Hour 1 - What a Year!

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 1 - What a Year!
Date: December 19, 2025
Host: Clay Travis (Buck Sexton on vacation)
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this final show of the year for either host, Clay Travis reflects on a tumultuous 2025, diving into major news stories with his signature blend of humor and blunt commentary. The hour tackles breaking developments in high-profile shootings, the much-anticipated Epstein file release, debates around election integrity in Georgia, criticism of failed gun control responses in Australia, and cultural commentary ranging from movies to corporate “wokeness.” Listeners join in through call-ins and talkbacks, adding spirited reactions to the year’s events.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Brown and MIT Shooting Case

• Update on Gunman: The suspect, Claudio Neves Valenti (48), a Portuguese former Brown University student living in Miami, killed himself late the previous night ([02:37]).

• Brown University Security Failure:

  • Lack of functioning cameras at Brown’s facilities delayed Valenti’s apprehension and, Clay argues, directly led to a subsequent murder of an MIT professor.
  • The case was moved forward not by authorities but by an observant homeless man who reported Valenti’s suspicious behavior, potentially earning a $50,000 reward ([06:41]).
  • Clay criticizes both the university’s preparedness and the media for “moving on” now that the suspect is dead.

  “It appears that this case was basically...solved by a homeless guy on campus who just thought this dude was behaving in a strange fashion.” – Clay Travis ([06:41])

• Press Conference Clips:

  • Law enforcement asserts cameras were helpful, but Clay presses the absence of footage from inside the critical building as a clear failure ([08:43], [09:38], [10:07]).

  “Just say it so we can get us over. ...You didn’t have cameras in that building.” – Clay Travis ([09:38])

2. Epstein Files Anticipation

• NYT Investigation:

  • The New York Times, after exhaustive review, finds “no evidence of criminal wrongdoing from President Trump” in any Epstein materials ([03:23]).
  • Clay emphasizes this is what he and Buck said all along, arguing that if Trump had committed crimes, his opponents would have used it against him.

  “The New York Times...said hey, there’s absolutely no suggestion of any criminal wrongdoing from the president associated with Jeffrey Epstein.” – Clay Travis ([03:23])

• Expectation for Closure: The full release is expected by day’s end, likely bringing no new revelations.

3. Australian Bondi Beach Shooting & Gun Control

• Incident Recap:

  • A mass shooting by “terrorists” with illegal weapons on Bondi Beach; Clay points to the inadequacy of current gun laws ([11:20]).

• Criticism of Response:

  • Australia’s reaction is to further restrict gun ownership for law-abiding citizens, ignoring failures in enforcing existing laws.

  “Do you ever notice how almost always the people who have guns and engage in illegal acts are breaking the law?” – Clay Travis ([11:31])

  • Clip of Australian official outlining new mass firearm collection plans ([13:15]).

4. Georgia Election Integrity & Uncounted Ballots

• Fulton County Ballots:

  • Clay highlights a story about 315,000 ballots in the 2020 election that didn’t comply with state law but were nonetheless counted ([15:50]).
  • He links this directly to Senate losses for Republicans, arguing it handed Joe Biden control of the Senate and enabled his agenda.

  “This was incredibly consequential...it wasn’t just the presidency that was impacted by the fraud in Georgia. It was also directly the Senate.” – Clay Travis ([15:50])

• Listener Question:

  • A listener named JJ asks why Georgia’s Governor Kemp or his Secretary of State won’t address these concerns; Clay theorizes they’d say that’s why election laws have since changed ([22:00]).

• Data Comparisons:

  • Clay compares Trump’s historic vote totals with “incomprehensible” 2020 Biden numbers, likening the 2020 election anomalies to steroid-era baseball stats ([23:20]).

  “There’s no way Biden got 81 million legal votes.” – Clay Travis ([40:34])

5. Call-Ins, Talkbacks & Pop Culture

• Christmas Movie Debate:
  • Listener Kiera supports Clay’s affection for Love Actually ([20:43]), while Ken from Lincoln, Nebraska, debates Clay’s jab at R&B music.
• Lighthearted Banter:
  • Clay mixes serious discussion with riffs on Christmas routines and self-deprecating stories about family chaos ([21:10]).

6. Nike and “Wokeness” in Business

• Nike Stock Plunge:
  • Clay previews a discussion (to follow in next segments) about why Nike’s stock is “collapsing,” blaming its embrace of progressive politics ([21:40]).
  • “Once your company goes woke, the culture is such that you’re going to collapse.”

7. FBI and Mar-a-Lago Raid

• Uneven Justice Critique:
  • Clay reads from a Wall Street Journal editorial describing the lack of probable cause for the Mar-a-Lago raid; he sees this as pattern of Democrats’ willingness to bend legal norms to pursue opponents ([28:40]).

8. Election Security Looking Forward

• Clay’s Prescription:
  • Wants a return to in-person voting with ID, very limited exceptions for absentee ballots ([42:00]).
  • Asserts that unless there’s a landslide in 2028, no one will replicate the “incomprehensible” 81 million votes supposedly received by Biden.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Brown/MIT Shootings

• “I’m surprised that there isn’t more discussion about why he chose to. It’s as if now that he is dead, everybody is just going to move on and pretend that we still don’t know.” – Clay Travis ([10:20])

On Election Fraud Allegations

• "So I'm sorry, when I look back at this, what seems to happen is we're all right, right? All of us out there..." – Clay Travis ([29:50])
• “Everyone knows Trump is right. On this election day, you should have to show up with an ID and cast a ballot in person.” – Clay Travis ([42:00])

On Gun Laws

• “The law-abiding gun owners are going to be the victims here of increased attempted regulation.” – Clay Travis ([12:12])

Pop Culture Sidebar

• “I appreciate Kiera coming into my defense after I was savagely attacked for saying that Love Actually is a good, funny Christmas movie.” – Clay Travis ([20:08])

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Timestamps: Important Segments

• [02:37] – Clay opens the show, updates on the Brown University/MIT shooter, and previews Epstein file news.
• [06:41] – Details on case breakthrough by campus homeless man.
• [08:43] – [10:07] – Press conference and criticism of Brown security.
• [13:15] – Australian official’s clip on gun buyback post-Bondi Beach shooting.
• [15:50]–[16:30] – Georgia election integrity, impact on Senate, and broader implications.
• [20:08–21:10] – Listener talkbacks: Christmas movies and R&B debate.
• [22:00–24:00] – Listener asks about Georgia's governor; Clay breaks down voter numbers and anomalies.
• [28:40] – Mar-a-Lago raid editorial and government “double standards.”
• [40:34–42:00] – Recap/final thoughts on 2020 and 2024 election numbers; Clay's call for secure voting.

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Tone & Style

• The tone is direct, wry, and occasionally combative, with Clay mixing in lighthearted banter and pop culture asides.
• Listener interaction is spirited, reinforcing the community feel of the show.
• Clay’s delivery is rapid-fire, always circling back to his central themes of election skepticism, media distrust, and the pitfalls of reactionary policy.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode encapsulates the show’s core formula: headline-driven, unapologetically opinionated, and reliant on both serious analysis and crowd-pleasing humor. Clay Travis delivers a highly partisan narrative but encourages listener participation and isn’t afraid to digress into cultural commentary, making for a lively, conversational hour.

Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome and final show of the year for either me or Buck. Buck is already on his Christmas vacation. We have got a ton of great hosts coming for you, guesting starting on Monday. But let's have some fun as we finish off the 2025, which has been, I think, an absolutely incredible year. Okay, we got a ton of stories to dive into with all of you. First of all, the Brown shooter is dead. That is the Brown University shooter is dead. And they now say, we talked about this a little bit on the program before others were discussing it. They now say that this guy also killed a professor at mit. So the failure of Brown University to have working cameras in the, in the larger campus community not only led to this guy being unable to be caught for multiple days, it led directly to an MIT professor being shot. Now, we're still learning a lot about this guy and what we actually know about him. He is a 48 year old former student at Brown from Portugal and his last known address was in Miami, Florida. Let me play a couple of these cuts because already everybody is stopping discussion now that the guy has killed himself. The story is just vanishing. And I'm gonna play a couple of these cuts here in a moment for you. But first, worth knowing, we are expecting to get Epstein file release a little bit later in today. So what exactly that will entail we do not know. Although bombshell alert, the New York Times, after aggressively reviewing every bit of evidence surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and interviewing many of his alleged victims, including has told you what Buck and I told you was the case for a very long time. There's no evidence of criminal wrongdoing from President Trump at all. In the Epstein files, he is included, as many famous people are, because he and Jeffrey Epstein knew each other quite well in the 80s 90s, early 2000s. But the new York Times, paper of record for left wingers everywhere, said, hey, there's absolutely no suggestion of any criminal wrongdoing from the president associated with Jeffrey Epstein. We told you this for some time. We said, do you really think they would try to bankrupt President Trump, try to imprison him for the rest of his life, and aid in many ways in creating the culture that led to people trying to kill him? If there was evidence that he had committed crimes in the Epstein files, do you think that they would have gone after him for bookkeeping, transgressions that aren't even criminal in nature in New York City? If there had actually been evidence that President Trump had committed crimes, of course they would not have. They would have used it in the four years that Biden was in office. This was so self evident for anybody with a functional brain. Yet again, people continue to fall for the bait and switch. So we're expecting that later today I think that will once and for all put the whole Epstein story to bed. I don't expect there to be a lot of revelations. I think it's all taken care of at this point in time. But we will see the full release of the Epstein files, so called Epstein files later today. But updating you on what happened late last night, the Brown University shooting suspect killed himself according to reports. Here is from that press conference, a description of that from cut one. An individual was identified as Claudio Neves Valenti, date of birth and he was a 48 year old man. He was a Brown student. He was a Portuguese national. His last name, known address was in Miami, Florida. And I will tell you that he took his own life tonight. We have members of the Providence Police Department up in Salem, New Hampshire and we also have the BCI unit, obviously the FBI and their evidence Recovery unit is up there. So the process is being conducted as we speak. All right, one more cut here from that press conference. There were questions asked, okay, why were there not cameras there? Why did we have to rely on it? It turns out a homeless guy actually was the person who was able to help break the case here and catch this guy. So he may be entitled to a $50,000 reward. He went on Reddit, he talked about the fact that this guy was behaving strangely, this homeless guy did, and that he had tried to have a conversation with him. He didn't. He thought it was strange that he was driving a car with license plates from Florida. And the way that he was behaving on campus and parking and everything else, this is all true. It appears that this case was basically this decided solved by a homeless guy on campus who just thought this dude was behaving in a strange fashion. Here are reporters blasting Brown University's president Christina Paxson for the decision that she made and the defense of not having working cameras in this part of the building. Listen, there were no cameras in this building. And law enforcement, some that are standing up behind you have said if Brown had cameras in that part of the building, we would have gotten this guy and it may have stopped this swirling action. Can you answer that question for me?

[Law Enforcement Official]

Well, I, I don't think we have said the locations of cameras at, at Brown.

[Clay Travis]

We have no cameras because why would they take it from a rental car.

[Law Enforcement Official]

Agency we have 1200 cameras at Brown.

[Clay Travis]

But not in that building.

[Law Enforcement Official]

We have some in that building. It's a large complex. And I think what you would see is the video evidence in this case, from my perspective, I'm law enforcement agent, has been incredibly helpful. The moving of the person around the neighborhood, those video images, they helped crack this case. So I think video was important. And as the attorney General explained at a recent press conference, this individual was not spending his time on the Brown campus. He came into a building on the edge of the campus. He left. He was in the neighborhoods. The investigation focused on the neighborhoods. The video was there and that was really, really instrumental in cracking the case. But you can ask that, and this.

[Clay Travis]

Is my follow up, Madam President. You'd say the podium. Yes. Video played a big role in this case. The neighbors video, the rental car video, but not the video from the building that he walked in freely both before when he got in the confrontation and when he came back in, decided to kill people. You didn't have cameras in that building. Just say it so we can get us over. And my next question, will you follow up? Yeah, the cameras in the building.

[Law Enforcement Official]

Yeah. You know, I, I think we need to look back, we'll look at everything that is done. But I do not think a lack of cameras in that building, it had anything to do with what happened there.

[Clay Travis]

All right, so he is now dead. I'm surprised that there isn't more discussion about why he chose to. It's, it's as if now that he is dead, everybody is just going to move on and pretend that we still don't know. Why did he attack Brown University? Why did he also then go and evidently kill this MIT professor who. What in the world was going on here in his mind that was motivating these two actions? And also look, that MIT professor is dead because of the incompetence surrounding Brown University's ability to actually capture this guy. So there is a dead person for sure. Innocent, it appears. Dad of I believe three. That was an MIT professor that's dead because they couldn't catch this guy who engaged in this mass shooting at Brown University. But that story is, is now out there. Be aware of what happens in the wake of many of these shootings. I want to update you to the awful Bondi beach shooting that we started off the week talking about that happened over the weekend. What is the response in Australia to the mass shooting from guys, terrorists who were able to obtain weapons still in Australia. They should never have gotten these guns. This is what the background Checks are designed to. Do you ever notice how almost always the people who have guns and engage in illegal acts are breaking the law? It's kind of a big deal, don't you think? The idea that criminals are going to comply with laws over and over and over again. These mass shooters should have never had the weapons that they have. The laws were put in place to keep them from having the guns in Australia. They never should have had the guns. So how do you respond to the failure of existing gun control laws? By trying to implement more gun control which guess what's gonna happen? Criminals are gonna continue to disrespect and flout because they are criminals. So the law abiding gun owners are going to be the victims here of increased attempted regulation. Listen to cut 3. Australian gun control in the wake of the bondi shooting of 15 innocent Jewish people. The only solution here, hey, it's not remedy immigration. Hey, it's not actually apply the laws that are on the books now to keep bad guys from getting guns. No, it's more collection of firearms and more destruction and more laws necessary when it comes to guns. Cut three. We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed through this scheme. Consistent with the approach that was taken in 1996. The government is proposing that states and territories will be responsible for the collection, processing and payment to individuals for surrendered firearms. The Australian Federal Police will then be responsible for the destruction of these firearms. There you go. They don't even hide exactly what they are going to be doing. All right. Several other things that I want to get into. Let me kind of give you a roadmap of where we're headed. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma is going to join US just after 2pm we will talk about the AM Fest that is going on right now. The Daily Wires. Ben Shapiro teed off on a lot of people that he says on the right are frankly grifting liars. We will tell you what goes on there. Erica Kirk has endorsed J.D. vance and said that he will gain the support of both her and Turning Point. As we already are starting to look towards 2028 in Atlanta there has been basically an acknowledgment that in the 2020 election there was unrestrained election fraud. That is 315,000 ballots in the Atlanta area didn't comply with state law in Georgia and should not have been counted. I know that many of you out there saying yeah of course Clay, but isn't it interesting how now all of these stories come out and everybody in Georgia just says yeah, you know, we may have screwed that up. And you say, okay, well, Trump's in office now. Yes, we had the disaster of Biden, but remember, they may have stolen two Senate seats in Georgia. Kelly Loeffler and Purdue probably won that election. Both of them. If those 315 ballots, which were 95, five in favor of Democrats had not been counted, that was an election that was decided by a tiny MA margin. And remember, this gets into the weeds, but they had to do a revote and a lot of you have probably forgotten about this because you just want to wipe it out of your brain. They had to do a double revote in Georgia because at the time you had to get over 50% of the vote. And both of those guys, Purdue and Leffler, just narrowly didn't get there. And then they ran the revote and then Democrats showed up. You say, okay, what was the impact of that, Clay? Well, that's what gave Biden control of the Senate. 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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We have got a lot of great talkbacks from you. This is the final show of the year for either Buck or myself. So load them up, load up the phone lines and let's have some fun as we talk. Also about serious things. This is I'm going to start with this because I. I appreciate Kiera coming into my defense after I was savagely attacked for saying that love actually is a good, funny Christmas movie. Let's listen to podcast listener Kiara here. Cece, you are spot on about love.

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Actually, Clay, it is a great Christmas movie.

[Clay Travis]

The other one that's a little lesser known is the Ref, and that one has a lot of cussing, but it's a fun watch and really entertaining. It's got Dennis Leary in it. Those are my two. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas again. We're going to talk about serious things, but be entertaining in the talkbacks. Like I said there, Kiara had great taste. She agreed with me. She had my back. Ken from Lincoln, Nebraska, however, well, hh, he's teeing off with me for rightly saying that most R and B music is garbage and you only like it when it's close to, you know, rap or hip hop or other pop music, even country music, when it's got some other flavor associated with it than just somebody with good pipes screaming about how sad they are. Hh, Clay, Ken from Lincoln. I said I wasn't going to mess with you about being a Democrat or used to being a Democrat, but how dare you say R and B music is overrated? And if you played the flute. Are you kidding me? Jethro told I'm black, by the way. Are you kidding me? You're lost. R and B is overrated. Oh, my goodness. Good talkbacks. A lot of them coming in. You can go on the iHeart app. Easy talkback. You can get right through. By the way. 800-282-28A2. We're going to have some fun today as well as talk about serious things. When we come back, I want to talk to you about a story that I think humbly, I got completely right. I hope a lot of you are not Nike shareholders, but Nike stock is collapsing today, down around 10% as the company continues to flounder. Why are they floundering? I've got an idea. It's because they went woke. And once your company goes woke, the culture is such that you're going to collapse. I'll give you my theory on that, with Nike as the latest example. But I want to tell you, as we roll into the holidays, how many of you are having a little bit later? Nights, Christmas parties, all sorts of New Year's plans, kids and grandkids flooding in, maybe to stay in your home. 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All right, so we have got a lot that we have been talking about and many of you are reacting and asking a question similar to the one that JJ Just asked. Unidentified podcast listener let's listen to JJ Clay, I'm just wondering why Governor Kemp never speaks about this election for all fraud that went on in his own state. In fact, he hides from it. Same thing with the secretary of state, Rafflesberger. Why aren't they responding to any of this? I don't understand. Okay, so I know that Brianna Lyman, who many of you really enjoyed the interview that we had yesterday with her, she says that she has requested commentary from everybody associated with the secretary of state's office and just nobody has commented there. So she's got a great story. I shared it. We can link it at Clay and Buck. It's on the Federalist. I encourage you guys to go read it. And I think what the governor would say is this is why they changed the law. Remember when they were being called Jim Crow 2.0 and Joe Biden even said this is worse than Jim Crow. This is Jim Eagle. And then they moved the All Star Game out of Atlanta and everybody told you that the new law was super racist and it was unacceptable and there had to be consequences for it and nobody would ever vote in Atlanta again. And black people were being disenfranchised. And then turnout was actually fine. Actually went up in 2022 and then went up in 2024, too. It was just a much more secure election. These ballots should not have been counted because they did not comply with Georgia law in 2020. And so I know this is often what happens and I get beyond a shadow of a doubt so many of you and your frustration with this, because we say, hey, this is a big deal. Let's pay attention. Hey, what's going on here? And many in the legacy media just scream, that's not true. This was the safest and most secure election in the history of mankind. That's what they tried to tell us. And then you go back and you look, and I was just on Fox News earlier this week on Will Cain's show, and I compared Joe Biden's 81 million votes to Brady Anderson, for those of you who are Major League Baseball fans suddenly hitting 50 home runs out of nowhere. And my point is, I think there's a direct analogy between the steroids era, when everybody cheated in baseball and the numbers just went outlandish, right? And every other part of the era. And you go back and you look and you say, well, wait a minute, Barry Bonds hit whatever it was. I think it's 73 home runs. Barry Bond's a great player, but everybody was inflating in the steroids era the overall numbers. And you looked at them historically and you just said, this doesn't add up. Something changed. Something is different. And I, I, I think this is tremendously important because we have now three elections with Trump on the ballot that we can go back and we can look at. And I wrote about this a ton, actually, in the book Balls, and I made the same steroids argument in there. We can now look at Trump in 16, 24, and we can rationally look at what he does both to drive turnout for people who like him and don't like him. And the numbers and team in New York. I'm doing this off the top of my head. So will you guys fact check this in real time? I believe Trump in 2016 got around 64 and a half million votes. That's my recollection. Just shy of 65 million votes. He won the election. Then in 2020, 2020, Trump got, if I'm not mistaken, about 74 million votes. That was the number that was out there. And again, fact check this in real time for me, if you guys would. And then in 2024, he got around 77 million and change votes. So Trump's entire political career has been every election. He builds on the prior one and has more success than he did in the past. Meanwhile, if you look at the Democrat numbers, Hillary Clinton got basically the same number of votes as Barack Obama did in 2012. That is Hillary Clinton's campaign, right around 65 million votes. Little bit less than Barack Obama. If I'm Remembering off the top of my head, a little bit less than Barack Obama got in 2012. Obama 2008 was actually the blowout election for those of you who, who pay attention to the numbers. And then, and I'm a data guy, so I just go look at the numbers and the numbers tell us a story and they strip away the emotion and everything else. So I think if you're just a reasonable data guy or gal, you look at the numbers, you say, okay, I can buy that. Hillary 2016 did roughly similar to Obama 12. And then out of nowhere in 2020, Joe Biden gets 81 million votes. Way more than Barack Obama 2008, way more than Hill, than, than Barack Obama 2012, way more than Hillary Clinton 2016. And then in 2024, Kamala's suddenly on the ballot and the numbers come plummeting back down to Earth. About 6 million voters who supposedly voted for Joe Biden didn't bother to show up in 2024 to vote against Trump. What happened? I mean, the only logical conclusion is that when you look at the numbers, there was clear voter fraud in 2020. Now, a lot of that was Republicans got caught flat footed because of COVID when everybody just said, hey, we're going to have mail in ballots, but they just didn't even enforce basic election requirements when it came to legal ballots. And now in Fulton county alone, that's Atlanta for those of you who don't know. There should have been 315,000 ballots that should not have counted that ended up being counted. And everybody just says, yeah, those didn't comply with Georgia election law in 2020. Oh, well. And you can say, okay, well, that wouldn't have mattered, Clay, because Georgia's electoral votes didn't swing the election for the president. Right? You say, okay, but then you go back and you say, well, let's just focus on the Senate. Remember, you had to get over 50% of the vote in order to be elected to the Senate. They've since changed that law and a bunch of people went out and voted for the Libertarians, and as a result, neither. And again, fact check me on in real time, if I'm correct, neither Purdue nor Kelly Loeffler, both of whom would have been great senators for the state of Georgia, neither one of them were able to get over the 50% because all these ballots voting against them came roaring in. In Fulton county, which mandated there be a new runoff election which Democrats won both of by slim margins, that then gave Joe Biden control of the Senate and the House to enact his awful, failed agenda that we're still, still dealing with the consequences from today. So I'm sorry, when I look back at this, what seems to happen is we're all right, right? All of us out there, who said, you know what? I don't think my 6 year old needs to get a Covid shot. I think my 6 year old's going to be fine. They try and mandate Covid shots. Turns out that a lot of kids, at least 10, died because of the COVID shot. Never should have gotten the COVID shot. Didn't need it. And we're just supposed to pretend that that didn't happen? Or that Joe Biden said, hey, if you're in the military and you won't get the COVID shot, I'm firing you. Even though most of the people that are in our military are super, super healthy and never, ever should have been in a position where they were forced to get it. What kind of consequences are there? Zero. 2020 election. What's gonna happen? Nothing. Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's gonna be some grand indictment and we're actually gonna hold people accountable. But Democrats are diabolical, man. They hold people accountable. They were willing to put President Trump in prison for the rest of his life. They were willing to bankrupt him. Legal theories, they didn't care. Also, a story coming out this very week, right in time for the holidays. The FBI said there is no probable cause to justify the raid at Mar A Lago. The FBI didn't even want to do it because it wasn't legal. There wasn't probable cause. It's a big editorial I'm reading this morning in the Wall Street Journal. All the different emails that were out, Fox News had them from inside of the FBI saying, hey, we, we don't really need to do this raid. It's not that significant of an issue. We can resolve it without needing to kick down the door at Mar A Lago and go in with FBI raid agents. This is an unprecedented act in August of 2022. We don't need to do it. Biden DOJ said do it. We're in charge now. Do it. We are going to raid. Remember, we never even hear what documents they found anymore. Then Joe Biden has his own documents. How do they handle it? Oh, they have a quiet, not necessary warrant raid. Try not to create a big stir around it. It's just, I look at this and I just start to string all these things together as we come up on the end of 2025 and you and Most of the listeners, you and us, a lot of your friends and family, when you sit around and talked about this, you're right about it all. And they just want to say, well, move on. Nothing to see here. It's not dissimilar to what happens whenever the wrong criminals exist. Trans shooter. Oh, you know, we can't, we can't release that manifesto. Christian schools get targeted by trans people. The real concern here is that trans people not be targeted. Bunch of crazy Muslim fundamentalists go and kill 15 innocent Jewish people at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. What's the concern? Oh, we've got to be careful that we don't create Islamophobia. All of this as we come up on the end of the year, stacked once on top of another. And I get it when many of you are looking around saying there are no consequences whatsoever, time after time after time. 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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I know I mentioned that I was going to talk about Nike and how the WOKE virus can destroy everything, but I got drawn in based on that talk back and I do think the Fulton county that's the Atlanta area fraud in Georgia has not been talked about. And so I do think that in a positive way Georgia has addressed things going forward. But this in and of itself is emblematic of the steroid numbers. Right? There's no way Biden got 81 million legal votes. And I think a lot of people are still afraid to even talk about it. But I think in the wake of the 2024 numbers, you can be just a rational human and go look at all that data of which I was correct off the top of my head, running through all those numbers and the votes that were cast and everything else and just say, yeah, this doesn't add up. Why wasn't Kamala able to replicate the 81 million? If Trump is so uniquely awful, then all of the people who showed up for Trump, maybe more of them should have showed up in 2024, but we didn't see it. And so, look, it is true that Trump motivates turnout on both directions, but the numbers that Biden put up in 2020 are frankly incomprehensible. And I suspect unless we get a runaway win in 2028, I think there's probably a very good chance that even in 2028, no one gets to 81 million votes. And then you'll go back and you'll say, boy, population has grown. Overall number of voters that are eligible to cast ballots, because the population of the United States has grown substantially, yet nobody can get back to Joe Biden's numbers that he hit in 2020. I think a lot of people are starting to, even people who are on the left, you notice how they suddenly said, oh, there's, there's must be fraud in 2024. How could Kamala get 6 million less votes than Joe Biden? I think even some of those people who were left wing voters who voted for Kamala, who voted for Joe Biden, they're looking around, they're saying, you know what? I think they're right. I think the way that they changed the rules to allow all this mail in ballots, once you got a ballot, once you harvested a ballot, there was nobody checking to match signatures on it. And it's why Trump is right. Everyone knows Trump is right. On this election Day, you should have to show up with an ID and cast a ballot in person. There can be very limited exceptions for absentee voters, for people who are significantly impaired in terms of their ability to get out. But look, 98% of all voting should take place, ideally in person on election day or early voting. We've made it so much easier. But everybody should have to show up with an ID in order to vote. It's very basic. It is the essence of election integrity. Guess what? We still don't have that. Worth talking about and thinking about as we move closer to the midterms and look back on those lies we were all told about 2020. What happened to Nike? I'll tell you Next.

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