in political debates between the left, which only can rely

00:10:08.600 on ginning up emotion, and on the right, which is answering plainly with facts.

00:10:13.120 So President Trump came out, he defended his DHS secretary and his immigration policy.

00:10:19.280 And this, this is the tweet that he sent out defending them, going after Elijah Cummings.

00:10:24.440 This is what they're calling racist.

00:10:26.360 We'll see if it's racist.

00:10:27.400 We'll see if it helps him.

00:10:28.180 We'll see if it's true.

00:10:28.840 He says, quote, Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming

00:10:34.880 at the great men and women of Border Patrol about conditions at the southern border,

00:10:39.020 when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous.

00:10:43.640 His district is considered the worst in the USA.

00:10:46.520 As proven last week during a congressional tour, the border is clean, efficient, and well-run,

00:10:51.320 just very crowded.

00:10:52.780 Cummings' district is a disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess.

00:10:57.540 If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place.

00:11:03.800 Wow. Strong tweet.

00:11:05.560 Three questions.

00:11:06.660 First one.

00:11:07.400 Is it true?

00:11:08.940 The only part of the tweet I think is not true is I don't think it's the case that if Cummings

00:11:13.200 spent more time in his district, it would be any better.

00:11:15.840 I think Cummings is a completely useless, corrupt politician who has done nothing for his district.

00:11:20.800 He has very little achievement to his name over 36 years in politics.

00:11:24.340 If anything, it seems that he's made things worse or has failed to help as things have gotten worse in recent years.

00:11:31.480 So that's the only part of the tweet that I think is false.

00:11:33.360 The rest of it is true.

00:11:35.440 It's just demonstrably true.

00:11:37.240 Cummings is a bully.

00:11:38.540 He does scream at the people who are trying to keep our country safe in Border Patrol.

00:11:41.900 His district is one of the most dangerous places in the country and poverty-stricken places in the country.

00:11:47.980 Obviously, the situation at the border isn't so awful.

00:11:51.780 It isn't a concentration camp like AOC says.

00:11:55.060 And it's for a very simple reason.

00:11:56.980 I mean, the way we know this is demonstrable because people keep pouring over our border.

00:12:02.240 They keep going to these facilities.

00:12:03.620 Even though they know that they're going to have to be arrested in these facilities for a while, they think it's a good bet and eventually they're going to be let out and it's worth doing.

00:12:13.320 That's how you know that it's not a concentration camp.

00:12:16.080 I don't think all of these illegal aliens are pouring into Baltimore or West Baltimore or Elijah Cummings' district.

00:12:22.640 But they are pouring into America and they are staying in these detention facilities.

00:12:27.500 It is the case that his district is disgusting.

00:12:30.100 There are rats everywhere.

00:12:31.140 There's big trash problems, huge problems of poverty there.

00:12:34.880 And so it is true.

00:12:37.600 Second question.

00:12:38.740 Is the tweet racist?

00:12:41.160 I'm going to let you in on a little secret.

00:12:43.300 If something is true, it's not racist.

00:12:47.160 Racism is by definition unjust.

00:12:50.280 Racial bigotry is unjust.

00:12:53.600 The truth is just.

00:12:56.800 The truth is not unjust.

00:12:59.760 Also, is it racist?

00:13:01.980 Even though Baltimore is a mostly black city, Trump has used similar terms to describe mostly white places.

00:13:08.260 He called New Hampshire a drug-infested den a few years ago.

00:13:12.420 He called Bill de Blasio the white mayor of New York the worst mayor ever.

00:13:16.380 He said that city was going to hell in a handbasket under de Blasio's leadership.

00:13:20.040 So he's used similar language for white places.

00:13:23.140 Another reason why it isn't racist.

00:13:25.320 Also, if you need a third reason, left-wingers, some of the most prominent left-wingers, the most progressive people in the Democratic Party, have said the exact same things that Trump said about Baltimore.

00:13:36.280 And no one ever called them racist for those comments.

00:13:38.980 Here's Bernie Sanders.

00:13:40.060 He could have been reading a Trump tweet, and nobody said peep when he made these comments about Baltimore.

00:13:45.760 America is the wealthiest country in the history of the world.

00:13:49.040 But anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation.

00:13:57.720 You would think that you were in a third-world country where unemployment is over 50 percent.

00:14:04.480 A community that does not even have decent quality grocery stores where moms can buy quality food for their kids.

00:14:14.780 A community in which the dream of getting a higher education for many kids is as real as is going to the moon.

00:14:24.900 Yeah, all true. Bernie is right, and they didn't call him racist for that.

00:14:29.080 And then lest you're still not convinced, the black, democratic, progressive, liberal, left-wing mayor of Baltimore made almost the same comments, admitted that what Trump said is right.

00:14:42.500 We'll get to that in a second.

00:14:43.620 Then we'll get to the big question, which is the big debate on the right.

00:14:46.480 Are the tweets politically hurting Trump, or are they helping Trump?

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00:16:25.200 So the New York Times admits Baltimore is a tragedy.

00:16:29.100 Bernie Sanders uses almost the same words that Donald Trump uses to talk about Baltimore.

00:16:33.220 Here is the Democrat mayor, black mayor of Baltimore, Catherine Pugh, just last year using precisely the same words that President Trump was using.

00:16:42.440 About a year ago, city leaders identified some of the city's most violent neighborhoods.

00:16:48.200 What the hell?

00:16:49.280 We should just take all this s*** down.

00:16:51.200 To target.

00:16:51.940 Ooh, you can smell the rats.

00:16:53.260 Under Baltimore's violence reduction initiative.

00:16:55.800 Ooh, s***.

00:16:56.580 Just last week, we went with Mayor Pugh as she toured in East Baltimore neighborhood.

00:17:01.200 That's a new one.

00:17:02.000 I've been out here 54 years.

00:17:03.580 That's a new one.

00:17:04.560 Baltimore's violence reduction initiative is about taking steps to rid communities of the cornerstones that contribute to crime.

00:17:12.180 Oh my God, you can smell the dead animals.

00:17:14.380 Blocks of dilapidated buildings help to hide the addiction that's crippled this community.

00:17:20.340 Yeah, she goes on.

00:17:21.320 I mean, she uses the reference to rats, the same one that President Trump does.

00:17:25.760 She actually uses far tougher language on Baltimore than Trump does.

00:17:30.520 So the comments, they're true.

00:17:32.700 They're not racist.

00:17:34.640 That is a given.

00:17:36.660 People who are telling you otherwise are either profoundly ignorant or disingenuous.

00:17:42.880 There is, however, a legitimate open question.

00:17:45.680 Are these tweets, are these fights politically useful for President Trump?

00:17:52.340 And there's a big debate here.

00:17:54.100 Tougher question.

00:17:55.200 So is it politically useful?

00:17:57.000 Let's say, let's think about the opposite.

00:17:59.420 Let's say that President Trump doesn't say these things.

00:18:01.940 Elijah Cummings wages his attack on Trump's DHS acting secretary, on Trump's immigration policy, accuses him of abusing children, all these sort of things.

00:18:11.300 And Trump doesn't say anything.

00:18:13.460 The theory here, for the people who don't want him to send the tweets, is that President Trump will avoid a few days of an unnecessary news cycle that calls him racist.

00:18:24.240 I think this is a fantasy.

00:18:25.760 They already call him a racist every day on the news channels.

00:18:32.240 The left wing controls the mainstream media in this country.

00:18:38.020 They're already doing it.

00:18:39.220 So what is the difference?

00:18:41.100 You know, the more establishment type Republicans say avoid anything that might even possibly be twisted unfairly, unjustly into Democrats calling you a racist.

00:18:52.240 This is like the Mitt Romney idea.

00:18:53.860 I'm not going to talk about anything that could even, even if it's remotely cultural, because if it's sort of cultural, then they might twist it into something racial and then it might be called racist.

00:19:03.680 And we're not going to do that.

00:19:04.800 We're going to totally lay off.

00:19:05.980 That's the Romney strategy.

00:19:08.360 That is not how President Trump rolls.

00:19:11.060 If you remember 10 years, I guess now 14 years ago, President Trump got into this big fight with Rosie O'Donnell, of all people.

00:19:17.840 Rosie started the fight on The View. 1.00

00:19:19.300 She said that Trump was bankrupt, and Trump viciously, absurdly, hilariously, very cruelly responded to her with a weeks-long tirade in the media.

00:19:33.800 Here's just some of how President Trump responded to Rosie O'Donnell.

00:19:38.260 Well, Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting. 1.00

00:19:39.960 I mean, both inside and out.

00:19:41.460 You take a look at her.

00:19:42.340 She's a slob. 1.00

00:19:43.480 She talks like a truck driver. 0.99

00:19:45.680 Rosie attacked me personally, because I was very happy when her talk show failed. 0.96

00:19:50.100 The other thing that failed, and this was a real monster, and everybody was suing her, was her magazine.

00:19:55.060 Her magazine, called Rosie, was a total disaster.

00:19:58.640 So I loved it.

00:19:59.720 I gloat over it.

00:20:00.760 I think it's wonderful, because I like to see bad people fail.

00:20:03.900 Rosie failed.

00:20:04.880 I'm happy about it.

00:20:06.000 She's basically a disaster. 1.00

00:20:07.560 Well, she called me a snake oil salesman.

00:20:09.460 And, you know, coming from Rosie, that's pretty low, because when you look at her, and when you see the mind, the mind is weak.

00:20:15.960 I don't see it.

00:20:16.880 I don't get it.

00:20:17.640 I never understood, how does she even get on television? 1.00

00:20:20.540 I believe Barbara made a terrible mistake putting her on, and I think Barbara's probably paying a big price.

00:20:25.520 If I were running The View, I'd fire Rosie. 0.96

00:20:27.640 I mean, I'd look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers. 1.00

00:20:30.120 I'd say, Rosie, you're fired.

00:20:32.280 We're all a little chubby, but Rosie's just worse than most of us. 1.00

00:20:35.480 But it's not the chubbiness.

00:20:37.000 Rosie is a very unattractive person. 1.00

00:20:39.740 Both inside and out.

00:20:41.280 Rosie's a person that's very lucky to have her girlfriend.

00:20:44.900 And she better be careful, or I'll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend. 1.00

00:20:48.560 Why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?

00:20:51.380 She's trying to use ABC and The View to get even with me. 0.99

00:20:54.840 But with me, we fight back.

00:20:57.560 Yes, you fight back, Donald Trump.

00:21:00.640 You fight.

00:21:01.400 I mean, that is...

00:21:03.400 Most of us, who are kind of nice guys, you know, we try to be polite and have manners,

00:21:08.720 we would never even consider saying something like that to a woman.

00:21:13.560 Okay?

00:21:13.860 We wouldn't...

00:21:14.380 We just don't want to do it.

00:21:16.380 President Trump is not that nice guy.

00:21:19.580 He's not Mr. Nice Guy.

00:21:20.760 He might be in his personal relationships a nice guy.

00:21:23.000 But when you attack one of his enterprises, he punches back twice as hard.

00:21:28.140 Doesn't matter if you're a 30-year representative from a district.

00:21:32.220 Doesn't matter if you are Rosie O'Donnell.

00:21:35.320 He will clobber you.

00:21:37.000 By the way, though, in his defense, and I find those comments really, really distasteful.

00:21:43.880 But in his defense, this is what a lot of people on the right have been urging Republicans

00:21:49.820 to do for a decade.

00:21:51.620 When they get hit from their political opponents to punch back twice as hard.

00:21:55.900 But now that someone is actually doing it, to Elijah Cummings, to Nancy Pelosi, to the

00:22:01.800 Democrats, now that you're actually seeing someone do it, all of a sudden some people

00:22:05.040 are uncomfortable with it.

00:22:06.700 And so the question is, are these tweets helping Trump politically or hurting Trump politically?

00:22:13.220 Is punching back twice as hard helping Trump politically or hurting Trump politically?

00:22:17.600 I think you get the answer in the second stage of this whole stupid non-troversy.

00:22:22.360 And the second stage of it is, now, after Trump's comments, Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton, one

00:22:28.460 of the most despicable people in America, is going to Baltimore to hold a press conference

00:22:33.560 today over Trump's outrageous remarks.

00:22:36.820 And so guess what happened?

00:22:38.100 President Trump punched right back at him.

00:22:40.200 He tweeted out just a few hours ago, quote, I've known Al for 25 years, went to fights

00:22:45.180 with him, and Don King always got along well.

00:22:47.840 He loved Trump.

00:22:49.300 He would ask me for favors often.

00:22:50.940 Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score, just doing his thing.

00:22:57.200 Must have intimidated Comcast, NBC, because he had a show on NBC.

00:23:02.680 Hates whites and cops.

00:23:05.760 Whoa, makes what he said about Rosie O'Donnell look polite, makes it look soft.

00:23:10.920 Now people are calling this tweet racist.

00:23:13.200 He's saying it's racist to call Al Sharpton racist.

00:23:15.020 Let's ask the same three questions really quick.

00:23:19.420 Is it true?

00:23:20.980 I'm not sure if Al Sharpton hates whites.

00:23:23.560 He definitely hates Jews, right?

00:23:25.680 People forget because their memories are really short, especially in politics.

00:23:29.680 Al Sharpton helped to launch the Crown Heights riots against Jews.

00:23:33.320 He once at a rally in Harlem, he said, quote, if the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin

00:23:38.260 their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

00:23:41.120 Broadly speaking, even if he hasn't spoken that explicitly against white people generally,

00:23:46.260 he regularly sows racial resentment against whites and general resentment against cops.

00:23:51.880 So that part is true.

00:23:53.280 He is also a con man.

00:23:54.440 This guy is a shakedown artist who extorts money from companies and individuals by threatening

00:23:59.020 to call them racist.

00:24:00.140 It's his entire career, and he's made a lot of money doing it.

00:24:02.620 Also, speaking of con artists, he launched his whole career on a rape hoax, a racial rape 0.95

00:24:09.220 hoax, Tawana Brawley, a name that people don't remember anymore because it looked so bad for

00:24:15.040 Sharpton and the left.

00:24:16.340 Tawana Brawley said she'd been raped by four white men, cops and an attorney in 1987. 1.00

00:24:23.440 They said she was found in a trash bag that was covered with racial slurs covered in feces. 0.65

00:24:29.360 Can you imagine the hate crime of the century?

00:24:32.620 And it was a total lie.

00:24:33.980 It was a total hoax.

00:24:35.180 And Al Sharpton was the biggest peddler of her lies.

00:24:38.740 She was accused and sued successfully for defamation.

00:24:44.060 So is what Trump said about Sharpton true?

00:24:47.860 100%.

00:24:48.420 Now, is what he said racist?

00:24:50.180 No.

00:24:50.640 I get why.

00:24:51.140 Because if it's true, it's not racist.

00:24:53.880 Racism is unjust.

00:24:55.540 What he said, perfectly just, perfectly true.

00:24:58.620 Now, Sharpton is a racist.

00:25:00.760 That is certainly true.

00:25:01.720 And it's not racist to point out that Al Sharpton is a racist.

00:25:05.020 Then you get to the third question.

00:25:06.520 This is the tough one, but I think this case really makes it a little clearer which way it is.

00:25:12.120 Is it politically smart?

00:25:15.180 I think it is.

00:25:16.220 I think it is politically smart to throw these tweets out there, to go right at Elijah Cummings, and especially to go right at Al Sharpton.

00:25:26.500 All right.

00:25:26.780 This is the only place where I differ from some of my colleagues, some of my other friends on the right.

00:25:30.780 We all agree what he said is true.

00:25:32.620 We all agree what he said is not racist.

00:25:34.100 The only place where I differ from some of my friends and colleagues on the right, I think they are politically helpful.

00:25:42.120 Okay.

00:25:42.380 So the argument that they're politically harmful is that without the Trump tweets, the news cycle would be terrible for Democrats.

00:25:48.060 But now with the Trump tweets, it's good for Democrats. 0.53

00:25:51.020 That isn't true.

00:25:51.900 The Democrats control the news cycle.

00:25:54.060 Every news cycle, by definition, is basically good for Democrats.

00:25:59.380 If it's not perfectly good, at least they will coddle the Democrats, and they'll try to invent non-traversies about conservatives and Republicans.

00:26:07.820 They did this to Bush.

00:26:08.700 They just made up a number of fake scandals because Bush didn't really have scandals.

00:26:13.180 So they made up the Valerie Plame affair, totally ginned up non-traversy, just to turn the news cycles.

00:26:19.360 Also, maybe more importantly, I don't think this is a bad news cycle for Trump.

00:26:25.400 I don't think these tweets have made a bad news cycle.

00:26:28.320 But let's just look at the last two tweet storms.

00:26:32.080 Let's look at the effect of those tweet storms.

00:26:34.580 We'll get to it in one second.

00:26:36.840 Then we'll get to the death penalty, which is coming back at the federal level because the current attorney general wants to actually enforce the law that is on the books.

00:26:44.540 We'll get to that.

00:26:45.140 We'll get to some good news at the Supreme Court as well for the southern border and the border wall and immigration.

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00:27:53.660 We will be right back with a lot more.

00:27:55.760 Okay, is this politically useful for Trump to focus on the tweets, to go right after these cultural issues, to go after Al Sharpton and call him a racist, to go after Elijah Cummings and call him a failure?

00:28:20.340 Look at the last two tweet storms.

00:28:21.920 Two weeks ago, remember, he went after AOC and the squad and he said to go back where they came from.

00:28:28.500 And we all said that wasn't a good line.

00:28:30.840 We all said he should have written it differently.

00:28:33.560 However, two weeks ago, Nancy Pelosi was winning the fight against AOC and Ilhan Omar. 1.00

00:28:42.960 They both had awful approval ratings.

00:28:45.220 Pelosi was pouncing on them.

00:28:46.580 And after those Trump tweets, which were in part incorrect and which were in part misguided and wrong.

00:28:54.620 But after those Trump tweets, Democrats rallied behind the unpopular squad and were taking photos with them.

00:29:02.140 Nancy Pelosi hosted AOC in her office.

00:29:05.660 You know, she hosted the real speaker of the House. 0.97

00:29:07.480 AOC in her office took a big smiley photo.

00:29:09.740 The effect, I'm not even talking about the intrinsic goodness of the tweets or the justice of them.

00:29:18.100 I'm just talking about the political effect.

00:29:21.080 The political effect of that first round of tweets helped Trump.

00:29:25.920 Got the Democrats talking about impeachment again, which is politically a loser for them this year.

00:29:31.600 You're seeing the same strategy in this tweet storm.

00:29:33.740 After the Trump tweets, the Democrats are now rallying behind Al Sharpton.

00:29:40.700 Al Sharpton.

00:29:41.960 The mainstream media, NBC News, Kamala Harris, are calling Al Sharpton a race-hustling extortionist, a, quote, civil rights leader.

00:29:53.280 That's not going to work.

00:29:54.860 Al Sharpton is extremely unpopular, even in his own neighborhoods.

00:29:59.140 There was a Quinnipiac poll a few years ago that actually measured Al Sharpton's favorability.

00:30:05.040 His favorability in New York is just 29%.

00:30:08.240 In New York, how do you think he plays in Peoria?

00:30:11.220 How do you think he plays in real America, you know, the whole middle of the country, between the two coasts?

00:30:17.000 In New York, Al Sharpton is just 29% approval, and he's got a 53% disapproval rating.

00:30:25.320 What is it in the rest of the country?

00:30:26.920 Rallying behind Al Sharpton is a totally losing position, and by going after Al Sharpton, Trump has caused the left to defend him.

00:30:36.120 Same strategy when Trump was criticizing Colin Kaepernick.

00:30:39.220 You know, a lot of Trump skeptical conservatives, who are genuinely pretty nice guys, so they don't like it when the president's criticizing athletes.

00:30:47.140 A lot of them said, please don't criticize the NFL for kneeling.

00:30:50.840 Please don't criticize the football players.

00:30:53.360 What is the cumulative effect of all of this?

00:30:55.940 The American flag is very popular.

00:30:59.220 It's not good to be supporting people who disrespect the American flag.

00:31:03.600 The cumulative effect of all of these tweets, you now have Democrats opposing the American flag, opposing Fourth of July parades, opposing our national boundaries and borders, supporting socialists and the squad.

00:31:15.660 And in the case of these latest tweets, you've got now Democrats opposing cops and supporting Al Sharpton.

00:31:23.540 Even just on the cop thing, even the anti-law enforcement thing that the left is now reacting to President Trump on and opposing law enforcement, whether it's ICE or whether it's local cops.

00:31:34.200 Gallup polling shows that cops are basically the most popular institution in the country.

00:31:40.000 They're the third most popular institution in the entire country, right after the military and small business.

00:31:45.180 So the effect of these tweets is you've got the Democrats defending the least popular people, institutions, and action in this country.

00:31:54.620 And they're identifying themselves, right now, they're identifying Trump with the most popular institutions, including the American flag.

00:32:02.280 Now, it's not all political bright side for Trump with these tweets.

00:32:06.700 I totally acknowledge there is a political downside.

00:32:09.440 Because he's a fighter, because he's an insult comic, he makes himself unlikable to a lot of people.

00:32:15.920 But President Trump's bet is not to make himself acceptable.

00:32:21.060 That was the Romney bet.

00:32:23.060 Be the least offensive.

00:32:24.700 Don't talk about anything other than Obama's bad economy.

00:32:28.020 Be totally milquetoast, nice, smiling, no offense.

00:32:37.660 Romney lost and Trump won.

00:32:40.360 That tells you something.

00:32:42.340 And by the way, Trump is never going to make himself acceptable in polite society.

00:32:46.340 That's not who he is.

00:32:48.620 Trump's strategy is to smear his opponents just as bad, if not worse, than they smear him.

00:32:55.700 As a matter of personal comportment and grace, this is not great, obviously.

00:33:02.720 Don't frown on that.

00:33:03.620 I don't try to live my life that way.

00:33:05.060 As a matter of political strategy, though, it may be essential, particularly in this present moment.

00:33:10.900 And I have for a very long time said conservatives need to sharpen our rhetoric.

00:33:14.920 So the left goes out, they call us transphobic bigots because we don't want to inject little children with puberty-blocking hormones.

00:33:22.060 Well, we should go right back at the left and call them sick perverts and child abusers for what they're doing to those kids. 1.00

00:33:29.960 That's what President Trump is doing.

00:33:31.740 He's taking that strategy.

00:33:33.560 He's not making himself the most acceptable guy in the world.

00:33:37.080 His entire focus is on making his opponents unacceptable.

00:33:41.220 That's the strategy.

00:33:42.980 And politically, it has paid off for him.

00:33:46.300 So we actually have some data points here.

00:33:48.700 It has worked for him.

00:33:49.700 Worked for him in 2016.

00:33:52.340 Is it going to work for him in the future?

00:33:54.180 I'm not sure.

00:33:54.860 I'm not predicting the future.

00:33:56.020 We'll get an answer on that in 2020.

00:33:58.140 But from what we see here, it does seem to me like it's a pretty good strategy.

00:34:02.880 It seems to me the tweets are working.

00:34:04.720 And more importantly, because we're just talking about political realities, if Trump is not ever going to be the perfectly nice behaved guy who's Mitt Romney and smiles and helps little old grannies cross the street, if he's not going to be that guy, if he's going to be a puncher and a fighter and an insult comic, then this is the strategy he has to pursue. 0.76

00:34:22.640 Fortunately, it seems to be working.

00:34:23.980 But we'll see if it keeps working in 2020.

00:34:27.260 We have to talk briefly about the death penalty.

00:34:30.780 This is a story that's not getting a lot of traction.

00:34:33.260 William Barr, the attorney general, is now going to be enforcing the federal death penalty again for the first time in 16 years.

00:34:40.660 We have not executed a federally condemned criminal since 2003.

00:34:46.440 And the reason the story isn't getting a lot of traction is because the left says the death penalty is the worst thing in the world.

00:34:52.720 And the right is kind of divided on the issue.

00:34:54.960 A lot of conservatives don't really understand what the death penalty is for.

00:34:58.480 So I will defend the death penalty.

00:35:00.480 I will defend as your resident, bloodthirsty, autocratic, theocratic, whatever lines they want to use.

00:35:08.680 I'll defend the death penalty.

00:35:10.500 So the left, here's their argument.

00:35:13.280 Cory Booker says the death penalty is immoral and ineffective.

00:35:17.600 Senator Spartacus.

00:35:19.240 Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo star of the squad, says, quote,

00:35:22.360 The death penalty has no place in a just society.

00:35:25.580 Ilhan Omar, she took a break from sympathizing with Al-Qaeda to call the death penalty a heinous totalitarian practice often used against innocent people, the very definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

00:35:37.280 Oh, by the way, all of those people support abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.

00:35:45.500 They all support killing innocent babies up until the moment they're born, which is the law now in New York because of the current Democratic governor there.

00:35:53.460 In the case of the governor of Virginia, he supports killing babies after they've been born.

00:35:57.260 But they don't think that we should kill violent, awful, terrible murderers.

00:36:04.320 That is unjust.

00:36:05.640 That is the worst crime in the world.

00:36:07.120 The left, as always, gets it exactly backwards.

00:36:10.080 Who is this going to affect?

00:36:11.540 Five criminals who are going to be executed.

00:36:14.060 They are murderers.

00:36:15.060 They are child murderers and child torturers.

00:36:17.740 People who tortured and killed their own children.

00:36:19.820 White supremacist murderers.

00:36:21.360 These are the worst people on earth.

00:36:23.900 But according to the left, all those people should live and innocent babies should die.

00:36:29.800 One of the stupidest arguments against the death penalty is an argument that disingenuous left-wingers use against conservatives.

00:36:37.220 They say, well, if you're pro-life, then you need to be consistent that it's inconsistent to be pro-life but then support the death penalty.

00:36:47.760 Not true at all.

00:36:48.840 There is nothing inconsistent about thinking we shouldn't kill innocent babies and also the state can execute criminals.

00:36:57.060 Nothing inconsistent.

00:36:58.280 I mean, the left does their politics in slogans.

00:37:01.760 And slogans are usually pretty stupid.

00:37:04.040 The right doesn't use slogans too much, but one of them that we use is the term pro-life, which basically defines what we think.

00:37:10.560 But if you want me to clarify, I'll clarify.

00:37:13.540 I'm pro-innocent life.

00:37:14.840 I think we should save innocent babies from being killed.

00:37:19.200 And I think that the civil authority can kill criminals, of course, as has every civilization that has ever existed for all of human history.

00:37:28.280 And the reason for that is I'm pro-justice.

00:37:32.160 Justice is a wonderful thing.

00:37:34.320 There's two reasons why I think support for the death penalty has dropped, even among conservatives.

00:37:38.860 On the one hand, we've lost a sense of justice.

00:37:42.440 We think that the only purpose of the criminal justice system, you hear that word justice in there, is to rehabilitate criminals.

00:37:51.620 And obviously you're not going to rehabilitate them if they're going to hang from a noose.

00:37:55.700 Actually, there's an argument there that hanging or facing capital punishment will actually really clear up your mind.

00:38:02.220 And it might not save you in this world, but it might reform you for the world to come.

00:38:06.300 But still, let's say it's not going to rehab you, okay?

00:38:10.360 There are three purposes of punishment.

00:38:13.360 One of them is rehabilitation.

00:38:15.260 The other one is deterrence.

00:38:16.760 And the death penalty, when it's actually carried out, is a great deterrent.

00:38:20.220 And the third one is retribution.

00:38:23.260 And the retribution, people now say that doesn't matter at all.

00:38:27.240 We don't want to actually punish people because they committed a crime.

00:38:30.060 We want to punish them to rehabilitate them.

00:38:32.960 We want to punish them to deter other crime.

00:38:35.240 No, the most important one is the retribution.

00:38:38.860 Because of the justice, because of the injustice that they've committed, the civil authority has to exact justice from the criminal.

00:38:47.040 The reason this is the most important one is because, look, we could all use a little rehabilitation.

00:38:53.320 We could all do things that, we could all improve on our lives and do things that we shouldn't, or stop doing things that we shouldn't do.

00:38:59.280 We could all deter other people from doing things.

00:39:02.740 The reason that you get arrested and prosecuted and sentenced is because you committed a crime.

00:39:11.260 The differentiating factor between me and those guys who are going to face the death penalty is not that I can't use some rehabilitation.

00:39:19.580 I'm extraordinarily imperfect.

00:39:21.700 There's a lot I could improve on in my life.

00:39:23.200 The difference is they committed the crime and I did not.

00:39:29.040 The retribution is the key there.

00:39:31.240 So that's one that we've lost the sense of justice.

00:39:33.680 The other reason why I think support for the death penalty has fallen is that we've become functionally a secular, atheistic, materialistic society.

00:39:42.500 And this really matters because for all of human history, everywhere in the world, we've had a sense that mankind has something beyond this world.

00:39:53.260 In our civilization, we believe that man has an eternal soul.

00:39:56.400 We believe that there is justice after you die, that the soul goes on.

00:40:00.360 I certainly believe that.

00:40:02.100 The smartest people in human history have believed that.

00:40:04.860 Virtually every civilization has believed that.

00:40:06.900 And now, in sort of the madness of the late 19th century and 20th century, we've become increasingly atheist.

00:40:13.660 I think without reason whatsoever.

00:40:15.240 I think it's a silly intellectual fad that is going to pass away.

00:40:19.160 But because of that, the thought that we could maybe kill an innocent person is so horrifying.

00:40:28.820 Because what we assume is, at that point, that person, their life is over, there is no justice, there's no heaven, there's no hell, there's no nothing.

00:40:38.520 There's no eternal soul, we're just kind of meat puppets.

00:40:41.780 It's the John Lennon song.

00:40:43.120 I mean, we've become a country that's, and a civilization, that's basically accepted the John Lennon song as our theology.

00:40:48.960 Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try.

00:40:50.940 And that's because we believe that, then the very fact that the criminal justice system is imperfect, and maybe it'll only be one in a thousand, maybe it'll be one in ten thousand, but at some point, some innocent guy is going to be killed if we carry out the death penalty with any sort of significant size.

00:41:13.580 That's so horrifying to us, we immediately back away from that.

00:41:16.480 Now, I think that's just emotional.

00:41:18.860 That's not really an intellectual point of view, because the criminal justice system is always going to be imperfect.

00:41:24.380 Do we really think it's better, it's more compassionate to accidentally sentence an innocent man to 40 years in prison, rob him of his entire life, and he's just sitting there on a bench, decaying for 40 years, rather than accidentally sending an innocent man to the firing squad?

00:41:42.920 No, they're both horrific.

00:41:43.960 I mean, they're both just so awful, but all human institutions have to accept that degree of imperfection.

00:41:50.200 We want to improve them, we want to make them better.

00:41:52.040 We've obviously been able to do that now with DNA testing, but if you really believe that we're all just meat puppets and the lights go out when you die, it's just on an emotional level.

00:42:04.800 It's so much more horrifying that you've got to back away, even if you're a little bit of a right-winger.

00:42:09.260 This is too bad, because a society that doesn't understand capital punishment has lost an important sense of justice.

00:42:15.980 And justice is a key virtue.

00:42:20.360 It's lost an important sense of its own purpose, lost an important sense of the natural order and the natural law.

00:42:26.340 I'm glad that the Attorney General has moral clarity on this.

00:42:29.740 I'm glad that just as a basic level that we're just enforcing the law now, as opposed to just unilaterally like some self-appointed king deciding which laws to enforce and which laws not to enforce.

00:42:40.600 But I wish more people would think real hard about their objections to the death penalty.

00:42:46.540 And maybe where they come from, and maybe why society has changed its view on this so dramatically over time.

00:42:54.540 Before we go, really quick, great news from the Supreme Court.

00:42:57.920 Also not being covered enough, the court has ruled 5-4 that President Trump can use Pentagon funds to build part of the border wall.

00:43:06.560 This is a big fight.

00:43:07.800 The Democrats wouldn't give him funding for the border wall.

00:43:10.020 They wouldn't give him much funding.

00:43:11.240 And so he tried to use the military, the Pentagon funds, to do it.

00:43:17.140 A few different places he's trying to do this.

00:43:18.700 This Supreme Court decision has to do with specifically $2.5 billion of funds from the Pentagon that will allow Trump to build up to 100 miles of the wall.

00:43:28.940 This is a double whammy win for the White House.

00:43:31.460 And I was going after the White House last week because Trump has a major political vulnerability going into 2020,

00:43:38.580 which is that one of his central campaign promises, build the wall, hasn't happened.

00:43:43.040 And he's said that it's happened, but he ain't telling the truth.

00:43:47.120 There was a CBP report that came out, Customs and Border Protection, that showed that not one mile, not one inch of new wall has been built since he was elected in 2016.

00:44:00.220 Now, he's replaced old fencing.

00:44:02.860 It's very difficult to build new fencing.

00:44:04.500 Okay, I get it.

00:44:05.480 But if he goes into 2020 and he says, listen, I've fulfilled a lot of promises, but I'm definitely going to build the wall next time.

00:44:15.540 People aren't going to believe him.

00:44:16.580 This was a major central promise.

00:44:18.200 He's got to deliver on it.

00:44:19.220 The reason this is a double whammy win for Trump is he ran basically on two things in 2016, judges and immigration.

00:44:28.340 Judges, we're going to replace Scalia with a good judge. 0.96

00:44:31.060 We can't afford to lose the Supreme Court.

00:44:33.020 We got a lot of federal judges on judges and immigration.

00:44:36.080 And in this particular case, you had the Trump appointed judges giving him the win on the border wall.

00:44:44.040 But you had, it was a 5-4 decision without the Trump judges, never could have happened.

00:44:50.420 That's a big win.

00:44:51.400 It allows him to appeal to some conservatives who are a little skeptical of Gorsuch and of Kavanaugh and say, look, we got it where it counted.

00:44:59.260 These guys, the judges are important.

00:45:01.080 Give me four more years and I'll build a hundred miles more, hopefully a thousand miles more wall.

00:45:05.380 And I'll get you more Supreme Court judges if Ruth Bader Ginsburg ever admits, or rather if her handlers ever admit that we've got a Weekend at Bernie situation going on.

00:45:15.540 Just saying, whenever those seats open up, that's going to be the pitch.

00:45:19.060 I think it's a major victory, which is why the mainstream media aren't covering that much.

00:45:24.100 Now the question is, can he start to build that wall?

00:45:28.100 Because it's not enough just to get the money.

00:45:30.240 You got to start doing it.

00:45:32.400 All right, that's our show.

00:45:33.440 So we have a lot more to get to, but there's no time.

00:45:36.220 I'll be giving a speech tomorrow at the Young America's Foundation in Washington, D.C.

00:45:40.060 I think we're going to live stream it, so be sure to tune in for that.

00:45:42.800 Otherwise, I am then heading to New York.

00:45:45.140 I will see you back in La La Land on Thursday.

00:45:47.680 No show tomorrow, no show Wednesday, but we will make it up to you.

00:45:50.960 I promise.

00:45:52.700 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:46:24.960 Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:46:28.780 You know, it's become pretty common to hear people in the media say that Trump's tweets

00:46:32.140 are a distraction.

00:46:33.200 We must ignore them and address the serious issues.

00:46:35.820 Not true.

00:46:36.760 Right now, the most important thing happening in this country is Trump's rude and pugilistic

00:46:41.600 Twitter war against the leftist servants of a global elite who use charges of racism

00:46:46.160 to silence dissent.

00:46:47.900 If we lose that war, we lose everything.

00:46:49.820 We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:46:52.020 I'm Andrew Klavan.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 29, 2019

Ep. 389 - Are The Tweets Working？

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