Verdict with Ted Cruz - Trump vs. Harvard, plus Tesla Terrorist Released from Jail BECAUSE He's Transgender

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00:00:05.200 Welcome in his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.620 It's so nice to have you with us on this Monday morning.

00:00:10.800 And Senator Harvard sure is making you proud right now.

00:00:14.460 It really is extraordinary.

00:00:15.940 President Trump has publicly announced that the administration is going to end Harvard's tax-exempt status.

00:00:23.340 This administration is going to war with the nation's oldest and most prestigious university.

00:00:28.580 The stakes are massive.

00:00:30.520 They're tens of billions of dollars.

00:00:32.240 The stakes are can a university getting federal funds discriminate based on race?

00:00:37.460 Can they promote anti-Semitism? 0.68

00:00:39.860 The establishment will roar back mightily.

00:00:42.580 It's going to be a serious legal fight.

00:00:44.020 We're going to break down what's likely to play out, what the basis is of what the administration is doing,

00:00:49.140 and what the risks are of what the administration is doing.

00:00:52.360 We're also going to break down a really amazing story.

00:00:55.360 We've covered previously Elon derangement syndrome and how it's led to domestic terrorism, firebombing of Tesla factories.

00:01:03.300 Well, we now see a story where Elon derangement syndrome is merging with just out-of-control wokeness.

00:01:11.960 And one of these domestic terrorists that firebombed a Tesla dealership has been released from federal custody.

00:01:18.840 Why is that? Because the terrorist is transgender. 1.00

00:01:22.820 And the judge ruled, well, the gender transition treatment was more important than punishing domestic terrorists, 0.70

00:01:29.740 so you've got to let them out of jail.

00:01:31.180 It really is astonishing.

00:01:32.380 We're going to walk you through those facts as well.

00:01:34.760 Yeah, it is amazing to see what can get you out of jail.

00:01:37.700 If I ever get arrested, I'm just letting you guys know I'm going to identify as a chick.

00:01:41.240 So we just want to get that on the record.

00:01:42.980 You can use it, America, how you want.

00:01:44.380 And I, for one, find that very plausible, Ben.

00:01:48.160 I think you look cute in tennis skirts.

00:01:53.200 Just wait.

00:01:53.920 If you ever get arrested, I'm just saying, there's a good chance you'll do it, too,

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00:03:48.260 All right, Senator, so let's get into this issue with Harvard.

00:03:51.280 Donald Trump calls to remove Harvard's tax-exempt status.

00:03:55.700 Let's explain exactly why he's saying that and what made this all become such a big deal so quickly.

00:04:01.900 Well, Harvard is the oldest university in America.

00:04:04.480 It was founded in 1636.

00:04:06.620 It is the wealthiest university in America.

00:04:08.800 It has a $53 billion endowment.

00:04:12.040 And for a long time, it's been the most prestigious university in America.

00:04:15.420 And I think President Trump is exactly right going after Harvard because it is the birthplace of woke.

00:04:24.160 As you know, my last book, Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America,

00:04:29.300 I describe colleges and universities, and especially Harvard, as the Wuhan lab of the woke virus. 0.97

00:04:36.740 It's where it was invented.

00:04:38.400 It's where it mutated.

00:04:39.840 And it's where it spread.

00:04:40.800 Now, going after Harvard and denying them their tax-exempt status, what does that mean?

00:04:46.760 If their 501c3 status is revoked, it means Harvard pays taxes, just like a for-profit institution.

00:04:53.640 It also means contributions to Harvard are no longer tax-deductible.

00:04:59.560 So if you give money to Harvard, you can't deduct them from your taxes.

00:05:02.400 Because both of those are a huge, huge deal.

00:05:06.920 If that happens, if the Trump administration follows through, Harvard will litigate.

00:05:11.340 They will go to court.

00:05:12.580 And this will be a battle that will go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:05:15.740 And on one level, the Trump administration's legal arguments are very strong.

00:05:21.300 But at another level, it's an uphill fight given who the Supreme Court is.

00:05:25.300 So we're going to break down both pieces of that.

00:05:27.960 Why is the legal argument strong?

00:05:29.820 Well, I'll tell you the case that would be front and center if this goes to the court

00:05:36.100 is a case called Bob Jones University v. United States.

00:05:39.900 And it was decided by the Supreme Court in 1983.

00:05:43.040 And what happened in 1983 is the IRS revoked the 501c3 status of Bob Jones University

00:05:51.180 because Bob Jones University had a policy that prohibited interracial dating.

00:05:58.260 There was another school, Goldsboro Christian Schools, that had a racially discriminatory admissions policy.

00:06:05.500 And likewise, the IRS revoked Goldsboro's 501c3 exception.

00:06:11.360 That case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

00:06:13.660 The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the IRS could revoke the 501c3 exception.

00:06:19.780 And they did so by concluding that it was contrary to public policy.

00:06:25.060 To promote racial discrimination was contrary to public policy objectives in the United States.

00:06:32.360 And that will be the basis.

00:06:34.280 It was 8-1.

00:06:35.600 Chief Justice Berger wrote the majority opinion.

00:06:38.220 There was only one dissent.

00:06:39.560 The dissent was William Rehnquist, who wrote a dissent and said,

00:06:42.180 look, under the terms of 501c3, under the statute, they don't specify whether the purposes are good or bad.

00:06:49.020 And so we shouldn't allow them to do that.

00:06:51.400 But eight justices said, well, yes, we should.

00:06:53.960 And that's what we do.

00:06:55.400 That will be the basis.

00:06:57.460 Now, under that case, Harvard has a real difficult time.

00:07:02.800 And it has a real difficult time because it has, for a long time, openly and brazenly discriminated based on race.

00:07:12.060 And it has also openly and brazenly created an environment that discriminates against Jewish students and promotes anti-Semitism.

00:07:22.260 Both of those are huge, huge factual problems.

00:07:25.900 And the facts, particularly at Harvard, there was just a scathing report on anti-Semitism that walked through the incredible pattern of anti-Semitism that Harvard has promoted, welcomed, and used to persecute Jewish students.

00:07:47.660 And that, on the face of it, is contrary to federal civil rights laws.

00:07:51.660 And so the Trump administration's legal argument on the merits is quite strong.

00:07:57.180 You look at the legal arguments here, and there's a lot of people that are going to just be angry about the story itself.

00:08:02.780 And the fact that you're rewarding people for going after Jewish students. 0.89

00:08:09.420 I mean, how is this not an award to the student by saying, hey, we're sanctioning what you did.

00:08:15.620 We know you're taking a bag of rap.

00:08:16.820 But, hey, here's a bunch of money for you to go ahead and say we're behind you.

00:08:20.960 That seems to be what the university is saying.

00:08:23.240 Otherwise, why on earth would you give this cash?

00:08:27.000 Yeah, look, and there are twin issues here.

00:08:29.540 The Trump administration has already cut $2 billion, frozen $2 billion in direct federal funds that it was sending to Harvard.

00:08:36.560 That's a big deal.

00:08:37.840 The 501c3 status is an even bigger deal.

00:08:41.060 And so both of those, the basic principle is if a university is violating federal civil rights law, if they're discriminating based on race, if they're discriminating against Jewish students, if they're discriminating against Anglo students, if they're discriminating against Asian students, all of which Harvard has been doing, why should the federal government be giving them money?

00:09:02.800 And why should they get a special benefit under the tax laws?

00:09:05.580 Now, why is it that I say this is an uphill fight?

00:09:09.260 Because the Supreme Court is an institution that is elite and that is very much birthed of the establishment.

00:09:18.120 Let me ask you, Ben, of the nine Supreme Court justices, how many of them do you think went to Ivy League schools?

00:09:26.400 I'm going to go with eight of the nine.

00:09:29.680 You would be correct.

00:09:30.960 Eight.

00:09:31.320 How many went to Harvard Law School?

00:09:33.060 Pause.

00:09:33.260 I finally got one right because this is what you do in this show if you're new.

00:09:37.320 I know.

00:09:38.460 He likes to haze me every episode with something he knows I don't know the answer to.

00:09:42.400 And I just, I, well, you just got it right in this moment.

00:09:45.560 Eight out of eight.

00:09:46.820 I'm one for a thousand right now.

00:09:49.640 Well, let's keep going.

00:09:51.580 How many do you think went to Harvard Law School?

00:09:53.500 I'm going to go with seven out of nine.

00:09:57.400 Four.

00:09:57.920 Four went to Harvard Law School.

00:09:59.220 Four went to Yale Law School.

00:10:00.780 And we're back to normal.

00:10:01.660 So of the eight justices, of the eight justices, four went to Harvard Law School, four went to Yale Law School.

00:10:06.720 So of the 18 degrees they have, college degrees and law degrees, of the 18 degrees, how many of them do you think are Ivy League degrees?

00:10:14.920 I'm going to guess nine out of nine.

00:10:19.820 Fifteen.

00:10:20.420 Fifteen out of 18.

00:10:22.200 The only one that doesn't have an Ivy League.

00:10:24.300 Okay.

00:10:25.040 Yeah.

00:10:25.580 The only one that doesn't have an Ivy League degree is Amy Coney Barrett, who went to Rhodes College in Notre Dame.

00:10:31.240 But if you look at it, this is an institution that is steeped, steeped in Harvard and the institution.

00:10:40.580 In fact, Elena Kagan was the former dean of the Harvard Law School.

00:10:44.320 And so I think they are going to be highly resistant to the notion that Harvard's 501c3 status can be revoked.

00:10:53.440 And I will tell you, they're also going to be concerned about the slippery slope of what happens with the next administration.

00:10:59.680 All right.

00:11:00.280 So, Senator, here's the question that I think a lot of people listening are going to want me to ask.

00:11:03.820 And that is, it sounds like this would be much of an uphill battle for the president.

00:11:07.880 I think he probably knows that his staff does.

00:11:10.580 But is this also as much about sending a message to other universities that if you think that we're going to turn a blind eye to this, you're wrong and we're going to be watching you closely?

00:11:20.680 Of course it is.

00:11:21.720 Look, Harvard is the big kahuna. 0.93

00:11:23.120 And so going after Harvard is meant to send a message to every other school that violating the civil rights law, discriminating based on race, discriminating against students on their skin color, on their race, on their religion, is contrary to federal law and there will be real consequences.

00:11:42.660 You look, for example, Harvard just released a scathing report on anti-Semitism on campus and it found that politicized instruction in four Harvard schools had, quote, mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as anti-Semitism.

00:12:03.180 And the four schools were the Graduate School of Education, the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Divinity School, because, of course, if you're studying divinity, you're going to be a racist, and the medical school, all of which have been targeted by the Trump administration for, quote, egregious records of anti-Semitism or other bias.

00:12:24.040 And the report concluded that at those schools, Jewish students and Israeli students were routinely ostracized and subject to instruction, quote, that effectively made a specific view on the Israel-Hamas conflict a litmus test for full classroom participation.

00:12:44.560 And let me give you one example, a required school course in the school of education taught something called the Pyramid of White Supremacy. 0.61

00:13:00.600 And this document is really, it's a chart, if you look at it on Twitter or online, it'll blow your mind, but it's a Pyramid of White Supremacy. 0.84

00:13:09.880 And here are all the things that it's describing as white supremacy.

00:13:14.100 At the top is the KKK.

00:13:15.840 Okay, we're agreed.

00:13:16.780 KKK, very bad.

00:13:18.660 I'm against. 0.97

00:13:19.920 Lynching, terrible.

00:13:21.300 I'm against.

00:13:22.440 Burning crosses, very, very bad.

00:13:25.700 Racial slurs, jokes, terrible. 0.95

00:13:27.540 Hate crimes, terrible.

00:13:29.520 Anti-Semitism, kind of interesting. 1.00

00:13:31.320 Bombing black churches. 1.00

00:13:33.520 Japanese incarceration. 0.99

00:13:36.500 Operation Wetback.

00:13:37.860 Now, Operation Wetback was an Eisenhower federal government program deporting illegal aliens.

00:13:43.580 So that is now white supremacy to deport illegal aliens.

00:13:47.240 And the Muslim ban, which was President Trump's policy in the first term that was restricting immigration from countries with high percentages of radical Islamic terrorism. 0.91

00:13:59.180 All right, so that's the first part of the triangle.

00:14:01.640 You can agree with some of it, you can disagree with some of it, but then it starts to get really loony.

00:14:08.680 You know what the next one listed is?

00:14:11.100 What is that?

00:14:13.140 The Anti-Defamation League, the ADL.

00:14:15.780 The Anti-Defamation League exists to fight against anti-Semites.

00:14:20.300 So, the Anti-Defamation League is, according to these radicals, an example of white supremacy.

00:14:28.760 What's the next one?

00:14:30.360 All Lives Matter.

00:14:31.620 So, if you say all lives matter, that's white supremacy.

00:14:34.280 You know what the next one was?

00:14:35.460 You're going to love the next one.

00:14:36.940 What's that one?

00:14:38.760 MAGA.

00:14:39.900 Well, of course.

00:14:40.780 You've got to add that one to the list.

00:14:42.100 Make America Great Again is white supremacy.

00:14:45.940 This is what's Harvard's teaching.

00:14:47.320 I'm going to just go through some more of these. 0.93

00:14:49.260 Illegal aliens, that's white supremacy. 0.99

00:14:51.680 Thugs, redlining, Hussein Obama, Confederate symbols, life after hate. 1.00

00:14:58.440 CVE, welfare queens, the war on drugs. 0.97

00:15:01.140 If you're opposed to illegal drugs, that's white supremacy. 0.59

00:15:05.420 Reverse racism, anti-affirmative action.

00:15:09.060 Anti-BDS.

00:15:09.980 So, if you are opposed to boycotting, divesting, and sanctioning Israel, then you're a bigot. 0.98

00:15:18.580 Black identity extremist, community policeman. 0.98

00:15:21.880 All right. 0.99

00:15:22.180 You know what else is white supremacy?

00:15:24.240 I can't wait.

00:15:25.160 Liking Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan or Ted Cruz?

00:15:27.740 I'll go with one of those three.

00:15:29.640 Well, those are all clearly on their chart.

00:15:32.140 They don't specify it, although MAGA was up right up top.

00:15:35.640 Color blindness.

00:15:36.940 Now, mind you, that is literally what Dr. Martin Luther King said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that we want a nation where people can be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. 0.56

00:15:48.920 But according to these radicals, Martin Luther King is apparently a white supremacist.

00:15:54.840 This is like a food pyramid for hating conservatives, isn't it? 0.88

00:15:58.220 It is.

00:16:00.140 I'm going to give you some other examples.

00:16:02.040 Mass incarceration.

00:16:03.760 TSA random searches.

00:16:06.180 Police apologists. 0.94

00:16:07.620 So, if you defend the police, you're a white supremacist.

00:16:12.500 U.S. military rescue operations.

00:16:15.300 Stop and frisk.

00:16:16.940 The myth of meritocracy. 0.95

00:16:19.860 Understand, if you believe in merit, these lunatics say that is racist.

00:16:25.620 English only.

00:16:26.460 The school-to-prison pipeline.

00:16:30.960 Victim-blaming.

00:16:33.420 Anti-Kaepernick. 0.91

00:16:35.200 So, if you don't like Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem, you are a white supremacist. 0.86

00:16:42.940 Columbus Day.

00:16:44.220 Mind you, it is a federal holiday, but never mind that.

00:16:47.040 And then it gets to the bottom of the pyramid, and it lists things like settler colonialism, slavery, Wall Street, the Great Recession, corporate interests, the stock market, greed, NAFTA.

00:17:00.940 Did you know NAFTA is white supremacy, according to this chart?

00:17:04.860 Outsourcing, McCarthyism, migrant workers, manifest destiny, the very settlement of America. 0.81

00:17:13.960 Oil pipelines are white supremacy.

00:17:16.400 The war on terror and the corporate media are all white supremacy.

00:17:22.220 This is wackadoodle stuff, and this is taught in a required course in the Harvard Education School.

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00:18:02.620 So, let's talk about the mindset of Harvard for a second and these other universities.

00:18:07.180 It does seem pretty clear that they believe that they're never going to be touched.

00:18:11.900 And even if they are, their endowments are so big that they think they're probably going to be just fine and liberals will continue to give.

00:18:21.660 Does that not go back to the point the president's bringing up, which is why the hell are we giving all of these places this money?

00:18:28.860 They're fine on their own.

00:18:30.520 They're acting like they don't need us.

00:18:33.080 They are hardcore against conservatives and others who don't basically go with this pyramid of hate of conservative ideals.

00:18:40.740 So, let's just decouple and say, you guys do you, and we'll keep our tax dollars.

00:18:46.980 Well, look, there's real value to that.

00:18:49.000 I will say that there is research money that is spent in colleges and universities that is worthwhile, that is useful.

00:18:55.620 There's scientific research.

00:18:57.000 There's research, say, at medical schools where you're trying to research the cure for cancer.

00:19:01.400 You're trying to research a cure for Alzheimer's.

00:19:03.720 You're trying to cure deadly diseases.

00:19:05.340 There is scientific research that the Department of Defense pays for, for example, that is developing high-tech lasers or other equipment that has significant defense needs.

00:19:17.960 And so, there is a role for scientific research.

00:19:21.580 And much of the scientific research that happens in our nation happens in research universities.

00:19:26.980 All of that would be fine if, and this is a big if, universities were not flagrantly violating federal civil rights laws.

00:19:38.620 Let me give you more from this report at Harvard.

00:19:41.700 At the Divinity School, Jewish students were subject to, quote, the embrace of a pedagogy of de-Zionization, in which instructors attribute to Jews two great sins.

00:19:58.560 First, in the Levant, the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. 0.88

00:20:06.140 And second, in the United States, participation in white supremacy.

00:20:12.220 So, the Harvard Divinity School teaches Jews the existence of the State of Israel is racist. 0.98

00:20:21.280 And Jews also, they teach, are white supremacists. 0.98

00:20:26.700 That is flagrantly in violation of federal civil rights laws. 0.90

00:20:30.520 And sadly, it is something that Harvard openly embraces.

00:20:36.940 As they fight this, final question, is there an opportunity through this legal challenge for us to even be able to find out more about what Harvard is doing?

00:20:46.520 Is that part of what could happen?

00:20:48.100 And the upside here is, hey, we get to ask more questions.

00:20:50.820 We get to see more behind the books.

00:20:52.560 We get to see more of the propaganda that we are talking about right now.

00:20:57.600 That is absolutely right.

00:20:59.520 And I'm going to say the facts are going to get worse and worse as they come out.

00:21:02.720 Harvard doesn't want people to know the facts.

00:21:05.080 So, for example, there were a whole series of stories that came out about the Harvard Law Review.

00:21:11.820 Now, what is the Harvard Law Review?

00:21:13.040 The Harvard Law Review is a legal journal that's at Harvard Law School that has 80 students who are student editors.

00:21:20.040 And getting on the Law Review is incredibly prestigious.

00:21:23.640 It is incredibly difficult to do.

00:21:25.360 Typical Harvard Law School class is about 560 people.

00:21:29.160 So you have about 40 people out of 560 that make it on the class, make it on the Law Review.

00:21:33.580 When I was there, I was on the Law Review.

00:21:35.780 When I was there, roughly half of the editors on the Law Review made it from a combination of grades

00:21:43.700 and a week-long, incredibly arduous writing competition.

00:21:49.280 Another roughly half made it from purely the writing competition.

00:21:53.120 But when I say roughly half, at the time, it was 32 were grades in writing, 32 were just writing,

00:21:59.340 and then eight were reserved for affirmative action.

00:22:02.040 That's when I was there.

00:22:03.420 Now, by all appearances, it has gotten much worse.

00:22:06.120 It was brazen then.

00:22:07.100 It was racially discriminatory then, but it is now much worse.

00:22:11.600 The Harvard Law Review now uses race explicitly to, number one, select their editors.

00:22:20.080 And by the way, becoming an editor at the Law Review increases your chances of getting a judicial clerkship dramatically,

00:22:25.940 increases your chances of getting a Supreme Court clerkship dramatically,

00:22:30.120 increases your chances of getting hired by a big, prestigious law firm that pays lots of money dramatically,

00:22:35.540 increases your chances of becoming a professor at a prestigious university dramatically.

00:22:40.900 So the Law Review is a major gateway to elite success in the legal world.

00:22:46.700 And the Harvard Law Review now, in writing, they are quite open in saying that they will discriminate for editors based on race,

00:22:55.800 and they will also discriminate on the articles they pick.

00:22:59.800 So, for example, in a 2024 memo, one journal article argued that the fact that the author was, quote,

00:23:07.460 not from an underrepresented background was a negative when it came to evaluating the piece for publication.

00:23:14.480 There is a, quote, holistic review committee, which now selects nearly half the student editors,

00:23:22.080 and has made the inclusion of, quote, underrepresented groups its first priority.

00:23:28.840 So, to be clear, what you're saying is...

00:23:31.260 This on the face of it violates Title VI.

00:23:32.480 So, to be clear, you're saying there's a chance now that if you were at Harvard you wouldn't get picked?

00:23:37.420 Is that what you're telling me?

00:23:40.160 You know, I don't know.

00:23:42.060 And you don't know...

00:23:42.840 So, I say that what's interesting about it is you genuinely don't know.

00:23:48.020 It was one of the things that they're very clever in how they discriminate,

00:23:51.180 because you don't know on what basis you were admitted.

00:23:54.420 I had the grades to get in on grades, and I think I did well in the writing competition,

00:23:59.260 but I have no idea which of the slots I was in, because nobody does.

00:24:02.800 They don't tell you.

00:24:03.800 They just announce the 40 editors that have gotten in.

00:24:07.200 So, I don't know, but I'll tell you a story I've told before.

00:24:10.980 So, when I was on the Law Review, there were a number of conservative editors,

00:24:14.820 and we made a run at ending affirmative action in the Law Review.

00:24:19.820 And I have to admit, I sat back.

00:24:22.720 We were all, 80 of us were gathered in a classroom, and we were debating this,

00:24:27.380 and there were some other students that were really kind of leading the charge,

00:24:30.540 some other conservatives.

00:24:31.520 I agreed with them, but I also could count votes.

00:24:34.940 And out of the 80 students, there were maybe 8 or 10 of us that were conservatives.

00:24:39.600 We were a tiny minority.

00:24:40.700 So, I was like, look, we ain't going to win the vote, but all right, that's fine.

00:24:44.200 Let's have the debate.

00:24:45.220 So, we're having the debate, and I was sitting in the back.

00:24:47.400 It was fairly quiet.

00:24:48.840 And I remember this one supercilious liberal stood up and said,

00:24:54.460 if we eliminate affirmative action, the Harvard Law Review will be nothing but white men. 0.85

00:25:04.140 And I have to admit, I was kind of a little bit checked out in the back of the room,

00:25:07.160 and I heard that, and that pissed me off.

00:25:09.120 And I said, you know what?

00:25:10.660 You want to understand why affirmative action is so insidious? 1.00

00:25:14.140 The arrogance of that imbecile just showed it. 0.99

00:25:18.000 His belief, as an enlightened leftist, is that if merit were the only criterion, 1.00

00:25:23.940 only white men would get in. 0.92

00:25:26.260 That no one who is African American would get in. 1.00

00:25:28.460 No one who is Hispanic.

00:25:30.200 And let's be clear, I'm Hispanic.

00:25:32.680 He's sitting there, and in fact, I told him, I said,

00:25:34.660 all right, big guy, you want to pull your transcript out and my transcript and drop them on the table right there?

00:25:39.940 Let's see what pure merit produces.

00:25:43.360 But there was something even more dripping in his leftist condescension,

00:25:49.060 which is at the time, the Harvard Affirmative Action Program did not include gender.

00:25:54.860 So there was not affirmative action for women. 1.00

00:25:58.320 And I said to all the women editors, do you hear what he just said to you?

00:26:01.580 He believes if it's pure merit, no women would make it.

00:26:05.940 And by the way, historically, all the women editors who were liberals

00:26:08.880 voted against adding gender to affirmative action

00:26:12.000 because they recognized that if it was added to it,

00:26:15.820 that people, it would devalue what they had accomplished.

00:26:19.560 But it showed the absolute arrogance of the left when it comes to embracing racism

00:26:27.900 because at the end of the day, they look down on the poor, benighted people

00:26:33.160 that will only succeed in life with their beneficence.

00:26:36.900 And by the way, the price for that beneficence is for them to be loyal and obedient for the rest of their lives.

00:26:43.340 I mean, that is the very explicit left-wing charter that affirmative action is based on.

00:26:49.720 Which brings us to another story where this stuff started on college campuses

00:26:53.960 and now it's made our way into courtrooms.

00:26:56.980 The Tesla arson suspect, one of them, and there's a lot of them out there, right?

00:27:01.820 But this one specifically, and we'll get to the story of what happened here in a second,

00:27:06.040 but has been, quote, released because of gender transition would be at risk if they didn't release.

00:27:14.820 So if you're going to jail, just say you're doing a gender transition 0.99

00:27:19.100 and apparently then the law cannot hold you accountable for your terrorist actions.

00:27:23.820 So there's an individual named Owen McIntyre who was on spring break in Missouri

00:27:28.920 and he firebombed two Tesla Cybertrucks.

00:27:34.240 He threw Molotov cocktails, he firebombed it, he got caught, and he was charged, charged with domestic terrorism.

00:27:41.900 And then what happened is his federal public defender argued that going to jail

00:27:47.820 will disrupt his gender-affirming medical care, which began in March of this year

00:27:54.320 and is likely to be interrupted or terminated entirely if he remains in pretrial detention.

00:27:59.440 And the federal magistrate judge bought that argument and let him go.

00:28:05.040 And let me say one of the craziest things about this story.

00:28:10.500 You and I, Ben, spent 20 minutes trying to figure out if this defendant is male or female.

00:28:17.940 By the way, he's not lying.

00:28:19.280 He's not lying.

00:28:19.960 I want to be clear about that.

00:28:21.080 We literally are Googling everything.

00:28:22.540 Like, is it a dude?

00:28:23.460 Is it a chick? 1.00

00:28:24.920 And we don't know what it is?

00:28:25.900 It's like, that's the insanity of the world we live in.

00:28:28.360 And we can't tell.

00:28:30.760 And you and I actually disagree.

00:28:32.720 So I think this is a person who was born female, who has decided that she is a he and wants to be a man. 0.99

00:28:40.540 And the reason I think that is we've Googled it, and every damn story uses he, he, he, he, he.

00:28:48.300 And given the insane Orwellian world we live in, I think if ABC is referring to this person as a he and the person is transgender, that that to me means the person was born a she. 0.94

00:29:01.260 Now, your argument is, Ben.

00:29:04.160 This is a dude that grew out his hair and looks like a chick. 0.77

00:29:07.160 Then why does all the media refer to this person as a he? 0.99

00:29:11.720 Because I think everybody's lost their damn minds. 0.99

00:29:14.320 That's what I think. 0.99

00:29:15.240 And I think, I mean, and the fact that we even are at the point where we have to have this discussion tells you how insane the world is.

00:29:23.600 You literally, every story I clicked on, I Googled it and clicked on story after story, and there's not one that actually describes the facts one way or the other.

00:29:33.620 Just so damned if I know, but either way, look, the federal prosecutors argue this person is a domestic terrorist.

00:29:41.420 They're throwing Molotov cocktails, and it is woke politics taken to the level of insanity that to get a sex change treatment is now reason to be forgiven for domestic terrorism. 0.94

00:29:57.160 Although, to be fair, it's not forgiven.

00:29:59.020 It's released from pretrial detention, but it is still insane.

00:30:02.140 Well, but it's helping you, right?

00:30:04.200 It's helping you not be held accountable for your actions, and it's also, I think, pretty clear that we're saying, if you want to not be held accountable for your actions, just claim something that's woke, and these radical judges will be like, oh, we totally understand.

00:30:20.140 Let's just change the rules for you because you're in our special protected class, and we want to see you succeed in your transgenderism, which is not supposed to be the job of the court. 1.00

00:30:30.820 Well, I got to say, this insanity is a big part of the reason Donald Trump won in November, and we got a Republican House and a Republican Senate, because I think a lot of people are looking at this and saying this stuff is crazy.

00:30:43.720 Amen to that.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 05, 2025

Trump vs. Harvard, plus Tesla Terrorist Released from Jail BECAUSE He's Transgender

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