Part 2: Ten Verdict Predictions that ALL Came TRUE! (6-10)

Summary

The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson: Part 2 Summary – Ten Verdict Predictions that ALL Came TRUE! (6-10)
Release Date: January 6, 2025

In the second part of "Ten Verdict Predictions that ALL Came TRUE," host Ben Ferguson teams up with Senator Ted Cruz to delve into predictions made throughout 2024 that have remarkably materialized by early 2025. This episode meticulously examines predictions numbered 6 through 10, providing insightful discussions, corroborative evidence, and notable declarations that underscore the accuracy of their forecasts.

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Prediction 6: Joe Biden Pardons Hunter Biden

Timestamp: 00:01 – 06:46

Prediction Overview:
Ben Ferguson predicted with 100% certainty that President Joe Biden would pardon his son, Hunter Biden, by December 2024. This pardon was expected to occur post-election, irrespective of election outcomes.

Discussion & Outcome:
Senator Cruz affirms the prediction, highlighting the media's initial skepticism and ridicule. He emphasizes the media's consistent attempts to deceive the public about the pardon, with officials like Kamala Harris and Karine Jean-Pierre publicly denying any intentions to pardon Hunter Biden. However, on December 1, 2024, President Biden fulfilled this prediction by issuing the pardon, despite prior denials. Cruz lauds Ferguson's unwavering confidence, noting how the odds were adjusted from 95% to 100% over six months, ultimately proving accurate.

Notable Quotes:

• Ben Ferguson [02:35]: "He's not going to do it before election day but he's going to stick around. And after election day I believe it is now 100% that Joe Biden will pardon Hudder."
• Senator Ted Cruz [05:12]: "On December 1st, Joe Biden did exactly what we told you he was going to do."

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Prediction 7: Supreme Court Reverses Colorado's Decision on Trump’s Ballot Removal

Timestamp: 08:27 – 13:28

Prediction Overview:
Ferguson predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court would unanimously overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove Donald J. Trump from the ballot, ensuring Trump's reinstatement.

Discussion & Outcome:
Cruz elaborates on the prediction, criticizing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision as a "constitutional abomination" aimed at suppressing voter choice. He reiterates the 100% certainty placed on the Supreme Court not only reversing the decision but doing so unanimously. On March 4, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court indeed unanimously reversed Colorado's ruling, reinstating Trump on the ballot, validating Ferguson's foresight.

Notable Quotes:

• Ben Ferguson [09:38]: "I put the odds at these decisions being reversed at 100%."
• Senator Ted Cruz [11:25]: "On March 4, 2024, the United States Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Colorado Supreme Court and reinstated Donald Trump on the ballot."

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Prediction 8: Biden DOJ Indicts Hunter Biden on Gun Charges to Protect Joe Biden

Timestamp: 13:28 – 19:23

Prediction Overview:
The prediction foresaw the Department of Justice under Biden targeting Hunter Biden with indictments on personal charges, specifically gun-related offenses, to shield President Biden from any direct implications of corruption.

Discussion & Outcome:
Cruz and Ferguson discuss the politicization of the DOJ, emphasizing that indicting Hunter on personal rather than corruption-related charges was a strategic move to protect Joe Biden. This tactic was evident when Hunter Biden was indicted in September 2023 for felonies related to firearm purchases, aligning perfectly with the prediction. They highlight the broader implications of such actions on public trust and legal integrity.

Notable Quotes:

• Senator Ted Cruz [14:35]: "The prediction that you just played, I made in May of 23. And the prediction was, number one, DOJ would indict Hunter Biden."
• Ben Ferguson [16:13]: "I think the Biden DOJ will indict Hunter Biden. But if they indict him for personal tax issues or for lying on his gun permit application, that will be the tell."

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Prediction 9: Texas Race Called on Election Night

Timestamp: 19:23 – 24:06

Prediction Overview:
Ferguson forecasted that Texas, being a large and efficiently managed state, would finalize and announce election results on the same night, contrasting with typically prolonged vote counts in blue states.

Discussion & Outcome:
Cruz reinforces the prediction by criticizing blue states for prolonged vote counting, which he attributes to deliberate efforts to alter election outcomes. He confidently predicted that Texas would conclude its vote counting by midnight on election night. On November 5, 2024, this came to fruition as the U.S. Senate race in Texas was called at 10:41 PM Texas time, and Donald Trump's national victory was declared shortly thereafter. This swift resolution starkly contrasted with the delayed counts in traditionally blue states, underscoring the accuracy of the prediction.

Notable Quotes:

• Senator Ted Cruz [21:00]: "We will know the results... by the end of election night in Texas."
• Ben Ferguson [19:44]: "We will know the results in the Senate race in Texas at 10:41pm."

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Prediction 10: Demise of Corporate Media and Rise of Podcasts

Timestamp: 24:06 – 34:31

Prediction Overview:
Ferguson predicted the decline of traditional corporate media outlets and the ascendancy of podcasts and democratized media platforms as primary sources of information, leading to increased public distrust in established media houses.

Discussion & Outcome:
Cruz and Ferguson discuss the erosion of trust in traditional media, attributing it to perceived bias and dishonesty. They observe a significant shift toward podcasts like "Verdict," which offer unfiltered and direct communication with the audience. The episode highlights how influential figures, including Donald Trump, have leveraged podcasts to bypass traditional media gatekeepers. The discussion underscores the successful realization of this prediction, evidenced by the growing listener base of "Verdict" compared to traditional shows like "Morning Joe."

Notable Quotes:

• Ben Ferguson [27:00]: "They are lying to you. And the reason this podcast, we've got roughly a million unique listeners is because people find it valuable."
• Senator Ted Cruz [32:40]: "They are so partisan, they are so brazen. They are willing to lie... their ability to lie is checked by the ability of you and me and others to speak the truth."

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Concluding Insights

Throughout the episode, Ben Ferguson and Senator Ted Cruz reiterate the precision of their predictions, attributing their success to bold forecasting and a commitment to uncovering truths overlooked or denied by mainstream media. The discussion emphasizes a broader narrative of political accountability, media integrity, and the evolving landscape of information dissemination. By dissecting each prediction's realization, they advocate for continued vigilance and reliance on alternative media sources to stay informed and ahead of mainstream narratives.

Final Notable Quotes:

• Senator Ted Cruz [33:18]: "This is why people tune in to Verdict because you learn things and you know things that you cannot get through the corporate media."
• Ben Ferguson [34:31]: "We will keep making big predictions in the coming year that I can promise you."

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Transcript

[Ben Ferguson]

Welcome.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And let me just say this before we start this show today, if you missed part one of our predictions that came right in 2024 and heading into 2025, go back and listen. There's some big predictions we made in part one, which came out on New Year's Day on Wednesday. And we are continuing with our predictions with part two. And, and one of the biggest stories of 2024, especially Senator, when Joe Biden was a candidate, was Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family and the corruption there. And let's start with one of the biggest topics of the year in 2024, and that was Joe Biden, his son, their relationship and the prediction you made that Joe Biden would pardon Hunter Biden.

Well, let me say this, this podcast and also the one we did on Wednesday of this week, we were going through 10 predictions, clear, explicit predictions made on verdict. Most of these predictions at the time we made them were widely ridiculed, were extremely unpopular. They, they were leaning in and taking a risk. Much of the media would not report on them. And to the extent they reported on the predictions we made, we were widely ridiculed for making these predictions. All of them have, have come true. And listen, if you want to know what's going to happen in 2025 and 2026 in the years to come, this is a podcast. I take risks. I lean forward. I give my best judgment. I make predictions. I will say we talked about in Wednesday's podcast the prediction I made. In fact, the night of the debate between Trump and Joe Biden, I made a prediction that I thought the odds were greater than 80% that Joe Biden would not be the nominee. That was a prediction I had made more than a year ahead of time. Widely ridiculed. Well, this is a prediction prediction number six in our list of ten that I made with, with, with greater certainty than greater than 80%. And in fact, this is a prediction I laid out. I said it was 100% certainty and the media ridiculed and ignored that prediction. But I want you to listen to what we predicted on July 22nd of 2024. Give a listen. Going to place the odds that Joe.

[Ben Ferguson]

Biden pardons Hunter Biden at 100.0%. Hunter Biden will get a pardon as a result of this decision today. It will not happen till after election Day.

That's what I was going to ask.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

When's it happening?

[Ben Ferguson]

He's not going to do it. He's not going to do it before election day but he's going to stick around. And after election day I believe it is now 100% that Joe Biden will pardon Hudder.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Now remember the, the media center, they we played a montage on this show back then of, of the media obsessing over over and over again. The White House press secretary, the President and interviews, straight up lying to the American people, saying there was he was going to respect the justice system, he was going to respect the, the outcome. He would not pardon his son and said it over and over again. And the entire time they were just flat out lying to the American people.

Yeah, Joe Biden was lying to the American people. Kamala Harris was lying to the American people. Karine Jean Pierre went out on behalf of the President, stood at the White House podium and lied to the American people over and over and over again. When they repeatedly said Joe Biden was not going to pardon Hunter. As I said In July of 24, I thought the odds were 100% but it wasn't even July of 24. Let's go back even further. Let's go back to January 1, 2024, almost exactly one year ago. Go back and listen to what we Predicted on verdict January 12, 2024. Give a listen back in January of.

[Ben Ferguson]

This year there was a prediction that was made on this show and the prediction that was made on this show. I just want to start by playing it. You said this.

I'm going to make a prediction right now. Ben, this is not what I like. My prediction is In December of 2024, Joe Biden will pardon Hunter.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Biden.

Really?

[Ben Ferguson]

That's my prediction will be after the election, very likely.

Win or lose, you say he'll do.

It no matter what, win or lose. If Biden were to win, I think he'll delay the pardon until right before Hunter goes to jail. But if Biden is losing, I'd put the odds at 95% that in December of this year, if Biden has just lost the general election, that he pardons his son and he gives him a scot free get out of jail pass. And so understand Hunter's legal strategy is delay 11 months. Delay 11 months, don't go to jail for 11 months and then daddy gives you get out of jail free card. And, and it's why the House needs to keep their eye on the ball.

That was January 12th, Center 2024. If you were listening to Verdict then this was 100% predicted and it happened exactly how you said it would.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Well, to be fair, it was 95% predicted then. And then last summer I raised it to 100%. But if you listened to verdict, you knew this was going to happen. It is 10:53pm on December 1st. We are recording this podcast right now. On December 1st, Joe Biden did exactly what we told you he was going to do. Eleven months ago, he pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. Never mind about the corruption, never mind about the gun offenses, never mind about the drug offenses, never mind about the tax offenses. No man is above the law unless your name is Joe Biden and the entire Biden family.

I like how honest you are. 95%. So you gave the 5% back. I like that.

Well, to be fair, 95% was the odds that I put on this in January of 2024. 100% were the odds that I put on it in July of 2024. So in those six months I increased the odds from 95% to 100%. And I want to point out I didn't just make the prediction that it would happen. I made the prediction that it would happen in December of 2024. Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden on December 1, 2024. So not only was the prediction correct, the date was correct when, when we predicted on this, this podcast that Joe Biden would be removed from the ballot. I predicted that would be in August of 24. It instead happened on July 21 of 24. So I was off by 10 days on that prediction. But on the Hunter Biden pardon, I was exactly right that it would happen and I was exactly right as to when it would happen.

[Ben Ferguson]

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[Senator Ted Cruz]

Number seven on my list. And this was one that could have become a massive moment in American history, a massive moment with voting and our elections. And it dealt with the Supreme Court. And you said the Supreme Court would unanimously reverse the Colorado effort to remove Donald J. Trump from the ballot in that state.

Well, that's right. And remember, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump had to be removed from the ballot. And mind you, this is back when Democrats claimed they were defending democracy. And the way they defended democracy is trying to legally order the voters do not vote for our opponent because we love democracy so much, we're going to remove them from the ballot. That decision was an outrage. It was a grotesque constitutional abomination. And when that decision came down, I was unequivocal in predicting, number one, that the Supreme Court would overturn it. But number two, I predicted, I believed the Supreme Court would overturn it unanimously. And I want you to give a listen to to to this clip from January 2024.

[Ben Ferguson]

What the Democrats have done in both Colorado and in Maine is said to hell with the voters. We don't care about democracy. We don't care what the voters want. We know better. We hate Donald Trump so much the voters are not allowed to vote for him. That is, it's never happened in our nation's history. It is a level of partisanship and weaponization and cynicism and abuse of power that is truly unprecedented. And it is also legally frivolous. I'm here to tell you right now these decisions will be reversed. I put the odds at these decisions being reversed at 100%. When we get to November of this year, if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, his name will be on the ballot. Donald Trump's name will be on the primary ballot in every state. And no partisan Democrat is going to succeed in removing his name from the ballot and keeping it off. That is my prediction right now. I believe the U.S. supreme Court will take this case. I think they will overturn, they will reverse the Colorado decision. I think they will do so swiftly. And I think There is a very real possibility they do so unanimously. I hope they do so unanimously. I don't know if the left leaning judges on the court would be willing.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

To do so, but they should.

[Ben Ferguson]

It would be the right thing to do. And I think there's a reasonable prospect that we get a 90 decision from the US Supreme Court reversing the Colorado decision and making clear that if you don't like Donald Trump, the answer is go beat him at the ballot box, not go to your friendly Democrat in your pocket secretary of state just to pull them off the ballot.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Yet again, the prediction, you were spot on.

Well and it's worth noting there were multiple predictions that were baked into that. Number one, at the time the Colorado Supreme Court decision came down, it was going to be appealed to the US Supreme Court. The way the US Supreme Court, the vast majority of the cases before it, the way they take cases is they have what's called discretionary review. So they have a decision whether to take a case or not. And so what I predicted immediately when this Colorado decision came down was number one, the US Supreme Court would take the case. Check that prediction proved correct. Number two, I predicted the U.S. supreme Court would reverse the decision. And in fact I said in my judgment the odds of the Supreme Court reversing the decision were 100%. That's another 100% odds that I gave. I gave the odds of 100 Biden pardon it, 100% that proved true. I gave the odds of the Supreme Court reversing the Colorado Supreme Court at 100% that proved true. I will note when you make a prediction with, with 100% odds, you are, you're taking some risk. I don't know anyone else that that was making predictions that unequivocally and boldly about what was going to happen. I believe that was correct and it proved correct. And then the one that was interesting is, is I also predicted, I said there's a reasonable prospect that, that the U.S. supreme Court will overturn the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously. I said that's not 100%. I didn't get didn percentage number but I said a reasonable prospect. I think it's fair to interpret that as more likely than not as greater than 50%. And I'm very, very glad that prediction came true. It might not have. You might have seen one or two or three of the liberals dissent. That would have been really unfortunate. And I'm grateful that that prediction came true because on March 4, 2024, the United States Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Colorado Supreme Court and reinstated Donald Trump on the ballot. That was the right decision. And it's exactly what verdict had predicted.

It was an important prediction, especially for the future of this country, and one that again, it was absolutely predicted correct by you. Let's move on to another one, number eight on my list, and that is that Joe Biden and the Department of Justice would protect the Big Guy, but would indict Hunter Biden on the gun charges. In other words, it and go back in time, remind people the charges that were coming against Hunter Biden actually were the perfect charges to protect Joe Biden and make sure there was nothing that would intertwine or put him in a bad spot with his business partners. We've seen the last few days, this picture coming out with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and Kim Jong Un and other business associates. He claimed he never met with the business associates and he had no connections to China and there was a firewall between his son and him. All of that was smoke and mirrors. All of that was a lie. But there's anything that Joe Biden's DOJ did correctly, it was to make sure that when they indicted Hunter, it was a. Indictments that would not hurt Joe Biden the present in any way.

Well, that's, that's right. And, and we broke down in, in great detail on, on this podcast what the evidence was concerning Hunter Biden, concerning Joe Biden, concerning Biden family corruption. And in particular we focused on, Listen, the reason this is a matter of public import is because it is evidence of corruption directly by the President of the United States and by previously the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden. And we said, listen, if Hunter Biden were just some poor substance abusing individual who had made bad life choices his whole life, it would not be a matter of public concern. What the public concern is is that Hunter Biden and the Biden family made millions of dollars selling favors from Joe Biden, that it was official corruption from Joe Biden. And so we broke that down. But this podcast laid out how the Biden DOJ has been utterly politicized and corrupt on this investigation and that their objective was to protect the Big Guy, to protect Joe Biden. And what, what, what I laid out is I said, listen, if they just focus on the personal issues with Hunter, if they focus on the drug issues and the gun issues, those are unique and personal to Hunter, they don't implicate the Big Guy. They will be doing so with an aid and a purpose of protecting and insulating Joe Biden. Give a listen to what we said in May of 2023, as we've talked.

[Ben Ferguson]

About at great length on this podcast.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

The tell.

[Ben Ferguson]

I think the Biden DOJ will indict Hunter Biden. But if they indict him for personal tax issues or for lying on his.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Gun permit application, that will be the tell.

[Ben Ferguson]

That they're being political, that they're trying to focus on offenses that are just personal to him, that they can say.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Listen, he's a troubled soul. He has substance abuse issues.

[Ben Ferguson]

The scandal, the issue of public concern is the corruption of Daddy, of Joe Biden when he was vice president. And when he was president.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

I mean, Senator, not only did the prediction come true, but. But do you think there's a good chance after Donald Trump takes office and we see all of these people at the DOJ turn over. I would describe as from the. Going from the bad guys, the good guys, a simple way of putting it, that we're gonna find out even more about how much they were helping protect the Biden crime family.

I do. And as I said in Wednesday's podcast, I have urged both Pam Bondi, the incoming Attorney General, and Cash Patel, the incoming director of the FBI, to engage in full transparency to make this information public. The people have a right to know. In particular, we know about Hunter Biden. WhatsApp text that he sent to the Chinese businessman where he said, I am sitting next to my f. That would be Joe Biden vice president, and threatening retaliation from Joe Biden if he didn't get millions of dollars. And we know that that businessman within days sent Hunter Biden millions of dollars. The obvious question was, when he was threatening retaliation from Vice President Joe Biden, was Daddy sitting next to him? It's not complicated as a forensic matter to figure that out. You can check the GPS location of Hunter Biden's phone. You can check the GPS location of Joe Biden's phone. If they're in the exact same place, that is strong evidence that Joe Biden was actively aware and complicit in it. If it turns out Joe Biden's somewhere else, maybe Hunter was lying. I mean, look, the. The guy we know is willing to lie. So it could be that Hunter was making threats about Daddy, that. That he was not sitting there with Joe Biden and maybe the threats were. Were not real. But we know from the IRS whistleblowers that when the investigators wanted to subpoena the GPS information of Joe Biden's and Hunter Biden's phones at that exact moment, the moment that Text was being sent. The Department of Justice blocked it. And they blocked it, I believe, because they wanted to protect the Big Guy. And I got to say so. The prediction that you just played, I made in May of 23. And the prediction was, number one, DOJ would indict Hunter Biden. Check that came true. But number two, that they would indict Hunter Biden on personal claims, not claims related to corruption, to influence peddling, to selling favors from dad, to shaking down the Chinese for money. And that's exactly what they did. In September 2023, the grand jury returned an indictment charging Hunter Biden with three felonies related to his purchase of a firearm. That was the tell. That was what demonstrated that the DoJ was being partisan and that their real objective was protect the Big Guy.

Yeah. And they did that all the time. 24, 7. For the last five, four years. Let's move on to prediction number nine. This was a really fun prediction, and it was you predicting when the race will be called in Texas. You did this, if I remember correct correctly, on election eve.

Yeah, that's right. And, and right before the election, we did a podcast and I laid out the fact that, number one, blue states, blue states have really managed to master the, the, the effort of, of stealing votes. You notice every blue state, they count, count votes and they count votes. I think California will be still counting votes maybe for the next two years. They can't actually bother to finish counting votes till they've thrown every Republican out of office. And I made the point. Look, Texas, we're a really big damn state. We're over 31 million people now, and we managed to count the votes. And we do it all in one night and we're done. And we don't drag it on. You look at blue states, California, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, they drag on and on and on and they count and they count and they count and the count always is adding more and more Democrat votes. The counter always, always, always goes one direction. Why the hell if Texas and Florida can count their votes in one night, why can Pennsylvania not? It's a much smaller state than either one of ours. Why do these big blue cities drag it on for days? And I believe it is because they want to facilitate fraud. Anyway, the prediction I made on election day was when the results would come down in Texas, what we would get. Give a listen to what you and I said on election eve, 2024, the.

Odds, we don't know who the President is on election night.

Look, I think they're quite high because Democrats are Both incompetent and they are engaged in malfeasance. Listen, Texas, Texas is the second largest state in the country. It is smaller only than California. It's bigger than New York. It's bigger than Florida. We will be done on election night on Tuesday night. I'm going to predict by midnight we will know the result in the presidential race. We'll know the result in my race, in the Senate race. We will know the result in the, in the congressional races. There might be an individual state rep race where it is within a few hundred votes, where there has to be a recount that sometimes happens on an individual district, but we will have the results in almost every race, if not every single race, by the end of election night in Texas. Now, if in Texas we can count our damn boats, why can't they do that in Philadelphia? Why can't they do that in Detroit? Why can't they do that in Milwaukee? Why can't they do that in Atlanta? Why can't they do that in blue cities in swing states? And the answer, sadly, is that I think the Democrats running them, they want to delay it and, and will.

Well, let me ask. And not only was this prediction right, but, but do you believe that we're going to get in the next four years with Republicans that are in charge and more and more states? Because that's where this really comes down to how they do it in each state. So we have more Republican governors and, and, and in charge of, of House state and Senate state, you know, majorities. Are we going to get more reform where universally, nationwide, we're going to get more, just quicker results, better, more accurate, and not just so much of the shadiness that people say they don't trust how the votes are being counted.

Look, in red states, yes. And blue states, no. They want to drag it out. California likes that. It takes weeks to count the votes because it lets them throw Republican congressmen out of office. They embrace the corruption. Listen, California, Gavin Newsom supported a law making it illegal to even ask someone for photo id. They don't want to know if you're not the person you claim you are. Now, let's be clear. I mean, we can do a lot more on voter fraud, and that's been the topic of multiple podcasts in the past and will be in the future. But let's just be clear on the prediction. I predicted we would know my race, the Senate race, well before midnight on election Day. Well, that came true on November 5, 2024, Election Day, the US Senate race in Texas was called at 10:41pm Texas time. At 10:41pm the results were in. The Associated Press called the race and in fact the AP called the race for Donald Trump nationally at 5:34am Eastern time. And so we ended up getting the results. And it proved even though blue cities and blue states delayed the counting, Trump's victory nationally was big enough that the delay in the counting was not enough to defeat him, much to the fury of leftists who wanted another outcome.

All right, let's move on to prediction number 10. And this one is one that I love on so many different levels because we really saw the demise of the corporate media, I call it the state sponsored media. And for decades we have seen the media, especially the big ABC, NBC, CBS, the CNN's, MSNBC's, be able and so much of print to control the narrative and the mindset of so many voters and sway elections towards the left and to Democrats. I hope that we have just witnessed the true demise of the media and their influence and their corruption because so many times we've just seen how biased they are. Whether it was Covid and that issue, whether it was the issue with Hunter Biden in the laptop. We have now seen where there's a lot of Americans that aren't getting their news from not, not just not trust them. They're not even watching anymore, they're not even reading these newspapers anymore. And they're turning to podcasts. Just like this show and podcast center had a massive impact on the 2024 elections at the local, state and national level. And that is good for everyone.

Well, and that's the final, that's prediction number 10. There's no doubt that we are seeing across the media landscape a disintermediation, that the mediators, those who had a monopoly on communicating with the public, are losing that monopoly. They're losing that control. And listen, part of the reason they're losing that monopoly is because they've been so dishonest, they've been such partisan propagandists that they don't report on news, they simply advocate for the left wing of the Democrat Party that they have utterly destroyed the trust they had with the American people. And the corporate media has been exposed as liars. We have seen the rise, the democratization of media, we've seen the rise of podcasts. I think this podcast has had a significant impact on the public discourse. I think other podcasts, we saw Donald Trump go on multiple podcasts in the election and go right around the corporate media, go straight to the American people. We see the impact of people like Joe Rogan, which is enormously impactful, going straight to the American people. And the prediction that we made is that we were gonna see more and more democratization, both from podcasts and also from Twitter and X and just speaking the truth right around the so called gatekeepers. So I want you to listen to this prediction. This prediction was in August of 2024. Give a listen. Why do you and I do the.

[Ben Ferguson]

Podcast often at 11 o'clock at night.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Or midnight or even one or two in the morning?

[Ben Ferguson]

Why do we do it three days a week? We do it because if your only.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Source of news is the corporate media.

[Ben Ferguson]

If you only watch CNN or MSNBC.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Or abc, NBC, cbs, you do not know what is happening.

[Ben Ferguson]

They are lying to you. And the reason this podcast, we've got.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Roughly a million unique listeners is because.

[Ben Ferguson]

People find it valuable. We give you facts that CNN will never air. We play the full segment of what Elon and Trump said about Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of their dishonestly edited snippet that was designed to mislead you and lie to you. And, and this podcast goes right around the corporate media. And in fact, just about every podcast we put out drives stories in the corporate media that is going to accelerate. People are going to podcast, people are going to social media, people are going to X. Elon's buying Twitter remains, I think, the single most important step for free speech in decades. And I think that's only going to accelerate and you're going to see a panic as the corporate media, they want a monopoly on what we know, what we hear, what we understand, and they're losing their monopoly. So I predict more and more frantic panic, but also more and more power to the people, which is a very good thing, Senator.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

I mean, it's, this is a, I really do believe, a major turning point. And I think there is proof in the outcome of the election that we just saw. And it's not that I want to have conservative media just have a monopoly. I just want honest journalism and those that are telling the truth to have a real platform with a real audience. And we're gaining that now through podcasts and other venues, as we mentioned.

Yeah, that's exactly right. And we're seeing that. Look, these 10 predictions that we've gone through on this podcast and Wednesday's podcast, if you got all your news from CNN, you would have heard zero of these 10 predictions. If you got all your news from the New York Times, you would have heard zero of these predictions. And so it's why people tune in to verdict because you learn things and you know things that you cannot get through the corporate media. That this is one of the very few avenues that is putting out the facts. And that prediction we saw the massive impact of podcasts and x on the 2024 election, but also the prediction that I made about the panic from the media. I want you to listen. This is in November 2025 after the election to Axio CEO Jim Vande Heyde just completely losing his mind over Elon Musk saying to everyone on X, you are the media. Give a listen to Jim Vande Hei losing it.

[Jim Vande Hei]

Thing we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like we are the media, you are the media. My message to Elon Musk is bull. You're not the media. You having, you having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter. You don't do that by popping off on Twitter. Don't do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.

[Joe Scarborough]

Come on, slow clap. First of all, I've got to say, extraordinary content. It needed to be said. Yeah, it continues to need to be said when all, all of the garbage is flying around on social media lying about reporters lying about the hard work they do, lying about the hard work editors who lying about everything up and down about not only their alternative set of facts, but alternative set of facts about what people like you do. Or if social media people lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news. What you do matters. What the New York Times does matters. What the Wall Street Journal does matters. What Jonathan Lemire does matters. What the Financial Times does matter. What NBC News and MSNBC reporters do matters. It matters.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

It matters. I love the self righteousness there. Right.

Well, and yes. And that kicked in at the end. Morning Joe to Joe Scarborough and Mika losing their minds, also echoing Jim Vande Hei and just yes, yes, yes, he's exactly right. And listen, the corporate media, they hate democracy. They hate the democratization of communication, they hate the rise of podcasts, they hate that people can talk directly to the voters. They hate the ability to get the truth. And this is destroying their monopoly. Now, a big part of the reason so many people turn to podcasts is the corporate media lies. They lie deliberately. And when they had a monopoly, their lies were pretty effective. But people are turning elsewhere. Look, Morning Joe. Morning Joe during the week that Trump, that Joe Scarborough and Mika went down to meet With Morning Joe. Do you know how many viewers Morning Joe averaged every day?

How Many?

They averaged 691,000 total viewers during the week that Joe and Mika went to meet with Trump. 691,000. We have about a million. So, Joe, it ought to concern you that you've got an entire corporate bureaucracy. You've got millions of dollars. They're broadcasting your show into every television set in America. And yet Verdict is getting substantially more listeners than you are. And the reason is simple. The corporate media, they lie to you. They are so partisan, they are so brazen. They are willing to lie, and they are horrified that their ability to lie is checked by the ability of you and me and others to speak the truth.

[Ben Ferguson]

That's the power of podcast, and I think that's, that's, that's the power of Verdict.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Finally, let's end with a prediction to watch. Senator, not that long ago, you predicted that the US Will sanction the ICC for the egregious move to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. And that that prediction I want to play for people. Take a listen.

[Ben Ferguson]

I'm going to predict we will take up the legislation to sanction the ICC and we will do it early next year when we have a Republican Congress and a Republican president. I don't even know that we'll need that legislation, though, because I expect the Trump administration to act unilaterally. I think there's ample authority under the law for them to act. Even if the Democrats filibuster legislation to sanction the icc, I think the president will have ample authority to act come January 20th.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Let me talk to you. That was a prediction that you're now saying. We should watch this very carefully.

Yeah, I think that's going to happen in 2025, and we'll all see it. And you know what? When it happens in 2025, verdict will come back and point out exactly as we predicted it came to pass.

Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Make sure you hit that subscribe or auto download button. We will keep making big predictions in the coming year that I can promise you. Grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson Podcast, on those in between days as well, and I'll keep you updated on the latest breaking news. And the Senator and I will see you back here on Wednesday morning.