The Ins and Outs of Left-Wing Justice

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Victor is the Martin Ann Eli Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

You can find him at his website victorhanson.com and we'll talk more about that later.

This is the Friday news roundup, and we always look at the news of the week and lots about the Trump trials and Biden.

So we'll start with the Trump trials and we'll do that right after these messages.

Welcome back to the Victor Davis-Hansen Show.

So, Victor,

there has been a lot on Cohen's testimony in the Trump trials this week, but I was wondering, even before we go to that, did you find

Trump's rally of over 100,000 people in New Jersey, the bluest of blue states, significant at all, a game changer?

I did.

It was on a weekend, and he's part of the reason it's big is he's not doing as many rallies.

So he's tied up four days a week.

And in the old days, he would do two a week.

So people, that helps him.

The problem I have is

I don't want another 2020

shipwreck of my dreams.

By that, I meant I looked at 2020

and I saw all of those huge rallies, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina.

And then I looked at Joe Biden's and they were just, what, 50 cars honking to an unhinged, demented old man.

And I thought, wow,

this is a no-brainer.

And then I looked at the polls and they had Biden ahead four or five, and I said, nah, just like 2016.

But that didn't happen.

And I'm not even going to get go go near the irregularities in the methodology of voting and balloting.

But so I don't want to get my hopes up too high when I look at those huge enthusiastic rallies.

I don't think he can win New Jersey, but New Jersey is kind of close to Pennsylvania, and that type of person who goes to those rallies is not as balanced off or negated as they are in New Jersey by a whole urban coastal elite.

So there's something to be happy about.

Joe Biden

is not relying on rallies.

He is not going to campaign.

He is not going to go out and appeal on his record.

He's even given up the word Bidenomics.

He's even given up, I mean, the idea that the Republicans are responsible for the open border.

Now he says, well, we'll let 4,000 come in.

What's he going to do?

He's going to do four things.

Number one, it's law affair, lawfare, lawfare, law affair.

So he has sick Letita James, who was successful,

and with legal fees and fines, he's probably, that's going to cost Trump, or it has, three or four hundred million, $500 million.

And then he's got Fannie Willis, and he's got the present Alvin Bragg, and he's got Jack Smith.

And yes,

Alvin Bragg's is a farce.

There is no crime that he can say that the irregular bookkeeping enhanced or facilitated.

He can't do it, and that's the law.

And his main witness, as we'll get into, is a pathological liar.

Yeah.

Okay.

So he's not,

in any sane world,

this would be thrown out.

But it's New York.

So my point is that he's relying Biden, and he even made a joke about it.

He said, well, hey, pal,

I know you have Wednesdays free, meaning I sicked all these prosecutors on you, and you get one day off out of court.

You look at Trump's face, he looks wearied, and I would too.

And that's the point.

Bankrupt him, physically and mentally destroy him, turn public opinion against him.

So that's one.

Very quickly, number two, he's going to use the media, and you can already see it.

The media coverage, Fox has a nightly average at best of 3 million.

The three networks, MSNBC and Anemic, CNN, and PBS, they've got about 25 to 30 million people.

And that narrative goes out every night that Cohen is brilliant, that Donald Trump is asleep, that crazy Lawrence O'Donnell was waxing eloquently about how Trump stared at him and was fixed at the majestic and powerful appearance of Lawrence O'Donnell.

So it's just crazy what they're saying, but that's going to go on, and they're going to count on that.

They're going to call anybody who questions the need for an ID ballot,

whether you're ID in person, a racist.

They're going to suggest anybody who says that there might be a regular voting is a racist.

They're going to, and this will talk about the debates, but it's going to be left, left, left, left, left-wing environment, left-wing channel, left-wing moderators, etc.

So he's counting on the media, he's counting on

lawfare.

He's also counting,

to be frank, on pandering.

And by that I mean he doesn't care about the general welfare of the country.

He cares about individual voters to the extent they live in swing states.

So what is he doing?

For the auto workers, I bashed Trump's tariffs on China's elected vehicles.

They were good, and I'm topping them just for you.

Oh, Arab American voters.

On Monday, I'm pro-Hamas.

Uh-oh, Jewish donors are angry at me.

On Tuesday, I'm fair.

I'm always, and back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, pandering.

Students, you elite students, we don't like the muscular classes, you're not voting for me, but elite students in college?

Another six or seven billion dollars in student relief.

Commuters?

Ah, let's drain further the petroleum reserve.

We did it in 2022 and it worked.

And if that is not enough, hey, Ukrainians,

if you're going to fight Russia, just don't tamper with their oil business.

Do not hit refineries, because that could explode the price of oil.

And the Federal Reserve, lower interest rates, lower interest rates, lower interest rates.

Come on now.

So he's pandering at all these constituencies.

He's using the media.

He's going to have a lot more money.

And so this is going to be an absentee campaign, log cabin, 19th century campaign, as he outsources it to big money, to the media,

to lawfare,

and he panders to people.

And there's one other Tesser in this depressing mosaic.

He's relying on

Arizona,

Nevada,

Georgia,

Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida,

not necessarily Florida, but Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, upping the 65 to 70 percent non-election day balloting of the past.

He wants that up to 80 percent.

And he wants

10 days, two weeks after the deadline, the votes can be tabulated.

He wants insufficient signatures validated, ballot carrying, ballot harvesting, third-party participation, collecting the same-day registration.

The whole point is he does not want a resident to have his citizenship checked.

He does not want a registrar's list to be collated with the people who actually vote.

And he doesn't want a mail-in ballot accorded the same authenticity or audit that one does when he goes

in person, he goes to the voting booth, like every European country says, My name is Victor Hansen.

Can you go to the H's and see if I'm registered?

Yes, you are.

But you have to have an ID.

Here's my driver's license.

They take the driver's license, they compare it.

Okay, here's a ballot.

They do not want that.

They don't want the protocol.

You have to have to write a check or something.

And he thinks that's going to be enough.

He really does.

And I'm not sure it's not.

I'm not as wildly enthusiastic when I see those wonderful crowds at New Jersey as I should be because I just have this.

I don't want to depress you listeners, but do you have this nightmare that you're going to be there this November on that Tuesday and you're going to vote and you're going to look at Florida and it's winning and maybe Georgia it's winning and then all of a sudden you're going to see Trump he's got 60 70 80,000 vote lead in Arizona

and Nevada and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and then these people are going to not be too depressed CNN MSNBC ABC and you wonder why aren't they depressed

and then all of a sudden you flip channel surf and you see that 200,000 vote lead kind of go down a little bit.

Yeah.

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

And then you see Trump 55, 45,

and then it's midnight and you're kind of worn out and you wake up and he lost everyone as these ballots just pour in on trucks and bags are on D, and then the curtains are drawn as they were last year as they count them.

I just

confident.

No, I know because those state jobs for counting, counting, et cetera, are probably held overwhelmingly by Democrats since.

The only thing that might be, some of you were saying don't depress us.

Well, there might be, if it is true that Donald Trump is getting 50% of the Latino vote

and he's getting 23% or 4% of the black vote, maybe a lot of minorities in cities like Milwaukee

and

Detroit and

Cleveland

and

Charlottesville and Atlanta and Las Vegas and Phoenix, as they work in, as you say, state and local government, and they see somebody tampering with it this time rather than, yeah, great, keep doing it.

Don't do that.

I voted for Trump.

That's possible that there can be an internal audit from Trump supporters who have access to the transparency of the voting.

Yeah, let's hope.

Well, let's turn to the Trump trials.

And this week it seems that

we watched a testimony by Robert Costello before Congress.

We had access to it, where he was talking about how Cohen had told him that Trump had not known about the deal with Stormy.

And yet this testimony will not be allowed, or Robert Costello will not be allowed in the Trump trial, I understand.

There's that, and then also Cohen saying that he taped Trump in one of their meetings

for Trump's own safety from David.

That's ever happened in the history of recorded

recorded speech.

No one has ever secretly taped someone for that person's benefit.

I can assure you, that's perjury under oath.

I don't know what the deal is.

Costello, he was a federal prosecutor, so he was involved, I think, going back to the Mueller to interviewing him.

And he basically said, this guy's a pathological liar.

He's told me that it was his idea.

I don't know if he's lying then or now, but I know he lies.

And you would think that as a former federal prosecutor, they could bring him in to testify in the veracity of Michael Cohen.

And this judge won't have it.

And what will he let in?

The length of time of Donald Trump's purported sexual performance, whether he was condomized or not during the sexual Congress, almost any salacious detail possible because it's not about justice.

It's a political act.

And this judge, when Donald Trump says this judge is a hack, and everybody gets angry.

He shouldn't do that.

He shouldn't do that if jurisprudence has a reputation.

But this judge has no reputation because he has been a donor to the Biden campaign.

He is,

this prosecutor has brought in a Biden prosecutor to take over this incompetent Alan Bragg's legal team.

He's got another prosecutor that's a big contractor for the DNC.

His own daughter has made millions of dollars for her left-wing clients in her political lobbying firm.

And every ruling that he has given drips with hatred of Donald Trump.

He put a gag order on Donald Trump, why he unleashed Michael Cohen to go on TikTok and call Trump disgusting, hate, all this stuff.

It's going to be reversed, but they don't care if it's reversed.

They don't care about the judge in the Fannie Willis case was just as bad.

The judge in the Eugene Carroll case was bad.

The worst of all was Ingoron in the James Court.

They're all left-wing judges, and they're all terrible.

And then when you have a judge that gives them a slight fair hearing in Florida, they say that she's partisan.

This is, they are destroying jurisprudence.

They're not destroying the integrity of an election.

They are destroying all respect for an independent judiciary.

The left is.

They egged this on.

Fanny Willis's Nathan Wade Paramore went to the White House and talked to the counsel.

The DOJ and Biden's DOJ prosecutors were given, I guess, orders to go in and help the incompetent rag.

Jack Smith's wife made a movie that was a puff piece about Michelle Obama.

And he was appointed by the Biden DOJ.

And he

had a, as you remember, a bookend called Robert Hurr who found Joe Biden guilty of what Donald Trump is accused of and then said, well, he's so amnesiac.

amnesiac and he's such he's so mentally compromised that no jury would convict him but he has the one job in the world you don't have to be sane and cognizant and that's president of the united states that's what he said basically Yeah, that's crazy, huh?

Yeah, it's crazy.

It's crazy times, it's non-recognizable.

I feel like in a Kafka novel, I woke up and I'm an insect.

I don't even understand.

I don't recognize the United States.

Yeah, it sure does seem like metamorphosis.

Well, Victor, let's go to a break and then come back and talk a little bit about the left wing's interpretation of these Trump trials.

And they seem a little bit afraid.

So stay with us, and we'll be right back.

Welcome back.

So, Victor, did you hear the tapes from James Carville, who said that the left strategy with these trials is like they are like throwing spaghetti at the wall and nothing is sticking?

And then Farid Zakaria said, things, quote, are not playing out as I thought it would, unquote.

Well, yeah, I mean, that was kind of an admission that they're not trying to challenge Trump on his antithetical views on the economy, crime, the border, foreign policy.

They're throwing stuff.

And that means

he's a rapist.

Eugene Carroll, he did this.

Oh, Letita James said he did this.

Oh, Alvin Bray, we have a shotgun, and each pellet is aimed at a different part of his anatomy.

And it's not working

because the polls haven't made him bleed.

One of the things they're worried about is they look at the national polls.

And on the national polls, Trump is slightly ahead.

And what scares them about that is

that

of the four, the two, the most populous state, and of the top five most populous states,

Illinois, California, New York, Texas, and Florida, they're overwhelmingly

more so, they're more blue than Florida and Texas are red.

And they usually give a huge margin.

So what they're worried about is that when Joe Biden polls a point or two in some polls behind Donald Trump, that's reflective almost always on election day.

Maybe not in the polls, but I think in the polls, if they actually

survey people in states based on their demographic proportions and the general population, everybody knows that what's going to happen.

California, New York, and Illinois are all blue states, and they're going to run up huge margins, and it doesn't matter because they were going to go blue anyway.

And so, what they're worried about is you take away those margins, and then you look at the polls in individual swing states, and it's a whole different story.

He's leading double digits in Nevada and Georgia.

He's going to win Georgia.

I think he's going to win Arizona and Nevada, too.

I don't know if he's going to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

He only has to win.

If he wins those others, he only has to win one of those.

Wow.

Hence, Joe Biden's pandering to the Muslim population in Michigan.

Well, since you mentioned polls, I looked at some, and a Gallup poll is showing that blacks and Hispanics are

their

approval of Trump has risen by 20%.

Crazy.

And then other things where college-educated

people,

their approval of Democrats is dropping.

And so that's getting worse.

And then the young vote as well is dropping in its support of Democratic agenda or leaning Democratic.

Just think what the Democrats are saying in Joe Biden.

Say you're 25 and you finally graduated after six or seven or eight years and you got your degree in social science, right?

And you want to get married and have your one and a half children, and you look for a home, and the interest rates are 7%.

And the home is, you know, $700,000.

And you've got a, I don't know, 8%, I mean, an 800

a month tax burden.

And maybe with the increased insurance, my insurance, my house insurance is doubled.

Doubled.

Let's say you owe, I don't know, $1,200 a month on mortgage cost, tax, no, no, let's say $7,000 a month on your mortgage, your interest,

your property tax, and your home insurance.

And you don't see any possible way with food prices and gas prices, none of which are calibrated into inflation indices, that you can make it.

And yet you know people in their 30s or 40s and they have nice homes and they bought them at 1.8% interest.

And they bought at a time when the economy was booming, and there was no inflation.

And they remodeled their homes when plywood was $8 a sheet, not $90.

So you just say, well, wait a minute, I'm getting kind of tired of all the Nancy Pelosis and the Chuck Schumer's and the Elizabeth Warrens and the squad telling me that I have to be correct on we're all going to die from global warming, that I have to be correct that these men with biological muscular

frames and torsos are actually women as they destroy 60 years of women's efforts to get parity in sports.

And

I just don't think I can do it anymore because this other guy that they hate so much,

things were much better under him.

So even though they're giving me amnesty on my loan.

And then there's the other group, not the college educated, but minorities.

And they,

I talk to a lot of people in this area, and there is an attraction to Donald Trump that they're going after him because they feel

not so much it's a white, black, white, Latino thing.

They just don't like these people with the nasal voices telling them what to do.

What you can't have, you can't drive your car with this type of,

if your diesel car is this way, you've got to completely refit the exhaust system.

You've got to pay $6 a gallon.

That's good for you to do that.

All of these mandates and orders, and if you don't support abortion on demand and partial birth abortion, you're awful.

And if you don't support Trent, they just don't want to be hectored.

And then look at Donald Trump and they see him as hectared.

And they see that the people that they don't like, the elite, is going after Donald Trump.

And then he's authentic.

He is.

He just says what.

Every time they interview an African-American inner-city person and it shocks the CNN host or the MSNBC interviewer, they all say the same thing.

He tells it like it is.

He's authentic.

And they're getting enormous pressure from their elites.

But it's going to be very interesting.

I mean, they're going to run, when they get the silicon money coming in, they're going to have $3, $4 billion.

And they're going to run commercial after commercial.

And we know what they're going to be aimed at.

They're going to say that Donald Trump is a racist.

And when Donald Trump tries to run a commercial that says that Joe Biden said, put you all in chains, junkie, you ain't black, first black, articulate,

they're not going to hear him as much.

He doesn't have the wherewithal.

It's going to be a

but I do think that if he, if it is to be true that he would win 20% of the black vote, and let's say 45% of Latino vote, he can't win, then Biden can't win.

Which brings us to the debate.

Why are

what is the instruction to Biden to play Clint Eastwood and do a little tape where he says, hey, pal,

I'll meet you anywhere.

You know, this is my condition.

I'm going to bay.

If you've got to win,

what was that whole Clint Eastwood stick about, given that one of the proposed dates has to be all left-wing moderators.

It has to be an on-level playing field, but nonetheless, it's before the convention.

That has never happened.

So there must must be one of two things going on, and I can't decide which it is.

It's either that the democratic hierarchy, the donor class, the people who are terrified of the polls, and they're terrified of Kamala Harris, they think, okay,

we've got to get rid of this guy, so we'll put him out there in June, and he'll debate, and he'll probably flop.

And we don't have to be accused of pushing him out or racist, sexist, getting rid of Kamala.

He will do so poorly that Donald Trump

looks like he's going to get a sure thing.

So we're going to get in the back room.

And we still have two months at the convention to figure out what to do.

But Biden hung himself.

We didn't when he went out there.

The other view, and I think I tend to view this ex-egesis, is that Biden's handlers are desperate because he's behind and they're thinking, you know, Joe,

we've got a debate.

But look at the bright side.

That first debate when Trump hammered you, you hammered him back?

You won that debate.

Remember the Adderall we gave you, all the uppers?

You went to sleep for five days, you changed your biological clock and you had enough energy to go for an hour and a half, maybe?

Remember the State of the Union?

You slept, you got your little whatever stimulant we gave you.

I'm not going to comment on it.

And you were animated.

You may not have been coherent, but you were animated.

And remember your Phantom of the Opera speech with the red semi-fascist ultra-mega rant?

So you can do this.

So we're going to do this in June, and we're going to show everybody that you're still here.

And then that will quash all the rumors that you should be removed.

This will be your chance.

And I think they're not both mutually exclusive, but they're using this.

One side or the other is using this as a test case that will determine his viability in the convention.

Yeah.

Well, you know, I've speaking then of the debate,

I heard that,

and I kind of believe this, that the June 27th date is chosen because there's going to be a convergence with trial results, etc.

And so it is at a completely orchestrated debate for a perfect storm against Trump was the implication.

I was wondering if you.

That may be too.

There There are columnists who are posing questions.

Mr.

Trump, I'm Dana Bash.

You have been convicted of a felony and you will be in jail.

What do you tell young voters?

Things like that.

During this Stormy Daniels trial, there was some salacious commentary about

your relations with Stormy.

What was the effect on Melania and your family?

And what example does that give to young women?

Stuff like that will be there.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Well, the last thing on the polls, though, if I could go back to them, was that

when they say that the young vote, I think it was like 18 to 35 or something of that sort, that it was trending down from the Democrats.

When you looked at who they were turning to or what party was gaining was the independence.

So they're all going independent.

Maybe that's encouraging because they don't want an ideology to have to.

Maybe it is.

I mean, Democrats usually had a 15-point advantage in registered party membership, and now it's almost even.

But it's not because the Republicans have soared.

It's because people are registered and independent.

I think part of it is they just don't want to get all that stuff in the mail.

You know what I mean?

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.

So,

and then there's RFK.

He's had a bad week or two because of all this

the Democratic hit machine turned on him because they started to look at the polls and they weren't sure whether he hurt Trump or Biden more.

But then Trump got wise and started to distance himself from RFK because he saw a little hemorrhaging.

And then the latest round of polls make it very clear that if RFK is in the race, Donald Trump gains a point or two.

And so they unleashed the worms.

I mean, the worm story was all in the left-wing media about he had a worm in his brain and all of this other stuff.

I mean he did.

So he did.

And his marriages, his promiscuity, all of this stuff.

And they're trying to get him out of the race.

They did not want him in the debate.

There was no

allowance that RFK could would be allowed to debate.

Trump calls him, he doesn't call him RFK, calls him Junior.

Just a man that's almost 70.

As he's 70, he's in great physical shape.

He may have had a worm-like cyst in his brain, but he works out and he's very muscular and he looks pretty good.

He sure does.

Did you see this week that Biden lied about inflation?

He said that when he

lied.

He lied on at least three occasions.

The thing about a liar is that when you tell him you're lying, you came in under 1.4% inflation, and then you did Build Back Better and the misadventurous

Inflation Reduction Act, which we should have called Jack Up Inflation Act.

You just poured $6 to $7 trillion

into an economy that was suffering from COVID supply chain distortions and was naturally, naturally back on the surge because people were coming out of their quarantines and then there was nothing to buy because they had all this government money and the ships were lined up out to the horizon at the Port of LA, Port of Oakland and North Fork, every major harbor in the United States.

Yeah.

Or imported stuff that we'd gobble up.

And so he did that and he's been told, Joe,

we can handle the one lie.

Snopes and all these other people and

the Pinocchio people, again,

Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post, they will contextualize this.

They will say, and they have.

Well, it wasn't quite a lie because what Joe Biden, Corinne Jean-Pierre said this, what he really meant was that there were forces in action prior to his ascension that would have made the inflation increase for anybody.

So what Joe should have said was, when I came in, there were forces that were in play that were going to result in 9%

inflation no matter what I did.

But all he did was forget the context.

So it's not, maybe it's a lie, but there's real truth in that lie.

And that's what they did at first.

And then they said to him, but you can only get away with it once.

Don't keep lying.

And he went out, and he lied again, and he lied again, and I swear he will do it again and again and again.

It's now joined the repertoire of I was a semi-truck driver.

I was a great athlete that lost out to Roger

Stolbert.

I'm the first in my family that has ever been to college.

And my uncle was in a tragic, brave

airline crash and was eaten by cannibals.

And I've graduated from the top of my class.

And I got, I said, you know, cut me off six feet of chain.

And I'll tell you, Cornpop, I'll meet you out there.

And then I went back and I was at the lifeguard, and

little black boys looked at my leg hairs, and they were golden in the sun, and they wanted to pet them.

Oh, my God.

Then we had Ashley Biden, and she now confirmed, because she's suing.

She's suing James O'Keefe and other people.

She says, for the first time, that was my diary.

And I did, yes, write that paragraph where I had sexual trauma and I had sex too young with friends.

And looking back on it, I should not have been basically taking a shower with my father.

And, you know, if that was Donald Trump, I swear to God, if that was Donald Trump and that was Ivanka, you would have a local prosecutor, some Alvin Bragg-like or Letita James Crook, and they would go into it and they say, the statute of limitations, thanks to the legislature, as we did with Eugene Carroll, we're going to waive the statue of limitations.

And you are guilty of incestuous behavior and child abuse and sexual assault on your own.

They would.

Yeah, I bet they would.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit more about this left proclivity for lying.

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Lots of things.

Wait, wait, aren't you going to mention that The End of Everything, How Wars Descend Into Annihilation, has been out now nine days?

Nine days, and you are doing well.

I heard you hit the New York Times bestseller list all the way to number four or number three?

Which one?

Number four in

hardcover and number three in

all sales books, but when it's also audio and Kindle, it's number three.

Yeah.

I don't think it'll be.

I have to go to Normandy, so I've been doing a lot of from my farm publicity, but I don't think it'll be, I won't be able to continue another five days.

Yeah.

So it's going to slump.

But I thought that was really good for a book on history.

That was excellent for a book on history.

And then we had a lot of fun.

I had a tweet, too.

I think I told you I had an inert Twitter account that all Hoover Fellows were given.

And I never did any original posting.

I didn't even know what it was.

And about a year ago, or or a little longer, my daughter, who's in her 40s, stay-at-home mom, she has a disabled child.

So she came up with the idea of posting things.

And rather than just put a little burst of thoughts every hour, whatever people do with tweets, she said, why don't you just write kind of like an essay long?

I said, ah, that's not what Twitter's for.

But she posted once a week or once or twice.

And the latest one got 3 million views.

Wow.

And it was on the catastrophe of Joe Biden.

Yeah.

Well, since we were on the topic of the left always either telling lies or projecting, as we often say, there was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal called Marxism is a Gulag of the Mind.

And that was the topic that Marxists always project what they will in fact do.

So he made the point, and I'm sorry, I can't remember who the writer was, but he said, look at the left.

They keep saying Trump will dismantle this democracy, and they're the ones actually doing it right now.

Or Hamas supporters are accusing Israel of genocide, and they're the ones that are supporting genocide.

That's in the Lenin.

Lenin talked about that, and so did Sawolinsky,

the projectionist mode, where whatever you think is the worst thing possible.

you do it, and then you accuse your opponent of doing it.

And therefore, it excuses it.

I thought the interesting thing he had to say was also about the naming of these totalitarian states.

So East Germany became the Democratic Republic of Germany.

North Korea was the Democratic Republic of Korea.

USSR, Soviet Socialist,

Soviet Socialist Republic.

And Vietnam, too.

The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was the name for the North.

It was all congested.

They always does that.

They always

know down in their terrible hearts that the alternate paradigm is the only one that works.

And then they use it as a veneer to destroy it.

So you have all these people come from the Middle East, and they say, death to America, death to America, death to the American North.

There's all this, and then they don't want to go back.

And so

they say that

they love all of these places, but they really don't.

They're just using that veneer.

And

I don't know, it's really weird how

the left doesn't contribute or invest in the continuation of the Western system or civilization.

And they tear it down, tear it down, tear it down, tear it down, and then

they don't want to separate from it.

They all want a part of it.

I mean, when I look at those students and they're saying, death to Israel, go back to Poland, hateful things about America, not even all students.

You just say, I agree with you, you don't like us.

So there's no problem.

Go back and rebuild Gaza.

You believe in democracy, you say.

Well, go back and be,

especially you young women are so idealistic.

Go back and form the People's Women's Party of Gaza.

And then go to the West Bank and say, the feminist Me Too movement of the Palestinian Authority or the LGBQ popular grassroots and see what happens to you.

You might might have to shed the blood of some patriots to get your, you know, like our founders did.

But don't sit here and glorify these autocratic, murderous regimes

by you distort the privileges that your host bestowed on you and then trash your host as illiberal when you're championing the most fascistic illiberal regimes imaginable.

Yeah, I have a feeling they would find themselves in the Democratic Republic of Gaza.

I have a feeling they would be in some sort of gulag the moment they

landed in Gaza.

Yeah.

Can I ask you,

there was another really good article by Joseph Curl in the Washington Times where he was talking about, do Democrats hate Americans?

That's the title.

And he was talking about

Nancy Pelosi this week said those poor souls about people who did not agree with the Democrats because she said that, well,

the average voter, she acted like

as if they were so brainwashed they couldn't see what the Democrats had been presenting to them as the truth.

It was really condescending, on the order of Barack Obama calling them clingers or Hillary calling them deplorables.

And so I was wondering, any thoughts on old Nancy Pelosi this week?

Yeah, I mean,

how did she and Paul Pelosi make so much money?

They're worth over $200 million.

It came through investments, and it came through pre-knowledge of contractual government business, and he was a real estate developer and investor.

So they made all this money, and they've got this

huge San Francisco mansion, which the world has seen a peak of because of that incident.

They've got this Palazzo up at Napa and other homes, and yet she parades around like she's some kind of, you know, I don't know, diversity, equity, inclusion socialist or something.

We saw what she thought of the lockdowns in California.

She blasted everybody, and then she snuck out to her hairdresser, remember?

Yes.

That would have worked, except she got caught on film.

And I think that's when she was debating at the Oxford debates with Winston Marshall, the musician.

And she said that populism is bad and all this.

And he just absolutely skinned and fried her.

He barbecued her.

He really did.

And he showed her as an out-of-touch, elitist snob from the Bay Area.

And he was basically making the argument that the most anti-democratic of all people are the Nancy Pelosi's in the world.

Because after all, who is destroying democracy?

Who inaugurated the following

precedents that have never happened before in a constitutional republic?

A,

impeaching a president twice.

Read the Federalist Papers, and that's exactly what they were afraid of, that as soon as you lost your House majority, it would be a parliamentary gambit to impeach you.

If nothing other, just to censor you.

Who was tried as a private citizen by the Senate?

He wasn't convicted, but Donald Trump was a private citizen.

They never did that before.

They have never taken state ballot.

State attorney generals and judges have never gone after the other party's candidate and tried to remove them from the ballot.

The left did that.

We have never had local prosecutors in an election year go after an ex-president and leading presidential candidate and try to convict him of crimes that have never been indicted against any other people.

And after Trump is over with this year, they will never be used again because they're so ridiculous.

We've never had a concentrated effort since 1938 to pack the court, to bring in new states, to get rid of the filibuster, and the most unconstitutional of all means, real efforts to destroy the Electoral College.

And they're coming very close with this National Voters Compact, where they get the state legislatures in these

blue states and purple states, and they vote that says that our electors will not follow their constitutionally mandated duties, that they're going to be counterfeit or false electors.

And faithless is the word they use, and they will only vote according to the national popular vote.

And if they get, I think it's nine or ten more electoral votes, one more big state, then they'll have the necessary 270.

So in theory, Trump could win all of those states, lose a popular vote by 100,000, and he would lose the election.

So they do everything they can to undermine democracy.

And they call it saving democracy, or democracy dies in darkness.

I never quite understand

that.

I read a couple of things about the electors in the last election.

And how can a state have two sets of electors?

I don't really quite understand that.

They just appoint people, so the governor can just decide that.

They don't have two sets of electors.

They have one that is the official elector.

But who serves as those electors,

Each party

can nominate them in some states, and then they're adjudicated by who wins the popular vote.

And they use the nominees of whichever party

wins the vote.

But they're not alternate sets.

And you can change that process?

I mean, if you're in.

No, what they're saying is that they have passed

legislation in left-wing states that say our electors, no matter who wins the vote in this state, shall not reflect that vote.

They're going to look at the national vote.

So if we are in Colorado and Donald Trump wins by three points, those Electoral College votes that will elect the president will not go to Donald Trump if Joe Biden wins the popular vote.

And it's really destroying the whole founders' idea that they did not.

One thing we know they did not want, and we know from Jefferson and Hamilton and Adams, their writings, their day book entries, they did not want an Athenian-style democracy.

Tocqueville did not want an Athenian-style democracy.

That is, on 50,

any given day, 51% of the people can vote to kill the people in Mytilene and change their mind the next day, as Thucydides, or execute, as

Xenophon tells us, Socrates and Plato.

illegally.

So there were constitutional impediments to mass hysterias, and they want to get rid of all of those and make it a plebiscite.

But believe me about the left, remember about the left, they don't have any constant, predictable, uniform ideology.

It's just about power.

This all started in 2016.

If you go back, and I did go back and look at this, if you go back and look at 2012,

2008,

what did you find about the Electoral College in our major online and print magazines and commentaries?

How wonderful the Electoral College was.

You know why?

Because there was a blue wall.

And it's all of these Democratic people said things like, we don't envision a Republican candidate ever winning again, because you see, before the balloting even starts, New York and California and Illinois are done deals.

There's no way that a Republican can ever win those votes.

And now, thanks to Barack, we have a blue wall.

And it starts in North Carolina, it goes to Pennsylvania, it goes to Michigan, it goes on to Wisconsin, and it ends up in Minnesota.

And all of those, plus the huge states that are hardcore left, is enough.

We don't really care about Florida anymore, Ohio.

And that's what they thought.

Because they looked at the electoral tallies and how Obama, Nate Silver wrote about it, the demographer and pollster.

And then all of a sudden, Donald Trump blew up the blue wall by very thin margins.

He won Pennsylvania, he won Wisconsin, he won

Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

And all of a sudden, the Electoral College is Hillary's president.

And then, you know.

This election denialism, there was somebody at my own home institution that was giving a lecture the other day about election denialism and threat democracy.

And

I don't want to criticize my own institution, but the person was talking about Donald Trump

because he questioned the 2020.

But he was not the first to question.

In 2004,

Barbara Boxer, our senator, and 30-something House members delayed the vote.

They tried to.

They didn't have enough votes.

But they tried to delay the certification of the Ohio electors because they said, oh, the computer, remember this?

Cost

Fox News a billion dollars.

Oh, the computers are

leveraged for George W.

Bush, John Kerry, Willie won Ohio.

And then we know in 2016, it was, God, for two weeks before the electors met in December, it was, hello,

I'm Martin Sheen.

And I'm begging you, I'm appealing to you, electors.

There's no reason that you have to go through with this and vote according to your popular vote in your state.

Have a conscience, conscience, have a morality, have ethics, do not do this to the United States.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

Just vote according to the popular vote.

Do not do that.

And they were just calling for insurrection.

They really were.

And then Jill Stein, she sued.

Remember, she was a Hillary surrogate?

Those Dominion voting machines were crooked in Ohio.

And then all of a sudden, Donald Trump said, yeah, that's what you do.

You deny if you lose.

And they said,

we're going to arrest arrest everybody who was at the Capitol and we're going to win.

They indicted him.

Remember, Jack Smith indicted him for insurrection.

I wonder if he is going to indict maybe Fannie Willis.

She called up registrars.

She said she was governor.

She lost by 50,000 votes in 2018 to Brian Kemp.

You mean

Stacey Abrams, yes.

Stacey Abrams, yes.

She went around the country and made a whole celebrity career saying she was the real governor of Georgia.

And Fannie Willis and her office, she wasn't, I think she was in power, said nothing.

She was the election denialist.

I had a debate once with the renowned Chris Matthews, and I went through that, all of the examples of election denialism and efforts to change the vote.

And he got so angry, he just said I was parodying Republican talking points.

But I said, even if I were, I just would like you to refute that.

Just say that it's either untrue,

the argument I made, the evidence, or it's irrelevant.

Just say that.

I don't mean Republican dumping.

No, of course not, because they always say the opposite of what's true.

Well, last thing, and we're going to end the podcast on this.

Probably not much to say, but Biden's worried that Hunters might have to spend time in prison on gun charges.

Forget the tax evasion, but

what are your any thoughts on the Hunter dilemma this week?

Well, Hunter is very worried because he knows that under any notion of equality under the law, he'd be in prison.

Because he was not just a tax evader, he was a mega tax evader.

There are people listening to me right now who know friends or themselves that have paid huge fines and were threatened or served in jail for not reporting $100,000, $50,000.

There was just an article today in our local paper that a trucking company, one of the, by an immigrants trucking company, he did not fully report

in accordance with the withholding taxes of his employees.

And he's going to go to prison.

So Hunter knows that.

And he knows that he lied on a federal affidavit about guns.

And he knows that for the left, there's only one thing worse

than trying to get a handgun with a forged or a false federal document, and that's being against abortion.

So he did a cardinal sin.

He got a handgun, and he lied.

If it was any Republican who lied on a federal affidavit that he had never taken drugs or he was not under the influence at any time of drugs in recent periods before his acquisition of the gun.

And yet he's out, and he knows why he's out, because the Biden DOJ was going to give him a softball, NABA,

suspended sentence, slap on the wrist, and then the judge finally said this is a sham, and we're going to treat him like anybody else.

And then he knows that his father's going to pardon him.

And so, but what he's worried about is that he could be convicted and sentenced.

and in jail before November.

Before, then his dad can pardon him.

He is after and tried to go.

No, his dad cannot pardon him because his dad would lose the election if he did that.

You think so?

You cannot pardon your son who's a felon, a convicted, and pardon him.

He can do it after the election if he wins, and he can do it after the election if he loses.

He's got all of November, December, and January to pardon.

And he doesn't even care what people say about it.

He will do that.

And if he's re-elected, he will do that because he'll be a lame duck.

The only thing that Hunter's worried about is

he might get sentenced before the election.

Yeah.

And he might have to actually go to jail.

I don't think he'd be treated very well in jail either, given the stuff he's put on his internet.

Yeah.

Anyways, bad thoughts.

I don't mean to be mean, but you know, if you're bragging about your sexual potency and you have all these naked girls and you're posing naked and then suddenly you're put into a environment with felonious men who've committed crimes, that's not a good thing.

No, absolutely not.

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