00:00:35And on Wednesday's episode of Verdict, we cited congressional testimony from Dr.
00:00:40James Thorpe, who testified before the Senate and stated that women who received the COVID
00:00:45vaccine during their first trimester experienced an 82 percent miscarriage rate.
00:00:51uh and and we covered that story and after covering covering that story on the podcast
00:00:58it was subsequently revealed that that that data was inaccurate that statistic was inaccurate
00:01:05and when we found that out uh i made the decision to delete the pod and and so wednesday's pod has
00:01:11been deleted i think this is the only pod we've ever deleted in several years of doing this show
00:01:16and and it was because the underlying statistic was inaccurate now i quoted verbatim word for word
00:01:23from dr thorpe's testimony before the senate and and the core of the the story was focusing on dr
00:01:31fauci lying to the american people and dr fauci's emails indicating that he knew there was a real
00:01:37risk of miscarriages particularly in the first trimester and nonetheless he was publicly insisting
00:01:43there was no risk whatsoever. But the 82 percent figure was incorrect. I did not know that. I was
00:01:49quoting from what had been testified before Congress. And the reason it was incorrect
00:01:54is in 2021, there was a study, the Shimabukuro study, that was published in the New England
00:02:01Journal of Medicine. And it was widely cited as reassuring evidence about COVID vaccination
00:02:06during pregnancy, and the study followed data for about 11 weeks. There were 3,958 women enrolled
00:02:15in its pregnancy registry. Of those, only 857 had pregnancies that reached an outcome.
00:02:22There were 104 miscarriages, and so the study initially reported that 140 divided by 827 is
00:02:3012.6%. Critics correctly and rightly identified a serious problem, which is 700 of those 827 women0.93
00:02:39had been vaccinated in the third trimester when it was no longer possible for them to experience0.57
00:02:45an early miscarriage. In the third trimester, that's no longer a possibility. And so there
00:02:50was a widely circulated reinterpretation that removed those 700 women and calculated
00:02:57the ratio of 104 to 127, which is the 827 minus the 700. That led to 82 percent.0.93
00:03:08Dr. Thorpe repeated that figure in his congressional testimony, but that 82 percent calculation was
00:03:16objectively incorrect. Many of the women vaccinated early in pregnancy were still pregnant
00:03:22when the short study ended. So their ongoing pregnancies were missing from the denominator.
00:03:28And the original Shimabukuro study was subsequently corrected as well, and the
00:03:35corrected paper acknowledged that the preliminary data did not provide an appropriate denominator
00:03:40for calculating the risk of spontaneous abortion. So we know that the 82 percent statistic was wrong,
00:03:47and for that reason I deleted not only the podcast but several tweets that we had pushing
00:03:52out the conclusion. That being said, it is important to note the core point of the podcast,
00:04:00that Dr. Fauci himself raised concerns that the COVID vaccine could increase the risk of
00:04:06miscarriages, especially in the first trimester. And yet, his public-facing comments were directly
00:04:14to the contrary. He was knowingly giving one set of information, really propaganda, to the people
00:04:22and a different set internally. And that dishonesty is fundamentally wrong. But that being
00:04:29said, when I became aware of the error, we corrected it for our listeners of this podcast.
00:04:34And I'm always going to strive to present the most accurate information on this pod. And so
00:04:40that's what we're doing now yeah i i this is why i love doing this pod and look i i love that you
00:04:46care enough that we want to correct this record it was at one point like the top trending story on x
00:04:51everybody in media and the conservative world was covering this and i'm glad that we took the time
00:04:56right now to explain the story explain the data explain uh how a lot of this got out there was
00:05:02reported the way it was and then it was corrected and i hope that people that listen to this pod
00:05:07to understand it we do our best to get things right all the time when we get things like this
00:05:12and it changes it changes and when it does we will tell you and hopefully that's why you're
00:05:17listening to verdict and why you love this show so i i love that we explained it and uh and with
00:05:23that let's get on to the other big news of the day and senator i tell you there's some shows where
00:05:27you say get ready because we're bringing the receipts of the radical left their agenda and
00:05:32they're talking about it out in the open well i gotta say we are three months away from the
00:05:39election and the group of democrats that have been nominated to run for office to run for senate
00:05:45is is staggering they have managed to find radicals and communists and islamists and this
00:05:53is the most radical group of democrat candidates that has ever been nominated for major office in
00:06:00the history of america and and i don't want our listeners to take my word for this i i want you
00:06:05to listen to what they say because this show we're going to walk you through what they've said
00:06:09and it is extreme it's radical it's frightening it's dangerous and if these zealots ever get
00:06:16their hands on the levers of government they will wreak incurable damage to this country
00:06:25amen to that we're going to talk about all of that coming up i also want to say
00:06:30something really important that I want you to be able to get involved in right now,
00:06:34and that is simply praying for the people of Israel.
00:06:37Though the headlines may change, the threats facing Israel remain,
00:06:40while much of the world has moved on to the next story.
00:06:43Israeli families continue living with the reality of terrorism, uncertainty, and recovery.
00:06:49Communities remain on alert, and parents still think twice before sending their children to school.
00:06:54Families continue rebuilding their lives, knowing that the next siren could come without warning.
00:06:59Now, as Christians, we're called to stand with God's children in times of need.
00:07:04That's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews remains on the ground in the Holy Land each and every day.
00:07:10They are providing life-saving aid, food for the struggling families, emergency assistance, bomb shelters, and critical support for those impacted by war.
00:07:20Even after the cameras leave and the headlines fade, the fellowship remains committed to Israel's most vulnerable.
00:07:25So I want you to join the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in simply praying for the people of Israel, for protection, for strength, and for a lasting peace.
00:07:36Together, we can remind God's people that they are not alone.
00:07:40You can stand with Israel in prayer today by visiting PrayIFCJ.org.
00:07:50Alright, so Senator, let's set the stage here a little bit.
00:07:52We've been talking a lot on this show, and if you're listening on the radio right now, make sure you download Verdict with Ted Cruz, the podcast we do three days a week.
00:08:01And we've been talking about specific radicals, specific members of the Democratic Socialists of America and their advocates, and they've been winning.
00:08:10But let's take a step back, and I want to ask you a bigger question.
00:08:13And for a lot of people, they're still trying to get their head around the idea.
00:08:17How is it that these types of radicals are not just running and getting funded, but also winning?
00:12:14Most poll workers we visited were willing to let us vouch with no questions asked,
00:12:19even when presented with the most absurd situation imaginable.
00:12:23while other poll workers did take issue with our investigation,
00:12:26revealing their awareness that something about this vouching system is deeply flawed or wrong,
00:12:31yet for some reason, they don't want us to expose it.
00:12:43In Minnesota, voters can vouch for up to eight of their unregistered friends.
00:12:48at the polling place a registered voter from the same precinct signs an oath confirming that they
00:12:54personally know the voter lives there this allows someone without id to register and vote and
00:13:00employees of residential facilities may vouch for an unlimited number of facility residents to vote
00:13:07at the facility's address that's right an unlimited number while proponents emphasize that the policy
00:13:14expands ballot access for recent movers and senior citizens, critics view it as a potential
00:13:19for fraud. Now, Senator, let's just stop there for a second. When you hear the way this is set up,
00:13:27it seems like it's the way you would set up the system if you were wanting it to deliberately be
00:13:32used to have fraudulent voters voting in elections. 100%. And remember, this is Minnesota.
00:13:40This is Minnesota where more than $9 billion was stolen from taxpayers and sent to Somalia, was sent.
00:13:48The Minnesota taxpayers were the single largest funder of Al-Shabaab, the radical Islamic terrorist group in Somalia.
00:13:54And the Democrats get elected. They depend on voter fraud to get elected.
00:13:59This system is designed to encourage that.
00:14:01Senator, let's go through some of these that America needs to know about and let's expose what they really believe.
00:14:07Well, let's start with Minnesota. Minnesota just nominated as their Democrat nominee for Senate a radical named Peggy Flanagan, and she's a left-wing socialist who is extreme. Even for Minnesota, she's extreme. And I want to just lay out the receipts. I want to start with her talking about the Lake and Riley Act.0.99
00:14:25The Lake and Riley Act passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.
00:14:30Even a bunch of Democrats voted for it.1.00
00:14:32It's designed to protect Americans from violence from illegal immigrants.
00:14:37And yet this is right at the heart of Peggy Flanagan's campaign.0.99
00:14:42She wants more violent illegal immigrants in America.1.00
00:14:46Well, I think, you know, what we heard from Minnesotans is that this was really an issue of judgment.
00:14:53You know, my opponent was the only Minnesota Democrat to vote for Donald Trump's immigration bill, the Lake and Riley Act, which, you know, I think really gave the green light for the just chaos and cruelty that we saw here in the streets in Minneapolis.
00:15:14Well, it is. And then I want to listen. I want you to listen to her talking about why she also supports taxpayers paying for castrating and sterilizing little children.
00:15:27And she's emphatic. This is her general election pitch that we need to castrate more kids. Give a listen.0.60
00:15:33Minnesota law does not set a minimum age for gender affirming care. Do you believe there should be one?0.97
00:15:40i mean i believe that what we need to do is make sure that people have access
00:15:46uh to health care frankly that's one of the reasons you know why i've run so hard on on0.90
00:15:52medicare for all uh and making sure that gender affirming care in an era should there be an age
00:15:57limit i think gender affirming care is part of health care people need an age limit for it
00:16:04health care. I think our law as it stands is a good law. Senator, the only way I can describe1.00
00:16:12what you just heard is this is what evil sounds like when it's in a political forum.0.98
00:16:19And the idea that you can just mutilate a child at any age, if you're a crazy parent that decides0.69
00:16:26they want their boy to be a girl or their girl to, quote, be a boy, you can just do this to them.
00:16:31and there's no age minimum is absolute, not just insanity, but I do believe it's child abuse and
00:16:37pure evil. Look, I wish, Ben, you were exaggerating, but you're not. What Peggy Flanagan is arguing
00:16:43there is there should be zero age limit for castrating and sterilizing children. So if a1.00
00:16:49five-year-old boy says, I think I'm a girl, and that poor little boy has leftist parents who
00:16:56believe in the ideology that whatever pops into the head of a child, you need to bring a surgeon's
00:17:03scalpel behind it. According to Peggy Flanagan, you ought to be able to castrate that five-year-old
00:17:08boy. Now, to be clear, no child has the emotional maturity, the intellectual maturity, the awareness
00:17:16of the world to have any ability to make a decision about whether he or she will procreate,0.88
00:17:24have children wants to be a different gender look kids want to be a tyrannosaurus rex and and yet
00:17:30ideology matters more and by the way peggy flanagan is also saying if a little girl
00:17:35a five-year-old she says there's no age limit so a five-year-old says i think i'm a boy
00:17:40what she's advocating and i gotta say i hate the phrase gender affirming care of course cnn uses
00:17:47that phrase it is not affirming cutting your genitals off is not affirming your gender
00:17:52gender it is destroying and removing essential attributes of your gender and so it is George
00:18:01Orwell could not have thought of anything as twisted as gender affirming care when it is0.85
00:18:07sterilizing and mutilating children but what Peggy Flanagan is saying is if a five-year-old girl says
00:18:12I think I'm a boy sterilize her and make it so that little girl can never have a child when she
00:18:19grows up when she's an adult she might say of course i'm not a boy i'm i'm a girl i'm a woman1.00
00:18:25i i want to have babies but nope peggy flanagan has already destroyed her her ability through0.98
00:18:32permanent sterilization the idea that we have candidates running that are advocating for
00:18:40sterilizing children and and view it as as a matter of fundamental justice of course we should
00:18:46sterilized children. That shows just how radical these candidates are.
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00:19:29today. Yeah, this comes also as a week where we saw another radical bill that actually dealt with
00:19:35late-term abortions, and it was celebrated by the media as a states' rights issue, and that
00:19:42you could have things like this. There are a lot of Americans listening right now that I think
00:19:47feel like, in a weird way, we're starting to lose on some of these issues. What is your thoughts on
00:19:53that? Well, if you have not seen the video of the governor of Massachusetts, who is Mara Haley,
00:20:02she is a liberal Democrat, and she is signing a law that is legalizing abortion in Massachusetts
00:20:09up until the moment of birth, so late-term abortion.
00:20:12Look, Massachusetts already had almost no limits on abortion,
00:20:17They wanted in the ninth month, like, you could literally be about ready to deliver,0.99
00:20:23and if you decided you didn't want it, you could kill that child.0.92
00:20:27And the video, if you have not seen it, of the governor surrounded by about a dozen1.00
00:20:32all-young white women, left-wingers, laughing with joy.0.61
00:20:39is celebrating that late-term abortions. By the way, do you know what the polling is on0.61
00:20:46the number of Americans who support late-term abortions? Yeah, the majority is saying no to
00:20:54it, just so America understands. Much more than that. 91% of Americans say no. Late-term abortions
00:21:02are wrong. It is only 9% of Americans that believe that, and yet the governor of Massachusetts,
00:21:08It's these left wing Democrats are so extreme that they are cackling with joy.
00:21:14Now, by the way, the that Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota is not alone.0.96
00:21:19There are other Democrats running for office, running for Senate right now who agree with her that we should be castrating children and taxpayers should be paying for that.
00:21:28One of those is Abdul El-Sayed, who says exactly the same thing.
00:21:33And in just a moment, we're going to have you listen to him saying that.
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00:24:12senator let's go down this uh logic train for just a moment he's saying it should be a patient's
00:24:19choice to choose that i guess means a two-year-old a three-year-old a four-year-old a five-year-old
00:24:26a six-year-old they can choose as he describes it to decide to mutilate their body forever to make
00:24:33it where they can not have a kid the rest of their life if they're a girl uh and and i guess now if
00:24:39If your kid decides they're Superman and they want to jump off the building, you can't stop them either because that's their choice to say they're a superhero.
00:27:30What I offer today is just a reflection on the American history that runs through this state.
00:27:38You all sitting in this room, in this town,0.62
00:27:42We're sitting in a space, in a time, when I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, those forces are alive and well today.0.88
00:28:10Wow. Where do you even start with that, Senator? I mean, I hear the anger. I hear the disdain for America. I hear the we're going to do our way and we are going to conquer in those words that you just heard. And again, so people remember what CARE is. I think we should take a moment as well and explain and remind them what CARE is as an organization.0.55
00:28:33Care was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist prosecution, which convicted the Holy Land Foundation at the time, the largest Muslim charity in America, funneling millions of dollars to fund Hamas.
00:28:48And the Holy Land Foundation was convicted. Multiple senior leaders of the Holy Land Foundation were sent to jail for decades.
00:28:57And Kerr was an unindicted co-conspirator.
00:28:59And yet Kerr, remember, al-Sayed's father-in-law, who is the single largest donor to a super PAC,
00:29:07is closely affiliated with multiple groups that are closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:29:12And I want to just flesh this out. Sharia law is not just a quiet little peaceful belief in Islam. Sharia law is using government force to force you to comply with Islam, whether you are Muslim or not. And it is a tool of oppression. Go to Iran, and if you violate Sharia law, they will torture and execute you.
00:29:35And I want to read from a story from the Free Beacon that is laying out El Saeed's record.
00:30:02El-Sayed's obligation to Sharia law is well reflected in his personal and financial affairs.
00:30:08El-Sayed was described as a, quote, particularly devout Muslim in the Michigan Daily in a 2006 story covering his relationship with his wife, who wears a hijab, is rarely seen at campaign events, and did not attend El-Sayed's primary watch party on Tuesday.
00:30:22Quote, Islamically, there are no premarital relations of any sort, El-Sayed told the paper to explain why he proposed to her when she was a college freshman and he was a junior.
00:30:33Given that, the logical solution is to get married.
00:30:36El-Sayed courted and married his wife according to Islamic law,
00:30:39which included a traditional two-step marriage
00:30:41that saw the couple living apart and remaining chaste for the first year of their union.
00:30:44Getting ice cream is the number one thing we do together, El-Sayed said in 2006 about his married life.
00:30:51His wife now operates a private psychiatry practice that does not accept Medicaid, Medicare, or any other insurance,
00:30:59a policy that invites her husband's criticism of such bans as, quote,
00:31:03perpetuating long-held racism and structural racism.
00:31:06El-Sayed is also heavily invested in so-called Sharia-compliant investment funds
00:31:11managed by Amana Mutual Funds, whose late co-founder and chairman,
00:31:16Yaakov Mirza, was identified in a 1988 FBI memo as one of several, quote,
00:31:22members and leaders of ICWAN, which is shorthand for the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:31:26El Saeed reported in his latest financial disclosure that he and his wife own between $150,000 and $425,000 of Amana's funds, which excludes investment in companies that earn more than 5% of their revenue from haram sources, including interest, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and pork.
00:31:46In 2002, federal anti-terrorism agents raided Merz's home as part of a wider anti-terror operation against Safa Group, a cluster of Islamic entities based in Virginia, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported.
00:31:58No charges were filed and the amount of funds itself were spared serious scrutiny during the probe, according to a local report.
00:32:04This is someone who himself is deeply committed to Sharia law and has defended Sharia law being forced on everyone else.0.78
00:32:13And yet I want you to listen to and watch a really bizarre ad because this man is a Marxist and an Islamist.0.65
00:32:23And yet his campaign, there are multiple videos he's put out of him dancing and lip singing to female singers in a way that that's really astonishing.0.61
00:32:33But but I want you to listen to this particular ad that he put out.
00:32:38Now, for you guys listening, I think the best part about this, just so you understand the set, it's an animated set, but he's dancing on it for this kid's show called Blues Clues.
00:32:50That is setting the stage for you, and take a listen.
00:32:53Here's the mail. It never fails. It makes me want to whack my tail. When it comes, I want to whail mail.