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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Leon Neyfakh
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Neyfakh
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. I was just listening to Trump speaking in Saudi Arabia taking something of a victory lap already on what's going on with the trade deals and he's trying to get a trillion dollars of Gulf investment into the United States and we'll bring you some of those highlights. Also, the market looking pretty good these days and we got inflation number low. Trump actually said, clay, you'd be proud. Just like you. He's like I told you to buy about a month ago, I told you to buy. It was a good time. It turns out he got a lot of heat for that then. But it Was a good time to buy. Inflation has fallen to 2.3%, which is even lower than expected. But when is the rate cut gonna happen? It's time for a rate cut, everybody. What's going on with Jerome? Too slow Jerome, or whatever he calls him, you know, too late. Jerome needs to get this thing going in a big way. We've also got some crazy details coming in about the Newark air traffic crisis that from the Newark airport. It's just indicative of how much we need to fix some things in this country. Now, I know Secretary Duffy is on it. We've talked to his office. He'll be joining us when he can. But it's a little bit of an all hands on deck situation over there right now for U.S. transportation Administration. So we'll, we'll dive into that later. Later on the program. We'll have Secretary Duffy, I don't know, this week, next week, sometime soon. But, Clay, amidst the, the, the victory lap going on with Trump and the Middle east, deals that are underway, the deal making that this president is known for, there is a lot of attention now on the details that are coming out. As we said, we've been preparing you for this for a while. Details that are coming out about just how much of a mental and physical wreck, just how debilitated was Joe Biden while he was president and while they were telling us that he was great, not that he was kind of okay, but that he was, you know, fit as a fiddle, sharpest he'd ever been, sharp as attack. All of that stuff. Clay, we're gonna get into this. And for those who are gonna say to us, I'm just gonna get ahead of this, Clay, because, you know, we're gonna get these calls. Why are you guys talking about this last election? It is because the media that is Democrat, the media that lied about Russia, collusion and Covid and all this stuff, they are flat on their asses right now. And this is their, this is their effort to rehabilitate their image, to regain trust, to regain power, to stop the Trump agenda. So it's not old news that nobody should care about. It's. We can't let them get away with the lie because they're doing this for a reason. Why is there such a focus on this? Okay. And we'll get into some of that. And we've got a great Jake Tapper montage. Clay and I are probably going to argue over whether we should actually have Tapper on the show or not. I'm, I'm now, after today, I'm Just like, I can't. I'm just going to end up. I'm just going to be like, dude, you're just. You're just a liar and a scumbag, and this is gross. But, okay, maybe we have them on. We'll get to that later. Here's where we are, Clay. They're saying now that Biden's physical deterioration. Physical deterioration was so severe. This is from the Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, which is out next week. Physical deterioration so severe that they discussed among his senior advisers that he would need to be wheelchair bound after the election, that he would, you know, need to be wheelchair bound. And this is amazing to me, Clay, because we have audio of me back in 2022, that they would put him out on stage in a wheelchair if they had to, and that that's how invested in Biden they are. And we. Maybe I'll play that audio for you later, but can we. I just. I want your take on this because I want everyone. They're doing this for a reason. They're lying again. They were not fooled. The story is now, oh, Biden's advisors fooled us. We had no idea. I don't think they're going to be able to pull this off. I actually think they're running into the wood chipper once again.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, we told you that this was all going to happen as soon as the election was over. The truth would be told. And I think this is the death knell in legacy media because Covid started this and Trump in 2016 with the concept of fake news. But to argue that Joe Biden was fit as a fiddle, as CNN did two days before the June 27 presidential debate, to argue, as NBC News did about two weeks before the presidential debate, that I in particular was engaged in misinformation and disinformation for sharing videos that showed Biden was not mentally and physically up to the job at the G7, for them to then have all of this arise and for their defense to be. Well, there was no way we could have known. I think is lighting whatever tiny ounce of credibility these legacy media institutions had on fire. And I will point out one very significant aspect. Have you noticed, Buck, that the concept of misinformation and disinformation has virtually vanished? Fact checking so far, to a large extent, has vanished, too. I think that the legacy media has lost the legitimacy to be considered umpires anymore. It's almost like everybody has just decided, we'll call the game ourselves. Remember when you were a kid and you played kickball and you didn't have an umpire, and if you had a really tough call, what would you do? Both sides would just say, do over. We don't know exactly what happened. We'll do it over. I feel like most people in America now have said, I'm going to trust my own eyes. I don't need someone to be trying to demonstrate or tell me what is going on in the larger world. There's plenty of sources to seek out, and the legacy media is the most dishonest group of people that are Democrat propagandists. Here is a way that I would put it. If Trump had had the mental and physical deterioration that Biden had, how would they have covered Trump? And you got some minor idea. Remember how they covered Trump when he slowly walked down the stairway? I guess it was kind of a Runway a little bit at West Point when it was wet, and they were saying, oh, my goodness, this guy doesn't have the mental or physical capability. You remember that story, or the challenges associated with the way that they covered it. They would have had every single detail on Trump's health dead to rights. They would have obsessively covered any attempt to argue that he was the best version of himself.
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Clay Travis
It's actually substantially worse. And what you're saying is all true, but I think it's substantially worse than that. Clay, when you add into it, they Talked about the 25th Amendment for Trump all the time. Yes, there were.
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Buck Sexton
They don't talk about it at all now, though. That's funny.
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Clay Travis
Right, Right. But they talked about it all the time. When Trump was president his first term, Clay, they had psychiatrists showing up on CNN who were, you know, because they were told to by their puppet masters, claiming that, you know, Trump had some tick or because he said something that was off or whatever it is, that he actually had some form of, like, a brain degeneration. I mean, they were. They were absolute. So. So to your point. Yeah. They would have covered it differently. Well, with Trump, they just lied about him having dementia. So they lied about Trump having dementia, and then they lied about Biden not having dementia. And I actually am going to, because, you know, this is also me getting to get a little bit of my swagger back after losing the stake bet to Clay, the big stake bet that we had over whether they would keep Biden in. The whole point is they wanted to keep Biden in. And the story, the narrative that they're now peddling that it is here. This is the quote that's getting a lot of attention right now, is Trying to defeat Donald Trump in 170 days was a bleeping nightmare. This is from David Plouffe in the book. It's all Biden. He totally bleeped us. This is a lie. They all went along with it because Kamal is an imbecile and they only put her in the vice president's slot because of DEI because she's a black woman. That is the only reason she was chosen to be at the bottom of that ticket. They knew she couldn't win the general election on her own. And and they thought they could keep lying about Joe Biden as long, for as long as they could or as long as they would need to to get him. And then it was going to be Kamala was president, you know, within the first few months of 2025. That was the whole game.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. And I still say I, I the story that has not been told that I still want told Buck is why did they debate on June 27th? That is the number one question that I have about 24 camp.
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Clay Travis
I agree. That is the thing that actually if somebody can get me insight into, I agree that would be really noteworthy. Like that would be very interesting. But I think in a year of the grossest political miscalculations or an election with the grossest political miscalculations of our lifetime, raid Mar A Lago, bring four criminal indictments. He'll never be able to win. Then think of the things that they did. All backfired when they raided Mar A Lago. The Republican primary was over. Trump was the nominee. They brought four criminals. They actually convicted him in New York.
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Buck Sexton
Of felonies, 34 felonies.
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Clay Travis
They convicted him of 34 felonies and were too scared to do a damn thing about it. Clay. Now they're trying to play this game of oh, we didn't know or oh, it was hidden from us. They're all liars. It was all a lie. And here, here's we'll provide the. By the way, I know you want to tee up. We have a whole Tapper montage.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, yeah.
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Clay Travis
Is he going to want to come on even after we play this montage? I don't know because it's not he's not going to be able to play his usual games here. But. Ok, hold on. I don't know. The audience doesn't really want him on. We'll talk about that later. But here you go. Clay, in April of we just got the revelation today about the wheelchair. Ok.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
The aides were told, hey, I think Biden's going to have to be in a wheelchair. And this is, you know, in the last year. Here's me on this Show, April of 2022, three years ago.
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Buck Sexton
Play it.
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Clay Travis
Do you think that if this got to a point, and to be very clear, I wish this on, on literally no one, certainly including Joe Biden. But if, if his health deteriorated to the point where he had to be moved around in a wheelchair and AIDS had to largely speak for him, do you think the New York Times would say Joe Biden still a steady hand on the economy? I wonder how far they're willing to keep the, the charade going on. Honestly. I mean, look at what they've done with COVID Look at the madness that they're willing to embrace for ideological and partisan ends. I'm not even sure what it would take for them to admit. I mean, I'm wondering what is the outer limit of their willingness to prop up Joe Biden, who is clearly not a responsible choice for president of the United States right now? I think there'd be a lot of people would say Joe's still, you know, he's still all there. He just, he has to have Psaki, you know, talk for him and they wheel him around and I think that that's where we are. I think there are a lot of people that would do that. Am I a prophet, Clay? That's you and me talking three years ago.
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Buck Sexton
You would really have been a prophet if you had recognized that he wasn't going to be the nominee. Because then you wouldn't have had to pay for a steak bet if you just followed the natural logic of your wheelchair analogy there. I do, I do think that this is a, a clarion call for the necessity of new media outlets. Because if you're out there and you're wondering, they're obsessively in the White House. We talked about this for years. I do think that one reason this show has grown in audience is we've been proven to have been right about the biggest issues. I'm not saying we get everything perfect. We're wrong. On 2022, Red Wave, I was in particular. I thought we would get it. We didn't. We got it in 2024 instead of. But if you go back and look over the last four years that we've been talking to everybody on the really big issues. Does the COVID shot work? Do masks need to be worn by 2 year olds? Does. Is Joe Biden in good mental and physical health? Is Trump up to the job of being president? 2.0. We've gotten almost all those really big issues. Right. And I do think that media audiences are, in many ways, a weighing of legitimacy. And Fox News has soared. We've soared. And all these other organizations are paying the price for lying to their base.
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Clay Travis
Yes. Well, I think that, for one thing, it should matter that we're right. But also another test here in all of this is these people who are now coming forward to report on what they should have been reporting on a year ago, at a bare minimum. A year ago at a bare minimum. Right. Meaning that this is in enough time that they could have had more of a real Clay. Why weren't they reporting on it last May? Because they were all in on it being Biden. I know that Biden ended up being pushed. Biden. They. They took it up the middle of the football field with Biden to the, to the goal line, and then they decided they would. They were going to just, you know, go for it one last time. They got so close and he fumbled it and. And they all were in on this plan. They were all a part of this. That's right. I'm going Sports analogies. And this is important for everyone to remember they were not duped. They were in on the lie. And now they want to try to regain credibility so they can then turn around and attack Trump with greater efficacy. They want to be able to tear him down by being, we're the journalists. We just. And we're not letting it happen. And that's why this matters. That's why this is us telling everybody the truth. But, yeah, I was Clay. The point that I was making in 2022, I think that they would say he's fine, even if they had to put him out in a wheelchair. It did get to that point.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
That is what happened. But then the debate, the only, the only reason why.
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Buck Sexton
That's the story. Right. Why did they do the bait in June 27? Because they could have continued with your lie. Who ordered the code red on Biden? Like, why did they do that?
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Clay Travis
I think they thought he could get through it. I don't think they thought it would end it, Clay. Makes no sense. I think they actually had convinced themselves, we'll just push through this one more time, and then we're done. I think that's what, again, that is the reporting. Maybe it's in this book, but that.
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Buck Sexton
I would say, again, we got to go to break here. But, Buck, the real question to me that needs to be told is who is got that debate on the schedule? Because if they had just waited till September, he would have been the nominee to do debates.
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Clay Travis
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Leon Neyfakh
Today, in the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Leon Neyfakh
It became known as the Iran Contra.
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Clay Travis
Affair, and I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Neyfakh
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Neyfakh
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or Wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton SHOW okay, we've got a montage for you of our boy Jake Tapper when we come back. I don't think we have time to fit it in right here, just shy.
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Clay Travis
Of the time, but it's a great montage.
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Buck Sexton
We will play it at 30 when we come back here in a moment and I guarantee that you guys are going to love it. But I want to give a little bit of nod to our W O R audience. Buck, you have been a lifelong Knicks fan. They have not been good for like 50 years in terms of being able to win a championship. Now I know Patrick Hume was really good. You are actually doing the unbelievable. You are watching NBA games and enjoying them because the Knicks, your childhood team, now winning. Sorry to everybody in Boston. I think the series ended last night.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, it was. Well, I'm not as confident as you that, that Boston. We'll see what happens with Jason Tatum after that injury which is always, you know, it's always sad to see any athlete, especially an Achilles injury because it can be so no doubt damaging to the long term prospects of the career. But anyway, hopefully he, he's all good to go. But I think that for Knicks fans, I think you could argue and for those of you saying Buck, why do you care? Why do you know? No, I used to go to Knicks games growing up. Like my uncle had season tickets. I mean I'm, I was a die.
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Buck Sexton
Hard fan back in the day.
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Clay Travis
I was a Knicks fan in the 90s and somehow it was just like they got close but no cigar. Every time they had a good team and then they just became the worst managed professional team in all sports. I think paying the most money for the most mediocre over the hill all stars. So yeah, I think we deserve some wins.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. So we got these details coming out about how they were ready for Biden to be wheelchair bound, and they knew that this was going to happen, and they were just trying to hold it until after the election, which was the plan all along, which we saw, which was if they can just get Biden to election day, then afterwards, it doesn't really matter. He can claim a health issue suddenly. And Kamala takes over and she's the vice president. You have the first black female president. Yay. It was very obvious what they were trying to do, but they just all got in on this lie. I think it's also worth noting that they told us that the era of journalism had changed because the truth was. Was inherently anti Trump. And so places like the Washington Post and the New York Times became right. I mean, they open, you know, democracy dies in darkness, and they turned into anti Trump outlets. I mean, that was their reason for existing, and anything would be okay to do to stop Trump as far as they were concerned. Not lying about Biden's dementia, though. No, of course they lied about Biden's dementia, but here we go. So we got this book coming out from these two, and look, Clay points us out. He's right. It's. It's. It's brilliant marketing, but, you know, it's a little bit like, remember when OJ Tried to write the if I Did it, here's How I Did it book? I'm sure it would have sold a lot of copies. But now you're the guy writing the if I Killed My Wife and this other Person, Here's How I Did it book. Like, there's a brand hit that I think comes with that. Or a just a maybe, you know, a selling of the soul to be part of the rehabilitation of the Democrat media's journalistic image under the. Oh, we got fooled by all of Biden. Think of who Biden's advisors were, by the way. Biden's advisors are nincompoops. You're telling me these people fooled you? You're telling me that this. This team of imbeciles that were around him were so clever that our journeys. No, of course it's all lie. But here's what happened. If you Tried to tell the truth. Here we have a montage of the coauthor of the book, Jake Tapper, on issues relating to Biden. And I think this stretches back for at least a couple of years on issues stretching, issues dealing with Biden's cognition. This is how Truth Teller Jake presented it on cnn. Play it.
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Rachel Maddow
How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? It's very clearly a cognitive decline.
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Clay Travis
That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
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Rachel Maddow
You are.
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Rachel Maddow
So amazing. It's so amazing to me that.
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Clay Travis
Try and figure out an answer.
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Rachel Maddow
A cognitive decline. Biden embraces his stutter, talking about it, while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it. He's sharp physically. I mean, mentally. Yeah, I think the question is physically.
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Clay Travis
Right. Right.
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Rachel Maddow
More so.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
Right.
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Rachel Maddow
And the guy who's his chief opponent is only three or four years younger than a madman. I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, ability to lead. Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote, shame on all of you, pretending everything is okay. You're leading us and him into a disaster. Do you worry that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that you got hugs and handshakes behind closed doors today, and maybe even publicly some of them, because they like you personally. But I've heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues. I mean, just like, what is he thinking? Exercise in narcissism. I mean, false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's 81, and his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great. It's not horrible. But I don't understand the outrage. Quote, behind closed doors, Biden shows signs of slipping, unquote. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corps, which is run by the Murdochs. Beyond the headline, there is some critical nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans, with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on the record. They do note in the article that most of the criticism comes from Republicans. Have you heard any concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about him seeming a little slower?
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Clay Travis
No.
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Rachel Maddow
The Russians are trying to do. To make us and the public not trust the. Our election. Integrity. Joe Biden has dementia and all this stuff.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I think we should have Tapper on. I think we should just play that whole cut and then have it.
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Clay Travis
So the Russians are the ones lying about Biden's dementia? Oh, It's a. By the way, I told you this because I had a speech impediment growing up and had to do speech therapy and kids made fun of me to fall back on that to create this false moral blackmail of. You're making fun of a stutter. No, he has dementia. He is scrambled eggs in his head. We all know it, that we're just playing it. This is, this is this guy's words. And now he's coming forward and I can tell you, he's sending me messages saying this isn't new for us, like speaking the truth about Biden's decline. No, it is, actually, it is. Everything we played there was him either outright lying or undermining people who were trying to tell the truth. They. And you're like, why are we talking with this guy? We're helping sell his book, guys. He is the, this has always been, this has always been Tapper's beat. He's the, he's just a real journalist. You know, he calls it, he calls balls and strikes. He's the. Their hopes and dreams of corporate journalism that always favors Democrats. That this propaganda journalism can be rehabilitated rests on his shoulders. That's what this whole game is.
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Buck Sexton
Cnn two days before the Biden debate headline. Right wing media figures are desperately pushing conspiracy theories about Biden ahead of the debate. This is Oliver Darcy at cnn, opening sentence. Donald Trump's allies in right wing media have a problem ahead. They've set the bar too low for President Joe Biden. For years, and particularly over the last few months, MAGA media has portrayed Biden as a senile, mentally incapacitated elderly man who cannot remember what he had for breakfast. Let Al run the federal government. That might sound like an exaggeration to those who don't tune into Fox News or listen to talk radio, but it has been a real and constant theme in the right wing media universe. To support, listen to this. This is cnn. To support the narrative, these outlets and personalities have seized on Biden's verbal gaffes while ignoring Trump's and presented out of context video clips to their large audiences. And a deceptive but effective strategy that the Biden campaign has struggled to meaningfully, to meaningfully rebut. And I just, I'll bring up, I mean, I pointed this out, but it is crazy. Just a couple of days before the actual election took place. I mean, sorry, the debate on June 27, there was a headline. This is a headline in NBC News saying, and I quote, I mean, and they ripped me in. This. Conservative media uses Misleading camera angles to falsely claim Biden was wondering aimlessly and to say that basically we were all lying. They quoted me as here as a liar for suggesting that Biden was not able to be president in literally buck. Let's see. The date on this article was June 14, 13 days before the debate. They said Clay Travis in particular in this article, NBC News. I just read from cnn. I don't know how they come back from this.
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Clay Travis
And you may be right, but this is the point. I'm sorry, I just, this is exactly what's going on right now is they're trying to, they're, they're trying to take their lumps on we're so dumb. We got fooled by Biden and his team because that then lets them say we'll do better next time. We'll apply our journalistic. They are propagandists. They played not just the general American public, they played their own audience for fools because the game was we all lie about this. We all know we're lying about this. But the end result is a Trump defeat. And that's why they've got such a big problem, because they caught in the, they got caught in the lie and they lost.
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Buck Sexton
I also think this comes in conjunction with COVID While we have been right about most everything on this program that matters in a big way, they've been wrong about almost everything. And a lot of times they don't come on and acknowledge the things that they do get wrong. Listen to this. I had them pull this clip. I saw this circulating this morning. This is Rachel Maddow telling everyone in her audience that if you got the COVID shot, it was a cure all and it would stop the spread of COVID forever. She never has come on and ever acknowledged how wrong this was. Listen to this cut.
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Rachel Maddow
But with that said, Iran can have a much brighter future, but will never.
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Clay Travis
Allow America and its allies.
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Buck Sexton
Well, actually that was instead of the.
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Virus being able to hop from person to person to person to person, spreading and spreading. Sickening some of them, but not all of them. And the ones that it doesn't sicken don't know they have it. And then they give it to even more people because they didn't recognize they were right. Instead of the virus being able to hop from person to person to person, potentially mutating and becoming more virulent and drug resistant along the way. Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus. The virus does not Infect them. The virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people. That means the vaccines will get us to the end of this.
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Buck Sexton
Okay. We got. Remember the heat we got when we came on in June and July of 2021.
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Clay Travis
We had Berenson on who said that it basically maybe help you a little bit for about a month.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
That was too. That was too ambitious, I mean. Or too optimistic.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
And we got. I mean, I'm gonna tell you guys, we had people who were, like, going after us, going out. I was named in some New York Times piece that was like, oh, like guys who think that there are demons in the vaccine. I don't think there are demons in the vaccine. I just didn't think it worked very well. Clay, Clay, I will say this, though. There's a difference here. I think it's an important one for everyone. What do they say about COVID if they're really boxed into a corner? It was Fauci's fault. We listened to or not. Not his fault.
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Buck Sexton
They say it was Fauci's call. Yeah.
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Clay Travis
You know, is the they fall back on the experts thing. No one needs to be an expert in anything other than having eyes and ears to know that Joe Biden was falling asleep in his applesauce and didn't know where he was. Ok. We all knew. There's no expertise needed for this. And journalists are supposed to, quote. Journalists are supposed to observe and ask the tough questions. Instead, they observed and subverted and lied. And they're all. They're all. By the way, every network we beat up on cnn, abc, cbs, you know, Margaret Brennan being such a nasty piece of work in the debate against Trump. Like, they all were in on this.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, they all completely were. And by the new lie that they're spreading, and this is where they're fighting now inside the Biden and Kamala camps is, as you said, the idea that Biden screwed Kamala by staying too long in the race until he dropped out. The longer Kamala had to run, the worse she was going to do.
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Clay Travis
100%. 100% true. We all knew it. They knew Kamala was a disaster. They tried to hide her from the media. Clay, think about this. She was such a disaster that in a severely shortened campaign, they just figured, let's not have her talk to anybody. Yes, that was Democrats making that decision. They knew. But what Democrats also manage is not only to make Trump president, Clay, they basically blew up the Biden regime and completely destroyed the future of a Kamala presidency. In one election cycle.
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Buck Sexton
They tried to spend a billion and a half dollars in about 90 days to drag Kamala Harris across the finish line while limiting completely her interaction with almost anyone in media. I think, Buck, they actually were okay with lighting Kamala Harris's future on fire because they knew she didn't have one. And so that way they may have cleaned the slate, so to speak, for 2028 so that she is not a VI candidate, whereas otherwise she might have been running at the forefront.
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Clay Travis
I really mean this. However dishonest you think the people were in reporting this, it's worse. And however stupid you think the people in this White House, and I mean, really just like lack of judgment, lack of wisdom, whatever level of buffoonery you think the Biden White House was capable of, it was much worse. Because when you see this stuff coming out and what happened here at Clay, the obvious move. The obvious move was after the midterms, say, Biden's older, we're going to build up Kamala, or we're going to have a primary. They could have had a real primary and had a real Democrat candidate who had a shot. Why didn't they do it? Because they thought they could get away with Biden. That's the only plausible explanation. That's the only thing that could possibly be the answer.
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Buck Sexton
Well, the benefit of not winning a landslide in 2022, which I think was a result of Roe v. Wade being overturned and abortion motivating enough Democrats to come out and vote in 22, was it actually convinced Biden that people liked him as president and so they tried to drag him across. I think if there had been a landslide Republican win in 22, they would have replaced him. They would have said, we got to move on.
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Clay Travis
In a sense, the overturning of Roe maybe not only responsible for saving countless lives, but also making Donald Trump president.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. I think there's a strong argument. And I think my theory on this, I just got through writing about it in my new book. I think abortion politics are almost over. I really do.
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Clay Travis
The left always overstated this. I said this going into the midterms, like, I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal. They got away with it once because they just lied about everything, but it wasn't that big of a deal because of where the laws actually. The laws actually became, which is reverting to the states.
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Buck Sexton
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Leon Neyfakh
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Buck Sexton
No.
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Leon Neyfakh
No one was letting it became known as the Iran Contra affair and I'm.
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Clay Travis
Not taking any more questions. In just a second I'm going to ask.
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Leon Neyfakh
I'm Leon Naifak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Neyfakh
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck sexton show s and p500. Buck, let's have a little bit of positivity out there now, higher than it was at the start of the year. So if you just, if you just stuck to the, to the, the process, you now just didn't even pay attention to where the S&P 500 was. Didn't let the doom and gloomers get the better of you. I hope you didn't panic sell. You are now up for the year since January 1st just by buying the 500 biggest companies and just leaving it alone. If on the other hand, you panic sold, you likely sold at the bottom of the market and at some point may have to buy back in at the top, which is the exact opposite of what you should do when it comes to investing. So I hope you listen to calmer, cooler heads. And my advice is if you can't do it, I'm just going to keep hammering this because I do think it's really significant. Don't look just every six months or so, take a gander at your 401k. Understand that every 10 years on average, it's going to double. And do not allow the passions of the moment to lead you astray. When it comes to long range plans, day to day is not necessarily the way to go. By the way, speaking of the way to go, go get some crockett coffee crockettcoffee.com Right now, Buck is drinking it. We've got a new mushroom blend. We've got light, dark, light roast, medium roast, dark roast. We got organic, we got decaf, we got tons of gear. We're available in the Alamo now. Thousands and thousands of you have signed up. You love the coffee as much as we do. I am drinking it right now. I have Crockett coffee every day when I sit down to do this show. And I keep drinking it during the course of the day because I absolutely, absolutely love it. You will too. Go to crockettcoffee.com, use code book. You get an autographed copy of my most recent book. And a little bit of a spoiler alert. Soon I will have a new book, Buck will have a new book. And if you get Crockett coffee down the line, you are going to be able to get hooked up with those as well.
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Clay Travis
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Leon Neyfakh
When you invest 700 billion annually in.
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Clay Travis
American companies and the 13 million workers and families they support, you're investing in the success of Main Street. That's money powering growth in manufacturing, tech, energy and innovation. And it starts with private equity backing American ambition. Learn how private equity keeps American American.
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Leon Neyfakh
Businesses growing@investmentcouncil.org paid for by the American Investment Council. In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair.
- [43:24]
Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
- [43:33]
Leon Neyfakh
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.