The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 435 - Trump Is The Worst! (Except For All The Others)

00:00:00.000 The walls are closing in on President Trump, if you believe the mainstream media.

00:00:06.840 But as Trump's opponents are threatening impeachment, we examine the bigger picture.

00:00:11.020 President Trump may just be the worst public servant in the United States, except for all the others.

00:00:17.320 Then Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard rhetorically grinds Hillary Clinton into a mound of dust. 0.99

00:00:23.580 The left celebrates menstruation, okay, and Amy Klobuchar and the moderates see their opening.

00:00:29.720 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:42.820 But the walls are already closing in on President Trump.

00:02:45.560 Fox News' Chris Wallace says there is now a 20% chance that the Senate GOP will vote to remove President Trump from office.

00:02:54.060 So that's not just impeachment.

00:02:56.240 There's two steps to this, right?

00:02:57.580 There's impeachment, which is if the House votes to impeach him, you know, like happened to Bill Clinton.

00:03:02.320 And then there is the trial in the Senate.

00:03:04.480 So once you're impeached, you go to trial in the Senate, and the Senate can vote either to remove you from office or not to remove you from office.

00:03:09.880 What we've always assumed is that the House is going to move forward with impeachment.

00:03:14.060 They'll probably impeach the guy, but it'll get to the Senate, and there's no way that he's going to get impeached in the Senate.

00:03:20.080 Why not?

00:03:20.760 Well, because Republicans still control the Senate.

00:03:23.160 So if Republicans control the Senate, he's probably not getting convicted.

00:03:26.440 Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any real legal basis for impeachment.

00:03:29.900 There doesn't seem to be anything that he's done that rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.

00:03:34.700 But third, and this has been most important so far, even among Democrats, support for removal from office nationally, according to one poll, is only 66%.

00:03:45.680 So that's even Democrats.

00:03:47.400 That means that if there were no Republicans in the country, if the whole Senate were controlled by Democrats, they still would not remove him from office because support nationally is only at 66%.

00:03:56.000 Now we're hearing that that is not the case.

00:03:59.460 Chris Wallace is saying that his highly placed sources in Washington believe that there is a one in five chance that the Senate, run by Republicans, removes Trump from office.

00:04:09.340 There seems to be a growing number of Republicans in Congress who are, if not breaking with the president, distancing themselves from the president.

00:04:19.460 And I talked to a very well-connected Republican in Washington this week, somebody whose name you would know well, who says that if the House votes to impeach and it gets to a trial in the Senate, there is now a 20% chance, he believes, obviously, it's just an estimate, now a 20% chance enough Republicans will vote with the Democrats to remove the president.

00:04:40.300 Oh, that's just absurd, but let's deal with the issue of Syria.

00:04:44.500 No, let's deal with the issue of whether Republican, you're losing your support.

00:04:48.900 Same thing, this comment about a 20% chance is just that the person clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

00:04:54.400 Well, hold on, what about Chris Wallace's very highly placed source, okay?

00:04:58.180 I don't want to name any names, but it rhymes with Krill Bistel, okay?

00:05:02.820 And he knows that it's a one in five chance that Trump gets removed.

00:05:06.080 I'm not naming any names, but it might rhyme with Bax Moot, okay?

00:05:10.140 I'm talking about Republicans who hate Trump's guts.

00:05:12.980 So, I don't know.

00:05:14.780 I mean, maybe there is.

00:05:15.440 There are a lot of Republicans who hate Trump's guts.

00:05:17.400 Maybe there's a chance that they remove him from office.

00:05:19.520 As for specific senators, Mitt Romney, who a lot of us forgot was a senator because he was a governor a million years ago, and then he was a twice-failed presidential candidate.

00:05:28.640 Mitt Romney is now a senator, and he is signaling that he might vote to remove Trump from office.

00:05:33.300 And this gets to my big point today, which is on how absolutely terrible and awful and the worst guy in the world Trump is, except for all of his critics.

00:05:41.340 Mitt Romney wants to remove Trump from office.

00:05:45.920 That's the big headline.

00:05:47.060 That's on all the big news sites.

00:05:49.060 That's not news.

00:05:50.860 Mitt Romney has always wanted to remove Trump from office.

00:05:53.440 He gave one of the most hysterical speeches I've ever seen in politics before the 2016 election, telling Republicans not to vote for Trump and more or less to let Hillary Clinton win.

00:06:03.300 He is constantly campaigning against President Trump.

00:06:09.240 There's nothing new about that.

00:06:10.380 Same with the D.C. establishment.

00:06:11.940 The highly placed Republican Chris Wallace talks to, says he really hates Trump.

00:06:16.760 Yeah.

00:06:18.240 You don't say.

00:06:19.240 Well, I'm shocked to hear that.

00:06:21.000 So now they're going to remove him from office over a phone call with Ukraine or something like that.

00:06:24.880 What are the odds that this actually happens?

00:06:26.980 No matter what you think of Donald Trump, I understand there are a lot of people who hate his guts.

00:06:33.260 Just looking at the likelihood of removal from office, the mainstream media have been predicting that this guy will get thrown out of office every day since he was elected.

00:06:44.000 First, he was going to be removed from office because of Russia.

00:06:46.860 The walls are closing in.

00:06:48.380 You remember every mainstream media guy said the walls are closing in ad nauseum for two and a half years.

00:06:54.160 Then it was Stormy Daniels because apparently it's a high crime and misdemeanor to get a little weird with a porn star before you're ever running for office.

00:07:03.700 Then it was the taxes.

00:07:06.260 You didn't pay his taxes.

00:07:07.960 You remember that?

00:07:08.340 The mainstream media said he never paid taxes for 18 years.

00:07:10.500 And then my doppelganger over at MSNBC actually got his tax returns.

00:07:14.820 It turns out he paid a higher tax rate than Bernie Sanders or Barack Obama, or he at least paid significantly more in taxes.

00:07:22.200 And then now it's Ukraine.

00:07:25.340 Is this actually going to remove him from office?

00:07:27.840 That raises the two conflicting points about the Trump era.

00:07:30.720 Trump has a lot of vulnerabilities.

00:07:32.300 He's lived a very colorful life.

00:07:34.060 He's done a lot of things that are not something people are very proud of.

00:07:38.240 He's done a lot of things that bring a lot of shame to a lot of people, opens him up to a lot of political attacks.

00:07:44.960 The other vulnerability, he is generally unfamiliar with the machinery of government.

00:07:49.840 This is partly why he was elected because he's not a career politician.

00:07:53.160 He hasn't been in Washington his whole life.

00:07:55.140 The trouble with that is he has struggled significantly on the legislative front, and he's walked into traps that swampier creatures would have otherwise avoided.

00:08:03.400 I mean, even just on the legislative front, he nearly repealed Obamacare, and then he couldn't wrangle the senators, one senator in particular.

00:08:13.420 He sometimes just walks into these traps that guys who have been in D.C. for a long time wouldn't do that.

00:08:19.880 And then there's the big vulnerability.

00:08:21.560 The big vulnerability is actually his biggest pitch to voters, which is that he's a successful businessman.

00:08:26.840 He's a successful – now, I know that sounds like it's all plus and there's no downside.

00:08:31.680 There is a downside because specifically, Trump is the owner of a business that was built around his personality.

00:08:39.240 And the same people who clamor for we need a businessman for president are the same people who criticize what happens when we have a businessman as president.

00:08:48.800 Conservatives always talk about that.

00:08:50.160 We need a guy to run this country like a business. 0.80

00:08:52.900 Okay, you got him.

00:08:53.940 This is Trump.

00:08:54.480 Trump is the businessman president.

00:08:55.760 Okay, and the knock on him is that he's going to benefit from the office.

00:09:01.020 Yeah, I guess everybody benefits from the office.

00:09:04.240 Whether people are more interested in staying at your real estate properties or you get $200,000 speaking fees after you leave office, everybody benefits in some way.

00:09:12.580 The way that Trump is going to benefit is he has a business called the Trump Organization.

00:09:17.320 So he could never put that into a blind trust, right?

00:09:20.160 He could never totally divorce himself from that business because he is the business.

00:09:23.900 He's the product.

00:09:24.600 He is essentially a show business figure, and in show business, you are the product.

00:09:29.540 But everything else, I mean, in real estate, he just licenses his name to a lot of buildings.

00:09:34.220 In casinos, he licenses his name to them.

00:09:36.460 In neckties that are produced in China, he licenses his name.

00:09:39.900 So you can't ever have Donald Trump step away from the Trump Organization.

00:09:44.380 Then there's no such thing as the Trump Organization.

00:09:47.080 It's the same thing we saw at the G7.

00:09:48.480 For this G7 summit that's coming up, Trump wanted to host it at his Trump Doral property, and people threw a hissy fit about it.

00:09:56.980 The reason they threw a hissy fit is because they don't want the president profiting actually funneling taxpayer money into his own pockets.

00:10:03.380 Of course, we all agree with that.

00:10:04.820 That would be a terrible thing.

00:10:05.760 The president would have to make sure if he hosts the G7 summit at his own property that he doesn't make any money on it.

00:10:11.440 The way he was going to do this was by paying for the whole thing himself, by not charging anybody a single penny, and then there's no sign of impropriety.

00:10:19.000 But that apparently violates the law.

00:10:20.620 He's not allowed to do this.

00:10:22.160 He has to charge a base cost.

00:10:24.700 So then he said, okay, I'll do it at cost.

00:10:26.700 And then you get the same attack, which is, well, he's going to be profiting.

00:10:30.040 In some way or another, he's going to be profiting.

00:10:31.640 That's what happens when you elect a businessman.

00:10:35.540 I'm not even advocating electing a businessman as president.

00:10:38.040 I'm just saying, if you want a businessman, that is what you're going to get.

00:10:41.540 And if you want a career politician, you're not going to have to deal with those kind of things.

00:10:44.580 But who wants a career politician?

00:10:46.480 The other aspect of the Trump era that this all raises is Trump has all these critics, right?

00:10:51.420 And they're all high and mighty. 0.95

00:10:52.280 And they know Trump is the worst guy in the world. 1.00

00:10:54.240 And he's terrible. 1.00

00:10:55.000 And he slept with a porn star. 1.00

00:10:56.120 And he's just a terrible guy. 1.00

00:10:57.400 Except Trump's critics aren't any better. 0.96

00:11:03.980 In many ways, they're much, much worse.

00:11:08.400 I specifically want to get to Mitt Romney.

00:11:11.100 But before, I have savored few things in Republican politics more than savaging Mitt Romney.

00:11:20.040 I've been doing this now for eight years since he ran for president in 2012.

00:11:23.500 So I can't wait to compare Mitt Romney, the great, the glorious, the virtuous Mitt Romney, to that awful, terrible, debased Donald Trump.

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00:13:18.080 Mitt Romney.

00:13:19.380 Mitt Romney, to me, is the Trump critic par excellence.

00:13:23.520 Because he's not just a leftist.

00:13:24.900 It's so easy to go after leftists.

00:13:26.340 And they're always going to go after you.

00:13:27.340 And you're going to go after them.

00:13:28.020 It's not a big deal.

00:13:29.880 But Romney. 0.99

00:13:30.580 Romney is different because Romney is a snake. 0.74

00:13:36.680 This guy pretends to be Mr. Conservative, Mr. Republican, Mr. Wonderful, Virtuous, Great Guy. 0.97

00:13:45.040 Who does Mitt Romney think he is to criticize Donald Trump?

00:13:48.460 I'm not saying that Donald Trump is some beacon of virtue.

00:13:52.980 Donald Trump is far from a beacon of virtue.

00:13:55.680 But Mitt Romney is one of the oiliest, most deceitful, least admirable politicians in recent history. 0.99

00:14:04.240 He's simply awful.

00:14:05.440 Just to remind you, in case you forgot who Mitt Romney is, here's just a little retrospective through the ages of Mitt Romney.

00:14:10.460 So when asked, will I preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, I make an unequivocal answer, yes.

00:14:16.040 I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose.

00:14:19.280 And I'm devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.

00:14:22.440 I will not change any provisions of Massachusetts' pro-choice laws.

00:14:28.440 Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush.

00:14:30.820 I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

00:14:32.740 My positions don't talk about things that you suggest they talk about.

00:14:35.860 Well, they do.

00:14:36.640 They start talking about those things when you're running in a different election in 2008, and then you say you're severely conservative, and you're very pro-life, and you're all these things.

00:14:44.020 Mitt Romney has held two sides of every single issue.

00:14:46.680 He has nothing even vaguely resembling a vertebrate.

00:14:51.460 He just moves with the wind.

00:14:55.160 What good has Mitt Romney ever done for the conservative movement?

00:14:58.340 Nothing.

00:14:59.000 What good has Mitt Romney ever done in public life?

00:15:02.040 Nothing.

00:15:02.660 He invented Obamacare.

00:15:04.220 He assailed the legacy of Ronald Reagan.

00:15:07.040 When he was governor, he wasn't even able to create jobs.

00:15:10.260 Job growth was awful in Massachusetts when he was governor.

00:15:12.660 It was 1.5% compared to a national average of 5.3%.

00:15:16.700 Massachusetts was 47th out of 50 states during Romney's term.

00:15:22.800 He then passed a bill to force taxpayers to pay for college for a quarter of Massachusetts high school graduates.

00:15:28.460 That's that severely conservative Mitt Romney who's just taking taxpayer money, funneling it to children who are statistically elite, and propping up this educational institution, which has done very little other than indoctrinate students in leftism for the last five decades.

00:15:45.120 He was anti-second amendment.

00:15:47.480 He supported the so-called assault weapons ban, tried to take rifles with some of the most popular guns in America out of the hands of law-abiding Americans.

00:15:54.420 He was pro-abortion, as you saw in that clip, as you heard him say.

00:15:59.580 He supported scientific research on babies who were killed by abortion.

00:16:04.260 The best thing that Mitt Romney did as governor of Massachusetts was cut taxes, but he didn't even really cut taxes because he raised fees, which are not only a tax.

00:16:12.940 They're a secret tax.

00:16:14.680 They're a dishonest tax.

00:16:16.000 They're a way to raise taxes when you don't want to have to face voters and say you raise taxes.

00:16:20.260 So you raise so-called fees, which are much more arbitrary, and he raised fees more than any other governor in the country.

00:16:27.140 Romney has absolutely no credibility on this.

00:16:32.300 I can't stand it.

00:16:33.820 You know, I worked for two of Mitt Romney's opponents in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, so I don't want anybody to suggest that my attacks on Mitt Romney are opportunistic now because I like Trump and he's going after Trump.

00:16:47.920 It has nothing to do with that.

00:16:49.400 I've been calling this guy out since, I don't know, seven, eight years ago, and I think only now are people beginning to realize it.

00:16:56.520 This whole shtick of Saint Mitt, the most honorable, wonderful guy in America, Mr. Severely Conservative, is total BS, and it's fine if you want to call Trump a BS-er.

00:17:06.040 You know, he's a New Yorker.

00:17:07.200 He talks that way.

00:17:08.460 But Mitt Romney is no better, and in many, many ways, when you compare his actual policy record, he is so much worse than Trump, who, for all his many flaws, and he has many, many flaws, has actually affected a fairly relatively conservative administration.

00:17:25.000 Now, beyond all of that, my rant against Mitt Romney aside, President Trump did get some good news as they're talking about throwing him out of office in the Senate.

00:17:34.620 Also in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, who was President Trump's biggest critic on the Syria decision, the decision to remove some troops from northern Syria, which permitted a Turkish invasion, which has hurt our allies in the YPG, which is a group of Kurds that fought alongside us against ISIS.

00:17:52.840 Lindsey Graham is starting to come around on President Trump's Syria policy.

00:17:57.140 Let me tell you where I think we are.

00:17:59.700 Withhold judgment as to what's going to happen in Syria until it's all in. 0.85

00:18:05.100 I am increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in Syria that have eluded us for years if we play our cards right.

00:18:14.300 I blame Erdogan for the invasion, not Trump.

00:18:17.680 But here's what the president told me over the weekend.

00:18:20.360 Here are our objectives.

00:18:21.500 To make sure we have a demilitarized zone between Turkey and the Kurds, the Kurds were the allies who helped us defeat ISIS.

00:18:29.340 They lost 10,000 soldiers.

00:18:31.060 We've lost eight in four years.

00:18:32.760 God bless the eight.

00:18:33.960 But it was the Kurds who did most of the fighting.

00:18:36.600 Protect our NATO ally, Turkey, from elements of the Kurds that they considered to be terrorists.

00:18:41.640 A demilitarized zone occupied by international forces.

00:18:45.880 No Americans, but we provide air power.

00:18:48.020 The president appreciates what the Kurds have done.

00:18:51.300 He wants to make sure ISIS does not come back.

00:18:53.980 I expect we will continue to partner with the Kurds in the eastern Syria to make sure ISIS does not reemerge.

00:19:00.520 That is in our national security interest and we owe it to the Kurds. 0.86

00:19:04.240 So he says more or less it's okay.

00:19:08.840 Last week he was saying this is the, quote, the most screwed up decision I've ever seen.

00:19:13.260 This week he's saying, hmm, maybe there's actually a little bit to this.

00:19:16.640 He actually goes on.

00:19:17.580 He tells Maria Bartiromo, who's interviewing him, that he's actually increasingly optimistic that this could turn out very well.

00:19:25.140 The big thing for me is the oil fields.

00:19:28.180 President Trump is thinking outside the box.

00:19:30.680 I was so impressed with his thinking about the oil.

00:19:34.020 Not only are we going to deny the oil fields falling into Iranian hands, 1.00

00:19:37.940 I believe we're on the verge of a joint venture between us and the Syrian Democratic forces who helped destroy ISIS and keep them destroyed to modernize the oil fields and make sure they get the revenue, not the Iranians, not Assad. 0.72

00:19:51.720 And it can help pay for our small commitment in the future.

00:19:55.760 And protecting Israel is the number one objective.

00:19:58.600 And we can do all of that with a very small force.

00:20:01.520 I'm increasingly optimistic this could turn out very well.

00:20:04.540 Now, he's increasingly optimistic.

00:20:06.680 That is a big change in tune.

00:20:08.280 What changed?

00:20:09.100 We'll get to that in a second.

00:20:10.260 Then we will get to the greatest little fight I've seen on Twitter in a while.

00:20:14.960 Tulsi Gabbard versus Hillary Clinton.

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00:21:50.280 The switch on Syria in Lindsey Graham's reaction is an important one because it shows that initial reaction, people buying into the sort of madness. 0.65

00:22:04.500 Anything Trump does is considered unprecedented and terrible and awful for our allies and uninformed.

00:22:12.620 Okay, well, sometimes that happens, but on the Syria decision, on most decisions, what I try to do is I try to take like 10 breaths.

00:22:22.520 So something happens.

00:22:23.720 Trump decides to move the troops out of Syria, and everyone tells me this is the worst decision in the history of the world, and we've never done anything worse as a country.

00:22:29.560 And I say, okay, and I breathe in and out about 10 times, and then I think, what's the alternative?

00:22:38.960 What's the alternative?

00:22:39.880 The alternative is we keep our troops in Syria, but in that region of Syria, we only had 50 troops, which could be what's called a tripwire.

00:22:47.560 It could be a way to keep hostile forces out, or it could be a magnet for an attack, as we saw in Beirut during the Reagan administration, after which, what did Ronald Reagan do?

00:22:57.380 He pulled our troops out of Beirut.

00:23:02.000 If there were an attack, if one U.S. soldier were killed in that area, especially if it were by Turkey, we could find ourselves in a very terrible war.

00:23:09.480 Do we want that war?

00:23:10.580 It's not that Americans back down from a war, but what would the war be for?

00:23:13.920 What is our strategic interest in Syria?

00:23:15.900 If you can't really identify one, then perhaps it's time to move those troops out.

00:23:20.460 Is our interest to overthrow Bashar Assad?

00:23:23.180 That's what people like John McCain wanted us to do during the intervention in 2014 in the first place, but we didn't do that.

00:23:29.300 That was never the policy of the United States.

00:23:31.020 It is still not the policy of the United States.

00:23:32.920 I don't think it would be in our interests to do it anyway.

00:23:35.100 So if we're not going to oust Bashar Assad, then what is going to give the Kurds a better long-term strategy?

00:23:41.220 Is it going to be to maintain this state of constant civil war?

00:23:44.520 At a certain point, the civil war has got to end, or at least it's going to change.

00:23:47.940 Is it in the Kurds' long-term interest to try to create a nation-state?

00:23:51.380 Is the United States going to get them a nation-state?

00:23:53.560 I don't think that's very likely.

00:23:54.980 Are they going to maintain this alliance with the U.S. to the detriment of all other alliances?

00:23:59.440 Well, it didn't work out great for the Kurds in the 70s or the 90s or in the 2000s or in the 2010s.

00:24:05.220 So maybe there actually is an interest for the United States in redeploying those troops.

00:24:11.980 Maybe there is an interest in the United States in backing the second largest military in NATO.

00:24:15.740 Maybe the situation is more complicated than it seems.

00:24:18.720 Maybe Trump is making a bad decision, but maybe that bad decision is actually better than the other decisions at his disposal.

00:24:26.400 Maybe you think Trump is a bad guy.

00:24:28.400 Sure, but it's certainly possible he's better than the alternatives.

00:24:31.860 What is the alternative?

00:24:33.080 You saw this not just in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

00:24:35.980 You saw this among the Democrats in the sweetest exchange that I have seen since those 2016 debates in the general election.

00:24:46.780 Hillary Clinton was on David Plouffe's podcast talking about the 2020 Democratic primary, and she had the gall because she's just like a broken record. 0.94

00:24:59.680 She has to accuse her opponents of colluding with Russia.

00:25:02.460 She accused Tulsi Gabbard of being Russia's favorite candidate.

00:25:07.420 I'm not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.

00:25:16.940 She's the favorite of the Russians.

00:25:19.040 They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.

00:25:24.900 Now, when asked if Clinton was referring to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, Clinton's spokesman said, quote, if the nesting doll fits, he added, quote, if the Russian propaganda machine, both their state media and their bot and troll operations, is backing a candidate aligned with their interests, that is just a reality.

00:25:41.580 It is not speculation.

00:25:43.720 So she's even confirming it.

00:25:45.240 She's talking about Tulsi Gabbard.

00:25:46.920 But everyone's been going after Tulsi Gabbard because Tulsi Gabbard is slightly more moderate than the lunatics in the Democratic Party, and they're seeing a Democratic Party turn slightly more in the way of moderation right now because they know they're going to get blown out in the general election.

00:26:00.640 Otherwise, how do you think Tulsi Gabbard responded to Hillary Clinton?

00:26:04.780 We will get to that in just a second.

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00:26:46.600 So you have Hillary Clinton, a crook, a twice-failed presidential candidate, someone whose nearest contribution to the American public service was lying about being under Bosnian sniper fire. 0.97

00:27:00.880 You have her, and then you have Tulsi Gabbard, who I think is extreme and leftist, and I would never even consider voting for her. 0.97

00:27:09.020 But she just returned from serving our country in uniform.

00:27:12.280 She is actually a dedicated public servant, and she's far more reasonable on most issues than her fellow Democrats.

00:27:21.400 Those are the two people. 0.65

00:27:22.320 And Hillary Clinton, crooked crone, never did anything for this country, is accusing Tulsi Gabbard, actually put on a uniform, of being a Russian asset, of being a traitor, of being somebody who sold out her country. 1.00

00:27:34.400 Here is Tulsi's response on Twitter. 0.96

00:27:36.420 Quote,

00:27:36.620 Thank you, Hillary Clinton.

00:28:06.620 She misused cowardly, which is an adjective, as an adverb.

00:28:18.500 That's okay.

00:28:18.880 We'll forgive her because it's an otherwise great tweet.

00:28:21.960 Join the race directly.

00:28:25.240 Oh, oh my goodness gracious.

00:28:27.840 I don't care what's going on in the Middle East. 1.00

00:28:29.520 Nothing could possibly be fierier or crueler or more devastating than that.

00:28:38.600 Very smart for Tulsi Gabbard.

00:28:39.980 Tulsi Gabbard is going to finally try to launch her candidacy into the top tier by saying that she is the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in the way that Bernie Sanders was the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in 2016. 0.97

00:28:50.220 And it might work.

00:28:51.480 Tulsi had a very good performance at that last debate.

00:28:54.800 And so as the frontrunner, Joe Biden falls apart, and as Hillary Clinton goes after her, it really could help her out.

00:29:01.260 Hillary Clinton seriously overestimates her significance in the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:29:06.760 Or rather, I'll put it a different way.

00:29:09.280 She seriously underestimates how furious the Democrats are at her, not for her corruption, not for her decades and decades of lies and misdeeds, for losing.

00:29:19.680 She lost to Donald Trump.

00:29:21.000 She didn't get the job done. 0.93

00:29:22.700 And Democrats are really hard on their losing candidates.

00:29:25.760 When was the last time we heard from Michael Dukakis?

00:29:27.720 Do you know, probably many of the listeners to this podcast don't even know who Michael Dukakis is.

00:29:34.000 Dukakis lost the election to George Bush.

00:29:36.300 How about Walter Mondale?

00:29:37.260 Do we hear a lot from Walter Mondale?

00:29:39.240 No.

00:29:39.800 George McGovern?

00:29:40.640 Not so much. 1.00

00:29:41.780 Democrats are pretty hard on their losers. 0.97

00:29:43.480 And Hillary Clinton thinks that she's somehow still an important voice in the Democratic Party. 0.99

00:29:50.300 She isn't really.

00:29:51.160 A lot of people don't like her.

00:29:52.200 She went on that speaking tour with Bill Clinton.

00:29:54.100 So she actually had a former president with her.

00:29:55.680 They couldn't sell tickets.

00:29:56.520 The tickets were dropping from $300 a ticket down to $6, $9 a ticket.

00:30:02.560 They ended up canceling most of the tour.

00:30:04.640 Why?

00:30:05.100 Well, we have another reason why.

00:30:06.380 Add it to the list.

00:30:07.460 State Department investigators have just concluded an investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

00:30:13.780 And they found, how many security violations do you think?

00:30:17.060 One or two.

00:30:17.780 And that's why it wasn't a big deal.

00:30:19.800 But her emails, oh, it's not a big deal.

00:30:21.580 600 security violations.

00:30:22.980 That's according to newly released government documents.

00:30:28.460 600 security violations.

00:30:31.540 Hillary Clinton not only using her own email server to conduct very serious business of the state, but then destroying those emails so she wouldn't have to turn them over to investigators. 0.99

00:30:41.720 Then we only found a lot of those emails because they turned up on convicted pedophile Anthony Weiner's computer because her security was so lax that his then wife, Huma Abedin, her chief aide, was just letting her emails flow around the whole house.

00:31:01.960 It's no big deal.

00:31:04.960 Why didn't the FBI charge her with a crime?

00:31:06.980 Well, the reason the FBI didn't charge her with a felony at this point was because the FBI agent, who we now know was trying to undermine the Trump campaign from within the FBI, Peter Strzok, edited a key phrase that thereby removed legal ramifications for Clinton.

00:31:25.420 The phrase was gross negligence.

00:31:28.180 She was grossly negligent with her emails, at least. 1.00

00:31:32.700 And what Peter Strzok did from the FBI was change that phrase to extremely careless.

00:31:37.240 Let me ask you.

00:31:39.520 What is the difference between gross negligence and extreme carelessness?

00:31:45.160 A couple of decades in an orange jumpsuit.

00:31:47.140 That's the difference.

00:31:47.880 Other than that, they're exactly the same phrase.

00:31:49.900 And the phrase extremely careless was obviously cooked up to get Hillary Clinton out of legal trouble. 1.00

00:31:58.620 People are sick of that.

00:32:00.420 People really don't like that.

00:32:02.400 People are willing to tolerate a lot of stuff to get rid of that kind of corruption and those kind of lies.

00:32:08.700 Because people are willing to tolerate a brash billionaire from New York who's never worked in the government a day in his life, who speaks in a really rough manner, who does things and sends mean tweets that a lot of Americans don't like.

00:32:22.620 They're willing to tolerate that because they are sick of the corruption.

00:32:26.760 They are sick of this rotted out political establishment.

00:32:30.420 Hillary Clinton, obviously, is the sort of symbol of corruption in American politics. 1.00

00:32:36.640 But even guys like Mitt Romney, and I'm not suggesting Mitt Romney is corrupt. 0.63

00:32:40.440 I'm saying he's dishonest.

00:32:42.380 I'm saying he's a slick used car salesman.

00:32:46.420 I'm saying he'll say whatever he needs you to say to try to get your vote in whatever election he's running in.

00:32:54.240 And people are sick of that.

00:32:55.720 They don't like that.

00:32:56.940 They like people to speak directly.

00:32:58.800 They want to be told the truth.

00:33:00.420 They know politicians are never going to tell them the truth.

00:33:02.960 But if Trump is going to tell you the truth 27% of the time instead of 7% of the time, they're going to get to them.

00:33:10.140 And they don't want radicalism either.

00:33:12.760 I think this is what the Democrats misunderstood about the 2016 election.

00:33:17.660 The 2016 election of President Trump was taking a guy, warts and all, because he offered an alternative to a corrosive political establishment.

00:33:30.420 But it's not like the American people suddenly became these crazy radicals. 0.74

00:33:35.140 What the Democrats concluded is the Republicans became these crazy wild radicals. 0.81

00:33:40.340 And the only way to win the election in 2020 is for us to become crazy wild radicals. 0.55

00:33:44.560 Nobody wants that.

00:33:45.680 Nobody wants National Period Day and public celebrations of menstruation from male politicians.

00:33:50.920 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:33:52.240 They don't want that.

00:33:53.420 They just want an alternative to the political establishment.

00:33:57.300 They might be getting that.

00:34:00.560 And we might be seeing a vindication of my theory here, which is because at that last debate, I said this was revenge of the moderates.

00:34:07.460 This is and they're not really moderates, but relative to the other Democrats, they're moderates.

00:34:11.160 With Joe Biden's campaign collapsing, he was running in the moderate lane.

00:34:16.020 He had a lock on that.

00:34:16.960 With that collapsing, that opens up a lane for some new candidate.

00:34:21.540 Pete Buttigieg, when he first started running for president, he was going to be the kind of moderate, wholesome, Midwestern guy, except he's really a big leftist.

00:34:29.740 But he's going to be nice and smile and make you feel good about yourself.

00:34:33.280 Then that wasn't working.

00:34:34.560 So he started running far to the left.

00:34:36.800 That was not a great idea.

00:34:38.240 He's now running back toward moderation because he sees an opening where Joe Biden was.

00:34:43.800 And it's paying off.

00:34:45.340 According to a Suffolk University USA Today poll, this was conducted last Wednesday through Friday.

00:34:51.680 Right now in Iowa, this is going to be first in the nation caucus state.

00:34:55.780 You've got Joe Biden at 18%.

00:34:57.840 You've got Liz Warren at 15%.

00:35:01.160 You've got Buttigieg at 13%.

00:35:03.620 So he's still in third place.

00:35:05.540 That is way up.

00:35:06.480 Buttigieg wasn't registering.

00:35:08.420 Until this last debate.

00:35:10.340 He wasn't on anybody's radar.

00:35:13.180 Now he's surged to number three in the state.

00:35:15.640 And if the trend on Biden keeps going down, then he's within.

00:35:20.840 He's within the distance of Elizabeth Warren.

00:35:23.360 Now, that's only among 500 likely Democratic caucus goers.

00:35:26.420 But, you know, there aren't that many people in Iowa anyway.

00:35:29.000 So Pete Buttigieg having a good time running as this sort of moderate.

00:35:31.940 He's not the only one.

00:35:32.920 Amy Klobuchar, too, is now staking her campaign on being the moderate in the race.

00:35:37.920 You're going to see Buttigieg and Klobuchar trying to grab that position as a moderate because it sets them up in a couple of ways.

00:35:43.640 This is still anybody's Democratic primary.

00:35:47.740 All right.

00:35:48.100 There was a there was a poll out of the Boston Herald in New Hampshire that showed that Warren, Biden and Bernie are more or less tied.

00:35:55.020 And actually, the top candidate in New Hampshire is someone who's not even running yet, Michelle Obama.

00:35:59.340 If Michelle Obama runs, she gets 26 percent.

00:36:01.960 Next candidate gets 20.

00:36:03.260 The next two get 15.

00:36:04.540 That shows you that the Democrats are unsatisfied with the current crop of candidates.

00:36:08.940 So what Klobuchar and Buttigieg are banking on is, hey, there's maybe still a slight chance that I could win this thing.

00:36:15.500 But even if they don't, even if a leftist gets the nomination, they could be the moderate to balance out the ticket.

00:36:20.140 So they're running pretty hard.

00:36:21.000 But Klobuchar is running pretty hard by contrasting herself with Elizabeth Warren.

00:36:26.620 So Elizabeth Warren has these pie in the sky plans, and she's not willing to admit that the way she's going to pay for it is by raising taxes on virtually everybody. 1.00

00:36:35.400 She has the same plans as Bernie Sanders.

00:36:37.420 How do we know she has the same plans?

00:36:38.740 Because she stole them from him.

00:36:40.160 Bernie Sanders at least admits that everybody's taxes are going to go up.

00:36:44.200 Warren is refusing to do that.

00:36:46.400 Klobuchar calling her out for it.

00:36:48.400 I've made very clear how I'm going to pay for everything that I've put out there.

00:36:52.280 I think that's important because we've got a president that's added trillions of dollars to the debt on the shoulders of our kids.

00:36:59.240 And I think we need to make the case.

00:37:01.140 And as I said at the debate stage, I just think I have a better way, a way that will insure more people and bring premiums down.

00:37:08.560 And that's with a non-profit public option.

00:37:12.840 And it doesn't trash Obamacare.

00:37:14.780 It builds on Obamacare.

00:37:16.580 And I think you have to show how you're going to pay for things.

00:37:19.020 That bill has been very clear from the beginning.

00:37:21.960 On page 8, it says that it will dismantle our current insurance system.

00:37:27.800 It says that 149 million people will be kicked off their current insurance.

00:37:33.480 That's what it says.

00:37:35.080 And Senator Sanders has been very honest about that.

00:37:39.240 But I think we have to be honest about that.

00:37:41.080 All the people in the Senate that was on that stage and others who said they supported it, they signed on to that.

00:37:47.920 I got a lot of pressure to sign on to it.

00:37:50.160 I read it and I decided there was a better way and a different way to do it.

00:37:53.940 Have you ever heard a less inspiring candidate in your life?

00:37:58.440 Her voice, her whole manner, her whole demeanor is so uninspiring.

00:38:03.020 Except what she's saying here actually makes a lot of sense.

00:38:06.560 What she's saying is we need to pay for things.

00:38:11.300 We need to be honest about how we're going to pay for things.

00:38:13.940 We don't need to reinvent the wheel every four to eight years.

00:38:17.320 We don't need to completely scrap everything we've done before us.

00:38:20.240 We can build on the last health care system that we have.

00:38:24.040 And then that health care system, Obamacare, has been changed during the Trump era.

00:38:28.080 And so we can work on those changes and we can fix it up.

00:38:31.620 There's actually something profoundly conservative in what Amy Klobuchar is saying.

00:38:36.100 Not really in her policy outcomes, but in her method of addressing politics, which is evolution, not revolution.

00:38:45.720 Being somewhat responsible and saying we're going to pay for it by raising taxes here and doing this and I'm going to find the money here.

00:38:52.300 And we're not going to reinvent civilization every four years.

00:38:56.420 We're going to build on what we have.

00:38:58.020 There's something very conservative about that.

00:39:00.260 I have to tell you that it kills me to say anything even remotely complimentary about Amy Klobuchar or Pete Buttigieg or Tulsi Gabbard.

00:39:09.200 Because they're really awful. 0.91

00:39:11.480 I mean, they are bad. 0.86

00:39:12.780 They would make the country worse off.

00:39:14.760 They would take away our freedoms.

00:39:16.380 They would take away our money.

00:39:17.960 They would further distort the culture. 0.62

00:39:22.140 They would not be good.

00:39:24.940 But they're so much better than the alternatives in the Democratic Party that I have to give them a little credit where credits do.

00:39:32.560 I mean, that's the thing with President Trump today.

00:39:35.300 Trump, I think, is doing a very good job.

00:39:37.820 I'm supportive of the guy.

00:39:39.120 He's not without his flaws.

00:39:41.960 And he's not without his mistakes.

00:39:44.020 And he's made decisions that I disagree with.

00:39:45.820 Some that I strongly disagree with.

00:39:48.980 Still, politics is about choices.

00:39:53.620 Politics is about choices.

00:39:55.420 And politics is about the real world.

00:39:57.620 How do I know politics is about choices?

00:39:59.240 That's the definition of self-government.

00:40:00.780 In politics, we, the people, are presented with choices.

00:40:03.840 And we choose one or the other.

00:40:06.340 We don't get infinite choices.

00:40:08.620 We're not choosing between things in the abstract.

00:40:11.900 We're not choosing about things in the imaginary world.

00:40:14.460 Politics is about choosing things in the real world.

00:40:17.840 It's not philosophy.

00:40:19.120 It's not sitting around having a bull session with your friends.

00:40:22.280 There are real people, all of whom are flawed.

00:40:24.320 And you've got to make choices.

00:40:25.720 So what is the alternative?

00:40:28.180 The alternative to Trump is Mitt Romney.

00:40:30.060 If those are my choices, I choose Trump.

00:40:32.160 What is the alternative to Klobuchar, Buttigieg, and Tulsi Gabbard?

00:40:37.280 The alternative is Kamala Harris.

00:40:39.700 The alternative is Cory Booker.

00:40:42.100 The alternative are Julian Castro.

00:40:44.260 So while Tulsi Gabbard was talking about how it's not in our interest to be fighting perpetual

00:40:50.140 wars overseas where we can't really define what victory looks like.

00:40:53.420 While Amy Klobuchar was saying we need to be able to pay for our health care plans before 0.99

00:40:58.240 we institute them.

00:40:59.380 What were those other candidates, Kamala and Booker and Julian Castro talking about?

00:41:04.200 They were talking about menstruation, of course, because it was National Period Day. 0.90

00:41:08.820 The first ever National Period Day.

00:41:10.780 NPR explains it.

00:41:12.280 NPR did a big cover on National Period Day.

00:41:16.280 And the reason for it is, according to the NPR tweet, quote, on average, people who menstruate

00:41:22.180 spend an estimated $150 million a year just on the sales tax for tampons and pads.

00:41:27.560 Now there's a push to outlaw the so-called tampon tax across the U.S.

00:41:31.660 Hashtag National Period Day.

00:41:33.240 This is very funny for a few reasons.

00:41:37.280 One, because NPR presents itself as this very urbane, very sophisticated, very literate outlet.

00:41:44.140 And they reported that women on average, I'm sorry, on average people who menstruate spend

00:41:50.380 $150 million a year just on the sales tax for tampons.

00:41:53.880 We must have a lot of billionaires in this country.

00:41:55.500 If people are on average spending $150 million a year on the sales tax for tampons, gosh,

00:42:01.860 that must mean they're spending a billion dollars a year just on tampons on average.

00:42:06.260 Now, of course, they don't mean on average.

00:42:07.460 They just don't really understand how numbers or language work at NPR.

00:42:10.160 But the illiteracy doesn't just stop there because look at the term they use.

00:42:13.080 The term they use isn't women spend an estimated $150 million a year. 1.00

00:42:16.880 It's people who menstruate. 1.00

00:42:20.300 They didn't even just say women who menstruate, not taking into account younger girls or women

00:42:24.140 after menopause.

00:42:26.080 The reason they say people who menstruate is because they bought into this gender ideology 0.95

00:42:29.500 and they think that men can menstruate.

00:42:33.060 That's the alternative.

00:42:34.460 You know, if my alternatives, if I'm a Democrat, my alternatives are Tulsi Gabbard.

00:42:38.660 I don't know if I love her foreign policy entirely or Amy Klobuchar.

00:42:42.660 You know, she's got that voice and she's not, you know, she just doesn't have a really inspiring.

00:42:47.320 Okay, it's either that or people who think that men can menstruate.

00:42:50.920 I'm going to go with the first two.

00:42:53.220 That's a trick.

00:42:53.620 Kamala Harris tweets out.

00:42:54.600 One in four teens have missed class because of lack of access to period products.

00:42:58.600 That's wrong.

00:42:59.560 It's time we end the stigma and ensure everyone, no matter their income, can reach their full

00:43:03.620 potential, period or not.

00:43:05.080 Hashtag national period day.

00:43:06.320 Now, that statistic is completely made up.

00:43:11.500 The rest of the period movement, which is what they're calling it, say that the number is one in five girls have, don't have access, one in five teens who don't have access to tampons, haven't gone to class or something.

00:43:25.200 They're just making it up.

00:43:26.100 They're citing a survey from Always Brand.

00:43:28.160 And this is what the left does with statistics. 0.99

00:43:30.120 You know, there's lies, damned lies in statistics. 0.99

00:43:32.160 They do the same thing with campus sexual assault. 0.99

00:43:34.000 They initially said when they pushed this campus sexual assault epidemic that one in five women are raped on colleges while they're there.

00:43:41.440 And then while I was in college, they changed the number.

00:43:44.520 They said it was one in four.

00:43:45.480 I said, wait, hold on.

00:43:46.400 Oh, my goodness gracious.

00:43:47.340 How on earth did it increase so much since we were there?

00:43:50.060 What sources are you citing?

00:43:51.660 They never could tell you because they just make it up.

00:43:53.540 It doesn't matter what the real number is.

00:43:54.920 And obviously, it's not one in four or one in five.

00:43:58.640 That would make the campus of Harvard University more dangerous than downtown Fallujah. 0.84

00:44:02.720 All right.

00:44:03.300 There's no way that that is true, that elite Ivy League universities are more dangerous for women than ISIS strongholds and, I don't know, Raqqa or something.

00:44:13.220 No, that's not the case.

00:44:14.100 They just say it because it's a scare number and it makes you more inclined to believe their campaigns.

00:44:20.060 Cory Booker tweeted out, quote, too many people don't have access to basic health needs like menstrual product.

00:44:24.920 Whether due to lack of income, incarceration, or gender identity.

00:44:28.340 So there is Booker talking about how men can menstruate.

00:44:30.400 It's outrageous.

00:44:31.320 Join the period movement for National Period Day and support the fight for menstrual equity.

00:44:36.160 Menstrual equity is what Booker is talking about.

00:44:38.740 And then, oh, it wasn't Julian Castro.

00:44:40.440 I'm sorry.

00:44:40.860 I misspoke. 0.99

00:44:41.240 It wasn't Julian Castro who tweeted out the stupidest thing about this. 0.99

00:44:43.960 It was Beto O'Rourke. 0.99

00:44:46.080 Julian Castro has regularly talked about men's gynecological needs.

00:44:51.800 But what Beto O'Rourke tweeted out is, quote,

00:44:53.820 In detention centers and in prisons, in big cities and small towns, women across America don't have access to period products they need. 1.00

00:45:00.540 On National Period Day, men need to join women in demanding real change, which is why I'm supporting the Menstrual Equity Act. 0.75

00:45:08.080 The Winston Churchill of our times, ladies and gentlemen, they're addressing the real problems.

00:45:14.680 You know, whenever they do these polls, what matters to you?

00:45:16.440 The economy, foreign policy, energy, immigration, always at the top of the list is menstrual equity, right? 0.64

00:45:24.420 No, these guys are jokers.

00:45:25.780 And so when you're looking at the Democratic primary, you've got to make a choice.

00:45:31.140 Who are you going to pick?

00:45:32.200 Obviously, you're going to choose the people who are more sane than the other.

00:45:36.960 When you're looking at politics generally, who are you going to pick?

00:45:39.940 You're going to pick the guy who's more sane, the guy who's more reasonable, the guy who's not blabbering about how men need access to tampons for menstrual equity day.

00:45:48.520 Does that leave us perfect candidates?

00:45:50.840 No.

00:45:50.960 Does that mean we're governed by angels?

00:45:52.680 No.

00:45:53.800 The Federalist Papers already told us we're not governed by angels.

00:45:57.300 We can assail our president.

00:46:00.340 We can assail our public servants as the worst possible people in the world.

00:46:04.100 The question in politics is, what's the alternative?

00:46:08.220 That's our show.

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00:46:09.440 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 21, 2019

Ep. 435 - Trump Is The Worst! (Except For All The Others)

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