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May 11, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Ep. 300 - Trump FIRES Comey, All Hell Breaks Loose
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This week, an odd tweet appeared in my mention from a verified Twitter user.
Users prominent enough to be granted a blue checkmark by Twitter itself.
This one came courtesy of a rapper named Talib Kweli Greene.
I'll admit I never heard of Greene until he suddenly appeared in my mentions calling me a racist ass.
It turns out Greene is a rapper with well over 1 million Twitter followers and a long history of quote-unquote social activism.
A quick search of Greene's Twitter feed showed a wide variety of instances of the rapper calling people white boy and coon.
Really, which is horrible.
He says that this does not make him racist, of course, only the term black boy would be racist, since Green maintains that white people cannot truly be victimized by racism.
When I pointed out that seeming incongruity, Green replied, What's the problem, white boy?
You think white boy is racist?
Wow, you're dumber than I thought.
He then dared me to call him black boy, which, of course, I would never do, since that would be racist.
What's Green's actual argument?
It seems to be that since the derogatory slur black boy was thrown around by lynch mobs, any other derogatory slur can no longer be derogatory.
This is the rhetorical equivalent of the argument your mom used to make back in grade school.
You're not really hungry.
There are children in China who are starving to death.
The argument fails for the same reason.
Yes, it turns out there are gradations of racism, just as there are gradations of hunger.
But you were hungry when you were a kid, even if your bowels weren't distended, and you're a racist if you call someone white boy in derogatory fashion, even if you're not attempting to lynch him.
Thanks to the theory of intersectionality, however, such logic goes by the wayside.
Intersectionality theory has now taken over the college campuses, leaving the broken corpses of decency and reason in its wake.
Intersectionality classifies social categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation into a hierarchy of victimhood that decides how you should be treated.
If you're a black lesbian, for example, you outrank a black straight man, and your view must be treated with more care and weight than that of the black straight man.
More importantly, since society somehow classifies you as lesser than the black straight man, you are incapable of ever doing anything to victimize that black straight man.
Social powerlessness means that your individual victim status never changes.
That's why Green and others on the left believe it's fine to use white boy as a slur.
Black people have historically seen discrimination in America, whites have not.
Whites benefit from a more powerful status in society at large, and therefore black people cannot possibly be racist against white people.
As Morehouse College professor Dr. Mark Lamont Hill said last year, black people don't have the institutional power to be racist or to deploy racism.
There's only one problem with this notion.
It's racist.
Racism bolstered by power is obviously more dangerous than racism without it.
But racism can be used to achieve power too, generally through the polarization of racial groups against one another.
Tribalism is a powerful force.
Resorting to a victimhood mentality to explain tribalism away doesn't make it any less toxic.
The faster Americans learn that, the faster racism can actually be curbed rather than exacerbated.
I'm Ben Shapiro.
This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
So, if I seem a little frazzled today, it's because the news is utterly insane.
It's totally crazy.
We'll break it down for you, we'll provide you all the evidence, and you will make your own decision today.
Yes, we're going to play a choose-your-own-adventure version of The Ben Shapiro Show today, in which I present to you all of the evidence for the various theories as to why the President of the United States just fired the FBI Director.
And you will be able to choose which one you think is the most plausible.
There are basically three theories.
I will present my own as well.
One of the three is mine.
And we'll talk about which one is the most plausible.
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Okay, so, James Comey is gone.
Now, on a raw level, good news.
James Comey was a crappy FBI director, if you recall last week, while a lot of the right was saying that James Comey had done a wonderful job explaining his conduct before Congress, I was saying he should be fired because I thought that he's done a crappy job ever since July.
And my opinion of him did not change from July to now.
He always should have been fired.
His firing is a good thing for the FBI.
So on that note, I'm glad that President Trump fired him.
How he fired him is a little bit weird.
So what we heard is that James Comey was giving a lecture at some FBI branch out here in Los Angeles.
And in the middle of the speech, the TVs behind James Comey started showing the news that he had been fired.
And Comey... It's all a comedy.
It's just a comedy at this point.
I'm sorry.
It's so frickin' funny.
And then Comey apparently said to people, that's a pretty funny joke.
And then, like five seconds later, he's pulled off stage and brought into a back room where a letter from Trump to him is read aloud to him by somebody and a manila envelope is delivered by Trump's personal bodyguard to James Comey, the director of the FBI, at which point the cameras start following James Comey's car Through Los Angeles.
It's the 405.
And all of a sudden it's back in OJ days.
It's like white Bronco days.
There's a Rockets game on TV.
He's being followed over the course of Los Angeles by a camera.
And Zoe Terbabter was the cameraman in the OJ chase.
His daughter, Katie Ter, is now covering it.
The Clintons are back.
Trump is back.
We're living in 1994 again, gang.
It's totally wild.
So pretty amazing stuff.
And then just to make things even crazier, this morning after Trump fires Comey, and the theory from the left is the reason he fired Comey is to cover up his evil Trump-Russia collusion, which as I said yesterday, there's no evidence of to this point.
The theory from the left is that's happening.
So who did Trump meet with today?
Today, the day after he fired Comey?
He met with Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, and Sergey Kislyak, Who's that Russian ambassador who was so controversial that Mike Flynn was basically fired for getting on the phone with him?
Trump met and took pictures of both of them today, and then the press pool was told, come in and take pictures of them.
They walk in and who's sitting there?
Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's Secretary of State.
So, I mean, this is Trollmaster 101.
It's pretty spectacular stuff.
Except I don't actually think, I don't actually think that Trump meant to do any of this stuff.
So, there are basically three theories as to why all of this is going down the way that it's going down.
But first, I want to give you the background as to what the Trump administration says was happening in all of this.
So, yesterday, very late yesterday, there's a letter that is released from the White House by Rod Rosenstein.
Rod Rosenstein is the Deputy Attorney General Remember, Attorney General Sessions has recused himself from the Trump-Russia investigation and any investigation into the election, and so his Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, he's the one who actually writes this letter.
And he writes this long letter explaining why Comey has to go.
And he says, Almost everyone agrees the director made serious mistakes.
It is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.
And then the rest of the letter explains exactly what I explained last week, which is that James Comey never should have done what he did in July 2016, when he basically read why Hillary was guilty, then changed the law and recommended that she not be prosecuted.
And then in October, he sent a letter That again exposed Hillary Clinton to all sorts of public scrutiny without a tremendous amount of evidence saying that Hillary Clinton's emails had been discovered on Anthony Weiner's computer and then a few days later he exonerated her and Rod Rosenstein says all of this means that this is a mess and Comey basically had to go.
Now he never explicitly says in his letter that Comey is supposed to go which is sort of important for a reason I'll explain in a second but He says, We should reject the departure from tradition.
Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.
I agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former department officials.
The way the director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong.
As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a new director.
Okay, so, that is the reason that is being put forth by the Trump administration, is that Trump was really mad at how James Comey handled the Hillary investigation.
No.
Yes.
Right, Austin.
Right what?
That is exactly the right question.
That is exactly the right question.
Because here is Donald Trump talking in October about how much he loves James Comey for how he handled the Hillary investigation.
And it took guts for Director Comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they're trying to protect her from criminal prosecution.
You know that.
Well, I guess the story is that he's really pissed at how they hurt Hillary.
They were so mean to Hillary.
I remember an entire campaign of Trump chanting, lock her up, so no on this.
No.
Okay, that's a bunch of crap.
And here's the proof it's a bunch of crap.
The director from Trump, Tukomi, actually firing him, says, quote, while I greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not effectively able to lead the Bureau.
Okay, so what he's really saying there is that he's pissed at Comey because he thinks Comey hasn't closed up the Trump-Russia investigation in expedient fashion.
So, I want to talk about what exactly that means, because there's two theories of how that comes down.
But first, I need to point out the hypocrisy of the Democrats.
I've pointed out Trump's hypocrisy, saying that he had to go because of how the Clinton investigation was handled, even though he sort of was a fan of how the Clinton investigation was handled in the end, because it made him win, in part, at least partially.
Okay, here's the Democratic hypocrisy.
Well, let me finish with the Republican hypocrisy first.
Jeff Sessions also said that Comey had to go on the basis of his handling of the Clinton investigation.
Here is Jeff Sessions way back when saying Comey did the right thing.
There's some serious allegations here that the American people need to know are fully investigated.
And, you know, FBI Director Comey did the right thing when he found new evidence.
He had no choice but to report to the American Congress where he had under oath testified the investigation was over.
He had to correct that and say this investigation is ongoing now.
And I'm sure...
What?
Okay, so Sessions and Trump now say that Comey has to go because of the Clinton stuff.
That's not what's happening.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are also hypocrites.
So Donald Trump is ripping Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer was out there saying that this is the end of the world and he should never have fired Comey.
Back in November, he was saying that Comey should have been fired.
And Trump rightly says, crying Chuck Schumer stated recently, I love that the nicknames are back.
You know that Trump's on his game when the nicknames are back and dropping the G's.
Crying Chuck Schumer stated recently, I do not have confidence in him, James Comey, any longer than acts so indignant.
Hashtag drain the swamp.
Now he's saying that he's draining the swamp of Comey, the guy who he reappointed five seconds ago and basically blew him a kiss.
Actually, physically blew him a kiss while he was saying that he was going to reappoint him, which is just amazing.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are indeed hypocrites.
So Nancy Pelosi saying that this is just the worst thing in the world that Trump fired Comey.
I seem to remember Nancy Pelosi saying something different.
Here's what Nancy Pelosi said just a few months ago.
And these jobs, if you're not in it for a while, you can't take the heat.
And I think you just couldn't take the heat from the Republicans.
So Comey should have gone back in November, but now she's all pissed that Comey's leaving.
Here's an entire montage of Democrats saying the same thing.
President Trump called me and informed me he was firing Director Comey.
I told the president, Mr. President, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake.
Senator Harry Reid from Nevada says Comey broke the law.
One Democratic lawmaker is calling on Comey to resign.
The FBI director, okay, you violated these two protocols.
That kind of an ambiguity bomb this close to election was a terrible lapse in judgment.
I agree with Eric Holder.
I think here Director Comey made a great mistake.
I call it an October betrayal of long-standing FBI protocol.
Sitting FBI director has abused his power.
He was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans.
End of story.
I think that Comey acted in an outrageous way.
Should he step down?
I think he should take a hard look at what he has done.
That's a series of Democrats from back in November.
That is Bernie Sanders.
That is, I think that's Elijah Cummings.
That's a bunch of other senators.
That's Chuck Schumer.
That is, that was Tim Kaine from Virginia.
So basically all the Democrats back in November wanted him fired.
Now they don't want him fired.
Jeffrey Toobin of CNN, who's the legal analyst last night, who's going crazy over Comey being fired.
Here's a small montage of Jeffrey Toobin, the legal analyst at CNN, what he had to say about James Comey up until the point James Comey was fired.
The idea that they were obliged to do this on top of Comey's statement about Hillary Clinton last week, it just shows, at least, that they are oblivious and incompetent, if not actively partisan in this presidential race.
Jeff, first of all, on this whole Mark Ridge document down from the FBI, is it just a coincidence that it happened now?
Well, perhaps.
It is certainly bizarre.
As someone who has made FOIA requests to the FBI, they are notoriously terrible about responding to them.
They take years, they don't release documents in any sort of orderly or consistent way.
It is conceivable that this was just a coincidence, but coming on top of the director Comey's, you know, very unusual and controversial release last week.
It just makes the FBI look like a like a wing of the Republican Party.
Why did James Comey feel compelled to release the information that they were looking into these emails right before the election?
That is CNN's legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin spending the entire election cycle saying Comey should be fired.
And then, of course, he turns around and says, no way he shouldn't be fired.
Okay, so, this brings us to our three theories, which I will get to in just a second.
Our three theories of why Trump did what Trump just did with James Comey.
And this is the important part, so we'll get to that in just a second.
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Okay, so.
Here are the three theories about why Trump fired James Comey now.
So there are really two questions.
One is, does it have anything to do with the Trump-Russia investigation?
And the second is, why did he do it now?
So as we pointed out, it makes no sense to suggest that Donald Trump fired James Comey over his incompetence over the Hillary Clinton investigation.
But that is theory number one.
So theory number one is that he fired him for incompetence.
Multiple letters from the administration say that Trump was told over and over and over that Comey needed to go.
There are a variety of reasons why he needed to go.
Number one, his July 2016 exoneration of Hillary Clinton.
Number two, the October 28th letter informing Congress that the FBI had uncovered new emails.
And number three, that just a couple of days ago he appeared before Congress to explain himself, made an ass of himself, and the FBI had to restate the evidence in order to prevent him from having committed perjury.
He lost the trust of the administration and so he had to be fired.
That's the most clear and obvious explanation.
It also does not explain the timing.
It doesn't explain why exactly this happened when it happened.
It doesn't explain why exactly Trump did it now, right?
He should have fired Comey immediately upon entering office or beforehand.
Or if he wanted to fire him now, he should have gone to listen.
Director Comey, we've lost confidence in you, but we want to make sure that there's some sort of institutional stability.
There's not a big scandal.
We want to have your help in transitioning away from this being your department to somebody else's department.
Here's a list of nominees.
Let's work on this, and let's try and figure out a way to transition this more smoothly.
That's not what happened, and there are serious questions as to why that didn't happen.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that this had nothing to do with the Clinton investigation.
Number one, as I mentioned, Trump is obviously very, very angry.
At James Comey over Russia.
In that letter, as I mentioned, there's a phrase that says, well, I greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions.
I'm not under investigation.
I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the DOJ.
You're not able to effectively lead the bureau.
So he's really pissed at Comey over Russia.
I'll explain.
This doesn't necessarily mean corruption, but he's pissed at Comey over Russia.
Politico has reported something similar today.
He had grown enraged by the Russia investigations, two advisors said.
Frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia, he repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn't disappear, demanded they speak out for him.
He would sometimes scream at TV clips about the probe, one advisor said.
Trump had grown angry with the Russia investigation, particularly Comey admitting in front of the Senate that the FBI was investigating his campaign.
So he's pissed at Comey for not coming out and saying there's nothing here, and so he fired him, is the theory.
He's been using Twitter to bash the Trump-Russia investigation.
The day before he fired Comey, he tweeted, The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax.
When will this taxpayer-funded charade end?
The next day, Comey was gone.
Third point, Rosenstein, remember the guy who wrote that long letter explaining why Comey should go?
His letter was dated yesterday.
If this was a long time in coming, why was the letter about when he should be fired dated the day that he was fired?
So, here's the problem, okay?
The Trump administration said that it took them 18 days to fire Michael Flynn after they were informed by the acting Attorney General that Michael Flynn was compromised by the Russians, but it took them apparently 18 seconds to fire the FBI director after the Deputy Attorney General said, oh, by the way, he's bad at his job.
So, this was basically just an excuse.
Clearly, Trump's surrogates don't know what's flying, so this makes it look like it was spur of the moment, not like this is a long time in coming.
And he clearly didn't fire Comey over the Clinton stuff, as we pointed out earlier.
So, theory number one has some holes in it.
This theory that Trump fired him for simple incompetence.
Now, there are people who are trying to maintain that, so there was a hint yesterday that this was coming.
Sean Spicer was asked at a press conference whether Comey had Trump's confidence, and he said this.
Does the president still have confidence, full confidence, in FBI Director James Comey?
I have no reason to believe.
I haven't asked him.
So I don't, I've not asked the president since the last time we spoke about this.
And the last time you spoke about it, you said he did have confidence, but you're not sure to say that again now?
Well, I don't, in light of what you're telling me, I don't want to start speaking on behalf of the president without speaking to him first.
So that was a hint that this was coming.
Spicer disassociating himself.
Susan Collins, senator from Maine, she says that Comey's refusal to indict Hillary is the reason why he's gone.
It seems to me that this may have been the inevitable conclusion of Director Comey's decision last July to go public with the reasons that he had decided not to recommend an indictment of Hillary Clinton.
I think that He is a very well-intentioned individual, but that decision to bypass the normal rules of the Justice Department, which he could have gone to the Deputy Attorney General.
She's backing the narrative from the administration, but the problem, as I've pointed out here, is that there's real timing problems.
Charles Krauthammer said the same thing last night.
To fire him summarily with no warning in the middle of May because of something that happened in July is almost inexplicable.
Second, the reason ostensibly is, as you read in that letter, for doing something that you're not supposed to do, to usurp the Attorney General.
But second, to release all that information which was damaging to Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's opponent.
Do we really believe that Donald Trump, after all these months, decided suddenly he had to fire this guy because he damaged Hillary back in July?
Another implausible conjecture.
Okay, and Krauthammer is exactly right, of course.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, he says he doesn't understand why this firing is happening now.
Even Senate Republicans are puzzled by this.
Oh, we don't have that.
Okay, so he said that, so in other words, so there are congressional Republicans who are upset about this.
So theory number one, that this was basically a straightforward firing of a guy who was incompetent, it doesn't really wash.
Okay, theory number two is the one the Democrats are pushing.
Theory number two is the idea that this was an incompetent cover-up, that basically James Comey was getting this close to uncovering the collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
Okay, that is theory number two.
That is backed up by a piece today in the New York Times that suggests that just days before he was fired, Comey asked for more money in the Russia investigation.
This is according to the New York Times.
They say Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who wrote the DOJ memo that was used to justify the firing of the FBI director.
Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.
Okay, there's a bunch of Democrats who are pushing this narrative that it was an incompetent cover-up, basically, and here's Elizabeth Warren pushing that narrative.
Comey was not fired because of Hillary.
Comey was fired because of the Russians.
Okay, so that is the idea that the Democrats are pushing.
And again, that is backed up by a certain amount of evidence.
Number one, Trump tweeting on ending the investigation, as I mentioned a moment ago.
The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax.
When will this taxpayer-funded charade end?
It's also backed up to a certain extent by the idea that Sean Spicer still doesn't have, that the administration still has no real Explanation for why exactly they didn't fire Mike Flynn, the national security advisor under Trump, for 18 days after they were informed that he was basically in the pay of the Russians at a certain point in time.
So all of this was not looking good for the Trump administration.
Then, the Trump administration makes it look even worse by some of the worst PR I have ever seen under any circumstances.
Kellyanne Conway goes on TV and says the words you never want to say if people are accusing you of engaging in a cover-up.
She says this.
I mean, Chairman Burr has said it raises serious concerns.
A Republican who's head of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation is concerned about the timing of all of this.
So the same senators that just voted to confirm this man, whose integrity is not in doubt, 94 to 6, two short weeks ago, were supposed to believe, I think, the derogatory descriptions you just made of him.
That's not fair.
And it was Senator Schumer who said about Mr. Rosenstein on the Senate floor on April 24th, and I quote, he has developed a reputation for integrity.
Senator Schumer has said this raises real concerns.
He's saying essentially this is a cover-up today.
Well, he's wrong.
It's not a cover-up.
In fact, the president makes very clear in his letter the fact that Mr. Comey, on at least three occasions, assured the president that he is not under investigation.
When you say that it's not a cover-up, I just fired the guy who was leading the investigation.
Again, they're just... It's Nixonian.
It's Nixonian.
Right?
I mean, flashback.
I want to say this to the television audience.
I've made my mistakes.
But in all of my years of public life, I have never profited Never profited from public service.
I've earned every cent.
And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice.
And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination.
Because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook.
Whenever somebody says this is not a cover-up, I'm not a crook.
It never looks good on TV.
And the Trump administration is doing itself no favors through all of this.
Now, do I buy this theory?
Do I buy this theory?
I'll explain in a second why I don't buy this theory.
But again, I don't know.
This is the biggest problem with the Trump administration.
Trump wants things done and no one says to him no, and then he trots out surrogates who kiss his ass on national television instead of giving good rationales for him doing what he's doing.
So Sarah Huckabee Sanders goes on national TV on Tucker Carlson last night, and what does she say about the Trump-Russia investigation?
Everybody is clamoring that this is a cover-up because of the Trump-Russia stuff.
What does she say?
She says, well, let's kill the Trump-Russia investigation.
My gosh, Tucker, when are they going to let that go?
It's been going on for nearly a year.
Frankly, it's kind of getting absurd.
There's nothing there.
We've heard that time and time again.
We heard it in the testimonies earlier this week.
We've heard it for the last 11 months.
There is no there there.
It's time to move on.
And frankly, it's time to focus on the things that the American people care about.
It's time to move on from the Trump-Russia investigation.
If you're trying to show that you didn't fire Comey to kill the Trump-Russia investigation, it is not smart to send your surrogate on TV to say that you want the Trump-Russia investigation to die, and it's not smart to tweet the day before you fire the guy that you want the Trump-Russia investigation to die.
It's just, it's just stupid, okay?
Like, if you want Trump to succeed, he needs to not be stupid.
Now he's doing stupid things.
He's doing stupid things, right?
I mean, this is a stupid thing, and it's allowing the left to run wild over this entire thing.
Chris Matthews is going crazy over on MSNBC saying it's a little whiff of fascism!
Get up in the morning, come to this show, and say this stuff!
What we saw tonight is the rule of law does not matter.
It's the rule of political power.
You know, we hear President Trump say America first.
Tonight, President Trump put himself first.
A little whiff of fascism tonight, I think it's fair to say.
Absolutely.
A little whiff of, I don't care about the law, I'm the boss.
Okay, and this is the line that the Democrats are going to take all the way through.
Chuck Schumer taking this line today.
Also, why did it happen?
Because it's a cover-up.
We need a special investigator.
Now, now, now.
This is their routine now.
Why did it happen today?
We know the House is investigating Russian interference in our elections that benefited the Trump campaign.
Were these investigations getting too close to home for the President?
It is troubling.
That Attorney General Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russian investigation, played a role in firing the man leading it.
Okay, so this is the routine the Democrats are going to play all the way down the line.
So you've got theory number one, and you make up your mind on this.
There's theory number one, that Trump fired him for simple incompetence, and the timing was all coinkydink.
Okay, then there's theory number two, which is that Trump fired Comey to stop the Trump-Russia investigation, even though there's no evidence from the Trump-Russia investigation that anything is going on.
And then there is theory number three.
And this is my theory.
And you tell me if you think this theory is correct or whether this theory is incorrect.
But here is my theory as to why Trump fired him.
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