Kamala Lies, Bill Blunders, and The Democratic Ticket Torn Asunder

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Victor Kursarupo, who has rooted out any number of leftist plagiarists,

many of them were

in the academy at Harvard and other places,

has run his magic plagiarism machine and found that Kamala Harris, too, is a plagiarist.

I don't know, Victor, is she the good kind of plagiarist?

Because we're not hearing too much backlash yet.

The New York Times said it was minor, but I looked at

Chris Ruffo is as accurate and dependable a source as he is unlike by the left for that very reason.

But when you look at the actual

lifting, it's quite sizable.

What the left has said, well, there was a whole book.

It was just minor.

And it didn't come from another author.

It came from Wikipedia and news releases, which is worse, I think.

And even the Wikipedia, as Christopher Ruffo wrote in the article, she screwed up.

She couldn't even copy it right.

But they're going to bury that.

But it's not going well for Jack.

And now she's pivoted and says, you know,

I'm desperate and I avoided the press.

I was going to run out the clock, but I got three weeks left and I can't do anymore.

I'm bleeding, so I'm going to take a gamble.

And I'm going to go on Brett Baer.

That would be Wednesday.

We're broadcasting on Tuesday.

Notice, Jack, she didn't say I'm going on Laura.

She didn't say I'm going on Hannity.

She didn't say I'm going on Jesse Waters.

It's, you know, Brett Baer is the, I guess, the more news and less opinionated.

But

she's, she's not going to, I think he understands that if he gives a softball interview and doesn't follow up on her Glock or her McDonnell, all of these lies, that

he's going to go newsmax.

I mean, he's going to bleed Fox out because people are really going to watch that.

And they're expecting,

if he doesn't do that, he's going to be in big trouble.

And I want to withhold judgment.

So I have no idea what he's going to do.

But the plagiarist, I mean, I guess they're trying to get a ticket with plagiarist

president, plagiarist replacement candidate, Joe Biden, the plagiarist.

Now we have Camilla Harris, the plagiarist.

And I don't know what we'll find out about Tim Waltz.

I guess he's a prevaricator.

I don't think lying is necessarily plagiarism, but that it doesn't, it's not a good look.

And

going on Joe Rogan, as she's trying to get on Joe Rogan, going on Fox, again, I go back to what we said earlier, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't have her.

She's the only candidate I've ever seen at a town hall that had a teleprompter.

And even that didn't work well.

So she can't think spontaneously, extemporaneously, ad hoc, and yet she knows she has to.

So she has to go out there.

She gets nervous and thinking, I'm going to screw up.

Then she screw up up self-fulfilling prophecies.

We've talked about this for 90 days.

It doesn't get better.

The question just simply is, to what degree do her surrogates and October surprises make up for it?

Well, the October surprises, Jack, we've seen them.

Not saying that they've shot all of their arsenal off, but the Zelensky fly-in didn't help them.

The Fed cut by a half, which now people think was not necessary.

In fact, might be counterproductive because inflation did not help them.

The Bob Woodward book about how bad Trump was did not help them.

I don't think the Trump movie that's coming out is going to help them.

And so Barack.

Barack Barack.

So then, yeah, actually, October.

Yeah, Bill Clinton.

You eat

your thoughts on Bill Clinton.

Yeah, well,

October surprise didn't work.

So then we go to the surrogates.

Bill Clinton goes up to a luncheon counter and the woman says, are you Joe?

Didn't even know who he was, thought he was Joe Biden.

Then she says, I'm Bill Clinton.

Then

she gets excited.

Then Bill Clinton, egomaniac, narcissist that he is, starts to ramble about Bill Clinton and about an administration that most of his audience doesn't even know anything about.

And then he starts to, I love Camilla so much, I'm going to trash her, that kind of stuff.

That's what he always does.

So then he says that we need illegal immigration because

we need all these poor Mexican-American and Central American people to do our labor.

And of course, we have seven or eight million U.S.

citizens out of work that would probably go back into the force if they had a competitive wage, which you really haven't had because of now you've got 12 million more people competing.

So, again, it's the idea that very liberal, progressive people who are all for minimum wage of $20 an hour in California on fast food want cheap labor.

He just said it.

And then the other thing that he said is that he wants them to come in, but they have to be vetted and they weren't vetted, which was a dig at Kamala Harris.

And

it didn't go his voice, I couldn't even recognize his voice.

I didn't know who was talking.

I don't know what it is.

I mean,

I've been around elderly people my entire life.

I had a grandfather that died at 87, another one who was gassed in World War I.

He should not have been able to, he had a very mellifilous voice at 79, but Joe Biden and Bill Clinton have that raspy cardiac voice.

I don't know what it is.

It's really

tragic and sad.

Anyway, he doesn't look good.

He looked tired.

He looked thin.

He looked pale.

He looked like the picture of Dorian Gray taking

out of the aisle.

Well, no need to comment, but his sins are all written.

He had a big spotch on one side of his face.

And I think his sins are written on him.

And

that didn't work well.

And then you get the leaking, the other leak, the Obama thing is a disaster.

It's not right-wing white MAGA people who are trashing him, although they are.

It's African-American people.

They said, wait a minute, you come in here and you get out of one of your mansions, either the Hawaii or

Calorama or Martha's Vineyard, and then you tell young black men who are they're supposed to vote for after their neighborhoods have become unsafe, after your successor and former vice president dumped all these illegal aliens into their neighborhoods, and after they have to pay 30% higher for insurance, food, gas, and you're telling them that because they're worried about these issues, they're either i.e.

misogynist or afraid of a powerful black woman or they're counterfeit black.

I mean, it was so,

Joe Biden.

What is it with all these people?

Joe Biden says to Charlemagne Charlemagne de Gaude, you ain't black.

He called another journalist junkie, anybody who he thinks wouldn't toe the 85 to 90 percent black line.

Then Barack Obama does it, and he has to mention who?

Barack Obama.

When I was president, you're not quite getting the turnout among the brothers.

That's the first time he's probably said brothers when he's been hanging out with all of the Netflix Silicon Valley CEOs from Wall Street.

But then he had the fake cadence, he did, and the brothers to his little street cred.

And I looked at the eyes of the people watching him.

They didn't want to hear him.

He was preaching to them about what they had to do.

And, you know, think about it.

Black males are about 45% of the black vote, which can be anywhere from 10 up, probably 10%.

Of that vote, they vote, probably they're going to vote 70% of all black males will vote Democratic.

White males, probably 60 to 65% won't.

So why isn't he going over to the white, why doesn't he go over to East Palestine to take an iconic place and say, hey, all you people, why does he just lecture black males?

It's because he is as much white as he is black.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, people pointed out that she's lecturing this black males in the same fashion.

In fact, she's not only lecturing black males, she's saying, hey, a million of you black males who are entrepreneurs, I'm going to give you $20,000.

We have $20 billion that we can use for race-based handouts and only, only black people, and she won't tell us who is black, to paraphrase Donald Trump.

Is she going to give $20,000 to people half black, like Barack Obama, or like herself, or one quarter black, one eighth black?

And what is an entrepreneur?

Is she going to define that?

It was just ludicrous.

And she's now, and the irony, of course, is she's telling these black young males they're authentically not black unless they vote for her,

who is half black and raised by a non-black mother.

And Barack Obama is echoing that, who was raised by a white grandparents who's only half black.

So

why do they claim that they're authentically black and they have claims on the loyalties of the black community who's really hurting.

And as far as racism, he said, you know, racist, racist, racist, racist.

I can quote you, I have, to probably the boredom of this audience.

You know, Donald Trump didn't say, put you all back in chains to a very accomplished group of black professionals as if they were children.

He didn't say junkie.

He didn't say you ain't black.

He didn't praise the white segregationist.

He didn't say that Barack Obama was the first clean black that ran.

He didn't brag that he was from a border slave state.

You could go on and on and on, but he has a whole history of racial tropes, Biden does.

And

so that hurt them.

And then finally, they're uncovering Jack all these videos from her past.

I mean, it's like a minefield, a diamond field.

Every time they pick up one, they thought, that can't be anymore.

And then they find another one.

The latest is on Columbus Day.

She goes and why she was vice president lectured this very wealthy immigrant who was not indigenous to North America.

Parentage came from India and Jamaica.

And she says, you know, that

basically Columbus and people like that.

I guess she was talking about Columbus because it was given on Indigenous Person or People's Day.

She says that they have a legacy of disease, rape, murder, theft.

I'm thinking, stop.

Do you have any idea of what tragedy is when two cultures collide rather than cheap melodrama, Camela?

So the Spanish came in to take one example into central Mexico, and they destroyed an empire of 4 million.

That empire

systematically in Auschwitz fashion murdered somewhere between 20 and 40,000 people a year by pulling their hearts out while they were still beating.

And the only reason that an army that never had more than 1,500 people at one time, maybe aggregate 3,000, but never more than

1,500 conquistados, why did they destroy an empire of 4 million?

Because most people joined them.

Why did most indigenous people join them?

Because they'd rather work with a Spanish white interloper than known murderers in their midst.

And, you know, and every time you have cross-fertilization, so the Spanish bring in

strains of malaria that were more virulent.

They bring in smallpox, they bring in whooping cough.

And by the way, recent research has not said that 11 million people died in Mexico, to take that example.

It's been downsize.

And what do they get in return?

It would be like saying,

well, as a European, we went to the New World to discover it, and we were given all these plagues by indigenous people.

They gave us cocaine.

We never had cocaine.

They gave us tobacco, Jock.

And they were growing sugar.

We found out some there were sugar and they gave us tomatoes and potatoes and

what else did they do to us?

They gave us certain things that we didn't like.

But mainly it was tobacco and syphilis.

So are the Europeans going to say we never really had cases of syphilis, nor did we we have cases of lung cancer through cigarettes until we met these awful indigenous people?

That's not how history works.

It's tragedy.

It's an intersplicing of two different cultures, and they have all sorts of nuances.

And, of course, when you're here and you're living on, is it Bel Air?

It's somewhere in Los Angeles in the wealthiest of all neighborhoods if you're...

Kamala, and you grew up with parents that were both PhDs, thanks to the generosity of this country as it accords immigrants.

And then you start attacking the civilization which you wanted to join.

I mean, nobody forced you to come from India.

Nobody forced you to come from Jamaica.

Your parents came on their own volition.

And they did quite well, by the way, quite well, because this country is not only an equal opportunity employer, but it tends the last 30 years to give special deference to people who are not so-called white oppressors.

So she's been a beneficiary with her parents, but her in particular, then the trash people,

it didn't go down well.

And it doesn't go down well when she's caught filming, chanting with a bunch of students.

No deportation, no deportation.

And think of the logic like that.

It's okay for me to let in 12 million illegal aliens, but if you deport one person, that is a crime.

Not a crime to bring them in against the law, but it is a crime to follow the law and deport them.

So all of of these things are popping up about her past.

She's now going to throw the dice one last time and down the stretch.

Hope that her billion, billion, billion dollar war chest will see her through.

tough interviews like Joe Logan and Brett Baer will help her.

By the way, I don't think the billion is going to help because we've talked about those commercials.

I watched them after we discussed it last time with the white guys talking about, you know,

that was a counter.

That was, I thought, wow.

When I first saw it, I thought, wow, Trump did this.

This is a Trump commercial.

You would say, I hope my daughter doesn't bring home one of these guys, any one of these guys.

It took about one nanosecond than the Republican counter,

I don't know what you'd call war room,

pointed out that all of them were actors.

I think half of them were gay,

which is okay, but they were all.

You're trying to pull the we're manly men.

If you're going to talk about that, then you go down the whole way.

And then if you're appealing to black males and you're getting gay actors to say that they are more macho than

anybody, then when we talked about the carburetor.

There's a lot of people singing macho man, yeah.

I take out the carburetors and I have them.

I eat them for breakfast.

You know,

I live on a farm, and the last carburetor that I can remember was,

I don't know, a 1970 truck.

I mean,

does the idiot ever hear of fuel injection?

So

I don't know what a carburetor is.

I don't think 99%

below the age of 60 know what a carburetor is, maybe.

So, and that was so out of it.

And then you had the Tim Waltz with the macho hunting, and he had problems.

I felt bad for him.

The Beretta shotgun, he couldn't load.

And they all look when these store-bought clothes, hunting,

it was almost like you said, like, if you're going to film a fake hunting commercial like John Kerry's Ducks, then please make sure that you go over in advance how to load the shotgun five or six times.

So when you start filming, it looks natural.

Number two, take those store-bought clothes and roll in the dirt a little bit or maybe get some stains on them or get a, have some guy guy go out and shoot a bunch of pheasants and then

put them in the bag so they bleed over.

Do something rather than look.

I don't know who these people are that are running that campaign.

It's like they want to lose.

And then the same thing with

Joe Biden.

If you're going to trash

DeSantis, who's doing this Herculean job as governor, and you're going to say he's selfish and he's awful because he didn't take your call,

then sit down in the war room, Kamala, and say, now, listen, I haven't called him, you guys, in four years as vice president.

I've never called, and they've had hurricanes.

So

what's the talking points that I call him now?

So come on, give me some talking points.

And then the other thing was, now make sure that when Biden gives the FEMA, he doesn't do a Chris Christie

Barack Obama hug or something right before the election that that really killed Romney.

So make sure that Biden, and what do they do?

She trashes DeSantis and Biden gets right up a minute later.

I'm exaggerating, but quickly says, and we're looking really good.

He's doing a great job.

DeSantis, I thought he was selfish.

He was mean because he wouldn't take your call.

So

I don't know what to say.

It's not been a good week.

It has definitely not been a good week for Kamala Harris.

It has not been a good week.

It's been an awful week.

I don't know what else to say.

Yeah, well,

we've got some more

politics to get your thoughts on, Victor, and some

legal warfare matters.

And maybe if we have time towards the end, we'll talk a little about Israel.

But right now,

we're going to hear some important messages.

And when we come back,

what will we talk about?

Let's talk about the Senate races when we're back.

Why don't we?

back?

Yeah.

Yeah.

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So Victor,

I'm thinking in 1980, you know, you've talked many,

you've talked about that race and how you know how far, quote unquote, behind Reagan was and what he won by against Jimmy Carter.

And of course, that margin of victory helped pull in a number of Senate seats and won the Senate for the Republicans at that time.

I think it was maybe the first time in,

I don't know, 25, 26 so years.

But

for the longest time, we well, West Virginia, that's Republicans will pick that up.

And maybe

Montana.

But those two races now seem quite

in the pocket for Republicans.

but other important senate races you know are percolating up into the uh what's safe democrat to lean to toss-up category and those are uh michigan wisconsin ohio and uh even pennsylvania where bob casey my classmate from holy cross who has I think been one of the least effective

empty suits of a senator.

He's been there for 18 years now.

He is

that race is getting very close.

So Maryland also, anyway, Victor, your thoughts on

how things are rolling out here.

You know,

I'm really shocked at Montana because Tester was kind of a Teflon guy.

He had the flat top.

He said he was a farmer.

He tried to look, I'm not being deprecored, everybody.

I'm not a cruel person, but he tried tried to have that slob look

when he was up for re-election.

He was a man of the earth.

Right.

And I'm speaking as someone who often looks like a slob, so I'm not just,

but my point is that

he's really, he just,

he's just, geez just destroyed him in the polls, at least.

And

it looks like I thought Benny Moreno, after all the hit jobs they did on him, and he was over outspent, that he would have no chance against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.

And I think it's almost even.

It's getting very close.

And so,

and then, of course, West Virginia is a lock.

I don't know

what Mike Rogers is doing, but on one poll, he's almost equal.

He's really come up.

He has all the momentum.

And Michigan is starting to trend toward Trump.

So I would say he has a 45% chance of winning now.

In Wisconsin,

man,

the businessman, I thought everybody laughed at him.

He was down, what, 10 points?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And now,

yep, it's a toss-up.

So I think they could be 53, 47 without much worry.

And if they can hold the House, and I think they will, if Trump can win, he could do a lot of things with the House and Senate because he's not going to one of the things things people for I don't think appreciate when he ran in 2016

and he won he had all those senators that hated him more than Democrats remember Jeff Flake

and he was supporting Kamala Harris yes yeah

and he had John McCain he had about five of them he they've all been rhinoized so if he wins he's going to have a MAGA Senate and a MAGA House for all practical purposes.

It's not going to be Mitt Romney in the Senate trying to stir up trouble.

And so

this is pretty important.

And the momentum is starting to shift.

Again, I don't want to do it too much, but it's like 1980.

People just watch the scene.

It's kind of like you're in a party and you look at, you're there for four hours and you don't really know much.

And

a guy comes up to you and starts talking.

And then you watch him interact with other, and you don't want to have a bad first impression, but he's kind of creepy, arrogant, narcissistic.

And then you see him, and then there's the dinner, and you end up sitting next to him.

You get another impression.

You don't want to hold, you want to withhold judgment.

But after a while, you finally, right before you leave, you say, yep,

I was right.

I'm done.

I don't want to be around that guy.

And that's what I think they're doing with Camilla Harris.

They're saying, you know, I gave her a chance.

She was young.

She wasn't Joe Biden.

She wasn't non compos mentes.

She had her faculties.

Tim Waltz looked like a nice guy from the Middle West.

I can understand it.

Maybe I would have preferred that they had an open convention and let Gavin fight it out with, you know, Gretchen Whitmer or Josh Shapiro or somebody.

But, you know, they wanted to go, I'll go along with that.

And then everything started to bother her.

Wow, she's not giving interviews.

Wow, all she says is when they ask her questions, even in softball prearranged interviews, she just says, I grew up middle class.

That's all she does.

I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

Well, they've been giving her the benefit of the doubt for over 90 days.

And I think now they're just saying, you know what?

Now she's desperate, and she's trying to buy black votes with giveaways.

She's trying to copy Trump's proposals.

She's flipped on every single issue from the border to crime.

She was for defund the police.

She says she has a Glock gun.

I remember when she was governor, she tried to outlaw models of Glocks.

She won't tell us where she bought it, when she bought it, Ditto, McDonald's, where she worked, when she worked.

I had it with her.

I'm done.

Jigs up.

Bam.

And

I think the left is really hurting themselves because they don't know what to do.

You see, everybody, they hate us.

They hate the middle classes.

They hate the

upper middle class, middle middle class, lower middle class.

And yet they understand that

they can't hang on to power unless they fool that class, but they never around that class.

You know,

Dana Bash or that Martha,

whatever her name is, that J.D.

Vance just had for dinner the other day in an interview, Raddick or whatever, Raznik or whatever her name was.

He just destroyed her in that interview.

And so they're never around the middle class.

So then they make these commercials about what they think the middle class is like, and they end up to be counterproductive caricatures.

They're just laughable.

Or when they think they have to talk to middle-class blacks, you all,

and then

she literally in a week, she faked a Jamaican accent, a Mexican accent, and a black accent, and all badly.

They were kind of like Hillary's, I'm so tired.

I didn't come all this way.

Oh, yeah, Hillary, he didn't even do it right.

And the Boilermaker she did, she went to a bowling alley that year, and then John Kerry put on his hunting suit and had a couple of ducks by the neck.

It's all fake.

It's really, it's fake.

And

everybody's, I think that's what they've done.

One of the allures of the great, late, great James Buckley, who I love dearly and was a friend of.

And he was a senator from New York in 1970, not one term.

But he went, they tried to get him to do that, go into the bar and have a beer.

And he'd go in and order a cognac.

But that's what he was you know i think people appreciate the authenticity of people you know

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Hey, Victor,

you mentioned J.D.

Vance and you mentioned how he embarrassed that ABC interviewer.

And he's just been.

terrific, I think.

Yeah, I said that on Fox the other night, I think,

last night with Laura.

Everybody, I mean, I'll be candid.

I thought he was going to be really good.

I understood why people were apprehensive because the old vice president calculus didn't apply to him.

He's white male like the presidential candidate Trump.

He's from a state that he doesn't, it's not going to be in play.

They're going to win Ohio.

And maybe Rubio or Tim Scott might have been better.

But

I've seen him talk and I've talked to him in the past.

And that guy is very quick on his feet.

He's really sharp.

He's very well educated, and he's

he doesn't ⁇ I mean, I know that people think he flipped, but he was brought up in poverty, and he understands the pretensions of the bicoastal elite.

And I always thought that he would be the best spokesman for Trump, and he's really exceeded my expectations.

He's really, he just,

they go on.

They don't want him on there anymore.

He just eviscerates them.

And then he gets those sound bites they keep playing afterwards that make it even worse.

He's been excellent.

He really has.

He's helped Trump in so many ways.

And compare him to Tim Waltz.

He was brilliant on that debate for one reason.

Everybody thought that he was going to go in there with a whole list of Waltz's lies and be vicious and just, you know,

draw and quarter him, which he could have done.

But he went in there smiling, and his point was, I'm going to make this guy look like an idiot, but I'm going to do it so politely and professionally that you're going to end up liking me because all the lies they've told about me, I'm going to show you they're not true.

And that's what he accomplished.

I just looked the other day at a poll that he is rating higher now in favorability than his waltz.

And he was way down there, like 30%.

He's up to like 52%.

And on the basis of that debate and then the interest that followed in him and people are watching him.

And I think it's going to be, that was a, you know, when she kept saying, my first choice, my first choice as a candidate was Tim Walton.

Yeah, that's going to haunt you.

He is a complete loser.

And maybe that's why he was her choice.

Do you think so?

Yes.

That won't outshine me.

It's this clown.

He was the only one because

Gretchen Wimmer, Whitmer, Gavin, Josh Shapiro, in particular, they would have all outshined her.

And you can get the impression now, it's not even hidden, that when Gavin said way back months ago at the convention, when he said, remember he said, I have to say this about the Open Convention?

And then you see, the only time I've seen Biden genuinely happy is when he put that MAGA hat on.

He looked around and he said, you know, I'm not going to do that.

Then he put it on.

He was smiling.

He gets very happy when he's trashing her very discreetly and i think he's saying to himself i said that in the other podcast i and i was quoting i think newt ginrich said it first at least i i heard it first from him when he said

biden and jill

they want to be able to say they were the only people that that defeated trump and they're going to be so delighted when she loses because they're going to say i told you so i was a candidate i that was my second win I had one bad debate.

You made me go.

You forced me on that early debate.

If you hadn't have done that, I wasn't going to do it.

I would have been able to hide like I did in 2020, even though I'm president.

And you guys could have outsourced the campaign of the media and we would have won.

And what did you do?

You put somebody that you knew was a dummy.

You knew it.

You knew it.

You told us that.

I could never be impeached.

I could never be 25th Amendment because no one in the country would want her.

You said that, not

And now what did you do?

You coronated her without an open.

There was only one way out of that situation, only one way.

And that was for him to resign his candidacy and then to have an open convention and have it short.

Even if they knew who was going to win, just have it public and have three or four candidates, you know, bring in Joe Manchin, bring in Gavin Newsome, bring in Shapiro, bring in Avian Kobuchar, bring in anybody.

Bring in Camilla Harris.

And then I don't think she would have won.

And so they would have been united.

They would have been legitimate.

People couldn't say they nullified the votes of 14 million people, although they did.

But they couldn't do that.

Democracy died in plain sight, I think.

Yep.

Yep, yep, yep.

That was their DEI at work.

Hey, Victor, let's talk about law affair.

And it got seemingly is a blow this week in New York, the scene of many of the anti-Trump cases.

And the New York Appeals Court, which is the high court in New York.

I think most states, it's the Supreme Court, but that's not the case in New York.

Anyway, Letitia James's

civil fraud case, the one that I think was, you know, four and a half, $450 million judgment against Trump.

The judges on the court, court, man, I saw about a two, three minute video of them just nailing the Attorney General's office's

attorney who was presenting on the appeal and

raising, you would think they were reading from a Trump bullet point list, which probably they should have been.

Like,

why did this case even happen?

No one was.

harmed.

None of the cases you cite as grounds for this had anything to do with the facts of the this case brought by the Attorney General, the size of

the fine against Trump.

I mean, they just carpet bombed this lady, deservedly so.

Your thoughts.

Well,

you said it all, but what was even more striking

in that

period where they went after Trump, I think it was on November 22nd or 21st, somewhere between the 17th and the 22nd.

It was a single day, Jack,

when

three things happened.

Number one,

they appointed Jack Smith the special counsel.

And that statute had expired.

And so he wasn't a special counsel.

He was just a special DOG, DOJ attorney reporting to Merrick Garland.

He was not independent.

No, no, no, no, no.

He may have said he was, but that there was no legal statute for that to happen.

He was appointed by the Attorney General, not by Congress.

He wasn't like Robert Mueller or that Congress all that.

Okay.

The second thing was that Nathan Wade, that very day, do you remember that?

Was meeting inside the White House with,

I think, the White House counsel.

He met twice.

I think once was in the White House, right there.

Right there.

And the third thing was that Mr.

Cole and angelo the third highest uh attorney in the department of justice resigned the same 24 48 hour period when smith was appointed and wade was meeting and he went to work with alvin bragg and this is beyond these are force multipliers of the letita jane so she all of them were coordinated by the biden administration all of them were and that never in their right mind did they they thought they were going to bankrupt him with that obscene judgment that she got.

And they thought that Eugene Carroll's, I think it was 73 million.

They were saying, oh, no, but he's not going to be.

He has no cash.

He's never going to make it.

That was all.

He's just a paper company.

He's broke.

And then they thought, and then

we'll tie him down.

They looked at the calendar.

They said, you know what?

In May, June, July, August, September, October, look at that calendar.

He's going to be in court with Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Atita James, Fanny Willis, appealing the Iching Carol.

He's not going to have one free day, and then he may be in jail.

And that was their whole lawfare strategy.

It was never, we're going to beat him in the court of ideas.

Never.

They know that wasn't going to happen.

These people are really, what they have done to democracy.

You know, I wrote a thing, Jack, 15 Ways.

It's on the altar right now.

15 Ways, they destroyed it.

And I mean that.

They destroyed it.

I can go through them if you want.

Give us a few.

Okay.

It's titled 15 Ways to Destroy Democracy to Save It.

And Victor said it's on ultra.

He means it's on the blade of Perseus.

And I think you also wrote it for this American Greatness, I say.

Yeah, I mean, it is against the law, everybody, to hire a foreign national to work in a campaign.

That's exactly what Hillary Clinton did when she spread the Russian collusion.

She spread a lie that Donald Trump Trump was working with the Russians.

That did not happen.

Mr.

Shashinko was giving, a Russian national was giving information to Christopher Steele to make up this false dossier, which they planted.

Remember Bruce Orr and all those people?

They were planting it with the media.

Victoria Newland knew about it.

They were trying to destroy the election process.

And then we...

It wasn't even that, the 51 intelligence authorities, they tried to warp the administrative state.

They lied and said that right on the eve of the 2020 election, they lied.

The FBI lied.

CIA lied.

I mean, the FBI lied in the sense that they had the laptop.

They knew it was authentic and they didn't tell anybody.

And then these CIA former intelligence authorities, some still working, they lied to us and said that it had all the hallmarks.

It didn't.

And

we've never impeached a president twice.

Never.

Never have we done that.

We did it all in his first term.

And then we tried him.

We tried him in the Senate as a private person.

No one had ever done that before.

And we did the first impeachment because he suspended supposedly congressionally approved aid, but he gave it to them.

He not only gave it in the latest Bob Woodward book.

Jack, he mentions that Biden is whining that he's stuck now with Putin going into Kiev because when he was vice president, he wanted to sell Javelin missiles, he claims post facto, but Barack didn't want to do it.

Trump did, and yet they impeached him for temporarily delaying it because he had this crazy idea that the Bidens were utterly corrupt and that Hunter was making $80,000 a month and he didn't have any expertise.

And that was not quite like, as I said, the hot mic in 2012.

Tell Vladimir to give me space and I will demolish missile defense, which would have been, by the way, coming in handy.

That was a, I mean, that was just awful.

And so, and then we get into, I don't want to go through all of them, but 16 states tried to take him off the ballot.

Have we ever had that?

I mean, that was overturned by, I mean, think about it.

What if right now all the red states said that, you know, Joe Biden is so crooked.

And he's got so much money illegally while vice president that we don't, we think that he should be off the ballot and just vote it.

And that would have stopped.

I don't know.

You wouldn't have anybody on the ballot.

You can't do that.

And yet they did that.

It was, you know, it was just awful.

I've never seen that in my entire life.

I've never seen the lawfare.

I've never seen an impeached twice.

I've never seen

trying to get the FBI.

And we we didn't even talk about that working with social media to go after Miranda Devine's article on the laptop and then we had James Baker that counsel the FBI retiring going to work for Twitter as a reward for using the FBI under his tenure to partner to suppress news news accounts they thought you know would not be favorable so I went through all of them and the argument of the ultras and it's going to come go out the next four weeks is that we don't even know what they've done to democracy.

They've really destroyed it.

They really have.

And

I just don't think it's going to recover because there are certain things they did that are institutionalized.

And one of them that I mentioned was

they've changed the very way we vote until

they took

I might as well mention, they took 70% of people showing up on election day that don't.

It's 30% in the swing states.

They said it was because of COVID.

They changed all the rules about mail-in balloting, mailing automatic ballots out, third-party harvesting, ballot curing, not matching the registrar's race.

And the result was twice as many people, two and a half times in most states now, do not show up on Election Day, and the rejection rate dropped by a magnitude.

And then we had the coup.

That's a coup.

We got rid of a candidate who was nominated by 14 million people.

We just said, he's gone.

We pick her.

She's now the candidate.

And by the way, they had a coup to get him nominated in the first place.

They just said, all the other candidates drop out.

He will be our

candidate.

And that's what they did after Joe lost the first three primaries and caucuses of 2020.

They're out to destroy the Electoral College.

Tim Waltz just said that the other day.

And that's everybody knows it's in the Constitution.

They got this national, crazy national voter compact where the states are going to vote illegally to ignore their

their end state vote to determine the electors, but rather they'll pledge to follow the national vote, which is, I think it'll be thrown out.

And then, of course, they're packing the court.

Joe Biden wants to, I think 15 justices make them mandatory retirement, have the code, all aimed at.

Republican justices.

They want to bring in new states.

We haven't done that since 1960.

And the old calculus was you bring in liberal Hawaii, you match it with conservative Alaska.

That was what caused the Civil War, by the way.

That was what the Missouri Compromise was about.

One side trying to bring in pro-slave, the other free.

And so they did one-on-one.

And now, what are they doing?

They want to bring in left-wing Puerto Rico, whose language isn't even English, and they want to make the D.C.

district into a state and therefore get four.

They want to destroy very quickly, they want to destroy the filibuster.

And

they've destroyed the debates.

You know that, Jack?

There's no genre of debates now.

You can't, no Republican candidate in his right mind will do a publicized televised debate.

And everybody remember one thing.

I think this is really important.

In 2016, they destroyed the idea of disinterested polling.

They redefined polling, the left did, as a weapon, a lever, a tool to create false momentum to help a Democratic candidate.

They were utterly disgraced.

And they were targeted even by Hillary Clinton because she said, if I had had accurate polls, she did, internal polls, I wouldn't have been campaigning outside the swing states.

She would have, because she was an idiot.

But nevertheless, they were off by three to four points.

Everybody said they won't do that in 2020.

They wanted to create momentum for Joe Biden.

They were this time, they were off six points, five to six points on average.

So now everybody says they won't do it.

They will do it again, the third, because they see it as an advantageous lever.

The same thing applies to moderate.

They said, you know what?

After scheduling a debate before the two conventions, before they're even nominated, that was highly irregular, putting it on CNN.

for a stress test just for Joe Biden, they're not going to do that.

ABC, well, they're not that bad.

ABC is George Stephanopoulos, John Carl.

But what did Muir and Davis do?

They fact-checked only Trump.

They asked follow

questions only of Trump.

They interrupted him.

They cut his mic.

They said they wouldn't do that.

They wouldn't do it again.

CBS learned their lesson.

They are not, Brennan and O'Donnell are not going to do that.

And I thought, man, that's just like you said about everything else.

It's just like your polls.

You're still going to

pervert.

Yeah, Lucy and Charlie Brown.

She's going to pervert.

Exactly.

And they did the same.

And so they have destroyed the genre of...

And now we get into an assassination porn.

We've never had a candid, major party candidate have two near-miss assassination targeting in the same election cycle as Donald Trump.

And we've never had a candidate.

We've had people call

Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

That was George Bush.

And we had everybody from, you know,

John Glenn call him Hitler.

Everybody, Angela Merkel

called

Bush Hitler, but we've never had

cut his head off,

stab him, burn him, shoot him, poison him, as all the celebrities did, Madonna, blow up the White House.

We've never had the cover of New Republic, look at Hitler.

And then we've never had 25% of the Democratic Party saying they wish that the assassins had been successful.

And then finally, you know, it's not just the FBI and the

CIA, it's the IRS and the DOJ.

They're all weaponized.

The DOJ gave Hunter a sweetheart deal.

They go to, they send the FBI, the DOJ does,

on the behalf of teachers unions, to board meetings.

If you're going to protest against abortion, you better be very careful in this country.

You can do whatever you want

pro-abortion, but you're pro-life, they're going to go after you.

Same thing on campus.

If you're a Jewish student and you do anything that's slightly violent or illegal, you're going to be kicked out.

But if you're pro-Palestinian, no way.

So they've weaponized the DOJ.

And I didn't even get into what they've done to the universities, but I don't think democracy as we knew it exists today.

I really don't.

And yeah,

it's going to be very hard for Donald Trump to win.

I think he can win, but it's going to be very hard when the debate moderators were against him in Vance, when all the media coverage that reaches 25 million people, the network news, PBS, all the left-wing cables versus Fox, 3.5 million.

It's very hard.

And when you outrage him by a bill, he's now 2.5 to 1 outraged, Trump is.

It's going to be very hard.

Very hard.

This is a very different country than what we saw eight to 12 years ago.

It It is.

And God on the decline doesn't help it.

Hey, Victor, we're going to take a break.

And when we come back for our final

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Hey, Victor, before Israel, I just think I want to quickly mention

the third victory in court for a man that should never have been in court in the first place.

Colorado's

masterpiece, cake shop, baker, Jack Phillips, won yet again.

He's won twice one in the Supreme Court, being tormented, tortured, and targeted by folks who want to crush him, want to crush the idea that a Christian

baker or a business owner of of any kind is not allowed to have his beliefs in what he does.

And

Jack

Phillips will bake you any cake, but if you're going to ask him for a cake with

a phallus on it or whatever, he's not going to do it.

And this is right now.

Yeah,

the analysis there, Jack, is if

a gay bakery, very successful, highly esteemed local bakery, and somebody who was a Trump supporter walked in with a MAGA hat and they said, we're not serving you because you represent homophobia, in our opinion.

They would win in the court.

The MAGA guy would lose.

Everybody knows that.

The MAGA guy wouldn't, by the way, Victor.

He wouldn't go in to do that anyway.

No, he wouldn't.

No, no, no.

I don't mean he would do it to cause a, if he just went out and not even thinking.

Right.

He just thought, and he didn't even know they were gay.

They would say, well, he knew he was gay and that's why he wore the hat and he provoked us and he's homophobic.

And the courts would agree with him.

What I get, I'm trying to get at is this whole culture, this bastardized culture of ours.

And you can go down the line.

It's K through 12.

It's the academic higher education landscape.

It's the corporate boardroom.

It's sports.

It's sports, NFL, NBA, take a knee,

don't stand up for the flag.

It's television.

It's Hollywood.

it's Silicon Valley, it's traditional media, it's the foundations.

I saw a terrifying, as a member of the Bradley Foundation, we had a terrifying presentation where our billion point two

endowment, everybody thought was pretty good.

They had the top 20 endowments.

They were all left-wing jacket, and we weren't even near the top 20.

Close, right?

The Tides Foundation, Soros, all of them.

We're talking 10, 20, 30, 50 billion, Bloomberg, Gates.

So they have all of those institutions and that forms a popular culture and that puts enormous pressure on people.

And that's why sometimes it backfires, like Camilla Paris basically said to herself, I'm going to,

you know, we're going to get rid of Biden because he's screwed up in the debate and we can't hide his dementia anymore.

And I don't have to,

you know, they hand her a prep book.

I don't have to look at that prep book.

I don't want to do the prep book.

All the media, we're going to just go to softball interviews.

I'm just going to say I'm a middle-class.

I've done it my entire life.

I bat my eyes, I blink a couple of times, I smile, I cackle, I say I'm from a middle-class family, I love America, and then I renounce, I'm for the wall.

Whatever you tell me I'm for, I'm for, and it will work.

I know it'll work because these people want me to win because I'm one of them and they hate Trump.

So I don't have to do anything.

And she was right.

But

she pressed it too far where she got to the point where she was actually humiliating the people who were trying to leverage her and help her.

In other words, these journalists, people were finally saying, man, you guys are pathetic.

You're giving all these softballs.

She's avoiding you.

She's playing you like a fiddle.

And a few of them, you know.

Even Sonny Hoston on that crazy view that is completely deranged said,

could you just tell us, please, please, please please could you just kind of sort of maybe just tell us that there's just an itty bitty little thing between you and biden come on ha ha ha like a little dog you know on her back legs going give me that biscuit please please please just one little biscuit and i'll roll over and

jump in the air for you and she

couldn't no nothing comes to mind

I said it before, but I'm so glad that might be the

inflection point of this

campaign.

And if it was, the fact that it was Sonny Holston or whatever the hell are they doing?

That's a good point.

You know, you never know when those inflection points are.

There was one, you remember our listeners are probably not all, although we have a lot of listeners our age, and some of them are much better informed than I am because I get their emails.

But all of you out there, do you remember when Roger Mudd asked Teddy Kennedy in 1980, 79, 80, when he was going to run against Carter.

And they said, why would you want to be president?

He just,

yes.

Now, that is a good question.

And I think that

I do want to run for president.

And the reason I want to run for president is because it's a very important office and I'm a senator.

And he couldn't say, he couldn't say anything.

He destroyed his candidacy.

And you remember that time when, was it, who was George Bush?

I think he was, it was 1992, and he was debating.

He looked at his watch, like, oh my God, when is this debate over with?

Right.

That was with Ross Perot and

every time, once in a while, they have those debate, those moments.

And I think when she just said, can't think of anything comes to mind.

This is after, you know, and then she gives the can speech a few hours later.

She uses her hand like the tomahawk at a football game.

Move forward.

Turn page, du, duh.

Hey, Camilla, how can you turn the page against yourself?

How can you change yourself?

How can you move forward when you're the person that you're moving away from?

Come on.

She doesn't get it.

You know what?

I think Kelly and Conway wrote something to the effect that you could have a very narrow, remember that narrow landslide?

Yes.

And that was kind of like 2016, but to a greater degree.

In other words, if Donald Trump is really, and I looked at the polls this morning, he's ahead now in Nevada.

If he is really ahead in all seven states with maybe an iffy Wisconsin,

and those polls, as we've just said, will probably be predictably under counting.

The only wildcard is do they under count him enough to include the irregularities that will help the Democrats in mail-in balloting.

So I can't answer that.

But if he were to win those seven states by only 100,000 votes, and

he wins Georgia and North Carolina,

he could have a landslide.

He really could.

And if he did win all those electoral votes, the chances are those iffy,

hard-to-predict Senate races of the kind that we see in Pennsylvania.

Right.

He could win those.

Yeah, they're going to break one way.

Hey, Victor, we got a few minutes left.

Earlier this week, well, maybe earlier, it may have been yesterday even,

was the 50th anniversary of the United Nations recognizing the PLO.

And just one of the low points in recent global political history.

Victor, you can talk about whatever you want.

It's your show, maybe some thoughts on that, but maybe it

would be a good

reason to get your thoughts on what's happening in the last few days with Israel as it's

well, I mean,

this administration kept trying to get a deal before the election to get the hostages back.

They're still going to do it.

That was their ideal October surprise.

But ultimately, they ran out of terrorists because they were perfectly willing to talk to terrorists, just like they were perfectly willing to talk to Arafat all those years, who was always a terrorist.

They offered Arafat a deal under Clinton and Richard Holbrook that basically said Israel was going to go back to the 19 pre-67 borders, almost to 47.

And any land that they wanted to hold in areas around Jerusalem that were on so-called West Bank land would be substituted or compensated by land that they would take out of 67

Israel.

It was everything they wanted, and he wouldn't do it.

He wouldn't do it because he was a terrorist and as a terrorist, he knew the other terrorists would kill him if he did it, because that's what they do.

And now

the only problem why we're not having an October surprise is not that this administration, Blinken and Sullivan,

are not going to talk to the terrorists of Hamas, these mass killers, is they can't find anybody because they kill kill them all.

The only person left is Sinmar and he's down in a tunnel somewhere and they would perfectly be willing to talk to him, but

he's scared because he knows what happens when he pops up.

He's dead.

And so

this whole movement, I'm not trying to trash the Palestinians.

I'm just trying to say that Israel

especially in the last 30 or 40 years, has been more than willing to cut a deal where there is some type of government in

the West Bank and Gaza that resembles something like Egypt or Jordan, not very good, but not wedded to destroying Israel and does not have access to weapons.

And they could make that like the Emirates.

They could have made, I've been to Gaza, that coast, it's not.

you know, it looks pretty polluted and torn up, but that coast is beautiful.

And it's south of the northern Israelis, so it's even warmer in the Mediterranean.

And that thing could be the most beautiful, that could be Dubai, that could be Hong Kong, it could be Singapore.

Everybody talks about ain't going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

And again, when you see this problem,

you always have to ask yourself,

how does this

problem fit into the general principle of so-called displaced people?

Because that's the argument, that these are displaced people

from

about 75 to 80 years ago.

And this is a unique situation that calls for a special status for Mr.

Arafat and his successors.

And I always look at the same way.

I think, okay,

Joseph Stalin ethnically cleansed about a million Volga Germans

during the war and right after.

Where happened to them?

They'd been there for 400 years.

They were there way under Catherine the Great.

And then I think to myself, and I know this is a broken record, but I say in 1974, they took the most beautiful, productive land in Cyprus.

Gosh, I went to Belopais in 1973.

It's the most beautiful places in the world in Cyprus.

And they ethnically, they just pushed everybody down that was a Greek speaker to the southern part, the less inhabited.

And the Turks took it over.

And no one ever said, you're displaced people.

I don't hear about Greeks that are blowing themselves up.

I don't hear about Greeks that are sneaking into Nicosia to blow things up.

And

we just had,

what, 180,000 Armenians,

Uzbekistan that were ethnically cleansed from places they had been 300 years.

I don't hear anybody blowing up Turkish embassies.

I don't hear anybody in Europe saying, help the Armenians.

They've been ethnically cleansed from their ancestral homeland.

Nothing.

I don't hear.

I don't hear anybody.

I mean, Germany deserved everything they got for starting World War II, but I mean,

there were 13 million Germans in a place called Prussia in East Prussia.

And when they recreated Poland, and Poland, I'm happy it was recreated, but they just simply, bam, out.

There is no

Konensberg.

It's now Soviet Kolingrad.

There is no Danzig.

It's Gdan.

Get out.

And 13 million walked home.

2 million died.

And so my point is, after the 47, 56, 67, and especially 70, there was not any Jews to speak of.

in their historical homelands in major cities of the Middle East, not Cairo, not Damascus, not Beirut,

not Baghdad.

They ethnically cleansed them all, and they ended up in the United States, Europe, but mostly in Israel.

I don't see any of those people forming a refugee.

I don't know any UN relief, United Nations Relief Committee for displaced Jews, for displaced Cypriots, for displaced Volga Germans, for displaced German.

I don't see it.

So why is this particular refugee

program exalted to such a degree?

Fill in the blanks.

You can try four or five reasons.

Well, it's in the Middle East, Victor.

That's where all the oil was.

Until we were self-sufficient, we had to have oil from the Gulf.

And they put an embargo on us.

Remember that after the Yom Kippur War.

So that really changed everything.

We couldn't be pro-Israel because we were in gas law.

Okay, I get it.

That's no longer applicable now, really, because we're the world's largest gas and oil producer.

And number two, well, they're Jews, Victor.

Come on now.

Jews, they're Jews.

There's anti-Semitism.

Okay, I get that too.

And then, you know, you can say, okay, well, there's only, I don't know, nine or ten million Israelis and there's 500 million.

Come on, play real politic.

Go where the power or the numbers are.

Why would we stick our necks out for 10 million people?

Because they're a democracy and they're in a historical biblical place after being wiped out almost in the Holocaust.

Well, you can see what I'm saying.

There has to be some reason why the world has decided that this particular

displaced person dwarfs all the others in the world and makes the Israelis the oppressor in the way that the Soviets were not, the Russians are not, the Poles are not, the Turks are not,

the Aberbajanis are not.

Only Israel are oppressors.

And I don't buy into it.

I really don't.

And the same thing about collateral damage.

I mean, I walked through Fallujah.

I saw it firsthand.

I saw places in Iraq after what we had to do to get rid of the sons of Saddam and all those terrorists.

And they weren't, they looked like a moonscape.

And I'm glad they did if it saved American lives.

But

why?

And

when I think it was the Second Chechny or was it the third Chechen War that Vladimir putin just surrounded grozny and leveled it blew it up and bashur assad went into hama and leveled that city and i didn't hear anybody in europe complaining about that on either any of that and we know what the wagers there's a million of them in a labor camp and no one in europe is protesting i don't see in stanford i never see any protests free the wagers

or

you know stop the killing of gays in iran it's only israel And people have to ponder why that is.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, you've been

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