The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 700 - The Most Acquitted President Ever

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00:00:37.680 The Senate has voted not to convict Donald Trump in his impeachment trial,

00:00:43.220 making him the most acquitted president in American history.

00:00:48.580 Nobody, ain't nobody more innocent than Donald Trump.

00:00:53.100 Great news for him, I think very good news for the Republican Party.

00:00:58.080 But the trial is not over.

00:00:59.700 Actually, the real trial, the real trial for the future of the GOP is just about to begin.

00:01:05.860 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:15.160 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:16.560 My favorite comment from Friday is from Valor, who says,

00:01:21.720 Liberals say, we want strong and powerful women. 1.00

00:01:25.240 Also liberals, this woman has an opinion we don't like. 1.00

00:01:28.560 Fire her. 1.00

00:01:29.220 I think this refers to Gina Carano, my favorite new colleague here at the Daily Wire.

00:01:35.320 Gina Carano gets canned by Disney Plus just for being a conservative. 0.80

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00:01:42.840 She didn't.

00:01:43.120 She didn't say anything that was offensive.

00:01:44.120 She is just conservative and they don't like that, so Disney fired her.

00:01:48.060 Well, the Libs loss is our gain.

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00:01:58.560 And when they don't, they think they can destroy their careers.

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00:03:31.020 Actually, my doppelganger just recently lost his job.

00:03:35.960 We'll get to that in just a little bit.

00:03:38.180 The big news of the day, Donald Trump acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial.

00:03:45.260 There have been many questions.

00:03:47.360 Is this even a legitimate impeachment trial?

00:03:50.320 Can you impeach an ex-president?

00:03:52.480 Well, I guess he was impeached when he was a president.

00:03:54.740 Then the trial was of this private citizen now in Florida, this former president.

00:03:58.500 Can't remove him from office.

00:03:59.780 The chief justice is not presiding as the Constitution demands.

00:04:03.040 But they thought they could prevent him from running for office again in the future, maybe in 2024.

00:04:09.520 None of that matters anymore.

00:04:11.720 Because Donald Trump got acquitted.

00:04:13.900 We always knew he was going to get acquitted, though the Trump legal team was a little bit shaky in their early arguments.

00:04:19.860 The Democrat House impeachment managers were doing a very good job.

00:04:23.200 Finally, in the last day of their presentation, the Trump lawyers brought the goods.

00:04:29.060 Everything the Democrats had been setting them up for, the Trump lawyers let loose.

00:04:34.140 The House managers spoke about rhetoric, about a constant drumbeat of heated language.

00:04:40.420 Well, as I'm sure everyone watching expected, we need to show you some of their own words.

00:04:46.280 I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, maybe there will be.

00:04:52.340 There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.

00:04:55.980 You've got to be ready to throw a punch.

00:04:57.780 You have to be ready to throw a punch. 1.00

00:04:59.480 Donald Trump, I think you need to go back and punch him in the face. 1.00

00:05:02.800 That I thought he should have punched him in the face. 1.00

00:05:04.520 I feel like punching him. 0.99

00:05:05.800 I think I'd like to take him behind the gym if I were in high school. 0.99

00:05:08.760 If you were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. 0.76

00:05:11.520 No, I wish you were in high school, I could take him behind the gym.

00:05:14.380 I will go and take Trump out tonight.

00:05:17.380 Take him out now, okay?

00:05:18.780 When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? 0.99

00:05:22.460 They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. 0.54

00:05:24.820 Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. 0.84

00:05:28.340 And you push back on them.

00:05:30.520 And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.

00:05:35.180 I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

00:05:40.600 Please, get up in the face of some Congress people.

00:05:44.640 Ooh, that doesn't sound so great.

00:05:47.940 Because what the Democrats have been telling us for this entire trial is that if you call

00:05:55.120 for aggressive political action, if you use terms like fight, you know, every politician

00:06:01.200 uses fight, but Trump, he said, you got to go fight.

00:06:03.760 He's inciting an insurrection. 1.00

00:06:05.520 He is a traitor to his country. 0.98

00:06:07.740 He needs to be impeached and prevented from running for office. 0.98

00:06:12.000 But then you listen to the Democrats and they all said not just the same thing.

00:06:15.460 They said things that were a lot worse.

00:06:18.900 Lindsey Graham made a great point after the trial where he said, if we're going to impeach

00:06:24.460 Trump, and don't forget, we did impeach Trump.

00:06:26.520 He was impeached twice, acquitted both times, but he was impeached twice.

00:06:30.820 If we're going to do that, we've got to impeach Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:06:35.000 We've opened Pandora's box to future presidents.

00:06:38.280 And if you use this model, I don't know how Kamala Harris doesn't get impeached if the Republicans

00:06:44.000 take over the House because she actually bailed out rioters. 1.00

00:06:48.340 And one of the rioters went back to the streets and broke somebody's head open.

00:06:52.180 And so we've opened Pandora's box here, and I'm sad for the country.

00:06:56.380 I agree.

00:06:57.080 I think it is sad for the country.

00:06:58.200 Well, it's sad for the country that Kamala Harris is vice president, that somebody like

00:07:01.600 her would become a vice president.

00:07:03.540 Obviously, nobody likes her.

00:07:04.680 That's why she was one of the first people out.

00:07:06.080 I think she was the first person out of the presidential race. 0.99

00:07:09.100 But she made it in sort of through the back door, and now she's the vice president. 0.99

00:07:13.220 Heartbeat away from the Oval Office with the oldest president ever.

00:07:17.300 However, she was not merely using harsh political rhetoric.

00:07:21.620 She was openly encouraging political violence and then bailing out the violent rioters and

00:07:26.040 sending them back to commit more violence on the streets.

00:07:28.660 And there's no constitutional question as to whether or not she can be impeached.

00:07:32.220 She's not a former official.

00:07:33.920 I thought that the Republican-held Senate, if they had any spine whatsoever, ought to have

00:07:39.140 censured her and even removed her from office when she was still a senator before she assumed

00:07:44.040 the role of vice president.

00:07:44.900 Mitch McConnell wasn't going to do that.

00:07:47.540 Actually, he's disappointed a lot of Republicans in the past few days, which we'll get to in

00:07:52.080 a second.

00:07:52.980 But now Kamala Harris is the sitting vice president.

00:07:55.960 No question you can impeach her.

00:07:57.500 And you should, by the standards that the Democrats have imposed.

00:08:00.640 Do I think that harsh political rhetoric ought to be sufficient for an impeachment?

00:08:05.380 No, I wish that were not the case.

00:08:06.940 But I'm also unwilling to unilaterally disarm if the left is going to voice this kind of politics

00:08:12.820 on all of us.

00:08:14.020 That question is not in dispute whether or not we can impeach Kamala.

00:08:17.740 Now, Joe Biden, licking his wounds here because they lost, the Democrats just completely lost

00:08:22.240 again, is, he's saying that, okay, yeah, we lost the impeachment trial.

00:08:28.880 But, but the substance of the issue is not in dispute.

00:08:33.080 I guess that's true in the sense that he was, he was acquitted by the, by the Senate.

00:08:39.080 So it's not in dispute.

00:08:40.160 Yeah, you're right.

00:08:41.140 He isn't guilty of the thing that the House Democrats accused him of.

00:08:45.160 If it is in dispute in any way, you know, it might be because Democrats are still trying

00:08:50.240 to make some, some farcical argument.

00:08:52.940 But surely it's not the case that, that the charge is not in dispute in the favor of Joe

00:08:57.660 Biden and the Democrats.

00:09:00.580 It's done.

00:09:01.680 The Trump part of it is over.

00:09:03.340 But now the question is, where do we go from here?

00:09:07.160 Because the Democrats are going to keep licking their wounds here. 0.67

00:09:09.460 I mean, they were already setting this up earlier.

00:09:11.700 They said, look, there's no way we're going to get a fair trial here.

00:09:15.460 This is all going to be run horribly.

00:09:17.140 Eric Swalwell, former future president, Eric Swalwell, who is me and you and everybody else,

00:09:21.960 according to his campaign, he said that God could have been called as a witness.

00:09:27.120 Republicans still wouldn't have listened.

00:09:29.160 The choice was, well, do we chase those people not knowing what they're going to say to the

00:09:34.820 courts for years, or do we go forward with a powerful thundering case that we have?

00:09:39.520 And also knowing that Mitch McConnell was already telling us that he believed the challenge

00:09:44.780 was a jurisdictional one.

00:09:45.860 So we could have called God herself and the Republicans weren't going to be willing to

00:09:49.520 convict.

00:09:49.880 So we're proud of the case we put forward.

00:09:51.960 Ugh.

00:09:55.520 God herself.

00:09:57.680 Did you hear that?

00:09:58.740 Wow.

00:09:59.420 Zing. 0.88

00:10:00.500 Oh, Eric.

00:10:01.840 So edgy.

00:10:03.700 By the way, whatever happened to respecting people's preferred pronouns?

00:10:07.620 God has been very clear about his preferred pronouns.

00:10:11.360 He goes by Father.

00:10:13.300 He is incarnate in Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity.

00:10:18.680 The third person of the Trinity is the bond of love between the Father and the Son goes

00:10:24.880 by he and him throughout the entire Bible.

00:10:28.000 Now Eric Swalwell, oh, he's going to be very insistent that we call Caitlyn Jenner she, but

00:10:32.680 God goes by herself.

00:10:34.920 Now this is not just a glib comment.

00:10:37.440 I mean, I suppose for Eric Swalwell, it is a glib comment, but you can read something a little bit

00:10:42.660 deeper here, which is that what the left is seeking to do ultimately is to upend the whole

00:10:49.880 society.

00:10:50.680 This is a simple point.

00:10:51.700 It almost doesn't even need to be said, but I want to highlight it now because we're being

00:10:57.220 told Republicans are upending the constitutional order.

00:11:00.160 They have no respect for democracy and our political traditions.

00:11:03.220 Give me a break.

00:11:04.600 Give me a break.

00:11:05.140 The only people in this country who are trying in any way or desire in any way to uphold our

00:11:09.120 political traditions are the Republicans, are the conservatives.

00:11:12.160 The left hates this stuff.

00:11:13.640 They're trying to upend our entire language. 0.99

00:11:15.480 They're trying to upend our social institutions.

00:11:18.740 They're trying to upend the way the government is run.

00:11:20.940 They're trying to upend even the family, the bedrock political institution, and they're

00:11:25.620 trying to upend our religious principle too.

00:11:27.880 Not just the politics, not just the culture, but even the religion to invert the character 0.55

00:11:33.380 and identity of God.

00:11:35.060 Eric Swalwell could not tell you that's what he's doing.

00:11:37.200 He can't tell you a whole lot, but that is what he's doing.

00:11:40.280 And that is the implication of so much of what these Democrats and the left broadly are up to.

00:11:47.140 So you've got this party line vote, basically.

00:11:49.980 You've got, in the House, you've got a few squishes, notably Liz Cheney, who vote with 1.00

00:11:55.060 the Democrats to impeach.

00:11:56.860 But overwhelmingly, the Republicans vote against impeachment.

00:11:59.540 And then you get to the Senate for the trial, and the Republicans overwhelmingly vote not to

00:12:03.980 convict because Donald Trump did not do, just the simple crime that they're accusing him of,

00:12:09.660 incitement of an insurrection.

00:12:11.480 He doesn't even come close to meeting the legal standard for that.

00:12:14.600 So even if you're not talking about the jurisdictional question, is it a real trial?

00:12:18.800 Does the Senate have the right to do this? 0.97

00:12:19.900 Blah, blah, blah.

00:12:20.560 He just didn't commit the crime.

00:12:22.400 He doesn't meet the legal standard.

00:12:23.920 But there were a handful of Republicans who voted to convict him. 1.00

00:12:29.260 And these guys are losers. 1.00

00:12:32.440 They are total losers. 1.00

00:12:34.020 I mentioned this on Friday. 0.99

00:12:37.000 And, you know, I try not to be Trumpian in my rhetoric, you know, and too blunt and insulting

00:12:41.420 all the time.

00:12:42.120 But sometimes you just got to call a spade a spade.

00:12:45.000 And these guys, Romney, Collins, Sasse, Toomey, Burr, Murkowski, Cassidy, they're just 0.96

00:12:53.960 losers who might talk a good game when they're in the room with Republican donors. 0.91

00:12:59.020 And maybe even when they're at the BFW Hall or somewhere else on the campaign trail, they'll 0.98

00:13:03.560 talk a good game.

00:13:04.380 They'll talk about how they want to preserve the country.

00:13:06.420 And, you know, they're going to uphold conservative principles.

00:13:10.180 And then the moment comes where it really matters.

00:13:13.720 There's the heat of the fight.

00:13:15.060 Things are really on the line.

00:13:16.380 And what do they do?

00:13:17.520 They cave.

00:13:18.700 Because they might have a lot of political virtues.

00:13:21.160 I think they do.

00:13:22.620 Sasse is obviously a very intelligent guy.

00:13:24.520 You've got a PhD, you're right.

00:13:26.060 Romney is pretty intelligent.

00:13:27.700 Founded Bain Capital.

00:13:29.840 But they lack one virtue that's really, really important.

00:13:33.040 And that's courage. 1.00

00:13:34.540 They're cowards. 0.99

00:13:35.360 Now, you might say, no, they're not cowards. 0.99

00:13:36.740 They're courageous.

00:13:37.700 They're standing up to their party.

00:13:38.760 No. 0.99

00:13:39.220 They're sucking up. 1.00

00:13:40.200 They're licking the boots of the liberal establishment. 1.00

00:13:43.000 Because that's their real party.

00:13:44.620 And their job is to exist as court jester conservatives, to do a little soft shoe and justify, you know,

00:13:52.020 the ruling regime.

00:13:53.780 But they're not really fighting for conservative principles. 0.97

00:13:57.740 It's cowardly. 0.98

00:13:59.020 And it's deceitful. 0.97

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00:15:47.400 The question of this impeachment trial is not whether Donald Trump incited an insurrection

00:15:53.240 and does he meet the legal standard and is it jurist, does the Senate have jurisdiction

00:15:57.480 and what is the constitution?

00:15:58.660 It's not, that's not the question of the trial.

00:16:00.340 The question of the trial is what's the future of the GOP?

00:16:04.100 What's the question of the conservative movement?

00:16:06.460 What is the conservative movement?

00:16:09.280 Traditionally, you know, in recent history, we trace the kind of modern conservative movement

00:16:14.300 to the end of World War II, to people like William F. Buckley Jr., to people like Russell

00:16:18.500 Kirk, to the founding of National Review, to the publication of God and Man at Yale, to

00:16:23.600 the Goldwater movement to a degree, to the Reagan movement, to some of the questions that

00:16:29.120 come up after the Reagan movement, you know, do we go with Bush, do we go with Buchanan,

00:16:33.080 what does the future look like, then you get another Bush, and we never really resolved

00:16:37.840 what the, you know, the conservative movement made sense when we had a common enemy in the

00:16:40.900 Soviet Union, because you were able to bring together the libertarians and the traditionalists

00:16:46.300 and the foreign policy hawks, because they all hated the evil Soviet Union for different

00:16:51.100 reasons, but they all hated them.

00:16:52.400 Then the Soviet Union goes away, and you say, well, okay, what are these three groups, they

00:16:56.000 don't really have that much in common, so what holds them together?

00:16:58.840 And then we've been kind of fighting over what is the future of the conservative movement.

00:17:02.280 And so you've got, generally speaking, the more right-wing people, the more traditional

00:17:05.940 conservative people, generally speaking, they liked Trump.

00:17:09.320 Trump was speaking closer to their language, he was giving them more of their priorities,

00:17:14.320 he was taking their concerns seriously.

00:17:16.060 And the more liberal wing of the Republican Party, the more liberal wing of the conservative

00:17:20.080 movement, you saw it, kind of hate Trump.

00:17:22.040 And they were, you know, the dogged never-Trumpers, you know, you think guys like Mitt Romney would

00:17:26.700 be a good example of this.

00:17:28.780 And the most insufferable among them were people like the Lincoln Project, who they said they're

00:17:34.400 the principled conservatives.

00:17:36.160 We'll get to just how principled they are in a moment.

00:17:39.320 But this goes up even to GOP leadership, guys like Mitch McConnell.

00:17:43.180 What do we think about Mitch McConnell?

00:17:45.400 Do we think Mitch McConnell is some conviction conservative?

00:17:48.400 You know, he's a rock-ribbed right-winger.

00:17:50.480 No, I never thought that.

00:17:53.620 During the Tea Party, conservatives hated Mitch McConnell.

00:17:56.920 They felt he was weak. 0.77

00:17:58.580 They didn't have a spine, he was a squish. 1.00

00:18:01.060 Then, during the 2016 campaign, when he held up the filling of Antonin Scalia's vacated

00:18:07.440 Supreme Court seat, all of a sudden he seemed to grow his spine.

00:18:12.360 He was pretty good, especially in the judges.

00:18:13.920 He was really good under Trump.

00:18:15.540 Say, oh, wow, cocaine Mitch, man.

00:18:17.100 That guy, he's doing it.

00:18:19.160 Now, why was he doing it?

00:18:20.740 I think he cared about the judges, and I think he's a great wielder of the levers of power.

00:18:25.640 He's a great institutional kind of man.

00:18:27.600 And he cares about certain priorities, but not all of them.

00:18:30.860 So McConnell votes not to convict Trump in the trial.

00:18:36.360 But he savaged Trump in a speech that he gave on the effect of the president.

00:18:41.600 The House accused the former president of, quote, incitement.

00:18:47.660 That is a specific term from the criminal law.

00:18:51.400 Let me just put that aside for a moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago.

00:19:00.040 There's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible

00:19:08.660 for provoking the events of the day.

00:19:13.340 No question about it.

00:19:15.500 The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions

00:19:23.300 of their presidents of their president.

00:19:27.860 And having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo

00:19:36.160 of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole.

00:19:43.500 Now, as always, Mitch McConnell is having it both ways, right?

00:19:47.840 Because he votes not to convict.

00:19:50.740 He votes to acquit.

00:19:52.580 So that's why I don't want to go too hard after McConnell here.

00:19:55.840 Because he, you know, push comes to shove.

00:19:58.200 He voted the right way.

00:19:59.580 But then at the same time, he starts talking out of the other side of his mouth. 0.98

00:20:02.060 And he says, Trump is awful. 1.00

00:20:04.220 He's terrible. 0.99

00:20:05.140 He's practically and morally responsible for what happened.

00:20:08.140 I'm not going to hold him accountable.

00:20:09.020 But he is responsible, but he goes on to say, you know, it doesn't meet this legal definition.

00:20:15.520 And so he gets off the hook.

00:20:18.300 McConnell, he's this great weather vane.

00:20:20.420 I don't, I'm not saying he's some kind of liberal, like a Lincoln Project Republican.

00:20:24.420 He's not.

00:20:25.560 He's also not a Trumpy Republican.

00:20:27.380 He's sticking his finger in the air and he's saying, which way is the wind blowing?

00:20:30.880 How can I maintain my power?

00:20:32.620 How can I exercise power today?

00:20:35.140 Well, that's the question we're all wondering.

00:20:37.500 Which way is it going?

00:20:39.940 Some good news.

00:20:41.500 Obviously, Trump gets acquitted.

00:20:42.700 That's good.

00:20:43.600 He'll still exert quite an influence in the party.

00:20:45.920 I think that's a good thing.

00:20:47.800 His enemies, as always seems to happen, are destroying themselves.

00:20:53.040 This is, I think, Drew Klavan made this point about Trump.

00:20:56.220 Trump drives his enemies insane and then causes them to destroy themselves.

00:21:01.080 And this is what's happened with the Lincoln Project. 0.96

00:21:02.940 The Lincoln Project was always a degenerate con from the beginning.

00:21:08.140 I don't use con or grift or those kind of words lightly, but that's just what it is.

00:21:11.640 It was these out-of-work, indebted, dirtbag political consultants who couldn't get a job in Trump's America working for Republicans.

00:21:18.880 So they switched teams.

00:21:20.520 They betrayed their old co-partisans.

00:21:23.840 They joined with the Democrats.

00:21:25.400 They milked these Democrat donors for all they were worth. 0.94

00:21:27.860 Frankly, I thought it was great.

00:21:29.440 I'm glad the Lincoln Project was squandering their money on private, you know, private expenses so that that money wasn't going toward actual good use during the campaign.

00:21:39.720 But that's what they did.

00:21:41.620 They were running ads on liberal TV shows in liberal markets.

00:21:44.480 No, it wouldn't do anything to stop Trump.

00:21:47.980 But these guys, and I actually know some of these guys personally, so I'm speaking with a little bit of authority here.

00:21:52.520 They wanted to make a quick buck, and they did that.

00:21:56.740 Now, though, there's a big scandal, because John Weaver, who's a sort of legendarily disliked political operative, a legendarily dirty political operative, he was hitting on teenage boys.

00:22:12.020 And it's very sad for his family.

00:22:13.860 He's married, he has kids.

00:22:15.480 And secretly, he was hitting on these teenage boys and offering to give them political jobs and help them in their careers.

00:22:20.500 And the Lincoln Project did know about this, and they're now pretending that they didn't know about this, but a lot of evidence suggests they knew about it.

00:22:30.020 Steve Schmidt, who's another one of these degenerates, he also resigned from the Lincoln Project.

00:22:34.220 He said, oh, no, I never knew about Weaver.

00:22:36.260 No, I only learned about John Weaver in January.

00:22:38.840 And as the journalist, I think he's sort of a left-wing journalist, Yashar Ali, pointed out, Steve Schmidt doesn't clarify which January he learned about it.

00:22:46.940 Was it January of 2021?

00:22:48.200 Was it January of 2010?

00:22:50.500 January of 2005?

00:22:52.180 I don't think he's referring to this January, because these rumors about Weaver have been going on for a long time.

00:23:00.020 But now, like rats, you know, fleeing the ship as it goes down, all these dirtbags are just completely jumping off of the project. 0.97

00:23:07.800 Meghan McCain just really went after the Lincoln Project. 0.97

00:23:10.640 It was hilarious.

00:23:11.700 Because, you know, John Weaver and some of these other guys worked for her dad, worked for John McCain.

00:23:16.720 And John McCain was always a little bit more of a liberal Republican, so he's kind of being looped in with these guys.

00:23:22.980 And Meghan comes out and says, don't you dare loop me in with guys like John Weaver and the rest of them.

00:23:28.280 She says, quote, I've been very hesitant to comment.

00:23:30.460 But since my deceased father keeps getting invoked, I will say this.

00:23:33.760 John Weaver and Steve Schmidt were so despised by my dad, he made it a point to ban them from his funeral.

00:23:40.940 Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire.

00:23:45.560 But Meghan, what do you really feel?

00:23:48.940 What do you really think?

00:23:49.600 So I was glad to see that she made that point.

00:23:52.520 Because when people attack guys like Weaver or Steve Schmidt or the Lincoln Project, if I were to attack them, then you might say, well, it's because you have this ideological disagreement.

00:24:02.980 You're vying for, you know, different sections of the conservative movement of the party.

00:24:06.760 But Meghan, you know, is certainly a little more to the center, definitely to the left of me. 0.87

00:24:11.560 I mean, Genghis Khan is slightly to the left of me, but Meghan certainly would be. 0.95

00:24:15.280 And John McCain would have been to the left of me.

00:24:17.880 And even she's saying, hey, these guys are unprincipled.

00:24:21.960 And so it's really rich when you hear from all of these sort of persistent never-Trumpers like the Lincoln Project or Egg McMuffin, whatever, you know, that spook who tried to beat Donald Trump as running third party in 2016, didn't go very far. 0.67

00:24:37.740 All these guys pretend that they're very, very principled.

00:24:41.560 But I don't find that to be the case.

00:24:43.580 They say Trump is vulgar and we need to restore dignity.

00:24:46.180 All these guys are way more vulgar than Donald Trump. 0.98

00:24:48.680 And on top of that, they're deceitful. 0.86

00:24:50.180 At least with Trump, what you see is what you get.

00:24:52.040 With these guys, they're holier than thou. 0.95

00:24:54.000 They're so sanctimonious. 0.82

00:24:55.440 But point by point, they're much worse than Trump.

00:24:59.580 So what does this mean in terms of the way the left is going to view us?

00:25:02.700 How can we move forward?

00:25:03.760 There is no good reason to follow the Lincoln Project strategy of sucking up to the left because it doesn't matter.

00:25:19.100 You know, I don't think it's all cynical.

00:25:24.080 I don't think it's all just guys like Schmidt and Weaver getting rich by convincing liberal donors to give them money.

00:25:30.360 I think some of them really believe it.

00:25:32.560 I think there are people out there who are maybe some of the people who just voted to convict Donald Trump in the Republican Party who think, you know, look, I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind of conservative.

00:25:44.740 If I just, if I talk in a really mellow, but sort of condescending way, and if I say nice things about the libs, and if I say orange man bad, then the left will respect me.

00:25:57.220 I'll win the center, you know, and we'll all get together in kumbaya. 1.00

00:26:02.820 And it's just so stupid. 1.00

00:26:05.760 It's so wrong. 1.00

00:26:06.880 The left makes no distinction. 1.00

00:26:09.220 Once they're useful idiots in the Lincoln Project have done all they can do, what happens? 1.00

00:26:14.600 They're balls apart. 1.00

00:26:16.320 They're cast aside. 0.93

00:26:17.920 They make no distinction between the Trump-supporting conservatives and the more liberal conservatives.

00:26:22.260 You may have heard recently that Disney Plus has fired Gina Carano.

00:26:27.560 You probably heard it in this show today because I already mentioned it.

00:26:30.120 You might have thought that the left would succeed here.

00:26:34.340 Why did they fire her? 0.99

00:26:35.520 Because she was even vaguely conservative.

00:26:38.360 Then they made up some nonsense about how she said something offensive.

00:26:41.240 She didn't say anything, even remotely offensive.

00:26:44.320 So Disney thought they could kill her career. 0.99

00:26:46.080 We had another thing in store for them.

00:26:47.960 The minute Disney tried to cancel Gina, we called up Gina. 1.00

00:26:51.660 We said, hey, you want to work on something together?

00:26:54.020 And we're going to fight back against this cancel culture.

00:26:56.160 Gina will be developing, producing, and starring in an upcoming film that will be released exclusively to Daily Wire members.

00:27:02.940 We ain't going to take it anymore.

00:27:04.380 We're not just going to criticize what we call cancel culture.

00:27:07.260 We are actually going to do something about it.

00:27:09.540 Now, Disney Plus has an $8 or $9 billion annual budget planned.

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00:27:39.720 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:27:40.760 Joy Reid, who is some left-wing commentator on MSNBC, is in the process not just of trying to excise the Trump faction from the Republican Party and say,

00:28:05.280 look, we need to support the good Republicans, not the Trump ones, Joy Reid is delegitimizing the entire GOP.

00:28:15.360 Congressman Schiff, do we need to start having a serious conversation, not just about Donald Trump being a bad guy,

00:28:20.840 but about the Republican Party becoming a radicalized anti-democratic institution?

00:28:26.260 Because you can't have a regular party like the Democrats who have their flaws and we can have issue with them,

00:28:31.860 and a party that is willing to seize power by force, because that's what that sounded like to me.

00:28:36.580 Yeah, you can't have a regular party which totally respects democracy and whose leading members explicitly encourage political violence

00:28:46.840 and who actually provide material support to violent radical left insurrectionists for months and months from coast to coast.

00:28:54.900 You know, a normal, good political party can't coexist with the party where the guy with the horns jumps on the Capitol desk for a few hours.

00:29:04.500 You can't.

00:29:06.140 The latter is completely illegitimate.

00:29:08.560 The former, they're the great defenders of democracy.

00:29:11.760 They're such defenders of democracy that if you don't support democracy, they're going to burn down your business.

00:29:17.780 Oh yeah, they're going to set that government building on fire through mostly peaceful democratic protests.

00:29:23.880 You notice the left doesn't use the term alt-right anymore?

00:29:28.180 They used to use the term alt-right.

00:29:29.760 It actually sort of had a meeting.

00:29:30.880 It was kind of interesting to debate what all these things meant.

00:29:33.980 They don't use that anymore.

00:29:35.480 I guess they don't.

00:29:36.160 It's not about the alt-right.

00:29:37.260 Oh, there's the alt-right, and that's bad.

00:29:39.300 But then there's the good conservatives, and we, like them, know.

00:29:43.020 It's just all the same.

00:29:44.000 And now increasingly, because Donald Trump supported the nation-state over liberal imperialism, globalism, globalization, call it what you will,

00:29:53.240 now they go after nationalism, and they try to say that all nationalism is neo-Nazism or white supremacism.

00:30:00.880 So you'll hear, they'll say, this is white nationalism.

00:30:03.620 This is Christian nationalism.

00:30:06.420 I'm not a Christian nationalist.

00:30:08.880 I'm a Christian imperialist. 0.56

00:30:10.480 I'm not, that's a topic for another time.

00:30:14.220 They think it's all the same.

00:30:16.040 We're all Nazis.

00:30:16.980 75 million people are Nazis in this country.

00:30:19.280 And Adam Schiff, who Joy Reid is interviewing, backs her up.

00:30:23.860 Well, no, I think that's absolutely right.

00:30:25.500 And, you know, I think the managers, they're talking about Donald Trump's role because he's the one on trial, and that makes perfect sense.

00:30:32.260 But there are broader, serious problems with the GOP right now as a party.

00:30:37.460 It has really become a cult of personality around the president.

00:30:40.960 It doesn't have an ideology anymore.

00:30:42.780 It doesn't have principles anymore.

00:30:45.820 And it's willing to welcome in white nationalists, QAnon conspiracy theorists, people that will use violence if they don't get their way.

00:30:55.040 And that party needs to come to grips with what it's become.

00:31:01.800 It needs to be a party, once again, that stands for something and not just the cult around Donald Trump.

00:31:08.380 So the Republican Party now welcomes in racial identity politics, conspiracy theories, and political violence.

00:31:17.060 So what Schiff is objecting to is that it's become the Democratic Party.

00:31:21.100 He said, oh, man, you know, I preferred it when those Republicans did not really resemble the Democrats quite so much.

00:31:26.300 This is really bad.

00:31:27.420 You know what they need to do?

00:31:28.940 They need to get back to having principles.

00:31:30.960 Now, what is Schiff's actual argument?

00:31:32.760 He's just kind of spouting platitudes.

00:31:35.040 But if he is making anything even resembling an argument, it's this.

00:31:39.840 Because, so the Republican Party now supports identity politics, conspiracy theories, and political violence.

00:31:46.920 And therefore, it's unprincipled.

00:31:51.660 Now, you know, I don't like racial identity politics.

00:31:55.400 I don't like conspiracy theories.

00:31:56.860 I don't like political violence.

00:31:58.260 But surely we have to admit those are principles.

00:32:02.660 The reason that I don't like them is because I have different principles.

00:32:07.200 But those are principles that I disagree with. 0.90

00:32:11.280 Now, I don't, the charges he's making against the GOP are ridiculous. 0.55

00:32:15.100 He's just projecting as the left often does.

00:32:18.640 What does the GOP support?

00:32:19.960 The GOP supports national sovereignty, love of country, strong social institutions, the family, keeping your own property, recognizing a transcendent moral order.

00:32:33.580 You know, you could go on and on.

00:32:34.580 What are the conservatives really saying?

00:32:36.340 They have principles.

00:32:38.480 What Schiff is upset about is they have principles that the left disagrees with.

00:32:41.900 And this broader left-wing project, it's sort of the topic of my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, now available for pre-order.

00:32:50.860 It's got many more words than my first magnum opus.

00:32:53.480 So, you know, it's a little trickier to write, but it's coming out soon.

00:32:56.580 The left, through political correctness, wokeism, you know, whatever you want to call it,

00:33:02.720 they are seeking this purely negative campaign to upend and destroy the old moral order.

00:33:08.120 And practically what this does is it replaces the old moral codes with speech codes.

00:33:14.120 And then what Schiff is saying is GOP has no ideology, even though he's previously said they do have this ideology that I don't like.

00:33:20.880 Then he says they have no ideology.

00:33:22.260 It's become a cult of personality.

00:33:26.120 It hasn't become a cult of personality.

00:33:28.840 There is just a person who offered a different vision for the GOP.

00:33:33.820 I felt Ann Coulter got this so right about Trump in 2016.

00:33:38.120 The kind of common consensus view among all the typical establishment people is that the reason that Republicans voted for Trump

00:33:46.100 is despite his policies because they loved his personality.

00:33:52.980 And I think it's the opposite.

00:33:54.520 I agree with Ann Coulter in her wonderfully titled book,

00:33:57.340 E Pluribus Awesome in Trump We Trust.

00:34:00.060 You can always count on Ann for a really, you know, grab you kind of title.

00:34:03.400 Donald Trump, I think many people voted for him in spite of his personality.

00:34:09.080 I get a kick out of a lot of aspects of his personality.

00:34:11.840 But there are things he's said and done where I think I don't really like that.

00:34:14.600 I wish he wouldn't do that.

00:34:15.580 That seems like he's shooting himself in the foot.

00:34:17.240 I think a lot of people felt that way.

00:34:18.620 But they thought, you know, when I would go out and I talked to a lot of people all around the country,

00:34:22.380 I'd say, how do you think things are going?

00:34:25.380 This was before COVID when you were still allowed to travel.

00:34:27.300 And very often people would say, you know, he's the greatest president.

00:34:31.020 He doesn't know how to shut up and he can't take yes for an answer.

00:34:34.180 And he says things that drive me crazy.

00:34:36.040 But, you know, the guy is a really good president.

00:34:39.360 You had, before Trump, you had a GOP that occasionally might pay lip service to certain ideas.

00:34:44.660 But basically they were for open borders.

00:34:47.600 They're basically for amnesty.

00:34:49.340 You know, they, all they really cared about were sort of corporate tax cuts.

00:34:52.940 They were for total unfettered free trade, meaning prioritizing GDP as one sort of arbitrary economic measure over workers, right?

00:35:04.060 They'd say, when you, when you ask them about outsourcing jobs, they'd say, well, it's inevitable.

00:35:07.620 I wish, I wish we could do something, but it would be wrong.

00:35:11.160 It would, it would somehow offend the free market.

00:35:15.140 Peace be upon her.

00:35:16.040 If we ever, you know, suggested that we keep manufacturing jobs in this country, then we couldn't get cheap Chinese goods. 0.93

00:35:22.280 And then Jeff Bezos would be mad.

00:35:25.260 And so we can't, you know, we can't do that at all.

00:35:27.680 Trump offered a different vision.

00:35:29.700 He offered a vision that questioned the inevitability of globalism, that fought strongly against globalism.

00:35:35.280 He reoriented the Republican Party away from this kind of thirst and hell of the third, you know, or the party of billionaires, which we had been perceived as for a long time, toward a working class party.

00:35:45.280 And it was actually that shift toward the working class that got Trump in trouble when he said, look, I love the educated and I love the uneducated.

00:35:52.420 What did the liberals do?

00:35:53.320 They made fun of him.

00:35:54.180 Oh, Donald Trump loves the uneducated.

00:35:57.680 Oh, my gosh. 1.00

00:35:59.380 Those idiots, those rubes, they didn't even go to Harvard. 1.00

00:36:02.920 They don't even know that men can become women. 1.00

00:36:05.280 Those idiots don't even know that babies aren't people. 1.00

00:36:08.180 Can you believe those stupid rubes? 1.00

00:36:11.300 And as a result, we got more working class people. 1.00

00:36:17.300 And what did they call? 0.63

00:36:17.920 They called them deplorable, irredeemable, bitter clingers. 0.84

00:36:22.660 So in a way, Trump is sort of embodying this shift.

00:36:26.240 Well, he's a reference point for this shift.

00:36:27.880 What's the future, though?

00:36:29.180 Are we going back to the Bush days? 0.74

00:36:31.520 Are we going back to the Romney days?

00:36:33.720 Or are we going in another direction, a direction that has great roots in the American conservative tradition, but that had been lost for a number of decades, particularly after the Cold War?

00:36:44.980 Now, what I would like to do, ideally, is be able to go in, just like the left went in and infiltrated and subverted our institutions, good conservative institutions, I want to be able to go in to the liberal institutions and subvert them from within.

00:36:59.360 But my master plan to do this was foiled over the weekend.

00:37:03.440 You know, some people have commented that no one has ever seen me and President Biden's deputy press secretary, T.J. Duclow, in the same place at the same time.

00:37:16.880 It's an interesting observation.

00:37:19.860 Unfortunately, though, T.J., my doppelganger, has been forced out of the White House because T.J. sounds like a little bit of a dirtbag.

00:37:30.700 You know, I mean, basically, everybody in politics is a little suspect.

00:37:35.620 They're not all like the Lincoln Project, but everyone's a little, you know, these are tough guys.

00:37:39.840 And T.J. Duclow got caught.

00:37:41.960 He was in this relationship with a reporter, and it hadn't really been disclosed.

00:37:45.260 And they tried to spin it into this wonderful, quirky love story, but it's obviously deeply unethical.

00:37:50.820 And then, when they were starting to write stories about this, he apparently called up a reporter and said horrifically offensive things to her.

00:37:57.220 First, he said, I'm going to destroy you. 0.98

00:37:59.000 I'll bury you, you know. 1.00

00:38:00.140 But then he was also saying sort of lurid sexual things to her.

00:38:03.180 And anyway, this finally came out, and T.J. Duclow said, quote,

00:38:06.980 No words can express my regret, my embarrassment, and my disgust at my behavior.

00:38:11.180 I use language that no women should ever have to hear from anyone, especially in a situation where she's just trying to do her job. 1.00

00:38:16.800 It was language that was abhorrent, disrespectful, and unacceptable.

00:38:19.560 Yeah, fair enough.

00:38:20.380 I agree with that.

00:38:22.660 And I don't even mention it to attack T.J. Duclow.

00:38:25.280 I usually don't really go after the staffers because I don't care.

00:38:28.280 You know, there are a lot of staffers.

00:38:29.600 These guys are trying to, you know, make a buck in politics, have a career, control the world.

00:38:35.440 You know, honest living by D.C. standards.

00:38:37.640 So I don't, I usually go after the principals.

00:38:39.220 I don't go after the staffers.

00:38:40.160 I only bring this up to remind you that when you hear in the coming days, as you've heard from the left, from the sort of liberal establishment, as well as from the liberal court jester conservatives, the fake conservatives in the Republican Party, you're going to hear that Trump is uniquely wicked, undignified, vulgar, upsetting of norms.

00:39:00.300 And it's just not true.

00:39:02.080 It's just not true.

00:39:02.960 His opponents are at least as despicable as he is, and in many cases, much more so.

00:39:10.000 So Duclow's out.

00:39:11.640 My doppelganger's out.

00:39:12.620 I no longer will have even a chance of affecting a policy in the Biden administration.

00:39:17.080 And the policy is clearly shifting.

00:39:20.840 It's funny.

00:39:21.860 Joe Biden refuses to acknowledge that he's changing U.S. policy.

00:39:25.760 What he keeps going back to is saying, no, I'm not, I'm not passing new laws.

00:39:30.420 I'm not issuing new regulations.

00:39:32.300 I'm just going back to normal.

00:39:34.040 I'm just undoing all the stuff Trump did.

00:39:36.940 Now, if you have two brain cells to rub together and any sort of objectivity, you'd look at that and say, well, hold on.

00:39:42.600 The policy was this for four years or however long, and now we have, the policy is different, so you're making new policy.

00:39:48.980 But the left can't acknowledge that because what they're doing is right.

00:39:52.580 What they're doing is normal.

00:39:53.580 What they're doing is inevitable.

00:39:54.380 What they're doing is the arc of history, the science of history, progress.

00:39:59.700 And there was this aberration for a little while, which was Trump.

00:40:03.440 But now we're getting back on the line of progress.

00:40:05.920 And many, many liberal Republicans believe this too.

00:40:10.560 If you play for many liberal Republicans who pretend to love Ronald Reagan or Bill Buckley or whoever,

00:40:16.500 if you play for these liberal Republicans, the actual words of Ronald Reagan or Bill Buckley or Barry Goldwater or Frank Meyer or Russell Kirk or whoever,

00:40:26.300 if you play the things they actually believed, not what the caricature of these guys is by today's standards.

00:40:32.720 It's not, you know, oh, Ronald Reagan. 0.99

00:40:34.680 He would have loved transgender bathrooms, you know, or whatever we hear from these ridiculous people. 1.00

00:40:39.900 But if you actually hear what these guys said, the liberal Republicans would blanch. 1.00

00:40:45.400 They would be shocked.

00:40:47.120 They would disavow in a heartbeat.

00:40:49.900 Because what they would actually say, I think, is, yeah, sure, Bill Buckley defended McCarthyism or something, you know, whatever.

00:40:58.100 Ronald Reagan did this or that.

00:41:00.240 Ronald Reagan defended the Panama Canal, who knows, whatever.

00:41:03.560 But that was just because it was a product of their time.

00:41:08.680 They were not as advanced.

00:41:10.760 If they were alive today, they would have moderated their views and become more liberal.

00:41:15.740 And what becomes clear, and, you know, I'm speaking anecdotally, but I think I'm right about this.

00:41:20.920 I think if you talk to enough of these liberal squishes, that's what they'll say. 0.97

00:41:24.400 What becomes clear is they share the left's view of history and politics.

00:41:28.980 That, you know, things are basically getting better and we shouldn't go back to the past.

00:41:33.900 And, yeah, you know, some of the, you know, some of our historical figures, they said a lot of horrible things that we hate.

00:41:42.120 But it's just because they were in the past and the present's better and the future's going to be even better than that.

00:41:46.200 That is just a different view of politics and history than conservatives hold.

00:41:50.380 In a way, it's this kind of bizarro world version.

00:41:53.240 Because I guess you could say any Christian has a progressive view of history, right?

00:41:58.080 In the sense that at the end of time, Christ is going to come again and we're going to have a new heaven and a new earth and, you know, peace will abound and reign, right?

00:42:08.620 But that progressive vision of history is a little different because things are going to get a lot worse before then.

00:42:14.080 You know, things started out really well in the Garden of Eden and then they got, like, pretty bad.

00:42:18.760 And then God had to destroy the world in a flood, you know, and then things are getting kind of bad again.

00:42:23.280 And even at a simpler level than that, the conservative view of history is that, you know, sometimes things get better, sometimes things get worse.

00:42:34.000 And right now, I think we need to obviously stop listening to these liberal Republicans, but start thinking of politics differently.

00:42:43.120 Not just on this line of progress, but a capital P.

00:42:46.120 Not just forward or backward, but just actually talking about what is good, what is enduring, what is true, what is good.

00:42:54.100 What do we believe today, tomorrow, and the next day?

00:42:56.940 What are those principles that we stand for?

00:43:00.280 The only unprincipled people I see are these liberal, squishy Republicans, you know, guys like the Lincoln Project or them.

00:43:07.620 They have mistaken, you know, I mean, they're deceivers.

00:43:11.840 And then the actual true-believing liberals and the Republican and Democratic Party, they've got mistaken principles.

00:43:18.220 This faith in, you know, progress.

00:43:20.820 We need to know what do we stand for.

00:43:25.940 A good piece of evidence that the Biden administration is changing U.S. policy is with regard to one of our allies, Israel.

00:43:35.540 You know that Israel had a great relationship with the United States under the Trump administration.

00:43:39.600 It's funny because they would call Trump literally Hitler. 0.67

00:43:43.780 You know, I'd say he was an anti-Semite. 0.98

00:43:46.080 Worst anti-Semite in history. 0.96

00:43:47.980 Least successful anti-Semite. 0.99

00:43:49.740 They named a town for him in Israel.

00:43:51.680 Can you imagine?

00:43:52.440 Wow.

00:43:52.920 Gosh. 0.99

00:43:53.940 What an ineffective anti-Semite. 0.99

00:43:56.540 I think his son-in-law is an Orthodox Jew, right? 0.96

00:43:58.120 No, it's not very effective.

00:44:00.140 So Israel has a great relationship under Trump.

00:44:03.060 Now the question is, what's that relationship going to be like?

00:44:05.360 Joe Biden has had a pretty good relationship with Israel back when Democrats were more moderate.

00:44:09.600 But obviously, Joe Biden is not the man he once was in terms of his policy views.

00:44:16.120 I actually think he is the same man.

00:44:17.620 I think he's not principled.

00:44:19.020 He, you know, licks his finger, puts it in the air, figures out which way the wind is blowing.

00:44:22.420 And that's what he believes.

00:44:23.200 He's a total empty suit.

00:44:24.520 He's just a glad-handing, typical politician.

00:44:28.160 If he weren't a politician, he'd be selling used cars.

00:44:30.000 And the party has moved very far to the left.

00:44:34.140 So therefore, the administration would appear to be moving that way too.

00:44:37.980 Listen to Jen Psaki explain the administration's view on Israel.

00:44:43.200 Can you please just give us a broad sense of what the administration is trying to achieve in the Middle East?

00:44:48.760 For example, does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?

00:44:53.620 Well, you know, again, I think there are ongoing processes and internal interagency processes.

00:45:01.720 One that we, I think, confirmed in an interagency meeting just last week to discuss a range of issues in the Middle East.

00:45:08.320 We've only been here three and a half weeks.

00:45:10.340 And I think I'm going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give kind of a complete laydown of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues.

00:45:19.160 This woman is so bad at her job. 1.00

00:45:22.320 It's just she does. 0.89

00:45:23.300 I get that part of her job is dodging questions.

00:45:25.520 So I'm not knocking her for that.

00:45:26.940 But she's just she's just bad at ducking questions like she does. 1.00

00:45:31.540 Ah, man.

00:45:32.620 T.J. Ducklow, if he weren't if he weren't such a derelict on those phone calls, he really would have had a great opportunity here.

00:45:38.060 So question, you know, are you going to keep up these policies with Israel?

00:45:42.080 Don't forget, we were told by John Kerry, who's in the Biden administration, by other prominent Democrats.

00:45:46.900 You'll never get any peace with Israel and other Muslim nations if you don't first deal with the Palestinian question. 0.99

00:45:53.740 It can't happen.

00:45:54.680 You know, John Kerry, Thurston Howell III, said this verbatim.

00:45:59.140 And then what does Trump do?

00:46:01.400 He ignores the Palestinian question.

00:46:03.100 He just starts dealing with these individual nations.

00:46:05.920 He signs record peace deals with Israel and a lot of Muslim nations.

00:46:09.280 So, you know, is Biden going to keep this up?

00:46:12.500 Obviously, Biden's not going to keep this up because the way that that the Trump administration secured these kind of deals was in large part leaning on Saudi Arabia against Iran, ripping up the Iran nuclear deal and that sort of thing.

00:46:25.800 Right.

00:46:25.960 And by working with Saudi Arabia, they were able to secure a lot of these deals.

00:46:29.240 But the Biden administration and the Democrats don't like Saudi Arabia.

00:46:33.660 They like Iran. 0.93

00:46:35.060 You kind of got to pick a side when you're talking about Saudi and Iran. 0.90

00:46:37.560 And the Democrats think that their path to success is to suck up to Iran.

00:46:42.220 So, obviously, they're not going to pursue the same policy with regard to Israel or the Middle East.

00:46:46.160 And Jen Psaki can't say that yet.

00:46:48.800 But that's, you know, that's going to be a fundamental reordering of American policy to the Middle East.

00:46:53.580 This is going to be true in China. 0.99

00:46:56.020 This is going to be true all over.

00:46:58.460 This is going to be true with road war policies in Europe, even.

00:47:00.840 And with Russia, you're going to have an upending of this foreign policy.

00:47:04.760 It's too bad because Trump, especially as a foreign policy president, is far and away the best of my lifetime.

00:47:10.980 Probably the, certainly the best since Reagan.

00:47:13.040 And, you know, maybe even, maybe he rivals Reagan, too.

00:47:17.380 Maybe he goes back even further.

00:47:19.780 But on the domestic front, Joe Biden just announced he's going to end the border wall construction.

00:47:26.240 This was the central Trump campaign promise, basically.

00:47:29.200 Right.

00:47:29.300 We're going to build a big, beautiful wall.

00:47:30.480 Mexico's going to pay for it. 0.99

00:47:31.900 And he was held up a lot of steps of the way.

00:47:34.060 I think he was trying.

00:47:34.940 They did build some wall.

00:47:36.000 They didn't build a ton of wall.

00:47:36.900 But they did build some.

00:47:38.000 They fixed old wall.

00:47:39.520 And Biden has come in and said, nope, that's over now.

00:47:43.220 That's completely over.

00:47:45.560 And what we're being told from the liberals is that this is in defense of the open society.

00:47:53.380 Right.

00:47:53.820 The open society that conservatives once used to openly deplore.

00:47:59.500 But now they sort of pretend to like because we've been duped by the left and we use all their own language.

00:48:04.520 We say, well, we're free speech purists.

00:48:06.620 We want total open marketplace of ideas.

00:48:08.940 No boundaries whatsoever.

00:48:10.780 This is, I know, I know a lot of conservatives say this today.

00:48:13.240 But that's, we've taken the bait from the left in the last 20 years.

00:48:17.440 Guys like Bill Buckley, Ronald Reagan, they would not have said this.

00:48:20.080 They explicitly argued against it, actually.

00:48:22.320 Because this isn't an open society.

00:48:25.280 This is not an open society.

00:48:27.200 Joe Biden is not pushing an open society.

00:48:29.080 It's an open society to illegal aliens. 0.98

00:48:32.920 The society they're pushing is open to hostile foreign nations like China and other places. 0.98

00:48:40.860 To places where travel was banned because they could not secure it.

00:48:45.240 Now travel is going to be open to them.

00:48:46.400 That's open to them.

00:48:47.080 But it isn't open to us.

00:48:49.760 Because while Joe Biden is effectively opening our southern border, he is threatening to close the border with Florida.

00:48:59.400 Mexico, totally fine.

00:49:01.100 No wall, no border.

00:49:02.680 Florida, they're probably going to build a big, beautiful wall around Florida by the time Joe Biden is done.

00:49:06.620 Jen Psaki was asked about this because it is being seriously floated now that the United States at the federal level could halt travel to and from Florida.

00:49:17.080 The Miami Herald reported yesterday that the Biden administration is considering travel restrictions on states like Florida to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

00:49:26.240 Can you rule that out?

00:49:27.600 Or is that, as they say, on the table?

00:49:30.860 Well, I've seen those reports.

00:49:32.680 We are always considering what steps are necessary to keep the American people safe.

00:49:38.960 But we are not currently in the process of no decisions have been made around additional public health measures that would delay or would change, I should say, domestic travel considerations.

00:49:53.120 Joe Biden should have used ZipRecruiter.

00:49:55.160 Unfortunately for him, he did not.

00:49:56.960 And this woman was not very persuasive. 0.99

00:49:58.380 She doesn't want to come out, write it in front and say, yeah, we're going to cut off travel from Florida. 0.99

00:50:02.540 We're going to prevent federal employees from, however they're going to do it. 0.73

00:50:06.220 But she doesn't say no. 0.96

00:50:07.400 It's a ridiculous, it's an absolutely preposterous idea. 0.85

00:50:11.400 Florida has done so much better on coronavirus than New York, than California, than many other places, than Chicago, many other places in the country. 0.95

00:50:23.260 But all those cities and states are run by liberals.

00:50:28.840 So that's totally fine, totally open.

00:50:30.820 Ron DeSantis, the Republican, is running Florida.

00:50:33.300 Florida's done a great job, so now we've got to talk about the cases skyrocketing and whatever.

00:50:37.620 We've got to cut it off.

00:50:39.880 DeSantis came out, obviously, and pushed back against this pretty hard.

00:50:45.640 It's a reordering of the country.

00:50:49.220 Which way are we going to go?

00:50:50.840 Are we going to knock down our national borders and build up borders within ourselves?

00:50:58.080 Are we going to try to win the applause of the left and, you know, vote against Trump or some principled conservatives?

00:51:06.500 No.

00:51:07.180 So much of the way that the left has advanced over the last 40, 60, even 100 years is by manipulating language.

00:51:16.020 All of these sorts of things we hear.

00:51:17.800 Principles.

00:51:19.920 The people who invoke principles all the time, the least principled people I know.

00:51:23.020 Trump, where he's impeached.

00:51:24.600 Donald Trump is the most innocent president we've ever had, just by the number of acquittals.

00:51:30.000 Two acquittals.

00:51:30.760 No one's ever beaten that.

00:51:32.040 Another record.

00:51:32.820 Chalk it up for Trump.

00:51:34.900 It's a question of open society.

00:51:37.140 Borders.

00:51:37.680 Locking down unity and healing.

00:51:39.020 If it wasn't clear before, I hope it's clear now that the Democratic Party, that the White House is actually entertaining the idea of cutting off a U.S. state.

00:51:51.340 The unity and healing is not going to happen.

00:51:53.400 And these rats who, like the Lincoln Project, want to run away from the people who are actually on their side, defending principles that they at least once had or ought to have. 0.95

00:52:06.320 If these rats think that they're going to be welcomed by the Democrats or by the liberal establishment, they've got another thing coming. 0.93

00:52:13.100 It's just not going to work for them. 0.97

00:52:16.780 The trial is not over.

00:52:18.240 The impeachment farce is over.

00:52:19.680 The real trial is about to begin.

00:52:21.140 Where do you stand?

00:52:22.440 That's our show.

00:52:23.020 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 15, 2021

Ep. 700 - The Most Acquitted President Ever

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