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Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Victor is the Martin o' Neilly Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marshabusky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhansen.com the name of the website is the Blade of Perseus and we hope everybody comes joins us there for all things Victor podcasts, his writings, links to his books. So hope to see you all there as subscribers too for 650amonth or $65 a year if you would like the VDH Ultra material. So we this is our Friday news roundup and we have lots of news on the docket here. The first thing we're going to look at is Trump's Cabinet meeting. He had a three hour meeting for the whole world to see. So nothing like transparency with the Trump administration. So stay with us and we'll be back for some discussion of that. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hanson show. So Victor, Trump had another one of his meetings. I think he's had eight in eight months.
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I think he's had more in eight months than Trump Biden had in four years.
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Yeah. And I was just what I thought was interesting was that Scott Besant, the Secretary of Commerce, I believe, Treasury, treasury, treasury said that the tariffs that they are applying are bringing in somewhere. He thinks that eventually they'll reach 500 billion and he's projecting out, I don't say how many years, maybe a trillion. I thought that was a.
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Well, he's saying that their estimates have gone from 200 billion to 300 billion this year. And then he thinks it's possible if they cut another dealer to 500 billion and then that would be a trillion every two years. So 5 or 6 trillion. They could do it by the end of the administration. But it's all dependent on spending. It's not going to work unless they control spending. And that's going to be very hard because you can't touch Medicaid, Medi Cal, Medicare, Social Security. So that's going to be. The left hates these Cabinet meetings because they are all invited to sit in on it and they think that this is access. But actually everybody there prefaces every report of their particular Cabinet, see, by praise of Donald Trump. So then they say it's orchestrated and it's a yes man, obsequious group. But on the other hand, they don't have to cover it, but they cover it because no matter what the group is, if you're there for three hours and you've got that many people speaking, anything and everything can come up. It's not rehearsed. So they find it. They're hoping to find someone or something that embarrasses Trump, but, you know, they're all in the same. This is, again, I don't want to beat a dead horse, but this is not the first administration he does not have around the table. Rex Tillerson, Bill Barr, HR, my friend McMahon or Jim Mattis or any of those people, they're just not there.
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You mean people with knives in their hands?
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Well, I don't think HR was really had a knife, but he didn't agree. He tried to translate Trump's initiatives into workable policies, but the point is, he was not a MAGA adherent initially. All of these people are. So when they go in that meeting, they're jousting with one another to see who can be the force multiplier of the MAGA agenda. And that makes it easy. And he doesn't have to worry. He goes to bed at night thinking there's not going to be any of these guys are going to leak. They're not going to give a Scaramucci interview to New New Yorker. They're not going to talk to the New York Times. They're not going to do any of that. So it makes a big difference. He's doing what the Democrats did. The Democrats get loyalists in there. They always do. That's another important topic. They are talking about revenge. They're going after Bolton. They've warned Soros. Take a deep breath, man. They went after 93 indictments of Trump, none of which will ever be a charge against anybody else. They wouldn't have been charged against Trump if he hadn't have sought a second administration. They went after everybody from John Eastman to Rudy Giuliani to Peter Navarro to Steve Bannon. They set a lot of precedents that they're regretting. They set the precedent if the Congressional committee subpoenas you and you don't go like Merrick Gardendo, if you're Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro, they're going to FBI is going to find you on the street and put ankle irons on you. That's their precedent and that's what they're worried about. That's the whole subtext. Please don't do to us what we did to you. Do not try to destroy a campaign. Do not try to forge FISA documents. Do not go into Joe Biden's Jill's underwear drawer. Please don't do that. Don't try to take the next Democratic candidate off the ballot in 25 states. Please don't do that. That's the president. Please don't try. Yeah, I mean, they didn't impeach Joe Biden. They could have impeached him because it was a veritable coup. He wasn't even in control. It wasn't like they got Rod rosenstein and Andrew McCabe to wear a wire or think about it and trap Biden as they were planning to do with Trump. So they set all these precedents. And now, as Balmer Harris said, you sowed the wind. You're going to reap the whirlwind.
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Yeah. Well, let's turn then to the immigration questions. There's two that I saw bubbling up this week. The first one is an interesting thing that the Department of Homeland Security has slapped fines on illegal immigrants that have been ordered by courts to deport to the tune of 6.1 billion dol, which is a great thing, not so much because anybody believes they're going to be able to collect all that, but that that will make a lot of them leave the country anyway before they have to even try to collect. And I was just wondering your comments on that. And then we'll turn to the next.
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Well, they've had a million and a half people self deport. Everybody's delighted about that. But the problem is there's 10 million people. So they've only got about 15% of the illegals that came in during the Biden tenure. That's not counting the 20 to 25 million that were here. We've got 55 million people of various statuses that were not born in the United States. So it's a big job and they're trying to do a carrot and a stick. If you want to deport yourself, then you can apply for legal status and come back and you get a free ticket home and you don't get fined. If you don't and you get caught, you can't come back for 10 years, even legally. And you will be fined, supposedly. And these are people that's already been adjudicated. I mean, they've already gone through the system. Their refugee status was denied. They were given a deportation order and they never showed up. Like 80% of the 90% of the people who got those orders had come to a hearing. They never did. And there's a case now, if the Republicans are smart and they can just say that the 2026 midterms are a contest between the law and those who don't follow the law. And they support every time they can, a Luigi Mangione who is a killer. They support or they do not want Obrego Garcia to be deported. And he's a wife beater, he's a human trafficker, he's a gang member, and he's an illegal alien, and they support that. And the same thing with these people who are supposed to be deported. So that's a bad look. And if they can get that message out, do you want people who try to enforce a law or do you want a party that tries to destroy it? Because that's what the Democratic Party is doing. Any law they don't like, they think it's moral not to ignore it.
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Well, the second thing on immigration is since the Indian driver killed those three people on the highway by just flipping a U on an interstate, the worker visas have come up into the news lately where laborers can come over, over but for a specific industry in a specific country, and they get a labor visa. And many of these people have come from India, especially in high tech. And so that's why it's coming out in the news. And that's. I was wondering your thoughts on that because on the worker visa itself, because it just seems like indentured servitude, if you ask me. And then also, isn't this an opportune moment for this high tech world that has so many millions of dollars to be investing in US Universities and US High tech training?
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High tech has said, well, we need all of these PhDs and MAs, but they're giving these work visas to people with BAS as coders. And they have so many mixed messages. As I said last time, you could see the Wall Street Journal say deporting people means we're going to be job short with a fertility rate of 1 point. Next article, right below it. AI will mean the elimination of millions of jobs. Graduates take two years to find a job. Those are mutually exclusive articles. So with AI coming out in the tech sector, there's going to be a lot fewer jobs. So it Makes no sense right now to give these worker visas to people they're mostly from. They're not mostly from the south of the border. They're mostly from Asia, Taiwan, Korea, but especially India. India is funny. It's gone from about 500,000 immigrants to over 5 or 6 million. It's been the biggest increase of any. And I live in the Sikh capital of the United States. In fact, the state, the largest Sikh temple is about a mile and a half from my home. So I have a lot of Sikh. And off the record, they're very worried because this was not an isolated incident of this illegal alien who did not speak English and somehow managed to get not just a driver's license, but an enhanced professional truck driver's license that's hard to get. And he could only read 1 out of 12 symbols. And I talked to some of them and I get the impression off the record, that there's a lot of these people that are here either with a work visa or came across the border from Mexico or flew in on a tourist visa and overstayed and they're in the trucking. 40% people have suggested of all the truckers in California are Sikhs and somewhere between 20 and 30% nationwide. So you can't have that many people coming across the border illegally into the United States and then being given one of the most sensitive jobs in the country of hauling, you know, 10 to 20,000 pounds on a freeway that are all overcrowded. And I have been, I haven't mentioned any particular group of drivers. I'm just telling you that the protocols of driving trucks are just radically different, especially in California. There is no courtesy anymore. What do I mean by that? I mean that no trucker have ever seen. In my weekly drive from the interior of California to the coast follows the 55 mile speed limit for semi. They all go between 65 and 75. If I go on Pacheco Pass this week, I followed a truck driver who was going around one of the most dangerous turns downhill. He was going 65 miles an hour in the left lane. Second, I see people with these little holders and semis and they're texting as they're driving. Their little holders are right in front of them. The other thing they do is if they're in the right lane on a two lane each way, four lane freeway, which is most of California, to be honest, it's an ossified, calcified system. And if you're driving in the left lane without warning, if he's behind somebody and there's six or seven trucks in a row and they're all going 70 and he wants to go 75. He'll just jut out right in front of you and signal after he's already made the move. And then you have to slam on your brakes and you hope somebody doesn't rear end you in the back. And that can go on for. I was driving home last week on i5 and from essentially the Shields Avenue exit to Manning avenue exit, maybe 20 miles, it was all. The left lane was all slowed down, no more than 50 miles an hour because truckers were going in and out and slowing everybody down. And it's very dangerous. And I think the Sikh community should step up and say, instead of getting 3 million signatures saying that this person didn't mean it and he shouldn't be charged with murder, the Sikh community should say, we are really worried about this because we are a ethnic community that's responsible for the safety of America's transportation and freeways. And we are going to ensure that every driver and any Indian owned trucking will be legal and will speak and read English fluently. And that's our promise as immigrants to America. And that would really help. They had 3 million signatures to let this guy off. And as I talked to one of my best friends who happens to be Sikh, I said, my God, did you see his face? His brother? And he, when they just heard the news, it was like, well, we just jackknifed across a major thoroughfare and we didn't even warn anybody. And we just blocked all the lanes and somebody hit our second trailer. I don't know what happened. And they just sat there and I thought, well, why don't you get out and see if you can give them first aid. And then there was another clip where they were on the side of the road, like. And then it was, let's hightail it back to California as quickly as possible out of here. And they did. And so there was no empathy or concern for the people who died. And so then there's rumors in the San Joaquin Valley that a lot of the trucking companies, I think the majority of trucking companies in California are from Los Angeles to Sacramento in the central area of the state. And they have a lot of immigrant drivers and they are not willing to go to California, to Florida. And I asked him, why wouldn't they want to go to Florida? He said, well, they pull them over. I said, why would they be worried if they're legal and they've got a valid driver's license? So it's something that everybody knows in California and nobody wants to talk about but the truckers of all. I'm not picking on one particular group. All of them, the young truckers, do not have the ethos and the code of the old breed. Twenty years ago, those guys knew all the protocols. They communicated with each other. They didn't cut each other off. And as I said earlier in the year, I drove to Pepperdine and zero visibility, fog. And right in the Visalia Tulare two lane section, a truck went by me. I was in the right lane going 25 miles an hour behind a car going 25 miles and I could barely see his tail light. It's 20ft ahead zero. And this truck went by me at 65 miles an hour. And I said to myself, he's going to get in a wreck. And then as soon as I said that, I heard boom. And he hit something and he flipped jackknife. And the car ahead of me at the last moment weaved to the right. I weaved to the right. We got off on the shoulder and we didn't dare get on the road. We couldn't even see anything. And the next three cars hit and then the whole thing was shut down. And then we walked about 150 yards on the shoulder to see if we could get out around it. And we were able to go about two miles an hour and drive on the shoulder and get around this monster. And, you know, it was all driver error that had ruined that whole traffic pattern and probably injured a lot of people. So it's road warrior in California. Will Gavin Newsom address this? No. All he's going to do is tweet about Trump and hire these little techie somethings to mimic the Trump tweets. And he doesn't give a blank blank about the Pacific Palisades disaster that's not being rebuilt. He doesn't care about the trucking crisis, he doesn't care about the crime crisis. He just tweeted about the shooting. We'll get to the trans shooter. And he said, this is the Republicans in gun control and I'll have something more to say about that. But Gavin, that is. That's not the issue. The issue is there's a lot of deranged people and we should take a hard look at allowing people 15, 16, 17 to take the type of drugs for gender reassignment. That if it had nothing to do with the hot political issue of transgenderism, that was just the same. Drugs were considered a therapy. There would be a whole outcry about the side effects that those had, analogous to taking steroids or something.
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They've been doing this for a long time. And I would like to ask all of you people who are outraged at this story, what would be the attitude if in one of the increasingly common Ukraine efforts to legitimately strike at targets inside Russia and they had some information and they hit, let's say, an office building across the border and there were 10 Russian journalists, quote, unquote, that is embedded with the Russian forces at a depot, what would the left be saying? Would they say, this is terrible, Zelensky, you hit and killed 10 Russian journalists? And then Zelensky would say, but they're basically embedded with the Russian army, so we can't tell. And they said it doesn't matter. The reporters, they wouldn't do that at all. So they're outraged. Only at Israel. It's always only Israel, Israel, Israel, no other war. Do they worry about journalists that are reporting pro one of the two adversaries they are embedded with. So we know now that journalists were involved with Hamas. We know that members of the United nations refugee branches were embedded with Hamas. We know that some of them participated in October 7th. So I think what's wrong with everybody is that Hamas felt that the strategy was going to be that if they embe journalists within the ranks of Hamas and they put Hamas people underneath hospitals, mosques and schools, that the Israelis would be so frightened of public outcry that they wouldn't attack them. And I think Netanyahu says yes, before October 7, yes. After October 7, no. So if you're Hamas and you or in any of these shielded places and you're trying to kill us with the protection of a hospital or school, we're sorry, we're going to tell everybody to get out of the way, but we're going to go after you. And if you're a reporter, you're not a reporter if you're embedded or part of Hamas. So Hamas is trying to call off the IDF. It's very ironic because they always, before October 7th, they always sent these pictures and they'd always have these goose stepping Nazi, like hesit Hezbollah soldiers, you know, in camouflage. And they were saluting like they were on parade in front of Mussolini or Hitler. And then the same thing with Hamas. They had masks over themselves, they had bulletproof, they had their AK47s, they had their RPGs. So I, everybody said Israel can't handle all of these surrogates of Iran. And now it's please, please, we're using shields, we're hiding under hospitals, we're torturing innocent civilian hostages, but please stop. So I think everybody's had it with them. And that's their only way to win a war, is to appeal to the useful idiots in the West. And right now the Egyptians, behind a huge wall with barbed wire about three layers high, are training a new peacekeeping force, 10,000 of them. And where are they getting them? Not from Gaza, but from the west bank, the pa. And I think their idea is that, well, we're going to curse and blasphemy and damn the Israeli Defense Forces and Netanyahu, that's our public stance and the United States privately. This is a golden opportunity because there is not going to be a Gaza and Palestine. There's going to be a Palestinian Gaza. And we are going to unite Gaza and the west bank into one entity under our control. And we're going to get back at Hamas for what they did to us in 2006 when they started throwing our political operatives off houses and hijacked that election. So that's what Egypt's trying to do. I think Israel doesn't trust the Palestinian Authority, but they would rather have them to deal with than the Hamas.
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Doesn't that strike you as interesting? Or if you were a Gazan, you should find it sort of humiliating that even Egypt doesn't want to take the Gazans into their own country.
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Why would they?
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Well, they are dominate. They're dominant Muslim. So you would think, okay, I know.
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But they don't have a good history. When they were In Kuwait, Palestinians, 300,000 plus, they were rooting for Saddam Hussein in 1992 attack. And when he took over Kuwait, they thought they were going to be in control. So they were out celebrating Saddam Hussein, they thought, he's here forever, he's our guy. And then when we expelled him with our allies, then all of a sudden the Kuwaitis came back and said, you're gone, every one of you, out. And then they went into Lebanon and Hezbollah. This is great. We got all those Palestinians. And then the Israelis, they started committing terrorist acts. The Israelis went after them and then they went to North Africa. And then when they had the peace accords, they left North Africa and went back to the West Bank. And everybody in North Africa was happy when they tried to kill the elder Hussein. The Black September movement. The Jordanian army crushed them. So all the radical Palestinian terrorists, the Egyptian government doesn't want them. The Jordanian government does not want them. The Lebanese government does not want them. And they don't want them because as soon as they get in their country, they start attacking Israel either indirectly or directly. And then they hide under the COVID of their host. And Israel then, you know, replies. So they're sick of them. The only people that like them are European and American lefties. And I don't know, it's.
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It's a grim picture.
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That's. Well, I mean, Chancellor Mertz said. Frederick Mertz said the other day, the economy no longer sustains the social welfare system. And he said, we can't. The open borders, Merkel. Yes, we can. Yes, we can. No, you can't. You cannot. Assimilate, integrate, acculturate, 16% of yours. You can't take a million people from a dysfunctional society like Syria and expect them if you're not going to integrate them. Same thing in Britain, same thing in France, same thing in the Netherlands, same thing in Belgium. And so it's a very strange phenomenon that people from the Middle east who are radical Islamicists or even if they say they're moderate, they come to these Western countries and the first thing they do is start to get angry and they say, these people have gay marriage. These people have topless beaches. We don't like these people. They're agnostic, they're atheistic, they don't, like, have children. True, true, true. But we hate them. And then the logical question arises, well, then you should go back to your beautiful homeland in Libya, Syria, I don't know, Egypt, Pakistan. You're welcome to go back. Oh, no, we don't want to go back. We want to go down and say how horrible these women are at the beach is why we Google them. And Google, yes. And we want to train little girls and if we're Pakistan and groom them. But they're decadent and I think everybody's tired of it. So I think we're going to see a big change in immigration. I think people are going to say, you know what, we don't care if they're illegal or legal or anybody. I mean, we don't want any illegal. But even it's going to apply even to legal immigrate. If you want to come to this country, then you're going to have to acculturate, assimilate and integrate. And that's only possible if you satisfy three or four of our demands. You have to come enough numbers that we can assimilate. You have to be diverse. We don't want everybody from south of the border. We don't want everybody from China. We want mixed from all over. We don't want enclaves and ghettos of one particular group. You have to have some knowledge of English. We can't have truck drivers who can't even know what stop means. And we want you to have some skills. Obviously, this truck driver had no skills because he jackknifed a truck right in the middle of a superhighway. I think that's what's going to be happening. We're going to get rid of this idea that, oh, they're an immigrant and we're a nation of immigrants. Yes, we were a nation of immigrants, but we had a very different paradigm about all of our grandparents and great they came from everywhere and they integrated and assimilated and they were happy to be here. And they didn't turn around like Ilhan Omar and say that we have worse dictators than Somalia or this country. She was surprised with how trashy or the representative in Mexico, a congresswoman, said her first loyalty was Guatemala. So I think everybody's just tired of all these people coming across into our country and then they trash it. And Europe's got a worse problem. And now we're starting to see that from everybody in Europe is starting to see that except one country, the UK Sturmer will not say one word about on a similar. And they have, They've had about 5 million people come in since COVID Well.
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Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about Cracker Barrel. Stay with us and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. You can find Victor on X. His handle is Edhanson. And on Facebook, Hanson's Morning Cup. So, Victor, I know that you and Jack talked pretty extensively about Cracker Barrel, but this week Cracker Barrel decided that they were going to go back with the old logo. So I thought your audience should know that and that they said they are, they were, quote, listening to their constituency, or I use the word constituency, but that's what they meant. Right. And Trump has taken credit for advising them that they've just got a whole bunch of PR out there and they shouldn't misuse it. And they might want to, you know, build on the momentum by things that people want, which is the old Cracker Barrel, apparently.
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I've never, I mean, it doesn't make any sense. If you have a Mexican fast food like Chipotle or whatever, you know, and you start attacking your clientele or your Budweiser and you're trying to get the young, brash testosterone young person to drink bud and you put Mulvaney or whatever his name was, then it doesn't make any sense. So if you're trying to Cracker Barrel your way into appealing to the white working class of the interior and the south and you are embarrassed of a guy in overalls that looks like he's an old grandpa sitting next to a Cracker Barrel, why didn't they change the name and say, I don't know, woven basket or fern bar or something, that would be just as insulting. So everybody knew they were going to back down. Trump's got that animal cunning. He knew at the point they knew they were going to back Down. He stomped them in the neck with his boot. He just jumped in and said, I think you should change that. And now he's going to tell us all that he forced them to change it, but everybody wanted them to change it. Everybody's sick. I don't, I know I sound like a broken record, but it's like the emperor has no clothes. DEI D E I D E I oh, it's okay to judge, hire, retain, admit people by the color of their skin and their gender. That's okay. We can ignore the Supreme Court. We can ignore, you know, a whole corpus of civil rights. That's just who we are. We're morally superior. And then somebody says, but the little boy sees all these. But they're naked. They don't have anything. No, no, they're dei. They're the vice provost of diversity. This is the diversity equities. No, no, they don't have any clothes on. And then somebody says, wow, they're naked. And then the whole country says, wow, they're racist. Wow, they broke the Supreme Court ruling. Wow. They don't follow any civil rights law. Wow. It's against the law to have a separate racial graduation. Oh, I'm done. No more dei. And yet it's very funny that these DEI dinosaurs are all now really angry about refashioning and redistributing congressional seats because now that they've started this war, they're discovering two things. Number one, that they have out redistrict the Republicans nationwide by about 20 seats. In other words, they're over represented by congressional seats vis a vis the popular votes in their state. And number two, there's a lot of red states that are underrepresented and they have super majorities in the legislatures and they're going to redistrict. And you know who's going to be, they're going to target. The Democrats are going to target all of these conservative congressmen. So in California we only have nine out of 52 seats and they're going to go after those nine and they're going to say, you know what, we're going to put these two Republican districts. We're going to get all the Democrats out so we can make another. We're going to put the two Democrat, the two Republican incumbents in one district. So they'll have to kill each other off. And then the Democrats are going to suffer the same fate, but it's going to be different. They have redistricted according to race and they have safe black seats and safe Hispanic seats. And if these States just say, you know what, from now on we're going to have 750,000 people in every district and we're going to try to make them proximate so people don't have to draw. You know, they're not 300 miles away from another voter in their district. And we don't really care what people's race is racially blind. So I think that would really prune the black caucus. And that's really what they're angry about. They don't, they keep talking about Al Sharp. They wheel out this dinosaur Al Sharp and say, well, it's against the black caucus. Well, yeah, because these districts were racially obsessed and fixated and they were drawn up to ensure a person of a particular race would win. And the irony of it, it's the worst thing for black representation because when you district, you make these jigsaw puzzle shaped districts just so blacks or Hispanics can get elected in great numbers, then they get radical and more radical. So you get Al Green or Maxine Waters and what you do is you destroy the whole generation's acceptable statewide candidates. So then you look at the Senate which can't be redistricted and you can't get a black senator elected because they come out of the Congress and they're so rad and they're so used to talking about reparations and racism and no cash bail. Then they get statewide where blacks are 10 or 12% of the population, not 70% of their district and they have this record that sounds racist to everybody. So the best thing in the world would be just to district on geography or represent the basic rough popular vote in each state. If you got 70% for Democrats, you should have districts that represent 70%. And then if you don't have black districts, then you would have people who were not obsessed with skin color and you would have blacks winning in districts that didn't have majorities of blacks. And then they would be adept politicians at appealing to everybody. And that's, you know who learned that was Barack Obama. He ran in a black congressional district against an ex black panther and he got killed because he couldn't out radical him. And then he said to himself, that's not who I am. That leads nowhere. You tell me a black caucus member in the House that ever was became a senator, maybe one or two. You can't do it. It's impossible. But I can do it by appealing to elite boutique white Karens and liberals. And I will go after them and I will talk about integration, assimilation. We're all one. Yes. Remember, it was 2004. We're not a red state America. We're not a blue state. We're not a Republican. We're just America. He didn't believe that, but it sounded great and that's what got him elected. Had he won that seat and been a member of the Black Caucus, he would have never been elected senator.
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VICTOR let's go ahead. And welcome back another sponsor, Native Path. Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and your natural supply drops as you age. That's why so many people your age are turning to collagen to relieve joint pain, build bones and even look years younger. Right now, get a special bundle deal at a fraction of the retail price plus free shipping. This offer is only available@getnativepath.com Victor that's G E T N A T I V E P A t dash dot com VICTOR and we'd like to thank Native Path for sponsoring the Victor Davis Hansen Show. So, Victoria, speaking of the left and their peculiar ways, they had a Democratic National Convention recently and Tim Waltz and the chairman, Ken Martin were particularly striking. Waltz was no surprise because all he did and one of the things he did was to accuse Trump of being a, quote, man child crying about something wrong or, quote, his fat ankles might, might find something today. I wasn't sure what that meant, but or that he was petty as hell. And so Waltz with his continued slurs against Donald Trump. But Ken Martin, the chairman of the dnc, was the one that was interesting. He's trying to, he started the conference and he's trying to play up the idea or the need according to a lot of Democrats, of the Democrats getting tougher. And he said, we're tired of Democrats bringing pencils to a knife fight is what he said.
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They all like to, we had David Mamet on and they all like to steal David Mamet's classic line and the Untouchables, when Sean Connery says, oh, another one of you stupid blank, blank, you bring a knife to a gunfight. And so they always adopt that. Obama was the par excellence remember he went to, I think it was Philadelphia, and he said, you got to get in their faces and we don't take any stuff off them. We take a gun to a knife fight. That was Obama started that people forget that, that he was a very divisive, incendiary candidate in 2008. But the strange thing is there's two strange things about it. They get these people like Tim Waltz that to be frank and I don't want to be too personal. Ad hominem. But he looks like a roly poly buffoon. He wears these tight suits that come up to his knee and to his elbow and he waves around like he's on Adderall or something and he can't control himself. And then he starts, he never, he never offers an alternate agenda. He never says, and Donald Trump is not. He's got people who are illegal and he kicked them off Medicaid and we're going to put them on. Here's how we're going to pay for it. And we don't need a wall. We can do this. He never does that. He starts attacking the Trump voter, half the country when he said they get on these MAGA hats. And then. So he's just a buffoon and he acts like a buffoon and he's not going to be a candidate. I don't even know why he has any national profile at all. He ran one of the worst. Remember how he was introduced to America? He came out on that stage and he started pointing to everybody and went like this. And you couldn't stop him. He was just, he was like Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack, remember him? He was just. And so that was one thing. The other thing is it's really strange to see these guys that say that they can't take. They don't want to take a knife to a gunfight or a pencil, but they have been doing that. They have been the ones with a gun. They're the ones that try to get people off the ballot. They're the ones that raid people's homes. They're the ones that go through a former first lady's underwear drawer. They're the ones that have 93 indictments to try to. They're the ones that call people Hitler and encourage people to come out of the woodwork and try to shoot a candidate. They're the ones that have done all of this. They're the ones that impeach somebody twice. Try them as a private citizen. If you look at the people on January 6, the 1600 that were given pretty tough sentences, some of them just went into, walked around and went out of the rotunda. And you compare the 14,000 people who were arrested in 2020 were five months of arson, vandalism, assault, murder. There was not 1,600 that were put into prison. They play hardball. The other thing that's really funny is they're the most unimpressive group of people you see. So when they start doing this bragadaccio and this hyper testosterone, we're going to take a gun. We're not going to. And you look at this Martin guy, or you look at Tim Waltz, or you look at Mom Dhommi bench pressing, and you think, these people don't scare anybody. I don't know about you, but. But when I was high school, went to high school, there are people who are very scary. And I think there was three or four fights at my high school every single day. And when you saw Chucos, Mexican guys, or you saw the white diaspora from Oklahoma, those guys were scary. I used to think. We used to say that for guys. And this is not a reflection of what I said, but people said okie. And they all had thin arms, but they were like steel. So everybody would say, all the Mexican guys would say, I don't want to get that Okie on my back. He doesn't look like he has muscles, but those little, those arms are like steel. And he won't never let go. I saw a fight where three guys, this skinny tall guy with a Southern accent from Oklahoma, they jumped him. And he got on the back of one guy, Chuco Pachuco, and the other two started kicking him. But he was like an octopus or squid and they couldn't get him off no matter what he did. They were pounding him, he was bleeding and his arms were like steel, but they were, you know what I mean? So what I'm getting at, when you grow up with people like that, that you don't ever, ever insult, you don't ever try to pick a fight, you don't insult their manhood, you just try to treat them with respect and you don't back down. But then you hear these people, you know, on the national and they act, they talk this gutter talk in the street and you think they're gonna. You know what I mean? They're the most honest.
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I don't believe those people would really get out in a fight at all.
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I don't think anybody's scared of Tim Martin and his gun to a fight. I really don't. I don't think that Tim Waltz scares anybody. I'm sorry. I don't think Elizabeth Warren screaming and yelling, even Cory Booker, upper middle class kid that lived in a posh neighborhood and got everything he wanted at Stanford. Big guy, when he starts screaming and yelling what he's going to do to people, or Joe Biden said, I wish I could take Donald Trump when I was younger. I took him behind the gym and beat him up. Oh, I took Guy made fun of my sister and I took his head and slammed it on the thing. Remember that corn pot? I went down to the basement and cut off six foot of chain. Then I went out and said, corn pot, you ain't going nowhere. Nobody believed that.
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Their toughness is laughable, and it's not going to do them any.
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I'm saying the current Democratic Party, I knew a lot of people who. I grew up as a Democrat, and that was not the Democrats. They were the working class. These people are not the working class. And they're acting tough because they're not tough. And anybody starts talking about beating somebody up or doing this or doing that.
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They are acting tough because they think it's going to get them votes, Victor. And what you're saying is it's not going to get them any votes at all.
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They lost 55% of the Hispanic vote. They lost 25% of the blackmail. They lost 57% of the white male vote. So nobody. I mean, for me, Tim Waltz is the epitome or the emblem of what's wrong with that party. He has no talent. He's a chronic liar, and he made up his entire cv. He lied about his China trip. His wife is totally unhinged and says she rolled down the window so she could smell burning rubber. The daughter tipped off. It's a dysfunctional family, and he's just not an empathetic character. When he debated J.D. vance, he was so outclassed, and then he kind of fell down on the ground almost. Please. I'm nice, I'm stupid, and I can't debate, but I mean well. And then JD Basically said to him, and we probably agree with it, you know, he had his boot on his neck and he didn't step it down. That was very sportsmanlike of JD But. But I don't know why they let him talk is what I'm trying to search for. Because there's nothing redeeming about him.
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And they don't have anybody better.
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Well, I guess that's the answer. I guess they asked Kamala Harris to speak and she didn't want to or raise money. And she went through a billion and a half dollars, and now she's 15 million in the hole. And the creditors want their money and the donors, I think what the Republican Party has in their coffers, 80 million. And the Democrats have like 10. I'm not saying the big donors won't come out of the woodwork in the.
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Midterms, but I guess hindsight is 20 20. But why they would Ever have made her the candidate when they didn't even want her to be the president in place of an addled old man?
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It's hard to know, but question is always, what's the alternative? Bernie Sanders. They got rid of him in 2020. Her, well, they got, I mean, she didn't get one delegate. Cory Booker, he ran for president. You want Spartacus filibustering on the campaign Primaried.
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Right. That was my understanding that once Joe was forced to step down that they could have done a short.
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Poor old Joe Manchin. He thought, you know what? They need a moderate Bill Clinton, and I'm the guy. So I'm going to get the talk shows for. I just heard Joe. And that lasted about two hours. And they said, no, no, no, no, no. We're not the party of democracy, we're the party of the back room. Get out of there. Joe, we just anointed a woman who ran for president and didn't get a single delegate. She's going to be your nominee.
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Well, Victor, before we go to break, just want to note that Donald Trump's national guard in D.C. is doing really well. And I guess the next target is Chicago. And the.
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I'm not sure he should go into Chicago.
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I don't think he should either. Putting up a stink about it.
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Yeah, I, Because Washington is a special case. It's not a city state like anywhere else. It's a federal entity defined by the Constitution for purposes of the federal government. So Donald Trump ultimately does have statutory power under certain guidelines. So he's gone in there and he's only got 30 days and he's going to show people what he can do. Fine. Now, these other cities, they say crime is going down, but they only use this benchmark of the high point, 20, 21, 22, when it was Coley, out of control. But if you go back before COVID it's higher. Everybody knows. So why would you want to go into Chicago when they voted 80% against you and the mayor hates your guts and will try to stop you and the governor hates your guts and will try to stop you and there'll be demonstrations and yes, it'll look chaotic, but all the people who you would want to protect, the upper, upper professional classes, the middle classes, the lower classes that have to deal with the violence, there'll be such pressure that even if they do support you, they won't say anything. And so it's, I think it's a lose, lose situation. And I would just really try to do something to use federal money to Beef up the police and just concentrate and focus on Washington, D.C. and make it a very safe, livable cleanup. Union Station, make it beautiful again like it was in the 80s and 90s when I used to go there in the 90s, it was really beautiful. Should do that. And let Mayor Johnson do his thing in Chicago and let Obama go back there. Obama's a, you know, he's a Chicago resident. If he should go back there and get on his stump, tell young black men they don't know what's good for them, just like he did during the campaign, he said, yeah, just go tell, go let him do it. And that's, you know, because all the left is saying right now is, well, he doesn't go into red states. And they say Memphis and Baton Rouge and all of these Southern mobile, they have high crime, yes, Houston, but they're all run by, you know, Democrats. And, and they're not the three or four biggest cities like New York and Washington and Los Angeles and Chicago. So they're already getting a narrative against it. I would kind of just call her bluff and say, you know what, I want to go into Chicago and I'm here anytime, Mayor and governor, here's my phone number. You can call my private cell and I'll send them in right away. But I'm not going to go in there when I'm not welcome. And I'm sorry, you people of the inner city, I wanted to help you, but it would be too traumatic and divisive. And you can't put federal troops in when the city host is opposed to you. It won't work. So until something happens, you guys are going to have to elect a new mayor.
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So, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about the shooting in Minneapolis list that just occurred recently. Stay with us and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. You can find Victor's podcasts on YouTube and on Rumble and Spotify now. So please come join us if those are your media outlets. So, Victor, there was a school shooter. His, his or her name was Robin Westman in Minneapolis. And the interesting things about this shooting was that he took a video of all of his military weapons or all of his weapons beforehand. And they had strange things on them. One was kill Trump now and the other ones were slurs against Hispanics and blacks.
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Yeah, he was supposedly the catalyst was he felt that the church, I guess Catholic church that he had attended was less sympathetic to his trans agenda at some point. You know, if you go look at statistically we've talked about, it's about until the trans phenomenon the last five years, people who suffered from classic gender dysphoria clinically in the medical literature were like.007%. It was very rare phenomenon. And then it became for the left, they needed a new civil rights cause celeb. So they latched onto this. And then they exaggerated the numbers. And then the trans people kind of took over the gay community and became the point of the spear. And then you had these colleges indoctrinating these young people. So in certain polls, 20% of people said they considered transitioning. Then all the Hollywood. If you were a big Hollywood megastar like Cher or Brad Pitt, your child had to transition. Just had to. It was the thing. It was like getting a really good facelift or something. But nobody really questioned the process that prior to the phenomenon, this was considered a clinical disorder, that a person was confused about their sexual identity. And it could be a biological fact, a neurological fact, anything, that it could have an organic cause, that a person was actually in the wrong body, of which its brain could not be compatible. Okay, the central nervous system and the physical body were not, but that was rare. So then when we mainstreamed it, we did two things. We said, this is not a psychiatric problem. This is not a psychological problem. This is perfectly natural. There are men, there are women, and then there's a third transgender sex, and they are equal. And that was not true. And then we even went and said, you can't call a woman pregnant. She's a birthing person. We did all of this. We have to put tampons in mail, all this stuff. And that defied decades of medical expertise. The second thing is we began doing something the left said we should never do. Allow young people without parental consent to get very dangerous drugs. These hormonal shots were very dangerous. And the idea that you would surgically cut a person's breast off or testicles or any of that was. Those are traumatic surgeries that are life altering for good. And when you're not sure exactly whether the person who is transitioning, Gender Affirming Care, we called it. We weren't sure whether this would. They would feel the same way in 20 years, 10 years. But that wouldn't matter because there had been a lot of physical alterations that were irreversible. So this whole thing just took off. And so when we see this, we've had four of the four last mass shootings at school. Two have been bi, transgender. Now everybody says you can't stigmatize. I'm just saying, Percentage wise, since 2023, 50% of the shooters have been transgender. And it's either that there's a high propensity of depression or psychological problems or the medical intervention to transition somebody with powerful drugs has an effect on their mental stability. And the third thing is that the press will not talk about. They would not release the last gender shooter diary. They suppressed it. This thing was taken off the Internet as soon as somebody leaked it. They don't want to talk about it. But I think that a lot of this comes from the left saying that the transgender community is A, huge and B, oppressed, and C, Donald Trump and all of traditional religion and traditional families are pathological and they're hurting the natural emergence of a transgender third sex. And they can't even get the story straight. They keep saying that biological sex has nothing to do with any advantage, superiority, innate difference from an adopted sex. And then the first thing you say to them is, okay, you have a biological male and he's gone through puberty and he's got this huge muscular skeletal body with this muscularity. And he's big and he's heavy, and now he's a woman. So he competes in women's sports and he dominates them. But you say he's only dominating them because he's actually a woman that's a better athlete than the other women. And then you say, okay, mistransgendered advocate. So he is a woman, she is a woman, and then she decides she's really a man. So she's gone through puberty as a biological woman. She takes testosterone, she has her breasts removed, she may have other surgical adaptations, she takes other gender affirming care drugs, and she's going to compete against biological males now that she's no different than they are. She's an adopted male, a transition transitioned male, and guess what? Not one of them ever wins. They don't even try to compete with men, transgendered men. So then you say, well, why is that when you say that trans women are no different than biological women, but then trans men are no different than regular biological men. They are. And proof of the pudding is in the eating. And then as soon as you say that you're. The problem is they only react with any legitimate criticism with, you're a racist, you're a transphobe. That doesn't go anywhere. And it's not that people don't like, everybody in this country is live and let live. If you want to be trans the first time I set foot in the Hoover Institution, 2002. A fellow walked in the elevator with me and he had a rough beard and makeup. And he was in a full dress with a wig. Yes. And I said, hello, I'm Victor. And he said, I had no problem. I had a military history working group. We had a very well known scholar. No names are going to be mentioned. I thought he had been sunburned. I was kind of worried about him. But he was actually having laser work. And one day he announced that this was his new name and he came as a woman. He later dropped out, but he wrote me and I said, there's no problem. You can do whatever you want. This is a miracle. And if anybody tries to criticize you, I will make sure that person is disciplined in the group. I don't care. But what I do care about is not telling the truth. And not telling the truth is that somebody who is very, very young and wants a transition should have a lot of counseling and parental involvement. And number two, if people who are transitioning are inordinately represented and I don't know the statistical of all the shootings, then you should be very worried about that. And number three, we should be very worried about young people who have medical procedures and injections in a fashion that if it was about cancer or heart attacks or diabetes, we would not allow that type of radical intervention without parental input. That's all.
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Yeah, enough said. Absolutely. So they. Let's turn then to our last topic. The Maryland father, otherwise known as a human trafficker, gang banger, wife beater, child abuser, I think. Anyway, Albergo Garcia has decided that because they are threatening to send him to Uganda that he's going to file plea for asylum because he's afraid of persecution, fearing persecution and torture in Uganda. And he's also asked to be allowed to go to Costa Rica, which was offered to him originally, and he refused it. So I was wondering if you have any words on our favorite democratic.
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Yeah, I don't know who's more popular among the left. There was a video going around about a woman. She just went into a Mexican restaurant and she saw two elderly people with MAGA hats on. And she went and confronted them and screamed and yelled at them, tried to intimidate them. Get out of there. And they called the police. The police escorted. And then she walks out. She has a T shirt. Guess whose picture was on it. Luggie Mangione. Luigi Mangione. He's a cult hero. So is Obrego Garcia, so is Mr. Kahil. Right. He's back in the news because he is now openly flaunting the idea that he's pro Hamas terrorists. And he endorsed the. Now it comes out. He endorsed the October 7th killing. So that should be a commercial. In 2026, a voice should come on and said, here is the pantheon of your local representatives, heroes Mangione and Kalhil and Obrego Garcia, and all three of them are wonderful people. And then tell each one what they've said and just have them. He was walking down the corridor escorted by ice, and he said, this is a corrupt government. Well, if it's a corrupt government, I think you should get out. But the other question is, what do you have to do to be deported in the United States? Let's count the ways. You come in illegally, you were a gang member in your homeland. You come in illegally, you get caught. You go through a trial. They issue that you are here illegally and you should be deported. You appeal and say, because I was a gang member, I may be killed by gangs. Okay? So then they say, well, we'll hold your deportation. Then you don't go back for the hearing. And in the meantime, you beat the crap out of your girlfriend to the extent that she goes to the police and gets a restraining order, and then chronicles how he breaks iPads. He's threatened her. He takes a picture of herself. This is a cause celeb for the left. They hate, and they should, anybody that touches a woman, but not him. And then you find out that he is a M13 member, and then he's pulled over with four people with no ID and the officer wants to arrest them. He calls in, and I guess he gets a notice that Joe Biden will not allow you to deport anybody. And this guy is driving a vehicle that registered to a known trafficker, and he is speeding, and he has no valid driver's license, and they don't charge him with anything. So Victor's driving home tomorrow from Stanford, and I decide to go 75 miles an hour on Manning Avenue, which is 55, and I get pulled over, and I have no license. I think I'm in trouble unless I say I'm an illegal alien. So that's why people are upset with these people. And again, we talked about it earlier. There's something about ingratitude. Of all the vices, there's a whole philosophical tradition that ingratitude is the worst of all traits. I think it is. So here's somebody came into the United States and he didn't do it the right way. And yet he was not deported because he lied and said the gangs were going to get him without telling people that they were going to get him because he was a gang member. And yet he uses that refuge to do what? Traffic, bring in more people like him, join a gang, beat up his girlfriend, and then the left loves him. Why? Because they hate Trump. And this is a useful idiot to hurt Trump. Just like Mangione, just like Kahil Boy. I don't know what Trump did, but people are going to look back at his presidency and say he broke the left because he something about him that caused such a Trump derangement syndrome that their heroes became murderers like Mangione. They became anti Semite, pro Hamas, pro terrorist people like Khalil. And they were gangbusters, gang bangers, traffickers, and wife spousal girlfriend beaters like Obrego Garcia. That's not a good look. It's not a good look. Not saying they're not going to win the midterms because they usually do the out party. But if the Republicans can out raise them and the Republicans can get together and get everybody out to vote, and if they got a good PR team that just puts a bunch of ads out and lets the Democrats in their own words say what they want, they should show all the smutty language they use, all the F bombs, all the sh bombs, all the stuff they all the personal stuff they put on social media. And I don't think the voters will vote for them.
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Let's hope not. So Victor, we're at the end of the show and as we often do, we are going to read one of comment or actually a question. And I thought this was an interesting question from one of your viewers in your podcast discussing the many nefarious acts of James Comey to protect Hillary Clinton. You did not mention that he reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails days before the 2016 election. It always seems to me that this single act was the final nail in Hillary coffin and she lost the election. If Comey was supporting Hillary, why did he reopen the case? And I kind of always wondered that too. It was very strange.
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He reopened the case. He did support and remember it didn't affect the popular vote. She won the popular vote. So all it did, to a certain degree, by about 50,000 votes, it changed, I don't know if even changed them, but I don't know if he had done that, whether she would have won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. But let's say she would. So here is James Comey and he's for Hillary and he's not very bright. And Loretta lynch is the one that makes the decision. But she is close to Bill Clinton and it's already leaked out that she's meeting with him on the tarmac about how to get Hillary elected. That is not to prosecute Hillary. So in this process, the left is saying Russian collusion, Russian collusion, Russian collusion. And Trump is saying unsecure server, unsecure server. Emails, emails, emails. That was all known. So in this conundrum, they were trying to say, how do we fake it? Like the FBI is not politicized. So we can say, quote, we're going to have an investigation, but we're going to find her innocent. So think back to Robert Hur. How is Robert Hur going to tell the truth but not get Joe Biden out? He came up with a very brilliant strategy. He said, well, I have the tape and if you ever hear it, he's non compost Mintis. But I would never be able to convince a jury. Even though he had legal culpability, a jury would be so sad. And that's how he got. So then they didn't have to do anything. And somebody's going to say, well, Victor, he didn't have to say, yes, he did have to say that because he was under enormous pressure to open an investigation. He found culpable, actionable wrongdoing by Biden. And that was a brilliant way to get out of prosecuting Biden when you were going after Trump for the same thing. So this was exactly the same. They were going after Trump for Russian collusion and all this stuff. And then she not only was clear that she used an unsecure home brewed server and she had, I don't know, 30 or 40 classified emails that went out, which is a felony. She had hard drives that were under subpoena. She had these devices, pads, computers, phones that would show that she was transmitting things that were felonious and she destroyed them. So here's James Comey. They're saying, see, see, see, you're doing this to Trump, Trump, Trump. And he's saying, look at you, look at Hillary. And Loretta lynch goes, I don't want to get near this because Bill's my friend and I'm meeting with Bill on the sly and I can't help his wife. So you, Comey, you can do something that you're not supposed to do. You can be the investigator and you can be the federal prosecutor. So he comes in, he's under all this pressure. So then like an Idiot. He thinks the following, well, I'll just wait till the last week and then I will reopen the investigation because of Anthony. Then we had another thing. Anthony Wiener came out. So the first thing he did was he said before the Wiener laptop, he said, well, yes, there's 30 or so classified documents and this is against the law. And we have these others on subpoena that are missing. And Hillary said, you mean I bleached them, like with bleach? And he said, but just like Robert, her, no jury is going to convict a presidential candidate, a former Secretary of state, even though she has culpability. And everybody went crazy when he gave that press conference. You mean, you know that she's guilty, you know that anybody else would be prosecuted, but you're saying that no jury would convict her because of her stature. This is just like Robert Hearst. So everybody was wrong. And then he's comey, he's crazy, he's nutty, he's unstable. He always was. So then he sits back and said, well, I did a good job on that. They dumped in my lap, Obama and Loretta Lynch. I got to be nationally prominent. I went out and I told the truth that she. I didn't try to hide it. She was culpable. But I did say, honestly, I couldn't prosecute her. I couldn't recommend a prosecution because she was a candidate and da, da, da. And then everybody got angry. And then a second one came up. Anthony Weiner's laptop. He was sexting, remember? Sex, texting. And they got the laptop, and there was all sorts of stuff of communications on that laptop. So then James Comey, without any knowledge of public opinion or what he thinks, what should I do? What should I do? I solved that problem. I got Hillary off. But I also act like I was following along. I know what I'll do. I will reopen it for a day or two and I will say, uh, oh, we just found a laptop. And it may or may not be proof or maybe not proof that Hillary was transmitting stuff to Huma Abedin. May or may not. And so for a few hours, days, he said, we're investigating. And then he said, oh, nothing there. And that hurt her. But that wasn't his intention. To the reader's question, his intention was to go through the motions, both with her culpability on the emails and devices and on the laptop, Anthony Weiner's laptop, and then square that circle by saying, nah, I'm not going to prosecute. But he didn't understand that the effect was that after he got out of his jam the first time, he couldn't get out the second. So that he did it right before the final vote the second time. And people, a lot of independents said, yeah, I don't believe Comey. First of all, he said that she was guilty but he couldn't prosecute her. Now he's basically saying that they're investigating her, but he's lying. So she's guilty. So I'm not going to vote for her. I believe that. I heard. But that was not his intent. His intent was a savor. And you can, if you doubt me, reader, go back and look at what he said after the election. And what he said was, and then he tried to make up for it. He thought, oh my gosh, I am alienated from the liberal deities and I have to make it up. I know what I'll do. I will go after Michael Flynn. I'll send McCabe in there without he won't have a lawyer. We'll sabotage him. We'll get that scalp and then we'll say Russian collusion, Russian collusion after Jeff Sessions and said he may or may not have made a Russian and this is the Logan act. And we'll get all the DOJ from Obama and then I'll get a special prosecutor and then they'll get a special and it'll be my old buddy Robert Mueller. And that's what he did to make up for it. And then he became a Trump hater. He always was a Trump hater, but he became overt when Trump fired him.
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Well, Victor, thank you for all of your wisdom today. It was was wonderful. And I would like to thank Gordon Butler for that question as well. And I would like to thank our audience for joining us.
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Thank you, everybody. Thanks for listening and viewing.
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This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen and we're signing off.