Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 21, 2026


Radicalism: Terror Plot in New York, Extreme Democrat Candidates, Nike Stock Plummets after Embracing Wokeness & Hasan Piker Islamist Threat


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00:00:56.020 And Senator, we've got a lot to talk about in today's show, including the shocking news of a real New York terror attack that has been foiled with someone, you know, declaring that they are a member of ISIS.
00:01:09.600 Well, left-wing radicalism is getting worse and worse, and it is profoundly dangerous.
00:01:15.700 And today we're going to talk about manifestations of it that are getting more and more extreme and more and more dangerous.
00:01:20.740 We're going to start with a terror plot in New York of an America-hating radical who planned to bomb the New York state capitol,
00:01:28.780 wanted to kill as many senators, kill upwards of 100 people.
00:01:32.480 She was arrested by the FBI. 0.79
00:01:33.800 We're going to give you the facts on that.
00:01:35.340 We're also going to talk about wokeness in corporate America, and in particular Nike.
00:01:41.480 Nike made a decision to embrace the left wing, to embrace anti-Americanism,
00:01:47.560 to embrace racial divisiveness, to embrace transgender boys and girls sports, and the 0.84
00:01:53.780 consequence has been that their stock price has plummeted, that go woke, go broke is a very real 0.59
00:01:58.640 thing. We're going to talk about some of the radicals who are running for Senate across the
00:02:02.460 country, including in particular James Tallarico in Texas and Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan, both of
00:02:08.320 whom it seems every week we discover more and more extreme positions they've taken. And finally,
00:02:14.120 we're going to talk about Hassan Piker, the radical who campaigns with Al-Sayed, who campaigns
00:02:18.580 with other Democrats, and who has said America deserves 9-11. It's now been reported that his
00:02:24.200 younger brother has worked on sensitive Boeing projects, including Air Force One, and we're
00:02:30.100 going to raise the potential national security implications of America-hating Islamists being
00:02:36.120 in a position to cause real damage. All of that is on today's pod. Yeah, it's a lot to cover,
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00:03:40.220 senator let's get into this first story and and we are coming up it's crazy this makes me feel old
00:03:45.860 it is the the 25th anniversary coming up of 9-11 uh it is amazing that it's been that many years
00:03:52.640 uh it is also very concerning to me how quickly we seemed to have forgotten the lessons that we
00:03:59.540 learned from 9-11 whereas as it was described to me by someone in law enforcement today this is
00:04:04.520 what happens when you're one generation removed uh from that horrific terrorist attack and some
00:04:09.680 people just say uh you know that was something that happened in the past it's not something we
00:04:14.200 need to really worry about now well we were talking about a lot with our open borders and
00:04:18.840 people on the terrorist watch list that we're getting across that we're getting caught we have
00:04:22.200 worries and concerns about who's in this country that we didn't catch sleeper cells have been a
00:04:26.860 great example of that that we've talked about a lot but now we found out the fbi thwarted an
00:04:32.440 alleged isis inspired plot to bomb the new york city capital and to kill and destroy they said
00:04:39.560 important papers in Albany. Well, leftist hate for America has real consequences. And here's the
00:04:45.560 story. Here's what NBC News has reported on it. A woman has been charged with providing support
00:04:49.600 to a terrorist group after she was accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the New York
00:04:54.820 Capitol in Albany, federal officials said Thursday. Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, is alleged to have
00:05:01.340 told a confidential source that she supported the Islamic State Militant Group, commonly known as
00:05:06.100 ISIS, and asked for help learning to make explosives, according to a criminal complaint
00:05:10.760 filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
00:05:14.380 She was arrested Wednesday by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in Albany.
00:05:19.160 Bowie is expected in court Thursday afternoon on a single charge of attempting to provide
00:05:23.120 material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
00:05:27.220 According to the complaint, Bowie converted to Islam five years ago, became radicalized
00:05:33.240 online and created several social media accounts using an honorific Islamic name. She appeared to 0.99
00:05:39.780 have created multiple accounts because they were, quote, frequently suspended by providers for
00:05:44.440 violating their terms of use. Bowie swore her allegiance to ISIS in multiple audio recordings
00:05:50.360 in English and Arabic, and she once wrote, praise be to Allah for September 11th. The complaint
00:05:57.780 alleged that Bowie communicated from July 16th through August 17th with a confidential source
00:06:02.480 who was working with the FBI and posing as an ISIS facilitator.
00:06:07.080 She told the source that she wanted to help carry out an attack on the New York Capitol,
00:06:11.820 according to the complaint.
00:06:13.280 The building was less than two miles from her home,
00:06:15.300 and she said she wanted to do something to, quote, harm the enemies of God.
00:06:19.960 The complaint alleges that Bowie visited the Capitol five times,
00:06:22.980 from July 21st to August 9th,
00:06:24.800 and that surveillance teams observed her photographing the area.
00:06:28.520 She is alleged to have said in messages to the source 0.74
00:06:30.940 that she wanted to have a, quote, effect on the American system. Quote, I want to destroy as much 1.00
00:06:38.120 of the buildings as possible and kill the senators while they are meeting, a message including in the 0.99
00:06:43.220 complaint said. Two other confidential sources met with Bowie in Albany this month. In a meeting that
00:06:48.500 was recorded, the complaint says, Bowie is alleged to have said she wanted to attack the building on
00:06:52.400 a day when most senators would be present. She hoped to escape after the attack, and if she 0.96
00:06:57.020 evaded the authorities plan to return for future plots. Quote, Miss Bowie didn't just want to kill 1.00
00:07:02.660 lawmakers. She wanted a complete disruption of our government, and after that she planned to flee the 1.00
00:07:07.340 country and one day come back and do more, such as New Year's Eve in Times Square, even stating 1.00
00:07:12.860 that she would come back to attack the White House and the president. Asked why she wanted to target 0.90
00:07:19.320 the state capitol, Bowie's alleged to have said, quote, ideally it would be the White House with
00:07:23.600 the president. But like, that's an even harder job. Quote, I'd say it definitely bothers me,
00:07:30.080 and I know I'm going to hear about things after. What's going to bother me, especially if there's
00:07:34.280 a Muslim, if there's children, pregnant women? She went on to say, however, she hoped Allah
00:07:38.620 would forgive her. One of the confidential sources gave Bowie $200 to purchase bomb-making materials,
00:07:44.040 which she is alleged to have done August 5th at a Home Depot. She gave the items to the
00:07:48.660 confidential sources when she met with them in the days that followed. This is, so she's been
00:07:53.680 arrested. She's been stopped. She was buying bomb making material. She was communicating with people 0.76
00:07:58.400 she thought were ISIS. She was asking about carrying out a major terror attack. This is an
00:08:04.920 American. This is not a foreigner. This is not someone from the Middle East. This is an American
00:08:08.680 from New York who grew up and was radicalized, was taught to hate America, was taught to celebrate
00:08:17.000 9-11. And the consequences of that is she had been indoctrinated that America is an evil place,
00:08:23.900 that carrying out acts of violence are justified, that they are to be celebrated, that they are good.
00:08:29.900 And I will say the evil that the world saw on 9-11, this evil is becoming normalized. It's
00:08:35.980 spreading across this country. It's becoming domestic. It's not just a foreign threat.
00:08:40.800 And this challenge is only getting worse. I want to remind everyone that's listening or watching
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00:09:35.760 Senator, this next topic is one that I think is awesome from the standpoint that it shows
00:09:41.900 that when corporate America does something that is really kind of egregious and goes
00:09:48.780 against traditional family values, even America in general, there can be long-term consequences,
00:09:55.720 even if you don't see them instantly in the marketplace.
00:09:59.160 This will be studied in business schools, I'm convinced, for years to come as well.
00:10:03.980 And it's the demise of Nike, where they have lost not 200 million, not 20 billion, but 200 billion dollars in market cap has been wiped out.
00:10:14.920 And you can directly connect it to their woke, radical agenda they started pushing several years ago.
00:10:22.020 Well, the principle go woke, go broke is is a very true principle.
00:10:25.800 And yet corporate America repeatedly has been on the front edge of the woke DEI madness that that consume much of the country. 0.93
00:10:33.820 And if you think, okay, we're past that now because Trump got reelected, I think that is a foolish belief.
00:10:40.980 This nonsense will come back, and they're young 20-something, 30-something HR officials, DEI officials, corporate marketing officials who have been indoctrinated in this nonsense in colleges and universities. 0.85
00:10:53.300 And we saw it with Bud Light.
00:10:55.240 We saw it with Target.
00:10:56.200 And you look at Nike.
00:10:57.640 Look, Nike is a great American company.
00:10:59.600 and and nike made a corporate decision in the last decade to embrace left-wing politics uh they did
00:11:08.120 it most prominently with colin kaepernick colin kaepernick of course was the quarterback who
00:11:11.920 decided to kneel uh during the the national anthem and to do so in in opposition to what he he
00:11:19.820 described as as violence against african americans from police doing it to attack police officers and
00:11:25.000 say police are engaged in violence. And that became a left-wing cause celeb, that you should
00:11:31.000 not stand for the national anthem, that our country doesn't deserve respect, that our country
00:11:34.620 shouldn't be celebrated. And what did Nike do? They made Colin Kaepernick their front person.
00:11:41.080 They put him as part of a national campaign. They put him on a giant billboard in Times Square.
00:11:47.320 They celebrated him. This is what they embraced. And Senator, I think a really important data point
00:11:52.920 here is when they signed Colin Kaepernick and they pushed this agenda that you just mentioned
00:11:58.000 and the billboard in Times Square he was not actively playing in the league anymore that is
00:12:04.360 how much Nike went woke yeah and look Kaepernick made millions of dollars on it for him it was very
00:12:10.040 profitable to go woke because he no longer was getting playing time he was not performing at
00:12:14.620 the top of the level think about that what that's saying you know Nike really made their bones on
00:12:19.440 Michael Jordan and and they famously went into a deal where where Jordan got a percentage of
00:12:24.300 sneaker sales and it helped make Michael Jordan a billionaire but Michael Jordan was also the
00:12:30.360 greatest basketball player to ever play and and so they're going all in on someone who was
00:12:34.000 extraordinary at sports and and was a a hell of a marketing image a personality an athlete for
00:12:42.260 for the centuries. Kaepernick wasn't even playing at that point. What they were celebrating
00:12:49.820 is the America hate. And that was, it was a decision. It was a decision that I guarantee
00:12:56.860 it was made by some 30-something woke little schmuck who said, this is a great idea. And by 0.98
00:13:03.260 the way, the next summer, they had a 4th of July themed Air Max sneaker that featured the Betsy
00:13:09.800 Ross flag and then Kaepernick was feeling his oats I mean he could now demand anything and he
00:13:14.860 said well I don't like the Betsy Ross flag and so what did uh what did Nike do it pulled the sneaker
00:13:21.980 because of concerns that the shoe could quote unintentionally offend and I gotta say for me at
00:13:28.280 least look I grew up I'm kind of a brand name guy like I use crest toothpaste I just like Nike is
00:13:34.540 what I always wore every tennis shoe I bought from like you know when I was five years old I would
00:13:38.140 wearing nikes as a kid growing up every tennis shoe i had was a nike uh every pair of shorts
00:13:43.100 and t-shirts i had what was nike you know as you know i play hoops twice a week i would always play
00:13:47.620 a nike and the kaepernick thing annoyed me and then when they did the betsy ross thing i said
00:13:52.600 you know what this is a company that has decided their business plan is to market anti-americanism
00:13:59.560 that they that that the country that young kids who are buying nike ought to be doing what
00:14:05.680 Kaepernick is doing. Ought to be hating the Betsy Ross flag. Ought to be kneeling during the national
00:14:10.320 anthem. Ought to be attacking America. And so I just decided, all right, look, who cares? I mean,
00:14:15.460 my buying habits are not of particular concern, but I decided I ain't going to wear this stuff
00:14:19.340 anymore. And I went out and I had to buy brand new tennis shoes, brand new shorts, brand new shirts.
00:14:23.780 I just went online and say, all right, there are other makers. I'm just going to buy. I'm going to
00:14:27.640 buy Adidas. I'm going to buy Reebok. I'm going to buy somebody else that has not built their
00:14:32.680 marketing business around anti-americanism and by the way nike didn't just do that that they also
00:14:38.620 went all in on the transgender issue and so they they partnered with with dylan mulvaney
00:14:44.560 uh the transgender man who identifies as a woman uh and they paid dylan mulvaney to sell
00:14:51.460 women's sports bras and leggings now dylan mulvaney i know this is a shocking thing to say
00:14:59.000 is not a woman. But the amazing thing, Ben, this was after Bud Light had lit itself on fire.
00:15:08.440 Yeah. So if you look at, I talk about this in my last book, Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural 0.89
00:15:12.920 Marxism in America. Bud Light was the number one beer in America. And they decided to make
00:15:20.460 Dylan Mulvaney their face of marketing, and they blew up their entire, it turns out,
00:15:25.240 And they had this young marketing executive who didn't like their customers, who looked down on their customers, and Bud Light obliterated itself over that decision. Nike looked at it, and then Target, you remember Target had these displays where they were marketing to two-year-old boys, or parents of two-year-old boys, tuck-friendly swimsuits so that little boys could pretend to be little girls by tucking their genitalia away.
00:15:53.380 I mean, this was aggressively, affirmatively marketing this stuff to children.
00:15:59.140 And there was a huge backlash against Target.
00:16:01.060 And in both instances, Bud Light and Target, billions of dollars were lost.
00:16:06.340 Nike said, well, you know what?
00:16:07.620 We want some of that.
00:16:10.080 And Nike last week, their stock fell to the lowest price in 12 years.
00:16:16.260 And I'm reminded of a famous quote from Michael Jordan, which is that Republicans buy sneakers
00:16:21.980 too.
00:16:22.280 When you tell half the country, I hate you, I look down on you, my politics, I'm a sneaker company, but I'm going to lecture to you that you too should hate America.
00:16:33.600 Well, it turns out there are real consequences, and Nike is facing those.
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00:18:08.940 Senator, I want to move to something that is concerning.
00:18:12.580 We have seen a massive rise, not just in this country, but also around the world of anti-Semitism.
00:18:19.800 We've also seen around the world Christians, those that identify as Christians that are being killed at a shocking rate around the world.
00:18:28.420 And what we're also seeing, and I think these are tied together hand in hand, massive open anti-Semitism in the U.S., many times from elected officials on the left.
00:18:38.740 And now we're starting to see just a straight up anti-Christian rhetoric, this time coming from El Saeed in Tallarico.
00:18:46.240 He's running for Senate in Texas.
00:18:48.200 And I think these two stories are absolutely tied together where you get people numb to it. 0.89
00:18:54.260 And then you can start coming out and just saying, hey, I hate Christians, too.
00:18:58.040 Well, what we're seeing is the rise of radicalism and the rise of radicalism manifested in a terror plot in New York that thankfully the FBI just stopped.
00:19:05.540 the rise of radicalism manifested in corporate America and Nike making the decision to go all
00:19:10.660 in on anti-Americanism. And the rise of radicalism in the Democrat Party, the rise of Marxism and
00:19:17.440 Islamists, not as fringe characters in the parties, but at the very heart of the party,
00:19:23.360 where the energy is, where the young people are. And I'll say two candidates in particular who are
00:19:28.960 really extreme, although there are others and we've covered them at great length. But let's
00:19:32.080 talk about James Tallarico, and let's talk about Abdul Al-Sayed. James Tallarico is the Democrat
00:19:36.720 nominee in Texas, and this is a guy who styles himself a preacher and yet is as woke and radical
00:19:45.100 as you have ever seen, and I want to focus on a couple of things Tallarico has said, and for one
00:19:51.680 thing, he gave a sermon. He gave a sermon. Now, this may surprise you. The title of the sermon is
00:19:57.500 God is not a Christian. Now, this guy is theoretically a Christian pastor. Here's
00:20:04.200 what he stood up and said. There's so many pathways to the sacred. The Islamic mystic
00:20:09.620 Rumi said, every religion has love, but love has no religion. God is so much bigger than our human
00:20:14.640 categories. Quote, God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all.
00:20:22.120 God is a verb. God is not a being. God is being self. God is love, and that's why Jesus is against
00:20:28.480 anything that gets in the way of love between neighbors, including religion. Now, I don't know
00:20:34.700 what the hell that is, but I'll tell you what it isn't. It isn't Christianity. When James Tallarico 0.61
00:20:40.660 stands up and says, God is not a Christian, Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man
00:20:46.180 comes to the Father but by me. That's what Jesus preached, and we see this pattern. By the way,
00:20:53.400 there are others. You look at the Democrat who was running for Senate in Kansas who likewise stood up
00:20:59.180 and preached that, hey, you know, you don't have to believe in Jesus to be saved. Now, look,
00:21:04.680 someone is entitled to believe that, but the heart of Christianity, the essence of Christianity
00:21:09.180 is that, yes, you do. You do have to believe in Jesus to be saved, and yet
00:21:14.100 tallarico is leaning in and saying god is not a christian and he's claiming that is in fact
00:21:21.560 christianity that is also sadly the heart of today's democrat radicals yeah it is it's part
00:21:29.000 of it and and you look at just these two individuals one of the reasons which i also
00:21:33.800 think is the scary part is tallarico is is a you know a wolf in sheep's clothes here where
00:21:42.180 They ran him in Texas saying, hey, this will be palatable to conservatives and independents.
00:21:49.520 You're going to have a guy here who is a pastor, right?
00:21:52.920 That's how they rolled him out.
00:21:54.980 But when you start looking at his sermons, you find this level of radicalism.
00:22:00.020 Yeah, it's how they market him.
00:22:00.940 But you find this level of radicalism, and it's on so many different things.
00:22:05.340 He said that you're like, what world are we living in if this is the definition of a pastor?
00:22:09.880 Well, Tallarico also, in the same sermon, stood up and explained the top reasons why beer is better than religion.
00:22:18.160 Number one, when you have beer, you don't knock on people's door trying to give it away.
00:22:23.620 Number two, there are laws against forcing beer on minors who can't think for themselves.
00:22:28.320 Number three, nobody's ever been burned at the stake because of their favorite brand of beer.
00:22:31.760 Number four, you don't have to wait more than 2,000 years for a second beer.
00:22:36.220 now i'd look i i could see david letterman doing that top 10 list but this is a christian pastor
00:22:44.060 and the things he is mocking is there uh are there hypocrites among christian pastors among
00:22:52.060 christians of course are there things to make fun of televangelists all of that is is certainly
00:22:56.560 legitimate and and worth making fun of but what is he making fun of the first thing he's making
00:23:01.020 fun of is knocking on doors trying to give it away is actually preaching the gospel is evangelism
00:23:05.920 I mean, he's laughing at that.
00:23:08.940 He's saying there are laws against forcing beer on minors who can't think for themselves.
00:23:12.900 He's saying you shouldn't preach the gospel to kids.
00:23:14.720 You shouldn't teach your kids the Bible.
00:23:18.420 The joke, you don't have to wait more than 2,000 years for a second beer.
00:23:23.420 Okay, that's just, there is a reason why he said, and this is his own words, he is embarrassed to be a Christian. 0.52
00:23:32.040 Well, you can tell, because for him, his politics is front and center, and that's part of the problem on the left, is that politics has become their faith.
00:23:45.940 It is replaced, you know, look, you and I both go to the same church, First Baptist Church in Houston, and I will say, as a believer, one of the things I look for in a pastor, in fact, front and center, is the pastor following the Bible?
00:24:01.460 is the pastor, when the pastor preaches on Sunday, is he reading from Scripture and teaching
00:24:07.680 Scripture and looking to the Bible for truth? What is missing from this sermon, he does invoke
00:24:16.260 an Islamist mystic, but what is missing is actually the Bible, the Word of God, and that 0.95
00:24:22.520 radicalism, let's take another piece of it with Tallarico, which is the horrific case
00:24:30.000 uh in texas of carmelo anthony now carmelo carmelo anthony stabbed a a teenage boy a
00:24:38.940 white football star stabbed him in the chest and murdered him yeah and and it there's no dispute
00:24:43.960 that he's guilty there's no dispute that he did it he walked up and just murdered this kid and 0.92
00:24:48.740 it's become a racial cause celeb and and what tallarico said in an interview on a black radio
00:24:57.980 show. He said the conviction of Anthony is proof that the criminal justice system, quote,
00:25:05.340 is not working for black Texans. Right now, we've got a system that doesn't serve all Americans
00:25:10.540 equally, and we know that black Texans have been, have not gotten the justice they deserve. 0.72
00:25:17.540 Now, let me ask, what the hell does Tallarico want? Does he think it's okay to stab teenagers 0.98
00:25:22.660 in the heart and murder them he is literally arguing we should not convict and imprison
00:25:29.300 murderers and there's no dispute about guilt everyone knows anthony committed the crime 0.97
00:25:33.960 but because of the race hustlers who say well yeah but but he's a black teenager so apparently
00:25:39.140 murdering this this by the way this white kid who did nothing there was no no impetus for this other 0.53
00:25:45.200 than just cold-blooded murder and yet tallarico embraces that and says hey this is proof the
00:25:52.860 system is rigged this is an example of a political ideology dominating the radicals and the democrats
00:26:00.400 yeah you talk about tallarico there and and even you know al-said it's interesting to see what he
00:26:06.900 actually believes in and then he tries to morph into uh this like christian faith thing he did
00:26:13.300 it on a podcast recently and it just didn't land very well take a listen oh you know jesus peace
00:26:19.320 and blessings be upon him was considered radical in his time too and there is a radical nature
00:26:26.700 to being willing to stand forthright in a time of corruption wow i mean you start mixing face there
00:26:34.880 and and and saying that jesus was a radical not in the way that he thinks radicalism should be
00:26:40.380 let's be clear, like they're very different radicals here. Yeah, look, Jesus was a radical,
00:26:45.560 but what Al-Sayed is doing is comparing himself to Jesus and saying, I'm just like Jesus, and I
00:26:49.760 got to say, no, he's not. And yet, listen to Chuck Schumer embracing Al-Sayed. Look, the bottom line
00:26:55.940 is we're going to win Michigan. Let me tell you why we're going to win Michigan. First, Al-Sayed
00:27:00.880 has brought in new energy and new talent into the Democratic Party. Well, Schumer says that Al-Sayed
00:27:09.580 has brought new energy and new talent into the Democrat Party. I've got to say there's nothing
00:27:13.800 new about Islamism. There's nothing new about Marxism. What is new is that the Democrat Party
00:27:20.980 is embracing it. And Schumer, listen, all that Schumer cares about is winning. And so if he has
00:27:26.580 to embrace the Mondamis of the world, the El Saeeds of the world, the Tallaricos of the world,
00:27:31.720 Schumer and the Democrat leadership is prepared to do that. And that radicalism is, and by the way,
00:27:37.300 that radicalism will consume Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer cannot win a Democrat primary,
00:27:41.900 and yet he's going to try to keep embracing these radicals and embracing them more and more.
00:27:47.280 And that is, you know, I've said before, there's some Republicans who are celebrating it going,
00:27:52.620 okay, this is great. The Democrat Party has gone nuts. That means we're more likely to win in 0.89
00:27:56.500 November. Listen, I don't celebrate it. We have two major parties in this country. Politics in
00:28:02.580 America has been a pendulum. At some point, the Democrats will win. They will win the White House.
00:28:07.440 And I would like two parties that have relatively normal, sane people. I'm not celebrating one of
00:28:15.040 our two parties being an openly communist, Islamist, radical party, because that's bad 0.85
00:28:22.080 for America. And yet Democrat leadership is enthusiastically embracing it. All right, 0.84
00:28:27.560 Senator, I want to get into this national security issue, the media not talking about it.
00:28:32.580 But Hassan Piker's got a wingman brother. He is a space engineer with security clearance.
00:28:38.680 Now, that on its face, not a big deal. What's a big deal is the details behind the brother.
00:28:44.360 Well, let's start with Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker is a radical. This entire show,
00:28:48.800 we've been talking about the radicals who sadly are becoming more and more commonplace on the
00:28:54.100 left, more and more commonplace in the Democrat Party. And Hassan Piker is a great example of
00:28:58.440 he's an influencer who the Democrats have embraced. He is a communist. He is an Islamist.
00:29:04.460 He hates America. He routinely rails. He hates African-Americans. He hates white Americans. He 1.00
00:29:10.420 hates the United States of America. He has said, and this is a quote, America deserved 9-11.
00:29:18.080 This is, and by the way, Abdul Al-Sad and other Democrats campaign with him, embrace him.
00:29:23.900 look by when they stand next to him and and both figuratively and literally embrace him that they're
00:29:30.200 saying they support his ideas well turns out hassan piker has a brother and his brother is in a
00:29:36.800 position that if he believes the same thing hassan does he's in a position to do real damage here
00:29:41.540 here's a story from the from the washington free beacon hassan piker's younger brother is an
00:29:46.220 aerospace engineer with security clearances who spent years working on u.s military projects for
00:29:52.180 Boeing, projects that include Air Force One and the top-secret, quote, doomsday plane designed for
00:29:59.880 nuclear war. Now, let's see, is this guy, maybe the brother, he doesn't have anything to do with
00:30:05.080 Hassan Piker, he doesn't agree with his views, maybe they're estranged, that might be a different
00:30:09.000 circumstance. Well, turns out that is not the case. Let me continue reading. Murat Piker, an engineer
00:30:14.860 who spent more than a decade at Boeing, regularly appears on his older brother's controversial social
00:30:21.700 media channel and has also accompanied him to events. Hassan has declared that, quote,
00:30:29.640 America deserved 9-11, bragged about his support for Hamas, spoken in favor of Iran's right to
00:30:34.320 defend itself, and blamed Iran's death to America and great Satan rhetoric on the United States, 0.65
00:30:39.360 quote, messing around in the Middle East. Well, his kid brother, Murat, worked as a full-time
00:30:46.160 employee at Boeing for more than a decade, and left on his own, of his own volition, earlier this
00:30:52.060 year. He said, quote, my background includes significant experience at Boeing Space and
00:30:58.660 Defense, where I led mechanical design and integration for next-generation satellite
00:31:02.680 structures, managed high-pressure anomaly investigations, and defined structural
00:31:08.020 interfaces across subsystems. That's what Murat says on his LinkedIn page.
00:31:13.040 uh murat and hassan piker were both born in new jersey but they did their primary and their
00:31:20.840 secondary schooling in turkey uh murat worked on air force one uh and and you just you have to ask
00:31:29.540 i don't know if if murat shares his brother's hatred for america his brother's embrace of
00:31:35.560 radical Islam. But given that they have done Hassan Piker's show repeatedly together,
00:31:44.080 gone to events together, that is a reasonable inference, and it's a reasonable question.
00:31:48.780 And it raises the question, listen, if this is someone that hates America and wants to do
00:31:53.040 damage to America, what harm could he do with security clearances working for Boeing and for
00:31:58.260 the military on very, very sensitive projects? Yeah, very sensitive projects. And, you know,
00:32:04.460 when you look at this it's being exposed i'm glad by the way for the work the washington free beacon
00:32:10.060 has done yet again another example senator of a major story that has national security implications
00:32:16.780 and the mainstream media just completely looks the other way well they do because they don't
00:32:25.400 want to cover this that they don't want to cover the fact and and and understand that that when
00:32:30.680 Chuck Schumer, when Abdul El-Sayed had been asked, do they distance themselves from Hassan
00:32:39.060 Piker? They consistently say no, that they want these radicals. Here, give a listen to Ro Khanna,
00:32:45.540 who is the Democrat congressman being asked if Democrats should distance themselves from
00:32:52.060 radical Hassan Piker. You stuck your neck out for progressives like Abdul El-Sayed. You also
00:32:56.420 supported Plattner before the allegations came out. You've also stuck your neck out for Hassan
00:33:01.060 Piker. And you've seen that Hassan Piker is now being attacked 24-7 on Fox. Here's Haley Stevens
00:33:07.140 going on Fox and saying, well, the first thing, you know, how El-Sayed could moderate to voters 0.99
00:33:12.620 is to get rid of the Piker affiliation. You've seen Neera Tanden retweet Laura Loomer's attack 0.95
00:33:18.520 on Hassan Piker. Your comment on Hassan Piker, what should the Democrats do with him? Should
00:33:25.260 they abandon him do you renounce your support of him you tell me ro give it to me straight
00:33:30.700 it's absurd i i mean this these are the same people who were at one point criticizing
00:33:36.880 democrats for going on joe rogan i mean remember when bernie went on joe rogan the same the people
00:33:43.240 who said oh you can't go on joe rogan these are the same folks who criticized me when i got went
00:33:47.540 on ben shapiro should i not go on ben shapiro's podcast because i disagree with him we had an
00:33:53.660 a horrible argument on the minimum wage.
00:33:55.820 Just because someone is engaging with Hassan Piker,
00:33:59.980 who has strong viewpoints on these issues,
00:34:03.620 doesn't mean that you're endorsing
00:34:05.380 every single one of Hassan Piker's positions.
00:34:08.700 And if you're going to argue
00:34:10.620 that we should exclude left-wing commentators,
00:34:15.860 and frankly, some of these people were arguing
00:34:18.760 that we should be canceling
00:34:19.800 and excluding right-wing commentators,
00:34:21.460 you're left with a a party that is basically a status quo party that's why we lost two elections
00:34:28.080 but by the way i i love how he's sitting there he's like oh it's no different than me going on
00:34:32.840 ben shapiro's show um ben ben shapiro is not a radical in the way that you would have to defend
00:34:38.900 the son piker and yet to compare that you're going oh i just take a risk on these guys because
00:34:43.520 you know i'm not gonna agree with everything they say look at what you're endorsing it is
00:34:48.100 radical, extreme, and crazy. Well, and look, Ro Khanna was someone who got elected to Congress
00:34:54.740 from Silicon Valley. He was someone who got elected with the support of the tech bros. And
00:34:59.640 his initial brand was kind of a moderate common sense Democrat. And then he looked around the
00:35:04.960 Democrat Party and said, wait a second, nobody wants moderate common sense Democrats. And so
00:35:09.040 he's decided to go hard, hard left. As the beginning of that interview showed, he went up to
00:35:14.580 Maine and embraced Graham Plattner and said, hey, this is great, you know, a Nazi communist, 0.77
00:35:18.500 my kind of guy. And so, you know, you listen to what Kanna said there. He said, well, 0.74
00:35:25.040 just because they're engaging, that was the verb he used, engaging with Hassan Piker. Let's be clear,
00:35:31.800 Al-Sayed is not engaging with Hassan Piker. He's not saying, you know, Hassan, I actually think
00:35:36.400 you're wrong when you say America deserved 9-11. I don't think we deserve to be attacked by
00:35:41.460 Islamist terrorist who murdered nearly 3,000 people. They're not engaging. They're embracing. 0.92
00:35:46.920 They're celebrating. They're adopting. It is who they are. And I will say, you know,
00:35:51.960 there's the old line that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
00:35:57.460 Ro Khanna is rich as hell. And the latest news story said he traded $165 million in trades.
00:36:08.800 He made over 5,000 trades last year
00:36:12.680 I don't think members of Congress
00:36:14.200 Should be buying and selling stock
00:36:15.800 And getting rich 0.55
00:36:16.720 And this is a great example of the hypocrisy 0.72
00:36:19.440 Which is that they embrace Marxism 1.00
00:36:22.420 While living as complete and utter hypocrites 0.98
00:36:24.820 Yeah, it's a great point there 0.98
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