DEFUND the UN, if they Try to Throw Israel Out, plus FBI Caught Putting out Fake Crime Numbers

Summary

Podcast Summary: The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Episode: DEFUND the UN, if they Try to Throw Israel Out, plus FBI Caught Putting out Fake Crime Numbers
Release Date: October 21, 2024
Host/Author: Premiere Networks
Hosts: Ben Ferguson and Senator Ted Cruz

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1. Israel's Struggle at the United Nations General Assembly

Timestamp: [00:01] - [02:30]

The episode opens with Senator Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson discussing the Palestinian Authority's attempts to expel Israel from the United Nations General Assembly. Cruz expresses frustration with the Biden-Harris administration's passive response to these efforts.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([00:22]):
"The Palestinian Authority is pushing an effort at the United Nations to expel Israel from the General Assembly. It is in many ways unsurprising. But what sadly is also unsurprising is the Biden Harris administration is doing little to nothing to fight it."

2. Potential Consequences of Expelling Israel from the UN

Timestamp: [02:30] - [15:02]

Senator Cruz outlines his proposed response to the UN's potential expulsion of Israel. He has drafted a letter urging the US to halt all funding to the United Nations if Israel is expelled. This includes limiting participation in UN programs and imposing anti-terrorism sanctions on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([12:14]):
"The effort to diplomatically isolate Israel is aimed at ultimately destroying the Jewish state, which is both obscene and antithetical to American national security interest."

3. Critique of the Biden-Harris Administration's Policies

Timestamp: [16:27] - [21:58]

Cruz criticizes the Biden administration for its perceived anti-Israel stance, referencing actions such as the late-night tweet from the Office of Palestinian Affairs urging Israel not to retaliate after the October 7th attacks. He underscores the administration's reluctance to veto UN resolutions critical of Israel, drawing parallels to the Obama administration's handling of UN Resolution 2334.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([20:19]):
"Reagan was right. I believe if it happens under Trump, I believe Trump would pull us out of the UN. And I think if the UN understands those are the real consequences, they won't throw Israel out."

4. FBI's Manipulation of Crime Statistics

Timestamp: [15:02] - [30:36]

The conversation shifts to the FBI's alteration of crime statistics. Initially reporting a 2.1% drop in violent crime in 2022, the FBI later revised the numbers to show a 4.5% increase. Cruz and Ferguson argue that this manipulation supports Democratic narratives that crime has decreased under Biden-Harris, which they contend is false.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([24:20]):
"The Democrats have been saying and the media has been saying is actual and literal fake news. So the talking points of all the Democrats, the talking points of all of the corporate media was crime has gone down under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now anyone looking at the rapes and murders and the children being abused like, like that defied common sense. But they pointed to the FBI stats as their proof."

5. Media Bias and the Suppression of Conservative Voices

Timestamp: [22:00] - [38:56]

Ferguson highlights the media's role in perpetuating false narratives, exemplified by the manipulation of crime statistics. They also discuss the suppression of political content by Big Tech platforms like Instagram and Meta, citing a Washington Post investigation that revealed significant reductions in audience engagement for political posts.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([36:22]):
"The Washington Post had an investigation that said that Instagram, which is part of Meta, buries political posts and it slashes the audience by 63% when the word vote is posted."

6. The Importance of a Clean Federal Bureaucracy

Timestamp: [30:36] - [34:28]

Cruz emphasizes the need to depoliticize federal agencies such as the Department of Justice and the FBI. He recounts past administrations' failures to address partisan bias within these institutions and asserts that a Trump administration would prioritize restoring their integrity.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([31:34]):
"I believe it is one of the most important things in a Trump administration to depoliticize the Department of Justice and the FBI. I want a DOJ that follows the law and that prosecutes people when they break the law, regardless of their party. I want an FBI that does the same thing."

7. Anticipated Reforms Under a Trump Administration

Timestamp: [34:28] - [36:22]

The hosts discuss the potential for significant reforms if Trump were to regain the presidency. They anticipate a rigorous investigation into the FBI's manipulation of crime data and a broader effort to cleanse the federal bureaucracy of partisan influences.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([28:15]):
"If Trump wins, there needs to be a wholesale cleaning house, getting rid of the wildly partisan career bureaucrats who burrowed into senior leadership positions at the FBI."

8. Big Tech Censorship Impacting Democracy

Timestamp: [36:22] - [38:56]

Ferguson delves into the Washington Post's findings on Big Tech's suppression of political discourse, particularly on platforms like Instagram and Facebook. He argues that this censorship hinders democratic processes by limiting citizens' ability to discuss and engage in political matters freely.

Notable Quote:
Senator Cruz ([38:56]):
"Silencing the ability of citizens to talk about politics is really a bad dynamic for democracy."

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Conclusion

In this episode of The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson, hosts Ben Ferguson and Senator Ted Cruz address critical issues surrounding the United Nations' push to expel Israel, the Biden-Harris administration's stance on Israel, the FBI's alleged manipulation of crime statistics, and the suppression of political discourse by Big Tech platforms. They advocate for strong measures to support Israel, call for accountability within federal agencies, and highlight the need to protect democratic freedoms against biased media and technological censorship.

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, there has been a lot that has happened coming out of Israel, a lot with terrorists that are dying. Thank goodness. Video that has been leaked after they killed the Mastermind behind the October 7th attack. But then we also found out some pretty shocking news. Let's start with that.

[B]

Well, the Palestinian Authority is pushing an effort at the United nations to expel Israel from the General Assembly. It is in many ways unsurprising. But what sadly is also unsurprising is the Biden Harris administration is doing little to nothing to fight it. And so I have called for the Biden Harris administration to actually stand up for Israel. And I've made clear that if they don't, that if the UN Actually expels Israel from the General assembly, that the United States should halt all. All funding from America to the United nations, that we should use the stick we have not to let the radical semites at the UN punish Israel for being the victims of October 7th and for being victorious, defeating the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah. We're gonna break that down in greater detail. We're also gonna talk about the FBI magically, quietly, stealthily editing the. The crime statistics in. You know, the FBI had put out stats that said crime had dropped under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and the Democrats in the corporate media were gleefully repeating that. The one minor detail is it was a lie. It was false. Crime has risen dramatically, and very quietly, the FBI was forced to edit those stats to recognize the obvious truth. We're going to break that down as well.

[A]

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[B]

Now, Ben, before we get started on the UN story, I got to ask a very, very important question. You ever work at McDonald's?

[A]

You know, it's funny, I have never worked at McDonald's, but I have started my own restaurant, which felt very much like working at McDonald's.

[B]

Well, now, as a teenager, did you ever flip burgers? Did you work at fast food restaurant? Where'd you work? Where'd you work?

[A]

So I worked in a snack shop by the tennis courts. And so I cooked. I'm not kidding. Probably thousands of burgers and probably thousands of pounds of french fries and chicken fingers in my day.

[B]

So, Ben, how do we know you're not lying? Apparently, one can be a leading candidate for President of the United States. Just make up working at McDonald's. And the media has utterly no interest in whether you're lying or not.

[A]

Yeah, well, one, I have people that actually work there with me. And usually when you work in a restaurant, you're in a pretty tight group, especially if you're younger, too. There's pictures, I'm sure out there that someone's got of me actually cooking. And. Yeah, so it's not hard to prove it, that's for sure.

[B]

But of course, Kamala Harris claims to have worked at McDonald's, but there's no indication whatsoever that is the truth. I gotta say, I Thought it was frigging hysterical that Donald Trump went to McDonald's. The image of him wearing a McDonald's apron, like, @ the drive through window. Can you imagine if you went to get a Big Mac and you pull up and there is Donald Trump at the window? I mean, seriously, how would you react if you saw Trump just at the drive through window with your Big Mac?

[A]

Yeah, I mean, you would. You would lose it. Like, you would be like, are you kidding me? Is this real life? Is this actually happening? And the best part, I don't know if you saw some of the memes. They were hysterical. One of them today, that really made me laugh. It said, imagine it's a picture of him at the drive through window with his apron on, out the window waving. It says, imagine if it's the last thing an illegal alien sees before they're deported.

[B]

That's pretty strong. I got to say, though, it does illustrate that the complete moral bankruptcy of the media that it takes Trump doing what was clearly a stunt and a pretty funny stunt. I mean, the media's mocking him for it, which, I mean, look, they could acknowledge is pretty charming and pretty funny to do. But it has a more serious point, which is that Kamala Harris has told multiple falsehoods over and over and over again, and the corporate media covers up and in fact, repeats and amplifies the falsehoods.

[A]

It's also one of those moments. And I, as I watch this, and I'm like, the media still didn't get it, which really made me laugh. And that is, Donald Trump wasn't doing this for a publicity stunt. Donald Trump was doing this.

[B]

The man gets quite a bit of publicity. Have you. Have you noticed that?

[A]

Oh, 100%. But I'm laughing because they're like, oh, it's publicity. So I'm like, no, it's not. You don't even like. I don't. I don't think you're that stupid. I'm referring to the media. It's not a publicity stunt. He's showing the hypocrisy of what it takes for a conservative candidate to actually get the media to even report on the actual issue, which is Kamala Harris lied about working at McDonald's.

[B]

So in my experience, and I do this a lot, like when I'm doing a town hall, I will often ask people, how many of y'all ever worked in a restaurant? And inevitably, any town hall you're doing, half the people, their hands will go up. And particularly as teenagers that you work at a McDonald's or Jack in the Box or Taco Bell, or you work as a waiter or waitress at a restaurant. And in my experience, teenagers either did that or they mowed lawns. So when I was a teenager, I mowed lawns, and I liked being outside. So I figured, all right, if I got to make some money, you know, I could be out. Out in the sun and, you know, be in shorts and a T shirt instead of going in and. And. And flipping burgers. But, you know, mowing lawns was. It was a good business when you were 14, 15 years old.

[A]

So you're going to laugh. I had a lawn business when I was. I think I was seven, six or seven. This is what we're missing in this country. My parents said, if you want money, then you better learn how to make it. And my lawn business was called, you grow it, we mow it.

[B]

Very nice.

[A]

And I had a monopoly on that neighborhood in, like, 90 days.

[B]

Well, and look, to be fair, Kamala Harris said the same thing. She has a manure business where she spreads large quantities of manure. All right, let's get to our story.

[A]

I like it. More of the story is, I'm just proud of Donald Trump for trolling the media on this one.

[B]

It's awesome. That image may be the funniest thing I've seen in months. Just the. I really do wish. You know, I have to admit, it wasn't the same thing, but I. A couple of years ago, I was down at our southern border. I was at a checkpoint, but it wasn't like a illegal crossing checkpoint. It was 18 wheelers that are coming across, and they come through it. So it's a heavy commercial traffic checkpoint. And I just went, like, in the booth with the border patrol agent. And I gotta say that the looks as truck drivers pull in and they're expecting, okay, I'm going to get checked now. And then they look over and see me, and they're double takes. They're absolute double takes. And I actually conducted an informal poll, so just about everyone raised a finger to me. I will say I was very happy at the finger ratio because I would say it was about 20%, the middle finger and about 80% of thumbs up. So I liked 80. 20among the truck drivers coming in, I thought was a pretty good. Pretty good ratio. But it was like, it was a real time poll, and just about everyone, Look, I'm. Obviously, I'm not Trump, but you still got, like, weird double takes, like, what in the hell is Cruz doing here? And I'm sure I really Wish I haven't seen if they got pictures of, like, people in the cars, but. But I am sure they were absolute.

[A]

So the videos that came through it just because this is too good to pass out. It was incredible to watch the reactions and the people that were so happy and proud to say, I support you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And, like. And a lot of them were people that you could tell. It was very sincere moments for them. And they were so happy to see him. And I said on my national show Sunday night, I was like, this is why we need to stop being afraid to just be honest, that we're in favor of conservatives and our candidates, because I do believe we are the silent majority.

[B]

Amen.

[A]

At this point, just do it. Like, I have gotten the point now where I'm either wearing a hat with your name on it or a hat with. With Trump's name on it because of election. But I thought I was going to get a lot more people that were angry. I can't tell you the number of people that walk up to me now when I wear the hats and they're like, dude, I love your hat. Dude, I love your hat. Do I love your hat. Dude, I love your hat, man. I got to get one of those hats. I need to wear that hat, too. And I think if we all just, like, picked a random Tuesday and said, wear your favorite political hat, we would be shocked how many conservatives are among us each and every day. But we're so afraid now because they've been towing us forever. You can't do that. You got to be qu. Sit down. Shut up. Be quiet. You're a bigot. You're racist. The name calling. I think we are the silent majority, and we need to become a loud majority.

[B]

Well, let me. Actually, I'm gonna prove that you're right, because the basic dynamic nationally with elections is conservatives win when we effectively articulate what we believe, and liberals win when they effectively obfuscate when they effectively hide what they believe. Take a look at Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris is not running a campaign saying, I'm for open borders. I'm proud of letting in 11 and a half million illegal immigrants. I'm proud of voting to defund the police. I'm proud of raising bail money to bail out violent rioters who rioted in Minneapolis. I'm proud of massive taxes. I'm proud of attacking oil and gas and driving up the cost of gasoline. I'm proud of undermining Israel and sending $100 billion to Iran. Like, that's her actual record. And yet she denies all of it. You look at her ad, she's literally running ads with aerial footage of Trump's border wall. She's pretending her record is Trump. And by the way, what's Trump doing trying to tell everyone his record and her record? And that dynamic is true. The reason for that, I believe, is this is fundamentally a center right country. And Kamala and her team knows her policies are wildly unpopular. If they thought the country agreed with this garbage, they wouldn't lie about it. They'd admit it and be proud of it.

[A]

Yeah, you're absolutely right. Which brings us to this next story, and it's one where there's a lot of silence right now. I mean, a significant amount of silence that deals with the un. Catch everybody up to date on this one because it's really important.

[B]

Yeah. So the Palestinian Authority is working to expel Israel from the United Nations General Assembly. And so I've drafted a letter that actually I'm right now in the process of getting other senators to sign that I'm going to send both to the UN Ambassador, Linda Thomas Greenfield, and to Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and I'm gonna send it in this next week. And the letter lays out the consequences of such an action. In other words, what happens if the UN actually expels Israel? And if they do that, what I lay out is in fact here I'll quote from the letter. The effort to diplomatically isolate Israel is aimed at ultimately destroying the Jewish state, which is both obscene and antithetical to American national security interest. If Israel is suspended for the from the UN General assembly, we will move to limit American participation and funding across the un, including UN programs, funds and other entities and bodies, as well as its specialized agencies and related organizations, both those in which the PLO participates and generally. And look, I also point out that if the Palestinian Authority is successful in this, it would violate the Oslo Accords, an agreement that the PA signed onto. And so the letter notes, quote, those agreements committed the Palestinians not to internationalize their conflict with Israel outside the contours of bilateral negotiations which the United States has traditionally mediated. The proposal by President Abbas to suspend Israel from the UN General assembly would straightforwardly violate and fundamentally abrogate those commitments, in turn requiring a comprehensive reevaluation of the US Palestinian relationship. We would pursue such a reevaluation, which would minimally include downgrading cooperation with the pa, ending assistance to the west bank in Gaza, ending terminating all Palestinian related offices across the US Government, including the Palestinian facing Consulate and the Office of Palestinian affairs. And broadly curtailing diplomatic, economic and security engagements between American and Palestinian officials. And it goes on to make clear that we will reimpose anti terrorism sanctions on the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority that are currently quote, vitiated by licenses and waivers and are primarily limited to Americans ability to assist those groups. Should should the PLO move to suspend Israel from the UN General assembly, we will seek to ensure that those licenses and waivers are ended and to expand American anti terrorism sanctions to include third parties.

[A]

So you look at this and I think there's going to be some shock by people that are listening. There's going to be some anger and there's going to be some why the hell are we still involved with the. Why do they have so much power? Why do we even entertain them when this is what's going on at the United Nations? I think all of those points are pretty fair feelings to have. Am I wrong?

[B]

You're not. And look, one of the main reasons to stay in the U.N. listen, as I campaign across Texas and across the country, I frequently get questions about why don't we just pull out of the un? And I understand the UN is fundamentally corrupt. It is filled with anti Semites, it is filled with viciously anti American organizations. Unrwa, it was infiltrated by Hamas and actively assisting Hamas. UNWRA is the Palestinian aid organization within the United Nations. But the answer that I frequently give it is important, I believe, for us to stay in the un among other things, to defend Israel, that, that Israel without America would be persecuted. There is so much anti Semitism, so much hatred of Israel, that without the US and the UN it would be completely unchecked. Now if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris just roll over and do nothing to stop it, then I gotta say the justification for remaining in the UN very rapidly disappears.

[A]

Part of us being in the UN and this goes back to a debate that we had, gosh, I wanna say it was in 16 and 17, is why are we such big funders of the UN especially with the UNRWA corruption and the other corruption that you just mentioned. Look, I'm fine being in the UN and having a voice and kind of being able to just watch what the other countries are doing. But why are we giving so much of our taxpayer dollars to them? Other countries aren't doing it, so why do we do it?

[B]

Look, there's no doubt that we're taken advantage of. And the UN agreements are based on the size of the economies. And because we have the largest economy in the world, they charge us the most money, but we happily go along with that. And I could imagine that being justified if we were using our leverage to significantly advance American interests and to protect our allies. If we're not. And here's the problem. Let's go back to the end of the Barack Obama administration. At the very end of the Barack Obama administration, after Trump won in 16, the Obama administration pushed a resolution called UN Resolution 2334 that was adopted on December 23, 2016. Resolution 2334 was viciously anti Israel and viciously anti Semitic. It condemned the modern state of Israel as illegitimate and illegally occupied. It condemned the west bank is illegitimate and illegally occupied. It condemned the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem as illegitimate and illegally occupied. It condemned the Wailing Wall of Solomon's Temple as illegitimate and illegally occupied. And it was wildly anti Israel. And what happened? Number one, the Obama administration waited till after the election. They didn't want people to know they were doing this to Israel. And then, number two, what they did is quietly orchestrate it behind the scenes and then simply not veto it because the United States is on the Security Council. The United States could have vetoed it, but Obama did not. And the consequence of that was that the UN, at the behest of the apparatchiks in the Obama Biden administration, attacked Israel. And that's what's going on here as well. And it's why I'm circulating a letter to the Biden Harris administration to make clear, look, I think we're gonna win a Republican majority in the Senate and we're gonna stand up. There are gonna be very real consequences to the UN if they do this. I wanna point out also, the strategy that I'm laying out is actually exactly what Ronald Reagan did. So the last time the PLO tried to expel Israel from. From the United Nations General Assembly, Reagan declared, quote, if Israel is ever forced to leave the United nations, the United States and Israel will leave together. That is absolutely right. Reagan was right. I believe if it happens under Trump, I believe Trump would pull us out of the UN And I think if the UN understands those are the real consequences, they won't throw Israel out. But I think Kamala Harris is quietly pushing this behind the scenes because this White House has been the most anti Israel White House we have ever seen.

[A]

Yeah, no doubt about it. And Reagan policies you mentioned is a brilliant and simple one. Go ahead, kick them out. Watch how fast America leaves. That's how you're supposed to stand up for an ally. It's what a simple idea, right? Like what an. I wish this White House would understand that at some point.

[B]

Well, you gotta understand, you gotta understand why they don't do that. They agree with the Palestinian Authority, they agree with the enemies of Israel. Look, on October 7, when the attack was happening, the Biden State Department that night at three in the morning tweeted out from the Office of Palestinian affairs, there must be no military response. Israel should not retaliate for 1200 citizens being murdered. 1200 civilians being murdered for women and little girls being raped, for over 200 hostages being taken. It was ridiculous. And you'll recall my team and I, we spotted that at 3 in the morning. I tweeted immediately after it, I said this is disgraceful. Whoever wrote this should be fired. And within minutes they deleted it. By the way, it wasn't just an aberration, it wasn't just some lone anti Semite in the administration. Because the next day Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State on October 8th a year ago, tweeted essentially the same thing. He said he'd just spoken with a Turkish foreign minister and they both agreed. Israel must not retaliate. There should be no military response to the most, the broadest and the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. And let's be clear, we just took out Sinwar the head. We actually Israel took out Sinwar the head of Hamas. They did so despite Kamala Harris threatening Israel, urging them not to go into Rafah. At every stage, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris tried to stop Israel from defeating Hamas. And Israel to its credit, and actually enhancing our national security has done so anyway, despite the fervent opposition of this White House.

[A]

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[B]

Yeah, and I gotta say what the Democrats have been saying and what the media has been saying is actual and literal fake news. So the talking points of all the Democrats, the talking points of all of the corporate media was crime has gone down under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now anyone looking at the rapes and murders and the children being abused like, like that defied common sense. But they pointed to the FBI stats as their proof. Let, let, let me read from an article in re Real Clear Investigations by, by John Lott, who's an economist and it's entitled Stealth Edit. FBI quietly revises violent crime stats Quote. When the FBI originally released the final crime data for 2022 in September of 2023, it reported that the nation's violent crime weight rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became and remains a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump's claims of soaring crime. But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. So they said it fell by 2.1%. That was a lie. In fact, it increased by 4.5%. That's 6.6% delta difference. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults. The bureau, which has been at the center of partisan storms, made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release. Real Clear Investigations discovered the change through a crypt cryptic reference on the FBI website that states the 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUs 2023. But there's no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI's new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year. After the FBI released its new crime data In September, a USA Today headline read, quote, Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape. It's been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau's lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers. And, and, and here's like, let me give you a sense of just how dramatically they revised it. The updated Data for the 2022 report now shows there were additional. There were 80,029 more violent crimes in 2022 than in 2021. There were an additional 1699 murders. There were an additional 7780 rapes. There were an additional 33,489 robberies. And there were an additional 37,091 aggravated assaults. And the FBI isn't explaining why it magically had a political outcome that happened to fit the Democrat talking points. And by the way, Kamala Harris isn't explaining it either.

[A]

Not. Yeah, not at all. And this goes back to the COVID up. I don't think this was an accident. This was deliberate by them because they knew they needed this to be a campaign issue. That, hey, things aren't that bad. Right? Inflation's actually not that bad. Immigration, we saw them do this deal with Mexico to make the numbers artificially go down in August, in September, going into the election going, see, we're securing the border. It's no different with the violent crime stats here. This is why so many Americans now don't trust the government, certainly the deep state, certainly, unfortunately the FBI. And yet no one's gonna get fired for screwing up their job this bad because it wasn't a screw up. It was done deliberately.

[B]

Well, you may be wrong that no one's gonna get fired because.

[A]

Well, that would be amazing in a first in my lifetime.

[B]

Well, I mean if we have a good election, I think if Donald Trump gets elected, we will see A new Attorney General. I think we will see a new head of the FBI.

[A]

Oh, for sure.

[B]

And I am praying the people involved in this will be fired. If we win a majority in the Senate, I think we're likely to win. And the Republicans are likely to win a majority in the Senate. As you know, I'm on the Senate Judiciary Committee. I'm going to press the Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation into the FBI as to who specifically put out the false data. And I think we should push to get every email exchange, every conversation. I think it is likely that this was partisan, but we need to get to the bottom of it. And the fact that the FBI is not even providing any explanation when they're caught red handed really does damage. And by the way, look, I'll tell you something again. As I travel around campaigning regularly, people ask me, should we abolish the FBI? And I gotta tell you that actually that question concerns me because the FBI does a lot of things that are incredibly important. The FBI is designed to battle terrorism, to catch terrorists before they commit another 9, 11. The FBI catches serial killers. The FBI catches child predators. The FBI catches helps with kidnapped children. I mean, there is a very, very important law enforcement mission of the FBI. And I'll tell you with, with first James Comey and now Chris Wray running the FBI. I think the integrity and the reputation of the FBI has been so profoundly tarnished that half the country wants to get rid of the damn thing altogether. That is really bad from a law enforcement perspective, from a perspective in stopping terrorists and stopping criminals. And I'll tell you, I have chewed out Chris Wray that when he circles the wagons and defends the hardcore partisans who have politicized the FBI, he is, he is lighting on fire the FBI's credibility and its reputation. And I think if Trump wins, there needs to be a wholesale cleaning house, getting rid of the wildly partisan career bureaucrats who burrowed into senior leadership positions at the FBI.

[A]

All right, let's, let's dive into this even on it, on a, on a more intense level, because this is one of those moments where I think there's a lot of voters that are listening right now that are saying, okay, my worry is we've heard this before, that there's gonna be a real draining of the swamp. What, how different do you think a Trump administration will be this time compared to 2016, when there was a lot of people that were on a list and you've done transitions. I've done it before. When people win and what you go through is you say, okay, well there's a certain group of people over here. These are non political, we don't mess with them. Right. They stay throughout administrations. And then here's your political ones and you can deal with them how you want, but there's these certain areas where you don't touch it. I think Donald Trump learned there's a lot of these, quote, non political positions that have become highly political.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And this is a great example of that. So do you believe that there is the political will to actually clean house the way that many voters are expecting? And I say that I think there's a lot of voters that are expecting it. They're like, okay, if we're gonna put you back in there, Republicans, AKA Trump, then you guys better do what you said you're gonna do this time and clean house, cuz that's what we're voting for.

[B]

Well, as you know, this is the topic of the third book that I wrote, which is called justice how the Left has Weaponized the Legal System. And in the book Justice Corrupted, I lay out how Barack Obama weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI and the IRS and the Alphabet soup of federal agencies to target and attack his political enemies. And then when Trump became president, by that point, many of these hard partisans had burrowed into senior career positions in the agency. And they spent the four years of the Trump presidency waging war on Donald Trump. They hated him, they tried to destroy the president, they tried to frustrate and oppose every aspect of his agenda. And now under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they're brazen and out in the open. They are nakedly politicized that they repeatedly are employed to target and persecute the political opponents of the White House. And it is disastrous. I think it is one of the most important things in a Trump administration to depoliticize the Department of Justice and the FBI. I've said a lot of times, I don't want a Republican doj, I don't want a Democrat doj. I want a DOJ that follows the law and that prosecutes people when they break the law, regardless of their party. I want an FBI that does the same thing. And look, will it be better the second time around? Absolutely. I don't think Trump and I know his senior team in the White House. They didn't realize what it is they were fighting. They didn't realize how the swamp operated. And they left in place a lot of people who actively waged war against the Trump administration. Look, classic example of that is James Comey. I believe that, that, that the Trump White House should have fired James Comey on January 20, 2017. No one would have blinked. First day Trump comes in office. Mr. Comey, thank you for your services. He was the old head of the FBI. You're gone. They didn't, they thought, oh, we can co op this guy and get him to work with us. Well, it was a disaster. And the whole Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense, James Comey was behind a lot of that. And so this time around, I think they're certainly, they realize the threat now. Fighting, it's not easy. I'm not gonna, you know, just blow smoke at you and say it's all gonna be rosy if Trump wins again. Fighting the swamp and the career bureaucrats is incredibly difficult. But I do think you will see a much, much greater seriousness of purpose from the Trump White House this time around. I think they realize much more the magnitude of the threat they're dealing with.

[A]

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[B]

Yeah, The Washington Post had an investigation that said that Instagram, which is part of Meta, buries political posts and it slashes the audience by 63% when the word vote is posted. And one influencer faced faced, as I said, a 63% drop. And this is an investigation done by Washington Post tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler that showed that Meta across its platforms, including Instagram, Facebook and Threads, actively suppress content related to the upcoming 2024 election. And it affects partisan political posts, but it also just nonpartisan content like Vote that they are suppressing it. And Fowler found that, that that whenever an Instagram account creator named Mrs. Frazzled, whose real name is Ariel Fodor, whenever Fodor mentioned anything related to politics over the last six months, her audience size decreased by about 40% compared to her non political posts. And when she used the word vote in a caption across 11 posts, the average audience was 63% smaller. And her experience is not isolated. Fowler, this is a Washington Post investigative reporter, found several other Instagram creators who noticed a similar pattern. And it's not unique to individual accounts. There was a wider study by an advocacy group called Accountable Tech that quantified the audience drops for five prominent leftist Instagram accounts, including the Human Rights Campaign and feminist. And over 10 weeks this spring, their average audiences fell by 65%. The study found that conservative accounts experienced a similar drop in engagement when discussing political topics. And Meta's suppression of political content happened when Zuckerberg in 2021 decided to pull back on political content and just try to avoid politics. Now look, I'd rather they avoid politics than actively be biased, which is how they were in the 2020 election. But silencing the ability of citizens to talk about politics is a really bad dynamic. And you contrast that to X, which I think X with Elon Musk's having purchased it is the new town square. But Facebook and Instagram have huge reaches and silencing politics is really harmful for democracy.

[A]

Yeah, it is. We're gonna have more on this coming up on Wednesday. Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hit that subscriber aut button please, and share this wherever you are on social media, even if they do suppress it by 60, 70%. Also, don't forget I do a podcast every day, so on those in between days you can grab it the Ben Ferguson Podcast as well. I'll keep you updated on the latest breaking news and I will see you back here on my show tomorrow and the center and I will see you back here on Wednesday morning.