Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 22, 2025


BONUS POD： The Manchurian Candidate plus a South African Confrontation & Jake Tapper’s Flip-Flop


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Rep. James Comer says everyone they re bringing in for the Biden investigation, President Donald Trump calls out the white genocide in South Africa, and Jake Tapper changes his story about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.300 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.740 Never be scared to kill a revolution. 0.85
00:00:10.720 Demand that at some point there must be killing,
00:00:14.480 because the killing is part of a revolution. 0.99
00:00:17.360 And to kill the poor, the poor, the poor, the poor, the poor, the poor. 0.75
00:00:27.420 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. 0.97
00:00:32.180 Good Thursday morning. Welcome.
00:00:33.600 It is the 47 Morning Update, and we've got three big stories for you
00:00:37.040 that you do not want to miss this morning.
00:00:38.800 First up, it is time to hold the Bidens accountable
00:00:42.220 and find out who was actually running the United States of America,
00:00:45.560 because it sure as hell wasn't Joe Biden.
00:00:47.980 Representative James Comer says everyone they're bringing in for the Biden investigation.
00:00:54.320 I'll have those details for you in just a second.
00:00:56.460 Also, President Donald Trump brought the videos and the pictures to the Oval Office
00:01:02.440 when meeting with the South African president
00:01:04.500 and called them out to their face over the white genocide that's happening. 0.99
00:01:09.180 The media, of course, responded by saying Donald Trump's a liar. 0.94
00:01:12.320 We have the audio to prove that Donald Trump was telling you the truth.
00:01:18.220 And finally, Jake Tapper's on his book tour,
00:01:21.340 and my oh my is the man changing his story drastically
00:01:24.780 from what he was saying about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and the Biden family
00:01:29.440 from just less than two years ago.
00:01:32.300 We've got the receipts, and we'll play it for you.
00:01:35.340 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:01:38.580 Story number one.
00:01:39.760 Representative James Comer is now focused on investigating Joe Biden
00:01:45.680 and the corruption of the second possible cover-up,
00:01:50.320 this time with the medical issues with cancer.
00:01:54.700 James Comer saying, quote,
00:01:56.200 quote, we're bringing everyone in for the Biden investigations.
00:02:01.200 It's a long-anticipated moment to hold Joe Biden's family
00:02:05.160 and the administration officials accountable for their crimes
00:02:08.600 as finally approaching, is how James Comer explained it
00:02:12.440 on the Alex Marlowe show.
00:02:15.020 Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee,
00:02:17.400 faced significant challenges to investigate when Biden was president,
00:02:21.800 but now that Donald Trump is president and the House appears set to pass
00:02:25.020 President Donald Trump's one big, beautiful budget bill,
00:02:29.360 Comer and his committee are fired up and ready to harvest the fruits
00:02:32.600 of their investigative labor.
00:02:35.140 Prominent names from Hunter Biden to Biden's senior-level advisors
00:02:39.820 will be brought in for either a transcribed interview,
00:02:44.040 if they'll come in voluntarily, or a deposition,
00:02:47.820 is what James Comer has now said.
00:02:49.720 I want you to hear from him in his own words.
00:02:52.520 Take a listen.
00:02:53.680 The next topic du jour, Joe Biden.
00:02:56.420 You're one of the top Biden investigators
00:02:58.240 as the chairman of the House GOP Oversight Committee.
00:03:01.960 I want to get your sense of what's going on in the media
00:03:06.000 and this discussion of a cover-up of Joe Biden's mental decline.
00:03:11.260 It's been sort of surreal for me to watch,
00:03:13.380 having researched Joe Biden extensively
00:03:14.800 and written a best-selling book about Joe Biden, just like you did.
00:03:17.500 And it's been very odd for me to watch because there was no cover-up
00:03:22.200 as far as I could tell.
00:03:23.200 We all knew he was in severe mental decline.
00:03:25.460 We all knew that he had aneurysms.
00:03:26.800 He had massive surgery on those.
00:03:28.440 We all knew that he would confuse his wife and his sister,
00:03:30.600 and he didn't know where his son died.
00:03:32.180 And now, all of a sudden, a CNN anchor says that there was a cover-up,
00:03:36.420 and we're like, oh, yeah, there was a cover-up.
00:03:38.140 I don't understand it, Congressman.
00:03:39.720 Do you?
00:03:40.080 It's just breathtaking to watch because I was attacked so many times 1.00
00:03:44.420 by saying Joe Biden was a mental invalid. 0.94
00:03:47.340 I was attacked by saying Joe Biden wasn't the one calling the shots. 0.97
00:03:50.920 I was attacked when I said Hunter Biden was the de facto chief of staff.
00:03:55.280 That came out today.
00:03:56.340 That's in Jake Tapper's book,
00:03:59.380 that Hunter Biden was essentially the chief of staff.
00:04:02.720 If you go back and Google me and Hunter Biden was chief of staff
00:04:06.280 and all of that, the press that I received from MSNBC
00:04:10.320 and the Washington Post and the New York Times,
00:04:12.700 they blistered me.
00:04:14.200 I mean, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump combined never went through what I went through
00:04:18.500 by telling what we were finding about the Bidens. 0.96
00:04:22.580 They were crooks. 0.91
00:04:23.740 They were lying about the money they were taking in. 0.98
00:04:26.100 They weren't paying any taxes on it.
00:04:28.360 Joe Biden had no idea what was going on.
00:04:31.580 Hunter Biden was actually calling the shot.
00:04:33.780 And when the media would say, why are you picking on Hunter Biden?
00:04:36.760 Hunter Biden doesn't work for the government.
00:04:39.020 He was running the government.
00:04:40.860 Jake Tapper put that in his book we found today.
00:04:43.980 I mean, it's just amazing.
00:04:46.320 And for the media to act like, oh, it's a cover-up.
00:04:48.880 We had no idea.
00:04:49.900 They knew if they didn't know, they needed to resign
00:04:52.620 and go get a job at McDonald's or somewhere
00:04:54.900 because they had failed a journalist. 1.00
00:04:56.840 If they didn't know that Joe Biden was a mental invalid 0.99
00:04:59.840 and that he wasn't the one calling the shots. 0.96
00:05:01.900 So what we're doing now on the Oversight Committee,
00:05:05.180 we requested information from the doctor back when Joe Biden was president
00:05:08.980 and they wouldn't comply with our request.
00:05:11.640 We had questions about the doctor when he said Joe Biden was in perfect health.
00:05:16.820 Now they're saying, well, they never tested his PSA.
00:05:19.100 I'm 52.
00:05:20.860 I've been testing my PSA since I was 30.
00:05:25.140 And, you know, so nothing that they're saying is true.
00:05:28.520 The American people know it.
00:05:29.980 The media has finally just thrown their hands up in the air
00:05:32.920 and, you know, they've turned on the Biden.
00:05:35.280 So I think we're going to get a lot more information.
00:05:38.140 What we want to know on the Oversight Committee
00:05:39.620 is who was operating the auto pen
00:05:42.160 and who was given the authority to sign pardons
00:05:46.860 and executive orders with this auto pen
00:05:48.940 because it was not Joe Biden.
00:05:50.520 So I feel like we're kind of getting Khan 0.97
00:05:52.660 to take our eye off the ball a little bit,
00:05:54.320 which is that he was in cognitive decline for a very long time
00:05:57.040 and the media was complicit in the cover-up.
00:05:59.220 It wasn't just some inner circle of like six Biden aides.
00:06:02.200 It's just Ron Klain and Donilon and Joe Biden
00:06:04.900 and it's like Jill, it's like five people.
00:06:07.480 No, it was the whole media allowed,
00:06:09.620 including Jake Tapper, who allowed for this to go on.
00:06:12.980 You know, hypocrisy to no end with the media,
00:06:16.140 but I'm glad the truth's coming out.
00:06:17.740 I always said, and I know you said it in your book,
00:06:20.240 I said about the history will be kind to those of us
00:06:25.260 who were brave enough to point out
00:06:29.280 the criminality of the Biden family
00:06:33.100 as well as the fact that Joe Biden was not calling the shots.
00:06:37.480 He was the one president in our history
00:06:40.260 who truly was a Manchurian president.
00:06:44.000 I mean, he wasn't the one calling the shots.
00:06:45.940 One thing is for sure, James Comer is telling the American people
00:06:49.440 we are going to hold them accountable
00:06:51.220 and find out who was actually running the country
00:06:54.180 because clearly it wasn't President Joe Biden.
00:06:56.960 Next, story number two.
00:06:58.260 There was a moment in the Oval Office
00:07:00.180 where Donald Trump decided,
00:07:02.200 I'm going to call out a world leader
00:07:03.600 for the white genocide that is happening right now 0.92
00:07:06.400 in South African against white farmers 0.91
00:07:09.440 and white land owners.
00:07:11.800 CNN just called Trump showing
00:07:14.300 the president of South Africa
00:07:15.960 the actual evidence of leaders
00:07:17.900 calling for a white genocide
00:07:19.840 and stealing their land 0.99
00:07:22.040 a, quote, ambush
00:07:23.940 of, quote, debunked conspiracy theories.
00:07:28.080 Trump literally brought all the evidence
00:07:30.580 and played it.
00:07:32.160 And what did CNN say?
00:07:33.760 This.
00:07:34.620 Errol Ramaphosa brought his best diplomatic self
00:07:37.160 to this meeting,
00:07:37.760 but nothing could have prepared him
00:07:39.640 for this multimedia ambush
00:07:41.640 that President Trump laid out
00:07:43.660 with video,
00:07:44.780 with printed out news stories.
00:07:47.560 This was a laundry list of debunked conspiracy theories.
00:07:52.940 Some South Africans are telling me
00:07:54.380 this is AfriForum propaganda.
00:07:56.440 AfriForum is a white Afrikaner lobby group
00:07:58.740 that's considered a white nationalist organization
00:08:01.480 by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:08:03.580 Everything, almost everything,
00:08:04.760 everything that President Trump said
00:08:06.320 in the Oval Office is not true,
00:08:08.280 was inaccurate,
00:08:09.380 has been repeatedly debunked.
00:08:11.620 Now, what you just heard there
00:08:13.000 from CNN is a lie.
00:08:14.300 Not because I say so,
00:08:15.500 but because we actually have the evidence
00:08:17.060 to prove it.
00:08:18.140 And the video that was shown
00:08:19.420 in the Oval Office
00:08:20.540 to the man in charge of South Africa
00:08:22.680 and the audio,
00:08:24.680 well, this is what the leaders
00:08:26.140 of his party in his government
00:08:28.080 were saying publicly
00:08:29.360 on video in South Africa.
00:08:31.820 Listen carefully to their words.
00:08:34.760 Never be scared to kill.
00:08:38.780 A revolution demands that
00:08:41.440 at some point there must be killing
00:08:44.000 because the killing is part of a revolutionary act. 1.00
00:08:47.720 Shoot to kill your mother. 1.00
00:08:52.260 Kill the poor, the farmer. 1.00
00:08:55.620 Kill the poor, the farmer. 1.00
00:08:58.680 The mayor of D.A. in P.E. 1.00
00:09:19.760 is a white man.
00:09:22.620 So these people, 1.00
00:09:23.580 when you want to hit them hard, 1.00
00:09:25.960 go after a white man. 1.00
00:09:28.100 They feel a terrible pain 1.00
00:09:30.420 because you have touched a white man.
00:09:34.920 Not because Mashaba and Suli 0.99
00:09:37.180 will not be touched.
00:09:38.840 They will be touched.
00:09:39.940 Don't worry.
00:09:40.340 But we are starting with this whiteness. 0.99
00:09:44.760 We are cutting the throat of whiteness. 1.00
00:09:47.300 Shoot to kill 1.00
00:09:49.140 Yamaha. 1.00
00:09:51.420 Kill the poor, 1.00
00:09:53.000 the farmer. 1.00
00:09:55.140 Kill the poor, 1.00
00:09:56.720 the farmer. 1.00
00:10:04.360 Shoot to kill 1.00
00:10:06.500 Yamaha. 1.00
00:10:07.680 Kill the poor, 1.00
00:10:10.860 the farmer. 1.00
00:10:12.740 Kill the poor, 1.00
00:10:14.380 the farmer. 1.00
00:10:16.600 Brr,
00:10:17.280 pa.
00:10:18.740 Pa.
00:10:20.400 Brr,
00:10:21.180 pa.
00:10:22.580 Pa.
00:10:23.980 I don't know what's going to happen in the future.
00:10:26.860 I'm saying to you,
00:10:27.940 we have not called 0.97
00:10:28.800 for the killing of white people, 0.99
00:10:31.000 at least for now. 1.00
00:10:32.280 I can't guarantee the future.
00:10:33.560 Yeah, but, I mean,
00:10:34.200 you'd understand somebody watching that,
00:10:36.800 especially as it gets shared on Twitter,
00:10:38.420 they freak out.
00:10:39.460 It sounds like a genocidal thing. 0.88
00:10:41.260 Ah, crybabies.
00:10:42.740 Crybabies.
00:10:43.500 This is exactly
00:10:44.680 what they were referring to
00:10:46.840 in the Oval Office
00:10:48.320 as the president was calling out
00:10:49.680 the leader of South Africa.
00:10:50.980 You may wonder,
00:10:51.780 what is a boor? 0.99
00:10:52.900 It is a white man. 0.94
00:10:54.640 So when they say, 1.00
00:10:55.520 shoot the boor, 0.98
00:10:56.500 they're saying, 1.00
00:10:57.280 shoot the white man. 1.00
00:10:58.900 And then they're saying, 1.00
00:10:59.940 shoot the farmer. 0.99
00:11:01.420 This is exactly 0.99
00:11:02.140 what is happening
00:11:03.040 in South Africa right now.
00:11:05.060 No matter what CNN says,
00:11:07.320 as they come out saying,
00:11:08.440 there's no evidence
00:11:09.460 of a white genocide
00:11:10.400 or the stealing of the land. 0.90
00:11:12.220 In fact,
00:11:12.920 they say that Donald Trump
00:11:14.280 went after the South African president
00:11:16.060 in what they described
00:11:17.520 as an ambush.
00:11:18.860 It was,
00:11:19.740 of the facts.
00:11:20.960 And the president
00:11:21.360 of the United States of America,
00:11:22.560 yet again,
00:11:23.220 calling out another world leader
00:11:24.660 to his face
00:11:26.080 and bringing the receipts
00:11:27.660 to the Oval Office
00:11:29.000 to prove his point.
00:11:30.320 I hope all of you
00:11:31.720 will take the audio
00:11:32.540 that you just heard
00:11:33.520 and share it on social media
00:11:35.480 wherever you can
00:11:36.840 to yet again,
00:11:38.020 call out the liberal media
00:11:39.200 for their lies
00:11:40.200 as there is a genocide
00:11:41.420 happening in South Africa.
00:11:43.400 And here is story number three.
00:11:44.860 The media tour continues
00:11:46.480 for Jake Tapper
00:11:47.880 and his big book.
00:11:49.920 It's going to be a bestseller
00:11:51.260 where he tries to act
00:11:52.880 like a journalist
00:11:53.620 and implies
00:11:54.580 that he's coming clean
00:11:55.800 about the big lie
00:11:57.140 with Joe Biden.
00:11:58.760 Well, it's amazing
00:11:59.880 how easy it is
00:12:00.900 to be honest
00:12:01.680 when you're trying
00:12:02.280 to sell a book
00:12:03.220 instead of trying
00:12:03.920 to get your preferred
00:12:04.940 candidate elected.
00:12:06.940 And I want to remind you
00:12:08.240 of what Jake Tapper
00:12:09.560 had to say
00:12:10.040 on his own show
00:12:11.060 back in 2023.
00:12:13.280 There's no evidence
00:12:14.040 to support the allegation
00:12:14.980 my father was financially
00:12:15.840 involved in my business
00:12:16.560 because it did not happen.
00:12:17.780 There's no fairness
00:12:18.420 or decency
00:12:19.020 in what these Republicans
00:12:19.840 are doing.
00:12:20.840 And I do have to say,
00:12:22.000 whatever you think
00:12:23.120 of Hunter Biden,
00:12:24.160 and there's certainly
00:12:24.600 a lot of people
00:12:25.100 in this town,
00:12:25.540 Democrats and Republicans,
00:12:26.340 that do not think
00:12:27.120 a lot of him,
00:12:28.340 there is a certain
00:12:29.800 kind of like cruelty
00:12:31.200 to the campaign
00:12:32.060 against him.
00:12:32.880 Where is Hunter?
00:12:33.580 Where is Hunter?
00:12:34.220 Where is Hunter?
00:12:35.020 That was in 2023.
00:12:38.440 You're supposed to feel
00:12:39.720 bad for Hunter Biden
00:12:41.320 because he went
00:12:42.520 into hiding.
00:12:43.320 You're supposed to feel
00:12:44.080 bad for the Biden
00:12:45.160 crime family
00:12:46.060 because Joe Biden
00:12:47.080 is just an older guy
00:12:48.240 that deserves
00:12:49.280 one more chance.
00:12:50.480 So what is Jake Tapper
00:12:52.320 now saying in 2025
00:12:53.940 as he's on his book tour
00:12:55.740 trying to sell books?
00:12:57.540 Listen carefully
00:12:58.420 to how fast
00:12:59.220 his story is changing.
00:13:01.280 Hunter was driving
00:13:02.640 the decision making
00:13:03.600 for the family
00:13:04.260 in a way that people,
00:13:05.980 he was almost like
00:13:06.900 a chief of staff
00:13:07.720 of the family.
00:13:08.500 Does that strike you
00:13:09.280 as pretty bizarre?
00:13:10.560 It's bizarre
00:13:11.100 because I think
00:13:12.100 he is provably,
00:13:13.680 demonstrably unethical, 0.97
00:13:16.220 sleazy, 0.79
00:13:16.920 and prone
00:13:17.500 to horrible decisions.
00:13:19.120 Tell me how
00:13:19.540 you really feel.
00:13:21.060 Well, I mean,
00:13:21.600 I just look at the record.
00:13:24.140 I mean,
00:13:24.600 after his brother died,
00:13:25.980 he cheated on his wife
00:13:27.000 with his brother's widow
00:13:27.880 and then got her
00:13:28.620 addicted to crack.
00:13:29.720 That's just one thing
00:13:30.760 I could say.
00:13:31.540 I mean,
00:13:32.160 I don't have a lot
00:13:34.120 of personal regard
00:13:35.680 for him.
00:13:36.560 Isn't it amazing
00:13:37.720 how easy it is
00:13:38.920 for Jake Tapper
00:13:39.900 to all of a sudden
00:13:40.760 be honest with you
00:13:42.020 and tell you exactly
00:13:43.520 what he thinks
00:13:44.100 of Hunter Biden
00:13:44.720 now that they're not
00:13:45.700 a threat to his
00:13:46.920 access to the White House?
00:13:49.020 Jake Tapper
00:13:49.560 would never be
00:13:50.260 man enough
00:13:50.660 to tell you this
00:13:51.260 before 2025
00:13:52.440 because he didn't
00:13:53.780 want to lose access
00:13:54.640 to the Democratic Party.
00:13:56.240 He didn't want to lose
00:13:56.800 access to Joe Biden
00:13:58.000 and he didn't want
00:13:59.060 to make his viewers
00:14:00.040 angry that he might
00:14:01.040 tell them some
00:14:01.800 journalistic truth.
00:14:03.820 2023 compared
00:14:05.020 to 2025
00:14:05.920 isn't that long ago.
00:14:07.860 But Jake Tapper
00:14:08.800 sure as hell
00:14:09.580 is a very different man
00:14:11.100 when the Democrats
00:14:12.020 are in power
00:14:12.940 and he's willing
00:14:13.820 to protect them
00:14:14.620 and sell out
00:14:15.400 at all costs.
00:14:16.500 Thank you for listening
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00:14:18.920 with Ben Ferguson.
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